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rrr we ecennmanmniensiineiedeiad | i a Ps AME eo NaC CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 f The Bon Marché’s 26th Anniversary Sale (GOL. MULHALL BARES EVILS OF THE LOBBY | \“The Invisible Governmént.” | . The facts referred to in the book are backed up by| B e F | |thousands of letters which Col. Mulhall keeps under guard in a safety deposit ult, ac y to the author argam rl ay Copies of some of these are published } | Col. Mulhall will leave in a few days for Chicago, where | ! t tair 1 h me dec n e va FOR THE LAST DAY OF THE BON MARCHE’S 26TH ANNIVERSARY SALE f/f will attempt to get certain planks included in, the, na ° lobb Stacks and Stacks of Remnants at Half Price or Near It J)? se joy is tonay just as powerful av it was then : . sserts Mulhall, “and his year making a supreme effo Table After Table of Odds and Ends at Very Little Prices | $°°"'\>.!\)\), (04 8) se year making @ supreme effort " An Anniversary Sale like this leaves many hundreds of small lots iy pane ep Declares It Is His Life Ambition to } its wake—we think it good business to turn them into cash in the shortest possible | Show Up Methods of Powerful Lobby time, even though we lose money in the transaction ¥ iH “It has been the ambition of my life to show up this| They are odds and ends, to be sure, but if you can use them you will find no monster to the people, for once its methods and influences | fault with the prices ____. [I |are made clear, believe it will be overthrowr OI porte ay | “With its 4,000 members,” he continued, “the National |ff Association of Manufacture represents a money pr r of | : | “Annually $1,250,000 ¢ ore is collected from members | ff 1 $10, Yes, and $12.50 Models in Smart Suritener CORY IEU Tl ui hia somcletioh op an looar ecquatvation (© te spas rll Summer Coats in white astrakhan, in white coating flaked with black, in white political purposes. Not a cent of this is ever accounted for | boucle and bright stripings, in awning stripe zibelines, and other stylish fabrics. Some | “That sum represents the canker at the heart of Ameri-|ff with collars of bright green velvet or brown suede leather jcanism today ; | ‘: “Saws got the gp a flare py Martie | ( haplin pockets, some are belted, |f} TP ts f if lators “ag seen be he and sold ele ae others itless—any one of them is a “find” at $6.95. IHiand defeatec ives and rtunes e¢ been d 1 . t is bribery, perjury, treach« he unde of 33 $5.00 Soiled Dresses at $2.50 | $2.95 Khaki Dresses Friday at $1.95 teuttiy, Te Manchest ceed the highe pinnac 1 14 $7.50 Soiled Dresses at $3.75 | —_—‘11 $8.89 Riding Skirts at $2.95 Ea. of gar sat nal institutions. | ee q $9.95 Soiled Wash Shits at $1.98 | $50.00 Striped Tofeta Dress $12.50 ,.su farses. rom wham th lun sweated de aoe know ff 14 $5 Soiled Wool Skirts at $2.50 $39.50 White Taffeta Dress $12.50 J how it has been used. They, as well a people, have been H Massed Motor Coats—14 & 16 at 75 $35 Pussy Willow Dress $12.50 | rego me used’ by a mere handful of unscrupulous men i $2.50 Silk Princess Slips at $1.25 2 $29.50 White Wool Suits $7.50 ee i " ‘i . Asserts Efforts Have Been Made | 98c Extra-Size House Dresses at 50c 5 $21.95 Linen Suits at $7.50 Ea. £5 Bven Kewade tis White House Massed House Dresses Cat to 50cEa. | — $24.50 White Crash Suit at $7.50 “In a sense ‘The Invisible Government’ is not my story | $1.25 House Wrappers Cat