The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 11, 1909, Page 1

mg | | REAL ESTATE MAN TAKES UP CHARGES OF GRAFTING IN PAVING IN LETTER TO MAYOR IE HAS SOME MORE QUESTIONS on today took up the cudgels for former Superin lic Utilities A. V. Bouillon, and in a public letter Squarely put the matter of street contract graft- F. Miller to answer, in his letter makes charges of defrauding the city, Mayor Miller with being made aware of these @ occasions by Mr. Bouillon. Mayor Miller paid to the furnished by Mr. Bouillon, on demands the reason why. his letter to the mayor he emphatically re- | answer, as he has several more questions to ask. information . Miller, Mayor cf Seattle. we expressed yourself in interviews in the public foring an investigation of city affairs, perhaps you me and some thousands of other taxpayers by the following questions; not, during last June, receive a letter from lion, then superintendent of public utilities, you that street paving contractors ali over the were cheating the taxpayers by disregarding fications of their contracts in laying the gravel n of street pavements? s letter not inform you that, while the specifications vel of a certain size, for hand measurement of the | hand mixing of gravel and cement, that a mixing ed on all first class work was.in general use—~a hich, by a simple change in gearing, could be made nent and gravel in proportions more profitable jor? Bouillon not call your attention to the fact that f than called for in the specifications was being the pavement was greatly cheapened by this le contractors reaping the benefit and the tax- the cost? of this year, did not Mr. Bouillon write you a fr, calling attention to his first letter and asking you non his complaint ? D YOU RECEIVE THESE LETTERS? o, why did you not reply to them? $0, WHY DID YOU NOT TAKE ACTION TO P THE PRACTICE COMPLAINED OF? miner, when Mr, Bouillon declared that he would Permits for extensions of time to contractors who good reasons for asking extensions, you publicly Why then did you continue signing these permits without any notable exc eptions? - fot know that the contractor gets the interest issued to pay for the work, during the life and that it may be an advantage to him to drag? I have more fespectiully yours, OLE DRGETOWN RUINS HANSON of Georgetown's roaghouses ai the letter the other day from the pcounted for, dder but Wiser the “Broken Hearted Girl” writes if and her “broken hearted it’) another element to the ever stop to think of. 8 from the people Mail. There are other conditions 4 men and young, rich and poor, the letters come in Serawied in lead pencil on the cheapest paper. Others haved stationery of big business firms. for mayor—Mayor Miller's curious standards of official Tottenness of Georgetown. These are the topics heart of Seattic people i them all. They'll make you think. Editor of The Star: 1 pee read a ‘ral to the letter of BPE is not the oniy one. | myself am a ruined girl for life. war, Old mother is bent with shame from my visit to a Foathouse. Of age at that time, but there was no difficulty in Served us. They only seemed too willing to serve We were in the wine room we could plainly see a Policeman drinking with a jolly crowd of boys. And “y ypepa & drink up as long as | wae there. Came out of my stupor | was in a room at the hotel Thner Over the Bank saloon. Sr perhaps hundreds of sad hearts from thelr visit to The Star. mother.” tragedy She writes The mother that George are the letters most interesting — ail significant— 5 letter from a man in jay’s paper from a “sad- z ia h Innocent girls, take this warning from a broken-hearted , TOU ated mother. STAY CLEAR OF ALL PLACES OWN, BROKEN-HEARTED GIRL. Sometimes we het: him to safeguard the interests of : ne fired NOT our elty. I voted and did all I could OF neglecting their! for the election of John F, Miler feems gtre that a! but I want no more of him Mayor Miller has made a great UTY As 11 WIT W Boutlion will be our @ heed such mes as Boullion has the in- e. Mr. mi (Continued on Page Nine.) E MORE PITIFUL STORY HAVE YOU OT PROTECTED HE TAXPAYER? ----Ole Hanson in Letter to Mayor Miller PIRATES: WIN THIRD GAME FROM TIGERS Comedy of Errors in First Inning Gave Pittsburg the Game, But Detroit Crept Up Last Three. DETROIT, Oct. 11.