The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 6, 1907, Page 5

‘ “Al LOVE FEAST BEATTLE, HILL | rare of Seattle, 4 ENJOY THEMSELVES jon Senttio, by an author who re City 4, prominent i the | Thete are A milibber of perdon patitioal ctr ore" ae umdla, |» Hillman. Hee effort put forth by «a few determin Beach, gathered 8° od wpirite to the seor Meent banque! (hat) wore for annexation, first, last and red, These hivbtem, all the Ume, but they hetlevad that Hon of Columbht) it was oat of the question to se apaéxation March | sure a ward or cotnellmante rep inaugerated for (he) ward, This engendered a contro we iy over the CF@At-Tin the position he took and expres ward, and the man-/od the groatest joy that this tmport @ councilman. aot matter had turned out so aus plelously and satiefactortly ex-mayor of Around Banquet Tabie. tonat and riche} A hearty vote of thanks was ten AM the position. Uw ’ . Pies influences of the lof Southeast Seattle for thelr aplen. dtd eftorte in «yg cheer that) eee Soke were |#nd at the conetuston of im, HH Fe erwin. ee O [given for the Twelfth ward rt, Swan Lewin, T. MeMullen, Everett Columbia, W. W. Phaten, 8 A Wood, 8 Me FA $. Rhye Dean, F. A. Gitman, Geo. Pratt and ©, Free aeore? speaker msi. T. MoMullen, Chas, Gillespie eautton in the ne Mike Wright, Robert Bootn, MM te for coanct} | alle, O. @spey, Wm. Gloskia, R eanitida | R Wood, R. 8. Sexton, J. & Kem jper, J. BR Keefe and James Ed | munds From Southeast Seattle, W. 1 palitical Weed, D. O. Pratt, Thea. Gagner, nelimanie ©. A. Staley, G A. Pingree, Geo. freely discussed, no Donalieon, ©. A. Collins, C. O. Wal Peet made (oO waine a can. bro afd C. Wood, Jacobs. Fred Hall, Peek Niliman, ¢€ 0. * iter is to be left! From Brighton Beach, Evorett various Improve. Smith, Hamilton Pratt sad James that will, in a short | Stevens peommitions to select a) From York, D. M. Taggart to hold o rease meet. Prom Beacon Hil, G@wan Lewta, ot placing « From Seattlg Br. C. B. Irwin. PR EMO “ee Bea TE ONE FAMILY 2 years old, and: where she was taken from the res 14, cousins, died | Menee te John at. “A double tu & 148 pm. Young Grodem's father} ar Boren and Stewart sta, follow Harry a preliminary services at the Mut fever, at the fam-jterworth @ Sons’ undertakings doha st. The «irl!rooma The bodies will He #he by : ie General hospital,” aide th Lakeview couptory. Se ne tions of the season, Matiness aatty except Thursday and Friday. At the Star Theater. There a tara at the Star then of @ Musband.* at the Grand laabet dainty little comed}- | ter thin week called “The Crasiest ‘& three-perform- | Act in Vaudeville,” and it thorough eek karen known favorizes and | other numbers are also good ne ~" oe oustern crit: water HOUSE ROBBED WHILE IT WAS BEING MOVED. on Hearts.” B Week, ts drawing WOOd | ine Lareat method of robbery re Production bas been ba orted to the pales, Ht wae accom and as a comedy- pleases, Gonception, the char! could catch them. 0 well a@raws and the cast ~ ; Bye NEW STREET CARS TO dlp apal MERE NEXT MONTH ne « eal this ncok to ses| The now direst care ordéred by and the Pan-| the Seattle Bleetrie company are cempeny in “Lord | expected to arrive early nest the best attrac | month. An effort te being made by -- the company to have ite track com HAROWARE CUT pleted on Third a¥. as soon as pos sible with a view of cutting dows Dy the factory. We tag Our large stock of this faR fare you money. ~~ fs also being rushed am the nee power plant in North Seattle, an | Manager Grant expects greet im provement ia the service. KEEN CUTTER ore a Store for Everybody ROLLER SKATES. Sige Heavy $t.s0 pair steel frame Roller ‘ Plate with hardwood go Vith $1.09 Solid Oak Frame, 69e. KITCHEN KNIVES. s¢ black handle steel blade Kitche 12c Roll Fine Medicated DOOR HANGERS. fine $4.00 set Lane's new model Gone double sliding Doo aaa ae F Te. 7c Heavy Tinned Pippi gee SHEARS. Twist Coat Hang de. ing steel blade " 49e WINDOW CLEA 8. nat d and ' 19¢ PLASH-LIGHT BAT- TERIES. 