The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 26, 1914, Page 7

j GILL AND ERICKSON | The poles are up in the Duwamish valley, jtor wiring. The city jto that community. poles up. Dental Experts. extend city light service into | holding down rates. dentists have been tn practice any years, and their advice will be valuable to you itself in saving of fuel We have no power to #p Ross will tell you the sam rh him indefinitely, unless he com. mits some act of insubordination. 1 would not wish to part with him Rhoads MIX IT ON SUBJECT OF LIGHT EXTENSION jetc. The city already has invested money in putting the} ‘© now county, when we can't serve the, dropping $ ) a month on it people of Seattle. If this pol “But it'sedifferent with Division were carried out, these districts A. It's just @ lot of foollsh pride would have nothing to gain by|that keeps that Mne going. If It nta C0) coming into the city, if ever we| Were connected «with the 8. R. & e wished to annex them. They would|S. !t might do some good, but now STAR—THURSDAY, NOV. 26, 1914 PAGE 7. br > gi | AM THANKFUL Am THANKFUL \) AM THANKFUL keep any employe in office dur | Vice from ft. And yet they talk ing his regime, He Included |0f going ontalde the city! Light Superintendent Ross in The lMght plant owes the gen-| this statement. jeral fund over $200,000, on which} This was in answer to a it ian't paying interest. The Neht! question from The Star as to plant ten't money maker. That| whether he would fire Ross, | !sn't Its purpose, Its profits gol Providing the council into extensions and to benefiting) Third and Pike the people of the eclty. The plant] profit!” Nance appropriating $10,000 to | *@Yes millions tn reducing and} “We are striving to ratse $150,000 to entertain the Shriners for a week, a en | the Duwamish valley. if the “It willl be useless to think of} to make a pleasant outing for men Sar aiien) corvaee | ordinance Gove through, it will | By Profits from the plant until/ and women who will never see the price, these dentiets | be up to R superintend. | this is a very large city city again, fomething entirety ent, to make the extensions, No Power to 8p ‘But to spend $10,000 out of the and results Tet them Pe ” , Shout your teeth. what T said it was my intention to Any spare money. we have} light fund for the benefit of nelgh-| fhat not to do an estimate of [| keep every man as long as he was! 8%Ould go into completing the new| bors who will pay It all back in oe -_ vg and have doing his duty, and did not become PePstock at the Cedar river @an,.| three or four years—shiver our tim-| o4 courteously, jinsubordinate,” explained the ma-|! Went to get that finished next; bers, but that Is a erime for which @ental work do yor. summer, so we won't be stuck for| Mayor Gill would swing his bludgeon nt ggg ay ea an easel’ eed ‘I regard Mr. Ross as a very P° If tt had been finished last/and ‘fire s man who would lift) Inriseied en to tte tai valuable man, and I intend to keep| *¥ r it would have paid for|@ pair of pliers to do It city light plant was not | built out of general taxes, and it is | not levying any taxes now. It is An office fitted entirety te wht 1) 1 would consider it an imposatble| The mayor sald he would be will-| more than self-supporting. pename! end cnaitary tn every way job to find a man to take his !9 to see the light plant lone! Plant Isn't Losing Money Bes them before going elsewhere place.” money, as long as it was serving ; Shes eotoment oo our i a pe | Discusses Light Situation citizens of Seattle, and cited the) plant Is losing money ts something ee ‘The mayor told why he is op-14ke Burien division of the muni-/the mayor has read ‘in the Puget posed to the city light plant's serv. ©!pal_ railway und Traction company's adver Ratracting and ones Pree with I ing outotthe-city districts. We owe it to the people of the| tisements, The light fund fs In | “I don’t see why we should be| lake Burien district to maintain aj debted to the general fund, but we | denefactors of the whole of King °&T line there, even though we are|have