The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 20, 1916, Page 10

Union Street————Elliott 4100 Pike Street-———Second Avenue— $10.00 Skirt Sale. With the finer silk and finer to $19.50, onthe tables at $10 Only a few of each, in silk poplin, silk taffeta, serges, wool poplins and worsteds of Dress Skirts rts in silk poplin and taf or navy blue, in wide and plaids and gaily col A sale of the better k xt $10.00. Ik Sk , faney Skirts in plain shades, in checks or signs, braid or button trimmed as demanded by belted, shirred or full ar flaring, with $1.50 Wool Coats for Only $6.95 Mc worth up to $14.50 in serge, pop White Middy Suits $ This certainly is the day of Middy Suits, tel and you're not in it at all without one. We vert srsted and novelty coats have them of serviceable linene cloth at ay tyles, ¢ut full and flaring $1.50. All white, coat style, with belt tly oat length with regular and two pockets and sailor collar—plain flaring | conyertit la pr ly trimmed Second Files skirt. Wash Silks That Will Really Wash are wash silks No need to send these pretty fabrics to the dry clea . for they really wash, and we p at the colors are fast : The 3 s so att that it will be a case of love The patterns are so at first sight when you see them 33-INCH PONGEE A YARD Extra Heavy, Imported 100 pieces of a selected quality of Imported Ponges, extra heavy and very desirable for waists, dresses, underwear or draperies—4ic a yard WHITE WASH SILK $1.00 YARD Heavy Quality, 33- og TAL SILK 50c TO $1.50 YARD Pure White, 27 and 36 In. Imported White Habutal Wash Silks, beautiful 1 1 hand woven, ranging from 27 to 36 and a number of different widthe HABU 45c Fall 40 Inches in Width Most appropriate for sux ar is this Crepe de Chine, the m popul all silks toe | nd we have ne White Wash Silk. Beautiful, | * quality, 33 rf waists and underwea finches wide, and wil! wash splendidly—$ yard. | and scarce shades, including black and white 40 inches wide. FANCY STRIPED SILKS $1.00 YARD Fail 33 Inches in Width Nobby Silks with plain white or pongee grounds and different colore! stripes that will stand the | washing—especially nice for summer wear. | ing and wear a long time Of Course, the Wash n Goods | Aisles Are Crowded— For with wash goods stocks at their very | best, it would be a funny thing if we were | mot selling thousands and th yards of dainty wash stuffs every A 38-INCH VOILES 25c A YARD 100 different styles of Voiles—38 inches wide, all wanted shades—will make up into lovely Bik peated shad In Bedding and waists. 36 AND 38-INCH VOILES 35c YARD| 90c Sheets, 81x99 Inches 69c mise guailty Breas, Votien, $9 nieces to select | $1.00 Bedspreads, 75¢ Each | $1.50 Bedspreads at $1.19 Ea. effects; 36 and 38 inches wide 36-INCH DRESS LINENS 60¢ YARD | 90¢ Pillow Cases at 17c Each In Domestics All pure Linen, 26 inches wide—non-¢ ing. French weave, in old rose, pink, green, blue, gray 2 eA YARD. | 15c Galatea, Mill Ends, 10c Yd. 25c Soisettes, Mill Ends, 15¢ Yd. EMBROIDERED VOILES 85c YARD! 32-Inch Shirting Madras, 15c with neat figures; also 38 Inch Bikatripe Voies | 27-In. Plaid Ginghams, 7c Yd. inches wide—white grounds with neat embrold at 850 a yard. —Leower Main Floor, 33-INCH CREPE DE CHINE $1.50 In Washabje Stripes Lovely heavy Crepe de Chine and Silk Broad- —Upper Main Fleer, SDNESDAY SPECIALS In White Goods 15c White Goods at 10c Yard 20c and 25c White Goods 15c | 22-Inch Diaper Cloth 65c Bolt | 25c and 30c White Goods 19c Ww jj] ered figures; 59c a yard —Lower Main Floor. | i /2,000 Yards of Summer Ribbons at 20c Yd. SPECIAL! INDEED, YES— in polka- and fancy They're just lo for 20c a yard —Upper Main Floor. Save 1-3 on Children’s Coats 71 Little Coats, Sizes 2 to 15, Have —gae-— been Reduced 334 Per Cent Because Ps Size ranges are broker 8 ust be wh —_ | the season ¢ older Thes 71 Coats represent some our best va amongst the seaso' first favorites wolbdy $3.50 Coats, of mercerized pongee, | $7.95 Coats, of fancy crepes, she Si } | Bre reduced he ecks, silks > P: \ | aa $038 | a $5.30 | a $4.95 Coats, serge, poplin and | $9.95 Coats, of taffetas, pongee itt ie mixtures, crepes and serg $3.30 | $6.63 1 .95 Coats, of verges, poplins, sil $12.95 Co yon are reduced for this sale to ore $3. 