The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 25, 1907, Page 3

yards away , but when we other order for the ry one in au the rest, were tt awakening of the people w Ga not want The n I kicked open fae and told th is oo how to adjust life pe ale consumed time. family con Pothier and three The last I saw of t ding in the as All were los Only two actions have been lost worked nobly. ‘As the Columbia ran seized the whistle rope an two short blasts as the oe conruisio: the fires went out. BANDON HOPE FOR MORE SURVIVORS: (Continved.) manding upon the schooner We had been going wore were stopped re not needed, Then came an Doors Kicked Open, t fan down Into the cabin and in door after door ote the flunkies | as they scrambled pople they were still fast asleep “These passengers scarcely hance for their lives three or four minutes in which t out, Dozens did not -% rservers and m they were yy women who did not hurry, did not consider the alarm ser! as those on the other side the steamer were down on the led side and could not get out. Praise For Seamen. “Right here I want to praise the wedish seamen. Before the offt came these two men got boats out and saw the ship. They it for their officers to give them the passengers etal pane. >» fighting among the for places In the mee to the women. fitively there was no explo- | The boilers did not blow up. M bad not been for the San Pe- lowering boats more Reavy sea running at the time, the San Pedro's crew managed the survivors kets and coffee “During the excitement, after the struck, Capt. Doran P wored to encourage his passen- | and helped the women. Columbia was now listed forward people Were dropping off the | into the ocean, the propeller | high out of the water. San Pedro fell an# carried with k load of lumber went Those who had just been rescued were hurried on deck again, moat of them naked, T it mix peopl n the de am it wan believed the San Ped was going down, She seti@ the waves until the out, A more dorolate, dism@ and discouraging situation could scarce ly be Imagined. There were boats still filled with people in the water which y|could not be taken on board, the San Pedro was tn a dangerous predicament. Eventually a couple of lights were set out and served ae beacons until daylight, when the Elder came. Too much praise cannot be giv crew of the San Pedro, nor people of Bureka. The lat ter offered food, shelter and money Thé people down statra on the port aide had little chance to escape and only @ few of the steerage were got out alive Those who did get out of the steerage cannot tell how they did it, Agide tin wore faved by accident, or, I may ay, en th to th pas from those who managed to the first boats, all other 4 miracle. There ts no disposition on the part of the survivors to lay the blame on any one. Thelr feelings are of the kindest toward the crew of the San Pedro, and the herote action of Capt. Doran and his men calls forth nothing but laudat jthat there was a blunder; th | doth masters gave conflicting or ders, There would have been no acoldent had each boat continued on its course instead of attemptin to turn The women, many of them na | ked, were pulled aboard the San | Pedro by ropes and were taken | down stairs at once. The cook of the schooner prepared coffee and all the Columbia's survivors were given drinks, then stripped time, and ‘soon the discover: Teseued, back into the wa Stil further difficulties arose. | them. on the | “All could not climb to the top of the cabin, and two women, olth too “With the destruction of the Col-| came an indescribable | Ro was horrible. Was black and foggy of the San Pedro being the gloom. had at prices These come in be had with cane A large own, givi < unity t ose . Wood seat, ma ia0 37 TO ta SECOND BUY Now Every: | did not end with by the San Pedro. W Were many of the Columbia on board and a feeling [aafety came, one boat leave Pier 2 for Navy Ya ” BOX SEAT DINING CHAIRS can from $2.35 id Dining Chairs cane, cobbler esired Buffets, Sideboards, China Clos c., are also to be seen. Showing is the Balcony, just above the Main Pav Laren house Co., 112 Untversity be Pieet of Battleships at Navy ¥ THE GROTE-RANKIN CO, «eee, complete Furnishers of Homes, Steamboats and Hotels _ DINING ROOM FURNITURE Our medium and high-grade Dining Room Furniture show- ing is particularly good at