The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 23, 1912, Page 8

THOUSANDS IN IMPROVEMENTS FOR GOLD BAR The impression which seems to de well fi in the average mind that corporations are not enlarging thelr plants that railroads are tailing thelr expenditures dur the present period of busines Bngeation receives a most decisive Knockout blow when the work of the Great Northern ratlway at Gold Bar, Wash., is investigated. For weeks a crew of be-| nd three hundred men bas been working every day, in| Chuding Sundays, in clearing right) of way and yards and laying track “pt Gold Bar. The Sound division - has been transferred from Skyko- mish, Wash, to Gold Bar, Wash, In the development of the Gold Bar . yards their strategic importance was quickly recognized and the © original plan of development bas) heen considerably enlarged. Within sixty, to ninety days the following improvements will have been comp a: Fifteen switching ‘and assembly tracks and a turniug] YY. These tracks will average 3,500) feet in length. The Gold Bar as-| Sembly yards wil! rapk second to} Rone on the Great Northern line Local freights from all Sound) points wil! be diverted to Gold Bar| ‘and through trains will be asse Bled there. In addition, the Gold Bar yards will be used as a break ing up point for through freights westward bound. The locals will be diverted from Gold Bar to all points west of the Cascades | Work will be rushed on the depot @nd next in order of construction be the engine houte, with facilities for housing seven engines ‘for the present. In the following rder construction will be pushed! through on a power house, repair thop, storehouse, of] house, sand and coal bunkers and storage tank: The force of men n handle the work at Gold Bar will Humber from three to five hundred} men for co uction work and ‘@bout half that number for perma Rent operation, Mod@ern = ‘Furniture Charter Gax Ranges. } Company. | } ‘our Kryptok. lenses or cement. Give perfect v for far and near sight. EVESIGHT SPECIALISTS, Bring This Ad With You. THE SEATTLE STAR _ “MISS WISE” CALLS TIGHT SKIRTS IM MORAL.---DO YOU? “MASHER” ‘OMY Mand iS ABOUT TH Most USELESS AND LOATHESOME THING THAT CUMBERS THE VERY WOMAN WHO WEARS A TIGHT SKIRT During Potlatch week many com. plaints were made to the police by women that mashers annoyed them. A Star reader who signs herself “Miss Wise” writes in this connec tion that she, like many other wom- en, has been annoyed by flirtatious males, but adds that it is partly her own fault. “| wear,” writes “Miss Wise,” “a | tight skirt.” She goes on to explain: pectable women and other kind was sharply drawn differences in fashion. Today al! women dress alike. The sehosigir! and the social outcast are indistin. Quishable in the tight skirt.” Whet! “Miss Wise” is correct in view or not must be left for wom.| en themselves to Judge. Her letter) is given for what it is worth. She/ goes on “Tt am not defending the ‘masher.’) He {#, to my mind, about the most useless and loathsome thing that cumbers the earth. The point I am trying to make is that women, know ing the ‘masher’ exists, have them. selves to blame If they dress in such @ way as to make it impossible for a The annual Dixle plenic of the Southerners of Seattle will be held August 3 in Golden Gardens, north | of Ballard. Over a thousand are expected to be present A special feature of this year “Before! the short skirt came in, the line be) ,| tween EARTH — ! | HAVE A Good Figure “ | | 4 c Va KNOwS WHY {this trousered pest to know the re spectable woman from her leas par ticular sister “Every woman who wears a tight skirt ko why. | know why Ij | wear one. | wear it because | know T have a good figure and well-shaped legs, IT am too honest and too proud of my honesty to pretend I) | wear it for any other reason. | am not #0 proud of my vanity T am not afraid of the ‘mashers.” Tam a business woman and able to take care of myself. I do not en- Joy their attentians, for I know that they are annoying and sometimes dangerous, I know that, when 1 j dress so that every line and curve jof my body shows, I am deliberately courting annoyance and insult. And }yet I do it! “But | do not, as many women do, pretend ignorance of the effect my| |appearance has upon these men) and, while I am disgusted, | am not | Surprised when they accost me | | invite it, and I get it. For, honest-| ly, how is a man to know?” ) It would be interesting to know it! other Seattle women agree with “Mies Wise,” and, if they disagree with her, why ; | HALF WEDDED WOMAN BALKS | ST. PAUL, Minn, July 23.