The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 30, 1912, Page 6

Will Tell the Public All About Piano Secrets Upheaval Looked for in the Music Trade—Piano Retail Men Greatly Agi- tated, Piano Sales in City Set Rec- ord. Rumor Says More) Factories Will Join the National Piano Mfrs. | Company at 823 Third) Ave., near Marion. Plans Well Under Way to Eliminate the Middle- men. Prominent East- ern Piano Men Now in Seattle. D. W. Thomas Engaged in Important Conference This Week. | Astounding Revelations: About the Actual Cost of Pianos Is Looked for. Many So-Called Leading Names of Pianos Threat- ened With Merciless Dis- closures. | Reviewing the September trade statistics for this city, one feature) of unusual interest is the unprec VAIT, ADOLE/ WS GOT TIME neroke LUNCH T HAF A Pa Sen here, y on Site | | FOR DER NEW [amuse men —3Nglt RACING, oO We START DEM IN DER MIDDLE. TABLE FIRST, VINS. edented number of pianos sold e} during this month. It is asserted| that in this respect Seattle has/ surpassed every other city west of Kansas City. The National Piano} Manufacturers at 823 3rd Ave., near | Marion, have been vigorously dem- | onstrating that their new plan of | selling high-grade pianos direct from the factories to the homes at | small prices and on small monthly payments, is the proper way to handle the piano part of the music trade. on smal! profits and greater num: | bers of sales, which, however, is / impossible for adoption by the} small dealer, selling only two or; three planos occasionally by the/ slow process of canvassing with| we gid of Salesmen ang Music) ‘eachers h> Naticaal Piano} Manufacturers Company, at $23 31+ Ave., composed of a group of the) Hodge, progressive candidate for governor, spoke to an audience of nearly 3000 at the Coliseum theater Saturday night, and every minute of that time the warmth of feeling, the ardor and pitch of enthusiaem of the big audience grew and grew, till it war climaxed by a deafening roar of applause and cheers as Hodge concluded. HODGE RALLY IS A HUMMER Great Crowd Turns Out to Hear People's Candidate for Gov-| “ernor and Other Progressives at Coliseum Meeting. For over an hour and a half, Bob; Scores of people then rashed to} the platform to shake hands with surance of support. The meeting was a revelation people. Some had come to meeting, misled by the special in terest organs, merely out of cur fosity to see Hodge. They away convinced that here at was @ real man running for gov i aor Outside the Colisemu, after the to hundreds of /OP the coast the} | | most powerful Piano Manufactur-| meeting, groups of men and women | ers in America, covering the entire territory of the states with a di rect retail plan to the homes, are in a position to sell the the stopped to disew When J. A nson appeared at one of the exits with a box full of big raily.| highest: | Hodge buttons, he was almost mot} grade pianos at so trifling a margin | bed, so eager were all to pin them | of profit, that it looks now as though we are rapidly approaching @ time when all the go-betweers in Piano Selling will be entirely elim. | inated. The small profit policy of the National Piaco Manufacturers, | as exemplified in their Seattle Salesrooms at $23 3rd Ave., near} Marion, is afiecting the Piano! trade everywhere in such a man-} ner that eventually the plano trade | will resolve itself into one orgeaiza tion of manufacturers, retailing di- rect to the home. We are told that| when the plain facts are made pub- Ne there is but ONE Piano anyway, and that the multitude of names stamped on the fall boards of represent nothing more thar @ locality—al! manufacturers alike, regardless of names, use the same piano actions, the same plano strings, the same piano sound Doards, the same wood, fron and steel for the cases, and, in reality, there is no particular distinguish ing feature other than the clever, sentimental advertising suggestions concocted with the aid of a lot of commission-paid salesmen, music teachers and artists. According to rumors on the street today, are on the eve of some very Interest- ing disclocures, as to the smaii cost of making any piano and the ques- tionable practices by which fabu- fousty high prices have been