The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 6, 1919, Page 11

THE SEATTLE STAR—SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1919. Tube Under English Channel to Cost Billion Dollars and Take Five Years for Construction natruction tn building Less ait | expected than N. B. A. Special to The Star LONDON, Engtand, Dec. 6.—Plans was met fh for a tunnel 32 miles long between | the East river tunne! between Man. France and England to cost a billion | }hattan and Long Isla The “| doliars or more are so far perfected | was necessary to bore thru hard rock that construction can start at once.| covered with glacial boulders over It will take five years to complete | laid with quicksand. the tunnel. The channel tunnel will go thru British and French governments chalk. The first layer under the are said to be in entire accord on channel is white chalk. Below this is the project. No preference in rates 300 fent of gray chalk and thru th is to be given any country. the tun will be bored he eng! ‘The approach to the tunnel will be neering question ls whether this gray _ northwest of Dover, some miles back | chalk is impervious to water, If tn from the coast, because of the huge the antics of the sea in ages past _ cliff between Folkstone and Dover. any great fissures have been cre .. More than 31 miles of the 32 will ated, they will cause trouble be under the sea and the tubes will 0 down to a depth of 230 fret ee aa Two tunnels, each 18 feet in a) 4 ameter, are to be sunk, with cross) First steps toward a channel tun- galleries every 200 yards. [nel were taken in 1874 when a Near the middle of the tunnel) French company sank an experi be a dip for one mile and a/ mental shaft in France. Then in means of which the/ 1881 a British company sank a shaft Mooded and disabled | and drove a boring 2,000 yards to- of emergency. This|ward the channel. The work was introlled from Dover. stopped by the government, which | decided that such a project should be carried out by the government o| The project was revived in 1913 and! naval and military advice asked, but |the outbreak of the war stopped i : l a @eepest water along the rout: tunnel ts 180 feet, and it in| to go deep enough to hare ‘of the chalk sea bottom 100 | PTOKTes*. Detween the top of the tun-| With the tunnel in operation the bottom of the channel. | Channel could be crossed in 45 min- protect the tubes from the| tes and the time from London tol ‘also from destruction: by | Paris will be but six hours, el ities in time of war. examination of baggage on the train tunnel will carry besides the Would do away with ‘customs delays ks, telephone and telegraph | Express trains would be made up Pneumatic tubes for the in London for Constantinople, Rome dispatch of letters and parcels.| and Brindisi, Bagdad and other cross ‘Trains will operate by electricity. cor leontinent runs, ly WILL HOLD HANDS — i? mae as usual” | The rumors which have given rise to the epidemic of hysteria are be |Meved to have grown out of a pre fiction of unusually heavy land disturbances -in ot the earth made some time ago by | Prot. Porta, noted sunspot expert Prof. Boothroyd issued a formal morning of | statement of the true facts the 17 and “await the end | case Saturday. It follows: calmly,” helding hands. | “Conjunction of the planets Prof. Samuel F. Boothroyd, head| curs about once every 220 years. | of the astronomy department at the| True that it is an unusual event in University of Washington, has’ re-| scientific history but I am certain jesived an average of nearly 20/ it will not result in the fatal events / phone calls a day for the past two| that have been predicted _ weeks irom frantic women and oth | “According to all scientific know! ers inquiring whether there is any | eage the planets have no effect what danger. | soover on the formation of sun “There isn’t the remotest possib0-/ spots. As near as astronomers can ity that the