?•• /\ ** v v /\. :•■ ♦♦*% -w:- /% w/^ -w >^ ^°c - ^ t s* .V .-v , - "K. i* N •*> .* v . . » o & A SOUVENIR OF SEATTLE, WASHINGTON ■i CV3 "" Cy) ■■ m0m»^^m0m --? OFFICIAL EMBLEM MOUNT RAINIER By Beth Bell Wiggins (Author of "Memory Pictures of Pugel Sound"). If there is one thing above another in our famous Sound region that transcends all else in the way of adoration and homage, it is Mount Rainier. That old Giant ! How overpowered one is by its bigness and nearness, as the mists of a morning clear away and its glistening, snowy form rises majestically before you — standing there so Sphynx-like in its immovability, so grand, so bold, so defiant, towering above all the lesser hills around it! Surely none whose eyes have ever been blessed with a vision of it at such a time, can ever forget the sight. You cannot but feel an unspeakable awe as you gaze upon those endless white fields of unmeas- ured snow and ice, and into those shadowy crevasses which break up sharp, straight slopes thousands of feet in length; deep and dark and de- ceitful ; you can never forget its marvelous beauty ; you are fascin- ated as by some strange, unseen power; and something there is about the old mountain, in its majesty and strength, that calms and touches into quiet the impatience of the heart, and soothes into peace the hot passions of the soul ; that makes one feel how useless it is to beat against the walls with our hands — how vain that we should cry out for our heart's desire — our own wilful way! Little infinitessimal atoms of the great plan of exist- ence, wanting to dictate the scheme of this vast, unknowable universe. And as we look the longer our complainings cease, our tongues are silenced, while we stand in this place, "where man may own his littleness and know the mightiness of God!" MOUNT RAINIER. Taken b\/ I. W. Haven, Minneapolis. lower picture has never before been published. Recent government surveys have established this mountain as the highest in the United Slates proper. The height is 14.526 feet. ' - ■ "■-* BIRDSEYE VIEW OF PUGET SOUND AND THE SURROUNDING COUNTRY. From picture loaned by Captain E. E. Caine. w IS $ / ^ 1 1 V / / / A/ V s/ w h I c« / / r-i A r 1 F I C C E A N Coptwichtcd, 191 l_ b frankun. CHIEF SEATTLE. Chief Seattle, after whom the city of Se- attle was named, played an important part in the settling of the Puget Sound country, and was a prominent figure during the pio- neer days of the Northwest. Unlike the famous red warriors. Chiefs Pontiac and Tecumseh, Seattle's name will not go down in history because of the number of scalps torn from tortured women and children, but on account of his kindness towards the "pale face," and wisdom in the government of his own people. Born about the year 1 786, Seattle was a boy of six or seven years when that in- trepid explorer, Vancouver, visited Puget Sound on his memorable voyage around the world. Seattle first came into prominence when, as a youth of twenty years, he planned and carried out the ambuscade of five large war canoes carrying one hundred braves of Mountain Indians who were on their way to attack the salt water tribes. While be- low the average height, Seattle was a man of great strength and of strikingly intelligent appearance. His fidelity towards the whites and intense love of peace was shown during the Indian war of 1855-56, when he re- fused to join Chief Leschi in his attack on the then struggling village of Seattle. Very little is known of his children except Angeline, a daughter by his first wife, who for years was a familiar figure in and around the city of Seattle. The old chief died in 1 866 after months of sickness, and was given a Christian burial. In 1 890 a number of pioneer citizens of the city that bears his name, erected a beautiful monument of Italian marble to his memory, on which was carved the following inscrip- tion: "Seattle, Chief of the Suquamps and allied tribes, died June 7, 1866. The friend of the whites, and for him the city of Seattle was named by its founders." 