The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 1, 1912, Page 9

mine /ALASKANS ARE NOT ROYSTERING HOPM. Pourteent) Ave Washington wa rears Mate Avenue 4 Fourth Foster feeate Jackson Streot Firat Avenue wy 1% King Street ae Brable Se Weller Street Bignth Avenue lation, May Way RO er Way, paaraitas Tester Wy 2 Nester Way ‘Twenty-ninth nfiret Ave Berqet, “coal ty -fourth wun aon Street, Ralnter Avenues, ch Avenue eur etis Btrect, fire na Attantic Street Tudkine Street ‘Yakima Avenue AIS MeCietinn A Twenty-titth ity-second 1 iosnth Ave- Avenue, Bainter Avenud, § Genesee Street fos Brandon Strect, Avenue, City, tire [Rainier Avenue. City, fire Reteter Avenue, Tau Rainior Avenue. Duvall. ‘at power mill site. house, distr ‘eo «ball ‘house at Kang- on ce hall. at Page Lum- house Western a MEN, AS PICTURED BY GILL, SA Tt may be good politios, but tt ia certainly bad manners,” sald Clyde lL. Morris, one of the most widely [own Alaskans now tiving in Seat: tle, “to describe Alaskans as dis. solute mon who find pleasure in nothing but drunkenness aw: DAUEHAT Tce “¢ “It in to be deplored that for the perpose of gaining questionable political advantage Alaskans and Alaskan questions have been tnject- ed Into a menteipal campaign in the elity of Seattle, where they have no more business to be than Seattle politics has in Alaska “Alaskans are a setfreapecting, law-abiding class of citizens, and ff any Seattleite has any doubt about the matter, let him go to Alaska and violate the law, and he can eastly find out for himself. And the fact that he Is from Seattle or any other part ir place ‘will not protect him fu the violation of the lw “it a visitor to Alaska ts looking for trouble, I know of no surer way of finding it than for him to volce the estimate of Alaskan te! seoms to pass as current clreles In Seattle. These Hbels on Alaskans may have a pleasing sound for some, but they do not please ua, “Times have changed in Alaska oven more rapidly than they bave in Seattle. The reign of lawless. neas ts ended. A new and better order has come in. “Take Nome. There is more law and order in Nome than here. There are as many of the ordinary cont forts of civilization. Im Nome we have as good a high school as you'll find anywhere, three churehes, good hotels and storea, foundries and factories, and water and electric light systems—and the town ts en. tirely free trom debt. ly unknown “Holdups are practical! in Nome, as ts also true {n the other = Legal Notices / ‘fet bor -Mormgan’s te. mith K of P. hail ‘ottice, White Fiver!) fehoot house, dis- Danish Brotherhood bali. 1. Improvement house rs hall 1—Mre No. 2-—Kire. ball, Din- ore. . Ward Wells Street nd-—-Fledmond hall. nd—Hoeial hall at Conpro+ ‘lqational chureh, we house, district Impie Motel, 4962 Ninth (A house TL. Forboe’ contoction-| nara M6 1—Garage on 4 No 2—city pai iv 4—Gulberson i Mask between First Hes Hayes Bullting non chamber ho district No. Northwest Lumber Mstrict 11 — hall at Sky- Center hy ene aes os lone’ grocery © BM Barnardos High tehoot » Centray re bulidin al Grange [a neo hall, mt View at school) wi. Hiverton-—Riverton Cash Gre Sherwood—Old school hous Taylor. jusie Creek—Tanner school flouse, district No, 106. Sunnydale—Old gohool. house at Sunnydale, Mwtriet y's batt Ryle: rm atl Bch no, Matriet Re- ery. at Swan Lake 0. 1 acter onda. Rquak -Sehool houne, distriet Tanner—North Bend Lumber Co. store. Tok — Cowles’ halt wila—-Lutz bh Union achool house, district 164 Van Ainay hall 3 Chas School Lake—Resteurant at Unton Vashon Vineont Vali Nanas a Webster—Mill office, Cedar River Co uy Hotel + Bailets, Tye, Helgers how +e ab etlington Write River—Biackamith shop at OBrien: , Wilburton—School house, district a, 49, odinville—Foresters’ hall Wynoca—City ball at Wynoca. Dated this 19th day of February, 1912. THE PORT COMMISSION OF ‘THR PORT OF SUATTLN, By HM. CHITTENDEN, Its President. ROBERT BRIDGES, Secretary of the=Port Commission of the Port of Beattie. (SHAL) Mt, A. townk. Open gambling does not exist. “We are as saue and sober and as legitimately ambitious to so3 gress 4s are business men in any. ‘arate me: | HERE IS THE INCUBATOR | For you--The Ideal. Bullt for thia ate. ervive. Hold ont } the Chas, | Litly Co., Foot of als lain St, Seattle. -——————--| the city officiats in our protest to the public. = Dr. EdwinBrown, D.D.S. Seattle's Leading Dentist Block. Ask Your