Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-10-16
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PEOPLES Forum
Pertinent Facts About Seattle the
Hustler.
(By Henry G. Gilmore,)

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A great effort is being made in
Seattle to establish, on firm basis,
business relations with the orient in
every possible direction. Mr.. j. Chill
berg. who was president of the late
Seattle Exposition, has given i'm
petus to the movement by subscrib-
ing no less a sum than 100000, with
the view of raising $250,000 as a
starter, in an undertaking that bodies
so much to the commercial uplift not
only of Seattle itself but of the en-
tire northwest, and the Chamber of
Commerce and other civic bodies are
strenuously at work in bringing
things to pass" in no uncertain
fashion. Millions have already been
subscribed in the construction and
equipment. of shipyards am, thus
early, to meet the eXigenc1es of what
is likely to be demanded by the COM
mercial world after the cruel war is
over, one or more leviathans of the
deep are being tossed upon the crest
of the waves, each month, in pursuit
of trade and national achievement.
The Seattle spirit is embellished the
world over, not by the common plati-
tudes of life, but by that earnest
endeavor that rejoices in the sub
stantial realization of every aspira-
tion. Seattle business men are salts
fled that after the war, conditions
in the east will be such as to leave
very little hope that the money
changers, either in Wall street or out
of it, will be in position to help the
Pacific northwest, to any appreciable
extent, in any of its commercial
plans and undertakings, and are,
therefore, taking time by the fore
lock and providing, locally, all the
funds necessary to the successful
financing of their several endeavors.
That Puget Sound capital will get
there" as has happened on so many
previous occasions, nobody but the
discredited pessimist will question
for a moment.
The land Product Exhibit.
Corroborative of Seattle's progres
sive endeavors, she has now on tar
an undertaking, backed by the en-
ergies of four states, viz, Washing
ton, Oregon, Montana, Idaho and the
by no means insignificant territory
of Alaska, which last year contribut-
ed of her mineral wealth no less a
sum than $3.50, 100000, which can
hardly fail to bring the richest re-
wards to the husbandman intent
upon achieving great things for ag-
riculture. Two startling features OF
the show has been the daily appear
ance of a steed that can accomplish
almost anything under the sun eX-
cept talking politics in the interest
of a Woodrow Wilson or Charles
Z. Hughes. The other contributor
to the wonders of farm life is the
presence of thoroughbred Holstein
milch COW which for the past year
has yielded incredible pounds Of but
ter and gallons of milk as to throw
all bovine competitors completely
into the background. The school
exhibit of fruits and vegetables by
counties in the states named was a
great surprise to the many visitors
looking to practical results in the
educational field as against the frills
and follies that have fastened them
selves upon the academic schemes
of the school room. The naming and
nourishing of certain fruits and veg
etables must, of themselves, be stim-
ulating to the student in search OF
knowledge that can be put to praCti'
cal purposes in life, and so this Seat
tie Land Product Exhibit will nc
doubt prove itself a godsend not only
to the tiller of the soil proper, bu
10 all in anyway interested in max
ing the most of Gods best gifts,
The Y. W. and Y. NJ. Christian Asso
Citations.
There are few cities on this con
tinent that can boast of finer struc
lures, to say nothing Of equipment
than chsracterizes these two institu
tions. Everything pertaining to the
comfort and well-being of the two
sexes has been provided for by gen
erous contributors-personal and
public while in religious knowledge
and educational preparation for the
various business walks in life, thor
pughly up-to-date methods are in the