The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 14, 1916, Page 1

ia: om ' Zowie! Looky Here! HS Erickson issues letter putting the S. E. Co. stamp on Mayor Gill. Rips into his “low tax” plea. It’s a enae 6. otinhinihnnmnnnnietitipnae acai NAMA AAAMAP ANS js} e THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEW js: } L and 1916, ONE CENT fewest FATTLE BUSINESS _ EN SANDBAGGED! Thousands of Tourists to Coast Are Sidetracked and Kept From Seattle by. Tactics of O-W. and Allied Railroads! Hands of Chamber of Commerce © VOLUME 18 SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, JANN ASY 14, Are Tied, and Commercial Club Slumbers! Business Men Must Act. HIS is a call to arms to every business how they are being discriminated against. ; ais tolls ; ae eo it a? be won by the moral support of the is 0 roun tand- | people.” ard of the + nme pond | AND SO REYNOLDS CAME TO THE This is year of promise. STAR. a pee een in business, you rn “I knew it would be no use to go to the : i. hone eg aa the Neetiaat r Reynolds Pa the right place. A ve n “looking out the window” while) thas : oo at Ore ; ifornia cities—Los Angeles and San| a THE ST AR Is GOING DOW N THE LINE FOR ‘Diego—have been helping themselves to) SEATTLE AND THE STATE WITH A DETERS g@ Titliens of dollars ta ¥eal Uncle Sam's coin, MINATION TO SEE THE PREFERENTIAL KNOCKED It Seattle and Washington t thing in a financial way that could d the Northwest,” says Reynolds, usiness men to get together behind half of which belonged to you! ERHAPS you didn’t know it, but 90 per| cent of tourist travel from the East goes to! California, not because California's climate is} come than Washington’s, not because of finer} ¢ put over for this city s up to Seattle ¢ commission probably will take ¢ first of June s your duty, Mr. Business Man, iz, or better accommodations, BUT BE- -| to yourself and your pe locketbook, to create a sentiment i CAt IRE OF UNFAIR, DISCRIMENA EC ORY: {Sevor ol an equal ye rh rate over all roads from Chi ycago, either way, to San Francisco RAILWAY PASSENGER RATES. | It costs the traveler $21.75 more to go from/’ Chicago to San Francisco via Seattle than it does to San Francisco via New Orleans, El Paso and Los Angeles! AND THE DISTANCE OVER THE SOUTHERN ROUTE IS) GREATER BY 253 MILES. | In summer, when special tourist rates are} in effect, the difference is $17.50, the preferen-| tial favoring the Southern route! | That preferential means this: | That unless the traveler has relatives | living in the Northwest, or comes here on a matter of business, he will take the South- | ern route. | That Seattle hotel men are losing 90 per cent of their legitimate summer tourist | | AKE the case of Bill Jon nd John Smith, grocers. ‘% J uppose the Schwabacher Co., wholesale grocers, show ay to Jones “We Aes you. So it will cost you 5 cents a und more f coffee than we charge Smith.” How long do you s © Jones would stand for that He'd beat it over to the National Grocery Co. or some other wholesale firm, wouldn't he? YET THE BUSINESS MEN OF SEAT- ‘TLE, IN SPITE OF THE DISCRIMINA- TION AGAINST THEM, HAVE PATRON. IZED THE O-W. LINE TO THE EXTENT © ie MILLIONS OF DOLLARS EVERY 7 EAR. 3 GLAND AROUSED. Y MEX MASSACRE Inquires Regar ding W ash-| the tie bloody Monday manenre et Monday massacre of Americans at Santa Ysabel. ington’s Attituc le on Villa) ivorder to quell it as far as poss | Outrages; White House sible, officials deported Mexicans | Announces After Cabi-|D¥,"boleswle or Jailed them on business. That Puget Sound steamer men are making just 10 per cent of what they | should make in the summer from tourist | patronage. = That real estate dealers, street railways, department stores—in fact every line of business and every individual business man in this section of the United States, 1s los- } ing money every year. | é ad technical charges to escape the 4 | With the preferential wiped out, every man| | rt ag seg di ai [aa esd peers cowners, ae who caters to tourist business in Seattle could sit Pil Waitine”’ Polio 4 Soldiers Clear Streets 4 down and multiply his present summer profit : Peas —- ge