The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 10, 1909, Page 1

HOSPITAL, oAYS DUNN Who Investigated Care of County Poor own Finds Shocking Sanitary and Conditions at Home for Indigent---Super- Occupies Best Half of County Home, Old Men Shiver and Half Starve in Rear. BY ARTHUR W. L. DUNN, times during my stay at the county hospital I to the county poor farm, a mile away, on Rainier | also under Supt. Corson’s administration, though directly in charge of it. . is for the county poor who are still able to take} tves—who are not under charge of a physician. | pled often, and bent and gnarled, but as long as to get about, they live at the farm. front, the county farm looks like a comfortable | A big, old fashioned southern farm house, it ft the inmates do not live in this part of the building. ; | / is occupied by Supt. Jones and his family. The| E SEATTLE TAF ‘HE LOVED THE HOME EDITION — SEATTLE, WASH., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1909 tut ate ogcuried AY subépinrenoen ‘a ed COUNTY FARM BUILDING Notice comparative space allotted to superintendent and es oat ee ee ai = north of the exposition grounds, | and that she refused to give him| the address of the place. “We were quarreling about her taking the children to the board ing house, and she fired a few dishes at me and then ran to her bureau drawer and sald she would finish me,” said George. “I rege od nd in CABLES DOWNTO JAMAICA: FEAR | GREAT STORM WOMAN EVEN AS HE KILLED HER to the bedroom door, 3 excitement I guess | must pave! mamas This Is the Story Told on shot twice, burt don't know. | HALIFAX, N. 8, Nov. 10—Con George then told of having given | eideratile anxiety is being felt here himself up to Captain of Detectives | for the safety of the isiand of Ja- Charles Tennant, with the idea in| maica. his head that he bad only wound-| N@ communication has been re He begged the police,| ceived from Kingston since tur. Witness Stand by Ar- thur George. | “I loved “the woman when we | Attorney Hughes, for Coal THE SEATTL STAF ONE CENT IN VANCOUVER B.C. WREC , AUNAWAY FREIGHT CAR SWEEPS DOWN GRADE INTO PASSENGER Two Score Men be to Work in Dim Light of Dawn, Caught, Crushed and Mangled When Fly- ing Lumber Car Crashes Into Oncoming Inter- urban Coach. 'GLAVIS Ch CHARGES NOT DENIED BY CUNNINGHAM THE DEAD. T. BOWES, Grandview. R. S. LYONS. T. FARMER. J. F. STEVENS. J. H. CROWTHER, 112 Sixth av. E. WILLIAM JOHNSON, conductor. CHARLES HARRIS, extra conductor. Land Claimants, Admits Connection With Gug-| genheim. The Cunningham coal land claim ants, through FE. C. Hughes, who has | J. POCHIN, 1852 Third av., Grandview. been associated with John P. Gray! GEORGE THORNBORN, motorman. T. E. HOLLAND. a _sevecment among corusin of| A. S. WILKINSON. HARRY DAYTON, Ross and Howard's foundry. THOMAS TUTTLE. etgbth interest in th In fact, they admit such an agreement alms at there was But they claim ir ether in srnall and dirty stall-like rooms! *ere divorced, and I loved ber he #aid, to hurry medical attention! day, when a fierce hurricane was that it had ference to only cer ED. es are crowded tog id dirty |when I pulled the trigger that|to her at once. Two hours Iater|faging. It te probable that tand| tent fr ond Tearence to ony was | THE INJUR ee jsnuffed out her lite he learned thaf she was dead. communication was interrupted by | made prior to the paasage of the| F. CARTY, New Westminster; critical. inte the “lounging room.” It was by far the most/, “! shot when I saw her reach! At thie point in hin testimony | the @torm, but it is not believed | cou! land law which forbids such | GEORGE TRAWFORD; critical. we {nto her bureau drawer with the George broke down, and it that it could wreck the cable. agreement, and that {it was abro-| a : filthy room that I have ever seen. |remark, Til finish you.’ That was (tive minutes before he could re-|, The steamer Amanda from Hali-| gated when that law Was passed | THOMAS E. JACKSON. Ws located Gh the ground floor. The windows are never raised to [he just | saw of the woman A jeune his, story nate |r rsrenctcn eet erik ree and | Admit Guggenheim Connection. | J. W. RUSHTON. ove © oF he fron! © fal he purchased the ro} “ 0, e rere’ dua dealgtger oes eon of yee 2a epee ‘pone bad door, where my little girls were, | volver the day previous, as he waa} was floated re = and et tee that ines bane back C. W. CARLSEN. Moke an oO! lors. t eo i tle ere: vt om atmosphere thick with tobacco smo! ui and ‘that was the last I saw of planning to live in a little shanty none ee Been heard tras: | negotiations between the Cunning ROBERT FORSYTHE. lay fong the aged unfortunates sit in this room drinking in the ~ [ase Pree Ae Be |e PD |ham claimants and the Guagen W. T. HAINES. aie There ie no alternative. if they go out they will get|,, us was the story told by Ar. | thought he needed some protection. since. heims for the construction of a Sao ; OnE, en one jthur George on the witness stand| The defense, in charge of Thom. . | yalhrend: te. thete,claieed and even M. ZIMMERMAN. are scant, dilapidated and dirty. In one corner isa Reed cf fumigation. A few old, broken chairs, a decrepit inmates are wont to kill time playing “forty: | fly-covered pictures complete the furnishings. there are millions of them. They swarm in the old oliect around the germ-crusted cuspidors. They craw! and hands of the crippied inmates and fly into the dining the dormitories—the flies, the worst of disease carriers. days the flies seek the open air and feed on the muck road leading up to the inmates’ entrance. But at night to their old haunts. ’ sleeping quarters are on the first and second floors. not heated and the dampness from the river and the| through the thin roof and sides of the building, making t for the indigents. ‘Bre the worst in the whole institution. The straw mat to shreds and as a result many of the inmates are! bare stee! springs nights. Bed covers are at a premium their blood chilled by advancing years, shiver and the long nights. Bd is practically the same as served to indigents at the hos gets his share, and pains are taken by the superinten. get no more. | to the county offic: inmates of the Poor Farm should | et too much, for they are wards of the county. their unkempt condition, their misery, their general | @xposure to millions of disease germs, the filth that h midst. " feeble men need and appreciate a littie kindness and is too much, according to the theory of county offi- is a commodity unknown to them. B yesterday decided yw its politicians., By a the 5,000 people wh one square mile of land Me tide flats that Georgetown should continue to M inside a great B bas decided that it will run its patch of earth Or hindrar from the 200,000 people who have made PWonder-city of the country @ Georgetown's privilege. It's up to them. They there. it’s the people there who will suffer from the @ny—who will profit from the advantages, if any—of veg morning during bis trial for oe R. Horner, is endeavoring to re. NEW YORK, Nov. 10—It w duce the charge from first degree) announced here that the West In murder to second degree, while the | dian cables are working only as far prosecution ta bending every effort) a# Santiago de Cuba, and that com the murder of his wife on the} morning of May 12, 1909. The kill-| | tng followed @ quarrel over the two children, he said. jto place a noose around the de} Munication south of that point The Georges had been divorced, | fendant’s neck coaned last night and the busband was only per. Witnesses who were former fel Snes mitted to see his little daughters |low workmen with George were tn HAVANA, Cuba, Nov. 10—This onee every Sunday. He claims |troduced this morning to testify to jclty lost cable communication with that his wife told him on the day | his good character. Kingston last night about the same of the killing that she was going The case will probably go to the | time that the iand line via San to take them to a boarding house ‘jury this afternoon tago failed. | a = ee = = THE NATIONAL GINGERBREAD MAN made happy by ‘for the sale of coal to the Away with bittemess— Why have strife and dis- cord when everything can be sweet and lovely! Corporations, congress- men, politicians and all are Guggen railroad negotl | ation® were not entered into until heims for use But he claims thelr these on that Bulletin—D. McDonough, motorman of the freight train, Fred Wiggins, conductor, after application for patent had and W. [been made, until all of the rights|Bowes, brakeman, are being held by the police. of the claimants to their patents ‘ had accrued Mr. Hughes said this morning “When Mr, © uoningham first} (Continued o (By United Press.) VANCOUVER, B.C., Nov. 10.