The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 9, 1916, Page 24

) SEATTLE WINS RIGHT TO TITLE OF PACIFIC COAST'S FIRST PORT UPPER PICTURES SHOW TION OF SEATTLE’S OVER- SEAS MERCHANT FLEET AND A PORT FIRE BOAT, WHILE THE LOWER PICTURE SHOWS SOME OF THE PUGET PASSENGER AND FREIGHT STEAMERS. THI SEC SOUND sae Zine Fs EP TI 22 ee _ ALONE IS GREATER THAN THAT __ OF SAN FRANCISCO DISTRICT Growth of Waterhouse Fleet and Enlarge- ment of Port Commission Elevators Show Prosperity’s Substantial Seattle—greatest port of the Pacific! | Her water front teeming with vessels flying the | } flags of nearly every maritime nation under the sun, with scores of other bottoms resurrected from . the deep for further service, with others chartered, leased or purchased outright and many others in the process of building, this city today leads the * coast in comm-erce. y During the month of July alone Seattle outdid the entire district of San Francisco, including all | the Northern California ports, by more than ad $2,400,000 in sea commerce. : Seattle’s foreign trade in that month _ totalled ads. eeeeemoe & # F $19,991,862. The whole San Francisco customs dis- fein ihe PORT WARDEN PAYSEE TELLS DEVELOPEMENT WHICH fneee reese wove GAVE SEATTLE A MILLION-DOLLAR-A-DAY BUSINESS | And yet the country’s best commercial experts: mene declare, should the war abruptly end today, the new BY CAPT. A. A. PAYSSE, PORT WARDEN |need never feel the pinch of a congested shipping dis-|to install routes of trade would remain open to at least a great Seattle, situated on Elliott bay, 128 miles from| trict “ ; Betis ners GROWS AMAZINGLY Cape Fla a , Offers to the commerce of the world a Our waters are open the year around and deep the mooring of w arships here a great part of the time, "i 4 . ; ; beautiful harbor, sheltered |¢neugh to float the largest vessels in the world in Under the jurisdiction of the port warden, the The great increase in this port’s commerce can { Be more clearly understood when one considers that four more buoys for the exclusive use of government vessels in Seattle harbor. This will insure from the storms of the sea} Pertect safety. harbor is patrolled night and day. Shipping interests of Hand free from all _ reef The commercial world is coming each year to the port freely express their appreciation of the security irerea na hopedle gd praia ray ar ba | or any other arin: more fully realize the magnitude of our shipping in- thus afforded them. =e Bice ae stifled the po Latin dps ne Parone bec alta cs | Sai 3} : fit th és ath dustry. ; home od hight the harbor launch “Patrol” slips Waterhouse is one of the heaviest shippers to|| i iF In 1914 the total volume of business handled over aaa tingulst Fey peep he DISpalee to bag prowess Viadivostok. In July Vladivostok took $3,186,617 are Our wharves amounted to $154,609,943, and.in 1915) 7° eT eit eee assistance with her worth of goods shipp from this port. San rs | With 36 miles of natur tl to $257,792,393, an increase of $103,182,450 over the|! ps to small craft in distress. if Sa Mistrict sent Vladivostok #2.012,682. j salt “we frontage | and previous year TRYING TO KEEP BAY CLEAN ' | During the past six weeks the Russian govern- pms miles : of ines For the current year, the first seven months show a] The “Patrol,” while used mainly for police and nt has placed orders for $22,000,000 worth of steel | frontage recently addec volume of $227,236,943, or an average of $32,762,421) fire duty, is also made to serve the purpose of a tug, } Vast improvements to Du-| per month. This is in excess of a million dollars a day, 4nd the staunch little craft is kept busy, when not other- wamish river, there will b¢ Seattle, now the leading port on the Pacific Coast,| Wise employed, gathering driftwood, rubbish and other jadded, about January 1,/js outranked by only two ports in the United States,|!loating obstructions that might menace navigation. 33 miles ol fresh water| New York and Philadelphia. The port warden has under consideration the construc- w@ frontage in Lake Union| Each year we are recording greater benefits from] tion of a destruction plant where such refuse, when once and = Lake = Washington,| the increasing volume of business transacted with| gathered, might be destroyed. thereby creating the largest| Ajaska. In the Oriental trade, too, we are reaping the | The city council was sufficiently impressed with fresh water harbor on the} benefits of our position and our shipping facilities. We|the amount of work required of the little craft to PrO= Pacific Coast. , are about 300 miles closer to Yokohama than San] Vide in the next year’s budget for the purchase of an- Thus provided with 4) Francisco, so that, rightfully, much of the trade that/Other boat. ails with firms in the United States. This is a most| important factor relative to the stability of Seattle’s|| trade with Russi With the extending of railroads in Russia this port will undoubtedly be called upon to deliver a greater portion of goods to that country than ever before. Russia formerly bought extensively from the Germans. RUSSIA GETS 72 MILLIONS IN 6 MONTHS During the first half of 1916 the United State eee reports vp , . ul apes ar bs rg: | A : Payase oe of 78 ig of water) formerly went to that port is now coming to us. In case of a waterfront catastrophe, 11 pulmotors, sia to have bee 2,612,248, carried mainly in|front within the present city limits, Seattle commerce | ten lungmotors and two Meltzer appar are 2 Japanese bottoms, chartered by American shippers. | = == | PORT AIDS SHIPPING INDUSTRY disposal of the port Ww aan ee ae In 1913 the customs district of the state of Wash-| which this trade will be routed. For the benefit and assistance of commerce, the} Thus Seattle has prepared to care for the shipping ington shipped to Asiatic Russia but $750,000 worth) Farm machinery, implements of iron and_ steel,| harbor department of Seattle has been equipped with| that comes to her es, and no effort will be spared to of goods. The exports thru Seattle and Tacoma the|clothing, shoes and other material always needed with) a wireless station, and all ships’ business is handled first four months of this year were worth $39,000,000.| the opening up of rich agricultural territory, or during|/ by the port warden free of charge. Seattle is the only | provide safety and convenience to all who favor us with | their business. With the close of the war commercial experts pre-|reconstruction following war, will be in demand from port in the world so equipped to serve the shipping| ———_ ‘ dict that most of the goods Roy being hipped thru} this coast : __ [ interests. f FACTS ABOUT SEATTLE —o Vladivostok, 6,000 miles overland to European Russia, | The great movement of grain across the Pacifi | The harbor is provided with seven buoys for the} | Leading port on Pacific Coast | will be routed the other way, but the United States wili|has made it necessary for the Seattle port commission | accommodation of ships desiring temporary mooring | | Is 300 miles nearer Yokohama than San Francisco. | retain her trade with Western Siberia and much ot | to double the capacity of its Hanford st. elevator at aj without incurring heavy expense. 3 aa Best landlocked harbor | Manchuria, and Seattle will be the logical port thru'cost of $35,000. The United States government is now preparing |g Handling million-dollar-a-day commerce