The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 23, 1918, Page 7

stance. Mark Twain once said: STAR—SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 1918. PAGE 7 potential presidents should take pains to be born ina log cabin, of poor but honest parents.’ Naturally, we cannot follow Mark Twain’s well-meant advice-- but we HAVE a certain choice of the place where we shall live and spend our allotted years of work and play. The place of our abode is usually the result of chance, or cireum- We are held by habit. SEATTLE—THE CITY OF OUR CHOICE “The first rule of success 1s the careful selection of our parents— Suppose we mentally sever all ties of family, and friends, and business association, and select the spot where we shall live. A FARM? Farmers are generally successful and contented—but when They seek the company of their they retire, most fellow men. “move to town.” without the varied opportunities for work and play that a big city affords? A BIG CITY? Mere size is not the ONLY standard of value. Tokio, Japan, contains 2,000,000 souls, but it lacks the manifold advantages of a modern city, and contains most of the evils arising from crowding folks to- gether too close for health and comfort. SEATTLE! Contrast the benefits we Seattle people enjoy, with the good and bad in other cities of like size. SMALL TOWNS have a few of the advantages of a city, but could YOU be permanently satisfied Some cities are known as play-grounds for folks with time and money. Some cities are hives of industry where money is made— but the comfort and well-being of the inhabitants seem forgotten. Seattle has diversified industries that give scope for every man’s ability. It has more theatres than can be visited in a week—more parks within easy access than can be reached in a long summer—more schools and courses of study than your children can complete in a lifetime. Seattle’s Business and Professional Leaders Dr. Henry Suzzallo H. ©. Henry A. W. Leonard Frank B. Cooper Reginald Parsons Robert P. Oldham Frank Waterhouse Smelter and Refining Companies Western Smelting & Power Co. Great Western Smelting & Refining The Rewards of Thrift and Industry Are Many—in Seattle Seattle's Leading Financial Institutions National Bank of Commerce American Savings Bank and Trust Co. State Bank of Seattle Yokohama Specie Bank The National City Bank Seattle National Bank Union Savings & Trust Co. ‘The Scandinavian-American Bank The Dexter Horton National Bank Seaboard National Bank First National Bank Northwest Trust & Savings Bank Manufacturing and Industrial Institutions The Nut House Kilbourne-Clarke Co. Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co. Black Manu’ ing Co. Crescent turing Co: Walworth turing Co. Lang Manut ing Co. Hendricks Manufacturing Co. ©. €, Belknap Glass Co. Boeing Airplane Co. Centennial Mill Co. Bemis Bros. Bag Co. Rothweiler & Co. Pacific Creosoting Metropolitan Dullding Co. — 00 00 Department Stores and Furniture Companies Standard Furniture Co ein Prana Kk Co. MacDou OU: Hardware, Plumbing, Engine, Boiler, Steel, Iron & Electrical Works Pacific Coast Engine Works te ngine Works Koller Works Sei rattle Machine Works Westerman tron Works Marine Engine Works A. H. Cox Co. Whiton Hardware Co. Perine Machine Co. Crane Co. ¢ Coast Steel Co. i ne ae saa had _ Car ou Filliott Bay Yacht & Meats Works Olympic Foundry Co. Well-Known Seattle Hotels and Restaurants The Washington Hotel Seattle Hotel The Wi: «hingtomAnnex Boldt’s testaurant & Bakery Co. Seattle's Steel and Wooden Shipbuilders 43. F. Duthie Company Sloan Shipb Corporation a Shipbuilding Co, Shi Meacham & Babeock “shipbatlding Co. National Shipbuilding Co. Seattle Construction & Dry Dock Co. Puget Sound Bridge & Dredging Co. Bonney-Watson Co. Dairy and Milk Products Companies Carnation Milk Products Company Pure Milk Dairy A. Kristoferson, Ine. Leading Wholesale, Produce and Grocery Companies Northwestern Fruit Exchange The Bradner Co, Augustine & Kyer Schwabacher Bros. & Co. Groceteria Stores Co, Wholesale Fish and Meat i Packers Lee H. Wakefield Co. Harton & Co. Kelley-Clarke Company Columbia Salmon Co. Carlisle Packing Co, Lindenberger Packing Co. (COPYRIGHT, 1917) —_—S7090 ce MEMO TTT TT Automobile Companies Eldridge Buick Co. Overland Pacific, Inc. Frank Waterhouse & Co., Automobile Dept. Seattle Automobile Co. White Automobile Co. Pacific Motors, Inc. American Import and Export Companies cers Brown Griffin & Co. Galbraith, Bacon & Co, Inc. Insurance Companies Northern Life Insurance Co. Northwestern Mutual Fire Assn. Real Estate Dealers John Davis & Co. G. Kinnear Co, Seattle Japanese Import and E ‘aaa Companies Mitdui & Oriental ‘Trading Co. Cho Ito & Co. Azuma Bros. Japanese-American Commission Co. T. Takiguchi Leading American Road Builder Portland Cement Association . Lumbermen and Lumber Mills Puget Mill Co. C, D. Stimson Schwager-Nettleton, Ine. Schwager-Nettleton Mills C. H. Cobb E. G. Ames Nettleton-Bruce-Eschbach Leading Bakery Seattle Baking Co. Leading Fuel Companies Roslyn Fuel Co. Pacific Coast Coal Co. Pacific Shipping & Fuel Co. United Coal Sales Co. Wellington Coal Co. Central Coal Co. Railroad, Transportation and Power Companies Puget apy ge Traction, Light and Pow Seattle I Rainier Valley Railway Ce. City Light Dept. Western Smelting & Power Co. Pacific Steamship Company City Messenger & Transfer Co. Nippon Yusen Kaisha Puget Sound Navigation Co.