The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 15, 1917, Page 25

A DIP INTO FUTURE EATTLE’S past has been marvelously great. But it is not the Seattle habit to glory in the past, Always its citizens have planned and bullt with an eye to the future. The city h stood still, It is growing day by day, In these pages you get a glimpse of the Greater Seattle that is to follow the war—the Seattle in “peace with pros: perity.” The Only Seattle Paper That Is Growing The Seattle Star The Greatest Daily Circulation of Any Paper in the Pacific Northwest THIRD SECTION oO" of the world’s leading ports today, Seattle will naturally become also one of the world’s great manufacturing cities, The raw material, brought to New York by rail and ship, has made it the logical industrial center of the Atlantic. And now the raw material, brought from all points of the globe to Seattle, is bound to make It the New York of the Pacific, BASED WIRE SERVICH PRESS ASSOCIATIONS SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, SEPT. 15, 1917. % % PAGE TWENTY-FIVE BUSINESS MEN PREDICT WONDERFUL PEACE FUTURE FOR CITY Girl Writer iter Glimpses V Vision of What “Queen City” Will Be in the Years. to Come — H Port Secretary | Opens Eyes of Echo June Zahl| ' Paints Her Inspiring Word Picture of Towering Smokestacks, and Teem- ing Wharves. By Echo June Zahl FUNNEL—that’s what Port Commissioner Hamilton Higday calls it. | An ordinary person would call it a smelly dock | But then Mr. Higday is no ordinary person—he has vis-| jon! Therein lies the differentiation This morning I walked with | Mr. Higday thru three stories of the warehouse and dock of the Bell st. dock, one of the six municipal. docks that stretch along the Seattle har bor, serving as fun the vast amount of pro that pours in fro exotic lands. uce As high as the ceiling of the cement warehouse, where goods are stored for indefinite periods, stretched great ¢ of sacks—boxes—more sa.k and more boxes. Every land had its representation there The happy climes of Honolulu I passed thru, with stack upon stack of canned pineapples. “It was at the time of the Seattle fair, in 1909, that they were experimenting with canned pineapple,” said Mr.| Echo June Zahl Higday. “Now look at it.” | Out of the land of the leis and pineapple, I stepped into another. This time it was a unanimous gesture on our parts > We clutched our noses. } Fi “What, oh, what is the reason?” I g > clutched organ. “It’s copra,” laughed Mr. Higday, strips of odiferous bark which lay in great sackfuls. “One| of these days you'll be using it to massage your cheeks, as yy make beauty creams out of it.” | In companion piles lay strips of cocoanut. Further on,| green coffee beans occupied snug bags b As we came out ont near the water's edge lay a ed the four-masted schooner, wi den of 4 copra was steadily being eased by the swarm g men who were un unl pading _the | We stood a momen 6 ganed Li t far, far into the waters of the |bay, where another huge ship was jmaking progress toward the dock 4 once we were a sawmill town—we were farmers. mused | T Mr. Higday, “But now”—and he swept his arm out to the ship— the line of docks and back into Automobile tire manufacturers those recesses where was stored of the East are planning to Urg/the tite of the world the state department to promulgate | yagr TRADE EMPIRES FOR trade treaties with other allied n@ OUR sHIPS AFTER WAR tions which may mean much to the} ry. Panama canal started commerce of this port cubauie-itin ie Nd Chase trapetes F. A. Seiberling, president of the) ‘ang PEACE WILL AL pe Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Of! anny unti) Seattle ranks with the Akron, Ohio, who stopped off for ® jsryest ports of the world’ It is day in Seattle this week en route home from Alaska, explained that prior to the war the bulk of the crude rubber supply, which comes from the Malay peninsula, a Brit- igh possession, had been shipped first to England before being dis tributed to the rubber manufactur. ing centers “Great Britain,” he said, “insist © ef upon this to maintain her je balance. I expect the state depart ment will soon be attempting to ne gotiate trade treaties with the al lies, and while they’re at it, I'd like to see them insist that England permit crude rubber to come to us direct over the Pacific coast Crude rubber imports thru the port of Seattle last month aggre gated more than $5,000,000 direct shipping, by the shortest route, that will do ft. And once the route {* established, it cannot cease to grow Manchuria—that whole district is opening up. They, too, are re alizing the wonder of the short route. Their whole