UNIVERSITY COEDS CANNOT FIND LODGING

When College Opens Women Students Find That Majority of Landlords in Neighborhood Are Against Them.

PERSONS WITH ROOMS TO RENT WANT MEN

Prominent Japanese Student Says Exclusion League Will Cause Trouble if It Keeps Up Present Tactics.

Three nicely furnished rooms in modern house. To boys only. Prices reasonable.

Furnished rooms: Two rooms suitable for three men. Two rooms suitable for two men in each room.

Room and board. Boys only.

For rent: Three upstairs rooms to men students only.

University of Washington co-eds cannot find place to lay their heads. Discriminated against by the landlords, denied rooms in most of the private residences in the university community, and driven from pillar to post, they are having the task of their lives today trying to find a place to eat and sleep.

The state university opened today to a record-breaking throng seeking to go through the formality of registration. On the bulletin board were all kinds of announcements, among which were several placards offering rooms for rent, and practically everyone specifically stated that girls need not apply. The announcement printed in the foregoing are only a few of those seeking men roomers. It was the worst blow the co-ends have received at the university for some time. To think that not even the landlords wanted them around!

One of these persons, whose predilection for boys is so strong that he was constrained to post the notice where all could read, was seen this morning and asked by there exists so decided a movement against the girls.

"Why, that's easy," he replied. "If I rent my rooms to girls there will be just twice as much wear and tear on them as if I rent them to boys. Men are out a great deal of the time, whereas girls are at home more and they often have men friends with them in the parlor and the house gets the wear of two instead of one. Then, too, girls are always wanting something. It is hot water, or more furniture, or more equipment. They are harder to handle than men."

Whether this is the view of all the renters is not known, but the tell-tale posters show a unanimity of sentiment against co-ed boarders.

Big Registration.

Up until noon today 400 students had registered, which is nearly twice the number for the same period last year. There should be 1,000 at the present rate by tomorrow night, when the regular enrollment period closes. Among the newcomers this morning were eight Japanese, one of whom is a girl, the first Japanese girl to register at the "U." Her name is Masa Shimanuki. Most prominent among the Japanese students is Jikei Hashiguchi, editor, and publisher of The Japan Current. He assured a reporter for The Times this morning that the big contingent of Japanese were not at the university to take care of that section in case of a Japanese uprising. Hashiguchi, who has just returned from a study of conditions in Bellingham, says the Japanese there are armed to defend themselves in any emergency, but denies that the Japanese in Seattle are armed in anticipation of any trouble.

"Then you think the Korean-Japanese Exclusion League a joke?" he was asked.

"Oh no," he replied. "That organization may cause trouble yet if they keep up. And anything that may cause trouble is not a joke."

D.J.H.A.Z. Swackhanner of Hayti, West Indies, a missionary of considerable experience in Japan, China and India, went out to the campus to see Dr. T.F. Kane and obtain an audience before the college Y.M.C.A. He met Herman Allen and commenced producing his credentials.

"I am a missionary," he said. "Now, don't faint, until I can make you believe it. I am what you fellows call a heathen. Don't laugh or faint. Wait a minute." And the missionary unfolded a valise full of speeches and recommendations.

Sophomores Hold Fort.

The sophomores are in possession of the water tank on the campus, around which many a class struggle has been waged. Early this morning they painted a great sign with their numerals, '10, thereon, and placed it near the top of the tower. Of course it would not have been nice to stay there all day in the rain defending it, so the ingenious sophs carried a lot o material to the top of the 100-foot tower and constructed a little bungalow in which they stayed as in a fortress all day. It is likely the freshmen will try tonight to take down their rivals' numerals, and if they do a big college scrap will be the result.

A feature of the registration this morning was the number intending to take law. Students from all grades in the liberal arts department heretofore, even up to its graduates, have switched to law and the first year law class this year promises to be from two to three times as large as that of last year. The abolition of the $20 fee is said to be partly responsible for the rush for the legal course.