The Tacoma times. [volume], January 24, 1916, Image 1

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CITY TO OPEN MIDDLE WATERWAY:
j| President of a Tacoma parent
;' teacher association grows spunky
{ over Police Captain Smith's state
ment blaming mothers for daugh
ters' going wrong. Read what she
• says, on page 5.
WRECK OF a No TRAIN STRUCK BY AVALANCHE
Whore the Great Northern train went down the mountainside at the toe of an avalanche Saturday. Dotted, line shows course of slide. Rescuers are pictured at work removing debris.
WORK TO
BE DONE
AT ONCE
Further development of Taco
ma harbor was projected today
when the city council began a
movement to deepen the middle
city waterway its far south as
llth st. during 1016.
The channel, if dredged, would
• permit large vessels to steam up
to the heart of the tldeflats man
ufacturing district, and would
open up for commerce not only a
large section of unoccupied flats,
but would Increase the value of
city property near the junction of
llth st. and St. Paul ay.
Ask 0.-W. to Keep On.
As a first move towards open
ing the waterway, the council
agreed to adopt a resolution
Wednesday asking the 0.-W. It. ft
N. to extend Its present dredging
operations to tha southern extrem
ity of Its property.
The railroad company already
lias a dredger at work tn the
northern end of the waterway,
and la building bulkhead along
the valuable tldeflats strip, on the
east side of the channel, which It
recently acquired at an enormous
figure.
, It has leased part of this prop
erty, and intends to develop it
commercially.
Never Opened Kor Use
The 0.-W. plans call for dredg
ing only one-half the length of
the channel, at present. This
still would leava a shallow stretch
of waterway between the city'a
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property and deep water. If the
railroad company will dredge the
channel for the entire length of
its property the city will agree to
deepen the remainder, it was de
cided.
The middle waterway Is that
strip of water between the
Northern Pacific's filled In land,
and the St. Paul mill dock and
tramway. It runs as far south as
llth St., but has never been deep
ened sufficiently to be available
for vessels, or even small steam
ers.
I What's Doing |
Today
Tacoma Scots celebrate anni
versary of Robert Burns; Ma
sonic temple; evening.
South Tacoma Athletic and
Commercial club completes or
ganization; South Tacoma; even
ing.
Tomorrow
Address by Dr. John Orier
Hibben, president of Princeton,
ou "Preparedness;" University
club; to club members and
friends only.
Lecture by I'ror. Kdmond S.
Meany oa "The Race to Possess
the Northwost;" Y. W. C. A.;
evening.
THE ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN TACOMA.
VOL. XIII. NO. 30. TACOMA, WASH.. MONDAY, JANUARY 24, 1916.
FLASHES
PORTLAND—Wireless receiv
ed late last night from an oil
tanker said a vessel, supposedly
the Admiral Schley, was lying off
the Washinton coast In a helpless
condition.
U3NDON —Greece is negotiat
ing with the entente powers for
a large loan, it was authoritative
ly announced today.
PARIS—Fear Is felt for the
life of ICmueror Franz Joseph
who is ill with chronic bron
chitis.
WASHINGTON, D. C—Presi
dent Wilson announced his first
speech for preparedness would be
made in New York city next
Thursday.
OMAHA — President Mohler,
Union Pacific, regained conscious
ness today after 24 hours of In
sensibility as a result of a fall
while skating Sunday.
CONSTANTINOPLE — Turkish
and Persian troops occupied Ken
gever with a considerable loss to
the Russians today.
INCOME
TAX O. K.
WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 24.
—The supreme court today up
held the constitutionality of the
in< omrlax law.
SINK 53
VESSELS
PETROORAD, Jan. 24.—1t la
officially announced that Russian
torpedoboats sank 33 Turkish
wind-jammers and destroyed sev
en at the docks during a raid of
the Anatolian coast.
SAYS ELECT WILSON
BY FRANKLIN K. LANE |j
Sacretary of Interior in President Wilson's Cabinet I
(Copyright, 1016, by the Newspaper Knterprlse Association.
You ask, Why does the democratic party deserve
the continued confidence of the-country? The answer
is, BECAUSE IT HAS MADE GOOD;
'. I. believe that there can be no fuller
to your question.
| No one could have foreseen three
£■ I years ago that the life of this nation
§|l_; I would have been so intense as it has
0^ Uicen during this administration, and
P«*PI " Ifew would have prophesied, I believe,
„jgjj, , jthat so much would have been accoin
■yßf ■>■,■! plished so wisely and so many situa-
K*h Jtions of an unprecedented -character
with so satisfactorily.