5é Heavy Retinned Iron Handle Mixing GAS HEATERS, size $2.79 B IRD CAGE 5 medium size jouble $1.50 One table Hardwood Curtam T3e. | WARDERS AT pmera, | eandidate tn nomination, Thia will Se or. COLL Iss be done until Columbia ta a AND BRIGHTON Toastmaster Irwin read a poem od fused to alive Die mame, that was . a magnificent tribute to the Queen tes of The present at this gathering that rently and honestly opposed the} - ing of @ ward Tast Hiaht, and 6% )for these towne. These tadividuals oo ereeifth ward. /resentation, and desired lmmediate weeks ano This annexation as a part of the Second A fellow i versy with whieh newspaper read xing any ditfer-iors are familiar, Bach and every tuetings that! man at last atght's meeting ack-| KNAPP, POWERFUL 100-LB MAN, PUTTING SCREWS TO RAILROADS cr dered during the |nowledged that he was mistaken dered the mayer and counctimen wourlug A new Ward, t night's a. |effair, three rousing choera were Those persons present at the danqtet, were ae fotlowe: From vor of Co Biaten, mayor of Co! perking, MH. H.-A, Hastings, Harry | Powell, F. O'Rourke, C. B. Freeman, MARTIN A. KNAPP, President of the Interstate Commerce Commission, Who Has the Rall- roads Under His Thumb, LITTLE CHAIRMAN OF THE IN. TERSTATE COMMERCE Com. /°("6! Intereats. MISSION, KNOWING THE MYS / TERE OF THE RAILROAD BUSINESS, BECO POWERFUL MAN IN WABH INGTON, eee een ee are eae The best indorsement of Chairman Knspp's fidetity to # the interests of the people as opposed to) the powerful rait Woy interests was t trated effert of all the rail- roads to secure his removal by FINDS THREE. IN neral will teke place Friday at oe aaa ee t the Methodiet cBuret appearing im the ly lives ap t ft name, It ie done ete Suetees, “Susan in| bY & COmpany of three, and incTudes Mal & Basdand.” The sup. | eccentric dancing. borlesque drama fe composed of end comedy plane playing The is," at the Seattle] prondering « house on the fly te plished yesterday by young boy - burgiare. who Boarded « hoe at a. Jobn at. between Foarteenth and hyrie. Fifteenth ava, Which was being Mg Der” at the Lyric! moved on rollers, and the thieves Be fewular stock com-| stole several «tial! articles, The & gocl business.) boys escaped before the morers the congestion on Second ar. Work legislation abolishing the eom- misstoe. eteeeeteettae . . * * * 7 * * * Re By Gilson Gardner. (Beattio Star's Exclusive Service.) WASHINGTON, Feb. Most powerful man tm Was —more powerful even th dent Roosevelt—ta theory fect—te Martin A. Knapp, chalranan of the Interstate Commerce Com mission He is the man who heaie the bu- eau which puts the screws upon the greatest and most powerful ag eregation of capital in the Uaited Btatee—the railways The reven tee of the American railways are Greater than the revenues of the @overnment ‘The word of Chair man Knapp affecta railway com merce from Maine to fan Diego, and from Alaska to the Florida Koys. When the subject of Increased! power for the Interstate Commerce Commiasion was firat Droached, 5 score of rail senitorial commitine on conttnetce, declared that any such law as pro fered would create a bureau more Gowerful than all the other depart thents of the government combined ita validity has not been questioned | Since its passage. Therefore, i may be aeourmed that, for the thne being, the commivelon ia wiehiing | the gigantic power (6 whith the } railway oxperte referred There ia nothing terrifying {n th apprerance af the man who heads the Interstate Cotamerce Commits sion. He is pot large in stature, ! nor flerce in utterance. If he bad lived in the age of chivalry—the ace of brawn and beef—he Wwowld probably heave had hie brains knocked out long «ince. He te hatdiy more than five feet high god would tip the scales at about 190 pounds. His strength i» all pure