bonds sutborized that will pay it back The city council has deemed it wiser to have this money inves! in our Heht plant, and defer the sale of bonds, rather than have it lying in the banks drawing only 2 per have everything we it serves nob that was not/ cent interest. Probably no council Third and Pike Uompeaed taaee eek t wacethin of| served before. We're losing money|man but Dale will apologize for the city council the past three! Uselessly on that division that years, I think, where applications; “The trouble with the agitators! — <- q for light service inside the city| for ® light extension to Duwamish j jaimits haven't been turned down,| Valley is th they don't under SEND A J because the city plant couldn't! stand the situation.” | . handle any more. Therefore, [| teem. can't see the sense another chunk. Says 8. E. Co. Will Get it | “If we wish to go Into the Du-| wamish valley, why don't we do it of Dditing off gg the superiority, of Truss and give tree Hlectric Co. in the field, with their) poles and lings up. And when the! 3.E. Co. gets out there, the people wM patronize them. They won't wait for city light. “You don't know what I've got to contend with here, in this ques-| tion of getting light to Seattle peo-| of ay “Our maximum load le and in another month wi 21,000, or double our maxi city limite. i an't Get Service | eg phgetal and a halt ot] ovr capacity up to 24,600 | watts. “The power necessary to this office, I can show you where OHIO METHOD IN our extension {nto the Duwamish |~ D REGAL SHOE | valley will increase our present }1oad less than one-half of 1 per Missing teeth are replaced by/ ‘The Ohio Method by artificial teeth that are natural as your original teeth. Examinations are now be ng conducted without charge, and estimates are furnished in all cases, | We Stand Back of Our Work for 12 Years’ Guarantee. | REPAIR SHOP ) Firet and Senecs, Main 6196. | cent | surplus now, and accomm« |the Duwamish valley people the city about as much as a the governor of our water | Only Five or Six Compla DR. LA MONTE Chiropodist in Attendance 25 Set of Teeth “The statement that 59,000 peo: Oo RS SR ple want light and can't get it, is asinine. } 15 a Teeth 5 Men and | “We probably haven't 60,000 resf-| ! | ene bitin be |dences in the city all told, and | Women, surely some of them are lighted, ERICKSON SAYS A. LUNDBERG CO. . In reply to Mayor Gill's Inter- - _|in a businesslike way? Why don't j ‘Trusses, Deformity Appliances and|we get those 2,000 or 3,000 people view te Eger the bes pay Artificial Lim! here, who say they want ofty| Municipal light service to Du- eet _TaIRD AVENUE. er et ee wamish_ valley, Councilman trenliaeomsmehanae a to sign contracts with the) Ojiver T, Erickson submitted city ~ $ bp the following statement: | | coe nis, light extension ordinance| “Mayor Gill's calamity proc- | fe alls wip ed ¥*| jamation about our light plant | | before it becomes operative. And) ie a jack-o'-lantern carved out | by that time you'll find the Seattle) 04,’ pumpkin, and should frighten nobody over 10 years now 10,500 kilowatts. The capacity of our plant Is 16,000 kilowatts, ube mum load. ple. I have dozens of calls a day, oN, ext summer we propose to asking for light extensions tn the! edd anether boiler. te our steam plant, which will bring kilo make “We have over 10,000 kilowatts dating would | interfere with taking business in fly on wheels. Inte orcelain Crown . 10 Gold or Porcelai: .. $1 Up ridge Work .... Solid Gold Fillings Other Fillings Office hours, 9 to 12 OHIO Cut-Rate Dentists 207 UNIVERSITY STREET SECOND AVENUE TO SPOKANE Via the (© “MILWAUKEE” CORNER 10 Solid Gold or* $4 30 to 6. All Chronte, Ner- vous an@ Spectal Dis sanes 914-608 for the blood. Bye, Bar None, Throat an¢ Chest Consultation 1.~-. Advanced Methods. 1318 Second Ave., Opposite Arcade Entrance, Seattle, Wash. 1615 a. Lenve .. 