The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 9, 1909, Page 1

THE SEATTLE SlAR : tl 11, NO. 171, COMMISSIONER HUBBARD TO PROBE LAUNDRY CHARGES cw Le Ie POLAR HEROES GOOD TO PLAY | ‘PIGGY BACK’ CK’ WITH, SAYS RUTH. if the ety Laundry com- gad the other Seattle have and are working girls more than 10 hours a or GO hours a week they Have to answer to Charies ., Hubbard, state labor com- missioner, am coming to Seattle probaly Friday, to tm (the charge against the Supply | and conditions in the other said Mr. Hubbard to The Star over the long distance ja today. story of the dis | » and the after attle papers, and if| as they say, those Will be called to answer Fiplation of the labor laws.” | Not the Oniy Offender. of conditions in all undries show that the Laundry is not @ particular AS and conditions there are aii over the city Vanndries are required by law tarnish chairs for each employe, | the lanadry owners are in pitt-/ ignorance of that particular sec. | Ao ae | the laundries the only oo the labor laws. This| ought a copy | Post of a} of the Rain-| aeked the gir! “Nine yeats,” Others Are Blamed. NN i factories children > ae oe “age limit are worked hes : # ruinous to health, os of minute particles of DR. COOK PLAYING W.'H HIS LITTLE GIRL. in the lungs, making ing of other cases of con-| Little Ruth Cook hasn't played Ruth fs much bigger now than “piggy back” with her papa for She was then. She'll be more of a B. MacMahon, attorney " load. But the man who carried sup- fred Labor Council, has|'"7°? 78". But she's looking for-| i. ana instruments and guns ome SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1909. | WATER TOWERS SAVE The MANUFACTURER'S EXCHANGE BUILDING: Hundred Thousand Dol-| piled close to the windows made Railroad Magnate Had lars’ D e Done by it ctremely difficult for the fire! Been on Death Bed for = “ men to get at the heart of the/ N ber of D d Fire—Sixth Floor Gutted "!*"* wy nih he Visiting Chiefs Help.| 1m, Visiting Chiefs Helped. End Was Expected « of | ie visiting fire chiefs, who are | -— now in Geattle attending the an @ Fire, which originated in the /pual convention, were about to (By United Prees.) |ahop room of the Aggutter-Griswold take @ pleasure trip when the first TURNERS, N. Y., Sept. 9— Klectrical Supply House, complete |alarm was turned in. They forgot; Or. W.G. Lyle this afternoon }ly gutted the entire aixth floor of thelr trip and burried to the blaze,| Officially confirmed the state- |the Manufacturers’ Exchange build-|lending @ hand here and there to| ment that E. H. Harriman died jing, at Occidental ay, aud King st.,|the gratification of Chief Bring-| at 3:35 o'clock this afternoon. thin morning, causing a loss esti-/hurst and his fire ‘Aighters did not give out any state- mated to be $160,000. } ae - ment explaining the nature of The inaccenstbility of the blaze |» » . aug y| Harriman’s iliness, which is be- |made the work of the firemen very|e SY YY ** | lleved to have been in the na- j difficult, and it was only after two|® WEATHER FORECAST, #| ‘Ure of a cancer. | Water towers began to pour tons of w fair tonight and Friday; * dilemeneine water Into the inferno that the » thwest winds. * tN, Y.. 8 | flames were brought under control. |g NE IO AO. i large rt ge good | | gering at lowest ebb of life, fol | Costly Furniture Ruined. BER EMR HEE HE EH HHH lowing 4 relapse after his desperate | | When the blaze was apparently | efforts to regain his health, KE. H under control the fire burst forth | Harriman, the ratiroad king, sue- again with renewed fury, wiping | cumbed this ternoon to the (ness out a solid threetnch fire wall and | which sent him to Europe this sum eating through the south and east! | mer in a fruitless search for health. | j half of the sixth floor, which con For days the death watch tained 250 brass bedsteads and sev | |been kept upon the chateau h eral hundred pleeos of the best ma but the doctors and members of the hogany furniture which were to family have constantly held back have gone into the new Arctic club all the news that could be withheld. rooms |The news of the rafiroad king's The List of Losers. lc. K. GROFF HELD ON CHARGE | {°ath. was first made known Aside from the sixth floor, the] | through the offices of the Union Pa damage was entirely from water. | OF PASSING BOGUS | cific in New York City The teliding. whieh te valued =| CHECKS. | The Union Pacific has a direct | wire connection with the Harriman 166,000, full tected ti $160, ully protecte by | chateau, and the officials in New surance, ix equipped with patent flood sprinkiers. From these the | stores and storerooms of the Hal-|¢ran, whom the police say has been with the condition of the dying mag |lidie Machinery Co. J. T. Harde-|ewindling bupiness houses out of | 28M | man Co. elothiers, Sumner Iron Co..