The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 8, 1909, Page 1

VOL, 11. NO. 170. SEATTLE, WASH., WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 8, 1909, PEARY BRANDS DR. COOK AS FAKER mAs LOCKED OUT eH STATE LAW IS ENG OISREGARDED Workers Take a Labor Day Vacation— Fired and a Big Will Develop. fesult of the lockout of 20 workers from the Sup fy Works, all because they @m @ vacation on Labor to develop into a gen ition of laundries aud where women are em- ight of the girls locked out fil it with Charles W business agent of the Cen council, and the stories bate girls tel) of the conditions ba they have been forced pork and the admissions made s the n at the Supply laun- so clear a violation of IeW as to Warrant Doyle Tabor leaders, who have ‘aa interest in thé case, to Matter in the hands of B. MacMahon. attorney for Tabor counci!, with instruc- the matter into court “% Widespread. jons at the said to be no ery other at other cage fo develop into wide Crusade for the i of working conditions all women employed in jaun- or factories in Seattle. | ; Labor council will! the matter before State reeset Charles F. Hubbard demand an investigation. —— Mahagement Denies It. ‘the girls reported the mat- * Agent Doyle, they 20 had been locked out. p Management denies, and Rit only seven were dis-| ‘ | 7 Siso stated that they had | ot been | ds holiday since last | Mat, and that carly this year| 2 ere Promised a day off on Labor well as tickets to the tt ‘Detanse of thie promise they worked ali day Decoration Md glso Monday, July 5, whtch Way celebrated by everybody * said | “Every Saturday and many times ¢ the week We ate forced to, until 19 clock at night. and limes until 12 o'clock. ‘This ran | hours up to from 12 to 14 hours Too Well Treated, He Say CA. Christenson. fore: gald this morning | “The gitla’ have been ' and they don't Ht fs true that we but we have tc to get the work es th the city ar #0. If the girie han « and told me ; 10 get off Mor hot have kick ‘This last statement 1) that they asked & ¥acation on that they were turned Weirs Statement George D. Weir iF Laundry, con Morning, but + ernoon an Mory of working show that t) ether hoi the best paid a United states | fe fust this wa | MH thowe ¢ added Bitte hotel andr. ant Iaun- | SUpPly busine had that th why tive OUF curtome &8 other . 6 show for and we fh thetr places to wor vor Tu Mher pir MONEY FOR RELIEF take the tibert Mere 8100), sensens evolent ¢ “BMCHI s¥iss1 Above not Bringhurat the |to 0. K | county jnounce RRR RRR THE STATE LABOR LAW. * The laws regulating the em- * ployment of women in the # state of Washington provide: That no femate shall be em- ployed in any mechanical or mercantile establishment, laun- dry, h , Or rt urant in thie state FOR MORE THAN TEN HOURS A DAY. The hours of work shall be so arranged to permit the employment of femaies at any time so *that they shall not work any more than ten hours out of any twenty-four. (Sec. 1, p. 118, *01.) Every employer in establish- ments where females are em- ployed shall provide suitable seats for them and shall per- mit the use of such te by them when they are not en- Gage in the active duties for which they are employed. (Sec. 2, p. 119, '01.) Any employer, overseer, su- perintendent, or other agent of any such employer who shall violate any of the provisions of thie article shall, upon con- vietion thereof, BE FINED FOR EACH OFFENSE in a sum not less than ten dollers nor more than twenty-five dollars. (Sec. 3, p. 119, "01.) SESE EERE EERE EEE ERT EEE KSEE EERE ERR Ree SPCR RE FOUR-FIFTY. FOR NUPTIAL PERMIT NOW Attorney General Puts One Over on Cupid, the State Legislature and Prospective Grooms. Four dollars and fifty cents for a marriage license. Another swat for Dan Cupid. This time a solar plexus blow. That's what a matrimonial per mit costs in the state of Washing ton now, instead of the supposed $2 ‘The last state legislature thought it reduced the .ee to $2, but the leg islature is sadly mistaken. The at torney general says the clerk may collect $1 for recording and the 0 cents each for affidavits. pense account a tive groom hag to turn tn pia the atate of Washington the proceedings Two dollars