K|* m This country Is -growing more non
mT^ Bipartisan every day. It is asking for an
te^atseag^efficient and an honest government, and
LAKE j s becoming more (indifferent as to the
labels which, for purposes ol coi-ordained action, men
bear.
And somehow it matters very little what any of us
may say regarding the merits n\r the demerits of a
party, for minds are seldom broughjt to a conclusion
by political speeches or political articles. The news
paper, which daily tells the story bf what is done,
gives to the citizen the basis for a judgment which he
makes independent of partisan'appeal.
In a word, I think it makes lit
tle difference what criticism Is
launched against the administra
tion or what any of us may have to
say in its praise. THE AMERI
CAN PEOPLE HAVE JUDGED IT
*t.READY very decisively by the
?
things which It has dons, and one
of the greatest things which It has
done has been to seriously disap
point; its lugubrious opponents.
For, as I look back over the
past three years, f recollect very
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HOW PARTY
CHIEFTAINS
SIZE IT UP
This article by Secretary
I_ane is the first of a series
of four. Kmi-Ii lias lieen writ
ton by a nationally-known
spokesman of one of the four
leading national parties.
Secretary l-ane tells why.
In his belief, the American
people should re-elect Wood
row Wilson president.
Theodora K. Burton, G. O.
P. candidate, will tell Times
readers "Why the Republic
cans Wllib Win."
Victor Murdock, progres
sive chairman, is to write
on "Why the Progressives
Will Conduct Their Own
Campaign."
Meyer l-ondon, only so
••UllHt congressman, will set
forth, "Why the People
SliouM Elect a Socialist
President."
If you would have an un
derstanding of the great
campaign that Is about to
begin, don't fail to read the
first article today and the
other three, which will ap
pear In The Times this week
—Editor..
.distinctly the sad tones of those
who prophesied calamity If mis
fortune should place the demo
cratic party in possession of Its
governmental machinery: and one
XContinued on Page Three.)
(WEATHER I
Tacoma: Unsettled tonight and I
Tuesday, probably snow. I
Washington: Sumo, colder east I
lortion. I
SUNSET'S
ON GRILL
Shall telephone Miibscrlbers
in Tacoma pay more than
their share for the upkeep of
the long distance service of
the Pacific Telephone A Tele
grap Co.
Are the local exchange
rnte-x kept up nt nn unwar
ranted figure because the
company charges to tile city
plant operating expenses
which the city plant is not
entitled to bear.
Is It right that the people
of Tacoma should dig down
in their pockets to contribute
to the big corporation known
as the American Telephone __
Telegraph Co. a 4 per rent
annual ratio from the gross
earnings of tiie telephone
service In this state?
■tTalko'the Tiihes r
Greetings, have you got
your ear-muffs out again?
When you recover from the
pneumonia, call up Main 1055
and ask Bean If he's put the heat
In yet.
All the red-hot Men reso
lutions seem to be going Into
the senate's cold storage
plant.
Lillian Russell is traveling
again with 18 trunks and 7 hat
boxes. And she Is the wlfo of •
newspaper man!
Beautiful mow*
I Is the property of the. Sunset
company appraised at a figure
$2,000,000 too high and do Ta
coma people have to pay for it in
excessive rates?
Is the telephone company en
titled to development costs?
Should terminal charges be elim
inated?
These and many other questions
are to be thrashed out by the
public service commission which
today began the greatest clean-up
hearing in the history of the state.
Tin' hearing is being held in the
Tacoma federal building, and Is
being attended by the representa
tives of the largest northwest cit
ies and towns as well as a corps of
attorneys and officers of the Pa
cific Telephone & Telegraph Co.
(Continued on Page Six.)
"It takes ten years to arrive
anywhere," says Mrs. Edith Hal
liard Delano, author and scenario
maker. And shs might ver|
well add that you've got to keep
traveling every minute of tha
time."
Now coiiieth the general
staff with a declaration that
we haven't arnijr soongh to
protect Americans fat Meat*
co. However, maybe wall
be shown that wo have Tea
ana enough.
We wonder when they iNrri
ing to remore tho Mom whir
those 9th at. stands used to