manufacturing world {* opening. They can bring their goods here. “We have the cars at the back door of the d id the goods can be sent away to any point of the United States. Japan {« at tempting to bufld up her ship in dustry in emulation of that of Great Britain—and she 1s calling ttle for machinery, for ails and the requisites of the trade, And this will not cease when peace comes—it will go on | and on Boxboard Industry (AO ieee eet se ; anaiey ber that comes here clear from Has an Extremely ae } sochnte ‘ Promising Future “And the ceaseless line of ex The manufacture of paper and ports ¢t we end back And we're not only opening up on the board from pulp wood and i oxb rt Say a aus commerce Stself—we're opening up waste paper, a co! industry here, i att new industries, The Soy bean, for ions, according to H, | Instance rere, manager of the Northern|SEES OIL REFINERIES AS Board and Paper Mill Co., whose RESULT OF BEAN IMPORTS foeal office Is in the White build-/ “They had a mammoth celebra This company has its mills at |tion in San Fi Arner Wash, fefore the advent |ship came in with a million this com Wexdoard necessary for the making boat after boat of § bean oll. | which, it is estimated Nee of suit boxe cattons, har raps, e bad over a million gation 000, one or more Indu ba loft *., was bought in the Kast of the off on one boat. People| buildings will be built by this cor Vthe compar able to atilize have awakened to the use of that! poration. Rents will be kept lov sll weate paper, including old news: best © be specially aitraciive to man papers gazines, etc, It has a Soon you'll see the huge smoke-| ufacturer The plan would save small manufacturers the 1 nd sorting plant at stacks and tanks of oll refiners (Continued on Page 28) warehouse + 3642 and 1554 Fourth ave. 8. definit cost of t blast furnaces. ablishment of such a plant an Puge the huge demands upon its products new industrial attle. Mish » corporation for th of factor according to R. M. Mattison, indus rial commissioner of the Seattle Chamber of Comme mercial Club, T on rece neixco because a|$1,000 each to support such a cor A Disturber Hits the Trail Make Survey of Possibili- ties Here for Investment CONDITIONS ARE FINE A atee! plant In Seattle! That is a prospect, not for the remote future, but is an immediate probability Powerful financial interests have given the city the once over, and, aceording to all in. formation, have been impressed with the possibilities of a plant. Where it would be located Is not known, of course, tho for a time, rumor had it that Renton would be the chosen spot Rumor also has it that D. C. Jackling, the multi-millionaire of Butte, was at the head o this project. This, however, is not confirmed. Thane Makes Survey The survey for the establishmen of an tron and ster where on the coast,” was made der the direction of B. A of the Alaska Gastineau Co., popularly sup: sent the Jackling Intere 1 plant “so As a result of the survey, it a strength and ch ake open hearth also tron o furnish e ore for blast furnace to turn ont pig tron Valuable Ores Here This ore por at me per metal contents, can be laid down Puget Sound in concentrate form qual in fron content to the ern ores at a price equal to the eve ores at the Eastern The Sound, resulting out ade the shipbut'ding and other manuf, wring industrie would id conrse, in turn, make more per nent these older plants and add Business Men Give Liberally to Fund for Factory Sites atae $250,000 to estab Plans to ri locations tn co and ¢ ont this le busi med tt reenlt of a 1m aday night 1 today with pledges allons | poration it 14 claimed, the of Soy bean oll. Why, we've had| Following an industria of investing in factory structures. SEATTLE GETS ONCE OVER’ FOR A STEEL PLANT Powerful Financial Interests|) ,C — Report mc 1 to repre ascertained that the coal ord until the August returns shat in part of Wash ington will produce a quality coke of that will There te its of the Thane, at a result of the 1 other valuable | Biggest Humpback mon in th Western waters, saved the the canneries this year. possibilities in Se. posed to rush into sound waters in inusual numbers, can: {for a prize catch of the sockeye eye fail large sea on their way to fresh water promotion attle, are e industrial bu ea, and Se eting held Wed number of firms are in a The fish were taken from Puget! Yakima valley has been bette survey, | 2,000,000 a w price on the banks, the purse sein canned salmon to world, a ¥ ladding snug little bank accounts, | port of Seattle, ~- Ma. BUSINESS REVIVAL «| MILLION AND A Year to Exceed Five Hun- is dred Millions N sanuary xPORTS 5 ces.n29 (KINDUSTRY