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Waterhouse Tells Star Readers Just Where | The Community Hotel Project Stands Today Selection of Architect and Choice of Jame Await Decision as to Operat- ing Concern to Whom Lease Will Go; Stockholders’ Meeting Later Jlessee may have a strong preference itor The Star: waiter The ting the name, Fer example, Replying to the editorial which ap-|t ad our jasue of August 17 $7,000,000 hotel upon which con: ut the plans—an imported firm, or| Los Angeles, has been leased to the One of our own?” Bowman Company of New York, jand in deference to that company's It is impossible for me to or ; swer this question definitely at wishes tt is to be named the Bilt following © jmore of Low Angeles, aa the Bow- present, for the sons: The Community Hotel poration is now endeave ing to lease the new hotel to some first class hotel operating company on a basis of rent which bes arantee the regular payments <7 interest to the stockholders and the bondholders, or with regular payments of interest to the bondholders, plas the sink- Ing fund requirements to retire the bonds In 25 years, plus the ground rent to the Metropolitan Building company the taxes and any other obligation that the Hotel company would have to meet in its lease with the Metro- politan Building company in any connection with the construction of the hotel. Immediately after was cloned o aes ee omg tors of such corporation for the first appointed, co of | six months of ite existence, at the! mens, C. D. Stimson, \ SF ga ged EO of which time a general stock. | vw theagee gy th a terhouse, | Nolders’ meeting ts held, when the mgias an a" bes ° stockholders will elect their own easing committes tmmediately | rs . ~~ = se ond i now rgotiating |/PoNMt Of directors, which tn turn ‘wen! } will elect their own officers te with responsible parties In New Y; serve for the ensuing year. I tn Jeoking to'the lease of the hotel 5) 110. 1 list of the present directors atte | herewith who will serve until the Fe erect e ebacn well ad-| stockholders! meeting next Decem- te ised that no attempt to prepare) Om plans for the hotel should be made| fl 118 Tatil after this lease ts effected, for | ABOUT PROJECT : the reason that a leasing company, The Dextor Horton National bank from Its experience, will desire to| has been selected as the trustee for have the hotel constructed in the|the bond issue, The Seattle Title most modern and practical manner ‘Trust company has been selected that will be satisfactory to it. In) 3s the registrar for the stock of the} other words, we might go ahead and} corporation. The present officers ot} c ‘definitely ge | the Community Hotel Corporation Genatruct this hotel. or lof Seattle are Frank Waterhouse, now for its con- Side UPON Plane alaht prove entirely | Drexidest; C. J, Smith, vice preat- vow Sle to any hotel operating |@ent; M. F. Backus, treasurer, and eens with whom we might de; Christy Thomas, secretary. ‘The comp Present office of the corporation ts lease. ee 905 Arctic building. Telephone Main} 18 A SPECIALTY mn The responsible hotel operating] You will also find attached hereto companies in this country all have | letter that was sent to each stock Nery definite ideas of their own|holder and bondholder in the Com regard the construction and ar-|™unity Hotel corporation a week et vaent f the hotels they take |®#0. These stockholders and hond-| and ‘ae have ascertained that | holders will be kept informed ot} : great or leas extent they all |¢verything that affects the interest | ee 4 jeular ideas in| f the hotel by similar letters which | «a ak oes re carried out. | will be mailed to them from time to ing Ae which ‘might be | ‘ime—at least once a month. i eneniy scstetaine to the Bowman A lease of the Metropolitan block, company in New York would not at/on which the hotel is to be con. all suit the Statler company or the | structed, has already been signed Cnited Hotels Corporation. by the Metropolitan Building com- Our first duty is to make @ satis | pany and the Community Hotel Cor- factory lease of this hotel to thoro poration of Seattle, The mortgage responsible parties and on such | @nd bonds are now being prepared. = will guarantee the pay-| The first payment, 10 per cent sub- t e the bse ‘and return of|#eriptions, became payable on Aug tee et Furthermore, Seattle |15. Altho a complete tabulation of - aagevenag ed to be operated in| the returns has not yet been made, }I am informed the call has met « 7 by exper. i thorty high case wey 07 | satisfactory response. fenced hotel operators so that it)" ie ig the intention of the directors | leg A oll gad ra to keep the bondholders and stock-| apes the bapes teat we Kove of | Dolders fully informed of every mat-| pearing Mt. Bo the question ter that affects their interest What architect we are to employ-| + shall be glad to furnish you, for| what class of building we are %9) Lubtication, any information you] construct, what the interior arrange: | Publcintin. ny iene to ime I ment of the same fs to be will Hoc, |shall be equally glad to receive any | garily have to be delayed until the) ciesestions from the press or from| question as to who is to lease and) 1.) bondholder or stockholder that operate the hotel has first been|1)) Tuy care to make. move. Yours very truly, ‘This should also be remembered, PRAWN. WATERHOUSE, that the making of plane for a Community Hote! Corporation, large modern hotel is & specialt President. If the hotel is to be a