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The street lighting system lights 700 miles of streets of which 28 miles are served by the finest ornamental cluster lighting system in America, and the remainder by the new nitrogen-filled tungsten lamps.
At a conservative estimate, the municipal plant is saving the citi- zens $1,000,000 per year in light and power bills compared to the rates charged in surrounding eities which do not have municipal com- petition. In addition, the service furnished gives Seattle the basis for her claim to be "America's best lighted city."
Suns lahon.7 hAve .: Yeler Way Spalle Municipal Plant
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HISTORY AND PROGRESS of
Public Prosecutor and Corporation Counsel
A Pair of Clean, Reliable, Clear-headed Lawyers
llugh M. Callwell. Corporation Counsel for the City of Seattle was born in Knoxville. Tenn. He is a grad- nate of the National University Law School in Wash- ington. D. C .. and has practiced law in Washington for eleven years. Mr. Caldwell was the first president of the Municipal League of Seattle, and was formerly Chief Deputy Prosecuting Attorney of King County. He prom- ised if elected corporation counsel to conduct that de- partment of the city strictly as a law office, and during the brief period that he has held this office appears to be fulfilling his promise. The office handles an immense volume of work and in carrying this on Mr. Caklwell has able assistance in the following: Assistant Corporation Counsel. Walter F. Meier. Robert H. Evans, Howard A. Hanson, Frank S. Griffith, James A. Dougan, Patrick Tammany. City Attorney. Thomas l. L. Kennedy. R. B. MeClinton, chief clerk : George A. Meagher, W. D. Covington. 11. R. Fullerton.
ALFRED H. LUNDIN Prosecuting Attorney for King County
On March 17, 1884, in the mining camp of Lead. South Dakota, where the Home Stake Gold Mine is located, Alfred 11. Lundin was born. Immediately after graduat- ing from the University of Nebraska in 1906. where he received both college and law degrees, he began practicing law in Seattle. From January, 1909, until December. 1911, Mr. Lundin was deputy prosecuting attorney of King County. In the fall of 1914 he was elected Prosecut- ing Attorney, which position he now holds.
Mr. Lundin has selected as his deputies and able assistants Messrs. Frank P. Helsell. S. M. Brackett, John D. Carmody, Edwin C. Ewing, Everett C. Ellis. Lane Sum- mers, Erven H. Palmer, T. H. Patterson, Joseph A. Barto, and Miss Anna Cavanaugh. Chief Clerk.
HUGH M. CALDWELL Corporation Counsel City of Seattle
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KING COUNTY, WASHINGTON
Seattle's First Railway
The story of the Columbia & Puget Sound Railway- Seattle's first-(now the Pacific Coast Railroad) is really a part of the history of King County, so I am printing a story by my friend Mertens which is much more interesting than I might write myself :
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JEST FORTY YEARS AGO RAILS WERE LAID FOR WHAT IS NOW THE PACIFIC COAST RAIROAD
( FORMERLY C. & P. S. R. R.)
By G. W. MERTENS Superintendent Pacific Coast Railroad Company
Poor Nathaniel Hawthorne! If he could only have lived in the year 1916 and stood in the tower of the 42- story L. C. Smith Building, Seattle, and from there writ- ten his "Sights From a Steeple!"
No doubt this classic sketch then would have at- tracted everlasting attention to the great network of steel rails shimmering in the summer sunlight far to the southward. Ile would have seen how these threads of steel, spreading out like a fan, converge and gradually merge into the blue haze and disappear as if through one little opening in the foothills.
But this little gap is no illusion. It's no trick of the atmosphere to deceive the eye. The Facts are this narrow opening-the Duwamish Valley -- holds the key to the transportation problem of Seattle from the south.
It is because of this that the first Seattle railroad was bnili through the gap to Black River to reach the coal mines of Newcastle. Such prominent men in the early history of Seattle as A. A. Denny and J. M. Colman con- ceived and carried out the idea of giving this city its first rail line. The completion of this narrow guage system in 1876 marked an epoch in the development of the Puget Sound country, and this year Seattle is celebrating the fortieth anniversary of its first railroad.
The line was then the proper- ty of the Seattle & Walla Walla Railroad and Transportation Company. After the organiza- tion of the Oregon Improve- ment Company by Henry Vil- lard in 1880, this concern bought the road from the Seat- tle interests headed by JJ. M. C'ohman, and renamed it the Columbia & Puget Sound Rail- road Company. Extensions were made to the Black Dia- mond and Franklin mines and a little later to Taylor.
