The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 13, 1906, Page 1

2 5 _ * “4 ; y : e ° le aati 7 s a e- s re s k ASKS FOR ab At Meeting of Council Harriman Will Apply For'| wot wt Permission to Lay Tracks Along Waterfront”: From Duwamish to Ballard. ula FRA — SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, PRR BANK CLEARINGS A Feb, 18, 1806 Feb, 18, 1906 Increase +eeeeeeee ee at the - 1S FOUN on that the interest the flent ant in simply a huge ape tve scheme , 1906, “One Cent--Last Edition’ [The Seattle star TURSDAY, FEBRUARY + VOL The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News NO as CENTS PER MONTH yor “THAT WAIL FROM BOSTON FALLS UPON DEAF EARS Seattle Citizens Not Deceived by the Famous Stone and Webster Letter Published Last Sunday in the Local Organ of the Seattle BO, Harrimar ether eaat wht h Harriman would n ‘ AUGUBTA, Ga., Feb, 13.—Jonn P. the city cour t ertainly Uke to get Rockefeller, who has been rulasinat, FI Ropskive enabling His Only Aleenative no tara the pubic te concerned ectric Company. ie ; We December, eng come tn La ostad 7 Failing to obtain thie fine ap hotel in this olty and will arrive 7 and & . roach, it is thought that Harriman tomorrow . a to the Seattle El bia im the ill try to bring Die pamses often Witolin » the Seattle Electric come “J io by 5 ansonKer one « : ndhagpe the t lepet along the Seattle A “S aly of Boolen. pany for their yeormay? Cer- i ant st. bridge ainly no one in Seattle woeld have ha ng | ER FIRE to Me Limedin usd ler gay la me Sooh, They (the public) have im Lincoln's . peer mae 3 — ot ] yw cant fol all A pepe all ov GK lm, Su sisted,” complains this Stone & The fr . sis ino . Mi and $96 on the west j VICTIM KY DEAD Po ETS Pa 7 Webster letter, “that for the allel ans w => deinen Can, hy “on 7 a 4 privilege of doing business in Harrie hot - eo : came (ettna Burt yurr lin foo om = Seattle the street railways shall cific and Milw t tie WASHINGTON PORTLAND Le % Pf you an don’ pot on good Chothes hen my a ge proportion of what Seattle, Alaska 6 Ortent, and |), Datly died at the hospital this morn they take in.” the ex ’ nounce- |‘" z| D nt this after ; ' r+ mt % foun Cul wear yus._ cvnallo eee tN em pia req | appeal to t ‘ I cell i MM hana eg “2 eB On some of its franchises the ar of purchases | 0. | ppew he American peop Jay's fire. In clearing up the debrie yar 9 E r ady made a - ue “~ term the|contributtons to aid the famine |it is expected that bodies of other ”? © ats + fran A realy ook Ci , Seattle Electric company pays xd-fool oC ta b polley of at The latter is here, ! is about all ” making his hat Harriman te}? » win A Short-Sighted Deal. ricken people SHE MAY of Northern Japan. | victims with be found. BE LOST h Milw » wi On Whatcom Av. } nish” that | GASOLINE SCHOONER ADMIRAL LEFT NOME FOR aoeeen geld - Fog * upon a 1 ‘ x-| SIBERIA IN OCTOBER AND HAD NOT BEEN SEEN mama. wh nee roads have! Harriman, on the contrary UP UNTIL DECEMBER 2—OTHER NOME NEWS iready as Yr s ahd | epent 4 ¥ wth a thence up Ka av. and 17th av y r not w W. to Smite ve, Salmon bay and Ballard. He th wh ole > The Jwith dog n at the end of coming tn f a } line Admiral a y harbor, After utrugeling sving himse!f in a o ex ear and b water for half an hour he was tas te tracks as orthward , to the present time | rescued by Frank Miller, who pulled we be desires 1 Bhe und for the Siberian | him out with the aid of a dog team, lard oast, and was commanded by Cap }taln Quin Kauf May Be Lost. t tail . oe ae ae Lived on Frozen Berries. Jacob Kauf, an old resident, left on teak Eee ical for Gelovin mission November %4 at Binge the Thrilling were the experiences of/and has not been seen since. Mr. Great ren, eee Tiehting | |. masher Ww u aoe Se aon Kauf contemplated making « trip remor es ell, who were lost while trying tolto the Tanana and ted tor te compan ot Its Inter’ t.| 4 ‘andl - | ee on ts pian: peg need gre QUININE PILLS CAUSES ONE om ype ay nen Thal toed sev. mission to experiment w . . ‘ out, and for eight days they lived | deer intending to use th Se ne ea reaim| DEATH AND SUFFOCATION |00 frosen blueberries jot dogs. Nothing has 4 . | of him, and it is feared ome areeey, one waeee Beee| ANOTHER. Drowned in Surf, jot while attempting to « Geo taken the property occupled | . enn On October M1 the body of Ge ae on the ice. by the plant } LODE, Cal. Feb. 12.