The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 25, 1914, Page 2

+ a an iaeeeaiiea ae ee aed etme 6 eee $1.98. Bring the Boys to John Panton’s Sale Tomorrow! They can get Three Fifty Suits for we cert ‘ Extra Trousers, worth up to a Dollar, will be sold for 39c. for $2.65. Fifty, for $3.10. BE Searked down. for $2.65. go for $3.10. ECAUSE the Boys’ going to be moved when Panton’s store is re- arranged, it becomes necessary to reduce the stock to the lowest possible point. _ Therefore, every Suit, every Overcoat and every pair of Overalls in the department has been Boys’ Suits, worth up to Five Dollars, And another group, worth up to Six Clothing Department is Many very handsome Suits, worth five dollars, in Norfolk and double-breasted styles, will be sold And the finest Suits, worth up to six fifty, will a Boys’ Khaki Knickerbockers, worth thirty-nine eee, vot. =a venience. Francis Rowe. ETROPOL _ “A Woman's Way” Evenings, 2h to The: Mats, the, oe Mon. Eve, Wed Mat, 106 AND 20c ARE FIGHTING is organized purely Her army ia 200,000 strong. The River Meuse, the it tributary of the Rhine, as wide and deep as the Belgium for defense. tants surrounded by a | The Meuse divides into two parts Tous citi wild and hilly the Ardennes. natural highway across. _ The valley ts guarded by the the rock and by the French frontier fortress of Givet ‘The capture of Liege laid open the whole of industrial Belgium of Liege, fortres: by fortress of Namur, to the sea. (Step in and 1 Stock of New chandine the $10. 00 $14 Brass Bed, sar’ a ly 50 quarter- oak Buffet, finely finished (ios BARGAIN PRICES ON STOVES AND RANGES It flows through the center of , a city of some 560,000 in- ring of 12 forts, powerfully arm- ed. Belgium To the north is the fertile, flat country, with its great and popu- to the south is the forest region of ‘The valley of the Meuse is the AMUSEMENTS 1TAN MOORE i || Marcus ‘and fifty cents, will all be sold for a quarter. _ And Boys’ Wash Suits, worth up to two dol- ‘ars, will be sold for 75c apiece. Many of the latter are very appropriate for ‘this season. There is going to be lots of warm OWN in the Basement we continue the sale of and China. ~ These lines are to be closed out. | You can buy the finest Haviland, Austrian and China for one-third and one-fourth less verything is i aiehAeseen cash daisy at our con- The main idea is to get rid of the Housefurn- ishings and turn the space these lines occupy to it John Panton’s Store MAT. | Jods 20 and 8: AFRICAN HUNT |Loew’s | Empress |e. ! Fate | Mats Toc wad ite; Nights Toe, 180 206. Mots. 160 and 200 Nights 100, 200, 300, feats Reserved. |[ "nos snow Noo | | Quality Vaudevilte ACTS —4 &—PHOTOFLAYS—5 SAtS. 1,900 SEATS |PASTOR PREACHES ¢ dress. attended, WITHOUT HIS COAT —Coatless, | Wearing an old hickory shirt and « |pair of striped Dr. D.C. ALTON, IIL, were suggested, by members of the church | their clothes were not good enough | to wear to services Several members of the church| | had suggested that the men wear loveralls and | shirts, and the women | dresses. The younger set did not respond to the invitation, but many of the older members appeared in simple | The services were largely many going out of curt-| malty. Sept. pusers, in church. th jumpers and their bl BUYS HIS COFFIN; se SANTA BARBARA, Cal., —Joseph F, Kuehne, wealthy tired merchant, Jacksonvile, III, | tered a | yesterday, selected a casket mt his Own death certificate and| undertaker ticket, completing all arrangements a | jo local anded the for the trans mains to don't want to them to do,” ing the body The with ne A collection of these Pennants will be @ wonderful help to any/ Start your collection with child. the present pennant to be tssued will be the One pennant will be issued each week, Secure one with one coupon clip- ped from The Seattle Star and 16 cents. War Pennant his dying here among strangers and J sald Kuehne night was sent E ast undertaking fi portation of his Illinois home, leave any work He 4 and today Seattle Star has arranged ® Large Pennant House to make up a series of Flag Pennanta| showing the Flags of the Various) Nations at War. These Flag Pennants are on ex-| cellent wool felt, and are something |you can be proud of Fiag Pennant will be offered| | to Seattle's reading Each w public, pennant, The fi of Germany 2:30) the