The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 27, 1911, Page 1

California epens her mouth once more on the Women carried the anti-treating ordinance at Ta Japs, Taft will not invite foreign nations to at coma, and saloonists say that 70 per cent of tend that Frisco fair, But why not let Califor 4 the saloons will have to close The treating pla do the inviting habit, then, must have been something awfu ONLY NDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN SEATTLE , SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, MARCH 27, 1911 ONE CENT. Siws"Aitos te DAY OF TRAGEDIES IN SEATTLE > cokes remem yreraR eilrilt ]to nothing, Vain last night blew [the Delta Tau Delta fraternity, was == ee Suicides, One aie Se ro a ae Tragic Silence in Court as Witness ae | hompital | Scandal Worried Chines His skull is fractured at the base e Recently Wah Sing, the Chinese |Litde hope is entertained for his suteide, received word from China ery. A pathetic phase of the our Seriously Hurt “2°: 227s 28S Swears Away a Woman’s Honor lauridered towel about his neck and | his moth Mra. Stevdiig is ex hanged himself from a water pipe ted in te tomyrrow — asks For the first time in the Henry deaths by sul an at- of Seattle for many years, attached When found by his employer, Gec| Julius F. Deno, a corporal in the | betagicott on Bibs ope Many My se Murder and four accidents |a rubber hose to a gas jet, wrapped Wo, this morning, life was extinct. |coast artillery, fractured his rxull . the cours oven sonehtion tor Tur result in death, ts a heavy overcoat about his head. Slashed His Wife's Throat. when he fell heavily on the pave- | ais {See, © women’s honor Spe satiate wary record for the past | and sat down in his office chair to| HH. B. Johnson, @ negro | . Bremen ore oe Wane Sener: pornfngy Mert Pg ctu . Ida May Henry, the woman, white and cold as marble, only a twitch ing lip betraying the storm inside, lher father bent forward covering |his face in his hands, her mother |equally immovable as the daughter, while the whole court room, hungry for the spicy, half gay, half serious E ssepifiest i slashed | ment at First av, 8. and Yesler way | throat from ear to ear | shortly after 1 o'clock this morning. | Money Losses Responsible last night in a house at 114 24th| He is at the City hospital in a crit Heavy financial losses, due to ay, N {eal condition, $ Walker buil t business during the past few he negro attacked Patrolman Ole -Monted, a laborer years imself by turning months, is thought to have preyed|Dagner with a knife when he ar-|old, is in the City hospital with a} office on old mans mind. He leaves rived, but soon was overpowered | fractured skull ax the result of a lain, 30 years old Lagi = be ger %, one in Mt Roa Mo., and lodged in the city jail, The/fall into a bole ateSixth ay, 8. last] \e of 5004/and the ot Colorado, Lane t > trait de d t eek jand tee other in ¢ ora. | Lane woman Is not expected to live. | night.” He, too, Is not expected to story of crossed love, sat shocked ec ig pm ger yllecmgaee yer b } to talk about the | live ‘ into silence—this was the setting as p attempted murder A. A. Winters, a laborer, 46 years “ H. A. Gibbon, a witness, told in ‘Chinese laundry work-'ry which was,to have been pub Four Fractured Skulls. old, was pitked up dead in a 25foot straight plain words the story. bimself with a towel in| lished soon Within 12-hours last night four}hole at Fifth av, & an@ Weller st It had been half comedy bef y before— at 2124 First av Shoots Himself men sustained fractured skulls, | this morning. His skull was frac the flirtations of a married woman Dies of Gas. is ot yrceren ion and vis Paul Standing, a freshman at the tured by the fall. Nothing is : and a married man, Yhe drives * n¢ nember of |known of bis relatives ’ through the park, the kisses, the hidden meetings. It was tense tragedy today. And all the court room knew it. WITNESS SHOWED ANGER. Deliberately, positively, angrily almost, Gibbon swore away the woman's honor—and the man’s. it happened at Laurelhurst on a : ¢ sunny May afternoon in 1909, said Scenes in New York as Frenzied Relatives Call to Identify Charred Bodies—Death List of Firetrap Numbers | . Gibbon, now a grocer at S0th st. 143—Laws Which Permitted Disgraceful Working Conditions itnemamcaned | ee Ee net Se ee Oe (By United Press.) —— —_______— bar over NEW YORK. March One hundred and forty-three bt 1* eee eee eee eee eee eee eee eee es weal tang Ra oreiaielee aaa lead mangled bodies, of which all but 39 have be another