The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 18, 1909, Page 1

Turn Down Al- n 9,000 to 440 in Big Independent ‘Poll of {By United Press) YORK, Dec. 18.—Appar Madicating that the country, gill loyal to President Taft, i the so-called “insur. f movement,” the results of a “straw ballot” will ap ait Tuesday in the January of Success magazine. ir interest is attached to because a similar poll @adled Success to predict ly the exact division of the Vote in the presidential 13,102 Replied. Nov. 9 Success mailed to ite 8 tife subscriders a list of ten designed to sound the of the pablic. To these 13,102 replies were re- Of those who answered Were repudlicans, 3,213 demo- and 1, independents, pro- and members of other ir Practically every state in W union Was represented among sla & letter that accompanied the as the recent tour of the recalled, and his post o a both past and pend- 2 ition explained. The we of the several prominent who have been explain- EUS NATION AFT REGIME iahehalalelelelehalataleleliolely * * In Washington, Representa. * *® tive Poindexter, an nt, & © was indorsed by a vote of 102 ® ® to 3, while Representative * % Humphrey, a regular, was con- & | *® demned, 20 to 7. * * * PERSE EEE REE RR nea ret NO HAPPINESS, NO XMAS FOR HOBLE FAMILY There wil! be no Christmas the Hogle family this year tune and poverty have And who cares? To the business man, the profes | tional man—to most everyhody— there are other all-consuming top- fea of interest. Even their neigh bors are unconcerned. With them they are just the Hogle family Therefore, why bother? In a dilapidated little shack in West Seattle, Mra. Jane Hogle and her fatherless brood of four young sters, ranging in age from 11 years to three weeks, live amid squalor and want of all things Three weeks ago Mrs gave birth to a bouncing boy. Now for misfor willed it Hogle Me tariff for the last few Also was outlined. The Questions. reviewing these explana- yi voters were asked to tons and. answers show t question was: “Do you your vote for the presi- tandidate last November iy cast?” ; republicans answering. Be aaid “yes” and 540 voted “no. democrats, 2,323 voted “yes” = 206 “no.” ——— (Continued on Page Six.) HEIR HEARTS ARE IN’ XMAS USE, ALL SAY everybody knew the would do the generous for the youngsters’ Christ- , They kept on coming with ry and other contributions always talk about their Every blessed one of ‘em heart's in this thing. 1) I could do more.” | bachelor is so impressed! idea of bachelors looking the youngsters that he permanent bachelors’ ciub_ in the interest of boys. ‘s another story. You'll that later. | Have Good Time. } bachelors with big hearts! MO children are just having a time than anybody in this | plan They're tickled & chance to show how they and they don't feel| boosting Christ-| fhbor told The Star yester-| five little children. Pe fet Work and takes in washing ie most deserving. hard-work : But a woman can't do Would be a good family for after,” said a big, honest Who came into The Star “I *bached’ for a while and o8 lot of things that family OF well have He's #o inter Just can't stay away from office One Doliar—it Helps. | # bachelor brought a dol: his “heart” in thie morn @ like to do more. id, but he will wanted to show More Shopping “Days Befores # Christmas s i their opinions. The tabu-| ip The he said, | - SADNESS AND JOY, HOPE AND DESPAIR, MINGLE IN HUMAN EDDIES IN POSTOFFICE .. she ix doomed-—an Invalid for life. | The boy is unnamed as yet, the all- | important question of food for her | |four little ones cecupying her de-| jelining strength | When Mra. Hoxie felt the crucial | moment approaching, she sent tn} |@ burried call for a physician Several hours she waited in agony. | }Then the message came back: | “The doctor is too busy to come.” That ts why Mrs. Hogle is an in valid today | Here are some reasons why there will be no Christmas at the Hogle| |home: The rent is due and only a| jfew groceries remain in the little j#hack. Notice has been received janet unless the present fuel and |erocery bills are paid at once, no |More “trust” will be given How different will be Christmas ion fashionable homes on Capitol | There the romping of little, rosy |feet in the nurseries can be heard | Laughing faces of bright-eyed cher- ubs greet the dawn—and above all, | the hum and sereech of vatuabie | |toys that will be broken la’ and thrown into the rubbish receptacles. | |Rows of stockings bulging with | Se0dies will line the spacious fire- | Places. And then the Christmas | trees, loaded down with games, toys, |choo-choo cars, shoes and books and 4 thousand things to make the | young heart glad. And wit a beautiful celebration of Christ's ad vent It is little wonder why there will }be no Christmas