The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 31, 1919, Page 32

THE SEATTLE STAR—WEDNESDAY, DEC, 31, 1919. Seattle May Be Ridingi in Subways at the Age of 51 Years 3 lp | patie, Beattie taken even playgrounds, ‘There are 24 such : playgrounds within the elty limite, ’ fact that brings Seattle to the | forefront as a municipality of chil tren's playgrounds 3 The area. covered by Seattle's |Big Impravements Planned. parks aggregates 1,820 acres. ‘The ; total cost of the park system amount for Coming Year ed to $6,661,618 at the beginning of the year of 1919 Oakland may be the city of] proposed purchases and tmprove-| | churches; San Franciseo may be the! a oe : A ments of public parks, playgrounds Before Seattle is 51 years old as an incorporated munici-| Paris of America; New York may be and poufevards during the year of pality, her people will be transported by subways tunneled be-| "'* empire elty, but Beattie ts the | ; city of parks, 1920 will bring the cost of the com heath her thickly populated hills. bined system of parks, playgrounds : ‘There are 44 public parks in Se This is the calm conclusion to be drawn from facts and! attic, every one of which is used by tee. na eee now es a hands ne city woe pee here - ieee dag Pn renengg OO nm, Muntcipally.owned water sys that millions of dollars must be expended within the next 1 | wo a |] tem. Capacity of reservoirs and months in progressive improvement projects to keep pace] ""\"s of a year, Connecting the) Seatéle has the largest Protestant | | standpipon, 000,000 gallons. Zs ilies Ezra Meeker Came to Northwest 18 Years Before Seattle Was an Incorporated Tou era Meeker, Washington's plo-| before Washington became a terrt-|two children, Emma Lu end heer of pioneers, celebrated his 89th | tory and 17 years before Seattle was | Osborne SEATTLE Reattio wan first settled tn 1851 and incorporated in 1869, In 1884 first railroad reached the elty Present annual industrial payroll, two hundred million dol ra birtha: Mond 1 incorporated in 1869, Mr. and Mra, Frank Atkina, Area of City—Land, 68.69 || *O*y Monday evening Meeker has 26 living descendants. |04 Mra. C. D. Lathrop, Dr. and equare miles; water, 95.91 square Hurrounded by his children, grand.) 41°11 one were born in thix state|F. A. Churchill, Mr, and Mrs, B. 3g Mr, and Mra. C. B, B charles s Hood, miles. Area of parks and playgrounds, 1,820 acres; miles of boulevards, a1. Average precipitation for 26 years, 34.4 inches, Average temperature for 25 years, 614 degrees, children and great grandehildren,| and near ree Meeker was the dominating guest | Washington, Ore and }at a dinner in hia honor at a down-| Along those who were invited to| town cafe. A number of intimate |‘ Pioneer's soth birthday varty | QLD. TIME MAYOR GOT |were Mrs. William ‘Templeton, friendn of the pioneer attended the | dauhter; her daughter, Miss Bertha NO SALARY FOR WORK |dinner and a reception which pre-| ‘Templeton, and two sons, Joe and | ceded it at the Hotel Fairfield |Charles Templeton; Mra. Charles| The firet mayor of Seattle ecker in called Washington's) Templeton and two children, Billie | cetyed no compensation: for pioneer of pioneers for the reason | and Helen Templeton, that he was an adult in 1852 when Mr, and Mrs. Ei. 8, Osborne, son its of | Gore fornia, | and Mr, a6 | Mra. services, i, Mayor C. B. Fitzgerald, the » evercr | Park system there Is @ boulevard sye-| church In America, 6,500 adult com! | Average dally consumption, 36, |\he arrived at Fort Steilacoom after | in-law and daughter of Mr. Meeker, | with the ever-growing metropolis. tem 31 miles long municanta; and the largest Presby- || 000,000 gations. having crossed the United States in| their sons, Ezra Oxborne and Sumner incumbent of the office, receiv In his annual report to the mayor, | a a pra ~| As proud as she ts of her pubttc| terian church in the world, [his famous prairie schooner, a year | Onvorne, Mrs Sumner Osborne and| salary of Buperintendent of Public Utilities Thomas F. Murphine calls attention to the acute congestion in the down- town districts, = condition that only ®@ subway and elevated system will Femedy. ‘Tentative