tiers ready for action, clsefaa ta by nine! ee THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE)of the club. The committee reported that the) 14) the seen adi, eR AT Oe eo keop every Py i" one on the move Pwenty thousand Mexicans eow- . HAT’S the remedy? | COULDN’T HELP, BECAUSE IT HAD discrimination is unjust, and the club instructed He has filed a complaint in the interest im it w disp: a volunteer regiment inte ACCEPTED CONTRIBUTIONS FROM the committee to register a kick with the inter- °" ered indoors today in their quarter Here it is. Get it! atypia , | gister i A ) : of the city while khaki-clad youths THESE RAILROADS. jstate commerce commission. The committee with loaded, bayoneted guns stood Chairman C. E. Reynolds, of the state! cA ' in : guard public service commission, has figured it out.| “I. was astounded,” says Reynolds. “I told| forgot or neglected to kick and the club went tg) *! : 78, talnieie wid oaetioot ae Sa) ) 4 - aoa d Y ssior boys ners an¢ ie! ‘ as the chamber’s duty to look after ees It had passed the resolution. Now it is} 3:)ccn President Wilson | take affalre in thelr ows heady weg a of the people of this state with the interstate interests of the business men of Seattle, that it resting on its oars. and his cabinet, in which \ | \rexico to avenge the Santa Yeabel commerce commission at Washington, ask- Was really the chamber’s duty to file the com-| Most club members had forgotten, if they! ee eared Fell ig massacre, unites the WR aaa ing that the preferential be eliminated. plaint with the interstate commerce commis-¢ver knew, that the differential question had! diveusscn get ve e } The complaint is directed against the S10 ever come up. Sia jana beth ‘ pea e r ag : ‘ ' et ae ae a a ame the face of £ Remember the Alamo,” was the Southern Pacific, the Union Pacific and the Ihe Star has asked Secretary Yandell about ‘ ‘ idtetite ; favorite watchword, | re" eee ahs EYNOLDS’ dander was up. After many al ion was circulated asking | Oregon-Washington Railroad and Naviga- this. He denies the chamber took money from aaiasie tail Rian | ats a Eps agh evelt to use his insane | tion C llied li these railroads. He said the chamber is ready) : loay paid nag dl iy Sek ging t a British dubject in Chi. « |the “warahtll welding’ Gama pon 0., Sihee BOCs. a brick wall, he got the state publicgservice com-| 0! &. British subject in ( tO erie ee THESE ROADS, OWNED BY THE.to work hand-in-hand with the public service) |missi AH abnelt to filet coin slaint a fae i sh ot} huahua and d therstor a: rulecet iron ky ae ( oO ri é ¢ yw sritis . Se Rbetne ctu Mex- : SAME INTERESTS, ARE RESPONSIBLE commission in supplying the interstate com- I Sy ASE: 2: British : | FOR THE PREFERENTIAL. merce commission with evidence when the time interstate commerce commission. eee : Troms, as ey ee che 8 8 sicceanyes Che complaint is on file. Of course it may) (ore SOnsre (Continued on Page 5.) AVING cast his bread upon the waters, ey ee ee be years before a decision is’ reached. There) om ene lee Reynolds began looking about for some- QJ EYNOLDS then went to the Commercial will be unending litigation. reguiars with bayonets fixes | Weather Forecast ody to help him keep the sharks from eating it. Club. He himself introduced a resolution, And in the meantime—what? patrol, the Mexican district, |} Tonight and Saturday unest- He went to the Chamber of Commerce. He calling attention to this differential, and pledg- “The fight can be won without the day was quiet following last | tled weatner: probably snow. asked Secretary Yandell if the chamber would ing the club’s support, by every legitimate courts,” says Reynolds, “if only the people, were titled with wounded Mexi. | (~~~ aie ; ; ie : cans. There was fear of a : line up with him in the fight. power possible, to wipe out the discrimination. | of this state can be apprised of the facts. The freah outburst at any moment. |}. 01 oe ae tid { SS! NDELL TOLD HIM The resolution was referred to a committee] fight can be won if the business men are told, hee dot curual. tbs chive roca Onee eeeete ae 4 Jj AY?’ I i | ) rs PEPE MPLS EESTI 3