The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 23, 1914, Page 8

in many a day. IS is being written over in a corner of the Bon Marche, around First Avenue and Union Street, where I was informed it would be “quiet.” A stone Mason began drilling a hole in a con- crete wall within ten feet of this desk, and a carpenter is putting up some Shelving on the other side of the room. Probably this is as quiet as The Bon Marche ever gets—so I must not com- plain. I find that the Mail Order De- ment is coming over here because has outgrown its quarters on the Pike Street side of the building. After the first impression of vast- fess wore off—the thing that stands ‘out in the visitor's mind is the number ‘of babies there are around here. This afternoon the place seemed filled with It even beats the Scotch Baby Show at Wildwood. _ And the Scotch are famous for babies, and lots of ‘em. This is because thousands of good “Mothers trade here every day, and they bring the babies along. HE next impression is one of econo- my. You marvel at the cheapness the merchandise—not “cheap” in the Sinister sense of the word—but down- right low priced. You wonder what the Store sells to make money on—seeing it sells sd very much, for so very little After a while you begin to understand the significance of cash buying and cash id you get an impression of power of big money and the conces- manufacturers and distributors ‘ake to the stores that pay CASH. And you begin to realize the wisdom _ of that old sa ng “Pay as you go—and go f tha _ But this sermonizing isn’t telling what ders of this paper want to know. Is the Bon Marche really going to lt goods cheap? It surely is! How cheap will be told from day to yy. in the newspapers, and, better yet, the store. TT, Silk Man I discovered to be an old friend. He showed me a big pile beautiful silks. There are plain and changeable satins, ottoman cords, colored pongees with tiny figures, every sort A heart could wish is. and almost all are a yard wide. “The cheapest in the lot,” said he, “is this lining satin. The best piece probably sold for $2.00 a And yet they’re all to be sold tomor- fow at 69c a yard. Another big prize is a lot of printed crepes that were 50c. They're all to go for 29c a yard. (These will be sold on the Upper Main Floor, Pike St. Side.) Down in the Knit Underwear section, on the Union St. Corner, there will be sold Kayser $3.50 Silk Bloomers for $2.15 —$2.50 Embroidered (Kayser) Vests $1.55—regular $1.25 and $1.50 Forest Mills Underwear is to be 75c. Stockings by the hundreds of pairs are 25c—all colors and all kinds—many worth deuble. Children’s Stockings—seconds of the 25c kinds, are to be half price, 12%c a pair. HE Clothing Man was all ready with his story. He is going to clean up, sure—and he will, because he has nerve and faith. (It takes nerve to lose money, and faith to believe that you'll make it up again!) A big lot of Boys’ Suits that have out-stayed their welcome are to be sold for $1.29 apiece. Sizes to fit boys up to 16. The fabric is a dark mixture—but then we don’t have to talk much about the quality when we sell a whole suit for $1.29! Another big lot of $5.00 all-wool Suits is marked down to $2.95. There are all sizes, of course. And, choicest of all, are white linene and tan crash Norfolk Suits for boys that can be had for $1.98. They're fine! The Boys’ Wash Suits, in white and colored fabrics, are all half and less than half price. So are little Boys’ Straw Hats. Men’s Suits are arranged in three Hg Mead for $15.00 suits and $14.50 . for $20.00 and $22.50 ones. Extra—there ~ are fifty suits (52, to be exact) that he will sell for $5.00 a suit. You'll have to come early if you want one, though. HE Wash Goods Section is to sell all kinds of practical wash fabrics for way less than half price. 