Friends About My Destal Offices and My Heasounble Prices. First Ave, fou s , and Dental. Combi Lose ‘Two Deliars When 1 Do Dental Work. High-class Dental Work at a wilt je can tal work, but with the high-priced State Combine Dentists for leas than half their price. “gure and Be lon Biock, offices io ii south of the | 0f the purchasing agent. *lie proof that T'do not compete with cheap den-| 9 8 and Sundays! furnished for the city were all orders for com THE STAR—FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1912. , LAWLESS YS MORRIS) Mistaken for Burglar (My United Frees Leased Wire) WUGENK, Or, Mareh 1t—-Min taken for a burglar whea teréd the combina mei, None other part p etvitten awit When ¥e pureh so our supplies iy have used about worth of hay, : » wad supplies of other Kinds in my Alaskan opera. tlone-—we go where we can get the best treatment and the best bar- not for the purpose of getting And I want to say that it is eat opinion that, for every dollar that a wide-open policy sight Coax Into Seattle the city would lone & hundred dollars.” who has spent 10 years a and still has large bu nose interests there, ts supporting Cotterill. FRECKLES March ts Werst Month for This ‘Frouble—tiow to Remove Kantly, ere’ @ time to rid yoursell of freckles, f if not removed now they will stay ail summer apoll an otherwine Your money Gor n Tracie don NG. ‘our ol inte ne wee rugs 4 carpets at peor- iis t~and-Mise Carpets, ya . 260 RAINIER VALLEY WEAVING cal from Reply of the Denay-Renton Clay & Coal Co. to the Advertisement of the Beard of Public Works THE CITIZENS OF SEATTLE: On last Thursday we informed the citieens of Seattle through the press that city officials had pisced an order for @ large quantity of city supplies with an eastern concern without miving manufac. turers any notice, On Sunday fast the Board inet ma id ee or, ead of accounting to the public ia a straight-forward fashion, the board sought to obscure its admission by surrqunding it with @ mass of misstatements of fact and half truths, aad by attempt- ing to discredit the quality of electrical condufts mani by this company. The only issue rained by us was that an order had been placed in the east by city officia manuafoturers. The argument advanced by the board is entirely beside be es is evasive and is an attempt to palliate en effense which it mits. The advertisement of the Board of Public Works is filled with mis- representations, as we will show below, is a libel on this company and 4 violation of ali the principles underlying the general movement for the development of the City of Seattle, the state of Washington, and in fact the whole Pacific northwest, which is meeting with such hearty aceord from all the citizens of Seattle. We feel it incumbent upon us to answer the statements and allega- tions in the advertisement of the board and the issues raised by it, and we shall do this by quoting the substance of the statements, or the alle- ations, and following these quotations with our replies, FIRST STATEMENT, which heads the udvertisemont, reads the Denny-Renton Clay & Coal Company did not get that contract. This, the topic sentence of the entire statement, is absolutely beside the main issue. We did not claim that we should have had the con- tract. We did claim the right to bid on It. We are not interested in any lanation “Why we did not get the contract,” but we are distinctly interested in the explanation of why we were not given an opportunity to bid on the contract. FIRST ALLEGATION—'The advertisement of the Denny-Renton Clay & Coal Company, attempting to impugn the motives of the officials of the city of Seattle in placing an order for the delivery of electrical of Public Works, in an advertisement the fact, Bight successful seasons| conduits is misleading and docs not give to the public a statefnent of the true facts No right thinking man can find any imputation of the motives of We did not impugn their motives, and we chalienge the board to point out to us a single word or sentence that could rightfully be se construed. We maintain em. phatically that our protest did not and could not misiead anyone in any particular and that it contains an absolutely true statement of facts. We-stated that an order had been placed in the east. We stated that local manufacturers had had fip opportunity to bid on this order, Theee facts have since been proven, SECOND