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HE SEATTLE, STAR—Sf ryR uf SEPT. 7, 1907. (st TOF LIVING INCREASED 40 PER CENT. BY TRUSTS WORKS AMAZING HARDSHIPS @N THE NATIONS POOR AMUBE MENTS. C4 7 ~ LYRIC THEATER Cor, Orcidental Av. and Washington 6t United States Amusement Company + Great Farewell Week Ss in bates GARDNER work, "But ft Comex toga average {for Industrial inaurance and mre Be gxatvelve Service.) jof $5.93 a week for Ae for the} tal jormous profits are mad@by TD. C., Bent Wamily. This tx $1.08 a week to feed |the Industrial Insuran “93” FOR "oC, Pp” i | srerrererwepreererereecensterenntetee ceveweeereeee hers THE WORST 18 YET Zinn Musical Comedy Company i yt each adult wth, and ohildre® ta | it aleo ts paying oat o! ‘ > rf . Melber on C-) ‘ gee ree ot Se f an os COMMENCING TOMORROW—SUNDAY—AFTERNOON, AT 2:15, : Pane , Na Heh [iy “ua. The bet akin REGULAR MATINEES WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY, jamounte to $45, In drawing titer AST APP c may What dggs the family eat? Moat-/ eat at the rate of 180 per cant, For CHEER uP nr woletsistepintalisadt on, at wm ly baker's” bread, Ther@ is practl-| (his t@what is charged by the shy wa sal cally no baking done at home. n con) with which the | | your “Coata too much to run the stove forced to deal, There are fair prove’ with and have an time anyway A such companies doing busigess Including All the Poputar Prirteipals and the incomparable \ quarter of all the me ey spent forjin Washington, and propertionate| the cost me Practical ef public record | food goes to the bakery » other cities, In defiance of laws noreased ly no o&tineal, cormment prohibiting waury, They hang on| are used. White these are »} the heels of the poor, in their daily | and nutritious, the cost of fire and | journey, and fatten on thelr trow-| the time for preparation probibit | bles. | Dancing Girls By All Odds the Prettiest, Brightest, Shape it and Smartest Show Girls Ever Seen He mithem, Plow and cake are found| There are no entries In the “mis-| y i; They prove | frequently also in the budget. When | cellaneous” account of thie family PRINCIPALS FOR THE FAREWELL WEEK THE EXCRUTIAT H t liv there t# not money for meat or fire|for any of the following items INGLY FUNNY MUSICAL TRAVESTY, { “ i the “poor ,often unwisely spend! Postage, stationery, newspapers ; it exce he thelr pittance for ples and cakes [MaKaxines, amusements, oxeur ; of) More than half of the total in-|sions, travel and toy | i E yA yY WEE 4 Y i come of the family is spent for! Big Prices for Smal! Quantities, | : fam | food On account of being poor this ] This one statement spella ruin} family te unable to phe sa such | Or, 8 Trip to, Coney Island. i s ‘or any family establighmeént. For| ordinary economies ax ot poo | More Pretty Airs and Catchy Music Than in Any Other Comic ' m tht has found by the gov ple think most necessary, The wife! Opera, fi i experts that two-thirds « j buys one cake of soap for 5 cents 2 } all income ia imperatively a: when 25 cents would buy six enken Popular Prices: 20c, 30, 40, 50¢ } 1 for such things as ashelter,|she pays 8 cents for a quart Reel nee oo hea, medicine and incidentals. | peck of potatoes ($1.28 A -— eR ae eenenerercoeeveseqensenees: eoeesererescseeesoes ; INC! OME on mus FARLEY 4.28 por seer Monster Free Outdoor Attractions GRAND FIREWORKS DISPLAY Sunday Evening and to send them to the © conférence at The Hague. It om 10 to 30 per cent. Hubby's ROBBED FORTS OF GUNS. ‘ ariings part. Go it le figured the > f j}poor pay on an average 7 percent) BRUSSELS, Sept. 7.