The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 20, 1912, Page 9

Ste absolute retia- assumed. pe a fi company has, | years, taken a) Seats ‘This firm ‘Most prominent in the city, ita heavy dray The ‘at the Arling- 4, where 4. W. et, 18 to be found ‘A general freight hauling ma. ing the con . heavy hauling for @ also makes a spe- furniture and It moves any- } the business of speaking? freight-moving city. Mr. Daw, the of tiany years" fer business successful in luratively.—Princeton Ti SET SOUND BR 8 fact that Seattic is 8nd industrial cen- all of the Tecognized in the are located here contracting West, and prob the largest Is the Puget Company, Washing. a —— , Ti) \\) Thi mauni\) \\\ a=}: KL ATT SEATTLE, QUEEN cry) Quen City and metropolis of the! | Northw and located on Puget |Sound, an arm of the Pacific, Se-| attle i# well fitted physically to! {maintain {te commercial suprom. acy, The city rests on a series of hilla between Puget Sound on the wont and Lake Washington on the east, while two large lakes, Green| Lake and Lake Union, are entirely | within its boundaries, The Olympic | mountains tower to the westward) and the Cascades to the eastward, and beautiful Mt. Rainier to the south completes the pretty plo ture. Rightofway has been secured and preliminary work bas been done on the ship canal which is Proposed to connect Lakes Union and Washington with Puget Sound to! 1s completed a commodious fresh water harbor In the heart of the city will be available, and Se latte wilh ipping ities wnexcelled in the matter of ar rangement and convenience by any port tn the world. it decade Beattle enoinenal Increase in population and wealth, which has placed it among the leading jelties of the land. Endowed as it} |i with a situation of immense j strategic importance as regards the commerce of the Pacific, fav. | ored by nature with @ mild and) |equable climate, and located tn the heart of a region rich in undevel oped resources, who can say but that the period of the elty’s great | est growth fs yet to come? | Seattle is famous for the Seattie| | Spirit. It has doubled and tripled) in population through the enter-| prise and public pride of tte fto-| habitants. It has gone ahead. No city in the country has the up veloped wealth, the undeveloped Ww quynaaiiernrat? wil MAYDA LL WHAT SEATTLE HAS Largest clay products plant on Pacific Coast Largest shoe factory on Pacific Const Largest jewelry condern on Pacific Coast Largest condensed milk concern in the Weat Largest Count Largest fisheries and lumbering interests in country. Largest brewery on the Pacific Coast Biggest Qourtng mill concern on the Pacific Const, Most important developed coal fields on the Pacific Coast, within radiua of 100 miles. More shingle milla than any oth- er one city. dry docks on Pacific 42-STORY BUILDING IN SEATTLE Visitors to the Pacific Northwest never fail to marvel at the mb stantial building improvements seen. in all of the leading cities. At this time there ts in course of construc: tion tn Seattle the L. C. Smith bulld- ing. whieh is to be 42 stories high. It was a litte less than 10 years ago that Alexander Pantages threw open the doors of bis first little playhouse in Seattle. That was The Crystal, just next door to the present Pantages Theatre, at the corner of Second ay. and Seneca st. Since then many things have changed. Alexander Pantages hag) grown to be Seattle's millionaire theatrical manager, and his the at stretch from the broad ex panses of the Middle West to the ifie ocean—13 of them in alb Y «are Monuments to his in dustry and genius The Pantages cireult today rests in the form of a golden crescent, resources of Seattle, Queen City of |ffou! Bt. Joseph on the eastern to the Northwest M. & K. GOTTSTEIN For the past twenty eight years) leading wine merchants in this city The business was established in 1883 by the father of the present manager of the concern, and It bas In as busy a community as the grown steadily with the rest = vr jelty, wntil today the business of the wholesale district of Seattle, the! firs; ts one of the largest in the| drayman plays an important part./ Northwest. M. and K. Gottstein and it may be said of him that be! carry on a wholesale business in is one of the leading factors in the| wines, liquors and cigars, The com Erowth of a community. | The dray’| pany is the sole agent for Pacific men of Seattlo certainly have &!Cigh whiskeys and is the distribu wide fleld before them, and one of| 4, of such well-known brands as the number who has made go0d/thy phil Bheridan Maryland