The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 18, 1909, Page 7

a ND A wh FL STOR in 6 GROWING gamblors and ; Phat the Japanese women were pe potice in their gigantic black a was the teatimony given to grand jury by Harry Okita, who Se himself a clerk in a disorderly south of Yesler way Wold the jury that the women ome no secret that they did not arres( it was a matter of com ie talk in the house that patrol gad sergeants were receiving from the women inmates Moore lived in the house boasted to Okita that the} the gave to police sergeants men rendered her im from arrest Women Pay Police. women, who are leading 1 ‘of shame, told their stories : foreed to pay for protec All of the women admitted | ‘i had been unmolested tn at gly that they carried on trade openty as long as t iB tribute to the police. The ‘of the police Involved were to the jury in each instance. fury yesterday appointed sub tees to make an investiga of county offices. It appears that the county commission @ifice, where it has been a no-| fact for months that thous i of dollars of the county's bas een dissipated and |, is to escape careful tn tion at the hands of the jury Overlook County Ferry. fury bas been asked by a fo investigate the Lake on ferry, but up time bes given the matter Tt has been a matter talk for months that the Waa 2 lows to the county, but to county officials and oth- road and bridge fund, re-| fury as a cesspool of uption, has not yet fonched by the grand jury are is said to be a clique In the fary room that ts of the opin- that the county commissioners do no Wrong. The jury bas not yet learned fts term of service will end. opinion is that the jury rext Wednesday. If this thy jury wid be discharged af the moment when it is be- to find itself and to get order. Jurors admit that p last two days more results (been, obtained than in all the of the session. IE BLOWS IR SAKE OF ie F compelled follows: Mrs. Annie Westring, the mother was grant @ decree of divorce in Judge i's court this morning, after had told. a story of suffering humiliation of many years’ du f two grown have put up with blow: pent for many years, , in the matter-of-fact voice to whom ft fs an old story. suffered all that a woman suffer, and I did it for the I want- to have a home while they girls, and I earned the home of my two daughters. in tears. es have grown to woman New that my and begin life anew. ver my husband became ¥ he struck me, without reasow This happened often. so t I have no recollection of I worked as ber of times. & woman could work. Once my buxband was sick, | had four months in a laundry. no food in the house. An- time when he was sick, I Bim around the stable as A eowld ‘and he struck me in the Husband Left Her. ian M. Hoe, a corsetiere em- by Mrs. Knettle, 1320 See ay, wes granted a ~ divoree Charles A. Roe becanse he her on August 19, 1908, Rever communicated with . She said they were mer. Brereit June 24, 1906. PL. fell obtained a decree t ipport They*were married , Utah, September 7, 1904 W. Laramie told the court Mike and his wife couldp't agree, ‘quit He doesn't know his wife is now, but thinks in Canada somewhere. They Married May 13, 1903, in Pearl Brown obtained an of her marriage Parke Brown on the ground he had another wife at the Bhat married her. They ‘Married November 19, 1908, and three months later “in her that he had an- Wife. She said that soon after her of this former marriage, id left her, writing a let lig that he knew he had her, and asking forgive- is living with her sister, Owler, 1122 Columbia st She said, he even introduced wife who had the prior the man she loved fon-Support Grounds. MeCorkel was granted a Sot divorce trom Klis B. Me on the grounds of non-sup- Blt wes on June 1905, that ing belis rang. 4, Ritzenthaler was awarded Mere in the care againut bis oe grounds of infidelity Married in Hoquiam, 1, 1908 : May Paddock was divorced BPrank Paddock. ‘The charce : bexan life's mber 22, 1691 Was granted a decree of Edward Rowe, whom nen nor tear from 4 Ora charge of de not overlooked | to the) I made some Iittle Bell on the grounds | grant: SAYS CHASE, DOCTOR OF BY W. G, SHEPHERD BOSTON, Mass, Dec 8. Chase ts 18.