at the Hogle hone. And who cares? DID THE DEVIL LAUGH AT THIS? | Comedy? “dt Maybe the devil Mayhé the angels wept Who knows? Tragedy knows. laughed in heaven They met near the Second ay. and Pike morning, evidently by chan woman, turning her face away, tried to pass. But the man clutched her by the sleeve “Alice, won't you come k? I'll go crazy if you keep this up If only for the kid's sake The woman turned now and looked the man in the eye coldly When she spoke, her voice hard. She laughed, without mer riment “Don't tragic Go on now to talk about corner of at. this was That's I'm not it. Good- all ven be over. going bye.” Was it the devil laughed as the woman swept on? Or the woman herself? Somebody did. BY T, J. DILLON, ! As the time, until Christmas grows shorter, the lines of and women stretching away from the general delivery windows of the Seattle postoffice grows longer Every day sees new faces in the slow-shuffiing ranks nd every day sees old ones. Tha fa bright with hope old drawn with the deferred They are all there for one purpose—the letter from Home A recent report of the postal de partment places Seattle second” in the Hat of general delivery cities There are p general delivery letters handled here than there are in New York or Chicago. The human tide alwaye ebbing toward the Weat brings to Seattle men and women from every state in the s are ones the sickness of hope unfon—-men and women who speak | of “home” as somewhere to the} st and South } | but ft is during WHEN STOVAINE GETS COMMON— JENNIE WE HAVE Tis Kees Thee woes Feo FISHERMEN SHOULD BATHE THE BATT ING AUTOING WILL LOSE ONE OF (TS CHIEF AMUSEMENTS WHinM THE PEDESTRIANS USE SToVAINE. STOVAINE wie vane. ABLESIING TO THOSE wiht HAVE TROUBLE WITH THE COOM —JJIMES J. JEFFRIES AND JACK JOHNSON WRITE FOR THE SfAR— SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1909 WIGGLING => A STOVANE ‘WL BE THE CORRECT THING BEFORE Ci ON A FRIEND WHO MAR vost PuetynseD ANEW GUM. IN STOVAINE BEFORE NEWS ITEM.—Prof, Thomas Jonesco has discovered a wonderful melt focal anaesthetic called “ana- legsia stovaine,” which makes the lute consciousness, the stovaine deadening only the nerves around the MONDAY PAY DAY INCREASES EMPLOYERS SAY; UNIONS Different Sides to the Ques-| tion as to Whether Workmen Should Get Their Pay Envelopes on Saturday Night or Wait Until Following Week. Now, would you rather get paid off on Saturday or Monday? This question i* agitating many cities throughout the country, and at some time or other will come up for adjustment in the places it has hit not already Monday is at pre nt pay day for about 20,000 of the 75.000 workers | in Beattle. About 5,000 of the re-| mainder get paid on Tuesday, and | nearly all the rest on Saturday The total weekly pay roll of Seattle | is close to $1,000,000, | ‘The principle back of Monday as | a universal p abolish: | ing of the #0 Monday so named becau morning after-the-day-before feeling that pervades the day Always the “Blue Monday.” | The result te, employers say, th in many cases workmen come late. and in other Instances they don't | come to work at all, and whether late or not, there t| an effidiency slump. became known as who have in dny pay day say that it the tired feeling for there in no financial means by which the feeling can be acquired over Sunday The Monday enormous waste generally favor it, t there is more left of the Monday pay there is out of the ope. Some employers # favor a Mor pay because on Monday t ie less temptation to spend some of the money for un r employers the Mo bolishes pay day stops the they may Bankers for they say for saving out envelope vg | | Saturday envel that day | ssarten | What the Wives Bay. of the Monday however, Home that the wives, pm say ay as al postoffice as they form human, arcs in front of the windows labeled with the first letter of their name the Christmas holt days that they flock there in great est numbers They are coming to thelr littl shrines in the hope of being made well of the scourge of homesick ness, and their faces tell the story of their soul's desire. Hope, fear confidence and dread are there de picted in a panorama that move by inches. There are girls and boys there away from home for the their first bitter in a great elty firet time, learning lesson of solitude there are men and women long inured to absence of relatives and friends, whose stoicism break down under the stress of the Yule tide festivities around them, and they, like the lonesome boy and girl, yearn for that letter The Girl Waits. | ‘They cau be seen any day im the’ In front of the window stands a! should it not be for her? Nearer worst of operations absolutely paini The patient it of introduction. CIENCY, IT INSULT decided drawback, an it forces them | tmiled on lack of faith In the moral to save enough for the following | ina of workingmen, and to that Sunday dinner, and prevents Batur- Re te an insult. The employers day evening amusements, such ae! Monday or Tuesday the theatre presume that their men Several prominent labor loaders unfit to be trusted with money dechled the Monday r Baturday, and they declare that on the grounds that ft fx suspicion te unjustified retains abso- bs ave y against “SHE CAN HAVE YOU NOW,” WRITES WIFE, THEN SHOOTS SELF TO DEATH (By United Press.) SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 18.