present—in fact, it is one of our strongest furniture lines. DINING TABLES, in a large variety of styles, are shown at prices upwards from $27.50. The as- sortment includes pedestal tables, as well as those with legs, some having square top and others round top. Of course we have Dining Tables at prices lower than $27.50, but these are in the less elaborate styles, and come principal yin golden oak and mJ} weathered oak, wh the medium and h er priced Tables « in golden oak, weath ered oak, fumed oak and early English oak match the Dining Tables mentioned above, and can leather or solid wood ber of patterns is ample of ALL THE CREDIT YOU, WANT | connen | SECOND ave. || amp || UNION ST drewact in the berths which the offtcera of the San Pedro bad sur rendered to them. Mi od Maybelle Wataon, waning woman two hours after the wreck and life, ia one of the riving here on the Bilder passengers ar & Net of the | path of such ac tow y the compa which were taken , Oklahoma City Ham Pinney | vard to particular the Frank Mario, § a , Santa Anna |Fred Knapp, nie Buxton, Youngstown, and wife, Sanger ‘| years of operating atre Bloomington, Henry Knust Jutta Matek, Wisconsin; The passengers agree, however, Whasasete Indian territory Clyde C. Roland, Spokane _ Smith, Portland | Thompson. Napa, Cal | that the | nothing ab | chise. such clothing as they still pos sessed and wrapped in blankets | and put to bed. All this required | was made that the forward end of the| San Pedro was sinking. A few! minutes later the rear mast of the San Pedro gave way, and in go ing by the board swept six Colum bia passengers, who had just been * from which they had peen snatched. Orr, Schuyler. Mock, Oakland, Capt. Hansen's § the San Pedro {his report and sent it to the super | visor at San Francleco. |port he states that the San Pedro | was running slowly on account of In substantiation of this he says that after striking the Co- lumbia the San Pedro went broad account of having little The stern of the San Pedro be- | | fan to sink rapimy until the hold, the cabin and deck were flooded The waves even came to the top! of the cabin house. When the San Pedro crew saw this calamity they | }ordered all hands on deck. The} senk, ~ | Passengers seized the life presery jers and ran on deck, not even Buried in the sea. The cap | Waiting to put the blankets around retained bis grasp fope and after he was un Soruncns blew the whist |, 0 exhausted "or leep after their exertions, failed a to save themselve: nd they were | — | ordinance. Bat, making good P Hansen praises his men for | He does not place any | Fesponalbility, | determined at the faventiqntion. THE THEATERS “Dolly Varden.” will be seen to sound $65.00, complete Hot-Air Fur | nace, large enough for seven-room | |house. These furnaces are a large-| capacity, high-grade furnace, sold under a guarantee as special. For | Saturday at the Grand opera house July only we will make above price Call and see them. Geo. H. Wood. xt week the San Francisco Opera company will jsuch action as appeare At the Seattle. Singing Girl, supported by the Burgees company runs all week at the At the Third Avenue. novel dramatized and presented by the Taylor company with Laurette | Taylor in the title role, will be seen juntil Sunday jon, at the Third Avenue. At the Lyric. | “Whirley-Girley” of the Lewis & Lake jedy company at the Lyric all this | Councilman ik. jmutiilated by the corporation jhenehmen tn that body into the japology for a substitute which was wubmitted and adopted at the lant | the offering Musical Com At the Lois. The Sunatora troupe of Japanese! re among the head!iners who are giving patrons of the Lois la cup filled to the brim with good | vote of the people a proposal to construct a municipal street rail | way system. This petition also was | rejected | unique tricks. | At Luna Park, ile, lively crowds and | fine weather, when combined with a host of big standing such as the held another indignation sessior and resolved to go into polities an make Luna Park this week just the place for a good time. | selv At the Star Theater, instrumental e the Carol Sisters » Star theater this week hey on their favorite in struments, @ banjo and a mandolin and they render music ular with all classes. » bill is evidenced both afternoon a night shows ROOSEVELT THE DICTATOR. (By United Pre 7 of