The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 22, 1916, Page 7

Foor LTTUE JENE, MG wAwDeReD BUTNG RENT AND PROBARLY BOrPed ate A BAND of VRLIG TAS Municipal Taxes and Finances By EDWIN J. BROWN. are accustomed (o hearing about taxes and finances Tonnes the campaign just before| ut after election we are soothed into political reamland by official activities in fields than working for & re. u the pre: of our large and powerful b eoncerns aided very matert fecuring the election of administration. An open discussion is therefore proper in order that People may be fully advised as why taxes are so high and = of ing so heavily as to amount vi confiscation of th many of our Seatt! th work of Mr. G. J originated the aimp! ent. and I feel that our small roperty owners and city isis FETT ee greatly benefited a careful study ef this question. OUR CITY FINANCES. By Mr, G. J, Schuelihardt ‘There is no intent of indulg- in reffetions, past of present ir critics are net our enemies ficiency means accuracy no creed or friendshi es and facts must stand the test against any proof. Ste @wn public finance: to trace your own mo: Broaden your horizon and quicken your Poreevtion. and find the rem- ety, wh ust be pure, harmiess and ethestive Public debts may be ide@ into three cycles covering 1900-1934 Inc’ . abet-ioat re sg three generations. Ina Iie Information wont help you. a indisputable and unconfut- adle facts and figures in front of will do the work. Assurances From somebody impart no tnforma- member, every public debt, ipastner fagued by the nation or P. any of the states, or by f th counties thereof, incorporated rect obliga’ forcement. no affected try to show you the utter impossibility of reducing our city tax rate. (Get a statement from the city comptrotier and follow this up.) Since 1890 and prior we con- tracted cy grand total lability debt G onal payments ...... $12,840,900 jal loans with ft ed payments an all those: years by we have only able to liquidate pa Show ne . uery 17,131,900 Bonds mn. sola 1,245,000 How aro we ‘going to per thy piace of the old debts 4 $90 and prior to 1895 which be- ecween 1896 “and 1916, ‘As matter of have only paid $42,009 on this tudebtedness, while the balance of $3,514,500 was reissued into ser- fal bonds becoming due between 1911 and 1922, so that instead of paying our debts we are shirking our duty and piling up @ debt for oaterity Total Interest paid be- lore reisgue, $3,569,500 Btraighf loan balance January 1, = $ 1,204,000 cheris $12,692,900 uary 1, 2,432,000 Total .. wee 0$17,181,900 in a financial quagmire ate) as fol- funding first es, ued July J 1993, ‘aly 1, 1913, on becoming du duo, were merged ued July 1,°1913, to run from ii 1, 1014-July 1, 1918, inclu- ive, 5,000, i, 100-——e1 allment 1 of $209,000 was “installment 2 of the same isting of $20,000, $109. units, we: therefor, as tatement mn paid; amount, 000 and paid by retseu shown on the o How Mr, Renick affects the gar- bawe fund! The city council trans- ferred $20,000 from the garbage bond fund to the garbage redemp-|f ton fund; transferring $13,500 from bond fund to Da rT July 1, 1911- duly, 1b40, 44% principal ment in twenty yearly even periment of $20,000 each. $18,600 Interest on $300,00 ease. tor Including Principal, on, $94,600 $240,000; inter total, $406,000 000 So you see your Mr. has drawn in the first Principal, $120,000; principal t 994.590 interest total, $149,- Bondivol AND TRY “Ty Ky BETWEEN OURSELVES BY THE SPORTS EDITOR T 19 11 years since Hal Chase first flashed across the margin of the national nulsanca He} was but 4 boy of 22 then—brilliant, impetuous and headstrong. In al ar he rose to stardom, astound ing the baseball world with the wondef of his 1 t the initial sack. He has never ceased to cause it to wonder, a No player since the days of town ball ever had the stormy career that Hal Chase has had. He learned to jump long before the Federal league made it a popular | | exercise for ball players, He/ | proved too much fo such men | as Stallings, Griffith, Wolverton, | PROBABLY Dead BY Now. L MUST CRosé He RoR De Tame VuLA'S HMBADQUARTORS Fv MAN COST 6 HO Line, BUT x MUST SNEAK UF AND PEEK tre THE DOOR, T Magu HOR. NCAR WHERE HIS BooyY (4 Me's D Hig BODY So GIANTS GET NEW MAN | TO REPLACE INJURED SHAW; SPOKANE HERE BY EDWARD HILL. There will be a change tn theyMANOUK GOES NORTH lineup for today’s clash with the] WITH BEAVERS Spokane Indians at the Dugdale) Horb ouk, the young twirler battlements. |who was ased by Seattle after} “Hunky” Shaw's tnjury, recetved|he had made a poor showing In « in Saturday's game, when he/ game into which be was sent, cold.) stopped a peg to the plate with his|after the opposition had a big lead, | face, is serious enough to keep him|was taken north by Bob Brown. out of the Uneup for a week or so.