KIRO Newsradio’s story last week about hidden relics from an old cable car line inspired a listener to reach out in search of the origins of a distinctive set of markers along that same thoroughfare: Madison Street, the main connector between Elliott Bay and Lake Washington since the 19th century.
from an old cable car line inspired a listener to reach out in search of the origins of a distinctive set of markers along that same thoroughfare: Madison Street, the main connector between Elliott Bay and Lake Washington since the 19th century.
“It had been my greatest unsolved walking mystery for so long I had almost completely let go of the idea that I would ever solve it,” Ryan admitted. “Greater minds before me had tried and not been able to come up with anything.” The second clue was a name formally stamped into the sidewalk – whenever the concrete had first been poured – right next to that Galer Street tile marker where Ryan met up with KIRO Newsradio a few days ago.
“They gave the contract to this guy named Harry Collins, who was actually the person who had started Seattle’s very first tile and mantel store after moving here in 1889 from New York, sensing, I think, that the people of Seattle would need some tiles,” Ryan said.– and a major amount of reconstruction work was underway almost immediately afterward, likely a boon for Collins’ nascent tile empire.
“And then it reads,” Ryan continued, “‘The street committee at its meeting yesterday instructed the Board of Public Works to use no more tiling street signs in the pavement, as such signs are considered worthless.'”It’s unclear exactly why the tiles were deemed ‘worthless’ so quickly after they had been embraced as a solution for street signage, but Susanna Ryan thinks they likely proved ineffective for people moving increasingly faster via cable cars as well as horse-drawn buggies.
“And he took the 10-minute walk to King Street Station with his tile samples in tow, going to Canada on a work trip,” Ryan continued. “And several minutes after the train took off from King Street Station, he died. He died aboard the train … in theTile maven Harry J. Collins, says Susanna Ryan, “may have been among the first people to die in that Great Northern Tunnel. How dramatic with tile samples.
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