for a marriage cense proper. One dollar to county clerk for recording It cents for each affidavit Aw the contracting parties and witness must make affidavits, there is a dollar and a half more, making $4.50. If you hurry up to the King coun- ty auditor's office this afternoon perhaps you can get one for $3.50. but not after today Up to this morning Major Case Ge er. we Be EReW of the attorney general's decision, and the clerk has lost out that dollar recording fee But he prosp if he it the Fifty both one knows about it now and tomorrow it will probably cost more. The boats are stil! running to Victoria and Vancouver, though SEATTLE MAN ENGAGED (By United Press.) HURON, Mich., Sept. & Mrs, Henry Mustard an the engagement of their daughter, Alice L., to Dr. Frederick Adams, of Seattle, Wash. Miss Mustard is @ charming and accom plished young lady, a soprano solo- ist of exceptional ability, and a great favorite in the younger social and musical circles of the city the two years she has been studying in the New England Con ervatory of Music in Boston, Dr Adams formerly resided in this city he had a large practice, but about a ago for Seattle, he become very well PORT Mr. and past where eft where has known ROSE CARNIVAL ANNUALLY. (By United ¥ PORTLAND, Ore rectors and stockhol poration under the auspices of which the recent Portland Rose festival was held, today decided that they would endeavor to make festival an annual feature of city’s life 8.—Dt ra of the cor: pt GOODBYE, She stood at the front window yesterday morning and gazed at the litte figure retreating up the street. She wateh him trudge bravely along until he turned the corner, the while her chin quivered and the tears almost bitnded her. Then, when he had quite disappeared from atght, the grip at her throat almost stifled her, and, going to her room, she wept long and softly. He was gone. Her little baby; her first-born. Gone, with never a thought or a dream of the ache tn the heart of her who followed him to the door, who held him close in her arma, who kissed him so tenderly and tried to smile bravely at him. Gone, w an idea of the big aching void he left behind. Gone, with a smile on his lips, a laugh tn his expectancy tn his eyes, and a tingle in every footstep. Gone, for his first day at school But bow empty and quiet and desolate that hothe seemed! No more baby to make music and nolse and dirt and confustoa and sunshine about the hous: running to mother a hundred times a day with bumps and bruises to be kissed smoothed away. No more little boy who comes running just to say, “I love you,” and then off to play again, No more little boy at all. He's a ble boy now, and he goes to school. He ha many new interests that he quite forgeta the days when he was mother’s boy, and when he mother were the best of chums, He's a big boy now, and he has so many friends. | And when he comes home there's a face watching for him at the window, and the door is opened before he reaches the gate, and there are love-hungry arms outstretched for him. He ts bub: | bling over with news that he can hardly wait for the kiasves that would be showered on him were | he less able to talk. Then mother takes him in her arms and holds him close to her, while he tells of all the wonderful adventures of the day. And he wonders why mother Js so quiet and so serious. Goodbye, baby; goodbye. MAYOR WILL PERSONALLY INVESTIGATE GRAFT CHARGE publi¢ th who granted the reached the time th never voice, ar now. No more No more little fellow or troubles to be toddler and two 80 nt Bou Says He Must Have More },.)), Details From Bouillon “Will yon net on the ma Before He Appoints a od with » of th | Bouflion was asked Committee. | “welt, 1 reopen’ wer that que i lt be ate it of the rebates that n tres divu Would Defeat His Purpose. What period did those tions you me asked If Lanewer that question,” Mr. Bouillon, “I would defeat purpose, All these facts will co out and convince the people that am right if the mayor will investi gate this matter personally though wnumalt The least the investigation could possibly show would be that some employe was in name cont lon Until the mayor's iry ge I can acq facts? transac am not