The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-10-12
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might happen In New York
but u couldn't happen here.
But q did, and ke..
One OF the factors on which
the it can't happen-here opt-
mists pinned their faith was the
grain shipping business. Alex
ander Baillie. Balfour 4 Guthrie
representative. had announced
that in the next season approx
mately s7,0oo.0oo Of Liverpool
money would come to this state
to buy wheat. Most Of that
would pass through Tacoma,
then, the principal wheat ship
ping center on the Pacific coast.
The Liverpool money helped but
couldn't stop the avalanche. In
cidentally, Mr.. Baltic was one
of the few men who was not
fooled by what was happening in
the east.
News that caused some COM
ment concerned a speech made
by Andrew Carnegie in London
about the responsibility of riches.
He scored the English aristoc-
racy for policies which tended to
perpetuate the peasant class and
would keep the farm tenants in
a state of subsection. Along with
that was the dispatch from Ber-
lin announcing that the emperor
Of Germany was seriously work.
ing out a national policy of So
cial and labor reform Dis
appointing news was the report
from Washington, d. c., that the
commission appointed to choose
site for a United States naval
station and drydock on Puget
Sound had recommended Port
Orchard. Tacoma had hopes. It
finally went to Bremerton.
There were lot of good peo-
pie in Tacoma then, but once in
a while a nasty streak appeared.
One evening as the Salvation
Army, recently come to Tacoma,
was marching on Pacific avenue,
one of the fast young men about
town drove a spirited horse at
a fast trot through the process
sion. Several Of the Salvationists
were knocked down and one, a
young woman, was seriously in
jured.
When the young man was
questioned by the police his de-
tense was that on two previous
occasions the Salvation Army
band had frightened his horse
and he had determined to drive
the group out of Tacoma. That
seemed a reasonable excuse and
nothing was done about it, par
ticularly after the Salvationists
turned the other cheek and made
him the object of a special pray
er meeting.
The Tacoma Morning Globe
started by Harry Morgan, Taco
mas boss gambler and purchased
by Ralph Metcalf and C. H
Boynton, Winona, Mimi, news.
paper men, was put on a sound
financial basis by incorporation
and bringing in new capital. l.
d. Campbell, attorney. and civic
leader, headed the corporation al
president; Metcalf was secretary
and Boynton, treasurer. The
board of directors included thest
three and Miles c. Moore, last
governor Of the territory Of
"oohiiib lOfl, utiu Jonii .. oohci
Pierce county member of th'
first state senate.
Other news fifty years old
Tacoma retail clerks organized
to obtain six o'clock closing
Most of the stores were oper
from 7 am. to 8 or 10 p. m
Ministerial Alliance endorsed thu
program Koch consumption
cure reported successfully in ma
jority Of cases of a then usual,
fatal disease. Scandal over al
legged attempt of group of ply
sicians to buy the formula and
sell the cure at an enormous
profit Injunction threatenec
to prevent trade of city hall anC
chamber of commerce sites, bu
too much money had changec
hand.