The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 19, 1921, Page 12

Bis 3 * ghould proceed at once with at least feccapamancan sin dorent beta ae parapet nesses ns PAGE 12 PRICE CUTS ‘Ship News Tides in Seattle TURADAY ar iv) IN STEEL 0, GROOM === aod ix Pittsburg Looks for Busi- ness Revival Within 30 Days PITTSBURG, April 19.—Business revival within 30 days! That's what gome of the leading Pittsburg steel manufacturers expect ax a result of 9 the cut in steel prices by the U. 8. STORM WARNINNG Southwest storm — warnings ortered displayed at 7:30 a m., Tuesday, at all Oregon and Wash: ington seaport stations, A storm is moving southeast from North Pacific cause atrong south, southwesterly, gales today tonight. shifting to and | SHIPS PORTLAND SEE) Corpora tion. | PORTLAND, Ore, April 19. A rns hatiet is baséd on the prece-|movement to restore the steamers Perniched Gent of 1909. Great Northern and Northern Pw ARE LOWER , In February, 1909, the U, S. Steel cific to the Columbia river-San Fe Corporation cut the prices it had Francisco run waa launched by the} cacao, April 19.—Grain prices ar Maintained since the panic of 1907. members forum of the Portland | were generally lower in trading in| Within a month general business was Cham of Commerce yesterday. | the Chicago grain market today, Re Petitions were authorized asking the two railroad systems after which the ships were named to repurchase from the government, which control of them during the on the upgrade and a steel boom be gan. BELIEF NOT SHARED BY ALL STERL MAKERS Belief that history is to be repeat @4 and that steel, the barometer of war. general business conditions, has Broken the industrial deadlock, ts not} ghared by all steel makers, however oaded with supplies for govern It is pointed out that the corpora nt stations in the North, the U. & tion’s price cuts average only $4.95 coast guard cutter Algonquin was a ton. heduled to leave this port Tuesday Some stec! barons privately ex:\to make her annual cruise in the them gained CUTTER GO! ‘ORTH L m %!) T9M. Off 1M; General Motor the | ocean, which wijl | “ GRAIN PRICES | Little Change Noted | on New York Market | | NEW YORK, April 19.—-Prices on ttle changed from yesterday's close ‘* saw tunity in the | Stock prices were trregular at the Studebaker, 78, unchanged; Moxic Tnited Staten Steel, #1'%, up We; can Telegraph & Telephone, 106%, up || Duteh. 6% up |] ont p il year @ bh | ‘The market clored MT tinued to months. ite } United States Steel, 81 o um, 244%, up iM ne, 8%, up lie: % bia Graph " Haldwin, , off ports that weather was favorable to an abundant grain crop led to sell | | ing on a large scale. Provisions were irregular wheat opened off to at declined an dditional oe July wh opened $1.04, and closed 1c y corn opened off Ke at b6%o lined Wwe at the clo wo at 38's, September opening of 69 %4< of and press belief that this is just the first |Hering Sea and the Arctic gcean In| unchanged, Se » opened ef an teevital Je chain of price cuts |the interests of the seal rookeriea, | off, Me at 38he and close “ ‘ “ef . that must be made in steel before) 2 gies ‘ eee buyt ovement starts. TAKES N, W. PRODUCTS ithe ner U "s Steel price level] With approximately 1,200 tons of Chicago Board of Trade 5 Northwest products aboard, the "0 Quet @verages $55.54 a gross ton . Furnished by 1. * This is within 15 cents of being'steamship Yalza, of the North At wate Wise, Wether Mae lantic & Western Steamahip com-| exactly 60 per cent higher than the average price of 1913 | Those who now believe that steel prices will not go lower point to pre @ictions of the price expert, Halbert P. Gillette, editor of Engineering and| pany’s fleet, is on her way Tuesday to San Francisco and Wilmington. The “Nawseo” line veasel is com manded by Capt. E. J, Madden. eee FIRE DELAYS SHIP Contracting. Gillette Mieures, by a) Mathematical formula tested back} Fire, which damaged her cargo of @¥er 30 years, that the new level of cotton to the extent of $17,000, Inst | Prices will settle at 60 per cent Saturday, has delayed the sailing of higher than 1915 prices. jthe N. Y, K. freighter Tatsuno Maru | VERAGE . one day. She will sail from Seattle i STEEL TRDUSTRY for the Orient via Vancouver, B. C., Here's how U. 8 Steel's price | APF! 20 Aigo fis “gverage for a gross ton of steel com- TOYAMA MARU DUE pares with the past: The Tey ve re oe W. &. STEEL AVERAGE PER TON freighter, is due in port next Satur. New price .. 