The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 14, 1907, Page 5

fir BUT WONT “EXPLAIN HOW arto Richardson, 4 — City. saloon, ( Hopital, near F weit & dulle’ =. The man ’ | | JAP BABIES SLAVING IN THE COTTON MILLS: de dr en AMERICAN LABOR HANDLES SIX TIMES AS MANY SPIN. DLES AS THE ORIENTALS AV- ERAG HOPELESSNESS OF THE TASK DISCOURAGES THE ret the fnjwry at THE SEATTLE STAR-+MONDAY, JAN. 14, 1907. ork and Friday 4 Phil Sheffield star in the | MRS. HARRY THAW’S SMILE AND CURL ’ » and Bell, LAttle whare alike in a critique of BLAKE GOES 10 FRISCO jor Northern Lights” sets forth a udy in natal influence, Mur or and Ha: furnish the melo amatio tinge, whieh, stran to y, Is probably not exaggerated Dally mati raday * opens next Sunday's matinee. ‘The Littie Duchess.” ng tb MEN. “The Litte Duchess,” one of the | ‘aiiagpenatngeli big musical shows of the season, ‘at the dar wit ool & eee ee ee ee ee Oe opens at the Grand Thursday night ‘trom bis cheat be le . for the balance of the week. This Richardson or @ AMERICAN LABOR - fs the Anna Held success, and attempied © * MORE EFFICIENT. « Countess Olga Von Hatefeld ts tn to the hosp . * the leading role. * Tn Japan 600 operatives are @ ® required to handle 100000 New Vaudeville Tonight. * spindles whereas in the #| At the Star tonight there will be *% southern states of Amerton # “. #. Eller, formerly night chief, ® net more than 100 operative: «@ of vaud akes the position of chief operator * can manage that number, @& re being and J, H, Brewster succeeds Mier as ® That te to say, the relative # let, inter night chief, ® efficiency of labor in the ® WOULD USE AUTOMOBILES ® south and labor fn Japan le w TO DELIVER MAIL. ® of ste to one The labor of & " a he ballet | ® productive. Henry Georg, ® iten bn the distribution and collection of ee ty 4 Jr, 4 TRIANGULAR DEBATERS, mails with Mr. Hall, head ah beh oa 7 — department of salaries and allow pital t) PeARReeeeeeeeen sh Whe debaters for the triangular tnees for this district. Automobiles Richardson s#bot BY HENRY GEORGE, JA. D of the various northwest col are being used tn Boltim Bow the bar * have been chosen by the Uni ton, Chicago and other eastern (Saattio Star Special Service.) Omaka te the center of the cotton industry of Japan, which ta, I be- teva, 12 of 15 yeare oft 1 went through two of the factories, The buildings were of brick, with larg brick chimneys, defying earthquake: th an earthquake country. I was conducted by two gentiomen whe from pers tien were familiar with ve c ? THE OLD-TIME DAINTY TASK OF BPINNING IN JAPAN, AND G THE DRUDGERY OF THE MACHINE WHICH I8 THE LOT OF JAP. ANESE CHILDREN UNDER MODERN, “CIVILIZED CONDITIONS. lehurlan product more cheaply than; down through the long aisles |the Japanese milla The gentiomen | roaring machinery. “leontented themacives with saying And there they stand in the }that they thought it very unlikely | watching the threads from € In the of olee, ond were found dead tn yesteriay. One was) * the cotton industry in th) inat the American milla would do| morning until € at night, or from € en! man, whose name! > and In the souther™| any such thing, as that would be| at night until 6 fm the x ing, save to be HN. Larabee, or They likened | descending, not ascending, the pro-| the timé taken for meals and fog it” during the night industry to ductive scale. schooling. For these children are of the southern fe cheaper and fabrica coarser than in New England, Yet they were carefal to say, and to keep saying, that they did not pretend to compare their output with our southern milla, since their yarns are far mferior—-that te to say, very ar . who died me wt the California house, he & and Main at. Aleo declare’ by the coroner the cause, The body to the Butterworth & But the children-—tt was to them that my thoughts