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Trolley Trails Through The West Volume 2 Seattle Wilson New York Alki Seattle
Trolley Trails Through The West Vol 2 By Robert Wilson
22 Pages
Copyright 1978
From New York to Alki to present day Seattle
Seattle -- a name to conjure with -- the one Pacific Northwest city known the world around.
When the first white men dropped anchor in the natural harbor now known as Elliott Bay, and beached their landing boats upon a small peninsula in Puget Sound one day in 1852, the silent evergreens and ferny undergrowth which blanketed the area as far as eye could see, gave little suggestion that upon this site would grow in later years the largest city of the vast Pacific Northwest states. This was a part of "Oregon Territory" at the time. Indian tribes still outnumbered the whites, and overland communication with the East was yet a vision for the future.
Clearing away the trees and building of a village must have been a hard task indeed, scarcely loss arduous than the first attempts at settlement on the Atlantic coast so many years before. Happily, the Indians were friendly to these western pioneers, and watched with interest the progress of their building.
With characteristic enthusiasm and unbounded optimism, the name "New York" was soon bestowed upon the budding city, despite its pitiful contrast with its eastern predecessor, from whence some of these adventurers had set sail several months previous to this time.
One Indian chieftan, struggling with the mysteries of English, and reverting now and again to phrases in his native tongue, is said to have remarked when looking at the little group of log cabins, "Ugh! New York -- Alki," (Alki being the equivalent in his dialect of "Some day.")
Thus was born the name "Alki", one which clung to the community for a brief time. Indeed, the point of land across Elliott Bay from the present business district still is called Alki Point.
Well might the red man say, "Some day," for the fow log cabins and general store showed little promise of a real city. The town was first laid out in 1853, and called Seattle after a friendly chieftan of that name. Incorporated in 1865, and re-incorporated a few years later, the rising city had little growth until the coming of the railroad in 1884. Then ensued a period of prosperity and building, halted momentarily in 1889 by a disastrous fire which swept more than 100 acres, destroying all it touched. Rebuilding, however, was at once commenced, and soon a newer better city had arisen.
Demands for local transportation in the tiny village of 1871 were few. Nevertheless, that year saw established a stage coach line between the city and the shore of beautiful Lake Washington, at that time closely bordered by lush growth of forest, though now well within the city limits. Two trips per day sufficed, and a fare of 50e each way prevailed.
A few years later, a horse and wagon commenced a local service on First Avenue for accommodation of both passengers and freight.
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