The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 7, 1904, Page 3

ia na RASs TE%e FTEA & Taree Rae N. ~ c= th b- al C- th 4 on td th dD. or ot Bare 35h fara C5tk be clo He. us TISUSEPARSE RASSPRNS ATPR Vale Ree BERE Pere AER Pani A RD CITY ENGINEER THOMSON, EX-COUNCILMAN VOIGT AND 0. ©, M'GILVRA DENOUNCE IT AS EXTRAVAGANCE AND BOOD ERS MAKE REPLY City Engineer Thomson strenuously | * the proposed park board | dment and has given out a state ment giving his reasons, His chief objection to the amendment is that, | as he alleges, {t gives the park board, r whi taxpayers have control, Cull power to spend 10 per cen of the Tine and license reveneus of the | city, besides a ar park tax levy without a check from any other de partment of the city, ‘This, he thinks, will Tead to wholesale corruption in the administration of park affairs He compares the existing tom, With Its numerous safeguards on pub: Ne fands, with the | wions of the proposed am y nt | the Keneral control of th rke and | other cit perty is tx hands of the city nol, while the manage- ment is under the board of works. | All officers authorized to spend money | 2 tinop, miw mf spent by the board of w orks | count of the expenditures | t be presented to the finance om- | of the council, which decides upen the reasonableness and whether they shalt be made. “Thus the primary responsibility ts | with the city councti, an elective body, | returned by the people every two years,” says Mr, Thomson, “and who | @re thereby required to provide a man- agement acceptable to the public. By the coun volee in the nt placed in the proposed amendment would be deprived of st matter and the managem. the hands of five commissioners, who cannot be removed from office, who hold terms for five years, who would have absolute control of every park and square and 10 per cent of the cash income of the city, with grounds they cam manage and with funde they can spend regardless of the public will “The amendment provides that the ‘board of park commissioners shall also have authority to expend the park fund’—that is, without oversight or restriction from any other body. ‘The new board would bea law wholly to itself, auditing tts own bills and compelling the comptroller and treas- urer to perform the routine work of paying the same. With such a board, without bond or obligation, check or restraint, handling the enormous fund that must come into tts hands, per- forming the labor without salaried re- muneration, what would be more cer- tain that there should follow fraud and embeszalement? "The proposed article ts repugnant to the most cared principles of the city charter; to the democratic form of government, in that It fixes a com- pulsory tax on the people from which they have no recourse, and to good morals because ft puts large expend!- tures under unpaid and unrestrained appointive officers, opening the door to more suspicion.” Ex-Councilman William Voight, who is now & North Seattle real estate dealer, also opposes the amendment and has written The Star as follows: “I am utterly opposed to the char- ter amendment No. 2, relating to city park departments, for the reason that it delegates powers and duties that should be exercised and performed by elty officials, elected by the people, to a park board that at best will be only ornamental; because that board would have to hire somebody that could lay out parks and build drive- ways. I do not believe that a park board could be more successful in that respect than a city council, elected by the people, assisted by the board of public works and engineering depart- ment of the city, who certainly must be more qualified for such work than any park board, no matter how care- fully selected, possibly could be; be- sides, the members of the city admin- istration are either under bonds for the falthful performance of their re- spective duties or thelr work ts under the supervision of those that are under bonds. The agument that no money ts actually handled by the’ park board will not do, because a great many fraudulent transactions are carried out just under such cover as that would But the most serious objection is that of having « fixed tax levy for any purpose in our city charter; it ts wrong in principle and certainly not sensible for practical purposes to tie the hands of those that we elect every You Know That to have your clothes fitted right is a comfort. One of the many merits of our clothing is that “it fite"—because the best makers make it, and be- cause it's fitted on you by men that know “how” to fit. Our suits and topcoats are marked to sell at $12.50 And Up J, Redelsheimer & Co. Strongest Topcoat House tn the State. 