The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 14, 1914, Page 2

NEES WED: SPROIAL NESDAY MATINER v & 4 Be Matt Orders Re: “IT 1S TO LAUGH” Evenings 2Se, SOc and 75c Sunday and Saturday seeeees 280 and 50c BARGAINS Mon. Evé. and Wed. Mat. .. w+2 250 CONGRESS MUST |. SETTLE CONTESTS rom the First New York district ‘where Lathrop Brown, democrat, thas asked for a recount. F. ¢ Hicks, republican, claims to have elected by a maority of 15. 3 IS A GREAT STUDENT Nov ‘The freshman class is not the only ody of great proportions at Har ard. Henry H. Buskirk, a 325- pound member of the graduate school of business, lays claim to be 4ng the biggest man in any college in this country. Buskirk, 23 years ‘old, stands 6 feet 4 inches in height. His nome is in Indianapolis. SELECT DANCING PARTIES HIPPODROME Fitth and University Ceam Amusement Memelike Serroendings 10-PIECE UNION ORCHESTRA Com; Dane! BULL BROS. Jusi Printers 7012 THIRD AIN 1043 is not fn the waste- ful man. “I don’t dare trust a man who is not economical,” said the president of a_ big enterprise. “The one thing | in- sist upon in a re- sponsible executive under me is that he shall spend my money as carefully as if it were his own.” A savings account at the Dexter Hor- ton Trust and Sav- ings Bank has been a school of thrift and the foundation of business success for many Seattle people. DEXTER HORTON TRUST AND SAVINGS BANK anv CHERRY SECOND Reading From Left to Right: METROPOLITAN THEATRE sin, SUNDAY, NOV. 22 ‘MILESTONES FRICKS—Evenings—Lewer Floor, $2.00 and 81.30; Walcony, $1.90, 61.00 We; Gallery, 50. Wednesday Mutines—$1.00, The and Me Thanksgiving and Saturday We Matinees, 81.50, t wAsHINcTON, Nor 14—The next congress will be cal } _ settle a number of mot ton ogg re “seats, notable among them that HURSDAY AND SATURDAY THANKSGIVING DAY $1.00, and S0¢ Seattle Theatre TOMORROW ANDALL WEEK “HIMSELF” STAR SUGGESTS HUGH TODQ--BUT | HUGH'S MARRIED The sorority versity of VW pick some duct a clear freshmen women sorority women as members to distribute replies from the freshies. So decided, Friday, the Pan Hellenic society, which sororities of the university The lawyer must be young must not have freckles tures must be even, and comely He must have ways and speak softly. | He must, it may be sald | com! ation of George Barr Cuteheon and Robert Chambers. Heretofore Dean of Women Isa bella Austin has had the job. But it’s a whopper. So the young he is—will get it. SCOUTS ARE DOCS A new feature of the work in St Paul, » is a first aid class, com posed of Scouts from all the troops in the city The class is in charge of Scout aster G. R. G. Fisher, and meets ery week on Monday night. Fish is a former English army sur. geon, who saw service in the Sudan campaign, and his class {s proving very popular. is the He His fea his face gentle be a Me lawyer—whoever The city championship game between Ceutral and Washingte scheduled for this morning, has been indefinite! postponed. The F. Day team has filed a protest with the school rd tating that cause W am Bailey of the Central team the game last week was w illegal) Ce maintains that Balle on The mattér will be taken up at the meeting of the thletic committee next Tuesda There are still two more weeks of prelimina 6 to be | efore t es in the cer league. The schedule for next aturday follows Adams Woodland Green Lake vs Rose cord Young rgetown an thorne; Walla Hill Collins ° av Lesehi vs. York WHY GIRL LOST PRIZE Owing to the fact that the girl who should have won first prize in this week's contest used blue writing ink, the prize dollar awarded to another contestant, Writing ink should used in drawing, as it reproduce in newspa all drawing contests © India ink wa never be will pers not In reafter, in pamvaoetsete SCHOOL BATTLE, Beacon | Kitty Bingham, at the Empress; Lottie Mayer and Company, at the Pantages; ' MARY ans GRACE cult Su BUFFA) Indian