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The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1902-02-14

That Tom Humes is a weak candi-
date and is growing weaker from day
to day can be seen by noting the
figures of the last city election, when
he ran $500 votes behind Paul and
Parry and only managed to save his
election by large number of Demo-
Gratis voting for him because said
Democrats absolutely refused to vote
for George F. Cotterill, the prohibi-
zionist, temperance crank and politi-
cal pessimist in general. Had Mr.
Goodwin been nominated by the Dem
ocrats two years ago he would have
The followers of Tom Humes still
believe that those Democrats who
voted against Cotteril two years ago
will vote for Humes this year, but
they reason without their host, be-
cause at the coming election the Dem
ocrats will have a straightforward life
long Democrat to vote for in the per-
son of j. w. Goodwin, and it is not
reasonable to suppose that they will
vote for Republican when they can
get an opportunity to vote for a gen
uine Democrat 1t can therefore be
safely reasoned that the 1000 Demo
Gratis who voted for Mr.. Humes two
years ago will as a unit cast their vote
for Mr. Goodwin next March. Now if
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1902-02-14

The city council is still wrangling
over a site for a location for the Car
negie library 1t was given out that
the matter would be settled last Mon
day evening, but the council refused
to settle il and laid it over for an
other week. A number of sites have
been offered to the council, but to the
Pie-maker no site that has been Of
fred is equal to the old Yesler home
site on Third avenue between James
and Jefferson. Of all the places in
the city that would make an ideal
library site that leads, and it
is hoped that the council will look at
it in this light and select that place
on which to erect the Carnegie library.
Of course there is more or less specu-
lation going on in locating this build
ing, for if it goes to this, that or the
other place, soqebody is to get a big
rake-off from it in commission, but
if it goes to the Yesler estate then,
notwithstanding the fact that some
body will get big commission out of
it, nevertheless it will meet the hearty
approval of SO per cent of the patrons
of the library and after all this should
be the principal motive in locating a
library site for the benefit of so large
a city as Seattle.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1902-02-14
The Black Jack Rake-off

Will Thomas Jefferson Humes, the
present mayor of Seattle and the di-
rector of the gambling games in this
city, please explain why it is that the
Clancies are able to compel every
body who runs ''black jack" game in
the city of Seattle to pay to them forty
per cent of the earnings of such
games? Will Mr.. Humes please ex-
plain, why it is that the Clancies are
given such special privileges and
prerogatives over other persons who
operate games in Seattle? If the
reader will take time to run his mind
back over the night prior to the last
municipal convention he will call to
mind that the Clancies stood out all
day and all night fighting the nomina-
tion of Tom Humes because he would
not concede these privileges to them.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1902-02-14

The voters of this city had a genu-
inc scare last Saturday evening when
the Times made it's appearance on
the streets declaring that the corpora
tion council had decided that the
proposition for Seattle to vote to own
its own electric light plant was void,
as it had not been properly published.
This is matter that the people have
long desired to vote on and, coming
as it did at the time of the general
election, those interested in it most
felt absolutely certain that the propo-
sition would carry by a two-thirds
majority, whereas should it be sub
mitted at a subsequent election, not
enough persons would be interested
in it to come out and vote for it
and if the electric light companies
of the city made any efforts at all it
would be defeated It will be re-
membered that at the call election
to vote heavy school bonds for this
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1902-02-14

Eugene M. Schmitz, who was re-
Gently elected mayor of San Francis
co, is the musical director of an or
crestra and leads his orchestra every
night since he has been elected the
same as before.
England's Wesleyan Methodists fail
ed to raise million guineas that they
undertook to do in order to celebrate
the twentieth century, but they did
raise $3,61O,OOO and have the promise
of $1,4OO,0OO more.
Two hundred thousand pounds have
been placed at the disposal of King
Edward for charitable purposes by a
philantropist, who is none other than
Sir Ernest Cassel. A sanitarium for
tuberculosis patients in England will
be established at once.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1902-02-14

