The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 28, 1912, Page 1

oath, in the Wappenstein trial, WN TO GILL’S VICE DISTRICT SUSPICION AT HOME. Whose girls were they? Surel: "GO DO SNDER the average homes. table physi ians and officials of the city health depar IN SATURDAY NIGHTS AND SUNDAYS ONLY. tment testified ae mind your own business il anything about it, 4, ARMS #VOL. 13. NO. 31, The Se ONLY INDEPENDENT UM NEWSPAPER IN SEATTLE SEATTLE, WASH., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1912. oe ee that THERE WERE MANY GIRLS WHOSE HOMES WERE IN SEATTLE, WHO -Y¥. THEY WOULD LEAVE BEFORE MONDAY MORNING, SO THAT THEY WOULD ly not the daughters of the millionaire franchise grabbers, who have united with the dive keepers to elect Hi Gill again. No; they ttle Sta: HOME EDITION They say that less than 2 per cent of ff } college graduates go to jail i} certainly makes folks cute yey a Education if JAKE FURTH’S MAN, IS BACK IN SEATTLE: WANTS TO MANAGE CITY LIGHTING PLANT UNDER GILL DECISION OF VOTERS|AEBELS Fich COWGOYS IN SUES UP FOR and preserve this ballot. al city election the people of Se- city spear 5 be called upon propositions, bond issues inced oy tae Pert of Ueemay mane Oe es ‘ing multiplicity of issues, most of given comparatively little attention, that some of them lacking in positiv evil in their possible consequences, lating the publicity campaigns of candidates for office Gates already im the councti an advantage, This does not pre be Oregon publicity xystém. VOTE NO. NO. the elty to dedicate to the port comm: out compensation, all city property within a port improvement district, NO, $—Authorizing the city council to vacate tide land streets with- out bye carr oo es NO. Authorizing the establishment of sanitariu: hospital VOTE YES, ——e NO. 7—Authorising the councll to establish a» department of the public welfare and prescribe its functions, VOTE Y: pi . &—Prescribing the plan of organization and functions of « | sufficient study on the part of the! partment of public welfare and taking ‘this detail out of the hands of multiplicity of these issues and the ‘them by many electors, it is a com- all of them! ves. not been con- any voter to vote or of which he need absolute of vote for something you know nothing yore q } yO find it on tite ballot. ot has been prepared by The Star with Mudy of the reports of all organizations ts on them, and can be followed with] commerce. VOTE NO. who has not given each measure sj ? sei d only to guide voters not otherwise! ty in which the voter has personal con- of the city election the voter wil} find first WEN IMPORTANT PROPOSALS |, to establish tuberculosis hospital. undertaking. VOTE YES, CHARTER AMENOMENTS ‘on the official city batlot. amendment. VOTE NO, amendment. VOTE VES, merit to warrant Seattle in giving it a year, or even sooner, if the people desire, . the single tax cannot injure the home ple in average circumstances; therefore vote. @uthority to prescribe conditions regu SS the council, where it is placed in amendment No. 7. VOTE NO, NO. S-Authorizing the council finance committee. to employ @x pert accountants. VOTE YES, . 1O—Removing the 20-year limitation on bond tssués, VOTE NO. 11—Creating a saloon district in Georgetown, VOTE YES. NO. 12—Hxtemding unt!!.1916 the removal of saloons from transfer Sea removal would otherwise occur at the end of 19) NO. 13—Extending the initiative and referendum to saloon licensed. ositions have been inadequately con-| VOTE YES. are lamely drawn,*and not a few of d or undiscovered jokers of grave im- NO. 14—Providing for a municipal newspaper. VOTE YES. NO. 15—Abolishing the veto power of the mayor, VOTE NO. NO. 16—Amending another portion of the charter to abolish the "‘s veto. VOTE NO, NO, 17-—-Exempting the chief of police from civil service exami VOTE YES. NO. 18-—Limited single-tax amendment proposed by the Chamber of NO. 19—-Authorizing the acceptance of surety bond from contractors y |Inatead of certified checks. VOTE NO. NO, 20—Exempting the chief of the fire department from civil serv: * | tee examination an@ authorizing his removal by the mayer, VOTE NO. NO. 21—Creating a civil service commission, with vastly enlarged powers and increased valaries. VOTE NO. NO, 22—Increasing the mayor's salary from $5,000 to 