The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 5, 1911, Page 1

There was an old man who supposed That the street door wae partially clot a; But some very large rate Ate his coate and hie hate While that futile old gentleman dozed, The factory girlie of Seattie, whe are on the payrolis in the big dark bulidings in the south end of the city, toll from 9 to 10 hours a day. Scores of such places exist. e veattle Star _ ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 1911. The shop — where neither the the law seeme to penetrate, WHOLESALE VIOLA PUBLIC OFFICIALS CALMLY OVERLOOK LAWBREAKING EMPLOYERS OF WOM The wholesale and wanton violation of the eight-hour law for women: §% hours a day on all days of the week but Saturday. On Saturdays in Seattie has reached the point where the peopie themeeives will either the women work but 5 have to take matters in their own hands or see the measure gradually ing employer says, but become a dead letter. The taw is plain. It says that Hundreds of women wage-earnera are working more than eight hours | than EIGHT hours In any ONE day. a day; their employers simply laugh at the law passed at the last lexi. ing the score up on Saturda: lature which almed to make overworking of women impossible. Must Remain Silent or Lose Jobs. The women victims of their greed dare not complain; it would mean) 4. not been brought to trial. that they would lose their jobs. sible. she submita! The victim doesn't want to be left jobless, possibly penniless, 80 | The women in the many taundries, the hotels, the stores, the fac-| tories, the offices, are yielding to the demands of the employers, who | from 8 a. m. to 12 noon and from 1: ignore the law entirely. Monoplane - Climbs Up 11,152 Feet: (By United ial Leased Wire.) ETAMPES, France, Aug. 5.— Toiling stowly inte the heavens for 1 hour and 3 minutes, C: Felix, commandant of the mil- itary academy here, today broke the altitude record. His monoplane reached 11,152 feet. Felix volplaned down from that height in Just 12 minutes. SIX BOY COPS Collins playfield today has six boy policemen — really-and-truly ones. They are to preserve order on the playfield, and each has @ nice shiny badge to prove authority. DIES AS SHE SINGS Wile Mrs. Joseph A. Moncrieff, 46, was singing about her work in the yar she suddenly toppled over, and was dead when relatives reached her. Bhe lived In town bach 517 Malden st.) WOMEN AUN THROUGH BLAZING FIRES PASADENA, Cal, Aug. 5—With blazing forests on either side of them, Mise Margaret Hammers and Mrs. Laura &. Eddy, residents of GBouth Pasadena, made their from the recent in Bers fire by automobile, it was learned here today. The perilous run was made with wet sacks tied around their heads. After several narrow escapes they reached San Bernar- dino, picking up en route an un- conscious ranger and two women campers. eee ee Seller es. HM THE WEATHER bs * Fair tonight and Sunday; * % light westerly winds. Tem * % perature at noon today, 61 de- P| * grees. oe er err e | SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 5—Y. Bryan Yamashita, a Japanese edi- tor, leaves here Aug. 9 for Japan to accept a position on the advisory board of the exposition which Japan will hold im 1917. of her home at Lamola, | MAYBE HER LAST CONE Awful news comes hurtling over the wires from Pittsburg, Pa.,-to- lay. A firm that first started to make lee cream cones, and got the pro- cess patented, has applied for writs against other makers of the dell cacy, and maybe nobody but Firm No, 1 can make them hereafter, This will be an awful blow to Susie and Sallie and Sammie and |sundry other Seattle kids—and growns-ups who love to nibble on the oozy cone. There are five cone manufac turers in Seattle. The Pittsburg people say that when they finish with Eastern cone makers who are alleged to be infringing on «the Pittsburg cone patents they will get after the rest of the country. Reciprocity; Cheaper Food Congress has passed the bill which will bring reciprocity with Canada as 6oon as the Dominion lawmakers put their O. K. to it, Here is what it will mean to the; housekeepers in the removing of duties from foodstuffs: New Tate, und | HE Birenet bo pound fe pound # Pound pound 1% Ib 26 per cent Poultry, 4i Poultry, 1 Mackeral 4 Bacon and ham Beet and pork, salt, ‘Gried or smoked .. Free Officia' Pubile officials charged with nothing {n Seattle hours. This evens up the Work, the law-break- in violating the law just the sane. no female shall be employed mare It doesn't say anything about even Wink at Violation. he enforcing of the law have done One arrest was made some time ago, but the case Scores of complaints of law breaking have come to The Star, and in nearly every case victims of the violations And—under the wording ot the law—the victims MUST complain | would testify ff called upon to do so. or prosecution and punishment of the law-breaking employer is impos-| Here is a sample of the letters |to The Star “Dear Editor: and telephone messages which come “July 29, 1911 “On Friday, July 28th, the Cascade laundry worked about 20 girls If you want any witnesses you can 30 p. m. to 6:30 p. m.