The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 6, 1909, Page 1

yor tl. NO. ws PEAT AUTHORITY 1S CONVINCED THAT GOOK H AISCOVERED THE POLE 8 of American Explorer Is Examined by the | World’s Foremost Arctic Authority, Captain Otto Sverdrup, and Latter Says He Now Firmly Be- feves That Pole Was Reached. STEWART. United Press.) BY CHARLES P. (Copyright, 1909, by the ‘to Sverdrap, the world’s fore Dr. Frederick A. Cook's data of the truthfulness of Cook's AG ant pas anhoune | Bim Sverdrup s 0 t ha oved the last vestige of eabt of the Danish pe Sverdruy ed that he believed in _ we claim when b ead the early accounts of the discov- , hower wa 1 with Cook for an hour at the betel, He « srefully over the measuring, reckoning and Maia and questioned Cook closely, Then he ancounced his un- @adorsement of ¢ claim Cook HARRIMAN [5 pees: ONCE MOREIN that he is an “ama-| Has Suffered Relapse, and His Condition Is Said to Be Alarming—His Fam- ily Notified. Cook data ds correct, but admits that believes (b+ that Padectist," as compared with) if the others now studying! I" scientists can Teckoning® and maps that he did not reach | [Relieve that Cook will ip findings willingly and} that he made a mis-| delighted with Sver-| teRNERS Y., Sept. 6—E. H ee and believes if}. OPN E*® N- ¥ ; ie satisfied by | Harriman, the raliroad king, has ‘xamination of his|*#uffered a relapse, and his condi have no diffi-|tion ie alarming, hiv family and o tire sclen-ifew intimate friends having been Jnotified to this effect, according to j@ report here and at Arden today | No information whatever ts obtain jable at Tower Hill. | The relapse is reported to have oceurred Saturday, “following a jshort automobile ride. | The report is given color by the |fact that the Chicage Express, on : . p IN VAIN ithe Erie road, which does not usual- (By United Press) | | i lly stop at Arden, stopped last night to allow a party of men and women to alight. The men carried physt clans’ handbags, and one of the | women ia believed to be a special “ | Harriman home. wd Once, and They ei. tie ioted that no mem Away When He ber of Harriman’s family attended It—Body Recov- chureh yesterd Harriman re. cently issued a statement to the press that guards were removed |from Tower Hill. Today the guarde —_e | were again on daty. It is impossible eamisind to approach the residence, and ef | emeabiagpendl bona forts to communicate with the 4 to Axel T. Pete pserrenen, home by phone were fu- shouted for help aga 0 ee ne ting at the of Forse PY the ‘the shore help was) ) ¥, these stcond cry who was a partner in} Clothes Renovating com-| pet 103 Seneca st, failed to} Warning of the old table J |, Who called “Wolf" the people, and then got no the wolves really did ‘Upon his flock By United Press.) Laughes BEVERLY, Mass., Sept. 6~-Sec mt Warning. retary of the Interior Ballinger v Gaily Decorated Floate When be first cried out those on} ited President Taft and ex-| At least fifty gully decorated (Washed to his asuistance, and| plained his position in connection | floats and several bands added color E. Tottager, his part-/ with the Cunningham Alaskan coal |and music to the spectacle. The nine him to stop his foolish-| lands cases, in whi the vis {divisions formed at Fifth av, and the man } ed at the| charges were made, and which have| Union st., and the line of march was and swan out on the| been gtven publicity in connection |as follows back to about 75 feet from| with the Ballinget-Pinchot contro-| On Fifth to Pik ton Pike to Seo fl vorsy lond, on Second to King, on ng to he cried “Help,” and Owen | 7 ts ed that Chief F ter| First, on Firat to Pine, thence to Bets, & special park policeman,| Pinchot will be asked to Westlake, where the marchers dis i the shore and warned him| signed statement of his con se banded and took cars to Woodland p his folly. m relation to charges made park, where the various sports ar as meen it this ti Help! |against the Ballinger ad stra-|ranged for the occasion were wit eet be scseamed, and he sank | tion neased Rover came up agair It {# stated that Taft will take the} The firet division was composed data submitted by both officials, |of the officers of the Central Labo ety fe Found along with the Glavie charges, and |Counell and Nordatromi's band. The ! the first! will study them during Dis western | Visiting unions followed in the sec- g hooks, im-| trip. fond division, and in the third were Beneath the spot where cciinidglon |the Georgetown untons, headed by Was Been to sink |the Georgetown band. The fourth Was about 20. He ate jand fifth divisions were the largest og kept his clothes at |!n the parade ‘ shop, and lived in a} | Fight for Honors. : boat: @ Washiy r the | Both the Teamsters’ apd