| Brown used Manouk to relieve An X-ray showed that one of the! Hood tn Saturday's fracas, and sald small bones forming a part of the|that the young fellow would make cheek bone had been splintered. [a bear of a pitcher with the proper Manager Raymond sald today that | kind of coaching lhe would switch “Pug” Sells to the! left garden, where he finished Sat-/ COVELESKIE MEETS urday’s game, and play Ted Sulli.| WALT JOHNSON van, & new outfielder recommend-| We note our old friend, Stanley ed to the Giants by Scoutlet Jimmy | Coveleskio, former Spokane pitcher, Richardeon, in right fleld |met Walter Johnson yesterday at Callahan and Chance to handle. Yet, thru all the stress and strife of his career he never allowed his ability as a player to de | tertorate } | ot ot | | He Is 33 years old mow—the age) when most big leaguers start on the downward trail that leads to the minor leagues and oblivion. Never tn his career has he played better Dal! than he ts flashing with Cincinnat!. une 8 He 's ding the National league in batting. He ts fielding as sen- sationally as he did more than a decade ago, when he wandered | east to play for Clark Griffith on the old Hilltop grounds. 8 8 Charles Lincoln He took a gamble on Chase. Hoe ts still tak- ing {t. Bat it looks now as If it} is a gamble tn which he has at least an even chance of winning. | ane. | According to St. Loule pre-season dope, the Browns were going to) have the American league race sewed up by July 4. They were giving odds a few months ago in the Mound City that the Sloufed- Brown combination of Fielder Jones would win, As good as three to one could be had that the Browns would finish one, | two, three. The club may yet pull itself together and go on to better things, but {t has looked very bad all spring. sue First It lost a series with the de spised Cardinals, It took stren- nous alibiing to reassure the fans, but most of them were con- fident that the opening of the American league race would tell a different story. To date, the Browns have made almost as sor- ry a showing as our Giants. 3 The infield, except for George Sis | ler, has performed indifferently; the outfleid has played uncertain | ball; the pitchers have been off | form. Fielder Jones is said to be working patiently with his men and to be hopeful of their rejuvenation. There is no deny- ing, however, that thus far Browns have been a big disap- pointment, CUBAN PLANTERS TO RACE IN JAMAICA Three of the wealthiest Cuban planters have commissioned George Burke, the Canadian trainer, purchase horses for them at the coming ‘Duryea sale and prepare them for the Jamaica meeting next |in the neighborhood of 175 pounds. jat a lively clip of late, and would to | putte The new man has been setting | Cleve land, and was defeated by the the bushes ablaze tn southern Ore-| Washington wizard. A costly error gon and northern California, ac.|™&de by one of his teammates | tording to the dope at hand. He js|helped the former Northwestern reputed to be able to cliv« the pijl|!amuer to drop the contest, 4 to 3. at a lively rate, d hasn't been known to ee himself ener ~~ leg oun sine when going after a fly, Ho stands! t¢ it hadn't rained yesterday Bil! about 6 fest 10 inches, and welgbs| nose would have worked for tbe Glanta, He will be on the hill to day. Bill has bad about the same trouble in getting started this year that he did last. Bill dropped seven games in a row before he came around and finished the season at “HUNKY” WANTED TO TALK Tho first thing “Hunky” sald after he had been assisted into the club house was, “T'll be all right !f/the head of the heap. Bill won his T can only talk.” |firet game this year, and has Shaw {s quite some debater, and | dropped all the rest thus far. has led the club houde league tn gabbing all season. His teammates |“OUTCH” REUTHER will miss his dally oratorical selec: |'N OUTFIELD tions about as much as Tealey Ray-| Nick Williams waa not stuck on “Dutch” Reuther'a ,work at first mond will miss him from the line up, for the veteran has been gotng | base, #0 he is now working “Dutch” in the outer breastworks. “Dutch” has been hitting pretty irregularly this year. He will get four out of four one day and will at bat five | times the next day without a crack. +. Complete Report have been of great help in tae pres- ent series, PURSE NOT LARGE ENOUGH FOR JOE CHICAGO, May 22.—Joo Stecher, | of Market Today the Nebraska wrestling marvel, is ed holding out for @ larger purse be-| : fore he will agree to meet Frank | | prices Paid Whelessie Dealers for Gotch for the world’s champion pe ahip. i> This became known today, when Tom Jones, acting for Gotch, an nounced that the Nebraskan had) | rejected an offer made by him yos | ¢. terday. Jones offered to guaran-| tee Stecher 40 per cent of the prof-| {ts of the match, but Joe thought | [*" he ought to h ore. MASCOTT TO BOX COLORED SCRAPPER PORTLAND, May 22.—Lee John- son of Oakland will box Billy Mas) cott atx rounds here Friday night.) On the same night Joe Gorman, also of Oakland, will mix with Jockey Bennett, and Romeo Hagen of Seat tle will step six rounds with Al Loca! apples Sommern. | Yellow Newtown Pippina. . ° tabagas, sack 1 Applies” | NORTHWESTERN LEAGUE : PE | White river . month, Burke represents Agusto le Zama, Bugenio Alveras and Ar- mando Etchegogten. "TOBACCO like fren’- ship is better for bein’ mellowed by TH E flavor, the tu Tobacco is improved by being aged for two ness natural to Ken- Yakima Burbanks ... Yakima Gems 1918 brotiers . Ducks, fat qyne” Butter SHE’S CHAMP DIVER Mise Lililan Miller CINCINNATI, O., May 22.—The champion girl diver of greater Cin- cinnati is a regular sermon on self. confidence, poise, personality and all that sort of thing. She ts one of those persons who believe one can do most anything one sets out to do. When she won the diving cham- pionship by outdiving elght other girls in a big glass tank at a local vaudeville theatre the other alght, Miss Lilllan Miller was not sur prised. She expected to win; that, you see, being one of the Ingre- Aients of a really, truly champion- ship disposition. Miss Miller wasn't frightened by the spectators who watched the divers, She was as cool as @ cu- cumber. Some of the girls dived from the edge of the tank. She dived from a springboard way up in the files, The champion diver ts a stenographer and cashier. | ALL CHAMPS BELONG TO CIRCUSES, EH? Great Britain's smallest cham- plon, Johnny Wilde, holder of the flywetght (110-pound) title, like Jess Willard, learned to box while en tour with a circus. While follow. ing the sawdust trafl thru the Brit- ish Isles Wilde defeated more than 100 opponents. It has been found impossible to find Wilde a match with men of his own weight, and so he {8 con- stantly going out of his class to meet opponents. He recently flat- tened Young Rosner, flyweight | Native Washington ereamery, brick te Wanhin mildness, the cool- cky’s choicest Burley Vanhington oats, 30.00 180.00 timothy Kastern Washington dou bie compressed timothy WhOat -eccrereecerenees 36.00 champion of America, In a battle in the Liverpool stadium. WHERE N. W. TEAMS PLAY Spokane at Seattle, Tacoma at Vancouver, Butte at Great Falla, NATIONAL RESULTS SUNDAY At Chicago 2, Philadelphia 4, At St. Louls 0, Boston 2, At Cincinnati 1, New York 11. No other. MIKADOS ARE BEATEN The New System team of the City league bested the Mifkados Sunday, 8 to 2. The Ballard Boost- ers forfeited their game to the Portland Cordage Co, by failing to Copyriaht ‘Trade Mark Mew U. 1916, by HL ©. Fisher 8 Pat off By BUD FISHER || 1 You Realize the Importance of a Good Appearance You'll Appreciate the Character of Cheasty’s Smart Clothes $15 to $50 “Values Tell” PeSe IF 1 nee OFFERtED SARBONLA BY CHAR ACrURUING VILLA Tee Seve ritay TH. write nin {NEW YORK OFF ONA RAMPAGE NEW YORK, May 22.