rye, and bas @ large patronage is W. H.! O14 Craven Kentucky bourbon, and Baxter, whose office Is located at! O14 Pioneer. The large wine rooms 1003 Western avenue. Mr. Baxter ang warehouse of tho business ar Pesleeen Len tor tha past caghe [treed st 206 Firat avenue south, wre they have been for man: whlan iio Ae best hainamene Sent | Put of the leading distilleries of Ken: . “e tucky and Maryland. A very exten hate we Hoyed. Mr. Baxter | sive business is carried on in West EE ee ine packed tor(0rt Washington and Alaska, the aeireeet or Cename ane in every {firm being one of the oldest and es —e ee geen ca | sreater than ever before, and ench Rutty tteraeuasaicoces aes ton succeeding Year finds the M. and K. Gottatein concern a bigce ‘actor oie oye prt hangin rr YE commercial Ife of Seattle ‘ The em ber ‘of the mn ave & eity for a number of years, is Widely | Savy taken a profiinent part in and favorably known, and 18 ON) the commercial life of this city of Seattle's strongest boosters. land have been for years identified with all movements for a) bigger and greater city. The firm,) lan such, has also been a large fac tor in the business life of Seattle, doing {ts share willingly in all pub- He enterprises and contributing to the success of ench. W. H. BAXTER year He (innocently)—Golf certainly keeps you in good shape. She — (euggestively) — Literally rig He-—~( waking up)—No; IDGE & DREDGING COMPANY buflt most of|the dredging work in the creation This company ha island, the reclamation the bridges in this state and bas /of Harbor @ bridge crossing every river of|of the Seattle any size in the state. Among the| deepening of dock slips. larger installations are bridges on| Similar work has been done by the Snohomish, Skagit, Snoqualmie,|them at Tacoma, Olympia, Aber- Nooksack, Stillaguamish, Puyallup,|deen, South Bend and Raymond Cedar and Spokane rivers, and the| Their equipment for this work bridge across the Columbia river at| consists of suction, dipper and clam Burbank, Wash. | she dredges, together with a full They have recently completed) equipment of ecows, tubo I Progress of Construction Work on August 28, 1911, on @ Reinforced-Concrete Stee! Dam Re- and Put Into Service for the Portiand Railway, Light & Power Company at Estacada, Bound Bridge & Dredging Company. : British Columbia and to ce in Consists of | civil, and hydraw Construction the design and , structural 4nd foundations, tee! Improvements, | steel concret dams, | for the Portland Railway, Light &)the necessary floating plants for all Power Company at Estacada, Ore,,| kinds of harbor development work 4 reinforced concrete steel dam of| The dredging capacity of thelr the Ambursen type, of which they | equipment 1s 600,000 cuble yards are the associate engineer con month structors in the Northwestern! ‘The officers of this company are states, iMr. §. H. Hedges, president; Mr This dam ‘# approximately 1,000,/R. M, Dyer, vice president, and Mr set long and 100 feet high, and con-|Frank Dana, contract manage tains 66,000 cuble feet of reinforced) The offices of the company ane |at 422-441 Central building, Seattle, They have done practically all, Wash M. and K. Gottstein have been og | Low Angeles an the southwestern tip. The theatres in between these points, and which form the Pan tages chain, are at Calgary, Alberta, Spokane, Seattle, Vancouver, Taco- ma, Portland, Sacramento, San Francisco, Oakland, Pueblo and Denver. Recently Manager Pantages bas opened theatres at the rate of about one a month First came the palatial house in Portland, the last of December saw the inaugu ration of the new Pantages home in San Franclaco, and before 30 more days have come and go: the Seattle magnate will dedicate The | Pantages in Onkiand. The Pantages circuit fs a one man institution. The Seattle man- ager has numerous assistants, it is true, but it is Mr. Pantages him- self, and no other, who knows every detail of the business transacted; it Is he who has these things at his fingers’ ends, and upon his health is butided in the future a power in vaudeville that may go unrivaled. Bat in the business of building and opening new theatres Mr. P tages doom not plan to negiect Se attle About a year ago be pur chased the Plymouth church prop- erty at Third av. and University at., and upon this site, sitaated in what may be the heart of the business district of the fature, he will con tenet this city’s handsomest pop- ular-priced vaudeville theatre And Seattle people do not go to the Pantages theatre just for the idea of the thing. They Ko because they