The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 1, 1912, Page 4

THE SEATTLE STAR eo Ex Main 9490 and Independent 441 whe Beattie star rine to gecure Prompt and rexy ‘another paper f ‘and complaints are given y we y failed to arrive any ue Berice’at Goce. Main B40d or Ind 441, ment During the 10 years that Mr. Gill served in the city coun- cil and the one year that he served as _mayor—the exception proving the rule—whenever there was an issue drawn between the people's rights and the profits of the corporations ; between the people's homes and morals and the vice interests of this city; between anything and everything that was robbery or graft or special interest and the right of the people on the Other hand; whenever such an issue was drawn, HIRAM C, GILL WAS INVARIABLY AGAINST THE PEOPLE For these DOZEN YEARS GILLISM HAS STOOD FOR SEATTLE ELECTRIC COMPANY FRANCHISES) AND CONTROL AND PLUNDER OF THE PEOPLE OF THIS CITY. Ree Gillism stood for this company AGAINST OUR CITY} LIGHTING SYSTEM. Gill first opposed it, when we started | in to get it a dozen years ago, and has opposed it until during | his year as mayor, HE SOUGHT TO WRECK IT BY Pt T. TING A SEATTLE ELECTRIC HIRELING AT THE) HEAD OF ‘TITE SYSTEM TO BREAK IT DOWN FROM} THE INSIDE. Another year of this sort of friendship for the) city lighting system would have put it on such a losing basis that our people would have been cajoled into turning it over to its competitors, and then we would have had a complete! SEATTLE ELECTRIC MONOPOLY. GILLISM HAS STOOD DURING ALL THE YEARS FOR FRANCHISES FOR RAILROADS? VACATION OF STREETS FOR SPECIAL IN ARDLESS OF WHETHER THE PE , : WAS IN THAT LINE OR WHETHER IT WAS A RE AND SIMPLE GRAFT ON BEHALF OF: THE} IAL INTERESTS. GILLISM HAS STOOD, AND REPRESENTED AS! (TTORNEY IN THE PERSON OF MR. GILL HIMSELF, | R THE CONTRACTORS’ COMBINE, BY ME HICH THE PEOPLE OF THis CITY HAV PLUNDERED IN THEIR GRADING AND REGRADING GILLISM HAS STOOD FOR VICE AND VICIOUS PEOPLE, NOT MERELY DURING THE YEAR GILL) WAS MAYOR, BUT THROUGHOUT THE TEN YEARS) OF* PREPARATION AND TRAINING FOR IT. So is it to be wondered that Gill represented the vice syndicate in all its powers and ramifications during the year he was mayor? THAT WAS JUST THE LOGICAL CLI- MAX, THE INEVITABLE FRUITION OF THAT WHICH} MR. GILL HAD BEEN DOING DURING HIS YEARS AS COUNCILMAN. Se THE CITY PLAN SBTATEMENT NO. 7 ON REPORT OF MUNICIPAL PLANS COMMIS. SION, TO BE SUBMITTED TO VO MARCH 5TH No. 2 on Official Ballot—Seattie’s Pian in the interest of the Wage-Earner On an average of $6,000,000 4 year for improvements. This money has been in- tle, as @ city plant, a more efficient piant in Tt ha: To Rim tt has been a great benefit, have been paid the wages of thousands of business, every retail and wholesale dealer in th the benefit. his $6,000,000 a year on permanent im.) The tax records | So, while the 000 a year in tmprovements, the valuation / bas‘increased $18,000,000 a year, or three times. There hat the expenditure of this streets, sewers, lights and other | ‘he restricted business area el people on account of Its j astronomy THE STAR—FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1912. Mr, Smith (a wise man)--My son ‘Tom ts a veterinary surgeon U “I feel sorry for that poor, moth- orloss girl,” * “Well, why don't you marry her?” “What I want ts a mothorless girl he's a pretty young lookin’ feller to with a fair Income.” be a veteran. A NEW DISEASE He—-What's the matter with poor young Thomson? She—The doctor says it's locomotor ataxia. He-Aht London Opinion, way. FORESIGHTED New Maid—Would yer mind giving me a rikemmendation, mum? arene Mistress—Why, you've just comet! New Maid—Dut yes may uot want to give me wao when I'm layin, | ™ * | mum, ~Boston Transeript, GOING.HIM ONE BETTER Kitty—-Tom says I grow younger every day. dack~That's @ positive fact! Why, | shouldn't be surprised to see your name soon among birth notices!--Boston Transcript. CUSTOMER'S NAME IS PECK Barber—-You are losing your hair very fast, sir. Are you doing any- thing to save it? Customer—Y m getting a divorce —Heston Transcript. HER ViEW OF IT ) el ENDLESS ENTERTAINMENT ed in? ’ PNG +} “Its a serial story abeut Mrs. B.- Somebody in one of the| people who are saving for a steam papers anys we all ought to stady | yacht.” “Good story, ts itt “Yeu; and I expect it will rua on for years and years.” Mra. W.