The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 15, 1917, Page 28

Grays Harbor Motorship Corporation DESIGNERS —— AND-——— BUILDERS 4,000-TON WOODEN STEAMER DESIGNED AND BUILDING FOR EMERGENCY FLEET CORPORATION General Office & Yard Seattle Office Aberdeen, Wash. 910 Securities Bldg. WHITE PASS AND YUKON ROUTE AND ITS CONNECTING CARRIER American Yukon Navigation Company Operate for 3,500 Miles on the Lakes and Rivers of British Columbia, Yukon Territory and Alaska ALASKA TOURS 1E WHITE PASS & YUKON ROUTE, rail division, Skag- to Whitehorse, operates throughout the year, and during the season of closed navigation connects at Whitehorse with the Royal Mail Stage Line, carrying passengers, mail, express and freight to Dawson and intermediate points. During the season of open navigation (approximately June Ist to October 1st), Rail Division connects with steamers of Lake Division at Carcross for Atlin, afd with steamers of River Division at Whitehorse for Dawson and intermediate its. At Dawson connection is made with the AMERICAN (ON NAVIGATION COMPANY’S steamers for all points below Dawson, including Tanana, Fairbanks, Dikeman (Idit- arod), Ruby and St. Michael. At the latter point, connection is made from early June to early September with the Alaska Steamship Company and the Pacific Steamship Company, for freight and passengers to and from Nome and Seattle. Alaska, on account of her wonderful summers and her great matural beauty, is fast becoming a Mecca for the tourist whose trip over the WHITE PASS & YUKON ROUTE may be for a few hours or for many weeks, traveling with ease and comfort through this great Northland, where he may view scenery of the wildest grandeur; he may look upon glaciers hundreds of feet in height and miles in width: sun sets so glorious that words fail to describe them. Nowhere on the American continent can one view nature arrayed in such splendor as on a trip through Alaska and the Yukon Territory. Special excursion rates are provided each year in connec- tion with the Alaska Steamship Company, Pacific Steamship Company and the Humboldt Steamship Company from Seattle, and the Canadian Pacific S. 8. Co, and Grand Trunk Pacific 8, 8. Co. from Vancouver, and tourists contemplating a sum mer outing should communicate with any of the following officials: H. WEIG, G. P. A., 1919 Conway Building Chicago, Illinois J. L. BURNSIDE, Gen’l Agent, 612 Second Avenue Seattle, Wash. A. F. ZIPF, Traffic Manager 814 Alaska Building Seattle, Wash. STAR—SATURDAY, SEPT. 15, 1917. PAGE 28 ‘Wonderful Peace Future ™ SR parricesteoeneitin r Predicted by Business Men’ Continued From Page 25—Third Section | nature, with seacoast towns far apart and with no highway over the Olympics.” | CHARLI | Paper Mills “aga yh now an infant industry, has the best promise for the uture in the Northwest.” | ©. W. WILEY, president Seattle Construction & Dry Dock Co. prospects could not be timisitic, We are entering ra. In the building of the American merchant marine Seattle fa to have a leading role. DAN BASS, manager of the Frye hotel: “Besides the commercial and industrial advantages, Seattle and the Northwest will profitt greatly by the “Seeing America First” movement, for few sections have as many attractions for the tourist as we have here.” HOWARD ELLIOTT, chairman lof the board of directors of the N. P, railway: “lam a great believer in the growth of the Northwest, land particularly of the Puget jsound country. Ite future ts se cure.” | ROBERT BRIDGES, president of \the Seattle Port commission: “Se has frequently been called jew Yor kof the Pacific, and ft tis becoming so rapidly. The vored, and will continue ECHO JUNE ZAHL GLIMPSES CITY oe - | Continued From Page 25 { Third Section —_—___ —— crisco, ete, We'll do it all here. added. again, red fish, in barrels and out of bar | tedly. | The dog fish was regarded al most as a poison not long 4go. shipped across the continent great luxory. Herring that w |be used In Alaska merely « Norway for herring In places too frigid for humans. fish and eggs are now conserved GO VAST GRAIN SHIPMENTS roseate future. “It won't be long now until wheat will be great grain elevators tow |people over there are going to look |to us for different kinds of grain | when the magic notes of