cover?” was prepared to ation now,” he replied. authority I would immediately start the investigation myself. The mayor should act on my request for a probe and assume that I would not ask for it I id not powse the material to what I charge. If he doe witne of the money and also m PRAISE FOR SHERIFF HODGE eriff Robert John F. Miller will persor ally investigate the charge made b A.V superintendent of public to the chief executive of the th Mayor said my Boutllon utilities, in a } that a certain had ved as rebates large of money from a firm furnishing the city with lamps, and that this money bad never been placed in the cit t ! a one or p 1 employe elty rece ve Bm ums he name ury “1 shall certainl ter to the bottom if Mr. Boutlion thing more definite investigation. In his letter he say that a certain firm to which the lefty awarded a.lamp contract gave to a certain tmploye Of the sums of money, which this employe was not authorized to take, aud that the was not turned into the tr is mat mayor probe th aid the will submit some. to warrant an Hodge was highly commended at meeting of the Chamber of Cor after for the very effictent manner In which he | his office, Even those who were inclined to defend the county commissioners in the matter of the order for the removal of federal prisoners from the county jail, went on record with the statement that conditions in the King county jail could not possibly be better than they exist under Sheriff Hodge and Jail Superintend ent John Roberts, One member of thé chamber, who had visited both the city wnd county jails, declared that in spite of the that the elty Jafl was airy and light and p tieally new, the county jail was today more habitable, because of its cleanly condition Sherif Hodge was also commended for the methods employed in feeding the prisoners and for the good quality of food supplied them the regu yesterday conducting lar meree money asury Will Not Name a Committee. “In the trat place I do not think these payments were made in the manner described by Mr. Boutllon Secondly, I have nothing show that such a transaction made during my administration, but if Mr. Bouillon will give me a stronger reason for requesting an investigation, I shall do the probing mYself, I would not walt to appoint a committee to do the work.” The mayor pointed out that the Bouillon letter, which asks for the | appointment of an ‘Investigating | committ gaya that the contract in question was awarded by the \ city prior to the time Bouillon took office, indicating, he says, that if thege rebates were paid, they do not involve his administration, | Has the Proof, He Says. | “| have performed my duty alling the attention of the mayor lto this irregularity and by asking re to was ever tk TRIO Tk tk tok OR IO Ok tok Water Shut-Off. Water will be shut tween Holgate at. Char and between ay Lake Wasbin on Thursday, Septembe from 8 a m 5 pm Se ee OR tk KO tt tk AYP. E. ATTENDANCE, 17,309 ORR ROR ROR OR RR OR WEATH Possibly * Thursday f * winds * SRE FORECAST. showers tonight ir; Nght southeast * * * be +. and 22nd off * . * * * ton * 8, and ™ * to (ay HOQUIAM shut down of this elty and ception of one here today {8 United Press.) 8.—With all ehingle mills in vicinity with the ex mill, the situation unchanged the by * * ~ * * * * * » * * * * * » WEAVERS’ STILL ON STRIKE.) ! “ PEARY SAYS THAT COOK DID GUIDES SAY C00 NEVER REACHED TOP OF MOUNT M’KINLEY Men Who Went North With Explorer Brand Him As a Faker and Hint That He Bribed One of Them to Substantiate His Claims as Mountain Climber. +X SSE EE EE REE RR RE | HAMILTON, Mont. Sept, &—Fred Printz and Ed Barrill, well known guides for Montana and Idaho, are today discrediting the state- ment of Dr, Frederick A. Cook that he succeeded in reaching the North Pole. According to Printz and Barrill, they acted as guides for Cook lin 1905, when the doctor is said to have made the ascent of Mount | McKinley, although the guides claim that the explorer did not place a lfoot on that mountain. This is the story Printz is telling: | THEY WENT WITH MILLER. ri! and 1 made two trips to Alaska with Cook in company with Miller of the Seattie Post-Intelligencer, who acted as pho- tographer. “We