The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 18, 1921, Page 14

é RENTS WILL. 3 CHEERS! | | COME DOWN i | Slight Decreases Already} Are Noted in Seattle; No | Sudden Drop Expected | | Slight decreases in rentals are not- | @4 in Seattle, and more are expected @oon, but th will be no sudden drops. This was the opinion of Ing rental firms today Strictly modern bungalows are at; @ premium and wil! not decrease, ou! houses and semimodern abodes are @eereasing. Those which’ formerly COUNCIL} ity or convenient to the ocea RINGSIDE NOTES ON “Mayor Caldwell's memory is either fo " declared Councilman William Hiek rising to a question | of personal privilege at Monday afternoon's seesion of the ctly council. © anid the w i bis authority to appear before the |Iegistature in bet He read a resolution of the city yor had questio if of the eity in 19 16 had been assigned t scerning certain remarks alleged to) at Friday's conference on the Hastings bill. tive of the whole it was decided to postpone consideration of Hastings bill, authorizing municipalities to refund utility bonds, casures were approved: x unincorporated area within th removal of the tax limit of 50 per cent of assessed with certain exceptions; the bill author: al energy outside their limite; the bill and operating not les than 100 miles of perate motor busses also, tie to am | ansistant valuation iving © | allowing 1 | street railway to | beast ever since.” | they drive us back to the ship with Our weapon aratnst much| water for the radiator and tools to! enemies ts a part of broken | make repairs. | wing skid I've carried | w only the each the ship just in thme to| With it , TUESDAY IS BUDGET DP} “Don’t Guess at Expens Is Advice Tuesday In “Maken Budget That is the day of the slogan for the National Thrift campaign. Thousands of pieces of ganda are being distributed thrgemt the city, urging the saving) of money and telling how to é@ it. p a record of expenditares. ou can’t expect to run your Buai- nem of living if you keep tmek only of what comes in and merely guems at the outgo.” j That's what the committ charge is emphasizing today, Wednesday is “Life low day.” See / “&% SAN FRANCISCO Tented at $30 and $35 are now rent-| ing at $25. Rents on apartment houses han @ed by rental agencies are not ex Peeted to decrease until the ot Operation and of t are materially reduce Apartment } however, \ which rents were forced to an @rbitant mark during the war by 4 Process of leas ny Row coming down Grease is noted in unhoate | SLIGHT DECREAS' ox 1 fata, ty is registering a At any rate, it will Business prop: slight decrease, Rot go up. People who were forced to tive In anything the turing the Shipyard rush are mov into bet ter houses, thus k on these and depressing the the low-grade house. Rental agencies that gave The Star the above facts were John Da vis & Co, Henry Broderick, Inc West & W Rents are ne couk up the price price on coming down gener ally thruout th y, however, This was shown today in United Press dispatches to The 5 which Feported landlords planni in erease rather than reduce dwelling | Seattio— | —reported de} creases in rents, These were for! cheaper apartments, and in the lat-| fer city were offset by a correspond: ing increase for higher priced places, | ‘The situation in Detroit resulted from jobless Jeaving the city, creating numerous | vacancies. FORCIBLY REDUCED BY HOUSING LAWS In New York and Milwaukee some | rents have been forcibly reduced thru the operation of state housing | laws. } ‘The housing shortage ts reponst-| Die for high renta, according to the landlords, and because of the high prices and alleged scarcity of build- | ing materials, many of them, nota- Diy in Chicago and Boston, predicted rents would not come down for from to eight years. the Present situation was reported | ‘as follows: NEW YORK—Courts have aver ‘aged 1,000 rent cases daily since state | rent laws became effective in Octo-| J ber, placing upon the landlord the} burden of proving justification of fany increase and preventing evic- tion pending adjudication. Land “lords continue trying to raise rents} CHICAGO—J, R. Patterson, presi-| dent of the Chicago Tenants’ Protect- ive league, predicted rents will not| come down for five years. DETROIT — Automobile workers, | out of employment, have left the city in great numbers, creating @)| surplus in moderate priced apart-| ments and resulting in rent reduc tions from $5 to $25 a montht. DROPS IN POORER DISTRICTS IN CLEVELAND | CLEVELAND—Slight rent reduc tions have been made in poorer dis tricts but better apartments are gen- erally higher. | PITTSBURG—Landlords predicted rent increases: raging 5 per cent KANSAS CITY—J. C. Nichols, real estate operator, said rents cannot) come down until costs of building} materials afd labor are