The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 11, 1922, Page 4

PAGE 4 WZ THE SEATTLE STAR OPEN CROSSINGS ARE DANGEROUS Drivers Are Careless With Vision Clear Interesting facts regarding auto- Robdile accidents at railroad crossings f@re contained tn a recent article by George E. Sanford, general attornye for the California State Automobile @assoclation, published in a San Fran- Rewspaper. NEW FORD HOME FULLY EQUIPPED Ample Space Leaves Room for Development Pretiminary arrangements for the construction of the new home of the William QO, MeKay automobile firm, | rized Ford representatives, are | mplets, and actual construction is expected to begin soon. The building to be located at Westlake ave. an Roy at., will be erected by BE. FF. Sweeney, of the EB. F. Sweeney In auth leer of the Sunset K NEW BATTERY | -— SYSTEM USED Installation of a battery charging | rystem that reduces the time re quired for recharging @ rundown bat tery from the usual period of two to three days to eight hours, is an nounced b¢ Go *rentice, mann rio Co, 1607 Broadway ‘The device marks a clear aAavince watioc electric equip t, according to in modern who pronounces the time saver ax perfect in operation All danger of gassing, heating and) buckling of plates is eliminated thru the use of the constant potentiol IONUVNUENOUEAOOAEUAEAOUAEAOTEUAEOAEAEAEUAE AAU SATURDAY, NOVEMBFR 11, 1922. ST Announcement THE OPENING OF A NEW harger, Prentice claims ee SP a ee Statistios indicate that the masor- | vestment Co. are rentice claims, ad Fs Ry of automodile accidents at rail-| Anticipating future expansion of L So gead crossings occur at “open” cfoas- | business, the tenants will devote the —. . eome Png ; nage — " ngs where the motorist had @ clear main floor to display of models, the nothing to hi 'o' : : ps 17 basement to facilities for washing The men wore shipped in ear ‘Vision of the tracks upon approach | and greasing cara, the remaining April in ach ers much orap lier i for miles in either direction. There) goors to repair and storage apace. than the salmon barks, They were 4s just one reason for such a condi-| ne structure will measure 130 by manned by crews of about 14 who Hon, and that is the motorists’ lack | 108 feet, have three stories and base- were also the cod-fishors oe. and caution In the operation | ment, and be built of brick and terra BAILS TOO OLD i a © Senene cotta, TO STAND STRAT ‘The genera! doctrine of negtigence, The new agency will open tempo- “The boat waa airty and loaded THE UNIVERSAL CAR 1 Nee Oe rea ee eee ae, | Tertty at 801 E. Pine st with barrels so full that there was meee oe well at a railapad crossing 0s] Refore entering business for him- no place to walk,” said Evans, a @isewhere, but in the exercise of such care the driver must take into con- sideration the circumstances su Founding hts predicament, and the Measure of the reasonableness of his are, under the law, ts governed ac- eordingly. Tn a recent fedee@nl case the court | fm substance holds that the failure ef one about to cross @ railroad track self, McKay was manager for Wn- Kam L. Hughson company, a firm handling Lincoln and Ford cars and the Fordson tractor. Olds Production . Marks Shattered All post-war production records of | down-easter and experienced fisher man, “The bunks leaked and the bed clothes were wet in stormy weatuer, We lost @ foresall and « Jib because the salle were too old to e#tand the atratn. “I took the wheel but I got noth ing extra for that. We alao manned the pumps by hand. There were no | lamps or lanterns, and we had to SALES AND SERVICE AGENCY MONDAY, NOV. 13th ©) use due care deprives him of bed Olds Metor Works of Lansing, buy our own candies THRU, ULLAL LLL LLL LLL LLL LLL LLnL LL EL DS uch AT PINE AND SUMMIT lea Eis granhentety, sentrinesse (CRs were broken during October, Just —_ we shipped and ape cording to ouncement tod we