The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 2, 1912, Page 3

aaa Time thew Here Por the benefit of the thousands of voters who will not have tin various questions to be voted upon next Tuesday, The St lowing recommendations, Clip out ‘The Star's advisory silot and takeit with you to the polls. If you are undecided ab any | stion, VOTE NO ON PT) ndecided about any | \t next Tuesday's general city election the people of Se- in addition to electing city officials et whiske namie @ ee oe will be called upon to vote upon three general propositions, four city bond issues | and eight propositions advanced by the Port of Seattle com-| mission for harbor improvements. Owing to the distracting multiplicity. of issues, most of © proposals have been given comparatively little attention, ere is grave danger that some of them lacking in positive gr even positively evil in their possible consequences, | be enacted without sufficient study on the part of the voters. Owing to the great multiplicity of these isstes and the nadequate study given them by many electors, it is a com paratively sate rule for any voter to vote against all of them which he has not studied, or of which he has not been con- vinced that there is an absolute present need In short, do not vete for something you know nothing about, just because you find it on the ballot. } Many of these propositions have been inadequately con- | sidered, some of them are lamely drawn, and nor a few of them contain discovered or undiscovered jokers of grave im portance, 1 v 1 int deo ' t ae, tory Hf arom) fot lowing ballot hasbeen prepared hy The Star with care, after a study of the reports of all organizations whieh have issued reports on them, and can be followed with safety by any voter who has not given each measure special Any voter who has made a personal study of any sosition should, of course, vote his: convictions thereon: jand this ballot is intended only to guide voters not otherwise niormed by an authority in which the voter has personal con | rch (Cut out and preserve this ballot.) On the offietal ballot of the city election the voter wil) find first | seven propositions. follows VEN IMPORTANT PROPOSALS it to pave the way for a municipal NO. 1—Direct®« the city. eo telephone system. VOTE VES. NO, 2—This covers the Hogue municipal plana, Belleving this to} be one of (he most important isenes before the people. The Star has) aimed wo give ite readers complete and reliable information concern | ing it. At present this paper ts publiahing a series of articles prepared | by the Moniclpal league, favoring the adoption of the plans, However, this paper t# of the opinion that the plans abould bo rejected, because the city can reject them aud still have them as a guide for future mu nicipal improvements, whereas thelr adoption would bind the city to a fixed scheme, which would be both expensive and inconvenient, There- | fore The Star advises VOTE NO, NO. 3—Directing the city counell to grant extension franchises to | the Seattle Electrte Company on terms desired by the company, which terms are in violation of the provisions of the charter, The charter provision whieb it ts sought by this proposition to nullify is the provision | which reserves to the city the right to rehase the property of tne) company on fair terms ~This provision is advanced in the Interest of | the Seattle Electric Company. VOTE NO. NO. 4—Hond inmne of $500,000 for park extension, It ix becoming necessary to conserve Seattle's bonding credit for revenue-producing public utilities, VOTE NO. No. 5—Hond imsue of $640,000 to purchase power site In the Olym-| VOTE NO. No. 6—Bond issue of $1,000,000 to purchase power site on White H river. There to the merit of this power The city | Nghting and e1 However, at present the city does n®@t need any additional water power, | and therefore the purchase of this site would only be for future use.) The price of $1,000,000 seems high, but the city, It is declared, can never ‘bay it for less. The Star recommends a negative vote, but there is un-| | doubted merit on the other side, NO. 7—Hond isaue of $125,000, to establish tabere ‘ints in a very important public undertaking. VOTE YES. TWENTY-SEVEN CHARTER AMENDMENTS ‘These, also, will be foand on the offictal elty ballot. NO, 1—Griffiths single-tax amendment VOTE NO. NO. 2—Erickson single-tax amendment. VOTE YES. The single tax has enough merit to warrant Seattle in giving It ‘tale trial, At time end of one year, or even sooner, if the people desire, ‘they cam change It, At any rate, the single tax cannot injure the hom: lowners, the renters and the people in average circumstances; therefore | ‘The Star recommend? 