—-Mra Elizabeth Meyer, Henry Meyer, « bartender, shot heraelf through the h day, and died while she was being taken to the gency hospital Beneath the pillow on her bed her room, where the fatal shot was fired, was found the fol disconnected, pathetic Ht- tle note “Good-bye, Henry, darling. Shi been deceiv badly by you. One » you at the cost of my oF wife of id early to- entral Emer- in have you how. loves y As bad 1 have ou dearly and tried as I thought you were, I tried to save anyway. You ling wife, iAxsy.” P, §.—"I accused you of wrong dali) but you told me It was a Joke. Ladies’ handkerchiefs in you~ pockets and coming home smelling of perfume so strongly thay Hartman knows all about your 16 them. I saw t calendar you ga of you and her. It was money tha When a patrolman entered the sobbing bitterly across the bed EVANGELIST NABS THEM PRAY FO! = | dadndndadndadndndadndndadndn dated dale aleieleieleleieheleleleheiehel (By United Press.) RICHMOND, Cal, Dec. 18 Mpscular Christianity as ad vocated by the Rev. A. Verhoevempresulted in an unique pray er meeting in the preacher's te, when two robbers, after being relieved of their plunder, were compelled to kneel on the floor while Verhoeven asked Divine pardon for their misdeeds } ate last evening the evangelist was awakened by the two men prowling in his bedroom, Springing. from his bed, he grappled with the Intruders. Several swings and counters that reachéd their mark had the destr@d effect, and soon the in truders were obeying the preacher's command to disgorge thetr could not sleep in bed. Bill yld wife and baby. Go to ioe Killia and the pictures ught you.” yer homie, he found Meyer VES—-MAKES THEIR SALVATION ee * . to the amazement of the thieves, Instead of calling for an officer, Verhoeven compellef them to kneel while he of fered prayer. After presenting each with a bible, and exhort ing him to mend bis ways, the mifmiater escorted them to the * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 7 * * # door and bowed them into the night SSP eeeeeee ee ee eeeeeee * niehielinbehetahadedahobofahabshabbada’ d's dete duc ddadete Aa deaadates apd nearer the swift fingers draw tw the last one and-—the clerk young woman, a pleture of supplt cation. She came to the great wide Weat with a brave heart and a con- | shakes his head, whisks the package fidence in her fate, ready to strive into ite compartment, and the and suffer and scorning to be weak. young woman bows her head in T ay she can hardly hold back the submisston and falls out of the tears that crowd up to her eyes, and | rank her volce is low and busky as she thing today.” Maybe it'll come repeats her name to the automatic tomorrow, and once more the fires clerk who ks inside of hope are kindled in her heart to she watches his face deft burn despite the smothering doubts fingers of lon#®and despair of the next twenty-four ly ae practice he shufflos the Jetters frém | hours. the top to the bottom of the pack oink tials age, She gazes with a pleading And Anaahat Compe, look as if ere in the power of And a he walk away, sorrow the clerk to give her a letter—as if! tng in her disappointment or bitter her happiness depended on his per-|in her expectations — unfulfilled onal whim And all the time the | another has taken her place tn front package of letters he is holding be-|of the impersonal clerk, who dis tween his thumb and — forefinger happiness or sorrow as ows smaller and hope dies from ned ax the Fates her eye until there ta but # faint Those who get letters walk away spark left. Like the gambler, she | with quick stride and head held pins her falth on thg last letter; the /high; some are so news-hungry last letter is for Some om, why \t they cannot walt to outside the postoffice, but must find some in Number, Will Be Published Exclusively in'The Star, Commencing Monday Next. THE SEATTLE | SrA Jeorner in wh Fighters Who Will Battle for the World’s Championship Tell Their Own Stories of What Each Considers His Two Best Battles—These ENRAGED TACOMANS — STOP STREET CARS a Hiram C, Gill, candidate for the republican nomination for mayor, thinks it would be well to suppress the newspapers, so