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	Bailey Gatzert - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bailey Gatzert was the eighth mayor of Seattle, Washington, serving from 1875 to 1876.
		Gatzert was born in 1829 in Hesse Darmstadt, Germany, and emigrated to Natchez, Mississippi in 1849, coming west four years later.
		In addition to being mayor, Gatzert was a charter member of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, served on the Seattle City Council, was president of Puget Sound National Bank and Peoples Savings Bank, and founded Washington's first synagogue, Ohaveth Shalom, which opened in 1892.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bailey_Gatzert (226 words)

	HistoryLink Essay:Gatzert, Bailey (1829-1893)
		Gatzert was partner and general manager of Schwabacher and Co, one of Seattle's earliest hardware and general mercantile stores, later to become the start of wholesale trade in Seattle.
		Testimony to Seattleite Bailey Gatzert's influence on the turn of the century metropolis are his namesakes -- Gatzert pier (Pier 64 at the foot of Virginia, 1890), Gatzert Elementary School, the Bailey Gatzert riverboat, and a 1996 stamp of the riverboat issued by the United States Postal Service.
		Gatzert was elected mayor of Seattle on August 2, 1875.
	www.historylink.org /essays/printer_friendly/index.cfm?file_id=86 (629 words)

	Real Change News
		Part of the District's plan, according to Pat Sander, Principal of Bailey Gatzert, is that once a child has been assigned to one of the schools, the District provides transportation for that child to and from school anywhere within the Seattle city limits.
		Sander said that Bailey Gatzert is trying to become more of a "community service school" for both kids, and their families.
		Bailey Gatzert has surpassed the original 40-student plan with 110 to 130 genuinely homeless and transitional children.
	www.realchangenews.org /pastarticles/features/articles/fea_specialschools.html (1394 words)

	JGSWS-The Jewish Genealogical Society of Washington State
		Bailey and Babette Gatzert came to Seattle in 1869 to open the Schwabacher branch.
		Gatzert became a leading Seattle figure, serving as president of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce 1884-1890 and as Mayor in 1893.
		Bailey Gatzert was known as a generous man. After every big fire in the city, the old volunteer fire department would receive a $100 check fro him.
	www.jgsws.org /schwabacher3.htm (656 words)

	Joshua Green, purser, mate, captain, steamboat owner and banker
		Destined to be mayor and a civic giant, Gatzert was a partner in Schwabacher Bros. Hardware and married the boss's daughter.
		Gatzert was getting into the banking business with Jacob Furth, a German immigrant from Bohemia who moved his family to Seattle in 1882 and established the Puget Sound National Bank, which soon merged with Dexter Horton's bank to become the nucleus of the future Seattle First National.
		The Bailey Gatzert Waltz was composed in her honor for the Lewis and Clark Centennial celebration of 1905.
	www.geocities.com /skagitjournalupriver/GreenJoshua1.html (7390 words)

	Joanna Eckstein Oral History Interview Conducted by Sue Ragen for the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian ...
		Bailey Gatzert was an early mayor of Seattle and one of the founders of the Chamber of Commerce.
		Bailey Gatzert was one of the original members of the original board; in fact I was told not too long ago that she was the one who had the original idea and interested the other ladies, and got the group together.
		Gatzert who really wasn't that educated or in any kind of public position but was a very strong character and did a good many things; yet nobody knows anything about her or her husband.
	www.aaa.si.edu /collections/oralhistories/transcripts/eckste83.htm (19715 words)

