The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 9, 1916, Page 22

STAR—SATURDAY, SEPT. 9, 1916. PAGE 22. INDUSTRIES FORM BASIS FOR SEATTLE’S GROWING FACTORIES Port Commission Offers Cheap Sites for New Plants and Their Growth Keeps Pace With Population Man can get from manufacturers right here in Washing- ton, to eat, drink, wear, amuse and house him, practically everything he needs except his hat. His wife and daughter can go him one better get even their hats. Very often somebody comments: | “What Seattle lacks is a payroll. We ought to have) BRS more factories, but the landlords are holding property so high the factorymen can’t come in.” THE STATEMENT IS EXAGGERATED This sort of statement is untrue and has created a false impression—to some extent at least For instance, the port commission is Sites for 50 cents a foot for five years, the east side of Lake Washington is being opened up for factory purposes and in @ great many cases landholders are offering manufacturing sites free. As a result the manufacturing business in this state, and in and around Seattle particularly, has advanced rapidly in the last five years. NEARLY 300 MILLION IN FACTORIES When the government made its last manufacturing cen- P$us two years ago it was found that the capital invested im factories in this state amounted to $277,717,000. Since that} time this has been materially increased. | The annual production of these factories was found to) Tbe $245,320,000. | | Veer se teers rouserntry They can leasing factory Down at the bottom of a | mammoth pit where the Weet- lake market used to stand is @ small army of open-shirted men tolling at the foundation of what ten months from now will | be Seattie’s greatest, moet | it will be five stories high, : modern department store bulld- with @ sixth story extending 100 | Slow, steady growth, commensurate with the increase ing—the new home of Frederick | feet from the north end, and | sin populatio n and with the amount of new territory opened| & Nelson. % will_heve: two full basements. _ ® by Seattle exporters, is predicted for this city’s ‘manufac-| === - — — BT toios | factories, at least until freight rates are readjusted E PRODUCTION KEEPS PACE WITH DEMAND “Our flour industry has been increased wonderfully with} ‘ “We must have a demand for the manufactured arti opening of the Oriental demand at this port, and our} Already the concrete hae started to pour into the mass. ive forme for the footings of a buliding that will have ten full acres of floor space and will cost $1,200, the Hcle,” said Clancey M. Lewis, secretary of the Manufacturers’) meat oe peter is exceptional because we are triba-| place th’ the daetifive years i " ion, “before we can become a really great factory|tary to a large stock raising country aye 5 col ag ) b d es ahy, We lead in lumber making, of course, Tatas we have| The flour, lumber and meat industries, Secretary Lewis}. Fixe year be gy Spe pe factory, ee in a © | the raw material and the demand must come here. . It is|classifies as “primary manufactures,” Other manufac tures} nitec ee Sa ucec ten ae. pair his ra: they 7) not so with other manufactured articles jare “secondary,” and depend to an extent on the B pagr 8 leer adol dana , P eaee i ey can now make over + “We cannot hope to c mpete in the East with its ownl take the shoe business, for example "he said Ve} dozen pair a ally 3 $5 wee a = = TOY FACTORIES ARE LATEST ah D commer) Sek Sere). ae | The European war has been directly or indirectly the 4 ‘CANAL CONNECTING LOCKS be Sg SOUN Satan. murrees: Mel jeause for the establishment in this territory during the past eu One of the chief reasons for lyear of three toy factories, one’ making wooden toys > Instead of spending thousands | of dollars annually putting =| ocean-gotng hulls into dry dock and having men scrape off the barnacies, it will permit ships te {1 from salt to fresh water, where the barnacles naturally drop off. j The other anon was to open up a great new area of shore lands. Shores of the lakes, it is believed, will be ul timately fringed with . docks and mille The great freighters will be able to come to them to take on lumber, grain and manufac tured goods, and thus elim {nate many ral! baule _ HAS BIG TRADE ON THIS COAST The American Dredge Butldiss | | & Construction company was incor porated in 1911, and is engaged principally in the building of gold mining dredges All of the supplies