The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 30, 1915, Page 1

7,000,000 STEEL PLANT TO BE BUILT IN SEATTLE NEXT YEAR Promoters Announce Site Has Been Obtained; Plate Mill to Employ 1,100 Men Cheer Up! Let's All Be Optimists e e a e i , On page 6, today, The Star tells AS” how few storerooms now occupied by sal ine to te pe nnn nnn a MEE the etate eons ph hare {; THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT _DARES TO PRINT ‘THE _NEWS EDITION VOLUME 18 SEATTLE WASH., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1915. ONE CENT .2%,.7™!3%,.°%" NEWN BTANDS, be {Some of the Things You See Downtown on the Eve of Seattle’s “Big Thirst” GOODBYE BOYS. ERE aoe TO (LEAVE YOU NOW BOND 6000S TOO! AT CLOSING OUT PRICES THIS IS THE END ” ) OF OUR 'SINNING. ) ICE CRERM AND CANDY FOR US. HELP US MOVE THIS RESET ‘ (1)—Closing out. One of many such signs in the old wholesale liquor district on First and Second aves. S. (2)—Another closing out sign. This is displayed in the front window of the Imperial Liquor Co.’s place, 311 Pike st. (3)—What the “dry” law has done to one saloon. This modern eating house, one of the finest in the city, was the old Palace Bar, Second ave. and Yesler way. “Who said business depression?” asked J. H. Johnson, the new proprietor. (4)—Vera Grosse, one of Seattle’s favorite cabaret entertainers, who will lose her job Friday at midnight. “I'll stay right in Seattle,” she said, “and have a new job soon.” She is at the Hofbrau (5)—Getting in training for 1916. The “town y : j y j & & i pump” at Pioneer Square. (6)—Sam Hyde's handsomely furnished bar, 208 Pike st. Three years ago it cost $60,000 to equip, not including the liquor stock. It will be transformed in a few days into a soft drink palace. 7)—“Billy’s Mug,” 4 ) y J J £ que y F y g one of the oldest and most notorious resorts in the Northwest, at Second ave. and Washington st. It, too, will be a soft drink emporium after Friday ARAL THOMSON AND reat nge GET KILLING 51's NUCEXPECT TO BEGIN street cars on your line, {S$ GOING 10 \) call up Supt. A. L. Kemp- ! } MOORE MAY RUN === ONE HERE DAILY be Asoo WORK IN SPRING } Main 9000, when he’s at et te { work; Capitol 960. when icon ni FOU TAIN _ ~ * » 1 } , ree t Former City Engineer R. H. he’s at home. Peo one a barr wainst | Bringing a New Year message that will mark a new field in Seat Themson and Judge W. H. { 1 the things to do to keer ra | S Moore, former mayor of Seat- " day 1 1 etting the grip or to tle’s bid for prosperity in 1916, announcement was made Thursday of tle, may be candidates for the art of the time ra t rip. The giving it to ¢ us a two-million-dollar steel plant to be erected by the end of next sum- my council. vote some tir ©} i wept fed out by Dr, Mel are mer, giving permanent employment to over 1,100. reel the: atest i sevelon: t € 4 as | Don't kiss anybody Gwilym Owen, a civil engineer of London, and U. K. Loose of Y ie ted itself re More Eat little h Loaie ie aes noma: ahd 1 eever onths. Important, In the present cam > rat Banldcnas, well feet en looking over thé a for ne al months . paign. un ; Keep out of stuffy rooms, attempted to ire a” site within the city limits, but were Neither Judge Moore nor | day when asked lation € cars or public gatherings morsel fallen f » to do 80, on account of the unreasonably high prices fixed by ren is igi ~ pueee any ble candidac uffe Don't get warm skating, then The crowd » the land owners They have succeeded . in getting a reasons MEE Go coneldering the mat. ha nn chill your self by Inaction and gave him room 1 location ‘in King county, a few miles outside of the south city said to be considering the mat re PE ms : Accommoate clothing to‘ counter it tor seriously: rea Perea he last fe . | Weather conditions. Ho, barkeep!” he repea up cig ave faa a BON MARCHE S I ( ne | Consult a physician. raising his arm and bring! ud Owen leaves for New York Thursday to complete the financial are make the race by the p' . 1 0 deaths, of the 253|denly down upop the oak attle, Office sf the United States in the municipal o hip the month of De movement. Both have been rece : ec: ex catia “Come, fill the cup, and let the corporat to be known, have greatly instrumental in JANUARY . jan cpt el bse the fire of Spring 1 at 435 Henry building. Attorneys are now preparing the city Ite two greatest wy from pneumonia,| Your Winter garments of re- pentance fling Owen w ured British capital for this plant, The bird of time has but a 4 the water and lighting witter and th 4) CLEARANCE SALE the war, t eath every day, on an The only drawback to ere cor . A ning Is believed to be the ned nat ore pneumonia, caused little way 1 is to aving practically fielther can afford to n giga not 1 fr. MeBride ‘Thur To flutter—and the bird Is on already—by y,” said Owen entire time on the cou Denny and Jacks t. hil Wudah BERG COR | BAL ohn? the wing eT! erting them leve m Offers you an oppor- athe result from the ravages of} His Omar, perfect, brought a extraoniinary fie for guch a plant arn mercial streets here cheer—a bibulous, throaty cb We shall man@facture, 1 \| Judge Moore wan eleéted ata to get New Gastlit Avec muarywhere from the crow@ The ‘ » of the fruit and Weather orecast {| ena m EA rade ted: ee deantt Felcinl ecrnipcebonc, meatavatsh smendous, Saat (In a Yearts gifts at greatly Here, they thought, was a “live Seurcely any other district is so q Rain or snow tonight and Fri- { . , dured i Full ae 4 ee ' e are used up by the North- ‘ H ( 7 5 . reduced Ui e 10 one. ¥ » wl ee aren: | ele ayor t ; I ge ne And he, suspecting thei@thoughts te Hast durin Owr Party in 190¢ particular will be ® laughed: loud " one its kind west of Ohio, Owen 110k AL SEATTLE f : { in their ad on “pr. McBride f s little chance : To Be Soda’ Fountain construction on the first unit of the plant to commence in the High. B }| if you have a vacant room or uation is wor ‘ The jemi is not. merely Fi ‘em all up, barkeep!” hej latter part of March or in early April. AD axe is SoU — lenelneediall 47 fi ft {| house, let a Star Want Ad rent it been in the Northwest, altho. the val fe) 9 soon as tho first unit is ready. When the entire plant is completed, ’ M0 p. Hope | local climate is belleved to put up ing the continent | (Coptinued on Page 5.) |there will be permanent employment, Owen estimates, 100. A ESL TOOT TE, ‘