The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 15, 1917, Page 18

STAR—SATURDAY, SEPT. 15, 1917. PAGE 18 Co on IY ort Seattle Now Fourth,Soon Third, U.S. | r lie this respect with the fog-laden Golden Gate harbor of San } ’ Francisco, The safety of the harbor permits vessels to come} << jinto the port of Seattle from the ocean under their own steam, | |! | Seattle is also the cheapest port on the Pacific coast for z | ’ jfresh water and coal, the fresh water charge being 80 cents jfor the first thousand cubic feet and a graduated declining! scale SAN FRANCISCO IS NINTH ON LIST “e'cctsceke'sescets sssatis aie trom 2000 t0 5.000 cubic! * |feet of fresh Water, and the charge for 5,000 is $3.20, or 64) jcents a thousand. Trans-Pacific vessels usually take from Added to Natural Advantages as Gateway to | 50,000 to 100,000 cubic feet for voyages from 30 to 60 days. | Alaska and Siberia and Shortest Distance r 50,000, the water rate is 5244 cents a thousand, and for 100,000, it is only 44 cents a thousand, Seattle's splendid} to Orient, Seattle Is Also Freest Port, Has | water system, municipally owned, thus materially aids the! No Dockage Fees, Sells Water to Steamers | port | ¢ thereafter for Less Than Elsewhere on Coast. MY HEN, on that historic day, November 13, 1851, A. A Denny, Henry L. Yesler and the other pioneers who d Seattle, named their landing place “New York-Alki,” ng “the New York of the future,” they dreamed might- altho even to those with the largest vision among thein, he name must have appeared extravagant However that may be, the pioneers are today justified ‘their abundant faith for Seattle's growth as a world city d, in this year of 1917, there have been some months only New York has surpassed Seattle as an export and years later, In 1906, work was be «un on the east side of Harbor jisland, By 1910, 330 acres were filled. Plotted Into Streets The state sold the land to pri | vate individuals, or else leased it Harbor island was, of course, only a small unfit in the complete rs » .|Job. More than 38 per cent of the Out of Sloppy, Flotsam-| i aca’ sand. in plotted ‘in. city ‘at low rates for long terms of |years. The state itself retained little property. | | | AMES SHIPBUILDING AND DRYDOCK COMPANY SHIPBUILDERS ENGINEERS port. It has left San Francisco $100,000,000 behind in Covered Tidelands, | even yet, the possibilities of thin | 6, and is due to exceed that figure this year. Seattle Has Develop-|tideiana property for industrial and NIP AND TUCK WITH BOSTON ed Acres of Manu-|teca'teattted ‘Pew eitios are. 0 Tt is nip-and tuck between Boston and Seattle now for : . | wonderfully provided with territory and fourth place in the foreign commerce of the United facturing Sites. fo adequately sulted for both rail New York being first and Philadelphia second. Obetactos there were many | ~~” and steamer terminals. While only $26,000,000 separated the two cities in 1916,| in Seattle's upbullding—but th ce “a } geo: nardy pioneers refused to rec. |80 Ships, 400 Feet BOILER MAKERS REPAIR WORK, Plant and General Offices—26th Ave. S. W. and W. Hanford St. in has narrowed even more in 1917, and every now| hardy pioneers refused to rec. | ; : 5 ary| ognize them. They leveled Re : then Seattle has jumped ahead of Be ston. On January| [00a hille and ther filled In Each, Load at Once) 7, Boston's foreign commerce for the preceding year was] tideiands. No task was too big. | A fleet of eighty 400-foot vessels | 915,278, while Seattle’s was $60,526,940. pid Seattle, resting on seven jcan be accommodated simultane “Compared with other Pacific coast cities, Seattle is in a} hills, as writers have frequent- | ously for loading and discharging by itself. Even conceding a slight supremacy by Boston] '¥ heaven it, comparing it to “_ ae ot ey net ws | Seattle, the latter ranks fourth among the ports of the| 2ncient Rome in that respect, Po en Sa Some we tees 4 “ * . reign Trades department of the States, while San Francisco, its nearest rival on the Chamber of Commerce and official | is ninth; Los Angeles is 25th, and Portland is 29th. 8 ly submitted to the Russian govern-| Mai Offi district could be developed. mont’s representatives, who accom: | i ain 1cé : INCREASED 335% PER CENT And 80 Seattle set out to acquire | panied the Roct commission to the shee ceeding San Francisco's trade by more than a hundred tt. In 1894, Eugene Sample, former| United States, 1610 Hoge Building Seattle outdistances Los Angeles by $350,000,000 and | territorial governor, suggested the meng img hema d by $354,000,000. filling in of 1,100 acres of tideland| fore, that can, be loaded on this 4, f { ' n r 2 nou! i" ttle’s increase in foreign trade from 1907 to 1917 has Maced aah teres trades Llarbor |the following: 60,000 tons of Ken 33534 per cent. ; Sears-Roebuck building, Stetson-| Ts! Merchandise, 60900 tone of Seattle. Washi "Always the great gateway to Alaska, Seattle is today also| Post Lumber Co., public grain ype gi af AB anger Oe af Seattle, Washington. | gateway to Siberia and Russia, where future develop- net and ee poe rong grain anid 48,000 grain in sacks | ent offers unlimited opportunities. Being also a shorter dis beget bedary Bonne - | se to Yokohama than San Francisco, the great Oriental/to sample's initiative Buy Another Ship which to this date has only been scratched on the sur- Worth $30,000 a Lot : j ities a wider and wider expansion. ‘This property was a sloppy, fot) for the Alaska Run z ; }sam-washed, almost worthless tide} The Alaska Steamship Co.'s shorter distance means a saving of time from oneliand before. Today it is worth as| feet will be augmented next year days, according to the various routes, it being 4,263) much as $30,000 a lot by the steamship Henry T. Scott, from Seattle to Yokohama via the Great Circle, and] The work was begun In 1904, the| now plying between New York and 6 miles from San Francisco | seato ot Washington being Dehind | South America. Announcement , grade \ . _|the project © contract Wasi has been made by the local firm @ Added to the strategic location, the wealth of the lum-| 1 Met ine Seattle Lake Wash-|of the purchase of this vesee! from industry and the splendid agricultural areas, the great| ington Waterway Co. of which|Eschen & Minor, of San Francisea and canning industries, all of which contribute im-| Sample was the first president. | She will be put {n service betwoen asely toward establishing Seattle firmly high in the com-| The territory covered was at the|Seattle and Alaska next February | firmament, there is also the further factor that it is|#outh end of Elliott bordered |as an ore and general fre iat ba the coast by two waterwayn, to 60 feet/rier, She was built in 19 po wets deep at low tide, enough to admit|1600 gross tons, and {ts STEAMERS GET WATER CHEAP |the largest vessels afloat. The | jong. 0 ect to do hast channels are 1,000 feet wide | | Wessels are not subject to dockage charges during the)" "rg sand was dredged from the| Soattle ts thé safest harbor on } they are engaged in loading and discharging cargo.| West waterway for the lots on the|the Pacific Coast, and one of the is not compulsory, Puget sound faring splendidly west side of the isiand, and two | safest ia the world, | SHIP BUILDERS ENGINEERS eattle Construction & Dry Dock Co. BUILDERS OF Merchant Vessels of All Types Warships Modern Facilities for Ship and Engine Repairs Two Floating Dry Docks 12,000 Tons and 3,000 Tons Capacity General Agents for WHITE OIL BURNING SYSTEM PARSON’S MARINE STEAM TURBINES YARROW WATER TUBE BOILERS MACHINISTS BOILERMAKERS FOUNDERS GALVANIZERS