The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 15, 1917, Page 7

STAR—SATURDAY, SEPT. 15, 1917. PAGE 7 How One Seattle Minister Sees theCity, Past, Present and Glimpse Into Future _E. J. Rounds Construction Company 331-332 Walker Building, Seattle . GENERAL CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS 25 Years in Business in Seattle Specializing in Railroad and Factory Buildings Elliott 928——__PHONES Main 3043 City Messenger & Transfer Co. Auto Trucks Equipped for Efficient Service 414 UNION STREET Moving, Packing, Storage, Shipping. ~ . Piano and Furniture Handling Our Specialty By Rev. J. E. Crowther or First Methodist Episcopal Church In « large measure Seattle's future is assured by its past. What hi been done can be done, The wildest dreamer pro- poses nothing more extrava- gant for the future than has al- ready been accomplished It ts only 65 years since the first white settlers arrived at Alkt Point and the following year founded a tiny tillage on the site of Pioneer Square. “Seattle” they called it, after the Duwamish chief, for those pioneers wore mon of like spirit with the Redskins who “dared the world, and grappled with the bear.” The year 1889 saw the town utterly destroyed by fire, Sup poke we stand at that point tn the city’s history, as the people assembled amid Seattle's black- ened ruins of 28 years ago, and look down the years to 1917. Some courageous prophet ad- dresses the discouraged people and tells them that next year, the year after the fire, Seattle will have a population of 40,- 000; Im 1900, 80,000; tn 1910, 000; tn 1917, about 300,000 —the third largest increase of all the cities of America. Pointing to the hills of Se attle, forested and precipitous, he declares that those same hills will be washed down tnto the swamps and the Seattle of 1917 will cover 87,120 acres; that ft will have miles of paving, 260 miles of street rail- way, 600 miles of sewers, 700 miles of water mains, 700 miles of graded streets and over 1000 miles of sidewalks, Our Schools, Parks, Our University This dreamy enthusiast tells them they will have one of the finest school systems fn Amer- ica and paints a picture of the city’s 70 grade schools, tts nix high schools, and a great Un! versity of nearly 4,000 students, all the butldings crowded be- yond thetr utmost capacity. He tells them that there will be 20 improved playgrounds for the children and 34 picturesque parks covering 1815 acres of land. Hoe affirma that the coming city will be the most brilliant. ly lighted city in the world, and also tho healthiest of tts size, having a death rate of only about § per 1,000, when the average thruout the United States Is 14 per 1,000. Four rs the first railroad had Ses ttle, but he tells the incred ulous townsfolk that in there will be eight tinental railroads terminating in Seattle, and that the world's longest electric r&flroad, ex- tending for 640 miles when completed, will cross the Cas cades and terminate in this elty. Then, pointing to the charred LY): |. i Yi ||) WH i) Learn What the Armour Oval Label Means to You READ THIS PURE FOOD MESSAGE This is the Armour Oval Label it appears. toa brought to your own door, Consider this label’s significance Suppose you could have the best from the orchards, How sure you would be of choosing the beat! buildings all about him this visionary assures the people that the former frame office buildings are to be replaced by steel skyscrapers and the king seraper of them all will be 42 atories high, and that a single flour mill in Seattle in 1917 will be turning out 20,000 sacks of flour a day. $30,000,000 Fish in a Single Year Here Then he would tell them about Great Grimeby in Eng land, the world’s greatest fish market. But he would say, in 1916 tho world’s fishing head- quarters will not be Great Grimsby but Seattle, for over its docks that year will pass $30,000,000 worth of fish, the largest amount handled by any market tn the world There were two or three bankers standing in the crowd and the orator turned to them and said, “You banker chaps, are you aware that 28 years from now the bank clearances will have increased 6,200 per cent and the * bank deposits 6,800 per cent? By that time the crowd knew they had a lunatic on their hands and would have put him in jatl for safe keeping, but it had gone up tn the fire. The Golden Yield of Seward’s “Ice Box” Then, stretching bis hand northward, the speaker remind- ded them of a country up there called Alaska. Some one tn the crowd said, “You mean Seward’s Icebox!” Another remarked that they knew all about Alaska, that Uncle Sam had been buncoed Into buying up the whole 600,000 square miles for $12 a square mile, and that Woolworth’s five cent store was offering the title