The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 13, 1912, Page 1

UNNAMED AND UNKNOWN, HE GOES — '} 10 POTTER’S GRAVE; HE WAS ONLY } - A “SUPER” IN THIS SHOW OF OURS BY FREO L. BOALT One said: “Thy life is thine, to make or mar, “To flicker feebly, or to soar, a star; “It lies with thee—the choice ie thine, is thine, “To hit the ties or drive thy auto car.” 1 answered Her: “The choice is mine—ah, no! “We all were made or marted long, long ago. “The parts are written; hear the super wall: “Who is stage-managing this coamte show!" —From “Quartrains,” by Robert W. Service. Who is stage managing this show of ours? The “super from nowhere came He had no “speaking” part. Not for him the « nter ie we stage. His name was not even on the program. And the other night he made his “exit o quietly, tragically, hors and the play went on. by The play I ays go on, oe remembers ing seen the “super” selling pencils on a corner in the old re A EBieted district. He remembered him because he had no feet MADE HIS “EXIT” IN A SALOON | On the night he made his “exit” he entered the Sunset bar, at Second av. S. and Wash- ton st. Riley Fry, the bartender, says he thinks it was about 9 o'clock, though he was fing the foam" at the time and can’t be sure. ; Pry had never seen the man before. He didn’t know his name. No one knew He remembered the man because he had no feet, and swang through the door on all Bsing his arms for crutches, and swinging his body between them, resting on bis knee footiess stumps trailing is Movements were grotesque. Riley Fry says they reminded him, somehow, of a seal on dry land. Yet he moved with a certain swiftness across the floor, and, with flity, flopped upon a chair against the wall, He was drunk For a little while he sat and stared with eyes that did not sce. hi fell, and he slept, sitting bolt upright o'clock came and eleven. In a lull in the flow of talk and laughter the “supers” snores heard in the farthest corners of the bar. Somebody got a laugh by pretending the snores a violin playing a ragtime melody. The humorist gave a creditable imitation of the “Texas Midnight came his ape I Then the eyes closed and The Ik of the crowd had drifted away him, The “s 4S Not snoring now. passed ar | the end of the bar. lake up, my friend,” he said. The “super” slept on Fry caught his arm and shook him Riley Fry found time to look v The head fell forward. "Good God!” breathed Fry; for he is a “super,” too, a tender-hearted and he Mamnot get used to seeing his brother-supers make their exits so. ) A policeman reported the case. A police reporter found the report-on the “hook” at head fers. As part of his routine of toil, he made small “copy,” thus “An unknown man was found dead in the Sunset bar, Second av. S. and Washington st., He is thought to have died of alcoholism. The body was taken to Butterworth’s THE STARS HAVE THE STAGE Phat was all. A city editor read the story and chucked it into the waste basket. Bar- tender, “po im, reporter, city editor—all are supers. The city editor chucked the story be fame on that day. as on every other day, the stars have the center of the stage. The great afe going through their parts On that day Roosevelt was in town. Clarence Darrow, the labor leader, War'state in Europe. No room for supers on the front or any other page ee th’s man searched the lodging houses for some one who had known a footless Surely he had had one friend? Not one was nothing in the pockets—not a coin Vet he must have been a good man once. en in death the features are good. Certainly ewas born of woman. Who, then, cast him for a super’s part? Was he born with a mental An inherited appetite? You can guess how he became a cripple. He was a moocher, a vagabond. He rode the He rode them when he was drunk—and fell—and the train passed on, leaving him and broken. It would have been better if he could have made his “exit” then je him on, so he dragged himself on his stumps a few years longer. ow he goes to the potter's field—unnamed, unknown. No one will ever know. it's the same in the end, whether you be star or super. We were not; we are; tomorrow fot. But the play goes on. Who is stage-managing this cosmic show—this show of ours? 2 | Deing attended to at his home. It |is not thought that the injuries will ae ¥ was coming Surely some one knew his name? Not one not a scrap of paper But the stage manager PROVES SERIOUS | "yess Mayor Cotterill's Injuries, receiv: | MOURN FOR MIKADO jpanese of the city are to The second cartoon in Cory's 3 t series on the “Tragedies of Childhood” is printed on ed- pally PaaS: "THE ONLY PROGRESSIVE VOL, 14. NO. 168, SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1912, NEWSPAPER IN SEATTLE | ONE CENT he Seattle Star x, HOME onT ne WW STAN On page 7 you will find the outcome of Fred L. Boalt's ex periment yesterday afternoon, when he left The Star office dressed as a “bum.” TRAI EDITION ” DARROW, WORLD-FAMOUS LABOR ATTORNEY that they were wrong. “I know this——that J. B. McNamara knew that, if he succeeded and e glory, and that if he failed he would lose his life. “T know thi progress in the world’s blood trail. “I wish I kitew a better way for the promotion of progress and better conditions. USES PLAIN WORDS TO LABOR PEOPLE HERE “Whether the McNamara brothers did right or wrong is not for me to decide. 