when he came on the 44 im hospitals, of whom five will die, was the fi couple, not 10 feet away from him. lafternoon of the victims of the ‘Triangle Waist company’s fire | CALLED KELLY A NAME. Hike Asch building. Four-fifths of the dead were girls “1 had known Kelly, for 10 With every. newspaper in the city raising funds to ald the desti- years,” said the witness. “I was date families of the toilers who perished in the firetrap, with Dis angry at the man, at the loss of my Skt Alforney Whitman seeking to convict those responsible for faith in him. He was a man en- Die betfor, and Fire Marshal Beers holding a strict. examjnation trusted with the care of thousands the cause of the disaster, union labor is planning to make = of dollars. As they started to go, ie Balocaust an object lesson which will prevent such sacrifice 0 | started after them and | called Meme fesse SESE ER ER EERE RH EH . Kelly a name. OM has been arranged that the funerals of the victims, or most | enforcement existing | “Kelly only turned to look at me Sf them, will be held tomorrow In one great procession, which will Teles tx tumaraaten } , : i lenen hurvied: wway.: The -jpetliop Diltive home to New Yorkers the need of adequate protection for its Worlé—Loft buildings by the SP \ caught up a lap robe she had with 3 diozen are being built In New York p |her and ran to the water's edge, ©. Veteran firemen today, after a survey of the burned building 1 h tr An where they had a boat waiting.” i which are Weclared it was miraculous that anyc caped alive Nous Ar t kingmen and ‘ “How did you happen to come to S «At moon today the line of those king admittance to the tem- | women must starve or, in the law t : p c+ . court with this story?” asked Mrs. | porary uiorgues where the dead li¢ extended for six blocks. Only | phrase, “assume the risk of work » , 7 Henry’s attorney. half & dozen of the weeping women who composed the greater part (ing in them ; “| happened to tell a lawyer of the crowd were allowed in the building at one time. Tribune—It Ix not the act of God The Ryther fund passed thé $300 m P 5 ‘ _- friend about it during a discussion * 4 . |we had about morality and ethics. eee but the act of man, responsibility | mark over Sunday, Another He told Mr. Henry's reflect # PEE w : STATEMENT BY FIRE MARSHAL BEERS. There was only 15,000 square feet of Moor space for the girls, their machines and the cutting If al the 760 had marched quietly to the little fire » taken three hours to get them down. Imagine taking atre thre hours to empty, The same conditions prev in ry. loft the city and we are helpless. The building was state labor department + eeeeee tees le tebe eee ee ee | g YORK, March 27—-Deciar-| assert that the doors of the Triangle for which is so widely spfead that (peck con ae aftam | 4 150 lott butidings in Man-|Shirtwaist factory were locked jt may never be traced recipe ge a dle gam an Regi 4 . That Mrs, Henry visited the Be- Falone are in such condition | when the alarm was given. Aonettian thin tiapient Whence: See Se, Mageet since, ame attle National bank with Kelley | tribution . at any time fur-| The city building department, | trophe is no mere accidest. It Was “Por Mother m8 Si : ‘ Srogeensly. was See. iaetienenn te Simten ot Saturday's fire which controtied the building, had) a crime. The deaths were murders, Ge uaa eae pt . & aoe ae . . Bs Upees, wae gee.ct the See District Attorney Whitman /not required fire escapes om the for which the community i# Te estate man, who brought in the big | : ee. an hsp A sfootinn! 1 sea jfemedy for the conditions Whitman and bis assistants as Prese—Responsibility ts too atC same used | Henry, who, because of his dutie: < Some officials say that the | examining 50 witnesses of the holo.’ ¢ The grand jury and the dis-| 4 jond of wood was sent direct to wal wtesten i Of the law, rather than any|caust, Including Joseph a trict attorney will best, but the Ryther home. Several people; Upper also testified that during Séalizence, fs responsible, Geeks: £6 5_povetbe exmlansie they wil waver hetwe as set have brought in clothing to be sent Cus h ¢ He r the last year Mrs. Henry dressed sak the grand jury to a J tlof offenders and that, and #0 on,/ to the children. A bl« box of shoes | ts yell as the est. wom he fire fully and if persons jed that the employes of the Tylangle ‘uneil finally they wil! feel lke 18: of ‘assorted sizes a wea ops ause a orro ! ; -whgoedod pene ear be eg ‘been tieglient he will demand | company habituaily smoked ¢ dteting nobody the afternoon Saturday from Mrs, | (My Calted Pees) ,not exist in a single union shop in aes tay ow te enamel term for them and threw the stubs carelessly | Chicago Learned Lesson. R. L. Beattie. The list to date fol | WASHINGTON, March 27.