SEATTLE IS LAST
* WORD IN REARING
OF MODERN CITY
Both Business and Bcsidcntial
Sections Are Marked With
Distinction
i am tempted to characterize
Seattle as a metropolis de luxß, but
at any rate it stands for the last
word In city building. In both its
business and residential sections it
bears a distinction that I find hard
to hit in words. The bigness of its
city Ideals, the scope of its harbor
achievements and its industrial aims,
(ill one with amazement—especially
when contrasted with the want of
these things which one finds in many
lackadaisical communities.
There are only a few cities 'n the
world that have such a wealth of
native trees and vegetation, and here
in Seattle the skilful hand of the
landscape engineer has added a
charm that is irresistible. For miles
and miles the parkway streets wind
around the slopes of the hills over
looking, in places, both Puget Sound
and the lakes.
A resident of Seattle said to me
on my recent trip that the people of
that city were obsessed with home
building. The settings were so beau
tiful that even the men with the
smaller incomes were continually
tempted to Invest more money than
such man in the average city usually
put into homes. But he added that
X this idealism of itself had paid out
> financially. Very few home build
ers in Seattle failed to see the t.hing
through, and the enhanced value of
property far more than offsets the
original cost.
The hills of Seattle are linked for
ever with It. H. Thomson. Steep
as the hills are to-day, they are all
accessible by motor and street car,
although in places the trolley gives
way to the cable. But In my years
in Seattle there were hills so pre
cipitous that to get up them one
had almost to climb like an ape.
Thomson was city engineer. He
was more than an engineer; he was
a dreamer of city dreams. I sup
pose lie might have gone on merely
digging sewers ajid laying out streets
as most city cnKineers do; but he had
ihe dream habit, and his visions of
the future Seattle were so incredibly
big that he was not taken seriously.
But he kept on dreaming and kept
kept on submitting his impossible
plans to the city council, until fin
ally those city fathers themselves
began fco dream. Then they turned
Thomson loose upon those inacces
sible hills that stood in the way of
city development. He took . g
streams of water up there and built
long sluiceways through the air
over Seattle, and he washed those
hills into Puget Sound. This was
the famous Seattle regrade, which
was done between 1906 and 1909.
It was the most daring job any city
ever undertook. Yet when it was
finished and the streets graded and
paved, it was worth millions and
millions of dollars to Seattle.
The Seattle Chamber of Commerce
and Commercial Club is a consolid
ation of civic bodies, and typifies
a concentration of effort. Each
W member, and there are thousands,
affiliates with some particular bu
reau, and this personal service is
furthered through a system of spe
cial committees. Some of the bu
reaus are those designated as Alas
ka, foreign trade, Washington state
development, industrial convention
and tourist, transportation, civic,
research and statistics, retail trade,
national affairs and taxation. Then
there is a members' council, made
up of men from every branch of the
work.
The industrial bureau has made a
complete .analysis of existing indus
tries, and a thorough inquiry into
the elements of possible industrial
growth. It must be manifest to
anyone who studies city development
that cities do not just happen. It is
a fine piece of industrial and cirio
engineering to build a well rounded
and beautiful community, and the
skilful conduct of this work is de
veloping a new profession in Amer
ica—that of civic organization and
a co-ordination of the powers that
make a modern city, in fact, city
building is a great new business in
which some of the best brains in the
world are engaged.
I doubt if there is one man .'n
Seattle who would want the town to
go back to liquor. Up to the time
when the present war law went Into
effect, individuals could ship in spec
ified quantities; but to-day Seattle is
bone dry, and has in its pockets 1
million dollars a month that it for
merly spent for alcoholic drinks.
It is curious that many of the
former saloons have been turned
into candy and ice cream establish
ments, using the identical fixtures.
One place visited was run by the
same owners, who had quite forgot
ten their opposition to the Prohibi
tion Law.
k Seattle seems to have neglected no
W branch of municipal thinking. I
found some of the largest and most
attractive city owned markets I
have ever seen. One night I had a
dinner on the glass inclosed veran
da of a public market, high on a
bluff, overlooking Puget Sound. This
restaurant, I presume, is a conces
sion, but the choicest of all foods
were available and the prices were
astonishingly low. It is interesting
to study the advanced ideas you see
out there in such profusion.—Ed
ward Mott Woolley in McClure'a
Magazine.
Says His Prescription
Has Powertul Influence
Over Rheumatism
Discoverer Tells Geo. A. Gorgas Not
to Take a Cent of Anyone's Money
Unless AUenrhu Completely Ban
ishes AU Rheumatic Pains and
Twinges.
Mr. James H. Allen suffered for
J-ears with rheumatism. Many times
this terrible disease left him helpless
and unable to work.
He finally decided, after years of
ceaseless study, that no one can bo
free from rheumatism until the ac
cumulated impurities, commonly call
ed uric acid desposits, were dissolved
in the joints and muscles and expell
ed from the body.
With this idea in mind he consulted
physicians, made experiments and
Anally compounded a prescription that
quickly and completely banished every
sign and symptom of rheumatism
m from his system.'
<He freely gave his discovery to
others who took it, with vthat might
be called success. After
years of urgin# he decided to let suf.
ferrs everywhere know about nis
discovery through the newspapers
Geo. A. Gorgas has been appointed
agent for Allenrhu In this vicinity
with the understanding that he will
freely return the purchase money to
all who state they received no benefit
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