The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 7, 1921, Page 7

THE SEATTLE STAR FREDERICK & NELSON \Indomitable Seattle Spirit Is — Reborn on Anniversary of Fire BY HAL ARMSTRONG “Shuck! Clump! Shuck! Clump!* “Clamp! Up the street, In the swelter, as FIFTH AVENUE AND PINE STREET | | DOSMSTAIRS STORE : New Organdie Hats In the Delicate Tints That Prevail in Tub Frocks $5.00 Riggers especial- ly for wear with gingham and organdie frocks and washable outing clothes are these becoming Hats, formed by narrow bands of organdie sewed together, faced with hemp and featur- ing yarn trimmings. n Pink Lavender | Orchid White and in mushroom and roll-brim styles. Very attractive values at $5.00. —THE DOWNSTAIRS STORE It was as hot and sultry as the day of the great fire itself, but the| “Shuck! Clump! Shuck! Ctumpf* heat and stifle could not keep| ‘They were slower, perhaps, than Andrew Gustafson in his home at/in ‘89, when the fire was real, old 709 Seventh ave. S.—not yenterday. | “Always Ready” new and red, and He “made the run” valiantly, with| Andrew had two sound legs. But the rest of the old volunteer fire lad- | the spirit was there, the dogged spirit dies of 89, from Third ave. and) that fought the flames, the Seattle Main st. down to Madison and First, | Spirit that was born next day when, just as they made it 32 ) ago, |out of ashes, a new city rose. dragging old “Always Re * the} Beside Andrew yesterday in the Sacramento pump engine, clattering | “run” was his old fire comrade, L. behind them. C. Gilman, who came out of embers Down their right feet came in|of ‘89 with his law office chair and unison, lots of nerve, and today is vice presi “Shuck? dent of the Great Northern railroad. WOODEN PEG They were part of the team that COMES DOWN HARD pulled the old Sacramento, ‘And down came their lefts. But| One mooted point was settled at above the din of the Sacramento| yesterday's reunion of the veterans pump, above the “shuck” of his|of the fire. After James McGough had knocked over the glue pot in his paint shop at Wirst and Madi COUNCIL CITY COUNCIL MONDAY regular as heart-beats: comrades’, Andrew's wooden peg hit hart and resonant: RINGSIDE NOTES ON Referred to the public safety committee an ordinance requiring garage owners to notify the police when they lease or rent space for storage of one of more automobiles. Postponed for 34 weeks proposed paving projects in the South Wendland park district, totaling over $600,000 in estimated cost. Referred to the public safety Hesketh's veto of the garbage bill. Withheld action on the proposed cabaret Received communication from J, D. Ross, superintendent asking for appropriation of $64,097 to repair pipe line No. 1 at Cedar river, erred to the harbors and public grounds committee a communication neem J. Fisher, president of the park board, asking for an appropriy tion of $6,700 for summer band concerts, Referred to the streets and sewers committee a petition from residents of 38th ave. N. to have the name te $ va street between Denny way and ‘st. changed back to Madrona pl N. ae: ¥ * ® es * 8 * * * ig not so stipulated in the bill.” Was and finance committees Acting Mayor it of lighting, A Quick-service Record Counter convenience of its patrons. i | in The counter itself represents a new idea in the selling of Phonograph Rec- has been installed in the Downstairs Store, for the Acting Mayor Robert B. Hesketh vetoed the garbage bill Monday, The jordinance, which passed the council |by a comfortable majority, was killed by a member of the council, sitting temporarily in the mayor's chair, ‘The garbage dill would have placed the collection and removal of restaurant garbage in the hands of the city, which could have sublet contracts for its removal at a com- fortable profit and with the maxt mum of safety to the health of the Hesketh suspicious of the board of public works, the council, Dr. H. M. Read and the other officials. inter- ested in the welfare of the city? Another reason given for his veto was that more public heatings should be held on the subject. Now by all the garbage gods, the marble corridors of the city hall are worn down a quarter of an inch by the feet of restaurant and cafe men who have been trailing into the council chambers these past 12 months to ords, dispensing as it does with the ne- cessity for sound-proof rooms. eam You are invited to listen to the new June Records | while sitting comfortably at this counter, which has been installed near the Boys’ Clothing Section, in the Downstairs Store. ae CHEHALIS.—Wakefield Fletcher, of Winlock, who jumped from train at passenger station here Sunday * night, dies of injuries. EUGENE, Ore.