ALLEGATION—Tha ‘board's advertisoment states that “Electrical conduits furnished to the city by us in the past were unfit for use and that-representatives or the lighting department and the pur- chasing agent, in person, requested us to examine this material when it was piled on Fifth avenue.” We emphatically deny this. city, or any of its officials or emp! us on the Fifth avenue job last October ‘e not satisfactory, was some ten or tweive we first inquired at the city hall the rea- sons for our company having been given no opportunity to bid on the contract let last Decembes, The cit: purchasing agent stated before the board of public worke on last Friday that he had visited the offices of thie company several times and had telephoned a number of times In an endeavor to communicate to tome.member of our sales department the fact that he desired us to examifé the material now said to have been plied on Fifth avenue. Notwithstanding the fact that some of our sales force ie always at our head office, not ane gle person connected with our entire company had any noticé df these visits or the telephone calle Furthermore, a member of our sales depart ment ie in constant touch with the city hall for the purpose of gathering information concerning the prospective orders, and not one word was ever said to him concerning the order in question. ‘The very statement made by the board that “we ignored the request” er received the request, for in the general courses of business we would most certainiy not disregard a request of this Bnly intimation we had from the , that the conduits supplied by Del-| sort coming from a customer. Granting for a moment that our conduit delivered on the Fifth ave- ae nue job was unsatisfactory, the fact remains that city officials should prices | have rejected them and demanded that we supply condults within the ions. Had delay and consequent damage ensued, our company to indemnify the city. THIRD ALLEGATION—'These (local) condults cost §7.26 per 100 T guarantee my! auce feet f, 0, b. cars, the city assuming all cartage and breakage, which come to 71% First] amounts to 80 cents, or a total of $8.05, while the duots bought from the %] Western Blectric Company was delivered on the job at a price of f the same sized order.” ai oeche poor dhe of electrical conduits which our company has heretofore quantities. Our price to the city was $7.25 per 100 duct feet f. 0. b. cars, Contrary rom & window entrance, Joo owned by Kdward Smjt at Lowell, Joahua Cain, mat wath wens ly fatally ’ Amtth shot! in through the back. He fired! above the iand tonight. Dance at Dr PUBLIC te the board's statement, however, a fair allowance for cartage and potina yc ‘the care to the city’s warehouse, the point of delivery called In the contract given ‘the city for the eastern ti to less than 26 cents, instead of 80 cents, per 100 duct feet, the advertisement, so It will be seen that the claim of the board that 93.760 was saved to the oity by placing the order for electrical conduits in the east is not well féunded. . Furthermore, in our protest te the public we stated that we were ready to supply the material at a lower price than that paid by the city for the eastern tile and we can only say that we will of course abide by this statement in ey ‘we may edd that the public itself has an interest in the proceeds of this contract, in that if we had been given the opportunity to bid and had procured the order for conduits, the largest part of the proceeds received by this company would have been paid to ‘workmen now out of employment, and in turn by them distributed to the merchants of the city, so that residents of the city lose the opportunity to sell labor and supplies to the amount of over %s0,000.00. FOURTH ALLEGATION—"The city’s purchasing agent was notified | (M on December 29 that a raise in price of 75 cents would take effect on January 1, 1912.” We are makers and seliers of electrical clay conduits, and yet we knew and now know of no reason for an advance in price taking place on January 1, 1912; nor have we, ourselves, added to our former price. As to the number of carioads of cond: our information was that thi Gotiveries of the conduits had been so ordered 1o require 120 carloads, but we accept the board’s correction that the 500,000 duct feet wil! be shipped in 60 carloads. FIFTH ALLEGATION—"This order was not a contract, but