teers of America; Salvation Army; Young Men's Christian Association; Young Women's Christian Association; Red Cross Society, a branch of the National organization; Humane Society of Seattle; Seattle Fruit and Flower Mission; House of the Good Shepherd (Sisters of the Good Shepherd); Mount Carmel Mission and Columbus Sanitarium and (Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart); Catholic Social Betterment League; Ladies' Hebrew Benevolent Society; Ladies' Montefiore Aid Society; Hebrew Benevolent Association; Hebrew Immigration Aid Society; Seattle Day Nursery; John Walter Ackerson Home; and the Pacific Coast Rescue and Protective Association. The Seattle Foundation was recently organized as a clearing house for charities and beneficences. The principal hospitals are: Providence Hospital (1877), under the Sisters of Charity; Seattle General Hospital (1894); Wayside Emergency (1900); Minor Hospital; Swedish Hospital; Pacific Hospital; Municipal Hospital, under control of city; County Hospital, under control of county commissioners. The county has platted its former poor farm property in the city limits into industrial sites, having rail and salt water transportation, and is leasing them to new industries. The commissioners have bought a county farm of 407 acres at a cost of $113,000 to house the indigent. Societies for Civic Betterment.-Among the civic organizations working for community advancement is the Seattle Chamber of Commerce and Commercial Club, the oldest organization of the kind in the city and now including industrial, publicity, conventions, taxation, transportations, foreign and domestic commerce, Alaska charities and exhibits bureaus. Other semi-public organizations include the Manufacturers Association, Merchants Exchange and Washington State Art Association, in addition to numerous business and educational bodies, technical and local improvement clubs. Leading social clubs include the Rainier, Arctic, University, College and Seattle Athletic organizations for men and the Sunset and Women's college clubs for women. Musical organizations include the Amphion Society, Symphony Orchestra, the Northwest Musical Festival Association, which gives a week's festival in July each year, and several conservatories and colleges of music. The Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. own their buildings. Street Railways. The street car lines purchased by the city from the Puget Sound Traction, Light and Power Company cover 260 miles, besides two municipally owned lines, one entirely in the city and the other operating partly within and outside the city limits. The Puget Sound Traction, Light and Power Company also operates interurban lines to Tacoma and Everett, while the Seattle, Renton and Southern operates an interurban line to Renton. The city of Seattle conducts its own garbage collection, disposing of same by incinerators and sanitary fills. Public Markets. The ferries are of speIcial service to the farmers and ranchers in the vicinity of Puget Sound, enabling them to convey easily and economically their produce to the public markets for which Scattle is noted and which contribute to the low cost of living in this city. There are municipally or privately owned market places in various parts of the - business districts where the growers, fishermen and other producers sell direct to the housewife, insuring fresh foods and low prices. Other Features.- Seattle is the headquarters of the Immigration Service of the Pacific Northwest and the United States' Detention Station is located here. Canadian immigration and customs officials are also established at this port. The centre of the Northwest good roads movement, Seattle is the terminus of the Savannah to Seattle Transcontinental Highway, on the Pacific Highway from Canada to Mexico, prominent on the National Parks Transcontinental Highway as the gateway to Rainier National Park, as well as the famous Sunset Highway through Snoqualmie Pass (3,010 feet) in the Cascade Mountains, and also on the Georgian Circuit which includes the Olympic Peninsula and British Columbia highways. The headquarters for the 13th Division of the United States Railway Mail Service are located here. Water Supply.-Seattle's municipal water system is valued at $11,000,000 and has a daily capacity of 62,500,000 gallons with a daily consumption of about 33,000,000 gallons. There are 48,000 accounts on the department's books and 9,000 hydrants supplied by 704 miles of pipe line. The city's storage capacity is 271,137,000 gallons, conveyed by two pipe lines, aggregating 62.64 miles, from the watershed in the Cascade Mountains, 28 miles from Seattle. The tates are low and the water is cold, sparkling, and almost as soft and pure as distilled water. Newspapers, Periodicals, etc.- The city has many publications, including daily newspapers, weekly newspapers, social, professional, trade and technical publications and monthly magazines. There are Japanese, Swedish and German newspapers here. The principal newspapers are the Post-Intelligencer, daily and Sunday (1867); Times, daily and Sunday (1881); Star, daily (1899); Union Record, daily (1918). Government.- The city government consists of a mayor elected biennially, a council of nine elected at large, three annually for threeyear terms, treasurer, comptroller and corporation counsel and the following departments: city engineer's, public utilities, water, streets, building, lighting, police, fire, civil service, health, parks and library. The harbormaster's department in charge of the port warden keeps the harbor clear of floating logs and the menaces to navigation. The port commission, established in 1911 and consisting of three members elected for three years, is a county body and has spent about $10,000,000 in harbor terminals, including special docks for lumber, grain, with bulk elevators, cold storage and other equipment. The port operates a ferry to West Seattle, and one across Lake Washington, while the county operates a ferry on Lake Washington to Vashon Island on Puget Sound, and to Harper, Kitsap County. History. Seattle, named for Sealth, a friendly Siwash Indian chief, was settled in 1852, the first settlers landing at a point now within the city limits which they called New York Alki, the latter word meaning in Siwash "By and by." The town (population 300) withstood an Indian uprising in 1856, was incorporated in 1865 and reincorporated as a city in 1869. In 1884, the first railway reached Seattle |