The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 17, 1909, Page 4

SESS EAS SEES ESSER RRR EERE EEE THE SEATTLE STAR Y STAR PUBLISHING CO, 1907-1309 Seventh Ave. EVRY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Bntered at the Postottion at Geattion Washington, as ne eee SERS AE EERE LS CONSULT THE CHIEF There can be no worthy reason for any slighting on the part of the board of public works of the advice or recommenda tions of Chief Bringhurst on matters relating to the fire de partment to being the executive head of a large number of men, is also The chief of the fire department, in addition the man possessing the greatest technical knowledge ing fires and fire protection know details much better than any member of the board of public works can ever expect to. His fession is one that takes years of long and arduous training, together with deep study of matters that seldom, if ever, come to the attention of the members of any board In Mr. Bringhurst, Seattle has a fire chief whose reputa tion is high with the men of his profession throughout the nation, and, what is still more significant, with those cold blooded gentlemen who deal in insurance. These being the facts, it can hardly be to the best interests of the city for the board of public works to omit the chief from their sources of technical information There are, of course, occasions when the fire department concern In the nature of things he must these technical pro has to be considered in its relation to other departments, with the city's finances, etc., and it is here that the board of public works becomes the sole judge. But even on these occasions it would appear that the fire department, through its chief, should be given a hearing, and certainly whenever questions afise involving technical or expert knowledge the chief's opin jon should be sought and well The Star appreciates the good work that is being per- formed by the board of public works, perhaps in as full a measure as any, but feels that the best interests of the city! demand frank and friendly co-operation between it and the heads of thé various departments. weighed. ‘The fact that the Great Northern With Mr. Datsell at the head of * ewes Gordon instead of|the rules committee, the country Gordon owing the Great Northern|## reasonably secure from any $60,000, only goos to show how) 4rastic reduction of the tariff. @asy it is for a corporation to act hestily in de The revolt of those eight soldiers ‘Git ceiectesits in Cuba will hardly justify the Unit Fortunately, events have so |? States jumping tn at this time |and grabbing the tal ee It begins to look as if Uncle Joe shaped themselves that the pur- @hase of a rock crusher by the county will not result in the ex termination of the county commis. sieners. ot humor pxufed by Mr. Cushman ———— While deploring the total, we| Hereafter perhaps Mr. McKin cannot help but admire the mathe- Matical accuracy that tells us the 8. E. company will be exactly 118 ars short this summer. or “the gang” te the boss. a The various shades were not popular dressers today. of with saffron careful Students of disorder will doubt lees note that al! proposed oppost tion to Mr. Jack Johnson tn the} The Hon. Hiram C. Gili is the south is predicated on the posses-/ most promising of this spring's crop sion of firearms. of czars. RNR Se POSTS OH OSESeSeSeSeSeses OUTBURST OF EVERETT TRUE POCPESOSOS SHES SSOSSS OS eSeSeHeSeHosoes ed Sete WHEN 4 This YOU (7 ALREADY CARRYING MORE 4/FPB@ INSURANCE THAN 4 CAN AFFORD, YNAT'? YOUR CVE TO SNEAK, MR. AGENTL Deo You GEY THAT! YOU DONT UNDERSTAND, DROP IN AGAIN TOMORROW ABOUT wee Time AND Whie AVE 417748 REWEARSAL LY ee ee. FACTS TO WARM IRISH HEARTS. More than half of Ireland bas passed into the absolute ownership of those who till It, and this one-half is owned by 225,000 former tenant farmers, 145,000 of whom have become owners within the past four yea rs. More than 4,000 evicted tenants have been given restocked farms within the last five yea) During the last decade 60,000 laborers’ cottages have been erected, each with its four rooms, slate roofed, comfortabie and sanitary, with !ts plot of ground, and rented at the nominal rate of @ shilling a week. was won last year that which O'Connell sought, ang Iriah people have clamored for for generations—a vational upt- versity. The title for this new university was settled by ‘the letters of patent recently issued, constituting it the “National & name which gives great satisfaction University of Ireland,” to all. During the past two years the arms bill has been repented, PPP eS SPSS SPSS SSS Pee eee eee ee ee }really enjoyed the peculiar brand| non will know whether the people| 00000 | vapecially, for tthe ceaseless searching for a job | newspaper room of the Seattle pub- | Iie Mbrary jan interesting jactions when oblivious to all but jand miserable outaide. /THE 1 > THAT ONCE {THROUGH TARAS HALLS: The soul of music ow shed, § a5 mute on Taras vally® Ag if that soul were fled - & ¢ & % ®& ‘CUSTODIAN or PUBLIC READING ROOM sitio Ho HUMAN NA TURE MUCH TO INTEREST THE SERVANT PERSON TO BE FOUND AT LIBRARY. Human nature, as depicted by the habitues of a public reading room. is an interesting story that one can hear by talking a little while with A. J, Villars, who presides over the Men, womon and children come and go in the room d¥/ in and day out, and Mr, Villare bas found it study to discern | their motives tn life, thetr fuflings, fancies and folbles from the papers they read and the manner of their the one thought that took them to this sewepaper reading room. | Every Kind of Men Found. | “What kind come here?” he anid tm anewer to a question. y kind that ever bad the breath of) life breathed into them. Ol4 and/ young, rich and poor, strange and! simple, busy and idle. Beme to wot & glimpse of their home paper some, poor souls, In the winter tine warmth and sest, mind and body, weary of sick tn which they feeble, of ev jity. They mre all to be acon here! |day after Gay, week in and week t, from November to March. "Not so many now’ No, the fi weather bas started, and work is more plentiful. It t# not so cold! Spring ts hold. Strong and y type and national-} here. Tell you something of them—of individuale—ot types? Well, that's onay Eager for News of Home. “Take the man who comes in at tunch time or in the evening look at his home paper, You can ‘The O14 Broken Kecord. How doar t is heart ts the phono- araph ‘What fond a my om ory stir! Sweet Jane does the winding and turps on the music White I sit and tell her the tunes 1 prefer. But oh, how It tears my nerve system to tatters. Oh, how It derangea my comfort and bliss When Jane idiy stips on an old braken record Which reels off a song that sounds something like this “The old oaka-ka-ka—bucka Ducks -bucke Ir + bou-wow-wow (ortek t) Cortex, ortek, ertck— 09) ‘That—hunk-kek-k (ber) w-el-l” My stock of canned music I hatl as a treasure Por often when callers appear on the scene @ acarce, it is truly « one's happy: ‘The phonograph pleases wil Jane, 90 remin Forgets shout winding the works 0 treasure, Which “atawis ut @ tune that oes something Hike this “mee tit oe er 8-o Mainly « Matter of Dress. Mra. Phet Stokes, in tlustration f the Feelly oo ficial and silght rf extate between nd [sw + pag) people, re ti meeting in w York, « conversation between @ little girl and h “The Uitte girl,” Phelps Stokes, “belong Now York's tah patron families and ons day she said to her mother thought- fully stWill 1 wear my gi trocks when I q 0.0, my tthe aven? " the mother an Paria awered fo that it is the legal right of any Irishman now to own a gun ‘Why not? and become skilled in its use should he #o desire *Bacauee Werle frocks are set ‘Two years ago the tenants in towns and eities were given eee ilitle ‘irl frowned. the right by law to compensation for good will and bettermenta “How, then, doa iy, know up as a condition precedent to ejection—a privilege not enjoyed . id, ‘that I belon ywhere else in the world beat society T’ Philadelphia Beginning with this new year there goes into