—-Har ey sick a doctor of | cition Chase has had a big part to play the remarkable new | charter of Boston . | jin forming | “I know city graft when | see it |And Boston's new charter will jmake graft impossib! he said. | “Municipal grafters can't work in Boston now.” Whyt" Because we've got Neht turned on every every minute of the time,” “But suppose his party stands up for him, even if he is a grafter?” I asked. “There won't be any party in | Boston. Our n charter ways there shall not be any primary e tion or caucuses In Boston he after.” | How can you choose candidates | without primary elections? Wipes Out Party Lines. Any citizen who wants to be a }eandidate for any office gets his hame on the ballot by petition of {5,000 citizens, No one can tell j what party he belongs to or what the olty white official who are He can remove a whe r Parks or mayor's | under the mayor department head pleases. If the streets sewers are bad, it is the tauit.” Hut what can mayor, if he Is to b you do ame ? to the GRAFT—THERE’S NONE IN BOSTON NOW, he! THE STAR ATURDAY, D 18, 1909 SIX SICK CITIES What does the city counct! have BIBY TO BE GIVEN AWAY Who wants a baby It in two days old, pounds, fat and joyful Yea, It smtles, Comes ne laughing as a baby two days old can It is not for wale given away The mother is a young woman married’ to an irresponsible young man. Just farmer folks from Ore- son, Mother came here and tried to make a living for herself, Hard luck came in bunches and was almost down and out when she ap: peared at the city hospital five days AKO. Then the child was born. The mother has decided that she can't rear the babe as it ought te | be reared, she is disheartened and jalone, and wants to give the baby | away Pleasa don't tell my name,” pleaded 1 know there ts where in this city some good man jand woman, husband and wife, who Mayor May Veto. All city business originates with it, or less. The mayor has the night to veto everything it doed Yet it has the right to call the mayor before it and question him on any matter it pleases The best thing about our char ter, I think, is that it keeps the white Hght of publicity on every official For tnatance, the mayor has to tasue a little wapaper called The City Reoord, All con tracts, resolutions, orders-—every thing the mayor signs or does—is n rted in this paper. “Then every meeting of the coun cll must be public, Not even a committee can hold a secret ses ston,” wiri? merely to be They'll Find Graft. “But how does all this prevent xrafting? How can you tell that graft is not going ont” “Well, we discovered that no city can be clean of itself. have outside help. This appile: every city in the United Stat we called upon the state of chusetts to help us. We provided for a finance commission of five membera, to be appointed by the she yom j his opinions are.” “Tremendously suggested “No. We have Twenty Years a Mayor, After years, if he capable, we can have a election by petition and him, naming another one, If he ts @ good mayor and we like him we don’t even have another election A good man might be ma of How ton for years, without having to go to the polls for r the large ballot,” | is not apectal | two | ©. only the mayor nine couneiimen and five school board mombers to vote for We cut down the size of the counefl in jour new charter and ga the thayor more power than formerly It makes him a very responsible man now.” Central Power the B: “But ts It best to with so much power? Centered power we best, provided th is jof all the mayor's acts He ap. points department heads of the city, without consent of the council. | provided the civil service board of {the state passes favorably on the qualifications of the appointee planation was asked rust one man at every state election, found the publietty up, we put on the ballot, Boston hold an election for mayor two years from now?" If the people like the present mayor they wil! vote ‘no,” and that means that the mayor shall remain in offic d the question won't come up again for four years, until the next state | “Byery department head must be | election, though the citizens, if he an expert. Thus the parks, roada,/ should suddenly turn ba might | palidings, pavements, sewers, etc.,| remove him any day by the recall ‘HERE'S SAD CASE; MAN 75 HENPECKED BY HUSKY YOUNG WIFE OF 36 SUMMERS (By Untied Press) | Feb. 3, 1909—Struck him with a CHICAGO, Deo. 18.—A muscular | chair Later in the day «truck him wife who, it is said, could wield In-lin the face. jdian clubs, kitehon chairs and flat) Aug. 6, 1909—Struck him twice in jtrons with equal facility, 1s accused the face. Also had an Indian club of possessing a “great temper” {8 &\tn her hands, and he believed she divorce plea fied by ber husband, | wanted to kill him Thomas Wrigley, president of the) gent 7, 1909—-While working in Thomas Wrigley Machinery com: | phasement of their home she threw pany. ja flat fron at him when he did not The complainant, besides confese| answer promptly. Also told the ing to 75 years, Is small of stature | housekeeper, he avers, that she and shy of poundages, not exceed: would kill him. Slapped hia face ing the lghtwetght Minit = = four or five times. a 6 pounds, while bis wife is onty Used Indien Club. years old, and is much taller and stronger than Mr. Wrigley Sept. 8, 1909—While aftting on a Look at This List. lounge, he complains, his wife at- Wrigley avers that shortly after|tacked him with an Ipdian club their marriage In August, 1968, his| when he denied having locked her wife began drinking and he was | out to leave her, | Sept. 10, 1909--When he went to ja stere his wife followed him and \alapped bim repeatedly. LEOPOLD'S EX-AFFINITY (oN HIDING (By United Pres.) BRUSSELS, Dec. 14.