The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 31, 1920, Page 12

TURSDAY WRDNRSDAY ALG -) First Miah Tide Se em 104 Te) Pieet Miah Tide Wiest Low Tite | #18 am. 104 ft 12:28 pom, 26 he Second High Tide | Nerend High Tide | a eth MS Cs 115 tt Only Solution “of cams NOME ~~ F | IN FIGHT D oa NEW YORK, Aug. 30.—That the| — only solution of the street railway §. §, Victoria Has Record | problem of America lies in public/ ownership and operation is the con. | Trip From Seattle clusion reached by Delos F. Wilcox, | peo ah this country’s foremost traction au From Seattle to Nome in eight thority. days, including a stop at Akutan | Wilcox has been employed by | whore she discharged A quantity of| the Federal Electric Railways com: | fyol oil, tx the record established by mission to aid in the analysis of |the Alaska Stemahip Company's liner testimony taken before it and to in-| Victoria, on her last voyage out Vestigate our entire street railway! The Victoria docked at Nome Sunday situation, at 4 p, m, according to word re DOCUMENT OMITS ceived here, She ts in command of| WILCON'S REPORT Capt. John Johnson. The testimony taken by the federal | | ied commission and its conclusions have} The steamship Cordova, command been published, but Wileox's monu-|ed by Capt. C. V. Westerlund, is ex mental report was not included in the | pected to sail Thursday for Kotzebue document, though a flattering refer, sound, the farthest north of any ence Was made to it. | point touched by regular liners, This and some of the charges be eee | hind it became known only today. | The Arizona Maru, first of the new CHARGE NO. 1, The money for! passenger veaselx put Into operation printing and distributing the testi-/by the Osaka Shosen Kaisha, left mony and the commission's own re | Monday for Chinese, Japanese and | port (which opposed the conclusions | Philippine ports. She carried a big | reached by Wilcox) was supplied by | list of passengers and full cargo of | the American Electric Railway asso- | freight. ciation, edinposed of the street car Ms Fk companies of this country. | The steamship Northwestern is ex CHARGE NO. 2. Some important] pected to reach port Thursday or | members of the American Electric | Friday, coming direct to Seattle from | Railway association served notice | Seward and Cordona, She is bring upon that body that if Wilcox’s re-| ing 51,000 cases of canned salmon, port were included in the document | and has a passenger list of 300 they would refuse to pay their pro. rata share of the expense. mawracentes —_ GAN'T SALVAGE . RAILWAY ASSOCIATION It is not charged that this ulti-| matum was delivered to the Federal | Flectric Railways commission, but to} the American Electric Railway asso. | ciation. Philip H. Gadsden, repre-| 7 senting that association, is a member | Efforts to ‘Raise Steamer |¢ of the Federal Electric Railways com | Are Abandoned mission itself were limited to $10, om 000, supplied from the president's} yancov R. B.C. Aug. 21 contingent fund. Efforts to raine the steamer Prin mission. The expenses of the com This charge is not made by Wil-| ceas Sophie, lying at the bottom of} } cox. In his public statement he says| Lynn canal, in Alaskan waters, have merely: “If my analysis had been|peen abandoned, Word to this effect made a part of the record it would| was brought by Diver Walters, of have added considerably to the print-| this city, who returned yesterday on ing bill, and it may be that the com-| the Princess Alice after having re mission thought the association could | covered the safe with about $12,000 mot afford it.” in valuables and money from the The commission in its report| sunken vensel strongly recommends “service at| A syndicate