	Real Change
		Gatzert was chosen for participation in Safe Routes because it is in a low-income area and has a large immigrant population, says Levinger.
		Because of the diverse student body at Gatzert, Cole reached out to parents from several ethnic communities, whose members are from countries where walking is the most common mode of transportation.
		With language an issue, none of the Gatzert parent champions wanted to be interviewed for this story, but Cole said that among their communities, parent champions are organizing additional parents to walk children to school.
	www.realchangenews.org /2006/2006_03_08/crossinggusrds.html (658 words)

	gesswhoto.com - The Bailey Gatzert
		Launched in Seattle in the year of 1890, it was claimed by its owner to be the fastest ship on the water, and would challenge any boat that dismissed its claim or got in its way.
		All was “a buzz” with the excitement at hand, when a horrifying explosion shook the Bailey Gatzert’s deck.
		The Bailey Gatzert, was among those graceful few.
	gesswhoto.com /gatzert.html (603 words)

	Oregon History Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Bailey Gatzert, named after a Seattle mayor, was moved to the Columbia River in 1892, where it operated for many years.
		The Bailey Gatzert March, a piano melody written by Decker and Velguth to commemorate the boat, was featured during the 1905 Lewis and Clark Exposition and Oriental Fair in Portland.
		The Bailey Gatzert was rebuilt in 1907, and in 1917 it returned to Seattle to operate as a car and passenger ferry.
	www.ohs.org /education/oregonhistory/historical_records/dspDocument.cfm?doc_ID=0006CA61-0E28-1DBF-BB3880B05272FE9F (328 words)

	Archived -- Safe and Smart: Bailey Gatzert Elementary School (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Extended Day and Saturday Academy at Bailey Gatzert Elementary School, a Title I school, offers voluntary enrichment activities in reading and math to students identified as achieving below age- or grade-appropriate levels based on standardized test scores or classroom teacher observation.
		Bailey Gatzert offers extended day tutoring activities to about 50 students from 3:20 p.m.
		In addition, the school hosts a schoolwide dinner one night a month, where 150-200 parents, guardians, teachers, students, and community members participate in educational games and learn about proper nutrition.
	www.ed.gov /pubs/SafeandSmart/bailey.html (221 words)

	Gorgnet History- The Columbia River (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		It was raised and the engines extracted and placed in a new vessel, the "Fashion" which operated on the lower Columbia until 1961.
		The steamship "Charles R Spencer" raced the "Bailey Gatzert" on a $ 500 bet from The Dalles to Portland.
		The Bailey Gatzert was first to the locks.
	www.gorge.net /community/hsriver.htm (340 words)

	Network for Good :: Organization Details
		Bailey Gatzert Elementary Location: Squire Park, 1301 Yesler Way Seattle Parks Foundation is working with teachers, parents, students, and neighbors to dramatically improve the play area and community gathering space at Bailey Gatzert.
		Located at the crossroads of the International District, Central Area, First Hill, and Rainier Valley, the school serves a diverse population of students, and the neighborhood is very underserved in terms of park access.
		Installation of the new entrance gates at Bailey Gatzert Elementary, made by Seattle artist Tom Flood (June 2006).
	www.guidestar.org /pqShowGsReport.do?partner=networkforgood&npoId=714377 (697 words)

	Help Spruce-Up the Gazert Playground (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		An aging play structure in the northwest corner of the playground at Bailey Gatzert Elementary (14th Avenue and E. Yesler Way), which serves approximately 400 students, needs replacing, but funding cuts make it hard to maintain.
		Volunteers are needed to help with all aspects of this project, including joining the steering committee, looking at new equipment, dismantling the old structure, prepping the area, and installing the new structure.
		If you are interested in participating in the Bailey Gatzert Elementary Playground Renovation Project, contact Emily Samet at the Seattle Parks Foundation (206-332-9900 or esamet@seattleparksfoundation.org) or Judy Ginn at Bailey Gatzert Elementary (206-252-2810).
	www.squirepark.net /newsletter/Apr04/Gatzrt.htm (178 words)

