The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 27, 1917, Page 3

CHITTENDEN NOW KNOCKS OWN IDEAS, BRIDGES ASSERTS tion authorizing the commission to publish bulletins prior to elections ! authorizing the commiasion to »btain information as to the meth ods of operation of other ports by jsending rep entatives to such ports or to conventions of port au | thorities: As a matter of fact, Gen. Chitten don first proposed tssuing bulletins j advising the electors of issues to © presented at elections, and Gen STAR--SATURDAY, JAN, 27, 1917. PAGE 3 W. J. BURNS IS FINED $100 FOR OFFICE BREAKING Editor The Star During the } pre and the interest has to be|c hittenden also first proposed ex NEW YORK, Jan Willtam present week a letter was given to|paid on these bonds prior to the | penditure of port funds for obta J. Burns, head of the detective the public by H. M. Chittenden, the properties begin to make |!ng information of the work of/agency that beara his name, paid Mer member of the port ¢ a return other ports & $100 fine to escape going to jail sion. In this letter Gen. Chitten-| Same Staff | So also the iden of sending per-|for 30 days ax the result of his den opposes that provision | As to the completed properties, | sons to obtain information of the| conviction Friday of entering th House Bill 45, now pending in the | several of them were in operation | YF of other ports, and the attond-| private offices of Seymour & state legislature, which provides two years before Gen. Chittenden | '"8 of conventions of port authori-|mour to obtain information for J for $3,000 annual compensation for | retired, and the rates for wharfage | tes was, I think, first suggested by | P. Morgan & Co., a client, on how port commissioners. He also op-| ang warehousing which were adopt-| 2% Chittenden. In 1914, at Gen, |allled war orders were leaking poses a provision tn that bill which |ed when Gen. Chitte: was preat. | Chittenden’s suggestion port! In commenting on the case, the Authorizes the port commission to| dent of the port commission are | COMMIission a for the justice on the bench said that no Coast Port private detective had a right to en issue bulletins previous to tions and to publish annua! reports now in force. tin charge of the pre and the same staff is rties now thorities, which held eting was ter a man’s private office or home He also takes occasion to oppose | wh on, Chittenden was presi. |!2 Seattle and the expense of which, It would be giving a private de the submitting to the people of the | dent, and affairs are conducted now | ®™0unting to $195, was born tective more power than a police Proposition for a terminal belt line | practi y the same as they were port district. The hoidi man,” declared Justice Collins in railway. In addition to the fore-| conducted then. So that if the | ‘2!* convention bere at th handing down the decision The Going, the general states that it is | management is bad now, If politics |! the port district was law puts a protection around a &@ matter of regret to him that the | controls in the organization of the | ‘#¢e" ® idea |man's home. It , would be a de port district “seems as far as ever | staff now, the situation dates back _ Expense Greater Then jplorable thing if, in America, « rom any substantial approach tolto the time when Gen. Chittenden |, While Gen. Chittenden was jresl-| private house were not safe from its way,” and infers that | was president. Asa matter of fact, | 1¢"! of the commission, and largely [being ente red by _priva de this is due to poor management | Gen. Chittenden knows, and every | ** his suggestion, the conimissiongtectives, apd if a office paid the expenses of various mem-| may safely be entero pro and to the influence of politics in the organization of the staff. Gen, Chittenden was president of one knows, of the port that there is leas poll ties in the organization of the staff mmission than p , bers of the |sions of the tatf, and mm iasioner mn two occa them rob the port commission from the fall | ably any political body in existence. | "*!