W Alaska Su clothes. HARRY LAUDER, THE SCOTCH comedian, visited the Universal stu Nos during bis nt in Low Angeles. wa d into the mysteries of 1 then be ng made. THE MENAGERIE AT UNIVER new additions A ton drama anc picture progran “THE ODALISQU of a woma: OM) OD OR) ated with a number FULLER WANTS ALL at her address Joined the t Eleventh av. New to know ¢ cu NARD AND FRAN us Hand,” « New Cir two-part ia complete the m, LO BILL APPEARS IN the feature at the arfare unday . ” A STORY A slave who is atu progr * that will be on in Seattle Aes The fight scene, as d |, NORMA TALMADGE OPENS continues for another week at the M today at the Colonial theatre, in &) ing ghow hours, 2:30 and 8:30, hold two-par Vitagraph, Good-Bye Summer tent, and brings th Slippery Slim is the hero in a new Snakerille Demonstrator is vorite on eis X. EF in a thr | Unplanr THE change at Bunny an Rackslides. Mo e grass country Hearst-Selig News world eve | Colonial, “Good-B: Vitagraph trator,” © elig con Elopemen husband, wife a continuous winter of — Fatal Note, it story of the North was filmed It fs the story of a love icted in the film story, “The Spoilers,” which joore. The usual matinee and even The picture version of Rex Beach's by the Gelig company. who brings to his diacon-| Clreult, Sunday Until Tuesday Wight) the love of her child| “The Mysterioun Hand,” three ¢ only hope of #ummer,| part drama; “The Bride of Marble head,” two-part drama, and a com-| p scandal, “The Corset| ¢dy | Another comedy in which the monster, jealousy, is a finish. Another fa same program ts Fran who will be seen ing Essanay drama, “An 1 Elopement.” REGULAR SUNDAY) the Clemmer brings John d Flora Finch, in “Bunny also “Ham, the Piano omedy, and “In the Hills & romance of the blue cee Clase A Until Saturday Night “The Flight for a Poftune,* two Ma American an¢ In-} drama eet drama; “An Keystone educational roel Majestic th Low Hero. com. Butterfly Grand Unti! Saturday Night “Across the Pacific,” five-part drama | eee Melbourne Until Saturday Night | Beneath the Lion's Paws,” three part drama te's Midnight Hour,” Kalem drama; “Getting the Ball Game,” Edison comedy ar competent The edy; shows the nts of the week. eee . Mission, Sunday and All Week Sunday Until Night Winter,” —two-part| “The Corset Demon-| Al Sunday Until Tu omedy; “The Fatal Note,”| “Buffalo Bill and y An Unplanned| Warfare.” with Francis Bushman. sae Tuesday| “The Man From Mexico,” drama ve, “ee lay Night! Indian Alhambra Until Sunday Night | Class A, Sunday Until Tuesday) “The Toll of Mammon,” four-p: Night drama; “Cupid Pulls a String, “Mutual Weekly”; “Paid in In-, gomedy Big terest,” two-reel Majestje drama Fatty’s Jonah Day,” Keystone com-| Liberty Until Saturday Night edy Threads of Destiny,” drama. ere tl ° See men en hes RESIDENCE THEATRES || with Lillian Walker; “The Mender | Or Nets," with ary Picktords "the| At the Home Until Sunday | Riddle’ of the Green Umbrella,”| “The Man From Nowhere,” two with Alice Joyce In Bridal At-| part drama; “Animated Weekly No, | tire,” comedy 138," topical; “The Half Breed, THI | At RTY-SEVEN CHILDREN COMPETE FOR STAR CIRCLE’S WEEKLY PRIZE |to Chicago, | road | th | planning to contribute lMberaily drama; | comedy | At the Pleasant Hour Untill Sunday “The Sea Coast of Bohemia,” two “The Foolish Mr. Dimple,”/| ° THE MOORE | ° |" “A Palr of Sixes" will arrive Seattle and will furnish fun at the Moore the atre, in week of inning » The play abounds in complica Hons that proce real farce According © press agents there are no funny falls, no # jokes, and no unnatural faces in the play It is just a sorte come about naturally and pro- » witty dinlogue omen inter ested In t test styles will get than an eyeful Bo will the men o THE METROPOLITAN o} Milestones. which will be seen in this city at the Metropolitan week starting Sunday November 22, opened in London and played | to capacity for two years. it was the first play witnessed by King | George and his family period of mourning after their “Milestones in a ce “ly Arnold Bennett and Edward Kno lauch. It is the story of the Rhead family in th acts, laid tn 1860. 