—Ex lercising her womanly right to |change her mind, Nellie Harris in |terrupted Court Commissioner Gal [lick in his recitation of the marriage leeremony which was uniting her to eeeeeeteeeeee | = tplente will be the choir, composed | George Monahan and left the office, legg measuring When Looking for a Den- tist, Find the One You Many people who are looking for my offices at 712 Fi the Union Right Doctor ’ the Was! ik offices, Dr in the office Brown. BEWARE, OF DENTISTS ON FIRST AVENUE CLAIMING TO BE THE KIGHT DK, BROWN. I, myself, took charge of the offi-| ces on duly 15th, 1901, when the offices afforde etice’ enough for one dentist oni had a ulation Base, ‘and I_had becom: the Dentist who Miiscnatiy ‘for first” clase would get plenty of first class work ato do. I figured that this was the roper foundation which to} aiid Dental |b It does whether 1 i» po! wrong difference # bridge, ‘ pd . Sot ihe the people have indorsed my Tdwin J. Brows, D. D. S. —Unton Block | Of the Povtnl Tele-| id YOUR EYES Hhovid be carefully examined and fittor With Eyeglasses or Spectacles by an ox- pert who makes th specialty. It| You suffer from eye-strain, headaches, Rervoumnens, et. see 4. W. EDMUNDS, Oph. yO1-108 tad and Maciison At. ‘Main 2174, of confederate veterans, who will sing the old songs that take the hearer back to the Sunny South HEN LAYS EGG 9°5x7's INCHES ‘TON, N. J., duly Sur passing all previous efforts in egg raising in the East, G. W. Sanders) of this town holds as the record an 9.5 by 7.6 inehes, which was laid by one of his White Leghorns this week, It had a soft shell and was put in alcohol for ex hibition Everybody f Laughed SAN FRANCISCO, July 23.—Jue injtin Thal, pool hall keeper, accused |@long with other sundries. came to court to face bandaged up. Let's said Judge Short-| bandages came oft} ault his accuser a see the wounds, all. When the and no hurts showed, joined in the laugh. |FOUND LEAK — BANG! LO® ANGELES, July 2% Thrown 50 feet by the explosion of a gasoline tank, A, 8. Babb, grocer, returned to his store and extinguished the flames, Babb was * work hunting for a gas leak with a light-| ed candle. He was unburt. The lawyer roundly curses The business he is in; |The poet damns his vérses And G@laims they keep him thin; ‘The cop would be a tailor, The tailor be a cop, The farmer be a sailor, ‘The sailor tend the crop. ‘The journalist declares he Would sell cigars instead; The speculator swears he Would keep an oyster bed; In every occupation The people seem to throb To try some new vocation— The other fellow's job. But when the circumstances. wes" ae them from They ag ‘not take the chances, They do not want to move, ‘Their trade—they sourly view it With venom and with gall, | And yet they're sticking to it; They like it, after all! even Thal} their ideaf to the remonstrations of the | would-be bridegroom and her brides |maid. ‘The ceremony was about half finished when Mise Brown sud. |denly released her hand from that of |her half-wedded husband, removed the wedding ring from her finger, threw ft on the desk and rashed| from the office. | MULE WALLOPS AUTO CHEHALIS, July 23.—In a con test for right of way, th earmy mule has proved its superiority over the |duto, Result: Superior Judge Rice’s new car is in the shop hav. jing the pipe that furnishes Hquid |refreshment to the engine replaced Mule| | unscathed. PIPE THE LADY COP | LO8 ANGELES, July 23.—-An ap-| plication has been received by Po- Chief Sebastian from | Louise Williams. Mise Williams wants to become a motorcycle cop. | She is a professional motorcyclist, | and claims to have “medals galore.” | DREAMED OF INJUNS SAN FRANCISCO, July 23.