The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 3, 1911, Page 1

Firet of All, The Star’s Big Fourth of July Festival for All Seattle Children at Woodland Park— Second, There's the Star’s Great Sport Extra, Contain. ing a Full and Complete Story ot the Wolga.i-Moran Fight BY ROUNDS—Both of Them Are Scheduled for ~ VOL. 13, NO, 112. SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, JULY 3, 1911, ONE CENT. rams EMANDS REMOVAL OF THOMSON ENGINEER IS HELD RESPONSIBLE BY GODDARD FOR REGRADE STEALS — . = ine = ae . i Holding City Engineer R. H. Thomson responsible for the flagrant squandering of the people’s money Rae aa Ra RHA KH S! tn regrade gnd other improvement work, Councilman Goddard this afternoon introduced a resolution be- |* You'll miss something rich #| fore the council calling upon the mayor to remove Thomson. % tomorrow if you don't get The * Mr. Goddard, in presenting his resolution, which came as a sensation, declared that his work and his in- A betiday feataien to be printed Wi vestigations, made as chairman of the street committe¢, had convinced him that Thomson must have known | ‘ holiday features to be printed ® * ° eo | of the outrageous scheme by which certain big contractors were enabled to make the dirt pay both ways, ~ : Tere ert rere. 2 oy aie at the expense of the taxpayers. Ten Good Reasons for a Safe and Sane Fourth. “It’s time fo call a halt,” declared Councilman -Tiny Pieces of Cuticle Are! | Goddard in introducing his resolution, which came ‘taken From Arms of! | as a sensation to most of the councilmen. “My in- Seven Men and Two) | vestigations, made as chairman of the council streets Women This Morning to} committee, have convinced me that Thomson, had he Save Life bs! pay Pct desired, could have prevented all of these big steals. ribly Burned — Mother | “When these refrade projects were laid out he eee Feeble and The} if human sympathy and help can do it, the life of little Clarice Whit ter will be saved today. More than a score of courageous | Men and women appeared at the city hospital thie morning, ready to give up pieces of the’ skin to save her. Many others_had cailed at the city hespital and left their tlephon: Tuthber: with the information that “a would be ready, if needed. : line w+re selected as being the +most healthy. Seven of (heh were Joung men and two were young Women. One of the men had come from ager a 8 this mory'ng for the purpose of helping fitile Clarice. Others had ‘aid off from their em- ployment. Pa The seven men’ were Edgar Burke, N. St W. Frederick, Jos. Ketieher, Jon Arthony, Merbert Forder and F. Fo Evans. The two women deciine.i tu give their names.” Mother All Smiles. il FLY (VER SHALL CITY TAKE OVER must have known that contractors were reaping the benefit at the people’s ex-pense. He knew it and he could have stopped it. He can’t place the blame on the old council. Even if the old council did stand for the outrageous graft, Thomson alone could have stopped it. “Thomson has been the master mind. When re- grade projects were laid out so that contractors made an exorbitant profit Thomson knew it, and Th had he been working for the people, could have saved a million dollars to the people.” ‘CHARGES AGAINST THOMSON j, Whereas, the taxpayers of the city of Seattle have long been over. [burdened withthe ocst of oppressive assessments for local improve: “ ri a, under which burden many of them have lost their property and |their homes | And whereas, R. H. Thomson, the present city engineer, has 4 his incumbeney permitted many abuses in connection with the carrying lout of local improvenrents, the result of which hes been to greatly fg jerease the cost of already expensive public works; | And whe among such abuses the following may be elted: “Whereas, it is generally conceded that the Independent telephone| 1. He has, notably in the Greenwood av. and Denny hill regrades, system is now controfied by the Sunset company; and r FNPLISH | INDEPENDENT PHONE CO.? rmitted an employe of his office familiar with the details of pro- peers, anitter, tie: spatber of ttle “Whereas, the movement for a consolidation of the two sysiems | Posed improvements, upon the letting of contracts for such improve: 1 Bighylea! 