The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 4, 1905, Page 5

om JOHNSON, OF CLEVELAND, PROPOSES giry LEASE THE STREEY & WELL RAILROADS FROM THE OWNERS KNOWN TRUST IDBA BACKWARDS unique OHIO MAYOR EXPLAINS SCHEME. ‘and they generally are of the octopus the mayor | qua genial way and ex) t “pt rds, so that the} ot Lo org benefit. Trusts | peele: Gra for private pro ry Mae treet would be for the je the Keynote of Maye golution of the st gaivay prodiect. It f@ being « with intense interest reformers and capital gained immediate tho representatives ot} railway companies | with Mayor [ fy YOURSELF travel, attend church, of conta, Never sold in Lots the best cheap lots In Dlocks east of end of Aane car line, and Basy terma loquire . Aon Tort | olorasaone A NEW PHOTOGRAPH OF e T in the rate of fare, which fs 5 cents. They have been fnsisting, too, upon | better service. Tmpertant fran | expire have expired or are about to strike a bargain with the street ra way company. The latter offers to give, in exchange for a blanket franchise to run 26 years, a slightly ‘improved service. There is no way in which satiafactory service can be guaranteed, and the people hesitate |to give away the stree for 25 years with the chance that they may have to endure poor service for the sske of big corporation | profits. | Municipal ownership advocates | Ohio laws the city has no authority | to operate street railways. The | mayor believes would give the people al! the bene- fs of municipal ownership and few of ite responsibilities, Tax- payers could not suffer lows. If the effort to run the traction system for the public benefit should prove a failure the property would be re turned to ita former owners. The relations between the people of the company would be just as they are at present. “it's staple and it’s fair to both sides,” said Mayor Johnson, as he swung sround in his office chair, to answer questions about bis pian. Its novelty and boldness had startled people, but he could see no ceeaston for alarm | “It is simply an application of | the rales of modern finance, the trust idea, to our local situation,” he explained. “The plan ts the one by which the United States Steel | corporation acquired and operates the steel mills of the country. The American Stove Co. operates sub- FRIDAY BARGAINS That Prove This Store Always _ Seattle’s Best Bargain Place memepeneneprscmmnrreneemncme fiiase Metal Door Locks, old | 10-inch Granite Pie Pans, regu- | SO, worth $1.00 .... SHE | tar 100 .. - Se Double-Bitted a.) Steel Ax, | Z felled. ......2.. Og | Fels Maptha Soap for ..... - de fe a 1M Doobte-pitted ax Handle 40e quart Galvanized Watering ai . cc, 2 leans PMC A BOYS’ MIN-| || y¥. M. ©. A. BOYS’ MIN- | SMRELZ, CHRISTENSON'S STRELS,CHRISTENSON'S TURDAY NIGHT HALL, SATURDAY NIGHT | } | hee * O44 Copper Front Door > I-burner Off Lamp Stove | | Locks, slightly soiled .. 9Re B8¢ IB tx. Cont and Hat Hooks, | 15¢ White Semi Porcelain Vego tolled, 2 dos. .... 5g | table Dish Be i Sem tplecs Veneer Chair | We Decorated Chios Cuspadora, mseeeees AO + Be ee ei a ER & HURLB — splendid values ... 2d Ave. and Union St. —— NEW PLAN FOR PUBLIC CONTROL OF PRIVATELY OWNED FRANCHISES THAT THE | But tithe eworkina TH b= the stock of the former stockWold RRR ER RARER AREA REAR REA ER HA ERS ore t Jome years ago a Detroit street on" } ‘ POINTS IN MAYOR JOHNSON'S SCHEME gj railway company in which I was i te ownersd public benefit ® lerty t Mine ny . “ _ sail hte? ; Replete sare »eporation’s peteefit property * | $15,000,000, though we contended 2 HO nat of sareot raiirods from polities. @ lie Gee cae ee } Removal of street railway seouritios from speculative mark # | ground that the price was too high ¢ peter than civil vice be cause street rafiway employes # be ine toe vthen tit Bie,o00. for the public, but are not hired by city officials, * — ol Heed at} 1 PLAN WORKS THE TRUST IDEA BACKWARDS— « P AB Tg aggro { yor THE PUBLIC INSTEAD OF AGAINST IT * |ioarmat te "now $25,000,000. We were willing to deliver our property Werte tees PEER ERR EER AR RR RAR [6 Detroit under the plan How pro- | ' nd oe eveland would you go about it to WRLAND.