The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 10, 1915, Page 8

‘OUT BY ORDER OF SECY. LANE By ‘Gilson Gardner Brace 29 1 the United States reclamation Bpectal WASHINGTON, July 10 iwervice became a pork barrel For 13 years the r nation service has been untque tn govern \ment work fn that {t has It has been notably tree On July non-political from graft proved by investiga tions, and {ts history has been marked by All this time Frederick H. Newell 8 been Its as many auccess d ector. When the reclamation service was of tablished, and up to the present time, the work was carried on with funds recetved from the sale of public lands tn the arid and semiarid lands of the West These funds were used for the trrigation work and refunded to the treasury by the recla mation settle: Theoretically, the fund was to be a continulng fund for the Indefi nite reclaiming of lands ra new law, passed by congress July but which became effective July 1 money from the sale of public lands ts here. to be put ary and ex into the tr d, not by reclamation experts, but by congress, H. Newel! F. H. Newell. Wewell Practically Removed AT THE PRESENT MOMENT THIS RESULTS IN THE REMARK pABLE SPECTACLE OF A LARGE PARTY OF COMMITTEE ON AP PROPRIATIONS CONGRESSMEN JUNKETING THRU THE WEST) *TO DECIDE ON RECLAMATION PROJECTS AND HOW TO SPEND RECLAMATION MONEY! In the meanwhile, another sertes of events has practically remove from the reclamation service Frederick H. Newell, known all over the fountry as the father of reclamation. Mr. Newell was the first director appointed after the passage of the Teclamation act of 1902. When President Wilson was elected and Lane became secretary of the interior, the conservationists were more than satisfied. ‘De so. What has happened tn the case of Newell and the reclamation i Service is therefore difficult to understand, Eight months after Secretary Lane assumed office, he began to re Organize the reclamation service. In place of a single director, he sub a@tituted a commission of five men. { These were: F. H. Newell, director; A. P. Davis, chief engineer, ‘who had been tn the service from the beginning with Newell, and three "Western men who were not either engineers or specialists {n Irrigation Politicians Will Boss Job Now One was Will R. King, formerly fustice of the supreme court of Oregon, and who came to the national capital as a rumored aspirant for several offices; W. A. Ryan, a California politician, fLane in the interstate commerce commission, and I, D. O'Donnell ‘Montana, a banker and promoter of private Irrigation enterprises. ewell’s authority as d!-;ished the office of director of the really removed. Ho b~| reclamation service, “consolidating coy StenT Gav on reane | positions of chiet engineer and ‘tion engineers, but politica! ap-| director,” with A. P. Davis as dl- \pointees. rector and chief engineer. |. Then came the congressional ac With this action Newell ceased | on which overturrad the entire t» hold any posltion except that of lamation policy. consniting engineer, It is sad Lane made no strong A letter followed from Secretary ht against the bill. Lane, informing Newell that on |. Four months after the passage of March § his job as “consulting ong! is legislation, on December 3, neer” would terminate, except that 914, Newell received a short letter if his services should be needed mm Secretary of the Interior Lane, such advice would be paid for on a nsferring him to the position of per diem basis. msulting engineer” and putting This left Newell on the sidewalk.