The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 7, 1922, Page 2

PAGE 2 FARRAR SEAT SALE MONDAY, Musical Club Y Anticipates | Capacity Audience to Work An event of more than ordinary lo- cal interest is the appearance tn con a cort of Monday evening, Ost.16,0f/ tem In Vogue Geraldine Farrar, the celebrated ot prima donna soprano, at the Arene. | > THis rimer ‘The seat sale for the Farrar concert “ax, ome opens at 10 o'clock on Monday morn moonshine, York she reigns like a queen among | Pebenee: ive buye Uberally at her admirera not the least of whom are the thétisands of young people, | known as the “gerry-flappers,” who crowd and cheer her every perform: | ance. Her triumphs in the opera houses of Europe and at the! 2 siven me the key to unlock Metropolitan have made her @ world | a0. oe an Alaska salmon job aM and her mame & household | oe name sort of a key that we Tt nel ei tes pera that |!ocka many doors in America. der art charme maltttaden for she | *02 & silver key: has won an equal measure of success as @ concert winger. Her programs, are unconventional, with an appeal to all cianses of music lovers, Assist. | ° ing Miss Farrar on the Joseph Malkin, a cellist of Interna tlonal reputation; Henry Weldon. basso, and Clande Gotthelf, accom: Reporter Signs Up With Store Firm | Rut I had been turned down ones | | horee employment agencies, almost | deserted because of the lack of jobs THE SEATTI THE PRICE OF ALMON in Alaska for Chinese Boss} tu w au So. ‘The | out of Mam Francisce, He learns that ing, at Sherman, Cay & Co. ot of 8 meg fee mg | Ladies! Musical club, under whose | mmvnn & TOUNO! euttiivers Ieented “ nusploas the celebrated primadonna| the boundary between San Francisce le a Lied appears in Seattle, anticipates a ca- pg d oad Metle ih 4 soot peoity aucieien down at the offlees of the seinen zi Among American Singers, G6fal-) canning compactes, but an old man, ars dine Farrar.gtands gupreme, In New| made the ed the It | un | It} of Fox Hunt Staged | were all that were lacking @aturday invited Gua Koudsen, director of the boat Army Workers to company, pany of Detroit, Mich; D. C, Kellar, president of the Bow company, op E Aboard a Steamer Ned couta and & pack of hounds make an Old-fashioned fox hunt but she did ke the ¢ Senators W. B. rm. Bo Skipper John te of those Oddie, Nevada—thia is the | ‘oodjand park £00, to et of national and catch Bonnie. coeantul he can keep her. visit the If he's Hold Conference Salvation Army workers will holt o annual conference of the Wash ton division in Beattle, October 11 16. The meetings will be conduct by Commissioner and Mrs, Adam headquarters resting since the “primary will resume his e&mpaign Gifford, Western state territorial lead. |!!! the last week of the race. ore, aaaisted by Col, and Mrs. J. B.| Hin democratic opponent, former Taylor, Representatives from prac Congressman C. C. Di, ta due tn By Max Stern tienlly every etate corps will be in| Seattle Monday, and plana to re great | B rickety tittle white man had | ttendance. |main in this vieinity for the rest of - the campaign. His program GUESTS OF THE Partet! Drug| KE. WW. Nelsons president |“ the Nelson-Baker Drug com | 4 | by Meyer, and T could think of no erators of 2% drug stores in ‘Cin | way to invere the key. What I need Sanat: Ie Gites, presiaent ot) WILL LECTURE! was a pull. asian wal — Bn re Bd company of! Dr. James G. Greggerson, doctor | | As 1 was walking joward | ington, D, ©, four ere | at. again, I passed several little one Stout, president ‘of Stout-Lyons| wilt viait Seattle during October, de Drug company of Portland, Ore.,| jivering three public lectures at the are visiting the pointe of interest) Masonic temple under the auspices! BIG GUNS OUT FOR POINDEXTER Borah, Idaho; Hackiang |Cameron, Arizona, and Tasker L. | Senator Poindexter, who has been staying in Bastern Washington un Arranged on the basis of six speeches CHIROPRACTOR fon file. A sudden whim made me the vicinity of Beattie Baturday./of the Seattle Chiropractors’ asso aboard the schooner © Holmes, | aa |setkeday, Monnla. a visenyas\Imposing List Billed as Mediaeval Con-] ‘ws! en theta a’, “| Campaign Speakers tract Labor Sys- Fare tle aides Laken Ribtinn | _ Secretary ¢ Labor 31d: Bayle use| Ralph | mpowing figures who will come to thin state in the next few | weeks to campaign for Senator Miles | | Potndexter’s reelection. Bfforta to) |permuade other high officials hav been abandoned, it i# announced by \Moward Rice, the nenator’s secre | tary, who ta in charge of his Seattle } | | , election, Monday, is being that at for tere ike MO PHONE FIGHT} Reorganization of Fighting Ford Night in Fora would manutacty | Beattie and Ballard fortilizer at Muscle Shoals; he |! ternat Order of Rastee teal would cheapen its price Greased” ai Regia “Sy therefore the fertilizer trust by Judge Thomas Fi Aoey not want him there Kansas City, Mo He would make nitrates oun therefore the powder trust ts Other | eeeakers “aan White, president of the opposing him ton eerie; Malcolm I a He might be found in compe | 10 | : ent of Seattle nerte; AL woe tition with the eluminurm trust oe lly ge Brey W. Ret therefore the beneficiaries of || “ek worthy chaplain, heretare the Ser Mayor E. J. Brown, ant at Muscle Shoals. enterprises without paying toll to Wall Street usurers—there. ste of the country would one extra process to throttle him—Rep. whioh giv Huddleston (D.) Ala esa SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1999, Eagles Have Connel, of monopoty 4o not want bh a IT’S TOASTED je would finance his own the powerful financial tn dellolous flavor BILIZE FOR | | the forces of SS ,ASRTESESES OTe = (|| fleattle, Bpokane fd Tacoma lined Wed up against the phone rate increase ao anked by the Vacific Telephone &| "4 Telegraph company, in order to} it meet the rate fight now centered on SF these cities, was ander way fat oe urday. oe) Statewide publie —nentiment against the original tariff, which Pe called for phone rate increases Ruth nd Clifford! of chiropractic of Davenport, lows,|thruout Washington, is believed re] | sponsible for the action of the com He pany in abandoning their efforts in} ofp rural districts and al! cities with ding the exception of the three named} ip 5 | Young People to | poets | ag | in pantst, cualie inne lke ao thal. _ ——~ | ciation, it was announced today ae ee eee ta cetokimodate the} “I Want to go to Alnska,” T told a to white sub-contractor, and him-| Dr. Cireggerson tw one of the fore aT thousands of people to whom the | *tout. overdressed man who er self retired into the Ko background. | most national chiropractic authort } ‘visit of the prima donna means the | fom the rear Hence the firm of Meyer & Young. | ties, The Seattie association has Hd realization of A greatly anticipated | He told me to try the Alaska Pack: | ‘The Chinese contractors of the | acheduled the lectures ae follown:| i: opportunity. After spending the | ¢r#’ association. [ told him I had} salmon industry have made and are| October 19, 20 and fi, at the Ma force, vitality of one of Ite own. { ling Co., Alaska Outfitters, Gents’ land the same coolien went in the | three to one. is [Furnishing Department.” |holdy of the salmon fleet year after| But the new workers didn't work! ah a pees Dory $0: ba year. I met one Chinaman who had | for tha Chinese boss as well as the Hi at «fi ‘a gured that the articles must |been to Alaska each season for 20,014 ones. The Oceident ; Strike ONS -Pre-, fire exceptionally good. 1 was going | yearn |iah rich, ten and Naveed. teat vett vail. 4 jority rights to a rigorous climate and on a cold pow mH “belly strikes and mutinies en-| protected for quali- trip, and needed clothing and Covers SY#TEM WORKS OUT |livened the trips to Alaska, At one ; jof the best and heaviest variety | A Chinaman tg a good business |cannery, it beeame necessary one ment. ‘ 15. Tt was ble . 500N t APPLY | My bill totaled $62.75. worked out the Chinese contract sys GOON DIP OF SEATTLE | i it W. H. OLIN for a summer Job that would net me tem, which functioned something like | LABOR CONTRACTOR a si 4 - H. only $170 at mont, but I needed every: | this a It was not only the food that Jed In Working for the Railroad ‘, 204 O-W. Passenge? Station thing I had ordered and more, too.