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

Whistles Through life and earns big money doing it. Don't miss story about Nate the ventrilo- quist on page 4 today. - VOL. 14—NO. 148. The Seattle _______ THE ONLY PROGRESSIVE NEWSPAPER IN SEATTLE SEATTLE, WASH., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, NEW TERMINA : _ DEAL PROTE | CITY'S INTE joners Who Refused to Be Stampeded Into Unbu: 3 nesslike Agreement Finally Drive a Better Bargain With Terminal Promoters—Profits to Be Shared and Forfeits to Be Posted for Protection of Port District. SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS IN NEW PROPOSED TERMINAL CONTRACT MONEY TO BE SPENT Ry the port of Seattle, $2,500,000, By Pacific Terminal $600,000, By Pacific Bullding Co, $600,000, PORT COMMISSION AGREES: To lease for 30 years blocks 404 and 405, Seattle tide lands. To build one pier, 1,400 by 160 feet, with sheds, To erect cold storage warehouse, 120,000 square feet, and con. warehouse, 320,000 feet. and to provide railway connections ‘To maintain y to Harbor istand, and with aid of city to bulld or viaduct when business so demands. 4 To acquire other lands and erect other butldings as business may require To give the T nal company until Oct, 15 to make good T ERMINAL COMPANY AGREES: To pay as rent 5% per cent of actual expenditure made by port To purchase land and erect reinforced concrete factory of 990,000 feet floor space within eight months To give port commission right of supervision over entire oper To fix rates according to regulations of port commission. To share net profits equally with port of Seattle. To give port commission right to inspect books, property and ration at all times To easume all expenses of operation and maintenance. To protect port against damage due to negilgence of company agents To give the right of berthing to all vessels, 3 GUARANTEES ANDO FORFEITURES Pacific Terminal Co. and Pactfic Building Co. to put up $1,500, bonds covering every phase of lease and agreement Terminal company to forfeit right of lease in case of default in y of the termes. Property, in case of default in provisions of lease, to be for. to port without any cost whatever. Negotiations for the Harbor/pany. In addition to that, the com: terminal project will un. | P&ny will pay rent to the port be inwenuiae this af. | °@ualing 5% per cent of the actual expenditure by the port. Between the port commis-| The port agrees to spend jen and the Pacific Terminal Co.| $2,500,000 immediately, while the the Pacific Building Co. The) terminal people will spend $600,000 le a subsidiary company of | The lease is to be for 30 . years. The port commisaion yields > firet, which is to have) none of its rights to supervise and . ‘of the construction work. /regulate the operation and rates of final @ratt of the lease was|the terminals. To obviate the pos by ©. C. Thorgrimson, of & Thorgrimson, attorneys sibility of monopoly, the port com- mission specifically provides In the @ the port commission. Accord-|lease for the berthing and accom- Geo, H. M. Chittenden, pres-|modation of all vessels who may of the port commission, the |apply at Harbor island. tow reached between Those behind the Pacific Ter- ie port and the terminal promot-|minata Co. are: RK. F. Ayers, C. nT absolutely a square} Palmer Woodbury, Paul Starrett, the people. It t# entirety |W. A. Starrett and Charles Fenn. it from the previous propo-jAyers and Woodbury will be In ‘which the interested boost-| Seattle about October 15, when the the terminal tried to cram/work on the terminals will begin. the commission's throat. A reinforced concrete factory of profits from the operation of | 200,000 feet floor space is to be put ‘Me terminals wil) be shared equal-/up within eight month: Fthe port and the private com-'to the lease. . BIG INCREASE — sweeping increase of 50 cents a di for all classes of labor In the me on a MWELL BOOTH! ISNEW CHIEF Aug. 21—By the of the will of Gen. Wm. opened here tonight, Bram- Booth, his son, is named as pew commander in chief of the Army. cig cot } | the statement that this will be the | demand made at the convention of delegates representing district No. 6, Western Federation of Miners, at plson, B. C., on Friday. District HER VAUGHAN No. 6 includes all of British Colum: Before an audience that filled St.