formed in Seattle last cost” under private ownership, with| «pring Yor the purpose of salv ging | @pring. $2.90. @ sliding scale of fares, fluctuating| the Princess Sophia is understood to} according to the cost of providi have ceased its efforts from lack of the service. It opposes public owner. | funds. ship because that is still in the ex- eee . perimental’ stage; though it admits that “service at cost’ is experimental 42 SHIP FIRMS riso. “SERVICE AT COST” IN CLEVELAND SINCE 1910 Wileox says that “service at cost” Was begun in Cleveland in 1910, and) that Tractioner Sanders of Cleveland | testidied before the commission in| Indictments Allege Bestraint| favor of mitnicipal ownership. The latter has long since passed the ex- of Commerce onooggaad stage in Europe, Wilcox —_—— ase against the “service at cost” conspiracy and restraint of trade in| Plan, the inve@figator argued that! violation of the Sherman anti-trust this in effect guarantees a street rail-| law were brought here yesterday by Way's earnings and therefore re-| the federal grand jury against 42| moves the incentives to economy and| steamship companies and freight! 4, efficiency, supposed to be the chief| brokers. Practically all of the bic advantages of private ownership. transcontinental lines’ were among EFFECT OF those indicted. BOOSTS The indictments allege that the An important feature of Wilcox’s| defendants thru freight brokernge work was a study of the effect on| Combines have restrained interstate wtreet railway service of increases in | COMMerce in grain, oil, lumber, coal fares. Figures supplied by the lines | #94 other commodities themselves indicated that as fares go up the usefulness of the street rail he ways goes down. Wilcox himself said to m “Under many conditions moderate | wetnimiand br ors. increases in fares are justified, but | experience shows radical fare in STILL ON ROCKS Vessels i in n Other Ports na Arrived August Pha Beattie and Tacoma. competition and do not restore street | Bride Of Captain Is Rescued | « creases curtail the usefulness of street railways, encourage jithey railway credit. Elaborate tables proving this were From Wreck Prepared by Dr. Wilcox. They were| Not included in the commission's re-| SAN FRA Hope of saving the Dutch steamer Arakan, which went ashore Sunday at Point Reyes, diminished today a @ result of the failure of seven tugs| to pull her off the beach last night. 9 Another attempt to float the ship | will be made at high tide today. cated that any unfavorable change! in the wind might turn the vessel, Jamestown, N. a to Build then pointing stern seaward, broad. side onto the beach, from which po Its Own Plant sition it would be nearly impossible to move her. Jamestown will be the first Ameri-|™e™Mbers of his crew wer @ municipal function. kel, bride of the captain, who was ‘A bond issue of $150,000 i# author-|™aking the “honeymoon voyage” ized by special vote of the taxpay.|*>oard the Arakan, and a party of ers to build and equip a milk plant.| Chinese who were on the ship, were This plant will receive milk from | TOUsht to San Francisco during the | the farmers, clean it, pasteurize some |™ ht, aboard a tug. of it, and distribute to consumers Coast guard crews have set up life | sparatus on the be ¢ of an emergency Better and cheaper milk is antict-| **Vin« eB, for pated, besides allowing sufficient} "** 1" © margin to pay off the bonds and en- large the plant Jones Bill to Be Mayor Samuel A. Carlson, a strong | : municipal ownership advocate, han| Discussed Here been urging the milk plant for Public airing of the Jones mer-| years. He was instrumental in es-| chant marine law, with explanations | tablishing municipal distribution of| pro and con, will be held at the Beli electric current at low cost st. wharf at 2 p. m. Wednesday un- — der the auspices of the port commis Sherman Rogers sion. All interested persons are in a vited. The port commissioners have Will Speak Here! #0 '» "detrim A notable visitor to this city is Mr Sherman Rogers, industrial editor of | the Outlook, who will remain in se-| From Weather Bureau attle for @ little over a week. Hin| TATOOSH IBLAND, Aug. 31.