The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 9, 1916, Page 14

| steps had been | game afternoon the story ap- ri P belief in the future of the “horse j carriage” now rides in a motor ? By the City Editor Seattle and the Northwest a mecca for the summer} rists of America! Even greater natural endowments bless this city in the summer than serve to lure thousands and thou- nds to Los Angeles and Southern California in the inter. An annual business of from one to ten million dol-| irs can be developed for Seattle and the Northwest be-| en June and September, once the thousands who ve in the hotter and less beautiful sections of the coun- fy become acquainted with the scenic and climatic at-| factions of this part of the continent. As a comparative newcomer to Seattle, this is as in to me as last night's rain was wet. T have summered in Oklahoma, Cleveland, O., and Denver in the last six years. I have sampled summer weather in Minneapolis, Chicago, Central Michigan, England, New York and Pennsylvania. Nowhere else have | found such an altogether to ie desired climate as | have enjoyed in Seattle since late July. | Nowhere else have | found combined as many} atural wonders to attract the too hot, overworked and} oly tired-out business man as | have found around t Sound. | summering here, lof all the Northwest met Seattle this week and arranged }tion the reasons why Seattle and the Northwest are STAR—SATURDAY, SEPT. 9, 1916. PAGE 14, Se ha a 2 i what I ound here was no surprise to me. 1 had met men of honor who had experienced the joy of I left Cleveland in the midst of the first week of the torrid spell which prostrated the Middle West and East during the latter part of July and most of August. It had been more than 90 degrees hot for four days. The wife and baby were wan from inability to sleep. We encountered no real relief, even tho we spent} a day in Denver, until we reached Seattle. And we haven't been too warm since. To me, the combination of water, mountain, valley and forest, which offers all the varied outdoor life the most exacting can demand, is the biggest undeveloped asset that Seattle can develop. So it is no surprise to me that representative men to spend $120,000 next year in heralding to the na- entitled to become a greater mecca for summer tourists than Los Angeles and Southern California is for win- ter travelers, As a member of The Star family, I'm mighty glad to have this chance to add my testimonial to those of the rest of the folk who know the lure of this wonder- ful country. DBERT MATTISON TELLS HOW SEATTLE MANUFACTURERS ARE PROSPERING ON SOLID BASIS “Feverish Activity” Is Lacking Here, But When Peace Comes We Won’t Fall Flat on Our Backs | By ROBERT H. MATTISON Publicity and Industrial Chamber of Commerce) ‘Beattie manufacturers are more 0 today than they have for several years. fs true in spite of the fact lat the war munitions demand of Fast has affected the industries f the Pacific Northwest little, if gpa of Seattle's indus is based on a firmer ioe than war munitions. The greatest element in bringing the manufacturers of Seattle to thelr present level of prosperity has been the shipbuilding industry which has benefitted manufacturing | throughout the entire Northwest With the withdrawal of foreign ton nage for war uses or through other causes, commerce was badly erip- pled, This nation finally awoke to) the vital {mportance of a merchant marine of its own. War orders had put the demand and price of tron and stee! so high activity and extraordi-| that it foreed shipping concerns to faflation found in several! East-|turn to the wooden bottom once Manufacturing centers ts lack-) wore. Bere. Lacking also will be the} Not since the days of the old Teaction. The basis of| Yankee clipper ship, has the wood turing activity in this|en vessel been in so great demand fs one which the return| and the palmiest days of the Maine should increase rather | shipbuilding plants are being dupli cated and surpassed on Puget He Was Handicapped Sound today. Sethreak of the Buropean| During the last year all the es c local industri ad-| tablished shipbuilding concerns in F fast €s it did all plants {n| Seattle have been forced to turn a try. For a period of some | down orders owing to their having i the Seattle manufacturer | all the business they could handle. capped by the indecision With the stimulus in shipbuilding tainty which cast their in-|came greater activity In the foun- over all lines of bustness.| dry and metal working Industries. here was not.. how- The lumber industry was also af- , 80 acute as in many parts of om fected favorably and the creation of & much-needed fleet to handle the foreign demand for lumber will pro- vide even greater benefits. The lumber business today, how- ever, is better than for some years and the outlook is regarded as un- bly the best shape in a gen-| usually bright. As this ts one of the Dusiness way of any Pacific] basic {ndustries of this region, its city. condition {9 reflected tn all lines ‘was, as a result, but little| from the logging camp to the manu comparatively speaking, in| facturer of shoes, rope, and logging demand for manufactured | or saw mill equipment. te and this demand tended to| The shingle industry of this sec Seattle's industries along un-|tion is steadily gaining in prosper. the wider demand was recetved.| ity. The same comment applies to the fish Industry of Seattle, The milling industry here ts ex 0S SHOW | panding and the next few years will | see this city recognized as the Min neapolis of the Coast. The difficul _ Om July 10, 1899, there ap- “td In The Seattle Star a q ine to eff Horee! had, three or four years undergone a readjustment by a steady and permanent ring 1913 and the first six 1914, This had put her malt a ail, a survey of Seattle's smokestacks—and there are be tween 1,000 and 1,100 of them, ac cording to the government census | shows the fires burning, the wheels] | turning, and every evid ent prosperity and pe | times to come. NEW MARKEi ty of reaching foreign markets and the high price of wheat are two of jess Vehicles for Use _ In Beattie. the _malier’e most important prob- aThe headiine was further "embellished with the interest- Ing information that the “first taken to se- | automobiles for trial | Beattie readers on that July | x igre were also acquainted the fact that these ma | chines, of which wild reports fi been merentee from t could climb ily. There w jout this state- ment, as The Star editorially _ Commented on the fact the from the John Haman and T. V. Tatum, | rly managers of the Olympte | nounce that thelr new t at 118 Pike st 15 Iding ts down and @ new and ake its plac for fruit, v delicatessen, Stalls will jes, but to convince 'ts readers eI cheese and Of the truth of the statement. | ' pndors. The management of the But- “fer hotel made inquiries about the automobile, thinking to put one on their bus line, but thought better of it later and @ecided to “defer purchasing the machines are lease on the new build HALIBUT TRADE IS | COMING BACK HER efforts of Sena dopted the hal ent to the] which iles, and the » which used |, 1s @ rare sight. » Everything from the smallest de ery wagon to the largest truck Is Motor driven. Pleasure cars have Weplaced the surreys. And the man Who wrote the editorial showing Mar of the biggest and most ex-! 1} ive type. ne th of bust Seattle's UNDERTAKERS ENJOY | SEATTLE’S PROSPERITY One of the leading undertaking|end around § lishments of Seattle in the} Under ome Undertaking Co. Ninth on, under the supervision Haggard, president and a@eekard came here in 1888, and |\o ~|STAR’S FIGHT TO END BEING BUILT) will % torn|| nd Tatum have taken al| been engaged in business in ine H DISCRIMINATION IN RATES NEARS CRISIS Months The Star helped organize a movement by which Northwest business men hope to raise the Southern Pacific railroad blockade against tour let traffic. The outcome of the effort, It le hoped, will be an order from the interstate commerce com mission equalizing the passen- ger rates from the East to this coast and return so that th tourist need not pay a bonus of $17.50 to visit the North. west. As the rates now stand the traveler from Chicago to San Francisco and return can go via the Southern Pacific system $17.50 cheaper than via the Northwest for the reason that the Southern Pacific controls the rates. 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