reduced. | HIA — Reduction in| w increased } building but this is not expected for several months, according to W. B. Kelly, secretary of the Philadelphia Real Estate board. | | ST. LOUIS—T. 8. Gearhart, real estate man, said no rent reductions were expected this spring, but may come a year later if the building achedule ls carried out. WASHINGTON—Goeorge M. Myers, housing authority, said present le ‘ els probably wouid continue for sev- eral months. CINCINNATI — Real estate brok- ers believe no rent reductions are} possible in less than a year. COLUMBUS—Realty interests are @nanimous that there is no prospect of lower rents for six months. ST. PAUL—Tenanta, facing the prospect of continued high rents, are | building great numbers of cottages. -W. Stevens, manager of the largest ren cern there, said “there was slightest possibility of rents coming @own this spring.” ng mt t con. | Famous Star-Gazer | of Canada Coming Dr. J. 8. Plaskeet, noted astrono- mer and head of the Canadian ernment observatory at Victoria, B. C., will address an all-university | assembly Wednesday at 9 2 m jn Meany auditorium on “Modern | Ideas of the Universe.” Dr. Plaskeet is in § | joint meeting of the } section of the A society, the Pu nection of the American Institute of Klec-| trical Engineers and Sigma Xi, the honorary scientific fraternity, to be held at Bagley hall on the campus Thursday night. . 1921 Record of Pedestrians Hit by Automobiles || —W. Hara, 609 Main at. knocked down by an unidentified man at Sixth ave. 8. and King st., Mon day night. 6 —The auto of George H. Miller ot Richmond Beach knocked down and cut an unidentified man at Wentlake 77% -"4 Virginia st. »? gov- ttle for the Puget Sound erican Chemical Sound The arrival of the U. | S. navy balloonists at the end of the long trail leading back to the Hudson Bay wilderness where automobile workers | they were lost for days, is shown in these photographs taken at Mattice, a Canadian railroad station. L utenant Stephen A. Farrell is enjoying his first cigaret after the trip from Moose Factory, the Hudson Bay company's trading post, where they received firs t aid, Below, Farrell is shown walking into Mattice at the head of the dog team. The joy of Lieutenant Walter Hinton (left) and Lieutenant Louis Kloor (right) is shown by their grins in the top picture. Center picture shows them “mushing” toward Mattice on the last lap. ! Here's More About again In the afr, But not “as the bird files.” Often the wind geehaws the ship from its course. The « from New York to Cleveland of 423 miles stret s to 440 milea Time flying it, 6 ELOW CLEVELAND | ‘The temperature above Cleveland, | 10 below; and below, 10 abovel We are glad of the extra 20 degrees | upon landing. An hour is spent In the Cleveland station's rebuilding plant Here wrecked «hips are salvaged and th parts made over Into new ships, One| plane so constructed has done 20,000 | miles without repairs other than tun-| ing up. Next morning I start for Chicago with Pilot W. D. Williams, We make one stop, at an, Ohio, and reach | the Windy City without inciden I am given a new pilot on every! vision. Hence I am doing twice as| as the average pilot a) much ftying . FE. W. Majors of the Chicago station shows me how planes are in pected, repaired and rebuilt when necessary. FORCED TO DESCEND BY OIL TROUBL Ww t for Omaha after a long nigh We are passing Kel logg, just beyond Iowa City, on our uw ro to Omaha, when Pilot Harry 1 © spies a ship in| distress on a snow-covered field. It’s one of the German type planes which has found ill favor wi pilots because of the fatal a in which they've figured We descend and find Piet J. T. as made a forced land We take ‘s sleep. p from Ch aboard most of his nd pre usa over the gleaming dome of th at Moine And in the dying sunlight we land in Omaha. About noon next day Pilot Tex Mar self leave for North face of a 40 soon lashes itaelf into a 60-mile hurricane. TOSS ABOUT OVE! | PLAINS LIKE CORK | We tons about above the Nebraska | plaing like @ cork on the winter At lanti It takes us a half hour to pass an express train that ordinarily we 1 pass as if it were sidetracked ear Lexington, Neb., Marshall ricks a soft spot in a wheat field for and my y into the a landing. | It develops that our radiator has cracked under the strain, and ha leaked dry. Willing farmers, including one who'd been an airplane mechanic in the war, help us refill and crank the propeller. I could kiss the ground North Platte stands on! | To Cheyenne is 210 miles as the crow flies when sober. But we have the same old ie to argue with we start onward the next day. I've lost 20 pounds. | I'm 50 per cent deaf. But my “seamanship” is better. | RADIATOR LEAKS | DRY AGAIN | About half way to Cheyenne the radiator leaks dry again Marshall again is foreed down. A