The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-04-04

rsia Aavertise,.eatl
To the Voters
of Pierce Co.

have read with a great deal of
interest the discussions going on
in our daily papers regarding a
port district for Pierce county.
have been a resident OF Tacoma for
over thirty-five years, and have
seen the city grow from a popula-
tion OF five hundred people to over
one hundred thousand. During all
this time, / have boosted for Taco
ma and her shipping interests, and
the people of this city can rest as
sured I will stand by them and
and most beautiful city In the
world--a city that God can look
down upon and admire while seat
ed on His Great White Throne, Mt.
Tacoma.
1 am opnosed to the amended port
bill as passed by our last legisla-
ture, but l am In favor of a Taco
ma port commission, and this COM
mission will not cost the taxpayers
one red cent 1t can be created this
way:
The city council can be authorize
ed to act as port commission and
then the council can vote on its own
chairman of that commission.
l read with a great deal of inter-
est the first article opposing the
port commission by John T. Bib.
Mr.. Bib Is one of the best posted
men on the Pacific coast in regard
TO shipping business. This article
hit the nall s4uarely on the head.
Edward s. Osborne has done valua-
BILE work In getting additional in
formation pertaining to our ship
ping that was not taken into con-
sideration before.
Tacoma has the longest lumber
docks. fronting on deep water oil
any city in the world. Not only Is
this true. but Tacoma people have
the largest unoccupied strip of deer
water frontage particularly adapted
for additional lumber yards and
mills. This strip lies between old
Tacoma and the smelter. On the
south side of IL are two trans
Pacific and the Chicago, Milwauke &c
q st. Paul. When the Point Def
ance water grade road is finished
on September LIST, we will have
three more trans continental rail
roads operating alongside of this
Pacific and Great Northern. Just
think. two miles of lumber mill
property, with city harbor area In
front of It. where five trans-con-
tinental railroads meet all the big
ocean steamers! My. but what a
big lumber dock this strip would
make, No city in the world has it's
equal; and think that no money is
required TO dredge alongside of this
dock. The people travelling over
the water grade line from our big
Tacoma smelter to the Cushman In
dian school, seeing al our dock i'm
provements, saw mills and big
ocean docks and factories. would
not ask us what we have to keep
up the city. Again, what great
and good impression the people
would have of Tacoma when COM
ing into port on one of these big
ocean linersi Now, my dear broth
ers and sisters. ! make this sugges--
ton: Vote against the county port
commission, and, after the Tacoma
port commission is organized. IL we
should want to buy this strip be-
tween the city's Old Town dock and
the smelter for the fishing fleet.
lumber dock and saw mills, we
could do so. The present saw mill
property we would not need to buy.
Seattle. with her fish dock and lum-
Der dock, would be laid I'm the shade
alongside of Tacoma. The Tacoma
port commission could attend to the
leasing of this property In connec-
tion with their other work, and the
city would not be to but very little
extra expense. My good friend.
Robert Bridges. port commissioner
of Seattle, in his speech here few
days ago, said there was a time
when Tacoma used to make Seattle
sit up and take notice. but not now.
Well, Robert, II the United States
government, under the republican
administration, had given Tacoma
the same consideration and support
II gave TO Seattle in the Bremerton
and Alaska trade, our wholesalers
twho sell cheaper than Seattle
wholesalers) would have enjoyed at
least one-half OF the three million
dollars business that Seattle got.
With that amount of business, Ia
coma merchants would have put on
a direct line of steamers to Alaska.
] believe the United States govern
ment now, under democratic control,
will see that Tacoma. Centralia,
Chehalis, Aberdeen, Hoquiam, Ray ,