that “good men” be induced to run for office without fear Mr tended last Wednesday night of criticism rill so declared himself at a meeting he at Asked by a newspaper Thurs- i that had been slandering him day to explain his words, Mr. ( said he referred particularly to an “obseure evening paper” We imagine that Mr. Gill referred to The Star, not because we are ready to admit that the appellation fits, but because we know that Mr, Gill would like to suppress us And still, bless your soul, Mr. Gill, talk about you yet! we haven't begun to Had we, we might have told of the despicable creat- ures who have paid you money, in your capacity as an at- torney, it is true, to secure them immunity from punish- ment for infraction of the laws! We might have told how you left your seat as presi- dent of the city council to hurry to the police station to | secure the liberty upon bail of men and women from the lowest depths of Seattle's underworld! We might have told that it is always to you that the gamblers and the macques, the fallen women and the law- breaking saloon keeper rush for aid every time they find themselves involved with the police! We might have been justified in expressing the belief that inasmuch as you have served these clients well while you have been in the employ of the city as councilman and acting mayor at times, you would continue to serve them should you become Seattle's chief executive! We might have told that your campaign is being financed by the money taken from the backs and mouths of women and children over the bars of the low-down sa- loons of this city! We might have told that all the way down to San Francisco the word has gone that should you and your saloon friends succeed in the coming campaign, Seattle is to be made the Paris of the Pacific and a welcome haven for those who prey upon their fellow men! We might have told that while your campaign head- quarters are ostensibly in the Butler hotel, your real head- quarters are in the office of the saloon of Arnold Zbinden, representative in the city council of the saloon and gam- bling interests! All of these things, and many more, we might have told, Mr. Gill, had we really been talking about you. We don't want you to think we like to say these things We would rather, an hundredfold, be able to speak of you. kindly of you. But we can't find anything in your public life of which we might speak well. We can find only this stench of the underworld, and for fear that some persons might go to the polls and vote for you without a full knowledge of the sit- uation, we have determined it to be our duty to enlighten them We are sorry, Mr. Gill, that you should have invited such criticism by becoming a candidate for the high office of mayor of Seattle com BUY A BUTTON—WEAR A BUTTON Who hasn't a button? Button! Button! Button! Every man, woman and child is expected to wear a button on Button day. This is Button day Anti Tuberculosis Society expects to sell 150,000 buttons by tonight and the money derived from the sale will go towards establishing a tuberculosis hospital Agencies have been established Pretty girls are the saleswormen Theatres have thrown open their doors to these young women and the sale will continue until midnight Buy a button! throughout the entire city ORI OIRO OIRO Ot otook * *~* * * THE WEATHER. * * DEATHBED REPENTANCE *& . ** From the will ot the late «x * Warmer, with rain, tonight */% King Leopold—“l ask pardon * ®t and Sunday. Light southeast #/# for the faults I have com- * * winds */* mitted. I die in the Roman * ¥ ~™|* Catholic religion.” * RI eK | to pay for it and inwardly resent the formalities that take up ph they may read human eddies ob- | money liyious of the that swirl around them | so much time | Down another corridor other Hines} Yet there are life stories to be! of men and women are formed,|read on this strip of faces—stories pointing toward the money order|of long endeavor and self denial windows. They are different from|that has now come to {ts reward their general delivery fellows, They|There are fathers there whose stand straighter; they hold their/countenances are tinged with re shoulders squé and their faces|gret that they must play the part shine with satisfaction, They are|of a long distance Sania Claus sending money home; they are dis-| there are sons and daughters whd’ pensing happines: jwish the sum they are about to dics ehnlaeil Chae. send were larger. Perhaps. there are a f@w who feel they | are going the faces|to d Already they can see point some loved one, but “back home” brightening Christmas | for most part they are all morning as their letter 1s received. | happy No suppliants of fortune are they the clerk hands each one a they hold good fortune in thetr| slip of bluc paper which will mean hand and pocket and are drinking | so much to some one far away, the deep of the delight of giving. The) recipient @ves up his place at the same machine-like clerk is be-| head of the line and joins the broad fore them, but they do not look at | stream which flows out through the him through tear-wet eyes, They | revolving doors, which incessantly ask for what they want in the man x the Joy and sorrow of Christ ner of voice of those who have the’ mas in the postoffice | Great Sporting Stories, 4 ONE CENT Tie Up Cars All Night and Refuse to Pay Extra Fiye yr TACOMA, Dec. 18.