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

SEATTLE STAR WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1921. 'New York List Acts SALES LAG ON ‘Well at the Opening, LOCAL MARKET RR er ere ae 3 Aye dg oy Wide Range in Prices on Tomatoes ~“ha ~ | cla! machinery " | [itn merchants, and able to qu PLAN DRIVE 0 | |had several months’ business books, | jin advance. Then I secured the » | required and ike FOREIGN TRADE SLUMP AND WON <2". c2".-5m os Ea Aitho the work of making fibre New Organization to Hold|Fibre Furniture Co. TO0k | furniture 1s highly specialized, Ken, First Meeting Thursday Chance at Hard Time them ia his factory OUT-OF WORK PLUMBER Thursday noon at the Masonic} By E. P. Chalcraft [18 NOW A FOREMAN |etub, Arcade building, comes the first | ° | “Dhis man, he sald, an wei walked meeting of the Foreign Trade coun-| Try this on your wise business! tnry the buildings, “was a plumber, cil, an organization numbering all| man friend Jout of « Job, He came just a few members of the foreign trade bureau | Would you have attempted, one| Months azo, Now he is foreman of of the Chamber of Commerce. This to emtablish a fac-|this room. T man. wate @aeid body will meet monthly to enlarge | He jw making more money now at foreign commerce thru this port | plece work than he ever could at hf KE. “G, Anderson, chairman of the books |foreign trade bureau, Will preside It must be that the blue sign in Thursday, Frank Hanlon, manager the | each room has some effect, for eac of the Merchants’ exchange, is chair m ef the 00-088 tien anh me man of the council, and will have f That he | 20 intent on the work at hand th See akts crear It wae the) the visitors noticed. made of twisted woven ted by hand wood frames. The frames are) constructed of birch rods, which are Tides in Seattle ’ RSDAY Mexi Y, 20 Doheny on the Mexican 21 STATES: | Wiest High Tide 6.20 ao nee ¥ | pm tt Second High Tide eee SHIP'S ENGINE TT. ¥. gineer on tho steamship Robin Gray of the Ismithian line, died en route to the %. up %. Pan-American made an carly re yal Dutch gained % at 43, On a Chicago dis- | patch indicating the regular dividend on Pullman, this stock opened at} 49, up 1%, and then ran up to 90, Rails worked higher, and the average | gain in dividend paying carriers at the opening was close to @ half point | Steel common Was up % at THM, and independent steels were alwo frac Uonally Mucher, Sugars continued heavy, With American Sugar common | beh at 44%, up @ point train F Retailers were inactive Wednes. day, and slow miles on all commodi | tles were reported. A wide range in pric of tomatoes was quoted, at fro 60 cents to $1 a box, most of the stock moving at from 75 to 90 t#, Some fancy toms, which job bers were holding at $1, were unable to find an outlet Cauliflower, which had been weak for a few days, met with a decline at several houses, at from $1.26 to Th emand for celery has n strong, at from 90 cents to $1 4 oxen, tho Wednesday's trade had fallen “off temporarily No changes were reported in the |fruit section of the market, with all prices steady ‘The demand for poultry.and meats was fair, The veal market was re car ported a bit weak. Butter was pg steady, at 47 cents a pound for city : reamery bricks, as were eges at 58 } » a dozen for the fresh ranch variety. / “Mi United States off 4: 4, Up United » Up %; fetroleum. | KR DE attle, chief en ; Pallme . off 4; Great Norther {1M: Ame [Staten Fu Northern I }96%. up Mi GRAIN MARKET GOING LOWER CHICAGO, Oct. 19—Grain prices} dropped on the Chicago board of} trade today as the slump, due to de- | Amer pressing news that started tn at the| beginning of the week, continued, | News of big cropa in Canada, as well | ax In this country, coupled with the lack of export demand, were the fac tdra that influenced’ the market Provisions were irr Jar, December wh ened at New Record Set by Septem- ber Contracts, Survey Shows | BY ALBERT APPLE NEW YORK, Oct, 18—-A building boom is well under way in every part of the country Building contracts placed during September in the 27 Northern and astern states totaled $246,186,000,) ‘@ocording to the F. W. Dodge Co. This was the greatest total ever | feached by building activity during _ September. Tt was a gain of 12 per cent over _ August, tho building usually slumps 36 per cent in September, compa: with August. Building of homes led all forms of ‘construction during September. The Value of building contracts was dis tributed like this: _ Residences ........ <9 per cent, Business buildings. 17 per cent Public works and utilities, 14 per cent Schools 11 per cent’ Predictions that a long-range build: | Ing boom has begun were made a Month ago, when it wag announced ‘By the geological survey that pro-| . @uction and shipments. of Portland t during August broke all rec isn Kea western, gouthbound at Can Awphatt, “i Mexte up % ee ok up Mi A year ago today, eading iy: Studebaker, 72% 43, up Ualdwin, Ossinger of 8 hey tory or to found any other new line ip Royal bh, 55%, of industry in Seattle N. Y. Stock Exchange (Tuesday's Quotations: Pernished by L. DB. Mann Watler Blocks Atchison Amer tel. & Tel everybody knows that 12 Seattle in throes of a commercial slump. be denied | natural economic reaction from the} ai b 210/the war and other influences. The | farsighted man pocketed bis lousen| Conmructed of iret rode, which Df ircoe any ry Mag fuer £8 oy oe | which they are readily bent ato tal Others trimmed sail and ran for har | gevire * 4} | bor until the going was better, But| saree an conelwemsiie ys 40| the majority would answer the ques-| #7, Town atthe | ion by pronouncing sonorously ore, Seer eee yt 5: ly as Part be Gene. It Would) strip is twisted into & sort of corgl a8 | hav folly to try which is stronger than manila rope AD OF FURNITURE CO, of the same diameter. For certaig) AS DIFFERENT IDEA purposes, where even = greates Paul T. Kennedy, president of the| strength ts required, the paper ig Kennedy Fibre Furniture Co., how-| twisted around wire. ever, has a different answer. It i] AMPLE SCOPE GIVEN conspicuously ported, in big blue let-| POR ARTISTIC EFFECTS ters, on each floor of his factory at! The weaving and plaiting of these Dearborn st, and Rainier ave. | paper withes on the wooden frames “I had it all figured out in 94-| pive ample scope for artistle ef vance,” Kennedy explained. “Then | tects, ‘The covered piece of furnt I backed my judgment to the limit! ture is colored, dipped in « vetiiie, and took a chance.” \and then upholstered. The product That his judgment was good Is) in a light, atrong and durable article attested by the fact that he is ¢-| that would be an artistic addition j tually turning away business today.|/t any room. | “The fibre furniture business 1s! “1 know it sounds ‘fishy’ to eay 4 new one out here,” he said. “For! that we have more business than 15 years, as a wholesale furniture | can take care of,” Kennedy said dealer in Seattle, I had been han- | we made ready to leave the fi dling the product of a factory at/ «put the fact is that if we did | Sheboygan, Wis. In fact, ours 18] sccent ariother order we would het - only similar factory west of enough business ahead to keep our there ia “Birch, oak, hemlock and other| {ActOF?, FUBNINE capacity until Se | Woods, and kraft paper are the prin-| factory last February.” cipal materials used in the manufac “ | ture of fibre furniture. I found that all of these could be obtained near| ‘then looked at the busy works jhome and at much cheaper prices! ang at Kennedy, and nodded. than the Eastern manufacturers had| ‘The sign said in letters a foot” som ; to pay. In addition, we could wave | | “IT CAN BE, DONE.” East coast, according to di Almost patches elved here. ‘the body was landed at Baltimore Tuesday, and Will be shipped back to Seattle | Ossinger’s widow and three chil ldren live at 4418 Massachusetts st. eee |Weather Bureau Report TOOSH ISLAND, € 19.8 A. M . Lueckenbach A Arrivals and Departures Arrived Str Ketehikan from Tacoma, | ata ™. Oct. Ls—#tr Katort Maru|up %¢, and clom off 2\« from Vancouver, B. C., at 9:15 p m5 | Wheat ope . le higher, | late Yosemite from San Francinco via Ta- | sly | 4 | sien 5 ati pm. December corn op ; a 1 failed | 46 Me and closed ce y Nerte—Local. dor bunches on ro G - |Opened up eat t an Cabbage—Local, per ™. * uver, B. Gy Kenbach months, ago was hearty fact cannot Wire state 17 furniture 1 Pullets Milk—Cwt., #0.b. tle supply. F. 0, B. conddnsary, owt. ..