| cathedral, Father Bernard} the noted English Jesuit, fe on “Reason and Revelation” night. Pather Vaughan first showed that human race ts enced al- Met wholly by authority, and not He took the average hu Ban being from birth, showed how| Ae the early life the child depended mma its mother's authority for the Piiticiples, then er on the} 's; how, when the child was | m it depended on the authority | 7 A large number of friends and relatives this afternoon gathered at the home of Miss M. L. Denny, 1220 Boren ayv., for the funeral services of Carson B. Boren. Rey. W. H. G Temple officiated. Interment was in Lake View cemetery BAD MEAT ON SALE K.. Yamaguchi, arant on Jackson st., was fined ‘ ) this morning for having spoiled fis physician when it was sick! eat in his restaurant. In fining the law; vhe vas gal | fiowble. He showed that oe alvexal | him, Judge Siibaugh scored him se- pat we must, take things on other| Matberities than our own ming. | He then took up the subject of , showed that people who live on the authority of oth-| nt reason in their religion, | and revelation Father | Prentice for fast driving of an auto ; Said that if we take au-|over the intersection at Second and Merity for our life tn the natural| Pike. That crossing is one of the World, where we really yw noth-| busiest in the city, and many com INE that we should not expect to| plaints have been made about the , reason or lation for our] recklessness of some of the autoists belief in the spernatural fn crossing intersections. COLONEL FIGHTING SON-IN-LAW SINCINNAT!, Ohio, Aug. 21. » A. O. Sewick, progres \ leader here, announced to- 4 ° his candidacy for the seat 1B congress now occupl Wichoias Longworth, yr le, formerly Alice Roosevel Wa daughter of the progressive e mal nominee. It Is re- ag jat Col. Roosevelt or- Meted the fight on his son-in- | Wm, but Dr. Sewick says the Sdlonel is neutral. ig 4 the worst offenses against health a man could commit. SPEEDER FINED | ete wai F dndindindindindindnindndndeninanand WED A DAY; WANTS DIVORCE SANDUSKY, 0., Aug. 21 Lenora Meese, wedded yester- day, today instituted suit for divorce. She alleges that her husband, Fred Meese, whom she married at Putin Bay, struck her on the way home from church where the cere- mony was performed, and later threw her clothes into the ® street * tk te ttt HHH HK +e REESE EEE EERE * * * * * * * * * * * * * Y, Ca here must take the city. A fate the clothes of travel down by - beeanne of con hewhere in the w: PUNCHED HIS RESCUER PORTLAND, Or., Aug. 21,—-Chas Johnson was “sore” whon pulled and baggage.|from the Willamette river, He did ng men were|not know how he got there, but the city councli| acting on the assumption he'd be agious disease # | pushed in, punched one of his res ate cuers in the eye. Aug. 21.—Vig a bath before | o they must Aug. 21—Governor West of this state, 4 militiaman, will tramp from Gate, Wash., to in order that he may decide for himself on contention that the march ordered in the Nt rs was unreasonable. This is an outgrowth of disbandment of the second battalion of te Third Oregon Hegiment for alleged mutiny. RESTS according | Al mines and smelters of British Co-| |tumbta is forecasted here today by | who runs a res-| verely, saying that that was.one of} A fine of $20 was imposed on C.| =| COULDN'T ‘ WEST USES STATE TROOPS IN ACAUSADE ed rene Leased Wire) SALEM, Or, Aug. 21.—With Portiand as his next objective Point, Gov. West today is prepared to make a state-wide campaign for an improvement in moral condi- | tons, Gov. West intends to con- tinue to use the state troops if nec: essary to carry out his moral orw sade. ome weeks ago, when, after re- | peated warnings, keepers of 1 sorts near Milwaukie, a Portland suburb, refused to observe the law, Gov. West, at the head of a detach ment of state troops, took posses. |aton of the houses, declared martial law and left National Guardemen |in charge unt!l the proprietors sued for peace and agreed to maintatn orderly places Last week Mayor Jones of Red- |mond was convicted of gambling |Gov, West demanded his resigna | tion, as well as that of Marshal Mc- | Clay, whom he held in some meas lure responsible with the mayor for |nonobservance of laws and gener lally poor moral conditions which [the governor declared prevailed there Gov, West asserted he would take possession of Redmond | with state troops and declare mar tial law if his demands were not |e mplied with. The city counell at | firet was Inclined to play for time, }but the firm attitude of the state's (ay ON THAINS AND SEWS STANDS Se 1912. | ONE Star HOME EDITION Signed Up As a Star entertainer, is Scoop the cub reporter, You'll like his adventure with Gladys on page 2. I Am Greed, I Am Merciless, Insatiable!