—The begin ning of a big street railway war that may ultimately lead to the municipal ownership of the city street car lines, opened here last night when 600 citizens of the sub urbs of Fern Hill, Parkland and Spanaway were held up by a block- ade on thelr line and compelled to camp out fn the cold all night be- cause the residents of Fern Hill refused to pay more than five cents car fare. The fight between the people and the street railway has today result- ed in a situation unparalleled in the history of the Northwest. Company Needed Nickels. Wednesday night the city council annexed Fern Hill and three square jmiles of suburban territory. The residents of the annexed territory claim this entitles them to five-cent fare on the street railways, instead jof 10 cents, which they had been paying. Last night they refused to |pay more than a nickel and the cars were stopped at Midway, the old city limits, the company refusing to carry them farther until full fare had been paid. By midnight 800 people were stranded, a shivering, helpless crowd of men, women and children. Half of the number belonged at Spanaway and Parkland, and they had paid full fare and demanded to be carried to these points. They | Were not provided for, however, and they were stranded the same as those who had refused to give the conductors full fare. Women Fainted. Women stood the cold as long as possible and then collapsed. Mrs. Kland, of Larchmont, was taking |home a daughter who had just been jreleased from the hospital, follow- ing an operation. The young wom- an fainted on the ground and lay | moaning for an hour until she could be brought back to town. Mra. | Harvey, of Woodland, fainted from lexposure. Mrs. Alonzo Dow cok | lapsed and was taken home in a car |riage. Many other women and chil- |dren were unable to stand the ex- posure and were carried to farm- jers’ houses. A nearby grocery opened up and dispensed coffee, sar- ,dines and crackers to feed the multi- tude, but the stock was soon ex- |hausted. All night the crowd hung |on, waiting for the company to run }4 car through. Not a wheel turned. |The United States mail was held back and passengers who had paid through fare were compelied to camp on the spot and shiver all night 200 There This Morning. This morniing witnessed a frost- covered crowd of a couple of hun- dred, still maintaining the vigil. Many had thelr uncooked suppers still in their pockets, and their wives at home still wondered why they did not come. Today they came back to town and wholesale damage suits against the company are now in course of preparation. The annexation movement follow- ed a recent raise in all interurban rates, and the suburbanites expected to get reduced fare by annexation. If they fail the city will probably vote for munteipal ownership, an ordinance to provide for it already having been introduced in the coun- etl DARK FOR DR. COOK (By United Press.) COPENHAGEN, Dec. 18—It was reported today on high authority jthat the committee of the Univer- sity of Copenhagen, in its prelim- examination to discover A | inary failed of his records, proof that Dr, Frederick ook reached the North Pole, The committee has not completed its investigation UMPIRE ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL LEAGUE (By Volted Presa) W YORK, Dec, 18.—Thomas nch, of Meridan, Conn., today was unanimously elected president of the National league. John Heydler, who has acted as president since the deuth of Harry Pulliam, was chosen secretary. lynch was nom. inated by John T. Brush of the New York club. Thomas Lynch the league's new president, is a familiar figure to the older fans of the National cir cult. For many years he was a member of the organization's um- pire staff and bore the reputation of — , being the arbiter in major league ba His election to one of the most important billets in or- ganized daseball, it is thought, will meet with general approval, i FOI OI Ito THREE-CENY’ FARE WINS CLEVELAND, 0., Dee, 18, Fe ral Judge Taylor, act ing as arbiter in the@amous Cleveland street railway dis pute, today decided in favor of a cent fare with a Lcent tray ie ee * * * * * * * * * * * * * ~ * * * » “