9:20 p.m. | 7145 mw. m. | Arrive .Spokn SPECIAL SLEEPER on evening trains to and from SPOKANE, open for occupancy at Spokane at 9 p. m. CITY TICKET OFFICE Second and Cherry, Seattle | give service | for the city plant has 30,000 cus tomers, and the have some. | “I have been chairman of the city utilities committee three years, and in that time have had five or six complaints from people waiting for ight in thelr homes | “These were usually cases where it would cost from $300 to $500 to} that would bring a} revenue of $6 a year. “Councilman Dale and the mayor| are ‘hollering’ their heads off be-| cause we are not reaching out for) business that will bring 6 cents a} kilowatt hour and cost a dollar to deliver, instead of serving our} suburban neighbors at 50 per cent profit | “In the same breath they bel- | | private plants low about Division A of our municipal car line because we have to serve the people of that district for a time ata loss. It ie always so with the enemies of municipal ownership, It's damned if you do and damned if you don't. “THE POLICY OF SERVING: | COMMUNITIES OUTSIDE THE CITY WAS DISCUSSED AND ADOPTED BEFORE THE MAYOR TOOK OFFICE. WE WERE GRANTED THE PRIV- ILEGE OF SERVING OUT- SIDE TERRITORY BY THE COMMISSIONERS. WE HAVE ALREADY PAID FOR A POLE LINE INTO THE DUWAMISH VALLEY. SHALL WE FOR- FEIT THAT INVESTMENT? "It in the story of Ballard over| again, When Gill was mayor be-| fore, he prevented that community from getting city Mght after the city had ordered it served, and had expended a large sum of money trying to serve it. The purpose) then, as now, was to protect the Stone-Webaster Co., and Dale shows it so plainly that a blind man could feel It. Why Not Help Them? “The people of the Duwamish valley are our ne{ghbors, and con- tribute to the growth and prosper ity of Seattle, Why should we not contribute to their prosperity, es- | pectatty when we can do it as a | SALMON EAST; $1.25 Pays for o 7 te 0-Ib. Salmon by pre- paid express anywhere im the U. #. (except Southern Express). J. P. TODD Room 16 Colman Dock. BULL BROS. Jusi Printers 1013 THIRD @AIN 1043 i[ HATS CLEANEO AND REBLOCKED | | Bowler Hat Co. | | 4 Deliver We Call for Phone I] out-of: SELECT DANCING PARTIES HIPPODROME Fifth an@ University Clean Amusement Surroundl 10-PIECE UNION ORCHESTRA Competent Danoli ‘enchere SANDERSON’S Curea the” imo inh to 40 days, Price box’ or} ‘boxes tor #8 returned tt they. fait + fair trlal. Open evenings RAYMUND REMEDY ©O. Room 2%, 217% Pike St FOR SALE—CHEAP Large size statue, suitable for club, lodge, ete.; also large cof. fee mill; hand power, 709 Fourth Ave. | NAVY YARD ROUTE Steamers H. B. Kennedy and Tourtet ve Colman Dock, Seattle, ‘ | Sunday), #100, 10:20 . m., 1:80, 2:64 Bunday (Sunday 2:30), 6:30 pm. y, 145 pom. table subject to change without Ph Main 3101. Price 500 Round Trip D D E N T § T 4 | Have Cut Prices’ | RAISED THE QUALITY 1 wilt save you just fitty cente on Jevery dotiar on the bes Dental Work nade ‘vy human hands and “without My offer i* for you to go to Dental office and get prices, then eamy to me for an examination and aman tion without charge, and ‘I’ within you how em Daller and T mate whe. ( iit you, will nurely please You BEWARE TORS OF MY NAMH NEXT DOOR TO MY OFTICRS or IMITATING IM AND SIGNS Jt EDWIN J, BROWN, D.D.S, Menttlo’n Leading Dentist, 705 and 718 First Avenue. on even unt! 6 and Sundays 4 for who work, op antl '™ NOT Ladies’ and Gentlemen's 1} || selers nate | 40—AzZMG AHANKSGIVING TUNE —"IF' YOU CANT BE THANKPUL POR WHAT YOU 19 TOANKFUL, > aa Hugh 5. Fullerton ./ a FOR THE JOB I'VE GOT ; FOR THE KALE DOWN IM THE Sock FOR WHAT YOU AIN : | 1 AM THANKFUL FOR THE DAILY PORK AND BEANS, : ready| 1AM THANKFUL WHEN | GET A CHANCE TO BOOST INSTEAD OF KNOCK soon will be ready to furnish light} AND I'M THANKFUL FOR A GOOD waRM Suir OF JEANS It will take $10,000 for the wiring, | HANK O'DAY? GERMANS TO BURN CITY OF 600,0007 PEOPLE STARVING (Continued from page 1.) | Germans refure to allow any banks to do business, even through their foreign branches, With the countries of the allies. Famine Threatens Whole City Most critical of all ts the problem jof food. On the day of entry the | wholesale butchers were requisition Jed to bring tons of chilled beef to the