brains. Somewhat Modest. hairmam Kaapyp is modest to the soint of ahynens. “The other members of the corm eoission are magnificent men,” sald ‘heieman Knapp, when threatened with a writeup, Go to them. See fudge Clements. One of the finew minds I ever met to Judge *routy, He is wonderfully taform 4, and bas «a way of putting any ubject that tn clear and con rincing Or take some of our now men. Mr | “ark is a distinct acquisition. The | way he goes to work is worthy of | sl! praise, And Mr. Harlan—s big. turdy tellow--and with a mind tn | keeping with his frame—ean work tay and night And Mr. Lane, & fine, aggressive, clear headed, hon fost man, 1 tell you, I am proud of * commission. There ts no need for centering on lam just go [ing along, inying out work and writ ling orders and opinions, ext trying aw into working shapé that Chair 0 got the | But the fact rems man Knapp is looke fellow commissioners as the final jav, near ¥ | hams Wipe oes authority on all questions that are | intricate. Judge Knapp has been commis joner for something over seven }teen years A large part of te resent law wes drafted by hiv hand. Hie judgment us to legal forma was accepted by the pres font as final He a Master. The secrev of ¢ success, if there t is summed up tn the one phrare Hall market Fine Baste We're Selling $2.25 Wood Heaters for $1.49 Double lined with top draft 20 inches at 81.490 Woe deliver to the suburbs. Ste Union Bakery and Cafe Jade from fres and the best crea ter Taw end tnerease thelr power andy ary, 1897, and again by President an ecatire surprise, He years as corporation counsel, an ap od by President Cleve! SEATTLE THEA TER Russel & Drew, Mars, Phones 43 Interest in his work. up soul aud body in it Iie in a widower He lives Alone and works. He reads and studies and He ja bound Shuique of the #ubject » lkmguege of the traffic world end ean tallt the tongue of the traf MOST) railway matters, and can quote the upréme Court's utternnces on ev Phase of the problean. He knows the yorscnmet of the great railway end can call the chiefs and aubchiefs all by name. al propertion Of the em Ure railway ‘wetwork, and the tertes of their bosiness and fi fnange And he knows the ins end s of their efforts to evade the BAY! ARE YOU READY the merits of ine ait ae a Ciret clase place to invest your money? promincat mon of Seattle have be- come members of this aesoctation and have been more than gratified] Ine. of Seattle, and CLAN MeKEN7IE, No, 164, 0. 8 C, Wednesday, by the returns made on their cap-| February 6, 1907, Wal Talk with Chas, Osner, secre-/ tary, 416 Baile: see or after February 5 for reserved seats ¥ experts, before the) The people are waking up to the fact that thie is not foad on paper” SUILT, When the Carnegi ook Company ar order for steel, meane business. The railroad is The carloads of materials whieh are artiving daily; the deeds for ; the franchises whieh ~ being granted t cits and county these things mean busin pm RuArANtee xpected when spring opens and he road can Incteame the its butiding eperations HAVE THE MONEY TO and money counts The question recently New England broker whe was trying to interest in this railroad rome the etock of this com id except the pany had all been the unsold portion without healtation handred and fifty up to 07 Bis | in selling for rs tional money-ty tion one thing people to raine the money million dollars of that capital The fact is that money Is being eribed for thia Chicago to New m ts one of money PURCHASE COUPON Southwestern Securities Co, 610-611 Elite! Building SEATTLE, WASH. Enclosed find $ full or partial) payments for rue SkATTLE STAR WEEDNESDAY FRB. 5, 1907. | den, St SERRE E EELS HONE ERRERER EAHA REA WD! | 8. PD * RAILROAD GIANTS THAT MUST BOW s| and 4 TO, A LITTLE MAN, MARTIN A, KNAPP. 