Carpen-| i ong age 1g, ters’ unions tried to wrest from each | «tel mn & Hom lother the honor of having the ees rooms | Margest number, and the question ‘i a \had not been decided when the ; yr | |pageant started. The carpenters At ‘ Sere were in the fourth division and the ; 7 0 ‘ ATTIRED AS MARINE, SHE 18 (eumsters, with thelr clown band : ARRESTED BY POLICEMAN in the following division, The BUT SOON LET GO. PASSENGERS. SAVED . a : was | Arrayed in the uniform of a > Sept. 6-~ | United States maxine, Mary Thomr > rentian has on, a pretty youre Test: | se Race, and ed in comy Bu tal joss, |Chanan, a marin Iman Jing the |Landon at the f ngton ought she |#t. ear ente morning them long. When asked why she was mas ne have been |querading as a boy the girl said #he z was impelled by a desire to view t vag th c waterfront saloon ee eee ee he told Captain of Pollee ’ *» V never again for me Just 8 TE ye A3Y-P. Attendance # let me go this once and I wifl away “ Materday 25,069 w| with th iffragette stuff. ‘+4 a) ‘ 1 | Ball in the sum of $1 ’ , * | acce ed and the marine and t AES eee +e ine left hastily, ol Fooled th |trained nurse. The party entered 0 an automobi nd hastened to the! THE SEATTLE | received here: Commander Peary {with him the finest in the United States Sremeereers sree va 'Great Showing Made by | Unions in Their Parade, | and All Union Men Are Having a Big Picnic. | Majestically marching through the downtown streets in the longest and most attractive pageant ever | partielpated in by the unions of Se attle, ten thousand men and women, |representing various trades, opened jthelr great Labor Day celebration by a monster parade, which was fol lowed by a basket picnic and ath letic games in Woodland park In the afternoon and a ball in the evening Never before in the history of Se Mitle’s organized labor has a greater Rutiber turned out to ce ate the one day in the year allotted to the unfontsts than the strike up at 10 o'clock this morning every man fell in line and the pa rade was started | were | waitresses rode the last division All along the line of march there were solid banks of people with their noise producing instrument | and cheers for labor's hosts. All in Line Today. The fact that today’s labor parade was a record breaker is due, in to the announcement made {n automobiles in measure by some of the unfons that any of ite | members fatled to participate would be fined $5 each When the parade disbanded the was a grand rash for the cara bound fov Woodland park, where the firat nt on the program was a base A hurdle race wag next followed the other num ba! and then 1-~"Continued on Page 7.) | crowd of march | jers that moved through the stre today. Not a hiteh occurred to delay jthe start of the grand parade, f jwhen Grand Marsha! George List man signaled the leading band to| SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, § New York, Sept. 6.---The following dispatch has been “Indian Harbor, via Cape ‘Ray, Nova Scotia, Sept. 6.--- Stars and Stripes nailed to the North Pole. Coming after the announcement of the discov- ery of the North Pole by Dr. Cook, Commander Peary’s telegram today threw Arctic enthusiasts into the wildest excitement, and there are ali sorts. of polar speculation rife today. : a 's friends in New York are proudly assert- ing that he is the discoverer of the pole, and that is a charlatan and a faker. draw much hope from the ambiguous form of the message, and contend that there is i which says that Peary discovered the They assert that the message is nothing more than a confirmation of Dr. Cook's discovery, and that it is Dr. Cook who “nailed the Stars started on his last trip in search of the North Pole in July, 1908, just a few jmonths after Dr. Cook declares he found the pole. |Peary Jeft on board the steamer Roosevelt, which ‘he had built for Arctic explorations. He carried juipment that was ever prepared or a northern expedition. LABOR SHOWS ARRAY FOR ITS BIG DAY “PTEMBER 6, 1909. PEARY FINDS POLE “Peary.” ROBT. E, PEARY. VACATION SEASON {8 OVER AND IT'S WORK AND STUDY FROM NOW ON. In moat of the homes of this city there will he a great scurrying and running about tomorrow tygrning at about § o'clock. Faces that Have not been washed for weeks Willyhave to lundergo that operation, and shoce and stockings that have been dis- carded rince June 21 will be put on | with much pain and mental anguish, for school epens tomorrow, follow - ing the summer vacation. At the high wchools there will be }the regular large classes of fresh- jmen, wh will have to suffer for the sing af the ones who held that position last year. The upper cla men with their superior wisdom will gather on the steps and talk over old time and tease the “freshies Aw it t# every ye IN GRAND Cook’s friends in it Pole. and Stripes” 7 THE MARINE MAN’S STORY Th eS waste this morning, or, as Cheva Hier puts It, “a dens! pened except the hasty passage of PROGRAM FOR TONIGHT: :30—Festival chorus competition—Amphithdatre. 