97 Entry Blanks for the Fashion | Women’ s 50c U Show in the New Natatorium fob may be secured in the Bathing nion Suits for 39c Sizes 34 to 44—Ali One Piece They're € nade tton Sait Section. pertestiy ‘size: peta ; ‘3 ; va | ne e lace ort t gk “Middy Blouses WOMEN'S SUMMER VESTS AT 17. | Tinned 'f ® qualit c t w neck o a4 to 3 for 50¢ OF HEAVY GALATE/ | . ; JAPANESE CREPE AND | CHILDREN’S UNDERWEAR 25¢ TO 35¢ MIDDY CLOTH Ribbed summer-weight Vesta for ct nh, 1 to 16 years, Low neck, short or no sleeves—also long and high neck; knee You're ure to find | or ankle Pants to matet he Middy ¢ e ’ Sec, bay ¢ BOYS’ 50c UNION SUITS AT 39 Regulat ( ummer-weight f an Un t ort sleeves belts, self t WOMEN'S $1.00 UNION SUITS AT ¢ trimme of £ a, Japa Pandora piece Union ta fe ‘ de of fine and Middy cloth | with low neck, no sleeves and Torchon lace trimm } ese crepe « ) 88, 40. —Seeond Fioor, Upper Ma cloth {n stunning stripes that will stand the wash | wool dress skirts worth up | SILK ¢ -REPE DE CHINE $1.25 YARD | | | NICELY SAT UPON i Tries to Defend Purchase of “Duck Pond” Question. Postoffice Site, When Member of Con- gress Interrupts Oration With Pertinent WASHINGTON, June 20.— Congressman Will £. Humphrey is wearing a j these days, the | He was virtually lifted off his | feet In the house of represen. tatives, the other day, and car | ried Into a figurative wood | shed, stripped and spanked | | It happened during the de fortifications bill, arose to make an dment adding $1,000,000 to the appropriation, so clude further fortifications for Grays harbor and Willapa har bor, in Washington state The amendment duly recorded Humphrey eded to orate, The time Hmit wed each member | was five mnutes. | Borland Interrupts | Humphrey had proceeded about one minute in explaining the dan on the Pacific coast rest™man Borland of Mis sourt ant to ask the gentle man,” the Missourian said, “whether there is not grave danger, also, of a submarine at- tack on that postoffice site that | was sold to the government in Seattle?” In the language of the day, this got Humphrey's goat. He spent the rest of his time tn defending himself on the postoffice deal When bis five minutes were up, he was still explaining the postof. flee matter, and the fortifications amendment was arcely touched Natorally Humphrey's amend ment was lont Tries to “Pass Buck” Seeking to cover up his tracks Humphrey declares that the Seattle Chamber of Commerce and Senator Piles were the first to recommend the site, and that Senator Poindex ter had made inquiries about tt be fore he did. The records show Humphrey has been falsifying The Chamber and Senator Piles both urged the treasury department not to purchase the site. So did the then postmaster, George PF. Rus sell Later, thru some unexplained tn fluence, the Chamber withdrew {ts objections, and Humphrey quickly | | ‘informed the treasury department jthat every thing was lovely and the should be immediate! purchase | made. | tide fats and | Humphrey 4 Senator Poindexter never recor mended the site In his speech, however, Hum phrey sald “There never wae a more villainous I!lustration of certain ‘ying with n has been furnished by postoffice transaction in relation to my seit.” Humphrey, howeve jays olded mentioning jal” letters to the former asst secretary ff the treasury Calls Newton Liar the ¢ eo of his defense ared that “every ma nt made by Assistant the Treasury in regard to this site is abs untrue Newton had told the appropria tions committee that he had seer the postoffice site; that it was not a suitable place for putting a“ federal building; that {t was on the under water, and t it is #0 far away from the rai station that it would coat the post. office department $19,000 a year extra to handle mall there. carefully his “confiden stant In Records Show Humphrey Lied Humphrey denied it was under water He also dented hartng anything to do with the purchas He claimed his interestin the site came after the purchase The records of the secretary of the treasury, however, plainly show that Humphrey lied On August 12, 1911, Humphrey wrote to the department, which was then under the Taft regime. urging the purchase of the site, and stating that “the