The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 31, 1919, Page 18

ARGO CAPACITY 40,000 TONS | Secretary Port of Seattle Phe port of Seattle municipal “g ition, entirely arate from @nd county govermment, with powers relating to the de | nt of foreign and domestic! . Just as men specialize in it forms of ness, so we fm this municipal corporation a d form of municipality. It et deal with governmental | : It ity a large business | ton, whose are renidents of the dfstrict and financial strength lies in the value of the property in in the district. ‘The port of ttle has back of its bonds prep- toe the valve of $500,000,000, represents the taxable value of x eounty. | {The policies of the port of Seattle commissioners, elected by the Rople of the port district. These men “as would the directors of any municipality ia engaged, to Im the operation of tts pubticly terminals. The port district ‘the port of Seattle now owns and tes six ocean terminals, with a/ i Ree 233 a3 Bez a inf hat States. The new Smith's pier will accommodate 11 8,800 ‘Yersels, with sufficient raitway switching facilities: to load or argo of 11 ships at one Public Ownership 2 Success public operation of the six terminal units of the port of has proven a huge success 9918 the total earnings of the port were $2.451,142.27. Total ex- Were $1,810,199.47, which in- freight, wages in 1918 just short $792,120,738, The port not iy he the comes to the publ on bonds, and the sum of) The principal aim ing thru Seattle. The muntetpat docks| handied 60 per cent of this. The vol ume of business done can be esti mated by the fact that the port of| Seattle paid out to Jongshoremen, en gnged in trucking and handling ‘The total of Seattle's water-borne commer foreign and domestic commission and all expenses of operation, sal-| solicit business in the same manner ‘wages, supplies, maintenance, |ax any private business corporation 323 set aside for depreciation. | large profits, but to furnish the high-| 644, the major part of this pase-| proper, and attracts new enterprises | THE SEATTLE’S PORT EXECUTIVES Ne. 1—Dr. W. T. Cirtstensen, Secretary. Ne, 2—T. & Lippy, President. Ne, 3—©. J. France, Executive Secretary. ! | 400,000 Volumes in City Library at End of Year 1919 There were close to 400,000 || volumes in Seattle pubile Mbrary it the end of 1919, a fact that stampa ft as one of the leading public libraries on the Pacific of $1,000,000 tn} of all kinds,! or 191 Sewas Seattle's commercial Compt More than 1,500,000 volumes were issued for home roading during the year Just ended. More than 1,500,000 men, women and children took advantage of the free reading room during the year, There were more than 80, ataft business which properties, but 1 the 1 over trade growth is most jand exports, Official is not to make| acter, Business of Port | Increased Forty Fold in 25 Years W. B. Henderson of the U. 8 be-| Teau of foreign and domestic com-| mere, In @ recent publication thus| analyzed Seattle's premier position:! TTLE STAR—WEDNESDAY, City Grows From 1,154 Population to 400,0 Port of Seattle Owns, Operates Six Ocean Terminals supremacy The m the Pacific const now ts recor city’s strikingly et sound 25 years ago.” shown in the volume of her imports government figures for the Puget sound district, of which Seattle ia the chief port, for | the quarter of a century, show the! DEC. 31, 1919. Indians Were Roaming Thru Village in 1889 | Seattle was incorporated into a-city by an act of the terri- torial legislature on December 2, 1869, just 50 years ago. Her population at that time was 1,154 souls; today she is a metropolis of nearly 400,000 prosperous people. | From a frontier hamlet, harassed by Indians and cut off }from communication with the world, she has become in less than three score years a center of world trade and world power. : Seattle, 50 rs young on November 30 of this year, is one of the world’s great sea-ports, a terminal for seven trans- continental railways and a western metropolis whose name is a byword for youthful energy, ambition and mordernity. | Occasional