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UNCLE SAM’S CANAL By Gilson Gardner From Our Special PANAMA ( May 7.—The ‘went from North ca, the eastern seaboard ling to the ports of Weatern h America, and the west coast of South America sending! tht to the Atlantic ports of the ted States. Competes With Rallroads to South the investment Raliroads Don't Get it All Of greater tmportance now is the fact that the apple grower of Washington (and hundreds of oth er people in hundreds of other in dustries on both coasts) a chance to reach a distant market ' A second third moved from the | Without handing over all his mar Pacific ports to Europe, and the «in of profit to a greedy transpor der were for miscellaneous | tation monopoly And all such Iberation of com merce will eventually help tt sumer of apples or hundre: other articles which tn time will t carried thru the canal. r ARREST 6 MEN IN A LOTTERY RING LOS ANGELES, May With six men under arrest here and four more ordered arrested in San Fran the United States govern ment's probe of an alleged Califor nia lottery ring proceeded today The men in custody are: Larry M. Sullivan, private detective; W J. Danford, former attorney; J. H Buckley, W. H. H. Young, A. D, Dan lelds and W. Le Pettit ARREST DENTISTS Prosecuting ‘Attorney Lundin has issued complaints against 13 alleged destinations. ‘Thus the first use of the canal be said to have been an Ameri Use. The United States has it most, and for the expected ° of transporting heavy tht from one side of the conti to the other, which formerly by rail. ‘The canal is at once a competitor the transcontinental rallroads, ‘one of the first effects is seen Feduced transcontinental freight object desired by all con The railroads are already the interstate commerce fasion for permission to read- transcontinental rates to_ this new water competition. Facilitates Coast Shipments ‘The Pacific Coast finds that it earry grain thru the cana! to in less than two months. ly this grein went tn sail.) ‘Vessels around the Horn tn foe a half months. people will be tempted al the mistake of judging the) of the canal by the money egg by tolls. As a/Uniicensed dentists A. H. Hen fact these are the least |dricks, F. S. Mederaf, A. R. Long The government is|James R. Van Auken, J. F. Kitoe ting in the canal as a| F. W. Kaleer, F. 1. Pleehart, E. Sex ime-producing property, and if ton, James Lynch, A. BE. Davis, F. EB. tolls did not keep up the cost Hale, 8. Austin and J. Brown, | #f maintenance there would be no| Seven were arrested late Friday | on warrants tssued from J | Whitehead’s court. They gave per onal bond to be concerned. It is prob- however, that the tolls will yield a revenue = suffi- Beginning Sunday 3 DAYS—SUNDAY, MONDAY, TUESDAY Continuous—1 p. m. to 11 p. m. COMMUTERS aodiikins 5—PARTS—5 —and— 2—SCENIC—2 The Bay of Biscay A Glimpse of Naples —and— THE FULL ORPHEUM ORCHESTRA aneston Price seen C ANY SEAT s-vassohebaanvoty Mot been slow in ma ¢ Panama i \ theoret th e August 4, 1914, wher € { e Panama railroad ships made through the canal—and ix mont! wsiat 900 ships passing Ave 00 tons of fre a 1 E total of approximately $2,000,006 1 Of more importance than the amount of tolls paid is the an t carried, a mental six months And it must be membered that these six m hs have seen an mmerce s¢ riously in ed ar reanized by the war What has hap} therefore, may be regarded as merely aw in the wind indi cating what will Leppen when conditions be come norma ‘The bulk of the freight—41 per!cient to cover maintenance and eent of it—has moved from one overt ng the first | Goast of the United States to six collected P other. A little more than half of amor 2 ‘the 41 per cent went from the At) Th mat of the canal wi © to the Pacific ports be a 1,000,000, and a yearly The next largest part of this! rev 100,000 would mean ree—a third of the remain- a return of only three per cent on} will have | | interest, T Adele Rey, as the di Moth,” the fiancee of “The