5 mg pa th"Reattle means 2 raise in telephone tolls; and ments at exorbitant prices, to resign from office, enter into partner He, aaa bite her Proves “Whereas, the increase in the cost of living in our city shonid de | ship with the successful bidder, and make large profits upon the sub daughter. The first time 120 lick resiuted by all means in our power. Now, ther™® be it {letting of the contracts, and has failed to protest against such conduct, i ise tenioved frole het arma.| “Resolved by the city council of the city of Seattle, that the time |r to in any way attempt to e to the axpayers the large profits thus The <f:'s fa ++ «0% an older + ter} t had arrived when we should carefully consider the advisability of a|unconscionably made by such employe. a | telephone system owned and operated by the city, and be it further | 2 sie, bas arranged regrade projects in such manner that, where | “Regolved, thatthe city engineer be and 1s hereby instructed to|!t would have been possible to combine a cut with a fill, and to ee tees! of hemvbave uot, The Conneau, French Entrant, | pimish the pouncil with ap estimate of the expense involved in making | the contractor to perform beth operations for one price, he hee sale: doctors are confident that every. ; Wins Prize of $12,500— ait investigation of the momatic syste m, such Investigation to giver fated the two operations and allowed the contractor to’ make « profit went off suctesstullv * the adaptability of this system to the needs of the city, she initial ost |for removing the earth from the cut and an additional gratuitous pro! SoRCind. te cety-the foes and wom Aviators Flew From) 2% Shone, ime in which such plant could be placed in-operation, and |for placing the same earth in the fll, " i 8: @e ict perfect Sealth were chosen Paris to London. |such other information as may be required to put the question to a This character of abuse has been particularly noticable in the case hills Slaven, each about on large (iy Uelied Press Leased Wire.) | BOpular vote.” jof his failure to combi Fourth ay. cut with the Fourth ay. 8. fill; 6 the surface of a oxun were ued. LONDON, July 3—Crossing the} . The above resolution is being brought before the gity council this |the Denny hill cut with some of the many adjoining fills; the Westlake Twa keow how t6 thank the lEnglish channel today with 10| afternoon by Councilman Erickson ia fill with some of the nearby and available cuts, and the 12th ay. fll good people who so sacrificingly other aviators, Conneau, a French| While it is a new step in this country, municipal ownership of | With some of the available cuts which are and have for some time been came to little Clarice’s help. 1 had | entrant, won the firet prize of $12, |telephones has been successfully tried for several years in European | contemplated. no {dea that the story in The Star |500 in the big European point-to-|eities. In Edmonton, Canada, a city system has been introduced with 3. He was wasted vast quantities of earth taken from the Denny would have such an effect,” said point race from London to Paris.| 2600 subscribers, and is being successfully conducted. | hill regrade, which should have been used in filling in the water front Mrs. Whitter. “I am sure that Clar-| He made the fastest elapsed time. s <>» |behind a reasonable and feasible sea wall, in anticipation of the com fee's sufferings are ow near the . | pletion of the Panama canal, by sluicing the same out into the bay. First to reach Herndon, the offi-|p 9 end. It has been a terrible trial to/ THE MOST GRATEFUL M OTHER IN SEATTLE TODAY. (cial end of the course, today, was LEAPS FROM ! iT) 4. He has in many cases permitted the execution of regrades with- us. We came down from prett | ocean pastciiaitton Plerre Vedrine, who won $2,000 as jout due consideration, with the result that thave also tried to help her. Some} Of the operations bare heen success 3 cuts have later been re © Maet'fall, fat two weeks before Clar-| her back was in a terrible condition.;anasthetics are wed, The skin, the/first in the stage from Calais to |Placed with fills and fills with cuts, to the ruination of the property fee was infered by fire. We had! We did not think she would live.