The Seattle Star

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"This work would not interfere with a port commissioner's obligations to the people, and, if I am elected, it will merely mean that I will have to give up some of the public matters in which I have interested myself, but which are, however, less important than those I would take up in my new office."

A Pioneer Here. Cotterill has been in Olympia many times on matters connected with the port, and has been active in seeking to establish the belt line. With the exception of three years spent in Oregon. Mr. Cotterill has lived in Seattle for 31 years and was a member of the original fire department in the days when the fire-fighting apparatus was drawn by man-power. He is authority for the statement that this was no easy job when going up one of Seattle's justly famous hills. "But when the call sounded, I was always on the ropes," Cotterill says.

Brother of Ex-Mayor. Cotterill is a brother of former Mayor George F. Cotterill and of Secretary Roland Cotterill of the park board. He is 50, and married. When the draft law machinery was put into operation, Cotterill was registrar in his district. His first official duty in this capacity was to register his own son. The son had enlisted in the Marine corps the day before. Of ten Cotterills of military age the port commission candidate declares, eight volunteered for service. The other two are married, having families. he says, to Gen. Ieiain. with whom he worked at the war ministry.