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Told by the Pioneers Bigelow played for us on a melodeon which was very old and belonged to the Bigelow family. It is now in the museum in Tacoma. By the time I was twelve years old, my parents decided to send me to the public school. 111'. Venen was principal and used a tuning fork to get the pitch. Schools always were opened with singing then. Later Mrs. P. C. Hale was principal. My first music teacher was Miss Emma L. Nickels. She moved to San Francisco to live and mv next • teacher was Mrs. Annie M. Shoecraft. I think the latter and Professor Roberts started most of the Olympia youth along the road to musical glory. For several veal'S in the seventies the coast survey schooner Faunt- • • leroy wintered here in Olympia and was tied up down at Brown's Wharf, which was about two miles or so north of Olympia on the West Side. The young' officers were quite an acquisition to Olympia society and I think they had a pretty good time too. On New Year's Day the young ladies always received callers and usually there were little groups who received together at different houses. One year Sam Woodruff and Lieutenant P. A. 'Valker called together. They had a big truck drawn by horses and a big barrel large enough for them to get into on the back. The driver drove up to one house and the two gentlemen stepped out carrying their calling cards, which were about a foot long, with their names in letters about an inch high, under their arms. Of course, the girls had to go out and inspect the equipage and when they were up on the truck, the young men gave the dri"er a sign and away he drove with the girls holding on to the posts and all calling for him to stop. The young people decided to present the opera "Pinafore," one winter, and everyone who could carry a tune was pressed into service. Otto Ranke was the Captain; .Miss Alice 'Varbass, now Mrs. A. 'V. Engle, was his daughter Josephine; ?Ill'. R. G. O'Brien was Ralph; Miss Anna Knighton, afterwards ?III'S. A. VV. Harrington of Seattle, was Buttercup; Miss Georgie Percival, afterwards ?vII'S. T. N. Ford, was Cousin Hebe; Henry '1'. Mayo, who was then a young ensign in the navy, was Sir Joseph Porter (and we little thought that some da~' he would be a Rear Admiral in the navy, though that may have been his pet ambition, who knows1), and Sam vVoodruff was Dick Deadeye. The chorus was made up of all young folks who could sing, and they gave a very good performance. The orchestra consisted of one piano, presided over bv Miss Stella Galliher. • Ten years later the Olympia people gan the "JHikado" to raise money to buy the pipe organ for the new St. John's Episcopal Church. I was ,., 0'1'own bv . that time and ,,'as in the chorus and it was great fun. Mrs. E. L. Carson was Yum Yum; ?vII'S. Sam Percival was Pitti Sing; 51
Told by the Pioneers Mrs. J. P. Hoyt was Peepbo; Mrs. C. M. Bolton was Kattisha; Mr John Y. Ostrander was the :Mikado; Mr. R. G. 0 'Brien was Nankipo Mr. Sam ·Woodruff was Poobah; Lieutenant H. T. Mayo was KoK( and Mr. L. P. Ouelette was Pish Tush. Of these, the only one now liv. ing is Sam Woodruff. I mention these names as the old timers will remember them all and the splendid work they did. Butler's Cove was situated about 1Y2 or 2 miles north of Olympia about where the Olympia Golf Club is now. It was a famous picnic ground and almost the whole town would turn out to attend clam bakes presided over by "Uncle Bennie Morrell". The big boats could not land at Percival's Dock, so they had to land at Brown's ·Wharf north of town. These boats were the Dakota and the Panama, making the run to San Francisco from Olympia every ten days. Later they came once a week. The Eliza Anderson (and later 1he North Pacific) was the Victoria boat and made the trip only once or twice a week. Round trip was $20.00. When I was nine years old we moved to a house on Thirteenth and Main Streets called the P. D. Moore House; however, the house was built by Col. Cock, grandfather of Mrs. H. K. Owens of Seattle and of the late Capt. Reinhardt of Olympia. The stage, drawn by four horses, which met the Portland-Tacoma train at Tenino, came into Olympia over the"plank road" which extended for about a mile south on Main Street. In the seventies, there were two boats running between Olympia and Seattle, the Messenger, owned and run by Capt. J. G. Parker and the Zephyr, run by Capt. W. R. Ballard. One boat left Olympia at 7 :00 A. M. and the other left Seattle at the same time. It took all day to make the run. They stopped at Kanaka Jacks, Steilacoom and Tacoma for passengers and freight, also for wood and water. We always took a good book or some fancy work along to help pass the long hours, for the ladies did not play cards as they do now. My father owned some property on Oyster Bay in Mason County near Kamilche. On the back of it, wild cranberries grew and he thought there was no reason why the Eastern cranberries would not grow there, so be sent for some plants and was quite successful, and so was the first one to bring the Eastern cranberry into Washington Territory. In 1878 he built a small steam boat and ran her between Shelton (then only a few houses) , Kamilche and Olympia. He named her The Old Settler. She had a big whistle that used so much steam that she had to slow up after blowing it until the pressure was up again. Capt. Chapman had an engine on a scow and called it The Capitol. When he wanted to pass The Old Settler he would blow the
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INDEX Benton, 149 Benton, Maine, 16
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INDEX Cold Spring Canyon, 13 Colfax
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INDEX Engle, A. W., Mrs., 51 Engle,
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INDEX Hays, Logan, 82 Hearn, Lamber
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INDEX Ketchikan, Alaska, 127 Kimbal
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