The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 2, 1925, Page 7

WEDNESDAY NEW TAX SAVING Budget Trimmed $249,780 at Tuesday’s Hearing NEW PARK CUTS PENDING | Tax Increase Reduced to Six Mills by Act aty t healt? 1 sanita ce, 3 parks, k, $1 publ $ were f and , m . for be essions will ade T " $ 1M K mone * remaining in two br a fund: MANAGER PLAN OUT SOON Blaine Addresses League on City Economy out ¢ adapta suit to @ planned to » the voters at tection EL. xem he basis that it is of additiona alar to the police and fire- y $428,000 per ot be chan Oy the vote of the ¢ dared. “The garba Means an addition per month, on an average. Six ‘ioe Jobs Since ag Men Escaped | may, Ellsworth Willos excap Bert (“Oregon”) Jone illed mple questions the discharges Witnesses in Taxi - Murder Are Called mpWitnesses in PF Charies Fa 7 Lioyd 1. ne alleged murder able, taxi d Hudson, U. 8. 1 Bilor, were cajled Tuesday before the federal grand jury. Capt. F & Miner, 0 + Lawton; Detect ie us, and Ben Law of Anable, were Revelle and h ed many other in SEPTEMR COUNCIL MAKES) EI Marshall Menu Runs | Above Nine Cents Per | Meal; but No Wonder | ** TIM MARSHALL and his family can’t live on nine cents a day and eat according to his menus,” } ays a letter received by The Star Wednesday. Jim Marshall and his family are not attempting to live on nine cents a day, or nine cents a meal, They are merely keeping track of food expenditures for a week to discover what one meal costs one member of a Seattle family, \ recent Star contest gave the one-meal-one-per Son average as nine cents, This figure did not include fuel, time, labor, light or overhead—just the bare food cost | The Marshall family menus are being published every day this week. Tabulations will be published Saturday. The menus for Tuesday were: Breakfast: Sliced peaches and cream, cornflakes and cream, soft-boiled eggs, buttered toast, coffee. Lunch; Vegetable soup, lettuce and tomato salad, peach pie, bread and butter, coffee, milk, Dinner Salad, kippered salmon, potatoes, corn-on-the-cob, baked apples and cream, tea and milk. Rosy Future Awaiting Seattle in Promoting Trade With the Orient | rhe Star alwa has believed the the metropolis of th {tle was am Ant city, Ne politientt what he. oe « By H. F. Kretsehman HO wouldn't rather have a future than a past? With the past there are only dreams. With the future there are hopes—hopes that can be made realities with a little forethought and much hard work. Seattle’s commerce with the Orient exists for the future. | It has had a good past, and it has a fair present, but its future may well exceed the dreams of the most enthusiastic optimist. In that great land beyond the Pacific there are vast THE WOULD LIKE TO SEE HIM BACK IN LINEUP “Swat King” Gets Big Re- ception by Followers HUGGINS STILL SILENT And Babe Seems to Have Forgotten Defiant Attitude N' W YORK When M the same Sept. 2.—(By U. P) Hugei reaches frame of mind as New uted him at the ball pa Yankee-Boston willing to ¢ turing that wha game, has done they are get it will only go out and hit a fow ed that he Hugeina announce will Ruth when he talk to decides nd far from defi declarations that “Huggins or 1 will have to quit How cu Li 4 ports day CROSBY MAY PUT IN TERMINALS Vashon Residents Urge New Ferry Service areas of almost untouched territory—territory with a great! Ha petition before t wealth of raw material Properly developed that land can | °°” mare for: F send tons upon tons of cargo and millions of doflars worth | ,..,.., a a of imports streaming to and thru the Port of Seattle. M the majnlar Millions of people fill that territory in the Far East. | a W. Crosby of the They have not, as yet, learned the benefits of modern) “To*?y ‘iret fine, ma reached an economic stage where they have a large amount of buying power, But those millions form a vast potential mar which eventually will sorb millions of dollars worth of U. S. merchandise, all of which can and should be shipped thru this port. That is the rosy future awaiting Seattle's commerce with the Orient civilization; nor have they new, the the China | SDP agents would be of inéstimable , value promoting commerce be rthquakea fn Japan. Hut en the Far East and th sole purpose would be to| trade development 1 the | le America m at Peking, says. | 1 ies DEVELOPMENT Is Pen GREAT NEED—ARNOLD nt whone possibilities cannot . © with those of the Orient : COMMERCE SHOWS STEADY ADVANCE purck Economic % good bus 44 ev economi lores th Aigo Lost Sab dr a modern society t every effort to tat P t y ef , om , ng t nd t unter evolved a new and greater China need has been. completed, China and Siberia take their places par g the modern nations of the j its trade with the Orient. The trade porathilities to establish direct Ameri-| hidden in that land, now barren, ind the sec le develop: t right here but only waiting for the magician’s | wand to make a golden flood spring forth which will bring prosperity to tall.” “Many fail to realize the import a mereantile tm wi wa trade ae Tell Realtors of Tinbany are mont desirous of tll City Manager Plan! | with cargo bound It has come to our circulation to the effect business. We doubt that soever of All this for only $295.00, tonal quality. Ten-year Bole Representatives New Loeation attention that stories are in the general public that we have no intention what- going out of business (even now we negotiating for more floor spac tinue to sell dependable pianos for less. the limit of your budget. Montelius Music House 1609 Third Avenue } aw violations to| ing their ships James A. Haight, former presi: | will be contin-| for thelr own countries and for) dent of the Municipal league, will their own home ports. If Seattle Has the City Manager ———— a = Government Pre Its | Worth at the meeting of The} Seattle Real Estate Board to be jd ‘Thursday noon in rooms 403 405 Chamber of Commerce bldg. | Woody, former pr t of the hoard, will talk on the “Call fornia Real Estate License Law and | How It Work. STURT | f HERE’S MORE ABOUT “U” VISTA | STARTS ON PAGE ONE el ere 7 of the total cont will be not less} that we are going out of than $750,000, such stories have been cir- A reliable engineer informs us that the proposed vis lia for culated with malicious intent, »,, to injure, our readjustment of many streets and business. However, we do believe that we are jus- alleys already paved and paid for,| f ‘ " ‘ because of a new grade that must] tified in correcting any false impression that such bo established tales may have made by informing our friends and The vista plan will be dangerous to traffic at 10th ave It will not give a good the campus, as the architects e ), and we shall con- as there is to be a Meany hall with two wings end of this vista that will shut off the view | The real view of the university ts week we are offering dependable pianos obtained when one crosses the unt n versity bridge, It now is marred by These instruments have beautiful unsightly shacks and coal sheds. guarantee, Terms within With the widening of 40th st. these would be replaced by better homes and er business places, and we | would have a réal entrance to the university and a more economleal | one. We ask this, not as a fow din lgruntled home owners, but as 668 Mason & Hamlin Piano eiiously oppose this taxpayers who unnecessary expense to us and to exttn our cit Turrell shoe Co, (TH RUMONSTRANCE CLUB, D, O, Dean, Prenident J. G, Myers, Secretary, view of} reconstructed | at the} own terminals to give the Islan: additional transportat Paul sion * motion to grant the perm: Commins en in his jeterm| anything which the county's own ferry comy line to the liam Brown was piece HERE'S MORE ABOUT COAL STARTS ON PAGE 1 tects the Washing and a price ton producers, maintain regulated only by the p } can be mined and canno’ dd, reduc must be sought cartage In coal elsewhere zone charge system in tle during the tration, and has built up a topheavy augurated in Sei by the fuel admin in effect, }and expensive distribution system | that offers the only avenue of at tack on high prices ) UNUSUALLY HIGH | CARTAGE COST i} is r this system the cartage charge is added to a first profit placed upon the coal at the bunker and the charge is made arbitrarily without reference to the length of ed in delivery. In the residential districts the charge is so | high—averaging around $2 that neighborhood dealers, attract | by cartage profits, haye increased in number until more than 900 are now engaged in selling coal in Seattle, including the “snowbirds—men who do a purely trucking business from | bunker to bin during the | season. It ts merchandising the haul rea a ton rush coal contrary to the principles of that profits should be made on car of a commodity in the ors own trucks, It should be done at cost, since a legitimate profit already has been added. The remedy must be sought either in delivery on a