The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 27, 1912, Page 8

That job en the farm didn’t look so the neaugr it got. good to the Detroit ball THE SEATTLE STAR WHAT PORT COMMISSION HAS DONE| SINCE ITS BIRTH 8 MONTHS AGO | General Chittenden Reviews Work for The Star—Big Program, Including Har- bor Island Project, Probably Will Be Carried Out by End of Next Year. The port commission expects to carry out ite program of harbor improvement, including the Harbor island project, by the end of next year. Gen. H. M. Chittenden has written the following article especi ally for The Star, reviewing the work of the commission for the eight months that it has been In existence By GEN. H. M The comm ence as of the ce ty w and it was tmr to incorporate Ddudget for the Not having make a car mates wer rtain The commission finds what hampered by the shaping its working force to rather tmadequate means, and this hand! cap will continue until proceeds from the bend available. earliest, will be hence. Planning for Panama Canal The commission's next work was CHITTENDEN into exist tax levy made asary the ssion came just the ual being up nec levy expenses to edia in the first year any ful nece for sarily rather un itself some necessity of are very the hree months @ systematic study of the facititics of the port, of the proba anges to be expected from the opening of the Panama canal, and an esti mate of what should | done in preparation for that event. This work involved many public confer ences, a wide correspe pdence, and a study of all available authoritic The commission early decided to plan {ts program so as to hold a special bond election on March 1912. The detail work in preparin Co-Operative Farmers’ Association The West Farmers’ Ass_ciation itself one uf the livell« tions of its’ kind ever blishe in the Pacific Northwest. Unde the management of Mr. Whittacker, several warehouses have been pro- vided for, the first of which hes jast been completed at Rocbeste Another is under construction at Independence, Wash., and will be completed in time to take care of the large crop of berries and small fruits for the Seattle market from that section A lease bas been secure association on 4 warehouse Bucoda, Wash. Mr, Whittacker is now in Foster, Washington, where a special meet ing of the Foster members of the association has been called to pro- vide funds for a warenouse, to be erected at that place The particular interest to r Operat is pr t organ’ Coast Ce a ext dents of Seattle is, that all of the | products of the members of the as sociation will be handled through | the main office of the West Coast Co-Operative Farmers’ Association in the Westlake Public Market, and sold directly to the consumer, with middleman's profit eliminated The announcement that the asso ciation will not limit themselves to handling only the produce of their own stockholders, but also those of any other farmers in the state who care to send their products either on consignment or other wise bodes fair for many bargains for frugal housewives of the city we od D. GRAY HAIR Easy to Restore Natural Color of Your Hair by Simple Method has j been Belence some of the most 1 fe, with the natural c simple treater any o lenti fic the Que a “an be applie time. This embodied in Restorer, a iquid pr makes any desir one package and fluffy, @ d the leading d stores throughe The best hal sell it to th 4-Day § Special Ground Gold ta -Lennex in Filled Frame, Thorough or 8750) adquarters for (Hegolar v ” FAR Visi ne year in & nplete gri Jing plant W. ROBSON specials ade Building vo i FLOOR Bring Thin Adv. With You, ADING OPTICAL ACK, for that election was enormous application of an untried law quired incessant care to avoid mis which might invalidate the If the proceedings prelimi actual work are carried to sful conclusion, now certain within a will be mainly through the high ability and in Jefatigable attention to details of the commission's attorneys “Comprehensive” Harbor Scheme. The work of preparing tion involved the preps general estimates for the pre the formulation of a prehensive scheme” of impr required by law, the