to 50c 84 $2.50 Massed Waists at $1.25 at all. The men who constitute it have written it themselves | $1.75 Percale House Wrappers 95c $1.59 Massed Waists at 90c Each lt erhees latebatedae tate: tay hakide ‘on Tlsid went ofthe | $2.50 Long Crepe Kimonos at 98c $4.85 Silk Petticoats at $3.95 Each =f NA. of M., and show in detail the operations of the lobby. |ff “They show how efforts have been made to invade the very White House; how legislatures and cabinets have been |ff influenced to the interests of the powerful few, definitely; how | many of the people's trusted ‘servants’ have placed their ef- fectiveness in pawn with that inner circle of the National |} ED COTTON CREPE | AT $1.45 —secoea rices. ' SE HAND-EMBROIDE AL, VERY SPECIAL, JUST FOR FRIDAY—JAPAN KIMONOS, SPE 50c to $2.00 Trays 25¢ LOWER SECOND Women’s Hats $3.65 MAIN 57 Lacquered Oriental Serv- FLOOR About 900 Hate reduced from Association of Manufacturers. poe P ss i FLOOR ing Trays with hand-painted $4.50, $5.95 and $7.60, to $2.65 Many of their authors are today candidates and nomi | decorations; slightly scratched; ¢ se Ii nees for election to high office at Washington | worth to $2.00, at 25¢ each. for a day. All the stylish, medium and small ‘a “ ; , Hats of Milan, Milan hemp and fancy straw braid, The lobby buys and sells and traffics 0c Salt and Pepper Shakers, imported white china, for decorating; 10 some seconds, pair ............200. 0055 : Cc 75e Wash Basins, 14 only, decorated 35 coos: assorted patterns, at...... c 25c Chambers, 27 only, white glazed one, without Cover, delivered with other goods from household department 10c 5 to $1.00 In Tea and Coffee Pots, 24 only, copper; all tarnished, but 5 ‘Buaranteed not to leak. Oc .50c head Spading Forks, 43 in all; best ble steel with four tines, at...... wail folding Dryers .25¢ and it laughs at | | popular elections. Its tentacles are everywhere i | “The lobby has its ‘honor list,’ men who can be relied ff upon always to do its bidding. This list also is to be printed.” Col. Mulhall believes his book will flush a report from the committee | With 30 years’ all prettily trimmed. $1.45 Panama Hat Shapes, medium sire 95 sailor shapes with drooping brims, at c 25¢ and 500 Millinery Trimming Flowers, a splen- did assortment of colors and varieties, at . ‘ | Girls’ White Dresses 1/2 Price FORMERLY WERE $2.50 TO $17.50 FRIDAY'S PRICE 1S $1.25 TO $8.75 Just 41 of these Dresses, slightly mussed from handling; in lingerie, voile and batiste; sizes 6 to 14 years, Children’s $2.50 to $3.50 Coats In serges, shepherd checks and reps; 2 to 6 years, reduced to $1 -98 Infants’ 150 Bird’seye Diapers, torn and hemmed, sizes 24x24 and 27x27 inches; 10c political experience as equipment and the courage of his Irish blood, Col. Muthall believes he has pre Isented an expose that will set the nation thinking seriously “I have done it only in the interests of clean government,” | he concluded | ‘AVIATORS ATTACK ‘\HAMMOND SPEAKS | _ BRITISH SEACRAFT TO NINTH WARD CLUB | | BERLIN, May 2 man fly-| “That out laborers must be pro | | ers attacked British torpedo passes | ene ted, along with our manufac-} Clothes Dryers, 11 in all; lots of drying space; imaged Women's $3.50 Oxfords in patent leather or soft dull finish calfskin only 3 to a customer, at, each & urers and our capitalists that off the Ph ™ const De- | au $1 79 | | becooue sien hould be perfect harmony MIR es sesecsseapeica. . | struction