Re’ Blunt, pastor of the Eas’ Alton Baptist church, opened serv ices Sunday morning by commend- ing'many of the congregation for conforming with plans for simple| and comfortable 4. Plain clothes for church wear following a plea} old Sept.) a railroad Educate the Children Very few people can tell you the} Flags of the different nations, not a one of us but should know! i them. Yet} eet te te a aaa are ophnmre ee oo Spam ee a i eR SEATTLE’S PUBLICLY-OWNED UTILITIES | Light and Power System ...... | Water System .... Harbor Improvements Garbage Collection .. TOM siceeee bera $25,000,000 on publicly owned J utilities, and ts one of the best ex Jamplea in the United States of a lelty which has tested and proved the real and lasting success of muntetpal ownership In the broad est sense of the term. Twenty-four years ago, when Se attle made her first venture in pal ownership, tn the pur of the small, privately owned | water system, big business interests | lwore active with the old, old argu ment that the proposition would be a losing one, a burden to the tax payers and a dismal fatlure in the pnd vanced as the town grew, and at |various times voted to take over fother utilities, In every venture Seattle has proved the fallacy of the argument [of big business. She has shown, to the Intense satisfaction of her citizens, that a city can buy and operate public utilities successfully; can give con- sumers a far cheaper rate than pri vate compantes ever advanced, can improve the service and still MAKE MONEY. eee THE WATER AND LIGHT AND power systems a: noticeable ex- amples of succe: I city ventures. They now represent a total val- uation of more than $17,000,000, further additions are constantly) being planned. The plant ved & paying proposition from the start. On the other hand, a reduction In the water and light rates proved gratifying to Mr. Smal! Business Man. Under private ownership water cost a minimum of $2.50 a month to residences. Under municipal ownership the minimum meter rate fs 50 cents a month, Tt has been figured recently that if the old rate were now charged, | the returns would be about $4,000, 000 a year, or over and above the operation expense of the plant $3,000,000, as much as is received by direct taxation. | for stockholders under the old plan. and power business citizens were paying as high as 2 watt hour for residence lghting. The city now has a rate of 6 cents a kilowatt hour for the first 60 hours, and 4 reduction to 5 cents ‘has been proposed. "ee SEATTLE 18 THE HEALTH. fest city in the United States. Sanitary conditions were mm terfally improved by municipal gar- bage collection, which increased the tax levy @ little more than a mill. Opponents of the plan talked high taxes, but the amall property owner found the garbage tax was about $2 & year, while under the old plan he }pald $9. Munictpal collection ts saving the small man $7 a year. . . 30, CITY OWNED STREET RAIL- ways in Seattle are tn their infancy To date the Lake Burien and Division A, municipal car lines, have not made money. Big bus. iness has poked its head up, a usual, and yapped at what it cal the city’s foolhardy venture. But Councilman Erickson and other municipal owne: pions say that a8 soon as the city jbreaks down the legal barriers jwhich are keeping its cara off! Fourth ay. and the depot loop, and can carry ite passengers through the down town section, both roads will show big earnings, Instead of deficits. A vit of patience im all at ue 10 o'clock, re led ing and for| ted the) 1 they last Batiste, pink and blue, at size 25. Now only. Now price $3.50. Now . Remember, guarantee a perfect fit to Consumer,” at all times: | Ka rat This same argument has been ad-| | This fat roll represents the profit | When the city went into the light, cents a kilo-| Pp cham-| WHAT MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP HAS DONE IN SEATTLE Street Railway (First Division)... Seattle is spending tn round num-| that is needed } | } | The Biggest Corset Sale Yet The Venus Martell Corset Co. Will place on sale Saturday morning at Need Cash, hence its entire line of Corsets. We these great sacrifices. large sizes, our Heavy French Coutil, regular price $5.00. Medium weight, our regu- lar price $3.50, A few Light Weights, all sizes, our reg- ular price $2.50, High-Grade Fancy Figured French Bat- iste, white, pink and blue, with best bon- beautifully sell these corsets for $12.50. lar price $7.50 A few in best quality Plain French | Three Beautiful $25.00 Corsets, which have been on display but are not soiled; A few Small sizes, our regular Our Famous Patent Bust Supports our stock is new and up to. date and we Our motto ts “Direct from Factory and we save you from $1 to $6 on your corset SPECIALLY DESIGNED CORSETS FOR THE SCHOOL MISS ALL CORSETS FITTED BY EXPERT 1527 SECOND AVENUE The Venus Martell Corset Co. lcommerce through thia port |now being rapidly carried out will STAR—FRIDAY, SEPT. 25, 1914, PAGE 2, .