—“Tt Is the plan by /having expressed @ willingness to your plan in effect?” was oe “usta are form-jadopt the Johnson plan. It will be all modern tr r — Mayor Tom 1. Jo a oroughly considered tn the @ ity and the company agree wp propesition to the local street sion of schemes for the settle | upon a fair valuation for all its rear company for a city (a | ment of the Chicago traction prob- | stock and bonds and « fair dividend fireet car lines here for | lem |upon the stock, Then they # Denefit. If the visitor ts/ For years the people of Cleveland | five or seven men acceptabdl i by have been demanding a reduction! both sides. Let these men secure | expire, and the time is at hand to; reduced rate of fare, and promises | jare numerous, but under existing | that bis scheme | idary compa n the same way now in tte apy suggested ponded ratiways No, that la not true,” re The Etkine-¥ Philadelphia innati tractiag, It formed tion to ta divi loner e of aned system in 1 $2,900,000 | over the giarantoc on we will place on edge, a variety of » will be £ Hed If recety --we@ want every little girl in Seattle to “Happy Home Gontest’ —it will be very enjoyable and interesting. Nineteen fine prizes to be awarded, Come in right away’ “Happy Home” and special booklet tell* ing all about the contest. 1,000 attractive pictures aPC day night and Ile extra is sent f >) $1 down. | AR OIE ok j—you can a Fi balanc and take a yle year to pay it in. Standard Furniture Company 1006 to 1016 First Avenue enter our and get your “transfer,” each val frame pictures, pretty embonsed mail orders ndid and attractive O. D. or tele phone orders taken huys a Buck range a little each week or month i. SCHOENFELD & SONS SEATTLE BELLINGHAM TAOOMA j . HE MAYOR OF CLEVELAND. turf course and a track train | leew eth RE yearlings and to race horses on dur * jing wet weather | * CATS GUARDED * an ordinary corporation charter! It cost $1,500,000 to purchase the . DEAD MISTRESS. * from the state, with a nominal cap © nde and « iidings - = * * ital, and jet the street rallway com-| at Belmont Park. There are two | lw NEW YORK, May 4—Six ® pany lease all its lines and property | stands which will seat 18,000 people| yewport. F Mey 4.~The|* three big fellows black as * to this new company. The latter 000 im the grandstand and 6,000 | p¢ ene ee as | night, three tawny and striped # } Will pay interest on the bonds, f in the 4, There is a magnificent | o¢ the big t han Moonbeam, which | * "ke @ tiger, guarded the body * dividends on the stock and p club house, « large cireular betting | jroke away and foundered off Point |* of “Aunt Mary” Recke, who # & sinking fund to retire the bonda,|ring and a secretary and jockey# |judith last night. All. on board |* died alone of heart failure in & The present company Is to give the | office were ésouaed, tileding the exp 4 “* book room of @ little store * leasing company an option to buy — tain, engines. steward and two “ 976 East Ono Hon 4 an * * ek at an agreed price at any geek eee eat et ee & & &| Children of the captain. Sinty third seen, ices et % time. As a guarantee, it should be * jacking all who entered, provided that if the leasing #@ COL. CUPID STRONGER @ dents of the Dakotas, are planning Two policemen beat the cats ® pany fails in ite payments, t e THAN CHURCH TIES, «| (2 Dave the governors of the two |# off with their night sticks, but * owners can take back the pr rs @ | Dakotas here when the big steam when the policemen teft the six * ; under a 26-year franchise, but with | Ba ah Dakota arrives fn port. The resumed their watch and # Schete tor &. guartar This would |e ce, On May d—-Col. #) Dakota ie snow om her way from to be driven off with sticks # axt sf quar s would @ Cupid scored a victory over ® } safeguard the property righis of the|@ church ¢ ln Ganthn when © New York. Many people from the before the morgue atte * en who now ow o ine twin states will be present, for each could get the body out 7 men how own the lines . Blene ‘exelburne, for. ® | Adéption of the plan would take|@ marly rector of St Paul's Epis. # “laims the honor of being the name room. * |the street railway comp out o sake of the big ship. The Dakota * ailway company f\ @ copa! church, married Miss # j politics and its securities out of the|@ Mary Marter. rai expe ted in port some time next eee eee ee ee sob