MONTHLY AND SUMMER RAINFALL OF U. S. CITIES.

_June_ _July_ _Aug._ _Sep._ _Sum'r_

Puget Sound District 1.59 0.67 0.74 2.01 5.01
Seattle 1.41 0.61 0.46 1.98 4.46
Tacoma 1.97 0.69 0.66 2.79 5.91
Spokane 1.61 0.67 0.48 1.01 3.8
Walla Walla 1.2 0.4 0.4 0.9 2.9

Chicago 3.52 3.62 3.02 3.06 13.22
New York City 3.41 4.08 4.38 3.44 15.31
Boston 3.14 3.51 4.15 3.44 14.24
Washington, D. C. 3.74 4.34 4.98 3.25 16.31
Philadelphia 3.27 4.14 4.69 3.36 17.46

The same forces that affect the temperature and precipitation also offer
protection against the extraordinary meteorological occurrences that so
often terrorize the people in more exposed regions. "The Weather Bureau
has no authentic record of a real tornado anywhere in the state of
Washington" says G. N. Salisbury, Washington Section Director of the U.
S. Weather Bureau. Violent thunderstorms are in most parts unknown. Loss
of life never occurs from any of these causes. The atmosphere is always
pure and salubrious and the death rate is lowest of all states in the
Union, while its two largest cities have the lowest death rate of all
cities in the United States, having a population of 100,000 or over.

After all has been said it were best to come and see. Spend a season
where no dreary winters will engender melancholy while waiting for a
lingering spring, and where no sizzling heat will threaten prostration.
Come to a state that is as free as possible from the ills of unfriendly
phenomena, and where one beautiful day passes into the next as a
pleasant dream shades into the sweetest realities of life.

[Illustration: YACHTING ON PUGET SOUND.

A Pleasure Fleet

Racing for Lipton Cup

Motor Boating

Idle Hour

A Favorable Breeze]

[Illustration: SCENES AT BREMERTON--ONE OF THE LARGEST U. S. NAVAL
STATIONS.

The Oregon in Drydock

A Naval Fleet in Port

Battleship Nebraska

Drydock]

[Illustration: PUGET SOUND

"A land locked sea with harbors deep and wide
Where all the navies of the world could hide"]

One glorious expanse of calm picturesque water is the great inland sea
known a