The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 9, 1916, Page 10

4 ; se de _ West waterway are more shipbuilding activities. I co. Eddy corporation, which is already under contract to RE A A a NR ORE INVESTMENTS TOTAL MILLIONS IN RACE TO SUPPLY LARGE NEW BOTTOMS FOR WORLD TRADE Big Hulls Are Casting “Their Shadows a Harbor Island, Where Bay Pirates Squatted a a Year Ago Little more than a) year ago the police were driving the “squatter” harbor thieves off Harbor island. Several hundred, who made a crooked living pilfer- ing from boats, were housed in a squalid village, just] above high tide and built of driftwood and drygoods| boxes, or had their quarters in unsanitary, dirty house-| boats. These were burned. In a single night the village} went to ashes and its populace scattered to the winds. Affairs in that vicinity were pretty dead. PROSPEROUS YEAR WORKS MIRACLES Today, on the island and across the waterways, almost within a stone-throw of the old robbers’ village, ; a fleet of vessels are being built or are contracted for, all] at a total cost of approximately $25,000,000. | Such is the development in one prosperous year. | Take a swing about the waterfront in a launch} some day. | Head your craft for the Seattle Construction & Dry Dock Co.'s plant. Two big hulls, nearly complete, | Joom up right at the water’s edge. They're to be four-| masted schooners, and right now they’ re laying the| keels of two more such craft, while contracts recently Signed call for construction of three big steamers, to) Cost $2,650,000. ___ BUILD LARGEST FLOATING DRY DOCK To hasten the work the company has found it necessary to build a pontoon sectional dock, with a tonnage of 12,000 tons, costing between $400,000 and $500,000. It will be the largest floating dry dock on| the coast. Like pigmies, between the two big hulls now nearly F finished, are three submarines for the war department, contracts for which were obtained by the Seattle Con-| struction & Dry Dock Co. long before the rush of| shipbuilding hit Seattle. They, too, are nearly done. Recently the Todd Shipyards Corporation, or} Brooklyn, bought the plant of the Seattle Construction & Dry Dock Co. It was considered one of the most} important deals in local waterfront history. THIS COMPANY EMPLOYES 2,000 MEN Next to this big plant is that of the Skinner & build seven vessels, two of which are under way. The! company employs 2,000 men and is enlarging its| yards to lay more keels. When the works get in full] Swing five big carriers will be under construction in| the Skinner & Eddy yards at one time. Five months ago the Skinner & Eddy site was| covered with driftwood. The plant is now valued at} $2,000,000. Across the East waterway, on Harbor Island, where the old village of the harbor thieves stood a} year ago, J. F. Duthie & Co. have leased 12 acres and| have made their survey for a new shipyard. The plant will be the largest, excepting the Union Iron Works of San Francisco, on this coast, it is announced. | HAVE $5,000,000 WORTH OF CONTRACTS Duthie & Co. have closed contracts to build $5,- 000,000 worth of big cargo steamships. Within 60 days, it is said, the plant will be ready} for operation. More than $80,000 worth of tools have| already been bought. | The latest contract signed was for the construction} of three big steel freighters for Norwegian interests, to|* cost $2,500,000. Around the nose of the island and well into the} Two big wooden lumber carriers are being built, side by side, | by a subsidiary of the Puget Sound Bridge & Dredging| The same company has contracts for building 12} more of the same style of vessel, averaging in cost $225,000. Nearby, the Elliott Bay Ship & Engine Co. is get- , ting ready to put in a big plant for the construction of more ships, and across the waterway the Alaska-Pacific Navigation Co. has another wooden carrier under con-| struction. Nilson & Kelez are the builders. They are} keeping their plans secret, but it is extensively rumored that they have enough contracts to keep them at work several years. 200 ALIENS TO TAKE {COST OF EDUCATION OATH IN PORTLAND! SOARS WITH LIVING PORTLAND, Sept, 9 Two H CHICAGO Sept. 9 The high hundred aliens who have ap: cost of living is having its ¢ plied for American naturaliza fect on the cost of a college ed. tion will ta oath of citl tion, The University of Chi zeoship at a biic den mn o board of trustees | stration } ptember need that, b OE the summer qua the tuition fee in will be changed from $40 per quarter. | | | | 2 Instantaneous Al ¢ IRISH JIG EASIEST arm 0. FOR BLIND TO KNOW Members National Fire CHICAGO, Sept. 9.—Methods | ‘ zie of teaching blind children to Protection Association Ganeg: ware! GuenOputtAted bed 3 for. the American Association | The Gamewell Auxiliary Fire of Dancing Masters here by Alarm Service. Central station M. F. Conway of Hartford, m of night watch signals. giar Alarms. Sprinkler Su- pervisory Service Police Calis. Fire Dispatch and Notification Service. Conn, Con declared the Irish jig in the easiest dance for the blind to learn | Sept 112 Columbia Street, Seattle, Wash. t a hive int STAR—SATURDAY, SEPT. 9, 1916. | SHIPB UILDIN G BECOMES BIG INDUSTRY IN YEAR Soe TIT, RRR oo Fr bap corporation; plant of the Seattle Construction and Ory Dock Co. | NEW SECURITIES BUILDING Sh One of Seattle's finest edifices completed this year is the Securities Building, a 10-Story office Structure at Third avenue and Stewart street. Its completion marked the extension of the business district into new territory, where sever- al other modern buildings are now under construc- tion. REAL DUEL PAGE 10 SCENES IN SEATTLE’S NEW GIANT INDUSTRY Above, the gingantic ways upon which ships are being constructed at the Skinner-Eddy shipbuilding OUTDISTANCE RIVA below, two freighters and two United Statees navy submarines under construction at the STAGED | IN MOVIE THEATRE} PITTSBURG, Sept. 9.