The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 15, 1917, Page 4

MPHE immediate foreign trade problem confront- ~& ing Seattle business men and citizens generally ” is how to hold this city’s recently-acquired war bus- ~ iness after the war is over! i We have developed very recently a very great Dusiness with Oriental countries which, before the war, followed other routes of trade or was not in ** existence. We must hold this business and build it to | reater proportions, if Seattle is to become the real- | ly great port we know it should be. This can only be done by establishing steam- ip lines between this port and Oriental countries, eferably under the American flag. ’ The solution of this problem, it would appear » will rest with our government after the war over. : Will Uncle Sam recognize Seattle’s claims for at Beattie, Wash. Postoffice as Second-Clase Matter. eut of city, 88c per month up to 6 m moe. $1.90; year $3.60)/ By carrier, city, 30¢ a m . Daily vy The sear ing Co. Phone Mate 608, Private / alt dovarts change con: IEAD WHAT THIS MAN SAYS ABOUT EET CAR FARES NHE Seattle street car company officials, and its publicity) » managers have been talking for a long time about the ibility of making their property pay on a basis of five- fare. They ought to read an article by Newton D. Baker, now rte of war, and former mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, in the! issue of Hearst’s magazine, entitled, “What Has and Be Done by Municipal Ownership and Control.” _ He tells how the city of Cleveland, by taking control of @ traction company there six years ago, has saved $4,000,-/ annually to the Cleveland public by carrying them at a| of three cents. Stockholders in the company, under mu- control, receive a guaranteed return of 6 per cent, Three cent fare in Cleveland has been an unquestioned | s. Baker writes: “T hree-cent fare with universal transfers, un-| valed day service and excellent rush-hour ser-| , in wellwventilated and well-lighted cars, ing on as good a roadbed as can be found nm any city of the country and operated by the highest-paid, best-treated trainmen in the world, is an actual, persistent xeality on exhibition wenty-four hours a day in the city of Cleveland, hich has a population, including its environs, 800,000 inhabitants.” AND YET SEATTLE HAS HAD TO GIVE UP THE} PRIVILEGE OF BUYING FOUR-CENT CAR TICKETS) SECAUSE STONE & WEBSYER SAY THEY CAN’T| MAKE ANY MONEY. IDGE JUREY ~ Because Edwin Conrad Strom, 6725 Earl ave. N. W., a ust Strive to STAR—SATURDAY, SEPT. 15, 1917. PAGE 4 ' the protection and development of its Oriental trade, after the Concretely, will we ernment-owned ve: war is over? get our share of the gov- ssels when peace comes, Will they be disposed of in such a way that justice will be done the eve Wjll_ the tendency divert Oriental trade to rights and aspirations of y great American port? of the Panama canal to Atlantic ports be met by the government in its disposition of those boats after the war? These are vital and fronting Seattle in the trade. We all know what of Hamburg, Rotterdam, immediate questions con- upbuilding of foreign has made great ports out Antwerp and Liverpool —the expenditure of great sums of money in pro- viding the most up-to-da Editor’s Mail | LOVES CHILDREN Editor The Star: I wish to thank you for that editorial in The Star, entitied “The Meanest. Child on Earth,” and to applaud the sentt mont therein expressed 1 love every child in the world, and I trust there are very few moth era like the one you there describe is to a child what sv BURWELL. Editor The Star: President Wil. son Wants congress to adjourn and the members repair to their homes to learn the sentiment of their con stituency before reassembling In regular session How can any congressman re- celve the sentiments of the people upon a bJect when the govern- ment has denied {ts citizens their constitutional right of expressing thelr opinions upon any matter per taining to President Wilson's war policy, unless {t harmonizes with bis views In relation to {t? GEO, G, CRESSEY. WANTS APOLOGY Editor The Star: You have here- tofore run your paper so well that I have never felt called upon to write to you, but when you assoc! ate my old friend, Don Quixote, with the bunch you did in today’s editorial, | have'to call you down. Nothing less than an abject apol Ogy to the memory of the best and | Dravest knight of them all—1 ad. mit bis brains were out of order, but that has nothing to do with his heart—will satisfy me é: T. WILLIAMS, Editor The Star: There fs an old soldier out at 1312 14th ave. S., who, about a month ago, fell and broke his leg in two places. The | neighbors and I have taken care of | him to a certain extent. The old fellow, who is more than 80 years jot age, is too old to work and has no money except what we give him once in a while. He has a son in Detroit, Michigan, but the