¥es. to obtain Information from Of 1911 to the fall of 1915. The gen In connection with Gen. Chitten- | er porte eral is perfectly aware why the dens statements that the proper Our records will show that the port did not pay its way during |ties seem as far as ever from pay-|*22Ual expenditures for the pur those years, and the same reason notable lack on why it did not pay its way during those years obtains now, namely, that the port district has been | spending the money cbtained from | ing, there is a suggestion as to how he make the properties pay Would he, for example, charged by private docks? TOMORROW AT “SAVING THE FAMILY NAME” te Class “A” THEATRE house rates? such an increase in rates 5 acts the port district act, there is a SHOWING AT THE STRAND | TOMORROW MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY IN A GRIPPING DRAMA “The Apostle of Vengeance” FATTY ARBUCKLE IN A KEYSTONE SUPER COMEDY RIOT THE WAITERS’ BALL rh SPECIAL ADDED ATTRACTION PATRICK J. MURPHY SWEET IRISH TENOR SECOND AVENUE Bet. Spring general's part of any construc! would increase bond issues in completing the port/the wharfage rate from 20 cents| per tan to 50 cents per ton, the rat Would he make similar increases in ware: | Does he think that would | | poses of sending representatives to other ports was much greater when | Gen. Chittenden was president than [it has been since his retirement | from the commission. It is my own opinion that no money has been | spent to greater advantage than the money spent in sending representa tives to study other port facilities, before embarking on our own | projects. the tive Terminal Belt Line Maclaren r ai-| end Phillize tend boty sal away busi-) To worked with Gen. | eed Expenditures for Bulletins atee a for four years, his play | In the proposed amendments to | Change of frong on the belt line rath way proposition is a moat astonish jing and inexplicable performance: While the general was on the com mission, he was one of the strong est advocates of this proposition. The following quotation is from Bulletin No, 4, written b | Chittenden himself he result of this study has been, in the first place, not to lessen the commission's esti mate of the difficulties of the problem, and in the second | place, to confirm it in its first opinion that a terminal system under a single contro! is the true solution. it appears, how- ever, to be quite impossible to get the railways to organize such a service among them- sec « | | That's the woman's dread when | she gets up In the morning to atart tection would a client have? their advantages of position. There thus remains only one agency, the port commission, to organize such a service. . . “A close student of the local transportation problem recent ly said that nothing would ‘iron out so many wrinkles’ therein as the organization of a muni- cipal terminal raliway service. The objection to the present system Is not primarily its cos for the average charge com- pares favorably with those In other large cities. The trouble is in lack of co-ordination, unt- formity, and efficiency of vice. The system does not deal fairly by all and does not produce the most efficient re- that the system In force San Francisco, Montr In New Orleans and in a less de gree In several other cities, should be established here with such modifications as will adapt it to the local situation, Tho momentarily halted in ite ef. forts to bring about this re- suit, it has no intention of abandoning its purpose, but will continue to work for it until it is accomplished.” Commissioners’ Salaries The general also states In his let ter that while he was in favor of a salary for port commissioners when iA DAGGER | ject of compensation, except he | states that it would Increase the |cost of the port district $9,000 a IN THE BACK | s000.°t wonder, ao the goneral and “hers who make such an argument, really believe that compensation should be refused on the ground of fone ey GOLD MEDAL Haarlem on | Keeping down expenses? Do they | |Mapsuies taken today eases the| really wish their taxes to be re kache of tomorrow—taken every | duced a small fraction of a mill by day ends the backache for all time. | making their servants contribute Don't delay. What's the use of suf- fering? Begin taking GOLD lem Ol) Capsules today and be Take three or and be pormanentiy wrenching. distressing But be sure to get GOLD | MEDAL tomorrow |back pain in free of charge thousands of dollars yut of their own pockets? If that the argument of these gentlemen why the legislature should not pro vide compensation for the port com Ete Oil han heen the Naciona | missioners, I have nothing more to emedy of Holland, the Government | RY. of the ethe having granted ROBERT BRIDGES ja_apectal charter authorizing its! President Port of Seattle Com preparation and sale. The house-| wif of Holland would almost as |foon ‘be without bre 8 she ig. hie lS ALASKA COLONIST as she quaintly LD m ON Capaul his fn the one reason why you will find mn and children of Holland | orig ted| The first issue of the Alaska