Snub-Nosed Steamer Came Into Port 50 Years Ago This is the Seattle of teday. Fifty years ago she was a hamlet of Jog-cabins perched on the wooded brow of Elliott bay, her population consisting in no little part of vagrant Siwashes, munication with the outside world was diffi- cult. Once in a blue moon the little port was visited by a snub-nosed steamer or a small three-masted schooner. Wharf- ing facilities consisted of a couple of flimsy docks staggering on crazy piles. | r was land traffic any more imposing. The fight for {the first railway system was yet in the future. There was |no depot for transcontinental travel, unless one could so de- nominate the spot where the trail over the Cascades entered the village. Today Seattle, by virtue of her) patural resources and the strength |#———~ W.LmoNARD and prophetic vision of her citizens, | | Pree Puget Bound ‘Traction Light is known in every port of the world Seuee Oe - Egh for her lumber, fish and ship-butld _& rere O. ing industries. Grown tw maturity she te rapidly taking her piace be luide her sister cities in promoting the industry and commerce of the earth. More than 66 steamship lines fects to and from El Nott bay. Seven great trans continental roads feed the com mercial and business life of the newest metropolis of the West: ; om world, Her waterfront ter- | minal system stands as one of the greatest in the country in point of efficiency and upto @ateness, and is dhly rivalled by Aastwerp and New York and Montreal. | In ite private life, if one may #0 term {t, Seattio has met the prob| lems of the frontier “wideopen"| town, and made the city a municipal | ity where children could be raised into God-fearing men and women, Seattio has had ite internal prob lems tn there last 50 years of growth and development it has fought) vice and greed. And it han emerged) into one of the healthiest cites In} the world morally, as it always has been hygienically { Fitty years of age, and in the! prime of its life. That ts Senttle, SEATILE SHIPS |... | ON SEVEN SEAS w=s"e2 eases | future world trade tines, the vast stores of raw material, the immen- | a nity of potential power possibilities Fifty years ago an occastonal |“ *auable climate as a direct in- | wind jammer drifted into Seattle | | Like the spokes of a mighty wheel, 1 total of 67 steamship lines radiate from Seattle to Risen, ine Orient Aucteame’ [combing all to the city’s advantage and, in fact, to every part of im. |** pbc for trade supremacy | portance on the seven seks, {08 the Pacttie const. Seattle's annual water-borne com-| merce for the ar just ended has reached the staggering total of 700,000,000, accorting to Harbor) DEPOSITS IN BANKS | BEAT POPULATION During the year a total of 26,677/ vesnela entered Puget Sound with a) | Seattle's marvelous growth in bank o-——_.. ties, adequate transportation, eral health condition: gresatve trade «pirit of her gen greatest cities of the continent.” makes a total net cain of $640, | ent grade harbor terminal service bd i borrowers on the || great strides which the sound has tonnage of 16,616,888. The same |, OF a net profit of 10 per cent | Modern ecomonic and efficient harbor || books for the year. made in foreign trade | number of veanels railed from Seattle | {he original sutn invest -$6,200,-|termirals will bring increasing com: | JR, Adaition to the main brary || “In 1894 the combined imports and| and Puget Sound with « tonnage of | yy A Gapuatan” Wee fieeree merce to any port. The great cities|] ®f Fourth ave. and Madir exports of the Puget Sound district | 10,801,369 | . ording to United States cus of the world are the cities with nat Seattle enjoys the use of nine || amounted to $6,172,409 Not atile bear an en “i Gees in round figures: Ye reports, the Wavhington cus-/ ural harbors located on great ocean || »ranch lbraries, seven of wh & commercial | Januar Br . 1 bs0.000 istrict in 1918 was the second | trade route underly thought |] are housed in specially built struc tn wall, but she p ecocoe A v1 ** 40,100,000 in the United States in the] of (hin specialized mun corporn.