35c piques, poplins, soiesettes, etamines, voiles and ratines are all to go at 15c a yard. And there are thousands of yards to choose among in Written By George Francis Rowe, duly 22, 1914, Union 8t T AND NOW THE BON MARCHE DECIDES To Clear the Decks of Odds and Ends and Broken Lots—and in Short TO SELL OFF THE SEASON’S SURPLUS So all over this great store the tables have been piled high with the things the store no longer wants—yet thinzs that everybody has some good use for. lowered as only a big store can lower prices when it wants to. The first chapter of the Sale tells of Undermuslins and Hats, Gloves, Suits, Shoes and Canned Peas, Furniture and Dog Biscuits, and a medley such as Seattle has not heard of And the prices have been The store opens and the sale begins at 9 o’clock tomorrow. every imaginable color. Twenty-cent voiles, foulards, lawns, or- gandies and dimities are to be sold for 9c Loads of towels, linens, sheets and pil low cases are displayed nearby at won- derfully attractive figures To tell the whole story of the sale is about as easy as sending a love letter by telegraph—it simply refuses to go! HE Furniture Man 315 pieces of furniture that he is perfect- has counted ly willing to part with for what they cost him, or even a little less. He points out to me that his prices are cash prices —and, of course, a whole lot lower than the easy-payment plan furniture prices. HERE isn’t space enough to tell of all the furniture in this sale—all I can do is to hint—for example: A $30.00 Birdseye Maple Dresser is $17.75. A $30.00 Brass Bed is $16.75. A $10.95 Rocker, of solid mahogany, is $6.75. A three-piece Mahogany Parlor Suite is $19.45 instead of $35.00. A $29.00 Library Chair, upholstered in Spanish leather, is $16.95. A Circassian Walnut Suite, worth $133.95, is to be sold at $97.50. And so on. Every piece in the sale is marked with a red tag, so you can see at a glance just the amount you save. The Rug Section, on the third floor, offers choice of all the Royal Wilton Rugs for $29.95. Some are 9x12 and some are 8-3x10-6. Some are in Oriéntal de- signs and some are perfectly plain with two-tone borders. Most of them are worth $50.00. The sale price is $29.95. Royal Wilton Rugs, 454x9 feet, will be sold for $9.69, instead of $18.00. Fibre and Wool Rugs, worth $9.50, will be sold for $6.69. Crex Rugs, worth 80c, will be sold for 49c apiece. Mercerized Curtain Voiles and Scrims, with hemstitched edges, are to be 20c instead of 40c a yard. $1.75 Tapestry and Plain Velours will be %®e a yard. And many other attractive offerings which I am compelled to leave out of the paper for lack of room IX the Children’s Section on the Sec- ond Floor there are hundreds of the most charming Wash Dresses for girls you ever saw. Sizes run from 6 to 14, and they are all 75c apiece. Nearby there are Women's Gowns and Combina- tions and Skirts worth $7.50 that will be sold for $4.95. Another group, worth $3.00, including Princess Slips, will be sold for $1.98. There are probably 500 Wash Dresses for women that are to be sold at $4.95. These are quite the most charming af- fairs Va opree this season. Most stores fc $10.00 for such, I am assured, and see no reason to doubt it. Near the elevators on the Second Floor (Pike St. Side) there are tables piled high with daintiest Waists of lin- gerie and white voile, and all kinds of soft, filmy materials that a mere man is not expected to know anything about. These waists are worth from $7.50 to $10.00. They're to be sold at $5.95 Another group of White Waists worth $2.50 are $1.59, and still another group, worth up to $3.98, is offered at $1.95, _ This story is already too long and yet is not long enough—it is impossible to present any idea of the enormous variety of merchandise that is in this store, or the wonderful prices that the heads of the departments have put on it. The idea is to make this sale the biggest success The Bon Marche has ever known. UST as we're getting ready to end this essay for the day the grocery man flags us with these extras for his section which he says have “simply got to go.” Dog Biscuits 71%4c instead of 10c¢ (won- der why he begins the Grocery Adver- tisement with the dog biscuits?) Laundry Soap 2c a bar, 100 bars $1.90 Randall's Grape Juice, 25¢ bottles 20c 45c quarts 35-—18¢ Imported Peas 1213¢ a can—25c Raspberries, large