The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 31, 1919, Page 7

®, CELLO SOLO played by GEORGE ROGOVOY HELD OVER! For a Few Days Longer This is the experience of most Women . who have been tempted to try so- ~ called cheaper baking powders which almost always contain alum and often leave a bitter taste. pyal Baking Powder Absolutely Pure _ Made from Cream of Tartar derived from grapes ; Royal Contains No Alum— Leaves No Bitter Taste F iam | te THE SEATTLE STAR—SATURDAY, MAY 31, 1919. 'Betty, Sarah and Sue, But No Williams in the Gang daddics and mamas have fT ap ros Shor! sensible names crand mother ‘use like are coming their own acoder. Not quite one every minute—but almost one every -hour. Trains? No! Babies born in Seattle during May There were 580 new arrivals for | | the census takers to worry about in | | 1920 delivered in Beattie, via the | Stork IExpress, during the month, jand it kept A. A. Breymer, registrar of births and other vital statistion in | the city health department-—not to mention his corps of workers—busy recording, filing and binding the cer tifteates. Registrar Breymer keeps the rec lords of thousands of babies born in Seattle every year. He's found out) that the stork’s pretty consistent | | here, tho, perhaps, there are a few moré «pring bables than winter ones. It's tu too, he says, that the pring daddies and mammas have | more trouble naming their offspring | than the others | There's no way to account for it, iB he says, but most of the proud par 4B cnts either leave a blank where the name ought to be or say: “Just call him baby.’ For instance, born early and often this month. | Wouldn't you think that parents who had been unthoughtful enough | pick out such a general family Liiname would have given some [thought and had a nice, splashy ounding monicker waiting for their nila? According to all the rules and reg ulations, war names mhould be very much In vogue, and there should be lots of Woodrow Wilsons, and John Pershings, and Hunter Liggette—but | there don't seem to be. | Maybe parents haven't any imagt nation any more Just think! The girls might be named angeline Rooth, or Joan, or Victory | “There are undoubtedly fashions names.” Breymer, sa: “but | “Raby” Smith was) in PLAN SKIPS ON ‘SCHOOL TEAMS | RAVENNALINE WORKING HARD Murphine Will Await Trial Expect to Reach “Friend- With Phinny Cars If the skipstop plan to be inaug- urated on the Phinney ave. street car line Monday proves aa effectiv and ratisfactory as Supt. Thomas F. Murphine, of the public utilities de partment, believes it will, patrons of the Ravenna line to the university district wil next be given the oppor- tunity of testing out the system. Everything ts in readiness for the first skipetop run Monday on the | Phinney line. Only at corners where | there is @ demand for a stop, or at |Intervas of several bocks apart, will | the cars halt. Small triangular signs have been hung from the overhead support wires designating stopping points. The street railway heads are confi dent the system wi! benefit patrons. cutting down the running time, and saving electricity for the city. CAPT. HARTSON CounselYs Office Capt, Nelson T. Hartson reported to Corporation Counsel Meler Saturday morning, almost im: mediately following his return from service in France, to take the oath of office as assistant to the corpora tion counsel. He was appointed to the post several weeks ago, when the corporation counsel announced that all his new assistants needed to care for street railway affairs would be ex-ervice men, Serving with the 316th ammunition train of the 9ist division, in com mand of company A, Hartson saw active service with the Gist in the Argonne. His train's company was | at Toul when the armistice was | signed, ready to go into action again. | Prior to his enlistment, the new | assistant to Meier was a partner with his father, Millard T, Hartson, in the law firm of Hartson and Hart fon. Obtain Options on Hotel Sites Here, Altho the California Hotel syndi- | cate, headed by D, M Linnard, has| obtained four options for a hotel] site in Seattle, no final selection has been made, according to Maj. | J. F. Douglas of the Metropolitan Building company. The syndicate | has closed negotiations for a $1,-| 600,000 hotel of 400 rooma in Ta-| coma and obtained control of one} of the big Portland hotels. | | Seattle mothers are initiating which Walter F. | ‘Sunday with dozens of youngsters trouble naming their If anybody calls that kid Wilham —. Brrsiig> and ersht > an Woo ior ther should Be lols of those —" Lauer dto into there's one that {an’t a bit stylish right at the present time, and that's William, Even if father's front cognomen happens to be Rill, he makes a heroic sacrifice when they name the youngster.” They can't wipe out of memory that Wilhelm of Berlin Short, sensible names, Ike grand. mother used to like, are coming into their own again. There's Betty Ann, Mary Jane, Sarah, Nancy and Sue. Then there's another combination rings the bell; that’s using one of those short names and putting a family name second. Old names have not entirely given way to the new, either. Mphraim. Tiijah, Moses, Aaron, Noah and Jason occur ever so often, and Ruth, Phoebe, Martha and Hepzibah are chosen lees frequently Flowers for girls’ names—Violet, Row, Lily, Pansy, sprinkle the reg: | istration sheets, just as they would | have in civil war days, if there had been any registration sheets to eprinkle. Hut for names, John and Mary are the good old standbys. They are there twice to, every other one we don’t spend al) our time the foibles of parents in © names,” says the regis ‘ar from it! We have too much to do. We get letters from all over the world from people who want birth c@rtificates. Here's one from Chicago from a woman who wants her son's certificate. He's 15 years old and she wants to get a permit for him to work. We have found this one, all right. But often we can’t, either because the dates are too far back, before we had this registration, | or