The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 4, 1909, Page 1

|) THE SEATTLE 11. NO. 245. : SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1909. ONE CENT NY BABE IS | ——“™=rmentme-rovenes—TRAINMEN (EFT TO DIE | Pe ae) «WILL QUT BESIDE TRACK) shige eau! = IN A BODY | Found on Overland Limited and Taken to Greatest Railroad Strike in History Threatens Coun- |—Strange Mystery Develops in Heart of ; = ? try, Declares Big Chicago Daily — Engineers, e ntains. ; ‘ " Mounta) z 4 Firemen and Rest Will Demand Big Increase. wells the identity of afhas as good a chance as any baby 5 phere baby, found be nito live. If the mother doesn’t ~~ . j (By United Press.) mot the Great t clatm him, Great Northern offictals \ CHICAGO, Dec, 4.—It was announced this afternoon that ur Beenic, early terday | declare he will be adopted and car % . . t he . ‘ea }ed for by the railroad 1 ee ‘ the 21 railroads with terminals in Chicz 1 decided to maine Buay mite of bh nity, Mother Won't Talk. SANTA'S WORKSHOP—8,y John B. Gruclle . ; } | tain their stand in refusing to grant the demands of their eme a tiened up al ve. and| The mother absolutely refuses to This wonderful workshop is just for girls, eo g ployes for a 10 per cent wage increase. If the roads refuse from its bed of ¢ discuss the case. Her relationship wt the dolls are made with the loveliest curls, y to compromise, it is believed the strong pro-strike feeling that mew, by a track wor wax not discovered until a search 1 : S preva here will result in the greatest industrial strug | who had heard its|¥&8 made of the train at Leaven the ; hee! ZY, m i} | is prevalent , & om SUae worth. She was in a precarious The bluest eyes and rosiest cheek: f 2 Z Ar: gle in American history. tal Limited passenger | ith to.'the babe’ while. a They make a million in just two weeks. thy Me me before. ‘The babe's |{Min. She was taken from the Wouldn't you just like to take a peep : Bo CHICAGO, Dec. 4.—The Tribune this morning says: ; bie */train to the hospital. Her condi _ i t ter th greatest rai . oe tke dropped OF | tion ts yet very grave, and the lack At these beautiful dolls when the workers sleep? | The United States is threatened with the greatest raile ..., of information from her is due as . . ol Sugaiidtas at Miu ier’ Sad oe ther is in the Great/much to her condition as to her But little girls cannot g6, it seems, Dospital at Leavenworth, | reticence. The woman with her : 5 gives the name of Mrs. maintains an obstinate silence To Kris Kringle’s workshop, except in dreams. fie Roth, of Georgetown. A| ‘The discovery of the baby was ja walk-ou th rt a vumt fi perati Mm giving the name of Mrs. idue to the chance meeting of ~ “echt SEO Sea a walk-out on the part of a large number of its operating Buhl, of Georgetown, who | Wiitiam EB. Robinson and a track | ~ parlors Ser ee Bio be Mrs. oth’s sister, iS\ walker, Robinson heard the baby | ‘ ; i “Officer f i f i {wailing and the two men started a} | , = ae = pein cane d vinings gre ‘ SE ten lsearch. The track walker kept his j j men and switchmen ha agreed upon a uniform demand of jantern close to the ground and| j | who claims to be Mrs./was goon rewarded by sighting a 10 per cent reasc, without deviation or compromise. “Practically every railroad in the country, east and is in imminent danger of being completely tied up by all knowledge of | stripped off their coats and. wrap. sed ae pe sap a ihe dais York by’ officers:08. te ii gaye she has not been | po4 the little fellow up. They hur- od of Railway Trainmen that they would present B, and that she | ried to the hotel. Everybody bad Smamed Mrs. Georgette | retired, but in a moment the entire Mrs. Austin, Nee Matty ae ir demands December 11. ‘The wage conferences will begin house was up in dishevel, all Bell Winsor, Is Deserted) | lecember 15. Although every effort will be made to avert Reagbicos Beads wy to take charge of the late by Man She Ch f ‘ a general strike, it is impossible to predict what the outcome all the women| Who the mother is, and the cir - - | - of the conferences will be. nae thee a cumstances eutroaeds the first White’s Slayer Refuses to! Her Husband. Prosecutor Can’t Make “Both the railroads and the leaders of organized labor provide