58.54 | day with a general cargo of Oriental | | CHICAGO. April 19—Oash _ Before the cut..... 63.49 lereight, She sailed from Yokottama | 2,D3r4, $434: No. 3 spring, VERAGE PER TON FOR TOTAL | April 5. e* STEEL INDUSTRY eee a 920 ; SUES LUMBER CO. Chicago Live Stock - 7 emcaco, 11 19 —Moge-—Recetpte, | ‘The first action brought In federal ins | cout here by the new director gem iT. leral of railroads was filed with the isis . |district clerk Tuesday. James Cox ass. | Davia, acting for the government, brings suit for $140 against the BE. Ht ise 5 1913 Lewis Lumber Co. for alleged de. 1907 murrage on a shipment of lumber in Above prices are obtained by aver 1918. aging the price per ton of Bessemer rails, plates, wire nails, steel steel bars, tin plate, Bessemer fren and steel billets. ‘During the war, the U. & Steel tion accepted the average of $63.49 a ton, set by the In Gustria! Board, and stuck to it In @ependent stee) manufacturers ran their prices up in a runaway mar ket to the high average of $91.01 a ton in 1917. ‘The new U. S. Steel average is ex- actly the same as the average price asked by the independents prior to April 21, when some lines were eee WASHINGTON, April 29.--Unem- it and slack conditions in in- probably will delay the eee The scow Jitney, owned by the |Mutual Packing company, has been ordered sold in federal court to mt iaty claims against her, eee has blossomed out with new emoke stacks eee San is wondering tf Can- adian boats can sell liquor outside the three-mile Ifmit, eee United States lifesaving steamer Snohomish is being fumigated at Diamond point. . Weather Sucen Report TATOOSH ISLAND, April 198 AM. be Be Seattle, $1.330,000 would have been scheduled campaign for the organiza masts, at €:15 & m. saved in Interest alone, due to Seat- tion of the steel industry, according} ve tle’s proximity to the Orient. to William Hannon of the Interna | A opi. Departures It is also declared, due to the abo- | tional Machinists’ union. vals and | lition of wharfage charged at the| Hannon is secretary of the special committee appointed last January by the American Federation of Labor to organize steel workers. “With the steel mills working only to about 40 per cent of capacity, and | ‘with unemployment general thruout the country, the present is not a good time to press ‘new organization work,” Hannon said. “However, there are some mem Bers of the council who believe we Francisco, 7:35 Aprit 1% miral Goodrich from Anchora, Gratam, 11:30 p. m.; from Vancouver via Tacoma, 2:43 p. m. aur Ad April 1%—#tr San Francisco, 1 a. for Shanghal via Yokohama. Kot Francisco, Han Pedro and Balboa, m.; a for Portiand, Me. Portland, Ore., San FY Balboa, Philadelphia, New York and for Tacoma, 2:15 pm eee Alaskan Vessels @ campaign of education among steel ‘workers. “The education campaign ts made More desirable from the fact that certain radical groups, like the L W. W., make thelr greatest headway oo during periods of unemployment. | sfercnitan April, 1—Salled, aur Pri ‘Their appeal is to the discontented cess Mary, northbound, 2 & m. April and the jobless, and in certain sec-|—Salled, str Jefferson, northbound, § tions they are busy in organization ‘work today.” 4 | Watson, southbound, 6am. Labor leaders see in a statement| Bitka——April 14—Salled, str City of Be. €redited to E. H. Gary, head of the |**U* “ovnmound, 3 > westbound, 2:30 p. m. |_ Petorsbure—April 1%—Safled, etr Jef forson, northbound, 10:15 p.m; atr City Bteel corporation, that the 12-hour! F ‘ . Gay in to be abolished in the stee!) Wessels in Other Ports | Xew japltal was tee wad eee 2 a | Kobe—April 16—Salled, str Tyndareus he ‘a Dp any ui ru 1 Bailie, a first step toward easing the |rorgeaitie, growers’ Canning company, which conditions of employment scathingly York {_N the Interchurch World Movement. + from Genttin To date, however, A. F. of L. of. ficials say they have been unable to | Point Lobos