The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 28, 1912, Page 2

SCOOP 135% \GWENDOLYN IS _jissea os $30 Suits... TRACIE fren" POS 1-2 Third Avenue A wireless message received Sun-| * day night from the steamer Roma! NSW YORK, indicates that the yachts Gwendo lyn H. and Ortona, which sailed from West Seattle Saturday after noon for a race around Waddah Smith, formerly Pastime Athletic That Language Before Wa $30 a $1 Tams) IN THELEAD (ere OAKLAND GRABS oe -awre| GOAST LEAGUE 4 member of the club, but now un attached, is today the holder of the Amateur Athletic Union national aa eee 4 |10mile championship run record, BAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 28.—Or DANCING laland and back, will not reach the i. ving beaten 12 contestants here,|«anized baseball gave ite final - starting point today, as they en-| HIPPODROME, SEATTLE’S F cuntered high head winds on Sat-| NEW DANCING PALACE. urday and Sunday, The Roma _ Fifth and University, | sighted the two yachts off Dun. : & Cents Per Couple geness at 6 p. m., and announced and finishing just 10 yards nearest opponent. His time ead |death gurgle for the 1912 season yesterday when Oakland and Los Angeles tangled in the two final! en) Kamos of the Coast league here yes terday, the Oaks taking both strug that the Gwendolyn had a slight] Dance at Dreamland tontght. °**) cies and winning the Count league Paid Advertisement. GOOD ROADS OUR SUPREME NEED A missing link in the chain of agricultural prog- factor. The improvement of marketing and of rural schools proceeds directly in proportion to the improve- meat of roads. In the order of importance of national problems to the country dweller, road improvement i stands first. Given a system of hard ighways, the organization of the community is rend- ered relatively easy. With good roads the small town The f i i i is iF 2 tT #3 ¢ af ih ai HE : [aH ulin 3 § ta 2% E at in good roads is wisely invested; it goes into a permanent public improvement of great usefulness and value, and if we may assume the cost to be fair and reasonable and the construction work satisfactory and substantial, we can have but little quarrel, if any at all, with the men who expend public money for this purpose. Because of the importance of the subject and the size of the proposed bond issue, the people should carefully consider the good roads bond issue. If they do carefully consider it, certainly they will approve it on November 5. THE ASSOCIATION OF WESTERN PORTLAND CEMENT MANUFACTURERS, For Booklets and Other Information on Cement Write to CEMENT INFORMATION BUREAU 421 Globe Block, Seattle, Wash. pennant, Oakland won the first games, 5 to 4, and shut out the Angels in the second, 6 to 0, there, by winning 120 gam during the seven months’ season and losing 83, and ending with a percentage of 91 Vernon ended second in the league with a percentage of 587. In the morn! game Onkland made her five runs in tho first two frames, swatting Toxer at will, and, while the Angels rallied in the In ter spasms, they failed to over come the lead, with Gregory hurl tng fine ball and holding the Angels E seven hits. t The afternoon contes, waa cas: picking for the Oaks, Malarkey hold. ing the Southern aggregation to two hits, while the Commuters knock- }ed Perritt from the bill and Lever ens was substituted with little bet-) | ter effect, | At Low Angeles Vernon won both| games from Portland, wallopiag them In the morning combat 5 to 4,} and being on the long end of a 6 to 3 score in the afternoon. | At Sacramento, the Senators feated the Geals twice, the hn ing score being 6 to 3 and ternoon struggle resulting 7 to 6. Tho afternoon game was turned bt |to @ travesty on baseball, some Of! the fielders taking camp steola ie} to the field with them and then patting one of the players in to um | pire. The standing of the Coast league | at the close of the season follows | Standing of the Sa Ww. ki Oakland .. eooeee42O 83 Vernon 118 82 | Low Angeles. . +110 98 Portland - 5 100 89 115 73 «lan WINNER SHARPE QUITS THE GAME (By United Press Leased Wired OAKLAND, Oct. 2.