The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 9, 1909, Page 6

jo aeieeiiie Kir SN NARA 1HE STAR—THUR§DAY, DECEMBER 9, 1909 ee | Balllagens| —all or of the United Press, Pub- Mehed datty by The Star Pubit Claim Agents and Ambulance Chasers reading the awful news of the Cherry mine horror the were shocked by accounts of the law he ambulance chasing variet vents prowled about the stricken town ' | ting fo hildre « Soliciting j« neys for t and Idren and parents of those lost in the mine while of wanted to make contracts with the survivors, that They the corpses were still the in awful hole, while issue - THE STAR EDITORIAL AND MAGAZINE PAGE? HILL AND LOVETT TALK ON CENTRAL BANK PLAN—A STRIKING COMPARISON life or death was still unsolved, to bring suits for damages on speculation, and for contingent fees. was a time when no decent lawyer would take a There was a time when a lawyer There case fee. doing so was subject on a contingent to disbarment But at last it came to be seen that in many cases poor peo ple were without the power to litigate their cases unless al lowed to mortgage the only property they possessed, perhaps— their claim for damages. In the interests of poor claimants, of just such people as those at Cher cases to be taken on contingent fees. It is the law and practice was changed so as to alttow The best and most reputable lawyers now take them @ part of the universal practice, and it is a necessary part of Without it the widows, orphans and parents of work ath our law, then would have little protection in case of injury or de For we have no workingmen’s insurance law in this coun- try, as other civilized nations have. And we have that complement and mate of the amb chasing lawyer, Not all agents are of the despicable sort here referred to, but of them, by the very nature of their employment, must ance the corposation claim agent claim tend that way, just as the personal injury lawyer, doing business legitimately, Mrs. John Love of Drothers-in-law were killed in the mine, declared that her sur- the acci tends to become an ambulance chaser. Cherry, whose husband and three Viving brother-in-law and several other witnesses of dent that killed 300 men in the Cherry mi idated by the corporation claim agents, talked to, offered bribes, and finally taken out of town in automobiles if it that the thing which makes the ambulance chaser’s ghoulish profession almost a nece taking place at Cherry and cripples are being robbed by justice by. tampering with the witnesse dence. In the light of facts like these, if they are facts, the ambu- lance chaser becomes a useful citizen and an admirable person in comparison with the witness-chasing claim agent. The for- mer worms himself into the good graces of the afflicted, per- haps; ang makes money through damage suits. But he divides the money with the needy ones. He protects, to some extent) ‘fat least, the poor and suffering. But the claim agent who runs off witnesses, brings pressure to bear‘on employes to tell false- thoods or suppress truth on the stand, or inveigles mourners to) give receipts in full for wrong, the extent of which they do not} know, is a reptile slimier than the language of words to charac- have been intim This means, is true, rphans already at work to defeat and warping the evi- The widows and « im agents terize. And the officers of corporations who perpetuate the system are as slimy as he. 4 It King Leopold should die, there} All the raltroad emptoyes are get-| will be no great demand for crepe | 19s the habit and, tion, they need the money. fn the Congo basin, rs Nobody would feel so very bad it| A commission man may be known | the joan sharks didn’t have @ merry | besa the poultry he keeps. Christmas. | : | STAR DUST JOSH WISE SAYS: raise in addi that, but she tnsisted on pulling a out in long strings and letting it fall) back into her mouth agatn. | Mat sald her ty ne in a horrified whisper. ‘Mabe don't do that. Chew your gum like a litt lady."—-Everybody’s Magazine “Does he drink? | “Naw! Why, if opportunity were | te knock at his door and ask hi te come out and Lake sthing he wouldn't do it.”