Flam “The Moth and the Flame,” bill at the Liberty. Ground has Just been broken at Fifth ave. and Pike st. for of the finest photopiay 2 in the Pacific Northwest. It is being built by the C. 0. Stimson Co., Inc The new theatre, which Is to be known as the Coliseum, when completed, will represent an expenditure of $250,000. The work Is being done by the Pearson Construction Co. of Se attle. | | ae: 10 COLONIAL Howard Estabrook and Harbara Ter featured in “The But tert the Colonials new attrac tlon is based on Henry Kiter Webster's well-known novel of the same 5 The story rela ah back, fn whe as ter to the stage ar him arge by hunchback was the her stepmother. . . killing clears him of the ch ing that the murderer of prov CLASS A King Baggot, Violet Merserean, and Marle Walcamp are stars who appear on the new bill at the Class A, starting Sunday, for a three-day showing. Marie Wal . the ad venturous lit heroine ¢ tures, leads The Torrent,” a tworeeler, showing « whole viliag swept away by a flood ORPHEUM One laugh follows another in rapid, sparkling sequence in the latest Orpheum feature, “The Com muters,” Manager Carl Reiter promises Th Commu * ta founded on a successful stage farce by James Fort Sunday, M ay and Tuesday The cast features Irene Fenwick present sensation of Broadwa Miss Fenwick is making the hit of her career as the Lily Cardos of Al H. i's “The Song of Songs, now New York. She is the only artist of WORLD COMMERCE IS [GROUND BROK MAKING GOOD USEQF WHAT THE NEW WEEK WILL. BRING ON DIFFERENT SEATTLE SCREENS . Unwed mother, HE SEATTLE ST EN FOR PALATIAL PHOTO PLAY THEATRE ON PIKE STREET ~_* * & & and Irene Howley, in the Famous Players production. from Clyde Fitch's drama, heading Sunday's }LIBERTY Moth and the Flame Kast as one th een achievem ot is offered the Lib ‘ nday, Monday and alive with th xeiting olf ‘the candle © near arly always ts con Ade fable comedy and P pount Travelogue in Havana, Cuba, of the strongest bi ised at this itis pleture pal ace | . ee MISSION A modern drama tn four parts scones of which are laid in the at here of aristocratic France, The Breath of Araby will be the feature of the new bill at the Mission. Helen Gardner, Mile. Clothiide. daughter of an artstocrat and a de sand will be shown | ng at the Eltinge theatre, | international fame who works reg-| ularly for one producer in pictures and appears nightly on the stage. as it is the first picture showing the workings this famous method of tea children thr that has been shown fn The wonders that the little tots have been taught thru this system, and their com. posure before the camera, are truly rem: rkable ‘eater Edison drama, motion Than Art,” a four-part heads the bill, It is a story of an American girl art stu-| dent's life in Paris, in the art stu dents’ quarters. Beginning Monday, the Alham bra will show “Capri of Kitty” for three days, together with a Hearst ig Weekly ‘A WONDERFUL Sweeping away houses, stores and other buildings as though t were r, a raging torrent v ased by the breaking of a big dam, tumbles and roars down through a canyon in the bills. Men and women flee for their lives and one man is barely saved as he is swept off his feet, by a daring gir on horseback, as she plunges her steed info the foaming waters This is an actual scene in “The Torrent,” a 2-part Gold Seal drama to be presented at Class “A utre Sunday, Mon and Tues This picture was put by Universal company and publicity in. the throughout the co of on was news intry great Thousands o! to Universal Cit for the first time lage deliberat floc The flood breaking a large which water had evious. rogram Bloodhound’s isitors at the time in history eatroyed were to nee a me by caused was by dam into for natura be n forced The | Human Keystone also includes “ riumph Destiny's an Imp drama, featur Merser and King Pifty-Fifty,” an Imp comed Trump Card, ing Violet yeot in comedy. Miss Fenwick is supported by Charles Judels, « well-known comedienne | | oe | ALHAMBRA | The Montessori picture at the| Alhambra, remaining until Sunday | night, has attracted a great deal of | of | hing | | | | invited | cided flirt, is the outstanding figure n the story, which tells of her en avor to attract an American, even resorting to the supposed po- tency of a love charm, a mystic drop of Haquld distilied a thousand years ago In “The Breath of Araby,” Miss rdner is given an opportunity to isplay her powers of emotional ex pression. Her supporting company includes L, Rogers Lytton, al Tomorrow and Week HUBERT NSATION Saturday Evening Post Henry Kitchell Webster The Author And the Stare HOWARD ESTABROOK and BARBARA TENNANT T E R F L b g Then 15 Minutes of Fun Extra Added Attraction JEFF DE ANGELIS In “BEWARE of the DOG” COLONIAL Movie Operators’ Ball Hippodrome, June 1 “The Helen Gardne and J pler Saxe GRAND On Sunday, Monda the Grand Master Rog ot drama staged Europear tings. The scenes t drama were filmed in Ru nd by a fortign © t The story f lows: Olga and her | a pair of clever Contin tal crooks wr t their titled victimes and at tempt to murder those who #ta in their way heir latest victim in Count Von Rade, a wealthy no-| bleman to whom Olga gives a/ ned cigaret. A entist saver | ant from death and f the capture of the crooks thrilling scenes ee aids lafter « ALASKA | Max Pigman and Lolita Robert son, hin wife, will appear a se th at the Alaska In “The Hoo: | Schooimaster This picture immense business on its presentation tn Seattle. | SEATTLE Starting Sunday, the Seattle the }atre will show “The Ragged Bart,” jan Irish comedy-drama, which has been seen here before, It wan a | pearance | Alhambra Ending Sunday Night ater Than Art,” four-part Edison drama The Substitute” (Milly Reeves), Lubin comedy; “The Children's House,” a Monte sori ucational Hearst-Selig News Pictorial.” Class A Ending Tuesday Night The Torrent (Marie Wal camp); “A Human Bloodhound’s Triumph,” comedy; Destiny's |Trump Card” (Violet Meserean) Fifty. Pitty (King Baggot), com ody | . | Colonial Ending Saturday Night | “The Butterfly Barbara Ten |nant and Howard Estabrook); “Be |ware of the Dog” (Jefferson De| | Angelis), comedy oe day Night | Orpheum Ending T | (Irene “The Commuters” ‘SALESMEN MUST READ CHARACTER | In your face convex or concave? | Have you a Roman nose or a lit ltle turned-up affair? | Do your ears stick out or are |they close to your head? What's the color of your eyes? These and a lot of other things are what a scientific up-to-date |nalewman has to take into consid jeration when he is sizing up a pros | pect in order to make a sale. | | According to Jean Morris Ellis, a} character-reading expert from New York, who spoke last night before jthe Y. M. C. A,-Salesmanship club, character can't be read by studying | | bumpa, but by attention to the gen eral formation of the | lines of the face. MINISTERS STRAY FROM WORD OF GOD? Intimating that present-day min-| listers are scouting some of the | principles laid*down by the Bible,| | Presbyterian ministers of Seattle,| | headed by Dr. M. A. Matthews, have| issued an appeal to people of their! faith, coptes of which will be spread | broadcast “We belleve pronounced and per- | sistent emphasis soould be placed on the Integrity and authority of the i ord of God,” they say. “We sug that when a church is seeking| a minister te be Its pastor, it shall | call no man save one who unreserv-| Jedly and heartfly accepts the g | fundamentals therein enumerated |WOMEN OF ITALY PREPARED FOR WAR) LOS ANGELES, May The women of Italy are not enthuslas-| tic for war, but they have account-| ed it as inevitable and are better prepared for {t than the women of} }any of the warring nations of B rope This was the opinion expressed) | here today by Dr. Marla Montessori, | founder of the Montessori method of educating children, who {ts estab-| lishing her first school in America| here, 4 head and out | | decided success on {ts previous ap: | PROGRAMS Her-| wick) Breath of Araby,” thre When