—8 A. M primary purpose here ix to make an|~Clar wind east, miles an hour, survey of industrial conditions in the | sf st '640 pom a mend with bee No ifiec Northwest, as groundwork | Kadio reports the sehr Abner Coburn ee & detinn. Of axtiaion Ip. te Ont.| the Suraitn, weal’ in, whee to Pen to Seattle interests see ngeles, In the Mtraits, bound in: A two-| look. He is no stranger here, for Mr. | masten freight. otcencr wee huh est Rogers wan originally a lumber jack | house and worked in various camps in thig| Aveust 10—11:30 A. M.—Clonay state as recently a during the peri-| northeast. 21 miles an hour. Passed in Mtr Crown of Gali t 1:20 p. m.; bktn od of the great war, when he wae in| faipn in tow Gonumbia at 1:30 p one of the spruce camps. m. 6 P M.—Partly cloudy; wind south He is to address a specially called |*'*t miles an hour meeting of the members of the As ™ sociated Industries, to be held at the| Arrivals aisA Siiniindiniiies Masonic club rooms, on Friday, Sep . * Arrivi tember 2, at & p.m Avgunt Str Adm 1 Dewey trom - we Han Diexo via Han Francisco at noon The consumption of sugar in| August 10 Hr Hons, F Packeed trom France has slumped to about one.|Nwhaenk in tow of tug ‘Tyee at aia p Francisco via Tono eighth the pre-war mark. str Hoboken from Tacoma at . 21 te 1148 a mm, Lett.) Segond Low Tide | Prices were generally irregular at the stock Naldwin unchanged at 107%: ; New Maven 4%, | Chesapeake & Pan-American Mexican Petroleum ¢ Steel 83%, off \%; os advanced Canadian P Pennsylvania 41%, the early trading Louis South- Southern Pa ern led the Hat ‘The advance in rails caused Steel common to get up to 89% and Mex- joan Petroleum to 162% ‘The general list stood up well, despite profit taking. Baldwin went United States Steel common got down to #4 an Internationa! broke from Part of this was later recovered United States Stee! elo: ; Rubber 85%. nadian Pacific Mexican Petroleum 161%, | Pan-American | Retail Stores The market closed irregular W YORK, Aug. 31.—The Now York Evening Sun financial review “Interest In today's stock market centered mainly in the rallroad leat Soon after the opening thoseslasues were bid up with orderly animation, conservative advances There was loss aggressivences in the afternoon, but prices held well ontrarg, the industrials were under more or leas pr [a rine of fairly sub ultimate net ure following antial proportions in the first hour and tran ‘The exception to this > Kroup. While the general relative positions of rm shares were maintained ut the only addition feature in the late session was the extreme weak- S$ | Crop Notes Wisconsin potato crop in below ay. | Rhabarb—r erage this year, while Nebraska ts | gums @" see, poking forward to a record yield. th be found in the jroad and ind trading turned 4 | were far lighter in volume ness in the shipping stocks.” GRAIN FUTURES GAIN STRENGTH Good Buying “Move Closes | Market High CHICAGO, Aug. 31.—Grain futures | closed strong on the Chi jof trade today. Sharp declines were trading, but od buying movement later result ed in good gains, Fanging from . | fraction of a cent to Je _Recember wheat opened at $2 32, Gartle—Per Green Peppers Per Sweet Comm tacat Sweet Potatons Jonathan apples in the Yakima val: | tometer Wa. | ley are bringing slightly lower prices than those’ of a year ago, | crop this season is somewhat short Apricots Ver lug (Manenes Pr Blackberries Mer crate Blucherries 1 C. per Cantalonper he Wash can Koyal baking pow sroand chotorate rration mills and cloned at $1.18%, tomber oats opened down Ko closed down ‘ee te opened down Vrovisiona closed higher. _ CHICAGO, Aug. 31.