hold! mal public hearings, Ub of the eribed public notice and a ade of other mat which the commission's ganization to the utmost, Aa a part of tts work of preparation for the election the commission lssued & comprehensive statement (Bulle tin No, 1) setting forth in minute detail every feature of its program Six Projedts. result of the he close of th 5 was the enact shape of a cram development embracing t projects and involving for which bonds re of the months to came The takes work nary ms reasonably short time, it elec of for ation sever ects, com issuance pre: mul taxed The net cor sion's work to tion on March © conere { harbor distine ost of $6,100,000 authorized by the v district This was six a day after the commission into existence In lately aix we the election the on up the work of carrying out the several pro. The appraisement the ¥ tracts be acquired, the a ment of the numerous owners and the necessary legal service, the preparation of plang and eetimates and sche rates (for some by the law as a bond issue) and particular work of preparing the necessary data on which to base a sale of the bonds have all involved a tremendous amount of labor and heavy cost Present Status of Work At this writing the * of work is as follows been practically agr after took rious rtaln. ules of the DOESN’T PAY acquisition of the sites at Smith's Kast Waterway and Salmon | Bay, and proceedings are set in court for these sites and for the} Central Waterfront and Harbor Island projects for June 6th, The| bonds are advertised for sale -on July lat. Definite plans of improve | ment. have been prepared for) Smith's Cove, the @entral Water | front and Kast Waterway and par-/ tial plans for Salmon Bay, Nothing has been done on the Lake Wash- | ington Ferry project. On the Har Island project the commission gotten the condemnation pro dings well under way and has just completed a very elaboral praisement of the property to acquired. Shortly after the election it issued a public notice inviting private cooperation tn the develop ment of that project. No responses were received at the date set for) the commission to act in the mat-| ter, May 1, but since that dat respondence with the Pacific minal company loates proposition will subm that company on May 27 any other propositic will = be forthcoming remains to be seen. | The commission has deferred the pre tion of plans for construc: tion work pending some arrange ment with private parties Complete Work Next Year, The whole program of com, mission, including the Island terminal project, is now such shape that nothing but stacles arbitrarily thrown in ite way by unfriendly to it can pre vent its practical completion by the or in ample time of the Panama bor has ir be itted by| Whether | in ob those end of next year for the opening canal In view of recent the local press that port com mission has no record of work show for its eight months of exist ence, the foregoing statement may be of public Interest. It is doubtful if a similar record of concre re sults {n an equal time, by a newly organized body with untried prob- lems and a law which at best is rimental stage, can be found ly n ne of our Prince #tatements in ahy where porte Diego ¢ rate of progress he TO sinter San ESCAPE FROM THE PEN get away?” ts the jail break or a crim thing fascit the police of from Salem left th How who reads ¢ capture ts The other day viet who “got away sight, although he never how he kept away did he a some AN this comes from # pair of second-hand = sh« was the most expensive pair of shoes I ever expect own, and even then | did not a chance to wear them I was in eastern Oregon in April, 1909, looking for work, and worked | for a time on the raflroad, and my! shoes gave oue. I came to a house, | took a look inside and saw a pair of shoes that looked good to me| and took them. For this I was) sent to the pen for a year | | No, Prank Weger is not my trae} | name, but my father is an honored | jman in Germany and T am not) going to bring disgrace on the fam lily, so just let it go at—Alias Frank | Weger There was no special reason for my making a getaway any more