The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 21, 1915, Page 7

BELGIUM CHIEF STICKING POINT IN PEACE By Carl W. Ackerma United Presa Stat? Correspondent BERLIN, Nov. 13 (By mail).—England and Ger many apparently are fur ther from an agreement on the all-important Belgian question right now than at the beginning of the war. Conversations with a number of leading men and recent newspaper Statements, confirms that belief. That is the real reason why they say in England and France that the war will last five years It is also the reason why General Von Kluck sees no end to the war in sight | lumber has already been contracted | For it is realized here as 5 PROVINCES IN CHIEF OF STAFF |for, It is to be shipped to various | | nations. mbermen are not so deeply} statements confirm that there can be no peace until the Belgian question is definitely settled For years Belgium's position was the crux of secret political discus sion in both England and Germany peGince the war began both Eng land and Germany have adopted the firmest policies in respect to the tiny kingdom. These policies are as far apart as the poles and apparently are upheld by the peo- ple of the respective governments That Foreign Secretary Von Jagow, in his recent statement to the United Press regarding Bel sium, expressed the vietion of 99 per cent of the German people, is evidenced by the universal ap- ters of Capt. and Mr prominent debutant: proval tn the German newspape: CHRISTMAS IN THE TRENCHES WILL BE SPIRITLESS AFFAIR; THEY MUST FORGET, ‘FOR IT WOULD MAKE THEM HOMESICK’ BY PHILIP KERBY WITH THE FRENCH ARMy | AT THE FRONT (Via F Dec. 21.—The shrill whistle of ris), | Required | because Title Insurance provides a standard exam- ination of the title from our complete title rec- ords with a responsibl guarantee. The conservative loan companies— those who provide for their clients and for themselves the highest degree of title perfection do not require |) You are also entitled to real title protection when you invest. Insist upon Title Insurance and you will have t. = 63% No Commission We do atract of title on dw joans. There is conse quently no abstract expense and no attorney's fee for | examining an abstract Title insurance, recording ps Calvin Philips & Co. S14 Leary Boldt Washington Title Insurance Company Special and Mrs. Thurston Hug Lieut. and Mrs. Henry Mal tertained on Friday afternoo a very pretty tea dance at Cullum! (Ce ball They were assisted in re ceiving by Mrs. Bell, Mra. Cutrer, Mrs. Devers and Miss Shaw. Tea poured by Mrs, Gordon, Mré. lcox, Mrs. Techappat and Mrs Bubb. | Mra. Carter and Townsley served punch ner TWO ‘BUDS’ IN SOCIETY OF CAPITOL The Misses Suzanne (left) and Elizabeth (right) are the daugh and are among the Capt. Chase in W SEATTLE’S SHIP YARDS HUM; VESSELS IN DEMAND “Give us the shipat” It Is the universal cry along Seattle's water front, where ex porters scrambling desperately about in search of vessels, are Voiney 0. Ch hington society this winter, is a member of the staff of Admiral Willlam 8S. Benson, of the bureau of navigation of the navy department. AGAINST YUAN BACK TO LONDON) tse: te SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 21.— First information as to the progress of the revolutionary movement inst Emperor Yuan Shi Kal of China, wae re ceived by local Chinese today, when a cablegram brought the news that five of the most im. portant provinces of China have openly revolted. bullets overhead and the roar of artillery In the distance eftectn ally dissipate all Christmas spirit in the first line trenches of the western battle front It ts easy to understand why men do not wish to observe the festival of “Peace on Earth, Good Will to Men. It would only make them more homesick,” an officer told me to- day. “This !s a war to the death We are not like the armies of old which proclaimed an armistice for Christmas. It fs necessary to forget.” Yet there'll be Christmas tn the trenches, for the matis for months have been jammed with Presents for the men These have been piled tn bomb | proofs and will not be opened, by common consent, until Christma morning. Then an officer in each section will\ play Santa Claus and dis tribute them Back of the lines, tho, {t seems Ike Christmas back home. Many churches behind the trenches, tho partly tn ruins, are decorating with flags, evergreen, holly and mistle At midnight, on Christmas eve, the solitary figure of Cardinal Lucon will enter the Rheims cathedral and pray for the suc cess of French arms and for the rest of the souls of men who have fallen in the defense of their country. an Abstract—but they do || , require Title Insurance. | WEST POINT and Navy Register WEST POINT, Dec. 21.