price is reason: able.” He had also written some letters before on the biect—all of which were marked “Confidential.” The “reasonable” price recom: mended by Humphrey was $169,500. The government is now willing to sell the Humphrey postoffice site at half the price The site was purchased from Frank Baker, former campaign manager of Humphrey, and others BITS OF NEWS ABOUT | _OUR CITIZEN TROOPS. Fifty University of Washington] burn, Anacortes, students, who are members of F company, Second infantry, slept in Lewis hall, on the campus, Monday night. The entire company is made up of students. The tele grams sent out at § a m. Monday | are being answered from all parts | of the country, where the men went to take vacation jobs. rd mobilization men away from The National G has called eight county #ervice They are Maj. John Carroll, jus tice of the peace; Capt. W. H. Nel son, court engineer; Capt. Ernent A. Keene, Lieut. J. D. Zech, and Rurtis, court clerks; Jack Sheldon, Parmalee, Lieut. Cole C. H. M. Rude, recorder; jabstract clerk, and Guy assessor's cruiser. see Four police officers are weartng of blue Tues. thelr National Armory H O'Brien, signal yan Kea Stenog t and Patrolman . The field signal corps, N. G. W., may take Aviator Maroney to the Mexican border. He offered his services and a brand new flying machine to Adjt. Gen. Thompson Monday cee I'll ask the war department,” sald the adjutant general, “if Ma roney pted he naval n who work back {nto The city councli will 1 pass a bill introduced by Councilmen Haas and Moore, securing the jobs fe \ » a poll ta Monday. . Militiamen in uniform are mitted to wall and into the Orpheum this to The Spendthrift, free of charge. . per see oe A big crowd stood on the side. and watched four companies of National Guardsmen eat df at Chauncey Wright's Third ave restaurant Monday night e checks went to the adjutant ral's office ody or ‘ed beans Capt. R. B. McClinton and Lieut u Pulle th left their obs in the corporation counsel's | to join their Monday com: panies. 4s Washington state troops may move south in standard sleeping cars, The railway officials are hav ing trouble getting — together enough tourist sleepers ee Guardsmen were permitted to ale t their homes Monday night Th will bivouae in the Armory Tuesday night Fifty-five recruits passed the medical examinations at the Ar. me and were enlisted Monday Twenty-four were rejected Second infantry detachments are igathering recruits at Kent, | ! n they return | 84 accord: | | ag right past the door | form in A Company, Hico will Port Townsend, Bellingham, and Everett Tuesday oe. Maj. Fred Liewellyn, tn charge of recruiting, opened downtown headquarters on Second ave, next to Cheasty’s haberdashery, late Monday, eee “Let's get to wer strength first! This ts the slogan of the Wash ington Nationa! Guard troops. They want to report to the sec jretary of war ahead of every oth er state that their forces have been recruited up to the necessary number of men ee Maj. Harvey Moss and Capt. W H Tuesday, Nelson are at American Lake superintending pre Sergt nand of n headq puffing a b BE. L. ted scouts ers comy k pipe h desk to th as you enter the Seemingly, he is doing nothing But when a new man shows up sks for the Major Wolff's eyes narrow down to slits. He looks the pros soldier over and maybe he Wolff, in com attached sits jen behind right of th jcalls him aside, and maybe he doesn't “Only picked men,” said Maj Wolff. “That's all I want in my scouts’ contingent. They've got to know how to trim a horse and how to ride. And they've got to be carole evils about bullets rted scouts go in several ul to strength of 19 anand Tuesday night Mond ay | | | | Ex-Corp, Ed Free ts back in uni-| Tuesday—but He left some months nd went to Portland as a private. ly Monday Capt, R. B. Me Ciinton, of A company, received |the following telegram “Arrive 3:15 p.m. Reserve place for me. Ed Free.” SAYS GEN. CARRANZA MEXICO CITY, June not declare United States, to do her duty if hostilities forced on her,” declared Gen, Car ranza, here, yesterday, tn an ad dress to 10,000 citizens gathered in the city’s big public War 20 war on are square, Minister Obregon and other of. fictals also spoke. Many parades