+ DAIKY PRODUCES Prices Paid Wheleesle Deslers Butter—Lovcal creamery, cubes. ok . inflated condition brought about *- | FAO soos Or triplete so. +. Wisconsin cream brick |. Block Swiss Wash. triplets Tillamook tripiet PUULTRY $1.06, — May m ose rasstat® AND MEATS Oct. 19 be, at 6:15 a.m Farragut for Vane mj ste Kdward York via V elsco, Ban Ped }m.; str Rainier f Dp m.; str Horac via Port Blakeley Ryerett for San Jett and San Fran Str « cember oats opened u © and closed off } y ened tbe lower at 36%e and c unchanged. at? Bp tor New San Fra wt 8:40 | sat wl oO, at 3:45 s\|Chicago Board of Trade (Wednesday's ations) lanning & Co, New Haven Northern Pacific ¥ Petroleum Pierce Arrow Pennsylvania RR Reading Replogie Republic Iron & Steet Rock Inand . Sinclair Ou Kouthern Pacific uthern Railway lowed ow X. Baxter for Rver at 216 DB Mm via Tacoma, Ever= leo, at noon. ve n Vessels Satied, ste North ee mm : Vessels in Other Ports Londen—Oct, I7—Arrived, str West Faraion from Seattle Yokohama—Oct. 1% Maru for Seattle Ban Pedro~Oect. 18. drea F. Luckenbach from Beattie. atr Admiral Dewey for Seattle. Ban Francisco, Oct. 18—Satled, str Car- | ¢ iganshire for Seattle, 5 p. atr Manw lant for Seattle, 2 p. m.; str President for Seattie, at noon 18—Arrived, str North- om Beattie, at 11 a m. 1-—Arrived, sam Fancy, dressed for that month and were 15 Per cent above the average for Au 1917-1920. Building permits issued in August | the 197 leading cities totaled in ty value 36 per cent more than in Augdst, 1920, according to statis- compiled by the American Con. September made another ay 2% hy Ol of Delaware Union Pacific United Retail Btores United Stat Salled, str Manila} » Nominal ~Arrived, #tr An- 200 Satled, |} x. As we reached the doorway 1°) glanced back at that big blue sign Prices are much lower now than &® year ago, hence $1°of building ts more actual construction work than during the post-war boom. | . box é ‘ash. Jonathans Detictous . Spiteendere CHICAGO, Oct. 19.0 2 spring, $1.13; No. 3 hard, $1.0 ee N. Y. Sugar and Coffee Teday's Sager—Quiet; raw, $4@4.11; granulated. | $5.20. Coffee—No, 7 Rio, spot, #@4%e Ib; No 4 Santon, 11% @12 we Ib. at he Portland Market Status or . ened, Meht, fanc ¢ Reported by Wireless Received by 0. & Naval Radic oct Schley, Seattio ‘miles south of Be atte at 8p. mr str West Mimrod, Se Attic for Kebe, 129 miles trom Seattle. at }a pm: str Rainier, Seattie for fan | Francisco, 45 miles from Seattle at § p. mi; et Hidridee, Shonghal for Seaitie, 3:80 miles from Seattle at 8 p.m; tr w for Yokohama, 3,065 Beatle for Yokohama. Beatle at & p.m; ate ‘tor that building activity will y, ® continue at a high rate is in the fact that labor is producng more work the freight and express rates from the East, which are quite heavy. PEOPLE WORK MORE EFFICIENTLY HERE “Further, men and women work |much more efficiently here. than| |where it ix so hot in summer and] frigid in winter, “Thus, with a big market avail- able and manufacturing conditions | almost ideal, I believed there was al | real opening here for the manufac. | ture of fibre furniture. “First I went out with drawings \of the articles T intended to make. | Being familiar with the territory and Firat 4s | Second 4 “ Prime light ... ond 44m Bmooth heavy Third «we Fourth 4s... Fitth 240 Fifth #4 Total bond salen, $10,483,000. eee Foreign Securities Tokays. crate