than there is for any man who is jin prison. it's natural to try to} get get out { ‘The dey of the eseape, four of us slipped down into a ditch that runs back of the brickyard, crawled} along the bottom of that until we were hidden from the brickyard guards behind a big pile of wood and then walked out onto the county road and away The wall guards ua in the road, but evi dently thoug trusties, for they did not molest us or give the alarm. up the road to the reform on hit off into the mountains and walked back past Salem into Portland There we separated f went triet and withi job in a logging camp. I worked there for months, when one day an ex-convict came into cam and went to work. 1 saw him first and got my time and left. I did not know what he might and no che I ther about miles and got another fob tn camp, which | kept for 18 months. Then I went hing ton and worked in mp for about nine months It was only when 1 here and got into troub’ detected. When arrest officers that | was an escape be cause I had only eight months to do, and if 1 had stood trial I would have been sent up for an terminate term and would ha the ht months tacked on serv the other term. But it does not pay It did pay for me to get into trou’ the first place. I had to much for th nd-hand Th 1 was a fool to rv only a f months t counting good time). It get away from the pen, b ourself. -Any m to get ay, for at once thr took 12 do went anothe pt to one back e that I was A 1 told the nde ad w it not from n is a fool the to try him back ight will get ner or later he get in the wood keep and out of trouble The best way ie to take your! and out of AT THE THEATRES THIS WEEK. Moore—Dark Seattle—Dark Metropolitan—Blanct “Nobody's Widow.’ Orpheum— Vaudeville. Empress—Vaudeville. Pantages—Vaudeville. Grand deville and pictures, Clemmer deville. Melbourne deville. Bates in motion Photoplaya and vau- Photoplays and vau- makes a story of great interest just as be told it before they took him back to Salem By — — ALIAS FRANK WEGER. question oo the Ips of everyone | in which the criminal eludes | nating In the escape of the convict. | Portland captared a scaped com | » three years ago and kept out of | state. How he “xot away” and | and here it ts, | ALIAS FRANK WEGER, medicine, serve your time and then! go out and behave yourself. Even then it's best to get out in the coun. try, away from the detectives and the police, get a job and saw wood. if you go to town the bulls have their eyes on you, are always trying to hook you up with something, and if they cannot do that they are al ways trying to get you to come through with something for their use. If you do not do it some other fellow will, and if he gets a chance he will hang something onto you that will get you into trouble sooner or later SUBSTITUTE ORDINANCE The substitute par of jes and enforcing the Americar n b Mayor Cotterill , council this afternoon the time his veto of the tily | drawn bill prepared and passed two! weeks ago, was also forwarded ance regu the flag, a wen the At san \® We drug clerks have formed a eball team.” | What do you call it—the qui nine?” HAT CAME OFF SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., May Miss Dorothy E Von 8. Schunck woman lawyer, occupied an hour of | the court's time when she appeared at the bar wearing a huge pleture hat. After heated argument the hat! |came off. bi | 7 | | MRS. TEAR WINS | Mrs, Emily Tear secured a prior} |Iien on property owned by the De 11 corporations in Seattle, Ta-| |coma and Kitsap counties when she jfects } \* MISS HELEN TAFT AT THE RACES Snapshot of the president's daughter with a friend In the paddoce at th Harbor | .. Mine Helen Taft, talking « race meeting at Benning’s track YOU'LL FIND IT HERE News of the Day Condensed for Busy People A series of lectures by Emma dman, who calls herself “the talented anarchist,” and who recent ly waped severe trentment in San Diego, where her manager, Ben Reitman, was run out of town after; being tarred and feathered, will be given at Kflers recital hall begin ning June 9% | | WELL KNOWN Mr. Henry Peck (the bride groom)—-Come thie way, Miss Pickles, | want to show you my new talking machine. Mise Pickies—i believe 1 have met Mra. Peck before Boston Post. The New Chamber of Commerce will give o dollar dinver at the Rathekeller Wednesday, at whieh] Tax Commissioners J. BE. Frost, T.