are given 100 per cent on in the shape of an ad » show, for the very modest sum of 10 and 20 cents, Pantages bills have now reached a fixed standard of excellence. This is one secret of Alexander manufacturing | | | LOLI AMERICAN SAVINGS BANK AND TRUST CO. Of the many big banks and bank ing companies in Seattle, which have taken a high place in the de- velopment of the city and the Northwest, is to be found the Amer lean Savings Bank and Trust com- pany, which hag handsome banking quarters at the corner of Second avenue and Madison street. This bank was established in 1902 at the time when Seattle was one of the |most rapidly growing communities in the entire country, Founded by conservatly business men and |bDankers, the Institute from the firs has enjoyed a big business, A gen eral banking business is transacted Accounts of books, merchants, cor- porations and individual lieited on favorable terma, Th Trust department accepts and ex ecutes trusts, acts an executor, ad- winistrator, registrar and transfer agent of stocks, The sayingn de- |partment pays a 4 per cent rate of | interest. In connection with the bank can be found safe deposit vaults of the latest and most ap- Proved construction, absolutely se cure against loss by fire or burglary. The officers of the bank are J. A. Murray, president; Micha @! Earles, first vice president; F. M. Sullivan, vice president; G. K. Botts, secretary, The bank is capitalized $200,000. Its surplus and undt profits amount to $200,000.00. if $2,450,000.00 deposits are car in the bank by Seattle and out- wide firme and individuals. GEO. B. ADAIR & SON COMPANY One of the large concerns which are contributing to the prosperity of Seattle and giving it wide repo tation as & wholesale distributing point is that of Geo. B. Adair & Son Company, whose place of business is at 514-516 First avy. 8. The com |pany handle all kinds of gasoline, lelectric, steam and hydraulic ma chinery and are the Northwestern agents for the Crocker Wheeler productions of direct and al ternating current electrical ma chinery and transformers; Foos Gas Engine Co, gas and gaso line engines; DeLaval Steam Tur- bine Co,, steam turbines, turbine land centrifugal pumps; Deane Steam Pump Co., Kahlenberg Bros Co., Luitweller Pump Co., lig Elec- trie Ventilating Co., Spencer Tur- bine Cleaner Co., Carlisle & Finch Co,, ete, The company make a lead. ing specialty of completely equip ping pumping, lighting and power plants; also the installation of pumping plants for Irrigation pur poses, The company are very extensive dealere in pow der, and they have the repu tation of being very successful in the sale of the old reliable brands lof the Giant’ Powder Co., Con., as jagainst all competitors. Their stor age warebopses and yards are lo- cated on Whidby Island, where they cover #0 acres of ground. The senior partner, Geo, B. Adatr, start Jed in business in Seattle 27 years Jago and is one of the pioneer bust {ness men of the city ago he sold out his business to the Fairbanks Morse Co, About eight years ago he organized the present fcompany. Mr. Adair is one of the |most prominent members of the | Commercial club, and upon all mat- ters his advice ts eagerly sought, and his decision is always con- sidered reasonable and other mem: bers are willing to abide by it Perhaps no business man or citizen of Seattle has had a more honorable business career than Mr, Adatr. eashier, and Harry Welty,| LO Wi ,K R. S. KERR The selection of a contractor to |complete the finishing or decorat |ing of the interior of a building or dwelling place is something which should always be given very care ful thought and consideration by Jevery builder. A botched tinting | painting or paperbanging job will ruin the appearance of any building or residence. For this reason the | greatest of care should be exercised jin this work, One of the most de- pendable contractors tn this bust ness is R. 8. Kerr, at 1311 Arcade Way, Seattle, Although he has been engaged in business in Seattle for only three years, Mr. Kerr is lalready well known among the Jarchitents and builders of the city, jbecause the exceptionally high class work his firm does has proved mont watisfactory to all. Mr, Kerr leontracts for patnting, tinting and |paperbanging. He does an exten- sive contracting business, A large |foree of skilled mechanics is em | ployed by him at ali times, being in- | creased during the busy seasons of the year. Mr. Kerr came to Seattle from Columbus, Ohio, three years ago, He was engaged in the same |Une of general contracting tn the | Kast, and was well known there. | Mr. Kerr bas established and built up a large business in Seattle. He| |has become known as a man in whom the greatest confidence can be placed, and as a result of this |high esteem he is held in, his bust. ness relations with bis employers are all that could be asked for. Mr. Kerr bas done the finjshing or interior work on a great many of Seattle's beautiful homes and bulld- ings AWNING COMPANY Residents of Seattle traveling in any state or country bordering on the Pacific ocean need not be sur-| prived if they find tents and awn- ings bearing the label of the Felitz| |Tent & Awning Company of this city, Felitz tents have been seen in Mexico and are to be found by jthe hundreds in Alaska. This con- cern is one of the best known manu- |facturing establishments in this leity. The company establiched its }firet factory in Seattle in 1887, be-| |fore the great fire. Since then the; jcompany has increased its business | and extended {ts territory until to-| jday it js one of the city’s best) known industries. The company jemploys ten people. It manufac- | tures tents, awnings, flags and bunt- ng work of al} kinds, although it |does not cater to sail work. The storé and factory is located at 121% Yeuler Way. The Alaska trade of jthe company has increased very [rapidly since that country started also to settle with the stampede of the | terior cities of the States. late ‘90s. The Felftz company [Jumped at once into the field with the manufacturing of tents spec constricted to meet the d of the Arctic winters and mosquito cursed summers of the Northern territory The company was established by Frederick Felitz, who came to Se attle from Ontario, Canada, over years ago. Mr. Felitz has always been regarded as one of the pro gressive business men of Seattle and he has built up a business for his company which brings large re turns to Seattle. The company has maintained {ts offices on Yesler Way for many years. | Reasonable. | Mrs, Bilton—1 got an invitation | to Janaway's reception. Did you? Mrs. Caton—No, She borrowed jall my cnina and silverware, and I/ | don't supy she wants me to nee} }in industrial circles, than Mr. Sohl. He is progressive and his word can FRED E. SOHL — always be relied upon. His well- Seattle is one of the most pro-/equipped works are at 1424 Rail gressive cities on the Pacific Coast Toad avenue. or for that matter in the United) LF. cu R States. All lines of industry are well represented here, and, as Se‘) attle is a seaport city, she has| One of the very important fac within her gates many enterprises tors in the development of Alaska, that are not to be found in the in- which has meant so much to this One of | city, is the apparently unimportant the concerns which is most essen- tial to. a city ke Seattle is the | !tem of shoes, yet every old musher, y steering-wheel wright, block maker | miner and prospector, as well as the loggers of this state and vicin- ity, appreciate the value of the is Fred E. Sohl, who has been es-| iene kind of footwear, and so for tablished here since August, 1902.| the last four years they have been Mr, Sohl has been identified with | juying their shoes and boots at the the business all his life and has gon of J. F. Currier, at 121 West been in Seattle for fourteen years. | Stain st. Here is to be found the He is prepared to execute all work |jargest variety of loggers’ shoes in the line of block making, wood |in the city, and a modern and well turning, band sawing and scroll! equipped manufacturing and repair work, patent rollertbushing, metal-'qepartment indicates that shoes can line bushing, common bushing, and he made to measure at short notice the repairing of blocks, chocks and and repairs made while one wal steering gears. A specialty is made| jarge trade is carried on by this of heavy purchase and main sheet establishment with the Cache Creek blocks, and he furnishes lignum- district in Alaska, where thousands vitae either by the piece or ton,/of pairs of Currier’s shoes are to and flag poles. In every line he) be found in use and giving satisfac- guarantees his work and his tion. Mr. Currier is a man of large charges are very moderate. It is|and varied experience in the shoe- doubtful if any man in Seattle is|making business, and can be de- better known among the owners of | pended on to turn out the best pos- and wood turner, and the most prominent and best known of these | Pantages’ succes: KLOCK PROD | | tide lands, and the} Within the last ten years Seattle has shown a most marvelous growth. This enormous