—Fifteen men jwere killed and ten injured early this morning when ja flying freight car, which had broken from a train, crashed without warning into the 6:10 interurban car, between Lakeview and Collinwood stations, some 10 miles from here. Of the 23 men in the car, none had a chance ts lescape. George Thornborn, the motorman, looked out to see the heavy freight car, loaded with great pieces of lumber, hurtling toward the flimsy electric train. Thornborn shouted a warning, but the words were choked in his throat as the two cars came together with ja horrible crash. Even the men on the back platform | had no chance to jump. Page Seven.) From the Detrolt News The lightly built racing model electric car was thrown and broken like an egg shell before the impact of the runaway, freight car, which was rushing down grade. CRUSHED INTO A MASS. People were crushed in masses of wreckage. Limbs were wrenched from bodies. Dead and ng were confused and congested in a great mass of teel and human flesh, The electric car was cut just above fl t Word te 4 residents « best water system on the Coast, a fecognized all over th country, a stable govern oft gladly to the little city in a city Want it all right ene: fest stake hs from failure to annex. In six months | | ill add ) pec by natural increase | WASHINGTON, D. C., Noy RARER REE RRR EEE EERE REED pe ic Reha Pr aegt The last longest of the little When the people of Georgetown find their roadhouses Wale Be Bg bin president has|* SOME LITTLE JOURNEYS oF ot it have made the name of their city a byword all Bl just been finished. President Taft * AN EIGHT MONTHS’ PRESIDENT *® i y - x | west—opening up again (as petitions for an opening is back at the White House on ‘ es ae b | MEU bivvulation and the candidates named for office f {the Job again. It's going to be a * i March 16 to March 20, New York and New Haven, three * : 7 . nard winter for him, for he weighs ays Pledged to assist in it)—when these open their doors a ie Getahinerkaod of pounds | * April 14 to April 16, New York and New Haven, two days, * now, or nearly 50 more than + April 27 and April 9, Philadelphia, one day * | closed the $15,000 school fore he started tc swing around | * May 18 to May Petersburg, W. Va., to Charlotte, N.C, *& | the western banquet belt |* three days . * | With banquets to the right of | * May 29 and May 30, Pittsburg and Gettysburg, Pa, two * Ider over, drinking water that has him, banquets to the left of him,|* days. é * 6 pe toastmasters in front of him and|*** June 29 to July 1, Yale commencement, two days 5 * Flolence and a 4 yice trained befpre elec waiters behind him, the president) * Asay: 1 ta eorerabes 15, Beverly, Mass., and [foston, * prpese gein rampant in thelr town Pe: Ore Be heaece itor |e September 15 to November 10, on Western trip, 66 days, Beattie real « ' booming Green Lake and fi] Ji0'? 8 Rev.) Chas. B. Barker |* TOTAL ABSENCE FROM WASHINGTON, 108 DAYS, * 4nd Ballard and Park as good places to live Tote into the Mmelight 1 tho|* OR 43.2 PER CENT OF HIS ELAPSED TERM OF 250 DAYS, * Ate planting industr and good honest men to next few weeks the Rev. Prof. Bar-|* a While Georgetow t |ker will be buster than Capt, the | 4 ¥# MERE A o ehibald Willingham Claver- | an nae ee > 3 teeta Me taxes witch hia 14 down artificially for | Hon. Archibald Willingnam ee | ing de Graffenried But ‘ sccgond up a | military ald where he will put on the gloves,| which. the big reception rooms of People of Georgetown may r d |” prof. Barker is Taft's BO Mul-| wrestle, swing Indian clubs and|the mansion contain, Medicine icin th dh id hie rapier ay ty kay He's a tittle man, and that's | throw the medicine ball. with Taft) balls and cut gla chandeliers into Seattie—and scorned it by a two to one Where the pity of it comes in, He|in the carly morning hours until|ought not to be in the same