Assistant WATER SHUT OFF. Water will be shut off tomorrow Ww. O. W. Visting Woodmen and Voit 0 and 4:40 » Fer a far Navy Ward. (Continued.) y | Which, Immediately after they w opened, mov the exol street railways over them 6 OPposes Westlake. To the opening of Westlake boule attle Ble tric company offered very material opposition, “That thoroughfare as | Proponed affected the praperty on which ite Fifth av, car barns were Jopened, t effect of opening It be jing to inereasesthe value of that jpr erty by fully a quarter of a |million dollars, But despite this ‘aot the company refu to join street, 1 in court the actic to condemn and waa awarded dam ages running into tens of thousands of dollars. This dog-in-the manger polley natur ilfeeling among the owners of other property on the street, who, Au & result, Were assenqod to pay the Seattle Klectrie company claim. And when the company stepped up to the city council ¢ ask the exclustve privilege for t cara o the thoroughfare there wasn nat urally some Httle resentment 0 the company’s selfishness as we! as of ite grasping policy of privi lege seeking The original opporttion to gran ing the franchises asked for by the company on those two streets tool the form of a demand that the franchises contain full common | user provisions permitting thelr use |by the city or by ther future grantees on torma of equitable fair ness, But as this proposed to with j hold from the applicant the mor opoly privilege which it sought, it fought vigorously for its origina s.| demands, even to the tesuance by esident Furth of a declaratic: mpany would accor rt of an exclusive fray Some Fireworke. This declaration touched off the | fireworks of slumbering citlzenshi throughout the city and brought ot jsuch an uprising of popular indi | nation that the elty counel! thoagh friendly to the compan did not dare to grant the franch tne as auked for by the compa common-user Clause proposed wa | introduced in the council as ar jamendment by Councilman Willian Murphy, and became known in the fight as the Murphy amendment | Frightened by the storm of popula indignation, the council finally adopted the Murphy amendment after which it passed the franchise ident Furth’s bluff of a few weeks previous, the company declined 1 | accept the fragchise, thereby de claring, in effect, that it would have exclusive franchises or none. This additional piece of ins lence served only to fan the flames of popular indignation and while this indignation was at ite height the writer of this narrative cireulated, and secured the signa tures of @ score of prominent cit zone to, a call for a public moeting iu Christensen’s hall, in the Arcade building, for the purpose of diy enssing the situation and takin necensar That meeting was attended about 400 persons, and, after dis [cussing the subject at some length, | Jit resolved itself into a Muntolpal Ownership league, with Judge W D. Wood as president and Home | M. Hill as secretary Seattle thea gerne Not Originally Political. As originally organized this ue Was Hot political in ite pi ng designed tm iy to pro teet, if possible, the exploitation of those two and other ‘eanor route” thoroughfares from excl: sive franchine exploitation. To this end « charter amendment was }drafted providing that thereafter |no clusive street railway fran hises should be granted over “eanon routes.” This amendment was introduced tn the council by Murphy and promptly ity election. The league also pe titioned the council to submit to| Beaten, spurned and humiliated before the city council, the league make still another effort the city fre » the Seattle Electric company’s arrogant domination. Prior to this a little group of Ia bor unfon men had organized them into a Workingmen's League for Munictpal Ownership and augurated a campaign under the direction of a committee consist! of 8. W. Harmon, Frank Cotterti) and James Murphy. Negotiat were opened between these two organizations which led to the hold ing of an independent municipal ownership mass convention in the Labor Temple in January 06 which convention nominated Wi Ham Hickman Moore for ma a full ticket of oth car Judge M ea nomination was the outcome of a strenuous contest, in which Matthew Dow, the contract or, figured as his chief rival candi date, Judge Moore winning — the nomination by f lot In which three