son has « large family and cannot help him along very much, and we are going to appeal to the public thru The Star for help so that we may collect enough money to pay the old fellow's fare back to his son in Detroit. The old soldier at one time was @ well-known engineer here tn Se attle. N., 1212 4th Ave. 8. Million Tons Iron and Steel for Coast Approximately a million tons of fron and steel articles are con- sumed on the Pacific coast a year, according to figures recently ob- tained by the Industrial bureau of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce and Commercial club from various cities of the Coast Approximately 100.000 tons of pig fron, 30,000 tons of rein ing steel, 136,000 tons of sheets, 217,000 ton of plates, 15,000 tons of corru gated, 175,000 tons of bar, and 250, 000 tons of structural steel are handled City Leads Coast in These Products The largest clay products, shoe, Jewelry, condensed milk, dry docks, fisheries, flour, coal and lumber industries of the Pa- cific coast are located in Seat- tle. The city is in the center of a large, fertile and only partially developed agri- cultural region, Lessened It is a stagnation of a m local; often it is systemic head. Always it means a of the body not work parts must overwork. Cor means the involvement o} p carpenter, voted for the shipyard strike so that only lair,” or eight-hour-a-day lumber might be used, Judge John Jurey, of the superior court, Friday denied him citizenship ‘i d strike at such a time when the United States is in dire leed of ships to carry supplies to our allies and troops Seas, is not fit to become a citizen of this country. This judge, with the super ego with which the ermine clothes men of diminutive intellect, announces that sev- thousand Seattle workmen are unworthy of citizenship they have insisted on the eight-hour-a-day labor for ch Secretary of War Baker also pleaded, and which has nm advocated by the governor of this state (who appointed jurey). Would the judge have denied citizenship to an employer voted with his associates for a strike “in this time of need,” rather than agree to the eight-hour day? Would the naturalization examiner have had the “gall” ask the EMPLOYER how he voted in THAT case? ‘ “Any man so lacking in patriotism,” he said, “that he| across and eventually a diseased, tem that invites worse tre } | | that will restoring Take a tonic whole body by cleaning up fhe stagnation Peruna, because it t* specially such conditions, and because of ord of success in nearly half a relied upon. The large number who have willingly told of its the best proof that it will reliev worthy of your trial. Liquid or Tablet form fent for regular administration. Manalin is the ideal laxative form a habit, pleasant, mild and $1.00 and 36¢. Tablets, 10¢ and | | | i is to a plant, and to deprive any) one of them of this love and ten derness ts a crime. FRED W. Catarrh Always Means unexpected ways—in the stomach, the intestines, or th Control It Promptly That tonte should be the latter very conven THE PERUNA COMPANY, Columbus, Ohlo te harbor facilities in the rrr |... D. K's. COLYUM nnn Our old speckled hen never | had much of a leaning toward | militariam, but we noticed she wae always willing to risk at least one le when her brood was thr ned. ee Another hero who will never get the place he deserves in history ts the man who can play cards a whole evening with his own wife without quarreling. ee TAXATION of Thore are other subjects for do- mestic debate, but the most prolif in the average household ts on the subject of who ts to blame for polling the children oe | | ONLY One @yveay ning 2 r [al | ee The war may at last bring the kaleer and czar, those two old ‘ cronies, together some place where | te me between them will no long be necessary — Siberia, for Inetance. THE RETORT Husband—-Your extravagance ts awful. When I die you'll probably have to beg. ife—Well, I should be better off than some r woman who never had any practice! eee BASEBALL INSTINCT Injured American soldier (regain |{ng consciousness): Where am I? Nurse: You are at the first base | hospital. | Injured American soldier: Then }T'll die here, I'm in no condition to steal second.