The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 4, 1909, Page 10

SAN FRANCISCO, Ju At ne 4 the corner of California and Devie adero ate, San Franciaco, in a little booth scarce large ght two full g t stande t day a bt ) papere clgars and magazines. His sig are tt and very mild; his face is round and dimpled, and his mouth |e email and undeveloped, like a child's. This is John W. Paxton, son of Blitz Paxton, a California million! aire, He is a hero b ‘i t } de Yet t “ « men who rar\ bitad boy | and all that w of soul Advers many fact ing « and ried f was his both we sudden! turned to the he in Rochester, N. Y was but § years old, Jobe ing on his head ough to the optic nerve he wa into a world of darkness. The of specialists swallowed up Mrs Paxton's modest bank the resources of her father as well he Hb that ix Paxtor tw Pa band and re her futher wher trik me he When latter died, she wa left p feally penniless, She choked back her pride and jour neyed to California to secure from her former husband, Paxton, the millionaire banker, an allowance sufficient to support the children She made no plea for herself. He consented to a small monthly al Jowance, but when he was married & second time, soon after, he sud denly cut off the allowance. Then desperate, the first Mrs. Paxton appealed to the courts for Justice JOHN PAXTON, CIGAR VENDER, A HERO — wide AE alton! Medats | JOHN PAXTON IN THE STAR—FRIDAY, JUNE 4 HIS CIGAR BOOTH, AND HIS SISTER ROMA John Pextor ed | he in a happy t hard-working o ¢ and moderately prosperc 1 find very few people who are 1 to the pro | fot honest,” he say Whey my emotion He Slater helps me eash up in the f protecting @¥ening, the me is alwaye just his moth be ® right and the stock as It should from pov hen | fv be, Of course, when |} sell cigars was forced 4p $2,000 as al man might easily ke more f Mra. Paxton is entitled to; but 4, the boy with the | h« I think, People are ured an at Ve I know the keye « ed \ os, bin a a stoc . veling just ¢ clga naines and 2 a What coln ie given me and what I pers, & oth's rent pald for his return and an abiding faith in the No, I don't think the hours are honesty of his fellow men long. Lote of people stop and tell Me no plea for patronage Wwe about what le golog on In town on the score of his affiletion. He! and around the world Sometimes learned to make change, to find, they read something interewting with his fingers, any article asked out of the paper to me and in that ‘or To com e with other stands way | keep pretty well posted of meant from 14 to 18 hours in bis all that |e @ booth every day in the week, for You mild?” and the he could not afford an assistant, swift, seeking fing go unfalter Success comfort for his ingly to the proper box againg mot and a completed) There are n heroes unsunk education for his stwter, Failure meant hardship for all i a AN John Paxton merchant, ts j one ciga RICKISHA PARTIES IN VOGUE NOW |COLONEL HOLCOMB IS THE FOUNDER OF | | NEW FAD. Idea Takes, and Many Are | Now Planning to Fol. | low Suit. PHILADELPHIA BOYCOTTS ITS STREET CAR LINE JUST ARRIVE Al | Abas the t © whist With the ok toa! Beattle lety he lineovered” the jinriek-| inha It ie net the “Jinrie of com-| merce; it le the Snr of the fair grounds, and wh wreat similar in ite tone it le not as baneful ts ate The newest soclety fad was “prune night, when Captata Phillip Payne Holeomb, UB A who |e en ro from Fort Leaven-| wore on Ra egy entertala MEMBERS OF “| WALK” CLUB IN PHILADELPHIA ENJOYING A ed a party of @ dosen friends at a , inrickishaw party at the M tor ORIVER'S HOSPITALITY and Merrit the itreak PHILADELPHIA, June 4.—Phil-| ers, and they form t hand It was th est kind A gay! H and event, and {t created a real sensa-|*°!phia folk, in fighting the raine Drivers of tear at jon when finally it hit the Streak |In street car fares, have formed “1 | NoUnced through the 5 hat and pulled up in front of the “war| Walk” clubs they would gladly carry along ce department” bullding 0 tain routes persons who refused to h scores of street corners every uae the wtreet cars Since then On the Firing Line morning knots of folk gather to sights vans loaded with tollers The start wae made from the| ¥4lk to business. fo far the nov | bound for work are not uncom head of