length-of-haul \charge basis, culties, or In a flat quotation artage charges on a cost basis, AT CARTAG CHARGE IN I | ‘The latter plan is followed in many largo cities, notably Chicag {and Philadelphia, In Chieago, fe examplo, a flat cartage a ton is added to the bunker for delivery anywhere In Yards are located at points, bunched Jelussified by districts, and delivery by Jorge trucks is made from these points There good reason why such @ plan could not be work }ed out in Seattle, and its applica \tion here would probably result in Ja reduction In the price to laneseonwimor of. about Ay ddllar a lion, according to coal men | ‘There is at toast other lof attack that offers possibilities of la nub tantial reduction of coal costs to eattle consumers, This \ ‘aniva for frelght rate from other coal-producing centers the result in thelr coala belng in a competitive base with North weal coal, price strategic orders are appears no average tATTLE ST An which presenta diffi-pnation has been demanded by P: on | dent Coolidge and refused, will A}coal on a delivered basis, averaging | pat | accede to the rate of $1) s the city. ! was FREDERICK & NELSON DF opcciss a BUTTERICK PATTERNS { DOWNSTAIRS STOR ] SHOE joes Econeeny Prcee- § STORE | - REPAIR SHOP Girls’ One-Piece Balbriggan Dresses $5.95 that will delight girls of 8 to 14 years because they are so much like those “big sister” has been wearing—and de- light mothers be- eause they are sure to be ser- viceable Two styles sketched blue, ender colors. attractive are Tan, brown, lav and green At $5.95. XIRLS'’ SCHOOL SWEATERS at $1-95, J $2.95 and $3.95: Many pretty—anc practical—styles that will appeal to girls who like the trim little sweater and plaited skirt costumes for school OWNSTAIRS ‘ Girls’ School Stockings At 25e Pair At 35 ¢ Pair lc weave 3 Pairs for $1.00 Mercerized cotton Stock +a a Seema yrdovan, camel, Cordovan, bincuit, cam vo, with re ik Sizex 6 to 10 DOWNSTAIRS STORE ’ Growing Girls’ Calfskin School Oxfords, $5.00 pee calfskin Oxfords with crepe rubber heels, as sketched above. Goodyear welt sewed. Widths A, B and C. Sizes 24 to 8 $5.00 pair. tan and gunmetal calf- skin Oxfords with leather sole and low heel with rubber lift. Widths AA to C. Sizes 2% to 8 $5.00 pair. DOWNSTAIRS STORE A New Shipment of Reversible Imported Jute Rugs $1.50 and $2.00 MALL RUGS, in striking patterns and colorings like these, are decorative as well as useful. 20x36-inch size, $1.50 24x48-inch size, $2.00 Blue, tan, green and rose ground colors, And low-priced. DOWNSTAIRS STORE Lamp Standards—With Art Metal Bases—$6.95 RIDGE STANDARDS with adjustable arm. Junior standards with two light sockets. Prac- tically all have decorative cord pulls. The art metal bases are in pleasing shapes and the standards finished in striking polychrome, old ivory and antique effects. About 75 of these, low- priced at $6.95. a ale DOWNSTAIRS STORE } K September’s Arrival Suggests Warm Underwear Children’s Waist Union Suits $1 00 Women’s Union Suits $1.00 Fine rib cotton Unio Of fleeve-line ott Suits with rayon stripe A wit ttons Band top. style—sleevelen and knee Jength gh With underarm reinforce eeves, and ment. Sizes 36 to 44 Sizes 6 to 12 Men’s Part-Wool Union Suits, $2.45 OW-PRICED—because of a special purchase are these worsted-and-cotton Union Suits in long sleeve, ankle length style. They are very well made (spring needle knit), comfortably-fitting and warm. Sizes 36 to 46. At $2.45. THIS SAME STYLE UNION SUIT low-priced at $3.00. in heavier weight; Men‘s Section, DOWNSTAIRS STORE Small Boys’ Button-On Suits Of Tub Fabric $1.95 Blouse and Corduroy Trousers AVY blue and brown corduroy straight trousers, buttoned on braid and emblem trimmed blouse of cotton crash or chambray. Sizes for boys of 8 to 8 years. Low-priced at $1.95. WARM CLOTH SUITS AND TOPCOATS for j small boys are now ready in the Downstairs Store. STAIRS STORE pow} Many New $15 Dresses to Choose From HE Store is ializing in Au- | _|tumn Dresses at =| this price. Conse- i }quently, new fash- jions are arriving at ‘frequent intervals. Lovely crepe- back satin dresses, dividing their style- attention between | flares and fringe, are the newest to arrive. Two of these are sketched. i There are at least 50 styles for one to choose from at this price— $15.00- —and $25 Coats Too! Whatever is said of newness and smartness in fifteen dollar dresses can be repeated of women’s and young women’s Autumn Coats at $25.00. It is surprising what attractive value can be found here in fur trimmed; well tailored; fully lined Coats at $25.00, Downstairs spe- ic —DOWNSTAIRS STORE HERE'S MORE ABOUT RENT ON PAGE 0. ‘HANEY DEFIES PRESIDENT \ | Broderick, Ine. le state { Stand Pat Until Call the opinion ce nis office, “rental Withdraws Charge ART Will values on apartments in Seattle this j year would remain firm, so far there being no indication on the WASHINGTON, Sept. 2.