o | —_——. few minutes the baby's exist Sisescs. of the Great jence, are. still unsolved questions | Watch Asylum Show—| A weap year comsnce, the moive Good Before the Grand|#™0né the railroad employes are preparing for the struggle, %, is giving him med- | It is believed that the woman came ¢ . i : F : |which, when it once begins, will without doubt develop. into from Georgetown, or otherwise ahe| Stays in Cell While Ray- pr ay of which was brought) 9 ; Jury — Bankers Called ne of the greatest industrial battles that } re i ht 2 ling experience, | would t have n name of °, bout by the proposal of the Wom. 4 one oft f est dustrial battles that has ever been fough' Mifellow is doing well, and! Mrs. Buhl mond Hitchcock Come 3.) caine to a lena! end In Judge! , Before Jury. Jin this or any other land . pany Plays. Gilliam's court this morning. a pi nibbles | Mra. Chaties Frederick Austin, a Vanderveer's attempt to con i a a efit : . : ue’ Osea Boies who was Matty Bell Winsor. se. . j vince the grand jury that Jean Ro which menaces the industrial peace of the country is at pres- | y YORK, Dec. 4—Dainty it] ° eee a eh es from her husband, , he 2 mano had a monopoly of the slot|™t that of iron stubbornness tle dancis uffles and laces | ¥ho marrie or reque: | ta” “ ge ! : : A jet és “ing am is sy gy i a Peon dogs Bw at her request on machine business in King county Over a million men will engage directly in a battle with singers, baritone and tenor singers. be : Austin, petite and timorous. | * , i and maintained the monopoly be-| the railroads unless some fortunate circumstances arise to avert funny story tellers and Raymond | ‘old her story briefly in court thia ea jcause of the protection furnished|the trouble. More than 150,000 mi is ‘ Hitchcock composed the aggrega-| morning, but not the leap year! bi pag ah 9 i by Sheriff Hodge was a failure.|). jay," an 150,000 miles of railroad track wil tion of entertainers that went up| 'e@ture. sat was left out It ; : ts i i | De IGie the Hudson in a private car yes-|#¢eme that the husband she chose, jm . The jury this morning, when the 9 lor herse ; "1 ; : ‘ ecuto! bsent from the} aa terday to provide Harry K. Thaw | for herself tired of wedlock within om ' prosecutor was a ' land the other Inmates of the Mat-|{¥o months after the ceremony ‘ | grand jury room, ordered that wit CAMPAIGN AGAINST 5 “The attitude of the leaders on both sides of the dispute teawan Aaylum for the Insane with| 98 performed and left her. He : |nesses who had rented slot ma | TRANSFERS AT BUTTE fa variation from the dull routine | ad given her po support and she ’ : \ ch > > ] i | hines fron echtne e | lot their daily lives. | was forced to live with her sister f chines from P. R. Fechtner | ; ia o y co . | Under the auspices of Dr. Baker,| Mrs. Gertrude L. Spencer, , : wh ens | Drowent nt gaat: pagl ori ’ BUTTE, Mont. Dee 4—All ef | superintendent of the asylum, and Mrs. Austin Wen? ™ Up to the present time, all of the torte ot eet |Dr. Austin Flint, tne alfenist, the | MRS. CHARLES F. AUSTIN. || Or tnished the Jury have & switchmen in he gin this cit > conce: [band of players, all of whom are When the year 1908 was ushered a y today are concentrated In | jin there wa | been those who had rented ma n attempt to persuade the switch- members of Hitchcock's “The Man an nach talk of the! got to thinking it over and decided Ih orn irto dB epupclagy id i pies n of the Butte, Anaconda a: ve |Who Owns Broadway” company, | Prarel tthe teres ae proposing. | to make it serious eiiaes from Romano. Although cific road to refuse to Nneeie seine: jgave thelr strange audionce the) city soined issue and offered wed. |, Une, cetemony was performed at|Fechtner had the majority of th cars from other lines happiest hour they have known | Ging prebente te the fret weet Mra. Spencer's residence, 2512 14th| machines in King county, he was ; | At a meeting of the strikers last jsince entering the asylum. | who would propose and be accent, |#¥;,8 bY Rev. J. M. Wileon not arrested by Special Agent | evening a committee to confer with Thaw Remained Away. Jed by a man. Mrs. Austin wart “| The young couple were given a!Church in his personal raid the B., A. and P. switchmen was ap- But Harry Thaw