cans, 1714c —25c¢ Stollwerck’s Cocoa or Chocolate 20c—35e Lemon and Vanilla Extracts 25c—10c Pink Beans in tomato sauce 7c, 20c size 17%. : The list could be continued, as he says, “as long as your arm,” but the story closes for tonight, to be continued to- morrow. Please remember to keep good- natured, buy quickly, take small bundles with you, give your address plainly and distinctly when you have goods deliv- ered, and bring back anything you buy that goes wrong. For The Bon Marche will make good today and tomorrow and for all the years to come, just as it has made good in the years gone by. Becond Ave—Pike St HE SEATTLE S FLAMES SPREADING | today to check the spread of a forest fire which has broken out In the | necessary | near forest sections will be responsible for serious damage to trees tn MEN ARE RUSHED T0 FIGHT FOREST FIRE; County fire wardens and forest rangers are working desperately | Snoqualmie national forest. The Washington Forest Fire association is watching the blaze carefully and will Issue a further call for help tt | | Twenty-five men were rushed from Seattle this morning to the fire | zone at Nippon, in the northeastern part of the county, to fight the Careless campers, blackberry pickers and others who start fires the next few weeks, unless they show greater concern for the safety | berry pickers cause us the most trouble. | gagement was in Samson Prospect, where cavalry took a barricade | flames there | | of timber and property, according to State Fire Warden B, W. Ferris, who is in Seattle watehing the fire situation “As yet there has been no great damage to green timber, but If the dry weather keeps up for a week or two longer and those who start small fires do not use greater care, we're more than likely to have a lot of trouble,” sald Ferris, “Loggers in the south part of the state are having trouble with their own fires, but campers and black If they would use caution, the taxpayers would gain every year, and our timber would not be de stroyed.” | Brisk fires tn slashings have been reported from six or more coun ties, Fire fighters aro working to keep the flames from forest re serves. County Fire Warden J. M. Dighy bas a foree of men fighting the! fire near Renton, which has already swept over 400 acres and destroyed | & sawmill of the Covington Lumber Co, a ranchers house and two barns, with live stock IRISH CONFEREES DEADLOCKED LONDON, July 23.—Liberal, labor, Irish and conservative party | leaders conferred again at Buckingham pa today, on the home rule/| question, and adjourned without having accomplished anything. It in| belleved the conferees are hopelessly deadlocked concerning the extent |]} of the territory to be exempted from the operation of the home rule | 1] bill I] Sir Edward Carson, the chief anti-home ruler, known to tnelet |1f that all of Ulster be exempted. John Redmond, the Irish leader, would |] not consent to the Inclusion of Counties Tyrone and Fermagh, which, | if though Ulster counties, have large Catholic populations, in the exempt- ed territory. RAINS BRING RELIEF | CHICAGO, July 223,—Scattered rains in Wisconsin and other sec |i} tions of the Northwest today brought relief from the heat there. in| ff the Middle West, however, the hot weather continued, and no relief in| in sight. At 9a. m, the government thermometer registered 90 degreos | and was climbing rapidly, The weather bureau predicts the tempera | ture will exceed yesterday's high mark of 96. | Done sae ! PORTLAND AUTOS TOBUMP BUMPS PORTLAND, July 23-—-Plane were completed today by | the bureau of highways for the cing of @ mound three feet | thick and five feet high In the center of each street intersec- tion In the business district where there no car fines, to compel automobiles to make proper turns top cutting cor. ners. STRIKERS AND SOLDIERS CLASH ST. PETERSBURG, July 23.