—Ca S25I4 ETH icago Live Stock 090 head: market iO higher HA 2S@ IE, Dutehers, $146 6 saunaee. | peare— cal soda Diecuite Mele of | Makes, 1 4 fresh emeits, Piareepics rack | Piame— Brad $18 be@ | trowt 410; plem, $19.50@15; rougne, 119908 Cattlo—Receipte, 12, $4 76@17 25; cannere and cutters, ftockers and feeders, alan piaeappia brome: F Prasee—Italian. per bow Takima potatoes, spedsy, Hie 10 | necpherrice—-Ted, per erate. ..- Strawberries Everbearing, crt Turkish Melous— Yakima, per {pork steak, 2 Ta ble | Watermelens—Per Te ooeake phew Port Teasties, 50, steers, $14.50@18, 5 apples, $1.25 box te %; fancy der | Almende—rer On" | ritnerte— Perm Waloute Manchurian NEW YORK, NEW YORK, Aug. 11 —Charges of! canae showed little radical chase the opening today unchanged at contimeas at 14.2 Foreign ex. red oan . lire off 1 contime at _ re marke up i ¢ anadian dotiare uncha Demand sterling clomed at $2 ook margarine Rattertat Py Per owt Kastern sugar cured hame. N. Y. Coffee tind Sugar Batter Local creamery, cubes. NEW YORK, Aue . Ne. 7 | selmon tans Cheeee— O4e per Ib, granciated, ‘Str Admire! Bebiey for San Pe ret oe WESTLAKE Keonomy jar cape. Reliance jar 34: Ste Diablo | aru for Beart | yama Maru for Beatle v ‘CISCO, Aug. 31.—~) baking powder Denver Market Status % Geeee Turkeye— Dressed President from Meath Victoria, B. ¢ Arrived August 20) Str om Heattie at 446 pm. Pancy Arizona Maru Hoe oad, market 1 Port Townsend—Parsed tn August Dewey for Seattle at Reported by Wi reless Angin, toes Bay for Seattle, tery at § p. m for Beattie, at Nanaimo at § p. m. feeders, $170 12 Status of Frisco Market BAN PRANCINCO, ) prime firsts, 6 ¥., Aug. 21.—| Capt. Samuel Von Ronkel and 70] staying | can city to handle its milk supply aa| With the ship today. Afrs, Von Ron-| miles off Cape Fiat Extras, 69e per doz: extra firste, tr Richmond towing bee Beattie for Ban Pedro, from Seattle at | San Prancieco for Beattle, 60 mt! t otr Hyaden, le per doz; alifornia flats, fancy, 210 per F orbid Labor Day Parade in ele northeast of T. Barley Wh Vessels in Port at Seattle Amith Cove terminal o ‘Str Endicott. Corn Whole Cracked Chop : Ground Bone Mili Run Alfalfa Str Alameda, the federal cont bunkers tr and their families will , it was announced. no demonstrations or parades can be held because of riots four weeks Chiek Food . Copre winecring works—str| a military edict, Bastern Temple, Skinner & Eddy dock—Etr Rurydamus. fehr Allee Cooke. Marble Grite Linseed Meal Kae Producer Meat and Bone Meat Scraps ked the Jones bill as detriment-| Duthie yarde—-tr Griffeo, str Maquan. Order Arrest of 74 in Denver Riots sup, schr Northern Chief, Todd drydocks—Str Hoboken, | Puget Sound Rridge & Dredging worke— our ¢ yi ie Br Patterson. four criminal capiases upon which | eight arrests have been ‘made since yesterday afternoon | sued here as the result of the special grand jury's probe of the tramway | Arcademia, Aca- | Strike riots four weeks ago. one man arrested could give the re quired $1,500 bond continued its investigations. Firoxton, Laota, Endy. Capraria, Mies | wind} Wolf, Bickiand, ‘The grand jury “motor ache | signed, according to word from Mad rehr Cothana, | odore (ex-Blaatind) i) & Libby dock—Btr Prince Yamagata, aviat The state of Tilinols has one motor |°" Killed while making flight ) yards of its rail vehicle for every from blood poisoning. SEATTLE