him fraudu ery eye and to t votes in a bal und the tain knowl edge of the writer. But at no time had Judge Moore taken any ac in the og i pat, and his nom ion, once it had been made »pular following which calculations of the plunder Looking for @ Candidate. Immediately the uders of the republican machine 1 to beat brush for “a can who could beat ‘Elly The first requirement was man who had no victions to be attacked and who could pose as an advocate of mu nicipal ownership during the eam Second to this it was eaxven fter the active to all factions,” a politi jon which Mterally inter preted. means possessing the ability of commanding the suppert of all the privilege® in wolog te make wp the party machine, Pac tone whieh consiet of voters mere Paciise Syuadion at Navy Yard 0" HOW THE NOMINATION OF | RIPLINGER WAS SECURED e a ca ‘Wittiam Walker 820 Second Avenue. Marks Don’t other Us are not taken Into consideration In thie expres An Wis already re forward to gobble sive privilege to operate the Gaaraneatadien railroad intere g the political onraity of the terests which he political mins comminaion » defeat of the FRESH RANCH Fees 22c » had heen created by trallroad g the petition for opening the view which ' even deeper for Tomorrow, Friday, Only and Arrves WAISTS AT | 50c | 95c $1.25 | Worth More Than ‘on Account of falling s to hin farm inexpected development moving as it did the organization which Mr his grand and ily aroused some little ‘any of them, in casting about for found ® political step WAISTS AT WAISTS AT Selection of Riplinger. this organiza John Riplinger as Worth More Than | Worth More Than out of a number of con Paul and Ritehie » and attends HANDSOME LINEN COATS, A BARGAIN AT $2.00. Meek, ward heeler distingutshed brand of good citizenghip 4 subservient political allegiagge Reduced from $3 “Ses lems i i Summer Apparel D, $12.50, $19.75, $29.75 which included Kinnear and Belding, wae detatie and ascertain hi This committee ould have preferred C ike standing he bustness if that was the best | EVERY ONE WORTH DOUBLE AND MORE. Wathen 820 Second Avenue. ‘FIRE SUFFERERS DESTITUTE Practically 300 were made homeless and returned Brainerd dec that hé did not propose to ommnittee expressed the . t wouldn't fight him.” the approval the rejection of eral at Row whith ff sought to consult and pla the committee verfect dts organteation r’s nomination STRENUOUS DAYS FOR ROOSEVELT -: f (My United Press.) OYSTER BAY porte ts claiming the attention of Children’s Wash Dresses at 1-2 "| GLASS TRIAL ENDED United Preas.) FRANCISCO. re ater in the and subscription | suffering and help place Louie Glass case only about $50,000 White Summer Skirts at 1-2 7 . ron at Navy Yard. *** ¢ five masted schooner George morning he takes a plunge tn cold sa ry with ce at worth about $2 not feel like taking he pitches into The Novelty, 1316 Second GREAT FACTORY SALE ans and wil When he doe the woodpile Washington appears on National Creditmen Quite a compliment t Fleet of Battleships « Special Sale 10-40 second Will trade or b Drew stock, at Theo. 1008 First av WOMEN’S OUTER GARMENTS ¢ place on sale IT’S EASY, TRY I Try putting aside a small sum a little on Tuenday oe ne, measure of satisfaction and con Once a week bring the When one knows t semi-annually, $1.00 is enough to start a savings Northers; Bank & Trust Co. Capital Fully Paid Many advanced fall styles remembers what the when it wa morrow only EVERYTHING CUT ALMOST IN HALF SUIT DEPART- an abiding pl f ownership is real of Fourth and LADIES’ COAT DEPART DIRECTORS: ¢ Coats $223.95 Coats 812.95 ADIES' DRESS SKIRTS —ALL KINDS Up-to-Date Colors and stes were cast | gy | POCKET SAVINGS LADIES’ PETTICOAT DE PARTMENT. threatened to upset | LADIES’ WAIST DE PARTMENT jal $2.50 Waists $1.45, Will help your deposit grow, we will be glad to present you with one.... Itleal con. | should be a man “sat- | NOVELTY UIT AND SKIRI Mi G. CO. 170 Second Ave. NTEREST ON SAVINGS TheFatr Second Ave., Between Pike and Pine Sts. For Tomorrow BEST EASTERN Hams 16¢ BEST QUALITY PARLOR Matches 2c Box IOWA CREAM- ERY Butter 29¢ MOCHA AND JAVA Coffee 28¢ ALL KINDS OF Trimmed Hats at Half EVERYTHING IN Rugs at 1-2 MEN'S AND BOYS’ Clothing at 1-2 3,000 YARDS OF FINE White Dress Goods at 9c Yd. Try to match values at store in town and you will appreciate the chances to money at air,