—-Strike rioting is still in progress. | Cossacks are active breaking up crowds and sca’ ing antigovern- jonstrations, The etrikers are persistent and reassembled the cavalry dispersed them. Hundreds of arrests have Rioting has been going on for four days. Six stri | have been accounted for as killed and 250 have been injured. Last night was marked by fierce street fighting. The hottest en-| | thrown across the thoroughfare by workingmen. St. Petersburg has been without street car service since yesterday The rioters also attacked the water works, but were driven back by the Cossacks, ‘The strikers in the capital number about 160,000. TACOMA GRABS ALL INFO Tacoma came and watched developing the Duwamish waterway | ii] yesterday. She figures on doing imilar stunt around her front door. Eight members of the Tacoma Commercial Club and Chamber of | Commerce were shown around. They professed themselves mystified. ||} overwhelmed and squeiched. They were almost willing to call Mount) Tacoma Mount Rainier, | CHIEF HAS SOME NOTIONS Members of the city council, hacking and slicing away In- justriously af the 1915 budget, were interrupted yesterday as ice Chief Griffiths pounced upon them with these recommen- ions, which they have promised to consider later: Police dogs, assist work of department Two additional justices of peace to act as police judges, thus lightening Judge Gordon's burden. Prohibit employment of women under 30 or 40 years of halle and shooting ga! jes. le bill boarde properly; set ‘em back from street. Maintain pulmotors at central and police sub-stations. Light dark alleys and playgrounds. Supply police officers with first-aid-to-injured pamphlets, Maintain police gymnasium, erect pisto! practice targets and grant donation to police band. Prohibit liquor selling in cafes frequented by women. PROBE IS POSTPONED | WASHINGTON, July 23.—Joseph W. Folk, chief counsel for the tn- | Hf terstate commerce commission, declared the commission had decided to delay until fall the investigation of the Rock Island railroad. THEY’RE GONNA FEED ’ER NEW YORK, July 23—More than 70 hours without food, and still going strong, Is the record today of Becky Edelson, on hunger strike in Blackwell’s Isiand prison, following her ar- rest in Union square here, several days hs for inciting to riot during an |. W. W. meeting. Or. Katherine Davis said uniess the prisoner consents to take food In the meantime, she will be forcibly fed tomorrow. FAGIN’S BOYS AT WORK The home of Miss R. J, Gault, 223 16th av. N., was entered Inst night and a purse containing $23 stolen, | A phoney check for $3, signed by M. L. Watters, was shoved on | the Boulevard grocery, 69th ay. 8, and Alki av, yesterday by aif stranger. ‘ || A camera and revolver belonging to Charles Latell were stolen |} | from a tent at Fourth ay. and Virginia st, last night. H | ‘GOAT IS ALARM CLOCK The neighborhood is out to get the goat of H. Kessler, 422 22nd | av, So, EB, J. Des Camp, 42% 23rd av, So., complains to the police the | goat rises with the lark, attempts to imitate the carol of the lark— | and fails. | He says William, the goat, is the neighborhood alarm clock and ||} goes off too early. . | | | ‘BURNS IS SEEKING PARDON | | WASHINGTON, July 23.—Detective W. J. Burns made a personal | appeal to President Wilson today to pardon Herbert S. Hockin, one ot | the fron workers convicted at the Indianapolis dynamite trials last year, and now serving a term in Leavenworth prison, | urns told the president Hockin once saved his life. | The filing of the application for Hockin’s pardon confirmed the | belief, openly expressed at the Indianapolis trials, that Hockin aided | Burns in placing responsibility on the McNamara brothers for the de. | struction of the Los Angeles Times, HOW WILL GRABBER SIDESTEP? | Unless Congressional Mileage-Grabber Humphrey wriggles out ot) | it, there will be a big debate at Dreamland rink between Congressman | Bryan and Humphrey during the coming campaign. | Bryan challenged him on the floor of thet house to debate their records In Seattle, and he named the Dreamland rink for the place of combat, Hach of them is to put up $250 to cover the costs, and the audience Is to determine, by vote, who shall be stung. | Humphrey has not yet accepted the challenge, TAR HE First Floor, Women's