main- tained by a secret system of one price protection in the trade. A Star representative called at the National Piano Manufacturers, $23 3rd Ave., today to learn from D. W. Thomas something regarding the new developments. He was in- formed, however, by his Secretary that Mr. Thomas was at that time in conference with one othe most influential piano manufac¥rers in America and that we expected to make, in a short time, some very startling disclosures regarding the piano trade and that at least two other Manufacturers would become part of our National Organization ‘The Secretary also intimated that Mr. Thomas had almost completed all plans to give to the public full and complete information relating to the actual cost of making of ev- ery name of Piano that has been handied by local retail stores in Seattle in the past, as well as those names of pianos which are being exploited by them at the present time as costly instruments. In the event of such disclosores, it is safe to say that the day of the high- priced plano is gone forever. The windows at #23 3rd Ave., near Marion, are today displaying signs which bear these words: “LESS THAN HALF PRICES ON ALL HIGH-QUALITY PIANOS, WATCH THESE SALESROOMS DURIN OCTOBER. SOMETHING DOING. Words which are ominous to the middlemen and creating much agi- tation among the army of can vassers and music teachers that are constantly circulating in the City of Seattle. —$— AMATEURS TAKE NOTICE * not have your finishing It costs no more Why done right? if left with A.M. FROST 1332 i Ave. Wall Paper Retailed at Wholesale Prices Federal Paint & Wall Paper Company 1406 FOURTH AVE. on their lapels. There were men in the crowd, and women too, who had opposed Hodge before, opposed him without | } baw ha | bai pl wo | hws STRANGLE ON MEN, SWALLOW ELEPHANTS. “The little ones get caught, the big ones eseape. A technicality Is a point of law which enables to strangle on men and swal ophants. The time has ¢ we Want a more humane » of dealing out justice than h tofore prevailed. Because | inied to deal humanely with oner, | am being slandered |n cepipaign. | placed three matrous to take care 4 women pri | tor er It is a plan based entirely | Hodge and to give him personal a Te ee ta eine en jong | Saturday And one of the coun ty commissioners, a member of th old ‘ring, fought me on that sc-|lyappointed superior court Judge. count. He sald th women were} Judge Ronald imposed the for dope fiends and unworthy, and that|lowing sentences Saturday: Wil & man attendant could take care of| liam Steele, grand larceny, one to them all right.” }15 yearn; Savo Basto, sssault in| “What's bie name?” shouted some | the second degree. o: one-half one in the crowd. Hodge did not|to 10 years; William arnault, besjtate a ming He replied laccond der s; John Janiel Abrahame | Willis a nd de | 1 could have left the office of one to 10 years at Monroe; Samuel sheriff with $100,000 if | would do} Lovell, grand larceny, three to 151 the bidding of the gang. | was of-| years | fered $5,000 in one lump on one oc | - - casion, | have made that state ment before and | repeat it, It Is the truth. I spoiled the office of sheriff for the grafters and the gang Is now sore on me, of course. Dey ARE OFF! VICH GETS TO ANY COGE OF DER Oh, the Little Hen eran The chicken thrived until now he! |atrute around as jeran with a cork lex SEVEN MEN Eddie Loftus. s-jone to 16 ¥ j Judge J. T. Ronald sion of Kenneth Girl Schools for THE STAR fas SEC, DEY ARE > ABOUDY’ AT Der FIRST QUARTER, DOT 153 Done TINE FOR ONLY SNAILS. ONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1912 The Finish of a Snail Race Is Longer Than Ad HURRAH, DeY ARE MAKING A SooT SPEED Recoryn! —- 1 DINK DER RACE GETS Decipen INSIDE OF ANODDER MOUR! olf Ca HERE Jusr Now! Had a Wooden Leg YORK rt a a white Orpington chick Pa., Sept Dallastown 90. Al. T. Britt busine rehes around with a woo¢ ® people of the town eall it and “The Old Boldier.” When the chicken was hatched it a a deformed leg. Hrilihart sup led the deficiency with a bit of pod, nicely whittled and made to} } "Vet a beautiful threepounder and proudly as a vet o, SENTENCED sentenced to from re at Monroe for the $200" from his} mer employe Frye & Co, wae given his freedom by | at the interces | Mackintosh, hew boxulement of PETER MILLER Caring of Babies ~ PETER MILLER knowing what fort of a man he} Unless Prosecuting Attorney was, what his ability was, what his| REVIEWS PAST LIFE. Murphy decides within the next views Were. aistaken about yox,"| One by one, Hodge took up the, WASHINGTON, Sept. 30.