—W. M Reed, a white man, and Virgil Cobb, a negro, cleared up a long-standing quarrel at Crowe- burg, a mining camp near bere, and chose a crowded picture show for a battleground. During the fusillade of shots, which soon cleared the house of spec- tators, both men were mortally wounded, and died in a short time. } [Ships Being Built Here Are dstimated Worth $25,000,000 Seattle shipbuilders and the Table showing leading building or has contracted to value of vessels each is build here: F. J. Duthie & Co... 6... ccc eee eee eeeee $ 5,000,000 Skinner & Eddy Corporation ; 10,000,000 Seattle Construction & Dry Dock Co... 6,000,000 Puget Sound Bridge & Dredging Co... 2,700,000 Nilson & Kelez (building)........+-+++++ 225,000 Wbcieoes $23,925,000 Nilson & Kelez are . “reported to have enough con- tracts closed to bring the total up to at least $25,000, 000, tho the firm has not officially confirmed this. 2,858 VESSELS SHIPS MADE OF | LEAVESEATTLE FIR TO BOOST INSINGLE YEAR — CITY ABROAD More than 2,658 vessels sail. | With the rejuvenation of the in 1915 building of wooden vessels, Se- ad from Bonthe harher | ‘gtile’e tke fate atonn the Bast TOTAL whieh was 066 more than left waterway is fast filling with the port with cargoes In 1914. 1 wooden skeletons of ves- The total tonnage carried by | sels that in time will sail the | teven seas. Shipping men of the C and of the Orient will se type of vessel return to ti shores which they had thought never to see again. And, with the coming of this large fleet of wooden vessels, they will ask: “Where, and from what, are they bullt?” The several tramps which are |being constructed are being built from Washington fir. According to the superintendents of the various yards, this is the best timber obtainable, with the possible exception of teak, for ships’ beams. The beams are sawed by pattern frora large timbers. Many others are shaped to the graceful lines of the hull by hand ax and mattock. these vessels was 2,989,512 In 1915, 2,895 vessels enter. | ed the port bringing 3,985,675 j net tons of cargo as compared | to the total of 3,693,104 tons brought in on 1,927 during the year of 1 The 378 vessels seels plying from a total tonnage of Lumber in | amount output | ufactured by Washington mills last season Where Oregon cut 1,690,000,000 feet during 1915, the mille of this state turned out 3,950,000,000 feet California produced 1 feet that year; Idaho 000,000 | inches apart and measure nearly feet, and Montana 324,000,000 feet. two feet by 10 inches, eo that it |requires thousands of feet of tim ber for each vessel. Shipping men refuse to estimate the wumber of vessels of this type which will be built within the next years, but the supply of thu- which will be supplied by wshington lumbermen comes like an order from the sky—undreamed of, but welcome. treble the} CUT LOTS OF FIR Washington milla cut 2,920,147,| 000 feet of fir last year, or more than double that cut by whero the output was 1,3 feet. ft ber ' For Fairbanks, Ruby, ALASKA TOURS TO AND THROUGH THE INTERIOR A. F. ZIPF, Traffic Manager. 814 Alaska Building, Seattle Wash. FOR INFORMATION REGARDING FREIGHT AND PAS APPLY TO OF WHITE PASS & YUKON ROUTE Connecting at Dawson With American Yukon Navigation Co. Iditarod and All Yukon River Points. Having a Steamer Service of 3,500 Miles on the Rivers of the Interior. OF GER RATES R These timbers are placed about 10|% THE GATEWAY SWITZERLAND AND THE LAND MIDNIGHT J. L. BURNSIDE, Gen. Agent 612 Second Ave., Seattle Wash J.P, GRACE IS MAKING om TRADE CENTE One of the "world’s biggest shipping men is Joseph P, Grace, president of W. & Co. who was here recentiy making extensive changes the Seattle office of his firm connection with plans to estal lish @ new route of vessels in the trans-Pacific trade. Grace is now building $5,000, 000 worth of new steamships on the Atlantic coast to add te his fleet of more than 40 vee sels. His company recently acquirel seven steamships of the Pactfis Mall fleet, some of which may be placed in service between Beatie | a China and Japan. | Grace is the biggest shipper lumber on this coast. His firm bag® plans for establishing more sagem cles in the Orient in coi with the new trans-Pacific se It already has 30 branch offices South America and 20 or more Europe. i. G. Herr ts now in charge of |new department established | Grace on his visit here to han |import and export goods to } from all Scandinavian and Oriental \ports. Formerly this business was done thru Seattle brokers. Herts department fs called the bureau of” domestic and foreign merc! ing. Washington, of course, leads the United States in lumber |” production—always. The fol- lowing table compares the pro- duction of the five leading lum | ber states for the iast 10 years. Washi 11,71 feet ceo Seria Oregon .. California 12,116,113,000 feet Idaho .. 6,515,510,000 feet 3,116,151,000 feet BRASS EAGLE FOUND, MADE 100 YEARS AGQ RIGGSVILLE, Me., Sept, 9.— A valuable relic was recently | found in Riggsville in the shape of a large brass eagle, originally made for a figure head on a ship. It weighs 97 pounds, and is known to be more than 100 years old. nue TO THE AMERICA OF THE SUN