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PAGE 14 - SALESMEN'S ANQUET IS OPTIMISTIC = Prosperity Coming for Seat- tle When Nations Start Buying Optimism was @noual banquet of agers’ association of at the Butte night. The keyt Were “keep « buying, ke trying.” The dinner wets west Gospel of here by In the William the asso ter the fut has whe behind its y prod NO PLACE FOR CALAMITY HOWLERS, SAYS CALDWELI Calan how 1 Li Proper viewpoint by @itions outs of Mayor Hugh Caldwell, every city es fa the readj Ment difficulties resulting from the war. Beattie, > sald Such basic com s fh acd the pr t ten t farms in its binter should be Bhe first to resp perity which wil And foreign natic There are 00 manufacturin Plants, many of them smal! ones im Seattle, they should have the purcha power of the com Munity back of them, he said. The mayor predicted that the Rew Une of passenger fe the Orient will place Seattle in ®& more advantage pPadition to eater to the markets of the Par East. J. A. Swalwell, president of the} Minion National bank, and genera Chairman of the Pacific hwest Products committee of ¢ Cham- | Ber of Commerce, sald this @uring the war, was enjo Prosperity and it was hard to ge down to a normal basis. Debts of} foreign nations are so great, he maid, that they seek to flood this country, the most prosperous one with their products and are not Roday buying American goods. BAYS CITY'S WAR PAYROLLS CAN BE RESTORED “An illustration of this ts found le saimon industry.” he said. normal pack of this coast and TAlaska is 6,000,000 cases a year @Bnd there are stored on thix coast Roday 3,000,000 cases. In the pre ‘war days foreign countries pur ihased 3,000,000 cases, which new @wait a market.” ) Seattle's wartime payrolls can be Festored by building up payrolls jot fiidustries how established here and if' the Pacific Northwest will keep its money with Pacific North West factories, continued prosperity Swill result. He urged the salesmen to believe in their community and ts products. Following the dinner there were igh jinks,” and a vaudeville en teriainment. _ The committee tn charge ed ‘@ested of Maure Alexander, W Warmer, ¢. L. Moore, L. E David. C. B. Olseene, W. W. Riggs, J. F. Blaxwell, O. H. Polson, P. A. O. Rolle, J. W. Vaux, E. W. Smith » W. DeLong and L. B. Nickola. "FANCY CELERY * OFFERED HERE _ A shipment of fancy celery from dersey island, California, was a fea- (ture on the Western ave. produce Smarket Thursday. This celery is of Jexcelient quality and arrived in good pehape. It is quoted at erate. |. Among the receipts listed Thurs- }@ay was another car of California oranges. | The dairy market continue steady “with the movement reported fairly “good. No changes in price are an- “ticipated for the near future, Jobbers, fence, are always prepared for sud- @en fluctuations. Local Markets Prices Paid Wholesale Dealers for :.| ‘The free zone bi $4.50 a} altho} in the light of past exper-/ ‘Ship News. Tides in Seattle THURSDAY PRIDAY wo | pre, ot ow Tide Viewt Low Tide oe First High Tide Tide “ Low Tide Second Low Tide 418 pm, Ba Second High ‘Tide m warnings nued al west of Sitka It will caume to south Va straits ria New York Exchange © THE SEATT ! Is Irregular; Rails and Rubber Hold U P NEW YORK, Dee. 20.