declined to at-| yinner . NM) wet of dishes, a cut glass dish, al Macin’ Waild to Genie errr, its cold! | pointed and instructed to institute tend. In ani interview he explain Mrs. Austin at that time was Hy. |S, billow, a chair, @ go-cart, a y Failte to P. Mr. Salisbury, our weather mar opaign. If the B, A. and P, that he feared the whole affair) ing with her sister who appeared comforter, a set of flavoring ex Fechtner never even I | C thermometer way down | men accept the proposal the Amal was a trap set by Dr. Flint. the/in court this morning as her wit-| T#ct® ® manicure set, a tollet set, | until he was arrested. Neither had | to 2 »ve zero this morning.|gamated mines here and the great most active medical opponent to his | ness, Mrs. Austin read in the | ® silver téa set, a dozen bridall/the sheriff ever heard of such an the coldest weather for De- smelters at Anaconda would be com- freedom, to observe what effect the | Star of the wedding presenta ofter.| BPOOeTaPhs, @ pair of gold mount-| individual. Fechtner's connection | cember for twenty pelled to close and 10,000 men would spectacle of dancing girls and) eq to the woman who would fir 1} Glasses, a box of cigars and &) with the slot machines explodes Even Mr alisbury cor be thrown out of employment. Broadway stage folk would have] propose and decided she would win | *t.2t bathroom fixtures the slot machine monopoly story|now. He was shivering w 1e| Through the combined efforts of upon him liaaie Ase an employe of | ..¥°, mention of these donated |outtined by the prosecuting attor-| Woke up this morning, and he trainmasters and their asstst- One of the harmless inmates, who | the Seattle Electric Co. te eatied | ucles Were made by Mrs. Austin | ney's office to make a fire the furns ants, the Northern Pacific was en- was working in the corridor, looked | at Mrs, Spencer's home to seo Misu (te! Morning The grand jury this morning) When he got down to the abled yesterday to move two the party of visitors over and ob-| Winsor a few moments after this m again went Into the story of cor-| there wasn’t enough heat, and to| freight trains almost across the served canniiy to Dr. Baker young lady had decided to take a ruption told by Thayer, in regard| make matters worse, he 1 state. The strikers aver that their “They looks as crazy a8 I 40,| husband to herkelf More Shopping| !to the Pyro One-Light Electric] make the blamed thermometer go) ranks show no defections, despite | Doc.” J Now he fe 8¢ — - = Here 1s the story M Sign company ordinance. } Up a degree. | assertions of the railroad offl- DORIS PIEPER. | The performance itself was punct-| toia the day after shy wag oe #Days Before.s| whitney, one of the witnesses that] that he treated us so badly. cials that many switehmen are re- 2 Juated with enthusiastic applause. | iieq : W. R. Thayer asked the jury to} Gee, it’s cold turning to work. Pieper, 4 Seaitie girl, wholof this year. While playing at|‘The patients caught every Se geared sella # Christmas 4] | caiy, joid the jury. this morning | sd t New York by a fake|the Lois, a man named Frederick | renajly, and the dancing and aing.| : what Joseph Grondehi had told him, | will keep up at least another FIGHT TO FIN MEE isd left stranded +o representing himself to!ing were particularly enjoyed.| “I was protty sure that I wonld Thayer {s still In San Francisco, in| and there are the strongest indice INISH : a Western agent for | titchcock wormed his way into the| not be refused. When he ftret the employ of the grand jury, He| tions of snow | AT MINNEAP Bionths ago. coming | Kiaw & Erlanger, and induced her jearts of his auditors the outset | came in I gave him a big ple of has reported that he Is shadowing Snow's fine for the boy, but gee, | eevtiias OLIS Miler next. Doris is|to go to New York, furnishing her | py saying jgream cake which I pad made . Grondahl. The jury, however, has | it's cold! MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Dec, 4— S& small role in “The| with the means and transportation You know I ought to have been| Then 1 asked him ff he would not given Thayer afiy definite in-| | Following the “announcement last and will open with | for so doing. He accompanted her | here jong ago |marry me, He sald