| much money in the past month with Causes No Surprise. }Serwe & Prien, Western Supply whe ' af }Co., Nagte & Tager, canvas gloves. Meok Trunk and Hox Go. Pacific | te™moon while he was trying to cash /of Harriman’s death did not come as | Printers Bupply Co., Geo. Russell-ia check at the Brace & Hergert|®" entire surprise to the business | Reed Co. Dantels & Keller, Troy | mitt world ‘Laundry Works and the Acetylene | About noon today off wont to}. It had been reported all day that | Lighting Co. were drenched with} the mill office and put in an order | ‘© magnate was dead and that the | water, ‘The resultant loss tx impow|for a $12 load of lumber, to be | B¢W# Was being withheld DREAD CANCER CAUSES DEATH ©. K, Grott, a Spanieh war vet-| York have kept in constant touch | bogus checks, wax arrested this af-| NEW YORK, Sept. 9.—The news E. H. HARRIMAN, sible of compilation until the under-| shipped te 101% KE. Olive, tn payment| The effect of Harriman’s filness | writers make thelr estimates for which he tendered a $26 check. | 0 the stocks controlled by him hat! Har coples of wagd to it now with all her heart * The same trick had been worked | been terrific during the last few have its etfect upon the stock ma ; "and wif en fie tg For apa ts coming back. He's the oo the’ one STATE be able. 1 + Sea eeneese: on Stetson & Post's mill ‘te other | days but the bear action was con: ) Kot and ‘t probabiy ata cos ore an Episcopal minister. plally to the charges,| world's hero, the north pole discov. | carry his little gir! all right. And|_ Although Fire Chief Bringhurst] day, and they had notified the other | tTolled to a considerable extent by straining efect. The Harrimans were poor as S every confidence tn Mr. jerer, but he's her papa doubtless he'll be a to do it was unable to learn the ¢@xact| itis The man would order the|t¢ Constant official denials that ch mice. The elder Harriman oto ibis daty when bis! origin of the fire, it is said that 89 | tumber and pay for it with a check | were insued by the Union Pacific changed pa o every year, bat Aan bogs = employe of the Aggutter-Griawold | after taking the change he would | Bere, and the doctors at Arden Life of Harriman. not till Edward was nearly grown 2s relly ee Co. accidentally dropped a lghted | disappear and not be heard of aeain.|. At 9:15 o'clock this morning Dr.| Edward Henry Harriman was ‘tig he eet s gs z . | match Into a barrel of asphaltum | of cours, when the lumbor was ment | LYl¢ issued a statement as follows: |born February 24, 1848, at Hamp “1a h comfortable’ living *atwaye | paper in the shop room. In an tn “Harriman’s condition unchanged.” ton, L. lL. He was the second son - | to the ven address, no one was st “*! This bulletin was intended to in a family of six children. His (Continued on Page Eight) stant flames leaped high and the | there to receive it hastily gathering records and pla he pollee. City Detectives Phillips MPRINLEDS SUMINT) cones ep. 5 Sept. : ee ee ey ee Convinced that Dr. F. A. Cook “EXPLORER HAS FOUND * discovered the North Pole, the FENDER AT LASTIN MAN | Roya: University at Copenha- WHO ACCOMPANIED HIM | @@n conferred an honorary doc- —- torate degree upon the explor- (My United Pree) | HAMILTON, Mont., Sept. 9.-—Ed ward Burris, who claims that he was the only man accompanying| wer e resent durin the cere- Dr. Cook when he sealed to the m id summit of Mount McKinley, in Alas-| ™onies. ka, today declared that he will de There is no indication that fend Cook against his critics who| Dr. Cook's popularity has have inferred that the explorer did| waned because of the charges not reach the top of the 00-foot peak, as reported he had done, Bur-| ™#4¢ by Peary that Cook did rill said that he would sign an affi not reach the pole, as he claims dav't that Cook made the ascent.’ to have done. er this afternoon. The king and queen, accom- panied by court dignitari The fire gained quick headway, ani and Macfee went out and brought before a howe could be played, the | the man to the city jail entire Aggutte swold plant was | GROWS MORE BITTER MAP SHOWS BOTH ROUTES TO POLE flames leeethansataenssns * } Second and Third Alarm. | Second and third alarms were|* BANK CLEARINGS. turned in at Chief Bringhurst’s or |* der, when the fire burst through | * Clearings tod) the firewall. After the blaze had|* Balanges been raging for more than an hour|#® water tower No, 1 shot @ powerful) ® Clearings today .... $1,065,024 stream of water Into the seething |#® Balances 4 . | 68,663 sixth floor, The effective work of} # Portiand. the water te cheers |® Clearings today . 