were lying in San Francisco har : % : to the injury cde pl Page > 2g Net anggpemenor attr od bor off Bausalito, I saw the mate (TEMPORARY LOCATION) {ng the use of such watchfulness ana)°Y Guy Peasley, eneral sales |giving the fishermen moonshine. Precaution old coming Into dan- | ™*n4e«eer | | m . - : * et as Eee conke oe erétuary pen a Not only did the company break bbe, soayfeciamilitben: (nrg 4 aes would use were “he placed in| Postwar records and those of the | “He said: ‘I gotta keep ‘em par We are going to give you real service after we the same ciroumstances, and in view | DOOM Perind of 1020, but Oetober was sconh ac eben a - at c . alyzed to keep “em aboard e f the danger to be avoided. basset cede thease wancind “The men came abo drunk and ’ il you. Im another cane the court goes so far as to state that tt is the duty of @ traveler at a raifroad crossing to} @Ven assume a present danger which Might tnctude the tmmediate ap- of « train, and tt has also hold that « rattroad track ttsetf Should be taken as a warning of anger, imposing a duty on the mo- torists of using care to avpld a col- Bston, and the more obstructed the ‘wlew of the motorist ts the greater Bhowld be his caution tn approaching ‘the crossing. has had in tts 25 years of experience, with the aingie exception of one| month tm 1918, during the height of | the war boom. Skagit Power Not Later Than 1924 Power from the Skagit river hydro. electric project will be delivered to Seattle consumers not Jater than January 1, 1924. This is the assur ance given by J. D, Ross, superin William O. McKay On “Hell Ship” | they stayed drunk tll the ship got jout to sea.” | CHARG % CENTS |MBAL AS COBRCION At the camp in Pirates’ cove our da bit of a» | boss was a German bully, He tried to make us go out in any kind of weather, Lf we didn’t £0, the company charged us 60 cents a meal for board. If we quit, we |had to pay our own way home, of | course; #0 they sort of had un | “We got no fresh meat and we A complete stock of parts, tires and accessories for your convenience. We shall specialize in taking care of Lincoln owners, and ask an opportunity of demonstrating this wonderful car. jate montiy codfish, We had « good j cook and the.food might have been | | worse | “I would get up at 3:90, ent break | fast and go out to fish till 11. The | company promised me a power dory,| } wut I didn't get it and.t had to pull myself out and my load ia, if I! coulda’t get a tow, Then I'd throw my fish on the dock, ‘clean them tendent of the city Nght plant, who has just retumed froth the East, where he inspected $50,000 worth of machinery being constructed for the Skagit project Stern Investigates Codfish Plants Men Illy Treated Like the Others What the “American Plan” Did Poor Devils Unable to Get Away * * * * * #* * * * Max Stern, newspaper man, has writt@n for The Star and sister papers) ood drees them and wash them, and a vivid description of a trip he took on an Alaskan salmon ship. The! goary wait them. In the afternoon horrors of the “hell ships” are brought home in Stern's forceful style.) iq get time to keep my & Preceding chapters found him, a member of the “Chinese gang,” on his! eng do other Joba, Tt @ way North. The sea has been heavy, the food is unfit for humans and}i, « 14-hour and 1 averaged the days drag on in endless thisery, Throats are dry for lack of water, Alo yout $20 month. rock pigeon follows the ship and ts regarded as an omen of fll luck, But WORK BECAUSE the sign proved bad and the ship undertaker hed no luck. Stern discov a N ers he’s sick beeause vermin leave him. Bark st last reaches cannery.