The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 25, 1919, Page 7

ai POdot - Letters +t Edited hy ” Tn the ‘fant of ioe, “the York elections were of his influence openly for Hughes | | Qgainst Hearst in the contest for governor. National issues were At stake, he believed, Secretary | Root was sent to Utica as spokes: Man of the administration in a | statement attacking Hearst and | backing Hughes, The first “third term” talk began to be heard at | this juncture. It was said that | fortunes of the republican | 3 oe, And the fate of what were | to become known as “my poll: | | ‘ cles" would compel the president | Af to reconsider his decision not to | run again.—The Editor. te * thought of the rebelliog against the Spanish dominion, and the uninter rupted and bloody wars that followed. the last occurring when I became President, wara, the victorious heroes of which have their pictures frescoed on the quaint rooms of the palace at Panama City, and in similar pal | |nces dn all capitale of these strange. turbulent little half-caste civilima tions, Meanwhile the Panama rail lroad had been built by Americans over a half century ago, with ap: palling lows of life, so that tt ts said of course with exaggeration, that every sleeper lait represented the death of a man, Then the French canal company started work, and for two or three years did a good deal until it became evident that the task far exceeded its powers; and then to added the hideous greed of adven ‘What tho President Saw at Panama) iio). tryingeach to save something U. 8. 8, Louisiana, At Sea, Nov. 20, 1906, Kermit: _ Our visit to Panama was most suc it as well as most interesting. from the general wreck, and the company closed with infamy and scandal. Now we have taken hold of the job. We have difficulties with our Were there three days and we!/own people, of course, I haven't a from morning till night. The | doubt that it will take a Uttle longer day I was up at & quarter) and cost a little more than men now io 6 ‘and got to bed at a quarter to/appreciate, but I believe that the ‘and I do not believe that in the work is being done with a very high ing time, save when I was/ degree, both of efficiency and hon ing, there were 10 consecutive esty; and I am immensely struck by when IT way not busily at the character of American employes In some shape or form. For/who are engaged, not merely in days there (were) uninterrupted | superintending the work, but in do- rains without a glimpse of the/ing all the jobs that need skill and un, and ¢! higher than any for 15 years: river rose in a/ intelligence, The steam shbvels, the | dirt trains, conductors, machinists, Joseph Buckiin Bishop coprman’ 1919 By Cerenes salanees sore, miscaleniation and Inefficiency was! ye machine shops, and) country, too; deer, and that we saw the climate at it/the like, are all filled with American) jaguars and tapir, a r It was just what I desired to | engineers, boilermakers, carpenters. , From the| alligators tn the rivers. One of the @ day in the Culebra cut, where the great work is being done, There the huge steamshovels are hard at it pote huge masses of rock and and dirt previously loonmed by the dritiors and dynamite blasters, | loading it on trains, which take it} away to some dump, either in the jungle or where the dams are to be built, Dhey are eating steadily Into} jthe mountain, cutting It down and down. Little tracks are laid on the aide hills, rocks blasted out, and the reat 95-ton steam-shovela work up like mountain howiteers until they come to where they can, with ad | Vantage, begin their work of eating into and destroying the mountain side, With intense energy, men and machines do their task, the white men supervising matters and hand. Ung the machines, while the tens of thousands of black men do the rough manual labor where it is not worth while to have machines do it. It is an epic feat, and one of immense! significance The deluge of rain meant that! many of the villages were knee-deep | in water, while the flooded rivers) tore thru the tropic forests. It ts a real tropic forest, palme and ban- anas, breadfruit trees, bamboon, lofty celbas, and gorgeous butterflies and brilliant colored birda fluttering among the orchids, There are beau: tiful flowers, too. All my old enthusiawm for natural | hist seemed to revive, ond 1) would have given a good deal to) have stayed and tried to collect spect. | It would be a good hunting | ow and then great birds mena that they call wild turkeys; there are | __ It certainty adds to one’s pleasure |top to the bettom these men are #0/ trained nurses from a hospital went | to have read history and to appre clate Picturesque. When, on Wednemiay, we approached the const, fand the jungle-covered mountains 4 clear and clearer until we could see the surf beating on the ‘shores, while there was hardly a sign ot human habitation, I kept thinking the four centuries of wild and Morgan; but as it is, they are doing | the really ple ° romance, mixed with abject a work of infinitely more lasting com | side of the ii ualor and suffering. which had sequence. Nothing whatever remains) herself. 