J. M. COLMAN A leader in the building of the Seattle Walla Walla Railroad
PLANNED TO CONNECT LINE WITH NORTHERN PACIFIC
If in his development of western railroads Mr. Villard had been entirely successful the Seattle & Walla Walla or Columbia & Puget Sound would have been extended to Paseo and there connected with the Northern Pacific. This
Engine No. 1, which brought to Seattle the first passenger train over the tracks of The Columbia & Puget Sound
would have given Seattle instant supremacy in the early struggle of the Puget Sound cities, but this plan was doom- ed to failure.
Seattleites, however, were not satisfied with anything short of a transcontinental connection. Next, the Puget Sound Shore Line was constructed, which connected the Cohunbia & Puget Sound with the Northern Pacific be- tween Black River Junction and Stuck Junetion.
In order to accommodate the standard equipment of the Northern Pacific a third rail was laid outside the nar- row guage track and for years both kinds of equipment traveled over the same roadbed.
In 1884 the first trainload of Black Diamond coal ar- rived in Seattle. Since then thousands of trainloads have passed through Seattle or been unloaded for local use.
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In 1914 the Pacific Coast Coal Company ereeted a Briquetting plant at Renton on the line of the Pacific Coast Railroad which is one of the largest manufacturing industries of King County, engineers having pronounced it the most modern Briqnetting plant in the world, and today Diamond Briquettes have become a household word throughout the Pacific Coast. The vessels of the Pacific Coast Steamship Company have taken thousands of tons of Diamond briquettes to the California country.
The Hyak, one of the first locomotives on Seattle & Walla Walla Railway, now Pacific Coast Railroad of Washington
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HISTORY AND PROGRESS of
County Engineer Lays Out and Superintends Work Costing Millions
Arthur P. Denton is County Engineer for King County. He has made a very ar- ceptable official, and has been in charge of its engineering during the days of its greatest expansion. Mr. Denton has served the County as principal For two terms, and prior to his election was chief deputy.
Mr. Denton early in his term surrounded himself with a corps of the ablest engi- neers and technical men in the Northwest and too much cannot be said of his and their splendid work for King County.
The good roads, easy grades, and splendid pavements speak amply for their ability.
HOME OF THE Seattle-Astoria Iron Works
Located at 601-657 Myrtle Street on the Duwamish Waterway
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FATTERIN
STORAGE
SEATTLE-ASTORIA IRON WORKS
CAN MAKING
MACHINERY
CANNING MACHINERY
GASOLINE
ENGINES
FOUNDRY
The largest plant on the Pacific Coast devoted to the manufacture of Salmon Canning Machinery and Sanitary Can Making Machinery for Fish, Meats, Vege- tables, Fruits and other products.
KING COUNTY, WASHINGTON
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Bank deposits in king County are approximately One Hundred Million Dollars.
The County itself carries a bank balance of abont $5,000,000.
King County enjoys more miles of paved streets than any other County in America of like popu- lation.
"The soil of the many valleys of King County is equal to the l'amed dike lands of Holland." -- Government Report.
Seattle and its Port contains the second largest dock in America- that at Smith's Cove. On a recent survey $18,000,000 worth of goods in transit lay in its sheds.
Next to San Francisco Seattle bas the greatest system of public docks and warehouses on the Pa- eifie Coast. They are owned by the whole people of King County and are managed by three Com- missioners, Messrs. Bridges, Rems- berg and Ewald.
"The wealth of a nation is largely in its farming lands." No more so, however, than the wealth of a county. Besides its great fisheries, coal mines, elay deposits. dairying, fruit raising, Immbering, and other developed industries we are almost in a virgin state as re- gards our farms. Time and intel- ligence, and knowledge of its pos- sible resources, will do much to add to our farm wealth.
King County is rapidly develop- ing into a manufacturing commu- nity. Inducements in the way of practically free factory sites, and very cheap power rates are doing much to forward the " greater pay- roll" movement.
HIRAM C. GILL, MAYOR OF SEATTLE Now Serving His Fourth Term
"I believe in the consolidation of the City of Seattle and the County of King."-Mayor Gill.
STATEHOOD FOR WASHINGTON
On November 11, 1889, President Benjamin Harrison issued his proclamation, signed for him by Secretary of State James G. Blaine, declaring all preliminary statehood conditions had been fulfilled and that the State of Wash- ington was admitted into the Union.
