West Seattle High School - Kimtah Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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GENES THAT HAVE PAss15D-Seattle streets a mile or two of mutl-the waterfront a straggling line of wooden lzuiltlings-Elliott Bay afottetl with sails-tall ships, full- rig getl and graceful, pointing their hows towartl the Straits- sehooners unloatlin g at the wharfues-sailors seramhlin g up anal flown the rigging-the tempo of other times. From them grew our seaport of totlay. A lways the waterfront ahsorhetl change. Increasing pulse of trade--sutlilen hysteria as the great rush for the Klondike began-adventure, goltl-fefUer- boats earryin g away men antl supplies anzl zlo g teams-the waterfront always the nucleus of activity. Continual changes M-hysteria faflin g out, bein g replaeezl hy efficiency-'vessels heiroming smooth-linetl antl speetly-all the protluetifoeness of the mozlern age epitomizetl in the plannetl energy of Rail- roail 41 venue and the piers. -4 N YQ, in f Q1 as QL' 'X-fx, JE .jgdx 1.35 gtg 'k B, :lt . j 5 X .--Y ,, 71 V -V 1:-utfniii A . .gl V, X .........-T:-i--Y.V 1 X ......i+ if- f Z an av, ,,,,, . . 1. , ,1 . N V,,k QW --W V ,m M ,flag N, 'LE -4-r h ' 44 l , -A J tt' AW W. +V 'Zi i' i X. 1. A. If ,.- - ai . 1 ' xl .X ,, .. . Vi I - I ' f ,Z-j - V, V- I ,Y A 1-W, -,J V, h ' . ' 'A . 1 , ,M f-4 r . lv, L- 4-f A 1 ' - , ,,,,.V,,.- R Q gf 4 4

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1 'ffl fl. ' it ,f A gf if A h 's ll Wm.. H elm H. REED FULTON, l'1'incipal KIPPER OF GOCD HIP . . IIB rwosic of a cedar canoe grates upon the pebbly lreachg the white sails of a llour-inaster billow down as the anchor chain rattles outg the great liner slides ghostlike through the fog to its dock . . . all with a purpose. ,-X pulsing tug noses past with loaded bargesg a rusty freighter, with derrick booms both fore and aft, points toward the Straits ol' tluan de Fueag grey war monsters steam by in line . . . all with a purpose. Sweuty men wrestle with the cargoes disgorgctl or to he swallowedg silvery salmon slide toward the iron chinkg whole piles of slaughtered trees swing up on mighty eahlesg a million hoxes and crates carry the barter of the s nations . . . all with a purpose. Purpose, purposel--the rhythm of the waterfront. Sllicgo l L'1,'1'oN. -9-