and construc tion work is done in this city Previous fo the {ncorporation of this company, California enjoyed a monopoly of the business, and not only ones In which any confidence id be placed, and millions of dollars were spent in California When this Seattle concern en tered the dredge-building field it was necessary to break down a great wall of prejudice and mis representations. This was done, |and Seattle now leads the Coast cities for dredging machinery ARCHITECTS START IMPORTERS AND EXPORTERS Art Goods and General COMCCOOOOCOOOC OOOOH OOOOOOOOOOOOEOOOOOOOOOOSOOOEES Merchandise | A number of photographs of ed ueational interest are on exhibi tion in the public library libit ts composed of photographs Q i a jtecture in this state. It has been | gotten up by the Washington State Chapter of the American Institute sending it to all the cities and towns in the state. It is the be ginning of a campaign on the part of the chapter to educate the pub. He in good architecture The exhibit is opened day, and following a stay ks at the library it will start on a cireuit of 40 towns and eclties Wednes SEATTLE BRANCH 1 304 2nd Ave. MAIN STORE 216 2nd Ave. So. —— DREAM OF SNAKES BEC 2OMES REALITY | | ALTOONA, Pa, Sept. 9.— } BRANCHES George Meritts dreamed badly recently. ie was ina den of Tacoma, Wash., Portland, Oregon, Vancouver, B. C. whe ab ie cates ae whir of the ratiles. h he was fully a Yokohama and Kobe, Japan. ake he stirred his companion, Samuel Alley, in the same bed It was discovered a rattiesnak) was really in their room It had crawled in an open window ‘DREDGE CONCERN - only furnished the dredges for Government Locks at Salmon Bay, Thru Which May Go From Puget Sound to Lake Washington, | Alaska, but all the supplies neces Via the Newly Completed Lake Washington Canal, Built by the Government at a Cost of $3,375,000 jsary for operating same. That |this city has awakened to the fact Fifty years ago government N., sald ft was a “grand and the practicability of such a jthat other cities have hitherto engineers and navy men start daring scheme.” scheme, the Lake Washington |taken all the ’ great - machinery ed thinking about the day Lieut. Commander Drake government canal is cOmpleted. | trade of Alaska is evidenced by the when Puget sound might be characterized it as “fascinating Uncle Sam went down into | work accomplished by this con lMnked with Seattle's great to the imagination.” | his kets and dug up jcern, for today American dredge! fresh water lakes—Washing- And now, after 50 years of | 00 for the job | machines are leading ton and Union agitation, ridicule, political he great fresh water lakes | For many years mining men Capt. Thomas Perry, U. 8. strife and faith centered about | will soon be used by the great | were under the impression that California-bullt dredges were th EDUCATIONAL PLAN The ex-| showlIng the best examples of archi- | of Architects with the intention of | of two! it will cover 250 equare feet between Fifth and Sixth ave in Pine at. John Graham is the architect, but the pian of the store wae the result of two years’ work on the part of O. E. Frederick and the Frederick & Nelson staff, The building le expected to Lad ready for occu ey by oe ae Se ES | have a concern here that makes heavy shoes and boots They supply the loggers They are, therefore, secondary [the lumber industry.’ Vast advances in “secondary” duly 1 of next year. Six public entrances will be provided, and for the conven- lence of patrons on the fifth floor will be @ tea room, grill room, rest rooms and an audi- torium. On the partial sixth floor un courts for employes will be added to a cafeteria, rest rooms id other convenience: manufactures third one manufacturing games at Edmonds lars to the manufactured wealth of the greater Northwest, jand may be the means of developing new channels of trade.” Sn Another factory is about to begin the production of | creosote Two plants are making dyes The aeroplane building industry has received stimulus “All of these industries,” said Secretary Lewis, “are or} will be producing for home consumption, and yet, but for the war, would probably have délayed in coming for several years The output, howtver, will now add millions of dol to have taken 1300 MILLION IN MANUFACTURING SHOWS INCREASED PRO i 'HERE’S WAY FREDERICK & NELSON’S NEW STORE|SUPREMACY AS arb oattindel WILL LOOK WHEN IT IS COMPLETED NEXT JULY Sara MARKET CITY IS WON WITH