The Cushman House 
The Times made a good de&f K t?!f G S? H Mf'’pu1)lisiied its article the 
Sunday befoie election, speaking of me as a pioneer and well known 
to many people in Seattle. The next day the Sun, a new paper pub¬ 
lished a letter from the president of the Municipal League saying 
that the l. T. & r. Co. was using this man Putnam, who was an old 
rancher, hidebound with the predjudices of his class as a tool to 
influence the voters. He lived on a little clearing in the woods, 
the only cleared land in the project, and knew as much about power 
sites, electricity and Seattle's bonded debt as a hog does of 
Sunday. Why this is the came man who tried to have a letter read 
at a meeting of the League and the reader was put out. And this 
was partly true. The League appointed a committee to investigate 
the project, the chairman one of the best engineers in the country, 
and they made an adverse report. Then the League packed a meeting 
with City Lighting Dept, employee etc- and turned down the report, 
and my peer-correspondent came near being roughly handled. Some 
of the most prominent pec pie in the town were not allowed to speak 
if on the wring side. But the description of me, if you had trav¬ 
elled in this country you co .Id fairly see me, a bewhiskered old 
mossback with a fat squaw, they are always fat, and a breed of half- 
breed children peeping through the fencerails. A friend sent me a 
clipping yesterday, I dont see the Sun, and I promptly sent for 
half a dozen copies to send my friends.I snail have one framed and 
hung in the living room of the he tel. Since the election the Light¬ 
ing Dept, has had troubles of its own. The Supt. has been jacked 
up for using $700.00 of the City's money without authority to adver¬ 
tise the project and is accused of criminal action in being inter¬ 
ested in selling supplies t.e the Dept. Also the finances ©f the 
Dept, are being aired and the difference between the actual cost 
and the L. T. & P. Co's bid is being inquired inti by the papers, 