Shoe Section, Misses’ and Children’s Tan Pumps. Misses’ and Children’s White Nubuck Button Shoes. Women's White Nubuck Button and Lace Shoes. The Last of the Rug Clearance HE few items that remain on hand from the pre-inventory clearance of greatly odd Rugs are now quoted at reduced prices as follows One Body Brussels Rug, 10-6x14, to close out at $25.00. One Body Brussels Rug, 9x14, to close out at $20.00. One Axminster Rug, 8-3x10-6, to close out at $9.00. One Crex Rug, 6x12 feet, to close out at $3.00. One Rag Rug, (extra quality), 9x12 feet, to close out at $10.00. One 9x12 Scotch-weave Wool Rug, to close out at $12.00. One 9x15 Hartford Saxony close out at $45.00, Two 10-6x13-6 Hartford Saxony Rugs to close out at $45.00 each Three 36x63 Navajo Rugs (factory- made), to close out at $3.00 each. One 36x72 Bath Rug to close out at $2.00. One 36x72 Bath Rug, extra quality, to close out at $2.50. Four 27x54 Rego Bath Rugs to close out at $2.00 each. One 27x54 Hartford Saxony Rug to close out at $2.00. One 36x36 Bath Rug, extra quality, to close out at $1.50. Four 30x60 Rag Rugs, extra quality, to close out at $1.50 each. Four 36x72 Rag Rugs, extra quality, to close out at $2.00 each Second Floor Rug to Closing Out 266 Pairs | Women’s and Children’s Shoes| At $1.00. Pair will close and Children Footwear, 266 pairs in all out on Friday an odd assortmer including | | Women’s Black Kid Opera pers with beaded vamps, also Blue | and Pink Kid Colonial Evening | Slippers. choice of the various lots at $1.00} pair ~—Firee Floor | of of gre an White Dressing Sacques, $1.00 White Sacque The Dressing shown in illustra- made of dim figured cool and sum- tion 18 cross-barred ity or lawn, dainty for mer wear, and prettily trimmed with Valenciennes insertion and edge. Attractive- ly priced at $1.00. A Pretty Summer Sacque in Empire style, made of cross-barred dimity or figured lawn, with trimming of Valen- ciennes edge, is also priced at $1.00. Second Fleor. Cowhide Traveling Bags, $3.85 S pictured, a well-built Traveling Bag of brown cowhide, reinforced with sole leath- er corners, riveted on, and fitted with good brassed lock and catches. Has full leather lining, fitted with large pocket. Just the sort of Bag one finds handiest for the week-end trip. Choice of the 16-, 17- and 18-inch sizes. Ex- ceptional value at $3.85. —Third Floor. Use the Celebrated “Ohio” Steel Range To Reduce Upkeep Expense and Insure Uniformly-Good Cooking Results. The filustration at right shows the “Ohio” Hot-blast Fire Box. BASEMENT HERE is no “hit or miss” about the satisfaction Ohio Ranges are giving to so many thousands of housekeepers. Ef- ficiency, which means the best possible results for the least labor and expense, has been se- cured in every detail of the de- sign and construction of this celebrated Range. It is a fore- gone conclusion that the “Ohio” will meet the most exacting requirements. The picture shows the clean-cut design of the Ohio, with its perfectly plain and easily- kept-clean nickeled fittings and polished top. Three family sizes, 16-, 18- and 20-inch ovens, priced at $44.50, $48.50 and $52.50 respectively. Any size fitted with water coil and connected for $5.00 extra. —Third Floor, SALESROOM Wash Dresses Priced for Clearance WO clearance lots of practical, well-made Gingham and Percale Dresses, offering styles suitable for and general home wear at a saving worth having Just 85 Dresses in all, attractively trimmed with white For Pre-Inventory embroidery or contrasting material. Clearance, 95¢ and $1.65, OTHER CLEARANCE OFFERINGS One lot of Women’s and Misses’ duced to $3.95. One lot of Women’s and Misses’ Dresses in plain and printed ratines, reduced to $1.95. —Tasement Salesroom Clearance Offerings in Women's Trimmed Hats reduced to $1.95, Children’s Trimmed Hats reduced to Odd assortments of Feather Trimmings reduced to 25¢. Flowers reduced to 10¢. Wash ratines and crepes, many in smart long-tunic styles, re- —Basoment Salesroom vacation Dresses in Millinery 95¢. —7Oof ee @» FBI0% Far Feeocs pPr>mPEosSy FTeF w+ escooghk —¢ loser a