The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 23, 1917, Page 7

STAR—FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 1917. PAGE 7 The Ramaker Family | 4 | EDITORIALS Completes Forty Years By Star Reader of Business Activity, PUBLIC MARKET CENTER| ECONOMY "", SANITARY &"', CORNER Lower ECONOMY || Revising Restaurant Menus One of Seattle’s Oldest Piano Merchants Tells Inter- BY SAMUEL €, WEBB (c Hotel) esting Happenings in Long Career 4 eye fearfully distressed over high prices of sup- If Seok ‘To|PUBLIC MARKET | Shoe Shine rs . ect plies, hence diminiahin profits at present meal prices Their pr —— 9p a B for 16 H The Elder Ramaker, Civil , te Sosed rekeny errs ref had ree Rabe pd goa pe They a. H 2 16c Pa ayy SO pening Day Tomorrow War Veteran, Once Com- to think that their patrons wish “something for nothing.” | qe Any person with ordinary brain capacity knows that he gets] pelled the Great General Grant to Throw Away His Loved Cigar. nothing free The reaMttoudle lies In an antiquated theory for constructing the menttt fs based upon the “meat order.” | The restaurateur seems to think that he must Impose upon this single ttem “all the tariff the traffic will bear,” for fear the patron will NEW SUGAR STALL Corne t, adjoining Murray SAMPLE 6c PACKAGE so Creamettes || 7 is. cn Suga vic Sugar eyaiv Day at Wholesale Cost SEE ees ACORN MARKET Stong Says Me Bea Us" STALL 33, ECONOMY MKT. C. A, Sonnichsen. Prop, Sold Piano to ‘the First Settler of What Is Now Duwamish Val }, quit when he orders meat Then, as a balm of conscience (or som ley and Sent the First Piano « unexplained motive), he “throws in" Dread and potatoes and cof. to Anvil City, Alaska, Now fee. Hence the patron ts usually prohibited from ordering fruits, vexe Called Nome. tables, milk, sal the meat order - The usual meat portion ta too large for the average patron, both as to hunger and hygiene, If it were cut in half and priced accordingly he would often exceed his original fntentions as to price limit, His palate demands variety and he would Indulge it, if price was not pro |) hibttive. | An analysis of prices on “meat orders” versus fruits, also reveals +" parodoxical condition. For instance, for ham amt 2 exgs, with “potatoes, cottes and rolls thrown in,” the price Is about ! nts, A sitced orange || 8 10 cents, or half grape fruit 16 cents, With eggs at 45 cents « dozen | |, and ham at 30 cents a pound, the profit on such a “meat order” cannot be over 331-3 per cent. Good oranges are retailed at 05 centa a dozen | and grape fruit at 10 cents each, which served at above quoted billof im, ete, because he haa reached his financlal limit on Mr. Garrett Ramaker, the senior member of the family to America from Holland’ w he was 12 years of age. As I sat in the office of the Bros. Co.'s Piano Store, 1524 Third ave Seattle, and listened with deep tr terest to the simple recital of many incidents in their family’s long Teer, the old fami! Seemed to stand mind's eye, clear as a came ronize A New Form of Ma®aroni Pnough for a meal for three keeping “Embosomed in the deep where Holland lies Methinks her patient sons before S bare Crystal White Soap Best Japan fare prices produces a profit of 300 per cent ted SHemr me stand, RALPH RAMAKER p n Where the broad ocean leans As proof of the practical results from a readjustment of prices and 4c Pound Veal Roast, lb... against the land 1 ad al All Week Veal Chops, Ib......18c Pot Roast, lb..... In Steaks, all kinds... .20c Buckley Fish Co. portions, one only needs to observe the success of the “self-serving eating places (cafeterias) | The fascination for such institutions does not Ie in the patron's |) love for the sport of “chasing a tray” over a half-acre of floor space, | iis aa NENT Ht nor the impeliing desire to acquire the “Los Angeles trade mark” (viz Vr. 4 De a horizontal grease line acroas the front), but rather the common sense amok! nenad y Co. os “Thue while arou Jected sol Impels the native to repeated totl, Industrious habits tn each bosom 4 Other Rpe Economy Groce the ware rT aa elgn, Thetre are those art mind endear, that mind to distribution of