—New York has started a spurt in the National league race which bids fair to land McGraw’s men at the top, if they can stand the terrific pace. By slaughtering Cincinnati yesterday, the Giants climbed into fourth place. During the past week, New York averaged 10 hits and five runs per me. Robertson, Fletcher, Me echnie and Doyle are bitting the men consistently, and Anderson, nto, Perritt and Mathewson arg rapidly getting into first-class piteh- jin form, SEATTLE IS VICTOR | CALIFORNIA PRO PLAYS | WONDERFUL GOLF: MAKES | COURSE 11 UNDER PAR) eee OAKLAND, Cal. May 22.—Golfers of the East Bay section today looked to John Black, professional at the Claremont Coun- try club, to finish high In the coming professional matches of the Western Golf association, at De! Monte, following his per formance y day, when he covered the Claremont course in 68 strokes. 11 strokes better than par and is wonderful golf. Black turned in a card of 31 for the first nine holes and 27 for the last nine. HERE IS RIVAL TO MORDECAI BROWN | OBERLIN, 0. May 22.—Oberlin college boasts a threefingered pitcher named Tillman who ts fast acquiring @ statewide reputation as strikeout expert. Tillman has knack of wrapping one of the three atubs around the ball so when he delivers it the horsehide hops up t the plate in bewildering fashion The curves and shoots frequently | fool Tillman's ba''ery \STATE SHOOT | Is ON AT HARBOR ISLAND The 22nd exeual « state saeuioc| |is on this afternoon at the Harbor island traps. A large entry list | will compete, Dr. King was high man at Green Lake Sunday, bagging 49 out of a le 60. The officers of the Green Lake | have put up a silver cup to] shot for next week. mate,| The state shoot will Giauque. three days Frank Troeh, the Vancouver, Wash., crack, made 50 out of 50 at NEW MILE RECORD | Harbor island in the amateur | events while F. ©. Riebl, profes- | stonal, ala the same. Pca DEPOSIT, M4, May 22,— —_—_——_—_—_—— jelds, of the Mercerberg, Pa. academy, hung up & new tnterscho- BELLINGHAM ELKS WIN lastic record for the mile Saturday| The Bellingham Elks when he negotiated tt in 4:23 2-6,|Gtacy Shown t This ts three seconds better than! camp Sunday the vious record. ham, 9 to 1 ers Sunday the Sound, 8 to 0. The Seattle defense was too much for the Tacoma lads, in HAS ANYONE busted your straw hat yet? Oh, very well, last for | OREGON WINS TRACK MEET As forecast, the University of | Washington team was defeated in Saturday's track meet with Oregom on Denny field, 76 to 55. of Seattle {nto} Olympia defeated Doty at Olyms ernoon at Belling-' pla Sunday In an interesting game, 7 to 6. A Remarkable Tribute to that Presado Blend EARLY two years ago came the war. It called back to Europe men by the thousands. Will- ingly these reservists left America to fight for their mother country. The Englishman loves his pipe but for that last pleasant memory of America many chose Tom Keene in- stead. The Italian and Russian reservist who at home smoked black and over- strong cigars—had come to learn the true delights of mild Tom Keene. Out past the Statue of Liberty the aroma of that mild Presado blend cheered many a troubled mind. Those were busy days in New York harbor. Every now and then the New Yorkers riding on ferry-boats would pass a huge ocean greyhound decorated with flags of some foreign country and crowded With men—men only. Perhaps at Sandy Hook a second And as the great liner churned Tom Keene replaced the first. slowly out to sea, uP would ring a cry, “Vive la France,” or “Viva Italia.” Sometimes it was a song, “Deutsch- land uber Alles.” Or the less demon- strative Englishmen or Russians would merely wave good-bye. At home, as farewells were said, it is not hard to imagine the last few Tom Keenes shared with a father, brother or friend. “Good-bye. Here is one of those cigars I brought from America. Is it not good? I, too, enjoy them . . and when the war is over I shall be glad to get back to America. Life was very pleasant there,” * * * Tom Keene—for keen Americans, The only cigar with the Presado blend. One day a salesman for Bondy & Lederer was talking with a tobacco- nist in Pittsburgh. “You'd be surprised,” said this mer- chant, “how the better class of reserv- ists are taking back with them to Europe— @——boxes of Tom Keene Cigars!” Schwabacher Brothers & Co., Inc., Distributors, Seattle, Washington, took the|OLYMPIA WINS FROM DOTY.