plans, drawn up by Buperintendent Murphine at the re Quest of Mayor Fitager several Weeks ago, contemplate a subway Under the heavily congested down ‘town streets, First, Second and Third ves, and an elevated road along Railroad ave. It i» estimated that the proposed subway and elevated Aystem will cost in the neighborhood | Seattle will spend $7,436,350 for Municipal improvements in 1920. ‘That much is certain. This ambitious program does not Mhelude the Skagit power project nor ocx it include the proposed Cedar | Fiver extensions. In his annual report filed with Mayor C. B. Fitzgerald this week, City Engineer A. H. Dimock points Out that more than $1,000,000 for wing will be spent by Seattle in i920. If the city engineer's recom Mendations are followed Seattle will @xperience big improvements tn its | transportation facilities, water sup ply. street extensions, paving and Sewerage. Propeses Tunnel ‘A lrect route from the city to ‘Leschi park by subway tunneling is 3 of the city engineer's plans.| es routes are proposed, one from park to a terminus at Jackson St and Twentysecond ave. S. and the other from Norman st. and Thir ‘ty-fourth ave. & to Dearborn st. and) Rainier ave. “If Seattle ts not to be 4h the commercial and industrial de | “— a ‘Yelopment which seems bound to en-| sialeaeten espeaiientipe ~~ = Where Ships From All Over the World Come lo Be Overhauled and Repaired The Charmed Land To his well-known medical work, “The Conquest of Consumption,” Dr. Woods Hutchinson says “When once we cross the summit the Cascades we enter a totally ferent climate, an air which ts mild, gentle and moist, but never depressing; a country of green mountains, dazzling snow.tipped peaks, of grass, moas and fern, which knows neither the barren: ness of winter nor the brownness of summer, a land which has all the best and most invigorating qualities of the cradle of our Tew tonie race, with none of its ex tremes, * © © It is the charm ed land of the American continent, where a temperate sun, a mild cli mate and a fertile soil give man the stimulus of the green and rainewept North with the lux urious returns for moderate effort of the teeming tropics; the mest restful and soothing climate in the world, the land where ‘it is siways afternoon’ and the ideal home for the blond racea upon this American continent. If you have not seen Oregon, Washing ton and British Columbia, you ack important qualifications for imagining what the climate of heaven may be like, And, what * no small matter to the invalid, who needs abundant nutrition as well as rest and exercise, is that all of this regton fairly teems with everything that is nutritous an¢ uttractive. The snow-tipped m, taina on one hand and wy a Japan current on the othe sreat mak the climate of this sect} n the western hep’ Jon unique Lasphere.” Seems = INDUSTRY of grade separation’ <-yosed | Kenia ; | perrenst to f= 181 Uncle Sam on Jump to Tab elf, at which City ‘Ss Growth companies and | th a A peti the! Collec of statieties of the the plan on my) products of manufacturing indus | ing for the! tries thruout the country will be) ning tracks Of| started early in 1920, according to} ing the streets! ; : pel t aur| information received by the indus | pressed where it| trial bureau of the Chamber of Com | tracks. Ordi. ioe from 8. L. Rogers, director bd | being the bureau of census, department of | now prepared es) M the grades and otherwise |CoMmerce. The ald of the chamber into effect the decision of |'* asked in this work and a special committee of the Industrial bureau ' ty council. ios be named to take up the task. | Subway Is Planned | This census ts entirely separate) ; is no question that the de- from that to be taken between Jan-/ mt of the tideflat area from|uary 2 and 16 when each person ts) st. to the Argo yards has|to be counted by Uncle Sam. The} very greatly retarded because | industrial consus is exclustvely for | certain grades have been ge urge wee concerna, therein and, with but few ex-| The individual census is taken only | no permanent street im- |once every ten years, while the gov-| Provements could be made.