The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 30, 1915, Page 2

Today's Styles Today 1332-34 Second Ave, Seattle's Reliable Credit House 211 Union St. Dress Well—on Easy Payments Become familiar with our modern, convenient ¢eredit plan and pay us as you get paid, You will never miss the small easy payments. We make extra charge for credit privileges Open Saturday Evenings Until 10 BEAUTIFUL New Dresses Very Special Values at $15 and Up Beautiful are the new styles Dresses Typical “Eastern” introductions, fash doned fine imported woolens, rich in colors, smart dressy and many of them elab osately trimmed, Others more simply made \ didly complete showing. Spe cially priced at $15.00 and up Authoritative Millinery Styles Moderately Priced no in Cloth from ire splen Our showing of el fascinate you. See o ment of Panamas, $10.00. The Seattle Home of Bradbury Cloth ) | ar pl oO es ' If you want your dollars to go the limit, pin your faith in this institution as being the one | that is best qualified to give you full value for your money. This ti is the largest credit apparel in- - | stitution in the United States. 2” A\ | Although Bradbury Clothes at / | $20.00 and up are featured, we 3 | show other reliable makes at $15 { to $22.50. HATS—SHOES Men's Furnishing Department Just Inside Union St. Entrance, y Hats will new ship- $2.50 to To Buy Elbert Motor Company Now Has 800 Stockholders. Stock Will be Withdrawn From the Market Monday, May 10 ‘OU have read in these columns during the past few months our announcements of the On March 16th of the factory Progress and development of the Hibert | Pereiion, | Meveriais are now vee ibe iene WL? Motor Car Company; how this company was or- . many that have been ap fered for sale, says Slater. a ganized last September with the promise of strong | pointed throughout the country This is a lopment com p financial support; how this support was not forth- |pany,” says Slater, “not a stock | § coming. due to the European war and-depressed | Stock Withdrawn From the Market [f} Sciiing ‘concern | On April 24th bert Motor Car ¢ of treasury market at th company out the fur financial conditions, and that the Directors of the Company then decided to finance the enterprise by the selling of their stock to the public * We offered the stock through these columns and the public has given a generous response, until today there are about eight hundred stockholders of the Elbert Motor Car Company. A number of | them have had such confidence in the Company's progress they have bought four or five separate | times as the price rose | Progress of the Company } allow present st ern in tt This ments of the pr ably there is not 1 remember reading the various steps | of Washington w ted September ry on 18th within 20 days, A na press. You 1 amount, b bought ‘th figure. b. | Avenue West, and produced « model number of different design were perfec ay it from other points on the Coast. After ver 2 ideration, by far the best offer was that of a fac- | mobiles on thia Coast st deen facies ta on are §| br, G. B. MeCulloch will act as} ; lready equipped a fe at ng at least $100 more f ar than they ean chairman Sunnyvale, California, k as the ¢ t | bepurchased for in aod that these care A\ The conference arranged for the q chinery obtainable, including lar orlian en To reiterate 21G. 0 pers capca egy nog Ei Lgl P ine und a boiler ‘equipped for burning ‘oll The You can still pur kb yy] erence to children, will begin at § ulidings cover over 400,000 square fest of fisor | aannunt’ dwn i" o'clock ‘7 space and 20 acres of ground are included tn the | m stoc’ you | y : Gilet, ‘The buildings and ground represent an eriete | Cha rome ee nin R|, Revorts of children trying for the : fal outlay of upwards of $300 L oR Zane Pemitgance prizes must not be over 500 words, g the company !n a position to : goer eonertaen and the name, address and age of 3 manufacturing of cars on an ex D/the writer must be given on thel 4 ‘ — — aoe a last page. q Agencies Being Rapidly Placed. Write for Particulars. Burma oar ee ae Mieite If B t c : U Y¥}committee of the Federation of Women's ¢ by 317 Cobb building You Buy at Once You Can Get This Stock at ls The wonteat™ Gloece Toy es ‘ it 6 : Just Half the Par Val c as “agen wit § ar alue ¥ {nounced May 22 judges will 4 : be Mra. © Bogardus, Mrs. Fred F Time Payments Full Payments ° Bert, jr, and Dr, Sidney Strong. | $10.00 Cash and $10.00 @ month for 4 8 yrs . Shares, Par Value § 16 lu Gi : 4 #420.00 Cash and $20.00 a month for 4 months buys : ares, Par Velus R H s 4 $25.00 Cash and & 10 a month for 4 months buys 1,00 Hhares, Par alue c T 988 E2E asa $60.00 & month for 4 months huyn N@ Subscription accepted for less the share R TULSA, Okla. April 20.