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Show U To RUINS I'l GET u SO l ( I I Mt BOAT LINUS (By International hi Service) I SEATTLE, Wash Uugct Sound steamboat lines aro being hard hit by tho automobile The latter Is doing to the ordinary steamboat much what the Jitney has long done to the , street car. Fully one-third of tho I'uget Sound passenger packets are tied up have been since early sum-mer. sum-mer. With the advent of the auto-i auto-i mobile and its ever-increasing number, . xteamboat excurslonlng has become ! less popular. The cross-sound lines, particularly those plying between Seattle and the Navy Yard, continue to do a good business?, but the tradit- lonal Sunday excursion up and down ' the sound and through the island reaches of this great arm of the sea no longer appeals. The auto ride over I thft lake encircling boulevards anu along the highways, county. State anu I national, through the enchanting seen-cry seen-cry of mountain and stream, lias 1 tal.en Its place and the proMac steam- boat remains tied at its pier. |