STAR Rail Issues Go Up _ During Early Trade on N.Y. Exchange NEW YORK, Aw pening today United States Steel was off \% at 88%; Raltimore & Ohio up % @ Southwestern 25, YAMS ARRIVE; Sweet Corn a Bit Firmer at| $2.25 California yams made their initial | Appearance of the season on the lo cal market Tuesday morning. They | were large and of fine quality, Job-| bers quoted them at 10 cents a pound, Sweet corn is a trifle firmer| at $2.25 a mack for the beat. The peak of the season has passed, ac cording to commission men, Local celery is selling at $1 for a dozen bunches, Bastern Washington eem-| 40 a| nearly normal Plant is plentiful at $3 and $: cane The cantaloupe market ts firming up. Apples are bringing good prices Gravensteing from Eastern Washing-; ton are quoted at $F to $3.25 a box. na apples | A shipment of winter ba from the same district sold for $3.45 a box A consignment of Lovell| peaches from California were ¢ fered at $1.75 @ crate, There was no change Tuesday wal ees or dairy products. Local Markets Prices Paid Whoiessie Deslers for Vegetables and Vruit Means—tocal, ereen, per. 0940 04) Was one 04 Beets Per sack vee OOS Cabbage 02% Carrots Per mack ™ od aliflewer Per crate yr 2 Colery—-lncal, per dow ois scsee 1 Caran ers Yakima, per box Yan Viant Wash, per case 1.000% Local, per 1. |. apes Lettace Rastern Washington Local er Hummer Les! outdoor Tormipe Local, per sack . Veurtable Marrow ler Th .... Yame—Cal, per ™ tees dO FRUITS Apple Fastern Warhipeton ate! per bow cine, Wash inter Banana, & Wash MD bapadiessdise a6 20 7 Clapp rh Sowar Sener ait fed Mn ise “par crate Ao Crows - Bilver ones Mungarian - NUTS Price Paid et Whetenate ae inia Keystone, 1, Japanese, per tb ° DAIRY PRODUCTS Prices Paid to ——", Preah ranch DAIRY PRODUCTS Prices Paid Wheirenie Dealers Virieke wh ranch ooe Pallets soe 8 Or triplets es Wiseonain eream bri Limbureer Young America Block Swire Wash triplets ry POULTRY Prices Paid hy Wholesale Dealers te Shippers Belgian Haree—Live, per . .. POULTRY Prices Feid Wholesalers Dorks Dreared Broilers Dressed wo Ae Hens Dressed . ooo aS MEAT Prices Paid to Shippers Primes Medium to choice Rough heavy . Bulls ‘ Prime spring Iambe . Yearling» ° w ove Ewes . HAY, GRAIN AND FEED Wholesale Price Per Tom, City Price Somes Whol Mohr Made Biscuit | Co. Ad Manager ‘The rapid growth of the Pacifte Coast Biscuit company and its ag gressive advertising policy has re- sulted in the appointment af William G. Mohr advertising manager for all its branches, Seattle. “Consistent advertising,” |says Mohr, “has made Snow Flakes famous on the Pacific coast, and this salted cracker can be found in 90 per cent of the stores.” with headquarters at A two-penny (4 conta) alr post has been established between London and Brussels, Higher Freights to ATTEN CENTS Boost Building Cost Less Than 1 Per Cent - The principal | grain crop tf axsured and the lumber | h to producers | induatry | needed cars in order to put them i CHICAGO, Aug. t and consumers of Jun’ ture of the market during 1) | iast fortnight has b need freight rates have , will represent The advance not 1 per cent of the cost of an or rs who were anxious to & new freight rates » slowing up of resulting from a combination of restricted finance and inability moving before ome effective use of improved labor supply conditions mills and better weather ample stocks normal demands, | | but the acute car shortag: cure cement, late summer demand for lumber and » dealers have been buying ompt shipments. ine progresnes, a bumper | | Vital Statistics _ BIRTHS Pebling. 