| removal of which 1s desired, is lift-|London. Vedrine would have been 15TH FLOOR been 0 inte the house and had jurt| But gow, after nearly it months|ed up from the arm and is cut off| the winner of the big prize but that | jholders who have been compelled to pay for the same. And whereas, said city engineer is at present plan! zrade putting up the stove when she of suffering, we can now # djby the use of a very sharp Instru-|he was unable to compete in the} CHICAGO, July 3.—-Crazed b- project north of Lake Union so radical and cytensive thet Ik eee @own oF the footrest. A minute to it Aud we realize that ment. It Is then bandaged up, but| stage of the air race from Licge to] “he yout Gg "A. Wright ca ont | means the confiscation of a vast amount of property in that locality, afier, her Gothirg was afire. Still boen for The Star and its rea aa long as the wound remains tt Jn| Utrecht, this making his elapsed! 22° Fane United Order of For. | tnd ik an, other ways evincing @ purpose to continue imposing upom ghe had presence cf mind enough little Clarice would have been in| very painful. Practically all sense | time greater than Conneau’s. | the already exhausted taxp a of tis tity protess to place a chair {i front of the stove | misery for a long time yet.” of fexing-1s located in the outer| Vedrine’s first stage was from} $store, today leaped from the Firecrackers two inches long. | and expensive that the mere rumor of them valiant the beech ae to prevent her little sister from get-| Painful Operation. layer of skin, and it is therefore as|the aerodrome at Vincennes to we fh. ie aeiy ‘ott Torpedoes a quarter-inch in |to be affected ynsalable; ae ting burnt, before she ran oft crying} While the removing of pleces of) painful to remove this thin layer as| Liege. He won that stage and . diameter, Now, therefore, be it resolved that it is th fro help.” | person’s skin ix not injurious to/it woul be were porte of the muscle| three others, which victories count. Purr Rekat tliat cc Witten, No top pistols. of the cityof Geattlo that sald Re it: Themes chee pe oe “When I got thé fire extinguished,’ health, it is extremely painful. No cut off ed with that of today in his being stenographer , r = |the city engineer of this city, and that the mayor be and he here = = =|finally first in the contest {9 oe «haste These are some of the Pro | requested to remove him from sald office. ‘ by, Is Beginning at 4:30 this morning, | tections for the small boy to- ‘And be it further resolved, piraes Ye E i basinaing, SPOON HELPS ESCAPE olved, that a copy*of this resolution be teahet Vedrine lunded = at)""F ’ oe Leiiee Wins morrow. The giant firecrack- | mitted to the mapor, i Buropean circuit ae: ducers, which in the past have Dover, a constant stream of contest-| WYONTOWN. Pas July S-By| er, bombs and other noise pro- | SRE: eA eh Sf jants in the *} méans of a key which they fashion | trae tag ig gy iH cone ag: . plane race crossed the Engl od from a spoon obtained while they | sent Willie home on a shutter, | ° channel. Vidart, Kimmerling, Con-| were in the hospital, three prison: and caused the doctors to work =| P neau, Valentine, Garros, Reneaux,! org one a murderer, broke jail here, overtime, will be banished. We | Train, Gibert and Tabuteau also| today. Posses are in pursuit want a safe and sane Fourth crossed. Bleriot was the first man| “ | to cross the channel, on July 26,| GASOLINE TANK EXPLODES ers. late this afternoon. Wappenstein |W. H. Bender was taken to the| 80 the customary B-A-N-G of the} was on the stand all of this morn-| bring about an early