The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 26, 1913, Page 1

‘VOTE FOR THE LOGGED-OFF LAND PLAN ON DEC. 6 tures were embraced in the present bill—not all. BUT BAUSMAN IS NOT GOING ROUND TOWN SHOUTING, LIKE SENATOR JOSIAH COLLINS, THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE LACKEY IN THE LEGISLATURE, THAT THE PRESENT BILL ISN’T WHAT HE THOUGHT IT WAS WHEN HE (COLLINS) VOTED FOR IT. Bausman has the courage to recommend the Murphine bill even though the Chamber of Commerce is now scaring up all sorts of “bogies” against it. Read his statement today on page 3. Frederick Bausman, the prominent Seattle attorney, says that the present logged-off land law may not be flawless, but it deserves the support of King county, as it is meritorious on the whole. He urged and advocates the creation of the agricultural development district on December 6. Bausman isa member of the Chamber of Commerce, the Rainier club, and other “highbrow” Organizations. But he is no quitter. There is no yellow in Bausman. Bausman drafted a bill on | the same subject and it was introduced in the legislature. It was not passed, but some of its fea- | RAIN TONIGHT AND THURSDAY; BRISK SOUTHERLY WIN!)S. | = THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS MMMM SEATTLE, WASH., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1913 ICCC More Than 41,000 Circulation Every Day UQUUAAUUDNUNEUUNANUNONODAGAUNCUNANUUONNUEAGUONUUINU. E fre a VOLUME 15 ON TAINS AND NKWS MTANDS, Bo ONE CENT STATE ORDERS SALE OF TICKETS ON CARS OLYMPIA, Wnh., Nov. 26.—Orders were issued today by the public service commission of Washington requiring the Puget Sound Traction, L.ight & Power company to place on sale on all street cars operating in Seattle tickets good for six rides for twenty-five cents. Some important questions were raised during the hearings. The company claimed it had originally tefused to buy a franchise containing any such provision, that the original franchise had been amended before the purchase, and that the purchase having been made of the amended fran- chise, it became a contract, the terms of which could not be changed by the city by later ordinance. The company also contended the state commission could not enter an order requiring ale of tickets until the commission had made a valuation of all the property of the company, a labor which would have required many months, and that such investigation should have shown NO. 233. company’s earnings were so excessive as to justify a reduction in fare. The commission holds that it has jurisdiction to modify the terms of the franchise contract AND THAT HE QUESTION RAISED IS NOT ONE OF RATES, WHICH REQUIRES VALUATION, BUT OF SERVICE WHERE VALUATION IS NOT NECESSARY. The original informal complaint was made to the commission by The Seattle Star. Formal complaint was made by Seattle city authorities. A hearing was had by the commission and evidence taken at Seattle September 29, and attorneys made an extended argument on the legal points involved at Olympia, October 30. The findings fill many typewritten pages and go thoroughly into the merits. The order is signed by all the members of the commission, Judge M. M. Godman, chairman, Arthur A. Lewis, and Frank R. Spinning. The decision is a complete victory for the City of Seattle, which was represented in the hearing by Corporation Counsel Bradford and Assistant Corporation Counsel Pierce, and for The Star, which engaged Hugh C. Todd as special counsel to represent the traveling public. The company contended that the sale of tickets on cars tended to make an unreasonable decrease Thee earnings. commission, withdrew the 3 5 | SAVE $250,000 /AYEARIN FARE Public officials, and citizens generally, prominent and| otherwise, joined today in congratulating The Star on the) fight it had put up to re-obtain for the people the privilege of purchasing tickets on street cars. ; : In this fight, as in the original campaign to obtain the e of the Erickson ordinance in the coun- cil in 1911, The Star was the only newspaper to ad- vocate the public’s side of the case. Bin The following are a few of the statements made to Phe | Star todsy: cece ee COUNCILMAN ERICKSON: As the author of the ordinance pro-| viding for the sale of tickets on cars, | wish to take this opportunity, to congratulate The Star on the thoroug>-going campaign in behalf of the measure, which, after two years, is now completely won for the) people. The Star was the only paper in Seattie that aided in the pass-| age of the bill by the council, and it continued its aggressive fight to jive the people a chance to buy tickets in the most convenient man-| r possible, even after Judge Rudkin's decision. The ir, in this! fight alone, has saved the people of Seattic $250,000 a year. ore ee MAYOR GEORGE F. COTTERILL: uch gratified, and know the people of Seattie will be, at ¢! just decision of the state) . public service commission, a decision that cannot in the very nature of | things work an injustice to the street car company and that will be