The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 21, 1912, Page 1

BY FRED entrances are not arranged for heroes on life's The man you meet in the street! & Brlanger do it better, may be a L, BOALT age. hero who is only waiting for a chance to prove his heroic worth. The man who delivers groceries at your door;| * the banker who lends you money on your| property; your landlord or your tenant; Colman dock into the harbor, | The plank fell, Sixty persons were dumped Phe stage was admirably set for the tragedy, and the hero jof the moment was Newton Johns, the negro bootblack, But |he was not given the center of the stage. Fate, the stage man- jager, bungled Again. The “mob” should have been “left” and right,” leaving a lane for the dramatic entrance of the hero, Instead, the “mob” got into the hero's way, but he left the waiter who serves you at the cafe; the 4 pair of shoes half-polished and wriggled through the jam, conductor Who arrogantly commamds you | and, seizing a rope, threw himself headlong into the icy waters to “step up forward”; the boy who shines | of Elliott bay your shoes—any one of these may be al hero, Last week the public had never heard about Newton Johns, For a little more tate. And he saved 10 lives! At the risk of his own life, he saved 10. He did not hesi- He did not weigh his chances. He might have held back than 30 years the little negro had shined |—others did. No one would have blamed him. shoes for a living, and waited patiently for his chance. the hoisting mac! Story of actor who } get “fired” from his job 4 told on page 4. i | i Today all Seattle is talking about Newton Johns. Mayer |Cotterill, when We heard of the accident, hurried to Colmag) It came Sunday. Something went wrong dock, arriving there just as Johns, dripping and exhausted, was inery which operates a gang plank on leaving the water, He grasped the bootblack’s hand and saidy can’t OL. 4 NO, '- AT COLMAN DOCK PROBE Evidence showing that the Colman Dock company failed to make inapections of the dock machinery, ARE SHOWN — | Make Regular Inspection of Dock ‘oroner’s Jury Will Give Verdict on! End Afternoon. } “3 | but that it permitted the passengers to depend upon perfunctory examinations, made to time by G. |. Vik, a stationary engineer employed to of the dock. nt out by the testimony before the jury thia morning in probing the cause of the deaths of Mrs. art Bruder, drowned as the result of ‘of the heating arrangement \ This startling fact was broug' pence E. Learned and littie C ¢ dock accident Sunday mo Vik testitied that he worked 12 Abat he oiled the gearing of the when complaint was fa two weeks; that a0 comp the accident occurred for Tenewed since th ‘Bas no reguiar time for mak oe be noticed the machinery fathe worm that slipped tbe Silowed a quarter of Inch in entire length. were examined in over tts verdict sg hour; rning. a day; that he had no assint- slips about once a month, but that made by boat officers, he would do laints had been made about the the past ¥ix months. THE TESTIMONY further testified that he oiled the geartn: Fagesthat no one was with him at that time have dock was rebalit that sifp about 10 that the gear wheel about four years ago; ing” inspections, but that he olled needed it. dose questioning by one of the jurors, Vik admitted that the cog wheels and caused the acct an inch play, although only three-quar- all, and the jury retired at 12:20 Prosecuting Attorney Murphy and H. L. public service commission, together with Coroner Snyder, examinations amined were: Officer a Bell, who was on duty at the Col- Whén the accident oceurred; Officer Clark, who helped in the ‘work; W. T. Odlin, who had one foot on the boat and the other ‘when be felt it give way G. L Vik. the Cock engineer; dock, and Andrew J. Hill, embaimer, Synder told the jury that it was not material whether the a8 a result of drowning or some other injury sustained by the of the siip. The jury is composed of the follow- Tianche Pent Mrs. E. A. Bazett and FG. Perrig M. Rhodes; R. B, Davis, Earl 0. jal club to- & Subseription for New the negro bootblack who lives at Colman dock Sun “A considerable sum had been 19th diamond St Frederick & Nelson's or imer's yesterday. There tight small diamonds, sur one large one tet eeeeteeeneens “DON’T TELL MY WIFE” NEWPORT, May 21.—""Don't tell my wife,” bexaed Reno Wood, when he was cut in two by a saw and almost instantly killed near here. His wife is seriously i!, and it {= feared the shock of Wood's death may prove fatal to her. RRR WASHINGTON, Pa.