1885 and 19 With much kind satire and at the same time sym pathy, it shows how each genera tion makes the mistakes of the last and of how little value the expert | ences of one generatic © to the | next. > g >) THE EMPRESS | Something new tn the line of ideville sketches will be offered ws Empress theatre ng week, when Henry PB big favorite in New York his first appearance here | in “Sidelights,” produced by Roland Wert “Bidelights” is called a potpourri of vandeville, and gives a glimpse behind the scenes in stage lay ing bare in subtle manne inner man of the stage. Another feature on the bill will of complications | MOORE THEATRE Matin Wednesday, Thursday wu The Farce That is Funnier than and “Baby Mi Fraze Week Starting Sunday, Nov. 22 (Thanksgiving) and Saturd 6 presents “Charley's Aunt,” “Beven Days” ne” combined A PAIR OF SIXES With the Best Farce Cast that Herbert Corthell, Oscar Minna Gombel, oren, Bernice Buck, r Visited the Pacific Northw Joaie Intropidi, Jack Raffael, Oriando D Eleanor Fairbanks and Others. PRICES—Evenings—26e to Popular Matinees—Wed., Seats Now on Sale Unequaied Vaudevill ANTAGE $1.50. Thurs. and Bat., 25¢ to $1.00 at the Box Office je—Our Policy Never Changes | BEGINNING MOD NDAY MATINEI LOTTIE MAYER itr DANCING NEREIDS Laurie Ordway The Merry and OTHER BIG 10c an “AUTO BANDITS GIVE POLICE A BUSY EVENING | ‘Two auto bandits got busy in Se | attle Friday night } 8 a machine belonging to G Gimbien of the San Marco apartments, Spring st Minor av., they speeded all over the city le the machine in cne blo holding up pedestrians in the next woning t the aut and e ping in the The police artment was all on edge, trying to keep up with them. | Among others reporting being jheld up by them was Harry Ban croft, Norton hotel, Sixth av. and| Charles st, who lost $5 to them. | Bancroft sounded an alarm, and the bandits fled without their auto Earlier in the evening they were | part drama; “An Episode,” drama; | be Fred Pisano and Kitty Bingham, | pursued a long distance by Special | “Notoriety,’ rama. old favorites at the Empress, rep-| Policeman Harry Gray on the Lake| —— jTesenting the Italian and the Irish| Washington boulevard. But _his| girl tire blew out, and they escaped. | Other numbers on the bill are:| During the search for Campton’s | |The Cabaret Trio, in song; | Suto, the police found a young man Snoozer,” an intellectual bulldog; | cranking one that looked like Cam | Alvin and Penny, comedians on the|?Pion's. He said he was a brother | fying rings; Mlle. Amoros and Ben |!?-law of EB. H. Kohihe & law. | | Mulvey fn “A Night in Paris,” sing-| Yer, 2019 East Cherry. Kohihasse | ing, dancing and comedy act. A| Was called | first-class run of photoplays has} “Don't remember ever seeing OF LIVE | ts been secured him before,” he said. | ood ‘Sure, you married my sister,” | — been said the young man, who is Neal| sorte THE PANTAGES Clark, 1408 13th av. 8 | CHICAGO, Nov. 14.—The Tilinois @| “Well, you can't prove It by me,” | state board of livestock commis-| Lottle Mayer, the beautiful Call-| replied Kohihasse. sioners has issued an order lifting | the embargo on livestock shipmentr and has notified rail companies they may deliver stock at Union stockyards begin jning Sunday at midnight. All shippers are required to file jaffidavits that the stock shipped {+ | free from the foot and mouth dis Jease, and has not been exposed tc he lady There is much dissatisfactior with the order of the federal author. ities that only the infected animale in « herd shall be killed, as the or der is not regarded as sufficiently stringent Ah! How Did They? Little Lola (living in apartments) Mamma, did the angels that