97,500, authorizing the council to provide for a semi-monthiy ao. for city employes. On account of the second provision, VOTE | They’re Coming! Those Nice NO. 23—Requiring the city contractors to pay a minimum wage] - of $2.75 a day, VO ves. ’ NO. 24—Abolishing the primary election and substituting the pref erential system of voting. Amendment hastily prepared. VOTE NO, NO. 26—Authorixing the city to establish a telephone system. VOTE YES. * NO. 26—Fixing hours of voting at elections from § a. m. to 8 p. m. VOTE YES. NO, 27—Authorizing the employment df experts in appointive offices fegardiess of residence qualification, and removing the freeholding qualification for candidates for the council, VOTE VES. ionimemcenranemniny PORT COMMISSION'S PLANS: The proposals advanced by the port commission will be presented on & separate baliot, They are; NO. t—General port improvement scheme. VOTE VES. NO, 2~—Public dock site at Smith's cove. $1,000,000 bond tssue. VOTE YES. NO. 3—Public ock site on East waterway. VOTE YES. NO. 4—Public dock site on Salmon bay. VOTE VES. NO. $—-Public dock on central water front. VOTE VES. NO. 6—Bellevue ferry. Bond inne $150,000. VOTE VES. NO, 7—Harbor Island terminal project. Bond issue $3,000,000, VOTE NO, “NO. 8—Harbor Island terminal project. VOTE NO. Propositions 7 and 8 pertain to the misnamed “Bush” terminal scheme. ‘The Star advises its readers most emphat- ically to vote against this project in its present form. The city’s interests are not safeguarded. The proposition is wu businesslike, to the point of being ridiculous. Seattle can’t buy prosperity, especially by paying out dollars for S0-cent Bond innve $850,000. Bond issue $350,000. Bond iseue $750,000. Bond issue $2,000,000. $4,000 Ghat (By Canes Prove Leased Wire) SAN JOSE, Cal, Boldly entering the bank of J. A. Costa, in North Market st., here today, an unmasked rob- ber held up Costa at the point of & revolver, took $4,500 from an open safe, and, rw fromthe building, leaped into anwaiting automobile, and with acOmpanion escaped in the di- rection of San Francisco. ‘The bandit backed Costa imto.e back room, gagged him and bound him to a chai Cesta was not discovered until Henry Ballaris, who has « real estate office in the building, fived to begin work, and dis- cevered the captive banker. Very Job. <Comta, after entering morning, opened hie back was turned a man quietly, and when Costa ard the entrance aghin oene by a ee beld z ZF e with what firm. pieces. scheme for the benefit of the people ee = Reject the promoters’ scheme NOW and give the port commissioners an opportunity to work out a port development mH Fi 4 » addressed to the Commercial Club and the Municipal league by the port commissioners, shows that the entire commission is Harbor isiand terminal scheme. The commissioners have had time to question Mr. Ayers, the chief promoter, and to make submitting the proposition to the people, all of which has determined the commission that the scheme as now presented is Wash., February 27, 1912. ‘and Navigation, Seattle Commer- it, Municipal League. the 23rd inst. to the Port of to be advised as to develop termina! question since the Mr. RF. Ayers, | have the on behalf of the Commis letter of Be bia are cwertain, the financial oS eanal Company, though not yet ‘@ubstantially as follows a » «$6,000,000 5,000,000 $11,000,000 Preveds to company's treasury 7 Not exceed $3,200,000. The _ od promoters and brokers inancing the project, It. & Dorifon of the stock, according to y is able to secure the neces- iM & practicable salary Imit, Pe turee highest officials being Fommission has so far “> financial standing of the brit Severe criticiams that have Seriain of them § sole function in the of buying land too ¢ certain struety and to the Terminal Company for a District is to derive no Of bonds and enough additional ety, mature. There is to be no re- z fonform to the growth of buasl- to have a free hand to exploit the s 3 Sang legitimate means dur- is to pay no taxes except “pon the leavebold itself. to bulld certain improvements to be approximately Port District in the a ” ent” leaves this option- i , Ayers concedes the justice MPF the Company on this point. ‘The ver any basis for Mr, company will, within a com- $6,000,000 on the project. The Company is insistent that