—Baroness |Vanghan quietly left Brussels for Paria today, presumably to consult her lawyers concerning the contest which ft ts stated the late |{Leopoid’s three daughters will institute immediately after the king's foneral on Wednesday in an A Met of bis alleged grievances See eRe sertion.. They were married in Wyoming, I}.. February 24, 1880. John K. Schoening, who was mar- ried to Jessie May Schoening on December 20, 1903, was divorced this morning on the ground of de- sertion. William W. Smith was awarded the decree from Sabina Smith George W. Popp from Clare W {Popp Gertrude Dumas from Will jam Dumas, Elsie Bralsted from Peter D. Braisted and Charlotte A. Collar from Henry O. Collar. apparently to avold a hostile public | demonstration She announced | that she would return in a “few days.” There is much speculation today whether the baroness will at a Wednes | tend the king's funeral In a few days Prosecuting Attorney day. The k | Vanderveer expects to recetve from | pounced that If she Is permitted to be present they will absent them- Low Augeles copies of the signed | coives confessions made by his employes.| j¢ f¥ rumored today that the sud. HMolzheimer and Peyton, admitting | den departure of the baroness wae that they each held up Leavitt in| involuntary. The anthorittes, how- | Los Angeles for 500 ever, deny having issned orders to her to leave the city. Yesterday the proreeutor fooniy- One of the first: acta of Prince ed from Kenneth Mackintosh, who) Albert upon his acceasion to the was sent to Los Angeles to invest? | Belgian throne to succeed his uncle, matter, tete | he late King Leopold, will be to gue the eee inains: enact sweeping changes fn the ad- ministration of atiatrs in the Congo, to semPoffictal reports "fam mailing you tomorrow sign: | ed statements and confeasions | #ecording showing Holzheimer and Peyton bad demanded and received § 00 | avines Alberti ‘enkt--binbed, to each to cease coutesting the habeas | hve A pie Bae ns Fags is D - corpus proceedings in the Leavitt | brutal methods of the late king in lautreaitien.” dealing with his Afrtean subjects, 0 ve ne hen seping | and it is understood that the ielvceer tors y= that ae peste | forms he proposes will be far-reach- ing. It is understood that he will dispatches might have treated his} tee wuigioves too harshly. He be. | dlacharge the officials who are al ¢ leged to have been misruling the Heved that Mackintosh’s report | !* , ; might at least exonerate Holahelm-| Congo and replace them with men Instructed to reverse the policy a lessen the dis J lg ton com ay poten Mack. Which prevailed during Leopold's Intosh’s telegrar, however, corrobo: | Telen. trates the story told in the press As soon as Mackintosh makes | written report Vanderveer asserts lhe will place it before the grand | }jury. Witnesses may be brought jhere from Los Anawiee - oa ci jiury the fall detalis of the holdup) ii a point thut has surprised all | practiced by the two men in Van-| wi a aaa eae pete SOR cgmbianeectnne ioe |on account of the Holiday Season, CONFERENCE MEETING. of one-third our regular prices, and | ; regular prices are one-half that charged by other dentists. HOW DO WE DO IT? Co-operative Dental should not be beyond any one’s means where it is a neces- sity. THE CO-OPERATIVE DEN TISTS are «giving the best as is well known, and hold their prices meeting of the nference committee of the Fed+| lerated Improvement clubs at the| Our omerclal Club rooma Monday, | does it mber 20, at 4:30 p. m There in no mystery about it | Call and get prices and learn how GO TO CALIFORNIA |no many are getting their work And enjoy the outdoor life, sports| painlessly and economically done and other attractions offered by| Out of town patients given time lthat delightful climate where it's|immediately upon calling. always summer. Resorts of all} All our work such aw Crowns leorts with splendid accommoda-| Bridges, Plates, Inlays, Fillings, lions. Take the Southern Pacific! etc., carry a fifteen year guarantee leompany, three trains daily, includ-| THE COOPERATIVE DENTAL ing the superb “Shasta Limited.” | PARLORS, Dr. Jobn Brown. Mgr. Beautiful filustrated booklets, rates) 3d Floor Central Boitding and information at Union Ticket 3d Awe. and Columbia | Office, 608 First av. Bb. @ Bilis. *** SBATTLE } There will | plan De remove | King! will take my little baby and do right by her, I just can't.” there the baby is 4 hospital, waiting for which will