EXPANDS|LOGICAL ') February 9.584.466 JY ( March 4 49 A million and a half dollars April 12.06 4s M 42,028 That's the amount of for- : ¢ : peg eign commerce in Seattle dur- ing 1917. Figures compiled by Port Warden A. A. Pays: | show that during the first \ ' | Seven months of 1917, export reached the sum of $308,544,012. attle’s an éxeceed the 1916 re smashing Should the same ratio be main 8. J commerce would tot $ 1 ports thru the figures by more than $175,000,000. trict broke To Exceed $500,000,000 August, 1917 This th Naturally, a city that does ed more than $ ore | than $500. orts than the nex whest ition. and Se nth in the history of this dis: Kystern trict and We ( arcely In May which held the rec. | ever mentic Eure ree world city, known we! and vor a wherever ocean commerce is 4 {t, the imports amounted to| conducted. It was only a few years ago when Frank Waterhouse, on Seattle's prominent shipping 1 rago fn August, the fr a. ash n Lor he oe Hi sp sought to eatablish ine valued at $1,879./0F Er veusels to f yond 9 hee” 4 Ai |to state how early tn the spring a 98 iy ined ag | steamer could go thra the tee into 1,046,398; silk ined at $15,042,. | Seatt 018, and tea, valued at $1,626,620 New Industrial Chances were among the imports The year 1917 has taught the | world to look upon Seattle not only jas the metropolis of the Northwest in shipping circles, but has also de Salmon Run in All | veloped world interest in its Indy \trial and manufacturing opportuni History Is Now On| ties Tt Industry has always followed The bigs commerce. It is the raw material, which ts imported Into New York, that furnishes a large part of its manufacturing opportunities: And #0, too, Seattle, now the chief city on the Pacific Coast, is offered new industrial opportunities out of the new imports, among which is the soya bean with its oil, rub j ber from India, shellac and other | material for paint manufacturers. st run of humpback sal- history of fishin in is season i# the “fourth when salmon are sup: jes looked mon, the choice red-fleshed va When the run started the sock- 1 to appear in quantities worth of beet uted today, will pawning st A million doll In a single trap catch, said to be! gugar, it was estir the season's record, 75,000 salmon! be raised in the state of Washing were taken from the water. ‘The|ton this year authentic pur is given at seine haul| ‘This is the first test of this prod 000 salmon. | uct in this st Its success in the than jound waters at the rate of about! the most optimistic had hoped el | Up until a few months ago com With 20 cents a fish the buying there -were no sugar «here at all, The climatic con era are more than satisfied. The} ditions of the Yakima valley, how nneries, (hanks to the “humpy," ever, it now appears, make it an will send ont @ vast quantity of{iderl place for this product niting, hungry Naturally, the bulk of the sugar incidentally, they are! business is to be handled thru the “q Seattle Will Be City of Million — Within 8 Years © ‘SoDeclares Prominent Ship- { ping Man; Others Explain — weatge | SEES ELEMENTS “pis 1917 HALF A DAY 1917 FOR A GREATER vez “yee TRADE RECORD SEATTLE HERE . ber Points Out of Future “Development EXPANSION was pre-| | t By Gordon C. Corbaley | Executive Secretary Seattle Cham- ber of Commerce and Com. mercial Club. All great developments, prop- erly organized, gain speed with \W aterhouse Co,, shipper, expe | trade jta collapse from their own weight ported by the proper elements. community busi- ness of developing a conducted upon and the essentials of a city are available for the hands of the builders, then, strength, its speed in develop- process will with the growth, made Seattle a city of some- thing more than the most part, a primary condition 300,000 people |more secure than ever » commerce with the un- developed Western states near trade with Alaska, opening of foreign trade with the Orient and the first stages of our industrial develop- ment, are the supporting assets of Seattle, which are still feel- ing growing pains. jamot | the {t with the state of Washington future when logged off land. , Seattle's trade wiih her neigh which development Alaska Not Scratched Alaska {8 another fac. tor to be giv ¢ comparing the res Maska has not yet been scratched development (Continued on Page 26) A new era of a taatiianl tage and prosperity for Seattle that will surpass the marvelous progress of the past is in store for this. |city, according to the unanimous verde of leading business” men, manufacturers and bankers. Seldom has there beem such a unanimously optimistic tone in any city as there i® among Seattleites today. It bas been