The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 6, 1924, Page 16

A Campaign of Construction Versus a Campaign of Slander Mayor Brown Has Given Seatti¢ a Good Business Administration vt BLIC UTIL Att all, this elt who believes | Ip. We have about $18,000,000 invest ed in our £90,000 invest bout $18 in $11,000 many attle, which po! 4 m sympathetic Is support to inatl s city can always le influence and giv this port as well as to coun tutions a‘ ‘ COST OF CITY GOVERNMENT of economy, we spent only $4,4 for the purpose of operating: the. departm and $5,405,989 in. 19 This shows that, notwithstanging our city’s In- se of approximately 30,000 in pulation, the cos pperating our city. government was reduced 31 per | cent, as compared with 1921. LIGHT PLANT | | Our city Mght plant has 74,000 customers and this de tment docs 32,500,000 worth of a year. During 1923 its income was tmereased about $! nece ry to reduce the cost of tric light and power fn order keep the institution from earning more money than was needed. Many people do not seem to know or ap- preciate the fact that our ght plant, as also our water depart Inent, has never coat the taxpayers | am cent. but haa furnished them with electricity and water at exceedingly low cost. | WATER DEPARTMENT In the water department we added 4,000 customers and still saved $40,- 000 in its operation over the pre-| vious year. STREET RAILWAY DEPARTMENT The cost of operation In our stre raflway department has been ateas fly reduced, although at no th have salaries been reduced in th department or in any other depart ment of the city In fen Franc 28 cents per car-mile thelr street railway Mich.. the cost wa and §3 cente in 19: 1923. In Beattle It ¢ ar-mile in 1931, nd 38 conta tn 1928. splendid showing. The cost of ope hour In San Franc: 1921, and. $2.65 in 1922 it cost $2.68 per car-hour in 1921, $2.36 in 1923 and only $2.28 jn 1922.) 0 in 1921-22 It coat to operate In Detrott, 35 cents in 1921 This is a There are some men working on our street railway who do not make | as much as $100 per month and I am going to ask for an increased wage for these men because I know| that a man cannot care for his fam-| tly on Jess than $100 per month and do justice to them and be a good citizen in the city In which ho lives, | and ft {x not fair to expect it of him. HEALTH DEPARTMENT It must always be remembered that I have not been able to reor- ganize our health department and a reorganization of any department of| a big city of necessity means making political enemies. SKAGIT PROJECT | Seattle acquired the Skagit site| in 1917, or ‘five years before I be-| came mayor. There seemed to be! an obstacle to progress on this great| it project as well as to making public improvements in our city. Therefore, I appointed a new en- sineer, Mr. J. D. Blackwell. In making this change I naturally lost some friends, but work started on the Ski has been months t plished during the flv to. my administration. WHY SEATTLE IS PROSPEROUS | Public improvements that had been ordered by the people were diately by Mr. Black- ral millions of dollars | the bank, appropriated | for this work, was put into circula- tion. This relieved the unemployed penation by providing plenty of “years prior | the first contributing ttle’s prosperity. Fol- lowing this, workingmen from th mills, logging camps, {isherle: mines and from off the seas, came to Seattle. They knew that Seattle was.a clean and wholesome city and they bring millions of dollars in here every year and this was the second contributing cause. ‘Then came the fleet. which spends two or three million dollars a visit. | and then the tourists immediately followed. Thus it was that Seat! became prosperour. Capital and labor have worke harmony for the first time in y Wages are higher than ever befo Everybody is busy and satisfied, ex cept a few politicians and fault- finders, Why take a chance on re turning to prior conditions? 1 HAVE KEPT THE FAITH When elected mayor in 1922, 1 #aid: “I shall: be mayor of ali the people without a backward giance at what is past. The people of Se- attle should now be united with the firm purpose of going forward. In- dustry and prosperity will be ax nd our city will. again take 4 among the leading cities continue and finish the work that 1 havi started. The records show that lander of our city by ambitious | setiticians rer fault-finders is un- founded; and is only a repetition of that which we always haye in every | mayoralty campaign. Read former Lge Ay ail annual report for py | ay the whole nation respe Beattie because of her achievementa. ‘The nation regards Seattie and the State of Washington with pride be- cause of her law enforcement on the Nquor question along with the rest the State of Washington. (See Hterary Digest for February 23 (024. page 17.) j Why should any of our politicians | endeavor to slander our city and de stroy its credit just to wet into put le office, when writers like Forbe: Herbert ‘Kaafman and Hinman singing our praises before the world EDWIN J. BROV Mayor THE SEATTLE 5S PLANS PLANS DRAWN TO SUIT YOU, $10 UP Do You. Know? That We DESIGN FINANCE BUILD OUR 1924 HOMES APARTMENTS BUSINESS BUILDINGS EDITION NEW of Individuality”—$1.00, PLAN BOOK—‘“Homes Sent Anywhere GARDNER J. GWINN, Inc. 1703-4-5 Hoge Bilg. 