-8tocks opened higher, United States 58%. up Ww: Baldwin 84%, up %; Mexican Petroloum 155%, unchan Reading § %: Crucible 73, off Mi Hethiehem “I ‘%. up § United States Steet up Mj Genoral Motors 19%, unchanged; American Locomotive 80, unchanged Aftor the first hour the market became Irregular, with the rails cor tinuing firm. Auiantic Gulf dropped 4 points, selling below 40 bber stocks held up. Springficld opened 4 points up at an ad 12 over of last week unchanged 1M? Pane Ame 1; United Sta eral Motors 12% oft 8%; New Maven “PORT TOISSUE GRAIN PRICES MARINE GUIDE! Porm a valuable asset to Seat i ( and foreign ship t n 2 26-page booklet will be , y tt pera department , \ nission short ‘ of the year Engineer George |! } A r items of interest the rators’ age nd other mat maritime trade. |Free Port Laws Are | ~ Urged by Commission! Seattle's port commission passed a resolution Wednend: free} port legislation by the federal govern ment Mt, which has been proposed and may be brought before Jcongress at the r om, has a direct bearing Pacific Coast com | merce, according to Commissioner T 18. Lippy. This ts especially ° | Vancouver, B. C | poticy /Refrigeration on ; . Australian Liner That the Weet Holbrook, on the Australasian, run of the General | Steamahip corporalion wilt be sod with refrigeration facilit a | by the shipping board, waa the deo-| aration of Capt. H. H. Birkhoum Wednesday iSays West ‘Seattle Ferry Needn’t Stop! Instead of discontinuing the Weat Seattle ferry on January 1, as pro posed by the county commissioners, | operating expegees can be reduced! so that the service wil! not be piling up a deficit as at present. This be the opinion of Jackson Sitbaugh, at- torney, who i chairman of a com- mittee appointed by the Municipal league to report om the ferry propo sition, Try Out Oil-Bo ner Engine on Trig Boat ‘Trial of the first ofl burning engine to be used on a heavy duty tug boat in Puget Sound was scheduled to be made at Tacoma Thursday, The tug Alice has just been equipped with 200 horsepower, six-cylinder ot} burning engines by the Foos Tug- boat Co. If the trial proves a suc ceas, rapid conversion of gas engines into off burners is expected to fol-| low, it ts stated by shipping men. Denies N. Y. K. Is to Move From Seattle Vigorous denial of a newspaper story, printed in New York under a San Francisco date line, to the effect that the Nippon Yusen Ripe Otives— oaane ry Chestnate—Cal, per tb 33 Japanese at Filberts—Per Wainate—al 26 | Peanute— Virginia Keystone, i, 12 Japanese 7 Peeans—t'er ™ 30 DAIRY PRODUCTS Prices Paid to shippers Ratterfat Prete reach Milk Per owe DAIRY PRODUCTS Prices Paid Wholesale Dealers Batter—Local cream cubes. 82 | Bricks 53 Feges—Freeh ranch oe Pullets Cheese — Or. triplets POULTRY heer Venis Prices Paid by Wholesale Dealers 18@ .20 to Shippers Brussels Sprouts Per hm 150 13) net " ne 1% mead ‘ a "| Mens tinder ¢ Toe 17] able crate 35 | 4 the. and up 28 double erate. 4.000 45° | neollers—All weights 25@ 32 ‘ Geese 30 on 161-00 | Turkeye— Live : 3 Walla hot- Belgian Hares—tive see at 7 200 POULTRY Cal, outdoor, per don 1.90 Prices Paid Wholesalers Kae Piant—-Cai, per 46 | Ducks—Drensed 4s Gertie Per 29 | Broilers Dressed ‘s Jecal, per tb 20 | Hene—Dresned 23@ (a8 Green Peppers — Por th 15 | Geese 40 Horseradish Per . 