the lot of many residents here to see di vast proportions actually come true. Since the fire i more than a quarter of a century ago, Seat ma to one of the leading ports of #] to the 21 ce in population in this country. HOW THE FUTURE LOOKS TO See MEN OF VISION Now the Panama canal bringing the world, East and We r to our doors for foreign commerce, new is of enterprise are g developed for permanent trade, The war has intensified these opportunities. Peace will prove that Seattle's prosperity and expansion is not based on apy | passing boom, but on firm foundations tere, in bri mpses into the future ag f, are a few glir revealed to men of proved vision JOSEPH SLOAN, architect, of the Sloan Shipbuilds hile the war has revived a big demand for A s, that demand will by no means end with the war. Ff ter that, the su of ships will scarcely it least a decade Total Foreign ‘Trade This Executive Secretary of Cham-| meet the demand, and here in the Northwest, the wood ship 1ilding industry will continue to flourish for some time t@ me, gradually giving way to steel construction thruout. |that time, Seattle's permanency as a shipbuilding center, bolle wood and steel, will have been firmly established.” CHAS, E. PEABODY, of the Pacific Shipping Co.: “The country has its eye on Seattle. Leading financiers and uilders, men of vision, during a discussion of affairs] New York city, recently predicted Seattle's population ig} at one mill - OUR COMMERCE, HE SAYS, 7 ALMOST HAS NO LIMIT 44 president of the Franlg | FRANK WATERHOL er, importer: “Our foreigg ~ at present is limited to the amount of ocean transpors on we are able to secure. The results we shall achieve xt four years, I believe, will exceed the most optie m expectations. After this deplorable war is over, Seattle will become one of the premier ports of the United Staten if she does not already occupy that position. war, ov e of the few specialized lim ur and lumber, Seattle possessed very little 1 trade of her own. Heretofore attle was merely a transshippir port Goods passing thru this port were st exclusively shipped or controlled by merchants in othi “Before the uch as wheat, |parts of the United States. We have now commenced te ourselves in the goods which Seattle ocean carriers” jmove, and the profi made from such transactions arg remaining here, instesd.of going elsewhere “We must become a vessel-owning community, H. C. HENRY: “The future of Seattle may be faint judged by its past. It has vn beyond all expectations—s and the turn of world events have made its future prospects has conducted a st L. THANE, of the Alaska Gastineau Mining Co., will vey recently for jamed interests (popu larly believed to be D. C. Jackling, the mining millionaineges thers): “The market for iron and steel products om ‘acific coast, including plates, angles, shapes, billets, ete s in the last four years developed to a point which will make a steel plant in this territory a commercial successp There will be a steel plant on the coast in the not distang uture. Where it will be located has not been determined: rot be until the f hecking by location expe now in the field has been cor With the location of th@ lant the nucleus will be es tablished for an industrial centered which will ma the district a greater manufacturing center than anyone now realizes. It will mean the establishment of the tin-plate industry, the machinery industry, the automos bile industry, the iron pipe industry and, in fact, all lines of metal product plants will result. WHY SEATTLE IS TO BE and car |v. S. AIRPLANE CENTER WILLIAM FE, BOEING, president of the Boeing Airplane |Company, maintaining a plant at Oxbow and flying fields at } Lake. Union and Lake Wa hington a Seattle is bound to become, as the chief city of the orthwest, the center of ine manufacture in the United ¢ for the followingr easons () The forests in this section of the country contain the largest per centage of available spruce lumber, the chief factor in thé material used; (2) the most successful aeronautic engines so far are being manufactured on the Pacific coast, convenient his prophecy is}to Seattle; (3) the working conditions are favorable on age count of the large number of men in this section who are skilled in woodworking; (4) the climatic conditions are most favorable to flying, with fair weather, no high winds, no elec tric storms, with the absence of temperature extremes, with plenty of lake ind prairic nd also all @f Puget Sound from which to fly; (5) the coast will have to be adequately is the trade rapidly increasing in| protected by means of aerial patrol, for it is of a rugged (Continued on Page 28) oa