The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 15, 1917, Page 32

‘THE Business .~ Man who is best informed re- garding current business condi- tions is the man who is in a posi- tion to take ad- vantage of every ‘SCHOOL SYSTEM | AND UNIVERSITY IN FIRST PLACE, | Accredited by U. S, Education Bureau as Leaders in Whole Country PUPILS | 52,000 HERE For several years Seattle's sehoot ayatem has been classed by| the United States bureau of educa tion as holding first rank in the country The city has liberally | supported the Idea that there must be no parsimony in the proper ed neation of its children, and conse quently Seattle is spending more) for its schools than, comparatively any city of its ize. } Approximately 62,000 children) jare taught in its six high echools and approximately 90 grammar grade buildings and portables, So |fast has the school populatin in creased that it was impossible to/ built fast enough, and so many portables were provided. It ts es timated that Seattle's school prop erty fe worth $8,000,000, STAR—SATURDAY, SEPT. 15, 1917. PAGE 32 WASHINGTON IN THE VANGUARD FOR GOOD ROADS Laid 1,129,778 Square Yards| of Concrete Since First | of Year } BIG PROGRAM AHEAD Washington Is fast becoming one of the nation’s good Washington is building fine manent highways at a rate. unequaled by any other at union, with one single ¢ In the first six m is credited with a total of 1 square yards of concrete paving some 125 miles of ordinary-width roadway, Since the first of July #0 many new concrete road con |tracts have been let in different parte of the state, that the total up to date exceeds 1,260,000 square yards of concrete—upwards of 140 miles, added to 160 miles already laid Callfornia was the only other state that exceeded this record King county hase also several brick roads, but turned to concrete this year | Washington ha buflt up an im Hendricks Manufacturing Company MACHINISTS First Avenue South and Horton Street Seattle, Wash. | There are more than 1,200 teach-| portant Portland cement industry, jers employed. The average salary] instead of tmporting lof grade school teachers ts $1,200,/G high school teachers $1,600, Each | rope, as pupll costs about $60 a year for ed-| ag ‘ ucation In Seattle . | now Not alone does the public schoo! | thre system exce! | sitay of Washington, a state Inatt-|C jtution, also has acquired a first | Mess MOSt SUCCESS- J iePsiias to's, tis rns oa times. Some of the information change and to Portland John C Seattle Far East Trading Co. Heard Transfer and Storage Co. {Sage foundation. During the 1916-| plants are at Concrete, Wash., and| j27 year, the enrollment was 3,200.\the Olympic at Bellingham | | Tho 800 students are now tn the | The Denny Renton Clay and Coal service of the government In the|Co. has produced the brick for army and navy, the enrollment the some of the King county roads coming year, it is expected, will e . GLVEN 1D Peer st ston ot te oresione seee:| Waterfalls Higher | Here Than Niagara Both the Olympic and Cascade |peaks are visible from Seattle Bixty miles west of the city are the Resides being located on af| Olympic mountains, ranging from) protected arm of Puget sound 6,000 to $,000 feet in height. On Filiott bay—Seattle- has also |) the east is the Cascade range, with 4 in to ou iT the benefit of a government || Mount Baker, 10,000 feet high, and a y ° ship canal, connecting Lake fount Rainier, 14,408 feet hich, at nion, in the heart of the city, j Principal Office Four Lakes in Seattle, Wash. and Near Seattle Railroad Trackage Accommodation and Lake Washington, 20 miles rails tumble from Low Insurance Rate long, on the eastern border of || and some of them ar the city. Another lake adjoins [/ ¢f than Niagara. Thirty miles i Woodland park, in the north end || Seattle is Snoqualmie falls of the city, and three miles east |) feet high of Lake Washington is Lake i Woodland Park Has Sammamish. Heaides insuring cheap transportation and avail Area of 179 Acres diand park is the largest in able factory sites, these water bodies furnish fine fishing, ca- noeing, sailing and all other attle systenr—and is the aquatic sports. pular. It covers 179 acres 2, RI MIE SHANGHAI, CHINA J. H. KELLEY KOBE, JAPAN Private Exchange Main 4260. General Exporters and Importers Iron and Steel Products Office and Warehouse 304-6 Railroad Ave. So. SEATTLE, WN. north and south, respectively OF SEATTLE, WASH. “THE Bank that takes a pride— In its Human Interest side. Gidttes ‘nin the lela unten: tae thing. There are pio ment canal locks in the United/ nie grounds, baseball grounds, ten- States and the largest tn the world/ nis courts, cricket grounds, and a) outside the Panama Canal ~ 200. aan — They Stand the Test of Time and Service BRICK THE EVER-LASTING ROADS “No tax to keep them “No limit to the loads they bea From “The Quest of Bijah Brigg The only argument for the use of inferior road-building materials is cheapness of first. cost. Experience in the actual use of such materials has everywhere proved costly and unsatisfactory. They will not stan@ the test. 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