dex for Beattie confirm whether or not any order , Ba!vos—April 17 aliea. ote Texan for 5 Beattie . putting Gary's promise into effect “San Pedro April 19—Arrived, atr Fred has been issued. The whole program of labor or- ganizations, Hannon says, is com. Plicated by the industrial conditions in this country due to failure of the allies to settle the reparation tase with Germany. Until this is settled, | he says, labor is up against as hard & problem of existence as are the 18—Salled, Kenne- in Pranctaco—April tlo for Seattle, 11 p. m. Beattie, Antoria man from Beattle 7 p. industri Smith Cove Terminal les involved. dridge; Pier B, ate Fu oon Great Northern Terminal * Maru oultry eetings Bell street Terminal—Str Admiral Good- rich, U8 CG Algonquin. American Can Co--#ehr Azalea, Pier §—Str Henry T. Be Pier 7—Str Tippecano Pier A—Str Admiral kane. Pier D—Str Admiral Pacific Coast Coal Bi Glen, bark Guy C. in County Towns A series of poultry meetings, to discuss feeding, moulting and other Umely subjects relating to the poul- try industry, are being held in King county this week. The speaker is W. D, Buchanan, poultry specialist from the extension service of Washington Btate college. fg arranged by County Agent Ny-| gat’ gent terminal OU 88 Bi strom, co-operating with the poultry Lander Sireet Terminal—Sehr Wi project leaders in the various dix sche Allee tricts, The schedule is as follows: |™lwaukee Ocean Africa Maru. a Str Westward Ho, str Yosemite, West Himrod, str Icontum. iu April 19—1:30 p. m., North Bend, sanford Street Terminal—Str Brookline, schoolhouse. | str Went Hartiand, ling, $4,01% 2 franca, $0.0732'%; lire, April 20—1:30 p.m. Kent, Tan- | 8#xan fe ot ay, gpm po | $0.0476; marks, $0.0166%; Canadian dol ered poultry farm; 8 p. m., Fall City,| Griental hse lB rd sae Bscora CE schoolhouse. | Dodd Dry Docks—fhip Bh. F. Packard, atr| " ¥ 0) II Fi IG BANK CLEARINGS Park, schoothouse, Puget Hound Bridge & Dredging Co—ete| | Cleerings .... 4,964,175. April 22—8 p. m., Kirkland, Com | ‘Patterson "|| seabdome, 1 isareee | " 4: Belle. | Amen Yard——Str Roosevelt. } a , ‘i gam hall; Bothell; Kirkland; Belle- | 27cm Mille Dock—-Ser West Mahwah. Portland ue. Hofternan k—-#tr Wallingford, etr| | Clearings ..,. . 6,174,344.00 April 23—2 p. m., Seattle, city Ketchikan, schr Fearless, Balances 781,541.00 council chamber Btream—Behr Abner Coburn, | bea re a wand | Clearings .... ..... 1,697,981.00 NEW SUGAR PRICE Money on Call ) Balances 591,461.00 SAN FRANCISCO, April 19—|] NEW YORK, April 19.—Money on ean, } pee ree Sugar dropped cents per hundred |7 per cent: six months, 7 per dent; mer ch menen 3 ard | a ttiie basen, TOTN percent earings ..., 685,424.00 pounds here today, The new price ae Bar silver—London, 34%e; New York{| | Balances ...., 38,286.00 Fz, 3 ae ‘The steamship Princess Victoria April 18—fte Henry T. Scott from fan 4 Port | Maru and 10:30 & m.; atr Eldorado for Anacortes, Portiand, San ton, 12:15 a m. April 1b—Sur Mukilteo Valdew—April 18—Salled, str Alameda, m. Cordove—April 18—Salled, atr Admiral April 1¢—falled, str Artzonan April 18—Arrived, atr Steel ‘April 18—Passed, str Val- ter from Seattle; atr West Notua from otr for Beattle, 4 p. m.; etr Phyliis for ‘April 19—Arived, atr Btates- Vessels in Port at Seattle odman, str Bpo- Str Rastern United Btates Shipping Board Moortngs— atr The meetings are bo- Alaska Steamship Mooring—Btr Victoria, Terminal—Ste Weat High at Nominal Cash Wheat ay, lower Nulk of butenhers, +o, | > Recwipte, 13.000. Market steady Lambe, 801058, owen, OF oa BOOST-SEATTLE MEETING HELD “Bell Seattle to Seattiletten” ts the slogan adopted by the Associated In- dustries at a booster meeting Mon- day, at which 125 business men were present. Plana for an intensive and exten- sive campaign by means of rubber stamps on mail, motion pictures and display advertising were outlined. W. B. Henderson, an authority on international trade, told the assem: | blage that if all the silk shipped to) Pacific ports last year had come thru | port commission terminals and two private docks, Seattle has a decided advantage over San Francinco as a) freight terminal and transfer point. Paulhamus to Talk to Real Estate Men