The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 18, 1924, Page 13

SEC eo } . me [ GOT FIRST DOLLAR AT TEN ] * Beans US aid So's VAM The Kentucky tobacco fields gave Port Commissioner || George B. Lamping his “first dollar,” but he got his real |) start in Seattle, —Photo by Price & Carter, Star Staff Phot: hers George Lamping’s Real Start Came in Seattle (Editor’s Note: This fs third of a series of sketches by prominent Seattle people who, co-operating with the Thnift week movement, will tell thru The Star how they mado their first dollar). BY GEORGE B. LAMPING Seattle Port Commission. _ It was back In the tobacto fields of Kentucky that I earned my first dollar, I was only a little shaver then, 10 or 11 years old, but I put | © in my time and received the highly remunerative sum of two-bits an hour for my efforts, Planting tobacco is hard work. ‘The constant bending down and straightening up wore out many a man, and I can say that It certainly made me kind of weak in the limbs. ‘That first dollar gave me as much pain and pleasure as any money which’ I have earned since. My first really big money was made on the very first day when I arrived in Seattle. It was the day after the great 1889 fire and alk Se attle was in a chaotic condition. In- spired by an idea, I ran for the newspaper offices and bought all the papers which T had money for. My first customer gave me 69 cents, and when I offered ‘him his change he looked at me quizzically | and smiled away the offered money. Nothing loath, I pocketed the extra profit and profited by example, 1| ! made $8 that day and continued pull tn the dollars for a long w jafter, YOUNGS TUNNEL JOB IS ILLEGAL Kennedy Settles Fight of Rival Contractors | “A. scrap between two city con btra over a fulcy contr pth truction of the Lake " 0 water works tunnel, re- hursday in both losing out , tact for the work had been let to the Jahn & Bros: for $1,210,795, . butt check was a few hun under the legal require: & Brennan put in a bid $17 higher, The Jahn & Breas! bid was accepted, Goetz & Brennan claimed It was disqualified because the check accompanying the bid did not meet legal requirements. An injunction was obtained to/ forbid the board of public. works awarding the contract to Jahn & Bressl. The entire matter was re- ferred to Kennedy who ruled St l- legal. | The board of works had failed to obtain authorization of the con- tract by city council ordinance and ||} no appropriation was provided to pay for !t. Kennedy ruled the en- tire project must be wfped out and/|{/ the whole process gone thru again||) in a legal manner, Jap Navy Hampered by | Quake Damage on Shore | Fifty Million Dollars Now Is Estimate of. Losses to Arsenals and Yards TOKYO, Jan. 18—The Japanese navy {ts staging a $50,000,000 come- back—but the time that will be re-| quired for that comeback is not known. To a layman’s eye the Japanese navy seems about as good as it was before the earthquake, so far as ships are concerned. For fighting ships, afloat in the water, were not destroyed, or even damaged to any extent. The damage was done on land—to arsenals, machine plants, stores and supplies—all the equipment for mak- ing and maintaining the floating for- tresses. Naval officers say all this shore damage can be repaired and replaced for 100,000,000 yen ($50,000,- nwhile, until those repairs and ments are made, the fighting t sea is weakened by not hav- ing the usual supply backing from ashore. Officials here now minimize the y the fleets are y weakened for combat pur- But there is a technicality, for fighting ships on the sea must have ofl, shells, guns, replacements, supplies—and the shops and stations ashore that supp! those things were for the most part destroyed. NAVY HIT IN EXCESS FL ns J observation, to the and conversations authorities, It seems ly in excess ares, But money can put the navy hat is, stores of shed, arsenals, machine is, ete, at the or not the pi spending the money is yet to be seen —altho the chances are that they will, | A group of forelgn correspondents '}) | were permitted by the naval authori ties to make an inspection of Yoko- suka recently. This was thé great naval base 20 miles south of Yoko: destroyed. Vast quantities of sup- piles, including 70,000 tons of oil, || were burned. Half a dozen machine shops and the electric plant are hama. It was almost completely | about all that remains. | east | COMMANDANT | | Frederick C. 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