The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-11-27
CANDIDATES PUT
over The JUMPS
Talk and Answer Questions
in Queen Anne
Church
SPENCER is QUIZZED

Candidates for the port commits.
sion and school board appeared Fri,
day night before a meeting at the
Queen Anne Congregational church.
Rev. sydney strong. pastor OF the
church. presided The candidates
we're given ten minutes eeoh IN
which 20 present their cases.
Carl A. Ewald. present member
ot the commission. was the first
speaker.
Discussing the proposed public
belt line. he declared the railroads
have refused for four years to do
anything 20 improve switching con
ditlons on the water front
The railroads tell MS. even now"
he said. that they won't do any.
thing until after election. II the
voters do not authorize .he belt
line. the railroads will again be In
position TO laugh at ua.'
povsles Offers Himself
J. H. rowles. Western ave. eom.
mission man and candidate for
the port commission. said the peo-
pie had been calling SO long FOR a
business man on the commission
that he had decided TO offer him
self
Now" he said. IL YOU we're rot
stalllng In what you said. vote for
me"
Powlos explained his qualifica.
lions for the Job by saying he was
member OF the transportation hu.
reau OF the Chamber OF Commerce.
Also, he impressed upon his hear.
ers a statement that he lies awake
in bed at night and thinks these
things all out"
powles said he was an admirer
OF Bob Bridges.
Ne lsuds Bob Bridges
Bridges. Remsberg aud Gen
Chittenden have made remark.
able record on the port commits
Sion" he said They are leaving
monuments behind them"
Judge RemsbcrE. candidate for
reelection. explained why certain
big Seattle companies are working
against the belt line plan.
DO you suppose" he said. that
when a belt line is going TO throw
open the doors and let other indus
tries come In and sit down right
beside them. they ara going % get
out before daylight and yell for tho
belt line PLAN They are opposing
MS because they want 10 keep their
field TO themselves They don't
want Seattle's Industrial sites
thrown open 10 newcomers
Albert Dsub Has a Plan
RemsberE pointed 10 the fact
that the port commissions docks
are groaning beneath a tremen.
dous amount OF commerce as at.
testing TO the success OF its work
Albert Daub. candidate for port
commission. said no thought the
railroads. n properly approached.
could be talked into arranging this
belt line thing themselves
Daub said the port commission
made mistake in locating the
Smiths cove dock so far from the
center OF the city. and that. tho In.
tended for the lumber trade. prac.
tically no lumber has passed over IL.
oulxxed on Fire Escapes
Commissioner Ewald later show.
cd Daub was mistaken In both
these statements
George A. Spencer. candidate for
reelection To the school board.
stood on his record and got along
fine until a man at the back OF the
hall asked him Why the board
didn't put outside fire escapes on
the John Hay school
Il have n boy going there he
said. "and I am not sure that the
present board IL "a careful OF that
boy OF mine "a II ought TO be"
Spencer told about the doors
that open outward. but sidestepped
on the outside fire escapes.
Other Candidates Talk
Rev. Oscar H. McGlli stood for 4
wider democracy in the schools. he
said.
DIR. Lillian Irwin emphasized the
{ necessity for putting a woman on
/ the school board
How many OF you parents" she
asked. IN you were going away for
while and had TO leave your little
one at home. would leave him with
a lot OF men,
! Questions were asked the vari.
Gus candidates afterward. and a
/ general discussion followed
! Ewaid a Business Man
"Mr. Powles has told you there
should be business man on the
port commission. Commissioner
Ewald said. Il would like TO state
\ that am a business man
I He told something OF his sue
/ cessful business career.
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