4 August, Evans Mabel B less ‘alhoun, Viretta D. 1, Stanley, Providence ho ath & W. Dowling, Henrietta, Be Columbue sanite | DIVORCES GRANTED from Rachel DEATHS | Melton, Miss Velva. Stansbury, William H., Swedish hos- 4641 Holly st, Trevor, Beattie General hos- | ag A Andrew, St. Luke's hos- King county hoe- ugh, Aubrey, Seattle General . Beattie Gen- rd, Beattie General rd, Swedish hospital, 49, #13 Fitth Chickens do not wash, as many Columbus sani birds do, but | MARRIAGE LICENSES Name and Residence. | Van Oredil, 3 rd, Katelie H Johnson, Frank W. 1 . Helen A, Seattle (CAN ADIAN PACIFIC Victoria & Vancouver, B.C. 8.¢. “Princess” Steamshipe Leave seattle planatian Fucifie Desk Foot of Yeelee Way 9:00 A. M. DAILY FOR VICTORIA AND VANCOUVER 11:30 P. M. DAILY ron VANCOL vee, omect SPECIAL TOURS TO VANCOUVER ISLAND Four Transcontinental Trains Daily FROM VANCOUVER, B, Cc. 13% lrurner, George, P Lang, Sylvia J |Lemieux. Stev Klien, Seattle oe os Leufesty, |Bartiett, Rarab, Catherine M “Herschel W., |LAnd, Mabel, Tacoma ‘ooper, Felix F @8 25 | Dorgtord Arthur, Seattle 2.48 | Albertson, Ruth, 1 duty, Smith. utton, Nettle, Se: aimeren, Joba Walker, Zella M, Vancouver, BC ager, Arthur W., Portland ross, Wlorence, Beattie ..... Hanson, Chris, Wiseman, Olive, WR BUY AND SELL LIBERTY AND VICTORY BONDS Tork market price and interest, PER CENT on 850 and $100 denominations and denominations You can figure the CORRECT SELLING VALUE of your bonds by Geduct- ¢ from the market price and adding the interest. See today's deducting for brokerage ONE ONE-HALF OF ONE PER CENT on lare 4th Victory Victory " - seh Capital Ove Millten Telephones: Elliott 2840, Main 1227. WHEN WAS YOUR HOUSE PAINTED ? SURFACE UNPROTECTED Look at the condition of your 75 per cent in this city have not been painted in five years. Paint Is Insurance Against Loss Insure Before It Is Too Late! Paint Materials will probably not decline for several DON’T WAIT Paint before the rains set in. For Inside use “MERROLINE wall or wood coating. Kalsomine and paper can’t be washed—therefore are unsanitar If Hospitals use a Washable Paint because of Sanitary WHY SHOULD YOU USE UNSANITARY MATERIAL? J. W. MERRIMAN 94 Columbia, Near First. MORRIS BROTH *§ CENTRAL BUILDING (GROUND The Premier Municipal Bend Heese Fetablished Over a Quarter Certury. Will Rot and Decay. —a sanitary, washable month: |Jennouncementa. Elliott 1905. ALBERTA, CANADA Great opportunity for securing most productive grain and mixed farming lands on the continent. Prices $10 to $30 Per Acre Very Easy Terms 3,000 Harvesters Wanted , SPECIAL REDUCED TRANSPORTATION TO CANADA Land Seekers and Settlers Excursion Railroad hits to Alberta, Canada At Greatly Reduced Rates. Washington Country Asiols Wanted. Seattle Agency THE CANADIAN RAILWAYS BOND CORP. PINNEY & NOBLE, Agents 726 3rd Avenue, Corner of Columbia St SEATTLE, WASH. Get Particulars, Clearings Balances arings talancen Kxcomive Srenwing tirbacks wr We set the pace in Pj FACOM: BOATS LEAVE COLMAN 5 oA 3, cheapest ROUND TRIP Tt te the mtention of the O Fen a popular priced excarsion to Canal every Sunday during the ‘Watch the dally papers Potnts marked °° are heat |]Paseengers for these pointe and jether boat landing potnte mest their own arrangements for and assume all risk making Bagrage lability te tmited te not to exceed $100 160 pounds allowed schedules _ wa ing apparel, whole ticket Steamers and change without cetved Aatty for Tacoma) Tiekets must de effin Open from 6:3) a m te i midnight. PUGET SOUND NAVIGATION al Phome Main 3998. DAILY DAYUGHT] EXCURSIONS T SAN JUAN ISLANDS Seema Gaye 80. inte and arriving P Ana Bound, Ore Baturday: nenday ert use of macansar ol as Ramme! Extraction. tract your teeth morning, and give you plates the same day. W do all ki Work at most r prices. Estimates free, work guaranteed 15 yea 00 Bead a} med t Fast Sound,