200-804 First ave., cor, Columbia ~—Where It Pays to Trade Beautiful Hand- Pai ted Waist Sets at | the arbitrary power to dispose of this OPENING A LOOPHOLE FOR LING--PRESENT COMMISSION. two years, and whose duty It Is to make @ yearly tax levy according to our’ needs and our ability to pay the same; and ax the amount te be ox pended by the park board would at Present amount to about $10,000 per y this sum might be of consider ble moment tn hard times. Another strong objection ts made by ©. ©. MeGiivea, a lawyer who owns & large amount of real estate on the weatern shore of Lake Washmgton He saya 1am unqualifiedly opposed to the| adoption of the proposed park board ment. In providing for a park fund the proposed amendment not only draws every which t now for by harter, but it creates another source of revenue namely, “The rents, issues and profits derived from any property which may be held or owned in trust for sald city for squares, parks, parkways, boule vard purposes, and for play or rec tion grounds." “The provisions creating a park fund comprise the first five sections of the proposed amendment. Having given thelr first attention to ¢ eation of & large fund of the people's money does It not seem unbusinesslike and even @ trifle audacious for any park board to sumgest that they be gly rea. Money without giving bonds or offered Ing ample neourlty? To me it seoma Hut some one protests and says The k board ts ¢ posed of how | orat men I answer, tt dees | not hurt e man to give @ bond. Hesides, av those gentlemen are #0 supplied with wordly goods that they can afford to labor without pay they certainly can all afford to give proper bonds. But In thie ning’s tasue of the | Post-Intelligencer, on the | page and under the heading, ‘For Gres attle. XIIL,' C. B, Fowler who It @ member of the present board of park comminsioners, In referring to the prop mendment k thie Astonishing statement: ‘No money is actually handled by the board.’ Can It be that the gentleman has not read the amendment which he Is re | mending and asking the peor | port? Kvidently not, for section & the proposed amendment provides, "The board of park commissioners shall alone have authority to expend | the park fund Yet again, will the park board al ways be ¢ of honorable men? Let ua see. Are they elected by the p In thelr selection have you | the usual privilege of the printaries the convention and the election? N ndment deprives you ‘ored choice by ballot }and you must be content with five year appointments made by the may- or. | In the language of th opomed amendment it is only necessary that the appointee ‘shall have been for three years prior to the date his appointment @ bona fide resident and citizen of Beattle. WHAT THE BOARD SAYS The park commissioners In answer to the criticiam heaped upon them have issued the following state ment “In view of the fact that the pro- posed charter amendment relative to parks has been variously commented upon, we feel it our duty to lay be- fore the people of this city a clear and concise statement of our position and the reasons why we are asking that the amendment be passed Largely through ovr endeavors, John C. Olmstead, of international rep- utation as a landscape architect and park expert, came to prepared a plan for the artistic de- velopment of the city, His primary plan for parks, parkways, play recreation gr improvement is not elaborate, but it is so arranged as to be of pleasure and untility to the peo- ple of every section of our city. “We believe that without overbur- ening the people that this system of improvement can be consummated. And we are of the opinion that the performance of it ought to be left or instrusted to those who are devoted to the cause. With this view in mind the proposed amendment was prepared and upon @ petition of over 3,000 sign- ers, including a majority of the large property owers and heavy taxpayers of Beattie, it has been placed before the people for thelr approval or re jection at