playful prank of the but Mars as upsets Us, saves the After farmer's w how to “make cc he ‘spina the prop.” | in sight of the smoke | we descend for water. | At the town named for the Indians | Supt. H. L. Hartung greets us with the information that it's habit with planes to be forced this | streteh; one landed upside down | We spend sting and| medicating in Cheyenne, 1 ship. » refill the radiator from n| Marshall shows me tact,” while Onee more, of Cheyenne, down on nday re MAN SENT MY AIRMAI i |dor of the On Page 1 Starts ‘The next day's Jump from Chey- enne to Springwater, Wyo. takes us ver the firet range of the It ‘The akies grow rockter, ‘The ship plunges, tw BLINDING BLIZZARD WHIPS SNOW IN FACE As we pass to the north of Mrdi cine mountain @ blinding biiszard of We craw! forward at 25 miles an snow whips us hour in the face ef @ gale biow. ing 65. Pilot Harry G, Smith hurdles Etk suntain at 9,000 feet altitude, gets thru the ranges safely, and we are over @ stretch twist, Phe wind, taking a cyclonic }epins us in a way that makes me fear not so much that we will crash as that wo will not crash hard enough We do crash, but not too hard. Smith ¢ * out, looks the ship over, and reports the ahock absorber of the tall skid and the right wing skid broken, ooking about, we locate ourselves ie the pumping station at ¢, 135 miles northwest of enne and seven miles from Raw om. LASH SHIP TO KEEP IT FROM BLOWING AWAY We Insh the ship to keep ft from blowing away tn the gale, and tele phone to Rawlings for rescue. A Ford truck comes bounding thru the snow. The driver is H. Larsen, coal and lumber, Rawlings, Wyo..” whose avocation is pul anded fliers out of the snowdrifts and gui les in the Re b Larven warma w ont of a bottle | which he imported from Copenhagen long ago. An hour after our “8. O. 8.” are drinking warming drinks Larsen's hearth. ext moechanton from k 8 repair our ehtp and vide to Iu a rings, Ww other me parte with new ones. SAILING OVER SCENES OF WONDERFUL BEAUTY At 2 p. m. we're sailing toward Sait Lake City over mountain scenes of awe-inspiring grandeur. Between dodging snowstorms clouds Smith points out ¢ spots of especial beauty te Once or twice, it nec ere hanics replace repaired and ms to mo, we will crash into a but the pilot At 10,000 feet altitude we hurdle Poreupine Ridge and dive townrd Salt Lake City, bathed in the splen sun, reflected in the de the Great Salt Lal After a night's rv ow of the Mormon temple, Pilot Mouton and myself start for Reno, intending to make San Fran. cisco by We leap the Ruby range at 12,- 400 feet, stop for ens at Elko, and shoot forward again. ‘Things begin to happen near the of the alkall fats. 70-mile twister hurls Itself at us from behind Granite Peak The ship strains, bucks, rears, Only semi-conseious, 1 realize Mouton Js taking to earth. LAND WITH BE WING IN SANDS’ We land with in a cyclonic @ can't 10 feet ‘Toward sundown the worst duster in years, abates. Mouton’s recollection ‘is nearest ranch aky-piercing erag, cuts around them. nett whose glow st in the shad broken right torn | r dust, storm we the | learn that house is 25 the miles awny. We start for It by our flying because of freezing, Darkness settle “I'm winded,” I here," afoot, clothes, hampered yea fearful, | to leave them, down confean, | Mouton answers, | The vote's unanimous, We sest! brush when— |} 1 stretches of | | night | | | ) beside a clamp of mye brush, build] a in ton, “They my a ranger some fire, and decide to spend the night/ years ago inoculated some coyotes with rabies, in the hope they’d ex thetr kind, but Instead the open. ® “There's plenty of wild animals | terminate THE BON MARCHE RGAIN BASEMEN Ba Pay Cash and Pay Less By paying cash ourselves we are able to buy at lower-than-usual prices, and these savings are passed on to you for cash in order that we may keep on buying for less. This also eliminates the expense due to Credit Losses, and again you save! Coverall Aprons, 79c Percale Bungalow Aprons in slip-over and front- opening styles, come in blue, lavender, green and pink with narrow white stripes, also in bright colored plaid patterti&. All are belted and have one pocket. Kitchenette Dresses, $1.49 These smart little garments of durable Scout per- cales or chambrays come in five attractive styles: A “V”- neck model with polka dots of pink, blue, green or black on white grounds, A square-neck style in pink, blue or gray plaids, trimmed with solid color at neck, cuffs and pocket. Lavender, pink, blue and green are the colors shown in a dainty model with ruffle-trimmed novelty pockets, collar and cuffs. It has a novel belt and opens at the side-front. Chambray in solid pink, blue or green is smartly trimmed with black and white striped bandings on collar, belt and two pockets in another style, while