1 up the Ristory of the isthmus pUntil three years ago. boa crossing at Darien, and the| h towns; and the trade, across handy, so efficient, so energetic, that }it Is a real pleasure to look at them. Steve the head engineer, is a big) fellow, man of daring and good sense, and burly power, All of these men are quite formidable, and would. if it were necessary, do quite as much lin battle as the crews of Drake and to show what Drake and Morgan did T could see | They produced no real effect down to bathe in a pool last August and | An alligator grabbed him by the legs) and was making off with him, but! | was fortunately soared away, leaving | the man badly injured. I tramped everywhere thru ‘al mud. Mother | not do the roughest | work, and ha time to see more of| esque and beautiful | and really enjoyed) P. 8 The Gatun dam will make | here, but Stevens and his men are/a lake miles long, and the railroad between the Spaniards and the changing the face of the gontinent, | now 008 On what will be the bottom ne, And the settlement and the/are doing the greatest engineering | of ‘this lake, and it was curious to ig up of the quaint walled /feat of the ages, and the effect of| think that in a few years great ships | their work will be felt while our civ. would float in water 100 feet above) seas by galleon, and over land by | {lization lasts. I went over “yp where woe were. “Ktrain and river canoe, tn gold|thing that I could possibly v1 silver, in precious stones; andjover in the time at my disposal. * (Copyright, 1 married the advent of the buccaneers, | examined the quarters of ot secon get seamen, of Drake | and oe men, white men and - Frobisher Morgan, and over the ground groes, went many proves and the wild|the Gatun and La Boca dams; wie they wrought. Then I | FREDERICK | é | &NELSON | FIFTH AVENUE AND PINE STREET DOWNSTAIRS STORE 500 Pairs of Women’s Shoes Reduced to $6. Lace Shoes in Fi thru Panama and Colon, and spent 85 Pag eld-mouse, Tan and Gray shades—broken sizes, but all sizes in the offering as a whole. Reduced to Ti $6.85 pair. 250 Pairs of Women’s Low Shoes Reduced to $4, Oxfords and Pumps in the popular leathers and sty! pair. High Reduced | he $3. An assortment of styles and leathers to choose from, in sizes 21% to 514, 300 Pairs of Women’s and Growing Girls’ 85 Pair es, reduced to $4.85 Shoes 85: Pair Wi ||| had broken their engagement, | |] ALLEGED WIFE BEATER ( tes Be Continued) Chartes MURDERS MANY, | SAYS EX-MAJOR ‘Twenty-Five Killings Aired| in Court Martial YORK, Dee. 25-—(United Preas.)—Twenty-five murders were committed in the area occupied by | A forces near Lemans, | France, from Auguat, 1914, to July,/ . George Armstrong, NEW military court martial at G Island here yesterday. Testifying in behalf of Captain | Karl W. Detzer, former head of the department of criminal investigation | at Lemans, who ts on trial for al- | Jered Inhuman treatment of military prisoners, Armstrong justified the | harsh measures used in ferreting out | persons guilty of erimes in the! ea. After the armistice, lawlessness was rampant in the Lemans area, | Armstrong said. Military police a rested an average of 500 men month, chiefly for drunkenness and | being absent without leave, | Hoover Too Busy to Run for President SAN FRANCISCO, Dec, 25.—De-| | | | | nia that he will be a candidate for | mt was made by Herbert . upon his arrival here from ngton, where he has been at nding the second industrial confer of my candidac: | declared. “I have no px | tions and have my hands full with | tiny work of assisting in the feeding Of 2,000,000 Pmbies in Europe.”* | ——__— | 'Paris Pays High | for Yule Dinner PARIS, Dé, 25.—Christmas eve dinners came high in Paris this . ‘The cheapest restaurants awk ed from 180 to 200 francs, while the | “show places” ask as high na_1,000 francs, including 200 francs for table reservations | Never mind, it will be twice as| | much next year, the people declared. It was considered all prices will be | doubled or tripled beginning January | 1, when the new taxes become ef. fective. |Girl Murdered by Rejected Suitor nurdered his th nmitted suicide yesterday, left a note asking that his body be cremated and the ashes | "acattered to the winds, 80 that no! one may know that such a fool as I ever lived.” Ming Eleanor Carroll, 20, the girl, LANDS IN CITY JAIL Thomas Hamilton, 36, a salesman, was arrested Wednesday afternoon, after his wife had telephoned the| police that he had severely beaten | her, ejected her from the house and was beating their young son, Ham- iIton was taken into custody at his residence at 2151 Sixth ave, W, by Motorcycle Patrolman N. P. Ander. son, Pr that swing out from each aide hold a new stepladder firm when it is in use, and can be folded against it when idle, THE SEATTLE STAR—THURSDAY, DEC. 25, 1919. 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The Clearance in Children’s Coats 16 COATS REDUCED TO $3.75 Sizes 2 to 6 years, in Coats of Red and Blue Corduroy, Bolivia Cloth in navy and tan, and Egyptian Velour in Black, Green and Red. 36 COATS REDUCED TO $6.95 Coats of Bolivia Cloth in gray and tan, Nov- elty Coatings in Burgundy, brown, green and navy, Velour in Alice-blue, green or plum. Sizes 3 to 14 years. 54 COATS REDUCED TO $8.45 Sizes 3 to 14 years, in Coats of Corduroy, Two-tone Velour, Broadcloth, Chinchilla, Bolivia Cloth and Zibeline, in black, navy, brown, gray, green, Burgundy. Other Clearance Groups at $11.35, $14.75, $19.85. —THE DOWNSTAIRS STORB. Silk and Cloth Dresses Greatly Underpriced 55 Dresses Reduced to $12.65 —Georgette and Messaline Frocks in the favored Winter styles. 124 Dresses Reduced to $15.75 —in Serge and Tricotine, also Chiffon Party Frocks. 109 Dresses Reduced » to $19.75 —in Serge and Tricotine, Satin, Messaline and Velveteen. Chiffon Party Frocks are included, also. y 92 Dresses Reduced to $2435 —in Georgette Crepe, Velveteen, Serge and Tricotine. ‘ 15 Dresses Reduced to $29.85 —in Satin, Velveteen, Chiffon and Tricotine. ~ —THE DOWNSTAIRS STORE. Winter Suits at Deep Reductions Suits Reduced to $11.75 a —in Navy and Black Serges, sizes 16 to 51. Suits Reduced to $17.75 —In Poplin, Serge, Velveteen, navy, brown and black, sizes 16 to 44. Suits Reduced to $24.25 —Poplin Suits in gray and taupe, sizes 16 to 44, Suits Reduced to $29.75 —Suits of Silvertone and Serge, in gray, brown and navy, sizes 16 to 42. —THE DOWNSTAIRS STORE. — 300 Georgette Waists Reduced to oe, 95, $8.95, $9.95 OOL embroidery, fluffy jabot effects, laces, clusters of pin tucks, beads, soutache W braid and other trimming effects of the season in the offering— In White, Flesh-color, Cerise, Gray, Purple, Burnt- orange, Coral, Bisque, Burgundy. 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