W. H. Paulhamus, organizing genius of the Puyallup and Sumner ‘| valley fruitgrowers, will explain the |new cannery merger to members of | the Seattle Real Estate association | at the Pig'n Whistle Wednesday at| 1215 p.m In 1902 the handful of ranchers tn that district produced scarcely 6,000 crates of berries. Under the leader. ship of Paulhamus and a group of far-seeing ranchers, the preserving | and canning of berries on the co operative plan was launched. The membership expanded to 1,800 ranchers. The fame of the fruit from the “valley of the mountain” | widened thruout the United States. last year did a cash business of $5,- | 500,000, has been selected as the first | group unit of the new Oregon-Wash- |ington Canning and Preserving com- pany, the $10,000,000 consolidation recently launched to handle the busi- ness end of the fruit and berry in dustry of the two North Pacific} states, PLAN EXCURSION RATES According to unofficial advice re- celved by representatives here, ex: cursion rates of one and one-third fare will be re-established from Seat- tle to eastern and middle-western points by transcontinental rallway lines. At the same time It was announced that reduced fares will go into effect | to points in Arizona and New Mexico | May 13, to continue to Oct. 31. N. Y. Coffee and Sugar NEW YORK, April 19.—Sugnr, Raw, 95.6405 nulated, $7.66@ Coffee—No. 7 fio, spot, 6@6 lec Ib; 4 Bantos, 9% @9%e Ih 11 Foreign Exchange NEW YORK, April 19.-Foreign ex- xchange eloned lower Biter joan reports of Oh ‘anadiag Pe A the way, a petroleum x Closing prices included Republic Steel, 60%, off i Mextean July | rn THE SEA the New York Stock Excha were w eet ned today. apanese itu revealed In the nd sold on t Crucible was elopmenta. ightly lower, Olle ministration’s ef They included 44, Ys Crucible, cific, 2%. off 110, unchanged; Amer!- Guilt, 36%. off hi Royal opening today an Petro tei Au Binotair reaching 25, the high- @ now high for the 7 anged; Goodrich, 37, © 4, up bs) Oru in’ Petroveum | ff %; American it Pan rh iia) Reading, 67%, N. Y. Stock Rackasive TTLE STAR ANOTHER CAR OF STRAWBERRIES Show Improvement Over Previous Consignments Another car of strawberries ar rived on the Seattle market Tues day. The berries were in -a better condition than the two preceding carloads, The quotations were $3.26 a crate, Fiorin and Sacramento berries will soon be on the market. Local radishes will take the place of the California radish In about & week, Jobbers sald Tuesday, The localn will be selling 10 cents under the Southern stock, which ts now 40 cents for a dozen bunches. Fancy: California bunch asparagus was selling at 18 cents a pound with the extra fancy at 20 centa Many different prices on asparagus were noted ong the avenue; 16 to 18 cents @ pound on the Califor nia stock was general, while local fancy was selling at 26 to 27 cents a pound, Rhubarb, which ts coming tn more Crucible um Iron & Steet Hinciair OU Houthern Pacific Houthern Kallway Mtromberg... Liberty Bonds (Monday's Quotations) by 1. nh. harm g a a2 High vate Wire, First 1%. Firet ts Hecond 4e.. Piret «4e Kecond (40 Third Fourth rites rite ue Portland Market Status PORTLAND, April 19.—Market steady, 4. Prime light, Batter Chemee Baege—18@ 260 dow aie 1m Mewe- 30- 1a Denver Live Stock Market DENVER, April 19.—Cattle-—-Recelpts, | Market steady. Hieers, 16509 ‘ 6 abeut 250 thrifty, *” miles from Olympia. railroads, or paved high and Olympia. away. TRESIDE SuITE314.NEW YO. ELLIOTT 3928. abundantly, was cheaper at 4 to 4% cents a pound. Altho Loa Angeles lettuce was noarce on the market Tuesday, there iv @ fair supply of the Alamo and Hacramento stock The market was very short on carrots, which caused a 25cent tn crease Tuenday, making the price per sack $1.2 There was no change the dairy market good supply of butter, cheese was continuing. VEGETABLES Prices Vaid Wholesale Dealers Neted on Dealers sald a and ees Cal, fate . Loe. hothouse, da per. oo... Be ince Or, per ™ . per don bunches Cal, don bunches Local outdoor Per sack Loreal, per bow Rutedages Spinach tatoo wan per hamper Tomatere Mexican, lve Tarnipe—m Wash. pei strained. per Tm Lemene—Per box .... 