The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 11, 1922, Page 12

CUTTING OF PHONE RATE __ IS PLANNED War Against High Charges Declared by Public Works Board ‘ya OLYMPIA, Feb. 11.—"No public Mtility is going to wax fat and Wealthy on its rates in this state in 1922. “As fast as the annual Some in, we are going over We intend to make a study of th Bil to see if their rates can be cut This was the stateme by Hance 1.. Cleland, supery r He utilities and member of the beard BE public works, the state depart Ment that has charge of the fixing Of public utility rates Cleland said that an especial effort WM be made to cut the telephone Fates for this state. This in the Pace of the fact that the Pacific | Telephone & Telegraph company has | informed tie state that it is prepar- | | Ing to ask f n increase in rates. | MANY COMPLAINTS ARE RECEIV ALBERT W. BOG | A 4 ~ fet “We have received scores of com ORE) NOME Themes Proctor was, an old friend | THOMAS Pprocron CORNELIUS &. ints against the Pacific Telephone | itnees of Linculn’s @ | After the shooting at nhs theater, Telegraph company from all parts, He is # veteran ef three wars, in he pecudent qas temered to Treo 3 te," said Cleland, “Most | cluding the world war, MMe tors room, and died in Proet bed ee Pes i gukisine are directed; ** ot4 peepic’s home af Citeage. | Now Proctor Ix an inmate of the 5 mn hy inst the petty and minor charges BY ALBERT W. poGGs 1 eee « the company is making, for the) CHICAGO, Feb. 11.—1 had been In BY THOMAS PROCTOR NEW YORK, Feb. harees for cach little bit of service valided to Washington from wounds, GTRSONTA, Pa, Feb, 11.—-When 1/ clvll r broke @F for each little change. ami was a guest of Gen. T. M. Vin-| was in my rly twenties, I met and/ the army in some cases telephone manag: | cent at the Ford theater on the night | became a ce . se have informed their patrons of Lincoln's assassination. ham Lincoln. | with two other Brook Some of the boys the rates and that they could | cupied & front seat |department and the bureau of re reduce them. Wherever that ef an alibi has been called to | attention we have squelched it ly. Any utility can reduce/ rates on one are notice, A | ory : ‘we inform ome manager | 5a!f rose tn Sie, had been telling that kind of head and sank bac buff to his patrons that if he didn’t} A man leaped to th I was seated about three-quarters | tur mick on the main floor, Everything} 1 read and studied law under Line! y.ck of the White Hou ar field. Suddenty there was a shot. Lincoln! He frequgiitly shared my room, in| Often F . clutched at his/ wh: the in. aecreta Ww was in plain sight coln's personal direction. . th were two beds, State! wateh us On © he wa d and talked) field and stood behind When a new cor over with Ine there. tage. Tt was quit it we would reduce his rates | John Wilkes Booth. | f the rare privilere and! llc buildings was appoi Tintil be wouldn't recognive them.” | Ay! in the audience cried “Stor ween the pre and | chased from the field "Herbert J. Flags, engineer for the | nim Hoard, explained that in the tele ilinsch hastaiied. Shin ‘etiuabean’ 4 ; rate case that will be up for |). OU at rected that the p ch om, which wa m the Ford theater. mo playt “Don't you fo away soon, the state board will try yr-4 Lincoln meanwhile started| p09 determine whether or not 00) wining ner husband's face with her “Bauch of an interest charge ts beINE ps aoroniet. | mmediately sent for, and ar. ‘made by the company. I joined in the pursult as far aa I were placing my be tell the boys t include interest on invest eharges go on whether the phone | our study of the telephone} * ates we find thet the interest Swan Lake Project of the fixed charges is too) Bids for the construction of the tlk at the tune SE tare a chance to shave the |17-mile pipe line from the Swan bet counctl, Pates down a little, If we find that Lake reservoir to the city storage Commeres, Friday. i have come down, and we basins will be advertived for within they have, there is another|the next few days, according to ‘chance to cut. | Chairman L. B. Youngs of the beard “The fixed charges, plus labor, may |of public works Saturday. The many {th by C. L. Smith in his m of the mem afternoon, and wil! ft ttle Chamber of | a T |the city’s big water project, for | Im Oregon, where the rates are which a $6,200,000 bond issue has higher than in Washington, the = \been provided by the city council company claims it is earning only | cent. It is getting ready to ts to rales ite rates to the Ore |Reason Why Your level. And we are going to see) Hair Turns Gray Just how much we can cut the rates.” | 2. thee ‘The telephone rates were increased | wricn, 4 fm this state in 1917 by the then » by © general, Burleson. When | [") the lines went back to private con | '« als, iron The Funnies lay Predictions by George B. Haynen, |'6 it mee unniest Play general passenger agent of the Mil. | Af\" mary 7m ‘waukee system, in Chicago, that the ’ | summer tourist travel to the Pacific | o'"°",.! Northwest this year will be satisfactory, and rumors in raflroad | © circles that the tourist rates may be | | Jower in 1922 than they have been for a number of years, reached the Seattle Chamber of Commerce Fri- |) day. b Tho the raflroads have not yet con- | ¢ firmed it, there is considerable talk | 4m railroad circles of a rate slightly Jess than $90 for a round trip ticket | from Chicago to Beattie, in the new company in the REV. 