—Just another excuse for staying out nights, | suppose. AN ARTICLE OF MERIT wrote the mailorder man to the farmer who bad swered his advertisement. “Dear air—Your favor of recent. date ceived, and 1 beg to acknowledge receipt of the two bite (26 cents which you so Kindly inctosea “By this same mail T am an re » bog Ee as agreed, one of our patent coat hangers. You will, tam sure, find It all we claim—neat, sensible, mple, practical, No parta to be put on or taken off. A hammer te 1] that is needed to attach it permanently to any post or wal).” In due time the farmer received the letter--ead, in @ separate age, one two-inch wire nall—Joy Hook A KING GEORGE 8TORY Shortty before his departure for India, King George was visiting at ® country house near the scene of one of Oliver Cromwell's battles. Strolling out one alone, he met the village blacksmith, “I say, | morning my g00d fellow,” said his majesty genially, “I understand there was « here.” jammered the blacksmith, recognising ap@ saluting the t Mr, Jones (not so wise)-—Well, JOSH WISE SAYS: “A bank robber is ostracised be- cuz he works from th’ outside.” “Overwork never killed a per Hiceman, as th’ mayor o' Gecleyeport said when complimented on th’ fine appearance of th’ day watch.” “Tobe Sidebar, who used ter drive a canal boat mule, in readin’ th’ | per allus turns first to ‘Steamship Movements.’” COMMON EXPRESSIONS ODDLY APPLIED “Beaten out of five dollars,” said the gold leaf dejectediy. “a r,” sald the water, as it passed “Experiences like this tond to harden one,” the ogg said, as it Was dropped into boiling water. “A little of this goes a long way,” remarked the aviator aloft, as he flicked the aay off his cigar. “I'll stay and see this thing out,” ld ‘ave the beatsly things taken off the road if I ‘ad myjeaid the man who was at the den- tints to have a tooth pulled. “T'm against those long hatpine for women,” the man in the oar an he wiped his bleeding Jaw. do this in reaponne to an in a rd prompting,” seasick passenger, as bo leaned over the rall.—Boston Transcript. “1 wonder tf your sister realizes, | explained the, In the Editor’s Mail] and it need not|~ Mr, Mditor Through the columns of your pa per pormit me to present to the public « fow facts in regard to the advisability of the people of this| city voting down propositions 7 and § of the Port comminalon. known as the Harbor‘istand Ter minal, These facts are not asser tions made by me, but quotations from the Report of Calvin Tom kins, commissioner of docks for the city of New York, made in hie Inet anuual report, dated March 27, 1911, to Hon. Wm. J. Gaynor, mayor of sald city. On page 1 of tho report in the following: e “Certain competi between the great ports of the world has imposed upon all the necessity of modernizing their terminals. In conformity with this policy it Is ap mt that New York must pro- ively municipalize, comtrot Nop ite water front for pub- use. From page 2 of the report “The gradual municipalizing of the elty’s water front will be made necessary by competition between ports, and also for the purpose of securing water™éront outlets for back iand, which will be devoted to manufacturing purposes. With the city In possession and controll ing the uses of the water front the cheapest and speedicet handling of commodities can be secured.” From page 4 of the report “At South Brooklyn, both above and below the Brooklyn terminal, the city has sequired much water front, which it is being urged to |tmprove. How to improve this mu nicipal property and acquire more in such 8 manner as to best serve Johnny, that during the last three|the interests of the city, without months T bave set many dollars er “Tm sure doen, Mr. Swoetly; that's why she’s not fetting on pa engaged to Mr. Bigger.”—New York Evening Mat! public docks, since the city's inter. cessfully compete with eat rate in I look for prof From page 6 1 quote the renu lof the experience of N y cipal ownersh The very valu lof the elty, located in Ms has been asequired sinc this manner. It represe ties worth over $160,000,000, which been paid for already out of earning! | No comment by me in necessary And now, in conclusion as to the fate of the Bush Terminals tn the| city of York I quote from page pport A necen part of this policy will be the acquiring of the Bush and New York dock companies plers and the progressive extension | of control by the elity over the mar. inal railways of these concerns ft will be manifestly unwise for the elty to undertake an extensive wa ter front development in thin see. tion uniess it shall firet seeure con trol over the marginal railway «ye-| toms of the Pennsylvania rail roads, Bay Ridge terminals north- erly to the Brooklyn navy yard.