a boratorl in| Colonist, a new pub on ust | ‘tt rahe ‘phoratories In| Colonist, a new publication, is just DAL, Look for the| Off the press, box, Sold by relt The paper is a monthly journal In sanied package: od to ec atio , nd $1.00. Money re. | devote Ne | ylonization, rational they do not help you,| Sovernment and business freedom nly the GOLD MEDAL are Imita For sie and guarantesd by Owl Dr 0. ORPHEU Sixth All the| and last week of Sunday A Musical a AC 36—PEOPLE IN PRICES—Nights, 10 to 50 yin Starting Sunday night, Hackett and the Wilkes Players, and some new faces. Seats now Matinee, Wilkes Musical Players in “THE YANKEE PRINCE” BACK AGAIN February MAKES ITS DEBUT in Alaska, William W, Rush is the editor and publisher of the paper The office Is at 83 Pike st THEATRE Third and Madison Tel. Main 5106, Musical Plays starts January 28 ts, By George Cohan THE CAST—35 Matinees, 15¢ and 25c. C5 4, Phoebe Hunt, Norman including all the old favorites, ready “The Americano,” with Douglas Fairbanks (in the white shirt, Liberty, Sunday; Anita Stewart in “The Girl Philippa,” coming Sunday to the Clemmer; Bessie Barriscale, as Brown Eyes, in “Bullets and Brown Eyes,” Mission, Sunday; House Peters and Mrytle Stedman joyriding in “The Happiness of Three Women,” Coliseum, Sunday; scene from “An Alien,” Sunday and all week. oe ee @ Scene from aew LIBERTY — Doug and Alma Keubens tn HOGKHAMS Patrbanks phe Amer- Jand carried it with little It Fighting for Lo olontal Ruth Stonehouse Jack Mulhall star ee res\atance 1 the and is a Nankia Drew fe The Girl . acente. COLISEUM — House Myrtle Stedman 1 Douglas itir book reer. Fairbanks is stage and and hed £ appiness of Ven- Apostle with William » CLASS A Saving Safety First" A, three day in the first Smalley as Th ay the Family Name are offered by beginning St Mary MacLaren star named with Philli her leading man as to do with the a chorus gir Winter Garden, and our best” fami neue, and the desert is rt's broth: and the for I albalt comed mably of the the scion of Hex, Complicat girl finds with } one of ne herself o' LIBERTY | Aw full of pepper as ev ‘Fairbanks {Sunday ina 1 and adve cano.” The pi from the novel by Eugene P. Li Jr | Alma Reubens | is Fairbanks’ ing woman this trip, as the ter of the head of a fiery, eruptive] Theda {ttle South American nation, “Par-| Will be igonia.” 1 | Doug, as Blaze Derringer, yor 9 |there aod stops a revotution. natar GILL’S GOING TO “| STUDENT SMOKER pr, Dong Libert ving play ¢ The Ameri was ads Blaze Derringer, d taken her name. ixnores the the island of her sweet and tells him that his broth she had eloped. The broth pis t d marries her . comes to the tr where he fan arrival on heart, er an er Sh y She ture a Bara’s The next production Tiger Woman.” jally winning the hand of the jdent's daughter A comedy and a scenic conclude | jthe bill ‘ Me | eee vers of Lewis hall, the men’s CLEMMER [dormitory at the University of “The Girl Philippa,” one of Rob-| Washington, will entertain the fac ert W. Chambers’ best novels, will| Ut and upper the in- be presented in eight acts at the |*titution at a Saturday Clommer for four days, beginning /M!sht Sunday. Anita Stewart, the little), Dr. Suzzallo, Mayor Hiram C, Gill, |Vitagraph star, plays Philippa, and | Thomas M. Vance of Olympia, Johm la Skuktn Dew har aecebiover Rea and Charles E. Gaches, re- gents, and a number of faculty m bers and students are sc The scenes of the play are laid in eduled to Europe, on the Franco-German bor der during the present war. Philip-|SP@ak. An athletic program, cider pa isa cashier in a little cafe. She|@nd doughnuts will be furnished by | phy jthe hosts has a master, a big b who mis treats her, But there is another an art and so the story dev quite interestingly eee | 2 Anita Stewart considers the gl ** BUYS ENGINE FOR ALASKA NORTHERN of Philippa in “The Girl Philippa,” | | which comes Sunc ° 6 tiene |the government's ‘Alaska ailroad Be eck jcommission, has bought a 50-ton| ected Jer from E. P. Jamison, of the | cre Happiness ot 4 Wom. | Climax Locomotive Works en,” a play from the facile pen of| ihe engine has been used slightly {Albert Payson prhune House | °° & logging road at Shelton, Wash | Peters and Myrtle Stedinan are the| it Will be taken to pieces and ship-| stars. The play deals with the in-| P04 De eee ae eee mi ¢ Seward, on the Alaska evitable triangle and compromising |! Out < | North problems | A comedy is also on the bill geiyes, and this because the he was a member of the port com see B. REILLY, 58, a nametaker older companie are oe t