The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 15, 1917, Page 19

“oPAPANESE HAVE 30 VESSELS IN ~ SEATTLE TRADE Funnel | Line to Place}; Four Ships in Far Eastern Commerce TO BEAT JUNE RECORD ‘The value of Puget Sound as a Shipping center is attested by the fact that every effort is being made | by Japanese steamship lines to tn @rease their fleets in the trans Pacific trade between the Far Bast and the Northwest. Naturally, attle, the chief port in the district, | falls heir to the lion's share of this commerce. Tn addition to Frank Waterhouse @ Company's fleet of seven steam: @hips under charter, operating out of ttle, and three vessels oper ated by H. F. Ostrander & Com- - pany, Seattle importer and export- er, the three Japanese companies, | ‘a Shosen Kaisha, Nippon Yu- gen Kaisha, and Mitsul & Company have p! 20 steamships on this Yun. a Nor is this all. The Far Eastern trade will also draw four Blue Fun Rel freighters which had been com Mandeered by the British govern ment, but which will be released latter part of the year for mer ehant service. These are the Af- tilochus, due in Seattle in Decem-| ber, the Protesilaus, due in Janu- ary, the Ixion in February, the} ‘Thalbius in March. These four ves: Bels have a cargo capacity of 70,000 tons. The Osaka Shosen Kaisha has: Been operating the following: Ha-| Wali Maru, Canada Maru, Panama/ Maru, Mexico Maru, and Manila Maru, passenger liners, and the/ freighters Shinkoku Maru, Inaho Maru, Burma Maru, and Ide Maru. Mitsui and company have the BSteamships Kongosan Maru, Nippon Maru, Nissei Maru, Arzumasan Maru, Saikai Maru, and Golden Gate. Nippon Yusen Kaisha have added the Colombo Maru and Tokiwa Maru, freighters, to its fleet of pas- Benger liners including the Yoko bama Maru, Sado Maru, Awa Maru, Imabe Maru, Tamba Maru, Kama-| Kura Maru, and Shidzuok Maru. With, new vessels entering the! transpacific trade, the June record @f $59,000,000 in overseas, coast ‘wise, and Alaska commerce (near By $2,000,000 a day) is likely to be) exceeded in 1918. iling Vessels Making Hay in War Sailing vessels have come into their own again—during the war. ‘These ships used to load lumber at} Puget sound ports, but had no as surance of return cargoes. That was in the old days. It’s Qltogether different now. A sailing vessel may carry lum- from Puget sound to Australia, from Australia to South Amer- nitrates from there to Hono- “Intoxicated With ‘Pep,’ Born of Prosperity”--How City Looks to Visitor oe ate. ae B.| following article) year should see it go up above the "Kuterpeloe, Ans ee ee hav. | $00,000,000 mark, Paper enerorag Association: "her tear! ‘The increase in other port towns years, gives bis impressions of the jis going up at a corresponding th of this constantly ratio. he ey on eam The northwest looks good to the apapers thrueut the country.) stranger or to the man who knew it — three and five years ago and has By Cc. A. Clay Just returned, st : 1.|_ This story in not Intended, how The Pacific Northwest ts tntoxt- ever, to start a rush of workmen cated with enthustasm distilled) northward from Kood jobs else trom war time prosperity |where, Increase in labor is being| There is nothing cise to Ket IM) taken care of as sanely as housing toxicated on in this vast empire of} conditions permit the bone-dry law If w flock of men came tn here The commercial pulse of cittes) now they would find it a hard task large and small is mounting fever) to find a home. Real estate agents ishly. | shake their heads sadly these days, All branches of industry are) and tell prospective tenants that the throbbing with the urge of orders | scarcity of cottages and apartments to “Speed up!" ‘4s an unusual condition this fall.” In the last 12 months traffic on! And weary trampers after homes the transpacific water lanes has tn-| agree with them. creased in giddy spirals, and busl:| The Northwest is gaining much }ness on land has experienced ajin treasure; is busy making and corresponding uplift. jdoing. But she is not forgetting There has been nothing to equal) the other side. it since the boom days of ‘97 to) Her stalwart sons are flocking to ‘99, when the Klondike gold rush the colors willingly, The military taught towns In this region their| vies with the commercial in keep first lesson in making money. Old. Ing up the atmosphere of bustle timers are busy at comparisons of/and excitement then and now | There may be a few with the Strikes have hindered, momentar-|saffron spinal column, but they | ily, some lines of work, but the) don't count, elther here or else strikes must and will be ended be-| where. fore a serious dent has been made} ——- jin progress. This is the decree "oO S. K. to Operate 4 the Northwest. There is a splendid spirit of “Get-) ] » Shine “] something-done” noticeable in the New Ships to Sound }atmosphere. Everybody is going) Four new steamers will be added some place in a hurry and has im-|in 1918 by Osaka Shosen Kaisha | portant work to do when ho gets/Co., of Japan, to the Seattle-Ort- there. ental run, it was recently an- The stranger notices the hum of|nounced. The first will be com rejuvenation on the streets, in the! pleted at a Nagasaki shipyard soon hotels, cafes and theatres, Thejand will mak # first voyage in rugged Northerner {s spurring him- | January, These new vessels will self on to greater efforts. |be larger than the Manila Maru, or Particularly in shipping and|Hawall Maru, now operated by this shipbuilding ts this war time roe)company. They will each have ac mance of business most Interesting. commodations for 52 first cabin Forests of pine and spruce are be-|and 300 steerage travelers. The ing denuded to supply the demands|cargo capacity will be approxi. parts.| mately 12,000 tons. | Hundreds of hitherto {dle acres of! — muddy tide flats are blossoming Fifty-three per cent of the es-/| | with the piles of new ship plants. tire population of the state of Seattle's commerce for the first) Washington is contained in the half of 1917 reached a valuation of' Puget Sound district, of which Se 000,000. The 12 months of this attle is the met otis Manufacturing Co. FURNACES, STOVES and RANGI | | The World Is Our Field 2756 First Avenue South Seattle Tula, and pineapples from Hawali sound. ' to Puget STAR—SATURDAY, SEPT. 15, 1917. 'CHEAP COST OF POWER BOON T0 LOCAL INDUSTRY Washington State Has Greater Potential Water Power Than Any Other State TRANSMISSION IS EASY According to the latest govern: nt figures, the State of Washing ‘on has water sites capable of prov ducing 4,000,000 horsepower, or | more than any other state in the junion, Leas than 350,000 has so far been developed This means that the demands of increased industrial plants will be easily met. Much of the potential water power is within a very short transmission distance of Seattle. The initial cost of developing it will be considerably less than in other parts of the country The cost of electric power and light, furnished now by a munic- ipally owned plant and by the| Puget Sound Traction, Light and Power Co., is lower in Seattle than in any other clty sa possibly Niagara. As more of the sites are developed, the rates will go even lower Thia is a considerable factor in attracting industrial plants here. {Industries requiring a large amount ‘of power will naturally go to a city where they can get it cheapest other conditions being favorable. Famous “Tad” Jones Now a Shipbuilder “Tad” Jones, Yale's famous old) quarterback, has been drawn to Se attle by the shipbuilding industry, | |A graduate of the Sheffield Scien- |tifie school of Yale, he is now as [sistant to the president of the} Ames Shipbuilding & Drydock Co, | | Edgar Ames, the president, is him- self a son of old Ell, In 1907, Seattie’s export and im- port trade amounted to $69,012,681 In 1917, tt Will probably exceed $400,000,000. SUNDE, H.W. VERS, President Treasurer Entadlished 1882 SUNDE & d’EVERS CO. 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