the tariff and the variety of menu served in small por oo eee eee oom ovetal temper mae mordare were tlons at reasonable prices Stall 52, Economy Mkt Honor, Me Praise which real merit) The officer bowed gracefully and The average cafe patron ia sufficiently informed in hygiene and | Large Halibut, 2 Ib y iger with « emi dietics to realize that he must eat fruits and vegetables, rather than Chicken Halibut, 1b They please are pleased; they give come confine himself entirely to meat, bread and pastry. In the “balanced : | Columbia River Till, seeming to ration” les health and long life. Under present cafe conditions he can f what they not hope to enjoy either without And as Mr. Ralph Ramaker, now © negative, the fri The conclusion is just this cafes using the a la carte plan of President of the Company, told me} y nteered the eb forn |, menu, ba, upon th ree meat order, will either be forced to return of thelr unpretentious beginnings. | ¢ that it was the ® || to the “table d’hote” plan, or revise thelr tariff radically, or be swept > || off the road of commercial progress by cafeterias (or some ilar |} 1 was deeply impressed with (WO) Grant himeett. -M | striking facts of life. The first was) maker replying, “Wel | institution), for the days of the “specialty eater” of one large portion are numbered unusual expense On being answered | GREEN’S Peanut Butter 12c Lb. walt, 2Y@ Weer ” 28c Best Fresh Ranch Eggs | Choice Creamery Butter 33c Dozen 35c Pound 3 Pounds $1.00 2 dozen G5e, 2 dozen OFE Amount Limited. that nothing great was ever my orders, and they fected In the start, and the second| everyone alike.” Ar fact was that honesty alone can| golden ye: o stand the test of time. Mr. Ralph) looks hack thre Ramaker related. among many jon, other things, how over 20 years ago they conducted a simple store on|yotion over the the spot where now stands the| great general they tt ” Magnificent Coltseum Theatre, at | loya c ask for an Fifth and Pike. | serves more at jctude Talking Machines — subject. Otdent Settler of 1656 the Ramaker Bros, Plano Pr Prepare! EMMETT 8B. WILLIAMS Just now there is no sub | than preparedness, save one, the social the state Washington. Tr me Saturday convinced, and Tod which this nation has been working for, for no short h nk of the Mild Cream Cheese, Ib * | Buttercup Margarine, Ib. 29@3 Continutn) in a reminiscent | Co. stands In the front rank of th 2he ? fi 5 be caeed.. Mar ee remembers} inusic trade of Western America. || time. our work we have rednens Luck Margarine, Ib. $8e; | 2 Ib 1+ SBE with pride how Jand as Mr. Ralph Ramaker the | One of our great national edt the motion picture screen, 4 oe 65¢ " "Coltea: -19¢— chased a piano of them. Mr. geld, are about to branch |/has already announced that the Untied States ts ready i anes Seana Gaisie anid ‘ . (og eg OS ee Ae E, ey have Just. concluded | ople of this nation are willing. We are preparing. Every Nearly 500 sige b ther Big Specials. settlement of what Is today k argest transactions in |’ paper In this country which is not & pro-hyphen, writes preparedness ic a ‘waeea &e 1 . Mate Flea | Gs the Duwamish ‘valley. There| the talking machine trade, and will || Great statesmen are startled at the wilingnen trom every ib eran \ «GREEN’S BUTTER STORE v1? as | are numerous names of Seattle's oldest families on the old business Boeke of the Ramaker family —Mr Ralph Ramaker calls these books of the past the firm's roll of honor Sends First Miano to Alaska The first piano possessed tn An- vil City, Alaska, now called Nome, Was purchased from the Ram. aker family and shipped there by Ramake ano firm, and Present days it Is quite the o thin, to find orders from Alaska | in the firm's mall Gen. Grant Obeys Mr. Ralph Ramaker related interesting experience of his fat) Mr. Garrett Ramaker, who w! serving in the Union army du the Civil War, was one day d« sentry duty at the arsenal, at Memphis, Tenn. He wa: the physically unfit for the fighting forces show he The ways and means are yet to apply in t of our preparedness depends upon the 4 On’ tenviow 7 meratuiated Mr. of the necessity to the dispensers of power. Messen