CONSTRUCTION Her vast public markete, three times larger than those of any other city of 1 size in the United Btate e f the best indications of Seattie’s prosperity. Public market year is one of & development f The public market district, where hundreds of thousands shop each week, has come to be by far the busiest section of the city and is probably responsible, more than any other one condi- tion, for the march of the city’s business from its old center to the new vortex farther uptown. On Saturday afternoons and ev lenings the public market district & maelstrom of humanity. Average Curtomer Spends Dollar building this ttle’s greatest 20,000 for the Goodwin Realty Co, the old building will have become two-story pub- | ie merket building with eutreat | When he has finished spending $2 |a modern, sanitary, | floor space for 65 tenants The work contract. Goodwin, himself, lthe big Job by the day labor plan To Open it Oct. 15 About Octoher 15 he hopes have the building ready for occu jpancy. Most of the space has al- lready been ongaged ahead. It will be well Mehted and thor- oly sanitary shruout Outside, under a marquis, will be | additional space for farmers’ |A sidewalk will connect wit | cpponite side of Pike st. | Goodwin recently returned from a he inspected the principal public markets of the }trip East, on which country Seattie Markets Lead Seattle's markets,” he said, “s three times grenter than the kets of any other city in the Unit ed States of equal size.” management of the new Pine st market, located on the northe: double corner of Pine st enth ave, will be ready September 15. "Great care.” for he said, “bas been @ reputation for fair dealing. “The building” iw The Puyallup and Sumner Fruit Growers’ Consists of 1,800 Berry Growers banded together for the purpose of marketing their products to best advantage. With a capital of only $2,500 this farmers’ years, accumulated a sur- plus of $112,000, and did a business of more organization has, in 15 Association than $1,400,000 during the season of 1915. This farmers’ organization has two canning plants that employ 800, in addition to using 10,000 berry pickers. Ask for their fruit products glass. W. H. PAULHAMUS Wash. Puyallup, President. is not being done by) has | personal supervision end is doing the | present Pike Place market on the Mark Holmboe who will have the reports that the building tenants about exercised in selecting tenants with | is the last | manager. , both in tin and OF NEW SHOPPING CENTERS i | These Teeming Marts Show Prosperity Seattle in Way That Is Most Impressi ve | word In con pletenens and sa arrangement tion in the equipment for ral the stalls suffice entire floor for cleansing. Another $60,000 Market This building will be of great im. | portance to residents of the First and Bellevue-Sum- it is within walking distance of that part of the city, Its cost, completely equipped, wit Hill, Broadway mit sections, be approximately $60,000 Another new market bullding, dl } Westlake, at the corner of Vi st. and Westlake ave., will be re These, with the marke established—the Corner, s| Pike Plece, rmers’ Sani and 8 End markets—give Seattle her | premacy } The average customer, it is said spends a dollar. |" Frank Goodwin this week has started to remodel the old Pythian * building, opposite the cluster of markets at First ave and Pike st One of the most rapidly ative Paint Co., lites products, tries. | This manufacturing concern makes only preservative paints, | which preserve the surfaces upon | are applied. Preserva- | tion of buildings bas been one of | the great worries of property own which th ers Oregon, California, Montana, 1 British Columbia, tiawalian islands The Preservative Paint lery specialties, supplying to the Russian, and Sev- and United States governments. The company was organized 1907, and has grown steadily year until now it is one of the y to flood @ |for occupants about October 16) COMPANY MAKES" FINE PRODUCTS}. industries of Seattle is the Preserv- which covers not to only local territory in the sale of | but has reached out | |to other states and foreign cou Its products go into Washington, Alaska and the It has recently established connections in Tokyo, r Yokahama and Kobe. Co. makes a specialty of marine and submarine paints and ship chand- which it is now An important innewm % a} pertens industries in this state. Eimer G, Lehman {s secretary . Williams is the president ap@