invaders. It rotted in the re under the August sun, while tons of other loot ed foodstuffs littered the streets. | The commandeering of food stores} reduced the city to famine. For two months Brusselers have had no milk, eggs or butter. | On September 1 all the whole-| salers closed Since September 19 paraffine, | wheat, sugar, rice or dried tables have been practically talnable. A week later there was no con densed milk for little children, ne | farinaceous foods for the aged or | the invalids j On October 1 the coffee and po-| | tatoes gave out. On October 10 the} | supplies of salt and yeast were ex- hausted and the population faced | famine. Soap cannot be obtained at any price, coal 1s hardly obtainable, and | dally the terrified citizens are requ! sitioned from their scanty stores for | the benefit of the German soldiers. No Flour in This City of 600,000 is no flour for sale In a city of 600,000 peo- ple, not counting the refugees from the Belgian cordon. All the flour at hand has been | requisitioned by the communal | who sell only to the | unob bakers under agreement that f besieged Brus: | ts a one-pound lonf, black | and unsalted || And daily the German commander | decrees that bakers bake bread” for the soldiers The burgom: and three | leading citizens are held as | hostages, their lives being for- feited if a single civilian tift hand against the invade: “good | | } | held prisoners of war on parole andthe fathers | | who allow grown sons to leave the city are punished with death. “Brussela erves no considera. tion whatever,” declared id Mar. | shal Von der Voltz, the German gov | ernor of Belgium, in a proclamation, | “the resistance of the Belgian army to the Landsturm merits severe re prisal, If the slightest hostile act is committed by citizens we will burn the city to the ground, Mark that well.” |Public Buildings | |Are Mined | Every public bullding except the) 18th century cathedral of Ste.| Gudule and the historic town hall/ has been mined, to factiitate their| speedy destruction, I have been in-| formed by a relindle friend who re- mains in Brussels for humanity's | sake. Anything may happen, sion grows daily worse The slightest ‘emergency will | serve to fire the city. Already | bearers of heavy tubes of petro! | have sprayed inflammable liquid | ‘on doomed bulldings. | So certain are the citizens that the| | fatal day approaches that they have secretly cut off the gas supply, blocked their cellar windows with| sacks of earth, and filled long-aban-| doned wells against the destruction | of the water works, | The military governor ordered all fire apparatus to concentrate in the heart of the city and surrender to | the garrison, A hundred fire captains refused to! obey. They were speedily placed under| | arrest and their places taken by the The ten. | Landsturm, who discovered that the fire chiefs had taken the precaution to render their heavy engines {m-) movable, Today the Invested capital ts en- tirely unprotected against fire, Should the retreating Germans re- enter the city and the allies arrive before the gates, a few torches will bring the doom of Brussels, LOOKING FOR JOBS THE HAGUR, Nov, 26.—It fs an- nounced here the kalser hag tn- structed all of his diplomatic agents who are tn belligerent coun- tries to see other employment im- mediately, NOR VET JOE BIRMINGHAM, sides opposite fire hydrants. | 1 of Value with VELVET. a + THAT | AM NOT CONNIE MACK ° Seattle bililard enthusi e will | board invited Fletcher to a® e t : ae : | AM \THANKFUL VM NOT JOB JEANETTE TO FIGHT WITH LANE FORD CSA) have an opportunity of se “~ the|tend it ession F s “a a ac itd . 7 7 a . ATIMA | Is it good business for the city to drop the matter | . JAND DOUBLY GLAD | AM MOT JOHNSON (JACK). 