7 | hd Coo me * Milonge Stocks. * * Capitalists a Bonds. * ® Vanderbilt ..... $1,920,284,600 © » Pennsylvania *) » Harriinon * » Morgan, HillMorgaa * Gould . foore ‘ devees 20,000 ' Pa kefelter - Oop ee eeeeunens 13,490 2 SR RO RR iit tk tm Roosevelt in November, 1992 te a etudent| Mr. Knapp was born in Onon dagaco, N. ¥,, on November 6, 1443./ Weahh, Martin A. Knapp rather than a poilitietan His ap potntment by President Harrison to | His parents w farmers In com the Interstate Commerce Commis |fortable etreumstances, and young xlon came to him unsolicited and as | KHepp obtained a good education, was then |#eademte, college and in the law, | ¥, | without any of the struggles which the boast of some self-made practicing law tn Syracus He bad served in that town for aia | Bre men pointive office, He was reappoint} {tla a tulstake to drink poor cof: | nd in Februr| fee and tea—Schiiing’s Most, ** AMUGEMENTS. AAR AR OL PLL LLL PL PR Matiness Thiredsy and Saturday, Tonight —All Week. “HUMAN HEARTS." (You Know ity Matinee, 28¢ and 100; nights, Ie to S0¢ Lyric Theator : RUBSELL & NMEW, Managers. Phone 561. cidental Ave. and Washington @t Matiness Wednesday and Corner Manager Pantages Presents “LORD CHUMLEY.” Matiness dafty, except Thitraday | PES and Friday. Deere fen: Matine Phones 3:30; event 1:30 Performances Burst, Main 1304, tnd, 4334. begin, Matiners, 2.15; eventing “148th Anniversary Robert Burns Grand concert, under the anapices of the CALEDONIAN SOCIRTY, at 8 P.M. Grond Opera House, Admission, $1.00, S0c; gallery 260, Tickets exhangeable at theater box office on LINCOLN DAY BANQUET, Lincoln day, Feb. 12, will be eete brated by the Young Men's Repub Hean club at a banquet at the Lin pelected toastmaster, and the fol | lowing will joorge H. Walker, a “Nome winch $6.50 ay -{RECIVED WORD OF FATHER'S DEATH = | Daniel Pargeterser, a well known resident of Green Lake, recetwea « | wire from the Vancouver authort- H. 8. Frye has been speak: King Dyke “Our Olub;” Raymond P, Ox . 4 08 WAASAMRIAG |" RAIDE | Dee eens ot tte thre pega ‘the Presidents” A Porgeterser had died there sudden« The Republican Purty,”| '¥ Lila morning The deceased of t le est residents of Noi couver Island, heres last) | as eater news—| every heater in our “Heater Store” has re- BE ceived a ne pricing--much below actual ef value =the purchase of a heater here tomorrow rep- ie resents a real saving, that will be appreciated S during this changeable and uncertain weath Ea er, be sure and take advantage of this i olfer tomorrow—only a specimen of these last-of-the-season values given below f anany similar values to be found in $e . po our large Stove and Range Store— the most satisfactory and most eco- t nomical place to supply your heater ry wants. £ $1.00 down and $1.00 a week 4 buys a go-cart— the Standard Victor Oak heater ra, |} Muturdey, 260 and Ie. TONTONT and All Week, “THANKSGIVING we believe this to be the best low- hee priced heater of this kind made; has ney DAY.” (A Pretty Hural Play) Evening prices, 00, B0c, de and 60 sickel turn. kucbe for feed deca aad pk STAR price oe ie ash pan; three nickel foot rails, screw cae MATINEE RACH DAY at 100 Kesitiv'e Lvading Vacdevilie Howse. lower and upper drafts, nickel top ate MANY ARE COMING TWICE THIS WEEK. urn and ring. ey James Francis Guilivan & Go., in “The Craziest Act in Vaudeville;” No. tx has 21-inch i the Oxave, © i Tom ant. 4 firepot, . ood . 4 Standard Furniture Co. ( dit \ u $35 Now--Will Be $40 aShare Any Day Construction Work Progressing Rapidly on the Chicago- New York Electric Air Line Railroad Stock First Sold at $25--Increased 40 Per Cent in Six Months Another Jump Coming--Get in Now a Train to New York in 10 Hours. tween Bouton and Providence on | Chicago to New York in t | the New York, New Haven and | hours, it will pour a golden | litt | Vice President Buckland of that | rare opportunity and who have | sist upon securtty railroad #ays regarding the mat-.