Lady Fingers, WESTLAKE 1938] Grape’ Pratt Pia Hie 16-17, Tha choice prunes, 29 ts rolls totlet paper, 26, Lux flakes, cana cleanser, tic. Stall 105, 2 T: Peas, 250: 3 cans Campbell's 25e; butte! ‘Stall Wenatchee, vad 951 miles fro: ledium te cho Se Th.; fresh eggs, 35 Med t 2 20¢ cans pink salmon, tea, @%¢ tb; 9-T. can 2,422 miles from str Edmore, Seattle tor ¥ g Vessels in Port at Seattle r . Terminal—Pier A—Str Kiso Dest Marw. =; pure pork sausage, t6e|/Great Northern Terminal—Str Toyooka leh %. Stall 54, pickied Maru. + eottage butts, 35¢ i.; . Stall 2 ley lambs, $606 wethers, $2.508 Butter—t7c Ib Cheese—24 @ Te Ib. Kepe—400 don Hene—16 @2te Ih . t Re doz Stati 50, itish Viet. és Britiah Ref. 4s Be Belgium Premium German W . Ketehikan. PLACE Pier A—Str Admiral Rodman. ‘American ane sugar, 4| Pier B—8tr Queen. fy pack, Seattle Shipbuilding & Drydock—' rah HT. Fern, U. & L&T. fino & Shipping Board Moorings—-8tr De- Hight, str Anna E Morse, str West Martiand, str Crom Keys, atr Delrona, str Teontum, atr Silverado, atr Lubrico, . ate Weat Ison, str Western Knight. ' Toc | Alaska Btoamantp Mooringe-—Str Valdes. Yak. |Spokane Street Terminal—str Moliere. + local | Todd's Drydocks—Bhip Chillicothe, btkns doen, $1.50 per sack. ‘stall 1531, No| Forest Pride, Forest Friend, ‘Yorest “WO sack pastry flour, 43. Stall #1, 6 Ts rear. ui honey. s6e; round steak, 20c |Puast Hound Bridge & Dredging Co.—etr 4 hamburger and sausage, 2 Iba 2he tterson. 1623, diack cod, 19¢ Th.; salmon, 3| Ames Yard—Str Roosevelt 26e, Stall 1511, fresh halibut cheeks, | West Seattle Eleva ‘Str Katort M: . Stall 36, freeh black cod, 3 Ya. | Nettleton Mill Dock—BStr Forest King large fresh salmon, S06 each. Esrpt Maru. RaueeARY Winslow Marine Rallways—Ste Morning og 109, best American cane sugar, 4 Zhe, § the. 500" 100 tbs. $6.30; whip- eream, isc; fresh milk, Se qt. Stall is. pow, Gilt pickles, 3 for 19¢; mayon HOTEL MAN FINED even Nie ty ee carden|! KK. Suwa, propritor of the Willshire Dreserv: be Th, '. “ + ° wa, tee ts. San TX: |Hotel, 1924 Seventh ave, was fined ud tee each; salt /$25 in police court Wednesday for vg wd pe. Stails/ violating the building code of the doneleas e ete ciasene’ Oat | city of Seattle. Suwa nalied up the ont, 6 pkes. ifire escape exits in his hotel to keep | Praaet cree pean. 25¢ can. Stall | out theves he said. This is the sec- Poi oe utaee |ond offense say the police. Hamburg W. Latpaig 4\0 Lelpaig Se Muntoh 4 Munich Se Frankfort 4s Japanese 4s | Japanese 1st Japanese Ind (4s packing sows, rough, 16@ . canned salmon, 3 for 25¢ potatoes, $1.90 per sack A gradé, Boattic Rape Fresh ranch a ” delivery heifers, $2,502.50; veal calves, $5@ $11.78; feeder steers, $4.55@7; stocker slocker cows and nner ateors, $203.75 Market 250 % lambe, cull ring woth: to common United Kingdom 6 rt see , heifers, 92.2505; ca Railroad Securities Sheep—iteceipts. 1 1 os; $507; ewes, 99 75. ee ewes, $1.50@2 Denver Live Stock Today's Quotations Cattle—Receipts, 2 Market 160 low- cows and helt feeders, 16@ tbe J BROWN t BIGALOW ‘REDI-POINT’ PENCIL WITHOUT EXPENSE 76; locker . # 2.16; feeders, 16.75@ oT San Francisco Produce ‘Today's Batter—Pxtras, th; fir Egee—e dow; extra pulle pullets, dic doz; 400 doz, Cheese—California flats, fancy, 25¢ Ib. . Foreign Exchange NEW YORK, Penn. Cony. ies Penn. Gen. 449 ©, & ©. Cony. bs.. O. 1, Ref. te JNO. E. O'BRIEN | Maker of ™. Clothes 506 Union st. Suit or Overcoat TO ORDER, Forty Dollars © i‘ and Witting Dene by Jno. Quotations Po Ih; prime firsta,4te ib. extra firste, 6€6 (6c don; extra first undersized pulleta, FATHER FINDS SON DEAD IN HIS BED Lafayette Studdart, 18, was found dead in his bed Wednesday by his father, H. S$, Studdart, at his father's home, 756 Thomas st. Dr. Samuel Buckley, who has been attending the boy, stated the youth had a weak heart and had been an invalid since child hood. He had received treatment from noted physicians, but had failed to recover, The father is