a Fellow's Nose Is f Joint Mr. Jarr and the Dachshund ee ‘ Grand Ending Tuesday Night The Master Rogues of Bur AR In “The Breath of Araby,” with weird mysticism and halrralsing clim Sunday's new bill at the Mission, five parts on Ending Tuesday Night ‘ate a drama filled es, the feature of pi which come- Scene from the Kieine comedy, “The Commuters. starts Sunday at the Orpheum. Irene Fenwick and th dian, Charice Judels, are the leads. POINDEXTER TALKS AT | REFERENDUM MEETING five reels; “Love and Sour Notes —__— Diamonds of Faith | i th no other reas rivileges and rights. Whatever lg than to save the right of initiative [arguments the defenders of those Seattle Ending Tuesday Night | and endum to the people, this |laws may make, we know that the The Spell of the Poppy,” twolcampaign for referendum signa-|real reason is to kill the initiative reels; “The Kite,” two reels; | would be entirely and r ndum and recall, and Cromsed Glove and Swords tor Miles Pc home rule, and public docks, and Dreams Realized,” drama | meeting in the Labor municipal ownership.” » day night to an audien which Rep. W. D. Lane, president, and * Tilikum, Beginning Sunday gave the progressive senator an | ex-C¢ exsman Bryan spoke me “A Tragedy of the Rails” (Ger-| enthusiastic reception trude McCoy), two parts; “The| +: nave been criticised in certain afternoon volunteers are Western Way" (G. M. Anderson): | ouarters” maid irged to circulate petitions at the The Undertaker's Unc com |e T hace be port terminal celebration at the edy; “The Jarr Family Discovers | this tight. It was not Bell st. dock Harlen ue gnity of « United States se aturday evening, volunteers will at all the 1 was told, to mix in purel state Circulate the petitions “Gute” ye Sunday | matters. I want to say that if the | public docks j Janta} five parte; “Hearst-Selig| ce Of United States senator Petitions may be obtained at Refs Weekly.” 5 : ” ©| means that 1 must not exercise the |erendum headquarters, 223 Railway 2 ant gt |duties of a citizen, then 1 would xchange building, Second snd r to be without the office, 1/Cherry # | Aigeka Ending Tuesday Night !am advocating the signing of the (Max Figman and Lolita Robert. [referendum petitions because the sou), five parts Z }lawa passed by the recent legisla WANT EMIL UFFER } pir er eaigh@ ture, taken collectively, prove that i o ‘ ia a studied and careful conspiracy is | EEE crap scayb jon to deprive the people of a di- © police have b NCE THEATRES | /rect voice in thelr government. It locate Emil Kuffer, former sailor om Queen Anne Theatre |had been a long and hard fight to/the U. S. 8. Maryland, whose father Tonight The Society De.| get the initiative, the referendum, | is dying in East Toledo, 0. Accords tective,” four parts; “Pathe News”; | direct primaries, and a measure of | ing to a letter from the dying man's Col, Heeza Liar.” local self-government in cities. The |daughter, Mary, her brother was Sunday—In the Lion's Den,” | last legislature deliberately tntend-| jast seen here. three parts; one comedy reel ed to deprive the people of these! The Famous Players and Daniel Frohman Present Clyde Fitch’s Supreme Emotional Drama The Moth the Flame story that stirs the imagination and thrills the heart—overpowering in its realism and fidelity to natural con- ditions. The sterling cast of famous players— Adele Rey, Edward Mordant and trene Howley, with other favorites enact a play that will live long in the memory of the audiences. A picture A New Ade Fable Comedy George Ade, “The ble the Sensa- tional Failures, Ww Sunny Havana, Island of Cuba This another of the now famous _ travelogue pictures shown here each week, and depicts the banana plantations, and deck sports—really one of the best yet, of these splen- did picture features. is in Two * wrote what believe to be the best all the “100 per fable comedies we have shown, of e yet, of cent” LIBERTY Perfect Ventilation REST ROOM FOR THE LADIES. SMOKING ROOM FOR THE MEN. Firs at Pike 10