1 wouldn’t do what they did. But that s not saying ped, he would get no money for what he did, or praise, or -that every effort toward democracy and liberty has been accomplished by violence and force. Every step taken for tory has left its stain of blood. And I know we have been willing to make these changes, notwithstanding the But I do know that it has been that way in the past. I know that the birth of a child is accompanied by paiy. I know that the birth of liberty has wrought bloodshed and has called for victims.” HERO NOGI ENDS LIFE | AT MIKADO’S FUNERAL (By United Press Leased Wire.) TOKIO, Sept. 13.—Testifying aceerding to the ancient custom of Nippon to his love and reverence for his dead emperor, Mutsuhito, whose funeral was held here this evening, General Baron Kiten Nog!, the hero of Port Arthur, and his wife committed suicide in the public streets as they followed the coffin of the emperor to the public funeral services at the Aoyama parade grounds Nogi’s tacrifice of his own life and that of his wife came before the eyes of hundreds of thousands of Japanese who, with torch lighted, lined the streets of Tokio behind @ triple cordon of police and soldiers to see the di ruler’s body go by in . Not a sound was heard but the steady tramp, tramp, tramp of the 12,000 soldiers, nobles and officials of Japan and of the foreign digni | (artes who made up the funtral proesasion when the tragedy occurred. The dead gereral was marching in the funeral cortege with a num-| ber of other prominent soldiers of the empire who were accompanied by | their wives, many of them ladies in waiting in the mikado's court. Short- | ly before the section of the parade in which he marched reached the! Aoyama parade ground, Nogi and his wife, without a word of warning | to their fellows, disemboweled themeety cording to the ancient rites| of Japan and fell dying in the street. TOKYO, Japan, Sept. 13-—-Pa: ne | Kite to polities! offenders, ia which,| in magnificence through the silent M@wever, those members of the ar " ‘ archiat band of Denjiro Kotoku an peice sands Of |i held in prison w not in the subjects who in life honored him etaged .d as a god, the bady of the late Em The only serious accident of the ' subito of Japan was borne day the col » of a hall at this evening through the deadesed Meij! university, The ball was streets of Tokyo for bin public crowded with students 1 in eral services at the Aoyama par worshipping ad ground. The actual burtal of the jnfkado, and rush late ruler wit! be held tomorrow that the whole hall collapsed and Momoynma, near Kioto, where Nelmére than 100 students were in the exhes of Emperor Kwammu,|jured in the wreck Mikado of a thousand years ago. mptly at 6 o'clock the whole Tokio u Throughout the who division, 10,000 was thronged with spectate ceremony from the whole empire al palace. At & o'clock the aig and the streets were gay with col} ‘wae civen for the departure of or, no black being worn as a eign of} the imperial coffin and instantly the mourning. The principal official wiiple body of trumpeters of the event of the day was the prociuna-| ards blew the hymn of national Uon of amnesty by Emperor Yoaht-| mourning YOUR RECIPE FOR LOVE MAKING SEND IT TO THE CONTEST EDITO “Thou shalt rot boat of personal | ment 1 follow in love making, now the time to torn it to a good use. The Saxons in the play have aards } | * of the | at ong, paraded in front of the im bravery to a girl, lest at some future | '* time she taiketh with one WhO! gecaiggue of love which they fol knoweth thee, C., Seattle. low, and it Includes some mighty “Thou shalt be a good (and fre lelever commandmer but Star chocolate cream reatiers are capable of writing bet — ttle. ter ofer, and that is what the Con “Thou shait trust her, for love is) tent editor wants If you are a a flower that bude and blostoms | young woman, write in command-| quent) judge of aA Thus, by turns whimsical b of a clenchec la crowd of 4,000 per home | peech in the McNama right to denounce “T ho trial strife what it i to. I don't tion all these yea Right has it by direct action, which is all around a table in Neav York ar action.” JUDGE WHO QUIT WANTS J AGAIN FAYETTEVILLE, W William RK, Tennett a few days ago as judge enth judicial cireult of West Va. Se who 13 re wigne th Virginia after Gov. Glasscor had been asked to convene the legisin ture to consider charges of mal-ad ministration of office, drunkenness, immorality and inco acy, de clares he will vindicate himself at the polls Bennett is