he would, and 7 |structions as to what to do WALLA WALLA HAS | t that therd will be no arbitra: lation at the Grand a/to Portland, and then returned to The entertainment wa volun-| then said, ‘This is so gudden,’ but ’ f th tomorrow this. city teered by Hitchcock and the mem-|! had to tell him to say that to} Siping: Dae erie 5 INCHES OF SNOW (/!") d here today. that th ys in this city h he Upon arrival at New York she!pers of his company | carry out the joke PLEASE 7 | Bank officials who are familiar fi ~ i pute will be fought to a finish ber @ number urs. | found the contract a fake, and she Austin’s version of the engage jwith the handling of the county} WALLA WALLA, Dec. 4.—The he railroad mana intimated MEEPS Geo ahe conce ' left friendiews and alone in a} NEW ROCK ISLAND HEAD. ment was funds were again summoned by the| second snow of the season is on| today that they have not the slight 0 KO upon ge nge city, Her story traveled| CHICAGO, Dec. 4.—Henry U.| “TI was a bit surprised when| dows JOA € }grand jury this morning. The jury| the ground, which is covered to the m of fnakine ane ea / Mr. Salisbury says this weather MAY face, trim the continent, and the | Mudge today assumed his duties aa| Matty asked me {f 1 would marry |} DoW/e jis still following a rumor that the| depth of about five it Two | Sessions in favor of tei eerie troadway managers, interesting ‘president of the Rock Island rall-her, ‘Sure,’ 1 sald. ‘Will you take) | EARLY / banks have paid the county treas-|cold snaps already this year have | S38!0" strikers. elves. ir plight, found b oad, He has been serving in the| me for your Jawful wedded wife? ANTA Y urer a private bonus for placing | broken all records for winter in| inet the reades ady employment with varlo nphelty of second vice president.| she continued, laughing. 1 said 1 » Ny |deposits in the banks. Although | the Walla Walla valley, Farm work | (eat {he roads ar chive aig ieee amatic productions, @he hasiTne change is a feature of the new| would be most happy to 40 so. * |a half dozen cashiers were called|{s completely tied up, and most of |Sther unions and that all trates yed continuously in the Kast railroad war, and follows the with-|We both laughed about {t and told |last week, the Jury learned nothing| the farmers of the country have | Win be tled up if ii a few months ago, when she|drawal of B. F. Yoakum from the|{t to the folks. You see it was a Git.« ene Gia. to help them run the rumor to| given up hope of further work this 4 “The Soul Kiss” company Rock Island management | joke up to this point, but we both earth. | winter (Continued on Page Seven.) 0 ARE THESE SWITCHMEN? THEY WORK HARD, TAKE LONG CHANCES, AND LOVE THEIR WIVES AND KIDDIES ih say that ff it appears BY Ty, DILLON. filtted quickly from view, waving|the switchman’s existence, he} “I've got a little home over jn|morning before 5 o'clock, to build {doubt it. In two years more, or | back there—everything about 3 been rather neglected by the gen- © is this switch his light In cabalistic signals, works 10 hours a day at the most| West Seattle, that I'm paying for|the fire and get my breakfast, so} when I'm 40, 1 am barred, I can't} You haven't got a chance, T eral public, ‘The engineer, fireman ees eee, © srr ‘ |dangerous of railroad occupations,|on the installment plan; I've got a| that I can leave at 6, I work hard|get another job. They have a hard|can fix you on the physical exam-|and conductor all enter closely into Mthuded upon our con-| OF, lke a ship in the night, Wee) ay coiven $2.20 for It very| wife and three children to djevery day. It's no easy snap be-|and fast rule not to hire men over | ination our live ney have our lives fre+ © the depletion as not on some chance occasion,| day that a switchman works, he|and clothe, and I've been doing|4ng a switchman. I've got to think }40 years old, “After a switchman has lost a/quently in their charge, so we see #04 meat tard. when chance took you through the| has a hundred opportunities to kill| that on $3.20 a day. You have to|about my work all the time, and Easy to Get Hurt. finger, or been hurt in any way, orto it, through the medium of public of man : eight yards, you saw him swing maim himself. A keen eye, ajlive yourself, and