nothing but fix up political deals from
one campaign to another, and always
to Seattle's detriment, that they are
compelled to have, whether they are
willing or not. To the good citizens
of Seattle it is now up to you as to
whether you will give your vote to
continue such a ruinOus policy. II SO
vote for a Humes delegation, If not
vote for a Paul delegation. II gam
bling is to be permitted, the Clancies,
nor any other combination, should
have no right whatever to get 40 per
cent of the other gamblers earnings.
If gambling is to be permitted it should
be an open field for everyone who de-
sires to go into the business and not
the protected property of any one man
as it now is under the Humes admin
istratiOn.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1902-02-14

That Mr.. Paul represents the better
element of voters in this city may
be seen from the men who are taking
an active part in his campaign. About
Mr.. Paul's headquarters and in the
various wards and precincts in the
resident portion of the city may be
found such men as Hon. E. H. Guie,
E. c. Neufelder, P. D. Hughes, S. H.
Piles, J. H. Powell, Ira Bronson and
many others, who, in the past, have
supported Mr. Humes in his political
ambitions, but who have tired of this
and for the first time in Humes' politi-
cal history, they are fighting him.
OF course the leading voters of the
First ward are out for Humes lust as
in the past because they have reaped
the reward of his five years wide open
administration. The CIancies. the Ar
gyles and the other gambling kings
have made fortunes for themselves, AMI
families during the past five years
because Tom Humes has kept the
city wide-Open and made it possible
for them to rob right and left every
body who visited their haunts of
hell. 1t is to be expected that such
human Outcasts will support Mr..
Humes, but do the respectable citizens
of this city propose to sit idly by and
see such a condition of affairs re-
peated for another two years? The
man or the men who will try to make
a senatorial fight out of this munich
pal campaign is a political stinker and
has no interest whatever in the well
fare of the city. Paul may not be
your ideal man for Mayor, but he is
certainly quite number of ideas high
er than Tom Humes and the policy
which he represents and carries out
when he is elected. Do not reason to
yourself that you will beat Tom Humes
at the polls, but go in to defeat him
at the primaries and if you do this
you will have two whacks at defeat
ing him, and between the two you
are almost certain of getting your man.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1902-02-14
An Item Overlooked.

Finally they made sham deal with
Judge Austin's friends to support him
and then they took this to Mr.. Humes
and used it as club over his head to
force him to give them this privilege,
which he did, and the next day, in
stead of the Clancies supporting Mr.
Austin on the convention floor as they
promised at 2 o'clock that morning
they would do, they cast their votes
for Tom Humes, and since that time
they have been in complete control of
the black Jack games in this city, and
every person wanting to conduct a
blackjack game herein have been
compelled to pay to the Clancies 40 per
cent of their gross earnings. This is
the kind of a mayor that the good
citizens of this city have been in
formed by George Piper, who does
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1902-02-14

AS was said in last weeks Repub-
lican, the mayorality contest has com
pletely overshadowed everything else
that will be voted upon in the COM
ing convention. The question is: are
you for Paul or for Humes? And on
this answer hangs the great political
battle The Pie-maker intimated last
week that there was some disposi-
tion on the part of some of the other
candidates for office to line up on
the mayorality question, and subse-
quent developments have brought out
the fact that S. F. Rathbun has de-
cided to cast his lot with the Humes
faction and rests the success or failure
of his case on that convention vote.
No other candidate has as yet taken
such a stand, and it is highly prob
able that they will not, though it is
believed that Mr. PauPs friends will
for the most part support John Rip
linger for city comptroller.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1902-02-14

city not long since, not over three or
four hundred persons voted one way
or the other on the proposition, out of
a voting population of at least $4,000.
The people do not seem to be much
concerned in such matters and un-
less it comes at the times candidates
are looking for elections it is not
given very much consideration, and
even then it is not given the amount
Of consideration that is should be.
Whether or not Seattle should own it's
own electric light plant, is a question
that you and each of you should
thoroughly study out between this and
election day. This question, like all
other questions, has two sides to it
and the Pie-maker is of the opinion
that when you shall have gone over
the entire situation you will cast your
vote for the city owning it's own
electric light plant and run the
risk of the investment proving
lOosing one
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1902-02-14