the coming election. “In its preparation we deemed it beat to follow, in the main, the plan common to most of the cities of the United States. Upon investigation we found that all but a few of the cities of our country have appointive boarde of park commissioners. In the ma- jority of the cities the office of park commissioner is purely honorary, and where the position of park commis- sioner is honorary, no money being handled, no bond is required. “As a rule, the boards are composed of from three to five members, Thus the proposed amendment provides for an appointive board of five members without salary or bond. Under this amendment the park board will no power to ulre prop- erty, It will only have the right to deatgnate property to be purchased for park purposes and then It will be op- tional with the city council to acquire the same. This provision is unlike most of the PASSED D. C, March 1 late this afternoon passed the naval appropriation bill. FEW HAVE REFUSED Every candidate for councilman, with the exception of Wililam Holt and James Conway of the First ward, H. C. Gill, the Republican nominee from the Third; Scot Benj- amin, the Republican nominee from the Fifth; Thom: Navin, Demo- cratio nominee for counciiman-at- Ja) and Charles Burnett, sepub- Nean nominee for councilman-at- large, have now signed the Civic Union pledge promising support of the municipal light plant and the exclusion of saloons from the resi- dence sections of the city and from the parks. D. W. Bow: Republic- an nominee for councilman-at-large, could not be reached, being in the east. Irving TT. Cole, the Republican nominee from the Fourth ward, has qualified his pledge like some of the others, In regard to the increase in the capacity of the municipal light- ing plant, when it becomes neces- sary, he says: “This promise is conditional upon the ability of the city to furnish light and power at a cost sufficient- ly below that at which the light and power companies might agree to fur- this elty and| | charters of other cities, for, ax a rule, park boards are vested with the right] | to purchase land for park purposes. | The most effective provision tn the Proposed amendment is the power of | the board to direct the expenditure of | the park fund for the improvement of park lands and property now owned or | that may hereafter be acquired for With y impe t this power it wible to carry | park purposes. | will be practi | erm. oc? ywer fe identical with the | power possessed by the library board of this city and no member of the brary board gives a bond, Under the present city charter the city treasurer ie the custodian of the park fund and | | | disbure. it. Under the proposed | lamendment he will remain custodian }and disburser of that fund. In no manner will any member of the park | board handle one cent of the peoples | funds. The city clerk will be the clerk or secretary of the park board. The olty comptroller ts ex-officl y clerk and | under the proposed amendment ev A voucher for the payment of money must not only be certified by the clty clerk or comptroller, but It must also be certified by the president of the | park board and a detailed statement | must accompany | which @ warrant will bo issued for the money to be pald by the oclty treasurer. Sines, under section ar tele 1, of our ement city charter, , Which In no manner b hanged by ¢t | proposed amendment, any appointive! officer may be removed by the mayor | for cause the people are safeguarded against Incompetency or malfeasance in office. “The minimum tax rate of three-| quarters of a mill provided for by the! amendment was Inserted for the rea- sons: First, it is @ reasonable rum to be expended for park purposes; sec: ond, the levy each year should be kept as nearly uniform as possible to avoid spasmodic park improvement; | third, undertying al! perk, parkway, play and recreation groun pprove there is @ deep humanity. Parks and play grounds are the gardens of the people. In times of depression this | owrskhould not be discontinued. “C. E. FOWLER, DWARD SHREWSBURY, “CHARLES W. SAUNDERS, “KE. F. BLAINE, “Park Commissioners.” h youcher upon | nish the same, to make It profitable from @ financial standpoint for the city to embark upon the undertaking outlined.” He agrees to the saloon exclusion from the residence sections, “pro- vided