A Royal Hunt in Kitsap
Seattle businessmen celebrate a successful bear hunt in Kitsap County, reflecting the leisure activities of the city's elite.
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The bear hunting party which started out last week from the Seattle agency of the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company returned yesterday laden with asssorted trinkets, chief of which was a magnificent pelt taken from a large bear killed near Seabeck, in Kitsap County. The party of hunters included Fred W. Wood, A. W. Johnstone, T. Mitchell, and others. The hide will be properly mounted and become a permanent ornament in General Manager Wood's suite of offices in the Bailey Building. When Colonel Snow left the Rainier last week in his hunting costume he went out the back door, but when he returned yesterday he valiantly marched in through the front door, displaying his bear skin and other trophies with him.
“The bear killed was considered a record-breaker, requiring two men to carry it during the skinning process.”
This captures the 'booster' era of Seattle, where city elites (like those who worked in the Bailey Building) balanced industrial business with performative displays of frontier masculinity.
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