be a papa and mamma governor, The duty of this com | miasion is to inspect the finances of the City regularly.” Suppose they get laay? Well the Inspection is so simple that even a lazy men can do it Under the system, graft will com to the surface every time; It’s aa| your easy to it in a report chunk of coal in a snowbank can't be hidden. Police Out of Politics. the new the pollee are out of politics. ‘The policemen | e state officials, appointed by a state offictal, who Is not even a} ; cietaiat an thinton | Famous Remedy for Grip and No citizen can now evade a| policeman by saying, “I'll have you broken for this.” | A policeman need not fear the loss of his position so long as he} does his daty : | A lady on the West Side writ The elty gives money to the state! «Kindly send me Dr, Humphreys | to pay policemen. | Manual of all diseases. | have used TO DISTRIBUTE | XMAS GOODIES about the other Specifics.” The poor children of Seattle will! have their Christmas tree again | this year as they have for the past} | four years. On next Friday after) it and name it and call it Humphreys’ Seventy - Seven al it} charter Handy to carry, fits the pocket, All Druggists, 25c. Dr. Humphreys’ free, send for it. vest Manual malied Cor, William and Ann Streets, New | Humphreys’ Homeo. Medicine Co York THREE HOUSES LOT 7TOxt20. CORNER LOT. noon at 2 o'clock, the day before Christmas, every poor child of jparenta who feel that they are un/ |abie to properly provide a suitable Christmas for their little ones, t¢ | invited by Mre. Alexander Pantages | to come to the Lots theatre, where | Santa Clans will be at home for the | afternoon with enough Christmas | presents to make every child's | heart glad. |. Mrs. Pantages haw been the Lady Bountifal of the poor children of Seattlo for four years, She has secured the co-operation of Mr. and Mre. D. 8. Lawrence and Mr. Jamon Sandusky, who are now oecupying the Lola, and Mr 4 Mre Law: renee will contribute to the enter- tainment with a Christmas aketch. Others of the Lois company will also share in the program, as will volunteers from Pantages theatre and severa) well known entertainers jot the city. A program of masic | will be given by Pietro Marino and | hie orchestra. There will be no admission to the theatre and the children are welcome whether alone or accom | panied by their parents. The very | little tots will, of course, have to be brought by their elders. There will be presents for all, including candy and popcorn. The Christ- mas tree will be furnished by the stage hands of the theatre and the lighting will be something that all the children will remember. Have not coughed once aliday? Yet rom may © tomorrow! Better be orepared for it when it comes. Ask rour doctor about keeping Ayer’ Sherry Pectoral in the house. Then when the herd cold or cough first ippears you have a doctor's medicine ‘ght at hand. Sold for seventy years. Your doctor's approval of ‘* Vectoral will certainly set ail rath oe 99 cx he sys. He knows, 7.,0-s905 C0. TALKS ON TEETH By the Regal Dentists The Last Resort it is an unfortunate thing that nearly always the cases that come to u® are almost hopeless. Onet in a while we get hold of a man or woman whose teeth have been sacrificed through ignorant dental methods, and so are able to Ten minutes to Pioneer ~ om Section being asphalt. Price $5,300 John Davis. Bake Oven Did It Says Alaska Man |AND ADVISES HIS SUFFERING FRIENDS TO TRY THE BAKE OVEN. he MR. H. 8. KIRMSE. Mr. H. B, Kirmse, pioneer jewelry |restore the missing teeth with Httle| Bd curio dealer ieee or no trouble, but in the majority! Loughney’s bake oven of a most of cases they come to us at the) yevere case of rheumatism during eleventh hour, Ours is the court of) jast February, and is atill feeling last resort. We are expected to do the good effects of the treatments. the impossible thing and build up| He is continually sending his @ perfect structure with little or no! friends from Alaska to the bake | foundation to work upon. The fact| oven specialists. He says it is the |that we are able to do perfect) greatest boon to rheumatic suffer work in many cases, speaks volumes|ers ever invented. It's truly won for the perfection of Our Method) derful how quickly the bake oven of teeth restoration ch cases) cures and it's amusing to » the prove that the fundamental prin-| surprised look on people's faces ciples of the work are waht. It is) whe come there writhing with pain a source of great satisfaction and! and find after the first treatment much gratification to us when @/ that the pain has ceased. That's patient writes in and tells how well! what makes a man tell his friends pleased he is with the work we didTand the fact that the results are for him. It is only @ question of| jasting assures one that the bake time, after all, until the fame of ny & wonderful invention. Mr. this work is spread abroad to the address is Skagw four corners of the contine of Broadway | through the unsolicited testimonials k ay. Loughney & Loughne: of those who have had the work] are located in the People’s Savings done. bank building, rooms 220 to 225, at REGAL DENTAL OFFICES, the corner of Pike and Second av N. W. Cor. of 3rd ay, and Union St.