—Lleut Mia post was represen ‘a number of extra guests. * * Capt. and Mrs, Carter entertained | game on Wednesday even for Mrs. Tracy of Highland Coleman, Col. and Stuart and Mrs. Rethers, Lieut. and} Mra CHAUNCEY WRIGHT The Restaurant Man Will open the finest lunch ‘room and bakery west of Chicago in the 42-story L. C. Smith Building, January 15th. Premier As quith today announced that Sir Wil been recalled becomes chief of the Imperial gen Arthur|bing every bottom he can find “Important command. Christmas ball to be given by Order of Hiberntans, prays in a hole Solemn high mans Christmas eve and several other services will in the sacristy be held Chr burning continuously Altho the enemy son, destroyed the « House of God, burns forever,” priest In charge. and Chatean Thi close to the mas shopping goes on as in peace only there a money than before, who buy the In addition to appropriate gifts men in the trenches, the things suftable for sweetmeats, sewing bags, toilet sets and tn expensive jewelry the trenches not depressed They are remarkably war dugouts Jespite cold and and bombproofs, largely eliminated Murray and al Mre | Correspondence to Army Plainfield, N 8 and d on en with bridge party of thre Vredenburgh Conard and Capt © en 1|and then went on to Yale-Princeton ig with a din CREDIT MEN MEET Schwabacher Bros., being literally pushed into the by a deluge of cargo rolling up behind them Every ship yard is busy build ing more bottoms. Contracts already signed will keep them industriously at it for many months to come. One exporter alone has contract: Jed to ship 110,000 tons of merchan at jing about for additional charters at almost any price. Lumber Market Brisker In the East elt among Washington lumbermen today that by January 1 the Impetus vill be felt here fn @ matertal and en raise in lumber prices, ac companted by a brisk demand It saured, they say, There ts a report that 75,000,000 feet of Puget sound, Oregon and Californ re worried over the matter of de carloads of m chandise consigned railroad yards Waterhous: here from New York to announce that he had chartered a whole navy of Japanese freighters, and te grab. loose on the seas. ing two freighters, 268 feet over all f the Ward line of New York, be sides fulfilling a gover tract for thr submarines, the Se ‘s working about to capacity To Build Freight Carriers The Anderson Steamboat Co. is now building a lighthouse tender As soon as this vesse! ia off the ways, they will begin building « coastwise service. Seattle's harbor commerce tn Warden Paysse Coastwise traffickers have shows ja rem ble activity within the last few mor purchased ¢ new els for the Seattle-Alaska run, and the Pa {fic Alaska Navigation Co., has purchased two for service bet here and California ports Jap Line Adds Boats Two new boats have been added to the O. 8. K. » een Se attic and the Orten Janes Griffithe @ § chased two vensela to operate be mn Seattle and Alaska. W. R. Grace & Co. is building new vessels for New York tle trade thru the canal. situation at Seattle is typical of every other port on the Pacifi and Atlantic seaboard. 1 trown Meloney, an au on erce, writing in the t Saturday Evening Post, sume up the situation thus This country’s need — the world’s need today—ts ships.” Anything Is Now a Ship Men have turned to scraping the bottom of the sea for vessels, he declares Tt has become a saying that he who can possess himself of a tub Jor soap box that will float, and a jstick for a mast or a kerosene can for an engine, owns the beginnings of a Croesus,” he cont! ervice bet Something of an idea of the de mand for ships may be gathered |from his figures | Tramps under both neutral and |belligerent flags that previously tered for from $6,000 month cannot be had | jnow for leas than $25,¢ | Where {t cost in the spring of 14, $1.6 19 60 a ton to ship coal from | the Atiantic coast to the east o lof Central America, the charg | now $6. Vessels are pay | selves in two or thr for them p trips. Early Jed schooners were chartered out of lthe Chesapeake and New England |coal traffic, one at $52,000 to carry |coal to the coast of Spain, the oth ler to carry coal to R |a lump sum of $30,0 | “L know of three small Duteh teamers that 10 to 12 years ago cost about $900,000 all told to put Ameri Janiero for loverboard, and for w can owner will | Holland will agre STAR—TUESDAY, DEC. 21, 1915. PAGE The Viadivestok, He has already | arranged for 17 sailings, and is cast- | lumber Industry | » in little doubt} to Viadivostok standing tn Seattle's recently returned | ! Bath Robes e to Match $4.00 Bath Robes, $5.00 Bath Robes, with Slippers, n $6.00 Bath Slippers, now...... $2.05 With the Moran shipyards bulld- | SMOKING JACKETS $5, $6, $7.50 and $10 ent con-| attle Construction & Dry Dock Co | number of small freight carriers for | averaging well over the daily mark | ot $1,000,000, according to Port The Alaska Steamship Co, has| GIVE HIM A Tallored Ready Co. ons have pur | PRESIDENT AND YOW! WAR WILL ‘BRIDE KEEPING CLOSE INDOORS | President W | under old Paink | The supply of novo-cain In the| 10 | vy lun time to make the boas b: are earning their y the length of their descrip. | jcain into your jaw The United Press correspondent The hotel press agent, Interv in November two wooden six-mast | ed, sald that Robert E a cottage here stopped at Wara Springs, Tom would be made to feel like OYSTERS Olympias or Eastern Try Them Fried, 35¢ Rainier Bakery & Restaurant 913 Second, Near Madison JAS, R, BOLDT, Prop. 