—Th fant | Growroos, a deck hand from the " P ‘ The Mletson-Post mil! property. eniid of Don Lewis was found dead |{li-tated schooner A | Phone in Snow Fields. Which be bas already secu the Moran Bros. com Which Re has been Medoabtedly intends to forks For Depot Site. in bed carly this morning, suffocat ed. It slept between the father and mothes. The mother is crasé@ over |“ | the fatality | ‘The infant son of Ernest Hoy |ewallowed five quinine pills | morning and died three hours later An autopsy will be held in both casem. The Southern Pacific robbed at 10 « and a lot use | kina | ‘The Jackson street property pf the ma Gmitle Lighting company. ¢ property of the Seattie-Renton Clay | fompany and the Vulkan [ron Works. and the block now owne by the city he will use for his pax-| # fenger depot This property ts| 180 wide and $00 feet! beg, with the intervening streets Vacated. lying just to the east of the Great Northern depot and ter Binal Upon it he will erect a de $8 Undoubtedly of such size and Desty that it will probably make te Gquatty edifice of the Great Northern look unimportant depot w jock lant night « f script tickets were KILLS BRIDE THEN HIMSELF A Great Fight On. RATON, N. M. Feb. 13.—Ceorge To reach this depot ia the moet}. @iieskt problem that confronts} E¥®™*. *se4 30, this morning ftal- Harriman, and will probably ree y chet hin bride of « ay nnd then | & great fight between him am latter owns pre Weleb Harriman needs to reach the} pet, ad just who will win the final disposition of the property wins to be seen. Within the last few days persons who are now sup to be agents ¢ Harriman have been fveral of the narrow t Between Oriental av. which je eastern boundary o tht aspiring with form oHOPD mF jMerthern terminal er ay. 8. This strip Blocks, if all of them Pred, will make a fine n| DENVER >. Feb. 1 fo the Harri | ado & Southeym r them, as well as geveral block Lt I ' _—_— |RaT HUNDRED ae SENT TO SIBERIA RUSSIAN PAPER SAYS UNITED STATES PLANS To: = r SEIZE NORTHWESTERN ISLAND OF SIBERIA | In on. ed RSE . " t . ‘ . sent to S w ft he first of 5 py ans at this) Rte WASHINGTON, D. © "BODY IDENTIFIED AS 2 on the beach. } Engineer Charles ing te Dog Team Saved Him. The telephone line between Teller jand Tin City was completed De} ember 1. The company Intends to} end the fine to Host River and] jall points in the Shismareti die ot and through the surf. while| Lunt go haongry Com acu oa I jut rr a ho can lhe 4¢, Ak S rosy poliass gay c wguerr.. “wheak When Stone & Webster, of Boston, owners of the property of the Seattle Electric’ company, caused to be published in their evening organ in this city, the very remarkable state- ment that the company was losing money, and followed this up with a letter to the citizens of Seattle in which they complained of the treatment received at the hands of the city, they gave scant ¢redit to the intelligence of the people whom they were addressing. No one realizes more than do Stone & Webster the absurd ity of the financial statement given out by them and the utter lack of truth in most of the statements Stone & Webster know that they got into the street car business in this city on terms more favorable than those en joyed by almost any other street car company in America Se do certain councilmen know who have been tools of the Seattle Electric company ever since. “In 1898 a group of men from the east came to Seattle to street railways and lighting and power companies,” so this Stone & Webster letter. “They found a city of 60,000 people just beginning to rise after a period of depres- ma The city was poorly served by a dozen different com- pa whose property was in a dilapidated condition. Any individual or company, or even the municipality, were just as free to buy these properties, but either they dared not take the risk or did not think them worth buying.” WERE TAKING NO CHANCE. As a matter of fact the franchise which made it possible for Stone & Webster to secure control of the various street car lings in this city and operate them jointly was not secured until the spring of 1900, when Seattle was one of the most prosperous cities in the country and when the future was as- bu Sat to hard Wolf, a Teller o, had & narrow escape mining | triet, and will use high tension tele from|phones with « 1,500-mile sound drowning while crossing the oo BEAVERS PLEADS GUILTY OF FRAUD | FORMER POSTOFFICE OFFICIAL IS SENTENCED not tak TO TWO YEARS IN THE PENITENTIARY. Feb. 13. (of New York to defrand the govern f Heavers ment in connection with the sal f sala time. d en to the | ¢ the postoffi partir tenced to s morning plea years | ile, W. Va. a pnientiary | } VICTIM OF GRIME ROLAND FINDS REMAINS OF MISSING DAUGHTER AMONG THE VALENCIA’S DEAD 1A, B. C., Feb. 13 to Rowlan ‘ re of b t " Ke | manicipality. sured beyond the shadow of a doubt. Stone & Webster took no chances on Seattle. They knew what it was going to be before they spent a cent. The letter also says that some of the car lines were in a dilapidated condition and in this respect it states a truth. ——— car line, for instance, could be placed in this ¢ And today on the Madison car line are the same old rails that Stone & Webster found there. And what of the James street line and the Ballard line and the University line? Have Stone & Webster done anything for them? Are the people who are forced