brought baby have flaming swords? Mamma—No, dear. Why do you ask? Uttle Lola—Then how Ket past the janitor? did they STAR OFFERS $1 FOR BEST STORY It has been quite a while since Uncle Jack has held a short-story contest for the boys and girls of the Cirele. Se calls have been made interested Circleites, re questing such a contest, and Uncle Jack has responded to them. Next week short y of not over 200 word with hanksgiving” as the topic, Write the story neatly on one side of the paper only, and put your age and address on the back of your manuscript Address all lettera to Uncle Jack, care of the Star Circle. The prize 1s a dollar. ra} phone by BOYS PLAY SANTA The Boy Scouts of Chicago | the stock of Christmas gifts which! are to be sent abroad to children a | the countries at war. This plan was recently started by| the Chicago Herald, which has char- tered a ship to carry the presents to the children to whom there Is little chance of Santa Claus coming, un- less the children of America take) his place. night, in the Haller building. t 12 o'clock Wednesday they will o'clock Frida ernoon, this week's drawing contest came to a successful end, Thirty-seven drawings pred in the contest nd most of these were very good. f the best w done in plain blue writing ink, which cannot be reproduced George Olliver of Kent won the dollar prize His drawing is here | with reproduced The Circle artists who are awarded honorable mention are: | Ruth Stines, Vader, Wash.; Hal-| Spruce; Beth Purrington, Sultan; | le Ray Young, 120 E. 67th st.; Mil-|Bernes Northern, Turk st.; Esther] jred Gibson, 417 James st.; Veroni- Boyer, Coupeville; Gladys Sullivan, }ca Larkin, 207 Belmont av Bellevue; Ruth Larson, 8812 Auro-| | Dorothy Reed, 1623 Fifth av, W.; ra av,; Bessie Elliot, 1511 Tenth Alberta Clark, 8316 Woodland Park|ay.; Mae Bergerson, 3933 Edmonds Anna Nordstrom, 2021 26th av. st.; Emily Bush, Snohomish; | Nils Holmgren, 1014 Howard | Frost, 5037 44th av ay N.; Samuel Moon¢ y, B 8 | Dorothy Adame, 4035 _ g° LEADERS | Adelalde Bilis, 24381 velyi IN CONFAB| Connel, 11 at ine Cramer, 2 The King County Council of Boy! ace McConnel, 1116 Scouts held a confab Thursday meet in the Good Hats cafetert elect officers and committees for the coming year. to boys and girls, write a| are! fornia swimmer, and her dancin nereids, will be the headline feature of the new bill at Pantages, open ing with the matinee Monday Mins Mayer's new act is said to be the most pretentious and enjoy- able she has ever tyought here. For the added feature of the week Manager Pantages will pre- sent, in return engagement, the merry English a Laurie Ordway, comedienne. Other numbers on will be Violet Nietz, Jack Phipps & | the program Co., In the clever comedy 1 “A’ Strenuous Daisy ;” and Laura Walker, in “A Dancing Lesson,” and Dewitt Young, the| college juggler, and his sister ¢ THE SEATTLE © cOtticer 666," well as body, will be the next-week offering at the Seattle theatre. The |play is an all-American melodra- matic farce, with the copper making & peculiarly cop-like series of blun | dering efforts to trap a master jorfminal. There is a pretty love story, lots of action, fun galore, and | a series of exciting situations, most lof which come to naught until the final scene, when everyone wins something except “Officer 666,” who loses everything but his teeth and shoes. With the rejuvenated company, Director William Dilis declares he will have a production as good as the majority of road-show offerings playlet Sam Davis i —— | STEWART HOUSE ‘St. Pant Stove Repair view | Yes 1711 WASHINGTON & Phone Beacon 1952 rantee the supertority of Truss, and «ive tree ‘LUNDBERG CO. Deformity Appliances and 1 Limba. RD AVENUB. We the Lun trial t ‘Trunse: pages - _« fat as to brains as| Later it proved to be true. CITY LIGHT SAVES $3,000,000 A YEAR TO CITY, ROSS SAYS “(Continued From Page One sion where it would