Next Monday night will begin the
preliminary skirmish for the big
municipal fight in Republican circles
in this city, which will terminate at
the convention one week from today.
At the caucus delegates will be nom
mated who will be voted for at the
primaries, whichh will be held We'd
nesday, February 19, and the success
ful candidates at those primaries will
make up the convention to be held Fri
day, February 21, which will nomin-
ate the Republican municipal ticket
for the coming election to be held on
March 4. AS the time draws nearer
the fight wakes warmer, and it would
appear at the present writing that the
Republicans are slated for the hottest
primary fight that Seattle has ever
before tackled.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1902-02-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

In the United States there are II
communities of Shakers.
Even in Italy drunkenness is said
to be diminishing.
To build the submarine tunnel from
Wigton, Scotland, to Larney, Ireland,
% miles, it will cost $50,O0O,O 900.
In Germany the factory hand con-
sumes on an average of one gallon of
beer day, and in England the con-
sumption is still larger.
America leads the world in the num-
Der of women practicing medicine.
There are at present 5000 women in
the United States doing the medicine
act.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1902-02-14

Only a few days left for you to get
an interest with the most conservative
fisheries company, where your money
is not thrown away in large flaming
advertisements, but is being used dis
creetly in buying just what is needed
for the enhancement of your invest
ment. Consider well the fact that
you are getting vote for every share
of stock you hold, and that it becomes
your absolute property upon its issu-
ance. Only few days at Is cents
per share. Inter-States Fisheries Com
pany, 3O2, 3O3 Pacific Block, Seattle,
Wash
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1902-02-14
GREAT GAINS IN OIL STOCKS.

Queen Oil Companys first we'll a
great gusher. On the 18th day of
March, 1901, our stocks sold for Is
cents. On the 1st day of February
1902, our stocks are selling for rs
cents. Good prospects for a raise to
par, $1.00 per share, in the near future
Our stocks are the only oil stocks that
you can double your money on within
a short time. Before the next six
months our stocks will go to from So
to $3.50 per share. We have a flowing
well that produces 1900 barrels per
day. A small amount of our treasury
stock remains unsold that can be had
at rs cents for a short time. For
particulars call on or address Queen
Oil Company, 1921 First Ave-, Seattle,
Wash
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1902-02-14

That Paul is a very popular pOliti-
clan, and that he will give Mr.. Humes
the hardest tussel for the mayorality
nomination that Mr. Humes has ever
before had, is very apparent. All over
town you can hear the clamor for Paul.
The voters have decided that there are
others in the city as much entitled
to official recognition as is Mr. Humes
and that the good things are not all
for one man, but should be distribut-
ed among the many On these grounds
hundreds of voters will support Mr.
supported Mr.. Humes.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1902-02-14
THE CANADIAN BANK
Il OF COMMERCE

With which is amalgamated
THE BANK OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
Head Office Toronto. Established 1867.
Capital paid up. ...... $1,000, 10000
eight Million Dollars.)
Surplus ......... ....$2, 1000, 10000
Assets May 81, 1901. .$67, $50, ,57s.13
Accounts of Banks, Corporations Firms
and Individuals solicited.
Drafts issued available In any part of the
World.
Interest allowed on Time Deposits.
Having established branches at DAWSON,
WHITE HORSE, SKAGWAY and ATLIN,
this Bank has exceptional facilities for
handling YUKON and ALASKA business
A General Banking Business transacted.
Seattle Branch D. A. Cameron,
Cor. Sec. Ave. and James st. Manager
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1902-02-14