the regular republican nominee in the eleventh cireult, De spite the charges Bennett mak ing bie campaign and thinks the people will re-elect him. He said he |Tewigned because he didn’t think It) sen, proper for a judge to remain on the bench, once serious charges had been made against bim The charges axainst Hennett which, when reduced to type, made seven newspaper columos, were signed by eleven attorneys, three ministers, two editors, a merchant, a dentist, and civil engineer. The charges cover the whole period of his term of office, beginning Jan- uary, 1905 Here are some of the things by which Bennett, as judge, according the office Accepted transportation from sev era) railroads. Accepted a deed to a tract of land in Florida for favors in court pro- ceedings Accepted gifts of furniture cloth blunt, in and satirical, then earnest and 1 fist, Clarence S, Darr labor's grizzled cha for nearly two he at Dreamland r unrestrained warmth his mes on the industrial crisis in masterful eloquence as he pleaded that no laboring man has the ther STRIFE WILL END “But | don’t want it to cease till labor gets ara bre he said know how it will come. The rich have been using direct ac- been might. ‘The men who have reached out for the earth did the poor don't it. A dozen people can get s of the country. They do it by direct right as long as ralyze the in astric ! THE REAL CONSPIRACY The real conspiracy is the conspiracy to get the earth back from those who took it away from the people who ought to use it. This con- spiracy will not stop until every man will have all he produ “| don't like force. 1 never used it, preached it, or practiced it. But that ie not why it may not be necessary. If a person, after trying every- | thing else, should say, ‘It is my duty to resort to force, and he does it, not to benefit himself, but his fellow men—I can understand him “| can sympathize with the victims of the workingmen's force. But | can see the starving children by the thousands, the hungry women, the wan faces of the working men struggling on, and on, and on, and | can forget the one, or the 10, or 20 victims of force, for the sake of the bet- lterment of the human race. | am sorry for both, but the working man has been the victim of direct action in the past instead of being the one to take direct action.” Darrow then referred to the shock that when the McNamara brothers pleaded guilty | have been waiting patiently,” he sak ‘for the people to regain their senses and their courage. There were 21 men killed in the Times explosion. But that was not a drop in the bucket to the lives of the poor sacrificed by the direct action of the rich, year in and year out. I don’t want to be misunderstood, No one intended killing. That part in the Los Angeles matter was an accident. J. B. McNamara did put 16 sticks of dynamite in the Times alley. But they were set off by another influence prematurely, by gases. There was no moral guilt of murder. The McNamaras merely intended to terrorize by the de struction of property No laboring man has the right to demand of those two men more than they have given. I have heard some say that they ought not have pleaded guilty. 1 object to any fellow saying that |someone else should be a martyr. There were no confessions. If the maras ever knew anything else, it is locked up in their breasts in came over the country | prison. “I hope to live to see these men judged fairly by organized labor. SOMETHING BETTER COMING “I don't know in which way this industrial strife will end,” Darrow leoncluded his speech, “but I know that out of all this suffering will come something betier and higher and more humane.” | Darrow was greeted by @ storm of applause and wild cheering when jhe was introduced by George McNamara, editor of the Labor Union Réo jord. The ovation lasted several minutes. | The first part of his address was cutting satire of lawyers and the | courts. He said that voting never got the poor man anything, for while | they might change the laws, the courts ultimately interpreted them. He | spoke of conepiracy charges having been made against the weak when no other charge was at hand from time immemorial. It was the charge a | to the charges, violated his right to; used by kings on those whom he suspected of thinking evil of him “The rich found long ago,” he sald, “that if they can get the courts, the other can have everything else.” He spoke of the introduction of the injunction by courts. He said the laboring men were allowed to organize if they did nothing more than pass resolutions, but if they | Went on strike and picketed and got together actively for betterment jof conditions, it then became a crime They have even gone so far as to issue injunctions to prevent la- only in the sunshine of perfect con- ment form what pecullar feature of ing, diamonds and whisky from sa-| bor organizations from giving money to the women and children of fidence.”"