deeds at three acres for five cents. “Well,” the prognosticator continued, “eight years from now a ship called the ‘Port- land’ will come down from that country laden with gold, and thereafter Alaska will export every year twice as much gold as Uncle Sam paid for the en tire country, Seattle's total commerce with Afaka in 1916 will amount to $60,000,000 a year.” I say again, that whatever we may prophesy for the fu- it will not be more in- credible than that which has been accomplished In the past If I had the time and the req uisite skill I contd write a much n thrilling book than Bellamy’s “Looking Backward” by portraying Seattle as it will be in the year 2000, But I shall be very modest and mod- erate In my predictions. First of all may | eay that one of Seattie’s most valuable assets le the spirit of ite citi zens. | was remarking to a friend of mine recently that It might be a good thing If Se attie had a city motto after the PORK’ BEANS and above are a few of the many Armour products on which to you as a buying guide. fisheries, dairies and farms of all Amer- Yet this is precisely what the Armour Oval Label offers you—the best foods from every- where—delivered to you in packages by your dealer—perfect In condition—juet as If you lived farmi , as the American farmer's largest customer, is the world’s greatest purveyor of pure food products—the connecting lnk bring the producer and consumer closer together. Armour manner of Chicago's “1 will.” To which he replied that Se- attie needs no motto; its dally achievement le an everlasting affirmation, “What Seattle H Done, It Will Do” Here an nowhere else in the United States “we live in deeds, not words.” Seattle needs no such declaration an exan der’s “Veni, Vidi, Vict" —"T came, I saw, I conquered,”—for on every hand are the nmnt- fest trophies that tell more eloquently of courageous con quest than any verbal affirma- tion. What Seattle 6 done, Se- attle WILL do, and more be biden. Another factor that assures ® great future for Seattle is the beauty of its environment It is incomparably cleaner than the metropolis on the Atlantic seaboard, and has the enviable reputation of being a slumless city, Its pure and abundant water supply has made Seattle the healthiest city of its size in the world, and its climate, tempered by the Japan current, in #0 equable as to enable one to work at maximum efficlen- cy In every month of th ttle can never anything lees than a city of beautiful homes. The city is laved with fresh water on the one aide and salt water on the other, bejeweled with lakes of ever-changing hue, fanned by breezes from ocean wave and mountain peak, garrisoned by stately and stal- wart pines, fortressed by the everlasting mountains, enman Ued by sunset glories which are the portieres of the city above, while over all there ands the silent sentinel in snowy armor clad—the Pres ence, “the Mountain which was God,” Sir Galahad among Co- Jumbia’s noble sons. It also adjoins the spacious wheat flelda of the Western prairies, the bread basket of the world. Increasingly with the expansion of transportation and the opening of the Orient the tide of traffic west of the Rocky Mountains will flow to ward the Pacific rather than the Atlantic Seattle is destined to become A great manufacturing center. Moreover, America has at last resolved to become a great maritime nation and Seattle's shipbuilding industry, which last year was the largest in the | history of the Pacific Ce | has entered upon an era of | paralleled permanence and prosperity, |Great Country for |the Textile Trade Seattle ts destined to become & Kreat center of the textile trade. Having spent 14 years of my life tn that business, my opinion on the subject may not be wholly without weight. The textile trade is dependent chief- ly upon climatic conditions, and in this regard the Puget Bound country ts far superior to New England, and fully equal if not superior to Lanca shire and Yorkshire, the chief centers of the world’s spinning and weaving businoss. Not only is Seattle almost 6,000 miles nearer the Austra. Man wool market than is Liver pool, but Seattle has the sheep on her mountaina and on the plain: yond Moreover, England h to buy all her raw cotton in Amer fea, Egypt and India. By way of the Panama Canal, Seattle is only 100. miles farther from New Orleans than is Liverpool for the purchase of raw cotton while, tor the disposal of manu factured textiles, Seattio is about 7,000 miles nearer the Orient than is Liverpool. Unless in the meantime the Orient manufactures its own textiles, the Puget Sound re- gion will one day be manufac turing and exporting annually enough calico to make a night shirt for each inhabitant of the Orient, and that wil represent an