The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 28, 1905, Page 3

Waroh Us Grow’ Credit || | WHAT WAS SHOWN BY Visits TO STORIES OF GOOD AND BAD EXAMPLES DULUTH, HAMILTON, 0, RICHMOND, VA, ALEXANDRIA, VA, AND WHEELING, W. VA, BAD MANAGEMENT AND ALMOST EXHAUSTED PLANTS IN SOME PLACES, BUT IN EVE RY CASE THE PEOPLE DENE ~ Sore The Price You Pay for Parlor Furniture Is Less | Genuine Leather Turkish Arm Chair or Rocker Mase k ve leather, b roftte front and sides, REOMME AVE ‘e@ UNION STREET De Your Trad . De Your Trad 4 She Fair OfeF air She Fair and Get Your and Get Your Money Back. Second Avenue, Bet. Pike and Pine, Money Back. Do Your Trading at Ghe Fair PACH DAY—TO THE FIFTIETH CUSTOMER WE WILL IMME- DIATELY REFUND THE AMOUNT OF HIS OR HER PUR- CHASE, NO MATTER THe AMOUNT Until July Fourth AND IF YOU A THE FIPTIETH CUSTOMER THE AMOUNT OF 7 YOUR PURCHASE WILL BE RE FUNDED ' || Wednesday Specials Table Linens ........++-+. ad One-Halt Price l ORDERED INTO COURT B, Alexander, Receiver for the Big Monarch Store on First Avenue, Must Show Cause B. Alexander, Receiver for the B ch ing Co., at 1317-1319 First Av to appear before Referee Mont ¢ creditors have not received settlement claims against the concern. Tt and it is said that unless the Recei make s further reductions in pri be slow in getting their cash. The he B tox nd it is probable that the Refe sition made of the ck so as to hasten a of the company’s affairs. PAINT BO¢ dus a B-Ib. pack age of deco- rator, enough disp: up es | $1.50.» one gallon of Standard or ys Murphy's to ae e Varnish your kitchen Fg buys one or dining- 35¢, 1 oe ot dled Shingle or Roof Stain $1.50. buys one gallon of different col- Ora to select from. Rubber Ce $1.50 ment Floor One gallon of ry : ric Yhite Lead our strictly Turpentine a and Linsee teed paint Olt Ernst Bros. Both Phones, 606 PIKE STREET. Under the private company tne men worked 12 hours a day, ni they work eight hours. The private CASTORIA For Infante and Children. | | jeompany paid for labor 15 cents an Ronn We var 98 beets” The Kind You Have Always Bought A board of five business men con-| Bears the trols the plant Polities cuts 20 | Signature figure in its operation | of | Critics of the management charge | that the showing claimed for the | . alii plant is due to the bookkeeping that taxes are not charged up to the plant, that maintenance expendi 68 CENTS tures are charged up to construc fis 5 Sana ” tion, that gas bills are swelled by . aaey Oregon Creamery Butter putting high pressure on the meters 23 CENTS and that the quality of the gas fur- | for ¥ nished is low 4-pint bottle Lee It Is unofficially stated that the rin's Worcester 200 » furnace company ald gladly take lM 0 os. “Nene the plant and furnish (lluminating jon pte 4 r : gas for 75 cents, oon Saek of tue Label Cateu : 60 cents per the nt | FANCY LAUNDRY SOAP 2 cakes 106 kes $2.75. we Retail at Whole- # cakes 250; 100 Why is not this offer submitted the people?” was asked men of fous interests. | No use; the people would think of giving up the plant not was substantially the answer of all of them | Pric The furtigce company Is employ sale es ing solicitors and spending large our mounts of money to increase the MM «cc. are roasted © : © nsumption claims the be ta ah pa rT Ny Boe t for the present good condi r& “ + ‘ts. ry Adame’ tion of the depastment iat wine @ per pound. Duluth, it seems, has tried both © Guarantee it better than most 40¢ Coffee private and municipal ownership It prefers the latter Are lights for street INumination are furnished Duluth by a private company at the markably low rate of $55 per lamp per year. This officials to be sald by city © to the existence of the city gas plant, and the efforts, though un successful, that Duluth has made to} ADAM xet from the legislature permission to erect a city elec plant fe | Hamilton, O., has long been re-| TEA & COFFEE CO. 1 ; #21 BECOND AVENUE. garded by all hands as the terrible Near Medicon 86 example of municipal ownership ireot. Hamilton has made just about al possible mistakes. The gas 1 | — and the electric plant, too, have; "When the city engaged in the gas| business it started a rival plant in stead of buying out the existing pri vate company. Radicals had insist ed that the latter be “run ont of business,” It was grogay for a time but is now lusty. The kept its gas works up to date. There is not a complete set of rec