The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 31, 1919, Page 27

{ - ISEATTLE QUEEN CITY OF SHIPS “BR Record After Record Broken ; on Puget Sound Seattle is the premier ship. | n of the Queen City's ship-produc- record aa are responsible for so ny of the lines in which the city ds first, Mild, equable and in- ting climate is one of these. has been proved that labor is at 20 per cent more efficient, due the absence of extremes of heat @ cold, that is the case in Eastern ustrial centers. Foreign Trade Immense Seattle: ia essentially Western, and interests are linked with the mn coast of the United States is Mot selfish in her interests. the West develops , and a» the city developa, so does the West grow and pros trade is another field in Seattle lays just claim to tn Exports and imports of Washington customs district of ch the city is the headquarters chief port for the calendar year i$, totalled just a trifle short of try is progressing propor , while agriculture and kin- pursuits are rapidly forging to front. For instance, in 1918 the ranked second in the produc Of seeds of al! varieties. Nearly 000 cases of condensed milk produced tn the state last year, A of which was sent overseas the American Expeditionary advantages are unexeelied With Mount Rainier Na- |, <A CPC E PS TF —Photo by Curtis Studio “During the past year, conditions 4m the lumber industry in Seattle Northwest commenced to and only the shortage of | @ars and ships at the present time Prevents the transaction of a vol-| ime of business far beyond the wild @et hopes of manufacturers. With the adjustment of the car situation, Beattie’s future in the lumber indus try will be greater than ever before.” siiaidiiinnnsitl GEO. T. 8. WHITE iI Pres. Bank of California, N. A. | shin cate cao aaa ' —Photo by Curtis Studio During the past year the bank de- Porits in Seattle have surpassed all fecords. The enormous possibilities Of trade with the Orient, Siberia and Alaska will contribute to the Ment and steady growth of Seattle's | Prominence as a world port.” | p Wee “Untimit of ful with the Pres. Seattle National Rank — = ee ¥. K. STRUVE | | | | ited confidence in the future Beattie may be somewhat doubt- at of the future trade Ortent and of Siberian commerce there can be ho question as to the sibilities for Seattle.” OLD MERCANTILE FIRM CELEBRATES 50 YEARS’ GROWTH Bagley. Today this firm owns one of the largest wharfs on the Seattle cen- tral waterfront, and back of this wharf is a sixetory brick warehouse and three other warehouses, and it in| today the largest firm of its kind in the Northwest. TRY THE Ph vpulation « City Directory Himent (per tho De posits 3 onnage deep. departing (Calendar) tNum lere .. hited Stree it ‘a Sewers (Miles) : Graded Streets (MIL Paving (Miles) .. Sidewalks (Miles) Street Ratlway (OM FOOT NOTE—tu. by Buanweil | the development poe ~ JNO RAILROADS the Has Developed The his- or schooner. Seattle tory surrounding Seattle. railroads tert feorner of the globe. ased on IN CITY IN 1869 Schwabacher Bros. & Co, Inc,|But in 50 Years Great Port, wholesale grocers, celebrated Seth anniversary of continuous bust- ness in Seattle October 11. tory of this ploneer firm i# linked intimately with the growth of Se attle, its executives having not only been prominent in business affairs, but also served the public in many umportant capacities. Seattie’s tmportance as the jobbing center of the Northwest, for the dis- trict embraced in Alaska, Washing- ton, Idaho and Oregon, is credited to the efforts of Baily Gatzxert, for- mer mayor and first president of Schwabacher Bros. & Co, Inc, ac- cording to the historian Clarence Fifty years ago, when Seattle buildings sprawled over the few cleared acres that fringed Elliots bay ‘Trails ted thru the forests to the lakes, and occasional cabins Supplies were brought from San Francisco by an occasional steamer, tt not until 1870—a year after! as incorporated—that the townsmen began their historic fight for railroad factlities—and ultimately won recognition. Coal had been dis covered as carly ax 1853 in the terri inte at Beattie, to de te ant ra ona liver and receive freight from every a Washington st. Today Seattle has a| city hall valued at $1,250,000 and the; “|property on which it stands ts ‘worth | $1,100,000, Sixty-five Steamship Lines Sixty-five steamship lines opetate | freicht. in and out of Seattle, while 70 piers THE SEATTLE STAR—WEDNESDAY, DEC. 31, 1919. ‘BO% Value agers arriving @nd departing GESESSeespeeer night | from tracks, capable of handling b oma Report tHarbor Master's Report— they are consigned. are heaped with commerce. Today | Seattlo has 190 miles of waterfront | capable | world’s greatest port. Thousands of sturdy toflers, and siant electric cranes, work day and Trains pullout ' : 2 j $30,907,838 ra ‘ > 284 $2,222,395 "96,806,163 $305,289 | phn ide . not include tle