—Speak. | few days to retry Peter Milles, the We were mistanndge after the| Statements by the siandpat presclers at the Congress on Hygiene |lawyer-burgiar, he will regain hts they Laas ware going down the |Calculated to injure him. He re|and Demography declared todny for | liberty, after lega! battling for more meeting, then! | Viewed his career and laid his past|compulsory education of young than three years. Miller's convi¢ ie ee bon Rear bout the courts, }°Pen like a book women over 18 years old in the tion for burglary was reversed by Hodge ta “ ain, government,|. “1 8M not ashamed of baying|handling of babies; that i¢ should | the supreme court Saturday le db gece sive party plat-|%@eN a coal miner. Learned an hon-|be made a misdemeanor to let! Miller was errested on July about the prokr eis tion, the recall /¢st living by digging coal out of the|young mothers abandon their | 1909. He was believed by the po form, direct legislation. bowels of the earth to have been connected wth of judges, and other issues of the day. Again and again in bis speech he wes interrupted by outbursts of | tinued applause. Hodge was greeted by & tremen dous ovation when he was duced by Former Supreme Court Jadge William H. White, the cbair man of the meeting. The applause i and cheers lasted for several min’! i initions were given to help out| utes, and then someone in the crowd suggested three cheers and a tiger, which were eagerly given WHITE SCORES JOB BUYER. In opening the meeting, Judge White scored the $12,000 nomina- tion of Gov. Hay. He said: “The wive party has A man as a candidate for governor, a real man, and not a putty man, #o that after he has served four years as governor he will not have to buy his nomination for another term if he desires it.” Ezra Meeker then announced the result of the straw vote which he had been taking all week on Union st., near Second av. It showed that out of approximately 1,000 votes, Roosevelt had nearly as many votes as all the other candidates combined Wilson was second. Only about 20 votes separated Taft, who was third, from Debs, socialist candl- ec. OTHER CANDIDATES SPEAK. Senator J. W. Bryan, candidate for congressman-at-large, Senator Dan Landon, candidate for congress against “Trimmer” Humphrey, and Senator J. A. Falconer, candidate for congressman-at-large, each made brief talks, dwelling on the prin- ciples of the progressive party plat- form, which place the rights of hu manity above the rights of the mere doll Between speeches, a quartet catchy campaign songs. Hodge spoke straight from the shoulder, fearlessly and without dodging. “T am the uncouth, the illiterate candidate, as the opposition press would have you believe,” he began, and brought down the house in a ‘orm of applause. “And the reason they say I know nothing, is because I would not that crowd and because I spoiled the office of sheriff of King county, so far as grafting was concerned “I promise, as governor, to spoil the office of governor in just the same way. I propose to conduct that office on strictly business Ines and not to build up any politi- cal machines, JUDGES ARE TRIMMERS, “They have been falsely cireulat- ing the statement that 1 have de nounced all the superior court judges in King county ax crovks. I said, But the truth is that T «aid that some of our King county judges are the worst trimmers and jobbers that I have ever known, And I will not go back on that statement, “My experience as sheriff has shown me that judges, above all, should be subject to the recall, Any judge fearing the recall shows that VEGETABLE SILK UNDERWEAR AND HOSIERY Looks Ike Silk, Conts 01 405 Arcude Bik., Seni he has not coafidence in his abllity to fill impartially the duties of his office, I have watched the work ings of courts and the administra. tion of law, The law is full of loopholes, listen to some of the politicians