High license will carry. There is
no doubt of it any more for there is
not man outside of the First ward
except a few of similar ilk in the
Fifth ward, who will vote for a con-
tinuation of low license. Men who
are constant patrons of saloon bars,
yet have respectable families, will
vote for a high license because they
know it is the only way that the
saloon business will be regulated.
1t is to be regretted that the license
was not placed at $4,000 instead of
$1,000 per year, for it would have been
voted just the same as will the $1,000
per year be voted. The Pie-maker
hopes that by the time the next mu-
nicipal election comes around that
the city council will submit a propo-
sition to the people to vote that no
saloons shall close their doors or use
screens in any shape, form or manner
to prevent those drinking at the bar
from being seen from the streets If
this is done a long step toward drink
ing reform will be brought about, for
there are few men and no women,
with the exception of a few that have
fallen so low in the slums of degreda-
tion that they have no respect for
either themselves or anyone else, that
will stand up in plain view of the
streets and gurgle down beers and
whiskies by the glass at all hours of
the day.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1902-02-14


The stewardess board of the A. M.
E. Church of this city will give a
campaign supper at the G. A. r. hall
in the Collins block, Second Avenue
and James Street, March 3rd next. at
which time they will serve most ex-
cellent dinner to the general public
Everybody is cordially invited to be
present and partake of an old fash
ioned dinner prepared and served by
the best colored cooks in the city.
Rev. Scott of the A. M. E. Church
says that the proceeds from the dinner
will be applied to the church debt,
which he hopes to soon have COM
pletely cleaned up.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1902-02-14
SEATTLE ELECTRIC GO.

the number Of lamps will be accom-
plished by replacing incandescents
with arcs, by putting in lights more
frequently on existing lines, and by
putting in lights where there are no
lines now, which will require an extern
sion of the lines. The first two meth.
ods OF increase will not increase the
investment or labor in station in pro.
portion to the increased load.
Further Reduction.
The company reduced the price OF
supplying lights to the city on the first
OF this year, and promised a further
reduction in the future, which will un-
doubtedly be made as the number of
lamps is increased.
In the above mentioned article the
following statement is made:
The possible power derivable from
the falls for use in the city is, there
fore, $4,000 horse power. In Mr.. No
bIe's judgment this is sufficient to sup
ply city of million people with
hgh. for both public and private use,
and leave large surplus for other
purposes"
$4,000 Horse Power Will Be Needed.
In connection with this it might be
interesting to state that the maximum
load for lighting and power on the
Seattle Electric Company's stations
during last December, exclusive of
power used for street railways, was
1000 horse power. There must be in
addition to this about 1000 horse pow
er furnished by other companies, max
ing total of about 5000 horse power.
Taking the present population of Sc
attic as 100000, if the use of electrici-
ty only increases in the same ratio as
the population, by the time Seattle
has million people the maximum
electrical horse power in use for light
ing and power purposes, exclusive Of
street railways, should be $4,000 horse
power, but there is no doubt that the
use of electricity will increase in a
much faster ratio, and that by the time
Seattle has million population it will
be using a maximum load of 100000
horse power or more in electricity for
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1902-02-14

Mr.. Humes loses the entire church
vote, and he will, there will be no
more hopes of him being elected than
there would be for a pound of ice pass
ing through Hades without melting.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1902-02-14

In naming the candidates seeking
Republican nominations the name of
F. NJ MuldoOn, who is a candidate for
denomination for councilman-at-large
was accidentally overlooked. Mr.. Null
doom is very much in the fight and
stands an excellent show of getting
the nomination.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1902-02-14