eroly mission, that he is opposed to a sal-| STRAND the R. L. Polk & Co., dropped de ‘enched along the entire | ary now that he ceases to be a] William 9. Hart comes to tho| ast night in the California Oyster waterfront that they will not | house, 513 Third ave pst mi ibe ad ae thin of | member of the commission Strand Sunday in a second showin wagadlieags! aotetiies yy ything of | Gen, Chittenden gives no reason|of “The Apostle of Vengeance | for his change of mind on the sub |Hart is shown as a New England | No difference minister who {s enjoined to come home by his relatives in old Kain if you haven't danced before tuck to help them with their pet feud. Hart goes, but preaches the 5 doctrine of brotherly love, and the STEVENS mountaineers forget the past a | One or two lessons san Sdedh aad bat ibasohates Private halls. Open Day in “Polly of the Cireus,” her first | and Evening. elease under the Goldwyn bar 1523 Fourth Ave.—Main 3911 ner eet heen We MISSION “Bullets and Brown Eyes,” wit! Ressie Barriscale, who is respon sible for the brown eyes of the title, and William Desmond, i® the fea |ture at the Mission for the fore | week show The locale of the play is laid in the mythical countries of Maraaw and Bothalie, wherein a handsome prince wins the hand of a countess in the midst of a battle. DENTISTS. “The Village Vampire,” with | Fred Mace, a comedy, is on the bill raincoat eg will appeet for lt sedée’ th! fattodues ear kaw yon fe je Ih Pictures with te | (whalebone) plate, which is the shor neice ane Cow! IS | ientest and strongest plate known, also numbered among their stars./4aogs not cover the roof of the REX mouth; you can bite corn off the . 15 years. 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Most of our present patronage 1s mimended by our early custom- whose work is still giving good gatisfaction, Ask our customers who have tested our work When coming to our of sure you are in the | COLONIAL | A cat may al a queen, so why not a cowpuncher? ‘Thus rea soned Jim, an Arizona buckaroo, on a trip around the world, So after look he had learned the difficulties of} rignt place. Bring this ad with you, ‘the little queen who was being forced into a war, he wired his old Cut - Rate gang to come, and they did, break-| @ Dentists {ng up the queen's rival's army and conquering his land. Then Jim be gan an assault on the queen's heart, to save | DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS STOPS REVOLUTION IN SOUTH AMERICA That's Easy, Tho—a More Difficult Job Is That of a Bunch of Cowboys Routing an Army so That Their Pal Can Win the Heart of a Queen. It All Happens in the Movies Next Week, Where, Among Others, You Will Find “The Girl Philippa” and “The Happiness of Three Women.” I | os |appeals to the masses—because it surp SOUDAS TRIES TO NO JOB FOR HANSON GET A NEW TRIAL Testing the weight and fineness! Request for a new trial for John of gold x be a swell job—and an | Soudas, convicted recently of killing Blanche Coleman, in the old Chris — tie hotel, on June 16, was taken um der advisement by Judge Jurey te 7 TESTING COINS IS hon But not for Ole Hanson of Beat day. Saturday he received word of his! Attorneys Paul Carrigan and John pointment by President Wilson a Kenney, for the defendant, and t e Pacific Northwestern me Prosecutor Lundin argued the mo= of the assay commission to m tion Friday night. The defense bas the “hialdelphia mint in February, oq {ts grounds for a new trial om nih Gther commissioners, to test the theory that the confession made: © coins. Victor Murdock of Kan- by Soudas to the detectives was * is chairman of the commission. not voluntary and therefore inad- _ Last year Congressman Dill of missable, Spokane represented the Northwest. | ieee Traveling expenses are provide: More than one-third of the total No, nothing doing,” said Han-| population of Dublin consists of” non today ‘families living in a single room. a UNDAY NOON CONCERT, Hiawatha, “A Summer Idyl” Vision of Salome ... Song ua hain Overture, “Southern Stars’ ‘haa Mahi OLIVER G. WALLAC on our $35,000 Wurlitzer Unit Orchestra 2 : h | | lap ing w ith Doors open Sunday morning at 10:30 a.m. We earnestly advise you to come as early as possible, There is no advance in prices. This is probably your last times to see this $10,000-a-week photoplay favorite at the regular prices. First at Pike—Continuous 10:30 a. m, until 11 p. m. Matinees 10c—Eveningss 15c—Children 5e¢ IT’S NOT WHAT YOU EARN but how you spend, that marks your financial progress. 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