—nine hours aeoure them by going down to see Other empleo; ers seek to avoid the jaw by having their women work | the girls, Something should be done. 4 “IT, R. BEFORE STEEL PROBE (By United Press Leased Wire.) NEW YORK, Aug. 5.—Ac- cepting full responsibility for his approval of the gobbling up of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company by the steel trust during the panic of 1907, Col. Theodore Roosevelt today told the Stanley steel investigation committee that the merger was necessary to save the country from financial calamity. ‘The former pregdent assert- ed that E. H. Gary and Henry C. Frick, who visited the White House to secure permission to absorb the Tennessee com- pany, told him that it was the only way to stop the panic. With old-time vigor and ardor, with characteristic ure and emphasis, Roosevelt reviewed the panic. He declared his one object was to prevent disaster. Bombarded With Questions. For two hours the members of the committee bombarded him with questions. In summarizing the testimony at the close of the in- vestigation Roosevelt declared: “All of the information I had at that time and all I have received since leads me-to believe that not only was my action justified, but that I would have been criminal, in my position as representative of the people of the United States, had I failed to take such action.” Evades One Question. The colonel admitted, however, that at the time of the merger he had no information as to. the fim mense coal andtron holdings of the Tennessee company, which were |turned over to the steel trust, ac- | cording to evidence now before the committee, and which gave it a practical monopoly of the fron and steel business. “If you had known of these hold: ings would you have permitted the Chairman Stanley de With a smile, Roosevelt evaded the question, declaring the query clearly hypothetical and embracing facts of which he had no knowl. edge. “Strict Control of True Col. Roosevelt was drawn into a discussion of the trust problem tn the abstract, and agreed with Stan- antitrust attitude, St ley asked the colonel’s opinion of) trust busting. | “You will neyer achieve your! purpose by splitting up big corpora-| tions into their component parte} and expecting them to compete. with each other,” was the reply. “I am in favor of our national gov. | ernment taking the position of Germany, and by action and inter- ference in favor of the people's in- terests, exercising more strict con-| trol over big corporations with monopolistic tandenctes.” PORTLAND, Or.—John Barrett, @rector general of the bureau of American Republics, today wired his acceptance of an offer from) President Taft to represent the| chief executive at the opening of | the Astoria celebration August 10. TEDDY SMASHES ANOTHER RECORD. When Theodore Roosevelt before the Stanley house committee investigating the steel trust, he smashed all precedents. He was the first ex-pres- iderfe who ever appeared to testify before a congressional inquiry. Roosevelt appeared word to the committee that he would gladly come. He en- tered the committee room with his accustomed energy and good humor, and greeted every one cordially, appeared today in New York voluntarily, having first sent God pity the mangle giri in a laund conditions, the lot of the di ok the toll of fatigue is terribi SEATTLE ONE CENT. oN Even under idea! worker is irksome, and ie. But in many of Seattie's biggest laundries the eight-hour law is ignored. The work- _Of8 are nine-hour siaves in so; r= No English, But Is Eloquent in Universal Tongue | Bhe is the wife of the new Chilean minister at Washington, and as yet speaks no English, but even a casual observer would admit her eloquence in the universal lan- guage of beauty. ON OF 8- me, JAKEY TRAINS NEWS BEANDS be. HOUR LAW RAMES UP There was Te an old man who sald, “Do me how I'm to add,two and two? I'm not very sure x ANE But | fear That it doesn’t make four, that is almost too few.” This stenographer represents the biggest class of over- worked women in Seattle. stenographer may be pl The surroundings of the girl leasanter, but the work is nerve wearing, and in many offices these women are compelled to work from 9 to 10 hours F NEW BUNCO GAME Jake Furth is not al his law of force occasion money. Nothing like working the people both ways offers to his beloved straphangers a grand, glittering stock propositi He wants to sell them*some stock in the Yes, indeed, Miss Stenographer, step right this way; dig up your hard-earned savings and ~ become a partner with Jakey in the monopoly game. thing for the dear people ays the blunt, blustering bully and takes time to lay a clever trap that will help bring in the Oh, . coming Only, of no! and going, you know. He lays aside his club and So Jakey now He wants to do some- cattle Electric monopoly. course, Jakey will run the mo- nopoly, and you, of course, will have to come in on Jakey’s terms, and you would not be expect. ed to ask anything about some of the fancy financial flip-flops which the Boss might pull but, then, you mustn't expect too much. It certainly is one of those grand