—Barney 609 shares FULLY PAID AND NON-ASSIOSS ABLE Thioeco, the missing and much $190.00 Cash and $100.00 a month for 4 monthe E wanted Indian py buyn 1,000 Paymen thiy payments. alm 354-5-6-7 Empl Empire Securities Co. Fiscal Agents, 354-5-6-7 Empire Building Seattle, Wash. an a ene 'TEN SUBMARINESWITH UNDER-SEA SUPPLY DEPOTS rtunity "295, es watched the compan enterp! ou have rea Motor Car Company of $40,000 model bodies produced, among them being a 2-pas- par value $1.00. senger, narrow tread car; @ runabout narrow tread | After May 10th you cannot buy car; a delivery wagon; a 2-pi runabout, | company at any pr broad tread car, and a 10-passe y bus aoa. se ‘donbinn After pro x ' ney | portunity to become a partner in found that th of thi we rf sete lutely inadeq an I - of care in any a rof a t ‘Therefore the many # 4 ed many offers o In and sround Seattle and Empire Securities Co., Fiscal Agents, « STAR—FRIDAY, APRIL 30, 1915. PAGE 2. COULD BLOCKADE ENTIRE ATLANTIC COAST LINE — ( i ‘\ TE NI |] ti." Wifi! This is Artist Skerrett’s conception of how foreign submarines would prolong an attack on American shores by supplying thelr needs from stores previously planted at the bottom of the sea, as predicted by Simon Lake, inventor of submarine craft. BRIDGEPORT, Conn,, April 30.— along the sea bottom, carrying Did you know that, in the event of provisions or stores of any war between the United States and pat ny Pid swt a ak a foreign power, our entire Atlantic ‘emarine supply b would be t could be successfully block ample TO BLOCKADE NEW a by eight of ten submarines YORK. Half a dozen more, di OPERATIN NDER-SEA SUPPLY DEPOTS? Simon Lake, pioneer designer der of submarine craft, and for 25 years one of the foremost authorities on submarine building and navigation, says that is JUST WHAT COULD BE DONE ff thie country clashed with any power having the necessary submarine equi t! Submarines of today can cross the ocean,” said Lake A modern submarine fighting ship could tow & submarine supply ship across the vided among the big harbors of the Atlantic coast, would block- ade the entire Eastern sea board. “No ship of any kind could | approach any port without be Ing ‘heard’ when many miles away by the detectors used on submarines. Any ship which tried to run such a blockade would almost certainly be tor pedoed. “The same ‘ate, of course, would menace any warship of ours whieh tried to leave a ocean. The supply ship could car harber. ry fuel oil, provisions, ammunition The blockading eubsasrinen mines, extra torpedoes, Anchored would be in touch with one anoth on the sewbottom, she would pro- er thra the submarine wireless vide supplies from which the fight system which has n come Into} ing submarine could operate for an lized with the wa. use. Lying quietly oir hiding! Indefi length Ime—weeks outside, and no | places at the bot! ef the ocean r can enter the ship—just hundred of mi apart, THESE De you mean to say that these as is the case with a ‘diving EIGHT OR TEN SUBMARINES stores—provisions, fuel and ammi) bell.’ By the use of a system (COULD CONVERT THE AT. n—could be transferred from) of doubie doors in each ship, a | LANTIC, FROM MAINE 'TO “LOR ship to another, at the bottom) man in a divers sult can go |IDA, INTO A SHIPLESS WASTR| seat” Lake was asked from one ship to the other, OF WATERS “Certainly! Each ship has @ trapdoor which can be open- ed, when the air pressure in- 'WHERE'S THE QUARTER MILLION "WE GAVE THE OIL WELL DRILLERS? What has become of the numer ous off companies that held the jcenter of the atage in Washington for a few fleeting days last winter? Stock in these companies to the extent of a quarter of a million jdotiare was sold thruout Western | Washington hole. Most of the money went to promoters and salesmen for com missions, The Globe Of! Co. has been re organized after falling into the hands of a court receiver. An ef. fort Is being made to develop this y's property, though Jistence and in some cases there ts! ington-Oregon OM companies are effort to also making legitimate efforts, it is believed, to develop thelr prop- erties. So is the Ballard O11 Co. With only meager equipment, the } And most of the companics, hat handicapped at present |mushroom-like, lived but to die by lack of funds | autckly Waiting In Crescent oc |. Others, however, are still in ox The Pacific States and the Wash | determined develop wil | claims. | The chief company fn this latter |class is the Crescent Drillers Co. at the head of which is Joho C.| Monarch O11 Co. the United OM Slater of Seattle, a leading mem-|Co., and the Scattercreek-Wood Oli ber of the Chamber of Commerce.|Co., are making some show of de Siater ts brimful of opti In 40 Feet of O m | velopment work Most of the companies are await | “We are now working in 40 feet! ing elopments at the Crescent Jot productive he , Friday,|well before sinking any real | “Within two weeks, we hope to be| money into thelr projects in @ position to conv the most - |akeptical that we have the goota the mpany obtained porsesston | We have have gone down 2,100 feet WOMEN T0 V | 4 began preparing tt for actua ay No Crescent stock fs being of. | Investigation shows that most of |the ofl companies are still trying ESSAY CONTEST to retain their options on lands fo staelt they had secured during the oil at in order to in the Tenino district. A | k sckholders and others w grow from an idea to a rm at chance to obtain an had all the machiner companies of development fs about as Rats and Flies Versus Children" | have tol ig the subject of a conference ar- se, they » ¢ date thy the health committee of 4 | Federation 0 4 Gone Out of Existence arn or amen’ Your Opportunity ne een nition, like the Tenino-| Clubs for May 7, reports on which ‘ § n . by children of 15 or under, will be " ; aca oan re i a ict r Aes ni rewarded by a first prize of $15, al a n the te ence enti ‘eported this | sec wrize of $10, d hird | ho has not heard of the Elbert company cleaned up $29,000 in] nd prise of $10, and as third ze of $ | Physicians, medical experts, and| |men and women prominent in edu-| cational and ofvic life, will partici from the columr ° sales before it went to th stock | ho of inves in welling for 60 « pe eeiing for #0 ©} pate in the conference, which 1s to the Wiacie dtten tke be held in the Commercial Club fon, P| rooms in the Arcade building. The that’ you are missing a great op: public is invited | What promises E| The chief speakers will be Dr, DB N L. Lioyd, U. 8. public health com miss er for this district, and M P. Stevens, chief sanitary engineer of the elty whose allotment tn D the Cushing ofl field in worth sev re Bidg., Seattle erai millions, has been been foun: in Mexico by Ed Drury of Tulia, Tex., formerly engaged in the olf business in Oklahoma, Phioce unaware according to Drury, w until he told him that he ne of the richest men in Okla of ofl producers months been moving jearth to locate him, have for heaven andi and that the government ‘i TOM BOYS Toms of Panton’s Here’s a store that refuses to be doctored up. It can’t be saved. No “infusion” of Chance to Save new goods, nor new money. No economy we can suggest. Nothing brains or cash can do can save it. It will die on our hands. So we've told the landlord just what we're telling you. We've begun to sell the fixtures. We've made fresh cuts on the mer- chandise. And we set out to wind up and get out in short order. No We have marked about 20 little girls’ White Lawn Dress- es half price. Women’s Cover- all Aprons that were 59c, we have cut to 29c. " Girls’ and Misses’ Wash Dresses, all colors, that were $2.50 to $5.00, we have cut to 98c. Women's fancy Waists of Chiffon and Net that were $3.50 and $4.00, are $1.38. Black Lawn Waists that were 50c are 18. Tailored Suits that are all new this season have been cut a third or thereabouts. New White Coats are also reduced a fourth. Women’s Wash Dresses in small sizes, are $1.95. They were $3.50 to $5.00. Rain Capes for girls that were $2.00 and $2.50, are $1.10 each. Big sizes included. Silk Petticoats that were $5.00 are all cut to $2.49. Flouncings of the finest Swiss and Nainsook, that were $2.50 a yard, are 69c a yard—the worst cut ever known in history. Embroidered Voiles and Flouncings are the same price. Scores of pretty -Lace Galloons and Dress Trimmings are half and less than half. Torchon and Funeral Services for Dept. Store Cluny Laces that were 15c a yard are cut to 2c, Dozens of pieces of Embroid- ery Edgings and Insertions are 5c in- stead of 10c, 15¢ and 20c. : Pocketbooks that Pocket- were 50c are a dime. Vanity Purses on long chains are the same price. books for 10c Women’s Silk Ties that were 25c are ime (club shapes). Thirty-five-cent Ribbons are cut to 15c. 50c Baby Bonnets Baby Bonnets that were 50c are 10c. The 75¢ and $1.00 ones are 15c. Baby Night Gowns are 10c instead of 35c. Women’s Un- dermuslins are 69c instead of $1.50— all kinds of garments. Boys’ 50c Bath- ing Suits are 35c. Boys’ Flannelette Pajamas are 49c instead of 75c. Boys’ Double-breasted Suits are $1.95 instead of $3.00 and $4.00. Men's All-wool Suits, in small sizes only, are $2.95 instead of $10 and $15, but they’re old styles. Arrow for 10c Arrow Collars are 10c. Boys’ Caps are 5c. Men’s $1.00 Shirts are 79c. Porosknit and “B. Collars 10c V. D.” Underwear is 35c. Wash Goods, worth up to 40c, are 19c. Wash Goods worth up to 25c, are a dime. Curtains that were $5.00 are $2.15. Finest Irish Point Curtains, tco. $5.00 Curtains for $2.15 pe a | Millinery is cut to the bone. Merchants from the city and the country roundabout are invited to come in and get whatever they can use. We will refuse no reasonable offer on big lots of merchandise or fixtures. We're going to do as we said— Close up the store and write “finis” to the Panton business. $2.50 and $2.00 Nottingham Cur- tains are 88 a Trimmed Hats Worth Up to $4.00 for $1.00 A hundred and over, all new styles, all bought for this season’s fine trade. Worth $2.50, $3.00 to $4.00. While they last, choose at ........ a Another lot of about a hundred, bought to sell at $5.00, $6.00 and $7.00. While they last ........ a Children’s and Misses’ Hats, Flowers, Shapes and Millinery Samples of every kind at about half price. We are positively closing up the shop! GEORGE FRANCIS ROWE & COMPANY, Merchandisers and Financiers for Business Institutions in Charge of Panton’s Department Store 1107 to 1111 Second Ave. Should Country Make Its Own Armor Plate? Since 1887 the Bethlehem Stee? company, the company, and the Carnegie Steel company and ammunition ring—drew down from the navy for the single item of armor plate divided as follows: Bethlehem, $42, Midvale, $20,3 298 The average cost of this armor to the government was $440.04 of 20,000 tons Admiral Strauss estimatesethat a government plant composing ; oa ing of the Toms for the purpose of mutually honoring those who were so fortunate as to be given the jname of Thomas by their parents NOW HAIL TO LADY BAGGAGE TOSSERS LONDON, April 30.—The woman | baggage porter has made her ap pearance in the Marylebone rail- Midvale the Steel armor capacity can manufacture armor plate at a cost of $: way station, For aie : Altho this is $31.88 per ton higher than the average of nine official | on have been enue baba government estimates, taking this figure, the government | the railway coaches, Lot noe ee would have saved 4 on armor plate nee 1887 take . they their place with the men to carry bags or roll trunks on hand Love. Tom Ball ‘BANQUET Tex,, April 30,—The] Of honor, as are to be entertain- DALL. ed in Dallas today who is a candi date for governor but the dinner has no po litical significance, trucks to and from the trains ond the taxis. Their insignia is a by y metal arm badge, like the men’s. Thomas B. is to be guest List your Real i It isa gathers Want 22) Estate in Star