Merchants Win Trade Battle as 'Loo Sok' Docks in Seattle

The British steamer Loo Sok, the first of the Northern Pacific Oriental line to come to this port, arrived here yesterday. She had comparatively little freight for this port, but it is evident the company proposes to have its vessels come in here right along hereafter. This concession is due to the vigorous protest Seattle merchants made against having the vessels pass by here to Tacoma to land all their freight. The Loo Sok is an iron vessel, 317 feet long. Her cargo consisted of general Chinese and Japanese merchandise, including a lot of silk goods, and her Seattle freight was 250 chests of tea. This was landed at Schwabacher's wharf, and she then proceeded to Tacoma. Capt. Perkes had some trouble with the longshoremen in regard to the discharging of the freight. He had plenty of men on board to discharge the freight and land it on the wharf, and he wanted the longshoremen to truck it into the warehouse. This they refused to do unless they were allowed to discharge the vessel as well. J. S. Goldsmith, of Schwabacher Bros. & Co., took in the situation, and, lest it should influence the steamship company in keeping its vessels out of here in future, he instructed J. G. Carroll, the wharfinger, to pay the longshoremen the difference on the company's account. This ended the trouble.