4 favorable vote. ‘ 1 NO. 3—Giving elty council authority to prescribe conditions regu- ‘lating the publicity campaigns ot candidates for office. Gives candi dates already tm the council Eg pan ‘This does not prescribe the Hf 7 stem. VO ; eee etna the city to dedicate to the port commission, with- out compensation, all city property within a port improvement district. | VOTE NO. NO. 5—-Authorizing the ¢ THEATRES V CORT Tear te tire dental | { pies. losis hospital Aty counell to vacate tide land streets with- Seattle ATHE —— Hoth Phones 41 ' | PARTING af the MATINER TOMORKOW — ONE WEEK BEGINNING TOMORROW NIGHT GLOVER Presents Dramatization of Sir Walter Scott's Immortal Classic i | Mata. Thursday, Saturday. 9) FUN Show in Town The Only s > 8 <I, Glasgow, Scotland, With a Brilliant Cast ding J Thomson, Allan B, Stevenson, . Marta Golden, Nannie Strachan, Nellie of @—-PEOPLE—_60 cs URES—Fourteen Superb Scenes of Scotiand’s Large and Appropriate Orchestra and Pipers. AM McKAY. the World's Champion Scottish Dan- al Numbers, including “The Tramp Chorus” and Gres The Battle Scene at “The Pass of Defeat the Soidiers. 1.60 TO We— PRICES Ares One BIG SHOW Ye WAITING FOR ° 4 | | The Greatest Hit in Years Packed Houses Kveryw Great jig” Laughing Musical Event | The One Bud Fisher's ipress CORNEy” DNSIDINE exits” SULLIVAN & CONSIDINE Beginning Monday Matinee JACK THE GIANT KILEER The Gian Played by GEO | | SHOW | JEFF Actor, AUGER, 50 PROPEL Two Carloads BIG 6.4. ACTS —_—_—————— -—— Always a Big Show for the Money. 5 OTHER of Scenery ws ON MAINE with NAKED TRUTH | Screaming Musical Travesty. | MLAND—Elongated Comedy Viclinologist. S-OTHER BiG ACTS—6 10 and 206 ——METT AND JERE A $75 000 Production—tt'« a Corker Mixa Seeing This Great Big SHOW t t Fall to Bring the Ones to Bee UTT AND JEFF AND and Saturday Matinees Ibe, 280, 600 Sunday Prices Ihe and 2h¢ ibe, $1.00 Matinee, 26, 8c, ‘Thursday Night Prices HURRY for Seats if You Want Hitting Room * ‘BIG ISSUES UP FOR DECISION OF VO je / VOTE NO. N | terminal THE STARKR—SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 1912, out compensation, VOTE NO. | NO. 6—Authorizing the establishment of sanitariums and isolation hospitals, VOTE YES, NO, 7-—Authorizing the counell to public wel and preveribe its functions NO. 8<-Preseribing the ph partment of public welfare and taking thin ¢ the counctt; where it is placed tr diment Ni NO, %Authorizing the counctl finance untanta, VOTE VES, W—Removing the 20-year Hmitation on bend issues. Ablivh & department of the VOTE YES nd functions of a de f the ha of | VOTE NO. mmnittee to employ vorTe puting @ xaloon district tn Georgetown. 12——Extending until 1916 t *. which removal VOTE NO. NO, 13--Bxtending the Initintive and re VOTE YES. . NO, 14—Providing fot a municipal newspaper, . 16—Abolishing the velo power of the milyor 16—Amending another Yeto. VOTE NO, T?—-Exompting the ebief of police fr nation, VOTE YES, NO, 18—Limited singlo-tax ame Commerce. VOTE NO, NO, 19—~Authorizing the a instead of certified cheeks, VO \ NO, 20-—Kxempting the chief of the fire department from civil sery fee examination and authorising bis removal by the mayor, VOTE NO, NO, 21-—Creating a civil service commision, with vastly enlarged powers and increased salar VOTE NO. NO. 22—incrensing ayor's salary from $5,000 to $7,500, and authorizing the for « semi-monthly pay day for city employes, On w nd provision, VOTE YES, NO, 23—-Requiring the elty contractors ty pay a minimum rate of $2.75 a day, VOTE YES. NO, 24—Abollsting the prim erential system