effect in Tt Was Simply Aw Treland the old age pensions bill, and it is estimated that at Dr. 1. M. Van Meter wa least 70,000 men and women there will be relieved of the before the dowk of th horrors and the shame of the possibility of the poorhouse. Leg be pee ~ & or “fit up” and the two men REE EREEH EEK hhh (gtood there smoking and talking lthissiemeninhatenamanetiy Joe Wood, tho clerk, waa working "7 SS | behind the desk. Suddeniy he in Not actevine: | mark my words, now—that youna torgupted the conversation A young Englishman, after he had | hy Bee He S-washin’ Biecel he waid, “which one of you min Devi) Valley for a couple a Hy babe | r a 4 ie smonths, began to grow thin, uilur—whet do you mean cooking aid not appeal t6 | eet Une nities the |. “The bachelor le worse off | than @ Of those cigars is ine | married How do you sald make n, ata ne peed e married man ia afraid of | whe eu whlee ine ON every vel only @ woman; the, bachelor is| smoke, knew the clerk hed good iy wae usw Mena "1 ‘tell ye what, the visitor, “he's joat @ wastin lovin’ for some gal “Nothin’ 0° '¥, contemptucualy ftraid ot al ot ihe Post. aij) Buy @ Champion Gas Range and You! 601 & Goal Or Wood range free, — Houston | grounds for t @_ntatomont WANT-—Board and room. ) reads of his little home ba age sd the pride of former days. 5 thrill is. der, sateats thet oie beat high for pratsa STAR DUST A Word from Jo Wine. “An th? ye mever homely without # ing ines” « look “What's the between capital and lab Ww one ow works difference no the we and the owners Pri Ten and wit ate vastly aif iden: 44 “4o your brother iy & biographer IT didn't know you had a literary genius in ye mily.”* Literary Me runs the ti » Heath's thea Pranseript Lat him who stands take heed lest feel’ that pulye no more. THOMAS MOORE: es ee wager he's after something he thinks good. See how his face| brightened. No sir; it's true enough hope never dies. I hope } he'll get the job, A Bunch of Sleepers, “Don't seem vory interested, you say’ Which ongs? Oh, those at} the far end tn the back row, 6, those are the ones who look for work and pray God they don't find| it. They get as far j ean no I can't see them, and steal ® quiet nap, if possible , you cant allow siceping hare. ty would never do. You see, there is only s#eatl capacity for 115, and we've had many as 1,000 here in one day—over 800 by actual count, and I am far too busy to] Count them all, Last year at the lowest estimate there were over 225,000 people in this room alone. “Nationalities? 1 should say yes We have German and Freneb, Can adian and Scandinavian, English | eaere,.| 80d Italian, and all sorts of reading matter he There's a bunch of forelaners over there, nee, reveling in outlandish looking print a tol Some of them not very clean? oe he | No. that’s trae. But I guess they | would be if they could get a decent town and th te Watch wien | bath for leas than two bite. ] A. d. VILLA see the eagerness with which looks for it, and the delight fille hia eyes when be picks jand the sheer pleasure ¢ every line of his countena: he that up. hin friends back east read it. See him turn to the, loca! Many Ordinary Folks. Ne ent care. . My twe | briefs and the city notes—-how-he| “A brighter side? Bure there ts|**"#?t*r* *f* In love And can’t oat Tevels in t breath wafied to tim | — majority of those who come Invinetble Armument. many miles from his old town and| here are well-todo folks, ‘prking Bi (argu i | countryatde jand business men and such. But) }.'e!l you “Take another | there who fust came in and selted | go. You don't get much out of the morning paper Water him | them they are commonplace, of jturn t he advertising column. | dinary, ry day. It te the ones Now and see if there i# any.) who have had to fight and struggle thing he can anewer, No, nothing. |in Mfe's battle that show the char- He throws It down and sit# back) acter. Used to it? Self-contained? all petered out. If there'd béen| Expressioniess? Yes, outside. But anything he would have crammed/in here they are alone with