—Miss Dorothy Dickey, student at University of Oregon, to act as forest lookout on McKenzie river this summer. citizenry. ‘A further reason for the enact- ment of the garbage law was that/ it would have given full protection | P00") WAS Ott vrteed five yeare In: to the white hog rancher, At the|[iP y : present time the Jap is very often| suc, 1% as was spectfied in the able to outbid his white competitor | . La and secure the best swill for his protest against the garbage bill. The third reason assigned by Hes- keth was that the contract should ee |maximum, and ag the contract could . be let for one year if best sulted to aoe bill was err - ee |the Interests of the city, Hesketh, it ut a year ago, was ve | Wout, “oe pgs a, ae would seem, was unduly alarmed Hesketh gave three reasons for his action in disapproving the measure. He said that “while it might be as- sumed that bids must be called for, assuring the city certain revenue, it over the possibility of the city’s cre- ating a monopoly. When in Seattle, eat at Boldt’s— Advertisement, | works was given authority to fix the! son, and the glue blazed up and te nited the shavings on the floor, and | the alarm was sounded, it was En: | gine Company No, 1 that was first to reach the scene, SLOWER THAN THE SOLDIER BONUS | In those days the company that | got to the fire first was entitled to | & $10 bonus, but James McIntyre, | second assistant chief, and Mark) Callighan, F, P. Beattié, Tom Davis, | Henry Lobe, George H. Wright and | others of old Company No, 1 were | at the reunion yesterday to give thelr | word that they never got their bonus for being first at the great Seattle | fire, | “Well, I swan! «aid Tom Littell, | as he saw for the first time in many years the rusty, tarnished “Always Ready” he'd pumped the day of the/ memorable fire, “Bill,” he said to William Koch “Remember the time we pumped ‘er into the fire back of Melhorn's old | brewery, the winter of '82."" | “Y'bet,” said Bill, “That was the| time the new fire engine we'd just| got cut loose on the hill and run down into the bay and sunk. Never | forgit that.” “That was the winter I saved old Judge Cann's wife when her milli- nery shop next door to the brewery got on fire,” Littell recalled, “Yep,” said Bill, “I recollect that.” There were nearly 100 of the old) guard who “ran the run” to the fire over again yesterday—and one other, Charley Berg was assistant captain | ot No. 1 company in Tacoma in '89 He “made the run” yesterday, too. FROM TACOMA IN 20 MINUTES! “We got word in Tacoma that Se- attle was burning,” Charley said. | “What did we do, but 20 of us load,) ed our engine onto an N, P. flat car! and we made it over here in 20} minutes,” | At the end of the “run” yesterday | they ran old “Always Ready” up, onto the sidewalk at the corner) where she'd stood and pumped, as long as the water held out, 32 years before, Josiah Collins, then chief of the department, mounted her rusty | frame and spoke. | “Chicago,” he maid, “had a cow| and a lantern, But the cow and the lantern that started the great Cht- | cago fire had nothing on James Mc-| Gough and his pot of glue. In three | hours after the glue overturned the | old wooden town of Seattle was a thing of the past.” L. C. Gilman had been selected as speaker of the day. He elbowed his | way ‘thru a jam of people that had gathered around the old red-coated fire fighters and their ancientSpump- er. He unveiled a tablet set in the | wall of building at the corner | |where the great fire started, and| sald: “There was a great deal sald about us firemen after the fire, but there | are two things certain. We didn’t start it, and we didn't stop it. A GREAT DAY FOR A FIRE “It was a great day for a fire. The town was as dry as tinder, There | Was a stiff north breeze blowing. | The city was built out over the water | on piling that afforded a tunnel for| the fire to rush thru at will, Collins, our leader, was in San Francisco, “The whole town went, but those days are long past and there is no one here today who can dispute any- thing we care to say about ourselves. j “Sometimes, as I look back on the | old wooden Seattle as she stood here | I long for the old pioneer times “When the best was like the worst, |“ ‘And they wan’t no Ten Command- | ments, “*And a man could quench a thirst.’ | “But the old town went, and never | since have I seen such a fine display of the Seattle Spirit as on the morn- when we must read the lesson of the FREDERICK & NELSON | FIFTH AVENUE AND PINE STREET Complete Homefurnishers Interior Decorators iB 4 hid Dey A t Extension Dining Table - | | With Six Chairs sort. 1$100,00) 8" N exceptionally low price quoted on 10 Sets only, as i. pictured, affording a remarkably attractive value. 3 THE TABLE: In quartered oak, Jacobean finish, with 54-inch circular top, extending to 8 feet. ber THE CHAIRS: In comfortable, high-back pattern, with a cane panel and genuine leather seat. 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In |less than a week we had built a new |canvas town, I awoke the morning | after the fire to find myself burdened |only with an office chair and lots of nerve—nobody lost his nerve, | TIME HAS COME TO | READ LESSON OF FIRE Seattle fire—that men united and in- spired with confidence can succeed.” There were more ceremonies to be gone thru with later at Plymouth Congregational church. W. H. Clark, former foreman of Volunteer Engine company No. 2, who had led the “run” yesterday, shouted above the clatter of cable cars; “Fall int” The red coats took their places on the tow lines of old “Always Ready.” Her hubs creaked rheumatically. Up the street they went: “Shuck! Clump! Shuck! Clump!* . * Dies in Aberdeen ABERDEEN, June 7—Oscar Ber- geren, 30, well-known Swedish come dian, and known to the stage as Os- car Gerard, died in ‘a local hospital here today from complications follow- ing a serious operation, several days ago. 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