made the first trip in 1903, but as it was unsuccessful, Dr, Cook arranged to make a second trip the following y The second trip was made from th in reality, no attempt was ever made to scale Mount McKinley. He evidently sized us up, and taking Barrill | ascended an adjoining mountain, a mere foothill in comparison. This mountain was about 10,000 feet high, and photographs were taken of adjoining peaks for the purpose of deceiving the public. No views were taken in the direction of Mount McKinley, PRINTZ HINTS AT HUSH MONEY. ed to take a side trip to secure game heads rrill told me afterward that Or. Cook “Miller and | were det (for the Smithsonian institute. bartered to give him hush mone: “On reaching Seattle the papers were full of Dr. Cook's dope, and | @ banquet was given in his honor. Miller and | seid nothing in con- ltradiction, hoping that by keeping mum he would eventually pay us. In the spring Mr. Miller tried to have Barrill and me make a statement | for the purpose of exposing the doctor, but we declined. DR. COOK AS SEEN BY DUNN ON MPKINLEY SEATTLE MAN HAS DOUBTS ABOUT IT ala that he did aginatt lief of Wa * only the result of the in e explorer, is the t P. Miller of the Gatley Supply nd av., who accompant of his expeditt McKinley official M te on ter ty Mount pho. togra phe Whil in northern trips his own mind reached the alxo satiefied In his own mind that the doctor did not climb Mount Me it Ie claimed he di Barrill Knows It. to get the straight said Miller this to ge r rrill at the time ¢ 4 Mount McK utely disprov to. in til a little all he kn he is satisfied In that Cook never coveted 5 and } reti about ler ent ing we the Sidelights on Explorer’s, Character Five Years. Ago. he is Rol ing writer nied Dr. wt Dunn, the vivid excoriat of the North, accompa. Cook on his first attempt ; Mount McKinley, in 190 who ac. {Dunn published ry in the Outing magazine, and created something a tion in the literary mountain climbing world ry was as frank aw it ibly be, and every evidence of having written in the heat of the and ng a record of what thought of member party The accompanying excerpts are taken from Outing of March, 1904 and show what one member of the party thought of Dr. Cook as an explorer ir dope n thie story morning, “the man f io scale ix the packer, Ed f panied Cook he climb of and Dunn's could po Rar whole at now in Butte Baril wh abRo if he Mont wan t can ! bs bore been battle Dunn of the took with he kn but I don't think | knows until he from For want to tell what beca it 6 of getting k and party the ain, how far they went he will tell what gets his my part Barrill poll Bar + every money I don't Didn't Reach Pole. “Doctor is a sort of gentle Teutonic Cedric or Ethelbert.” have se in my two trip ym what I have certain that he never but I' think he having more ne explorer In the last Pr country and fr I am thi seen of Ce eee ed than 400 | | sent “He never knows where he wants to stop; he's a fearful combination of stubbornness and indecision.” rve 1903, and fast trip guide, and a hunting Barrill, and mountain. in hi with “| felt that the doctor was | not trying his best to climb the mountain, Recognizing that it was beyond us, he was making half-hearted tries to escape our judging him a quitter.” us and on Fred tx, the other detailed on while Coo to climb the Time Too Short. how they could ever Mount McKinley in that Cook allows for] it. You can’t climb anywhere you take long time than Cook and Barrill When they returned where they had b and when Barrill gets ready he can tell the public, Until then IT will] keep what I know about it to myself for I don't want to keep Barrill f (ting his money Another Robert W trip k pretended T don't “Doctor determines on a cer. tain move; he has the feat ac | complished before starting. He will not hear of difficulties, | and when his unreasonable dream of success turns out a nightmare, he is all meekne and dependence, and asks our advice in a hopeless and de- moralized way.” have ascend the sh wccomplishing that ort time mountain a notion to, It takes a much longer gone Barrill t were see “1 can't keep my temper or take anything in life with su | placid, stubborn seriousnes: | W m Seattle Armstrong ‘ man, Captain of 1041% Noted Writer Gave Some | | Word of Whitney. | NOT REACH THE NORTH POLE Statement Is Backed Up by Eskimo in Cook’s Party, Who Say He Did Not Go Out of Sight of Land. nn hhh COOK NOT AT POLE. NEW YORK, Sept. 8.