| Hours, 8 a. m. to 6 p.m. Sundays, Across the street from Postoffice hd to 12. Consultation is free. wolghs eight! |TIME HANGS HEAVY ON HANDS OF POLICE REPORTER--NO TRAGEDIE: | Seattle ha markabty free | cide and murder of late For the first 18 days in December been re there were eight murders and uleldes For the ent month ords show Aw been first 18 days of the Coroner but two suicides A matter of fact, Beattle has startled sinee the Ramsey months ago. closed it that many own and outers” would shuffle ff thin mortal coll, Despondency | the cause of eight in 10 cases of welfmurder, And when the big) fair closed its gates, Coroner Sny-| wer fully expec be a busy man, but for some reason the ex pre’ Snyde ree ot three exposition predicted murder some When the wan freely CEP EECA TAT ‘The Dentist That Has Made Good ——AND THE—— \Downfall of the Den-| tal Combine The State Combine Dentists are bewildered and at a lows to know by what methods my offices are Jable to afford the high-class dental jwork, made from the very best materials, for the extreme low prices 1 » pay | 1 shail now tell the combine all | about how it is done and why they jare doomed. We make the very | best gold crowns and the best gold linlay fillings for half your| |price, Mr, Combine Dentist, be |cause we work harder and are kept all of the time, and I make » gold or porcelain crowns or oid inlay fillings while you Dentivts m one; and because we have the modern equip: ment and appliances for doing high-class work, gold and porcelain | bridge work, and our artificial teeth made by improved methods | unknown five years ago, and/ understood today only by those |dentists who by study and re jsearch have kept up with practical, laclentific methods dixcovered by jmen who are capable of demon-| | strating @ practical science. | I have perfected an organization | for doing high-class dental work on | a large scale, so that large business | at small profit brings satisfactory | reward to me. SPECIALISTS TO DO THE work. busy thr three | Con My low prices and large business affords a specialist in every de partment of scientific dentistry— artificial teeth makers, gold and porcelain crown and bridge makers, gold and porcelain inlay fillers and enamel fillers, painless extractors in fact, spectalista are brought to |my office from every part of the | United States in order that my patients may have the best. BEST QUALITY OF SUPPLIES USED. To make sure that some Combine Dentiats don't say that this is all Brown's talk, I will allow the largest and best dental supply con-) cerne in the world to teil about the kind of supplies I use. We are pleased to state that Dr. KE. J. Brown has purchased dental supplies from our concern for many years, and he always buys materials | of the best quality (Signed) Pr. BE Arnold “M. F. Patterson & © | western Dental Supply Co. | smith Bros. Smelting & Refining Co." all of whom have supply |houses in Seattle, and this is what | makes my guarantee good, and this lis why I make good BATISFIED PATIENTS THE BEST OOF. | “Soldiers’ Home, Orting, Wash | “To Dr ward J. Brown, Seattle, | Wash “I wish you would send me some of your business cards to hand to some of the old soldiers here that} are going to have some dental work done, Tam one of the old soldiers, Gus Ristenbett, that you made a present of a set of teeth some \ ago. You never asked me to advertise your work, but I have been advertiaing them on my own} account, for they are as good today | aa they were when I got them. Be fore I got them I was without teeth for 18 year Respectfully “GUS RISTENBATT, “Soldiers’ Home, Orting, Wash.” To whom it may. concern: Dr, B. J. Brown made me a full upper and lower set of teeth five years ago. 1 was 71 years of and after five years they are in perfect order. Sin y. MRS. 8. BOWLEY 1106 Hast Marion, Seattle. 1 will tell in my article next week how I came to make this dear old soldier this set of teeth, T am convinced that the combin has Opened an advertising office, be cause the advertisements sound of that familiar anvil chorus strain of the true knocker, Do you know the definition of a knocker? Weil, it is a fellow who hasn't any better sense than to ooost some one elee's business and neglect bis own. | | DOWNFALL OF THE COMBINE. The Dental Combine is doomed beeause they betrayed the people jin securing their law. The dental |iaw of this state was and is intend ed to create a monopoly and de | prive dentists of their rights, and jit has done both. These facts established, as they will be, the in |fluence of the combine is de stroyed Beginning the second week in| | February, | shall address a series | of articles to the legislature of this state on the dentat law and the medical law I want your dental work at any priee and that of your friends. 