rentals be deferred sub- stantially ax set forth in the “tentative agreement” (See page 56, Bulletin No. 1, Port Commission). This they re- gard as necessary to bridge them over the period of getting their business upon a paying basis. For reasons constitutional, statutory and other, the Commission will probably have to reject this proposal, Some expression by the Commission in favor of & re- newal of the thirty year lease is urgently insisted on, but the Commission has no legai right to give such assur- ance and is opposed to it as a matter of public policy In respect to the crossing of Bast Waterway and tho method of letting construction work, nothing has develop- @4 to lead the Commission to modify its views as expreas- ed on pages 53 and 54 of the Bulletin. In regard to the future operation of the development, the Terminal Company would virtually occupy the post tion of sublessor, It would lease the piers outright ‘to steamship companies, who would themselves have the right to sub-let. Warehouses, lofts, etc., would be subject to partial lease, the Company furnishing certain service of a general character, and operating directly the service tracks, lighters, etc, connected with the establishment. The whole operation is therefore intended to be largely that of subléasing and not direct operation by the Ter- minal Company. In regard to the outlook for the enterprise, no evidence has been presented by Mr. Ayers which would lead the Commission to modify, its opinion that the development as planned is out of all proportion to any reasonable ex- pectation of the near future, and that if actually gone into on the seale proposed it must inevitably end in failure unless sustained by the Port District. All the evidence adduced thus far indicates that, if this enterprise could not succeed here under the terms of an equitable lease, it could not possibly succeed in any other Sound port, even with a free site. No evidence has been presented by Mr. Ayers that would lead the Commission to believe that the system which he proposes can meet the needs of this port any better than the Commission's own plan in any of the fol- lowing respects: Export of lumber, wheat, fruit and fish; transhipment of bulk commodities, structural steel, ete,, to the interior; transhipment of Oriental.cargoes; bonded warehouse facilities; handling of immigration. The pub- lic has been led to believe that there can be no “terminal” except on Harbor Island, whereas, as a matter of fact, the terminal facilities proposed by the Commission are quite as favorably located as those on the Island. ‘The specific advantage of the proposed development is ite industrial feature, and this, of course, Hes outside the province of the Commission. The industrial lofts will attract small manufacturers by their cheap rents and superior Conveniences. No doubt also tho special delivery service proposed throughout the city will be a marked advantage. It i# in this connection that the crossing of East Waterway becomes important. It {s scarcely neces- sary to point out that these industrial features are not necessarily dependent upon thix particular form of de- velopment. An added antage to which much importance ts at- tached by so fa the prestige and advertisement which the proposed development would bring to this port. The question was asked of Mr. Ayers if the Port Dis trict had any security that thix whole development might not fall into the hands of @ great transportation company, elther ran or steamship, and bis reply in substance was that it had none. From the foregoing you will readily see that the chief objections to the project from the Commission's point of view, apart from the litigation which it will surely in- voive, are that It makes Port District partner In a financial scheme which is open to just criticiem, and that it isin important respects at variance with the purpose for which the Port District was created. With the light which the Commission now has, it would undoubtedly have postponed the submiasion of Propositions 7 and 8 to a specia! election called for that express purpose a few months later, eo that they might receive the deliberate consideration which they ht to have. If time were available for the Commisgion to work out this terminal project on a rational basis, with