—The Pirate took the third game of the world’: seri in the championship games thie afternoon by a score of 8 to 6. Pittsburg practically won the game in the first inning, when by a com- edy of errors five rune were net- ted. Summers was taken out of the box and Willets substituted. Works was substituted for Willets in the seventh. Hans Wagner wa feature. Detroit crept up to- wards the end of the game and started things by making four runs in the seventh, The day dawned bright and clear, following yesterday's down. | pour, but the grounds at Benton park were dried sufficiently at 2 o'clock to permit the Pirates and Tigers to continue their struggle for the world’s base ball champion. ship. Every reserved seat was sold early and a record-breaking crowd for this city witnessed the game. Both teams were greatly bene fited by yesterday's idleness agi were anxious and eager to rewume the fray. Deapite the severe drubbing the Detroit aggregation administered to the Pirates Saturday, the Ne tional leaguers were the favorites in the betting during the forenoon. Batting Order. The batting order of today's game was as follows: Pittsburg—Byrne, 3b; Leach, cf; Clarke, If; Wagner, s#; Miller, 2b; Abstein, 1b; Wilson, rf; Gibson, ©; Maddox, p. Detroit—-D. Jones, If; Bush, as; Cobb, rf; Crawford, cf; Delehanty, 2b; Moriarty, 3b; T. Jones, 1b; Schmidt, c; Summers, p. Umptres—O Loughlin and Joho stone First Inning. Pittsburg—Byrne bunted down the left foul Hne and beat out a fast throw by Moriarty. Leach «in led. On Clarke's roller to Sum- mers, Byrne was caught off third, Summers to Moriarty, to Schinidt, to Bush. Leach and Clarke scor- ed on Wagner's single past Bush. During the uproar Wagner stole second and went to third on Schmidt's wild throw. He then jeapped the climax of this remark lable stunt by going home on a wild |piteh. Miller walked. Abstein singled and Miller scored when | Crawford made a wild throw In an} effort to catch bim at third. Sum-| mers was taken out of the box by | Manager Jennings and Willets| succeeded him. He fared however, as Wilson imme better, diately aingted, scoring Abstein Gibson was out, Bush to T. Jones Maddox fouled to Schmidt runs, five hits, two errors Detroit—D. Jones flew to Leach Bush aingled through the box. Cobb | fanned. Crawtord foreed Bush, Miller to Wagner. No runs, one hit, no errors. Second Inning: Pittaburg—Byrne went out, Mor }iarty to T. Jones, Leach was hit on the hand by a pitched ball. Wil lets also hit Clarke. Wagner fore ed Clarke, Bush to Delehanty |Leach scored when Willets drop jped Morlarty’s assist at the plate. | Miller flew to Moriarty. One run, no bits, no errors. Detroit—Delehanty doubled to left Moriarty fanned. T. Jones popped to Byrne. Schmidt went out, Miller to Abstein. No runs, one hit, no errors. Third Inning. Pittsburg—Abstein flew to Dele hanty. Wilson flew to Crawford. | Gibson went out, Moriarty to T. Jones. No runs, no hits, no errors. Detroit—Willets flew to Clarke. D. Jones went out the same way Bush went out, Byrne to Abstein. | No runs, no hits, no errors. Fourth Inning. Pittsburg—Maddox went out, Willets to T. Jones, Byrne popped | to Bush. Leach flew to Crawford No runs, no hits, no errors. Detroit—Cobb went out, Maddox to Abstein. Crawford flew to Clarke. Delehanty singled to left. Morlar ity forced Delehanty, Wagner to Miller, No runs, one hit, no errors Fifth Inning. Bush fumbled Clarke's grounder. Wagner aingled to right | Miller popped to Whlets. Abstein flew to Crawford. Wagner stole second, Wilson lined to Bush. No runs, one hit, one error. Detroit—T. Schmidt went out, Willets was out, Pittsburg Miller to Ab Byrne to er. | stein. (Continued on on Page Nine. ) SEATTLE, WASH., | Libel on Giveis Is Not | Based on Fact and an Admission of This Ends Case Against Doctor. little | Jones popped to Mill | The iHbel case brought by C. Har | rison Green against Dr, B. F, Roller, | arising from the publication in the Seattle Times on