2 as vet en ens MO® Per B® .... DAIRY FRODUCTS Prices Paid to Shippers Rattertet This fertile, cleared land is located in productive Thurston County—in the nature-favored district where we have already located happy families. THE SOIL is a deep, rich, black clay loam that pro- duces big crops of berries, fruits and all vegetables that thrive in Western Washington, THE TRANSPORTATION is via two transcontinental ways from Seattle, Tacoma THE MARKETS are unlimited, with the big Phez fruit juice plant and Olympic cannery only a few miles () LT ‘BLOCK ' SHOULD BE GUARANTEED TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 19 YOUR BANK ACCOUNT Deposits in this bank are guar- anteed by the Washington Bank Depositors’ Guaranty Fund of the State of Washington. Our Only Branch Is at Ballard The Scandinavian American Bank Seattle, Washington Natter Brick Paes Vresh ranch Wash, triplets . POULTRY Geese Live Maree Kage Fresh ranch 4 the and up. reared . local creamery « EXPORTS FALL OFF WASHINGTON, April 19. country’s exports fell off while ports increased during March, compared with the preceding m it was shown by the departmel commerce. The favorable ance for March wae $132,000. against @ favorable balance of 000,000 in February. Z eee With the building industry vived in the East, the lumber dustry of the Northwest is due: |boom, according to R. M. Cs Liye. POULTRY Turkeye—Dressed Medium to ¢! Best cows and hetfere ...+. Bats . Calvro—Light City Wheiesale Whole All Ready for Plowing, Planting and Cultivating DAILY EXCURSIONS to this land opening are being conducted from Seattle, complete at once. Dear Name Address S419 information regard- ing the same may be had on inquiry at this office. the office, telephone or write Sirs: Please send me free information about cleared land in the famous Chambers Homoesteag, just opened to settlement, holes eeeescecessceces 6H@ T. Now Settling Up Rapidly! $150 an Acre--On Terms THE LOCATION is on the celebrated Chambers homestead, one of the best in the state, only a few Sign, Clip and Mafl This Information Coupon FIRESIDE REALTY CO., 314 New York Block, Seattle, ANI Prices, vice president of the Milwaukee, Seattle on his annual i Lumber prices, he says he bell have dipped to their lowest Beach Alfaife Hay Mixed Hay— Timothy May. Strew “"32'00| _ Daddy, bring home some of Bold » 1600 French pastry.—Advertisement, The Industry Upon Which All Othe Industry Depends Ter Tea O-. sack An expansion of steam in the cylinders of the. locomotive drives the mechanism that pulls the train. It is the explosion of gas in the automo- bile engine that drives your car. The energy set free in those engines t be used then and. there or it is lost. It cannot be subdivided and set at a thousand tasks simultaneously. That form of energy must do its work at the instant it is liberated. We are all familiar with that, | phenomenon. ! How different it is with ELECTRICITY! The same current at one and the same time | may light your home, cook your food, warm | your rooms, and operate the washing machine in your basement. , | Electric current from the Snoqualmie Falls | generators may be exerting a 5,000-horsepower | | pull on a Milwaukee train in the Cascade Moun- tains and at the same moment current from | those same generators may be driving a den- | tist’s drill in the Cobb Building, using less than | one-twentieth of one horsepower of energy, | _ The great value of electricity is in its diversi- fied use as well as in its convenience, cheapness and lack of waste in motion that is lost. It can be started and stopped instantly. It is energy always under control. One wire brings electricity into the home or factory. Once there it can be used in an infinite number of ways to ee the greatest number and variety of | tasks. THE ELECTRICAL INDUSTRY IS THE INDUSTRY BACK OF ALL OTHER IN- DUSTRY. More and more we are coming to depend up- on it in our daily lives. The comforts of home, the efficiency of industry, the marvels of trans- portation are made possible by it. Call Sales Department—Main 5000 and Call at oe Puget Sound Power & Light Company Building Building 2012 Vernon Place, Ballard Blectric Henry We Have Our Money Invested in Seattle’s Industrial Future