a well-known shipping man, With exposed eraser and safety clip attached. They’re Just the Thing for School Work Have you seen the new “Redi-point”? It sure is a dandy, Cannot tarnish, has patented “jump point”—the lead will not break if you drop it—and is so constructed that it can- not go wrong. A generous supply of leads with each pencil. DON’T WAIT—-GET YOURS NOW! alle 94-96, pot roast, 2¢ .; veal roast, E. O'BRIEN tbe: Diack cod, 15¢ Ib. ECONOMY 26, pure American cane sugar Zhe, 8 The. 50c, 100 he $6.20. Stall Stalled olives, 39¢ pt.; 10 Ibe Marsh- gmaliow syrup, $1.00. Stall 40, Rogers’ baking powder, 20¢ baking powder, 35 | | - $5,067,173.68 | | 834,149.63 | ORPHEUM MOORE fitpevitie WHITING AND, BURT b PORTS Portland 5,822,365.00 | + 1,172,248.00 | Clearings Balances , Man Is Arrested for Attacking Girl An information charging James T. Stapp with assault in the third de gree was filed Wednesday by Depu- | ty Prosecutor John D, Carmody, al |leging Stapp enticed a 16-year-old | schoolgirl into bis auto and attacked her, Tuesday morning, as she was on her way to school, The girl was un- able to escape from Stapp, according to Carmody, until she had made a 300 don: red halibut, 25¢ | 2,051,995.00 1,011,405.00 Clearings Balances . imackerel, MUST. BE PAID IN CASH Local improvement assessments Must be paid in cash. This was the! opinion handed down Tuesday by Charles T. Donworth, assistant cor- The “Pony” with ring at end of barre! so it may be carried on a ribbon Your “Redi-Point” Just Get Two New Subscriptions to The Star Get your friends and neighbors who are not now having The Star delivered to their homes to subscribe. Have them Clearings .. 659,047.00 | 84,790.00 LOEws LAcE HI SWAN'S NOVELTY CROCODILE AND SEAL "THER ACTS “BIG GAME” “Seattle-Tacoma” Day Nov. 2 Planned wicca THEATRE=—s | One Long Laugh! “THE RUINED LADY At the WILKES AND THE NEW PLAYERS ADELE BLOOD And THOMAS CHATTERTON ARE : DELIGHTFUL |MATINEE TODAY WILKES AN Week—™ ‘oday “THE RUINED Francis Nordstrom PLAYER! El PANTAGES Matinees, 2:30. Nigh: Playing ALTHOFF Thirty Pink Toes; Stafford & De Kons) Harry Bussey; John B. Gor- fon & Co. Marguerite & Alvaresy The Harmony Four; Pantagescope Admission: Mats. 25e; Nights 400 7 ana Wednesday, November 2, will be “Seattle-Tacoma day” at the Tacoma Chamber of Commerce and about 15 leading Seattle business men will at- tend a noon luncheon there at which Seattleites will speak. | Arrangements were completed be- tween the Seattle and Tacoma cham- bers yesterday, Tacoma also will lend full aid in entertaining the Jap- anese disarmament and business men's parties, which will arrive here on the steamship Kashima Maru October 28 We fer General Obligation Income Tax Exempt 6% Serial Gold BONDS Denomination $100 at price to YIELD 9% Write, Call or Phone Main 2765. L. M. RICK & PANY, ING, g 1900 abi Bldg. \Boy vf 3 Loses in Suit Against City A verdict for the city was found by @ jury, early Wednesday morn ing, in Judge Boyd J. Tallman's court, in the case of 3-year-old | Ault, whp lost hig right arm when a street cdr struck and ran over him. in spring of 1920, Damages of $25,000 were asked, The case wag bitterly contested by both sides, ‘The prose. ecution alleged inefficient operation of municipal street cars, in that one man could not properly attend to one jear, The case was brought against the city by the boy's father, R. V. Ault, 1116 KE. Jefferson st, date with him. When Stapp ap- peared at 22d ave. and Union st, to keep the appointment, he was met by a deputy sheriff, “We have had many such com. | plaints of different men,” Carmody said, “and we intend to make an ex- ample of Stapp. This thing must . . | Missing Jailbird | Caught in Tacoma Charles Cooper, alleged burglar, who escaped from the county jail by wing his way to freedom in com ny with Mike Douris, October 3, was recaptured in Tacoma and re- turned to Seattle Wednesday. 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