it be understood that the term ‘residence district’ does not apply to saloon limits ax now defined THE COUNT WAL TELL Whether it is necessary to have the support of the local newspaper organ of the Democracy in a political cam- paign ts @ question that will be an- swered m the votes are counted to-4 morrow night for and against Leand Miller, the party's nominee for city | treasurer, and Thomas Navin, one of the Democratic nominees for coun m at-large. | Mr. Miller, who Is an old-time real- | dent of the city, an ex-member of the | efty council, and one time acting may- | or, ts an old line Democrat, but was not indorsed by the local Democratic | newspa: Mr. Miller claims that he has the full support of the business |men of his party nevertheless, and will poll the full party vote. MARU FOR HER S. G. Yerkes, local superintendent of the Great Northern, has received &@ telegram from the gMeral passen - ger agent at St. Paul stating that Dr. Anita McGee and her Red Cross| nutes left that city yesterday, and| requesting Mr. Yerkes to hold the! Iyo Maru until their arrival, The| lyo was scheduled to sail Wednes-| day, én FIRST WARDERS ORGANIZE A CLUB A non-partisan litical club was an Erie. Kaa, allowance. formed in the First ward last night, Genater envus of Utah, 0 neontionsl having for it nucleus the independ ; and Senator Warren, of Wyoming ent delegation which was elected to > ws the Republican city convention from| WASHINGTON, D, C., March T— the Third precinet of that district,’ The geport of Charles J, Bonaparte, COMIQUE OPENED It i# the intention of the organizers *peciad commissioner to investigate The Comique theateh, tn. charge of the club to keep it intact until] the charges made against the admin-) after the fall campaign istration of Indian territory, was} Dan Kane ts president of the club| filed in oppgrese this afternoon. It| Saturday night after two and F. A. Feiquist, secretary « a) finda that the conditions involve im-/| rent Contractor Westcott, who treasurer, The executive committee | minent danger of wrong-doing to the! does the mechanical work for Fer- is come of Daniel Meck era! Indian population, and that|guson, got a permit from Pullding Charlies Goldberg, Thomas Dawson | the conditions demand drastic reme tor Place Saturday afternoon and William Monsell. | dies. It recommenda that the com-|to make the changes required by the Seventy-five Republican and| miasion to the five Indian tribes be| council fire investigating commit Democrats signed the roll last night. | abolished. Agents should be kept in-| tee. Thereupon Fire Marshal Kel The organixation of the club ts the| dependent of each other, and the ad-| loge, who had previously ordered remult of the unsettled status of the| ministration of the affairs of the ter-| the place closed, told Chief of Po First ward in the present campaign.| ritory committed to officers on the| lice Sulivan that he 1d ar erry ram | spot and be carefully superintended| the place to open up again. The steamer Humboldt, Captain | but not controlied from Washingtor No permit has yet been taken Haughman, arrived from San Fran ciaco yesterday to resume her former! federal officers are found substan. | and it is still closed, run to Lynn canal. She is to be op-| tatiy true. erated in conjunction with thel finde that ‘Tame Bixby. chair —_e- southeastern Alaska vennela of the iceman ted P. ©. 8 8 Company. She brought | Interested ia the real estate tranee| NOtice to Subscribers @ pansengers and 600 tons of fre vay | action In the territory in order to] 1¢, any evening, your copy of The oye tect “al ‘a prejudice the best interests of the! gtar has not arrived at 6:00 o'clock, Thee, ae teste oneal atta telephone—Sunset, Main 1060, or In- . « Breckenridge, Thomas) dependend 1138, any time between from the disabled steamer Queen chief clerk of the commis-| 6:00 and 6:30—and a copy will be sent | Sight. tue hap duct onee,oet tie | st0Bs and HL. V. Smith, disbursing you at once, by special mensenger. drydock at Quartermaster harbor | CHARTER AMENDMENT | UNDER HOT FIRE OF CRITICISM | and has two new propeller biade = = <r WA ALL QUIET AT PORT ARTHUR | ST, PRTERSHURG, March 7.