ords showing exactly what the plant | city has not} | The D. & Johnston Co. Has Dis- tributed Thousands of Planos and Organs Throughout the Northwest. THOUSANDS gan jJete down low found that the GY . ’ ; we) lights had been extinguished by | fully: presuye aud that rooms; &*e were Titled with gas, A committee of councilr engaged for gating the cities with a view of sugge provement Friends of the present condition ts no reflec munteipal turn the company Af to benefit rived by the city nd aldermen has been everal months Inve Umbrellas wi Ribbons and Fg REE Ma tliiy S| gas plants of eve in Richmond “Liege Gloves Neckwear plant aver that its " ' RELIABLE GOODS ONLY. -e | clare that the people would not con sider for # moment busi news tion on They oi whership A proposition t¢ Stylish Shirt Waists On Special Sale Tomorrow over to & private that have been de it is stated that if FITED, - the profits, above all expense of op | xmas eration and interest on the cost of |the works, had been wet aside THE | eob idee lace: operatio 00 the price PLANT WOULD NOW HAVE A ’ . ;/CREDIT. The plant paid for itself! the the price was cut to 8 cents ar ' i ve WASHINGTON, June 28.—Duluth | that rate still prevails. OFICLALS | !one The city has used the a(S’ Ribbon | pre vv ot leason of (CLAIM THAT EVEN IF THE | Profits for many years in making | municipal ownership, Beven years|PLANT SHOULD SHUT DOWN /&¢heral municipal improvement rr private company owned the|THE PEOPLE WOULD STILL Bit | Meantime the consumers have had Sale gus and water works, There were|AHBAD BECAUSE OF THE IN. |‘ antage of rates that are low | 00 cases of typhold fe in the | FLUENCE IT HAS EXERTED IN |COMPAared with prices charged by | a | ty, due ehlefly, if not wholly, to| THE REDUCTION OF PRICE private companies in other cities. | ' Friday mpure Water, Gas was sold at$1.90} Advice of value to all cities that}, 4 | | ner theueand teat sadertahe municipal . enterpris The 124th annual report of Alex These plants were purchased by given by Jos, J. Pater, a prow Hever Va., nays the city council the city for $1,250,000, Officials say |inent citizen of Hamilton, who is |'Urhed down the offer of a syndl that this am $900,000 was! thoroughly familiar with the city's /C#l® that desired to bup the gas paid for actual property, The bal- | expertence plent, Gnd that the profitabie re LADIES LAWN WAISTS in 4 col AIST f awn with tucked ance, $350,000, was paid to buy back THE GREAT, ALMOST UNI- | !0n Of the latter has justified its ore, very Glesly Ade and " to-date broic fronts, ve ylish and hand the f hise which the people had| VERSAL MISTAKE HE SAID, | Tetention. City officials declare that z Kage me; really worth §1 cach; special to given the company Upon that | "IS THAT CITIES DO NOT BUILD earnings have been nearly {a every particular; al! sizen, cach 690 F 89e WO above the al worth of LARGE ENOUGH PLANTS. THEY At on the cost of the plant WAISTS of fix ality lawn wins, micee “WAT alior ‘ ling the e property the city wate and ‘OUGHT TO LOOK YEARS hinery i tn bed condition ly finished with cks and embrold famou Tom Atkir > Nght department has, since the pur-| AHEAD, The people will v« at, for all that, t ple favor ery rtlon plain. white tucked red linen, white China sil hase, been compelled to pay inter-| amount of m y to build a plant pbs ipal ownership. _ The price of and hematite values from $1.7 d Swiss; th a h est but they will not grant funds f jag is $1.20 @ thousand foot to $2.26; on Tow at, each. $1.58 $2.00, $2.50, § PF) L. N. Cade, to whose ekiliful man- | ettensions. The lesson ts that the} lon't that a little high @ bus | agement the results are largely due,| beginning should be planed on a|"%# man was asked | AT. Yon gave this concise but eloquent his-|lMberal scale, With that done ther t compared with our water WASH DRESS AL VOILES, woven tory “ot the gas plant jis no reason why such enterprise bills,” he said A private company 7 megmangye By po “4 1898, $1.90, now 90 cents; gas for |! Nve.ta here I pay $19 a year water | pe Matted fuel, 1898, $1, now 75 cents | Richmond, Va., has had a municl-|'86 For a larger house tn Wash-| You'll have to hurry, 1 u've time ahi” The city bought the plant in|Pal gas works for more than 5o|'"8ton T pay $6.50 wv, if a pri to make your new dres the “Fourth 10D “is August, 1898. Before the close of the |Years. They do not think of the|Y*e Water company gives us a) w