| the courage of their convictions.7 They ter INVESTORS IN THE CHICAGO. | Tellroad | “We are acting on the belief NEW YORK ELECTRIC DO full capacity that all the great trunk lines in | NOT PAY FOR WAT- Hons. | thie country will eventually be ERED STOCK operated by electricity.” The steam raflroads of the | again i This ChicagoNew York Klec United States seem to be “be the fro. tric Air Line Raliroad Is the at | tween cal, the most sensible, the } sen, shrase which has the loan | sharing equally in the enormous most profitable and the safest tn- | become classical On the one What p the facta, here at a | profits according to their hold vestmont that will be offered to | hand they are confronted with | time an ¢ nous expan: | ings Roadbed, right-of-way, the Am ple in years and | an urgent necessity and a pub- | aon of facilities Is urgent? As | equipment nehise se cars. It ta often that the | lic demand for increased trane | has been stated, nearly every rall- | cured and all the pros- ral public gets a “ground | portation facilities, On the | road already has been bonded f peetive- ¢ ngs of what must chance in a railroad invest: | other hand, they are face to face | every dollar that could be rai prove a wonderfully profitable ment, Is it wing that a flood | with the difficulty of securing | The surplus earnings, after 1 railroad, add to the security of of money ts pouring into the gen- | the nec ry cash to meet the | Ing the heavy interest charges | the investment The _regult eral offices of the company from | heavy expenditures involved, awd operating expenses, | proves the wisdom of this method ople who are alive to this Op- | The earnings of American rail- | have been dissipated among the | of financing the road. The inter- ity? roads are very great. An ex- stockholders in the shape’ of | est and confidence of the public ent Conuatt, of the Ponn- | pert reporting to President | dividen and “melon Now | are aroused, and, like a rolling ania syllem, died the other | Koosevelt says the tariff charges | when they are confronted with an | snowball, small first, but rap. ( Vhat was his contribution | can be eut 10 per emergence the ratiroads find | idly attaintr @ proportions, to the railroad world? Hore in | affecting dividends themselves so heavily capitalized | the combined investments of the what the Chicago Examiner say ets are enormous and bonded that they have noth- | people already are sufficient to “Cassatt discovered that it je | glance it would seem a simple | ing to r the money Jer place the enterprise on a firm better for a railroad to build ite | matter for them to raise millions. the way additional secur financial footing tracks In a straight line than in a | and it has been in the past, The crooked one. This reveiation, | difficulty Hos in the fact that simple as it wes, was ae far | ¢ jready “mortgaged up GET iT now AT $35.00 reaching in the railroad world a8 | to the handle 'f you didn’t buy at $25.00, get in now at $35.00. This stock Napoleon's conception of cannon A ra 4 is about the only | WS first offered at $25.00. Many bought at that price. Then stock was in the world of war, Cas | thing which can be rigaged for | Jumped to $26.00, then to $27.00, then to $28.00, then to $30.00, then aatt, looking into the future, | more than Its cost. According to | @nether jump to $32.00, On Saturday, January 19th, it jumped would say: ‘The straight line | the prevailing system, nearly ev- | Sddenly to $35.00. At each jump in price the number of sales in wine always ory raliroad in the land has been | ereased. Why? Because there was a reason for the jump, The Sonic denied: hells teeeed , i. 1 | Toad wae actually being built, and the people had more confidence Sh Ne att gh A spac ae | than ever, You can buy now at $35.00. Even if you don’t buy Nek wl,” Wee Winetete Air I ~ Aesegnatines Cette opre. | NOW, watch it, It won't stop at $35.00, It is going higher, and soon, tL dan, Gakuen bn, aioe Ss ee The fact | t?