* Plans|¢™"ment mrveys the country's in 5 now being put forward for the|‘ustrial facilities every five years, and paving of Fourth ave. \and beginning in 1921 this census ‘The opening of this avenue from | Will be taken every two years. st. to @ connection with Three Classes Counted Marginal Way will very greatly! ‘The schedules for the manufactur. use and development | ing census are divided into three property abutting thereo () The general schedule, “A subway under Third ave., con-/appiicable to all manufacture, (2) with an elevated system | Supplemental schedules for «listing of Yealer Way and to the sur-|the products of some of the special face, or an elevated system at Stew-| industries, such as flour, lumber, . ‘aft st. or farther north would care| machine tools, machinery, printing for enough of gd most important/and publishing, slaughtering and | @) The administra- or general office schedule ap- le to companies having branch entirely discontinued,” |establishments in different localities. | Rogers points out that since the “The Third ave. location further manufacturers’ census of 1914 was fits the most logical schemes of sub-| taken great industrial changes have ‘way development, and readily offers|taken place. new companies organ. easy and short exits to the surface ized and new Industries developed no| at points within reach of the con-|that former liste of manufacturers Verging centers of existing lines.” | will require radical revision. Rogers ‘Actual work on the Swan Lake, *y altho the census bureau's lists reservoir as an adjunct to the Cedar | Of Manufacturers have been clasal- river water system will soon be un-| fied from all Available sources, a Ger way, according to Dimock’s re-|Complete list of Seattle manufactur. The plans include a tunnc!|¢rs classified by industries with cor- feet long. jigoees addresses, particularly a Hist ‘Improven ., Central |of recently organized companies, ave., Piet ave og. tne ave., | wows be of great service to the} and Columbian Way also are tnclud- bureau's special agent when he visits €d in the city engineer's plans for| thia city early in the new year, ’ | as — _| BRITISH WILL HAVE ee | RECORD FILM STUDIO City Ss Hoss Car LONDON, Dee. 31 The largest | company in the history of the Brit “$ ish film industry has been completed Tiver as QM thea the formation of the Alliance| Film corporation. The company has 4 »urchased Harrow Weald Park, nea of High Power ie ier ies ie" Largest and Most Modern Ship Repair Plant on the Pacific Coast Repairs Made to Steel and Wooden Vessels Floating Dry Docks of 12,000 and 3,000 Tons Capacity Quick Service on All Classes of Marine Repairs Seattle's street railway revenues| Tun daily into the tens of thousands | P| Aly To ERECT BIG Tr when sesitic was « city oniy| RAILROAD IN CHILI fm name she had a two-horsepower) pyr Dee. %1.—-Merchants allway system on Second ave. Thi#| and the gentry of Chili will furnish Failway employed the pay as-YOU-\the funds for the erection of a new enter system, even at that early date, | ratiroad to run from Tsangchow to but what with the driver watching | siihchiachuang. Estimated cost of that the horses didn’t bolt and that) erection is between six and ten the brakes didn’t jam, it was a com: | mittion Pian paratively easy matter for the town ialaiasis Bloods, low in tunds for the nonce,| point from Chieago ‘to San _ @ drop an iron slug in the box oF | rranciseo has to be lifted five miles | fake nickel. In fact, no bold did | higher than freight from Obicage te es &, @ of our leading citizens become, | giiiiuy that they made a practice, when the a genductor’s eye was on the off horse, | ~ p 4 Harbor Island Seattle, Wash. 1» ll the box by shaking the| where he had just collected a lucra- ie ¢ tive feo, the conductor suddenly re Many prominent citizens of that| membered the enormous number of day also were in the habit of riding| coins coming to him from the doctor “on tick.” ‘There is the story of|and demanded payment of the bill. one very well-known physician who! ‘The doctor refused indignantly. An credit system almost) argument ensued, hot words flew, and the doctor left the eur in a fly- ing tailspin