| im on the basis of other consulting His activities as a consulting off! of t He was a conservationist, and in most matters has continued to| formerly with! he ViCWwr moore, In “UNime© © Fadden,” at the Liberty, the University of MlMnote. sat ae Newell has epent his life In the government service at a compara. tively meager salary. His was the brain that conceived and carried out the great reciama | tlon works. He was the man who was investi. gated again and again, and always came out with a clean record, And now that the work is begin ning to bear fruit, Newell is quietly sheived. | ENGLISH PRESS ON NEW GERMAN NOTE LONDON Evening pa ors of England were unanimous to- day in predicting that Ger anys, reply regarding the Lusitania and submarine warfare will not be ac cepted by the United States. The W ter Gazette declar “We can scarcely imagine that the United States will accept the note| asin any way meeting the de| mands.” The Evening Standord sald: “The pirates’ excuses are ridien-| lously transparent. The unctuous! Germans whine: ‘We always | spect the sof civilians as much as posstd But what of Belgium? CUPID BESTED IN wengineers. Now Lecturing for a Living Still later Secretary Lane abol-! cer of the service may be judged| from the fact that he is now earn ing his Mving delivering lectures BATTLE WITH CASH, | MONMOU TH, Ore. July 10.—Cn- YOU WILL HAVE TO HURRY If You Expect to See Half-Million Dollar Masterpiece HE BIRTH Founded on THOMAS DIXON’S T= CLANSMAN Accompanied by SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA With PIPE ORGAN Direction of OLIVER G. WALLACE Matinee 2:15 P. M. Prices 25c & 50c; Loges 75c Evening 8:15 P. M. Prices 25c to 75c; Loges $1 | | CLEMMER Seattle’s Best Photoplay House | pid has been bested tn a battle royal with Hard Cash, according to sta-| tistics here today, which show that| jonly 13 girls out of 298 who have! | graduated from the Oregon normal! jachool since {ts reinstatement in/ }1911 have married. The remainder decided to teach because of increases tn salaries tn| this Iine of endeavor tn the last fow | years, ‘COWPUNCHERS AND INDIANS IN PARADE | Cowpunchers of both genders, In dians in war paint, longhorn steers, | wild horses and other denizens of | the plains, two-legged and four-leg | ged, paraded the downtown streets | Saturday morning, as a preliminary | | of the big Stampede and Round-Up| | which opens for the weék at Mad} son park Saturday afternoon. There are 20 eventa on the pro-| fram, which starts at 2 0 ‘clock, ‘DR. MATTHEWS’ Dr. M. A. Matthews, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, was | aroused from slumber at 6 a. m, Sat | urday and called upon to extinguish |a fire which had started as the re | sult of a spark’s Ighting in soot tn |the basement of his home. There was practically no damage. REJECT CLAIMS OF VICTIMS OF FLOOD Sixty victims of the Cedar Falls flood, claimed to have been caused by the seepage from the city’s dam, | are considering bringing sult a the city for damages, friendly claims having been rejected |by the finance committee of the jcouncil. Property damage is esti mated at close to $100,000. Claims | |have been filed against the jelty, amounting to $100,000, for giaas broken by the explosion of 15 tona of dynamite tn the harbor| recently BRITISH WAR SHIPS GUARDED ADRIATIC LONDON, July 10.—From the} |moment the liner Adriatic entered | |the war zone until she docked at | IAverpool Thursday, the veasel was convoyed by British destroyers, {t | was learned today. Great anxtety | was felt for her because of rumors |that she was to be torpedoed by a |aubmarine. The latter part of the | voyage thru British waters was un-| der the direction of the admiralty,| and every precaution was taken to} prevent her meeting the fate of the Lusitania, HOUSE ON FIRE jj, IPROGRAMS| At the Clemmer “The Birth of a Nation” (Lillian ish, Mae Marsh, Miriam Cooper, HeorY Walthall and Kalph Lewis) ce Alhambra Ending Sunday Night The College Widow,” six parts (Ethel Clayte ee At the Colonial “The Devil's Daughter” Bara). eee Liberty, Ending Wednesday a LIBERTY Fadden, (Vietor Moore) ee Mission, Ending Wednesday Night (Orm! Haw Drew eee Clase A, Ending Wednesday Night “The Lonesome Heart"; “DBeautt ful Love.” eee |Grand, Ending Wednesday Night | “The Oyster Dredger” (J. Warren | Kerrigan); kin Game,” “Simple Polly eee Melbourne, Ending Wednesday Night “Work” (Chaplin) “The Inner} Brute,” ¢ rt drama; “Whose Was the T drama, (Beverly Bayne), eee Madison Sunday “Blue Blood and Yellowbacke,” omedy; “Framed” (Sydney Ayres) The Faith of | Madison) ; Children Fields), Her Fathers” (Cleo “Mike's and Meyer's Elope” (Weber ° Ending Wednesday Night! . Alaska, Shattered Idol,” Keystc comedy. TWO SUE RAILROAD FOR $20,000 EACH Mrs. T. C. Tana, who was atruck by a Milwaukee train at Bagley! Junction, July 10, 1912, has filed sult against the railroad for $20,000. She ts a cripple for life, she asserts. W. D. Margton, administrator of th estate of } Alice J. Marston, als: filed a sult against the same rond for the same accident asking $20. 