—Housts A $10,000,000 wid | | three foreign nobleme mere American, Say, fellc a tip. Maybe so many of our rich girls riarry abroad = becaus you] don’t compete | At any rate, wow ean't avoid doing} your Christmas, magazine-ing carly. They all come out in November Central: American revolutionists wo should always have a dead Ameri-| It's John Mitchell who says em-| can or two on their side | find it cheaper to kill than | Protect their men. In an abstract sense, this may not be an exaggera- | tion. 7 mee stock will hot be watered—it will Britisher:; You Americans Joke) pe acrated, ‘mbout subjects in which there is dial wory little humor. stiches pe gh ee bite: The subjects of King) y,cugnt us that turkey from tt ‘Pdward, eb, old boy?—Boston Tran- | far ‘script. Aunt Jun Yes, I raised that! | — jturkey myself with the greatest Suftraget who tried to see Prest-| care, and If It*ain't tender I'l call it it Taft was turned | base Harper's Weekly ¥ have been harmles | that, but Bill doesn't w REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR, anything he can't finish. The aeroplane Wright brothers are starting factory. If the time} oO make it advisable, the | ingratitude Dorelie; 1 take a long walk ev-| ery Morning for my complexion. Mordelle: Why, I thought there was a drug store just around the} eorner.—Chicago News. The last person to learn to under. | stand a man is himself | One of the ways to have some money once in a while is not to own an automobile | A woman's idea of a waitre she couldn't spare is one who geta her all the gossip about the neighbors |from their servants.—New York Press . A central bank sounds a good deal like &@ central ofl eompany A litt burg i train to Pitte- im ot only girl on the as chewing # MR. JELLYFISH & Pit ly 4 SHALL NEVER ORDER FROM THAT gad WELLO!~ 18 THAT SWORTWATE & SLACK T 34ND ME UP TWO Tons 4/KE THE LAST. | Worked as a stickerman | daughter accident one JUDGE ROBERT S&S. LOVETT, PRESIDENT OF SYSTEM.” BY HOWARD SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. Dee guiding gentus in the Hill system of railroads big man, the Judge Robt. 8. Lovett te the Southern Pacific and Union Pacif roads. A few days ago in New York, ing things to cerning subjects which are of vit It ocen rred to the representat other railroad colossus, Lovett, wa would be interesting as well as ins subjects Hill talked about “WI we ever bave a central bank in this country?” Correspon dent Shepherd-gwked Mr. Hill in |New York Would the bank be a bad idea’ “I will not give my opinion. | only know that the people don't want it. | have been testing public opinion and t ople will not ac cept a central bank HOW TROU (Reprinted from Portiand Dally News) | ly, away back in the dim 4 that trouty Som, dart remarke never come singly is out A lot of us have found th) in one way and another, but he is the learned axiom Marcus Montoya worked for the Oregon Planing Mill company, at 19th and Vaughn ste. ' Mareus worked oo the “sticker He was a good, com nt man and had worked for them for nearly a year Ob, just by the way, get out,of your head right now the Idea that} this is a human Interest story It ian't It is merely the plain little story of what happened As has been remarked, Marens man who h of the old of a full truth story the simple and lived Laurelwood addition, { Marcus was married. at 206 Fir st., | Mount Scott Marcus made fairly good wages He paid his debts as they came due and he and bie wife and the baby were happy | Didn't mention the baby before’? Well, a baby is a mere incident Anyway, this ts the situation up| wntil a short time ago. ij Then Old Man Trowwbdle around Perhaps you have met him. If you did, he is one of those acquaint jances you don't like, but can't shake He came home and made acquainted First the wife took sick one of those complaints conle to women, and she the hospital. There was ation performed And one more patient the result of an operation While Mra. Montoya was in the hospital Marcus, the husband, took came the Montoya well around himself real it was which went to an oper died as leare of the home He arose early in the morning and built the