—Accepting the honors of winning the pennant for his club with extreme modesty, Bud Sharpe, manager of the cham- pion Oakland team of the Pacific | Coast league, this morning bade good-bye to California for all time jto come. Sharpe nas been in poor | health all season, and before leay- ing for hia Georgia plantation his j resignation was formally accepted | by the Oakland club, Physicians | have advised him to satay away from | baseball at least a year. | Sharpe expressed satisfaction at | leading the Oaks to victory, but he modestly asserted that the credit for success sbould de distributed, as |no one man deserved all the glory. | | Sharpe said he would like to see) either “Honw Mitze Tyier Christian succeed him as manager, | PSPS ERE REE EES * * * MOST SMITHS AT HARVARD & Cambridge, Masa, Oct. & 2%.—-The Smiths predominate at Harvard just as they doin many other communities. Out # of approximately 5,500 ath # dents Hated in the college cat- © alogue, 60 bore the name of # Smith. The Browns are a poor second, with 24 repre ® sentatives. * KKKKKRKRHKhKhh hhh WILL CLASH FOR CITY CHAMPIONSHIP The Broadway and Lincoln high teams will clash next Saturday af- ternoon at the Madison park race track in thelr annual struggle for the city football championship, and seeeeetete regarded as a slight favorite this year, Lincoln has the advantage of a two weeks’ rest, while Broad: way played last Saturda: *H MORE HONOR FOR Fi NEW YORK, Oct. 28.—W! Kohlemainen, the Finnish has won more honors here by capturing the internationa fessional li-mile race at park yesterday in 1:20:12, Holmer of New York was samanerpimnconnsiaaipaciianligionen FOOTBA Princeton 22, Dartmouth Michigan 7, Syracuse 18. Yale 13, Washington and met son 3. Army 18, Colgate 7. Carlisle 34, Georgetown 20, Harvard 30, Brown 10, Perdue 0, Chicago 7. Cornell 14, Bucknell 0, Navy 13, Pittsburg 6, BATTLE TO A TIE The Broadway and Auburn high schools fought to a 19-19 tie Satur: day, It was a give-and-take battle throughout the four quarters, and Vi} touchdown a few minutes later for the other team. Broadway went into the battle with several changes in positions, and Milton Thompson, who took Woodcock’s position at left half, id, ginus, Bighth and Virginia, Westlake, Elliott 803. THE STAR—MONDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1912, BY ‘HOP’ IM STRUCTING HER WUSBANO AS TO How HE sHourn vor Ee: 7 WASHINGTON A. C. SQUAD TRAINS A big bunch of football mon out at Dugdale’s park working off some of the summer's rough 4, terday w McDonald «ives p oping into one of the best grid lron squads seen in the Pacific Northwest in many a moon The early start and the hard training i# due to the spirit which arose from ladt year's defeat at the hand. the Multnomah A. C, team, and McDonald ts figuring on get ting his men in the best ponsible condition for two games which will be played with the old-time rivals of Portland along in December, The new organization ts called the Washington Athletic club, and there are a number of open dates for games that the management would like to close with good strong elevens. Lattere adreaned to the Sporting Editor of The Star will receive prompt attention LADIES WILL BE ADMITTED FREE THIS EVENING AT THE BROADWAY RINK If you want to spend a right down enjoyable evening tonight come out to the Broadway Rink, at 711 Kast Pine st, There ts / nothing that's more fun or more healthful than roller skating, after you become a little proficient at it, which is an easy thing to do, with the aid of our competent in-| structors The cost ie amall, too, only 26 for skates and 10¢ for admiasion, checking free, and this evening the Indies pay no admisst ou will meet a nic jolly people—the best of order ts maintained at all times. The rink is located right near the Broadway high school. HEAR BETTER AUDIPHONE bunch of} ey a mont biehty| fected fou can obtain an Audiphon: Gay test on payment of And this rental is applied price If you keep the Audiphone, and we make suitable allowance in exchange on any hearing deview you may be using dress STOLZ ELECTROPHONE A Arcade Annex, Santtia The Lvnoverg Truss ts Best Free Trial to Prove it A. LUNDBERG CO. 1107 3rd Ave. jon Dentestry te tke cown- money! It's no good because pass. ti people who are lodking tor my offices 713 First w in he Union block. see the alga, wane ight Doctor Brown.” in front of the Washington block, and