Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-10

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THE SEATTLE PAT MORAN.
Seattle is great town. There is moth
! ing small about Seattle. II you pur-5
chase a home ON the hill tsubseauent
TO acquiring the Seattle spirlp, Seattle
| one fine morning condemns your home
| rose trees. and all. then gets ain official
appraiser to tell you how much It Is
worth. and If you will not accept the
price turns a mastodonic hose on your
establishment and washes 1t and half
the hill into Puget Sound. 1t Is best
to accept the city's valuation and check.
and let the Seattle Pat Moran have his
own way. Besides, after the hill has
been washed away. you can purchase
back your home site at greatly ell
HANGED figures Fancy the Salt Lake
city administration serving notice on
the residents of the east bench that 1t
was about to remove the hill In the in
terests OF the Transfers union or the
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Pedestrians, or some other pubic
welfare. Listen: cannot you hear the
remarks and the frantic rush of t)ld
Subscriber. Neritas. Nox populi, Pro
Bono Pub!ico. Tax Pager and the rest
If you protest against your home
being washed away you simnlN have
not got the Seattle spirit That's all
there Is about it.
There are three hills being washed
away here in Seattle at this time and
grades are being cut down all over
town until tho place looks like those
famous advertising pictures Of hydrau-
lie mining III the Alaska Bull Con-
mine or some other wild cat stock
selling scheme.
ENTERPRISE WITHOUT JAPS.
The amount OF public enterprise be-
ing instituted in Seattle at this time
battles the imagination of the average
Salt Lakers6who fondly imagines that
his town public improvements are
world beaters. @
Graft certainly there is graft. The
legislature of Washington Is now sit
ting in extra session to investigate a
few charges that give promise of be-
ing mere surface groupings.
But there is plenty of work for
everybody and you can travel from
the Seattle equivalent Of from Dan
even unto Beersheba and you cannot
sec single Jap working with pick
and shovel
They viii not let the Jap work at
anything in Seattle, apparently. Last
week the exposition put on n number
Of Jap jinrichashaw men. An hour later
the delegations from the labor unions |
Joined in one long loud wall and the
laps vacated the grounds, leaving their +
rick shaws behind. To-day these man
iiawn hacks of Toxic are being hauled
around by white men wearing Jap |
costume and trimmings.
The Jap is making a game struggle |
ror recognition. however, as the fol-
lowing anecdote gleefully narrated
Yesterday by a. fair officials would
Indicate.
A Jap was given job washing
fishes in one of the restaurants. on
rhe Pay Streak. &"Go4to work. John"
'aid the boss. your wages will be
80 n week.
Ten dollars a week., repeated the
Jap, NO, no, mo know
fifth chapter of Matthew by heart; me
], Christian, me get s15.''
But after all the A-Y-P exposition Is
the great thing in Seattle Give miles
from the Totem pole) at the present
time. Not the least interesting ex-
hibit there is contained in the Utah
While the exhibit is small
It is credit to the state and this
IAN be said without any mental9reser-
,ation that there is no other state
IN the grounds that has as big a var
ETY.. A number have displays three
lines as large, but none has the scope
which runs from salt to coal. cotton
o fruit, beet sugar to educational dis
plays.
AS TO the building itself, there is
diversified opinion. Those who are
amtliar with the Hopi Indian dwell
ngs are enthusiastic over the novel
dea set forth by the architect who
damned a building that would be both