Sunday, October 3, 1909, in which Mr, Green was accused of an attempt to hold up| the Arena, was dismissed tn Jum tice Brown's court this afternoon. Tt appears that the information upon which Dr. Roller based his charge was furnished him by Jack Curley, matchmaker at the Arena} and manager of Dr. Roller, Mr. Curley, since Dr. Roller's arrest has been in conversation with Mr. Green, and this morning gave It as | his belief that Mr. Green had no ] intention of any desire to hold up jie Arena for any amount of money, | }and in connection therewith Mr. Curley makes the following state ment: Was a Misunderstanding. “On several occasions while! match maker at the Arena, I dix cussed with C. Harrison Green thé mode and manner of conducting the | wrestling bouts, and | told Dr. Rol- ler after said conversations with Mr. Green, such as was published by the Times over the doctor's sig nature, Since Dr Roller's arrest charged with criminal }ibel for the publication of sald letter, I have _ numerous conversations with CHS, MORSE LOSES APPEAL; FACES PRISON Circuit Court Decides He Must Serve His Fifteen Years for Violating the See eeeeteeeeeeeee | CHAS. W. MORSE. NEW YORK, Oct, 11.—Bulletin —The United States court of ap peals today affirmed the decision in the case of Charles W. Morse who was sentenced to 15 years’ im prisonment in the federal prison at Atlanta, G for alleged viola tion of the fe | banking law Judge Hough originally sentenced Morse. The financier will appeal to the supreme court, but as today's | decision was unanimous it is now likely that this body will Interfere | Morse is this afternoon confer ring with Martin Littleton, his coun | sel, to decide what course te pur sue ‘The convicted banker has been out on ball since last June. Since that time he Is said to have sue ceeded in reorganizing a number) |of companies with which he was connected before his first tr and is said to have recovered at least one-fourth of the $20,000,000 whieh he lost when his troubles first jor leceanneawewanee * * | WEATHER FORECAST. * i* * |* Fair tonight and Tuesday; * ® light east winds. * * [a eibdanes Fd i MONDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1909, jot = Mr. Green, and 1 now believe that thia trouble has arisen out of a |misunderstanding between = Mr Greén and myself, and that i wan mniel » in conveying any such In yi oy to Dr. Roller,” er the dinminnal of the cane, Mr Gregn, who caused Dr. Roller's ar- read, said | Green Is Satisfied. “T am perfectly satisfied with the statement, Mr, Curley han told me that he told Dr. Roller just exactly What wae printed tn the Times, but | that he has become convinced now that no attempt was made to get @AY money out of the Arona, I have NO Wesire whatever to seek the pun tahment of Roller on the charge of criminal libel or to cause him any further trouble; so far as his letter oncerned, It im a was minted by the ini mation given him by Mr. Curley, SURE E EERE ES LOST IN THE WILDS. MADISON, Wis, Oct. 11 Professor ©. K, Leith, head of the geological party investigat ing the rock formations In the Vicinity of Hudson bay, and supposed to be working in the Interests of the C dian gov ernment, is believed to be lost in the Canadian wilds. No re. port has been received from the party since it entered the Wilderness last June. ee ee PRERERES REE EE HH W. P. TRIMBLE 15 ILL. Wiltam Pitt Trimble, the well | known capitalist, is confined to his home with a light attack of typhoid | fever. “Although he in quite ill to day, the case is not considered se =. THE SEATTLE ROLLER ADMITS STORY IS UNTRUE HURRICANE [5 RAGING OVER IOLE OF CUBA ‘Small Craft Sunk in the Harbor of Havana and It Is Feared That Many Lives Are Lost. (By Colted Press.) TAMPA, Fia., Oct. 11.—Ad- vices received here from Ha- vana today convey the infor mation that a terrific hurrl cane is sweeping Cuba and that already a number of smaller graft have gone down in the harbor at Havana. Trees have been uprooted and it is reported that a num- ber of buildings have been wrecked. News is meagre, but it is feared that many lives hav mn los The storm is reported to be headed in this direction. DULUTH, Minn, Oct. 11.