—Commis-| part of any of our owners to sioner Bert E. Haney, of the United| change rental schedules.” States shipping board, whose resig-| No reduction in rental homes or on commercial nd {is likely, he pointed out until president withdraws] Nationally, from reports from 179 the charges of broken faith cities for the year ending in July, Under no elreumstances ‘will lre|rents dropped 3,75 per cent in the president's demand, he|case of small houses and apart- aid today, until he is cleared of the | ments. stigma of these charges. ‘The presi-| pe resi locations the indicative of the tende: to c dent, in asking Haney to get out,| wards lower rents generally, wid he had violated an understand-| ‘rhe average ievel for July was ing entered into at the time Haney|only 79 per cent higher than the appointed, concerning certain! i914 lovel. The highest increase shipping board polictes, Haney de-|oyer the pre-war figures was in| and | nied this | Los Angeles, where rents are still The president let it be known at{181 to 140 per cent higher, San Swampscott that he belleved Haney's| Francisco shows a net advance of | refusal to resign was “improy 41 to 50 per cent, Among the that Haney would get out, as be real. | cheapest cities to live in are in- ized the impropriety of his course. | cluded Fort Worth, Omaha, Tacoma To this Haney replied that he saw}and Springfield, Their tr ho impropriety in defending his} over 1914 prices is only 3 | reputation and that he would get out | cent would! dier placed | ond only when the president retracted. WASHINGTON, Sept. 2.—Death of WASHINGTON, Sept, g.—-Ayp.| Howard Van Sant, Island Holgt pointment of William Crutke | Ne J. American consul at Dumter- commanding the ‘Tenth tiotd | Hine, Scotland, was announced by the hank artillery, at Camp Lewis, as briga-] State department today general to command the Sec Van Sant, who died at his post coast artillery district, Wort, | yesterd A appointed to the con. viton, No Y., was announced by the !aular service In 1905 and had been war department today, stationed at Dumferline since 1910, either on} That decrease is believed to} try list of six. May Rene ‘Charge If necessary, heats will be run to Against Dr. Moore decide winners in the first two races. Fin Mullan Atoeee: There will be nine prizes in all, charges of driving while drunk were | These will be filed Monday, may be relieved of the |@"nounced in The Star in a day or two. against whom | t e for each race, drunk charge and be brought into court on another complaint, it de-| The first 500 kids who assemble veloped today jat the starting point Friday will Sheriff Starwich was to summon | be given tickets to a special show- Moore to post $750 bonds, however, |in8 of “California Straight Ahead” |pending disposition of his the Columbia theater at 9:30 | Deputy Prosecutor Peyser said Wed-|% ™. Saturday. nesday that the cha might be! Movies of the changed to one of failing to stop |crowds at the “tr s and of the will be taken jafter an accident He filed the}and these will be shown to the | charge Monday as a result of reports| children at the theater Saturday jof an automobile lent on thet ning. Bothell highway at a.m, Sun-| “California Straight Ahead” stars day. Reginald Denny, It is the story of }a thrilling race from New York to 75 ios Angelos | HERE'S MORE ABOUT \ ON Nip: four eoaneen tena ee 1 let's seo who has the fastest one | SCOOTERS yin town, Watch The Star every || STARTS ON PAGE ONE. |/‘8¥ {0 Hstest details of the races. To parents; Everything will be en done looking to the safety of your Sweepstakes boys. The course will be police- The first three boys in the first} patrolled and automobile traffic Kept jtwo races will be eligible for the} from it before, during and aftor sweepstakes, which will have an en \f the race. SEATTLE STAR COASTER AUTO RACE Friday, September 4, 1925 My name is.... || My mechanic's name is......... 6055 eh We are entering our kid auto in The Star Kid Auto race and agree to abide by the rules. aaa