on thee Wandertes éefined the condition of every danger of this, our ret ghingly re- || racy, how we love you! Preparedness shall not be fickle, It dare not be fickle How we are prepared depends upon how you convince the of power. What manner are you convinced in preparedness? This Kovernment of ours obeys the divine law of the central point || of the distribution of power. Little ts written in ways and means for our preparedness, We have journe * |! some real leaders of men with us always, They have been heard not ness of in vain Aa I left I sald to myself, “More Do you believe In the National Guards? Ie this organization in power to you. We want more bu Ine with national preparedness? cance soem the the Ut, Seat. soos YOU have been heard to speak preparedness, Are you a piker? So” Pi What kind of care are you going to take of the nation given you? ———-—..}} The nation prayed for by our fathers thru the years, and fought for in —— | times of dissension = eee Join the National Guards FIC OUTFITTING Cl If you are not within the scope of the law laid down to govern the 1S IN VAUDEVILLE) servers of tie National Guard, tend your help to get the brigade for Washington, and prepare your country. | T | COR THISC & UNIVERSITY “ = i If you don't believe this is the proper road to preparedness, write SAN FRANCISCO, March 23 your ways and means to The Star. The Star has always heard i DRESSES MEN WOMEN Count Liya Tolstoy, son of the late odin iain vENY M Sree A Count Leo Tolstoy, is scheduled to| Oh, Precious Truth! ° ven 22223 MEAT PRICES ARE LOWERY Ca ~ WEEK “SE ppd BY V. KATHERINE RANDALL ear pant Sone tte ia Lcd a9 $ (2310 N. 64th St) stead $a maak feoetec or stern | 66 A LIE,” says Webscter, “is a falsehood uttered or acted to de at Murray’s because he will not let the a week for 40 weeks on the circult Trust dictate prices to him. Extra bars | your CREDIT 1S OK a week for 40 weeks on the circult.| | We are, then, a nation of Mara, Common practice It is to e of ok | ie to the tax assessor. He comes to the door, is shown over our prop ac tee a te OO aity, What he seen he snay rate—unlees wo-can persuade bin ft io vos gains tomorrow. Come early and avé the crowds. Vaudeville patrons. The row the|Ueless. W he is not clever enough to discern, his attention is not Pot Roasts, Ib... .10'%c | Legs of Mutton, Ib. .15¢ count had with Dr. Butler of Colum-|T@¥n towards. Is {t a He to have and maintain taxable property upon Round Steaks, Ib. .17!/c | Veal Roasts, Ib.....10¢ bia over his socialistic arguments,| hich no taxes are paid? which resulted in his betng forbid-! We lie tn our daily living. A man with an income of $1,800 a year Sirloin St Ib..171 ' Veal Cutlets, Ib. . 121 irloin Steaks, Ib..17/2¢ Club Sausage, lb. .121 THE BEST GOODS FOR THE LEAST MONEY i FIGURE WHAT YOU CAN SAVE _ 20¢ | Royal Raking a 37e¢ a or coffee tte orted Sp Se A.B. ROBBINS ra, 2 i Tea and Coffee Co. Sra, Stall 64, Economy Market Stall Set ‘es Patton’s Market ‘im Veal Roasts, Ib....1%¢ | Legs Veal, Ib......- Sige Po Raa th Pe 12e | Prime Rib Roast (rolled), pound 18¢ Sirloin Steaks, lb... 174@| Clubhouse Sausage... HOLLAND-AMERICAN DELICATESSEN 1509 First Ave. Corner Market ney Swiss Cheese Fresh Washington Cream- Maid’ Jan 25c | text Avvie Butter, 7"""* qualed line of home cooked meats. New Yellow BEST BUTTER 43c; 2 lbs. Good Butter, Ib... . .40c the convictions | ers of men have bie. Oh! democ 2-1b. carton Cube Sugar spenser "The Roseteria NORTHWEST ROSE CO Ramaker have b jon Milk ght den to appear at Columbia, fs what| Will do everything in his power to make you think he receives $3,000 |xot him the vandevilie engagement.