	Archived -- Benefits of Schools as Community Learning Centers
		Bailey Gatzert Elementary School is a schoolwide Title I program.
		Bailey Gatzert and five other elementary schools in the district offer extended day tutoring activities lasting from 3:15 to 5:00 p.m.
		There are approximately 30 adults working with the program each day: two afternoons a week the tutors are high school volunteers or certified teachers, and students from the University of Washington and Seattle College work as tutors to fulfill the fieldwork requirements of a course on education.
	www.ed.gov /pubs/LearnCenters/benefits.html (1673 words)

	mi-reporter.com - Schools Foundation raises $140,000-plus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The breakfast, attended by 400 community members and business people, was focused on developing a partnership between the business community and the schools.
		Ten percent of the money will be donated to Bailey Gatzert Elementary School in Seattle, where many of the students are homeless and all but a handful are eligible for free lunch.
		Principal Norma Zavala of Bailey Gatzert thanked contributors and explained that funds from the event last year were used to help students with literacy skills.
	www.mi-reporter.com /sited/story/html/203522 (202 words)

	The Legendary West
		The passenger steamer, Bailey Gatzert, built in 1890, was the fastest (20+ MPH) on the river.
		But the most famous of all Columbia River sternwheelers was the Bailey Gatzert, one of the fastest ever built.
		Unlike her less-refined cousins who were primarily built for hauling freight, the Bailey Gatzert was crafted as an overnight passenger vessel.
	www.columbiarivercruise.com /lifeOnboard/lifeOnboardHisRvLeg.php (782 words)

	Squire Park Neighborhood -- Seattle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Friends of Gatzert Playground has been working with Seattle Parks Foundation to improve the Bailey Gatzert Elementary School playground (1301 E. Yesler Way).
		Recently a local artist was hired to work with the students, school district, and community group to design, construct, and install entrance gates to show the message "Welcome, We're Bailey Gatzert!" Gates will be installed in June after the community group decides which design best represents the neighborhood and school.
		Everyone is invited to our community meetings and work parties to make Bailey Gatzert playground safer for students and more welcoming to the neighborhood.
	squirepark.net /articles/article.php?id=73 (157 words)

	Seattle's Preceding Mayors
		In 1875, Independent Bailey Gatzert was elected the first, and thus far only, Jewish mayor of Seattle.
		Gatzert was a leading businessman in early Seattle.
		Bertha Knight Landes (1868-1943) was elected mayor in 1926 and served one two-year term.
	www.seattle.gov /mayor/about/precedingmayors.htm (559 words)

	NCLB News & Views (Susan Ohanian Speaks Out) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Gatzert teachers attribute the improved performance to the strong language, reading and math curriculum, class sizes of 22-25 students, and to Sander's demand that the children be held to high standards of achievement, regardless of circumstances.
		Bailey Gatzert, a Title I schoolwide project, and five other elementary schools in the Seattle School district offer extended-day tutoring activities lasting from 3:15 p.m.
		At Gatzert Elementary School, fewer than half of the fourth-graders passed a state reading test the federal government uses to separate good schools from bad.
	www.susanohanian.org /show_nclb_news.html?id=548 (2711 words)

	Environmental Education Program
		Community, student, and school volunteers have been working with NWEEC to create a native plant habitat at Bailey Gatzert Elementary School.
		Gatzert's three fifth grade classes planted approximately 140 trees and plants in November of 2003.
		Gatzert's students, as well as members of the after-school Earth Club, will continue to work on this habitat and use it as an outdoor classroom.
	www.nweec.org /grant.htm (483 words)

	Seattle Parks Foundation - Bailey Gatzert Children's Play Area
		Seattle Parks Foundation is working with the school and neighborhood to dramatically improve the play area and community gathering space at Bailey Gatzert.
		Resembling a pair of linking hands, the gates were installed in June to ensure the students' security during school hours, while providing community access to the green space when school is not in session.
		A full renovation of one of the two play areas at Bailey Gatzert was completed in August.
	www.seattleparksfoundation.org /project_BaileyGatzert.html (167 words)