| Mr. Smith, superintendent of one | to dissatinfaction, The idea of being ~ WM. CARRUTHERS I had many of the yay od es —_ jof the Alaska packers’ canneries | hired to work by and for a Chinese ‘ list and had I teen a bona fide down- | would, in the early spring, send out | boss didn't appeal to the Americar 106 South Tenth Street jand-outer I would have needed many |word that he wanted bids on his| Inatead of giving up the eyatem, » (| 987 Comedy with Beauty Chorus | whole of the summer preparing for this, her first transcontinental tn eight years, Miss Farrar brings | . charm amd radiant |! remarked. 3 health as an accompaiment to the; money I'd be glad to spend en an! on bere boards in a chilly Alaska spring. beauty of voice and person that have | outfit fied men regardless of any strike settle- Seattle wanted it— now we’ve GOT it!! “aroline,” to be shown until the Wednesday. Also a complete pic ture program. para & California and ADMISSION and failed to get @ job. “rd be willing to go Chines gang, if they'd hire a white man,” “I've got @ tour} with anybody who'd heip and her audience, and the latter re jaaid briskly, and retired to a phon? went as high as $100 ciprocate thig sentiment on the part in the rear. From Young's tatlor shop upstairs | 1 heart him call up Youngs. Me|! was measured for a pair of corda said something about a friend who| roy trousers, which he said he would |wanted to go to Alaska. Then his try to have ready for me and for | volce dropped and I could not heat) which he charged me $14. lene rest. My adopted name was Frank ls PULL. Costs Steinert, but Meyer & Young had |ONE $2 BILL meena me up as a Mexidlln to get me by. sana te ie note ep. Peano |, Nas aswured of « Job tn Alaska He hariied it to mo with instruc: /fOr the summer. tions to #e¢ Young. He charged HIS BOSS 1S RICH, of the firm of Mitchell & Co, 1 had my pull, only $2, 1 recrossed Market et. to China town. At the store I handed the letter to Young. It acted lke magic. He nodded toward the fat Mexican behind the glass show Tt had Com me) wimon packers. Neither was I work ing for the firm of Meyer & Young. I had hired out to a mysterious and wealthy Chinaman. i did not know my boss. In the entire trip I did not once hear bia But, here wae I, a white man and an American, in the direct em Gre as widely different from ours as day i» from night. I was part of one of the strangest [wae an unnecessary precau- tion. Not once in the entire trip|and most un-American Institutions |wae I asked where I lived: nor to}that stil! survive to mock our de jstve tho name of anyone to notify|mocracy—the Chinese contract mye in case of illness or death. jtem of the Alaskan fisheries, But 1 was given a number, which | In the gold ruth days of Califor. 1 bore like a convict all thruout the }"!& the cheap labar of the foothill season. It was 514 [placer campe was all done by Chi ‘While I was ordering, Meyer came |Pfs¢ coolies. When fn the "70's the in. He looked suspiciously at me and | first salmon canneries were opened muttered something to Young. But | the Saeramento river, Young assured tim that I was “a /Patural thing that the labor should friend of Mr. Mitchell” and it was %* dome by Chinese, The “Chinks M right.” were good fishermen and they were T remembered what the rickety little |ROOd workers, More salmon canneries were put 4 man had told me about buying | heavily, but having_oniy a few dol (°° the Sacramento river and the fish jlars I ‘suggested that 1 come back | 0" gave out. The industry moved Hater to buy the outfit. jto the Columbia river and Puget lPINDS HIS | Sound. Then it pushed on to Alaska in The first happy hunting ground {CREDIT 18 FIRST CLA’ Was southeastern Alaska, then cen- | ‘The Mextean reassured me that | tral Alaska, and now ft in Bristol bay the money for the outfit would come jana the rivers that feed it with ite jout of my wages and I didn’t need! untold millions of fish. In ¢ach ithe cash. hegira of the pioneer canners, the | The slip was in the form of &/ Chinese worker went along to do the printed bill. | 1 asked the Mexican where the) things were. 1 thought I'd like to see jthem before TI bought man, but he ts also a good man to do business with. The white owners found it easter to have a Chinese assured me. “No gottem here.” than to do it themselves. They Wo and Hat whose business |more things, to keep me in comfort. |cheap labor. Wong | Later, I learned that my bill was not | ging and Tau Lou} TOMORROW MUSICAL COMEDY, with tts fun, melody, youth, color and life, con ceded to be the most popular form of stoge amusement, will feature - Howland’s the new policy of the OLYMPIC Pos omg Rn A ain THEATRE, Madison at Second fon 2 (formerly the Oak), and starting Musical TOMORROW, the Howland Cor pany, direct from Calffornia tri umphs, will be seen in the best of the light operas and musical com adies, The company will present Revue two productions weekly, with «# INTERNATIONAL NEWS daily matinee and two evening per Doings of the Wo formances. The popular operetta, 10c «4 20c Events—Fable— rotate Also Vitagraph’s Doors eee, OPEN Romance of the South Seas OPEN Last Times— AE LPM. “ISLAND Wives” ATIP.M. ‘The Romance of aTenementHeroine an) "* {ammersteiny in LS a The stuff with which Meyer & Young's mattresses are ute) made forms lumps and skide about—not an ideal bed to lay | Chinatown in thelr limousines jany other duty incorporated firm of | ploy of one of a race whose stand. | ards of living and whose social ideals | it wan a} MONDAY TUESDAY SEATTLE WEDNESDAY SHOWING Son ty MYRA KELLY Direction JACK FOBL Here's Max Stern ttresa, | Chinatown and make for the offices lot the superintendent. He wanted the labor, on, say, 45,000 cases of salmon | The Orientals would submit bide Tsu Loul would do the work for fe & cane, His bid was lowest and he got the contract. Henceforth all the worry of hiring workers fell on hin shoulders, He not only hired his jmen, but be fed them, and paid them otf. The only responsibility the superintendent had was to furnish As long ax the “Chinese bons” hitred only Chinese help the system proved | fairly watiafactory, The coolies ate Hlittle, Plenty of tea and rice and & le fish and seaweed sufficed to | keep them in working order, At leeat | there were no strikes, | problem, and congress passed |Chinese exclusion act. The coolies began to thin owt, and other labor had to be sought. Negroes, whites, {Filipinos and finally Mex! were faken to fill’ in the ranks the aging and dying Chinese veterans. With new canneries springing up jeach year, the supply of yellow labor began to dwindle rapidly. But the contract aystem persisted, FEW JAP CREWS {ON PUGET SOUND | Japanese were tried, but they failed utterly to get along with the | Chinewe bors and the Chinese work ors, In San Franciaco no Japancee | laborers have been hired for several lyeare. In the Puget Sound region and In southeastern Alaska « sum. fder of crews are all Japanese. But these work for a Japanese bom. The dwindling of the Chinese labor is shown by figures for 1920, There were 27,482 work employed in | Alaskan fisheries, out of | 16.062 were whites; 3,733 natives; {2,369 Chinese; 1,446 Japanese; 1,687 | Filipinos; 1,679 Mextoans; 207 negroce land 310 mincetianeous workers. | In wentern Alaska or the Beistot bay region, where the newest de velopments, bave taken place, there t On the head was the mucking and grilling work in the| were 1.227 Mxicans to 691 Chinese.