— A dispatch from Port Arthur reports | fine weather with no marked chan ge in the situatic a a | A Viadivostok telegram states that the result of yesterday's bardment was not serious, One woman was killed an a few were wounded and a small wooden cottage was destroyed by @ Another shell exploded in the nav al barracks, injuring five sailors |JOSEPH SMITH SWEARS BY Colonel Bhuckhorf's ho damage 4 by a shell whieh pierced it and ex ploded in the yard, There was no outbreak of fire. The Russian ation, TO PROTECT VLADIVOSTOK WASHINGTON, D. C, March President Joseph Smith of the Me on church was on the stand this morning. He devoted much time} iaatine to explaining how the church gov foe Toy erned ite members, showing that| (My Scripps News Aas'n.) winter palace tonight, The object of Smoot as an apostie had nothing to| #T, PETERSBURG, March 7.—As| the session Is to devine measures lo with the judicial affairs of the! a result of the sudden attack on|for the better protection the church and that acts of officials are | Viadivostok by the Japanese squad-| town and to prevent the enemy from {submitted to the members, who ex-|ron yesterday rnoon a meeting landing forces under the protection ercise great Mberty when it comes|of the Council of ministers was sud-| of a fleet should a future attack be to acts of ratification, frequently re-| dently called together to meet at the made versing them. He sald that even| revelations have been led by a. @ majority of the church and that law of the church, He #a ot} had never discussed with him his,| Smith's, relations with his plural] ——- “ or had he ever protested suinst them, A list of the elective (By Beripps News Asn'n) tok, have been landed at Tinking officers of Utah was submitted to] ROME, Mar Tee Agensia) island, aie seenertns show how few had been Mormons|Divera’s Chemulpo reepensent| hase age ae gee perce ee Hye und how little publication there was|@sserts that the Japa Borees, | tat 4 wen seer Ss qnercise’ by the church | probably under protection of the) made on P simultaneous In regard to Frank J. Cannon,|#auadron that bombarded Viadivon-| ly with Viadivontok today 4 to the senate ith maid “He was classed as a Mormon, but ! as a poor one.” | agent, were found also to have been ed with these operations It recommended that the practice be forbidden and that the federal officials connected therewith be sep arated from office PAD STATE Hitchcock approves the w is himself named In connec- the thea | for altering People's r The specific a jegations respecting | NOT IN THE OOMBINE The steamer Portland, of the Alas-| : ka Commercial Company, arrives it eens aa || Queen ty undry will go on the Copper river run,| makin, that route. for Co The Al ka- Pacific ie & fleet of five v She will sail 6 pper river about March 10 Navigation eamer Dora, owned by the Com- CUT RATE OFFICES First avenue and Bel! street, Third avenue near Pike street. OFFIC PRICES: Collars2c. Cuffs 4c t NONE CHEAPER! pany, Is to take the place of the! NO CHARGE FOR WORK NOT SATISFACTORY. Newport aa the mail steamer be-| Established 1890. tween Valdes and Unalaska. | - NEW COR. SECOND AVE. MADISON $7 MERCHANDISE In Magnificent Assortments Are Being Shown New Dress Goods and Silks New Wash New Laces and Trim- mings ae New NecKwear and New Spring Millinery Gloves NewTinted Stationery McCarthy Dry Goods Co. Second Avenue and Madison Street [VEL prwnerine eed premenne Ay rromenne eypvonenme nl Ope “—— NR AB SR ee iy tea a —_ Special Announcement An advance showing of Spring Millinery--- Pattern Hats, new Easter---will be lor Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Youare cordially invited to attend. in Every Department New Ribbonsand Notions New Hosiery and Underwear C—) Sew Suits and Waists Fabrics apes and styles for iven in our millinery par- at of Men’s Spr Price, $1 H. LEWI First Ave., ATTENTION IGH-QUALITY Clothing Moderate Have you seen our display Ready-to-Wear Clothing. We are show est things this season. Price ing Styles of ing the nobbi- 0 to $20 S & CO. Cor. Cherry $10 | Down Takes a Piano To Your |Home $10 Down age Takes a Plano To Your Home ‘SATURDAY WAS AN ACTIVE BUSI- NESS DAY TEN NEW SALES RECORDE AVENUE, WEONESDAY EVENIN MOFFATT. MEANWHILE THE SALE GO It was 2 bustling business day ° the people to tal give High:Grade Instruments. We re, 4416 Eleventh Mrs. Adolph Behren in pretty golden oa Mrs. Carl Ericso a fine Wick orgi ant Kurtzmann piano in mahogan wea, Wash., got in line for a fine lat