—J. G, D., Seattle. “Thou lovemaking makes the biggest bit shalt not onty tell @ girl with you. If you are an experi gentieman, but show her enced bachelor, send in your com —R. C., Seattie. }mandment, the one you have found “Thou shalt not melt her jcy|/moet oseful in furthering your coldness with burning kisses un-jamours. if you are married, tell lese she warns thee not beadina td |... commandment form the means T., Seatt! you weed to attract your spouse “Thou shalt not talk to her about) All commandments must be in the weather when she would rather the hands of the Contest editor by talk about jove."——-L. H., Seattle. | noon on Wednesday, September 18, T < ‘Wil * ed at the Sultan river power site, } and « hundred other/and ‘the awards of ticke froin | mom iii! are proving far more serious than, day observing the funeral of the | “Cupid | Commandmente’ have| boxes down to doul seats, for [CUCL at first apprehended. The phyai-| mikedo With very few exceptions reached the desk of The Stars the “Heart Breakers” will be made| Mig atasty cians say he 4# liable to be con-|every place of business conducted Contest Editor from readers who|jn The Star the following day 3 | fined to his home for at least two by Japanese is closed, and on most are desirous of winning * for Shoot ‘em in now, ae 5 1] or three weeks more, in order to| of the doors there are Japanese em- the presentation of "The Heart) e oT allow the ligaments and tendons to|blems of mourning. Besides the Preakers” at the Moore thea | STANDPATS POLL q unite. In the meantime, important — of their shops and stores nO) begioniag Thursday, September 19 | business and correspondence are! other observance will be made. If you think of a good command | did Jack Sheehan fire the = 17,000) pom mae I eh ee - - a —— #118 ae mosis =: » EPS “OUR HERO’ BACK AGAIN; FIGURES IN NEAR MYSTERY. re cant Es, . } ees than 17.000 votes were cast eee BACK AGAIN; FIGURES IN NEAR MYSTERY 3: vs, 00 ty'sgu"™aat | zi the city hospital, with EDY ON T RF 0 NIGHT URS f y office. Even the hot serap a | lot any n ps | eens AND TRAG WATERFRONT IN HO pate cae a there was a burglar there, or | ae H, Schively and Senator Fishback : he Heme Gceper reason?| 4 ‘hin, Sieating ‘cry rane OM and the coroner's fight, failed to| tWo questions are puzzling | upon the still night air. Splash produce a bigger vote. The demo ag oe” of the po-| Then all was still. Still? Ah, no! crats cast > votes and the so: : e working all f the claliats 2,643 t comes up from . ppegle find out the real facts a gga eoiars wiaalthy ® Chief Deputy Auditor Quigley's ‘ case. a? br? blunder in fring to check the num. Whose message was re-|*tifled sound—“Glub, glub | ber of ballots cast for non-partisan eeived at police head What mystery, deep, dark and) judges has left the judiciary con-| 1:06 this Morning t re ramioet 2 at {4ank, is this? some foul ert teal in hopeless sonfusion as i. Woman had been shor wre we'll bet our only shirt. j @efinite knowledge of who were a Peers House, $07 Lane st. The | Bane! A blinding flash of light. | @ected and nominated | ee Wagon was sent, and,| What can st mean? Ab, ha! The) Although Quigley's men have been} Re MAME Mock from the houne, Mra |Photosrapher-detective Is on the | working for more than three days| iy a4 Fwshed out, stopped the |*0t:_ Too late? We shall see, now, no democratic results have yet : PPMEM and told the ottinccs thar|,, Footsteps are heard running mad tween tabulated ad her sister had been prtbme. ly shoreward along the Grand King county results in the repub-| MBA Pevolver, showing cach ott | Trunk dock | Hiean primaries show the following: | : what they would do | ach o™ |) Chug-chug! Look! The police | Hay 13,645, Billings 3.343; Hum, - burglar, the enn “ane Of @) motor patrol. See, an officer is | F and Rice 5; Fish | Wille in Mrs, Sheehan enn Ot | bending over the bow. He reaches and Schivel : striking Mee Thon tthe | down. He rexeues—what? A sult-| 7.061, Hammond 6,370, Fay Oreast, *, Thomas In the | cage, And what is that clinging to Meath 7,147 and Gox 7,129, | Bheehan the suitcase? As we live, it i a} Shannon, Mulligan, Boyle and ‘ ie ate e Different Story |iamb. Is it a Ewe Lamb? Walt Biarabert were elected: constables. a Em thire Jack Stach. he house,| “ithe scene changes and the plot | ‘ iat he and Georre Aten a sim |thickens. A policeman bringing to | C ALLEN DALE TO © fender in one of than nm’,* br headquarters the Suitcase and the | . . hm own toons that | Lamb. Yer, ft is a Ewe Lamb. | HEAD COUNTY 4 OMer in the sitting room Reade Horror on horror’s head! Who #0 miben they | heartle as to murder a Ewe! OS EE ea | PROGRESSIVES volver, Went to the a mp a te| Time passed. It always does.