| jfirm'’s name, “The 8. Young Taflor- | canneries. They became specialized, | This year the proportion was nearer, | $year for the U. 8 marshal to step tn jand order the Chinese bosn to feed | his tew workers suitable food, under | “We send ‘em to you on boat,” he | boas attend to the hiring of cooties | threat of calling In the revenue cut-| j ter | ruse was resorted to. | Tsu Loul let it the business of hiring his labor “Right Off the Reel ALL THE TIME “The Way of n Maid” wtill making hundreds of thousands) sonic temple, & p. m. of dollars, Many of them have be. | ra come millionaires, and ride about In Seattle, Goon Dip, the Chinese consul general, is an Alaskan labor | Build a New Their work has been purely perasitt | eal, and their road to prosperity has than normal, [been jand I's merely en death. But no step tn the salm jhaa, I am now convinced, |meore destructive to American labor the lakes from rushing ideale than this latest one. Sound if the locks should | I was to learn next day just how |open by mergency [much new suffering had been added to the burdens of the salmon work jor by the introduction of a second|James A. Murray, mining [master and j PURITY ll 1 in Tea “To Taste is to Believe” MOORE |Lakes Lowered to Dam holding up his translucent ma ogg endeared her to the public of this)me sign up," T jingled reveral dol-| 9 up contractor. ou ln Deae ee trata that Lake Vas wale wen aie oe ge ton $ ber go igs aglow Bored Bet itracting for Chinese labor,! 1.) in the land of their adoption. |up if you happen to notice next week She loves her work, its difficulties; “I'll see what I can do.” he\ ranged from $20 to $40, but some | would leave their luxurious homes im! ¥ | that they're about six inches lower that the paved with suffering, privation (wo lakes will be lowered to permit construction of an emergency dam industry |east of the government locks. Thin proved is being done to keep the waters of into the be kept SALINAS, Cal. -- Four cousins of man of middleman into the relations between |#an Francisco and Butte, Mont. who! ldied May 21, leaving entate valued | Were asked of C. W. Strother, Several bundred young people of to hear that famous ‘the King County Sunday School es-\Mf of Portiand, lmociation are expected to attend | | qot-together meeting which is sched. | | ulead for Friday evening, October 20. jat the ¥. W, C. A. A report of the Older Girls’ conference held at Den- TLADA" Is the Essence of all That is Best R. & H.C. Cook, East 3383, Eliott 0350, Distributors M ver, Colo, will be given by Mise) Ruby McDonald, who represented| the Western shington saseocia- jtion there last summer, Fotlowing| | the business meeting a banquet and octal Griffths-Douglas | Decision Held Up AGAS his claim that affidavits of preju:| dice a ments TER - MAN nem quarters tn thy a hold of me $2, a fee for “furnishing cor-|/MESTERIOUS CHINAMAN ae icin cen lng at between $15,000,000 and $20,000, | torney rect Information to secure employ-| But 1 wasn't working for the Next installment: The ancient [000, file sult for onetenth each of | fiths, = | Alaska Packers’ axtociation, nor tor | There was no signed agreement. |~ 11, we sailed in pee judge, ment. iS ra The Chinese boss’ word was suf ; lisesi My informant wae R. 8. Mitchen|"MUusry” Petersen, nor for the ean lati ls tate | Alaska Salmon company, nor for | ficient Olympia, Friday, to show cause to wh under judge, by Prosecutor Malcolm Douglas. eet at Y. M.C. A. This is your one seesion will be held. Se Pees es cee 4 tional authorities to support) re not applicable to arraign. and preliminary hearings, | for Judge Austin E. Grif.) King county superior court) when he appeared before supreme court judges at) y he ¢id not transfer cases) his jurtediction to another when requested to do so which | JOHN and NELLIE OLMS The Watch Wizards ROXY LA ROCCA Harpist from the London Music Halls FABER and McGOWAN In “THE COMPAS” GLENN and JENKINS 3:25 Marion Morgan Dancers In a New Dance Drama in Prologue and ‘Three Scenes ith Josephine Mclzan and Charles Havelin ~ BELLE MONTROSE “HER ONLY CHANCE” WILSON AUBREY TRIO Comedy Gymnasts THE PAT! WEEK COMMENCING OCTOBER 22 The Greatest Event in Epoch Making History of the Orpheum Circuit THIRD OF A CENTURY You are cordially invited to participate in this bistorical ey: —NO ADVANCE IN PRICES— ANNIVERSARY WEEK 7 L am L 17 THE FUNNIEST FARCE COMEDY IN YEARS— "LOVE IS AN AWFUL THI With That Famous Star of “REPORTED MISSING” MARJORIE DAW and an All-Star Cast of Players, IT’S CLEAN IT’S WHOLESOME IT’S ENJOYABLE . IT’S HYSTERICALLY FOR SEVEN BIG MATS. (WEEK DAYS). EVES (and SUNDAYS).