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I became captain of it. The beat place to play was on the grounds ouse, We made | dent 1 minioner of pub- | A fow days later I met the pr . . ee ere ln in my nt. He was an easy man to ap| He listened to my story and told Later I witnessed the trial and ex-|arm and elbow when he expired Ghent, taxes, depreciation. The fixed | wution of Mrs. Surrat and three of} { have often fet that 1 iovalea| ladys Walton to WENATCHEE, Web. 11 I L Family Theater , Seattle Co-Operative Stock Co. Direction of T. Daniel Frawley Presenting “Fair and Warmer” by AVERY HOPWOOD Matinees: Sunday—Wednesday—Saturday Mr. Frawley will make his first personal appearance which he has played more than one hundred times. Evening Prices: . . . 90¢—68¢—415¢—22¢—Pilus tax Matines Prices: . . . . 50¢—31¢e—22¢ Pains in Your Back? joints, gravel, brick dust deposits, floating specks before your eyes. If you have any of these symptoms you should start © 86 Pharmacy, Cor, THE SEATTLE STAR “ABRAHAM LINCOLN AS I KNEW HIM” | Seven, Still Living, Tell Reminiscences of Martyred President Suse tents AVAGE MIS. KATHERINE M. EVANS was playing in = stock somoany pre duction. “Our Amertean Cousin tr Whee t6' BY MRS. KATHERINE M. EVANS CHICAGO, Feb, 11.—1 was just 20 when Lincoln yas killed, I had been waiting with trembling in the wing» of the theater for my cue to go out | upon the stage Sound of the shot made me took | Booth was » rambling on the stage 1 haste from the audience floor Th president had sunk into his/ seat. i ne one In all the confusion had enne enough to lift Dr, Charles Taft jint yn boys formed a ball/ | incon would ked out on the | the catcher. the box from the stage. / he president lay quite «till, Later! j they took him awey on a shutter | 1 ran upstairs after the affair and dressing room. 1 shall never forget what a aad pic ture poor Mra. Lincoln presented an her husband lay dying in her arms. Lat face bore a look of kindness. Peven in death he was th nied, we were © go right on| nd | until T tell you t way. | to.” he said. We never did. One of | “Phe bulk of the cost of operating | our Hooth had blocked exit from | loved fr fend on my bed. I remained . ore wan nom Ch ssa oo 1B telephone system are fixed charges. | the stage by placing wooden barriers | With him thriuout the entire nig pare oo we Seeran ot Marianas \A sein Sh ts at | pus labor, | against the doors. His head was resting on my right |Woman from Ambush | were on the hunt today for a ecomplices. Ancoin's la reat ' i jeompany gives service or not. | tnt: 5 A "| Lincoln's laut breath Act as Auctioneer | ei dior at Mrs. Olivia Mt. Drees MANY " : 3 Gladys Walton, film at will ap- jas she stood near a window in the ‘To CUT \To Ask for Bids on SYMPATHY with the farmer and! pear at the Northwest products ex-|Olympia hotel bere yesterday. 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Kidney Trouble headaches and dizziness, swollen Ox, Free sample upon request to 88 Exchange St., Buffalo, N. Y. 106A nd and Pike, and other reliabte « |Four Ask Retern of |” COL. CLINTON H. MENEELY Clinton 1 Meseety was chief of watt of ‘» Bink MNS. ANNA M Howard M. Morton Anens, BY COL, ¢. MENEELY TROY, N. ¥., Feb. 11.—Gen. Wad worth, to whose staff I was attached] |spent most of his time in Washin ton during the war. j } W. J. FERGUSON | | dest on many social BY MES, ANNA M. MORTON BANDUBKY, ©., Feb, 11.—Lincoin BROOKL YN, always dressed plainly and always in black Lincoln loved the theater President All my memories of the man are| We came to the Ford theater fre-| } $01 it touched with his friendly attitude! quently, I was call boy there, and| 1 connection with my work | toward everyone and his proneness to] \ouuia often look up to see the presi-|1 BA Secasion to call on the » make people amile . dent innumerable times. 1 ' ‘ t the home of | @ent in hin box. He used to come in all a reception at the home ot ht or duy he was alwayw the vice president, where a Lincoln | Unann a bust, seu na was being| Sometimes he would bring his son,| «there was no red tape—there exhibited, 1 wax escorted by 1. | Tad, back stage, The boy liked to ality. LAncein cn nd asked: | stand by me and watch the. show, an order had to be ism Are you the who made the a esination 1| 2 often sat down and wrote it tis mud head of me On the nig ee self. One of my most treasured me Lincoln was not a handsome man,! was waiting at the prompt box, my nios is a pass he issued to som but you were struck by the kindnens | regular post, One of the minors had| mother to see her boy in our bari is face, and by hin hand-grip, | py. it, and | was memorizing bis | racks. h made the average hand fee Laura Keene rand! The president was always read lost in ite bu : mar #s, came over and asked me! with a story. If he wanted to rei There wan an element of, i¢ 1 was ready a el ys did it kindly—wit sainess in even tho hb The play, you will recall, was the! a word or two to smooth over an: rmiled “American Cousin.” ined feeling. t as I was about to answer, a d the close of the war T t was fired ry . He was always) jooth had done his work same—kindly—-patient—sym: Rum and Narcotics 1 »ver went on with my part ther rstaurana without teareh Overa Saree of a Centu ffielent rants, four persons have asked “the feral Ceceral court to return the Haver s>4 OF Public Service and John Brick allege insufficient ; est on stands nner warrants were used when liquor was Of the hi taken from them. Violet Foley de mands the return of narcotion, mying @VEFY packet sold. AY no gvarch warrant was une while | Edward A. Kavafian asks that his| | of liquor be returned to him for the| \s - same reason, a rewidggs of Senttie, and well known ® m. Sunday jn Mt 7" =I A. 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