of two enemy biplanes} seed Be sauce Pe ae Women’s $3.50 Shoes, broken lines, in all syle lasts; black or colored tops; | —— $1.79 $2.50 and $3.00 White Canvas Oxfords, — $1.49 THIRD | Odd Curtains Reduced FLOOR Odd half-pairs of Curtains, —ef about 100 in all; worth $1.26 to $2.00 a pair, at 39c each; worth $2.25 to $4.50 a pair, at 69c each. Nottingham, scrim, novelty nd must be prepared, f of our nation,” w of Frank E. Hammond, didate for congress, the Ninth Ward held Wednesday |ff | Was claimed. | A quarry south of Haudremont | tempgrartly taken by French, was|' reconquered, the war office assert ed P lace and Irish point in the lot | i's hall | Drapery Remnants, including Scrim, Marquisette, Hammond called attention to the Cotton Goods Remnants at 5c Yard Bungalow Net, Sunfast Madras, Tapestry; lengths ROBT. HILL To TALK, fact that at the forte on | the | to 6 yard HALF PRICE [| ite of San Juan de Duca there About 500 Remnants of 7c to 1c Ginghams, Per- Carpet ales, Calicoes and Challies, lengths up to 5 yards; yard.. Remnants of 12!¢ to 18 ammunition hour of 4) *uttt fent Hill, president of the| for only one Exchange, will be the jay noon at the Seatt! to last continuous Robert © Merchants’ speaker Fr’ mples of a good grade of Brussels and Velvet; size 15x27; each 29c 49c | Carpet Samples, Brussels and Velvet, | firing ——— 1 Chall Gi jengt! worth to 5c, Bt...-....ceeeeeees Commercial Club. His topic will | tie: we 30c Curtain Volles, figured bordered 20 |be: “Present Freight Rates on| Evelyn Thaw Marries Remnants of 15¢ to 20¢ White Goods, odds and | material; seconds, yard © |] | Water Her Dancing Partner |ff jawns, pl an detoed 1 HH] ‘Grepes and piques; yard ............... 10c 4 ! CONSUMERS TO MEET | NEW YORK, May 25.—Ev facher wie, Cheesecloth or Gauze, 36 4c $1.50 Corsets, Special at 79¢ ae ; elyn Nesbit Thaw announced | inches wi jengths to 10 yard#; yard.. : 4 Members of the Consumers today that she married Virgil 2c Soiesettes, mill lengths, 32 inches G. D, P. tl and nee front and bac-lace Com if teague and thelr friends will m 4 James Montant, whose stage i a. 15¢ seta, In medium and low bust, long bi 79¢ at the Chamber of Commerce Fri-| name is Jack Clifford, at El- 18¢ Kimono Cre; merican made, sizes 19, 20, 23 to 30; special. : |day afternoon, from 8 tc | Mott City, Md., yesterday .124c 40c Union Suits 25¢ Boys’ 40c Union Suits, to fit ages 4 to 14 years, special at 25¢ @ garment. Girls’ 40c Union Suits, pure whi sizes 4 to 14 years, at..... Children’s 25c White-ribbed Co Shirts and Pants; 2 to 14 years, a! Women’s 50c and 60c Biack Tights, to celebrate the fourth anniversary of the league organization. Col. H B. Hardt has arranged the program yard. ........ In obtaining a license, the bride gave her name as Flor. | ence Nesbit and her age as 31. 25 Stamped Waists at 63c Walsts, entirely made up of plain or striped voile, with enough floss to complete 63 | Cc} the embroidery, at 35e Cretonne Pillow Covers, lace trim med, all ready for the floss pillow 19c 85c Women's Stamped Drawers, made up of nain sook, in package with floss to —_——-— | caabrotder, at 43c Boooon !!! Wook ovr, 25 Children’s 50c to 980 Stamped Dresses; a small | HERE COMES THES knee le li NO RR sai C | lot only; entirely made up of various materials |) SS Sreaisare soe Union suite all sizes, in tan, blue and pink; sizes 2 to 10 39 ; enff and lace knee, at.................. 35c years; spectal a . c 1 pail nad oe pe ani pure black; sec ’ : 9, 9% and 10; per pair... 9 15c | |__Crepe de Chine Gowns at $4.95 _| do Chine Gowns at $4.96 Women’s Fiber Silk Stockings, “seconds” | $10.50 to $12.50 Crepe de Chine Night Gowns, in Of 25¢ grade; black and white; pair..... 25c | white, blue or flesh, with deep lace $4.95 | alae _ eg Silk Hose, 25c | yokes, ribbon trimmed; special at . siz DBR. «+0 +-eeore- $6.50 to $10.50 Silk Crepe de Chine Combinations Infants’ Fiber Slik Hose, black or white, seconds in white, pink or blue, lace or $4 95 . Of 360 quality; sizes 17c embroidered net trimming, at GROCERIES | 4 to 6%; pair . SALMON LOAF AT 6c A CAN Lace Remnants 5c to 20c Each DOMESTIC OIL SARDINES, 4c Remnants of Embroideries and Laces, arranged MINCED CLAMS AT & A CAN FOURTH FLOOR | for quick selection, in lots at 5c, 10c, 15¢ and 20¢ ge Many different lengths and widths, of igenen i hbaheg hes ind 15c HOMINY, LARGE CANS, AT 9% jes, wor to $1.00 yard; yard ‘Laces, Trimmings and De Luxe Solld Pack Tomatoes, extra 35 25 ¢ | iarce cans, 3 for c » worth to $1.50; yard.. 250 yards of 40-inch Georgette Crepe, worth gularly $1.00; yard 100 yards of 59 Embroidered Flouncing, white | and colored; 40 and 45 inches 39 c wide; yard i $1.00 Ostrich Boas 50c Each Graham or Whole Wheat Flour, 75¢| No, 10 sack#, for 30c 25c 224c .20c Instant Postum, large cans, 40¢; small cans Pure Cocoa, in bulk, per pound ........ Ground Chocolate, in bulk, per pound Ostrich Boas, nice and fluffy, finished with 4 tse wnat, Sr," wrote | Senern tend Brice tom cis ot Sane 4 = and cerise, 5c eaci | seer 265 Guimpes of net and shadow lace, with low | T# Fannings, 10 A CHILD SQEM3 To AFFORD neck and armholes and lawn DOF POUNE: is tnersicowiceinetinssses sence ions c You AB Much PLEASURE EE a rs 10c Laundry Soap, medium size, “1 AS I Ger OuT OF 20c Ribbons, fancy floral designs, light and dark | 6 bars for . 15c re HING You INTO) grounds, Roman stripes, checks and plain Armour’s Silver Shield Lard taffetas; 3 and 5 inches wide; yard 15c 1} No, 3 pails for w—- THES MIDDLE OF NExT Week it THE BON MARCHE Pike Street———-Second Avenue——Union Street———-Elliott 4100 THE SEATTLE STAR FREDERICK®NELSON Extension Dining Tables at Low Prices for m mer the good © are featuring well-bu Oak E 1 Table the following moderate prices: Fumed Oak Extension Tables at $12.50, $13.50, $15.00, $18.50, $18.75, $20.00, $21.50, ‘$25.00, Oand § 5 Golden Oak Extension Tables, $12.50, $13.50, $16.50, $17.50 and $20.00. The Table shown in the sketch is of fumed oak, with top 42 inches in diameter, extending to 6 feet The price is $12.75 Third Floor Wide Silk Ribbons Reduced to 45c Yard HE Ribbons in this underpriced offering Satin Taffeta, Glace S are in tin and Crepe de Chine qual ities, and such desirable shades as peach, pink, sky-blue, Copenhagen, peacock, prune, turquoise, wistaria, car dinal, fuchsia, yellow, lemon, black, Russian-green and Nile Desirable for sashes, girdles and hat trimmings, and exceptional values at 45¢@ yard —Viret Floor New Hand: Bags Attractively Priced EWEST Hand-bags Strap-back book styles” in Leather, Pin Seal, arrivals in are the Pocket- Patent Moroc- co, Goat Seal and Persian the and and Sheepskin—all with handy inside frame coin pocket A wide range of prices—$1.00, $5.00 and $6.00. $1.75, $2.50, $3.50, A ‘Disposal of Drapery Remnants scheduled for Friday, includes short lengths and discon- tinued samples of various decorative