think are coming to my 0} _, y soon discover that they are office of the wrong pr. To BHO! I, myself, took charge of the ces’ on July 16th, 1901 offices afforded practice « one entist ents. on Lh le. population of about 75,000 days, and I had become convinced that’ the Dentist a all trea (PAID ADVERTIS| NT.) VOTE FOR THE $950,000 BOND ISSUE FOR THE CITY AND cq BUILDING AT THIRD AVENUE AND JAMES STREET VOTE AGAINST THE $1,400,000 BOND ISSUE FOR A COURT Ho ONLY IN THE BOGUE CIVIC CENTER THE TWO PROPOSITIONS At the election on November bth, the voters of Seattle and King County must ma choice between two separate and distinct propositions to issue bonds for the ex struction lic building. There is unanimous agreement as to the n of the building: but cont arisen as to where the building shall be located and whether it #nall be a building for the of the city and county, or for the use of the county alone. ; The first proposition is to issue bonds to the sum of $950,000 and to erect an 4 stantial and a btn building, for the joint use of the clty and county, on the Tin Moatiate, su erty now owned by the county at Third and James Contra prop. The other proposition ts to Insue bonds to the sum of $1,400,000.00; to use part of diy to purchave a site in the Civic Center fixed by the Hoxue Municipal Plans in the nort the city, and to spend the rest of the money in putting up such a buliding a» it may be guam to pay for, the building to be a court house for the use of the county only The controversy——untimely and unnecesaa is due to the renewed of the Bogue Municipal Plans, with the Civie Center and all its extensive cost—the same plans that the people rejected, by an overwhelming majority, at the ety 1 spring, In submitting the bond issues the county commim»ioners have declared that inaue of $1,400,000 be favored they will be compelled to hold that the money murt be used carrying out the Bogue Civile Center Plans; that such a site must be obtained, in that ity, and such a building d, as to form an exnential unit of the whole Bogue schemes Seattle will thus be committed to the responsibility and $20,000,000 cost of the gigantic ing witich the people refused to assume but a few months ago NEED FOR A PUBLIC BUILDING Hight hundred city employes are crowded into the building now used as thousand persons, on an average, visit this bullding every day. It headquarters and court, hospital and a few offices. It is packed to t pay $25,000.00 every year in rents for quarters in outside dullding which the city building cannot accomm The Court House, inconventently located for everybody, houses 367 employes, ang 1,500 or more visitors dally, It was built twenty-five years ago, for the need of the time. county now pays $10,000.00 every year in rents for outside quarters for several of ft, departments. The byllding is universally condemned as unsanitary, and being of filmay construction ts admittedly in constant danger of destruction by fire. PUBLIC OFFICIALS AGREE Soon after Mayor George F. Cotterill took office last spring, he, the members of the elty 4 cil and the board of county commissioners, met in joint conference and worked out what, te the financial condition of the city and county, seemed to be the best possible plan to provide essary and proper accommodations for the conduct of the public busioess. The plan, as worked out, provides for the erection by the county of a bullding t block bounded by Third and Fourth Avenues, James and Jefferson Streets, now owned by the and fully paid for. The present plan, to fulfill which will require the expenditute of realized from sale of bonds, calls for construction of the building to thé height of seven the Third Avenue frontage, and six stories on the Fourth Avenue frontege, the ‘difference belag, to the ascending street «rades on James and Jefferson. ym This building will be so arranged as to accommodate the county's business and all ite needs for the next ten or fifteen years, in the half fronting Fourth Avenue; and t ample accommodations for the city, for from five to ten years, in the half fronting for which the city, by agreement already made, will pay rent to the county. City and payers, instead of paying heavy rents to outside parties, will pay rent to