SEATTLE, WASHINGTON

Reproduced by permission of Exploitation & Industrial Bureau, New Chamber of Commerce, Seattle

Business section of Seattle with Olympic Mountains across Puget Sound

Park, a beautiful natural park on West Seattle Peninsula with ravines, lakes and big trees; Kinnear Park on Queen Anne Hill with formal improvements and marine view; Madrona Park on Madrona Hill overlooking Lake Washington and Mount Rainier, with winding walks, pagodas, swings and tennis courts; Denny Blaine, Mount Baker, Leschi and Atlantic, smaller lakeside parks surrounded by home districts; Frink, Cowan, Denny and Salmon Bay parks in the midst of residences. Among the leading playgrounds are Lincoln, Walla Walla, Collins, Beacon, Rogers, South Park, Day, Columbia, Miller, Rainier Beach, Ballard, University, West Seattle, Alki, Queen Anne, Mercer and Ross, all fully equipped with modern apparatus and many with adult instructors and supervisors. Wading pools and sand piles are provided in addition to tennis, baseball, cricket, football and other facilities. Elaborate field houses equipped with gymnasium apparatus, stages for amateur plays and recreation rooms have been erected at a total cost of $75,000 in the following playfields: Collins ($25,000); South Park ($20,000); Ballard ($15,000); West Seattle ($15,000). There are 20 equipped playfields and four additional playground sites are unimproved. Among the largest of several open spaces in the business district is Pioneer Place where the famous Totem Pole stands and where the park commissioners have constructed an underground public comfort station to accommodate 12,000 persons daily. Other stations are located at Pike Place market, Public Library, Sixth avenue and Westlake and similar popular portions of the business district. In addition to the municipal amusement places there are private amusement parks, including Luna Park and Golden Gardens, both located on Puget Sound; Fortuna and other parks on Lake Washington. The links of the Seattle Golf and Country Club are north of Seattle and of the Earlington Golf and Country Club north of the city.

The University of Washington has a golf links on its campus of 355 acres within the city limits.

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Education. The university (established here by legislature of 1854-55) is rapidly advancing to leadership on the Pacific Coast. It has 6,000 students, 310 professors and instructors with several permanent buildings of beauty valued at $1,200,000. On the campus is a statue of George Washington by Lorado Taft and a bust of James J. Hill by Finn Frolich. The Museum, Forestry Building and open air auditorium are of interest to strangers. grounds of Fort Lawton (605 acres given by Seattle to the Federal government) are in the northwest part of the city overlooking Puget Sound. The navy yard, Puget Sound, located at Bremerton about 15 miles west by south of Seattle, is protected by Fort Ward and has one of the two largest dry docks in the United States navy,-863 feet long and 110 feet wide. It also has a dry dock 627 feet long and 39 feet deep. The yard is equipped at government expense for building battleships and as the result of its natural advantages promises to be one of the largest in the country.

The public schools of Seattle are of an excellent standard including six high schools, 72 grade schools, 50,000 pupils and 1,010 teachers. The high schools are of the latest type with gymnasium, domestic science and nor

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mal school equipment and cost as follows: Franklin (Mount Baker district), $426,000; Broadway, $425,000; Lincoln (Green Lake), $386,000; Ballard, $330,000; Queen Anne, $253,000; Jefferson (West Seattle), $250,000. In addition to the University of Washington, Seattle has the Washington Preparatory School for Girls, Academy of the Holy Name, College of Our Lady of Lourdes, Adelphia College, Seattle College, Brothers School for Boys, numerous business colleges, dramatic schools and conservatories. The Parental School for unruly children is located on Mercer Island in the southeastern part of Lake Washington.

Libraries. The city library system has about 314,000 volumes in the Carnegie Library and nine branches with 70,167 borrowers, a circulation of 1,336,143, and buildings and grounds worth $1,100,000.

Public Monuments.-Among the statues in the business area in recognition of his services to the State and in making possible the Lake Washington Canal construction, as well as other community endeavors, is one of the late Governor John H. McGraw, by Richard Brooks, at Times square on Westlake avenue. Other works of art in Seattle include statues and paintings owned by the Washington State Art Association with exhibition galleries in the White Building, and including the following: Bronze statue, Diana and Endymion,' by Ernst Dame, standing in "Totem Gardens" at Fifth avenue and University street; bronze statue, 'Mercury in Repose, duplicate of one taken from ruins of Herculaneum and now in National museum at Naples, Italy; portrait of Henry Yesler, a Seattle pioneer, by J. Carroll Beckwith, of New York; oil painting (9×9 feet), 'Jesus in the Tomb,' by Henry Levy; oil painting, Dorset, Vermont,' by the late Frederick Crane; oil paintings of Alaskan scenery, by Leonard Davis. The association owns the Tozier Collection of Indian Relics and Curios, the most complete record of the art of Alaskan Indians in existence. This includes baskets, implements used in hunting and daily life, ivories, and carved black jade, and remarkable totem carvings, some of the totem poles being on display in "Totem Gardens" at Fifth and University.

Charitable and Correctional Institutions. -A charities endorsement committee created (1903) is operated by the Seattle Chamber of Commerce and Commercial Club. There is a Charities Organization Society, a charities commission appointed by the county board of commissioners, a receiving home for children (1896) under the Washington Children's Home Society; Seattle Children's home (1884) under the Ladies' Relief Society of Washington; Children's Orthopedic Hospital (1907); Girls Home and Training School (1909) under the auspices of the Seattle Federation of Women's Clubs; Kenny Home for elderly men and women under the auspices of the Presbyterian Church; Seamen's Home under Seattle branch of American Seamen's Friend Society; Firland Anti-Tuberculosis Institution built and operated by the city; AntiTuberculosis League of King County (1909), treatment in homes and special hospitals; Florence Crittenden Home, branch of the National Crittenden Mission; Lebanon Rescue Home for fallen girls; Japanese Women's Home; Volun