still another has narrow ruffled trimmings of white with fine black stripes. A Jobber’s Cleanup of Women’s Knit Underwear Julius Hirsh and Other Good Makes _ Several good makes in Lisle and Cotton Union Suits, low-necked, sleeveless, and knee-length, have band, crochet or bodice tops. In white or 95c pink, sizes 86 to 44. The suit. tits, low neck and Also fine quality Cotton Union § , with cuff or lace knees. In white with sleeveles 79c bodice or crochet tops, in pink with band tops. Sizes 36 and 88, the suit.. Women’s “Cumfy-cut” Union Suits, low neck and sleeveless, with cuff or lace knees, Sizes 36 to 44, the suit between Jon us As awake and fe and trudging by wo sleep fire seo Pilot Farr Nutter, sent out to) of us. search for us, fly away without We rest there two days, because us, of a snowstorm over the Sierras, We returned tothe Hudgins ranch,| But on the 14th day out we hop where the host tells us exciting | off for Frinco. of the days when he rode the The Night is without incident. But ext lthe Golden Gate never has looked more golden than it does after thesa 13 days, 6 hours and 25 minutes of transcontinental endeavor. The letters sept by train had beat |en me by more than a week. In tomorrow's Star I will tel you! comed as n returning from the my conclusions as to the air mail] by @ great crowd, including | service—its faults, the remedies, emen, townfolk and Indians benefits and its future, We arrive in Reno, full of joy that; The air mail ts a fixture—ft there's just one more jump s here to stay. But not crackles out, walking. Rent our ghting cht Hudgins alkali flats WEIAOMED BY | CATTLEMEN AND INDIANS We fly to Lovelock, where we are The next day Pilot Ray Little dis {a ran ft D, and rescues us from the Jranch. mame time Chapple urs chaps and fd by radio you “They're | W' lows were lost ing to think Wo are—dead thirst wo “not « drink of water in 17 he The Hudginses make wu me pay; | om The Proper Basis for Price Is Replacement Cost ITH the marking down merchandise to meet the lower level of replacefnent costs, the Bon Marche is taking severe losses, because what we paid for the merchandise does not figure at all in the new prices. All that counts is what we would have to pay for the same goods today. of our COURSE this means savings for you—small in some lines, because of their scarcity or other economic reason beyond our control, and large in many other instances. Read carefully the items in this announcement and you will appreciate that “replacement val- ues” spell economy for you. . | Skirts $10.00 | t it _ |Derenbouts, I've heard.” says Mou-! they've been attacking man and |} ei) =; Plaids Part of this assortment is a lot pur- chased at a very advan’ us price, and the balance is made tp of skirts from our regular stock marked to meet the new replacement figure. Box Plaited, Knife Plaited and Gathered Styles Block and Broken Plaids In Blues, Browns, Tans and Black and White SKIRT SECTION—SECOND FLOOR NATIONAL THRIFT WEEK JANUARY 17TH TO 23RD One of the points emphasized during Thrift Week is the owning of your own home. Surely a more praiseworthy idea would be difficult to suggest and you may rely upon the Bon Marche to help you, not only with savings on home-furnishings, but also with genuine economies thruout the store. Here are a few examples of these thrift items Cretonnes Reduced to 25c Yard 24- and 27-inch Cretonnes—12 dif- ferent patterns and colors—full bolt pieces—our 40c cretonnes—specially reduced. FOURTH FLOOR Sem Bee m- ——-~ o£ =m: ee ee ae fm) ae ania x= ea Bs ue atom oS ae A Drapery Marquisette 39c Yard Special value in plain striped and shadow design Marquisette in soft shades of blue, brown and green— and only 39c a yard, Broche Bandeaux 45c Bandeaux with front and back closing—of pink broche—well made and a special offer for Thrift Week. SECOND FLOOR, AND BOOTH UPPER MAIN FLOOR Writing Paper 29c Bulk Writing Paper—pure white, good quality—60 sheets for 29¢ Wednesday. STATIONERY. THE BON Flannelette Skirts 48c For Wednesday in Thrift Week we offer Warm Flannelette Skirts for 48c—white or colors—on waist or band—in sizes 2 to 14 years. BABY SHOP—SECOND FLOOR Junior Cloth 25¢ Yard 1,000 yards Junior Cloth—2s inches wide, heavy strong materials —for boys’ waists, rompers and shirts. FABRIC (THIRD) MARCHE FLOOR UPPER MAIN FLOOR | THE FOOD SHOPS MADE A SPECIAL BUY OF 3 ka Pink Sal P esate" 2 Cans for 2k At this price as long as we have any—it will pay you to buy a/¢ —White Bear Soap, 6 bars for 25¢. dines (domestic), can 7 —Sar can 1 —NMidday Corn, can 15¢. —Rex Lye, a can 9¢. —Tomatoes, a can I —Parker Beans, a 17¢. —Pumpkin, a’ can 16 —Pineapple, a can M —Pitted Pie Cherries, can 30¢, UPPER MAIN FLOOR TheBonMarché ESTABLISHED 1890 Extra Rolled Oats 3 Lbs. 15¢ —Gold Dust, 2 pkgs. D¢. ines, in olive oil, aa