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Ambitious Seattle Officials Promote Alaska Friendship
A profile of Seattle leaders tied to municipal utilities and governance. J. D. Rosas leads the lighting plant since 1902, Griffiths advances police and civic reforms, and leaders like Hesketh Sickels Van Ruff Youngs Mason Phelps Carroll Cooley Erickson Josenhans shape city policy, public works and buildings in Seattle.
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Seattle
Alaska
J. D. Rosas
Mr. Ross
Chatham
Ont
Ontario Public Schools
The
Collegiate Institute
America
W. F. van Ruff
City of
Brooklyn
New York
Mlinois
Scott Calhoun
van Ruff
James E. Bradford
Corporation
van Rueff
North Broadway
L. B. Youngs
Board of Public Works
City
City Water Department
Columbia
Fulton
Kentucky
Water Department
Poice and Firemen's Relief and Pension Fund Boards
Carroll
T. Josenhans