a legal and equitable division between the work of the Port District and that of co-operating priva' ind if the Commission were free to from any responsible parties instead of being virtually compelled to give prece- nly, the whole matter would stand on a sion takes this opportunity to correct a has general currency. The letter from Mr. Irving T. Bush to the;Port Commission in regard to entirelyevoluntary, and was not elicited through any inquiries by the Commission, In regard to Commereial Club's criticlam of the Lake Washington Ferry project—that it is strictly a county matter—it may‘be replied that the county and the Port District embrace the same territory; that the burden upon the taxpayers will he exactly the same whichever agency does the work; and that if the Port District does it, all conflict of jurindiction In navigation matters on Lake Washington will be aveided, The Commission has reason to believe that the county would prefer this, and that in due time it may probably wish to transfer the Kirkland Ferry to the Distriet. Very truly yours, H. M. CHITTENDEN, President, Looking Seattle Stenographers MIGS FLORENCE M'PHERSON with the General Ac- cident and Insurance Co. One box with six seats to see “Get Rich Quick Wallingford.” Ten ire in cold cash. One “after-the-theater” dinner _. for two at the Butler hotel ri Two orchestra seats to see “Wall-| fagford.” And more prises to nounced. How does all THAT strike YOU, Mins Stenographers of Scattle: Protty nifty, eh? And all you have to do to have ®@ good chance at these prizes is to mail your photo today to “Walling-| ford Editor, The Star,” with your Bame, address and, if employed, be am] It’s the contest, you know, to see if Seattle has prettier stenograph- ers than they have on the stage. There's a very pretty one in “ eines mae |by this morning's mail. MISS ANNIE PRUZAN Stenographer with the Diamond Ladies Tailoring Co. Rich Quick Wallingford.” which is at the Metropolitan next week, and uggested these prizes to see if “real life” stenograpbers are just as pretty—or prettier. The Star ts positive that this city jof ours contains scores of the most attractive Jooking typists in the pountry. And pictures of awfully nice looking ones began to arrive Two of them are printed here, and there'll be more tomorrow. There are good indications that every office in town is becoming in- erested in the stenographers’ con- test. So get busy and send your picture today, Contest doesn end until Tuesday. WE'VE GOT TO SHOW THOSE ACTOR PEOPLE THAT OUR GIRLS AT THE TYPE- WRITERS ARE AS NICE LOOK- ING AS ANY IN CNCLE SAM'S LAND, SOCIALISTS REBUKE GILLITES A handufl of Gillites who were Present at the Cottertit rally at noon today received # most stinging re- duke at the hands of Millard L. Price, a workingman, who made a plea for the textile workers at Law- rence, Mase., and asked the audi- ence to contribute -whatever sum possible to help hungry ones there. These Gillites made the shameful insinuation that the money would g0 to the Cotterill campaign fund. Price, who is not a Cotterill cam- paign committeeman, but who is is | member of the socialist party, an . | was given the courtesy to make this plea for the Lawrence strikers at the Cotterill raliy today, Jumped to hin feet and hurled the following hot shot at the Gillites: “If you, who make this slur, are the kind who would give money which you hope to make out of th bodies and souls of working girls whont you will entice into a vice district, then don't give any of that filthy money at all, A large sum was collected. The Cotter:... rally at noon today, the second within two days to draw @ crowded audience at the Seattle theatre, served to give a direct refutation to the slamiers of the Gillites that Alaskans were demand- ing lawlessness and viciousness in the city government, For the chair- man of the Cotterill meeting today was Clyde L. Morris, president of the Arctic club, the biggest Alaskan GANG EXPECTS | OUME EASY PICKING Richard M. Arms is back in town. Arms came back on learning that Gill had won his nomination. Arms was the Gill-Furth man in charge of the city light- ing plant during Gill's brief and disgraceful administration. When Gill was recalled, Arms disappeared. Arms, a former employe of the Furth lighting concern which competes