1 he lire story or rnncess Angeline, daughter of Chief Seattle, savors more of fiction than of fact. Born a princess of the royal blood, An- geline died dependant on the city, in early life disappointed in love, and torn from her people by a brutal white fur trader named Henri, she was forced to live for fifteen long years as his squaw in the frozen Northland. These are but a few incidents in the life of this Indian woman whose history is so indis- solubly linked with the birth and growth of the city that bears her father's name. As the wife of Henri, Angeline led a most miserable life, cheered only by her pretty and vivacious daughter Theresa, who, after her father's death by stabbing during a drunken brawl, returned with her mother to the wigwams of Angeline's people. Poor Theresa, her end was untimely, for the cruel treatment of a white husband caused her to commit suicide when little more than a girl. For nearly fifty springs the fresh Chinook winds fanned the dusky cheeks of Angeline before the first white settler landed on the shores of Alki Point, to found a city that is destined to become the metropolis of the Pacific Coast. Short of statute, generally barefooted, clad in a motley array of cast-off garments, extremely untidy in appearance, and anything but handsome in face or figure, Angeline was a familiar personage about the streets of Seattle for many years. Angeline is popularly supposed to have saved the inhabitants of the village of Seat- tle from massacre by a timely warning, but old pioneers discredit the story, and thus the dusky Angeline's chief claim to fame rests on an uncertain pinacle. Angeline passed the latter years of her life as a resident of Shantytown, located on the tide flats in the lower part of the city, and all efforts to make her adopt Once an Indian, always an Indian; and to the day of her death of the aboriginal. All in all, Angeline's life was an eventful one; romance intertwined and simple pleasures PRINCESS ANGELINE. the ways of modern civilization were unavailing. Princess Angeline clung with remarkable tenacity to the ways with hardship, sorrow ofttimes overshadowing her few Princess Angeline's death occurred May 31st, 1896, at an estimated age of nearly a century, and her bent and decrepit old body, which was accorded a Christian burial, now rests in its last, long sleep in a coffin resembling in shape the canoes of her fathers. THE BATTLE OF SEATTLE. The famous attack on Seattle by the Indians under the leadership of 26, 1856, and but for the presence of the United States sloop of war resulted in one of the most horrible massacres of settlers in the history of News of the intended attack was brought to Seattle by an Indian women and children were immediately removed to the block houses and from the Decatur and settlers took up positions along the line of defense, about daybreak, and their blood-curdling yells could be heard for miles, have captured the village. The redskins could not understand the explo The firing continued until about I o'clock in the evening, when the outlying cabins. On the settlers side only two men were killed. Chiefs Leschi, Owhi and Tecumseh, occurred on the morning of Januz Decatur, Captain Gansevoort, in the harbor at the time, would hs the country. named York Keman, who had the confidence of the hostile chiefs. T the vessels in the harbor where they were out of danger, and the marii The Indians, numbering over one thousand, attacked the villa Had it not been for the shells fired from the Decatur, the Indians woi sions of the shells, and thought it the work of the evil spirit. Indians withdrew, taking their slain with them, after setting fire to t "HOMEWARD." Siwash Indians of to-day on Pugel Sound. (Photo 6t> £. 5. Curtis.) SEATTLE IN 1865. From an old photograph. VIEW OF COMMERCIAL STREET. (Now First Avenue Soulh) looking north, about 1875. From an old photograph. THE GREAT SEATTLE FIRE By Riley H. Allen. On the afternoon and night of June 6, 1889, flames that had started from the overturning of a bucket of glue in a small paint shop laid waste the business section of Seattle and burned many residences, swept over forty blocks of the city and twenty along the water front and wiped out every bank, every wholesale house, every newspaper office, every hotel and practically every store. Seattle's population at that time was in the neighborhood of 20,000. Within two years after the fire it had doubled, and today is more than 240,000. Old timers, pioneers who went through the fire and the days after the fire, say that it was the best thing that ever happened to Seattle. With more than 120 acres in the heart of the city almost bare from the ruthless work of the flames, the way was clear for the building of permanent brick and stone structures. After a boom of two years the Puget Sound country, and Seattle especially, was beginning