of voting. NO. 26—-Authoriaing VOTE YES. i NO, 26—Fixing ho VOTE YES. NO. 27—Authorizing the employment of experts tn appointive offices regardlews of residence qualification, and removing the freebolding qualification for candidates for the council, VOTE VE In addition to the numerous other propositions and charter amend- mente on which the people must vote next Tuesday, the following pro- posais, submitted by the port comminsion, will be found on the official ballot The Star ow propositions VOTE YES. e removal of asloons from transfer would otherwise occur at the end of 1912 rendum to saloon licenses.) VOTE YES. VOTE NO portion of the charter to abolish the mayor's N civil service exami iment proposed by the Chamber of ance of surety bond from contractors NO. wane ry tion and substituting the pref. Amendment hastily prepared. VOTE the cily to establish a telephone system. * of voting at elect from § a. m. to 8 p, m the following recommendations on these various PORT COMMISSION'S PLANS ‘The proposals advanced by the port cormmission will be presented on & neparate ballot They are NO, 1—General port lmproy NO, 2—Public dock site at VOTE YES. NO. 3—Public ock site on Kast waterway VOTE YES. NO, 4—Public dock VOTE VES. NO. 6—Public dock on central water front VOTE YE NO. 6—Hetievue ferry. NO, 7—Harbor Island terminal project. mont scheme. VOTE YES, Smith's cove. $1,000,000 bond issue. Bond tneué $850,000. site on Salmon bay. Bond issue $350,000, Bond issue $750,000. | Bond tasve $150,000. VOTE VES. Bond . issue hence, 8—Harbor Island terminal Bond lanue $2,000,000. VOTE NO. . Propositions 7 and 8 pertain to the misnamed “Bush The Star advises its readers most emphat ically to vote inst this project in its present form, The city’s iftterests are not safeguarded. The proposition is un businesslike to the point of being ridiculous. Seattle can't buy prosperity, especially by paymg out dollars for 50-cent|! project, | scheme | pieces. The port commissioners; who have now had time to study} the details of the scheme, are unanimously opposed to it. They} have found that Mr. Ayers, the chief promoter, has had no experience with a terminal except aS an advertising writer, and they have found that many of the representations and promises made were misleading and grossly exaggerated. ‘The commission says: “No evidence hax been presented by Mr. Ayers which would lead the commission to modify its opinion that the development as-planned is out of all propor-| tion to any reasonable expectation of the near future, and that if actually gone into on the Scale proposed it MUST IN- EVITABLY END IN FAILURE UNLESS SUSTAINED} BY THE PORT DISTRICT." a : Reject the promoters’ scheme NOW and give the port} pportunity to work out a port development | comrmisstoners an plan for the benefit of the people, PRISONER HATFIELD IS CHARGED WITH FORGERY eld, while a pris Walla Walla, The supreme court Binge hart an kere, bar fareed this time upheld the lower, so that deeds to 16,000 acres of ofl lands in whatever becomes of the origtn: California, sold the land, and pro- forgery charge, Hatfield muat go to cured a deposit against the deeds in the pen for attempted jall-breakiny a California bank, is the charge _-—— brought by Distriet Attorney J. L. irwin, of Kings county, California who link asked the local authorities id on three charges 0! ‘ ce joeal commission mer- Hatfield hina had 4 aes thence to ike ‘praaveere, Pelee in " nwye ro he was cases are sul variation, career. A few years ago he are sect tos , | Suostionse, es prices, unless Fane strietiy girded as one of Seattle's leading he citizens, standing high in financial ferwig indleatea,” are’ for erades sg es and Butter—selling Price 4 ‘Oahingwon Dut- } and society circles, Found guilty by the superior court of forging | 4. BFE ldeeds, the supreme court of the| state reversed the decision, But tn} the meantime Hatfield and two oth ¢r prisoners had attempted a Jail-| delivery, and for his part In ft he was senienced to two years at Having Fido Stuffed A CLARA, Cal, March 1 ‘ alli and his pet dog lived |} together 18 years. The dog died