§ 5,071,625.00 12,179,000,00 6,300,000,00 272,293.20 800,000.00 75¢ field standard, medium Regular Chester- cotton, two- weight, underwear at, 45c piece a garment .... Regular $3.00 Medlicott And the losses to date are but a drop in the bucket, compared to the earnings of the future, “ee THE SEATTLE PORT COM mission ia engaged tn the task of spending $6,300,000 on extensive harbor improvements, including Im mense docks, pliers, wharfage fa ollities, warehouses, cold storage | plants and @ belt line jlroad to tle }the various docks together {n a cheap and home-controlled switch Ing system, to oppose a system of discriminatory freight rates now ex inting, The docks are rapidly being leased to steamship compantes, The opening of the Panama canal and the building of the government rail way in Alaska will greatly increase The plane of the port commission care easily for the immense ship ments of lumber, wheat, fish and fruit, the four great products of the Northwest. INDIA OFFERS TREASURES TO HELP ENGLAND & Morgan silk (mercer- ized) two-piece under- $1.95 wear at, a garment Regular $1.00 Wright's two-piece un- 85c cotton, derwear at, a garment... Regular $1.50 Chalmers’ spring needle, medium weight $1 1 5 Union Suit Regular $1.50 Cooper's two-piece and union, light weight war... 91.15 From all of India offers of men and money to help the British con tinue to pour to. The India office announces that, in addition to the eartler offers, the Madras government has given no- tiee of its Intention to equip a hos pital ship. “The Mussulmans all over India are contributing to put a hospital) into the field,” it is announced, “Many native rulers are volun teering. “The aged Aga Tchan, high priest of India, wrote that, in addition to} ordering his religious followers Join forces with the British, he & stred to serve in person. He of- fered to go as a private in any Indian regiment, “The gaekwar of Baroda, who has already contributed a vast sum of money, and the Rajah Akalket have offered more troops. “The Rajah Padupeta wrote: ‘I offer all I posse ee A New York firm which wanted to buy a London leather merchant's stock cheaply, wrote: “The Germans are rapidly nearing London. Their invasion is sure to of the British isles be ed. now, while you oar) Since the Ru ptured Lem- burg German capitalists are sald to be eagerly buying Russian securt- ties, which have risen rapidly as a result of the czar’s victory. oe Posters announcing the condi tions of Folkestone’s annual Inter. national baby show conclude, in} large, black type “German and | Austrian babies not eligible.” Veae Stik Mostery aon raorLws DANK Biliote 4438 $30.00 Glengarry Bal- macaans, specially pee! $21.75 peste DIFFER- ENT STYLES IN THIS RANGE. LONDON, Sept 25—Contin. | uing his description of the Bat- | tle of the Aisne, started in a former report, Field Marshal Sir John French, under date of September 22, In # report to the military authorities, telle of the progr: of the battle up to that time. The report was made | public last night by the official press bureau, and said in part: ‘Our progress has necessarily | been slow, on account of the strength of the defensive positions but ft has been none the less con- tinuous. From the uniforms worn / by recent captives we know that| the enemy has called its reserve | forces and landwehr Into the ac tion. “The Germans are using search-| lights from their entrenched posi-| tions, which, coupled with the enor jmous strength of their heavy artil |lery, leads to the bellef they are |now employing materials collected \for use in the slege of Paris Try to Shatter Nerves “Near Lafere we found a buried store of munitions of war contain ing 10 wagon loads of live shells. There were traces of large quant) tles of stores having been burned,) showing the enemy retired tn haste. | “The Germans apparently depend | jupon the prolonged firing of their) |heavy artillery to shatter the nerve $3.50 $2.50 Now $1.95 Others Our regu- ..