to feel the approach of a business stagnation that might easily have become a collapse. But the rebuilding of the town started with such feverish activity that there was no chance for stagnation. The reconstruction period carried Seattle over any danger of a collapse. The early town was one of frame buildings, and the brick blocks were few. Such was Seattle when the fire started on the afternoon of June 6, 1889, between 2 and 3 o'clock, in what was known as the Denny block, and when it had burned itself out, everything on the southern flats, including more than 150 hotels and lodging houses, were left in ashes, and when at 8 o'clock the flames reached the water front and were stopped by the salt water itself, there was nothing but destruction behind. On the east the flames were checked by hard work. There were forty blocks, besides the water front, in the burned district. Beginning at the foot of University Street, the boundary of this district ran east to Front Street, south half way to Spring Street, east to James, up James to Third street, and along South Third to the water's edge. In this immense territory not a single building escaped the fury of the sea of fire. On the day after the fire there was a great mass meeting of representative citizens held at the old armory. The enthusiasm with which they took hold of the work of rebuilding the burned city will ever remain a marvel. It was decided that no more frame structures would be erected in the area included within fixed fire limits. In the evening a joint mass meeting of city council and citizens was held in the courthouse, presided over by Mayor Moran, who announced committees on relief and replatting the city. Within a day after the fire had been extinguished the city was actually being rebuilt. Private corporations gave orders for building materials and stocks of goods greater than before. The women of the city gave invaluable assistance in housing and caring for the homeless, feeding 6,000 people on the day after the fire. Business houses began to spring up with remarkable speed. For the next four years Seattle was a beehive of activity. The total losses in the great fire amounted to about $15,000,000, with between $2,500,000 and $3,000,000 insurance. The burned district covered more than 1 20 acres. VIEW OF COMMERCIAL STREET. (Now First Avenue South) looking north, the day after the fire. A SECTION OF SEATTLE'S WATERFRONT. THE •ground breaking- Go EXERCISES ON THE SI1 Albert E. Mead addressing the vast as " ALASKA-YUKON-PACIFIC EXPOSITION. JUNE !, 1907. En thousand persons witnessed these ceremonies. UNIVERSITY Site of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition of JriMti vSHINGTON. >oking Lake Washington and Union Bay. THE ALASKA-YUKON-PACIFIC EXPOSITION By Frank L. Merrick, Publicity Department, A.-Y.-P. Exposition. The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, which will be held in Seattle, opening June 1 and closing October 15, 1909, will be. in its relation to the world's development, one of the greatest world's fairs ever held. The primary purpose of the exposition, estimated to cost about $10,000,000, is to exploit the resources and potentialities of the Alaska and Yukon territories in the United States and the Dominion of Canada, and to make known and foster the vast importance of the trade of the Pacific Ocean and the countries bordering upon it. That Seattle wanted the exposition was forcibly shown when citizens of this city subscribed in one day $650,- 000 to finance the enterprise, or $150,000 more than was required. No city for any purpose every equalled such a feat. The Orient will send its wares, its products and its people to the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, and Ameri- cans and Canadians may study them at first hand. Participation by the commonwealths of the United States and the foreign nations is expected to be on a large scale. Many of the states have signified their intention of erecting handsome buildings and installing therein com- prehensive exhibits. The state of Washington will spend $1,000,000 for buildings and exhibits. The United States government will make an appropriation for buildings and exhibits for Alaska, Hawaii and the Philippina Islands, and will have, in addition, a general government building filled with interesting displays. The Dominion of Canada has been invited to erect a main government building, and separate buildings for