	Dalles, Portland & Astoria Navigation Co. Postcards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The "Bailey Gatzert" passing Multnomah Falls, Columbia River.
		Steamer Bailey Gatzert entering the locks at the Cascades.
		Steamers "Bailey Gatzert" and "Dalles City", Columbia River.
	home.att.net /~spsrailway/dpanpost.html (150 words)

	Riverboats - Bailey Gatzert gifts by Harmony Designs (Bookmarks, Paperweights, Magnets and more.) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Bailey Gatzert's single smokestack, enclosed superstructure and covered sternwheel were common characteristics of West Coast riverboats.
		The Bailey Gatzert provided transportation to Seattle, Tacoma and Olympia, Washington.
		In 1918, the riverboat was converted into an automobile ferry and was taken out of service in 1923.
	www.harmonydesigns.com /product/detail.php?catalogNumber=3095 (131 words)

	Oregon History Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		This 1908 photograph shows the steamboats Bailey Gatzert (left) and the Charles R. Spencer entering the Cascade Canal and Locks.
		Both of the steamers were known as fast boats at a time when captains raced each other on routes between Astoria and The Dalles.
		The Bailey Gatzert, built in 1890, was bought in the early 1900s by the Columbia River and Northern Railroad Company.
	www.ohs.org /education/oregonhistory/historical_records/dspDocument.cfm?doc_ID=0005F8B6-10AC-1DBF-BB3880B05272FE9F (246 words)

	Neighborhood House: Celebrating a Century of Service
		Settlement House, as it was then called, was led by Mrs.
		Bailey Gatzert, whose husband had been both mayor of Seattle and a founder of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce.
		The first services to be offered by Settlement House included a religious school and a sewing class.
	www.nhwa.org /history.html (153 words)

	Resource Information for Jewish Archives Project - Joanna Eckstein
		The Schwabacher brothers came to Portland and then to Walla Walla via Wallulua, where they met Bailey Gatzert who eventually married Babette Schwabacher and became president of their Seattle business.
		She discusses her family's connection to San Francisco, the history of the family business in Walla Walla, Bailey Gatzert and Nathan Eckstein, who married her mother, Minna Schwabacher, as well as the Schwabacher brothers establishing their Seattle business based on good credit in San Francisco in 1868, at the time of the gold rush.
		Babette Schwabacher Gatzert was a founding member of the Ladies Relief Society, now called the Washington Children's Home - allegedly the oldest philanthropic organization in the state of Washington on record in Olympia.
	www.jwa.org /archive/jsp/oresInfo.jsp?resID=1691 (581 words)

	Columbia Gorge Discovery Center - PHOTO ARCHIVE
		For a fee you can obtain a hi-res version of this image.
		Content: The Bailey Gatzert was a well known sternwheeler of the Columbia River.
		"LEY GATZERT" is written in upper left corner.
	www.gorgediscovery.org /photoarchive/details.asp?ID=2082 (41 words)

	It's elementary and 'new' -- taking a walk to school
		It's no surprise that fewer students are walking to school these days, especially considering the busy intersections near some schools and the ever-present parental concerns about "stranger danger" or child abductions.
		But for the past year and a half, the pedestrian-advocacy organization Feet First has collaborated with Bailey Gatzert Elementary in Seattle to form a "Walking School Bus" program to get children exercise, promote alternative transportation and pedestrian safety, and better connect families -- particularly immigrant families -- with their schools.
		On any given day, dozens of students will gather several blocks from Gatzert and walk to school with their parents and community volunteers, sometimes making stops along the way to pick up more students.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /local/268681_lcenter02.html?source=rss (1087 words)

	United Way of King County - Reasons to Volunteer
		Bailey Gatzert is a public Elementary School located in the Central District of Seattle.
		We are home to a diverse student population and have 16 different languages amongst the student body.
		Gatzert is located just 1/2 a block northeast of Seattle's lovely International District.
	www.volunteersolutions.org /uwkc/org/223689-printer.html (332 words)

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