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Show j SEATTLE'S IRISH FOUNDER. An Irish. Sailor Whose Career Reads Like "Robinson Crusoe." The story of the life of John Sullivan, Sulli-van, who died at Seattle, Wash., leaving leav-ing $125,000, which has now been the means of raising to affluence two poverty-stricken Irish people, reads like the romance of a second Robinson Crusoe. A native of Cork city, he left - his home when quite a young man to be-some be-some a sailor. During one of his voyages, about forty years-ago, his ship, a sailing vessel, ves-sel, encountered a terrible gale and was wrecked, Sullivan being the only one of the crew who escaped with his life. He was a hardy swimmer, and after a long fight with the waves was cast up on the mainland. Frost-bitten and numbed with the cold, he lay there for the night, and when the morning came found that the land upon which h tiMn Hi row ri whs1 iinJnbsthit'- . Like the Crusoe of fiction, he sw'ain out to the wreck and managed to save a gun and some ammunition, with which he was able to shoot animals for his larder. He built himself a hut and lived a lonely hermit for some days, when, as chance would have it, he was Joined by a sailor who had escaped from another an-other wreck. The two set to wur'k building huts and making them habitable, and as time went on thesa became gradually peopled by wayfarers from the towns which were fast growing up far inland. Then Sullivan staked out for himself a large tract of land, and on this rose the now famous city of Seattle, with a present population of 42,000. As the city grew his wealth increased, in-creased, and he became known among the settlers as "Pioneer" Sullivan. Originally an unlettered man. he turned his attention when wealthy towards to-wards learning, and a young French lady named Miss Marie Carrau taught him French. i She it was who alleged that on his death by a nuncupative will, he made her his heiress of his property. This claim, however, the supreme court of the United States has just declared null and void. Post Intelligencer, Seattle, Wash. ,. |