—Puck. | . - Not that it can do any particular good to know, but Just as a matter of ecurtosity, which two-legged pest would you rather burn at the stake the one who slaps you on ¢ back like a trip-hammer or the one who shakes hands like a vise? | ee Also, in the temporary absence of the etiquet editor, we feel tempt- start an argument on the |question: Why should a man re- move his hat in the presence of ladies on an elevator and not re |move it In the presence of ladies in a street car or jitney bus? In an elevator a salon or a public con- | veyance? ed to While our scientific adventurers are experimenting to relieve the shortage in chemicals occasioned by Germany's {solation, why can’t they do something toward promot- ing an odorless moth ball? Vitality ucous surface. Sometimes it is Then it may manifest itself in part of the delicate mechanisrr ing, and other ntinued, catarrh f larger areas, weakened sys- oubles. the and invigorate digestion designed for just its wonderful rec entury it has been many thousands help to them are! ‘e you as well. It's 50c a box, Doesn't gripe or| effective. Liquid, 25e. Hold Foreign T world. ‘ Trade follows the course of least resistance. The greatest commercial cities on earth today have been built by their peoples, taking that precept to heart. The great seaports of yesterday owe their decline to forgetting it. ’ We have a magnificent natural harbor, one | of the finest in the world, but we must create the best and cheapest freight handling facilities | on the coast as a part of the problem of develop- ing the Greater Seattle of the future. A commis- sion appointed thru the efforts of the Chamber of Commerce is now at work on this second great problem. _ The third great problem in this foreign trade development is the expansion of manufacturing in | Seattle. Much of the return cargo from the Orient is “TRE MOSS MYSTERY” WELLS c BY CAROLYN asked to chi “He was think, mother lived alone in this house, and her mother died. So| Marybelle took a companion, Janet Field, you know, Bort of compan: fon and secretary both, She was from New York. I'm not sure but she introduced Moss to Marybelle think she did. Well, in three) (Continued From Our Last Issue) I am an expert in these matters, and Blair was only less so, and we saw at once that no Intruder came thru doors or windows, however he |may have made entrance 1 sat down tn a corner and be gan to muse Much as I had wanted a mystery "in an inacces sible room, I felt I should be glad 9 the subject. ' from New York, Ic You #ee, Marybelle and her|her new gift big | tind.” |pleation, and I rather expected to | see Vida resent it. |she merely replied: |much as that she feared burglars.” rade bulk raw product. We now load it on cars at our docks and hasten it East as if the plague was a part of its baled contents. It must be manufactured here and returned to the Orient in its new form. Oils for soap and many other uses; crude rubber for a thousand products; shellac for varnishes and paints; hemp, copra, braids and silks, all filter thru Seattle’s port for a hundred plants in the East. This must and will be changed. It will come gradually, for il many elements of success in manufacturing must be solved. It is one of the great problems now being worked out. 4 Other great cities of the country have met 3 their development problems and solved them. There is no question but that a united Seattle Spirit work- ing thru a great united commercial body will solve every problem confronting Seattle in achieving its destiny as a great sea port. pearls were not mentioned just here, nor was the letter that Mary. j belle had written to Curtis the . night before. | I didn’t altogether approve of the | way the inquest was conducted, but then, I had never attended an in |quest that did rouse my admire |tion, and I never hope to. 80 I wat still and Metened and thought my own thoughts by turns, expect- ing every minute to be called on for my own testimony. Janet Field came next. She told nothing I didn't already know. Said she had been with Mre. Mors about six months at one time, and later, a year and a half. She corroborat- ‘opyright, Paget Newspaper Service } “You, but I think Madame con- elved some new hiding place for One that I may not “Ah, she distrusted you, then?” It was a mean and unfounded im But she did not, “Not that so now to get an inkling of a way for a solution, I bad in no degree lost faith in my poweew and | certain of ultimate success, but I longed for a clue or two, To be sure, there was the ring on the fas fixture, and my esteemed fo tion hero has often remarked that a bizarre clue helps along amaz ingly. I ted to wonder at he would have deduced from that 2 months or #0, Marybelle had Brad eating out of her hand, and soon they were married. Janet left then ——wuess Marybelle didn't want her. But, when Bradley died, Marybelle seemed glad to get Janet Back, and sho's been here ever since. “And where did the Earl drop from?" “Ob, he met Marybelle last sum- room, with the game, |spare time. But they did not find t . “Oh, gracious goodness!” I said to myself, for I never use really strong expletives, “if they'll get on their precious necklace when I've a little Ether it's stolen or rm And then Vida was sent away | With Weldon and the inspector to |look for the pearls in Marybello’s find ed Vida's stories of Marybelle’s fear of burglars and of her tendency to asthma—these two things finally reconciling the jury to the lady's unhygientc methods of ventilation. Janet spoke in praise of Marybelle, but, under fire, admitted she was vain and fond of flattery. But she | quickly added that she had been ¢ generous and kind friend (of course ring, but I wouldn't pay him so much of a compliment. I merely wondered what to deduce from tt, | mynell. mer, somewhere, and she annexed him all up, as fast as she coul “And you're nearest of kin?” I od of Helen. In all our search we nothing Yes, the house ts mine now. It 1. of the pearls, and | felt sure Mary- seems so strange, poor Mary- belle had hidden them from pow belle—" sible burglars, (Yes, burglars were the one possibility In this impowst- ble situation.) e “You know she wrote to Curtis 1 she wanted to change her will—"| I don't know why I sprung that! Then Weldon found the case that]on Helen, but for the life of me 6 had contained the necklace light blue velvet lined with white natin, the dainty affair seemed to mock at our inquiring glances, It was in a dresser drawer, and Wel don was for the burglar theory, bot and etrong. But a pearl necklace always connotes burglary in some minds, and I paid no attention to his chatter. Of course, poor Marybelle herself had been taken away, and we ruth lonsly searched the bed linen and mattresses for the pearls, Under the pillows we found a watch, and a small locket containing Herring dean's picture, but no other jewels. There was a cobweb of a handker- chief that gave out « faint perfume, ot)! couldn't help it. Anyway, went white, and asked how | kne I told her about the letter to Curtis, I hysterics again, and I left the room. inquest had reached the stage of questioning servants, This bores me, for I never knew It produce a clue yet, and the ely dence they would give was all known to me, or would be reported. | I glanced over my reporter boy’s| the tragedy, and of entering the room. The Earl had given his evt- dence, also Bellamy. Vida was now | recalled, because the lights were but failed to find any /'® question | her everlasting adverbiage—she Again I sat down and mused. I was glad I was not a heavy man, for those foolish willow rockers were better buflt to hang harps (atmall ones) on, than to support a | Transcendant Detective. But I had selected one of them, in a certain corner of the room, which com- manded a view of the chandelier and of Marybelle’s bed, and | pro- posed to sit in that chair and study that room off and on antil I con quered that mystery or failed ig nominiously | The coroner went downstairs to maneuver his inquest Soon, the others trailed after him, and left the room to darkness and to me. “Darkness” being a figurative term, for the room waa bright with De cember sunlight. But the darkness of the mystery, the black nothing- ness of that room, with unlighted as pouring into it for hours, turned on by an unseen, unknown, un imaginable hand—unleas—I found myself almost thinking of Cissy's Poitergelat—the Yellow Hang! I went out, with a few words to the guard stationed at the door, and went in search of some of the | people I knew The Wesleys’ door was ajar and I tapped. Frank answered, and asked me in Poor littie Helen was in a sad state. Nervous and overwrought, she was crying like a small fountain, and Cissy was try- ing to calm her, But Clasy was little better as to nerves, and the two were enough to make @ man a misognynist for life. But I wanted to ask some ques- tions and I tried my powers of tranguilization, Frank helped me, and soon, a ttle man-talk inter ested the girls and they began to chatter. | Skilfully goiding the trend of the | conversation, I led it to Marybelle's learlier life, tn fact to her years with her husband. | “He was nice enough, Bradley was,” said Helen, “but Marybelle led him a dance! She—oh, well, you know what she was—a gad- about, always. Bradley hated to go anywhere, and night after night she would make him go to dinners ascribed as much virtue to “but” as Touchstone did to “If"—"but, no, Madame ured little light in her bed- room. Never did she desire my help at retiring time. She flicked on the dressing-table lights, or, if writing letters, the desk lamp. Al- so, had sho the bedside light. But the great chandelier she used al most never.” “You mean the electric fixtures of the great chandelier?” “But, certainly, The gas was never lighted, it could not be, be cause of ita great height. Madame was not tall, nor am I, myself Moreover, the lights hurt her eyes a little, Madame was nearsighted, and preferred the closer lights.” More was said, here, but all went to indicate that Marybelle had not touched the gas burner, either by design or by accident The butler was asked about the gas in the house. He knew little, it seemed, but Mra. Blum, the cook declared that no cas whatever was used except in the gas range for cooking, and in a water-heater for dish-washing. In all her experience, and she had been with Mrs, Moss over three years, never had a burner been lighted for illumination in the house to her knowledge. “An’ Why wud {t?" she asked, |"with them electrics