Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1890 — Rather Rapid Growth. [ARTICLE]

Rather Rapid Growth.

Chicago Post. Fairhaven, a city on, one of the numerous bays in Puget Sound, in Washington, is, according to William Visscher, editor of the Fairhaven Herald, the history of a city’s birth and growth, which for rapidity, in a financial as well as in a numerical way, is unequalled. “One year ago to-day the site of Fairhaven wa9 covered with a dense forest of trees several hundred feet in height,” said Mr. Visscher this morning at the Leland Hotel. “To-day, , where not a man lived then, and where wild animals made their home, praetji--1 cally unmolested, stands a city of five thousand inhabitants, with sixty miles of paved streets, and sewers with street-cars worked by electricity, streets lit by the arc light and houses jby the incandescent; with churches of jail the prominent denominations, a (Mayor and Council, two newspapers, .buildings fashioned upon refined architecture, clubs for social purposes, among the latter being a college soiciety composed of thirty graduates 'from Harvard College; two railroads, ithe Canadian Pacific and Great Northern already in, and two* the Union (Pacific and the Northern Pacific, trying to get in, and,” Mr. Visscher added, after a moment’s pause to catch his breath, •*a wharf in process of construction at which a line of steamers will land from Asia, the city being 1,000 miles nearer that continent than any other American olty—those of Alaska alone excepted.”