you know how |at the same time kind of keep re Pe after he is 40 years old, he doesn’t | opinion t they are treated with . Whe? What « sie steady hand and a sure foot gener-|far $3.20 goes, with provisions so|membering that I mustr © get kill Take a young fellow that/dare quit his job, He can't get|more or less ney. F does he want? scefully onto the footboard of a) iy yoo him alive for his allotted | high, and youngsters always need-|ed and leave the wife and young|throws up his job here and goes|another. That's pretty tough for| But the switchman, breaking up EMS become pair witch engine and go clattering | oan, but his reasonable expecta-|ing something, I've had the usual|ones with the home to pay for, I| somewhere else. He may have|men who have to work as hard and trains in the yards, far from publia | the past ‘ |, from view, You may have obsery-|tiong are not for a peaceful death, |run of sickness, I suppose, but one| put tn 10 hours of the day in the| been pounding on switching en-|take the chances we do, and we| view, is never heard from, unless, lew 4 ed that he appeared to be giving way or the other I've managed tolyard, and it takes me an hour to/gines for 10 yoars, and he may have|only get $8.20 a day at that perhaps, your eye falls on a para: » has mtn 1s an important|a great deal of attention to his| One misstep for that foothoard,|make ends meet, and have never |get home at night, #0 you see I|lost a finger, just because of a| “This strike is pretty hard on|graph in your paper, in which his OW everyday life business, to the wtter exclusion Of which he jumps off and @n a|missed a payment on my home,|have, one way of looking at it,| defective equipment, He can't get/us fellows who are paying for | sudden death is tersely He is a it naturally + , your presence, As you #aW DIM | hundred times a day, and there is|'That’s my nightmare—losing that| been working over 12 hours janother job. His eyes may have/homes, but we've just got to go/|the under dog in the railroad bust ively, 4 y : hurl himself to the ground, run t©| 4 yaeancy in that particular switch-|home. The wife and { have fig-| ‘It Isn't so much the increase of | grown a little weak, staring out for|through with it and we'll do it ness, but just now he is conspicue / Most of a switch, hold wig wag converse | ing crew. ured and figured and figured, every | wages that we are fighting for as|signals in all kinds of weather; The. Switchman's Side of It ously on top. : Bimpses 0 he with the engineer, and then climb} month since we went in there, and | the betterment of conditions under y turn him down cold. ™ , Don't pass harsh judgment on Perhaps throug wack aboard the swiftly moving! 1 talked yesterday afternoon| we've got to figure this month, It’s} @hith we work. Take my ca t used to be that the superin This is the story the switch:|him or his cause for the reason ® Passenger coact train of cars, you probably COl-| with a gwitehman in the Labor|going to be a pretty slim Christ-| Im 38 years old, and have been |tendent handled the applications for| man as told by hint Ho wants | that he interferes with your com. . ea cluded to your own satisfaction |rempie, He regarded this strike|mas at my house, but it has to be." | @witching for nearly 18 years. I've jobs, but now they all go back to/ higher wages and he needs them, |fort or your business, A lantern phe fark, wet that your own enfe and sane OCCU | agg very serious matter; he was) | asked him about his work |Been lucky, but in two years I'll|one office in St. Paul, If you've] but most of all, he wants to get o Just remember that he works 10 y fo hand, cling pation was much preferable. lrisking a great deal, but was de: pass the dead line, If J lose my|ever been prominent in any trou-|and free himself from the bondage | hours a day for $3.20, and is virtus Be APB? prehensile sa Hin Daily Work, termined to go to the end, bitter Works 12 Hours a Day. fob here now, maybe I can get/ble like the present one, you're|in which he is now held by the|ally a slave after he is 40 years . : “Well, I'm out of bed every|another somewhere else, but Ij}done for. hey have your record | railroads. The switchman has | old. f 4 box car. He! ‘To get down to the real facts of jor sweet.