Yukon and British Columbia. Foreign representation will be limited to the countries whose shores are lapped by the Pacific Ocean, though Great Britain, France, Germany, Russia and the Netherlands will be invited to participate, as they have possessions in the Pacific and are interested in the development of the trade of the Ocean. The exposition site is only twenty minutes ride from the business center of Seattle, and will cover about 255 acres of the beautiful campus of the University of Washington, which borders the shores of Lake Union and Lake Wash- ington for a distance of about a mile and a half. Different from former world's fairs, the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition will include the erection of perman- ent buildings, which will later be used by the University of Washington for educational purposes. The plan of the grounds drawn by John C. Olmsted, the famous landscape artist of Brookline, Massachusetts, shows eleven large exhibit buildings arranged in a unique manner. Rainier Avenue will form the main axis of the exposition, dividing into two approximately equal parts the section of the exposition site which is appropriated for the placing of exhibit structures. The two largest buildings will be placed one on each side of the fountain court, which is bisected by the avenue. The big building east of the fountain will be devoted to agriculture and horticulture, and the smaller structure adjoining it, to irrigation. The complemental structures opposite will be used respectively for manufactures and liberal arts and for the educational exhibits. Surrounding the central group will be the exhibit palaces devoted to mines and mining, machinery, electricity and transportation, forestry, fisheries, fine arts, Alaska, Yukon and the United States government displays. While no general style of architecture has been decided upon, Mr. Olmsted has suggested that the ancient Russian style be followed in all the buildings. The amusement street, corresponding to the "Trail" at Portland and the "Pike" at St. Louis, will parallel the shore of Lake Union, and will be more than 2,000 feet in length. The plan of the exhibits will be to show step by step the remarkable advancement made by the countries of the Pacific Ocean in every line of invention and of scientific and industrial achievement and endeavor. ADMINISTRATION BUILDING, UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON. .r. I'll- l^iUMJ fniioL """■ §^? ^ M THE PRINCIPAL SECTION OF SEATTLE'S WATERFRONT. A FEW FACTS ABOUT SEATTLE By W. R. WILLIAMS, Secretary Seattle Commercial Club Seattle's population (proper) May I, 1 907, was 235,000; including suburbs, 241,550. Seattle has eighteen banks. Capital stock, $2,686,100. Deposits, $70,000,000. Clearances for 1906, $486,220,021.39. Seattle has the University of Washington: Enrollment 1,332; Faculty 95; Colleges of Liberal Arts, Engineer- ing, Mining, Pharmacy and Law; Campus 355 acres; Property endowment, nine acres within Seattle business district; 100,000 acres of land; present annual maintenance appropriation, $150,000; appropriation for additional build- ings, $600,000. Seattle has forty-seven public schools and three High Schools. Number of pupils estimated to enter in fall of 1907,27,350. Teachers. 658. Seattle's number of building permits for 1906, were 7,448, and the total value was $1 1,920,488. Seattle's customs receipts for 1906 were $1,042,789.60. Seattle's postoffice receipts for 1906 were $555,727.28. PIONEER PLACE. "The Heart of Seattle." "A FEW FACTS ABOUT SEATTLE" (Continued). Seattle's public library cost $375,000 (lot and building), and contained 90,000 volumes January I, 1907. Number of borrowers was 18,800. Circulation of books for the year ending January I, 1907, 260,000. Seattle harbormaster reports during 1906, the arrival of 869 deep sea vessels with a net tonnage of 1,442,405, and the departure of 849 vessels with a net tonnage of 1,388,950; number of passengers inbound, 802,578; num- ber of passengers outbound, 81 1,403; coastwise merchandise received, $30,735,326; coastwise merchandise shipped, $48,063,325; value of foreign imports, $27,868,771 ; value of foreign exports, $22,658,207. Seattle's manufacturing plants are running to their fullest capacity, and the following statistics are approximate and based on the U. S. Census report, with an elaboration sufficient to cover the difference in time. Total number of plants, 934. The