| THEY CAN'T LEAVE idtinnesnase dominated Alaska country and men are taken ashore. A sick pup is} “There are lots of fellows up there! times they would come in “nearly nursed but an aged Mexican is left te die. Hooms in bunkhouse so low) WhO couldn't get away, “They have | trosen and tired to death, the super- men can't stand up. Wretched outlook is despairing. Men finally get chance worked three months and most of intendent would try to drive them sc agp Seger ae wy renege here as aboard ship and men hd orth tote from se to $50.) out again and give them ‘hell.’ ” work extra to get leftover acies. Stern plans to escape. here's not @ man in the codfi arranges for getaway and leaves. After serving com ~ a he’ felds who wouldn't quit If he could. owes them $14.85. Finds he must work at another cannery 10 days te ity ‘iuon Worked his way to Seward arrival of mail ship, Is given @ seat at “white” table. Great waste of ®* & deck hand, His description of salmen is apparent. Finds labor contract evile general.—Edltor, the bunk house at Pirate's Cove brought up fresh memories of the BY MAX STERN “Hotel St. Francia” up on the Nush Thin chapter ‘has nothing to do; work the season for nothing agak | with salmon. It Geais with the pries| If we are to believe the stortes| “The roof had partly caved tn/ of codfinh, and it ts told by a halt |f these striking codfishers, men in| and leaked,” he sald. “There wasn't king cod fishermen, who |1222 Were put on the same craft, /any shower and no bathtub, One desen striking nod at oman ang (Died with Mquor and ment t= ttsaa| day the cook refused to cook two boarded the mal : at Unga fh |t@ troll cod for 69 cents a day and barrels of salt horse the company Pirates’ Cove wit! Just enough | doard. jhad given him, money to get to posers ny Mteerne® | oA man aimply can't make « ity.) “The nearest doctor was 75 miles ‘They were all white “some d on ae ing in the cod fields this at|*WRy, and we hed to buy our own of apperent integrity By ie, {the price the ‘trust’ is paying,” the moedictne A man got his heel gence, and they were all sore, J man declared. jerushed and he lay for two days couraged and tho after two! The price paid the men this year | before the company took him to the months’ vain endeavor to make @ | wag g quarter of a cent a pound, or | doctor. T weren't any schools living Ip the cod fisheries in the em |g: ton, For this they had to man |! the district, but the Alaskan gov. . PHILADELPHIA.—Jeweis valued Bt $10,000 and new maid, engaged disappear from home of Mrs. 8. G. Morton Maule. | ANNOUNCEMENT 8 HOURS’ CHARGING BY CONSTANT POTENTIAL CHARGING SYSTEM Through the installation of the latest equipment we are now in a position to recharge batteries in 8 hours. This means fast battery service, elimination of gassing, heating and buckling of plates during the SUNSET ELECTRIC CO. 1507 Beoadway East 0160 Sunset Service Station, 4th and Stewart WM. O. McKAY CO. Pine at Summit UNTILL OUR NEW BUILDING AT WESTLAKE AND ROY IS COMPLETED : Call Us at East 0785 VAUOUAONOGAUOUOOLOUAUERUUUEUUORUOOAEERAGUOALEOONUOGEOROOUOATUOUGOUAEUAAULOUOUASEUAEUOEEUHEELUOAAAA A INVTAOUUQUOHEUHURUARENEEAUARUEEUGUUAEEAUEAEUEUAVUAUUAVAEOAUORERAGREEEUAVUAN EEE AAAS HUUTAYEUGUOAVELAUOUUSOGTEUAAEAGOOOEEAOU ASU (NM & quarter of a cent a pound? The company gets it dressed, cleaned, salted and ready to ship| Alaska brings in San Francisco for $5 a ton wholesale 8 cents a pound or $160 ‘The freight ts little, for the fish|a ton! fo back tn the company's own sail ing vessels, { And codfish tn the shape ft leaves | [ If there ts good money in salmon |what must there be in codfish at (More Monday) s Buy a Yord- and Spend the difference ploy of the “cod fish trust” of the |f).” schooner going up, catch tha|erhment collected $5 school tax from a ( j Pacific fiah, clean it, wash it and malt it, | 4." ALSIU. TS OFA In the old | whole work. o taore ‘dangerous! A. hn Semel: dee Teens wert = f. were drugmed, than thé salmon seiners, for the ood {®t Unga. Ho had a wife and baby M shanghal days men shipped on dirty , STORAGE BATTE CHINESE DpocToR Nature Chinese Herbs Remedie: M. Hee Wo Medicine Co. 208 James St. Cor. 20a Seattle. Main 2196 Boat Sched ules: =SAVE MONEY= Travel by steamer TACOMA 7.0, 12 A. M., 1, &7,9Pr. 