only, ooda received in the second pli ae a! statistion of the United 8 District, New York (New Y¥: ta city) . e) stinlo (Buffalo) .. iveston (Galvest Lawrence .... corgia (Savannah Virginia (Norfolk) . Dakota (Pembina) . Chicago (Chicago) loading or unloading freight 101 acres of wharves, Spur) American $40,148,965 2.960 **gitosiot 76,623 23.948 10,7 18,566 $40,627,808 17,401,450 $1) g301-606 30,82 4ike.762 40,688,579 | bas ‘8 $116,006.74 34.56 970,163,763 96,704,784 $7,278,228 7 $3,263,022 oie $209,338 $11,296,684 $54,500.401 $91,124,000 | $40,228,089 bond destined for oth e This includes imports received gt Seattle in bond of which Seattle, a city of 400,000 Po in forelen trade among the ports of the United States, according to 4 Departunent of Commerce, for the year 1918. NITED STATES DURING CALENDAR YEAR ENDING EMBER 31, 1918 beartrig car after car filled with Ort- ental silk. Often a single train of development into the/ transports «ilk work $2,000,000 direct to New York from Seattie. And Stil) Growing ‘Thru Seattle come millions of gal- lons of vegetable oils that go into soaps to scrub faces feeding the waterfront are|every part of the world 2,000 cars When in Seattle FRYE Seattle’s Largest Hotel Owned and Operated ay Ideal Location BASS AND WATT, Managers a Pioneer of Seattle Modern and Fireproof Seattle's vegetable of] storage fa- cilities are capable of bhokling 14, 000 gallons of ofl at a SUMMER PLAYGROUND of AMERICA $440,249 6 $17,163,080 | 28,910,491 HSE ee $30,121,008 $52,186,901 $1,168,777 $21,668,821 $ og port. Seattle Attains Second Place as a Foreign Trade Port The Washington custome distri chief po: the offic TRADE BY CUSTOMS DISTRICTS OF TE us distributed to s.camere here GROWTH AND COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF SEATTLE (Compiled by Bureau of Statistics, Seattle Chamber of Commerce and Commercial Club) 1915 SIG,8S4 $221,238,103 eas $6,470,655 168,406,667 16s 37, 7 ‘ TOTO ST 8,323,438 2,252,605 . credited by U. & Govt, to ports in other parts of the country to which || ulation, is headquarters and Great tanks, of 1,600,000 gallons) capacity, receive fuel of! which ts | streets are lighted by modern nitro- industries of the Northwest and to the of! burning And every hour Seattle's vast transportation facilities are rrowing| ter of illumination, an fast a» brawn and brain can keep| pletion of the Lake Union steam|¥®* *Pringing up on Puget Sound. pace with the ever-growing port, that| plant and the Skagit power project, 50 years ago was a placid saltsea)as well as other improvements con-|for light and she will burn ft, fringed by forests, with a tiny vil/ templated by the city engineer for|cording to Superintendent of 23,482 | ALASKA SHOULD like to see Seattle 50 years from now. It has all the irresistible forces that are bound to make it one of the great cities of the world.”— William A. Law, ex-president of the American Bankers’ Association. 8.) 268,206, 6,201,099 4,702,836 |! 7,429,392 2,986,031 2,758,628 ‘940 3,679,436 3,042,141 SEATTLE WAS DARK IN 1869 Today There Are 30 Miles! of Cluster-Lighted Streets Seattle's streets, | 50 years ago, were muddy roads or trallse— treacherous and dark after night | that make this city the best | Highted municipality in the United States. Not only does Seattle revel in the best illumination of any city tn America, but the cost thereof is |about as low as in any American | municipality with the possible ex- |ception of the district continguous to Niagara Falls, More than 950 miles of Seattle gen lamps. every city in the country in the mat NORTH PACIFIC COAST RAINIER NATIONAL PARK PUGET SOUND COUNTRY The sTIBY (EIGEN UK, Auk ahah Ai 4 Aa AD ry = Ee THE NEW WASHINGTON HOTEL AND APARTMENTS TOURIST AND COMMERCIAL HEADQUARTERS We maintain first-hand information of the above entire section. Write for complete literature and travel information. The day is coming when Seattle|that event—he would swell up like will be head and shoulders above|® Pouter pigeon every time he re With the com.| the energetic young community that Vg W. E. HANSON Astt. to President Scandinavian American Bank ie aasineatosnsinbasesasati —Photo by Jauwes & Merrihew “Seattle is destined to become one of the world's largest shipping cen ters, and is attracting the attention of Eastern capitalists as never before, With the steady development of new markets insured by the shipping sem vice, the prosperity of Seattle is am weured.” City Named After Old Indian Chief — Ol Chief Sealth, after whor: Be attle was named, demurred violently at first when it was proposed to take his name for the new settle ment on the eastern shore of Elliott Bay. There was some sort of In dian belief that it would bring : bad luck in the happy 5 grounds after he was dead But be- fore Selah died—he did the white men several friendly terms before at bs flected that he was the godfather of