% Don't wait until it goes higher, Fill out the coupon attached ialhenes: “Gneneke - 7 af tal hething | 2d mail today to ing. wi'h pene route wad | emphasizes the ‘wonderful am | Southwestern Securities Company ing FILL. IN-MAIL TODAY | Our office will be open till 9 o'clock Saturday even ing for the tenefit of clients who cannot call during the day | HOW YOU CAN BUY STOCK NOW Western Agents We Are Offering the Full Paid Nonassessab!e $100 Second and Pike Street, | Par Value Stook of the CHICAGO-NEW YORK ELECTRIC AIR LINE R. RK. CO. on the Following Easy Terme. $35 buys | share, pay down §3.50 and $3.50 per month for @ menthe. (ony whether bs ¥ ne $106 buye 3 si pay down $10.50 and $10.60 per month for 9 months, shares of $175 buys 8 shares, pay down $17.60 and $17.80 per , } month for 9 months. stook of the Chicago-New York Electric Air Line | $980 buys 10 shares, pay down $25.00 and §35,00 per | month for 9 meonthe. | 9875 buys 25 shares, pay down $87.50 and $87.60 per ests | month fer 9 months, $1,750 buys 60 shares, pay down $175.00 and $175.00 per month for 9 months, oe eeeees | You can contract for any number of shares | paying for them in the same proportion. You can pay more down and more per month if you desire, eo ween as or you can pay in the entire balance due at any tine, One of the Hundred Mile-an-Hour Electric Engines That Will Take into }ine. Within a few months , send tte trains through the chote- ; railroad. These ratlvoads have is | Indiana, and Southern railroads. electric trains will be running be- | est part of the United States, from | sued bonds until they have noth The trouble is deep seated. It n | ing left to mortgage. They have | grows out of the system which nothing to offer in the | obtains generally for financing Hartford Railroad at the rate of | stream of wealth Into the laps of | way of security, and people who | railroad enterprises. Diametri- 160 miles an hour. Here is what | those whose eyes are open to this | have money to invest or already bonded to its | adopted after mature reflection there is some pros | the situation. This new railroad pect of getting the money back | is now being built without bonds. i's earni nd the deep | ficient meet th | | Name dha cs Sens easy to buy- ; 1006-1016 First Ave, donna mane t { In their embarrassment they are resorting to desperate meth- 4s. Because of the urgent public necessity, growing out of our developing commerce, they are trying to get the President of the United “States to “pull their chestnuts out of the fira” By unjustly charging him with how tility to the ratiroad interesta, they hope to move him to tssue | a special message to congress, or statement to the people, expiain- ing bis position and voicing the unquestioned need of the country for increased transportation fa- cilities, Armed with this docu- ment, the railroads think they will be able to go before the pubiie with an argument which will unloose all purse strings. To verify this analysis of the situation it is only necessary to refer fo the newspapers in which appear advertisements of brok- s offeriig year 5 per cent notes (unsecured) of the New York Central, Lake Shore, Miehi- gan Central, Chicago & Western lend in cally opposed to this system are the methods of the Chicago-New to know, when a | York Blectric Air Line Ratiroad seeks further mil. and with a perfect knowledge of want to know that | The future has not been mort- will be suf- | gaged. The stockholders will be interest on | the actual owners of the raflroad, TEAR OFF—FILL IN—MAIL TODAY. INFORMATION COUPON. Southwestern Securities Co, Western Agents. 610-611 Eite!l Bidg., Second and Pike St., Seattle, Wash. 1 am interested in your railroad project, and if my | request will not obligate me in any way | shall be glad } to receive further information. Aj subscription to Air Line News. Address nebvee Gaveceeneters