world will come to an| ascertain the solar spots are an in-| ‘end December 17, or for a long, long} ner effect of the «un and appear in! time thereafter,” Prof. Boothroyd| regular periods of 11 years waid Saturday. “We'll all be getting} ‘up on the morning of the 18th to! A cunning minority often Munch our toast and sip our coffee an overconfident majority storms other parts TT ie in oe beats ee | IT SOMETIMES HAPPENS KNOW ? IM NOT | COULDNT GET YOUR SIZE-THEY WERE Alt SOLD Our! Wy J Ly | WASHING | revolt in soviet Russia is being pre. | sation embracir TO THE VERY “END” SHOW INCREASE | Added Receipts Cause Mar- ket to Move Freely Increased receipts of pullet emm on the local wholesale market causing dealers to push this rather than the fresh stock iw short at the present time, it ts claimed. The pr are selling to the retaflers at 65 to 66 cents per dozen are wrade That the cheaper grade ees will meet with satisfaction of the consumers ts tion of jobbers, They claim that thetr quality equals that the jfirst grades, whfle the price differ jence is making pullets the favorites The produce market remains at the hands the declara Curve ot count ne to approach several miles ba of Dover. Section of interior of tube! showing electrio trains Dip 16 | quiet toward the end of the tunnel which may be flooded in time|No pew fruft or vegetable arr of war, 3 ¢ water depth, |trom Callfornia are reported 180 feet, 4. Thickness of chalk above|, aturday morning tunnel, 100 fect, 6, Entrance tol!” Recetpts at the | croas tube connecting tunnels, one|iriday were every 200 yarda, trains day were 161 cattle. Hog steady while cattle showed creasing firmness. Local Markets | ‘Price Pald Wholesale Dealers for Vegetables and Fruit vel wt Biratamn week vals ‘ea tent for peal atock yard: considerably delayed Total arrivals dur : ISSUE WARRANT | TO ARREST COP)’ Charged With E Beating Ten-1) Year-Old Boy Deputy sheriffs were sent to the home of Mounted Poticeman Urich M. Carson, 7500 45th ave. SW. Gatewood, at noon Satur- day, with a warrant for his ar- rest on « charge of second assault, alleging he beat his son Phillip, aged 10, over the head with an iron red, and kicked him because he was slow with his multiplication tables two weeks ago. The warrant was carried by Dep uty Sheriffs C. H. I pe and C. Jarrett Ball was fixed In the sum of $1,500, after Deputy Prosecuting Attorney John A. Frater had fled |spimecb—t coma 25 market held an in | Soe per sauce Cabbage-—Danieh Mall, head. 0i%@ Carrote—New. per enck . 2 Colery—Por dow sees Cacambere-—Per don — oth + 2.00@25 Carte superior court ‘ Phillip and ant Suste nil hia sisters, are being held in the | Tomatoes. home temporarily Turnips Spit ANTI-BOLSHEVIK |": REVOLT ON FOOT) === et) one ee Reports Reach State De-|tranberie-—1 matt partment in U. S. : . a ; "Wash, Deticions . Wash. Jonathane . see Homey—Comb, erate... 6 s9@7e anti-Bolshevik organt-| ftrained ... ; all parties in Petro- ees agg ‘ | rad, according td unofficial advices| Oranges Per ber—" to the state department today Navel, per case Some of the leading members of] Yslencias ’ Organization hold important| 7*Panees Per box ---- in the Bolshevik administra-|¥*-—— according to the advices | Revolts of peasants in soviet Rus sia were reported and insurgents were said have marched south | war 4 rf arm re questing iki to ne n the front to me >vement CAMELS TROT TO ST. LOUIS ST. LOUIS in thi Deo, 6 pared by an e oo@t th NUTS Prices Paid at Wholesale Almonds Per 1 Japanese, per Th regiment insurgent m DAINY rRopt "¢ ™ Prices Pala to Shippers ther Preah dairy ‘hatter Pat Kaws—Local r Mitk ~* per ™ “0 20 46 strictly fresh Per owt Dec. 6 oasis business today ans of the thirsty | surrounding | Mecca. ‘The p began arriving word went out eral Judge | Unitea the r whiskey Liquor hab! ked with ry in Judge Faris. lamps, ation orders, White at their ol St. Louis was lo Cara from made this thelr camels” after