was given to protect the city against an advance in price or a possible de- oline.” This one sentence is a gem. law and contains theo: It Ie replete with novel doctrines of modern version of the “heads | lose; tails, you win” ry. “This order ie not a contract.” We have carefully read the orde and we have carefully read the acceptance of the order, and we humbly acknowledge our inability to follaw the logic of this statement and will leave it to the Board of Public Wor to explain its meaning to the public, If an order duly given and accepted is not a contract, what Is it? “This order was given to protect tho city against an advance in price or a possible decline.” We may state that we are entirely unfa- miliar with orders that protect any one against a decline in price. Un- doubtedly the board, intends to convey the idea that this order Included a provision that the city might have the advantage of any decline in! price during the life of this contract, but we can only say that it suc- ceeded admirably in obscuring its ining. SIXTH ALLEGATION—"Preference to local firms is and alw been the policy of the Board of Public Works.” ‘we eubmit that the sort of preference shown by the board to date in this instance can well be dispensed with by all local manufacturers. VENTH ALLEGATION—"The Stone & Webster corporations and the telephone companies have given this company trial orders in th past year, but have placed their 1912 orders with the Western Electric Company, finding the local conduits unfit for use.” This statement, in addition to being libelous, shows bad faith on the part of the board, as it had positive knowledge that the Seattle Electric Company had placed an order for electric conduits with us within the lastgwo weeks. As a matter of fact, the Seattle Electric Company is thi: very day laying conduits manufactured by us on Wall street, hetween First and Second avenues. The full board at its meeting on Friday, February 23, was given notice that the Seattie Electric Company had recently ordered a ship- ment of conduits from us its advertisement was not published until inday, February 25, but nevertheless the board saw fit to make a mis- statement of this sort which could have only one effect, that of bring- ing discredit upon the wares of a local manufacturer. We can only repeat that the Un Sti government is and has been using our conduits, large public service corporations have in the past and are at the present time ordering and using this conduit, and the statement made by the board attacking the quality of this class of our products ts not only entirely beside the issue, but is utterly inex- ousable, coming from the source from which it com Th rtisement of the board | conglomoration of e placed without notice, but-Instead of coming out In a straightforward way, admitting its error, it has unwarrantedly attacked the products of a local industry, The entire tone of the advertisement is diametrically opposed to the spirit of fair play and co-operation that Is necessarily identified with the great constructive movement now starting through- out this section of the country. This comp: has in the past contrity. uted ite full share to the development of tle and ex, to con- tinue in this course in the future. We reg that the attitude of the Board of Public Works at the time this matter was brought to its attention was such as to leave ue no other course than an appeal to the public through the press, DENNY-RENTON CLAY & COAL CO. amounts stated In|}! oe '* store SPECIAL PRICES FOR THIS WEE Bi 4c FAMILY TRADE SUPPLIEL de Oc Prim Vista Burgundy. fpedlat, por gailons..”:... 196 Kegular prices of these goods Imported Holland Kuyper Geneva. 6 per bottle JAF FES & CC GROWERS AND DISTILL ALE LIQUOR DEAL TEETH MONEY SAVED Is Money Easily Earned Peoples Bank Rainn at bests and Pike Street, are doing Den price #0 reasonable for NINE WHOLE a In very best ficen. Com work dowe want your please | you vice without price praction and we will Examination and ad- specialist terials ui work will be it. Albany Painless Dentists On second Moor of the Peopl: Seca Opposite ‘The Bon Marche and Mac- Dougall & Southwick, Take ¢le- watk up (PAID ADVERTIORMENT) THE FACTS IN THE INDEPENDENT TELEPHONE CASE 01 Seattle cranted a franchise Independent Telephone com- fon of thi to by the compa: aay Was legally ai agreement uy, phone company. with pany, ad 2.776 