number of wage-earners, 12,780; annual wages paid, $8,636,160; value of products, $50,813,148. Seattle's real estate transfers for 1906 amounted to $98,282,502.92. Seattle has 213 miles of graded streets; 6.49 miles of brick pavement; 1.37 miles of sandstone pavement; 1.42 miles of macadam pavement; 0.14 miles of wood block; 43.22 miles of planked, and 35.61 miles asphalt pavement. Seattle has 155.93 miles of sewers and 407.88 miles of sidewalks. Seattle paid out in 1906 for 75 miles of grading and sidewalks, $579,232.74; for nine miles of pavements laid, $499,005.20; for 21 miles of sewer laid, $222,869.70, and 24 miles of water pipe laid, $218,317.47. Seattle owns her own water system, which has a daily delivery of 22,600,000 gallons. The cost of the entire system throughout the city, including the Cedar River supply to January 1st, 1907, is $4,250,000. Seattle owns her own electric lighting plant, which furnishes light and power for the city and other purposes. The cost of this plant when completed was $650,000. Seattle's average daily temperature is 52 degrees, rarely going above 90 degrees in summer and below 40 degrees in winter. Following the warmest days in summer the evenings are refreshingly cool. Seattle has about 20 parks. Seattle has 1 25 churches of all denominations. Seattle has 150 miles of electric railroads, which carry annually about 61,000,000 passengers. New lines are continually under construction. The following are the five trans-oceanic lines sailing out of this port: Blue Funnel Line to China, Japan, Aus- tralia and European ports; Cosmos Line to South American and European ports; Great Northern to Philippines, Japan, China and Siberia; Nippon Yusen Kaisha to Japan, China and Siberia; Boston S. S. Co. to Philippines, Japan, China and Siberia. These are regular lines, having regular sailings. Beside these there are a great number of tramp steamers and "windjammers." Seattle property is assessed at $126,000,000, or approximately one-half its market value. Tax rate thirty mills or 3 per cent. Seattle has seven railroads: Great Northern, Northern Pacific, Canadian Pacific, Burlington, Union Pacific, Chi- cago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, Columbia and Puget Sound, the last three in course of construction; the C. P. and Bur- lington reach Seattle over other lines. SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY. Completed in 1906 al a cost of $300,000. of which Andrew Carnegie subscribed $200,000 for the building and $20,000 for its furnishings. The Library contains 90.000 volumes in addition to all current periodicals, and is maintained absolutely free for the residents of the city. The circu- lation of books for the year ending January I, 1907, was 260.000. "A FEW FACTS ABOUT SEATTLE" (Continued). Seattle is now conceded to be the strategic commercial point on the Pacific Coast, and wise men say that in and around Puget Sound are contained the nerve centers of the Pacific commerce. Seattle already excels in volume of commerce any two ports on the Pacific Coast, partly due to her position on the line of least resistance in point of miles to the Orient and Alaska; the magnificent land-locked harbor of Puget Sound, capable of anchoring the fleets of the world, being an additional advantage. No city in the United States can boast of a more healthful climate (the death rate being the lowest of any city of its size in the world), pure water, better paved streets, or the tasteful architecture of public and private buildings. Seattle's scenic outlook is unsurpassed; surrounded by the snow-capped Cascades and Olympics, with Mount Rainier 14,530 feet, and Baker 10,800 feet high, standing out in bold relief. On the west lie the salt waters of Puget Sound with an area of about 2,000 square miles, or nearly four times the size of San Francisco Bay. On the east. Lake Washington, twenty-two miles long and from two to four miles wide. Lakes Green and Union are also contained within the city's limits. A popular and erroneous idea in the East, South and elsewhere, is that Seattle is handicapped in the weather line by a too vigorous rainfall. The following figures, it is hoped, will eradicate such a misnomer: New York, 48.60 inches; Boston, 41.97; St. Louis, 41; Kansas City, 39.22; Seattle, 37, and San Francisco, 18.33. Two hundred and eight days of sunshine for 1906, and 36.67inches of rainfall during the same period, according to the United