000, Mrs. Marston was instanti# killed when the train atruck both SUNDAY an and WEEK Charles Chaplin ‘Two acte of unadulterated fun. “The Inner Brute’ In 2 acta, A strikingly original drama dealing with a thrilling psychological problem, ‘Near Eternity’ One of the thrilling “Haz. ards of Helen” stories, Beverly Bayne ines “Whose Was the Shame?” A _Strong Society Drame. MELBOURNE Admission 10¢ CHILDREN dole ai “FIRED FROM WEST POINT” And Double Up at Comedy comedy; | and} THE SEATTLE STAR Father of Reclamation Is Ousted; Service Goes Into the Political Pork Barrel A Scene From “The Birth of a Nation,” at the Clemmer. GOOD BILLS AT | MOVIE SHOWS | "V attorne y files head-first out! Managers Jensen and Von Her-| door. ri sees the fight | berg of Liberty have secured When the b oyster dredger the services of Victor Moore, cele-| tells her he loves her, she nestles | ated comedian, for three days, t down in his arms, Two com- t Sunday. Moore will plete the bill ® newest comedy, led e ;CLEMMER Chimmie Padden” ts a comedy | er Clemmer has extended } | | Pr I by fire, so that the last sensational ja battery | Paste is smeared all | Again succumbs to her charms, His of the highest order, with no he Birth of a atick, atall. The story d “The Birth Chimmie,” a tough Bowery lad, lof a most talked of who, tho good at heart, Is lacking /film in the country, deals with the {n manners and the fundamentals |time of the civil war and the re- of etiquette. When he rescues|construction period of the South. | Wealthy Fanny Van Cortlandt and|Henry Walthall, Mae Marsh, Lillian catches a glimpse of her French /Gish and Wallace Reld, all well maid, his heart ts gone. known players, are starred. A full Moore's splendid acting, coupled | symphony orchestra. {s one of the | with the clever tmpersonation of | features. ” the French mald, Hortense, make | ALASKA it one of the best comedies the Lib- The Alaska offers “Her Shat- erty has yet shown. tered Idol,” beginning Sunday. Mae adil Marsh and Robert Harron, two MISSION favorites of the movie fans, are “Mr. Blink of Rohemia,” a com-|featured. The story tells of Mae featuring Sydney Drew, is the | Carter, wealthy ward of Col. Aitken, feature at the Mission. Mr. Blink|who, amazed at the strength of a js attracted to a young artist, Cc blacksmith, falls in love with him, delia Clover by name, and gives breaking off her engagement with r a commission to paint bis por-|Robert, her fiance. She plans to trait. At the first sitting, several |jelope, but uncle suggests they live of her Bohemian friends enter and |together for a month, and then, if Blink {8 embarrassed. He pro-|both are satisfied, get married. poses to the artist, but she tells|That night he gives an engagement hi m she could only marry a man|supper. Mao is disillusioned when hose soul ts filled with art. How/she sees the blacksmith eat soup. he wins her ts all cleverly told The smithy carries her off, but the “The Insurrection,” a drama,|two are caught in a quicksand with Orm! Hawley, and “An Inter-| Robert saves the day. cepted Vengeance” are on the same vee bil. CLASS A ae When James Stuart laid the little ALHAMBRA baby girl on the porch of the county George Ade's play, “The College |orphan asylum he little thought that Widow,” in six parts, is playing to|Sara Prue, the superintendent, had capacity business at the Alhambra. |observed every movement. Neither In addition to an all-star cast of|was he aware that the child’s real Lubin players, headed by Ethel/name, Dorothy Loomis, was em- Clayton, there were over 2,000 col {dered on the shawl in which she lege players who partook wrapped, and consequently that king of the various scenes. Ajany one would ever know that one- al hotel was made, and destroyed |nait of