$5.00 $3.50 trimmed While . $10.00 ...$1.00 95c \HOLD MEMBER |Reuter Telegram Co. |of their opponents with high explo-| sives before they launch an fn-| \fantry attack, | “That this is useless in our case is proved by a number of costly ex- periments to the Germans “Their howitzer shells are elght or nine Inches in diameter, and) when they burst, emit great clouds} of greasy, black smoke. On ac-| nt of this our soldiers dub the ‘Jack 4 semana ‘coal boxen’ harrnans Suffering “Letters taken from tho persons of prisoners, written to persons in Germany, tell of awful privations and suffering in the German ranks. AVIATORS FIGHT FRENCH CAVALRY) LONDON, -Sept. Coming un-| expectedly upon a clearing fn a thickly wooded country, a detach ment of 20 French cavalrymen d covered a number of German avi: tors and mechanics overhauling tive Taube aeroplanes, says the cor. | respondent to the Daily Telegraph | "The Germans put up a fierce re sistance, and 12 of the cavalrymen wore killed before the airmen were captured, The aeroplanes were de- stroyed, OF REICHSTAG LONDON, Sept, 25.—A warrant for the arrest of Abbe Weterle. member of the Reichstag from A} sace-Lorraine, whose property has | been seized on the ground of high | treason, has been issued in Berlin, | according to ® dispatch to the via Amster- dam, Wetterle 1s declared to have sald recently that the people of Alsace-Lorraine are anxiously wait ing the time when the French will rescue them from German dominion, i VEITH-CAMMACK Co. SECOND AVE. that business be liquidated in short order. Sell Out and Quit To the buying public of Seattle CREATE A SITUATION-WITHOUT A PARALLEL For it means that the entire fal! pur- chases of Veith-Cammack Co. are being slashed in price just the time BRITISH SOLDIERS, SAYS GEN. FRENCH, CALL GERMAN HOWITZER SHELLS “JACK JOHNSONS” |shades, the popular sults. JAMES ST. 22 styles of neat ef- fects in Pure Worsted Suitings, specially iced nr $14.45 CONSERVATIVE, BUT STYLISH FOR THE MODEST DRESSER. Out of Business Forced to Liquidate Stockholders disagree and demand Sweaters any style you want. V-Neck Golf, Norfolk Fur Collars. $4.25 Sweat- Regular ‘ these instructions Regular $5.50 Sweat- when it is most needed. Every article in this high grade stock is marked Right Now ai prices that cannot be equaled in the After Sea- son Sales. Regular $6.50 Sweat- $4.65 Regular $1 Monarch White Dres Shirts at Regular $2 Manhattan shirts at Regular $7.50 Sweat- 67 Imported Eng- lish Tweed Rain- proof Overcoats, bought to sell for $18.00, priced es- pecially at $9.45 You must see this coat to know it. The new English “Strat- ford” model, a college garment for men, spe- cially x $18.45 Tas IS THE BIG LAPEL COAT. $1.50 Ar- row Shirts One of these, written by a German brigade and two battalions— my kit was on the officer to his parents, has been pub-| and were turned out of our po- which have been left ‘shen eal be | lished and circulated among the| sitions. The fellows took five hind with the ba and |troops. It says guns from us. it was a tremen- which cannot come up — the “*Three da: dous hand-to-hand fight. battle, because as soon as you took possession of the: “‘During the first two days put your nose up from behing cover, the bullets whistle. “War is terrible. We are all hoping that a decisive battle will end the wa of the battie | had only one piece of bread and no water. | spent the night in the rain with- out m coat. The rest of TODAY'S STYLES TODAY Buy Your Balmacaan. Credit-— If it's a Balmacaan Overcoat cut in real Balmacaan style, and a lcoat that looks good—is good— and wears good—it must be a Bradbury System—and it surely is. Just come in and see what we have to offer in Balmacaans from $20 to $40 Bradbury System Suits This winter’s latest styles and Special were attacked by superior English fore showing for to- A few dollars down and the balance in monthly, semi-monthly or weekly payments, buys all you want in wearing apparel at this Store, Open an account with Seattle’s Reliable Credit House. Do it now. Qu 1332-34 Second Ave. 211 Union St.