that Fed restrained from en on against ond and sale of early yesterday Faris had States author wartime pro from ats of other days were h an hour after the! unction was ordered by ‘andles and kerosene necessitated fuel conser added color to the re ‘ohn = Barleyoorn’s xed bark 1 stands early toda reported thriving Youths Plead Not _, Guilty of Murder fter pleading not ¢ f insant Isom V 1 mn were Characterizes our every transactio tomers are acco tesy consistent with ness judgment. methods ia vin Morton, youths nurder of Le hauffeur, were tod. rial. LAnton's body vas found on the Home Acres roac ear here a fortnight ago OREGON OVERRUN BY CATERPILLARS PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 6.—Accord in the «malt thelr banks in county, Oregon, there harged with the Accounts Subject to Check Are Cordially Invited, f — Peoples Savings Bank GRCOND AVE AND PIKE ST. back in t cells awaiting If you MUST sell you wet what they're wor ions of caterpillars mt the rralge Oh Pakinil NATIONAL BAWK y OMMERCE 1 the bottoms Ay nnd d to a depth nen the worm for mile During the million feet s fir and hemlock timber. that logging causes will urrence of the aventen worms 1 Locatlo SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES AD sizem, 4 4 Per Year. Title Trust Co. at son Mm in fact are or in windrows. ve Keeani ul inch nature round is black the wit! alr them Jaenicke Killed we have era He believe perations 1 erve to prevent weeding of the however natural a rec and Actors’ Benefit Show Nets $1,818 Sir Harry Lauder and other theatrical folk, who participated in benefit vaudeville perform ince at the Metropolitan theatre Friday morning, took in receipts amounting to $1,818 for the actors’ memorial fund, it was announced Saturday $30 Columbia Second N to limb Meh |b hogn and 164] | wor ee | NEW rors Me iit nN iit nts DETERMINED TO _ BOYCOTT JAPS \China Refuses to Be Market for Nipponese 7 | mined to boycott Jap today offers the world's | American trad ct | chin janeno q greatest market f and capital, and the that direct trade be |inhed at once, according t Ting, special trade represent the ministry of agriculture and com of the Chinese republic, who |iw visiting Seattle for a few days en| |r ancouver, B,C. He will shortly return to China after baving spent nine months in America at |ing American and Canadian mar jand industries, Commiasioner Tink today gave personal information on |China to Seattle business men in in terviews arranged thru the for trade bureau of the Ch Mma anxious The Chinese are conducting their Japanese with | said, and com: | So stringent is it | that not only will Chinese merchants refuse to sell Japanese goods, but Chinese workmen will refuse to handle them on the wharves or un. load them from Japanese steamers and the Chinese even refuse to deal in American or ropean goods car | ried in Japanese steamships An a result of the boycott, trade with Japan ts falling off at @ rapid rate, he asserted. The boycott is not recognized by the Chinere go ernment, but it is none the leas es | ctive and could not be made more effective if it were officially | recognized. China wold Japan $331,000,000/ |worth of cotton last year, and this largely returned as manufac tured product. Mr, Ting hopes to nee a large cotton mil! financed by American and Chinese capita opened in his country, Japan last year bought $52,000,000 worth of Chinese wool, manufactured it and | returned it to that country at two and three times its purchase price. China, with tts 400,000,000 people. jis awakening and will need larger jené larger quantities of manufac- tured goods, he said. America tn lite friend and tf Americans pase llad b |to the opportunity awaiting them in China, this country can be its chief supply source, TODD YARD TO. REOPEN| TACOMA, Deo. 6.