themselves. CONTS COUNTY NOTHING _" % The rent which the city will pay to the county, added to the saving the county makes ho rent to pay, Will easily cover the interest of the §950,000.00 bond issue for construction building and provide # sinking fund for the retirement of the bonds at maturity, CITY LOSES NOTH paid by the city In rent for one-half of this fine bullding will to private owners of buildings for inadequate and widely soatiennes COMPLETION completed in the dimensions and will depend entirely on whether or not the & practicable plan for a Civic Center within & ublic business compel the addition of mote ‘The amount of mone: the amount pald out in t ters during the same ¢ Whether or-not this bulldl Hustration print ¢ completion of t usidtr th FROVIT IN BVERT OF BALE ' In the event the people of the elty and t unty agree, in fr ive to ten years, Center ated at some other point in the ¢ mn this building, as originally const & uses a rotit to the county, | u urt his property, more th natural increase uN nn ‘The initial investment under the Civ Center P which the $14 pored, ts as nothing when considered in sonection with the tremendous total cost which must inévitably accrue to the distress of city and county taxpayers Aside from this cost, the ption of this proposition commits the county te quisition of a site in a locality already determined by the Bogue Municipal Plans and to! struction of an ornate, monumental building, as prescribed by those plans, to be used fe purposes only. Under this proposed bond issue the pressing needs of the city receive no Rogue Plan embraces in a Civic Center thirteen city blocks and intervening strest Conservative estimates of the cost made when the people were asked to vote on the entire plas making over the city, and to which the County Commissioners must adhere if this vails, are ox follows Cost of land for Civie Center.... Cost of land for Center Avenue Cost of land, Olymple Mall to Westlake. Cost of land, Third Avenue extension. Cost of regrading «2... ...-seseeeeeees Total ..... er $6,178,400 The improvem bis C er, acco which ft is that the poople shall be committed by the $1,400,000.90 ix . of monumental design, to be built of granite and marble and to cost, completed but $2,000,900.00 ‘each, or a total of $12,000,000.00. To this must be added the cost of park fi which the plans call for, and one-balf the cost of paving and other improvements in street which is planned to encircle the entire Civic Center space. The proposed mont center of this magnificent park, and all the other decorative features and absolutely provements, bring the total cost of realizing this wonderful vision to an enormous sum, $20,000,000.00. FOR COURT HOUSE ONLY While advocates of this Civic Center Plan argue that the whole of this tremendous hot be assumed at the present time, and insist that the proposed bond issue of $1, least give a Court House in the Civic Center, the County Commissioners, in writing, proval of this bond issue 'y the people will compel them to acquire a site as laid out is & Plans and to build a building, so far as the money will go, according to the pretentious rchitectursi designs and of the costly materials specified in the Bogue Plans. Advocates of the 0,000 bood faeue frankly concede that there is no reason for the erection of a single public buflding at Center, but that the Court House, if so located, must be considered simply as the first whole Civic Center improvement, involving, as we bave shown, a total cost exceeding $3 1,000, But assuming that the $1,400,000.00 expenditure shall be authorized at this io mind that this plan provides for a County Court House only, and offers no relief to the condition of the City’s business—what progress conld be made toward realizing the B The Court House called for by the Bogue Plans is a building 650 feet in length by. 75 fe width, ground area, to contain 8,437 cubic feet, and to be built of granite and marble, © architects have estimated the cost of this building at no less than $3,374,000.00. To acquire the proper site in the Civic Center for this one building calls for the lan of four separate city blocks, and closes parts of Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Avenues. The