---By J. POSTMASTER f OF PORTLAND IS DROWNED executive had its effect, and both officials resigned and their resig-| Inations were accepted by the city | counct!. Now the governor is ready to |tackle Portland. He decla ditions In that elty are bi liawa prohibiting gambling are not| lenforced so well as they should be_ land that immoral women ply their ‘trade in some inatances without |hindrance. The city officials of Portiand declare they are will |to have the governor make an a tempt to better conditions. | LABOR COUNCIL PROTESTS ON HOWARD The legislative committee of the Central Labor Council last night telegraphed a vigorous protest to) Senator Poindexter against the ap pointment of Clinton Howard, cor poration attorney, as federal judge. Numerous other protests are going to Washington from ail cities in| the district, and the Indications are) that the senate will refuse to con-} firm Taft's latest attempt to stock up the courts with graduates from the corporation school. The telegram sent by the local) labor council follows “Hon. Miles Poindexter, United | States Senator, Washington, D. C.: | President Taft's appointment of Clinton W. Howard to succeed Fed- eral Judge Hanford means the en-| thronement of a corporation repre-| sentative on the bench. His many) years’ connection with the Stone-| | Webster trust, the Great Northern] and Northern Pacific ratlroads as} attorney and lobbyist, and his part in the suppression of the Root-Gor-| don scandal render him wholly un fit for the judiciary, We ask that no effort be spared to block the leonfirmation of such appointment lin the senate. Please refer this message to the senate Judiciary committee. “LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE | CENTRAL LABOR COUNCIL | “Paul K. Mohr, Chairman TWO HURT WHEN CARS COLLIDE Motorman F, R. Matson. 8 14th av. N. W., and Mre | Bereman, 65, 7037 11th av were injured this morning when the car, ldriven by Matson, collided with a Ballard Beach car ‘at Western av and Pike st | The two cars were going south} on Western av., about half a block | apart. At Pine st. the street drops south on a heavy grad As Mat son’s car crossed Pike the brakes gave out and the car ran down the grade, crashing into: Ballard Beach car a little below Pike. When the collision occurred Mat son jumped over the gates, lighting on his back, badly bruising his hips| and fracturing several ribs. Mrs Bereman was badly shocked and} was taken to the Seattle General) hospital, suffering from nervous collapse. NO CONTEST FOR $3,000,000 BABY, NEW YORK, Aug. 21.—Re- ports that there would be a con- test over the will of Col. John Jacob Astor were set at rest here today by Judge Gilder. sieeve, counsel for Mrs, Made- line Force Astor, Col. Astor's widow. “Mrs, Astor,” he said, “has always expressed entire satis- faction with the provisions made by her late husband There will be no contest.” AD? iS FINED $5 } When Harry Cost was arraigned lin police court this morning to an swer to the charge of peddling with lout a license, he put up the rather unique plea that he was a foreign er, could not read English, and therefore could not tell wh his liicense expired, “It would have lheen cheaper for you to have had some one read ft for you,” said Judge Silbaugh, as he fmed him $6. | | rbara} | | ‘gmoney. LAKEVIEW, Or,, Aug. #1.—Chas, Merrick, postmaster of Portiand, was drowned today while swimming In the hot springs near here. Mer, rick wi former newspaperman of ind. He was widely known in ifle Northwest. Death apparently had been ine antaneous. An examination show- ed but little water im his lungs, 6 it te believed that heart failure ac- tually caused his death. He leaves a wife and two chik dren, His body will be taken to Portland for burial wae ELISE LETTLT TT Bec: | * z * WEATHER FORECAST. ® Fualr tonight and Thursday, ® cooler Thursday; ® easterly winds, ® at noon, 72. * * moderate % Temperature * * te FOUND, A It’s a Court of Domestic Ri “Road Gang” for BY FREO L. BOALT The prisoner at the bar had found guilty of non-sup; of wife. His defense had been inabit- ity to find employment, Ev had been given that he had not ti to find employment. “1 am satisfied,” Cet keethneheeae id the court Hee MOLOCH, GOD OF GREED BY BERTON BRALEY. am Greed. ath