On November 18, Justice John P. Hoyt administered the oath of office to Governor-elect Ferry. The Legisla- ture was already in session, and Washington had finally entered upon its career as a sovereign State, and began the real progress of a great state.
The NEW MONOLITHIC VITRIFIED BRICK PAVEMENT
The Allen Type of Monolithic Construction Produces the Ideal Brick Pavement for City Streets and Country Highways. In this Type of Pavement is Secured Economy, Durability, Safety, Smoothness, Noiselessness, and Lasting Satisfaction.
T HE new type of pavement is called Monolithic because the brick are laid in cement mortar on the soft, unset concrete base, the whole operation being completed within a few hours after the spreading of the concrete base. When the concrete hardens the strength of the brick and concrete is combined in a solid mass, thus forming a true monolith.
A KING COUNTY VITRIFIED BRICK HIGHW A. The cross-section in the fore-ground is drawn by the Artist to illustrate how brick and concrete form a solid arch under Monolithic construction.
The Old Method Compared With the New
Brick pavements have generally been constructed in the past by putting a layer of sand on the concrete base, on which the brick are laid. Cement grout is poured between the brick and, when the grouting sets, the brick are cemented together in the form of an arch. The brick sur- face then supports the entire strain of the traffic.
If the cement grouting gives way, the arch breaks, allowing a section of the pavement to sink into the layer of sand, when the strain of traffic is shared by the foundation, but the result is that the pavement becomes uneven and the brick loosened
With Monolithic construction, there is no breaking of the arch. Briek and concrete form a solid mass supporting traffic with their entire combined strength. Brick will not loosen and chip. The Monolith forms a durable, smooth pavement and, unlike many improvements, it costs loss to construct than the old style.
Denny - Renton Clay & Coal Co. General Offices: Hoge Building, Seattle, U. S. A.
Terra Cotta Cartouche over Main entrance of the New Court House)
Art in Building has an able ally in Terra Cotta
T HIS material solves the problem of giving beauty of ornament and color to buildings without incurring prohibitive expense. It solved the problem of the Citizens' Committee in charge of the construction of the new Court House, who wished to give Seattle a beautiful building at a minimum of cost.
The two upper floors of the New Court House are faced with Terra Cotta produced in the Terra Cotta Plant of the Denny- Renton Clay & Coal Company.
Terra Cotta has the appearance and durability of stone without its weight. The beauty of the hand-carved or chiseled stone can be reproduced in Terra Cotta at a saving of thirty-five to forty per cent. It is practical in a variety of colors impossible to find in building stone. It makes ornamental color and design practical and economical in commercial building.
Terra Cotta adapts itself most perfectly to the modern method of construction,-the steel frame building. The steel furnishes the desired strength; the Terra Cotta the desired orna- mentation. The famous Woolworth Building, in New York, which is faced with Terra Cotta from the third to the fifty-second story, is the most notable example of steel and Terra Cotta con- sirnetion.
Denny - Renton Clay & Coal Co. General Offices: Hoge Building, Seattle, U. S. A.
( Paid Advertisement )
Vote For Norman M. Wardall for County Auditor
Mr. Wardall has been Deputy County Auditor for the past seven years, being assigned to the County Com- missioners' office as their Clerk. He has had personal supervision of all the detail of that office, which includes the issuing of over $6,000,000.00 in County bonds and the adjustment of the annual tax budget and levy.
If you want competeney and efficiency in County office, vote for Wardall.
Colman Creosoting Works
Piles and Timber Creosoted for All Commercial Purposes
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Capacity of Plant 75,000 Feet Lumber, 5,000 Lineal Feet Piling.
WORKS: FLORIDA AND RAILROAD AVE., WEST SEATTLE OFFICE: 527 COLMAN BLDG., SEATTLE, WASH.
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YENAWINE & SEIBERT
Manufacturers of AUTO BODIES 1006 East Pike Phone East 1876
FREDERICK & NELSON
"The Store of Quality"
The publishers of this book are indebted for many favors to Mr. J. F. Douglas and the Metro- politan Building Company, who have erected in a group the finest office and business build- ings in Seattle.
THIS BOOK WAS PRINTED BY THE PIGOTT PRINTING CONCERN, EIGHTY-THREE PIKE STREET, SEATTLE, WASHINGTON.