the Cascades, In the central | Cty Of It seems to please the walk. | mon court and Captair " omb led hie party through eve corner of the exposition grounds betas re start a Hale A whieh wil make a compre exhibit of ng for t Stree dinner KENTUCKY TO was serv the Dohemia cafe aod then the party went down on| EXHIBIT the firing line The ricklahas were lined up tn front of the Monitor and Merrimac ho ea = / structure, while BE. W. MeConoell) Kentucky will be represented at ARE YOUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS ANY GOOD? AT LAST HERE IS MAN WHO CAN TELL YOU HOW TO MEASURE THEM Ree eR ARR eee eee ee RRA RARER ERE * * ® ‘FOREIGNERS MAKE * * BETTER SCHOOLS. * * —Ayres’ Figures. * * _ * * Percentage Percentage & * School Foreign * @ City, Efficiency. Population « # Boston .. 67 * f& Minneapolis . 63 * * ag eee eS, * f@ New York ... 62 * f& St. Louls .... 5) * ® Cleveland ... 0 * f& Cincinnati... 48 * ® Jersey City .. 45 * & Philadelphia . 38 * ® Baltimore ... 35 * ® New Orleans. 31 * * * Reka ekeheenee About the hardest thing to measure is the efficiency of the public schools. Are our public schools any good? is a question that fs hard to| answer in a convincing way. Can they be made any better? is an other serious question, © When is a school good? When fe it bad? Leonard P. Ayres, expert of the Russell Sage foundation, is at last finding « measure for public schools. He has studied the schools of 63 Amerfean cities, an@ a report | will shortly be made to educators all over the country. One of Ayres’ teste. is How | strongly do the schools draw the children and how long do they hold them? The average American city car ries ail its children to the sixth half of them through the age grade, and one-tenth through the high school. This means that the average American school ts not doing all that it fs assumed to do. The number of puplis who drop| Rapids keep most of their pupils | effictency CLAIMS ARCH CONTRACT es = DR. J. N. SAXE Dentist Graduate of Northwestern University Dental School, Chi cago. Expert and Careful Latest Methods Only. Prices Reasouable. All Work Guaranteed. 337-840 Arcade Bidg. AFTER THE 4TH OF JULY will be no more wu A t BARGAINS as you can get now at our REMNANT SALE. If you are going to do any papering this summer, you should buy now Federal Paint & Wall Paper Co., 1914 First Av. OSTEOPATHY Electricity, vibration, apy hot alr sweat Halt ther batlia, and other Optteal rooine and treating eyes joes in Beattie. Con Treatments $1 each opath and Optician jes Bank ide. flecond and Pike Metn 2451 W AGREE TO PAY ALL, YOUR MONEY BARNS Cont Paid ar i sere. A fine new line " Furnishings, Hats, Caps and Bult . Also Full Dress Suite for eee e ee ee ee eee man In 65 American cities there Of these 212,400 difin't pase, taking their grade over again It cost Cah these children whe don It looks as if the blame It costs $85,966. Yet they spend 15 per cent work which they Any business enterprise, and a failure. LEONARD P. AYRES. out before they finish the grade ts @ fair test of any school system. Hut how high do they go before they begin to drop out is another impc-tant question, In the southern cities many colored chil dren drop owt in the fourth grade In Baltimore, Camden, N. J, and Newark, N. J, many drop uot in the fifth grade The Ohio citied lost most in the sixth grade, Minneapolis, Boston and Grand) SHUT OUT FINANCE COMMITTEE OBJECTS TO GRANT GIVING WORK WITHOUT BIDDING. Charging that the contract for the erection of the proposed expo sition “Welcome” arch had been awarded by Building Superintend ent Grant without the formality of calling for bids and without spect fieations, contrary to law, Council Goddard has been trying for two days to have the ordinance held up until all contractors who desire be given a chance to bid on the work This morning Goddard appenied to Mayor Miller to hold off signing the bill until Grant promised to eall for public bide, The mayor did not promise to do this, and this afternoon the members of the $1 will Bvery having no You can $13,719,000 to keep these to run these 66 school systems ought to have done run on this basia, would be wrong elghth | are 1,907,000 school children in either 1907 or 1908, and are eaters In school t pass be blamed? te on the school systems