— A blizzard le sweeping over the Great Lakes today, and all traffic is practically at stand ott. Lake Superior ie running high and considerable damage already has been sts al DISCHARGED MESo AT Hire an Attorney to Aid ONE CEN) GATEMEN PROMISE TO atl UP EXPOSITION Two or Three Caught Stealing and Twenty Are Dix charged, But They Refuse to Be Fired, and Meet and Them in Fight to Remove Stain Put on Their Names. “The gatemen were let out | by my order. We are not prosecuting any petty thieves. We had evidence that only two or threeamen were steal. ing but that did not matter, the others were Inefficient or they would have reported the thiev- ery going on. There is no truth to statements that the ticket were stuffed on Seattle | ind we ha y oth no shortag —President Chilberg. A men caught score of the exposition gate in the wholesale dis charges in the admission depart ment of the A-Y-P., held a meet-| ing in their assembly room in the Auditorium building this morning and formed a temporary organiza tion. A committee was appointed to handle the matter and an attor ney Will be employed immediately to attempt to wipe out what the men say is an indelible stain to thelr reputations. “Just because those ‘higher up’ | caught two or three gatemen steal-| FRANCHISE DECISION LETS DOWN THE BARS SAYS BOUILLON SUPREME COURT GIVES THE CITY COUNCIL FREE REIN IN GRANTING OFFICIAL FAVORS TO CORPORATIONS AT CITY’S EXPENSE. “The state supreme court Washington, through its decision in upbolding the action of the council men of Seattle in granting to the poo g Electric company a fran chi to lay tracks on Rainier av although. it was the lowest bidder for the grant, has delegated to the council of this city unlimited power nd @ut to public service cor- porations, as it may see fit, any fra! ise asked for.” THix statement was made this morning by A. V. Boullion, Contin uing he said: “In brief, this highest tribunal has nullified one of the most im portant provisions of the cit? char ter, that was Inserted therein to eafeguard the Interests of the peo ple in the matter of franchise grab- bing. Now the men whom the vot era evected to office to legislate for them and protect their rights ma do as they please. Do as They P' “If it is thelr pleasure to grant a franchise to one corporation over the protest of another bidder, al though the latter may agree to pay a higher percentage of its gross re colpts to the city for the privilege. it may do #0 without much fear of any legal complications following The immense power giv the counell to act with a free hand is an outgrowth of the fight made by Seattle Klectric company and Edwin C. Ewing, an attorney, for a} franchise to lay tracks to parallel those of the Seattle, Renton & Southern railway In Rainier av Ew offered to pay the city per cent of the gross receipts of the company for the privilege, In ite-application for the same «rant the Seattle Electric company of fered to pay only 2 per Provisions Are Void. } In {ta decision the supreme court } held null and vold section 23 of | artiele 4 of the city charter, provid: | ing that franchises should be grant od to the highest bidder. Moreover, | the court said that the council | should have “power to grant street railway franchises, and also power to prescribe the terms and condi tions on which the said railways should e constructed, and such} power cannot be limited or pre seribed by the freehold charter pro-| visions.’ | of this decision,” said | “In view STAR GIVES TICKETS TO MAJESTIC THEATRE Somewhere in th issue of The Star will be found box seats to the Majestic theat business office of this paper The name of the person for will be found in the advertiseme This person may have the tic advertisement at The Star busir tity The name of the person to wh |] taken at random from The Star's The same thing will be dor D THE STAR'S CLAS THESE TICKETS MAY BE ertisement division of this a notice to the efiect that re are awaiting someone at two the whbm the tickets are intended nt kets by presenting 1e8s office and proving a copy of the his iden 1om these first two tickets