| Even tell you in words the number of dollars and cents he re - cetves, he puts forth every effort to make the $1,800 appear to cover W. S. KIRK’S ont0 RANGE $13.50 HOOD’S $3,000 worth of ground. Is it a He to drive cars and give dinner parties " Rolle Army & Navy {Met Tenor Won't jon borrowed money, while banks are closed because their notes are in| diated nacads Shoulder Mutton, lb. .9c Lamb Chops, Ib....1 sufficiently secured? Swe Mepe 7 ae Goods Store } Sing for Kaiser) We lie in our relations to our country, We doff our hats to her Stall 32, Pike Place Market | On Corner—Pike Place Market M Meat Co W; hi 1209 First Ave. and we rise when we hear her national anthem; but we do not vote Tay 4 as Hi 01 = re 7 | NEW YORK, "March 2 —Karl Fd | at her elections, nor keep in touch with her movements. Is {it a He ta Assorted Chocolates, all flavors, STALLS 3-5-7 94.96 PIKE ST, GOVERNMENT goods | W#fd Heinrich Jorn, cauee tenor| say one loves what one is not even interested in? r pound ........ We _ Comer Market ° ee am hives goods nails oe of the Metropolitan opera, will not| After-dinner Mints, regular 0c. ; ¥ Ce to Kaiser Wilhelm’s person. special, Ib ‘ P service and not to sell. rytond to Kaiser Wunsin's erer-|Qur Immigration Problem sete: Bisa “Waisss wane U. S. Middy |®"4 Join the royal opera there. In-| BY V. KATHERINE RANDALL regular 40c, special, 1b 2 Y | stead he will go before the United (2310 N, 64th St.) 00d Bewed Werk. Ger teather | Peanut Brittle, Ib Blouses States court here next week and EATTLE faces an almost unrecognized immigrant problem Stall 63, Lower Floor, Pike Fl. Mkt, » . PUBLIC Just arrived — Blue 48k his final American citizenship S Thirty per cent of her population, it is sald, are foreign-born Middies. Papers, he sald today almost one in each three of her number. Every citizen's duty San MA \RK ET ---$3.50 “It is true,” said Jorn, “that I) is to aid in the assimilation of the stranger group, insofar as possible. Very Best Fresh Churned ue colar have received a call from the royal) Night schools and the Young Men's Christian association, local news and cuffs opera, sent at the kaiser’s personal! papers in the various tongues, all these do their little part, but the be Bleached request, but I shall not respond to! ginning is ecarcely made. PHONE Unbleached {t. Tam an American at heart, and In certain sections of the city the foreign-born herd together like _1GOEB Cash Groce MAIN 7 | want to become one in fact. I) cattle, living in Russian, Italian or Japanese hotels, not the life of! with each middy have my first and second papers.| American workingmen, who understand our standards, but the life of | STAL ps4 nd hope to get my final ones next! outcasts. The old standards, the ideals of the fatherland, were lost in| Why Pay 45¢ for Butter Not So Good? Logger Shirts week.’ |the Journ ross the #ea; the old dreams, the dreams of America’s| eround While heed £ UB alll eg iotn’s wife and five children are) wonder, faded in the first encounter with American officialdom; the| Peanut Butter vin Wale 12c] 3 Ibs. Made of U. 8. all stil! in Berlin new ideals, the new life, the possibilities that really exist, lie unre. =" 35c¢ ol welg | vealed, save in snatches that may be gathered by a walk thru the down-|M Pure Strained Hone | CAR LOWER FLOOR—STALL 45, 4 Extra Fine Cane Sugar, per sack...........$7.70 ¢ Cane Sugar 49¢ With | Pound of Our Rea olat n Mea hold Bran dd Oat » pkg. Buckwheat Fiour Im Dandy best ge can cak Figs, | er Ib. 1 ellow Kersey, rainproof 3, °:>0| COFFEE HOUSES TO at} town streets or a burglarious call in the residence section When Seattle realizes her duty, hears her call, and, ceasing to prey upon thelr ignorance of her ways, sends more doctors, teachers and | their shortcomings—she will find the number of her patriotic citizens | . 13¢ |b., 18¢ pint, 86e quart Very finest Oleomargarine, 28¢ Ib.; 2 Ibs. FSC; next grade, 2R Other Wool prices from ++ BLT to $4, Carnation Butter Store 81 Lower Floor Pike Place Market BEE HIVE STORE, No. 27 Economy M rup, 2 for’ (2-1b, eans) rice and Quality Always, Map neapple 2 large cans Milk U. S. Packsacks and | LINCOLN, March 23.—Religtons| increased immeasurably, and the list of her lawbreakers shortened be Wevurindiy |soctetios in’ Nebraska towns and| Yond belief. cities are planning to open coffee Large size WU. §.