with the mu- nicipal plant, managed the peo- ple’s plant much to the liking of Furth’s concern He turned down fat contracts in the busi- ness section, which the Furth company promptly grabbed. Arms let the municipal plant take business far out in the suburbs, where there was no profit to be made. He let Furth have Ballard to himself, even though the city plant had put up poles and was all ready to enter Ballard before Gill was elected. Since Arms was ousted the city light plant has added one- third more customers, and Furth’s private concern has been forced to reduce its rates in order to compete with the city plant. . But Arms is back. Th gang is working and hoping for Gill's re-election, then the picking will be good. Se REE ERM * * % ABOUT HARRIMAN’S SON & * LONDON, Feb. 28.—Wm. A. & * Harriman, son of E. H. Harti w * man, the late American rail ®& | road wizard, arrived in Eng- Ww |® land today as an emissary from & ® Yale to study English rowing ® *® methods. Harriman is coach & * of the Yale freshman crew. ® * He will spend most of his time ® ® at Cambridge. ._ © * * RAK REAR ER BERLIN, Feb. 28.—Dr. \ Karl Stetniger, former city chamberlain, today was elected mayor of Greater Berlin. Dr. Steiniger selected from & list of 30 candidates. [wns so funny that he laughed so ‘Gin proved a failure,” said Mor.|* °° * 8 * © © ee CHICAGO, Feb. 28—Frank Far-|® Kidd's hall, Green Lake. pn gy om aggecey Rn sles oy Pe hall, Mountain tre for a year. ‘The show he saw) 4. 10 station, Green ®Paysse’s hall, Latona. hard the manager had him arrested. * Stockade hotel, Alki Point. NOCLUETODELARM, | “KING OF DREAMERS”, Federal authorities confess today that they have no clue to the where abouts of W. E. DeLarm, though every secret service operative in the country is in the hunt, which is now a month old. He is wanted for using the mails to defraud. When the king of frenzied finan- clers dropped off the train coming from Spokane to Seattle, he disap- peared as utterly as though the earth had swallowed him. | Somewhere the man who dreams in terms of tens of millions is laughing in his sleeve at Uncle! Sam's sleuths and waiting bis own | good time to reappear, The detec-| tives themselves have given up the| idea that DeLarm is in hiding. It/ is more in keeping with the 's | methods that he should be | openly, but under an assumed name. Remarkable Personality Tn all the legion of brilliant get- rich-quick promoters that America has produced there never was a! more remarkable personality than De Larm. “If Lhad known De Larm 30 years | ago,” James J, Hill, the railroad) king, once remarked, “I would own heaven now.” “Great Man Gone Wrong” J, Rufus Wallingford was a piker compared with De Larm He dreamed dreams which the brain of Rockefeller never conceived. When Receiver Louis P. Sichler had waded through the mass of pa-| pers and corespondence which tell the story of the operations of the Columbia River Orchards Co, and the pages of the diary to which De Larm confided the secrets of his early struggles, he said to his as- sociates; “Gentlemen, there @ great man gone wrong.” Among the effects of De Larm has been found a linen-covered account SSS SS | ® Washington Baptist church, Washington Park boulevard and Madison st. E reads: “November 1, 1907. Cach on 85.” ture coaxing capital into orchard | and irigation schemes without num- |ber. The scope of his operations, a fortune! |the magnitude of bis“dreams, the With $3.55 he worked miracles./soaring heights of his ambition— He promoted countless companies. these investigators are only begin- He flooded the country with litera- ning to realize. hand, 55 with which to build up “Tt Pays to Advertise” IF this advertising is done judiciously, and if you get for your dollar the full amount of PAID circulation (unpaid circulation is worthless). We stand ready to give you more circulation for your dollar than any other paper in the Northwest. We also stand ready to assist you in undertaking an effective and judicious ad- vertising campaign, even if the dollars at your command are quite limited. We'll see to it that YOU get full results. Think this over. Come to our office and go through our circula- tion records from A to Z. We'll prove we have MORE than we claim. 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