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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (May 1, 1889)
THE WEST BHORE. rt. J Uvl H Vancouver by the government for a ,.. on crrUin edition, of improvement, which are Lg m.mi.li.l with. There U another park of forty trr n 1L rmth ! of F!e creek. Three small er (tiki in tbo city occupy a total area of about twen tv acr , ai.d u very attractive ornaments. The mu-mcj-al government rwntly paid tl5.0Wl.00 for aeon (rally market square. The one cemetery utuated on tho uth aide and it owned and cared fr ly tU city. Vancouver baa a well organized police depart mtit, which ia wlf attaining. Baloon licenses are .VHKi rarli, ami drinking placea are kept under itrict i surveillance Tbo city onus and main Uiba a bipitl, which it built last year at a coat of IIO.IMKMI. It ii under the direction of a hospital Urd of flvo medical men. Tho city hall ia a com-m-iliui building, in which aro tho headquarters of all tho department of the city government. The municipal government consists of a mayor and board of t'D aldermen, elected by ballot, and the usual other ofllwra acting under their direction. An enterpris iiig j.lirr regarding public affairs of all kinds ia pur sue The board of trade ia an active and strong on gaiiiialion, whirl) ii an imjMirtant aid to tho business derelupment of tbo town, lu members aro tho prom inent buiineM men if tho city, and they labor for the l-oal inlereati of th municipality in everything that cmHi within tho aoojx of their ojwation. The government Lm appropriate! W.'l.OOO.OO for th f rvtiin of a court house and registrar's oflice in Vancouver thii year. Heretofore Vancouver hai boon include,! in tho New Westminster district, and all tran.fen f real r.Uto had to pus through tho land regi.trar'i hands th. ro, but the growing importance of tLo new city has made nwaiary the formation of a now dutrict, of which it will U the headquarters. Tho mrth.al of recording real ntaUte transfers in in llnti.h Columbia i, known aa the Torrens ).U-m. and it i. a great deal .bplor than tho older and ia..r general ni.U olmed ia mm )mx Tbo rrgutrar u . .alaried government official, and tho wilutta.ly.iw,, any flaw in titlo Vy Tk-J ith all ne, f, aUtru. and tho wcWr j, Utlo crnmcntw,!! etablih a signal it. Thoc,,yi.0f.uchj ; ..H iutt;:. ::ri;vl;r rrro- represented in Vancouver. There are lodges of Free Masons, Odd Fellows, Good Templars, Knights of Labor, Knights of Pythias, Locomotive engineers, United Workmen, Foresters, Sons of England, and a St Andrew's society. They embrace a large member ship and wield a considerable inflaence for the good of society. The city has a public reading room, a Young Men's Christian Association, which is con templating the erection of a fine building on a site that has already been donated, and a Woman's Chris tian Temperance Union, all of them in a very flour ishing condition. There are at present nine church edifices in the city two Methodist, two Presbyterian, two Episcopal, a Congregational, a Baptist and a Ro man Catholic and preparations are being made to erect several others. Besides these, the Methodists have a Chinese congregation, presided over by a na tive Chinese missionary, and a Chinese mission school. The news field is unusually well covered in Van couver. The News-Advertiser is a morning daily of eight pages, which is ably conducted and presents a full quota of the news of the world each morning. The Evening World is a publication but a few months old, but it is a vigorous, enterprising and newsy journal, and merits the large patronage it receives. Uoth papers issue weekly editions. They are clean and efficient exponents of the publio interests. The business institutions of the city are of an un usually stable character. Many of them are branches of old eastern establishments that have long been noted for their security and sagacity. The city has four banking houses, three of which are branches of eastern concerns, and the total capital represented by them is about 120,000,000.00. Many other business houBCB aro of similar stability. Throughout the en tiro province last year there were only thirteen busi ness failures, and of these the total assets exceeded tho liabilities by some $20,000.00 Perhap it would bo well to consider a few figures in connection with tho volume of business transacted in Vancouver for 1888. During the twelve months, the Canadian Pa cific railway brought to the city nearly thirty-nine thousand tons, and forwarded from Vancouver about twenty-two thousand tons of freight Over five hun dred and sixteen thousand packages of merchandise yre exported to China and Japan via the Canadian Pacific, steamers, and the imports from the same aourco aggregated over five hundred and seventy-four thousand packages, a cain of more than a hundred per cent over the previous year. The Canadian Pacific i company disbursed in Vancouver, for various par I jHHK-8 during the year, $019,231.05. The local cuBtom ; housfl records show that for the last fiscal year there wived in Vancouver two hundred and seventy-one ' "aft, of a total of one hundred and thirty-