—~The trip | is not known as yet what has be jmoore on all food, as a rewult of | unal at Antw haw sentenced 13 | Come of them, "7 . being compelled to bay to small} nt Ee ar ecarioemalinn One Piece, of Niagara Falls, 100 Feet Long j quantities vatying from two months to two | Lord Chancellor Coming. | The family, then m to be! ve or stealing two au om | VONDON, Sept. 7.—The lord cold in winter, huddied| teen grr tony nailed for Canada, He will viait Bgeh of the guns weighed 4,06 pounds, and both were taken away alm under the eyes of the po Niagara and possibly New York. | This is the first * asion on which seven into four rooms, without sag: itation, weighed down with 4 Prof. Schilzoni’s prey to shylocks, in wret Wer, being carted in a wagon and |® lord chancellor bas left the Unit F H . ’ anda ommnhebetie oy ew oa ‘Kingdom - amous Hungarian Hussar Band beginnings of education, tn a daily A junk dealer in the town of Gin For Rent Piper 2 Ta race With starvation—and no way . int Nicholas agreed to take the | 1024-26 Second av to get away from the condition. And! —+ this is a temperate, Industrious | family, in an era of wonderful prow-| perity And it ts the real condition of millions of families in the United States. of 40 Instruments Plays the Beautiful Spa quo MENTS ish-American War Potpourri—the Musical | Treat of the Year. i One Fare—Trolley or Ferry. All Lines Now Lead to Luna Park | TRIES TO SELL WIFE FOR $15. i ‘Wath for Grand Opening) | Of Seattle's Newest, Best and Most Unique Amusement Re- 8 Sata CHICAGO, Sept. 7.—Moniyrow | SKETCH SHOWING H OW INCREASED-COST OF LIVING AFFECTS MILLIONS OF FAM. | Lauda, 30, wan arrested in a anloon in South Chicago, when according i ILIES IN AMERICA. he to the police, ha was planning to} | soll his wife, Annie Luda, 39, fo lively estimated ‘This typical family ie found to) when $1 would buy a bushel; she the second time within ciabt 1.980 0 ae in cities spend but two cents a week for) buy» one can of tomatoes for 10 | montha Michael Hendo 40 who } gs are close to each adult for fruit. And this is| cents, whon three cans may be bad | gereed to pey Lada $15 for the tat 150 MILES. for apples. Bananas, cantaloupes, for a quarter; she pays § cents for! (ery wife. was aluo arronted <i Round Trip Sunday, Sept. 8 | et the “hopeless very grapes, lemons. watermeions,|a quarter of a pound of butter, 4 the “submerged tenth.” oranges and even dried prunes are centa for half a pound of sugar, #! Gastern Stare Elect | BIG OCEAN STEAMSHIP the Ereat mass of the hon- practically known to the poor. + half a pound of coffee, 3) MILWAUKER, Wis, Sept R A. MON a fscomes are close to They cannot afford them for a amall sack of salt, 2 At the closing seasion of the cen- |} Will leave Pier A at 9 a. m., returning 11:30 p. m sort. Nothing just like it here or anywhere. More entertain- ment here for your money than any other place in the city. Eden Musee || LONDON GHOST SHOW. | MYSTERIOUS CRYSTALODEON. CASCADE STAIRWAY. MUSEEGRAPH. TWO THEATERS. OPENS SOON | Bread, meat, coffee and tea are cents for a box of matches and 1 era! chapter, Order of the Eastern | the staples. Sixty per cent of the|cent for an onion, On al! these par Star, Mrs. Retia MDs was chases she has paid more than the right worthy coaduct current market rate-—because of next triennial the small quantities—and has jost Jacksonvil Fi mvention meets at i THEATRE % on: Sunset Main 1904, Ind. 4054 PX P@UALLED VA0DE Drake's Ba affect them? per cent increas ‘food expense goes for bread and wet their daily meat. Bread is more expe their homes, loaf now weighs but 14 oun t ete oti costs & cents. The family aay laborer's wages