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Ing lines of the typteal snccesnible.from the bedrooms, bath, ur and dow d guent closet ate off this b but easential f good alze and the large, fe kitchen, while small, contains more than the al number of built-in work and r window oft b ne dhe eame atmopshere ng room, and both high and geht enough for t 100 as the stairway lands in the The popularity of t y fact that this house pleted. All the latest features are embodied tn the struction, h ae vacuum outlets in dressing t lights in each bedr with pedestal plumbing, French fireplace, et The plans were submitted by Gardner J. Gwinn. Inc. and at the present prices of material and labor will cost about $4,509. Home Ownership Will Be Profitable, Says Dealer: enter of the house evidenced by the sold before eom- manal ve Gives Average Man Chance to Share| Benefits of Seattle’s Growth “We can't build homes fast) Asked in what proportion land enough to accommodate the people | values increased with the growth of that are coming to Seattle,” Frank} population, Poor declared that they B. Poor, Seattle realtor, declared |increased in approximately the yesterday in commenting on the ratio. local homebuilding activity evi-| _ ,, , t itficult t ate ny d denced. at ‘the outaet: of the 1924 con-|, Tt difficult to state. any. det- e snr, |tulte proportion,” ho sald, “Roughly | struction season. Mr. Poor cor . speaking, When Seattle is twice its roborated statements of other realty "(present size, its land will be worth dealers who have been consistently at least twice as much. reporting a shortage of homes, “Home ownerhip,”” he sald, “is about the only ‘way the average man has of getting direct benefit from the growth of the city that 5 now going on and tho still greater growth that is now in sight. As|Property in outlying districts would population grows, so does the|be Increased in value 25 value of real estate. The great’ bulk | OF more.” of the people are unable to buy. bus*| -A rather startling example in tho property for investment, and|Inctease of land with that only chance is to own a/6f population is given in the now World Almanac in its statistics r garding New York city. Thero. is same “I should say lation doubles, town business least . trebled. will, be. worth twice as much, that, asx the popu: the value of down: property Close-in the per cent iness thelr home. “Population values makes jand values, and the growth of a town. jw -di- rectly reflected in the growth of] will the value of a home.” of follow the same general evelopment: as tho HOMES THAT STAND lines Eastern WAL be at] residences | and} much reason to believe that Seattle! ae Reon “0 lan Construction of Montlake School Actual construction of the Mont lake grade school at 224 ave. N. and McGraw at. will be begun at an tly date, according to an an- uuncement of the West Coast Con- struction Co yesterday. Work of excavating is proceeding rapidly. Tho building was planned by School Architect ¥. A, Naramore. It will be two stories high, of rein- forced concrete construction and will be trimmed with brick and terra cott metropolis. In 1900, N population 3,43 and In 19 the population was estimated at ® » rep enting a gain of approximately per ‘cent, Assessed valuation of real estate in 1900 was 2,918 million dollars, }and In 1923 it was 9,880. million, rep- [resenting a gain of over 258 per cent. In other words, realty values gained more than three times as as the popul: mn. situation was, perhaps, due in a large measure to the strategic | position of the city and the unusual upbullding of adjacent territory. Tho t may prove little, It-is at~ least good evidence that Seattle, already a strategic port and an industrial and distributing center, may be: in the path of a more than average increase ‘in realty values as its population grows, THE TEST York city had a of Time, Design and Comfort Specializing in Homes, 1 service without an equal, erection of can give you im the planning, designing and your home I can Finance your home for you if necessary. 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