of | I will not take back anything that) | ' | intro | T#ce#, and wrestling matches, and \dler, \elaimed that there was no rioting led today that a new dirigible bal- 1 was « coal miner,” Hodge con: 1 worked and I associated with the working people. I played with them. We used to have foot! boxing matches. | wae strong and) athletic. I participated in wrest- ing matches and boxing. I am not ashamed to do so. Often there ex-! needy work out in this w Hodge finished his speech to pointing out the humane principles upon which the progressive party fe based, and he made a plea for the! support of the ticket headed by| Roosevelt and Johnson PROTEST RENTON INJUNCTION A big protest meeting was held at the Dreamland rink last night in aid of the striking miners at Ren: ton. The speakers were Kate Sad- | Lena Morrow Lewis and Hulet M. Wells, The strikers at Renton are de manding the right to organize a} union, The mines are owned by the Seattle Electric Co. and are the only ones on the entire coast, | where unions are not allowed. Two weeks ago Jacob Furth, president, swore “on information and belief” that the strikers intended to dyna mite and commit murder. Upon this showing, Judge Cushman, over the protests of the miners who I was glad to help! on their part whatever, iasued an injunction against them, refusing them even the right to call the| strike breakers “scabs.” The protest meeting was well at tended and Judge Cushman’s in junction was roundly denounced. NEW ARMY BALLOON LONDON, Sept. 30. It was learn- loon is being constructed for the army on the Tyne, near Newcastle, Extraordinary secrecy has been maintained owing to the application of a new principle in the engines aud a novel departure in the steer. ing control, which will enable the airship to answer the helm more readily in rough weather. The new craft, which is 60 feet longer than the first army dirigible, will carry four quick firing guns, a bomb dropping apparatus and ac: commodations for 10 men. Amendment Delayed SACRAMENTO, Sept. 20.—Attor- ney-General Webb ruled today that the supplementary petition on be half of the initiative measure abol- ishing capital punishment was fil ed too late to make the placing of that measure on the ballot two years hence compulsory, Unless the law is changed meanwhile, the petitions must be signed before August, 1914, by nearly twice the number of voters required to sign} for the election this year, if the question is to be placed before the people in 1914, BEND | Offers more inducements to the man of moderate means than any other town in the Northwest. Natural resources, two railroads and two thous- and wide-awake people are building a big city there. Come to us and get the facts: It will pay you to do'it now. BEND PARK CO. * 453, 454, 455, 456 Empire Building the murder of Hugh MeMahon, ¢ rtenter, who wus gacroted aud Valuable diamond studs Miller was never: tried | but was convicted in two trials, one at Seattle, and the other at Tacoma, of © burglary Miller conducted his own defenre and made his own plea at Seat M 1, and sectr the vesistarce! Joseph Glasgow at the Tacowa 1 He also created a sete the trial by making an at of “thire degree” w the Seattle police, by which t secured confessions from Miller and Willis Taylor, a boy of 17, wt was charged with being Miller's ac | tle t tion at d ex thoda ot complice These confessions were the prin cipal iter ainat Mill er, He that the third! degreé methods precluded thelr in troduction as eviden and the su é me court sustained bis legal opinion | || Miller is a man of rare shrewd | | Ress, ond is a student. When he} was firat lodged in the county fall, |he t# sald to have framed tac jfense of fellow prironers so that} | many oxcaped punishme YOUNG MAN | IS MISSING. Metz ron of Alfred of Buffalo, New York, who to the Washington hotel ten left on | and Norman | Motz |eame days ago, | Thursday, ard of him since fent of the hotel thinks that the} young man may have committe A search of his room re vealed (wo letters to his father 24 mysteriously nothing The manage has been} and one to a young iady. Although the contents of the letters were [not revealed, it is understood that they indicate that be was in frame of mind that may have him end his life. made EVEN BELGIANS | HAVE TROUBLES. (My United Press Leased Wire) BRUSSELS, Sept. 30.