are generally buys stale bread for 3) ‘Be got 10 years ago. be- cents a loaf. } 4 ap. The little sal- Por meat the family ests saw , just about what/sage, cheap stew meat, pork and) K ‘Bap. Certain linen | the cheapest round steak. The labor com- price seldam exceeds five cents workers in| pound, quality according. The fam- bad some advances) lly cate no chicken. It is too ex- penatve. Fish ix used considerably. | Sévance is estimat- lialf the year the family uses no} AT per cent. |eams and for four months no milk ‘union labor. for the | Cheap preserves often replace but Contider the mil-|ter. When batter fs bought ft is at Whose heads are the rate of eight cents for a quar and who have not | ter of a pound. fee is a luxury be 17 per cent increase yond these families, The only in the 1 cont In-| dulgence ts tobacco at 29 cents a Don't miss this last opportunity to see the prettiest town- site and the best harbor on the Pacific Coast Tickets on sale at Raven Drug Store, Swilt’s Pharmacy, | Lang's Drug Store, Bartell's Red Cross Pharmacy and Pier A Get tickets early, as number will be limited ‘8 Leading Vaudeville House Prices . 0c; Rox Seate, Me. Per forman 2) 20, a 9:09 each day Sun. day, continuous, 2:00"to 11:00, Inst times of old bill Week ee Ps Matinees Daily Sundays Con tinuous Educated Sheep and Droop of opine Greyhounds Laville @ Gramt—torpoan Ove Acne Drwmatic Co Vresenting « ow aketeh, The Wa’ Ways alll. ET penpogs Prices: Clifters & Mall—Comedians HARRY BOTTER & CO. In Eden Musee Building ; xt ¢ family lives in four misera Ned Bennett Hone Betoiw . A Composite Picture. |ble rooms, paying about $7 a We and 200. J rtwett — Tamtagesrepe, and other atiractions AFTERNOON INA COMEDY “RECOGNITION” Saswer in the con. month, The house has no bath is Invited to look | roo™, nor running water, and it is oe million fami unsanitary. The water has to be is true. It bas carried from a distance. There is by the United! 20 privacy, The location is unde of labor t iwae® je and inconvenient On a of 19 Washington deste of a third more than its a» iy selected. Those sessed iuation the rent ought to Gomposed of sobe which would yleld 10 per! doing their best gross). Se the poor famity| with want pays 41 per cont more for rent than! tamil represent the | the people who are better off ‘Metpations: Cont b After paying for food and rent WF 8 church, worker for 4nd incidentals, there ts little left day labor-| for clothes, Father has no “best a suit,” ebildren are so shabby they ing are ashamed to be sant to school ) Jaundress, do-|one boy has to be sent to the) r, junk deal | industrial home to save expenses; | Construction worker, | father's working clothes are #0 Paver, tinner, skilled laborer ragged that he cannot » hin #487 when oniployed). seam-| ambition to get @ better job. The @etk and flour mili em-|only relief fs from an occasional ‘ mition from relatives or d@ar EXTRA ATTRACTION— FOX AND FOXIE’S CIRCUS. L. T. JOHNSON, Ventriloguist Cherry St. ana First Ave. Floyd C. per. aii DON AND THOMPSON, MORRELL & BURNS, Singers and Dancers . = RA JD“ JOHN CORT | SUNDAY AND ALL WEEK, MATINEES WED. AND SAT., The Management Regs to Announe rent of the Most Conspicuous New York Suc: “SALOMY IANE™ By Paul Armstrong, Author of “The Heir to the Moorah Based Upon Incidents in Bret Harte's California Idyl of the Same With One of the Most Magnificent Productions Evor soon and an Extraordinary Cast of the Best Players ' A HIT—A PALPABLE HIT—Tremendous success MISS JESSIE IZETT AS “SALOMY JANE.” Adoater in Soattle. Most delightful entertainment for the price tn Five Months in New York, Liebler @ Co., Managers. { Nmerica, A strictly high-class performance for only TEN CENTS. ; Shc, 806, The, 1 tdi, Medtnaoeailin te. Sian. { Eicciete chaaue of programme (wine weakly, tine G08 FRUAT, ere ey Oe ee eg oe error: d Mike great Axperican Calve; MIS8 NINA PAYNE (her first appear Next Attraction—CYRIL SCOTT, in “THE PRINCE CHAP.” | ahoe), # rave dancer of high art; MISS WINNIFRED GREENE, a oa sth alan he fmcharming a rv of the latest Hlustrated on MR. HARRY ROB. { SON, aut ptional planist; THE FAMOUS YAMAMOTO JAPA SEATTLE THEATER Mack face GEORGE KAINE, Comedian EODIE ROESCH. THE STARASCOPE AT MEADOWS June 29 to Sept. 14 of the coniest Steounts were kept of the | ity Ad expentes of these) The family makes no regular ap ft! propriation for fuel. Father picks arerage yearly on up wood about the contractors Was $644 »\yard, gets some coal along the x MUMbEE Of perio. railroad tracks, and the children 10; the smait EGE TROUPE; THE WONDERFUL KINODROME MOTION PIC forage for whatever will burn as than six beautiful subjects at every performance. RES, not | site of the fan Cooking 1s done in summer over RAIN OR SEINE GContinuot# entertainment from 1 to 6 and from 7 to 11 p, m.; Sun Russell & Drew, Managers. Phones: 43. fiat Reducing t an off stove; in winter the kitehe n Maye and holidays, from 1 to 11 continuously. The Odeen is now Tho Leading Popular Priced Theater 2g er of the ob range furnishes heat and cooking erfectly ventilated. 600 comfortable seats EEE Baits, cach tamin|alsc, Kerosene ta. bought for % First Race 2 p.m. ee ee eenennnesetenaeentamenimnnenamnned | Wali STARVING MATINGL TOMONROW —RUNDAY ~ OEP re to a little and| cents a quart and 2 cents a pint ms TEMBER 8th, Every Evening, Thursday and Saturday Matinees, THE BIG FUN SHOW, “UNCLE JOSH PERKINS” SEE UNCLE JOSH AT THE COUNTY FAIR, THE GREAT NEW YORK SUBWAY SCENE. PRESENTED BY A COMPANY OF SINGERS, DANGERS AND COMEDIANS. Positively the Largest and Best Production Ever Given This Famous “ym te. (Child se bf ake are found 98 adults) fee C7thing redneed to a ee MAY Consider {1 mY; @ family of wix , Cofmurns nz Wxtenths ady the most im er 16|Often the family buys a penny's to eat ag Worth of kerosene to run the stove for a meal. When coal is bought it ie by the bushel at the rate of $20 a ton The Installment Shylock. The family furnishes tts house on the instalment plan, It ts always | king payments on some install i edintaharadein aap on ceed riglioerieneinneinniniiciit | THIRD AVE. THEATER Thied and Pine. Phones: Main 2531; Ind. Take Cars at First Ave. and Jackson St. Admission, Includ- 3405. ALL NEXT WEEK, MATINEES WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY, “UNDER TWO FLAGS” Prices: Night—100, 200, 30¢; box seats 50c. Matinee—10c, 20c; box seats, 250 i b The rent bi hi ‘ | Play nt bill may be urchase, a cbalr, bright rug, | i aiihing may bolsters, bod af coetan maces. Ye * ‘ 44, | | TONIGHT--LAST TIME—“THE LITTLE BROSPECTOR.” Bere te lou arnt we ing Grand Stand | FAMILY THEATER AND MUSEE Peer pions 9 et things can be purchased, and It | hele-HHh nad Oth aves. Grand op. faturday wight, Meprenber- | ad & penne arcount h t . }! | - 2 aed is 9 X yi N tiers not that the sewing ma-| Qh/ Vaudeville Iitustons. Ou Th e ’ tnd and Sd pending trom $2.15 to|chine costs $75, when it could be G t ‘ ‘ 5O me ik ver eater og te for food. 14 ch ae 2 Boyne trce en emen ’ aales -« Cc ; 1 ONE-MALE MAN ONE-MALE WOMAN Koattle’s Original Motion Mietueo. th ee vhin OF whether faiicr has! The family pays 76 conta w week! ne tn comedy. Adoilasion to ait 10 conte Le Batardny ond holiday wmatinges, Sunday 1:30 IL pn