had turned when | } 1 started to speak about the cotton |mitia, The sight of them in these rollle—mnttte that work day and night and seven days in the week-- |tor of course Sunday t& not recog- nised here in the industries —it was the sight of so many of them among the spindies that made me wonder how much benefit all this ctvittxation that Japan is now tal- ing up Witt bring to them. They were all sorte of stees, beth girte and boys Hut the girla looked smatier and tn some way appealed more to my sympathies Midget Tollers, I had been informed that 1s—12 by our way of reckoning--waa the low- oat age of children working in these milix FT caught up-one little body im my arme and asked the foreman her age Bhe wae >—4, according to | the Osaka mills leave within & year, our competation. She really looked | They seek leas exacting labor slse- not more than @ or 7, and there| where But the women and children were many more like her standingsannot leave, The Theaters ees eens fms ett Sm “The Guitan of Gulu.” j Lats last aight was there to welll ” come “Northern Lighta” George Ade's muateal! t satire, “The | William Morris, as Sherwood, the Sultan of Sulu,” opened & fO8r | surgeon, ix far, far abead of his nights’ engagement at the Grand work In any previous play, and this ast before 2 big house, whieh 1. saying much. eat and shivered through the two! Harry Mack, Robert Lawrence, musteal acts, The stage Manager) wiitiam Dowlan asd Henry Meitac of the company was to biamel sce pleasing because thelr factal for the ey blast which came from | pxpression and voloe modulation im In the first act @ Ire! ticates a careful paychological ame alysie of very diffipult parts, BR. T. supposed to te school, too, What mental strength is left for stud, after this long, heavy, dreary | is & mystery to me. Indeed, It - tmposaible that echooting should not be wopee than @ farce--a tragedy. The Men Quit. Hut this aside If the grown women earn on an everege onty 15 eopte a day, what pay de the obi) dren get? Six cente! Six centy for a workday of 13 howrs! That is what they begin with, When they | grow older and more efficient they «et more; but from conte to 16 conte there ts not much room for graduation. The highest rung in | | | roma om, about 40 years dead tn Ded at the 140% Pike st Con fe believed to have deen of bis death The Bon Wm company has the body. it lt goes without say’ & fe is dreary in the deed, it te & matter of fact that per cent of the men employed in the biggest and most prosperous of i if i ? 58 Ft Ege if 3¥ “eit Uttle more than a sixth of the Amer foam pay. Men operetives get mere than women. They average 23 cents per day. Very skilfful ones carn from 35 conte to 3 conta =. a Ne Advantage. “Then your much lower . flag ta waved. The current of air from this contrivance cireled around the bare shoulders of the chorus girls antil even their feabh could be seen to turn blue under the mass of powder. This blast crossed the footiights and Bit the audience square tn the face an- ti men donned their overcoats and the women in the audience put on thetr fur wraps, and still shivered. | Por the sake of the flag effect the audience ‘put in over an hour of setuetiy suffering. Suitan of Sulu™ this year fs given by a good company. Poestbly the cold had something to do with the performance last night for the princtpals fn the main seemed to be laboring under disadvantages, a} though at times all worked hard and the audience was liberal In the observed, “since, if American cotton “| mille pay more out in wages, they have to engage 6 relatively less number of operatives.” My Japanese conductors thought that the Japanese mifls had a «tude the better of the argument, since here, they believed, there tw « Iittle lease pay relatively with productive “But” they said, “It fe profitiess