of| benefit to the people. | am grat Star has played| ch a prominent i Jusion. | took occasion, shortly after the . some months to say to the chairman of the state commission that it should not wait for formal complaint, but should act upon its own initiative, and | was greatly pleased when the commission took such right of eee IDENT HESKETH OF THE COUNCIL: And it won because it was right. The people ase car tickets at the most convenient plac the street cars.” ee The Star won a! entitled ible, and see C. J. FRANCE, OF THE MUNICIPAL LEAGUE: | have just been lormed of the action of the state public service commission in order-| Ing the reinstatement of the sale of tickets upon the cars of the Seattle! f Electric Co. | fee! that the credit for this decision lies largely with The Star, because, as | recall it, The Star initiated the fight, and it was through its influence that it wi ought to such a splendid closing. | wish to congratulate The St. and the people of Seattle upon the result. | | OTWAY PARDEE, PRESIDENT OF THE MUNICIPAL OWNER.) SHIP LEAGUE: | want to congratulate The Star upon the result of | the fight it made to keep for the people the privilege of purchasing! tickets upon street cars. The Star is entircly responsible for the sav. ing this will mean to the people, and is entitied to the thanks of every 4 man and woman in the city. | want to add, too, that t ontroversy i just ended Is but ancther illustration of the fact that the people must eventually own their own street car systems if they are to be forever free of these constant fights for what rightfully belongs to them. | oe A HUGH C. TODD, ATTORNEY ENGAGED BY THE STAR TO ESENT THE CASE OF THE PEOPLE TO THE STATE PUBLIC VICE COMMISSION: To The Star belongs all of the credit for rt action of the state commission today in ordering the return of the) sale of tickets upon the street cars. It was The Star that first took the | matter up With the commission, through its columns and through corre.| spondence, and it was upon The Star's initiative that the commission voluntarily called a public hearing, Later ity put in its formal) complaint. It Is a splendid victory for The | ) AND A REFORMER, TOO! Y OP BURNS bert Baker, capitalist and reformer, 8 was fined, and paid $1,000, for caus ing the ‘delinquency’ of Mildred ‘The Grand Trunk raltroad'’s shops! pHMONTON, Alb. Nov. 28. here were burned early today with |The McKinney block was destroyed | $1,000,000 lone. The fire was under by fire today. The loss was estl-| SANTA ROBA, Cal, Nov. 26.—Gil “PORT HURON, Mich., Nov. 26.— Lewis, 19. | e@ontrul at 8:30 ». | mated at $250,000, munnechunoumanttie « TING FOR THE SIGNAL FOR THE SCRIMMAGE! |HAVE YOU Let us be thankful, It has been a good year. Why, even the turkeys are fat Think of all the nice, fat grubs *\ they ate. Of course, the grubs didn't want) to be eaten, but you can't expect the turkeys to go hungry on that account And the turkeys didn’t want their necks wrung, but our butchers are worthy, needy men, and, if turkeys enjoy a life hereafter, it may give them a certain grim pleasure to con- template us humans trying to express our thankfulness by eating turkey at 32 cents a pound. And if*we, at table tomorrow pass up for a second and a third helping-—white meat and dark, and finally a neck or the part that soos over the fence last—and get indl gestion, why, bless you, will not the déctors rejoice? LOOK WHAT THE NICE LAWYERS WILL GET And if the doctors fall to cure us, what of it? It is an event that our heirs have long been waiting for. How happy they will be when |the thin edge of grief is dulled? | And if our heirs cannot agree as| and congress had to make an ap propriation to help them But the railroads have had an to the division of our estates, will | excellent year. |not the lawyers profit? Yes, it has And speaking of turkey, the and Bulga’y are thankful use ‘they Meked the Unspeakable Turk in KBurope, while. Italy waa doing the same thing in Tripoli eke A good year for most of us, it |has been a poor one for turkey and | Turkey It has been a good year for the farmers. T the wheat trop In the East and many farmers were od to mortgage their homes. « turn hastily, however, from that unpleasant tople to congratu late the farmers of the West who were able to take advantage of a rising market | It was a bumper corn crop. | RAILROADS, THANK YOU, | HAVE HAD A GOOD YEAR Of course, owing to the exorbl- |tant freight’ rates Imposed by the j railroads, the farmers didn’t have money enough to ship their corn, been a good year.