fire and cooked brea fast for himself and the little by the way, the baby was a girl—and then he went to bi work in the planing mill One week ago last Saturday an happened at the Oregon planing mill. Montoya was the vie tim, It was just a slight accident Montoya overlooked the fact that of the er heads was work: | and as ® consequence he lost fingers of one hand, and may} the balance. | fellow’ workmen took him to Good Samaritan hospital—his| was already at St. Vincent's, | waited for a iittle while, and had part of his hand ampu atick ing, th lowe Hi the wife He then tated “Come at Once, His comrades went back to work And then a nice energetic little subscription was started among the employes of the mill, and gnoney was provided to carry Monto a through his trouble And Montoya stayed in the hospital for nearly a week, and then one day he recelved the dread sum-| mons which comes to every mar ried man at some time—-if he ont lives his wife. The message said "Come at once; your wife is dying ] mtoya went from Samaritan hospital to the cent's, where he Then he went the Good St. Vin saw his wife die back to the Good | Samaritan, whore he ta in coll No, The Star representative, 210 {3 Acland matter “1 don't think I am qualified to express an opinion, You see while I have sometimes. run ap inet financial problema good and hard, I haven't made enough study of all elements jinto them to warrant me pressing an opinion for tion But you have # opinion “Not a definite one. for publication “Do the people bank? “1 can’t anewer that qu you “Do bank?” “1 don't or not He didn't add “and I don't care Said Hill in New York “These fellows here in the east” he waved bis arm toward the Wall at. district-—"‘can't see the big} problema, They can't even nee the tops of thelr buildings, What thia| country needs is men who can see} both sides of it.” } a clone | going in ox publica Not need a central the people want a central know whether they do “Ie that an accurate description | of conditions back there?” I asked Lovett experience and rv said, “is that the enstern financiers comprehend fully the of the west, 1 think th both aides very clearly, There casional exceptions, 1 have not observed any téndency to) ward narrowness of vision in the financial centers or an inability to} both sides. Judge My tions,” he er may be ¢ THE “HARRIMAN said j “There's another big thing. Hitt in Now York. “Congress must go slowly; it must obey the people's will or there ia danger in} this country of a terrific panic Things are headed wrong. It was genius in the |the attack on the raflroads that} rail. | Caused the last panic.” } “Do you consider the coming ses sion of congress an of extraordi-] nary importance?” I asked Lovett “Doubtless important things wil) ip this winter fo you think that things Preaéat are headed wrong another panic could easily be cipitated | “That is a political question. 1 jmust decline to discuss it.” will say this, however, that | the financial system of this country needs the Closest attention.” { tral bank in this country?” I asked| “By the people, or by congress?” | Judge Lovett | “By the peoplé and by the peo Why | don't know, f am sure.” |ple's representatives Judge Lovett amtled | Exactly what Lovett Is the central bank, tn your|that I don't know. He opinion, a bad idea or a good one? I tell, 1 asked him BLES NEVER COME SINGLY the home of a neighbor! a good hearted woman to the onetime! Mownt Beott pretty litt arold baby girl off bis! plays happily about the floor and pratties of mamma and papa Now, this is not a b an interest story This fe just what h WHEELER. &—Jan. J, Hill ts the big man, the guiding fe, the Harriman system of sald some interest Shepherd, con James J. Hil Mr. W. G to all the people when that ntly, that it al interest ome ive of this newspaper, mt that pre «in San Francisco rec tructive, to get bis views on the That of ft hance was Hill, one giant So, “Will we ever have a cen meant by wouldn't! And in of Montoya who Hive Montoya they call the private roome cells in t hospital And so be site in his little cell today—wh his pain and his sor fow will allow him to sft Three