and Galli felt #0 badly he had to} move awa from their home. He} i is having Fido stuffed ter Faatern tutter wit—Selling apples The Seattle ment club O'clock at the Northeast Improve M meet tonight at 81, Rayenna chureb, cor 4 ay. N. B,, and E, 50th at. | Counciiman Griffiths and ©. Shields will address the meeting MOST SEVERE COLD IS EASILY BROKEN IN SEVERAL HOURS |i | Ox tongue, ea Dried boot Pape's Cold Compound fs the re latlt of three years’ research at jeost of moro than fifty thousand dollars, and. contains no quinine 'whieh we have conclusively demon: | strated te not effective In the treat: | ment of colds or grippe. It fs a positive fact t pe's Cold Comy very two hours until tt con secutive doses are taken, will end | lthe Grippe and break up the most} severe cold, either in the chest, back, stomach, limbs or any part of the body, It promptly relleves the mest miserable headache, dullness, head ‘and nose stuffed up, feverishness, | ‘wneozing, sore throat, running of fe ciyy the nose, mucous catarrhal dis: charges, soreness, stiffness and rheumatic twinges, ‘Take this harmless Compound as @irected, with the knowledge that there is no other medicine made anywhere else in the world, which ‘will eure your cold or end Grippe | misery as promptly and without ‘any other assistance or bad after: leffects as a 25-cent package of Pape's Cold Compound, which any | Broadway, Qrvagias Jn tho world can supply. live, bb, a dose of d, taken head, | jitraey Cautitlow bers, dow 506 » don. 1560 Tn ing Price. tern timothy Puget soun Alfaita heat a ‘timothy: 16 ¢ ‘Automobile School, 210 ry 3 T ne 20, 1908 {ARIES PHE RE MEASUR YI J a from jeved in the direct primaries,” Hi peech at the Madrona hall on Februar HI GILL OPPOSED THE DIRECT PRI INITIATIVE, THE REFERENDUM EVERY DIRECT LEGISLATION THAT EVER CAME UP IN HIS TED THE COUNCIL, Gill and his crowd sta the council meeting so that there to submit the ed would not be a quorunt of the TRIED THE initiative and referendum to people in 1900, GILL AND HIS CLIOUt SAME TRICK WHI THESE CHARTER AMEND MENTS WERE PRESENTED AGAIN TO THE COUNCIL, IN 1908. ‘The law was plain that the council had to put the matter to the people if the pe 1 the sufficient number of names \ UNTIL MAYOR MOORE CALLED IN A POLICEMEN, ON JANUARY 30, 1908, WITH ORDERS TO ARREST THE ABSENT COUNCH, MEN AND COMPELL, THEM TO ATTEND TO THEIR DUTIF AS COUNCILMEN, THAT GILL AND HIS RING FINALLY SHOWED UP AT THE COUNCIL MEETING And, of course, the people, when they got a chance, voted forthe initiative and ref erendum, which Gill opposed iv tions NOT DOZEN Phovo .exen in @ Real Auto POST CARDS—$1.00 PER OZ. Kodak Films developed, i0¢ @ roll, any size. A. M. FROST 1832 First Ave., Seattle, Have Your railroad po | their min HAS A BRIDE | = AND A MILLION) ‘7HESE HE | GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass LOS ANGELES, March 2— | Mar, 1--W. L. Nye, station agent After a nine days’ honeymoon, | at Io, has a flock of white Wyan during which they walked from = dotte hens that Jay exge with ten-| re Nev., to Ballarat, Cal (cent pieces in ther. Fics ey bet = Death val. Dimes were discovered in four oy Me. and Mrs. Clarence out of six eggs, his family had for rd Fost ting it eee | breakfast todoay . Nye explains it by saying his abe mr brea @ prospect: jerain dealer's clerk lost a paper "hady nn ra ol as the | tencent pieces Keveral months js » ago and they apaprently showed up ee treeeer” struck geld | in the cracked corn he fed the bens his holdin PTE és worth more than §1,000,000. He wi married in Neva when his wife believed he w: a laborer in the min They traveled on foot across Death valley to save the time required for a trip to the most accessible LAY Dimes umbta Seattle Spirit No. Keattle Spirit No. 1 a3 60 Dayton 945.00 Theo.Wilts& Co. 1012 First Ave. TWO-POUND BABY PETALUMA, Cal March Perfectly formed and healthy, « baby, weighing but 2 pounds, has [been born to Mrs. J. H Atkinson | bere, The infant 1s DeIng reared in| ‘an ineubator unicioa Telephon DO YOU APPROVE OF THIS REASONING? FIRST—THE BEST AND ONLY WAY TO CONTROL A MONOP- OLY IS BY MUNICIPAL