} D. Rockwell and M. J. Rockwell will! be guests, The object of the dinner} ia to obtain direct Information on} the™tax reforms advocated by the) commisston | THIS DAY IN HISTORY May 27, 1898, the machinery the Merrimac broke down Merrimac was only «a collier and ordinarily History does no’ worry about ¢ Hers The br en down rimac #o del the “fying squadron that ‘ was unable “fly” back Key we they had Key West, 7 Merrimac not back to Santiago In time for son to sink her in the channel so a t ne may d on a plugged steam putny to reuch woul Kot.en Hob and pend uave in ¢ ae The automobile stolen from Dr. | James Shannon has been located! in San Francisco, according to telegram received from that place thief put the number Dr. Snow's car he Heense of on the one ALL MIXED UP / Gabe—This queer world. | Steve—How’s that? Gabe — Nature is flooding Kentucky with water, where they don’t use it, and Arizona is choking for a drink. Notice of the death of Dr. Bernad Habn, for many 4 a practicing physician of Seattle, was reectved yesterday by J. N. Nachant. Dr Hahn, who was well known here left a year ago for Germany be ase of Ill health. He was oper ated on in May for stomach trouble but never recovered from the ef-| Rhea aK * “MORAL HYGIENE.” A fellowship supper, under the auspices of the Social Science club, will open the fourth annual Know Your City institute Tuesday evening at the ¥. M, ©. A. “Social and Moral Hygiene’ will be the tople under discussion for the week he institute is under the auspices of the Social and Moral Hygiene society, whieh has just finished a campaign in the interests of sex-hygiene, and is open to the public * * * } * * * * * ee Sneak thieves were out in force last night. P. J, tractor of Second ay., loat seyeral articles of clothing; Charies Eriek- eee McHugh, @ can}, Dr. Harry F I, secretary Ward of of Oak the Meith federation of social ory jee, in ¢ mont prominent tx in the have the ethodiat chureb, through its conference go on record for union labor X William = G Mount P wtarted nap wh n his Bhe him and the en ened bim dam x 4 4 Dr. Ward he gagement; now she hw for $5,000 breach of proniine girl ages POOR FATHER AGAIN Littie Elsie—What dead letter office, mammal Mother—Your father’s pock- ete —Anewe the Contract for the Milwaukee Lowiston-Great Falla extension wa tet Saturday. The line will be 1 miles long, and taps a prolific agri cultural section. It is expected to prove a valuable feeder for Puget sound country Howard H. Lewis, 58, and a pioneer of Srattic, died Saturday night in Phoenix, Ariz, where he had gone for hig health, Mr, Lewis, who has been here since 1872, has been quite prominent in the legal and realty basiness, He left a yoar ago to regain bia strength He is survived by dren, all of Seattle. “What the Flag Stands For” was the subjé®t of an address by: ney Strohe, pastor of Qu Congregational church. morning Chk * *® WATER SHUT-OFF NOTICE * Water will be shut off in all * of the Georgetown east of ® Duwamish av. supplied with * city water from the old George ® town reservoir Tuesday from *® 9a. m, until 3 p.m * RRR he eeeeeeeee Bishop O'Dea, assisted by Fathers onan and McKay, celebrated sol emn pontifical high mass at St James cathedral at o'clock yes morning i terday A concert will pe given Wednes day evening in the Swedish taber nacle for the benefit of the Swedish hospital, The Swedish Tabernacle Male Chorus, Mme. Hesse-Sprotte. Carl Nindgreen and Mme, Roymane Hunkins are among the soloists, atholic Betterment league clear ed 0 at the card and dancing party given in the Bon Marche en-| tertainment hail Monday evening. | 4 Chicago.—Stanley Ludeck, social ist, recently of Milwauke Judge Maxwell that, according~ to his creed, he did not have to pay | for whisky he had ordered in a sa loon. “Five dollars and costs,” the judge said New York.