of this money to do over again In the first place * a * . e * * * * * * RHR ARAARARARARARARAER EERE e juntil they are through with the seventh grade In Quincey and Haverhill, Mas« the children don't stop until they are in the eighth grade. Another test of schoo! efficiency js: “How many children have to ‘repeat thetr grades?” j Mass., only 65 per In Somervilie cent of the children have to go through @ grade more than once; Camden, N. J, senda 20 per cent of her children through her grades twice, This means that ber schools jeost her 30 per cent more than they ought to | In the average city only 16 per | Attendance at school Is another test. There are very few citlew In which as many as three-fourths of |the children go to school three lfourths of the time In }0 American cities, Mr. Ayres }aays, It was found that the schools of 36 cities were improving and of 15 ettles were going backward, Many schools were found were crowded In the and contained few pupils In the upper grades In these schools many repeaters were found In the lower grades, which choked admis sion to the school Mr. Ayres eays it Is wrong to blame school inefficiency ers. He says that his figu: | that the presence of a large foreign element always goes with a high that COMPETITION panes ¢ commit Goddard's request by appearing be | ¥ fore the city's chief executive and| Who hae a valuable j insisting that the arch deal be put |through on a hast square business nt acknowledged to me said Goddard today, “that he had given the contract to Stehlow Freese & Peterson without any specification or bids further than off-hand figures, which, he claims, were submitted to him. This is no way to do business, and | want to see that the city gets the benefit of real competition. The arch is to cont $6,900 MRS, STEPHEN FISK DEAD. PAWTUCKET, R. 1, June 4 Mrs, Stephen N. Fisk, vice regent of the National Society of the | '*¥ Daughtere of the American Revo lution, died yesterday 00 a Week Dress You Well woman's credit ie good for a apring or summe sult here. Our prices are low high rents to pay pay as you get paid National Supply Co. 1408 2nd Ave. LADIES’ OUTFITTERS. ard Floor Denny Bidg. Take Elevator. ya, cent of the children are repeaters | 1S INJURED BY. low grades) ~ STATUARY 1 BROKEN | An unfortunate accident, which Gold Crowns, 00 resulted in the destruction of $5,000} 22k gold $5. worth of fine Italian statuary, oc Bridgework, extra $5 00 leurred in the Italian section of the m ahd bd » will ten with ‘suppleiment | Ortental building at the AcYoP. Old ings 1000 one up iterday afterne M. Romenallt, |B aoia Aiioy exhibition tn |e OP hye $1.00 that section, tumbled against the Biiver 50 end of a stand carrying seven Pilline@ sscees c |pleces of statuary, which were |[ Extrac thrown to the floor and broken eee _50¢ One, a handsome Carrara marble, oy HOR aay sake, was valued at $1,000 clalist, who devotes his ams | the and hie staff received the members of the party and escorted them the big reception room, where cut flowers were awaiting the ladies. After witnessing the big war time epectacie, Captain Holeom® and hie guests of Mr. woeks by « Ar rangements for 1,400 square feet of space in the gallery of the Palace of Agriculture were completed by the exposition In about two comprehensive exhibit friends became the the Loulaville Chamber of Com McConnell, who added another ritks) merce with Director of Exhibite isha to the procession and led 1 OF! Hoseh today the hill to his other attraction, (he! The only remaining apace In the Rattle of Gettysburg allory of the Agricultural buildin A half dosen other rica couned by the Southern Te. events are planned for the near fu | , ture, and it ie to be sald that the owners of Pay Streak attractions are not doing anything to discous age the habit Puget Market Co.’s Big White Market FOR SATURDAY THE CITY’S FINEST MEAT DISPLAY the American tobacco industry MAS, BLA TD SPEAK <2 WN WOWMN'S BULONG | oo Mrs, Margaret Blatr, director of worth $30 to I domestic arts of the University of Lh aot ° 8 Minnesota, is in the city to de = liver a series of lectures on home economies tn the Woman's tid ing at the A-Y-P. The first loc ture will be Saturday afternoon at Home 4 o'clock, on the subject of Making Art Bo | MEN'S SAMPLE SUIT Attention, Men ——— oe ee AOLIYE FRE —r | : _lstent at entiy whe S BUY of me y D—OVEF TERATIONS FREI TS. OF CHARGE =, tse - etic" ad - Ay we * per Yb, 18% | Sliced Premium Ham, 2 posh Faney milk ted “a | oitees for ahe = George F. Cotterill is in receipt oante, per th. " Rastern Hacon 4. per Ib. 206 of & telegram from Washington thle ip Oe "t re ae | Heat Kastern H per ib ie A PERFECT FIT "GUARANTEED means from W, BE Humphries, ®8 1 presi dressed Chickens Wystinaion Creamery Bete Progress with the times. Be uptodate. This new Ma lollowe rib ate aa AM . handling sample suite in an office build Your commission as delegate to Fibs each 90s, te Yer | Lecal Bane Begs:'t dos pod penee; means & saving of over onetslf to ¥ a Wil go ) congress on alcoholism will be jg Freeh éreesed Brotiers, fmoked Beet Tongues, each. 00 cans it & gdenenet rt 1D 706 you signed today. Congratulations SAUSAGE, SAUSAGE. SAUSAGK. W. E. HUMPHRIES. we yOut OMP manufacture, We know it's clean and pure, Prices no S | algher thers te 0b an trerensall TRULY WARREN, Sample Suit } congress on alcoholism held fn Lon don, Eng. July 16 to 24. About & week ago Mr. Humphries, together | with the other membres of the dele gation in congress from this city and also Senator Piles, joined tn a recommendation to Secretary of State Knox that Cotterill be named as one of the delegate from the United States, MAIN FLOOR SOUTH MODERN METHOD DENTISTS AN AUTOMOBILE Nick Samius, a laborer who re wides at Fifth av. and Jefferson st, was struck by an mutomobtie and wertously injured near the exposl- afternoon, witence hos pital, where it was learned that he was suffering from internal injuries and severe bruises The auto whieh ran down Samiue dieappeared in medintely after the accident THE EXTREME rr bestow on our br bridging teeth fay tee with tive people made dentistry af painioes an it Ie pomsible to do by every method that ean be devine surceon dentisue we upet with every I TTALAN SECTION Full Bet of T n entire time to this work All work done painlessly by modern electrical devices. INVESTIGATE OUR EASY PAYMENT PLAN MASKED MEN ROB; SECURE A BIG SUM (iy United Pree). BERKELEY, Cal, June 4—Phree Our operators are_all expert masked men early today overpow araduate dentists, We employ a the wait onatien no etudents ered the watchman and engineer at eemteation tive the plant of the Pacific Guano & \ Office Hours, #:20 a. m. to 7 Fertilizer company, in Weet Berke pm, Sundays, 9 tl 1 p.m. looted the concern'’s safe and made their escape in a launch. The safe crackers overpowered watchmen after a hard fight, and, tying bis hands and feet with) heavy rope, gagged him and dumped him Into an empty freight car etand- ing on a sidetrack nearby MODERN METHOD DENTISTS Suites ©. PD and C, Rrunet About $1,000 In money and many Bide. Becond and niversity valuable Opposite Btone - her Co, i" sy 0 Store. Entrance 207 _ — -—--— University st For the Little Ones [queens Comfortable Carpe rlages and wifivu tomo" Ladies’ Hats Reblocked Get Poyner's Prices."| irq d 8. H. POYNER = |cica sand Panamas of all kinds bleached, dyed and re FURNITURE sewed In latent styles. | Waldorf Bidg., 708-10) ; | Pike 9 : 4020, | $50 O Reward For any of aicholiam that I eannot cure In from § to 6 days. J. B. BRISBOIS Globe Hotet Sult Cases Traveling Bags MEEK TAUNK 4 BAG CO, 019 Firet Ave. Cor, First Av, and Main #¢, Private Office, Ind. 4221, THE BIG WHITE MARKET PUBLIC MARKET BUILDING. 2M TAKE ELEVATOR. Showing a \ Stetson System Coat p n s¢ V With a Fancy Vest free (our regular price the very latest patterns and weaves, and are can buy, made up in the latest styles. Ou New York, and has an unquestionable reco Why pay the down stairs man’s $300 per 1 ing; that is why we can do it. Saturday an sample of any $45 to $50 Suit and we will you a suit free. Satisfaction or money refunded. STETSON TAILOK 365-366 Empire Bldg. OPEN EVENINGS Take the Elevator to Third Floor. 22 auaxe BUILDING. SECOND AND MARION Saturday and Monday we ut on sale 300 Suit Patterns# vedium and heavy weights & id $45 and Made for up our order Saturday and Mond $45 up). These goods are® finest woolens that me is. direct the r head rd for cutting and designer nonth rent? rent i§ : d Monday Bring: duplicate it for $22.50 oF mm Our $22.50, Entrance 914 Second.