THIS PRINTING CONCERN HAS THE MOST COMPLETE PLANT IN SEATTLE FOR THE PRODUCTION OF THIS CLASS OF WORK.
IT NOT ONLY PRINTS ADVERTISING LIT- ERATURE, BUT PREPARES AND WRITES THAT SORT OF STUFF WHICH MAKES PEO- PLE SIT UP AND TAKE NOTICE.
CAN WE SERVE YOU IN ANY CAPACITY?
THE H. C. PIGOTT PRINTING CONCERN MAIN 1487 83 PIKE STREET
Western Smelting and Power Company Gen. Offices, 610-11 Northern Bank Bldg., Seattle, Wash.
Smelter, Sawmill, Power and
Lighting Plants COOKE, PARK COUNTY, MONTANA
G. L. Tanzer. Pres. and Gen. Mgr. J. J. Black, Secretary
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Our plants are located in the heart of the New World Mining District, Park County, Montana, which is considered by government officials and hundreds of expert mining engi- neers as one of the richest camps in the world. Over a mil- lion tons of ore on the dumps and blocked out in many mines of the District, are ready to be taken to the smelter at the first blow of the whistle.
Prospective investors are cordially invited to visit the office of the company and inspect the books of this corpora- tion in order to convince themselves of the stability of the enterprise.
Telephone Main 5942
Pacific Commercial Blue Co.
BLUE PRINTERS
Manufacturers of
Sensitized Papers
Litho Prints Our Specialty
STUART BUILDING
SEATTLE
WALLACE C. BEHAN, Manager
The Lighting Fixtures
In this
Court House
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Manufactured
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The Cascade Gas and Electric Fixture Co.
SEATTLE
D. H. KING
Plumbing, Heating, Ventilating
214 Columbia Street Main 7308
Latest and Largest Instal- lation of note: New King County Court House
The Seattle Cornice Works
Phone Main 1544
1730 First Avenue South
MANUFACTURERS
GALVANIZED IRON AND COPPER CORNICE, UNDERWRITERS' METAL WIN- DOWS AND DOORS, GRAVEL, SLATE AND SPANISH TILE ROOFING
LITHOCRETE FLOORS Are Sanitary-Noiseless-Non-Slippery-Fireproof In all Colors and Designs
Our Contracts on the New King County Court House Amounted to $300,000
GEO. J. DANZ,
M. A. ARNOLD,
PHILIP KITCHIN,
JAMES F. HOWIE,
President Vice-President
Secretary-Treas. General Manager
Hofius Steel & Equipment Co. STRUCTURAL STEEL
Plain and Fabricated
RAILS, RAILWAY SUPPLIES, LOCOMOTIVES, SWITCH MATERIAL, CARS, MACHINERY
Main Office and Plant Atlantic Street and Railroad Avenue,
SEATTLE, WASH.
Phone Main 7060
1200 Fourth Ave. S., Seattle, Wash.
"VULCAN" Manufacturing Co.
Castings
Forgings
Bolts
Structural Steel Work
Most Complete Plant of its kind on Pacific Coast
C. H. Nelson
& Son
Plastering
We did all the plastering for New King
County Court House in record time
Residence: 5223 39th S.
Phone: York 28
RENTON Phone 72-JJ3
Banderett Bros.
Road Builders
GRADED MANY MILES OF KING COUNTY ROADS
HOWE Ball Bearing Scales
STANDARD Computing Scales
AUTOMATIC Howe Dial Scales SCALES for Every Purpose
Electric Coffee Mills Cheese Cutters and and Meat Grinders Meat Slicers Store and Warehouse Trucks
We repair all makes of scales and guarantee our work
Pacific Scale & Supply Company
70 Marion Street, SEATTLE, WASHINGTON Phone Main 1042
·16-48 Front Street, PORTLAND, OREGON Phones A 4255, Broadway 1966
Andrew Peterson
RAILROAD CONSTRUCTION
ROAD BUILDING PAVING
Built Brick Paved Highway Seattle City Limits to Snohomish County
Pioneer Building Main 1077
Phone, Office, Elliott 2270 Phone, Residence, East 232 S. COMPTON, President and Manager J. E. GALBRAITH, Vice-President
Richmond Beach Sand and Gravel Co.
Producers of Sand and Gravel for Concrete Mix
Our concrete material used to construct the Court House, also used in the construction of practically every large building in the city, including the Smith Building, the Hoge Building, the Leary Building, the American Bank & Trust Company Building, the Metropolitan Building Company, including the Henry, White, Stuart and Cobb Buildings, and all Port Commission Docks and Elevator.