export trade in cotton cloth alone of $25v,000,000 a year But beyond anything else, the assurance of Seattle's per manent and growing greatness lies in the fact that here is one of the greatest harbors of the world. Englana® world empire was founded on the seas, while Rus sia’s retarded development has been due chiefly to her lack of coss to the ocean Seattle's shore line is washed by the brine of the world's largest ocean, What Liverpool, Hamburg and New York have become, Seattie will inevitably be in the not distant future. World's Population at Seattle's Door For remember it 1s the trade route that determines the fu ture of a port city. Seattle is 100 miles nearer Chicago than is San Francisco, and ts 80 much nearer Yokohama that a vessel sailing from Seattle will make eight trips as against seven In sailing from San Fran- cisco, Moreover, the tota. har- bor cost for a 6000-ton ship in the port of San Francisco is approximately $1,280, while the total harbor cost in Seattle's port is about $127, or less than one-tenth. But there ts another factor of even larger significance, and that is the fact that one-third of the world’s population is gathered about Seattle's front door step, and those 650,000,000 people are still in their indus- trial and commercial {nfancy And out there is Siberia with 6,000,000 square miles as against America’s 3,000,000 square miles, but with only 8,000,000 GROWTH! Mutual Northwestern Cash Assets Decade Quadruples Resources of Northwestern Mutual Fire Association ULLEST protection to policyholders is the foundation stone upon which the Northwestern Mutual Fire Association rests. Each year since the date of organization, sixteen years ago, has seen the Northwestern Mutual increase its resources—the great- est increase of all coming with 1917, which shows a jump of al- most $200,000 in the cash assets—37% per cent in a single year. This increase for 1917 is thetidy sum of $26,000 more than the total cash assets of the Northwestern ten years ago. This tremendous growth in strength more than matches the immense growth in business during the last ten years. 40,000 policyholders receive the helpful the Northwestern and profit by its conservation policies. More than fire-prevention service of All the money that the Northwestern Mutual saves its policyholders by fires prevented and form of dividends. The White House Washington Preventable fire is more than a private misfor- tune. It is a pub lic dereliction, At times like this of emergency and of manifest neces sity for the con- servation of na- tional resources, it is more than ever a matter of deep and press- ing consequence that every means should be taken to prevent this evil WOODROW WILSON economical administration, is returned in the Last year the Northwestern Mutual paid in dividends to its policyholders $30,000 more than the net fire losses, the dividends exceeding $230,000. Yet those unfamiliar with the Northwestern’s methods of busi- ness must not assume that policies are ever assessabfe. On deposit with the state insurance commissioner in Olympia is $200,- 000, by virtue of which the Northwestern is licensed to write abselutely non-assess- able policies. In other words, Northwestern policy~ holders get all the savings and economies of the “mutual” plan, as ordinarily under stood, but no disadvantages, It is the splendid co-operation rendered by these policyholders, in fighting against America’s fire loss of $500 a minute, $30,000 an hour, that has made possible dividends and savings aggregating $2,500,000 to date. The Northwestern Mutual has a message for YOU, May we call upon you In person or write you wi benefits Mutual Fire Insurance will bring to YOU? Northwestern Mutual Fire CENTRAL BUILDING Association F. J. Martin, Pres. SEATTLE. Exuiott 827 can assure you of highest values In UNVARYING QUALITY on over a hundred food products. Learn how the Artur Oval Label—indicating Armour’s top grade—is to be found on Star Stockinet Ham, Star Bacon, Veribest “Simon Pure” Leaf Lard, Vegetole (Shortening), Devonshire Farm Sausage, Veribest Package Foods, Cloverbloom Butter, Armour’s Grape Juice and Armour’s es rine—Glendale (natural color) and Silver ¢ n (white) Ceri ARMOUR OVAL SIGN ON DEAIg=kS’ STORE FRONTS, OR ON THE PACKAGES IN THEIR WINDOWS AND ON THEIR S /ES, WILL SHOW YOU WHERE TO BUY population as com pared with our 100,000,000. BL beria, the mystic land of the future, is Seattle’s next door neighbor. A New York man has Invented bottles that prevent their contents being poured out if they have been refilled. SEATTLE, WASH fs_ ARMOUR 4 COMPANY mote 494 eT A A A A A TS A a ee ce a) F. B. CAQLTER, Mer Two thousand pounds of cocoons will be produced this year at an ex-) perimental silk farm in Texas,