| Without such control it cannot suc-| cessfully connect the various prop-| ert which it will subsequently acquire. I recommend that the city ld negotiate for control of the) and also for! piers and! bulkheads of that con property cannot be ly secured by acquire title by eminent Do the electors of desire to tle them iaty years to men) King county selves up for who are ontensibly adventurers, thereby putting themselves in the same condition that the city of New York is now tn as to the Bush terminals, and then be forced to ex- greise the power of eminent domata to retrieve itself from the unfor- tunate position? | INSOR. YOUR . Opportunity MR. AND MRS. SEATTLE CITIZEN :— : % The Sunget Telephone Company, commonly called the Bell Company, tells you that you should have one-system service. Please read what a firm who spends $150,000 per year with Seattle business men says Telephone Company. VEGI UNDE E boa» Lite» exterior, You can eave trouble by getti from we. ee Municipally-Qwned Telep Clear Lake Lumber Compa: Manufacturers of Douglas Fir and Red Cedar Lumber and Red Cedar Shingles. Mills and Office CLEAR LAKE, WASHINGTON January 24, s City Editor, larepresenting the | king, “I did ‘ round or two with Bill the potman, but I didn't know Dear Sir: mean the expenditare| your majesty ‘ad ‘card of 1,"—Boston Transcript. nt pepvided for in the plan, until that im-! reason for having @ plan is to see that the stematically, and to a better ving to the taxpayer. The money, a benefit to the wage-earner. NICIPAL LEAGUE OF SEATTLE. THE BITTER WITH THE SWEET proval)—and cine tonight, for I am not going to ve, however, mixed all the pills the ingredients of the padding. (Groans. Auntie (who is housekeeping during mother’s enforced absence) Now, you see, children, | bave made you a podding (murmurs there won't be any trouble over you to take give you any. (| es ui and draughts and pow up with —~Tit-Bita, , MISUNDERSTOOD Used and praised by the most competent and careful pas- try cooks the world over The only Baking Powder made from Royal Grape Cream of Tartar—made from grapes In this big office your teeth are thoroughly examine 4 there ts no eh re 1s tanen bY tn proper apecieitn in your particu: ame dentist will fonal attention every time you call. All. expert 4 no # dents—with a complete equipment to perform the work painlensly. We Cut the Cut Rate Prices BXAMINATION AND ESTIMATES FREE Silver Fillings tinne Ful Gold Alloy Filling: 2he to SOc | Gold Crowns as tow as A to oo Sets of Teeth as low 0 to Painless Extracting. ALL WORK GUAKANTEED 15 YEARS that guarantees without reserve. Good in tt . il? Commerce Bidg., Everett, ‘and "212" fxchunge UNION CUT RATE DENTISTS ara and Pike, Entrance 306% Pike By 0 Buz" of idg., Bel SAY YOU SAW IT IN THE STAR. “Too bad about Jack. My husband Ci isaid he was always @ friend in need,” | “Yes, always.” | | | oe | | Not A Desirable Acquaintance a Harry— {| know my own mind. The Beaten Path Sergeant-—-Why do you think this |dog was stolen from a lady? | Policeman-—Because, as I walked |down the street with it, it stopped |in front of all the department-store windows.-New Orleans Times- Democrat A Falling Market “ll give you two dollars for this pte about Daniel Webster.” nats the matter with you?” demanded the hack writer. “You gave me four dollars for that an- | ecdote when it was about Roose- | velt.""—-Brooktyn Life. Vanity I'll buy yez no new hat, Yeo are vain MecGorry @'yez moind that? |enough ablriddy. Mrs. MeGorry—Me vain? Oj'm jnot! Shure, Ol don’t t'tink mealif half as good lookin’ as Of am-— )Christian Register, Quite Accommodating Old Lady—My Uttle boy, de you smoke cigarettes? Boy—No, mum; but I can give you a chew of tobacco. Minneap- olis Journal, When They Knifed Each Other Knicker--How did he obtain his medical education? Bocker—He studied all the names statesmen called each other.