—-The nited Press today received the following message from Commander Kobert E. Peary, dated Indian Harbor, via Cape Ray Dr be ta Eskimos Cook's story should not en too seriously. Two who accompanied him say went no distance north and was never out of sight of land. Other men of the tribes corroborate this ( Signed.) PEARY.” +X SSS E EH SHEE EEE RRR Cook Is Angry. | COPENHAGEN, Sept. 8.—When the United Press correspondent this morning showed to Dr. Freder- ick A. Cook the st ment Commander Robert E | tloning Dr. Cook's veracity, ter reflected for a moment and re “i will not demean myself by answering Peary’s charges un- til the accusation is made on scientific data.” Dr. Cook refused to say anything, although it could plainly be seen that he was angry at the message. | Peary’s message has created the greatest sensation here since the initial news was received of Dr. Cook's discovery. Already the |lines here are sharply drawn and |there is much ill feeling between | the supporters of Peary and Cook. Hard Knock at Cook. COPENHAGEN, . — Th first definite indication that Peary’ discovery of the North Pole has revived doubt as te the authenticity of Dr, Frederick A. Cook's claims, was the announcement this after- noon that Dr, Cook's lecture before the Copenhagen Geographical so- clety has been postponed. The postponement was taken os- tensibly on account of the Hmited time Dr. Cook has to comply with certain necessary formalities. It is known, however, that the conserva- | tive members of the society object- i to the organization putting its stamp of credence upon Cook's story at this time. Accept Peary’s Discovery. LONDON, Sept. 8.—Commander Peary'’s discovery of the North | Pole is epted without question »y the Royal Geographical society, which is r rded as the leading scientific organization of the world. The society today cabled to Peary asking that he deliver lec- tures on his discovery before the organization, Explorers are never asked to lecture berore this society when there is the slightest doubt of the authenticity of their claims, Cablegram From Peary. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 8.— William Crocker, one of the backers of the Peary Arctic expedition, to- day is showing his friends a cable- gram which was forwarded to him from Explorer Peary. The message reads ‘Thank you (Signed) At the f well ary before hi the Pole, Cr guests present The is ours. DARY.” banquet given left his quest ker of Pe for the was one BROOKLYN, N. ¥ following mes: e arrived here to- day for Herbert L. Bridgman, sec- retary of the Peary Arctic club: “Il took Whitney aboard at Etah. Dr. Cook has gone to Copenhagen. We met the Jeanie off Saunders island Au- gust We coaled at North Star Bay. Whitney went aboard the Jeanie. We parted company August 24. (Signed) “PEARY.” Whitney Hunter is the man whom Dr. Cook says he entrusted with (Continued on Page Ten.) SCHWABACHER 1S. DEAD Abraham Schwabacher Franciseo, founder Schwabacher chain grocery and haré ¢ branches in Seattle, Wa San Francisco. 1 Sept. 8.—The San tt of lesale hi Na Wal ast night w nd at his tarted out but | one ar Broadway expedition with us before had Alder st,, n¢ on the turned bach ery far COMMENT IN IGNORANCE, TOKIO, Sept. 8—The unfavor-| able American comment on the new agreement between Japan and |China on the railroad question in| ar-|Manchuria and the Chientao bound rived in yesterday from Skagway |ary dispute is regarded here as duc and the North. She brought alto ignorance of the contents of an| shipment of $535,000 worth of gold,|agreement published today. The part of which by mail and|ag*sement shows that there were ‘part by express |mutual concessions, | 1906 1 we 8 The steamship City of Seattle came }home in the ¢ rnia elty Mr 1 bach orty-one years founded his Walla. He left th fo clsco, He was 72 years widely known In Seattle old, Jackson, Mi: From a window in ew FP. Herr revolver battle with t No one was hurt