—Small as Belgium i# in the scale of nations the Belgians cannot get along to- jeether, and demand separation. Like most Buropean nations, Bel- cium is made up of what In times past were people of diverse tongues and nations. The two principal peoples are the Wallonians and the Flemish. For some time there h been a strong “separist movement”) among the Wallonians, | The Watlonians are strongly re publican, gud have a leaning toward France and French institutions, while the Flemish are ardent moa-' archiste. The Wallonians claim that the Flemish have “ruled” over) them long enough. They want to} rule themselves, but ‘are willing to) jacknowledge Albert as king. | COLUMBUS DAY | _ TO BE OBSERVED The local lodge of Knights of Co- | lumbus are making elaborate prep jarations for the observance of Co-| lumbus day, October 12. The lodge has arranged for each of the pa-| rochial schoois of the city to devote | the afternoon of October 11 to the observance, and in each school there will be an addreas by a mem-| ber of the order, telling what the! day The feature of the! day's celebration will be a ball in Christensen’s hall in the. evening, | Columbus day, the day on which! America was discovered, made has been| holiday by a law} st legislature. Octo rk the 420th anni-| versary of the landing of Columbus. | Clue to Baby Murder LOS ANGELES, Sept. 30.—De- spite the annonncement of Captain | of Detectives Paul J. Flammer that! he had solved the mystery of the finding of the .body of a two| months"old infant in one of Los An- geles’ business buildings, no arrests | yet been made in the case Milton Carlson, former Swedish vice consul, was called into the ease today as a handwriting ex pert. He examined the wrapper that had covered the fruit box in/ jwhich the child's body was found, | jand claims to have made discover. lies which may clear up the mys. |tery, but could not make his deduc- |tions public at this time. a state RRA RRR EER | * | If your paper is not deliv. * ered regularly to your home afternoon, and if it is not delivered in good shape, please phone the circulation manager, Main 9400, The Star subscribers are entitled to per fect service, They are enti- (led to an early and a regular delivery. Boys who crumple up or otherwise mutilate the paper should be reported. | | | | eeeeeeeeeee . * * * * * * * * * * * * * * . * FORO OIRO TOI IOn MY, VERE is > Dory apDer Snaict HE WABS RIGHT fourth sedsion bere tomorrow of the leading feminine speakers. iGRAND Charter Oak Heaters, Furniture Company. Modern eee | | Words Music or Cond mn Wait o% 1 DON'p care! Twass HunerY! Late HIM! THANKS TO WOMEN, CONSERVATION Con. GRESS WILL EMPHASIZE “HUMAN CONSERVATION” INDIANAPOLIS, The women of Am their Inning at the servation congress, which opens its Ind., Sept. 40. a will have Others will be M Scott, head of the D, Philip N. Moore of 8t dent of the dieneral Fi ® Clubs, Mrs, of Kansas City, whe of the foremost women the United States, and other women. Governor Woodrow Wilken 4 be the only presidential of men to attend. He will celiver am ag p, “ress at & mass meeting in the fale grounds~October 3. Dr. Harvey ™, * Wiley will make some preparations statements tomorrow night the inside of the pure food Gifford Pinchot wilt tell wheg conservation stands today, Mat A. ‘thew R, Me ri Load national con tinuing for four days. 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ARNOLOI'S EDUCATED LEOPARDS—The gest Animal Act Now Playing American Vi THREE NEW ACTS—FOUR NEW PHO’ 3d and Cherry ‘ . “AT OLD FORT DEARBORN,” a Two-Reel® Drama of the Western Country, “LOVE CIRCUIT SCIENCE,” Funny Film by the Eclair 2d and Madiso: A BIG COMEDY BILL. Odeon Theatre FIRST AT PIKE ~~ ODEON, Se “The Badman and the When the Lily a. A Corner in Kisses. bi a9 Union Theatre Third Av. Between Pike and Union. City Theatre 1206 Second Av, weked Out of Wedlock.” © © House of Hix Master” ust Like a V ‘Orphan of the nd the Merebanty, “The. Norrowed Ph ‘ Madi “Th Wilson's da.” y Gal.’ A Little Louder, ting in New Mento, Quartette. ALHAMBRA Sth and Westiake sp Racewen ERERYS BeGERee Ee - g@) feewonrws se¢