—Fred Pearson, miner, read those “burned-| atthestake Indian fighter stories, | In the Manx hotel here he dreamed ‘em all over, and — yells started gs in excuse when 1 | | | your bitters” was his aroused. Love a Ia Mode SOSEEE EEE HEED | “Did you love him at first sight?” “No, indeed! I had no iden he) Piymeo | ington RRR THE DROWSY CHAPERON AND THE LIGHT-¥ WEIGHT LOVERS - YOU'LL FIND IT HERE FREDERICK & NELSON Interesting Items From the Pre-Inventory Clearance Now Progressing Dress Silks, Special 65¢ Yard— . Hahd-Embroidered Robe Patterns, Specia' $3.50 beautifully embroidered by hand on fine, sheer voile, in a variety of handsome Bulgarian designs. A number of other Robe Patterns, of exceptionally fine quality, are also 27-inch slome Silk comprising 27-inch Pongee, 21-inch Bord and Striped Messal 20-inch Jac quard ‘Taffeta, 40-inch Marquisette Special 65 yard Silks, Special 85¢ Yard First Fico, § % News of the Day Condensed for Busy People “Gelivery of the any attempt to aul other paper for Star, It ie the ™ ° at o the Cigoulation Department. F. W. Catlett, recently secretory to the mayor, wife and daughter have returned to the city, after a viait of ten weeks to his and Mra Catlett's native states, Ohio and Massachusetts, Mr. Catlett will in mediately take up the practice law Summer Ode. Hot Bought Late Skate Wife, Strife Morrow, Sorrow, Folsom, manager of Mill company's Grosvenor the Puget Sound real. estate, and vice president of the Seattle Association of Building Owners and Managers, has been elected to succeed Charles B. Her ton, resigned Rev. Hugh Elmer Brown, paste of the Windsor Avenue Congregs tlonal church, Hanford, Connecth t, will fl the place in h chureh of Seattle vacant by the resignation of Rev | Edward Lincotn Smith Brown is a native of Wash graduated from Whitman ‘ollege In 1904, and finished with years in the Rey eee eee teen eeee says that a 20 pound baby, crying one hour, exerts two tons of energy Can't somebody invent a way to harness the cry, and une it to heat and light the house? And then, some of the sur A doctor wouldn't mind THARRERARRAHD ee An automobile driven by F. 8 |Owen, 2263 16th av. &, ran down eeeteeeeeeeee | WHHRENRR REREAD Yale divinity | }tacled man | PPP Pee eee eee el * MERCURY DROPS OVER 40 DEGREES Montpelier, Vt Following three weeks of intense heat, with the thermometer (twice touching 100 degrees, the tom perature dropped 58 in 24 hours, bringing Much damage was done truck farm. Seeeteeeeeeee * * a * o * * * io os * * eee eee eee New York.—A pin which she had swallowed 20 years ago caused the death of Misa Catherine Roche of Flatbush, The pin had left « trail of weerous growtha, The Full Dinner Pail, Bread Bot potatoes. An onion Balt Pepper Cold toa eee eee hee GIRL KISSES MAN WHO RESCUES HER New York Julian Dias ao volunteer life saver, rescued Mise Ethel Jameson from drowning at Hudson park, New Rochelle, and received a hug and kiss, “That's reward enough,” gaaped Dias, when freed eeeeeeeeee New York—A broken paddle | the | wheel created a panic among made | pas beers on the Glen Island ex steamer Aurora, in Hell near the scene of the Slocum disaster, our Everybody's Doin’ it nephew,” says the entertained me most fenerously while | was in New York. He took me almost every | evening to one restaurant or anoth-/| and I heard several most lively | songe.” What were they?” or. “My asks the oth 1 do not remember them defi-| but one of them had a re-| nitely, frain which began by stating ‘Ev. plus power might be used to #) erybody ts engaged in a similar oc turn the lee cream freezer in @/cupation at the next Mat, so the neighbors - Chicago Post the present time.’ ” ‘ Local United States secret serv. on a charge of attempting to paw & worthless bank note, is one of a| | Howard Hahn, 14 years old, of 6396) ane which has been passing bad breaking bis right boy ram out into the ma 7th av. 8. W. leg. Owen said the |from behind a sign chine. Agnen McKay, who in serving = \two-months’ sentence In the county jjail, confessed to Chief Deputy | Stringer that she bad stolen a ring from an insane inmate of the jail | She also sald she had taken several switches from women prisoners OUR PRECISE ARTIST DR. PAYNE DENTIST UR next he Phil—What are the dog days for? Bill—So's every dog can have his day. Chicago. — Christian Hamberg called Miss Viola Quick over the long distance at Detroit. She an awered that she would marry him The toll charge was $4.85. “It was | worth it,’ said Hamberg. GIVES AWAY HIS MONEY; PAIN STOPS Chicago.