fingers are left hand. He may lose the other finger and thumb. His wife, the woman he calle the better half of himse ut. is gone from son * | world Nothing Is More Certain in all the world than the average of human nature clone hon: i gone and human wants We from sons who have come into our office during the past few months, that the great mass of men and women are constantly seeking to augment their know, talks with hundreds of per income by saving a few dollars, at regular inter- vals, from their salaries, and combining those sav- ings into an investment that will be, first of all, sure; second, reasonably certain of large profits; and third, reasonably sure of quick profits. On the basis of these three primal requirements we offer you a chance to purchase lots in TRON DALE. We offer you eveby facility for finding out all about such investment before you make it We have maps and literature in our offices that are yours for the asking. We urge you to acquaint yourself with the list of Seattle’s well-known busi ness men who make up a large part of the Western Steel Directorate. And we are anxious that you go to see TIRONDALE in pegson, before you invest one dollar of your surplus funds in the steel city. The facts are that IRONDALE is today the most rapidly growing town in Western America ; that it has population, a water system, many busi nterprises and such public undertakings as a ol, a hospital, and incorporation asa city of the fourth class now under way. But more essential, fron¥ your viewpoint, if you a non-resident of IRONDALE, is that early in the new year pletely equipped steel plant will open there, big pay roll; that all of the workmen in the mills will live there with their families, that the opening of the plant will signalize a big increase in population, in all lines of business and in all realty values in the steel city. These are the points we want you to look up for yourself ness ¢ schoc are acom witha and If you do so, you will conclude, as more than 1,200 of your fellow citizens have already con- cluded, that the purchase of lots in TIRONDAL at present prices is the best investment you can possibly make 2 The minimum capital Which you require. to make a lot purchase in IRQNDALE is $50 WESTERN STEEL @ORP rg i 400-410 Arcade Annex, Seattle, U.S. A. any jf] wtion for i i | Baillargeon’ s = Silk Hosiery ‘or Christmas Gifts| eagerly | my J : " h year our endous gain " Ave secured extra demand and satisfy the In Colored Silk Hosiery show a tremendou most ry shade to ma allwilk or with linle ¢ qualities at s Our “Special Value” Silk pair, ’ All lack Gik Hone, | qualities ranging from $2.50 to & MEN'S SILK Fine Silk Hows heels and toes; b An annual event here sales of Fine Silk have show er Hosiery large st F ply prepared for _ Baillargeon's Silk Hose reliable Women’s Pure Silk Stockings | thread lisle thread double sole marked at PRT soove $1.56 A Heavy, Pure Thread Silk Hose, black, with double heel and and ¢d garter A particularly fine Silk Hose ed for wear, in pure thread ors, at, per pair Black Silk Hose, weights, pair We mbracing al "0 OF shoes, Je sole, tt 2.00 and $2.50 shades, per or silk, heels per firsn with terling qualities, weight, black; all silk or 6-inch nd garter splicing, xo toes; a $2.00 value; 25.00 HOSE Men's soles, pair Men's F heavy, double rec ore; per ilk, in all col $2.5 winter $3.00 Decorated Christmas furnished | without extra Tharge } Our Hosiery Certificates Solve Your Christmas Problem, Ladies’ Suits at $18.75 A Popalar Price Within the Reach of All selection at th Buk Hone 0, $2.75, Men's Sk Hove, in black pair A tremendous a Ljsle H withe in every popular in extra heavy ‘i; per wt obtalnabia, | Boxes nhade Our Suit Section has provided an excellent values and all late fall styles long, semi-fitting coats and good, Cloths are Scotch sent values up to $35.00. Our Infants’ Department Offers espectally attractive tailored models, with n¢ plaited skirt Che Serges mostly all ‘Tweeds, with desirably « viots, and Nove Wool Sweaters astivals of the ' ideas in Ladies? * have again put stock {n excellent ment. Comfortable, V Wool Swi in fancy