—tirace Bed. dow, 10 years old, jumped into an abandoned well when her 3-year old sister Jane fell in, and heid the baby’s head above water for minutes. eeeeeeeeees, eeteeeeee et) YES, THE WEATHER BOYS ARE “IRON MEN” be iron men in the U. &.) _— on the 14th floor Wd liding. Men of iron Pe Netded in these days of many Ws a blizzard near Medicine Vacuum approaches from og A nor'west gale blows Pacific. it is raining in and it Ie sultry in Belling. It is snowing in the Middle Mey, ‘izzling in Ballard. Draying for a drought th the Mississippi valley. They're for rain in the des - pend ¥, men, ve Mi or i today.” of these Weather bure office boy UD in the towar on the Hoge building the %, and whizz 04 sparking. They ar Message of wind and FOP and raindror fooms below Cages, In thes 8 Covered witt tiny square Daper cylind«r ecraw) erratic, zig-za down and all around ror neluding men root aratus whin ay e taking wou ¢ te little are ttle aN | ine luding the | The needles are telling the story | of the day's weather. Every hour or #6 the fron men leave their desks and rush to the cylinders. It is gruelling work. | What is the rainfall on Capitol! Hill? The wind velocity in George. town? What says the barometer? Fair? Quick, give the news to| Washington. And the temperature? Thunderation! It's down a degr in Green Lake. Clouds hang over| the Olympics, The sun shines on Everett Steady, men! Cool and steady!” Back to their desks go the men of iron. Back to his dime novel goes the iron office boy. They must con- serve their energies now. They must gather their strength against the coming hour when they must again rush at the cylinde The silly needles scratc on and on. It is killing work, the reward? “1 see by the weather bulletin,” remarks “the average wife to her husband as he is leaving for the office, “that it promises to be dry and fair today.” “In which case,” replies the aver- age man, “it would be wise to take my umbrella.” And what is 15} |came to this country | on and} ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN SEATTLE SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, MAY 21, 1912. PAYS PENALTY FOR STARTLING FACTS — 69 PETITION FOR NTRACTOR, | PARDON FOR IS DEAD MRS, JOHNSON Gladys Johnson Writes Letter to Public Petition Started for “Her Release. asking the governor tenced to two years in the peniten. tiary on & second degree perjury charge. Her cage ie unique this country. Onty two states the union, inctuding Washington, have @ second degres jury law, Mrs. Gladys Jobneon told atie tn order to hide her past. This Me, it Ia admitted on all aides, had noth- ing to do with the cfise that wae being tried at that tine, That case ‘was a persona! tojury eult against the city of Seattle Mra. Jotmeon been lojured by a defective sidewalk, and she recovered $2,500 damages. During that trial, dbe was atked if she ever been before. She sald po. Her Henry Johnson, also replied in the same manser, The city, hawever, discovered that she had been mar ried before son bad past which she wae living down in Seattle. So, alth the MATHEW DOWPETITION Fal CO Comes Suddenly to Mrs. Well Known Figure in| Business _ Circles—Con.-| structed Many Big Build- | “My boy, you are a credit Later the boy said; to your race and all humanity.”| “And that's all the reward I want.”| ers, making But is it enough? Is Seattle's gratitude to Newton Johns to be measured by words of praise? “T never heard of a pluckie he boy was in that ice-cold water nearly an hour, day was cool, courageous, strong. water, He modest, anxious to minimize th embarrassed to find himself the “I earnestly hope that Seat gratitude to Newton Johns in some substantial form. serves a Carn home life investigated. who for several daughter, ; was reeling and his face was ghastly. himself to the limit of his endurance r act,” said Mayor Cotterill to He I saw him just after he left the He had taxed Aud withal he wa ne importance of his work, center of interest and appl tle will find a way to prove its He de- ise mg medal, if ever a man did, but Seattle would eyen four chairs have no share in giving a Carnegie medal. I have had Johns’ I find he is a good, steady young man, years has supported a paralytic aunt and her bine the ideas? If the city of Seattle, as a municipality, would The Star has received letters from read sugge suggestion, which impresses similar tions lhe § a happy one, is contained in an unsigned | letter ° | “Johns is a bootblack,” writes the cor respondent. “Why cannot the city give him a downtown corner, rent free, where he can set up a stand and be his own Another reader writes: “Wouldn't it be ta good idea to start a popular tion and buy John first-class stand ubscrip a shoe-shining stand with three or such as any man would be proud to be the proprietor of?” It would be a good idea. A dandy idea. a two, But why not com- |give Johns a site for a stand, and the people of Seattle would “Let's get together and think of some substantial token in| buy with their pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters, a stand to which all Seattle may have a share.” ONE CENT PARM ELEE IS HERE; 30 | put on the sit, would Newton Johns be overpaid? tle Star ON THAINS AND REWS WTANDS Be HOME BIRDGIRLS ARE READY rhe | in fact, that Mr Jobo | lle she told did not affect bw i Sonal Injury suit, it was nm leas grovads for second degtee per- jury under Washington lawd = Mra.