Pips p LION DE 1 one of the year the price of illuminating gas |OWnership notion there as a reform, | *reble water rate, what do you sup- | © have et of new go a! i een. 0 materials sold been reduced from $1.90 to| Or soclalism, or surpation of pri-| Poe 4 private gas company would Some kinds that cannot be secured elsewhere eu 1 regularly every tie In t it dropped to $1.40,| Yate business. With few exceptions |“ Here are a few {tema here at 30 A y and timely 1901 $1.25, 1 5, 1908 $1, 1904|the people of Richmond have been : re purchase of our New Y er enables us pare accustomed all their Hives to city Wheeling, W. Va., le usually re | wov WASHABLE VOILE n smal! and e t tomorrow . 190 The gas plant, where owned by /Ownership and they accept it as a|férfedto as having obtained poor | medium sized plaide and te OHAIR LUSTER VOI e plain col ae Eabeen aauimenienn 4 always | matter of ourse. réduite from ite municipal gas plant ly fast shades of biue, tan and ve ored material you ha looking for, \ r r r . | Prien of the plant, however, de-| handsome 1 y ble for shirt waist navy, brown, been a burden on the water he works now are aged and in p | a me an mont. Under City todeagoment the |sdequete, They have‘becn profits clare triumphantly that {t has given | suite, regul 16 6c @ yard ial to t special at gas plant, in the first year, ran be-/ dle, but the sur instead of be-| the people 75-cent gas since 1889, a | morrow at, only 100 . hind $8,000. In three years it paid |!ng held to the credit of the plant, | ib He equaled in any other | | its own expenses, including fnter has been diverted to other munict- |‘ ° lon the exhorbitant valuation, The |Pal purposes. The council having | plant is very nearly in the | Ladies’ Belts | Windsor bg j profit last year was $2,000 This |Tefused to appropriate money to} ~~ class. The earnings,, however, | [mS WINDSOR TIES in plain colors year it will be $5,000 provide adequate storage capacity | rots ample to carry a bond ts-| one K BELTS of peau de sole, taffeta ¢ Rents $76,000, the amount necessary | BLACK BELT peau d fancy plaid ylors with embr ed In order to encourage the loca-|the service last winter was the |? rig t , - | all sizes, neatly shir . i ition of a great enterprise here we| Cause of much complaint 7 ae he plant in good condi-| finished with embroid oh i sik grenadine: began last year to purchase our| It Was necessary to send: much of | “oP F te impossible, though, be ar value 65¢ and 7h< the same quality sol rywhere at 35¢ supply of gas from a furnace com-|the gas into the mains before it had | C4vs®, the receipts of the gas com LOMOFTOW Bt .. worse sevwees 49¢ = each, spe here at : 250 pany which has coke oveus in con purified. ‘The pressure was ir. |Peny Bre used to pay the expenses | nection with its plant, We pay|fesular. Persons » who had turned | °F te municipal electric lighting Biri: Page ; Wace a Gani acai ox ty saan the -acesceli ame plant,'which produces 600 arc lamps LINEN COLLARS, plain and hematitched, two for ....... oe cress tonne oneceesee ROO oe | fo wtfeet lighting. So the gas con mithérs light the city Tt Ie'absolutely necessary that the KAP works be rebuilt | relieving it of the ex |pense of running the electric plant | A syndicate of prominent sought some time ago to take over be done b the plant courageme eity from y bu nt and this may McCarthy Dry Goods Co. Second Ave. and Madison St. citizens | The plant was purchased by the | private company in| — { have repaid the j1s7t Joost price. Natural gax ts furnished | # * to citizens by a private company at)» pers HAVE GRAND FEAST *& ¢ 18 cents per thousand feet, but the oo L Grr: any, ore. June 28-— ® m 0 mes uri ure be ret the use of — Hg ne * Asiastic rate played havoc * uminating purposes. People de- | 1 aan rg # airing to use this 18-cent gas for {}-|* Wit! the cargo br pres . U01-1103-1105 SECOND AVE. luminating purposes have sued to] 4 4) unin. now discharging at the # get that privilege. The lower courts! Aisska dock. All the rice & have decided in their favor. If the | 4 cnest were gnawed through by * CUT PRICE appeal courts wustain this decision | 2) e"\ Mere | = S jthe city will have to endure hard)» sampied every article in the # competition forced by the natural) $ tl ot good aboard the ® jane Company f l& chip. As a result there io a ® | : Po Ranag 4 # shortage of freight and the ® oe hs = cover with riee ® “ * =| [; MORO AY O08: SSS See omens FOR TODAY AND THURSDAY | _ - |@ the chests and bags on t * | | were removed. The dark * ; PORTLAND, June 24.