to use these lines satisfied with the accommodations given them? “Any individual or company, or even the municipality, were just as free to buy these properties, but either they dared e the risk or did not think them worth buying,” says the letter. ‘The inference is that Stone & Webster bought these prop- erties because there was no one else around who wanted them, The truth is that in the spring of 1900 a movement was started toward the acquisition of these properties by the It was the all absorbing issue of a city cam- | paign. It meant either a franchise to the Seattle Electric com- pany, such as that company wanted, or the operation by the peeple of their own car lines. Did the Stone & Webster people stand idly by and wait | the outcome? Nota bit of it! THEY FOUGHT THE PEOPLE Every inch of the way they fought this effort of the people to acquire these car lines. Their representatives here spent money liberally They made promises of all sorts Some of them they have kept There was no indifference manifested on the part of these Boston, people. They knew a good thing when they saw it, and they meant to get it And they succeeded The city council was theirs to do with as they pleased, and | immediately following the election they got their franchise. And, incidentally, they have been getting just about what they wanted ever since then But to quote further from the letter “After this group had raised $7,000,000 and spent it in Se attle, the public would have given them $4,000,000 for their share in this property. Now that $14,000,000 has been raised and spent the public will give $3,500,000 for the same share.” What rot is this that comes from these dignified Boston gentlemen? Who ever heard of the public making any offer | tion to enable them to judge of | have | secured a franchi: | ness in this city. 1 per cent of its gross on others 114 per cent receipts ; WHAT THE CITY GETS, Two per cent is the highest this company will ever be force ed to pay under any of its exist- ing franchises. In the city of Toronto, Can- ada, the street railway company there, when it handles as many people in a year as does the Se- attle Electric company now, will pay to the city treasurer 15 per cent of its gross receipts. In addition that company pays as rental for the use of the streets $800 per year per single track mile. It also selis workingmen’s tickets at eight for 25 cents, and these tickets can be purchased from conductors and exe | changed for transfers. The Toronto street railway company makes money. Conditions in Baltimore and many other American cities ere similar to those in Toronto. YA : In comparison isn’t the Seattle Electric pany geting’ off very cheaply? . COMMON USE OF T “They (the public) insist,” says this ways shal! grant common use of thei who may wish to .ake away t Commer. upon the statemen: of Seattle are sufficiently familia , “that the rail* ra to anyone els¢ "s business.” ® cessary. The people his phase of the ques+ ghteousness of the come plain. But listen to the | “They have drive obliged them to invited competition overhead.” The Seattle Eh then ed the competition to stay . pany, thfough Foeies conti g it to remain in ing busi- ETON FRANCHI co. The public till familiar with the“Shpifleton franchise bunco. At est of thepapplican is franchise con: tained @ claw bysiness section of the { every eight ducts laid by heir conduits is for the free this franchise Electric cor ofpany has ‘secured an interpreta: permit the city to use these ducts) et ghting © \aed for wires for commercial lighting he city is obliged te string wires overhead, omplaints of Stone & Webster. ticn o f this clause only for wires fer They cannot ttle to complain of ? er system that doesn’t transfer, annot be secured except upon the pure h of tickets at the offices and suby | stationg of the Seattle Electric company. Cars crowded to suffocation. Single track car lines upon which fatal or serious accidents are frequent Participation by the Seattle Electric company in municipal politics and continued control of the city council. The use of juggling tactics in securing what is known as the Shuffleton lighting franchise. An assessment for purposes of taxation on less than $2,000,- 000 when, according to their own statement, Stone & Webster have $14,000,000 into property here. A continuation, in many cases, of the same conditions that | existed when Seattle had only half the population it has today. If Stone & Webster hoped, by the publication of their letter, to strike a blow at the municipal ownership movement they have gone wide of their mark They have given to the municipal ownership advocates a | weapon they had not hoped to secure. They have loosened the fox and the municipal ownership pack is now in full cry. FIRE ON TEXAN © f state urd wage Wa gton mmiss' $ irs. Mary J. Mars 1 by Wa Re Cory h will 1 ( k na ay nigh