The Seattle Republican., 1911-05-05
HORACE ROSCOE CAYTON, Publisher
STrSrE REVET,S CAYTON Associate

For Rent is no stranger in Seattle just now and the
animal is to be found in every section and on every
street of the city, and yet if starts out to rent
comfortable house in which to live the agent will ask
as much for the rental of it if the prospective ten
ant was buying the property on the instament plan
Unless there is general scaling down OF all rentals IN
Seattle there will be even more For Rents on the
streets in the future than at present is argued by
landlords that taxes high that it is impossible to
rent the property for any less 1t is to say the least
very unfortunate that taxes are high as they are
but extravigant officials responsible for chat and
the voters should see to it that less expensive officials
are elected to office But if the taxes are high it
is better to be getting something for your property
than for it to be lying idle We know OF an instant
where the owner of four fve-room apartment
house was holding the flats for twenty-five dollars per
month"; they stayed vacant year, and then ne re-
duced them eighteen dollars per month and they are
still vacant. IT, perhaps he had have offered them
at fifteen dollars per month in the outset he would
have been getting sixty dollars per month for nearly
two years instead of absolutely nothing. He belonged
to real estate organzaton-(a Ia real estate trust-
that holds out for high rents and thereby protect the
landlords and also increase the commissions.
If Virgil Bogues civic center for Seattle has not
died bornng then it has almost done so and we real
y believe it has. There is no more probability of Sc
attic adopting the Alladanic dream that is being advo
Gated by Mr. Bogue, who is drawing fabulous
and look and talk wse than there is of Tacoma asking
for annexation to Seattle and the would be about
as unreasonable the other So far as civic center
for Seattle is concerned she has natural in Lake
Union and if mercenary council had not have given
it's water front away to railroad corporation, but in
stead the city had have beautifed the entire water
front it would have given Seattle the most artistic and
beautiful civic center of any city in the world Never
is long tme but one is perfectly safe in predicting
that no one living will ever see the railroads
ming into Seattle move their depots to the place sug
gested by Mr. Bogue. 1t all scents very strongly of
gigantic real estate scheme engineered by
If the proper thing done the city Of Seattle would
give Mr. Bogue his time and threaten to give the
who employed him their time for having ever employed
him at all.
Judge John F. Main is to be congratulated in the
way he handled the Bryan disbarment case. He was
as fair as he was just and neither side has any
plant register and yet it is reported the streets
that Judge Yakey feels much ncensed at Judge Main
because he permitted Bryan to go into his personal
character. To the unprejudced observer it is quite
evident that the wrong tried for disbarment
and that two to one stronger could have been
made out against Judge Yakey than was made out
against Bryan. From bits of testimony that crept out
here and there it has been figured out by interested
tax payers of King county that Judge Yakey has been
outrageousy exhorbitant in his expense account when
he tried for King county. In other words he
an expensive luxury that totally lacking in both
essence and nutrition and only possessing the aroma