20 Turkeye— Dressed tbo 46 i*—Leeal, per bunch . MEAT eng . Quotations at Stockyards Popeorn » Potatoes—Per ton- } 6.50@11.00 eo ee ene 86.000 40.00 10.00 ; 26.00@30.00| @ 4.00 Local, per Tt . oz} F + §.60G10.00 Bhobarb— Local hot houre, 20 Cattloe— | Per enc | 8.508 9.00 case 09 #.60 ead Kweet Potatoes— Per te + 6.00@13.00 Tomatoes Cal, per tug urnips Local, por sack E. Wash Wame—Virginia, per hamper ... FRUITS Cranberries—-Local, box Oregon, box ... Eastern, per 1 Daten — Ver cane Vige—Dried, per 25-t Smyrna... ; | Grapes— Almeria, per dram . Emperors, per crate - Tokay, per jue . Grape Frait—Viorlda, per case 4.60@T w Arizona FA Comb, per crate os... 4, per I jes—-Par Ih box ss: Per box | Pineapples — Per crate Vomegranates—Per bot . 5400, pee, ‘ + 3.00@ 3.26 wal Facey — Prime lambs + 180@ 8.00 Yearlings eri 4500 r ‘ . Ground Bone coseoee 1 Wheat Mixed Feed 39.00 Alfalte ie 10 Alfalfa Meat .. 54.00 |Meratch Weed 64.00 Wheat 63.00 Cocoanut Meal 39.00 Cotton Seed Meal . 62.00 inh Meal Amextone Grits Granite Grite 109.00 122.00 19.00 24.00 36.00 67.00 tehstaaen S96 Soya lean Meal lout Pee vb, rengse ee | was ARE UNCERTAIN ning of 76% and schanged in lat trading December oats opened unchanged at 47 ning ‘eo subsequently May oats opened unchanged at 49% { held that figure oats pened unchanged at 48 ater CHICA Dec 20—Cash wheat No. 1 hard, $1.82; Ls ose NEW YORK, Dee 20 e* strong. Htertin . tic, marks 13fe, Ca an dollars S€% | Kaisha was wanaferring ite te minal from Seattle ¢ Vancouver nm. C., has been made by M Wata nabe, rewident manager of the com pany 1 believe the story orte inated with persons wishing to dis para Beattle Watanabe sald. The article was printed December 18 In the New York Journal o! Commerce eee Steamship Ekiridge, Captain Pred Brooks, in expected to clear f the Orient Sunday or Monday with a general cargo of export products. Today ah taking on gous at the East Waterway dock. cee Weather Bureau Repéet| Chicago E Board of Trade TATOOSI IMLAND, Des. 20.8 A. M Wheat— Open Miah Close Rising barometer, cloudy, wind weet. | Mee L72% Let = 94.71 ‘ gen hour Panwa t sayy tie re camer with @ blest Lak ew Lek mid “* 5 “a3 % ” ‘ Laght 4 aod py *, wind south, 14) yan thus tallcs an how? | tard PORT ANGELES, Dee. 29-8 A. Jan ob Salled: fichr Melrose in tow of Btr Muk- | May 137 fitee during the night 4 December 29 A, M Departed) | ton v0 Rtr Reginaw during the nient. Arrived: | Way 1.97 Mr Mukilteo dur! thy omyng . y Chicago Car Lots Arrivals and Dopaiewes (Wednesday's Quotations) Pernished by 1. B. Men Arrives 619 Kevond Avenwe December 16-0 & C @ Burnside from Recta ¢ Alaskan trip at 10:15 5. m.; str Suw Mary from Vancouver, B.C, at § a m December itr Lyman Btewart from Oleurn at 11 p. m.; str Talthybius from Manila vin Honkgong, Kobe and Vie teria, BC, at T pm; str Admiral Ieodrich from Sam Pedro ot 4:30 p. re. str Saginaw from Hen Pedro at pm pm, | ate Norwood @rem Tycom Salted December 20-—Ser Queen for flan ll via San Pedro and Han Francisco Sethi: ate Woes Gamerge for ‘Aesretion allao via Tacoma compete in the Seattle