fabrics, such as: Tapestries Velvets Figured Nets Swisses Cretonnes pieces suitable for many upholstery and drapery uses, all sharply reduced for quick disposal, | —First Floor. Scrims Basement Salesroom An Attractive Offering of Cloth and Silk Suits at $18.50 All- Taffeta Taffeta-and-Wool Combinations Gaberdine Serge Wool Velours MARTLY designed with loose and belted jackets of the prevailing modes, and gracefully flaring skirts. Colors: black, navy-blue, tan, black-and- white checks, rose, gold, Copenhagen. Decidedly interesting values g A Suit of Wool Gaber- A Sports Suit of Bel- dine in Copenhagen-blue gium-blue wool jersey has has belted box coat with : J bag box-plaited Norfolk jack- patch pockets and large, rolling cape collar, and is et with detachable silk furnished with detachable poplin collar, and yoked over-collar and cuffs of skirt with fullness con white .silk poplin. Price fined by a belt. Price $18.50. $18.50. A Black Chiffon Taffeta Suit with rippling peplum is trimmed with self-covered buttons, and the skirt has shirred yoke, topped with a belt. Price $18.5 Basement § Women’s Union Suits at 50c EIGHTS best adapted for immediate wear, tured at this fea- moderate price, as follows neck, 50¢. Swiss-ribbed Union Suits with band or Poros-Mesh Union Suits in low sleeveless cuff « style, with lace-trimmed knee beading 50¢. sleeveless or neck and sleevele with cuff Fine-ribbed Union Suits, short or lace knee, low neck with sleeves, and cuff knee; alse with lace knee, 50¢, » low neck, sleeve- less style, Basement Salesroom Fiber-Silk-Boot Stockings 25c Pair N HE boots of these Stockings are of sheer fiber silk, the tops of strong, durable cotton They have double heel and toe, and come in black, white, laven der, emerald, sky-blue, pink, champagne, Price 25¢ pair. dark-green and gray, Basement Salesroom Wool Jersey Cloth FLAGS For Memorial Day of wool and cot- and of qualities; bunting, liable cliable m e prices. U. S. Flags of standard wool bunt ewed tar sizes 1,50; °5 $6.25; 6x10, $8.50; 8x12, $10.50, U. S. Flags of cotton bunting, sewed stripes stars, sizes 3x5 feet, 00; 4x6, $1.20; 5x8, $2.00; 6x9, $2.50; 6x10, ; 8x12, $3.75 Upholstery Section, First Floor Small Silk and Cotton Flags as stocked in the Stationery Section, include the following items: Silk Pin Flags for lapels, 2 for Se and Se each, Small Silk Flags with staff. 5c, 19¢ and 25c each larger Silk Flags without staff, 45c and $1.00. Cotton Flags on staff, 5c, 10¢, 15c and 20c each; larger, with- out staff, 35c and 50c. *- Paper Napkins and Luncheon Sets in patriotic designs, at various prices. —First Floor. CRETONNES for Sports Skirts RETONNES and Chintzes in many striking novel- ties; pompadour stripes, dom- ino checks and stripes with flowered overprints, which will make up into very smart sep- arate skirts These fabrics are 32 inches wide, and price: and Sic the yard. ind 36 450 —First Floor, LeatherNovelties | Low-Priced l EATHER Cases, Scissor Pin Books and Stamp Purses, 5¢ each. Leather Tie Racks and Pen Wipers, 10@ each Leather Drinking Cup Cases, Paper Weights, Coin Pur large Pin B and ooks, 15¢. Leather Vanity Cases, Hand-bags and Manicure Cases, 25¢, Basement Salesroom Remnants Reduced ANTS of Lac R EM Edges Allover Laces, Embroidery lery Flounc “8 and Embroi in two underpriced lots at Se and 10¢ each Ribbon Remnants in various widths and lengths, reduced to 5¢, 10¢ and 15¢ each. ~-Basement Salesroom