—An extraordinary fat baby in a department store attract ed detectives and the “fat” wa found to be bundles of dry goods. |The mother was held for shoplift ing. New York.—Doctors labored two hours to remove an agate soup ket- tle from the head of 2-yearold Peter Szusea. Soft soap finally ac- complished it. The boy playfally put the kettle on his head. New York.—-Edith Davis, 17-year- old bride of a year, suing Edward B. Davis for divorce, admitted on the witness stand that she made the proposal of marriage. Newark, N, Jx—Chrigtian Looges returned to his wife and baby after | was awarded a default judgment for|son, 616 James st, & watch, gold}15 months and said that he suffered $2,9 (4led financier, the balance on a promissory | nugget and $7.00, and George Mar-}a lapse of | note for $5,000, issued by the fren-|catos, at the Del Mars hotel, two rleornia “cotton ae of clothes and a sult case, ® memory, gin Work on a revived his memory. movement the j a widow avd five cbil-| There's no use taking make you light headed, champagne for a hair bleach, even ip FREDERICK & NELSON, Inc. Store Closes Datiy et 610. FURNITURE DRY “oous DRY GOODS OneHundred Tailored Suits In a Special Selling ag $21.50 ANUFACTI FURNITURE © CONCESSION ty. | her-priced agg gether witl ments make up thi The Suit are the Summer abr t | colorings, wcll-tailored Suit preciate, extra sizes mp tp The opportun ave in the buyi is one that careful buyers will be qui Sizes 34 to 44 bust measurement 51 bust measuremer Special at $21 ~—Serond Ficer, | Mail and Telephone Orders Receige Our | Prompt and Careful Attention | Special Values in Summer Floor Covering APANI yard, E Mat i Mattings for bedroom Fg SMALI OF CARPETING eo i ‘ PRICED PRICED 1 SHORT LENGTHS SIZE SPECIALLY $1.00. Axminster $1.35. Axminster $1.65. Rugs, Extra Super All Ingrain Carpeting spec Rugs, Three-Ply Ingrain Carpeting, spe cial 55¢ yard R Vudor Porch Shad za T HERE is always an invit nm to come up an 3 be f cool and comfortable when your $f ith Vudor Sh Mornings, make it the reading room; noons, the itting or tea room; evenings, # ception room; and nights, the sleeping rod there’s absolute privacy : In buying Vudor Shades, there's always® faction, too, in knowing that they last for} Y retain their original colors, and never get nor out of shape. fz We show these popular shades in the fo sizes: 8 feet wide and 7 feet 8 inches long, 10 feet wide and 7 feet 8 inches long, { 12 feet wide and 7 feet 8 inches long, $7.50. 4 feet wide and 7 feet 8 inches long, $2.75. | 6 feet wide and 7 feet 8 inches long, $3.75. | oy, An extra charge of 50c is made for cutting g and hanging. —First Floor, ; Altractive Prices on WOOL White “‘Nubuck”’ Shoes | For House CHALLE ORDERED Challis or and Pumps sg old-rose and cream gre HITE “Nubuck” Pump, on short vamp last, with ribbon wide, 65¢ yard. medium and dark grounds, OOe yard. bow, welted sole and Cuban heel, $2.45, ——————— Omo Dress gienic; double ag f\ yet light, durable. White “Nubuck” Pump with short vamp, turned sole st are odorless and Cuban heel, $2.45. White “Nubuck” Button Boot on short vamp last, with welt sole and Cuban heel, $3.45. smooth and / They contain no rubber or injurious myshare eons chemicals, and are ab Women’s Panama Hats Special $4.95 W OMEN'’S roll $4.95. Hats, special for Tuesday's selling, Untrimmed Shapes Special $1.95 Large, medium and solutely impervious to moisture, Prices range from 15c to 0c pai First Floor. Women’s Silk Hosiery ’ Black Thread-Silk Hosiery, strongly te new brim Panama i $2.25 pair. Black Silk Hosiery, 1a\ lisle sole, $1.00 pair. Black “Wonderfoot” Hosiery, $2.00 paity Italian Silk Hosiery in black, white and tan, $1.50 pair. black, white \cr-tipped, with small Untrimmed Shapes, in fine milan, hemp, java, leghorn, chip and imitation hair, Special $1.95. , —Basement Salesroom. FREDERICK & NELSON INCORPORATED, Extra-size Silk Hosiery in and tan, $1.50 pa Black and White Embroidered Hosiery in a good selection of at patterns, $2.50 to $5.50 pair. Misses’ Black Silk Hosiery, $1.50 pai S| ic i osiery, > a ee 4 RAE BATE REE AIEO LE Wool Challis in allover designs on light i) Shiel | inforced and durable, $1.00, $1.50, $200%008