Life Under ports via General Bay, H.C, and Hene-| lulu; atr Meriden for and Ban Pranciace at om. Str Hollywood for Hone Inco, str Kichmend via op. m December lulu via San Fre Point Wells at 2 Alaskan Vessels Cordova southbound, at 6 p.m. eierabure—Salied December 29 City of Beattie, southbound, at p.m. ino Vessels in Other Ports Stockholm—-Arrived Decamber 19: Mo- tor schr Kronprincsssan Magareta from Heattio via Vancouver, B. C., San Fran- elsce, Balboa, Cristobal and Liverpool Liston—Artived December 26: | Mtr tern Glen from Beattie via Balboa, Cristobal and St. Thomas, Yokohama, Arrived December 27: Str Red wood from Seatt Harbor and vin Seattle via Grays Aro. Balled December tr Adm’ December 29 for Beattie via a—falted December 30: Str Rf. n for Benttle ttle. Arrived I Norwood from Beattle Beattl 29: Str str Sudbury trom Reported by Wireless jan Government Ua C&M southbound, Capt A. ¥ fan Franelsco for Ketchikan, off Band Heads, northbound, at ¢ p. m U. §. Naval Communications December 29 Hollywood, Henttle for fan Francisco from Seattle at § p. m.; ate Goodrich, San Pedro tor aeatthe, t Point at # Dp. m.; atr Mary Luckenbach, Seattle for Ban Francisco, 640 miles north of Francisco at § p.m. Heattle for Han Fi Heattle at # p Francisco f tle at 8 p. tr 20 mil | Vessels in Port at Seattle Smith Cove terminal or, tr Weatward ¥ Went Hartiand tr Rastern Load ote Maquan, ate Pier 14—Str Ixion, atr Talthybing, Pier 10—Str Okhotak Maru © anchorage—ttr Mandasan ), ate Wheatiand M | Oil dock~-Htr 1 Atr Banta Ana Northweatern, atr Bell #t. torminal—U © G Alwemaquin. 8 8 Surveyor, Pier A—Mtr Admira! Rodman, Pier -Btr Admiral Goodrich. Pier D—Str Queen. Pacific Coast coal bunkers—U 8 L HT Tone, Alaska Steamship moorings—Str Skng way Pacific Coant Engineering worke—str Nile, ate Icontum, str Wert Connecticut st. terminal—ste Yonemite, Str West Him. Ornaumuick, ginaw Bridge & Dr erson, hull Kt tr Roonevelt Grydock—Ste Cordova, atr wing worke— wy Heffernan Yaldan | Gailed December $$: Bte Vie-| investments, use {t for working cap: Str other generation? | cetved from school children. | engineers, physicians, school teach-| ers, laborers, men and women in| every walk of life. Philadelphia—fa December 29: Str | J Dobrin, 1118 Fourth ave for Beattle ¥ia ports Arrived December 22: Str Deus! | |from Beattie via Vancouver, Cc, and str Admiral Watson | King | cussed | | N. 4, Stock + Seach (Wedoreday's Quotations) Pursished by 4. DB, Manning & Co, 619 Metond Avenue Block High Low Clode A t ear ' 5 ‘ Atwe 6 & Fury 4 ‘{ A Laternatiqna: Amer, Tel. & T ‘ ‘ Ane ‘ ‘ . ¥ re & OF : ‘ 1 ' ‘ adian Paclt ‘ ‘ ss Y » «a ‘ ’ ir . " Mes Ket a Mia ' ue ‘ . Fan-A Petr “ ’ . ¥ n . , . “3 ‘ as H Btwn Utah Copper Vanadiues Meet Wabash Weatinghouse ou 4 Witlye-Overiand ee : Tota! sales o* Lu ine nTy hoNDs " lew Clone ' ” 03 ™ ne eee rr) s aoe . 5450 Base 8488 a14o 8tis 6 \" ao oe ‘ . 