—That |the country. Organized labor would Sc elas aut our ee believes the building in-| about. | CHICAGO, March 27,—Comment- | jows i not to} suck, sweatshop const peoletiggeferrypericog ho department of the city has _—_- }ing-on the New York fire disaster, | preyiougy acknowledged 280 wast Ons. Congested quarters are not or thoaey seis tae ot am Pog ‘eriminaily jax. {f there had Blames Labor Commissioner Fire Chief Seyferlich of Chicagoiy's Prancer a 0g |e for the New York holocaust) jeomitted in union shops, and ad> a ay peepee sa &8 automatic fire alarm box| pistrict Attorney Whitman said | said today INL 50.09; "He the statement here today of} quate fire *8 are compulsory his home by the Hearys, it wae Mir. the building 15 minutes would|inis afternoon that State Superin-| “Saturday's horror probably will! ©” poderson 1.00| Vice-President O'Connell of the|I think the blame for the disaster | Henry who took charge of the chit Pbeen saved and :fo lives lost./tendent of Labor Williams was|teach New York the somber leason|siry g, &. Middicton, clothing American Federation of Labor.. [is equally divisible between the i pron > i ilsbe" lewere factually responsible for the. con-|that the Iroquois theatre and the wr Comming $00] Conditions uch as prevailed in| employers of the dead girls and the F “ E. K. Riley, audftor of the Seat- * erimnt yoees |aweatshop conditions are responsi eeeeeee a inveMigation shows! department, he said, was required! As a result of these lessons, Sey-/ yy 4. 1, 4 a he = lan, who had known Heffry in Mon- p the big doors leading to the to pronounce the building safe. On/ferlich says Chicago today ts the! wick & Burns, load of wood \elotohalatalahhahalaheta 7 |tana and Seattle, testified to the way of the burned building | February last Williams’ deputy en-| pest equipped city in the world. IT. J. Tagett .. 100 posed Inward. Fire Chief Croker | dorsed the Asch building, In spite of| copy of this report | Mra. W. D. Woblfort ....... 6.06) WEATHER FORECAST. | Rose, deputy assessor, was called ‘’ |to corroborate Gibbons’ statement Bodies piled against the! ing doors. Whitman was denied 4| vag of the court of ge’ G. R. Hannon ...... J ei it pikes Tuesday fair; light 8 the ninth floor, indicating teen and will instruct the grand jury to \* west winds hurst property in 1909 the first girls arriving there People Are Aroused. continue in session until an in Total to date . 2: While Mrs. A. J. Henry sat un- eee unable to open the doors| xpw YORK, March 27.—Editorial | vestigation has been completed. Maoh, Peeeee eee eee e es more, wi his ‘mor $ ing continued their merci ales 7 fellow workers, and that! voiced by New York newspapers| Miah school are planning |#lendid work on behalf: of “ soak tn the det ot tastthe ; eT of her alleged conduct with B Bob- them, piled in beaps, died | as the aftermath of Saturday's dead- broadway in show for April 7, The| Wyther home. ¥ live within afew | jeurprined in the Aetinia Hobbs ie ter K secretary of the Se Patlering against the bar to/1y fire. Some of the expressions |# Vaudeville # eg jblocks of this institution, Jenow | ie oom of Miss Virginia : attle National bank follow: |Mother Ryther rsonally, ” and : | shn A, Reitz, driver of a sprink- of the tragedy today! Times—No new laws are needed. !Fowells auditorium. many of the children both by face |#¥- end Seneca st. last night, a rj p ling wagon, saw them kissing in " —o 1 name, and | assured that elar was chened 4 H v4 Washington park and Interlaken— every cent contributed for this work | MAY And into the alley by a pair & 4 jmany times, he said. Reitz had to Man and Four Me este ig is a veritable] ihe, UUrElar waa so fiehtenod arms In ‘the state of Washington, | MM vag egw: Toa cahehi ey ws a eee ‘ ne] that he did not take time to crawl|Hugo Kelly, county game warden | Often Kelly would be driving the . ; False Alarm ee Children Die alse ig and its present needs should AD | through an open window. The girls, |of a passed by the last legisla would have her arm around him | NEW YORK, March 27—Nervous| peal strongly to the sympathies of| Miss Hobbs and Miss Killzabeth |ture forbidding aliens to carry fire John Shuman, employed at Mt. SPRINGFIELD, Mo., March |Shirtwaist Co. factory, 125 girls) tinuance would mean homelessne 88 | further but