The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-05-25
By WANDA Won KErrLER

Another good day
Another outburst about scenery
and industry from Lloyd spencer Of
The star
Another gallon or two OF Eas-
Meant more sightseeing saturday.
We rode 70 Kirkland. Ana reached
the city after some 40 minutes Of
travel over the Bothell highway and
tho Iakeshore road, The bus had
vhirrcd thru the ~" district in Sc
attic. onto the highway, past the cot
tRges aud green lands OF Victory
heights. past Lake Forest park. II
y>ad turned OF, az tho junction, one
mile south Of Botheil. onto the boule-
ward and had rolled around Lake
Washington TO Kirkland's center
just Fl miles by road from seattle
where the boulevard crosses the end
OF the Yellowstone trail. aud the
'iron policeman" stands guard,
The Yellowstone trail2 II is we'll
known. Kirkland has adopted It's
western end and called Il kirkland
ave" The trail proper, however. eX-
tends across the continent from
Plymouth. Mass, TO the West coast
Al kirkland It's journey Is over. for
there az the ferry land Il literally
runs into the lake,
And tho iron policeman" Hes
the straight up-and-down monu-
ment-like structure who directs the
traffic. Signs hung upon him read:
Go slow" keep 10 the right" RED
mond. six miles east" Seattle. seven
Z miles west Seattle. II miles north"
} Seattle. 50 miles south" All tho
Seattle directions being due 20 the po-
sition OF Kirkland. situated right on
the Lakeshore boulevard. which cir.
cles the lake and. therefore. passes
thru Seattle on one side and kirkland
on the other.
kirkland has population OF some.
thing uke 1000. The majority OF It's
people are engaged in business en-.
teFprises In the town proper. in work
at the wooden mills. IN farming and
ranching nearby. Some work at the
shipyard. some at the lumber yard.
and IN tho summer both men and
women are employed at the cannery.
Thanks 20 Glen Il. Johnson. trus.
tee OF the Kirkland Commercial club.
and president OF both the National
bank OF Kirkland and the kirkland
>~State bank. and Mrs. Johnson. who
offered TO show MS the town, we
saw the inside workings OF a few
OF these establishments on thu day
OF our visit
We'd never been IN wooden mill
before. We'd always seen wool either
on the sheep who grew II or In the
finished product. Saturday We saw
II being secured. carbonized. dyed.
dried. earded-and finally spun. We
went thru the MRtzen Wooden Mills,
where rs people at present are en-
ployed. and where George Mntzen.
president Of the company. has what
he calls his 'motor-boat'' office. The
mills are built on the lake shore,
near tho business district OF Kirk.
land. Almost due west from the mill
dock. Seattle Is seen in tho distance
To the right OF Seattle. sand Point.
Seven miles Of blue lake iie between
the shores. And real often" Mat.
zen explained TO US. when the ma.
chinery out in the plant Is steadily
humming along and I'm Just sitting
at the desk and looking out OF the
window. l get a sort OF sub-consclous
idea that I'm in a motor.boat. s.
great life"
VI. j. Marks. superintendent OF the
plant and recently elected kirkland
councilman, showed US about, giving
JUS facts and figures. Wool from
Montana, Eastern Washington. Ore.
eon and California. we learned, amid
the whirr and roar OF machinery. Is
transformed at the mills annually
into approximately 100000 yards OF
material. Only ono other wooden
mills plant operates IN Washington
that at Washougal, in the southern
part Of the state.
Kirkland's cannery sounded like a
boiler factory. We wondered why
We knew the place wasn't in opera
ton and wasn't expected to be un-
I'll approximately June S, when the
first canning Strawberries are due.
We made our way along a narrow
porch and peeked thru doorway 70
behold Henry Fisher himself. prcsi-
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