merciless, insatiable. clothe myself on the proceeds of women’s shame orge myself on food stolen from those who serve That ¢ myself in the tears of little children Patten upon the misery, the woe and the w J * gluttony has created Lam blind to suffering, deaf to cries of pain or r Not only do I waste and ruin and spoil the material things of the world, at I besmirch honor, I tarnish virtue; I contaminate childhood, I debauch youth, I crush manhood, T know not love, nor truth, nor righteousness And because | am without truth or remorse, use I am bloated and brutal with power, ause Iam glutted with plunder nd heavy with unearned gold T have raised up enemies ho will eventually destroy me. am my own worst foe, am Greed! ant that my own = as FOR THE DIVORCE HABIT Where Family Scraps Can Be Fixed Up Privately and Hubbies at $2 Per Day, the Wage to Go to the Family. domestic relations, “that you could) support your wife if you wished, You say you cannot find work., Well, work will ge found for y: at good pay.” The prisoner stirred uneasily. “You sentenced to the dell quent husbands’ road gang.” con. tinued the court, “until such time as other work can be found. The pay will be $2 a day. “And you, madam, turning to the complaining witn ill call here every Saturday, noty later than 2 o'clock, and receive the} Call the next case, Mr.§ The above is fiction, It didn't happen. ‘There is no court of do ' Clerk.” mestic relations In Seattle. There is delinquent husbands’ road’ gang. But Judge King Dykeman thinks there ought to be. It ts a psychological impossibik ity,” sald {Hé judge yesterday, tamping his beiar, “for a man and a woman of strong character” here he applied the ma to live together without friction. It can't be done How the Divorce Starts. “The first year of marriage is ro mantic and delightful, Afterwar comes a prosaic period. Then hus band and wife quarrel. It is inevi- table. They are, we'll say, good people. They are true to their vows. But the husband spanks the children because he believes they need spanking, and the wife takes their part ‘Or, perhaps, he wants to read the newspaper evenings, and rest, while she, bored by a long day in the house, with only the ehildr for company, wants to talk. replies are monosyllabic grunts. “She reproaches him, He growls. She snaps. He explodes. She weeps. He grabs his hat and goes downtown “A little difference, It could be smoothed over. But, instead of try- ing to patch up the quarrel, our sys. tem labors earnestly and often sue- cessfully to widen the breach She Goes to See a Lawyer. “Next morning the wife goes downtown to see a lawyer. The lawyer does his duty by his client The papers are served on the hue band at his work. They come into court | “Now, a woman {fs peculiar in| that, when she has taken a stand, she will go almost any length to justify ft. On the stand she elab-| orates every little cnssedness of which her husband has been guilty She exaggerates the truth, She ts honest—she believes she Is telling the truth. | je “The husband retallates by elab-| orating every little cussedness of which his wife has been guilty. Me,) too, exaggerates the truth, Before she gets through she has painted him a drunken brute, The push was a blow. The more she thinks about the day she smelled beer on} his breath, the surer she is that he was drunk. And she’s an extrava gant shrew “Divoree granted. Husband or dered to pay alimony. The ustral difficulty over the custody of the children. And all unnecessary “Or, suppose the court, finding ” ald the court,) }and tomorrow night Judge King Dykeman, who proposes a divorce evil cure—Sketched from life by Vic. that neither has done anything very; cost to the litigants at least could | bad, orders them to go home and|be materially reduced | behave sensibly. Perhaps they try.