tel. ) In 1910 it had In 1908 this com panes on renta 13971 telephones on which it was fi an, increase of 500 collecting toll Der cent. The state acted a the Public include regulating telephone rates {regardiess of the franchine provis- for 5 ‘his law has been validat by our supreme court, but the rights of t people of Beattie, to the tele- phone rater cont terms of the be legislature of 1911 en- frm: 0 E. ford, Seat- rperation counsel, and coun- sel for the Independent Telephone company. PROPLE OF SEATTLE INDIGNANT On November arose with indigni man condemned the # on: creased charge of §250,000 pe: by this telephone monopoly. A pro ceeding was instituted by Mr. Brad ford to restrain the company from increasing its charges, but when this case got to our supreme court the black man In the wood pile ap- peared as by mai in a yerbal y before the Stipulation agreement supreme court an@ the court could not pass upon the reasonableness of the increased rm because that question had been sty ed out of es were too and the increased rates were reasonable. THE SUPREME COURTS DECISION sion of January 27th, of the Advance Sheets th, It says: “The olf eporation cou E. Bradford) admits franchise rates are inadequ in the interests of a 4 upon the main nt thi j¢ questions to be deter- mined by us are: (1) ‘Has the leg- islature vested in the Public Sei commission authority to tncrease the rates specified in Par. 7 of | namnce 6498 of the City of Seattle and ordinances amendatory thereof, under which the company is oper- ating? and (2) such power has been vested In the Public Ser jon, whether tho legisiat uming to grant such pow- unconstitutional and vol Again, on page 22 the court saya: {It should be understood ‘that w are not passing upon the fairn Of the new rate, Its fairness is ads mitted by the counsel for the city James BE. Bradford). We are dealing only with the power of 1e sta to control those which ox! by Its authorit: attending question whet! t owers 0 by Inaction, be so sur- rendered as to estop sontly asserting them. BRADFORD'S STIPULATION Bradford made his stipulation or- ally in open court at Olympia, in form of an admission, £o which the Supreme Court refers. © TELEPHONE RATES UNRBASON. ABLE. When we know that telephone rates in Sidney, Australia, are $2 per month and no extra charge for long distance, we are compelled to admit that $4 for inferior service in |Seattie was high enough, a | Bradford's stipulation must have | been made for the purpose of k: ~ ling evidence of this fact out of the ase so that the court could not pass upon the reasonableness of the new |rates, and the merits of the tele- phone’ case have never been before |the court, because of this stipuln- tion. * This decision may be reviewed jand modified by a procedure in equity, on the ground that the stip- ulation fs fradulent and votd, and deprives the people of a hearing in court. In other words, the people have not bad their day in Bradford put them out. By this stipulation made tn jcourt, Mr, Bradford rendered court. open itorney of the telephone company. It is an elementary principle of Joquity. that fraud. vittates. every- | thing with whieh it enters. ‘The finding of the now rates by the Public Service Commission was accepted by the city as Just and rea- Sonable, and not challenged ot cted to as it the duty of the Sorporation Counsel to do, on beh of the city, At the argument of the case be- fore the Supreme Court, Mr. Brad- ford, on behalf of the city, stipulated in’ open court that the ‘new. rates were just and that the old rates Were unjust.-and this oral stipula- tion became one of the agreed facts on which the court was compelled to act, and judicial inquiry on this {vital point was thereby provented, It practically put the city out of court and. the admission fortaited the city's ease. ‘The Supreme Court @ld notapass or the how tates at wstion Was “adjudicated” without. any. evidence and without authority, imply on hts erroneous judgment ide opinion.. and with disaster to the rights of ‘the city, Of course jthe company told him th were all Tight—and thowsht the company ought to | The ee vital que jtion as been Inquir Hinto tea searporation that they are in- VGoun to vote, for eds hts nd fel I will see into. Be sure Scott for Facets for the thre David Burgess for term for the city counell EDWIN J. BROWN, Candidate for Corporation Counsel, quired George