go was list fof subscribers: tomorrow ® ADVERTISEMENTS. rou yot of A.V. [ton arises Boulllon, former superinten dent of public utilities, “the ques council go? Mr. Bouillon, until he was ousted from office by Mayor Miller for ex posing grafting operations In the elty administration, had fought the | franchise in nall 1 had nothing to do with the} compensation to. he paid the city, continued Mr. Bouillon, “but it seems to me that the council most ansure realized that 9 per cent is higher than 2 per cent After I had mined the fran chine before it was advertised I returned it to the council with a} substitute prepared by me. substitute, if it had b adopted instead of being killed, would have protected the interests of the question tooth and To what limit will the The} ing they discharged the entire bunch of us, branding all of us thieves in the Times and the P.1 It Is not the week's wage that we are fighting for now, although all of us have reported for work and we have never been officially dismiss ed, but it is vindication, and we are going to get it,” continued Me Cord The Men Are Angry. “1 went to J. R. Collins, treasurer of the A-Y-P. E, myself and he said to me in just so many words ‘I would not have discharged any of you boys if the exposition had 30 days more to run; instead, I) would have kept Piukerton men watching and caught the men steal ing. As it is, I know two or three of you have been stealing so I am letting out all of you. If you can prove yourself innocent, boys, I | will be glad to put you back *to work.’ “Prove ourselves innocent! Fine! Collins told me he had Pinkerton detectives watching all the gate men for four days and the only re. alt of all this watching was that |two men were caught stealing—yet every one gets discharged and jbranded as a thief. Many of us llive in Seattle—born and raised jhere—and we don't like this in justice. And we are not going to stand for it | Revive Old Complaint. | “There are things I don’t under nd. When the fair had been unning two months one pay day ple in every particular, 1 clearly| We suddenly found our pay short specified the terms covering/some were short 50 cents, others service, construction and mainten-| Were short various amounts up to mesic $20. Inquiry brought us the infor There are ‘jokers’ in the present Mation that ‘these amounts were franchise. 1 pointed them ont in the total shortages of the men for my report that accompanied the the entire two months.’ Not a substitute franchise whisper did we hear of shortages all the two months, No one said a ee ed word about a Shortage the next day after t d shortage took AYP. ATTENDANC! place—instead, they totaled them aturday * * * * * * * * + eee eee ee ee F THERE'S A MORAL IN THIS. from Chi- signal compliment Ilere cago for The Star’s and for comes composing Bush & their the Co. fe aggressiveness The Times, room, Lane Piano r Musical whose Chicago a magazine word is authority in mat ters musical, reproduces the full print in its latest page advertisement ed in The Star of Septem 18 by & firm Musical reprint issue ber the Bush Lane The not Times did the matter as an advertisement for Bush & gratuitously Lane. It gave this space as an example to musical houses the of the the Seattle firm goes busines over country way and a after an example of the artistic and attractive way a full page piano advertisement could be handled newspaper by a Seattle up for two months and gave them to us In a chunk. Did we stand for it? 1 guess not. We employed W C. Keith, an attorney, who had a little ta with the exposition officials, with the result that the deductions made in our pay were all returned quick enough “Grafters! At 50 cents a crack! Say, look at the uniforms we have been wearing. Listen! Not a man of us could go to a tailor of our choice. We had to every one go to Frost & O'Neil, tailors on First av Careless Bandit Who Held Ten Times as Much. Overlooking the strong box con taining $20,000 in gold, silver and currency, a lone bandit held up the Great Northern Express company’s office just west of the King st, sta |tion shortly after midnight last night, taking between §2,000 and $5,000, at the point of a six-shooter “Tl give you just two minutes to open that safe,” was the gruff or der from behind a mask amd re inforced by a frowning revolver, which caused EB. W. Simonson, jchief clerk, to throw open the smaller safe Tied Clerk to a Chair. After opening it, the bandit fore jed Simonson, at the point of a re _ DONT GO HOME TONIGHT—OR ANY NIGHT—WITHOUT A NIGHT PINK EDITION OF THE STAR | Northern Express Company Got Between $2,000 | i} “'The men higher up’ want to make us ‘the goat,’ ‘the fall guys,” to put it deeper into slang. There is big graft going on somewhere higher up and on accounting day the gulity ones, when asked about the shortages, want to be able to say, ‘Oh, those gatemen took the money. We discharged them when we found out about it’ If we were thieves, would be showing up demanding our rights?"—A. J. McCord, spokesman for discharged men. and there we paid $27 an outfit fog suite that we could have seew from other tailors at $15 per—-with the tailors making a good profit— we little $2.40 a day men. “Why, O'Neil, of this tailoring firm, was virtually assistant paye master. We couldn't get our sab ary until he gave the word. We were paying for the clothes on the installment plan, and every payday O'Neil comes out to the fair, takes out his bit, and, in many instances, hands us our ‘bit.’ Grafters! Who is ‘sitting in’ with Frost & O'Nef? Ask us. What's the answer? Twenty-seven per for those clothes! Huh!” “There have been no padded at tendance figures,” said President Chilberg. “I get a daily report and there has been no shortage worth mentioning. I am running my of- fice and I am responsible for the | discharge of these gatemen. Those | who were not stealing were ineffie cient in that they failed to hye | the thievery going on. There wi be no letters of recommendation given these men.” | HP. Schneider and C. M. Batley, inspectors, served in similar ca pacity at the Louisiana Purchase exposition in St. Louis and the Jamestown exposition. They te sued this statement: “We have now served at three great expositions in Important po sitions, and never before has our honesty and integrity been ques tioned. If there had been stealing going on and we had seen it, oF known of it, we would have report- ed it For the exposition management to bunch us and discharge us with- out permitting us a word, and branding us all as thieves in two daily papers with wide circulation, is an injustice that can never be entirely wiped out, no matter how hard they might try to do so. We get only $85 a month; gatemen get only 30 cents an hour, $2.40 per day, and out of our wages come $27 for uniforms, and $1 per month for hospital fees. If we are sick we are docked. We have a just complaint and will fight for our rights.” After the meeting the gatemen presented H. L. French, timekeeper, with a handsome gold fob. Gate- man McCord 1 the presentation speech, in which he said: “If the reat q we fellows were as honest as you there would be none of these whi sale discharges. If we were thie we wouldn't b swing up here to- day; we wou hitting the road nit of town cheers for you, Mr. French.” Here Are the Men. Discharged gatemen who reported for duty this morning *, Schneider (inspector), M. A, J MeGlina, Draper, W. AL 2 L. BE. Glenn, A t Tolleson, 8. B. Wright, D. E, Mo- Laughlin, E. Lannin J. B. Cough lin, A. W. Mead, P. Burdick (in- spector), N. H. Randall, J. Monroe, V. Moreska, John Summerset, Q ©. Curtis (inspector), C. M asl EXPRESS ROBBER MISSED $20,000 Up Local Office of Great and $5,000, But Overlooked the Strong Box With | volver, to sit in a chair chief clerk’s hands behind him to the chair, the robber ordered him to walk to a pair of scales, where the bandit again used rope to pre- vent his escape, The robber then looted the safe. He was just in the act of donning ‘Tying the pair of train messenger’s trous- ‘ers and a jumper when a knock | was heard on the door | A Nervy Bandit. “Just a minute,” called the ban- dit, hastily tearing off his disguise, except the mask. Walking to the door, the bandit threw it open and | (Continued on Page Nine.) ——