—Bruno D, Audin was sure he was going to die. He had awful pains. He knew his wealth 26-—~ would be worthless to him as soon as he died. He sent it to his parents in Italy. The pains stopped at once. Today he is hungry and broke. * a * * * * ” * * * * 4 Rkkhkhhedan kuwese Jollet, Hy —Ttweive Chicagoans, jone of whom is dead, were |by tondstools served foi rooms at a party here. Mra, Wm, | Fleming was the guest wohse death offlowed the dinne tw Chicago. — Patrolman Nicholas Quirk stayed at his post In the city jhall while a band outside played | “Where the River Shannon Plows’ and stole captured the thief who had several valuable brass cum was so rich when I met him,” pidors, +} can ist paper in Seattle for several weeks. 8. D. Townsend, special Prosecu- tor of the United States govern: ment, arrived in Seattle yesterday from Alaska, where he has been investigating the coal cases, H. Reed, an employe of | the Ortental-American Carnival company, fell on a tent peg at the! carnival grounds yesterday, break ing two ribe. Funeral of Mra. J. W, Roberts, wife of the N. P. bridge forem: will be held at the family residence, 2718 King st. tomorrow morning} at 1 Sergeant Lee Dagner, who ie iit! with a bad case of blood potsoning, | was a good deal better this morn-| ing, though not entirely out of dan- ger, The infection passed from his hand to his shoulder | oo | Poe eee 2 2 . if not more, than Niagara, in the way of developing power and light, is the opinion of J D, Ross, superintendent of Se attle’s municipal lighting «ys tem. Ross has just returned from a trip to the east and forms his opinion after a great deal of observation, eeeeeeeeeeeee eeeeteeeeee * > * 2 * io * * . > » * * . * * Wedding of C. B. Cooper and Miss Olive Hancock of Toronto will tal place Wednesday at the home of Mr, Cooper's parents, 27th av Rev. J. M. Gill officiating. Cooper is the chief operator of the Mar. | con! Wireless Telegraph company |ff in Seattle, The Ida May, owned by J. Wilson, is a contractor of Honolulu, leaves this week for that place. She was bullt in Ballard and is! one of the smallest vessels to make the trip to Honolulu, being only 66 feet long. Moritz Thomsen, president of the Mexican Pacific company, has gone to Mexico to inspect the work his company ts doing along the west coast railroad fs undér con struction A Steamship Jeanie night from Skagway, towing the barge St. James. The two ships had a total of 2,500 tons of cop. per and 300 cases of salmon. The James was used by the govern-! ment as a relief ship 4 cent Voleanie disturb Alaska. arrived last nees in A meeting of progressive republi will be held in Junction hall in Ballard, Friday night at 8:20. The Nordlund Studio, 1705 Mar. ket at., was damaged to the extent of $500 by fire last night Twentyfive members Shilshole Tribe, No. 82 Order of Redmen, lett Inst night for Snohomish, where they will at tend the meeting of the grand lodge. i jen | co-men allege that Frank T. Green, | | who was arrested here yeuterday That Seattic can do as muck, # [I the reo! If included in the clearance, at 1 prices ranging from $6.25 $12.50. I Novelty Allovers and Bands, Special 25¢ Yard— Allovers in silk-run, broidered and erystal fects, on fine nets and chiffons; also an attractive assortment of welty Bands in silk-embroidered 1 metallic effects, to close out at spe to rat Mloor fered Silk, Foul- 40-inch Satin, luding 44-inch Bor ards, 36-inch Faille Foulards, 42-inch 44-inch Foulards inc Jacquard Special 85 yard. Firet ¥ loor, Clearance Pumps and Oxfords at $1, metallic em- - Pair— beaded ef | Russia Calf Col- and Lace \A to Women’s ‘Tan onial and Regular Pu mps Oxfords, 3 idths C; to close, $1.95 pair Women’s Black Russia and Pat- ent Leather Pumps and Oxfords; sizes AA to Dj to close vie sizes 3 to 7, yard Knit First Floor Women's Undergarments, Special $1.00— including Women's with elaborate crochete silk-lisle and silk; al of Women’s Tights $1.00 garment width $1.95 pair ot Pla fancy yé | Drapery Fabrics, Special 50¢ Yard— including Drapery Silk nfast Fabrics and Cotton Draperies with mercerized finish; dths from 34 te for shelf a ance, Hecond Fi $3.50 and | } suitable and 50 inche Trimmed ” $5.00 Two Trin Millinery, Special overcurta at We @ Firet Ploor, Annex Couch Covers, Special $2.75 Each— 58 and © mg; con- two-tone Oriental Spe- very intere Hats ting med and 4 proved « summer at $3.50 and $5 of good quality tapestr inches wide 3 yards terns an vent gree designs in in d browns, soit Women's Neckpieces, Specie $1. 