—The Todd Dry} Dock & Construction corporation's lahipyard will re-open |morning, after betng shut jsince October 1, E. P. Marsh, labor) commissioner, announced Saturday | poyeott againat the religious fervor, plete he thoroness The yard employs 5,600 men, | | New York Coffee. and | Sugar Quotations || NEW YORK, Dee ¢- Cotter Kantor. No. 7 BAe Somer 7.28 Contrifemal per I Foreign Exchange Dec 6 lon the foreien exche ing 1Ke fror hecks made ® Demand ste POULTRY by Wholesale Dealers to Shippers \* | Decks Live Live, heavy light Prices Paid Shippers dressed 20} 200 ne ne om Mediam, per I Veal—Fancy ar HIDES, TALLOW, WOOL Wholesaler to the Consumer Per Pound | salted hides, cows and steers, No. cows and steors, No wool, each an ranch, full grown green kip skina, No. 1m wool, oaoh wool, each tng lo flint dry wool pelt fallow, N e | WAY, GRAIN AND Wholesale Price Ver Tom, city, "price * | a Whole Cocoannt Meal | Alfalfa Meal Serateh | Straw Wheat +16,00@ 18.00 +81,00@ 83,00 ‘ 16,000 16.50 Medium to choice . 15.00 @ 16.00 Rough heavy . ‘ 14.00@ 14.60 | Pigs .. 14,00@16.00 Common to quod 270 VOICES IN CONCERT ‘The annual midwinter concert will be given by 270 trained singers from ‘the university under the direction of Dean Irving M. D, Glen in Meany \18 s|from San | Bethel Monday | down | 5 hall Wednesday night, ni VESSEL MAY BE | LOST OFF COAST Barkentine Thrasher Long Overdue Here No reports have been recetve from the barkentine ‘Thrasher § overdue her Vrancisco to Seatt all hope has n . It Is belleved the foundered in the raged recently along now Altho abar entine which count ne ‘Thrasher left October 26, and w make the voyage in The power schooner the bark storm the San Francisce Kuskoky tle, te om than a but b anxiety in entertat an whe delayed by y st SUGAR CARGO ARRIVES)« Fifty thousand of sugar shipped int from Cali fornia on Parr-McCormack line ships the company During October brought here by fort is fre rms fety quently an nounced this route LOVEJOY TAKES LUMBER million feet of lumber will be taken to San Pedro from the Stim son mill in Ballard by the steamship H. B. Lovejoy, Thorndyke-Trenholme announced Friday STEAMERS ACCEPTED The steamships Manham and Jad den, Seattle North Pacific and Skin: | ner & Eddy products, we ted by the shipping board, after passing | trial trips Frida ICONIUM RETURNS The steamat Icontum, Pacific 8. Co, completed her maiden voyage to the Orient Friday noon, | when berthed at Smith Cove} port commission terminal After her Oriental cargo is discharged, he will be reloaded for the Orient VESSEL MOVEMENTS DEI EP "SEA VESSELS al N Sighted at the Cape (Special from U. & Weather TATOOSH ISLAND, Deo, ¢ ing barometer; cloudy niles an hour it b—Noon- an hour ’ a m 20 miles an Bureau) A. M— re south, hour Arrived at Seattle December Str Argyll from dro via Tacoma r from Hongke: motor echt at 12:20 p pat ip m p.m. ied trom Seattle Ban Pe-| 5 Stanley a porte at 1:65 p. mat Wakena from Vancouver, 1 str Jadden from trial str Manhan frem trial Mtr Admiral Nicholeon for p.m; str Wal op at Other My PHILADELPHIA boa Str Tyndareus OKOHAMA fr Arrived nm Maru for tr Manila Yokot at 9:40 DB. m MUKILTEO—Satled x for Mahukona WNKEND. December in tow he of tug Paaned tn Decer Arrived comber 6: Str ont Ita Arrived De O-11 in tow of tum De Northwestern from 660 milton | atr We miles hikan at § p. x Veanelsy in Po: Smith Cove terminal t Northern pier Great, Northern Guide. Bell st hr Chaliam- atr Protesilaus, Motor schr Wakena r 2—ttr Jefferson, etr Santa Ana Fr 1—Str Bergen. Btr City of Seattle. from Seattle for Seattle Today t Toontum. Str Suwa Maru; ete elevator—Str astern Redondo, str past bunkers— tilla No, 6 Skinner L. 8. Uma- atr ate Cros Keys, str Alaa Sur- voyor. terminal—U. 8. T. Dix Hanford st. terminal—Str Ossaqumatck, atr Clyndon, tr Manhan Spokane st. terminal—Str Fubo Maru. Duthie yards. r West Menseltine, Hast Waterway terminal-—Str West Ivts Todd drydock—Str West Henshaw, Soattio flour milt Kgremont Ames yards—Str Roosove Heffernan drydock—str H. B. Lake Union—-Hulls Snoqualmie. Tota, Endym