95.00 bese 95 94 . Ben 0698 96.08 (Tharsday's Quotations) “CASH CONTEST COMES TO END This is the Inst day in which to writers’ association's contest on “What would I do with $100,000 cash.” Would you take the $100,000 cash and dist ute it to charity, make safe ital or hold it and bequeath it to an- Hundreds of answers have been re. minin Answers are limited to 125 and must touch on thrift, economy and humanity. They must be mail ‘Thursday either to The Star or to words BID TO TAKE OVER FERRIES In an executive seasion held by | county commiasioners Thurs. | day it in understood that a bid of certain private interests to take over the county's ferry system, with a subsidy attached, was warmly dis-| Your Eyes Examined Glasses Fitted—Broken Lenses Duplicated We Wish You A Most Happy and Prosperous New Year LE STAR Pedestrians Hit by Autos 045 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 90, 1 San Francisco Prodi AN FILA Dee 0 —Market * head; mar r don: & extras, 67%e don This Year _ Co roca cei ot i itevoipt ea rte cis dik Mole V. f, Watson's auto is, 330 bow focders, 44.26@9] oown, $5098 ven, | aN cate aug Greenwood «1 Denver Live Stock Market | pe ee oer AMUSE |, reported that the man said he ry es N.Y. Coffee and Sugar Pat BEE t IP wae uninjured ry f ‘ 1 ' ¥ . : 1 hs dt 5 Eros Pedestrians “ge, lower, Top. 416 So , Hit by Autos This Year Knocked down by th John ©. Ke Pedestrians Hit by Autos This Year ’ inn Th ‘ i Pedestrians Hit by Autos This Year by own to that he w kng fh ave ink t the Wash Waah NEW POLICE COURT OPENS, Joh ni end Put Judge new pe of the Bafety first floor of building, wa: ened Thursday iman Louis Gay spset a bottle of grapo held eviden nding case, There “mournerm.” max paid $6 for having the first court violation ausp when y chr Mounte Pa cinap several score Kra were K the b tried ot be the him law Gay ar of the new for in reated traffic The old potice same floor, but of ithe bullding. “ | BANK CLEAR Seattle Balanons ..... ..... 1,804,957.67 the end court ts on at the east * 8 | Cleartngs .... = 1,438,133.00 Balances ..... +... 522,183.00 | Tacoma Clearings .... ..... 848,459.00 Balances 63,618.00 | Clearings 4.054,969.00 Balances . 197.00 * » New YEAR'S EVE TOMORROW HIGHT BUNGALOW 1620 THIRD AVE. Management FRANK RIPPE And CLINT WILLARD SEATTLE’S NEW CAFE DE LUXE or METROPOLITAN ENTERTAINMENT Combined With Unequaled Cui F. George Wood's “BUZZIN’ ROUND” A Lively Company of 12, with Olive Anne Alcorn, Jess Mendelson, ry McCrae, idell, Frankie Grover and the SWk Splendid Dance Floor And Wonderful “Jazz” Orchestra Revue From 8 to 1 A. M. Dinner From 6 P, M. VAUD! ‘UP IN MABELS ROM’ The Comedy That Starte WILLIAM MAND “AN AWTISTIC LANGFORD and FRE WILKES watts Fwth end Pine Filiote 2695 Saturday cA Matinee or raron” Mats. 27¢ to Se. ORPHEUM SECYs THEATRE| 's Musical Comedy Ce iN Now “mnS, OW BAGE Eves, 25e to BI. EXTRA! SPECIAL MATINEE FRIDAY AT 2:30 P. M. “MRS. WIGGS of the CABBAGE PATCH” THIS WEEK ‘Mats. OR Daily Thursday. Mats, 2:20. Nights, 7 amé 9 New Pisying DOUGLAS DANCERS “BRING THE The Quin. Waco, KIDDIES” Another Special of Our Great Removal Sale 405 SILK SHIRTS'| ot $6.75 os Tomorrow Only) Quantity Regular of Shirts Price ££ Q OO sn’ aca clos s ¢s: vag oo 229 2... eee eee $12.00( eg = S . $10.00 Another Day in H (TOMORROW ONLY) Regular Price Regular Price . $8.00 . $7.50 . $7.00 . $6.00 . $5.00 Quantity of Hats Quantity of Hats You Know Cheasty Quality an + an Clothing 4 as Furnish- | ~ 33:1-3% 7 ings Off 25% Off S:GRAVES. Pres. This Sale Is for Cash Only