opportunities ion time if he had among the tired straphangers several thousand to get some of their nickels back in dividends. Jakey has been good enough to take your money be expected to remember Jakey on election day and to Jakey along about cle partners patiently wa would help Jakey, and some common stock, y« help elect such men ce Jakey w 1 would natural And, just ants in office, think, what a help it would be Why, of course; it in return for It is a great help to Jakey, you know, if he has the right sort of public officials to deal with. : Yes, indeed, that’s very essential when it comes to paying profits on a lot of watered stock. Nice political proven scheme Mca has framed up, isn’t it? What do you think x about ia it? in New York Paul Geidel, a bell) Jack few boy, killed aged William H son in cold Blood. With the dollars he secured from the corpse ent HE of his victim the boy bought leather shoes and a new suit WAS 17 YEARS OLD. speedy ju sued Beaver cou lawyers died while suit was connected with it only the p' y for $2,0¢ eantone NACO, Ariz., Aug. 5.—Col. W. C. Greene, the well known million-| aire copper miner, died here today tack of acute pneumonia. | recently injured in a) , weveral ribs being broken. born in West Chester county, N. Y., in 1851, and came ‘weet at an rly age. Special Saturday After Six o’Clock Men’s 25c Hose 15c Men’s Japanese Silk Underwear $1.50 Value 85¢ Shafer Bros Arcade and Arcade Annex. al | i BARBERSHOPS JUST FOR CATS: TOPEKA, Kas., Aug. 5.—Barber) shops exclusively for cats bid fair| }to become a fixed institution tn Topeka as the result of the latest \germ killing edict of the Topeka board of health. ‘The finding of six different species of deadly germs on the fringe of a local tabby caused the trouble vestigation revealed germs abyndance tn the fur of the hunters. Hence the edict to trim all cats. “Keep thelr hair short or kill them,” is the health board's order. MILLVILLE, Cal., Aug. 5.—More than half of this town today {s in| smouldering runs as the result of| & fierce fire which raged almost un checked gver the town. bnildings were destroyed is estimated at $16,000. NEWS ITEMS FROM THE HICKTOWN BEE The loss slept at a night, but we can't say what they are doing here, Bee the Heo tomorrow, n Toxler ain't more onth for hands pretty There's always some hope lett in & married man when sha Gvery day, Late Watertower saya, ce in ( klahoma; Further in-) Twelve | Sutton shot and killed his father, William, because the elder Sutton had abused his wife, the boy's mother. The boy escaped after the slaying of his father and is still missing, HE WAS 17 YEARS foro. Man named Theis 0; in court 15 years; 12 pe adin g, and of all originally nlaintiff is still living EATH WAS NEAR 200 PASSENGERS (By United Press Leased Wire.) FLAGSTAFF, Ariz, Aug. Two hundred sleeping passengers | on the California A of the § “e narrowly missed death | early today when the engine of ir train crashed into the rear end of a freight train at the west entrance of the Flagstaff yard, Several freight cars were de- railed and for five hours the yards ll as the main Une, were | blocked, but the passenger engine remained on the track and no one was injured “WAT REAL MAD (By United Preas Leased Wire.) LOS ANGELES, Cal, Aug. 5.—Suit for damages for an al- leged libel in which the “Gr Book Album,” a weekly pu cation, Is the defendant, Nat Goodwin, actor, plaintiff, will be instituted shortly in the New York courts, according to a statement given out here to- day by the comedian. The action is based on the publica- tion of an article d the “Denyard divorce, supposed to have been writ by Edna Goodrich, Goodwin's most recent wife, Goodwin in his statement de- clared that the “Green Book Album" had taken unwarrant- ed liberties with his name and said he had instructed his at- In Philadelphia today Raymond, lon the mat In Chicago, Joseph Vaceck his father because, he said, bis father wanted to kill his own mother. After shooting his father to death the boy pinned a “Black Hand” note to the body, but he was later caught. HE WAS 17 YEARS OLD. CLOUDBURST LINCOLN, Neb., Aug. 5.—Traffte ine of the Burlington railroad between Chicago and Deu- ver was completely blocked today by a cloudburst in Western Neb- raska. All trains are from 12 to 15 hours late. The Rock Istand is jrunning its trains over the Union Pacific tracks Six to eight inches of rain fell in some places. HOW IDIOTIC | The scared was playing Way out at Alki ake And Percival was “Ts Oo my tkkle Peach * With Peach blooming at his side, Percy fell in a trance; Didn't note the rising tide, Tee-hee! It got his trouserinos, RK KEKE * PREFERS UPLIFT WORK * TO HOME AND HUSBAND & MILWAUKEE, Wis., Aug. 5, & —Because Mrs, Dean G. Kim- ball, wife of a Milwaukee busi. % ness man, prefers “uplift” % work in the slums to home and * husband, Kimball has been : given a divorcee, eoerrrererrrr TT ROME—Despite his weakened condition, the pope yesterday in- sisted on celebrating mass fn his private chapel, this being the Heke SEES HS torneys in the East to file suit at once. eighth anniversary of his noming tion to the pontificate, _