The offices of the Richmond Beach Sand & Gravel Company, are at
303-304 Marion Building Phone Elliott 2270
Established 1869
The Founders of the
Schwabacher Hardware Company
Were among those who helped make Seattle It served the earliest settlers in King County Its history is part of King County's
First Avenue South and Jackson Street
THE ATLAS FUELCO
Atlas Fuel
19th and East Madison
Phone East 366
THE
We Deliver Anywhere in Seattle
ATLAS [FUEL Co
LAKE GRAVEL COMPANY
Telephone, Beacon 1068
FRESH WATER MATERIAL
Furnished all the Plastering Sand Brick Sand Special Finishing Sand used in the
King County-City Building
Also All concrete material used on construction of Redmond-Snoqualmie permanent High- way and Kent-Auburn Highway.
Victor Fuel
Beacon 1068
Ship via P. S. T., L. & P. Co.
New Castle Lump
New Castle Nut
Black Diamond Lump
Black Diamond Nut Diamond Briquetts Black Diamond Furnace
H. S. WORTHEN President
O. L. MARTIN Sec'y and Treas.
Phone Sidney 740
WORTHEN-MARTIN CO.
Cabinet Works
"MADE IN SEATTLE"
1500 Maynard Avenue, Seattle, Wash,
E. R. Butterworth & Sons
MORTICIANS
1921 FIRST AVENUE
SEATTLE,
U. S. A.
PRIVATE
CREMATORY, COLUMBARIUM
AND MAUSOLEUM
DAY AND NIGHT AMBULANCE SERVICE
IN CONNECTION
Cable Address: "Butterworth"
SHAW (ASE
SHOW CASES, BANK, STORE and OFFICE FIXTURES Designed and Manufactured Shaw Show Case Co., Inc. C. C. SHAW, Manager
Phone Main 1086
2215 First Ave.
Greatest Light and Power Plant in America
T THE Lake Union Auxiliary Steam-Electric Plant of the Seattle Municipal Light and Power System, a view of which is shown above, is a thoroughly modern steam gener- ating station, of which any city might be proud. The plant was constructed in 1914 to be used as an auxiliary source of power in conjunction with the Cedar Falls station of the Lighting Department, and forms an excellent safeguard to the service given by the City plant. It is held ready to take the load at all times of day and night,-and it has had steam up without interruption since it began service in September, 1914. The plant con- sists of a 7500 kw. turbo generator with a maximum capacity of 10,000 kw. fed by four 823 H. P. oil-fired boilers, with every modern appliance and equipment, installed in an impos- ing reinforced concrete building. An idea of the power of the big turbine may be obtained from the fact that it has the strength of thirty modern railroad locomotives rolled into one. Yet so nicely is it balanced that the only indication of what load it is carrying is furnished by the electric meter that shows its output.
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IN THE DANCING FLAMES .
"I S there a man who does not like to dream before an open fire? If one there be, he must be a peculiar individual, without memor- ies, hopes or ambitions.
"Dreams! Dreams! They round out the commonplace sum of hu- man life for millions. They turn the sharp edge of adversity; they tem- per the bitterness of disappointment: they feed the famished soul with thoughts and aspirations.
"At no time are waking dreams so calm, so uninterrupted as when the dancing flames play hide-and-seek with the shadows in a room's cor- ners and the brisk crackling of the fuel fills the silent chambers with a pleasant suggestion of warmth and life.
"How many memories fly up the black-throated chimney-kind ones trooping, all gay with flowers, from the halls of recollection -- sad ones that come, slow-footed and somber-veiled, from the tombs of the mind !
"How many pictures are painted by the tricky flames-of loved faces, and pleasant scenes-or sorrow, defeat and failure-the average experiences of the average man !
"Many a secretive or sensitive soul, who hides self from himself in the garish light of day, sits down before his own fireplace and holds com- mune with that inner man, whose guardian angels are memory and con- science.
"The long nights of winter! These are the hours for self-appraise- ment. When nature holds a solemn wake over the dead leaf, the fire- place is the home of a kindly genius whose power it is to wake the hidden monitor in every man-the monitor who is, at once, man's closest friend and sternest judge."
Beacon 1068
VICTOR FUEL COMPANY 14th Ave. S. and Main St.
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