| Johnson was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary while Mr. Johm son was given nine montha in the county fall. Johnson has finished his term, and he te now doing hin utmost to secure a pardon for bis wife 4 MATTHEW DOW Matthew Dow, one of Seattle's foremost building contractors, suc cumbed to an attack of heart failure at Prince Rupert last night, Death was sudden | Dow, who has erected some of Se attle’s finest bulldings, including the Pacific biock, the Colman bulld ing and dock, the Orpheum theatre the Empress and the Walker build ing, had been in Prince Rupert for the past three weeks, where be 4 removed with his family while was engaged on a quarter of # mill jon doliar building contract. Dow was born in Glasgow land, 63 years ago. Dow's Career Mr. Dow was 1849 at Glasgow Her Letter, The following letter was written county jail: “To the Public: T have a desire to let the people know something of the manner In which people are prosecuted and husbands and wives separated by the hands of the law. I am suffer ing the injuries received two years ago by the recklessness of hose in| charge of the roads. In @ suit 1) brought to cover expenses eaused | by these injuries, was probed! about my past, which | had wished/ to keep buried and which ia no way concerned my case or injuties, “Certainly, | came west to live born July Scotland. He | altogether to blame. Any person quired a literary education in the/ who has a sense of principle hi schools of his country and there| desire to put away a marred pa learned the bullders’ trade, which |! cc lived a straightforward, up- he followed till he was 24, when Ne | right life with my husband for nine LF peter He knew my past and will: After two years and a half at/ingly set itpaside when we were Lexington, Kentucky, he moved to | married. Texas, where, with bis brother, he| “I was brought up in the Presby did considerable building and/terian falth and am still of the earned the affection and esteem of | same. faith, I could never endure all his associates, He came to Se-|the disgrace of serving a term tn attle in 1889 and since that time| prison. And I have everything to has been an {mportant factor in the |live for, and every reasom to live development of t He erect-| "0 upright Mfe. I ask the help of ed the Pacific building, the Vic-| the public to gain for me the chance toria hotel, the attle Athletic |t? do so. I have alrea rved clubhouse, the one-story block op fae be peo ihe county Jail. Why posite the Rialto, and has done all; @USt © Sulter more Ags the work for the (reat Northern, | MRS. GLADYS JOHNSON stores on Jackson ao street. He erected the Baptist and Methodist churches, his own bulld ing at 2nd and Broadway. RARER HHH * WEATHER FORECAST * Showers tonivht or Wednes- * day; moderate southerly © winds. Temperature at noon, ® 53 * THEY WERE GOING! TO COOK HER SAN FRANCISCO, May 21.—Lit fle Felicidad, a child of a member} of an almost extinct tribe of Filipino cannibals, was the chief center of attraction on the Pacific mail liner | China, that arrived here yesterday | from the Orient. The little girl, when two years old, was placed on| a pyre as a sacrifice by the mem bers of the cannibal tribe In which she lived, and Mrs. Abreu, a Filipino woman, bougkt her for 20 pesos and has since taken care of her, | The history of the girl Was related | time after time on board the Chin’ and when the vessel docked y day she was given quite a reception. Whiskers Fashionable NEW YORK, May 21.— Whiskers are expected soon to sbe the fashion in New York as a result of the strike today of 600 barbers, who are expected | 00g to be joined by 3,000 more of their fellows. The strike is for shorter hours and the estab- lishment of a minimum wage of $11 a week. seeeteeee * * * * * * * * * * ehh knee hhh kkk DO YOU KNOW? That no United Stat from Washington full terms? senator has served two That President Taft will next September 1 be 55 That only six epresidents have served two full four-year terms com | secutively? That Councilman Haas, when he owned Leschi park, paid $700 for band music there years ago, and that Greater Seattle spent only $4,000 fast year in all its parks? That the oldest brass band in Se attle is Wagner's band? That Robert Moran, the ship builder, was former mayor of Seat tle, and 1s one of the Roosevelt del egates to Chicago? by Mrs. Gladys Johoson in the King |® . | signals. eet Tie with Philip Parmalee. “You can be sure that | will take girt rin The Star flight next week,"declared Philip Parma- | fee, the youngest, handsomest and most experienced birdman actively! Jengaged in the aviation business to. | jay. » With J. Clifford Turpin, the