45—Ellery's Band concert, including scene from fireworke—Geyser Dastn. French Fete—Auditorium. Dancing—Washington State, New York State, Spokane and Women's Buildings. Landing of King Rex and opening of Catnival Night, foot of the Pay Streak. Presentation of keys of the exposition to King Rex by President Chilbe Fireworks—Foot of the Pay Streal Faust, with 0. 30 00. 00 OR THE TALK HE PUT UP IN ORDER TO GO OUT TO CELE- BRATE SEATTLE DAY. @ water front was a deserted) veterans, about 220 strong, gath- ered at the Colman dock to take the steamer to Bremerton, where a state convention of the old sol diers ig to be held. disguetin’ dreary t." At 7:30 o'clock there was one old man there with nice white All the stores wong the front whiskers. He was sitting on a were closed.even the "Olde Curios lumber pile, reading the Bible ity Shop” refusing to do any | Towards eight a few longshore- ness, bag men, endimanche, strolled about as| The store of Dan BE. Erickso: |though loth to give up the habits wae plastered over with signe of a lifetime. Nothing else hap- Those on one window read “200,000 strong @# you promised, We're go- a large party from a sound vessel, ing,” and on another, “We love our who were all bound for the A.-Y.-P. store, but oh, you Seattle Day E. cars And so it was all the way along. Then there was @ little excite Nothing doing and everyone gone ment as a crowd of Spanish War to the Jair, —— ae weer ct: oss =o THAN TROUBLE Misa Kula Howard's piano recital lat the exposition Auditorium last SR aamrS night gave delight to a large and en WALLY HOSSFELD WAS SEPA. Heustaatig aia nce of the lovers ¢ classical music RATED PROM HI8 WIPE 60 The program included Chopin's HE KILLED HIMSELF, Etude in G sharp minor, opus 2 iecsink io. 7, the Bolero, opus 19, the F sharp Nocturne, opus 15, No, 2, the | Trouble with his wife, from whom | Mazurka in B minor, opus 33, No, 4 [he had been separated, caused |the wal in C sharp minor, opu Wally D. Hossfeld, 50 years old, to | 4, No. % Bnd the be autiful Ballade | " life at his } » 1058 J in A flat, opus 47, As an encore to take his Iife at his home, 7058 Jones }eny, cyopin prograna Mise Howard av. some time yesterday, sup | gave ‘an exquisite rendering of the posedly by taking strychnine. “Berceuse,” which was perhaps the He was found by a neighbor about | pat delightful number of the even 4 ‘ ne. 8 o'clock last night, who at first} "Ton. third part of the program supposed him to be sleeping. Hie! ine «Mars wong by Father Domini elder son had notited him appar | oe age, Angel, Ore. ax transcribed ently sleeping during the afternoon. ltor the plano by Hugo Manafeldt of Hoasfeld was a laundryman, His | oy i se inoo, was of special inter wife and three children survive | o's, the Metener Adena, Die a“ mer and Lisst numbers followed At the conclusion of the Pledermau. waltz paraphrase, the audience ap plauded until Miss Howard had been | recalled to the stage three time | ladbvteoasttosseites Edwin Hughes, administrator of EATTLE MAN ROB ED |the Schufeldt estate, owners of the 5 B Butler hotel and. other propertle paste - died this morning at his residen While returning to Seattle from Jat 17th av. aud B. Prospect st Wildwood park on the steamer For | Mr, Hughes was very ll known | tuna last night, Christ M was in Seattle, having Hved here for|rebbed by a nimble-fingered pick any years, pocket this year's olaee of his mother from > CHOOL DAYS WILL ‘START TOMORROW j will be the largest that has ever | entered. One new high school, the Queen Anne, with Otte L. Luther as prin- cipal, will be ed, This school has the finest building in the cit «© opened the The gther new school to is the Leschi, on the hill above park Tt ie hoped that thie ech will take many of the children f the Madrofla »« and relieve t crowded situation there. Five other new schools wil be finished by the firat of the year About 25,000 puptis are expected to | register tomorrow, This te an n- ‘ease of from 3,000 to 5 |year, There are 4) over Inst teachers to | take charge of them. CHARL SUR MARNE, Sept 6—The body of Clyde Fitch, the playwright, who died Saturday | night, was embalmed today. It t« ito be kept here awaiting the arrival w York NO WEDDING “AELLS RANG OUT TOOK Near-Bride Says Mamma Won't Stand for a Bal- | loon Ceremony, and the | Near-Groom Is Angry. There was po spectacular balloon wedding by “wireless on the Pay Streak tits morning Instead of playing Mendelssohn's “Wedding March,” the A-Y.