telephoned for th As Japanese cannot become citi |ma : 5 5 ‘ome many times. “They would lege the 27-—Dr. E. D. Morris and four |employed by the clothing firm of|for some very precious children, as | police Motorcycle Patrolman | zens, the law will practically cause auto. atebdiie’ MEA climb ‘the JbSt : today ip A fire ‘thle 6a royed | besetns on: est 2a ate Pod ben Keep its needs before the jot the ie A locket and ring| The Man in the Case each other slot and seemed. very mi r . . | were je en b: e ery alue pwarde lolly 7 y thé g dow Morris rescued his wife and fire and two were seriously hurt| Faithfully yours efforts, | WANTS CENSOR SUICIDE Ss @amper oer une in the stampede. | THOMAS MELVILLE SLATER | 1 | dition of the building. Williams'| stock yards fires t@ught Chicago.” |x McCorkle 1.00| thé Triangle factory,” he said, “do/city authorities.” tle National bank, and Thomas Mor- |good character of Henry. 0. L. that he found dozens of! narrow stairways and inward swing He conferred with Judge O'Sulll-|}1 Fonton es eependeh $00 tonight, with light [that he appraised all of the Lauvel- owing moved, more witnesses this morn to the crush of their | condemnation of the strongest {s| The Girls’ Athletic association ot] Paltor Star: You are aaa show will be staged in the Hyatt Ind the Y. W. C. A. building at Pitth ermined you omen early this| Sons of Jap: il be pate ‘Panic Follows 4 urgently ‘needed, and will be feria ee tle tn axe caught curring aaeaee Been looking eraund. tb watsh Bee house of refuge for the ‘unfortunate, p> dh the fi rape but leaped | will be ter thom under the terms auto, he said, while Mrs. Henry over the disaster in the Triangle|every generous heart. Its discon-|@paham, did not pursue the chase |arms without a Hcense Baker park, also saw the couple children were burned to death | Manson & Jacobson, in a 12-story| well as a distinct loss to the com-| Byorg was unable to find any trace | disarmament 8. FOSTER KELLEY west of the boulevard, They kissed one child, but perished when The opera and high-class thea-| yy T, March 27-—Forgive|, “1 know Kelly,” Shuman said, “I he returned to the building for Rosie Torchinsk!, whose cousin] Pastor Reformed Presbyterian the others. The children’s |was killed in the Triangle fire.) Chure ae aa ca ons Forde ch; the! me. Nobody will look for me,| Pave talked to him ed while at ber work and fe’ (Enclosed find check.) aire ‘*| Human nature can stand so much By ‘ ages ranged from 5 to 11 11 year | fainted ’ age not good enough for the poor 3 AFE Y In FA AL? a {ftom her coaty. Thee some one) |p ehev. B. L. Benedict, speaking at | {a no mor TYP TAL? A note containing these words was|™ Log ANGEL ES, March —Dr. BNDON, March 27—Rus-| shouted “Fire” and the rush to| |Green © Methodist church yes Deady invaded Ch safety was on. The girls were May Stick Johnson LOS ANGELES, | March “| eee I recomended ie | left by & man who committed sul-| Horace C. Cates, prominent. sur. dy invaded China, | quieted after a desperate battle at| Wearing a mask, which gave her| gene F Chet taining | cide at the Carlisle hotel by turning | geon the point of death in the ding to advices received | the exits. The two most seriously} SAN FRANCISCO, reh 27.| the appearance of a bandit, Miss | Proposed action of Chief Bannick | on the gas yesterday morning. He st. hospital, where he is “gad by a private Chinese | injured were taken to a hospital. |—Attorney Greely, cnting |TAiian Paxton, 26, charged with|t appoint a policeman to censor | registered under the name of Jen. These cables say that| — Jack Johnson, apyeared in Judge| having forged a deed to a valuab heal 2 } sen Nothing {s known of him 1h week kas. white ctenaiing’: a ay tha Mogan's court today to file an ap-|plece of property on 12th st., ap 4 me us wound Dr. Cates received a slight # Russians a column of peal. District Attorney Wickert an-|peared in Justice Summertield’s| BUFORD NEAR DUE Buy Historic Spot stab from oN aktety pln. Mined - and infantry I | nounced that he would make every | court It s alleged that she at | Word of the arrival of the Buford Mrs. A. A. Smith bought back | poisoning immediately set in and ed the line into Ili srov-| effort to sustain the sentence of 25] i@mpted to borrow $10,000 on the] at Shanghai, China, is expected at|the lease they granted six years|today all hopes of saving the sur- J The Occidental Realty Co ma | | days in Jail property from the German-Ameri- any moment by the Commercial|ago covering the spot where the|geon's life has been abandoned. and are stopp all| f all! not get its saloon licenses after al CAGO, ch 27.