2 two greatest players in the world| regulations covering now and stay out of the valley? Mayor Gill advocates 3 f eed in action today, Friday and Satur-| will be discussed. The course CIGARETTES that policy. Councilman: Frick is decidedly in fav . _— duy, when Willie Hoppe and Mel-| opens Jan, 1 {that policy. Councilma ricksqn is decidedly in favor] [O) AM THANKFUL 1 AM MOT "THE MAM WHO HANDLES HEINE bourne Inman engaged in a match| Fletcher is appearing at Loew's Of disti : oF tee Sinareg with the extension, Both the mayor's xt aie THAT LAM NOT PAT MORAN | GIVE MORE THANKS, I wa htm vag be 8 aye Rmprese theatre this week, distinctive ind Erickson’s views are set out in the following i : mt a HE SOO Car sie ene ade NOT Hint To! Cher 4 3 s $a § g in- q WHO TS Tt oO ; . fe " eee , Today and tonight Hoppe and In-| ne Individuality rviews: 4 iw NE, JOB OF LEADING THOSE POOR YANKS, man play 600 points balk-line, Pri HOW ABOUT IT, DUG? b36¢tenits sia hal day they play 750 points, English | . neem what a in bedi he 5 families want light, and could] | 7” ‘ billiards, at each session. || to put over! promine! by GIL SAYS be supplied from one’ pole. But | AM THANKFUL I'VE NOT FRED CLARKS JOB 3 THAT I NOT POOR ROB: meaoe started playing billiards| | Northwestern league player 20 fer l5 we can't supply them. ‘ie plant 1 AM THANKFUL THAT | DID NOT BUY THE FEDS, at the age of 6 and at 18 became| {old us Wednesday that Fred | has all {t can stand BUT THE THING | AM MOST THANKFUL FOR IS THAT. 1AM NOT THE ONY champion by defeating Maurice| | Hunter, Minneapolis first Mayor Gill Wednesday de. |. “I know of people tn Seattle who! WHOSE DUTY IT WILL BE TO LEAD ~ 445) . Vignaux at Paris, scoring 500|| ®acker for whom Dug has nied he promised when cam. | have been paying taxes on the) points to Vignaux's 323. || swapped Charley Swain, has paigning for his election to | Plant 15 years, who can't got ser| “Would your believe it.” aaid| | reached his declining days as a baseball player. He says that Hunter {s a real old-timer who went up to the big show Hoppe today, “when I tell you that I do road work when preparing for my engagements? Well, I do. It’s ’ just as necessary to keep in good | from the Western league. condition for a billiard match as it ext Ae Ba 1s for a boxer to be in shape for a hard 20-round bout. I do three or| sae that Now ork, Chicago: Mal four miles a day, except during s three months fn the summer when I rest.” eee LEAVE THEIR AUTOS! Members of tne seatte atn- | letic club have become Infected with the blillard bug, so Char- Between # a. m, and 6 p. m.| fie Brooks, superintendent of sutos may stand only a balf hour| the billlard room, has decided | oO Now Orleaas Gaal co or Ne £0 on First, Second and Third aves,| Upon @ tournament to alleviate hose dry must have had a shock when thelr suffe T tourt ing. according to an emergency clause! Sheng on the club tables Friday |they read the news from Russia, of the traffic ordinace prepared| night, Nov. 27. No less than | ae yesterday by Police Chief Lang,| 60 players are expected to take | The decision handed down in the whieh the city counell will act on| part. There will be three di- jones Columbia courts in the Monday. Autos may be parked for| Visions, — straightrall, three- | Minoru race track case, limits several hours on Fourth and Fifth| cushion and pocket-billiards. A horse racing at Minoru to sevem aves., and on cross streets on the) Prize hi in hung up for the |4a7e every year. The promoters | were fined $500. Now President Springer and Secretary Kindsay of the association must answer charges of running a gambling house. winner at each style. °ee | CHARLES LEONARD FLETCH- GIVES ARMY SHOES | ER, the actor-golfer. has given the new Seattle municipal golf links |the once-over and pronounces the Nov. 26.—A Webster, | ¢ » one of the finest city-owned | ory is working on an or-| greens in America. Fliteher ought see A bout between Ike Cohen and Art Wilson has been added to the smoker the Elks plan to put om PARIS, Mass., der of 1,000,000 pairs of shoes for!to be a fair sort of % judge, too, the French army, costing $2 a)for he has played over something | €Xt Tuesday night. pair, the gift of Grand Duke like 160 links sinos taking up the Michael of Russia. Ancient Scottish game, The park | eS SS Quality Is the first consideration here.) 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