The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 15, 1917, Page 29

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Patterson-MacDonald Shipbuilding Co. SHIP BUILDERS 5971 East Marginal Way Seattle, Wash. Repair Your Broken Machinery at Once NO DELAYS By Using a Welding Plant $60.00 TRANSMISSION SHOP MACHINERY SHIPYARD EQUIPMENT Perine Machinery Company 209 First Ave So., Seattle. SCENIC BEAUTY {SHIPBUILDING | IS BIG FEATURE | AND MUSIC CO OFALASKARWY,) HAND IN HAND While Road Will Speed Up|Four Bands Organized at Commerce, It Will Attract Local Yards to Pour Tourists Also Forth Sweet Notes | SEATTLE SUPPLY BASE/PARKS LI > 'EM, TOO In a day's ride recently along the} Muslo and the shipbuilding In: U. & Ratlroad out of Seward to-|dustry are now jolging hands in ward Anchorage tourists saw Seattle, and four new bands have A brown bear browsing in the/#prung Into existence In as many alders. months. The Ames Shipyard band, Two mountain sheep high on athe Duthie Shipyard band, the rocky buttress. Skinner & Eddy Company band A lynx, watching a pair of bald|and the Seattle Construction & eagles circling overhead. Dry Dock Company band are the Half a dozen queer, waddling por |Names of the new musical organ:| | cupines izations. The largest of these or-| | Magnificent, foot-long trout be-| ganizations is the Ames Shipyard) ling caught in Kenai lake, |band of 60 members, whi¢h made | Great horned owls, calling in the | its initial public appearance at Vol | dunk unteer park in early July in a well-| Mountains unsurpassed in gran-| balanced program | deur by any peaks in the United Wagner Instructs ‘Em States. The members of the band are in And glaciers, active, turquoise |, large purt employed in the yards | blue at their lip, that can be aD |i. clerical positions, T. H. Wag |proached to within a fow feet bY | nor Seattle's oldest and most pop- five minutes’ walk from the right} ir bandmaster, is instructor as | of-way. well as director, teaching the ama- eee teur members of the band, which) As 8 scenic route the Bewaré-| onearses every day from 12 to 1| Anchorage section of the govern} ciock during the noon hour in| jment railroad, now being driven! pecreation hall. All expense for| | northward 1000 miles to Fairbanks, 114, upkeep of the band is borne jis not surpassed by any road in|). ine shipbuilding company H j Atmotien. t,| The Duthie Shipyards band Tt goes through & Spostoman’s played at another park on the j and camper’s paradise, with Moone, | same day, giving a fine program bear, deer, sheep, goats and leeser This organization has 35 members, jantmals ranging the spruce flats,| i cmployed in the shipyards, Each jthe river beds, the wild plateaus | oon they give a program in the jend bo sebtades of the Kenai alge yard for the entertainment of the ta protustsa. » white, |employes, and hold their rehear Gactel streams, milky wi a sals at 4 o'clock in the afternoon brawl beside the track. along still) ii mediately after work. An added valleys studded with wild flowers | attraction to social life in the and lush grasses, and thru fear) nig yards is @ aplendid. voeds |some box canyons across which the tracks trestle quartet Kenai and the Trail lakes, on which summer cottages, camps and resorts are now springing up jare destined to be as famed as \Tahoe and Crater lakes, about | which tourists have raved for many years. | These beauties and sportsmen’s }lures are going to be a decided | , 2 Eddy corporation Like the other asset to the U. 8. Railway, and are |) ids ry is composed mainly of undoubtedly destined to attract 4| snateurs, and rehearsals are held| | Seattle is thd base of supplies | |for the government railway in Alaska The band at the » Con-} struction and Dry Dock Company rehearses t Umes each week and rende the music at the numerous social functions given by |the company. The latest band to} be organiged in the shipbuilding | industry is that of the Skinner |} Population Reaches 366,445 Here in 1917 ‘Record Month for * ae } The following are t | Wheat Shipments } v. 5. estimates of 8 Shipments of four and wheat tn} Ulation, m | July, 1917, ont of Puget sound ports { in the x by water have broken all records, |} 1911 with the single exception of July in|) 19 the banner year | A total of 600 floated in Jul ear, as com pared with 280,608 bushels in July ; : Portland shipped 270,721 bushel# | _~~_~ ~~. | 4 G. Kinnear Co. + CLOSE-IN | | FACTORY | saat |} SITES a Rail and Water Facilities For Sale or Lease Offices: Seattle, U. S. A. 7 1111 White Building Main 1308 STAR—SATURDAY, SEPT. 15, 1917. PAGE 29 General Offices Hoge Building Flying Fields— Lake Union Lake Washington BOEING AIRPLANE COMPANY AIRPLANES Schooling Accessories Contractors to U. S. ARMY U. S. NAVY STEAM and ELECTRIC HOISTS esc eF ad Es ‘€ FOR ALL PURPOSES WASHINGTON IRON WORKS SEATTLE, U. S. A.

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