groumé of this much of the Civic Center will amount to approximately $1,000,000.00, with a cost, for regr proportioned to the total regrade cost of $2,600,000.00 for the entire Civic Center, Thus a cost to the taxpayers—for Court House alone, with no City Hall—of $4,374,000.00, plus regrading the Court House site. How far will the $1,400,000.00 which the people are now asked to vote carry achievement of even this first single purpose which the advocates of the whole great are so earnéstly urging? That the sum is utterly insufficient to buy the ground and building ts plainly evident. EFFECT ON GROWTH AND TRAFFIC The acquisition of any property in the Civic Center and the undertaking of u even one building within that enclosed area in accordance with the Bogue Plans, will close fie on all the North and South thoroughfares between Second and Seventh Avenues which will be changed in direction), and on the East and West Streets except Blanchard, Virginia and Bell. ahha This will act as an effectual bar to the spread of the business area to the North, City increases in population and business, will bring about the congestion sought to the Civic Center advocates themselves. ens We do not oppose a Civic Center, and have no word of condemnation for those gas men and women who appreciate and would combine the beauties of nature with the But we do oppose the plans and methods of those who, in their desire to accom! for our people, are unwilling to consult with others who have practical knowledge judgment, coupled with the same high ideals and aesthetic desires as their own, to the tical resulta may be accomplished. * In other words, the Bogue Plan is one thing and a practical Civic Center p other. We oppose only the Bogue Plan. THE REGRADES The Bogue Civic Center proposition calls for a new regrade of that part of the B which has already been regraded at great expense and tmproved with brick paving. The itively refuse to submit to a new regrade of this territory, and their refusal would make it to pass the Court House as contemplated in the Civic Center, even if the bonds of $1,400) voted. oe A large part of this territory, lying East of Fifth Avenue, has never been graded and i#% sixty to ninety feet higher than the graded section. Here, again, we meet the opposition of the Ror erty owners, who are not ready to undertake the expense and which would again block the Some agreement as to a division of the cos t of the Civic Center between the City and @ officials and the occupants of the other five build ings planned, will have to be arrived at Deton Bogue Plan can be successfully worked out and reduced to a concrete business proposition, a right to know what we vote for, and the Bogue Plan involves so many serious pro remain unsolved, and so many others that admit of no practical solution, that we feel © this time to again reject the whole project of a Civic Center as unwise, impractical and fl accomplishment. IN OTHER CITIES New York, Boston, Chicago, Minneapolis and other large Eastern cities, with greater D and greater wealth than our own, are combining their City and County buildings in on the sake of economy and convenience; and invariably they erect their public vols greatest business activity, without any thought of the Center of population, but always haw the business and transportation centers. ny ‘ Build the public building at Third and James Street on the property now owned by the AND BUILD IT NOW. VOTE AGAINST the $1,400,000 bond issue for a site In the Civic Center which will entering wedge in the later expenditure of $20,000,000, acai DON’T OVERLOOK THESE TWO BOND ISSUES, thoy are more important to you other propositions. 1 oaks VOTE FOR the $950,000 for Court House at Third and James. VOTE AGAINST the $1,400,000 for Court House at Civic Center. NATHAN ECKSTEIN PAUL K, MOHR ©. W. CASLER D, BE. FREDERICK J. T, ARMSTRONG HOMER M. HiLl. ALFRED BATTLE MRS. GEORGE A, SMITH MRS. ELIZABETH MOO T. 8. LIPPY c. J. ERICKSON JOSIAH COL R, PETKOVITS M. B, HARBEN J. D. LOWMAD GEORGE R. COOLEY H. H. A. HASTINGS BE, F. SWEENEY DAN KARLE HERMAN CHAPIN W. D. WOOD. PUBLIC BUILDINGS & IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION. Room 40, Hallor Bldg gGitts. R. L. HODGDON, Secretary, _——