dison, Boughton, Bowesmont, Rourne- | ville, Allenhurst, Abilla, Adria, Ca- ra, Oclwin, Abydos, Arca- jomia, Peruta, Black Wolf, Bastine, Blanford, Agron, a, Fort ‘Stanwix, | Dione, Cagacan, » Bliss, sohra Allo 8. Burnside, U, Lovejoy. Broxton, Fort Jackson, Imufku, Corian, Azalea, Henry V Wawona, bge © ‘anal Lumber company dock— Motor sohr Kirketind Stimson mill—str Clodia, Union Pacific dock—Str Stante: Standard Ol) dock: te Status of New York Stock Exchange Prices ¥ final dealings [Chicago Market Report After oper kg the rallied buying 4 down up; May Ge at the opening of § another 1%e De + and and later lost | ember oate opened unchanged 16%e, but advanced Ke in later tradk May was 790 at the opening, down . and gained %o during the short sos at | Open $1084 Lae 132 High low $1.40 $1.28 136% 1.34 186.8 7% 50% "Portland Market Report | | “¥ nf IRTLAND, Dee, 6 Rossipta, 33 head; market ctendy, steers, $969.60 $8; common to fair steers, $6 °: 00d to cholce cows and hetfer Sse: ai 60@8.60; cannera, $3 calves, $7@16. weak. Prime ‘medivm, mized, ) rough heavy, $13.60@14; Cattle mixed, 314.608 pigs, $13) lam 110.50@ | wothers, ‘ 16. heep—Market steady. Prime $11.50@12,60; fair to medium, yearlings, $9.50@ 10.60; owen, 1567. 41@ ke per Th. 22@ 28 " Denver Market Status ENVER, Dec, 6.—Cattle—Reoesipte, head; market steady. Steers, $10@ cows and helfers, $769.60; stock- A feeders, $7 i calves, $7@ Recetpta, £00 head; market 25@ Top, $13.80; bulk of saies,| 28.000 head; market er, Lamba, $13.50@ feeder lambs, $13 Receipts, to 10 ewes, 17 @5; steady Probably the easiest way to make | trouble is to look for it faGE 11 a =~ — BANK CLEARINGS | Seattle $6,024, 725.45 | | Clearings . 1,248, A06.58 Balances Spokane Bal 190.00 ance 611,897.00 ‘Tacoma Clearings .. Balances 667 025.00 . 195,346.00 Vortiand 90.00 1,111,457.00 i Frisco Market Status | Dec. 6—Buttorae per doz; extra pul- sized pullete, T8e per Ib; Public Markets werent AKE Clearing» Balance 20¢ compound, 266 ork a ¢ t.; round tall 10 bare Sunny phase. corn flakes, maple syrup, tc. Btalle 166 oF peas 3 bare Palm Albers” Veacock bueke Stall 192, 2 pkes, Shrede cane Sunrive. ml Stall 136, 9 the cam Van ise amp's pork beans, CORNER tall can navy milk, 22¢, Prk \ pure fresh milk, 12e qt és ean Carnation milk, 12%¢. Ts pure lard, 60¢; choice jowl ™, Stall 1503, 4 cakes Creme c; 4 cans of! sardines, 2he; 48= Holly flour, $2.96; sold oem, 7c ean; cut macaroni, # pork and beans in tomate saueg Stall 79, tal woonomt . fancy Burbank ée: Stalls .27-38, $2.36; 6 bars ‘ pkg. Roman mi Van p's pumpkin, 16¢; he; 12 cans tomatoes, 3c: 2 epinach, 2 Te small white 41.25 Vroom, 890 Stall 2.20 sack, $1.90 box | B. coffee, 3 |Barkentine Wins A Heved to be the Thrasher, 18 days overdue from San Francisco, passed into the straits at 9:30 o'clock t- urday ‘morning, according to reports received at the Merchants’ Ex from Tatoosh island. The bari tine Thrasher was thought to foundered off the coast during storm last week. FRENCH AWARD MEDAI Henry Suzzallo, president of university, received a copy of a medal from the University of Friday. The French school gays the medal was confererd on U. of W. for — the part {ts students and elumni | played in the war, If ignorance were bliss would be more happiness on LIBERTY AND VICTORY BONDS mui ean BUY more Liberty or December 5, 1919, the governi: ighent New the ices ¢ *When buying 3ic on a $8 ell at the New Yor arket plus the acc SELL your Liberty or Victory Bonds, SELL to UR Victory Bonds, BUY from US closing market prices were as r Liberty and Victory Bonds all « daily in order that you | exact value of your Liberty 4th Victory ‘ue 38 @ +9 $9812 8 oo 2.04 soois t10LA8 SIOLOT pe 50 on @ $1,000 bond, Wegg $92.75 $95.40 0 bond and ¢ rued intere MORRIS BROTHERS, Inc. The Premice Municipal Bond House—Capital One Million Dollars 3 Central Building, Seattle. 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