agreementot irra also crossed the channel. | Providence hospital yesterday, suf-| giant cracker, which in the past|ing. There will be but little time the jury on a verdict, Judge Ron« Most of the aviators continued to| fering from burns about the hands | scattered common folks helter skel-| taken up in rebuttal testimony, and | ald will probably not be ready to Herndon, six miles north of Lon-|and arms from the explosion of a/ter and caused the housecat to|the argumenfs of counsel will be-|receive a verdict until midnight, don, thus completing the 93-mfle|giaoline tank on an automobile he | perch on the roof, will be missing ‘ from Calals | Was repairing at the Pacific Coast - carried a passenger on| Steamship Co.'s coal bunkers. The | He ll E rth i C i his flight. Gibert made the awitt-|maghine was burned toa crisp. | EXPECT HOT TIME) ell on La In icago ay est trip, doing the distance in 87 WASHINGTON Jul 3.—Al-} (By United Press Leased ¥ | 0 i 6 th | : y Seth reas Leased Wire.) 3 o'clock this afte minutes f r [qv RMN NAHE E EES hough the official temperature here| CHICAGO, July 3.—With five iow humidity prevents, the dant * * Great crowds greeted the winner} tod. 98 the sh ersons dead heres “ ok earuhtn ati ten nihat citoee WHO WILL HELP? % | today was 9 segrens in the 8 ade, persons dead here within the last |list reaching appalling proportions The Star wants young # | One street kiosk thermometer regis jours, the thermometer stood and already the infant mortality is * * * in Seattle, said the city fath- | The Wappenstein trial will close gin about 3 o'clock. The fact that tomorrow is the 4th of July may —— who rrived later, were also round ig women to help look after the % tered 107. Weather Forecaster] at 91 degrees here early today and alarming. All last night the parks y cheered. youngsters at the Fourth of # Moore predicts the hottest Fourth of | was mounting steadily. The weather| were jammed with people, many aKa Kh hhh July festival tomorrow July in years throughout the west) bureau expects it will be hotter to- thousands deserting their Flin Woodland Park, It will take a | and middie west. |day than on Sunday and that the| homes to get a breath of air under couple of hours’ time, pe mercury will touch 100 degrees bythe trees. paps, and there'll be abont as *|400,000.Sleep on eonce seeming Coney Island Sands NEW YORK, July 3.—With ‘ie HURRAH! F oo The Star's first annual|free for the boys and girls of the ball grounds and the zoo.|* You'll miss something rich “toe a Seattle Every youngster {s invited to come|* tomorrow if you don't get The Fourth of July Festival will be) RL ; early and see the fun. * Star, It will contain the best a a sor-|__ NO need to stay down town,| ‘The tee cream and cake and|« holiday features to be printed the big event of the day tomor r cake and|« holiday 6 r odie mg 7 | where the streets are deserted |eandy will be served to the woung-|# in Seattle. row. and the fun soon pal ers right after the races * Eyery boy and girl in Seattle,| Come out to The Star's big par Teh palee, Woodland Park; thie | de tek te ete tte tek te tot tok opel be one of The Star’s gib family to-|tme, 10 o'clock in the morning; | and their parents, too, are in he day, the Fourth of July morrow and od time; you) th vited to come out to Woodland | do not need any m There will| The following firms are co. BIDS # : be plenty of fun, plenty of good | operating with this newspaper in| : : : Park and enjoy the ‘very ’ ve ig ig Bids calling for the construction Park and enjoy the fun. E things to eat—a real holiday for all conducting The eb a Gitearaem, and tt hei tend Star's Fourth of of a lock pit, to be completed with: much fun in it for the helpers as the helped. Who will vol unteer to help give the kids a happy holiday? If YOU are ofe, please tele phone early tomorrow morning to Festival Editor at The Star office (Main 9400), or report to Festival Edftor at the band stand at Woodland Park, at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning AIR