all over the place, And there ain't no leak tn the pipes, that there ain't. I shud a emelt it, so. The poor lydy was murdered, that’s wot, sir, and uv de don’t find out who put up the Job, yer a disgrace er callin’, and that’s for certain It was with some difficulty that Mrs. Blum was induced to stop her witnessing, but the cessation was achieved, and a few more queries |put to Vida. These were concern- ing the pearl necklace, and {ts prob able hiding place. If that could be located — “But yea!" Vida butted in, “when Madame had a new jewel, ah, then waa there great to-do to hide It! But after a few weeks the care- lessness returned and the gems| were laid on the dresser or any- where. Now, of these pearls I have | no knowledge. But if there was a} | | and dances that ho loathed, and,|iew gift and of a value, rest as-| well, at last he died.” sured Madame hid {t most cleverly, | Cause and effect?” I asked. lang it will be indeed difficult to In a way,” Helen said. “You/fing: 1 have known her to bore ee, the man wasnt strong. The!» jong hole in a chair leg and fn It| doctor said he must go to Call- put her diamond lorgnette chain. | fornia or Arizona or some such | fut that was when the chain was| place, Marybelle wouldn't go with | now.” him, and wouldn't let him go with-| out her, so they stayed here. Brad got weaker and weaker, but Mary- “That explains the auger,” said Weldon. | belle wouldn't let up on the gay What auger?” asked the coroner, | eties——why, don’t you remember,| “There was a long, slender auger Frank, the last party here before |in the lower dresser drawer, and I he died?” wondered at its being in a lady's | "Yes," sald Wesley. “Ghastly, {t | Possession.” was! Bradley was awfully fll, but} “But, yes,” insisted Vida, “twice Marybelle made him do stunts for|Madame did bore such holes, In us—oh, never mind all that now,|/the chair and fn the window sill.” You know, Prall, what a siren she| “The window siN!” was, She could make a man see| “Yes, right down straight. Then white as black, if ahe wanted to.” {when the window is closed and “IT didn't know all that,” said | fastened, the hole is hidden and the Cissy, who, with wide eyes, been drinking in the tale. Marybelle.” “she was lovable,” said Helen, had “I loved Jewels are safe, Ah, but Madame was the clever one, Yet, withal, | if she had new jewels, new hiding places must be invented, and even “but she was not an admirable|so, all windows must be exceed character. She ingly locked and barred against} “There, there, dear,” said Wes-|burglars, and all doors double , “don't talk that way about her| bolted. She had so much fear,” Poor Marybelle isn't here | rhaps, then, the pearls are efend herself even now in these bored holes, Do “Who was Bradley Moss?” I)you know where the holes are?" it no’ to hidden, and in either case I'll find +) it.” more confident of his powers than the necklace? or not, for she was Residuary Legatee, and the new will had not been made. cent confab with the Wesleys. And and then Helen went off in her| er. I did not like their attitude |on the subject of Marybelle. I went downstairs, and found the|™2d they had talked about her in |® Way that ought not to be used in| connection with the dead | thoughts to listen to Lawyer Curtis. jis. the house was now Mrs. Wes- ey be hers. |to Vida; = thousand each to Mrs. | Senttic’Degtigt 713 First Ae Blum and the butler, Spears. Some j other servants had smaller legacies, |some chart Miss Field did not consider herself \in any way a servant), and said | frankly, when asked, that she knew she was mentioned in the will for ten thousand dollars. “I see your drift,” thought I, as I | watched the coroner. “Men of your [legal caliberalways fix the guilt on ithe butler or private secretary. | Failing these, they suspect the maid servant who found the body lof the master in the library at 7:30 You see, even Holmes was not But I had never fallen down. And then, I thought, whose was Whether available who was its owner? And realized {t must be Helen ley, My thoughts went back to my re- a m. These details didn't exactly fit this case, but the working principle of that sort of coroner is always | the same. Well, Janet said little more, and Frank Wesley, next, was equally own |repetitory of what we all knew, (Continued In Our Next Issue) had to admit, my friends tho they To my But I interrupted my and much money would also| See Or. Edwin J. Brown . LS HIMSELF for You Owe Yourself Money —not perhaps to the youth you are today— but to that older person you'll soon be w' ‘just a little capital,” so greatly needed to turn opportunity into fortune will, no doubt, measure the difference between ultimate suc- cess and failure. Pay that money you owe to your future success into your savings account here— regularly. DEXTER HORTON TRUST SAVINGS BANK SECOND AT CHERRY SEATTLE, WASH. 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