IN OppOSltlOn to the city operating
its own electric light plant, the Seattle
Electric Company has submitted the
following arguments and stand ready
to verify every assertion, allegation
and statement herein. The PROPOSE
tions that the company advance are
well worthy Of your most careful con.
sideration before you make up your
mind to cast your vote one way or the
other
To the Editor: In the Star of
February there was an article in re-
gard to the municipal lighting plant
which made it appear that if the city
put in a municipal plant the cost of
supplying street lights would be very
much less than the price now paid to
lne Seattle Electric Company. Ac-
cording to the figures in this raticle
$500 horse power could be delivered
to the city at 1900 volts from a plant
at Cedar Falls at an annual cost of
SIS per horse power. This is merely
an estimate, and, like all estimates, is
apt to be incorrect Estimates are
usually smaller than the actual cost
turns out to be, as would probably be
the case of this estimate, but, for the
sake Of argument, we will assume that
this cost of SIS per horse power per
year is correct. 1t also stated in this
article that 80 per cent of l horse
power is required for an arc light and
Is % per cent. of horse power for a
30 candle power incandescent. This
estimate of power required is practi-
cally correct for 2,2OO volts at the
city station.
During Year 1901.
During the past year the Seattle
Electric Company has had on it's mu-
nicipal circuits an average of 1880
incandescents and 145 arcs, or an
equivalent of $40 arcs. On the above
basis of power required these lamps
would take 296 horse power. which at
SIS per horse power per year would
amount to $5,328. In figuring the an
nual cost of arc lights the fixed
charges of the distributing plant are
placed at SIS, and carbons, trimmings
and repairs at $105O. The SIS is on
basis of per cent. interest and per
cent. denreciation ON the -cnst-of the
distributing system. On basis of $40
arc lights this amounts to $500.
Practically New Plant.
The municipal system of the Seattle
Electric Company has been entirely
reconstructed in the past two years,
and an accurate account has been
kept of the cost of reconstructing, and
this cost for transformers, switch
board, wire work and lamps and a
prOpOrtiOnate share of the cost of new
poles, but no part of the cost of old
poles on which municipal wires are
run, has amounted to little over S5O,-
600. This cost includes no portion of
the cost Of the station in which
the transformers and switchboard
are located. This checks very
nearly with the amount of fixed
charges as taken in the above men
toned article. The estimate for car
bons, trimmings and repairs is the one
involving the most variables. and
would therefore naturally be the most
difficult to estimate correctly. How
ever with the Seattle Electric Com
pany this is a condition and not
theory
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1902-02-14
Cost of Street Lights.

An accurate account has been kept
of the expense of maintaining muni-
cipal lights for the past year, and is
given below, itemized:
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1902-02-14
lired for street railways.
$50 per Horse Power.

$50 per Horse Power.
In regard to the price which it
would be possible to obtain from the
sale of the excess of 5000 horse power
over the city's requirements for light
ing, it might be of interest to state
that the Snoqualmie Falls Power Com
pany advertise scale in which the
price per horse power decreases as
the amount of power increases. Their
price for 1000 horse power for "a
hours per day is $50 per horse power
per year. 1t seems reasonable to sup
pose that they would make lower
price on 1900 or 1000 .lorse power,
so that if the city disposed Of this
power they would have to meet this
price Without making a large in
vestment for distributing system it
would be impossible to realize as
much as $50 per horse power per
year, especially as it would be impos-
sible to dispose of anywhere near all
the power on a 24-hour basis.
SEATTLE ELECTRIC co.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1902-02-14

Speaking about the coming primar-
les and election prompts the Pie-maker
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1902-02-14

The cost of maintaining the eQuiva-
lent of $40 arcs for one year is $500,
or $23.46 per arc, which cost is more
than so per cent. higher than the cost
of power. This is the only item in the
estimated cost in regard to which
there is definite information, and this
item is more than twice the estimated
amount. The cost of power is based
entirely on an estimate, as is also the
6 per cent. figured for depreciation on
the distributing system.
Very Small Profit.
The income which would be derived
by the Seattle Electric Company from
the above lamps at the rate now paid
by the city would be s26,64 Taking
the cost of power at SIS per horse
power per year and interest and de-
probation at $3.50 as given in the ar
ticle under discussion, the Seattle
Electric Company figure the cost to
them of supplying this service as fol
lows:
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1902-02-14

This makes a total cost Of $25 ,038 90
which is only $1,6O20O less than the
revenue.