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Don’t miss America’s foremost dramatic star HOLMES | Divorced by Mbert Parker. Adaped Row William Gillette's seage pley Sounded om Sie Coman Don’t miss it when it comes! fisheries to sriymore SHERLOCK hunters qvust go out alone tn little dories in all sorts of waters and weathers, and pull their heavy catch |up alone into « loaded smal! boat And their workday ja often 15 hours long and more, | “AMERICAN PLAN” |18 FQLLOWED “And,” said these men, “the cod. fishers this year are not averaging more than 600 to 76e @ day at the | present price.” The men are hired in Ran Fran. jelsco, Thin year the “trust” broke |the union and hired under the “American plan,” and they are out fitted under much the same condi- ‘tons’ as we had been by an out. fitter In Bast st. known as “Pinky.” The prices, the men sald, were wartime prices and tim goods in ferior. They had been given orders on these stores by the company when they were hired. Rubber boots, for instance, that could have been |bought at an army goods store at $4 @ pair, cost the men $10 @ pair, they sata, COMPANIES UNITED NOW CALLED TRUST ‘The “truck system” operated at the aaltery also, where poor the store got considerable of | their earnings back in sales to them. There are two ond stations, one at Unga run by the Alaska Codfish Co., and one at Pirates’ "Cove run by the Union Fish Co, Recently the latter company absorbed the for- mer and togethey they are known ax the “codfish trust.” The trust operates 21 out of the 36 schooners in the Pacific codfish fleet, A Swede, by the name of John iberg, was second high man at Cove, and after spending $70 for hig outfit and at the store, }he had earned only $26.30 in two months, the men said REALIZED $44.50 IN TWO MONTHS A Yankee named 5. 8 Evans helped man one of the San Francisco schooners, He worked at that and at fishing from April 19 to June 24 and made $44.50, and out of that he |epent $10.40 et the company store in Alaska A named Carl Wilnon fished for days and made $35, ‘They told of others who, after three months, still owe $40 and $60, and the com-| pany ran @ store, and the food being | | he was leaving in Alaska, hoping to send for them when he got a job. (MAN WITH FAMILY LUCKLESS “Conditions aré rotten at Unga The bunk houses were lousy and the food poor. If you live tn a aback inatead of tn the bunk houses, the company charges you for coal at $2 4 sack, Had to buy our own | Mattremses at $4 apiece. The com. | Dany has us good and fixed. If we try to fish for° ourselves, we can't |buy gasoline of coal from their store, and the other stores don't sell those things, The company pay us in paper, and the other stores won't cash it or take it in | trade, “A man with a family tn out of luck. Last year we averaged only $80 for the whole season, which shut down after six weeks, “A man just about works for | Rothing in the codfisheries this year, because the little he gets about fen back to the company or to the outfitter.” Another married Man said he had had to work for 20 hours at a | stretch to make both ends meet, | He had spent $50.45 between June 3 and June 18 for himself and family |—-$100 4 month and would have had to catch a ton of cod a day to | break even, an impossible record to |keep up. He #aid that when some- Take Fast Steamors at Colman Dock REGULAR SCHEDULE Leave Seattle Daily 115, #9:00, 1 . Mm, 1:45, 815, 6:15 p.m, j tiacept Bunday.” | SPECIALNIGHT SERVICE rom Seattle to |") Saturday and Sun p m.; Wednesday, Friday, Satur- Gay and Sunday, 11:80 p.m. AUTOMOBILE FERRY Seattle to Hremetton Dally 11:80 a. m, 3:16 p. trip Sat. & Sun or Pare 800 Round Trip Navy Yard Route Colman Dock Main 300% ‘ COYLE & WOODRUFF, Inc. 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