States Weather Bureau. Seattle is a city of opportunities for the capitalist in retail, wholesale and manufacturing lines, and also first-class real estate investments. There is also room for the man who is short in dollars but long in brains. Seattle has a first-class athletic club, the Seattle Athletic Club, and exclusive social clubs such as the Rainier, University, Golf and Country, Firloch and Concordia. It has several commercial bodies: The Seattle Commercial Club, Chamber of Commerce and Manufacturers' Association. Hunting, fishing and boating are favorite pastime.; of the people on the Sound, rivers and lakes in the immediate vicinity of the city. Seattle is having the vigorous growth of a city that .'s a commer, and where many new enterprises are being estab- lished, thereby legitimately increasing land values. Real estate transfers for 1906 exceeded by $54,266,670.16 the total transfers for 1904 and 1905 combined. Seattle prides itself particularly upon the purity of its water, piped directly from the Cedar River, a rapid moun- tain stream, clear as crystal and as delicious to the taste as if partaken from a mountain spring. Pure water and the natural drainage of Seattle is largely accountable for the low death rate. In addition, mining of precious metals, stone, lime, and the growing of fruits, grain and livestock, with the large returns from the fishing industries of Puget Sound and Alaska, bring about $300,000,000 revenue yearly. Adding to these profits of commerce, manufacturing and the large business with the gold fields of Alaska and the growing export trade with the Orient, shows very substantial support for Seattle, and there is assurance of a steady growth for the city until it becomes the metropolis not only of the Pacific Coast but of the entire West. BATTLESHIP NEBRASKA. in Seattle by Moran Brothers Co. Cost, $3,733,000; speed. 19 knots; keel laid. 1902; launched, 1904; completed. 1906. MORAN COMP/ Showing Battleship I s * BUILDING PLANT. or finishing touches. STEAM SHOVEL AT WORK ON THIRD AVENUE REGRADE. Millions of dollars have been spent by the City of Seattle for street regrading. GREAT NORTHERN DOCKS. Showing (win steamships Minnesota and Dakota, largest freight carriers ever floated, in their docks at Seattle. Length of each, over all, 630 feel. The Dakota was wrecked off the coast of Japan, March 3, 1907. The Minnesota still plies regularly between Seattle and the Orient. Its equip- ment is equal to that of the most modern trans-Atlantic liners. U. S. NAVY Y This yard contains one of the largest and best dry docks in the < BREMERTON. hips and other war crafl of all sizes are sent here for repairs. UNION PASSENGER DEPOT. KING COUNTY COURT HOUSE. U. S. COURT HOUSE, CUSTOM HOUSE AND POSTOFFICE UNDER CONSTRUCTION. The final appropriation for Seattle's Federal Building was made five years ago. At that lime it was thought that the proposed structure would be ample for all needs for many years to come, but Seattle's growth has exceeded the expectation of the most far-seeing minds. Since the time the work of construction was commenced the city has been growing so rapidly that when the new building is finally completed, which will be within a year, provided all plans go smoothly, it will be loo small for its purpose. Showing it typical Seattle resider ol lac medium class, built up within the last lew years. In 1906 the shoicUds ol LAKE UNION iscd in value within a lew weeks' time from hundreds ol dollars to thousands of dollar r bodics.was determined upon. Lake Union is destined to become a cenle I the "Lake Washington" canal, connecting Lakes Union and Washington with the Sound and making i U. S. COURT HOUSE. CUSTOM HOUSE AND POSTOFFICE COMPLETED. COST $750,000. no lime since December. 1905, have the receipts at the Seattle office fallen behind a 20 per cent increase each month over the same month of the preceding year. The highest total during 1906 was $67,251.69 for December. The balance of the year the various months were between $40,000 and $50,000. For the present year the receipts each month have been as follows: January. $58,978.83; February, $56,584.57; March. $55,922.98; April. $53.1 56.92; May. $52,597.87. These figures show an increase of $66,000 in the last five months over a corresponding period of last year. FRANKLIN SCHOOL. One of Seattle's new school buildings. SEATTLE HIGH SCHOOL. Main Building. UNITED STATES ASSAY OFFICE. u 2 5 CQ E z .a < a