1 want to continue my work EDWIN J. BROWN, 718 First Ay., Union Block. Retween Columbla and Cherry Sts Open evenings until 9 p.m. and Sundays until 6 for people who work materialize ‘THE HOME OF WIRELESS | Wireless Te | to th the Telegraphy Nit ty» tion, ! Y] cal, | ame Sets of the latest types as used by jeading Commercial Compa the Government has | INSIST 7 SERMON WITHOUT WORDS TOMORROW THE OCCUR | (a service Kighth pected wulcldal epidemic f be hay Coroner must naid regular month- INSTITUTE—P. I. BUILDING | Seattle Bids to Have the Largest a nd Best Equipped Electric-Wireless Institute of Learning on the Pacific Coast. The which International mraphy, teaching and d Art or Sclence of Institute of {Naval Electrical Schools, Inc., devoted | teach their own operators from the opment of |r # of the enlisted personnel of pctric Wave | the Electric Class of the Navy. The popularly termed Wire-| students learn by doing the work pas Telegraphy and Hngineering. | themselves under personal tuition not & correspondence propost pert Constructing Wireless En- Every student studies practi. | ¢ * and Wireless Operators very-day actual use and man-| associated with the INTERNA, nent of Wireless ‘Telegraph| TIONAL INSTITUTE OF WIRE- LESS TELEGRAPHY, INC, the first and only practical Wireless stofore there | Telegraph Inetitute, officially recog- been no opportunity to learn | nized, open to the public in Amer- Wireless Telegraphy except in the ica, 26 Post-Intelligencer Building, jen and ’ | You all know what that meane— SMITH?S CAPE | we‘ sveiing ol a yo “(-EORGIAN CAFE if Not, Why Not? It’s the Best in the City Fourth Avenue Between Pike and Union ON A NOW YORK Box NCH imitatior Se and avoid tnfte livered at y © of without extra cost; 100 and 1 « Ring up A 3616 or Main 1830. Prompt delivery sasured. One trial, one test. Goodbye to the rest Main office. 219 Marion st CAFE & GRILL FIRST AND MADISON. American Cafe Fourth and Pike, on the Boulevard. TRY A FRY At the American. Oysters, of course, we're writing about. Our “oyster fries” have a reputation gained by the warm recommen- dation given us by our regular patrons. We want you to share with them the good things we have to offer. Oysters, clams, lobsters in season. Music Every Evening from 6:30 to 12:30, Including Sunday. IRONDALE IS A NECESSITY Never was there a more graphic illustration of the absolute need of ‘a well-equipped steel plant on this Coast than is shown by the enforced delay in the completion of that plant itself. It was planned and announced, in the spring of the present year, that the IRONDALE steel plant Orders for the machinery, necessarily placed in the East, were so timed that delivery early in the fall should have been a practical certainty should open in October of this year. But Pittsburg is swamped with iron and steel orders, and as events have proved, it has made de- livery of the IRONDALE months later, in’ every instance, than the time con- machinery exactly four templated and promised in the beginning. That is what has delayed the opening of the IRONDALE steel plant from October until early in 1910. Not alone IRONDALE has suffered through de- layed fulfillment of steel orders placed in the East. The Post-Intelligencer not long ago contained a news item reciting the serious delay in the erection of the There is not in the rs been seriously delayed, hampered and big Cobb building for the same reason a builder on the Pacific Coast who has not past five ye inconvenienced through dilatory deliveries of iron and steel, Hence, it is high time we began making our own steel, TRONDALE is not only a good business en- terprise for the Seattle, San Francisco, Tacoma and Vancouver capitalists who direct the destinies of the Western Steel Corporation, but it is a public neces- It had to come The spectacle of Puget Sound cities sending to sity. the Far East and suffering months of delay and pay- ing a freight tariff of $14 per ton to $32 per ton on all the iron and steel they used is in itself an anomaly, considering the fact that all the time there has been buried in the shores of Puget Sound an inexhaustible supply of every raw material which enters into the finest grade of iron and steel that can be made in this country. It is an anomaly to which, happily, there will be a speedy ending, L, CORPORATION, WESTERN STI 400-410 Arcade Annex, Seattle, L s