COMPETITION. SECOND—THE SUNSET TELEPHONE, AS THEY PROPOSE TO OPERATE IN THE FUTURE, IS TO BECOME A MONOPOLY. YOU AGREE TO BOTH THESE PROPOSITIONS. THEN YOUR DUTY IS PLAIN—VOTE YES FOR THE MUNICIPAL TELEPHONE, AS STATED IN PROPOSITION NO. 1 ON YOUR BALLOT. VOTE YES ON PROPOSITION NO. 25, AND AUTHORIZE THE CITY TO ACQUIRE TELEPHONE PROPERTIES. Seattle, Wash., January 22d, 1912. To The Executive Committee, Municipal League, Gentlemen Your committee on city telephones respectfully recommends to the executive committee of the Municipal League the adoption of the following joint resolution, adopted at a meeting of the chairmen of the telephone committees of the Rotary Club, New Seattle Chamber of Commerce and the Commer- the cia} Club with the chairman of your committee on telephones; resolution to be presented at the current meetings of the four organizations mentioned: WHEREAS, Teleph agitation is being carried on and negotiations are under way for a merger of the Pacifie e and Telegraph and the Independent Telephone systems of this city, to be dominated by the first named, and WHEREAS, providing efficiency there are advantages to he gained by having all telephone service under one sys- tem is maintained and the rights of the public fully protected, and WHEREAS, on the other hand, there is danger both of deterioration of service and of lack of responsiveness to public needs with competition removed, therefore BE by If RESOLVED by the the Municipal League that this organization strongly oppose the sur- render municipality of any rights whatsoever, which may be reserved to it in existing telephone franchises. RE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that for the present, the telephone situation is found and provided whereby may and until some satisfactory solution of users of city telephones and toll connections in the surrounding territory be insured of service upon a fair basis, the interests of the citizens at large dictate the retention of Independent phones by the users of that service, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that it is of vital consequence to the business interests of this city and the convenience of the people of the state that in the event of merger of telephone systems all connection with outside Independent Telephone exchanges in various localities be continued as at present KE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that to eliminate the so-called burden of the duplicate system, this ystems occupying the same or for public convenience and to minimize and, if possible, ganization advocate compulsory phy- contiguous territory to secured by sical connection betw be legislation en requisite | 1T FURTHER RESOLVED, that the experience of Tacoma and of Rellingham, which have just srgone a merger of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph system with the automatic system, be closely studied and analyzed with particular reference to Independent ong Distance service before municipal authorities sanction any specific plan of combination, i) f FURTHER RESOLVED, that this organization the recommendation made by the New Seattle Chamber of Commerce that no action looking to a merger of the above telephone companies be taken until after the decision Im a certain telephone case now pending before the Supreme Court of this state shall have been made, un reiterate already BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that this organization advise the voters of the City of Seattle to cast an affirmative ballot in the coming election for the proposed investigation of the telephone sit- uation looking toward munigipal ownership, to be made by the city authorities, with the distinct un- derstanding that such affirmative vote, for the purpose of securing said investigation, is in no way binding upon the voters to favor a future bond issue for municipal ownership purposes. Respectfully submitted to the four organizations mentioned abow For the Commercial Club, J. A, Snively, For the Rotary Club, Fred Everett. Chamber of Commerce, A, J. Blethen, Jr. For the Municipal League, For the New Cassius B, Gates.