success, © Fe the most experienced hotel architect | should be employed. NORTHWEST PRODUCTS? ‘What materials are to be used —is the Pacific Northwest products fdea to be held uppermost?” ple > Bittmore hotels in operation tn several elt of the United States. However, decide to name waiting for the jconsummation of the lease. | STOCKHOLDERS’ MEETING | NOT LEGAL NOW | 4. What are the business detaliat” | T presume you mean who is tn charge of the Community Hotel cor-| [poration of Seattle at the present jtime, My answer ts, 25 directors | Who will serve until the first legal | meeting of stockholders can be held next December ‘The law of this state requires that) the first board of directors of a} Washington corporation ehall be selected when tt ts Incorporated, who mn) 7 the campaig® | snali constitute the boar&of din the directors hotel with may | the ut Vanderveer to Get | a Hearing in Court} Charged with disorderly conduct, | George Vanderveer, attorney for I W. W. and other organizations, was due to appear in police court Satur- | My answer to this is most |.) Vvanderveer was arrested after emphatically yes. Every pref: jo free-for-all fight at the Green ho-| erence will be given to the prod- [141 yourth ave. and Pike st., Friday, ucts of the Northwest and to |r cether with A. Hansen, Mike Smith | Seattle supplies and contractors (444 Mrs, Mike Smith. He said Han- | in constructing this hotel, pro viding, of course, that the qual- ity of work and material and price are competitive. NAME CONTINUES TO BE A PROBLEM “3, What name ts to be chosen?” This subject has been discussed | &t considerable length on easions by the board of directors No decision has been reached to date. A great many names have been puggested. Furthermore, it has been sug rested that the naming of this hotel should be left open until after a lease has been consummated, as the sen, his client, wanted money owed | and tn the argument Mra. Smith used a bot. | telling effect on the heads | nsen and himself. R. €. Hixen to Campaign for State Senate) Seeks | Nomination Succeed the Late T. D. Rockwell Raymond C. Hazen will candidate for sate senator from) 4th district on the republican ticket, to suc coed the late T. D. Rockwell, it] is announced Born in Ver mont, gradu ate of the Uni versity of Kan: say and the Uni versity of| Washington law school, and aft long resi dence in the city, first in} business and| then in the practice of law,| two ox to be a! | era | | ready { ecalds and Borns The tormenting, insistent pain of a | Rn burn or scald is quickly subdued by | Hazen declares | Resinul Ointment. Its cooling ingre- | welt well qualified to serve the} dients remove the inflammation, and | di t. He has never before been hasten the healing. Cover the burn |a candidate for public office. well with Resinol and bandage with | He soft gauze. In severe burns or scalds | pettor covering a large surface always send for a doctor. . Morea es himself in favor of| banking laws, for the repeal| of the poll tax, for economy in gov: | ment and for the equalization of burden of taxation. | Altho well over the draft age,| Hazen enlisted early in the war and | ail Aruggints, Move the liver and bowel MOVIES served in the alr nervice, He is a member of the Young Men's King Gently but thoroughly, Sold at all| County publican club and of drug stores 25c, or direct by Joyner|Ruinier Noble post, American Le Drug Co. Spokane.—Advertisement. | gion. ’ 12 BIG MIRRORS Me: peitze! What would you think of « young | woman who had epent several weeks" malary for 12 apecially designed pier mirrors? Lily Leiteel, serial gym nast egtraerdinary, with the Ring ling Brothers’ and Barnum & Batley cirous, has done this very thing, and yet ts not vain. Min Lettzel hae achieved fame by reason of her gracefulness, aa well aa ber daring. She says “A performer should gtve as much thought to the manner in which an | aot is presented as te given to the| thing dona, Like many profession ais, I had long practiced before a mirror, But I wan never certain that my evolutions at great heights were entirely Hike those which the ground rings. Then py thought. I purchased a sufficient number of big French mirrors to completely circie me. I then had my practice rope fixed high enourh so that I might watch myself in the inir rors while doing my giant half.) flanges, You have often heard it said that « looking- glass is a wom an’s best friend. Twelve such ‘friends’ are exactly a doxen times better.” Miss Leitze! is one of the many |atare to be ween here with the «reat double circus Tuesday and Wednes | day. Where, Oh, Where, Is That “Lucky” 13th? | Ade xang to the Liberty theater By James W. Egan And now I feel it co I'm about to reminisce. Or, a the vaudeville actor would yodel, “the next number will be that charming ballad entitled, ‘Mem- ories.’” The boys of the Dist division are letting her buck and putting dynamite in the river as of yore. Back to Camp Lewis they are going Sunday, just to see what fond recollection will present to view. I write the werd “fond” hesitatingly. Well, I'm going back Lewis, too. Via the printed . word But not with the Sint division, altho I was on hand when the Wild West aggregation was mustered in and mustered out. I hefird all about “Powder River,” believe me. However, there was another war time division at the big cantonment and it has not been celebrated in either song or story. The old 13th the unlucky division, Or lucky, If you prefer, Just as they were about to wal . wad