|houses to take the place of the s-, What of Food for the Future? et Remember We Give You the WASHIN MFG. CO, AND) OTH “HAVENS, WASHINGTONS, SEUD SHOU POD COn AND OTT 1917 Sample and Job Lot SHOES} Red Shield Butter Packsacks loons, which will be banisaed by , ’ BY JOHN E. AYER $1.00, 81.25 and edict of the voters 1 isms oie 6k) ri, Ladies’ Shoes, worth up to $5.00, small The Standard of Quality for Years eS ee ee Tere et the | Ay HE food questions for the next four months are pretty well settied; sizes only ....... Boy Scout Packsacks pl priongher ueattae ' Pel i | | nothing can be added to the supply during that time, but not 5O¢ and $1.00 . Pode cggetage enough attention is being paid to the problem of supply for the wo ‘icq of them all over the city, ‘The pian . rk ERSACKS | \, to make the coffee house a social 35¢ to $1.00 | cinh for iaboring men, euch as they |now have in the saloon. Coffee and year to follow We cannot expect that the war in Europe will cease before next | winter, and it certainly cannot in time to affect the food production in a es for all that our country can fur- |gandwiches are to be tt Europe, nor the demand at high prices Satisfacti 1 cneap and the men imestasid tol nish, This consideration should do much to simplify our problems as —— ey the places clubrooms, to production, . | Hill’s Red Can Coftee.. G teed | Usually, when any article-of food reaches a very high price, the McIntyre juaran' or | farmers plant an excessive acreage and the next crop has to sold fa | Now, however, it Is safe to assume that no kind NO SPECIAL SALE, BUT SPECIALS ON SALE AT ALL TIMES |too low for profit ‘ ; Ladies’ up-to-date Shoes in lace | Men's Dress and Money Refunded To Avoid Dand it of food from the next crop will reach low prices and it is both a public an $ ef | o Avo ru and a self interest to secure the utmost amount of planting during the or button, different $2 75 Working Shoe 2. 7 5 * a RA BS ae war 91.75 Ice Cream Loaf Cakes and up 2 for 25c Oc | Assorted Cookies, 3 do Cinnamon Rolls, ‘doz, 88e J Kneipp's Health’ Bread, 3 ‘oa'yon GOP oso cesnn is dahon cael If your digestion’ ia impala R” BREAD says it is the bost It has a fine homes ich nut brown ppetizing, 0 te Mrs. Pfeffer’s Bakery 318 FIRST AVE, a with 1b, 1 A Money Back” cur morro=—=—a\ $1 EDGERLY-FITZ CO. “25 Sat Fresh Wa Butter, pound aoe & School my 00 b . eathers air and up oiler coming spring leather F sieges, | You do not want a slow treatment This urgency should not be limited to the farmers, much as they And up Scout Shoes and UPR paste | for itching scalp when hair is falling) may be stimulated to increase their product, especially in vegetables iegel’ ior the Whole oo Be Fresh Hal ibut and the dandruff germ is killing the! and milk, which so directly concern our town people. The people of si 1: hair roots. Delay means—no hair. | Seattle can, and should, help themselves to a large degree by using oe Family and up Get, at any drug store, a bottle of ai of their spare bits of ground for raising poultry, small frufts and fy STALLS 21 to 24, Pike Place Market Near Sugar Stall STILL LOWER PRICES AT OUR NEW j work quickly, It kills the dandruff | they would raise within the elty limits many thousand tons of bette germ, nourishes the hair roots and | rood than they can buy, and do ft without encroaching on their wag ‘ not greasy, is easy to use and will not | and enjoyment gained from such work would greatly lessen the enor h Bnd en's Dress ene Asparagus, Ib. ..... --20¢ | Rhubarb, 10¢; 3 Ibs, hoe Vorking ji zemo for 25c or $1.00 for extra large | vegetables |SHOETER IA. Washington Vegetable Co. Selling Syster | immediately stops itching scalp. It is! earning hours. as they contain alkali. The he noe Spinach, 2 Ibs..... | size, Use as directed, for it does the If Seattle people were half as thrifty as Hollanders and Belgians, high Ps STALLS 13R, 15—SANITARY MARKET a pure, reliable, antiseptic liquid, is | Even this would not be the greatest benefit. The added health NO CLERKS—WAIT ON YOURSELF yi dentistry, bad habits, crime and domestic discord, So, we say, sp Green Peas, lb 15beé g ng to use for scalp irritations i ttention to helping yourselves ess t ; “fl Stall 80- mite pet Pike Street Bridge > 4 ‘ +++ fog READ STAR WANT ADS |, ))7K (0 nie fon scalp | foeapensive [22 re attention to helping you elves, and less to hunting for H. The B. W. Rose Co, Cleveland, 0. pes