featured the day. | With bands playing and the nation al colors flying, the marchers called at varlous public offices to demon strate their readiness to fight for the count The Mexican workingmen’s ganization last night decided send a committee to confer leaders of the American Fe of Labor in an effort war, or to with ‘ation to prevent MORE THAN 300 kinds of fish Au-jhave voices audible to human ears, “Mex: | the | but will know how | | | a WON'T DECLARE WAR, | | Hl recruiting ser- | jf THE SEATTLE STAR THE BON MARCHE | | HUMPHREY GETS FREDERICK&NELSON 100 NEW WHITE WASH SKIRTS $2.75, $3.50, $4.00 and “ 00 —In White Cotton Gaberdines —In White Cotton Honeycomb Cloth —In White Cotton Cords Smartly styled with pockets, ming. belts and button trim- Also in an especially at Sizes from 24 to 29 waist measurement. White Corduroy Skirts yle, Skirts just received, attractive st $7.50. trimmed with large pearl buttons, in colored corduroys, $5.00. Women’s Automobile Dusters of linen and Palm Beach Cloth, in becomingly fashioned, loose, easy-to-slip-on styles, full and half belted. $9.00 and $12.50 $7.50, Prices, —fiecond Floor. Broken Lines of Laces At Reduced Prices AT 10@ YARD, exceptional Net-toy alues in narrow Ven- » Laces, in gold and black and Cedar Trundle 4: a5¢ yaxo, 1 Filet Laces in white and ecru; WI i A INISHED white Chiffon Edges. ( ni a Wash- 50¢ YARD, Nets, 18- and 26-inch All- natural dull also Chantilly and Net-top Laces from 12 48 to 18 inches wide. ve AT $1.00 YARD, ise medium and wide Venise, Net- Gold and Allovers and ored Net-top Laces; native AT overs, Fancy ington cedar in shellac Measures 20 inches high finish ng, inches inches k 11 and dust-proof Moth high-grade Novelty Laces, 18 to 45 wide, including Gold and Silver Embroidered Nets; Silk Chantilly in black and and Fancy Silk Nets and inches Equipped with brass han dles with witite which rolled Price —First Floor Khaki Camp Outfits Ls 1 : I cravenetted and casters be or and corners ball-bearing permit it to under bed $5.00. Also a Clearance of Dress Trimimings (broken lines) in three exceptional lots at 10c, 25c, and $1.00 yard easily couch _ —First Floor, affected by the most strenuous of out- will be these sturdy new Camping Suits of rain-repelling khaki Norfolk and lengths are $5.00. to in Divided Skirts, $4.00. Gored Skirts, $3.50. Leggings, $1.25 Hats, $1.00. riding Bree< $3.50 hes match, econd Floor. Daremint Salesroom Wool Jersey Sports Suits Attractive Values at $15.00 unusually of than is usual in Suits at $15.00, All banded with r New Crepe Middies, $1.50 perp out of the ordinary are these Mid- dies of striped Japanese crepe, in combinations of blue, pink, rose, green, lav- ender or red with white. Made in belted effect, with regulation square col- lar, short sleeves and two patch pockets. Price $1.50. Basement Salesroom style and quality good, jersey a heavier are in light-gold shade, yse at cuffs and co plaits e belt of skirt flar the « with two patch Palm Beach Suits $10.00 Cool and Practical Summer Suits of Beach cloth, Norfolk style, in plain tan and gray, also silver or black r misse and women up to 40 tem Palm 0g and New Pumps at $3.50 ERY smart for summer white measurer V new dress occasions is this Glazed Kid Pump, with hand-turned sole and Louis heel 2% to7; widths A D. Price $3.50 pair. Children’s dals in tan calf, comfortat for 6 to 8 2, $1.15 pair. Tasement Salesroom. O-Cedar “— Special 95c treated Sizes e Triangle O to as pictured, edar polish, Barefoot San- with cool and outing reac dy for omplete handle, special 95 Soe Dust 25e and 50 O-Cedar Cloths, 5c, wear 8h Dusters, 25c and 7 O-Cedar Dust Mops $1.25 O-Cedar Polish Mops, 75¢ and $1.2 O-Cedar Polish, 4-ounce bo’ 50c; quart size, $1.00; half-gallon, §$ O-Cedar Auto Polish, quart can, $ Nousew pf chad aetatang rday cusdinamaidl New Striped Tub Skirts, 1¢ Pair at $1.50 Saucers, in © and ¢ bottle, $2.50 Cups and pictured, EW light-blue, arrivals. striped firm white pique with m at ely priced (106; Mush Bowls of thin china, with blue decoration, 5¢ each, navy or rose The Skirts are made circular style, front-fastening, with patch pocket wide detachable belt. Priced at $1.50. Basement Salesroom. and —Basement Salesreom