|he isn't going to be hanged, | Captain Peter Miller should be thankful And | Tennant Peter is of Detectives should be thankful that still safe behind the bars, The Puget Sound Traction, Light | & Power Co, reports ® satisfactory year. We are sure Jakey Furth | will enjoy bis turkey We, personally, are grateful to him for letting us ride on hie cars. Going home Queen Anne with a market basket on one foot and a Swede on the other, while the conductor told us to “Move forward, please,” though we couldn't hi moved an Inch ‘if our life had depended on it, we couldn't help being thankful that we didn’t have to walk, and how kind the con- ductor was to stop the car at our corner just because we on an East car last night, ANKFUL wanted to get off there, It has been a good year for us, FOR? | It hasn't been all and skittles,” of courre. We must take the bitter with the sweet. There ve been unpleasant in- cldents. example, the tele- phone company wants us to pay them $5. We don't know why. It's something about a phone at our house. The more we try to under- stand it, the more befuddled we become. too. “beer We have just received a | polite letter from an official of the company teliing us how deeply he would regret the necessity of in- stituting legal proceedings against us. His tender regard touches me deeply—so deeply that, rather than see him grieved, we are willing that he should let the matter drop. We hope his turkey does not give tém indigestion. We only hope he chokes, Yes, It has been a good year for us, on the whole. advertising phi C ment and teaching reault. Hyatt-Fowella, Advertisement, Witnesses of the company testified that somewhere between $5,000 and $6,000 was lost by the traction interests per month when the sale of tickets on cars was en- however, took the view that the company itself admitted an obligation to sell tickets, and that therefore they should be placed on sale where they can be most iently obtained by the people, namely, on the street cars: The commission’s ruling today upsets the effect of the decision of Judge Frank Rudkin, under which the traction company the people to buy tickets on cars. Judge Rudkin’s decision was that the city could not pass any ordinance regula service commission. Within 24 hoars after Rudkin’s decision was announced, the traction company withdrew the sale of tickets on cars, of the city for two years, under an ordinance introduced by Councilman Erickson > “-*~*rer . ting a-public utility, and that it was up to the a privilege that had been enjoyed by the COMPANY MAY | GO TO COURTS adford today: “The city’s victory in | ||. Said Corporation Coun | the car ticket case is com 5 “1 doubt very much that the company will even attempt an appeal to the courts from the commission's ruling. | believe it will comply | with the order as soon as formal notice is served upon it, and that pro® | ably will be no later than tomorrow.” | James B. Howe, general counsel of the Puget Sound Traction, Light and Power Co., refused to make any statement today concerning the public service commission's ruling. Some attorneys today believed the company will appeal from the commission's decision to the court, and attempt, as in the Duwamish valley rate case, to obtain an injunction against the In the Duwamish case the injunc- granted, and remained in force for nearly two years, although the railroad commission and the King county superior court had ruled against the company. It was dissolved only after the etate supreme court die missed the company's appeal. GOVERNMENT BY INJUNCTION, HOWEVER, IS NOT SUCH UNIVERSAL SPORT NOW. EVENTS IN WAR FOR TICKETS ON CARS JULY, 1911 jouncilman Erickson) introduces “six-for-a-quarter” or- dinan | SEPTEMBER, council and Dilling. OCTOBER 30, 1911—Passed by| council over mayor's veto. |NOVEMBER 6, Star to place tickets on sale in stores. AUGUST 26, 1913—Public Service Commission, without formal com- plaint presented to it, and on its own motion, sets September 29 as date for hearing complaint against company’s withdrawal of | _ sale of tickets on cars, 1911 -— Traction) AUGUST 29, 1913 — Corporation company applied to Judge Han-| Counsel Bradford files formal ford for temporary injunction, | complaint. NOVEMBER 14, 1911—Judge Han.| SEPTEMBER 6, 1913—Seattle Star | ford takes case under advisement. pains ti nes eee Poy . ublic at hea NOVENRER 17, 1911—Judge Han-| sepremBER 29-30, 1913-—-Heating ord denies temporary Injunction“ heig by commission in Cha on the ground that the company! Of Gortmerce asesmbly pti would gain rather than lose by/ NOVEMBER 26, 1913—Public Serv- sales on care, i . ice Commission rub gainet NOVEMBER 29, 1911—Sale of tick-, traction ae ets on cars begins. MAY, 1912—C transferred Judge Rudkin. AUGUST 16, 1913—Judge Rudk' grants company permanent i junction against city’ inforce- ment of Erickson ordinance. AUGUST 17, 1913—Campany pends sale of tickets on cars, 1911—Passed by vetoed by Mayor TAKES HIS LIFE Despondent over ill health, Capt. Fred 8, Meady, 60, well known in shipping circles on the Pacific coast, committed suicide early Wed- AUGUST 19, 1913—Seattle Star ad-| tesday morning by gas asphyxia- dresses open letter to state public tion. His body was found by his service commission to take’ up| Wife at 9 a. m hearing on its own initiative. He had locked himself in the AUGUST 21, 1913—Chairman God.| Kitchen and turned on six gas jets, man of commission acknowledges |“fter removing a pet canary to Seattle Star letter, safety. Dr. G. C. 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