| ) for the coming campaign TRE TWO tooms and nohed ni une | You can't stop it. It's useless to | doo OAT ELL y menting ot tne On receiving no eon |try. An hour passed | Progressive party county. central | e 10 response * “t a 1 . ensi y 0! c EWG then ran out and | mie te Dhotographer-detective committee at the Butler headquar- | ‘ Se BOt to shoot again, that He-had « photograph still wet from | ters yesterday afternoon, Because MOBO her water. He then | ne developing solution. He was George W. Dilling will be busy in Peeeefed “the police. aii |eresthing hard. Chief of Detectives | eastern Washington for the next POW Mate taken to police hands Tennant was called. He looked at) yc few weeks, C. Aflen Dale was fet ind are being het M1008T | the photograph. | chosen in his place as county chair ng held, pending an | Wz. tee + 4 eS") Dimly was shown a man with a nan,’ Thomas F, Murphine, whom | the \neatly-trimmed beard, standing on the state organization had chosen | ‘ Hy FO Kk hk kk the dock’s edge, in a position sug-| “1 have * reason to belleve that) “My suspicions can easily be ver-lag state secretary, decided to re cf WEATHER FoREcAST i! gesting he had just dropped some-|this congressman owns a Suitcase | ified, Where is the Sultease?” maift es county secretary, and has i tonight and s» * |thing overboard. and a Bwe Lamb,” sald the de The Suitcase was brought. Ten-|pesigned from the state position Pi northeast wind: | “It looks,” said Tennant, “like a|tective. “I further have reason to/nant laughed, “The mystery is|Murphine took this action on the at Noon, 70. * | certain gressman recently re-|suepect that he would like to get) solved,” he sald ground that he can render the pro: ; *| turned FROM Washington.” rid of them.” For the Suitcase was labeled “I| gressive cause more efficient serv. Web hi LLL Lee eee Yes, yes! Go on! Yes, yes! ‘ AM A TRIMMER,” jee in King county, ted to throw joon men and mining companies: Five separate charges of immor- ality were made. Thirty-six specific cases are al le lin which Bennett was said to have appeared publicly, on the bench and on the streets, in an in toxicated condition ‘FAIR TO BE OPEN. ON SUNDAY The Interest taken in the county fair is so great, the fair itself is Of been hurt by any poor man’s law,” he said. | such excellence, that the King Fair association has decid open the fair Sunday so that people who have had to work all week will have an oppor tunity of attending. The races will be the only feature that will be eliminated. To offet this the fair association has arranged for spe attractions in the way of a and a big live County balloon ascension stock parade. Yesterday's attendance broke the record. There were 3,500 paid ad missions at the main gate, and 200 paid auto admissions. The day was set aside as Pioneers’, D. A. R., W.R. C., and G, A. R. day, and members of those orders were there in large numbers, Babies were very much fn evi dence yesterday, The free nursery was taxed to its capacity and many had to be turned away. There will be a baby show tomorrow, which promises to be a good attraction Tomorrow will be set aside for the Federated clubs of Seattle, and all clubs will be represented, ‘FINDS A FLAW IN SZABO MURDER EVIDENCE MIDDLETOWN, N. Y., Sept. 18 Self reliant and confident, and showing no outward sign of appre hension following his arrest on the charge of having murdered Countess Rosa Menschik Szabo, Attorney Burton Gibson awoke this morning greatly refreshed after a night's sound sleep, He said he was well satisfied with the situation as it stands today Gibson, who will act as his own | |counsel until the prosecution shows its stand, believes he has opened a vital flaw in the state's case by his startling statement that the woman who perished while boating with him in Greenwood Inke is not the Rosa Menschik Szabo whose mother in Austria two years ago, and whose brother is en route to Amer ica to assist the prosecution, died | | working men on strike.” | “Darrow referred to Colonel Roosevelt as mistaken in thinking that jhe can make conditions of poor better without making conditions of rich worse, He brought the big crowd to its feet when, after referring to ways of courts and attorneys and their hair-splitting devices tn inter preting laws, he said | Lawyers work bard prove anything by them. ONE VICTIM OF ANTI-TRUST LAW He referred with bitter sarcasm to laws made for the benefit of the poor. He pointed to the Sherman anti-trust act in particular, and | showed that the only man who ever served a jail.sentence under it was | Bugene V. Debs in 1894, on a charge of “unlawful combination in re | straint of trade,” for organizing the railway strike. “The poor man has not been helped and the rich man has not He showed that while the Tobacco and Oi! trusts were found guilty of violating the same Sherman anti-trust law, none of the rich were put in jail, and the price of tobacco and oil are higher than before, | He charged the rich with having resorted to direct action, and he said the poor man had the same right. I can prove it by almost any lawyer. 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