Other Mason Block Tales |
In Historic Fairhaven - Sycamore Square Building |
Sam
Mullin (1900)
Courtesy of WWU Center for Pacific Northwest Studies
Aside from the "Wild Man"
Hardy’s shenanigans were other jokes around the building.
One time a man named Mr.
Mullin leaned too far into the building’s wood box
one morning in search of fuel for
his office. Somebody gave Mullin a shove and into the
large box he went. The joker locked
the lid and left the realtor to fume until Captain W.C.B. Grahame--the famous war hero and
Cascade Club manager, saved him from his makeshift jail cell.
In 1897, Orrin Garland met with a debilitating accident in one of Fairhaven’s sawmills when he caught his left arm between the sprocket of the slab chain and the chain itself, crushing the arm to pulp. Local physicians were called in and at a glance it was obvious that the arm would have to be amputated at the elbow. Garland "pleaded and implored with such pathos that tears stood in the eyes of some of the men who heard him: ‘I know it is badly hurt. I could hear the bones being ground and crushed myself—but doctor, please don’t cut it off!’" The arm was cut off and master machinist Garland had to find another means of employment, which he did by leasing 20 of the best rooms in the Mason Block and opening what would later be known as the Garland Hotel.
Members of the Eagle Lodge, L to R, Front: Chas Bornstein, Millard
Scotten, Gus Bettman, S.E. Mullin;
Back Row: L.H. Darwin, Frank Borgeson, Ole Glad, Moran Moran, "Peanuts" Connel,
Chris Henson, and an unidentified person c1900
Courtesy of WWU Center for Pacific Northwest Studies