Couprule, Wash, selects a B | A. Spaulding, for Olympic Court C | mut; Mary A. Kelsey, a fine Kohler oak Clara Hourn, 812 Twenty - Eighteenth avenue, buy Fischer sale goes on. WE COULDN'T HEL The prices given at H. & H. Ch auguration of this cut price sale of ver quoted in ttle, taking quali Players under consideration. EMBRACING OUR This gi antic sale takes in our | Campbell, wi ‘heelock, Kurtzmann, H, TERMS MADE EASY. And the prices are cut to quick- selling figures; so that almost every Jone can own a plano or organ and | pay fo it on the easy payment | plan, a small payment down and an installment each month. Will take a beautiful high-grade | plano to your home with a name |that stamps the guarantee of re- |Mability. Other instruments at $15.00 down and $8.00 per month, etc | ABOUT THE PIANISTA CONCERT | "To be given Wednesday evening at 8:30 o'clock and assisted by Mrs. Emma Moffatt—you are invited to }attend. No charge, it is free to all lovers of good music. Mrs. Moffatt will be accompanied by the Pianista Piano Player. -The folowing pro- gram will be rendered PROGRAM. Weber Piano Used. Caprice” .... Newland Pianista Piano Player. +sseeGodfrey Marks iano accompaniment, Mrs, Emma Moffatt. “The Dying Poet” Gottschalk Pianista Piano Player. “Moonlight Sonata’ Beethoven Pianista Piano Player. “Bedouin Love Song”......Pensate Pianista_accompaniment, Mrs. Emma Moffatt, “Valse “Rondo Capriccioso” .. Mendelssohn Pianista Piano Player. “In Old Madrid”... «-H. Trotere Pianista accompaniment, Mrs. Emma Moffatt, “Polka de Concert’ . Bartlett Pianista Piano Player. Piano Players on Sa The plano player seems to be in quite a demand. Our stock has di- minished until there's only eight left. The prices are cut to a repre- sentation of more than fifty dollars in regular values. WEBER PIANOS. In all plano “kingdom” the Weber Vy ey 1207 rt style Kohler & Campbell in mahogany; W. A. D. TEN HOMES ARE HAPPIER. of Scotty Ferguson, opened up again) READ THE NAMES BELOW ANDO THE NEWS OF THE FREE weeks’ PIANISTA CONCERT TO BE GIVEN AT OUR STORE, 1207 SECOND G, ASSISTED BY MRS. EMMA €S MERRILY ON. ast Saturday. Ten new sales were advantage of this gigantic sale of the names and addresses: Mrs. W, northeast, @ ye Weaver organ in * nm, 1508 Bellevue, preferred an ele- y; Mr. George Grasser, at San De Weaver organ, and Mrs. M. Bensen, us piano in Circassian walnut; W. hureh, @ fine Chapel organ in wal & Campbell piano in quarter-sawed fourth avenue south, jorred @ ilmott, 112 piano in mahogany, and thus the P BUT SELL THEM esbro’s piano house since the in- Pianos and Organs are the lowest ty of Pianos, Organs and ENTIRE LINE. entire line of & H, Chesbro Weber, Kohler & anos. Piano stands as the mont artisti¢ plano of American manufacture. The wonderful Weber tone tha has made the plano famous all overs the broad domain still mellows out @ tone that has made great artiste famous. We are honored with the repre« sentation of this famous old instru ment and have them in arti: dis play, from the smallest baby Apri to the largest concert grand, by taking advantage of this pri reducing sale a bunch of money be saved and low terms obtained payment for a fine Weber Plano, + Sale Includes Our Entire List of ightly Used and Second- Hand Pianos. i This sale embraces our entire | of second-hand and slightly wi pianos and organa, as well as plang players. Read on: Hobart M. Cable Piano, that id asked $400 regularly, on sale her@ at $248—$15 down and $8.00 pen month will take it to your home, This instrument {s put up fn ma< hogany and is full concert size. The instrument has been used less than’ two months, Kimball Piano, put up in fancy, oak case, full concert size and I good condition, We do not handle this make, but ascertain that outs’ side dealers ask $500 for this style, Our sale price $277—$25 down an@ $10 per month. Valley Gem Piano, solid oak case/ in perfect condition, with mandolin, attachment, made and guarantee by the D. H. Baldwin Co. Sale price $179--$10 down and $7.00 per month. Gildermeister & Kroger Piano, solid mahogany case; fine deep, richt tone, sold only a few years ago for, . on sale here at $261—$25 down $10 per month, OTHER BEAUTIFUL HIGH GRADE PIANOS. ; Remember the place—it's at Chesbro's, 1207 Second avenue. Ba sure and be present at the concert Wednesday evening. Second Avenue