-P. band tooted “Waiting at the Church” and “No Wedding Bells for Me And ali becausg the prospective bride’s mother cbjected to her daughter risking life in a cap tive balloon in the first place, and being wedded in any such spectac ular manner in the second place “It's either a balloon wedding or none,” sald the greom, James Victor Carter, of Columbia City “it' then,” said the bride. And James Victor Carter went away, minus a wife, his temper and $100 which was to have been donat ed by the fair management Mre. H. Maillard, of 2212 46th av |8., was to have been the bride. But she appeared at the office of Director of Events Schelle last night and announced it was all off. The near-groom saw a vision of }$100 evaporate suddenly, and de eh never But mi that, and aybe it isn't so bad as all the wedding bells may jring loudly after all. But the bal }loon and the wireless phone | the applauding crowds and the $1v0 —they're gone. POCRNERRLARY bus tastes « |% Lost Babies Found Here. * = If you have * the fair grounds, call on * Chief of Exposition Guards * =Wappenstein * =f yo find a lost baby * give him to Wappenstein. * Because Wappenstein ts * =the only and original cradle lost @ baby on * rocker on the exposition * grounds toda * Anticipating the loss of * numerous kids on the fair * grounds, Wappenstein yes: * terday fitted up a real day *® nursery at the exposition * headquarters * app didn't know * much about this thing of * handling little tots, but he’s * done his pest by securing * every kind of a bottle that * might be demanded by a * crying youngster and of * pacifiers he has laid in a * most extensive supply * And he will be on the job * all day * = If you've lost a baby just * * tind “Wappy.” He has it * * - DORR aR aR oF d it was a question of now or| and| SESE EERE EEE EE EEE EERE EEE REE -- THE SEATTLE E CEN} MANY THOUSANDS — THRONG A.-Y-P. E. ~ ON SEATTLE DAY Great Celebration Begins With Firing of Salutes and the Gathering of Crowds at the Fair Gates—Joy- fulness and Fun of All Kinds Run Riot, and Will Continue Throughout the Day. ee ee ee ee most 75 per « of the entire * ® population of Y-P, * At 11 o'clock this morning ® exposition to cele € tle Day, ® it was estimated that at least * and the fact that Sea has given % 130,000 would enter the expo- * to the world the most beautiful and * sition gates today. The admis: * most successful exposition ever % sions came 50 per cent faster * held in a city of less than half a * all morning than they did on * million population ascancenm eg s Start at Daylight. At daylight thie morning men Re and boys were gathered at the ex- The S4attle spirit moved forward | position gates, anxious to be the | another stride in hi today. The! first to enter on the great day, At _| same intense fellow ieeling for g004 "§ o'clock, when after alute of | citizenship, good fellowship, and the | pombs the ¢£ opened, vhow- | good of the city, which has sent! sands were ready to pass into the |Seattle forward by leaps and) grounds. By 10 o'clock, when the } bounds since she arose from the Seattle Day parade started, the ashes of her great fir today manifested itself by s¢ 20 years 880, | grounds appeared as well filled as nding | at any on opening day, when 84,000 people were admitted time | The pass gates were practically | deserted, almost all pass holders following President Chilberg’s sug- | ge stion that every Seattleite pay at |! t one admissic the fair to- j@ay. On Saturday the president | himself purchased a dozen souvenir | tickets for hie personal office staft jand his family. The first 0 | people to enter the fair today were SHE TELLS OF “WANS INSINE. th principal problem on the fair grounds has been the disposal of so many people. The fact that But Anna Granum Says thousands brought r Tunch and visited the picnic grounds on She Couldn’t Marry B.| ti) lace Washioeton crounds on Hazeltine, Even If He | this easier Did Threaten Suicide. Big Military Parade. The military parade of the grounds this morning, with 5,000 men in line, was a distinct feature of the day. The Fifth Artillery, from Victoria, 200 strong, gave @ foreign jeuch to the spectacle, while the local militia and fratern- “T liked him but I couldn't myself him, even if he did threaten to kill him well enough make marry stater t made by if,” was the pretty Anna Granum, a waitress in| 4! orgentzations, with a half dozen the Madison cafe, 2030 E. Madison | bands, formed a’ long and brilliant |st., when informed of the attempted Hne. Following the parade, the Se- | suicide of her lover, Burt Hazeltine, attle Day meeting was held in the lin Spokane, last Wednesday after-| Amphitheatre, Hon. John H. Mo | noon Graw presiding. In the addresses | “It was only last Tuesday that | of