The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 15, 1917, Page 14

’ STAR—SATURDAY, SEPT. 15, 1917. PAGE 14 ete in ga st sare ips; Payroll $1,400,000 Per Month: ; | The National Bank of Commerce OF SEATTLE | | Resources Over $17,000,000 Member Federal Reserve System Cable Address; PHTTIBONE Codes f Armedy Ved Western Union A BC, bth Bedition On all the waterways of this | big empire-one of the far | | | —— ! By C. A. Clay @ | SHIPBUILDING HIGH SPOTS IN N. W. A ship launehi | 4 | days ‘e Rie aameer of Ua Pa. | @ In the Puget Sound district, including 3,000 men at | cific Northwest to the kaiser the Bremerton navy yards, approximately 20,000 men 7) and his human devil-fish. are at work, with a payroll of $2,400,000 a month, | | C. M. Pettibone Co. Shipping and Commis- sion Merchants, Char- tering Agents, Mer- chandise Importers and Exporters @ In Seattle alone 12,500 men are working in wood and steel shipbuilding. Payroll $1,400,000 a month Fifteen months ago 1,000 men were drawing $90,000 a month, Total ship contracts in Seattle now $110,000,- 000. A year ago it was $8,000,000. @ The Pacific coast is handling 22 per cent of the nation’s wooden shipbuilding program of 1,047,000 tons. @ Seattle is handling 32 per cent of ship construction on the West coast and 21 per cent of all steel ship ton- nage in the United States. Her steel tonnage ranks first on the Pacific coast with 127,000\tons, Oakland, Cal., next, with 94,000 tons. San Francisco has 72,400 and Long Beach 70,400 tons thest points ‘from the seat of government—you can hear the crash of the hammer against wood and the rat-tat of riveter on steel, Thousands of workers and men with millions are waging @ thrilling industrial battle to help thwart the ambition of Prussianism. At Portland and Astoria, on the }Columbia river's mouth; at Willa- pa bay and Grays harbor, on the | southwest Washington coast; in| [the Puget sound region, including | Seattle, Tacoma and Olympia, and Everett and Bellingham to the Of 82 contracts awarded by shipping board to Pacific aah gata org 8 gpg coast on July 1, 46 went to plants in Washington state. two years ago. Since than 100 contracts, amounting to about 350,000 What Northwest builders have! additional tons, have been granted to Oregon and done and are doing to aid the gov- Washington. ernment campaign for a tremen | dous increase in bottoms fs one teresting chapter in the nation's | great romance of war time indus ) try. The shipyard’s own bandmen, in) of the people give you a sort of a) greasy overalls, contrast oddly with|“We-can't-lose” feelin, the smartly dressed crowd, but It makes you feel like fighting a PRESIDENT Spruce, Pine and A Few High Spots make good music, The movie and|couple of wildcats. MANSON F. BACKU Hemlock The builders, with their armies posi gh tg men click thelr cam- 2 aeRO NE NF. B s of workmen, are doing their bit tn : , paren _— Box Shooks handy shape. They are making Ah! She's Off! |New Rule for | VICE PRESIDENTS money, of course, hand over fist, Right on the dot the supports are “heck} Ac =p iC J hat there is an atmosphere of pa-|loosed and another hull glides| Checking Accounts JOSEPH A, SWALWELL FRANK H. LUCE triotism over the whole thing, a|down the ways on an errand in| The privilege of keeping money general public enthusiasm in each| which the whole crowd has an in-|in banks is going to cost hereafter. CASHIER } , H whl i into the water t 5 . - | Packers’ Direct Selling litte ahes ore the ately jag a hopeless grouch if a tin- At least, if you have « checking ROBERT Ss. WALKER ; Agents commercial. gle doesn't race up and down your | *ccount of less than $100, Every time a big man comes to|spine at the cry: “SHE'S OFF." This decision was reached “by 2 to@n, they launch a ship just to| Whistles by the score along eason of the general increased cost, — - ASSISTANT CASHIERS | Puget Sound, Alaska ff) stow him how it's done, waterfront shriek thelr deafening | of business operation,” according to EUGENE W. BROWNELL RICHARD P. CALLAHAN The fans of the shipbuilding/ congratulations. The crowd roa printed announcem to custom. LA FAYETTE KELLOGG O game tell you about: its cheers. Hata fly into the distributed by the banka. The romance of Harbor tsland,| The musicians puff visibly, but in Elliott bay, Seattle. Two years|audibly, the strains of “The Star nks in this city, on and after Sep- ago it was the dank home of sea| Spangled Banner." There's too | tember 1, all checking accounts ay- gulls, Today it hums with the; much noise to hear the band. leraging for the current month less | work of two of the biggest steel | White spray glistens In the sun- than $100, on which any checks) shipbuilding yards on the Coast. A/ light, and timbers whirl in a boil-| have been pald, will be subject to a} third and larger plant is soon due ing wake as the ship settles to its| service charge of 25 cents per . and Columbia River | Canned Salmon “Washington and to be built. | u "4 “ . . . 8 ° Oregon about "Monty" i cies | Ee catia, sn Waartciein Ment “ORD Oth Te oem or Offers an unexceHed banking service to individuals, corporations and banks; yj ynalus . Wash., wh - a hits bmari hi . . . . ° Canned Milk ele inca Coates eas iGeet en” |tean the S00 ot the monk oneeeeet transacts a general banking business and maintains special departments with Salt Salmon his wooden ship design, and has| All this and the wonderful spirit‘ ing month.” ise ‘ established himself as general man-| facilities of the highest character, viz.: ager of a plant with six wooden ships under construction. | About Skinner & Pildy, of Seat-| tle, who have made what {!s claim-| ed as a world record of eight steel and Herring COLLECTION, DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN EXCHANGE, SAVINGS, BONDS AND TRUST. eaves | JOhn A.Whalley&Co. ly A SURETY BONDS and INSURANCE and steel producing plant to make) | | | Offices: —— = Com dg oun LAG Every launching brings a new FERAL vENTS + | thrill, “Gala 4 doth Macviant ‘Gasead Acts as administrator of estates, or as executor or i 1508-1509 Opt gy pe a ' trustee under wills, and as trus- Fidelity & Deposit Co. of Maryland tee under deed securing the issuance of corporate bonds. | forms and perch up on all available Granite State Fire Insurance Co. a L. C. Smith Bldg. | points of vantage. 2 | Society is there tn laces and fur. belows, to watch some favored one Seattle, Wash., smash the bottle of champagne at U. &. A. the christening. They still manage to get champagne for the — ings. GOLMAN BUILDING SEATTLE Do You Appreciate What It Means to Have Money in the Bank? It Means that you have surplus funds, money you can use in case of necessity—in case of opportunity. = Salt ” It Means that you are adding to your income through the interest your money in the bank is earning. It Means a higher standing for you in the entire community. It Means that in the bank you have a friend ready to counsel you é in all business and financial matters, ready to discount your HOGE BUILDING notes ‘and to lend you money—at your service—for your con- Second and Cherry ° Owned and Occupied by this Bank venience. SSS SSS a =~BANK WITH = = SSS SS UNION SAVINGS & TRUST COMPANY OF SEATTLE JAMES D. HOGE, Presid , ‘ N. B. 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