—Cl { | a nk of this city. Preliminary} club. Total contributions have now | first © people of Seattle landed | rate ormerly assists Mi Sadain, that tersi-btaic muabaey, ose 10 bee RS A March 2 harging can ba i al contributions have now | first white people of tle landed} Dr. Cat formerly assistant | A he is a part of a widespread | T 2 hearing of the case was set for| reached $37,874.61 Yesterday's (in 1851 The Smiths have lived at! chief surgeon for the Southern Pa- |holding company, got {ts license) ‘Hat he is a Dart of nie OnE Arrest for reating April. ‘contributions were $47.27 Alki point for 50 years cific railway 20a |two years ago, just before the state v ‘law took effect, but has struck a|American girls to rich Jai TACOMA, March 27.—The |= BOAT SCH 7 . he Pacific coast, the United States| ¢irgt arrest under the anti-treat EDULE the new council |! § irst arre Rew time card will go into Eee ane tet Ackson. opposed | Authorities here are holding Eugene| ing ordinance, which went into Be Gunday on thé Grand Trank| the grant today. The license com-|Y. Hughes, who says he Is a Ko-) effect last week, will be made | re having y nittee recommended a public meet-|rean. this afternoon, warrants eee yl are Seow’ a yr gy Sosy nya fin evidence | Hughes will be sent to Salt Lake| been issued against bartenders mn. Beaday an bog £ as to whether the brewery in| City, where Flake Julian, 16, caught} in two saloons for violation of and | @.|a8 to e eb : This time mid-| “yestion really owns the saloons or|at Helena, Mont. with an alleged| the new law. *m oni secre ee wntil April 19, wi not Japanese parner of Hughes, 1s be-) One of the saloons is manag- Ballinger is back, In a speech Saturday night, at the} who know more about these things than the people br 19, when the no! service will st => si held, Two girls, Lina Carter| ed by the local president of the | Washington, he demonstrated that his place is not in public Ballinger would like laws, he admitted, so that anybody ——— head and Anna Goldberg, both 16, are) Royal Arch, which bitterly who criticised the government officials might be thrown into ig '$1, 200,000 in Duties J linger is behind the political times. He convicted] A here as witnesses, fought the ordinance when it | life re I Sai: Raima thadiwn dikarehat-aad ‘Cures ry; Then Death) sew YORK March 27.—Louls pan nl th t f. elf f his o ov ‘ : was oorere the wetere on Rr cpageneeli out Of his own mouth Ballinger is afraid of the people's rule. Ballinger would not F yor sae nd James Duveen, mes Art If convicted, the bartenders Ballinger admitted that he was afraid of the people The place any trust in the people. K, March 27,—Reside importers pleaded guilty be ore | will be liable to a fine of $100 people were ignorant, unrea onable, he inferred, and shouldn't Ballinger came out brazenly for the election of senators ben door of his wate, which had| United States Judge Martin today | each , 1 1 , . of $1,000 in cash, Julius|to having undervalued imported] SAL! yr Or., Mé aie da ' “4 y have aftything important left to them—except to pay taxes|in the old way. It is unsafe 7 let A people . ect their own MPOVEKY Was found with a bullet | goods and were fined $15,000 each. | giving the name of George 5r0 n £ “ . . P 1 do th k of th tion and things like that | senators. Ballinger of Seattle said that Saturday night ‘ 7 , | a » the police to answer] The regular boats being too small} and do the work of the nation an ng K ss ‘ D ed setae im ance. 2,7 od ”» cena) Be: Par $1,900,000 if vies | the re Aption « ty out. by ‘the to carry the crowd, the Mouftain The important affairs of the nation—he didn't specially} | Doesn't that convict Ballinger of all that has been charged ¢ arrived. Debroveky | governmen 200, 3 » de nei ” rr » steame ° S private banker and ste be cowald restore the seized art goods,| Portland police, was arrested here sors’ club agi Me henge "|mention giving away millions of dollars of coal lands as one| against him by The Star? The police fou revolver lise the sug , this is the| this morning on suspicion of being|Chickering for April 2, when ty @f the important things, but his dress suited audience undet But The Star hasn't any more space than this to waste on A m e erer 0 ¢ Barbara | walkers will hike from Redondo to fn tive . a. ne meee "yet se eee ee * | olteman laa ers Taeonia. gtood—should be left, he argued, to “a few of the best of us” R. A. Ballinger. He is a dead one. chargec custBms case. y