young aviator arrived In Seattle yesterday | from the South, en route to Vanco: | ver, B. C., where the two will par-| ticipate in the celebration of the queen's birthday, Thursday and Fri-| ay | “We carry the fastest machines | in the country,” said Parmelee this | morning. “They can travel at a rate of from 66 to 75 miles an hour, I'm building one now that will have a Spot of 165 miles, which I am con fiden: will break the wsrld’o record | at the next competitive meet.” f Phil looks like a mere lad, but his down my paat, for which | was not/ Youthful features show a devermin- and Genevieve ed fact that gives you the impres-| sion that it fears not even danger Having been th the game ars, he has made over| only two pee OHIO DECID rae ING ON Mies Grace V. Boucher, 827 First Myrtle Meyer, 224 W. Kilbourne | @¢tly 12:10:02, Richeson’s muscles av. W., who is very anxious to fly, st. 1y who wants to explore the upper regions with the young birdman, | The name of Miss Genevieve) Buckner, 311 Eastlake av. wi among the first to appear at The Star office. 1,000 flights, and has met with only | one accident. He fell into the Rio Grande a few months ago and es- caped without injury. Parmalee tears no weather, and nothing but # gale would stop him| from disappointing the crowd. More Bird Girls. © Star list of anxious bird women is dally easing. With the assurance that the handsome young sky pilot will safely conduct one of Seattle's prettiest maidens Ubrough the air, next week,'s compe tition for the coveted seat is getting keener daily. This morning the names of Miss Grace V. Boucher, 1827 First av. N.; Myrtle Meyer, 224 W. Kilbourne, M. Buckner, $11 Bastlake av., were received. } Over thirty young ladies have sig nified their willingness to brave the upper atmosphere, up to date, TAFT OR TEDDY | *| a NEW YORK, May 21 I am not good at predicting. I will tell you better tomorrow how Ohio goes,” was the only statement Col Roosevelt would make when he arrived here today from his campalgn in the Buckeye state. Col. Roosevelt went at once to his home at Oyster Bay, where he will remain until Thureday, when hé starts a ur days’ invasion of New rsey. J ESSE SEER EE EE ES eeeeeeeeeeeeeee PS a ee eee ee eel (My United Press ‘ey COLUMBUS, 0., May With fair weather everywhere through out the state, Ohio voters turned out early today and started polling} a heavy vote for delegates to the) republican and democratic conven-| tions, 48 of whom will be chosen by} the republicans. The polis opened | At 6:30 o'clock this morning and| will not close until 5:30 o'clock this} afternoon, It is believed it will be| late before the result is known Supporters of Taft, Roosevelt and | La Follette. all express confidence in the result, La Follette hopes to) elect at least a dozen-delegates, | while the Rooseyelt forces say they | are sure ofvat least 32, On the democratic side, Harmon and Wilson men declare victory 1s} gure. Harmon men admit Wm. J Brygn's opposition to the Ohlo gov ernor will hurt him badly, but de clare that despite this he will easily | win. | The democrats are yoting direct! house of Guelph in only four districts } ly for their candidates. La Follette is seeking delegates two in Cleve land, one in Columbus and one in Toledo. ke wk ke! CINCINNATI, May 21.— President Taft slept here to- day, having arrived after mid night from Dayton, where he closed his fight for Ohio's national delegates. His broth- er, Chas, P. Taft, issued a statement, today saying: “IT have assurances from ev- erywhere in the state indicat- ing that the president will re- ceive a large majority, if not all the state’s delegates to the *® national convention.” RRR KEK KKK eee eeeeeeeeeee PRINCE KILLED IN. AUTO ACCIDENT | FRIBSACK, PRUSSIA, May 21.— An automobile, containing Prince George William, eldest son of the Duke of Cumberland, and his cham berlain, Von Greve, was turned over esterday afternoon while the} prince was going to Cdakatngde to} attend the funeral of his uncle, the late king of Denmark. The prince was driving and failed! to observe the warning signs on the} road, The machine struck a place where the road was being repaired | and swerve li, instantly kill-| ine both m The Duke of Cum-| berland, his father, {s head of the) ‘ARTHUR Everybody is reading Ber- ton Braley’s poems, on page 8. Don’t miss ’em. EDITION LLING HIS SWEETHEART )REV. RICHESON DIES IN ELECTRIC CHAIR WITH LIPS SMILING (By United Press Leased Wire) =; turned on again. Prison physic’ BOSTON, May 21.