his wealth belonged to the infant, whom his partner, Dorothy scenes should be up to the stand-/father, had left in his care. That's ard of the balance of the pictures. \the beginning of the story of “The To be sure that nothing was over |Tonesome Heart,” which will be looked in thin fire scene, there Was |seon at the Class A for three days, of 15 motion picture |peginning Sunday. A comedy 4s ‘ameras on the job. All the leaps |sigo scheduled. and escapes by ladder are brought out with startling vividness, The picture will be the feature at the Alhambra until Sunday night cee MELBOURNE Chaplin's comedy, “Work,” opens an engagement at the Melbourne Sunday. In this play Chaplin ts the helper of a paper hanger. They enter a swell home and begin work over every- thing, including Charley's boss’ head, Charley falls In love with the maid and daubsa her up, too. “The Inner Brute,” a drama, fur- nishes the thrills. ee PLACES COUNTRY ABOVE THE HOME COLONIAL Manager Hamrick of the Colont- al has extended the engagement of “The days p Devil's Daughter” for three Theda Hara is featured. The eture is wonderfully acted and jock full of thrills. Theda, sinis: ter and beautiful, takes the role of the vampire, who, scorned by her lover, swears vengeance against all men. Lucio Settala, a young and ambitious sculptor, falls in love with her and {s discovered by his wife in the arms of the vam- pire. Remorseful, he attempts sui elde, but 1a nursed back to life by his faithful wife. But the vam- pire fe too much for him and he '\ PRINCESS cHRISTIAN wife charges the vampire with wrecking her home, and the two| Princess Christian, aged daugh- have a fight in the studio, Lucio|ter of Queen Victoria, who h p> {s spurned by his wife and dies, in-| arated from her German husband, while sane, the vampire meets a/ Prince Christian, on account of his terrible death in the madhouse, pro-German sympathies. eee GRAND J. Warren Kerrigan fs the head. Mner at the Grand, beginning sun- He 1s featured in Universal's he Oyster Dredger.” Kerrigan, as the oyster dredger, {8 approached by a very wealthy and good-look- ing young woman, who wishes dim | to trade places with her for a little while. Kerrigan agrees, and 1s {n- stalled in the palatial home of the young woman, Feeling the call of the old life, he goes back to the mmittee of the council, CITY DECIDES TO BORROW MILLION Ono million dollars worth of short time notes will be issued by the ling to a decision of the Sea-coast town, He overhears the|to defray operating expenses up to girl's attorney make a slurring re-'the time of April tax collections. mark about her, Furious mixup! Bids will be asked for shortly, | Monday, First Floor 12,000 Yards of Summer Wash Fabrics Exceptionally Low-Priced Special 10c | Yard HIS offering is expected to appeal with unusual force to every woman who is planning the making up of pretty Summer frocks and waists for herself or children, for the materials involved are al] strictly desirable from the standpoint of this seq. son’s style requirements, and every item is an ex. ceptional value at the price quoted. Special arrangements have been made for the display of these materials on Monday, that in. spection is easy and choosing can be expeditiou done. The Following Are the Materials Represented: 850 Yds. Ratine-stripe Pique. 600 Yds. Novelty Crash S 600 “Yds. . Fancy Ratine Suiting , 1, 400 Yds. 36-inch Striped Shirting. 2,000 Yds. Corded Raye Brilliant. 500 Yds. Renfrew Bourrette Batiste, 2 100 Yds. Fancy | Printed Dimity. ‘1,500 Yds. Fancy Hong Kong Crepe. 450 Yds. Flowered Dress Batiste. Also several hundred yards of Staple Wash Fabrics. —choice, Monday, at 10e yard. The world-famous Irish-American character comedy FADDEN IN 5 PARTS With Victor Moore, Broadway’s favorite comedian, in the most laughable character of his entire career .° HIMMIE| One of the cleanest, most humorous film comedies it has been our pleasure to present to Seattle audiences Sunday Noon Concert—12:15 to 12:45 by H. B. Murtagh on the Wurlitzer Hope-Jones Unit Orchestra LIBERTY OT FIRST AT PIKE CONTINUOUS—11 A. M. to 11 P. M. AIRICE COOLED : ;