|| tures “ ck monguia set| Gees ts oe feiseene of foreign exports and imports. | tion, er operat It coats Seattle something ‘Vike 11 ts at connects Sefittle with more than | July 1, 1919 * 112'000,000 6 is the principal.port of the up for-,}| $225,000 a year to maintain its |) of Sea ombined | 200 cities on Puget Sound. The an-| Population, in round figures: : ington custorns district. In i ‘This| | public library | total of rts and exports of more | nual traffic handled by the mosquito | Populat on the value of foreign exports and merce builds up existing bust-| than $406,000,000, or a forty-fold in-| fleet alone is conservatively esti-| Population thru this district was $544,-|ness enterprifes within the city|to the city of every kind and char- so over the entire business of j mated at $60,000,000, the figures of | Population 1 the harbormaster show. Population Seattle’s growth in the past 50 years has been phenomenal. | 00 in 50 Years | of the people | centive and ragement jequable climate, free from extremes to, the pondhecongy 2 so aggred ng rae | ot gpg cold, a climate that per- the splendid harbor : | mite eutdoor employment and sp! and port facili- pone digy + geen . bined to again place this city at the a the . ro top of the world’s most healthy mu- sport every nicipalities. Seattle's death rate, based on the “Lam firmly convinced that Seattle / last census In 1910, was 10.1 a 1,000 ts destined to become one of the five| the lowest of any city of its size in| The next lowest death rate recorded was Sydney, Australia, Portland, Ore., | ranked third with a rate of 15 deaths jin every 1000 population. | In 1011 Seattle's death rate re. deposite in leas than @ quarter of a| ceded to 8.87, in 1°12 to 8.53, in 1913 the world. to 8.4 7.04, din 19: in 1917 {death rate, in spite of an abnormal number of deaths, while higher than! it should ha recorded at 6.8 in every 1,000, the figures having been based on the governmen testimation of Seattle's Ith, peatlie's commercial supremacy on the Pacuic coast is now the world over, The city's trade growth qreat world metropolis.” Seattle Developed Into World’s Healthiest City oe ot ee ee Mttle port with straggling germs, wharves and its infrequent ship . Seep that greets Because of this highly specialized Lag mor ad ons warfare on disease, Seattle is the| toaay en he Jeoke over the great healthiest city in the world. p~weel sgl a The Spanish influensa epidemic of| thckty-lustersd plants of both October, 1918, raised the death rato ‘f In Benttle as it dif'all over the Unit-| Besides war vessels, more than ed States, but in 1919, Seattle, 150 vessels now Seattle 1 snap of Decomber, 19 appreciable mmissioner H. M. F TREGINAIZO--PARSONS | i” _ =PRESIDENT-~- | SEATTLE CHAMBERS COMME te> AND COMMERCIAL CLUB =» i} is strikingly shown in the of Seattle will be equal to the task of making ‘ 150 VESSELS IN SEATTLE FLEET Not to Mention Battlecraft Built in Yards Here : utoam | §0 years ago, her plomecr citisens, as sure of the Gestiny of the city as the citizens of today, looked Ueship Nebraska, at ite launching one of the finest vessels of the U. S. fleet; the submarige tender Bush- nell, the submarines F8, F4, H-3, K4, Na, N-2 and N-3, all for the U. 8S. navy; the submarines Iquique and Antofagasta, built for Chile, but later sold to the British admiralty. More than 250 merchant carriers of steel and wood have been launched here. This total includes 127 steel steamships of 1,152,100 tons, and 62 wooden ships of 200,000 tons built during the war period now ending. Besides blue-water vessels, Seattle is represented by @ great fleet of purse-seiners, cannery tenders, hali- but schooners and other small ves. sels that bring thtir silver treasures into Northwest ports, CITY PAYROLL’ $825,000 The city of Seattle employs 5,000 persons in the operation of its various departments, including of- ficiais, The monthly payroll is ap- y $825,000, 10.4, made by 15 to 7.44, to 6.91. in 1916 to In 1918 the ve been, actually was! effect on the to Health according