thelr his hat on his head and been out/ paper and are off their guard, OB, of here like a shot you can read them—read them like “There; there's one off now Tle open book.” Ss SEEMED A MOST ‘NATURAL INQUIRY BY T. S. ALLEN. SS Jao ee ee ee ee ee ee ey MAN WHO MADE THE LINCOLN PENNY ONCE BOLD MATCHES FOR LIVING, Here's & wonder of America. In 1890 Victor Brenner, almost peni a8, came to this country from Par’ With his small fands he rented a cheap room and bought a supply of watches. He sold these day after day for a penny a box in New York. A penny looked very large to him then Then he got a job as engraver, which he had learned undet his father in Russia, He wae only 21 years of age, He got $4.60 a week, At night he went to the Cooper institute to learn clay modeling. His salary was raised. In 1896 he got $18 a week, With his savings he studied art in Paris. Then he returned to America, Now he has made the Lincoln penny. Hereafter, anybody who pays a penny for matches will hand out the coin designed by the lad who, less than 20 years ago, sold matches for @ living, SPSS SEES SESE EES isda ella Matt eMalted Re A dia Pad doe shdbeges SS ~twas him,” explained Patrick, Shame on ye!” exploded hin wife | SSP eee ete eee eeee Patrick ~ | eee 6. worse for hout sympathy A sphal Bagnaine the folken uf you to mot bate hose was broken little omahoun of a Dooteh though it ha alge of bin! | Why ‘Glory be! Yoru.” anid Patrick, “don't lal hat Dutchman Sobwartshel pecttully ot the dead” | that man o¥er/ they come in, read their paper and |e got | |given by the Irish Rose club, Labor |Temple Hall, Sixth and University, he fall.-Mible han Debater—Was my ar You — largely fi Yale ie It is @ bad hen that eate at your house md lay at another Ger man,» “Hay make a notwe like a from alittle. Tommy In Conversation confidende has Brester share than wit.--Rochefou Mrs. Benham 1 with you Wouldn't eat ple with your knife, one Hanke won't, ma'am. wilh get the ax.—Chicago I-f gonerally epolie regret One-half the world doesn't know how the other half can afford au tomobilon. When a » rl fen't talking she is gixkling 1 of the two we Dreter the wan Simplified spelling seems to be « gase the English language being Even when a man gets a fun for hiv money, he should be careful lost he doonn't have to walk back. man wh tue b utation for wisdom ing wise « r by simply look- Sunshioe Follows the Ratm, The world goos up and the worl goes down nehine follows the rain: * sneer and yoster- me ovet again Te My Clee You 1 love thee wall Ir ors apite Thy et all other ada dispel, And lap me in delight fhe Con! . She-—If @ man feally loves his | wife, he'll give up smoking to please Ton, of co b 4 a ber husba’ “ her sak think of @emandin, gecrifice from him. — ¥ Brith of provisions ts extremely j A.-Y.-P.E. MYSTIC EMBLEM Have you tried to fathom the A-Y¥ -P. E. mystic embiem? if you have, how many tetters have you found? For your information The Star going to tell you that there are a lot of letters there; enough let tere to make a great number of words. Within a day or two we are go- | on ing to tell you of the way to win a prize, In the meantime, study the embiem carefully, Make a note of every letter you discover and trace it as it appears on the em- biam. Wf you do this, you will have a start on those who walt for the full details, and there may be some thing in bd for you, LAUGHTER, tte nd Grief, and Knenies to Laughter. Byt olf Laughter with a shout jose up and attacked ‘em, Put the Wallop Kod ‘em. Lauabter frivols day and night, Sometimes he's bubble, But be hath « of might In_a bout with Troubia, —John Kendrick Batge in Alnsiee's. College Foot ons Barred, * said the farmer, “I've en You the best education the in the shop.” Now ilsten: swear at the mule in G Gon't wae po Latin « no French his way Georgy dialect th wus raised to; its my opt the mule won't t r fooliahne Atlanta Cormtitution ST. PATRICK DANCE TONIGHT, St. Patrick dance at Dreamland tonight. Special features. 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