peace are sounded, and we are reveling tn |the heart of the grain country | Alberta, Canada, Washington, Mon gon—all the veriest grain pro ducers.” eee | Upon Second ave. there was no reek of copra and the uncertain mell of green coffee. There was 0 vision of the four masts of the ‘boat as it lightened under its load, received another, and unostenta Itlously sailed away to make place |for another And altho a little afraid that 1 might have carried with me some of the mixed odors of the Orient—I wanted to strut up venue, for | felt possessed of another sense that | had caught from the déck and the prophet, Mr, Higday—that of vision—a vision that looks into the white-covered volume of “Peace,” and ie glad. Hunting Inviting; Plenty Game Here Near Seattle there still re mains an opportunity for the sportsman to hunt for deer, elk mountain sheep and bears, as well as qual. The foothills, forested, abound with game. Few places are now left where hunting is as inviting. ASBESTOS In Useful Form JOHNS. MANVILLE’S Contribution to Progress Johns - Manville OF THE FUTURE right here. Now we send the ol! to the East for refining and for making into cocoa butter, creama, “Seattle n acknowledged cen jter of Alas! rade, And it is only jrecently — come with me,” he sped int the warehouse! rels. Men were working over, | sorting and packing the fish that / facilities and the natural advant- had been packed in hastily In large | 4#¢8 to make Seattle the metropolis |barrels in Alaska and shipped hur- |Now it has a new name and is lfor halibut fs now being caught lfor itself. We no longer depend on |AND THRU THE FUNNEL WILL will be shipped in bulk. There ering here to accommodate it. The |tana, which has hardly begun to} show {ts capacity; Idaho and Ore-| this port more advantageous than others. Ships can do business here at smaller cost than elsewhere on the Coast.” OL BHANSON: “Added to Seat tlo's natural growth thru increased foreign and domestic trade and manufacture, as an ideal world port, this city has another {tem to its credit, namely: the navy yard cities of Hremerton and Charles ton. As the Puget sound navy yard grows Seattle, its neighbor, ts bound to reap some of the advan. tages The government already has invested $20,000,000 tn perma- nent improvements at the yard, and 3,600 men are constantly em- ployed. The future spells clearly the fact that the Puget sound navy yard will be one of the two largest in the United States.” J. D. LOWMAN: “Today you see the Soya bean and the Soya bean ofl at the Séattle port, valued at many millions of dollars. Yee terday !t was unknown, Tomorrow you will also see the factories in Seattle that will use the Soya bean products tn the manufacture of paints, rubber substitutes, f cloth and many other| And the Soya bean fs but one article among many that will make Seattle a leading tndustrial elty.” J. F. povae 8, of Metropolitan Building Co. he future will tax Jour ability to provide sufficient quarters for the many manufac turers, large and small, who will | find Seattle the place in which to | locate.” anadeers | |Yian-American Bank: “Strategtcal- ED CHILBERG, of the Scandina- ly situated, Seattle's opportunities for growth have been tremendously Mereased by recent world condt- | tlons, And opportunity never knocks fn vain in Seattle. Trust to the ‘Seattle Spirit’ to develop the right kind of enterprise.” A. J. RHODES, of the Rhodes Co, president of the Chamber of Com- In # room were white fish and|M™erce: “A united city, such as we now have, will make our fondest dreams come true We have the of the Pacific—and all do #0.” Yakima Will Ship 10,683 Cars Fruit The Yakima County Horticul tural department has completed a | survey of (% orchards of the Yak ima valley; 10,683 cars of the prin cipal varieties of fruit will be |shipped thin year from that dis trict, divided as follows: Apples, | 8,150 cars; peaches, 1,395 cars pears, 860 cars: prunes, 179 cars, and cherries, 109 cars. “The funnel,” he was swiftly |——————___ turning over the pages of: the/ C.C.Belknap Glass Company Railroad Avenue and Stewart St. DEALERS IN All Kinds of MANUFACTURERS OF MIRRORS AND ART GLASS Special attention paid to orders for plate glass desk and table tops H. 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