the it was repeatedly potnt- he was in Seattle, and he told me/ed out that the exposition is the then,” continued the girl, “that if/ result of the spirit and enterprise I didn't marry him life would not of the people of Seattle, who sub- }be worth the living and that he seri | would end it all. But he had threat-| bonds of the Exposition company, {ened to kill himself often in| and that the great fair belongs to |the last two years that I had begun Seattle as a whole, and not to any ed the stock and took up the to doubt bis seriousness. set of directors or officials, how- | ever much their labors have worke | Glad That He Will Live. ed to its success “But, thank God, he will live , Pi ladded ‘the girl fervently, when ee Seeman. The afternoon program was full shown the reports from hig bedside c entertainment for all. The par- | which held out hopes for his recov- | of | ery. Maybe it will teach him a/|#4e of the grounds by 1,000 chil onal dren {n colonial costumes, preced- But, oh, how I used to fear him,” !mg the French Fete in the Audit- |she eaid with a shudder For orium, was an attractive feature, year and a half I lived in abject @Md the beautiful production at the Auditorium was applauded by a crowded house. The Fete will be repeated this evening. t the foot of the Pay Streak Indian braves from both sides of the Canadian border are competing this afternoon {n war canoe races. Eleven tribes are entered. At the terror that he would kill us both, and I finally went to California to get away from him. “And then I wrote letter after letter begging him to forget me, and to marry someone eise. I never could stand to have him plead with jme, because hé always weyt so pitt |fully and seemed so disappointed if | Stadium the old-fashioned sports of {I turned away his cares: that it}@ country Fourth of July are in nearly drove me frantic. progress, including the chase of the | “It was because of his pleadings| reased pig, the ascent of the through his letters that I came sreased pole, the pie-eating con- north again got a job in Se-| test and other events which com- attle.” bine athletic prowess with convuls- jing humor. | Tried to Win Her Heart. first met in a hotel yd where and Fun to Reign Tonight, night's program will. begin at 80, with the Festival Chorus com- in the | The girl said that she Hazeltine in Gem, Idaho, where she was working he boarded. He proceeded to try | petition Amphitheatre. At to win her heart at once, and at| 7:45, Ellery’s concert, including the first seemed about to be cessful, | Brocken, scene from Faust, pro- tut tha an of the man, which | @uced with fireworks, will’ com- was shown up by his tears and|Mence at the foot of the Geyser |shallow expostulations, turned what Basin At 8 o'clock the French little love she did hold for him | Fete will be repeated in the Audt- |to a sort of loathing that she could | torium Beginning at 8:30, there |not describe will be dancing in four buildings, “T Hked him as a friend, but when-|open to all. They are the New lever he made love to me I would| York, Washington, Spokane and almost hate him,” was the way in| Women's Buildings. |which she explained her fedlings to-| The day's amusement will con- clude with Carnival Night along the Pay Streak At ® o'clock Rex, Monarch of Merriment, and Queen Anne Quality, will land with their court from the Royal Barge on Lake wards the man. Hazeltine sthnds a chance of be |{ng prosecuted in Spokane under the recent criminal code which imposes & penalty of two years in the pent {tentiary for attempted suicide. Union Menbers of the local 7 - press club will take the vartous roles in the burlesque coronation | | keys of the exposition will be pre- } sented to Rex by President Chile | the king will declare the lid off and | Re the sky the Jimit, for a night of | phe imigation gold coine markea | @Ushter and merry making FE Rima ys gg alive ee Will Amuse the King. pet yb ie 0 i avi bE Several feature acts will be per- | ties, and which have been sold in so| formed for the amusement of the many of ‘the pawn 2 in the elty| king and his court, and the royal | do not in so genu-| treasury will be thrown broadcast line b nolan Wikion tes arked as|@mong the crowd, th all | Alaska gold and whict drink the king's healtt At the AYP. I nir ays ( conclusion the king and his co Foster of government seer will mingle with the throng o} vtoe Pay Streak Co: v v | pure gold, -are th their | join an the fe | weight, and a eT 2 I firework 10 | Charbneau ¢ Tr o'clock will be t a | vary in © fron $1.06 vent the da t merry and are a perfectly le uver makin nnd dan expected to | of the exposition, They are prot last un arly and the 1 by patent, and in v rain | fringe on the United Sta r € Day ign jvi a