ready to flock overseas the armistice | wan signed and the quarrel was off. 80 no screeds have been penned about the heroes of the 13th. Yet some of the best fighters in that man’s army were included tn the di vision. The only battle they ever fought was the stormy battle to get out of service, but sweet parent! How they did scrap from November 11 1918! I wonder where some of those doughty souls have scattered? Where is Clarence Burg, the champion blue printer of the uni- verse? And Harry Angus, who snored as well as the Duc de Tal- leyrand, Wl bet a banana? Or Johnny Stasser, who sang the blues from reveille to retreat? Then \Mr. and told them all he was going | to introduce ‘em to the chorus gals, and—Ob, I haven't the | heart to tell! No; the merry men of the 13th b |no Powder River and never wer lover the top in struggling | into line Saturdays to grab a bus Ta jcoma or Seattiewa except but they were | among those presen I don't see |how Camp Lewis could ever forget } ‘em | And I'm fairly positive none of them will ever, ever forget Camp Lewis | COOLIDGE TO GET PUGET SOUND FISH A Puget Sound salmon, packed in foe, will t t by express to Vice Preat Calvin Cc and wife as » their Washing their present trip to the Coast After Coolidge expreased inter est in Washington's fishing indus try, several salmon were brought to his hotel for his inspec and he was asked fish he would prefer to have on his dining table. |] ‘The Chamber of Commerce will send the Coolidge family one of the finest of this weight that can be obtained ’ Campbell to Be Buried in Old Home Funeral services for the late Mra Phoebe Campbell, wife of former State Senator J Campbell, will be held at Jerread’s funeral parlors, on, to select th size specim too, what has happened to | Everett, at 2 o'clock Sunday after Joey Rossbach, who was going to | noon | hire a bird to blow a whistle under | his window the day he got out, and then go down and kill him? “Red And Bartley, who talked and 4 in hig sleep, and was found on racks roof one cold December night? Ah, yes; and whither have gone | Capt, Nilan, always from Missourl and Col, Como, the king of the quar: | termasters, and—if I don’t stop now, I'll be running away! Those were the good old days, all right—good now, when they're gone! There was the cook in the 116th—I'm off again—who was accused of frying steaks tn fish oll, There was Dave Brainin, the astute tail yho pald some smart egg in the nasty city of Tacoma 14 berries for two quarts of clear, sparkling water, And I must not forget Maxine, the new recruit, who thought room order- lies could sleep all day, and thereupon was decorated with the order of the gobboon. Hach Friday the Hostess House was crammed at noon, Every guy who had any jack ate his lunch there and fooled the fish-serving mess set geants Hostess House meals tasted plenty good, too! I'll wager Harry McMa |hon, whom I met the other day, re. members them as well as I do. Who in the know will forget the night “Andy” Anderson brought the trustful depot brig- | Mrs. Campbell died at Providence | hospital Friday morning. Prior to coming to Seattle, she lived in Ever ett, where she was widely known. LONDON, Aug. 19—The musical critic of a London newspaper quotes Rachmaninoff, pianist and composer ag follows: “From the point of view of rhythm, jazz bands are invalu-| able | - ne | GENEVA, Switzerland—Hungary make# formal application for admis sion into membership of League of Nations, Application to acted jupon in September Thoroughness Characterizes our methods tn every transaction, and our cua- ers are accorded every cour- consist ness judgm t with sound busi- 4% Paid on Savings Accounts Accounts Subject to Check Are Cordially Invited Peoples Savings Bank SHOOND AVE. AND PIKID Sm. THE SEATTLE STAR FRANK WATERS “Some wagon,” says Frank Waters, of 1201 Sixth ave. easy to win a Dan Patch.” COASTER WAGON From The Star WITHOUT A CENT OF EXPENSE! Any Boy or Girl can own one of these dandy Coaster Wagons by securing ten new subscriptions to The Seattle Star “It sure ts ou Don’t Have to Pay One Cent of Money! Bearings, Rubber Tires and Koller Brake. Built just ke an auto. Follow These Instructions---Get Started Now SEE THE WAGON AT THE STAR OFFICE Here is your opportunity to secure one of these brand-new Coaster Wagons without one cent of expense. All you have to do is to get ten (10) new subscribers for The Seattle Star. You don’t have to collect any money, nor make the delivery of The Star. Just get ten (10) of your friends or neighbors who are not now having The Star delivered to them, to agree to have it delivered by authorized carrier for three (3) months and to pay him fifty (50) cents a month for it. Have subscribers sign subscrip- tion blank printed in this ad. Be sure and get phone numbers when possible, so that subscriptions may be verified at once. Do not wait until you have secured all ten of the subscriptions, but bring or phone subscribers’ names and addresses to The Star as soon as you get them so that delivery can be started at once. Use This Subscription Blank or Call at the Office and Receive a Book TO SUBSCRIBERS I hereby subscribe to The Seattle Star for a period of three months, and thereafter until I order same discontinued. I agree to pay the carrier at the rate of 50 cents a month. I AM NOT NOW HAVING THE STAR DELIVERED TO ME. ADDRESS NAME | PHONE NO. Taken by...... Circulation Dept. THE SEATTLE STAR 7th Ave., Near Union

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