| “In connection with the court of But in all my experience I have|domestic relations, I believe we| never known them to try success-| should have a road gang for delin-| fully, Neither can forget the pic-/ quent husbands and divorced men ture of the other telling, in open failing to pay alimony, Under the| court, putting into the public rec-|present system we jail a man for| ord, that the other was a drunken | non-support of his wife and family, brute or an extravagant shrew. and leave them to s ve, Such « reunion is bound to end in| “Wouldn't it be better to have abipwreck,” these men working on our roads, “If the system has failed, what | with guards over them, earning $2 then?” a day? “A court of domestic And His Family Suffers. They have one In Chicago. “I have in mind the case of a go farther than the Ch young wife whose husband is now doing 20 days for non-support While he ts living {n fdleness at public expense, she is working, try- ing—and faillng—to support three children. If that man could be made to work for wages and the money turned over to the wife, would solve the financial problem It would put enough food into the mouths of those children to keep them strong. It would put the need- ed half-soles on thelr shoes to keep their feet dry. It would even give them a Sunday outing In the park. And it would teach the husband a wholesome lesson that he would not soon forget.” relations I would ago court 088 “I would have a court which regulate domestic affairs the first quarrel, Such a would need wide experience sympathies, Instead of a wife's going to q lawyer, who nat urally urges her to sue for divorce, she would capry her story. to the court, The court would fend for the husband and get his side. A bailiff would investigate the home, “Perhaps a plain talk to both, in private, would be all that was nee- essar In nine cases out of ten divorce proceedings could be avoid- ed. If divorce was necessary, the would from court and larg }land | clairvoyant clairvoyant BLIND NEWSBOY der. ert L. Cla: jtrial on the charge that he killed | [hte wife In the waiting, bi \spared his life. | corner, ery’ in, dreaming of sunshine, and flow-| alty ers, and sights of the city that have been denied him. Specialis Clay was Cashin sal | Charged-wi rick | here today d th ing the. infa jing its hen the mother Doors open at ance beginn Afternoon doors o7 No pa SAN take who Waiting for Criminal to Die, Dead Man’s Eyes—Specialists Prepare for Mar« velous Operation. ATLANTA, G c » blind newsboy, is waiting for another man to die, that he, Cashin, may have the dead man’s eyes. Cashin hopes to see, for the reat of his life, through the eyes of & man condemned to hang for mur- But Cashin may be disappointed For the condemned murderer, Rob- ted the plan Cashin suggested to them is feasible. “Why can't you take put them in place of mine? Hejand Cashin will see. of his oneday-old child 60 years of age, ned at je tomorrow | FRANCISCO. stock from MAY SEE WITH MURDERER’SEYE | so That He May Have Aug. 21.—John won't need them, why shouldn't have them? He has iost his ri to life, the law says, and why, the: not give me his perfect physi vision, so that I may live as oth nen, not as a dependent?” Cashin has been disappointed Senay by oe wea originally set for July, Clay's post poned it. ite $6 2 If Clay dies for his crime, here ig j the plan which is to ve followed sive his eyes to Cashin, accord: |to Dr. Pntnzy Calhoun, who is to that be may be|have charge of the operation: At &@ downtown | lays eyes will be removed im- ing his payers, sits Cash-| mediately after he has paid the peng They will be placed in @ | Warm saline solution and hurried to @ hospital, where Cashin will be in waiting. ; The cornea, the s¢el When he heard) eye, will then be ig gata condemned to death, |Cashin'’s uselese cornea, Then, Dr. id to a doctor: Cathoun says, the optic nerve, long his eyes and unused, will exercise its functioty y, is fighting for a new| county prison, Clay is oping its of Atlanta have admit- BEAT OU BABY’ OWATONNA, T HIS ‘BURGLAR S_BRAINS| HITS GIRL Minn, Aug. th beating out the brains Anton Ma The room occupied by Winifred was arrested Smith, 12, at 1803 25th av. S., was Marick’s other children; entered by a thief about 4 this ey saw him drunk, hold-| Morning. The burglar struck her ant by the feet and beat r the head with a rock, grabbed i with his fists, while| her purse and jumped out of the lay helpless on a bed window, The girl received a slight cut over the head. The purse con- tained only a few cents in change, arth av. and Lenora T. R. TRAVELS nd, stand grounds,|| OYSTER BAY, Aug. 21—Col, d’clock, perform. | Roosevelt started for Wilkesbarre, 8 o'clock tonight | Pa.. today to speak at the jubilee celebration of Father Curran, at 2 o'clock; | Which is scheduled for tomorrow. lock. |It is believed that he will discuss moral issues,” but not politics. ning ns, begins 1 o'¢ A thief entered the home of C, J, McCullough, 3 Whitman av., last | night, by cutting the sereen on the | kitchen window. 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