room, lie a matter of great moment to|the president feels himself again. |in the opinion of Lol. Spence® Cos “ the situation in ance. But they allowed the Blthe nation, too, for he will be the | There are i things that his by. se bas been in pharge of the @ Jobs, who wanted to continue thelr grip on | personal be ys cnet fred | Seely an ee the thee: ie! awk: Basen nae bin way this Nd the city graft, to tell them otherwise. bar hee is tn the White House, {the heavy cut glass chandeliers | will be the president's program horhood br ambulanees: and recking cars | ying to the scene of the terrible accident wrk began at once of try- ing to extricate dying and dead from the wreckage ‘ Spurred on by the piteous ceric d groans of the terribly injured, the wreckers tugged with heavy timbers and steel beams, trying to get at the men y beneath HORRIBLE MUT IL A TION. | Faces had been cut 1 aah ie e of hu- ] manity. ‘The identifications were 1 im s by cards Mo asses or letters found on the clothes All the victir we men, It an early ning car | to the city Today every undert « »p 18 a great morgue, with dozens of or relatives people clamoring for a ince to try to identify 7 a " v | 1 [a m.—Rise and don gymnasium The electric line belonged to the British Columbia Elec 7 a. m. to 7:15 a. m—Light exer-| t y Co | cise, then a moment's rest | n coupling on the freight car caused the accident, = ay ph nel a. m.—Wrest-| according to the freight crew They had left the car on the er ne ate ae | main line and had gone to a siding to get an empty car. When 9:96 a. m. to 7 a. m—Spar-| they returned to tl vain track the empty was shunted on, to ring, Hight boxing, and perhaps | be coupled to the hl abel car. But its 1 nentum set the heavy wrestling, & sport at which the] freight car in motion, the coupling refused to work, and before Promsgont excelled at Yale. ae ox.{the crew could catch it to put on brakes, it was rushing—a ercises to reduce waist measure, |TUnaway—down the grade that led to the electric railway 7:46 a, m. to 8 a. m.—Cold bath | crossing . and brisk rubdown, followed by A. Johnston, who assisted in the, George Scott, who lives opposite breakfast rescue work, was returning home | the ene, Was just sitting down to The president's diet, Prof. Bar-|from work at the time, He had| breakfast whon he heard the crash, ker thinks, will have a great dea! | just gotten off the passenger car,|“I grabbed a lighted lantern,” he jto do with his health. For break-|when he heard a terrible crash, | said, “and ran for the wreck fast Prof, Barker favors a beef All was still for a moment, It must have taken twenty steak or a couple of chops, medium | said Johnston, “and then I heard/minutes to get enough lumber well done; vegetables, perhaps | cries and moans, It was still dark,|hauled off to Nberate any of the some fresh fruit, and a cup of|but I knew what had happened poor wretches. One man, badly coffee. | “Lran along the track, stumbling | hurt, was unable to stir, with a Luncheon, he believes, ought to|over the ties, and the si dead man ac b nd an- consist of vegetables and fruits|met my eyes when I reached the|other dead man acre chest, alone, Too much sugar and too| wreck was indescribable. |The eyes of another poor fellow much fat meat will make “Big Bill” | “For a moment I stood paralyzed. | w full o i blood—not his bigger yet. By too much fat meat|'Then I, with others who had ar-|own—so that he could not see. Prof, Barker means any fat meat|rived, began lifting the debri They had all b n jammed into one at all {those whom we could see pinned | solid’ mas a & and After the day's work at the new | down injured lay } relpie : executive offices, the president will “There were so many cries for} Rev. Madil nd ly live ¢ jmotor or ride horseback through | help all at the same time we hard-| rectly opposite — the Rock Spring park, varying this ex-|ly knew where to start first. We/daughters heard the ¢ ercise with a game of golf at the |had taken out twelve bodies, when | shook their hou They Chevy Chase club in Maryland |I was forced to quit* through ex-| hurriedly and assisted in the work when the weather Is fine haustion in iting 12x12 “pypoy."| of rescue.