NEWS ITEMS FROM thermometer ranging between 88 ant 89 in the shade” ot Hrookiva | WEATHER THE 4TH| tHe HICKTOWN BEE Pe ee ed bridge this morning, twdications were that mroe lives would be sacri- ficed to the heat before sundown | It's a 10 to 1 bet that about | everybody in Seattle will have The Hicktown Sliver Cornet their “weather eye peeled” for band will give a concert at Depot than yesterday, when ten sucumbed. | Squi tor Ww. Th e " Square tomorre Ladies’ It is estimated that 400,000 slept| °!ouds and rain tomorrow. Aid-avill give a pink lemonade hi . TY ¢ It on the sands of Coney Island last t Rey Pity: prophet was sy pary in vel ie chureh thing is free ve Star will) the children |July Festival for Chilgren night. The suffering in the densely eeling fine today and reported Stitt Rou ale See make the safe and sane holiday| And cash prizes, too. SEATTLE ICE CREAM CO. in eight months, are being adver-| pie oe ke ek kk wk wR kk ee POvUIAted East Side is the worst} that he'll probably hand out fair er ibe aie: the big event of the yes The distribution of the good| SEATTLE DAIRY, tised for in connection with the lof the year 1: Yyeetnek See teenie sere a Mg on the flee station The fun starts at 10 o’clock| things to eat will begin at 11| MEADOWBROOK DAIRY. |work on the Lake Washington | fair” does ‘fot necessarily glorious Fourth, We hope ’ erie ‘lo'clock. The sport events, with| PURE MILK DAIRY Co. canal. ‘The total work will involve] HERE 18 THE PROGRAM OF EVENTS IN THE STAR'S FIRST Srrrcetrrrrrrrts ret +. HESEEE EE EEE EEE ; mean cloudless skies and balmy t happen again) this year, ang it lasts all day. There will cash prizes, will start at 10 o'clock| THE STOKES CO, Jabout $275,000 of the 5,000 ap. ANNUAL FOURTH OF JULY FESTIVAL FOR CHILDREN atmosphere: erecially, aXe Miss uphemia Todd has f be games, sports, and lots of! sharp. IMPERIAL CANDY Co. propriated by the governn ° e boys that isn’t “mean” weather fi fine eats. There wil) be gallons) Here are the events—and any-| PACIFIC COAST BISCUIT CO. |tids will be opened July 31, and THE PLACE—WOODLAND PARK oh nN me is tes pastas a Miss Todd wilt rent out atid gallons of rich Seattle-| body may enter | QUEEN ANNE CANDY Co, the work will be commenced about a rand of weather, without S hat for. Sb. oanth & Weak be ga” ries -| Fifty-yard dash for boys under 15;| SUPERIOR CANDY & CRACK.|the middie of September. 40 A. M—Races, in which all boys and girls under 15 may rain. Apply at yellow cottage back of made ice cream, a prairie Of riryt $1, sq dynd 50c | eR co. . participate. Cash prizes given, events are under the direg- 80 take your fireworks and Diacksmith shop: f . golden cake, a dray load of) ‘pitty-yan Mash for girls under| RHODES BROS. Co. 6K! Tion of a well-known champion athlete. funcheon,, slong to the praia’ | cat fin bar met ona de candy, cones, and everything | 16; first $1.aeenod 0c E, B. WALLACE GANDY co, |* * 11 A, Me—Reading of “The Declaration of Independence” by with the fair certainty that your ia looking for s Weod mnyle, Gee that will make the commissary! Potato all under 15; first} KOENIG CANDY Co: % «(WEATHER FORECAST = */ tion, John F, Miller, ex-mayor of, Seattle, ardor won't be dampened by the Mr. Chuggles wt the Palace hgtel. , - $1, second SEATTLE PAPER CO, {* Fair tonight and Tuesday, » Sfiging of “America” by the children, weather. BUT, if it does rain, The A. R. ts a great clubt department an oasis in they” dhreelegged f inder| MUTUA~ PAPER CO, fe light westerly wings, Temper ® 11:30 A. M.—Serving of ice cream, cake, candy and other re- Just blamé the U. 8. weather WOU We woulen.: pera ae desert of Fourth of July fun. j15; first $1, second 50¢ GOLDEN WEST BAKING Co, |* ature at noon today, 57. *! freshments to all children not over 15 years of age—ALL FRE office. They can stand it there. July 4, Late Watertower aptly te And remember this, it is all ‘The races #tart ot 10 o'clock near] PURKTY CONE Co, tO OTTO TT Rh tk *} AFTERNOON—-Baseball games, ¢ They'me used to It, marks. . °