1,413,282 . * from thousands of-epedthiore’ WEBi& Batabaee .. ccc, 28 139/807 Wide and With Both emmed in the burning building. |w water tower Was (heh) y xe eee EN MR Re He Men in Race for New 1 out, The fire raged over York Interest is Intense. | hours before being brought | What Did He Meant Controversy Is Now World Sete EE EEE Ee under control. The fact that the| Payson—The new doctor that's ian furniture intended for use In the |J¥at moved In town Is named Crane.| NEW YORK, Sept. 9.—The con-| new Arctic club wax stacked and lie bik name wae Stork business |troversy for priority of discovery of the North Pole between Com mander Robert EB. Peary and Dr AYOR JOHN F. MILLER SAYS THE STRAW HAT 1s peren Se bak acs: 2 Ses Governnenr ‘TESTS HOw “THAT SOME oe THE You. DONT MOST POPULAR oye > ET RID OF CONTAIN ONLY 7. ACCO, HE COWS So RUB AWET thd over SN WILL GET You. YOUR HAT, THEN SMOKE THE HAT, he hats he Is loath to part with it Meanwhile Straw Hat, revived from 2 of the x wwe ‘Lifted from the block (execution his miserable condition by the 5 eta Straw Hat looked wearily chemical cocktall, perked up and | About ty lee Pe . ind. “Let me die,” he moaned.|was soon marching down Yesler i A Jothing can wash me clean wa # clean-edys ) : 30,” sald Health Officer Dr. J.B They thought to do me,” mused PME ENG Its wotied «x ©, Ma hton, who was in the office he, “but Miller has given them the ta; ‘ yrote If the bubonic plague Stingaree 1 shall now distribute oe PS bas , it is up to Mil-\a fow germs before they put the breaks loose here, folemn reprieve ler kikash on me.” Because Mayor Miller has| With a gesture of disgust the| Singing, Straw Hat went his way m hat. He paid tour bucks physician turned away, squirting reading the North pole controversy Weather headgear, and| antiseptic behind him as he went,|and searching for a hot drink aré no new details to whet the appetite of public curlosity Peary aboard his staunch steamer Roosevelt, is being buffeted by northern gales in the straits of Belle Isle. He is over 300 miles from the nearest cable office and the time of his arrival is a matter of guesswork No one knows when |the wind will abate suffictently. t« permit the Roosevelt to make prog ress to the southward, Peary stop ped at Battle Harbor last night Dr. Cook {s sttll in Copenhagen but it ts generally known that he contemplates sailing Sunday and jreaching here by September 21 | Consequently the two oxplorers are | virtually racing to the metropolis of the United States to teil thelr stories Controversy World Wide. The controversy between the two OME BONE HEADS STICK explorers has spr itll It has Sha. YO THEIR HAY LIDS ‘THLE | become wor't wid # and ee. hg Say WINTER IS IN FULL |taymen alike are taking «tdes, some IT SUGAR AND CREAM SWING. THESE SHOULD supporting Cook and others holding met OLD PANAMA TASTES BE LED IN OUT OF THE | fast in their confidence in Peary LIKE ‘SHREDDED OATS” COLD AND HIT IN THE I Europe for the most part the GLUF ADS TO IT NECK WITH AN ICE PICK.) public credence lic with Peary Jexcept In Denmark, Danish ex , “Mayor Miller's pernicious ac-, Albert BE. Parish, savagely, “but|Plorers who encountered Peary in | tivity In attempting to prolong the) we'll oslerize it yet |the North on previous expeditions obnoxious existence of the straw! “Mayor Miller is interested in| brought out stories of Peary’s surli hat is an open violation of as sacred| the straw hat trust,” was the sen- | ness of temper and this has result & statute as was ever printed {in a sational statement of A. V, Boullion| ed in a national prejudice against law book,” declared Judge Wilson| when the news was gently broken | him R. Gay viciously, as he heard the!to him, An explanation of the| Cook's Poor Showing. news. Judge Gay wears a cowboy |charge was demanded Nevertheless Stetson and repudiates the straw| “His fecohd cousin runs an ele-| \hat as effeminate vator in a straw hat factory, but| “Another excuse for Major Otto keep that under your hat,” whis. Case to wear that forty-nine-year-|pered the superintendent of public | O° Lae asm {old Panama of his,” said Assessor, utilities | (Continued on Page 7.) \ Cook's poor showin in his lecture has had tts effect, and those who are doubtful of Cook's achievement are hopeful that in |