—The Rev.ideclared that death was gree Clarence V. T. Richeson, slaygr of taneous Richeson was officially Avis Linnell, Hyannis high school! Pronounced dead at 12:17. girl, went to his death in the elec-| Chaplain Collapses. tric chair at Chartestown prison) Chaplein Herbert Stebbins ab at 12:10 a. m. today without a! most collapsed after the execution, whimper. He paid: “It was not the misery or The young Virginian who was ex. horror of the thing that shook me. pected to die cravenly, was the) !t was the heroism displayed by coolest man in the death chamber, that man at death, It was a rev- going to his doom apparently un-| lation and a miracle such as God afraid. When Warden Bridges ar-| only can bring about rived at Richeson’s cell shortly Until he was pronounced dead & after midnight, Ric! n was sing- could not believe that this poor sine ing. The official waited until the Der who had confessed so m last verse was finished, and told the Weakness and cowardice would be condemned man that the time had ble to die so courageously. Riche- come when he must die. |son died a far better man than be Helped Offici jever lived.” “I am ready to go with you,’| Richeson’s body was claimed by Richeson said, quietly. “There wii!| is brother, Douglas Richeson of be no scene.’ With head erect and Chicago. It was first sent to the eyes looking straight ahead, Riche. Prison morgue and later prepared son marched to the death chamber for burial. An autopsy is to be held There he surveyed the death in-|&t noon, after which the body will struments, and, seating himself in| be sent to Lynchburg, Va., where it the electric chair, closed his eyes,| Will be buried. and moved his lips in prayer. This Avis’ Mother Forgives finished, he, glanced curiously at; HYANNIS, Mass., May 21-—Con- the straps and electrodes, and as-,vinced that Clarence V. T. Richeson sisted the officials to buckle the went to his death an insane man, leather belt across the abdomen. | Mrs. Linnell, mother of Avis Lin The rubber mask first was put on "ell, announced here today that she his head upside down, and the for. had forgiven the former pastor for mer pastor smiled as it was re. murdering her daughter. moved and correctly repiaced. “lam convinced,” Mrs. Linnell Death immediately. said at her home here today, “that The current was turned on at ex- Richeson had been ‘mentally irre sponsible fer some time and died insane. Of course, | will accept the _picture he left for me. Why not? f a picture of my own daughter.” twitched slightly as the 1,900 volts coursed through his body. Twice the voltage was reduced and th =e COUNCILMEN FAVOR BAND IN THE PARKS the parks? You bet, all for it. Four.councitmen rviewed by a Star reporter on the subject, and four councilmen expressed themselves as heartily in favor of supplying plenty of music in Seattie’s parks this summer. “I have been asked by many of the residents in the North End to do what I could to get band music two or three times a week,” said Councilman Marble. “If I get a chance I shall propose, in council meeting, to recommend to the park board a liberal sum for park con- certs. It's a good thing, and I know that the people are willing to —_— Music in stand this kind of expense.” the “Indeed I am in favor of plenty of muste in the parks,” said Coun- cilman Griffiths,” and I would have music in Dilling park, too.” “There's nothing like music to draw the crowds to the parks,” said Councilman Erickson, “ahd that’s what we have parks for—to be used by the people, Sure, give the peo- ple music twice a week at least.” Councilman Haas: “I will not say how much the park board should spend for band music this year. I spent $700 one season at Leschi park when I had charge of ~~ en i - SS STRINGER, NOVELIST KILLED BY AN EXPLOSION 1Gy United Press Leased Wire) their home here. NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y.,, Mrs. Stringer, who was Jo- May 20.——Arthur Stringer, the | bina Howland, former leading famous novelist and short story ra Paki Jas. K. Hackett be- . ; is wife fore her marriage, was prepar- writer, was killed and his Wie ine milk for the baby when the and baby of two months were explosion occurred. Stringer critically injured this afternoon, was killed and Mrs. Stringer when an oil stove exploded in| and the baby severely injured. DO YOU NEED A BOY? Isn't there need for a bright boy in your office or business? One of those boys who can see more to do than is told him in so many words? Couldn’t you use a boy who is ambitious of going into a business and working his way up through merit instead of jumping from place to place and posing as a “lady killer”? Sure you've had this kind and you want the other kind, the kind that gets down to work on time and can work his brain and hands at the same time, that can remember from yester- day to tomorrow what you tell him, that has springs in his heels and knows the joy of work and living. Can you get him? Yes! If he isn’t advertising for a job in Star WANT ADS tonight he reads them and your ad will catch his eye. His school teacher and minister will recommend him and so will the storekeeper in his neighbor- hood, and that’s a line of reference that’s golden. Go after YOUR boy new! Over 40,000 Paid Copies Daily. |