—New York Sun, BY FRED SCHAEFER “Vell, Osgar, four years elegtet a bretzidend und diss already wo got to el an von, ald’d 1d?" H “By golly, yess, Adolf. How files avay, Who dit we elog! time—do you recall bs “No, but I voult lof aa him.” “L see—y re like der reht of dem. Der ik iss pickTénitnded —nivays souring on ids heroes. I bet me your fifty cents to my dol- lar dot you are sore ad der vice bretzidend besites.” “Bt I coult remember who iss vice bretzidend dere iss no ques- tion of id.” “Ise dot der vay you talk aboudt & man you votet for?” “Dit I vote for him?” “Sure you dit. Und after he wass clegtet he 4. 4 oudt of wight. All vice bretsidends do.” “Vell, dot {ss vot I call grati- toode.” Business College Uncle Dick—-Young man, do you study diligently at collego? Young man—Nix! There ain‘t no Such course.—Callfornia Pelican. Enclosed please find copy of a letter which we have just written to Mr. J. E. Slater, of Slater, & Co., Seattle, relative to the telephone situation in Seattle and Seattle territory. Our purchases in the of Seattle amount to about $150,000.00 a yeargnd in the making of these purchases we are obliged to long distance telephones a great deal, and for this reason we are vitally interested in this question competition in the telephone business. The writer is not a voter in Scattle but owns a residence there is interested in other property in Seattle, and believes that it would be very wrong for the city of Se give up its interest in the Independent Telephone Co., and thus put the people absolutely in the h the Bell Telephone Co. We know from bitter experience that when these people have a monopoly, larly in long distance work, they will give not only indifferent but rotten service. We cannot help ie that if it were possible we should control a telephone monopoly through governmental regulation, the business is a natural monopoly and should be operated on that basis Experience, however, has strated in this cotintry that a privately owned monopoly does now tend to the best of service on the any public service corporation. If these telephones were owned by the government and incorporated the postoffice department, we would say by all means: make it a monopoly, but until that cam-be 0 about it seems to us that the people of Seattle will make a great mistake if they permit the Suinset pany to absorb the Independent Respectfully By F. H. Jackson, Vice Pres Remember, Seattle citizen, you were told a few years ago tl bankrupt the city and bea failure as far as good lights and low rates FOR YOU were concerned. You did: but voted for a city owned lighting plant, and have made yourself money every year by having your city light You are a stockholder in this—YOUR lighting plant ; your dividends cometo you in good service and low rates ¥ have your own telephone plaft, with good service and lower rates than the Sunset will ever give you, if 7 Seattle is given the right to own its own telephone. You now have a right to say whether you want as good not trust it. service in telephone business, ask for it Tuesday. A Municipal Plant owned by Seattle will MAKE MONEY and REDUCE RATES. this matter, If the Seattle Independent Telephone Company is allowed to be merged with the Bell systemy vision for taking care of all of the local independent companies in our neighboring ‘counties, which bere? yours maker in a municipally owned telephone plant as you now have in your lighting plant. If you want low ke. CLEAR LAKE LUMBER CO. t if the city owned its own Lighting Plame From announcement by the Sus3t, ot Bell Telephone Company in Thursday's dailies, they tell us that # cided to “take us over,” and will be good and nurse us for two years without advancing rates, but what then? years will the citizens of Seattle be able to find one single line of the now existing Independent Telephone plant, in which we, as citizens, have a $200,000.00 equity®% Do you want to trust the Bell system to handle asset of yours and mine, Mr. Citizen? The record of the Bell is to fike—-take— gations to our citizens, Wherever it has throttled competition its service is bad ANE VANavisfactorys Our It cares nothing for its Give voice to your’ with Seattle business housés through the Seattle fndependent system—the Bell system at one blow wilt Independents and thus destroy a large line of feeders that will be revenue producers for our Municipal Plamt ready for business. ‘The Bell system fears Municipal Ownership because a Municipal Telephone System, like @ Lighting Plant and Municipal Waterworks, can and does produce lower rates and better service for citizemss - Respectfully submitted in the interest of all Seattle citizens and outlying counties. Municipal Telephone Leagtt a