95. - L ; arge Coat ¢ ich colorings and Eton Collars ed and tri i Irish laces hand-em for clear Clu cial, with $LS Special 95e } al this popular ma- a wide variety of Also at 45c yard, colored Linens for her purposes. Piret Floor, Annex. | Single Pairs of Fine Curtains, Special i 9 $2.95 Pair— Be. Irish Point, Cluny, Belgie Brussels Net and fine in many desirable a au 3 yards long, Priced below regular worth at Neckwear, 1 grad grade o f itable for upholstery uses lot of linen and wers and Veils, Special 50¢ Sheth blac Ombre tan, green t a ery, Chiffon Mo borde fringe sortment with for clearance Suede Belts, Special 25¢ 4t Suede Belts in lavender, green and red, suede-covered of satin stripe 50x per. —First Floor, Annex. 1 Papers, Special 50¢ Bundle— a clean of room lots and dis- continued patterns, including ef- fective patterns for Living Rooms, and Halls, Verdure and other hand- some styles for dining rooms, and dainty floral and stripe designs for Chambers. Exceptional value at 50c the bundle. / Women's . One-piece $15.00— in plain tailored and prettily trimmed effects, made of Linen, Pique, Serge, Challis and Lingerie, special $15.00. —BSecond Floor. Women’s Linen Suits, Special $12.50— _ Suits of ‘excellent quality linens in tan, blue and white, principally plain-tailored styles, special $12.50. — Second Floor. Women's Afternoon Dresses, Special $19. 75 and $27.50— blue, metal special gray, 25 oe. First Floor. Leather Hand-Bags, Special $2.85 — including Bags in Pin-seal, Cross- Seal Moroeco leathers, and lined, and fitted purse, special Firet Floor. and silk coin grain leather with —First Floor, Annex. Dresses, Special | inside cial 50¢ Yard— including Silk-and-W Crey 40 inches wide; 42-in Silk-and- Wool Poplin, Brocaded Crepe du Barry, Silk-and-Wool Voile, Em- broidered Poplin, Embroidered Crepe, Epingle Poplin, Prunella, Tussah Royal, Brilliantine, Serge, Henrietta. Special, for clearance, SOc yard —First Floor. Remnants, Charming Afternoon Dresses of soft charmeuse satin, taffeta silk and cotton voile, designed in new- est models, special. $19.75 and $27.50. —Second Floor | Women's Tailored Suits, Special $24.50 and $29.00— Tailored Suits including 46-inch Homespun Suit- ing; 50-inch Novelty Bordered Suiting; Imported Burlap Suiting, 50 inches wide; 55-inch Novelty Suiting; 42-inch Iron-frame Voile; ‘Tussah Royal, Poplin, Voile, Lans- downe, Challis, Serge and Polo Cloth. Special, for clearance, *25c yard , Dress Silks, Special 45¢ Yard— including 26-inch Mes inch Black and White Check Taf- fetas 20-inch = Black-and-White Stripe Messaline; 19-inch Taffeta Persian Silk; 21-inch Plaid Taf- ta; 19-inch Striped Messaline ; 19. inch Figured Messaline. Special 45c yard of fine quality, made up in fine serges, worsteds and diagonals, also taffeta silks, special $24.50 and $29.00. Second Floor. | Women’s Long Coats, Special $18.50— Long Coats of pongee and white serge, also models in wool mixtures for steamer and auto wear, special $18.50. First Poor. aline; 20- First Floor. —Second Floor. Box Springs and Hair Mattresses Made to Order HE luxury of sleeping on a Bed equipped with our specially-constructed Box Spring and Hair Mattress is a pleasure you will not willingly forego after once enjoying it. These Springs and Mattresses make the most com- fortable bed known—we build them to your order in our own sanitary workrooms, and put into them the finest of materials and ex- pert workmanship — at of Elma. ideal for will remi rie until Bive arm Young, w City, 13 9 day, the command vanee of | The ad wo arm moderate prices Two Leading Values: FULL MATTE i forty pounds, filled with best selected gray Jaid by hand; RULL-SIZE covered in fine g An Fao i thi OY ROR oT ony here SIZE Ss, HAIR R weight curled covered in fine grade ticking; $18.50. BOX SPRING, best steel spring ade ticking; $19.00, The Brass Bed shown in illustration is of strictly high-grade construc- 21 hair, construction, special padded top; tion throughout, full-size, with extra-heavy at $28.50. é-inch posts. An excellent value Furniture Headquarters, Third Floor.