try to come to a conclusion abeut A GREAT CON. Mittie American cotton and much VENIENCE. (Chhinese and Indian cotton, The Ch nese and Indian cottons are much inferter to yours We are compet- ing in the China market with the Indian mitlx, not with the Amertean mits.” Could They Do It? T asked whether, tn thete fude- ment, if the Amertean mille should use the cheaper Bast Indian grade of cotton, they could, with thelr more effictent tabor, make the Man- ary Clearing ‘This Company pays 2 per cent interest on ac applause. j There are several good voices the. principal, qapecialty | Octa Broske, who, as Henrietta | Dodd, was given several well merit pany enables positor to withdraw his money at such time as be may newd it, and at the same time draws faterest Hardy, who ts possessed of 2 spien- did tenor, 44 Bernice Hart, who) as Chiquita, wife No. 1, was lively in her different bits, and also sa well Al Sykes, at Ki Ram the Sultan; Harry Collingdon, as Colonel Budd: F. J. McCarthy, as the private sec retary, and George Alexander, the agent, furnished the comed and pleasing bite of the musical numbers. While the chorus is not large, it ia composed of lively women who make up in good voices what ie lacking ia numbers. Many a company having a much larger has never filled the Grand uate as the 20 odd inembers of “The Sultan of | } . “2 4% [NTEREST?% SAVINGS. ws 6e Package Genu- Sulu.” The engagement ends Wednesday! night. There will be a Wednesday | matinee. | ‘The Midnight Flyer.” | “The Midnight Flyer,” on at the! | Seattle theater for a week's run, is) a highly melodramatic piece of | with ite ordinary plot rein lforced by an abundance of sensa-| tlonaliam. The heiress, deprived of | her rights, fs the central figure SRR | LAMP WICKS— LED KETTLE— ‘ 16e Dosen No. 2 Lamp 8 Bina and White | Wicks, Dick, the newsboy, ts played by Bew- | Cooking fetta for... a errr coos | sie Seabright Fred A. Biglow || wo have great bargains {i Kea | plays the part of the prisoner and | pianos, from rented, and slight | senda theill after thrill! through the | | frames of the audience A shipwreck ta Introduced and | thrills aplenty are in evidence as the play reaches its denouement ly used pianos, No canvasser to bother you. No commis sions to pay, easy payments; without Interest; a saving at from $1 to $1.50 on the price. Clines Piano House 1208 Second Av. | SUGAR AND CREAM- CHINA SALAD SETS— | $2 Fancy Neat Dec $1.09 Creamer orated T-piece Chi- | LAMP CHIMNEY— G PAN— Ipom Drip- lini “Northern Lights. Cold weather and a cold house | and yet the "8. RO.” stan at the) ‘ ENTS. SA anche teeta AMUS! 2¢ na Salad Sots .. Hoth Phones 65. No phones after 7. THE GRAND JOHN CORT, Mer. TOMIGHT, Tuesday, Wednesday; Matines Wednesday, GEORGE ADE'S TRIUMPHANT COMIC OPERA, i = tut ays we 2 Sasener ue 7c “THE SULTAN OF 8ULU” TL Sen Freee, Brentns., "i ccraty and petinos Saserear. Shayagatl if OUNTESS OLGA VON HMATZFEL DT and « company of fifty in | CHINA SALAD THE LITTLE DUCHESS | BOWLS— WITH ANNA HELD S ORIGINAL F RODUC mION. Baste | 10 Dosen Fancy Decorated Large 9) Next Attraction—"Gergeant We Oty en 2¢ | Chins Salad Bowls, 69¢ “es < eae wor u o Russell irew, Mere, om | aad Fescusonssess |SEATTLE THEATER tonight and all the week | DOOR KEYS— | Sanches saan 63¢ Ge, matlante Iron Door Xe Next week—-“Yon, Tone es Gdicuta Mighin~is 0-00 for . ‘ Pricse-t00, 100. Matiner AR Revtormancee-a 0,13 tay MATINGSRS BACH DAT AT & Beattio's Leading Veudevitle Mouse NEW VAUDEVILLE THIS AFTERNOON ~ o + Wileox’s playlet, “Her First Di- |Sersu’dessr™ Deus id\& Waynes Prank and Lovive DOOR BELLS— The Old Copper Nickel Plated Turn Buckle 49 sabbae | Beverly; La Adelias @; Starascope, RS | 4 Phones—Bunset, Main 1904; Ind. | “4 ages Players ew F i ALARM CLOCK— } oOo 10 NORTHERN LIGHT , || $1.00 Best 20-hour | Masinees daily