emartonts hi emptoyes would |@ The minister abandoned hie # °™ 3 Rear Admiral Kempff bas com aot A polities, bestase, though | @ church because of its canen #| Chairman of the military board, | pleted his trip of imapection on | working for po public, they would | inet the marriage of divore- @ Maj. W. P. [§chardson, sailed north | Puget sound and will leave for San Bot be employed by city officia’s. ed rectors # | Wednesdaf night on the Humboldt | Francisco on the steamer Puebla | “in brief, the plan is not muni Rev. Esselburne was a di- #| to begin operations on new govern-| During bis stay on Puget sound of | bal ownership, but private owner | @ vorced man. # | ment roads in Alaska. Maj. Rich-| two weeks, he inspected 61 vessels ship without profits. All the sur: | @ @lardson will make his headquarters | and is well satisfied with the con plus above fixed charges will be de- Yoted to improved service, and) fares will be fixed at the lowest possible rate. | “The people will get the benefit | of all future Increase of franchise | | values and of tnventions that will | decrease the cost of service, ! | | | Finest in | the World |BELMONT PARK 18 THROWN OPEN TO THE PUBLIC (Special to The Star.) ' ! } lew ew eee eeeN ene * }® It is the finest race course in }® the world \* Tt ls on Long Island, 13 miles {* trom New York's city hall [® It contains six separate tracks. hh horses. The steel reviewing stands will seat 15,000 and shelter 20, 00 persons It has the largest ring in the eountry It is reached by a 10-track rallway. It contains 560 acres. It required two years to com plete it It cost $1,500,000. The horses will run “right handed,” that fs, to the left 2 40 atabl , housing 750 Serrt tree re ress. booking ee ee ee ee ee es NEW YORK, May 4.—The most |magnificent race course in the world was thrown open to the pub- Me today. This is Belmont Park, jthe new home of the Westchester Racithg assoctation. The grounds contain nearly 560 acres and on ft Jare six race courses, an eliptical }track of a mile and a half in efr- ‘ cumference, a straightaway of seven furlongs, a steeplechase a ee ee eee ee ee et Skaeway dering the summer Latest Photograph of MISS EVA Lowis 2572 Hamilton Avenue, Chicago * ditions. Danderine GREW MISS LEWIS’ AND WE CAN PROVE IT HAIR The Great Dandorine Never Fails to Produce the Desired Results ISS Lewis’ hair wes very thin and it was lens then two feet in length when she begen using Danderine She says her haw and scalp are now fairly teeming with new life and vigor. That's the mein secret of this greet remedy's success as « hair grower. It en livems, invigorates and larly clectribes the halr glands ond tissues of the Healp, causing unusual and unheard-of pctivity on the part of these two most impor- tant organs. Pesulting In a strenuous and continuous growth of the hair. The following is « reproduction of Mise Lewis’ lest letter: Jenuery 3, 1905. Dear Doctor Knowlton :— You know t told you ia my Gret letter that my he not reach much below my shoulders, and that all of it only mede one tiny braid Lam sending you my photograph. which | had taken et Stevens Bros, Ut tells the whole story better than | can tell it Everybody I know is using Danderine, no something to show my appreciation - Sincerely yours, (Miss) EVA LEWIS. you see | om doing Dandorine makes the scalp henlthy and fertile and keeps it no. It is the grestest scalp lertilieer and therelore the greatest hair-producing remedy the world hes ever hoown it is a natural food and @ wholesome medicine for both the hair ood scalp, Even a 260 bottle of it will put more gonuine tife in your hair than a gation of any other hair tonic ever made. It shows resuits from the very start. HOW at all druggists In three sizes, 25 conte, 60 cents and $1. per bottle FREE To show how quickly Dandertine acts we will send derine Co., Chicage.with their pam silver or etamps to pay postage to any one who Knowlton Dan- sand 20 counts ID For Sale and Guaranteed by the QUAKER DRUG CO. telephone dependent 6:00 and 1188, 7:00 senger ar and sent you at once, Friday and Satur-74 | day Specials . 25 Dozen Negligee and Golf Shirts fancy in white and all the patterns, Percale and Madras; Regular $1. 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