and plain wea Uh pockets ang: buttons, at 0, 3.7% and « long: plain ) priced at + .08 Sweater, in exeellent accel $5.00 and 4 qualities, faney # ere Silk Mercerized Pi Daintily Boxed for Christmas Giving Pajamas of Corded Silk, in bide, tan, ta sizes ° cesses Christmas novelties, | Ni —Third Floor. White Wool Carriage Robes, edged with pink and ribbon é - $2.50 y Fancy Blankets, io white, pink and blue. $1.25 and $2.00 edged with wide blue All: Wool Sweaters, 50 {1 white, red, gray Double-Breasted White Eiderdewn Robes, and pink satin ribbon White and Colored Outing Flane with dainty ribbons and fanclly fe Be, We and 81.2. dng and Short Rootees, from Warm Wool Sweaters, from the size 34, in colors Beautiful Felt Bonnets, in with flowers and ribbon; dainty articles for Christmas gifts 81.50 © $6.00 Han Knit Bonnets, in white wool, with mes pink orders ao Crocheted Silk Hoods, at $1.50 to Sieo Dainty Toilet Articles for the baby, in white, pink and blue celluloid, from, each we to ha oo Ladies’ Knit Slippers To al! colors to match kimonos and bath robes ladies, children and infants, from, per pair T5e © 81.75 Silk Waist Lengths Handsomely Boxed for Christmas Gifts Every year this has been « growing feature this store, men in particular preferring buy waist lengths in this manner: We have an ex cellent variety in all the new colors apa afyies Prices range from, per yard ...$1.25 to $1. 75) Baseiment Section Cut Glass at Reduced Prices $4.50 Cut Glass Water Botues $1.95 | $2.50 Cut Glass Pitchers - 81.95 — $1.50 Cut Glass Oll and Vine far Cruets 81.00 Cut, Glass Sugar and ner 85.00 $7.00 Cut Glass Sinch Bowl $4.45 $1.50 Gold Inlaid Glass Compotes $7.00 Hand-Painted Tankards, 8-pint size 3 pockets 1 Kimonos er alitched . Plain Wea red, black 50-inch Bweater, in ext and coat effects, at 60-tnch 20¢ to $1.00 smallest sizes to $1.00 to $3.00 all colors, trigimed Mercerized jaabeeen in tan, blue and with silk braid frogs on jacket......05 Pretty Outing Fianne! Pajamas, in striped or Fancy Knit Shawls Useful and Appropriate for Christmas Beautiful Knit Cape Shawts, with pink and toe | over whit®, at)... Kult for with’ | Large re Shawis, gray, Hand-Made Ice Wool Shawls, in black and from $1.25 to ai $1.60 Rogers’ Table Forks $1.00 Tripie-Plated Teaspoons, wet oe Triple net Triple set Triple Set Triple Spoons Dessert Spoons, $1.00 Medium Knives, $1.40 Plated Plated Child's mid 65¢ After-Dinner 75e Plated set Plated era, net Triple-Plated each Triple Cut Butter " ‘avy Silverware at Reduced Prices $28.00 Sheffield Tray, now $23.50 | cach $36.00 Sheffield Tray, Triple-E Spoons, Row $209.50 | each 55e¢ Visit this wondrously attractive Basement Salesroom, filled with the choicest collections Of Hant Cut Glass, Sterling Silverware, Choice China, beautiful specimens of Brit-a-Brae, Brass, Trunks, Valises and Toys and Dolls in endiess variety, Shop mornings if you can; you will surprised and delighted with the beautifal merchandise now on eh all Plated Salad Forks, ise "later d Salad D Today’s Styles Today Special Millinery Attractions are offering values tn Hats ALBERT HANSEN, Jeweler First and Cherry. Optical Department. We cellent Picture some ex Beautiful artistic bewitchingly with beaver in shapes and Poulsbo Route Effective Tuesday, Now. 28. Two Round Trips Daily Leaves Seattle fr trimmed, others nd exceedingly facing chamois tops also some pretty designs In white white beavers and fur special re Willows at hats at auctions. Large special prices Christmas Buying on Credit buying a real spar ut extra 0 Boat airy — nests nly the 10:30 trip ts omitted FA Pler, foot of Marion 10:80 ‘a, m. ¢ t and 7:80 p. Eastern Outfitting Co., Inc. 1332-34 Second Av. 209 Unidn St. “* Seaftle’s Reliable Credit House” attic at 7 a. and 6 Sunday, leave ttle at 7:30 * a rs A a As a SF a.m, ‘i = m. Cg » Leave Everett at 8:1 be = ° Star classified ads. Buy® 6 p.m. rs p18’ p im. ‘and 116d. me Supe AEB Three round tripe datly Y avo Everett at 9:45 a. m. Single fare to R vi and T16 p.m. nohomish 0. Round trip $1.40 Stoamer exraDph, Golan dook ju Main 3993; Ind. 736 SERVE! Business Bringers. Phon sell real estate, etc.