the information ts not complete! or is muddied.” | During the war, the office was kept busy supplying certificates for boys who wanted to enlist. Introducing Bountiful New Selections of Lingerie and Silk Undergarments Staple and Fancy Cottons Houshold Linens Bleuses & Embroideries —at highly interesting prices. FREDERICK.” “4 ig j ma S&S NELSON [RAIL MEN’S LEAGUE WILL MEET JUNE 8 Carrying on their organization | work among the railway men of | Washington, the Seattle council of | the Rallwaymen’s Welfare league | will meet in the Foresters’ hall, First | ave. and Stewart st, Bunday, June 8. The propaganda committees will meet Monday, June 2, at 8 o'clock in room 407 Seaboard Bank building, and the executive committee will meet at room 620 Railway Exchange ing, Wednesday evening at 7 o'clock. ESCAPES FROM U. S, OFFICERS Man Held for Gold Export- ing Leaves His Coin Leaving $485 tn gold in the han@s of U. 8. customs officers ship” Quota Soon ir Jack Mage, of the La Fayette tle district in the “Friendship Bon He Reports to Corporation drive. He is making a fine record. Seattle's quota in the “Friendship Ronda” drive for funds to rehabilitate ‘devastated France is in sight. Getting their shoulders to the | wheel, the members of the school teams, handling the solicitation for the drive, have perfected their or ganization and expect to go over | the top in short order. Competition has been injected into the campaign with the offer of med- als to the most successful bond teams, and the boys and girls are out now to see who can bring in the largest subscriptions. “Friendship Bonds” are sold for $1 each, and the proceeds will be used to help care for the homeless and fatherless children of the war-torn countries of Europe The entire task of selling “Friend- ship Bonds” ts in the hands of school children, who are making the campaign for the less fortunate kid dies across the ocean The campaign will continue over selling bonds, Cash Used Up, So Employes to Wait “No money, Appropriation ex hausted.” That's the word stenogra- | phers, clerks and other employes in the United States district attorney's office got Saturday morping, instead of pay checks. The government officials all got at Blaine, Bert Barkley, who was arrested Thureday afternoon as he was about to cross the border, walked away from the hote) where he was being held late Friday, and | escaped, according to word that) reached the Seattle office Saturday morning. Barkley was arrested on a charge of attempting to take cold out of the United States. ‘The federal officers watching Barkley for several weeks | and notified the Blaine office to| stop him when he boarded the| train for Vancouver, B. man was taken to the Del hotel, but was not guarded, customs officers believing he would | not run away without his money.| When a guard came for Barkley to bring him back to Seattle, he had departed. | Let's geo eat at Boldt's—uptewn, 1414 3rd Av.; downtown, 913 2nd Av. | had been| ‘SAYS BET WAS A ‘FRAME-UP"| Youthful Promoter Is Sen-| tenced and Fined Vernon Brandwick, 19, giving his occupation as a laborer, was sen- tenced to serve 30 days in the city stockade and pay a fine of $100 by Judge John B. Gordon in police court | Saturday morning. Brandwick was | arrested recently by Detectives James | Byrnes and Jack Landis at First ave. and Seneca st. on the complaint | of Gust Stebener, of the Rainier-Jack son hotel, Stebener accused Brandwick and another of inducing him to bet $250 on a fake horse race. They then told him to go to Spokane and await them there, promising to bring his winnings to him, Stebener stayed in | Spokane for a month, and, growing suspicfous, came back to Seattle. He saw Brandwick on the street and| notified the two detectives, | According to Stebener, Brandwick | used the name of Albert Haglin in his dealings. Brandwick pleaded not | guilty to the charge Saturday. BABY Fifth MAJ. CARROLL TELLS OF FIGHTING SPIRIT Vividly describing the experiences | of the old Second Washington under fire, Maj. John E. Carroll spoke of | his war experiences Friday night at the Evergreen lodge, No. 2, A. 0. U W. memorial meeting, in the Arcade building. He has been a member of | Evergreen lodge for more than 13| years, and its application children.” their checks; only the hired help are “shy.” bad bia —- According to Miss Charlotte Ko 1 mitz, assistant district attorney, it may take until July 1 to get the em. ployes their wages. The appropria- tion was all used up, and the last, congress failed to appropriate enough. Congress is busy now on| deficiency bills, But, unless cash is borrowed from other departments, ‘the employes will have to wait, WAGON WRECKS CITY CLUSTER-LIGHT POLE) O. ©, Veble, 204 Pine st., driving a) team and wagon for the Seattle Box FARMER KILLS EAGLE 8 FEET ACROSS WING AURORA, Ill, May 31.—An measuring eight feet from tip to was shot by A. E. Engel, a fi residing near here. Small eagle started for them. Engel gral bed a shotgun and brought the pe bird down as it perched on « lumibe build. | pile. Truth les at the bettem well, and anglers there, Seattle Celebrates WEEK June 2-7 ‘THE Infants’ Wear Section of this store will signalize this annual event with especially-arranged show- ings, in the Section itself and in the Auditorium, of the many items in Apparel and Accessories that mean so much to His Babyship’s comfort. Lectures on Child Welfare, in the AUDITORIUM Floor have also been arranged for this week, | under the auspices of the Public Schools Medical Department. afternoon, at 2 o’clock, up to and in- cluding Friday, lectures on child train- ing and welfare will be delivered by authorities on these subjects. Each Monday afternoon’s Inctures, by Dr. Stevenson Smith of the University of Washington, will discuss “Psychology to the training of FREDERICK | Co., ran into a cluster light pole at| Fourth ave. S. and Main at. Saturday | morning, snapping off the pole at| the base, The city light department was notified and the wreckage cleared away. Veble was not held, +