incre in popilation has had to be fed and the result has been an enor mous growth In the business of sup |plying food stuffs of all kinds and descriptions, The merchants along | Western av were among the first to feel this g growing de mand. The sta of Washington at the present time is not produ ing enough butter, eggs and cheese to feed its own people, and the rapid influx of settlers and new- comers to the cities of the North west has created an enormous de mand upon the produce men. One of the firms in Seattle which has felt this demand and taken prompt to meet it is the Klock Company of this city, at avenue and steps | Produce estern street. This company has been estab -| building. nian NEW HOME OF KLOOK lished in business in this city for the{ past eight years and has built P\up_an enormous business through nd Alaska, The firm does a wholesale business in but \ter, exes, ¢ e and poultry. It also owns and operates its own cream- ery here in the elty. It owns a cold storage plant which has a capacity of 20 cars. The accompanying cut jis a picture of its new four-story This plant {s kept filled during the shipping that the company of its trade. The the management of who is also the treas oncern. Mr, Klock has 4 in this business for any years and is regarded out the stu to capacity season in orde’ ean take care firm is under HL, Kh urer of th been en a great u as one of the best posted men on | plant in the world, with an output| being prominent {n other business He has always taken ajof 180,000 paving bricks per day.|enterprises of this city and | the street, the street and is regarded as one lof its leading men, how It's treated. No review of Seattle's industrial enterprises and activities would be complete without an adequate men tion of the Denny-Renton Clay & Coal Company, one of the largest | enterprises of its kind in the world. }One cannot go to any part of the jelty of Seattle or in fact to any city or town in the Northwest, without coming In contact with some ma terial supplied by this company, as |their output includes clay products jot every description, paving brick }and sewer pipe, face brick, archi |tectural terra cotta, etc., and some of these productions will be fow in pearly every municipal or priv ate constructive undertaking of any ize in the Northw The company operates six large} factories and owns a number of large coal mines and clay deposits. At Renton, Wash., it operates th lare single unit paving brick Columbia | prominent part in the business of | Nearly all the brick pavements in| Northwest the cities of the Northwest have been supplied by this factory. ~ DENNY-RENTO: ONE OF TH djand At| IN CLAY & COAL CO. the other plants they manufacture; Renton Clay & Coal Co., which is a hollow ware of all kinds, including | combination of the Denny Clay Co. partition tile, electric conduit tile,|and the Renton Clay Works. Mr. drain tile, flue lining, chimney pipe, | Mathews is also very heavily inter- and more than ali others, vitrified | ested in Alaska and British Colum- salt glazed sewer pipe, of which|bia properties. The secretary and they manufacture over 2,000 miles} manager is J. R. Miller, who came a year. Most of the sewers of Se-|to Seattle from California, and was attle have been built out of their| formerly president of-the Renton products, They also manufacture|Clay Works, Mr. Miller is one of pressed brick many shades and|the most public spirited and pro- colors, from which many of the) gressive business men of the city leading office bulidings have been|and has done much to advance her constructed. This concern em-|enterprises. The assistant treas- ploys over nine hundred njurer and etary is vessels and marine men, as well as | sible 4 E DENNY-RENTON PL their payroll annually ex-) Walter B. Baer, a young attorney ceeds $1,000,000, The officers and! Princeton and New York law schoo! directors rank among the most}man, who came to Seattle from prominent and successful of Seat-/New York last Mareh, ‘The as- tle's business men, The president/sistant manager is D. T. Farn- is Morita Thomsen, who is also|/ham, a Yale graduate. The president of the Centennial Millj/sales manager is George W. Co., the Seattle Grain Co., and the} Kummer, who was formerly mana- Mexican-Pacific Railway, as well as ger of the Denny Clay Co., and has for many years been prominently the | identified with the clay industry, The vice presideit and| The company occupy @ large suite J. Mathews, the/of offices on the tenth floor of the Denny-|new Hoge building, treasurer is ©. original organizer of the