except ‘Thureday CMOCKS ccc veeeeeree Rs s : = Performances begin, matinees,2:15; evenings, #:15 “DREAMLAND RINK Open oar Admission 250 every night In the week Thursday night is Ladies’ night-—Ladter admitted free. o 4 LEAPS TO FREEDOM, Jie was returned to his ship. COLORADO CLUB BANQUET. * = Banquet to be held shortly to Building, Phone, ind 692. Seattle cities, That Seattle streets are not in « condition to make automobile ddlivery practicable is about the only objection Mr. Hall had to bilen TER THAN CASH? jelands. #, 473 Colman Bidg. we reity of Washington a9 follows Hall, B Hawes and W. fi. Re» tiasen will meet Oregon; V. Zod ck, G. L. Spirk and MH. Trumbull, iho, and W. Hemphill, H. Allen ©. Norton contest with Pacific Answer: memes R. Cooper Wilt In an attempt to esacpe from the Kotohira Maru, a Japanese ap “We've Ball Bearing Roller Skates” Nickel Plated Adjustable, for men or ladies ....--. 62.49 ANOTHER PORTRAIT OF THE YOUNG WIFE WHOSE HUS BAND 18 TO GO ON TRIAL JAN, 21 FOR KILLING STANFORD WHITE FOR HER SAKE. fireboat Snoqualmie, ing. The master of the flreboat, tiving at the Madiso dock, id him until the police arrived GLASSCOCK ON CARPET. N'S CONVENTION. SALES! G. TR Andrews, Northwestern! Charged with making statements imanager of the Burroughs Adding | which reflect on the United States ‘Machine compar a con-| marine inspectors, B. N. Glasscock, vention of the pilot, is to be ealled before the organization ( aspectora, It is alleged that Glass This ming ¢ will be enter-|cock made the statement that no tained with a dinner at the Butler| one could secure master's papers hotel, and afterwards « box party unless be was a member of the Masters’ and Pilots’ association. The Oolerade club ie making plane plans for pushing be A-¥ 6 tt, Fi | | ees | at the Grand opera house. arke last week of our e January Sale— fe these are busy days here— —we are determined to make this our most successful January Sale and it certainly will be | —we planned this year’s January Sale upon broader lines—by far greater value-giving is represented by the pricings than any previous sales of ours; the savings between the regular and sale prices are in every case unusual—exceptional | —the stocks in every department are at their best, never were more attractive, greater, better, and @ Ing, we want you to under- stand, is reduced, greatly reduced ! —that’s why this Sale has been, so far, and will be so successful, offering such remarkable advantages to the housefurnisher—that’s why the past week has been so exceptionally busy here | ’ —we have decided to continue the Sale but one week longer—the unprecedented results for the past week have been so great, so un- usual, that one week’s continued selling at even greater demand —sure to be—will place all department stocks in proper and satis- factory condition for regular trade | —we cannot too strongly urge upon you the exceptional saving chances now here during this Sale. Everything has a decided re- duction—in every part of the store the saving will represent con- siderable to you, so come during the week, sure | —and so our January Sale ends next Saturday night ! important news for January Sale purchasers— —owing to the extra special and very evident reductions in every department, all January Sale prices must necessarily be for cash only, —we promise prompt and satisfactory delivery ser vice, f —any sale purchase will be held for future delivery if desired —all sale articles will be placed in best condition before exchanges will be allowed. out-of-town orders will be given our best attent will be reduced except Buck Stoves and Ranges, Gunn and Macey sectional ¢ —— eee largest furniture store in the West— > extends longest and most liberal credit— Standard Furniture Co. Lh fer rIord. TACOMA SEATTLE 1000Qo0 1016 First Ava.