—Mre, Mary bres = the nae ws being * 1S $ | 5 f Meyer anc r rin Jone fled with sulphur fumes while shicheres ° aiauan vious ; on 4 as.|% an army of cats and dogs is ® phyatated by in a rooming house | * 0% duty * this morning. There were two gas | * * jets which failed to turn off com.| 8 * RR RR AAA AAR ES resser pletely, The women were visiting the Faink\Wier ¢ 1g has earned, and its cost, because its financial history has been written Unvarying Satisfaction to the Pur- into the general accounts of the| e ‘8 a Feature. city. House connections are made and stoves set up free of cost. Some ee ge ok para this costs the city $15,000.| “mont tor the moncg™ ine per Pipes are extended in response tolorgans a musical instruments. | petitions and not limited to profit-| The variety is so large that every paying territory as is practically | taste can be satisfied and the universal rule in both public) Pocketbook wulted. The are and private plants. | Chickering, the K Hobart City councils have refused to pro- | ™ ble, the Haddorf and” many / jother splendid makes, and besides vide the money necessary to keep | that the gas plant {in good condition. | The plant has reached the limit of |;COMPLETEST OF COMPLETE PI its producing capacity and is about} ANOS, Ta Sie AUTO worn out | | With all ite drawbacks friends of| Inaide ite beautiful case, complete Hamilton's gas enterprise speak up |ly hidden from view, is a plano play in its defense. When the plant was|e¢r-—-use ‘t or play by the keyboard : * Ag you prote Help Your Condition. | You are invited to view the spler The “Brooks” $2.00 Hate hav | did aggreg\tion of musical instru |etyle and quality you want Peay ae | that Prosperous appearance, c. games “. Fine exhibition prices, in rockets,! geattie’s Leading Piano A ag candies, mines, etc, at Piper 903 BECOND AVE. Taft, 1024 Becond Ave, eee Burke Building. B. Calder, general agent of the Wednesday morning to the effect that the Canadian Pacifi about | to bee the » ar | other steamshl; of $250, 000, for ne rtherr LJot of Lawns, in neat floral ey iin a me effects, worth 10c, special for codon “y + sorb hour. This will give . M Ch 3 of speed second only to the fly orris alr Princess Victoria this coast Of highly polished golden 4 sat tats te tgeepenntan: of Canal oak, has nicely tufted rich for the bullditiy ee another coast red reversible cushions ate for Southeasterr ska Seat base is clegantly Hot ot Fancy Votes and By wate nd it is wu that carved; legs and arms wns, in light and dark Mil the contract for this new boat has || Scrace rong Bh Toloring, value 20¢, special Bi) yeon let and that she will be able avec dandy dear for a oe Salant ete hong hb Brass rod admits adjust - in red that th Princess ment to any angle. Cut to 1 May will handle all the business be tween British Columb! and 3 Alaska, and that the nev will be run from Seattle. le tl > 3 e 2 {9 believed the e Ladies’ Ribbed Summer PARIS, June 28.—It is believed th no sleeves, special 83c Bee Hive be A summer luxury. We will fur- 2615-2617 First Ave. }ntwh you with the newest styles at/f| WE TAKE YOUR OLD RANGE AS PART PAY ON THE NEW, Between Vine and Cedar. [$1.00 and $1.60 each. BE, N, Brooks! ALLOWING EVERY CENT IT IS WORTH. Its profits exposition PRR Is solid oak, golden finished and cures } French plate oval mirror, CRAMPS measures 20x24 Inches. Base measures 18x42 inches and conta’ ors For s 3 easy sliding draw- ach full width and oem two days cut to. NEW BOAT Vesta, k, worth Moroccan cr Rouvier and isis is passed, Premier gt Ambassador Radolin of for nec many, while talking guardedly today, intimated that, while the WI] | Hol J | AN FE | AL |minor questions of differences re mained, the conflict is no longer a} is considered near at hand. eee. ee one | Very many exclusive features—the great number of modern con- LONDON, June 28.—In the first|# yeniences which the Monarch has—make it a particularly desirable round of the woman's championship |f ya, THE EASY TERMS under which a brar = Monarch 4 ange. 2 BAS £ e a brand new Monare in tennis at Wimbledon to Miss | may be purchased are the fairest possible, May Sutton, of California, beat Mis N. Meyer 6-0, | $5 CASH AND $5 A MONTH WILL BUY A MONARCH HERE. To make it still easier for you ® The Vestiess Shirt. & Co, 1231 2d Ave,