seem that ac- curate data could have easily been obtained Ross also challenges the spirit of the Northwest league, the organiza tion of which was due to the ef-| forts of Judge Burke, Josiah Collins, | and other well known foes of mu- nicipal ownership. | “The evident attempt of the | league,” says Ross, “is not to pro mote the civic health and growth | of the ‘city, but the suspicion {s| | aroused that it {s the wish of many | | who particlpated in the conference |to discredit the light plant and to} |compile adverse literature | Commenting on Boutllon’s ad- |‘ dress before the league, Ross chal- lenged both his conclusions and his | | methods of arriving at the con-| clusions Hie Figures Are Vague “He tells us," says Ross, our depreciation schedule is not ac cording to the true method, but né light is thrown on what is the | ppg py pes tg our | depreciation schedule ts high. Mr. Bouillon speaks of $100,000 that should have been added for | waste and inefficiency, but does not tell how he arrived at those figures His article and the way he handles | hundreds of thousands of dollars on paper is interesting, to speak char- itably of his method of arriving at | his conclusions. Pay It in Dividends The plant is criticised for not paying interest on its surplus, put) | back into extensions. It is true the surplus earned by a private company goes as divi- dends, and there ought not to be the} criticism that the municipal plant} | should pay interest on its surplus One of the great troubles in pri vate companies in America is that] they have also given up their de. ation funds for dividends. The city plant pays all its bonded indebtedness and takes care of all interest charges. Much has been |said and spread about the country} on what is alleged to be excessive! cost of street lighting Best-Lighted City “The fact is that Seattle ts better lighted than any city in the country, | and its rates compare favorably with any other city, except where) private companies, in order to fo! stall municipal competition, have cut the street rates to the bare bone. “In spite of the enormous Increase in street Hghting that is going on, pr FEATURI id 20¢ Wilson Brothers Slayman Ali’s Hooloos OTHER ACTS AND FIVE FIRST-RUN PHOTO PLAYS WHEN MAL ETTYANT SHICHI CON SODRIOED. WE fd 0 st PACKARD—VELIE wal Vornerd needs Us Elliott 320 nt year's city budget allows 900 for this work down to rock bottom . Ross delivers a solar plexus blow to the Bouillon discourse on the question of rates. “Mr. Bouillon declared that the re- ctions made by the city light plant, and those it forced its rival to make in rates through competi- tion, were brought about solely through improved methods of pro: ducing current in the past few years,” says Mr. Ross. “Claiming to be an engineer, | must be obvious to him that all ma- terials and al! labor have increased in price of late years, and are stead- going up. Why Not Other Cities? “Mr. Bouillon must know the price inside the city limits is 6 cents per kilowatt hour, and that until the city asked for a county franchise the private company charged 10 cents per kilowatt hour outside of the elty boundary city plant took the lead in in Seattle. and Portland pay 10 ts per kilowatt hour, and we es mate that Seattle, under a monop: ly, such as exists in Portland or pokane, would pay $3,000,000 more per annum for light w 45 For Grip, Influenza, Coughs, Sore Throat COLDS Two sizes, 260 and $1.00, at druggists or Humphreys’ Homeo. Medicine ( 156 William Street, New York.—é vertisement Health---Longevity Do you know that nine-tenths of all maladies arise from Insidious self-polson ing of the aystem by Bactilf living im the YOGHURT ts the the {ntestinal De you know that means to destroy piaons” your digestive er, kidney, jes, nervous for inf ton. Youucnr CO., BLAINE, WASH. Are appropriate at all times. 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