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Our Special Union Suits, tn gray or ecru, at $1.00, ear, all 50¢ and Two - plece Un weights and colors, a BRING PAIN IN DENTAL CHAIR War {s golng to put the skids} s Dentistry | | ited States {s all petered out That's the stuff that comes from} »wapapermen Will have to work| Germany and that the teeth black-} smiths use for nerve blocking } Sore?’ they used to say, “A Iit-} reatment will stop the pain.” | And t used to shoot the novo-| Lots of people adverse to a shot in the arm were getting novo-cain | in the jaw. They didn't know it But the dentists could do five times as much work With 5,000 times less pain when they us ans are using so much} blocker for their national} dentistry that the any left for the United are three dental study attle with about 60 mem-| are all yelling for novo-| cain. They sent to Tacoma the }other day for just enough for 60 @ shots more The possibility of getting more! novo-cain from Germany blew up already in America is about used up PRIVATE, 14, PEEVED | WHEN DISCOVERED BY WILBUR 8. FORREST weeks ago. What wa’ !United Press Staff Correspondent | LONDON, Nov (By Mail.) Private James Bartaby venth Bast Surrey regime fa peeved at the British war office ay Private Bartaby has just cele ted his 14th birthday fn a Lon-| wounds received in northern France. The war office has discov ered him thru a complaint made by | |his mother, and won't let him go] why he's peeved veteran explains put it-over’ a recrulting sergeant and was sent iment May 29 The East Surreys did some jheavy fighting over there,” said James. The Germans tried to take our trench, and we followed |them back to their line, [ was just xing to Jump in after a big Ger {man with my bayonet when—zip Ja bullet hit me in the leg. When I | woke up | was back of our line, and what d’ya think of my bally lnck?| I'd been discovered.” TO COME BY CANAL R. R. Plerson, of the Alaska} pelling influences that are establish ing records in this great store. Ideal Gift-Store- They are also the great combination of com- ng new sell- Our Upstairs Clothing Department, “the larg- est in the city,” where low rent and big volume of business make it possible for us to sell Actual $25 Value Suits and Overcoats for . i 5 This wonderful saving is winning for us New Customers by the score. No Finer Gift Than INTERWOVEN HOSE Put up in holiday boxes if you wish Lisle, per pair to be per pair to $2.00 box Pure Silk, 50@ per pair to $3.00 box Cashmere Hose, all grades. Ladies’ Silk Hose, ali col al ose. $1.00 SHIRTS! xn: cits Showing a wonderful variety of both soft and stiff cuff Shirts—Arrows, Manhattans and Tailored Ready Special at $1.00 and up to $5.00 A special purchase of extra large open-end Ties, 50c many with slipeasy bands, your choice 100 dozen Ties, made from regular 50c silks, one n a box ..25e Mackinaws We Give Unusual For Men and Boys Fine new patterns s Trouser Values in heavy all - wool $2.50 values, Upstairs for...$1.95 coats at $4.50, 8. 00 values, Upstairs for... $3.50 $6.50 and $7.50, $7.50 values, Upstairs for... $5.00 Tailored Ready Co. (22%: Arrow Shirts 401-403 PIKE STREET. Store Open Evenings Until Christmas Interwoven Hose GERMAN SOLDIERS IN TRENCHES KEEP WARM WEARING ELECTRICALLY HEATED UNDERWEAR BERLIN, Nov. 23. — (By with a system of fine wires. For Mail.)—Germany’s latest scien. each series of trenches, It tific contribution to war Is elec- trically heated underwear. The inventors are Max Beck, pro- fessor of technical electricity, he has to do is connect up his University of Inssbruck, and underwear with the current lieutenant of engineers, and wires. Professor Von Schrotter of the A full wired pair of drawers University of Vienna. weighs less than two pounds The electrically heated un- and costs only $20. They will derwear is made of non-con- be extensively used on the Rue ducting material interwoven sian front this winter. }Steamship Co., sald Mor leave Ph wick oh *"' $470,000 WORTH OF OPIUM IS SEIZE they seized Saturday. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 21.—Cus. This is the largest single seizure »n record in the United States, TO HEAT A ROOM QUICKLY Requires a Heater That Really Heats That's What a Gas Heater Does r’S a simple matter to connect a Gas Heater in any room. Gas Heaters like that in the picture are on display in a variety of sizes at our show- rooms, A phone call will bring a salesman to your, door with descriptive literature. You may order direct through him, if you prefer. COTS SEATTLE LIGHTING COMPANY Stuart Bldg. Phone Main 6767. DOOR APAOORAP AOA DOODRAIONAS necessary to install an elec- piant, from which con- the |toms officials who arrested Angela jcompany's two new freighi the|Tovis, a fireman on the steamer Bennington and Burling'oo, will|Ramon, plying between here and adelphia about February | Salina Cruz, Mexico, for smuggling 1 for Seattle. opium, were confident today they would be able to land other mem- bers of a gang whose shipment of $470,000 worth of contraband drug