The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 22, 1912, Page 1

ORS, writing to Cynthia . find some quaint and won- reasons for not marrying. ‘of them appear to be afraid a would spend all their money. ARY BOYLE O'REILLY, has undertaken, beginning with M her article in this issue of The Star, to acquaint the public with the true conditions in the nation’s food canning who slave al! day,” says o the fun of spending I ° teday begins a story industry that hy en told. it is the story And you prob- that it is ae big as the story of the told a few years Sinciair. , ig mo romance. human fact. it tells of real people, and children are names, dates ofa whence of social pollu y is net pleasant. But ‘want to read it, for it and YOUR the FUTURE OF pe vital, gripping truth See page 5. ne, “I want myself what AND LATER of it will MAKE you read it, for it le written by a brilliant and devoted woman who lived and worked for daily wage in the jungte and breathed its mias mic vapors, . *-* Thie in the era of canned food. Living in cities, herding in flate, we lack gardens, poul- try yards and preserving ket. tles.. The can opener is the sym- bel of modern cooking. Meat, vegetabies, fish, fruit, jetty, everything comes out of cans. The cannery replaces in a large part the individual kitchen, And for kitchen helpers the house wife has thousands of nameless, viewless workers In hundreds of unknown factories. We used to know every step VOL. 14. NO. 229. “THE ONLY PROGRESSIVE NEWSPAPER IN SEATTLE THIS SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1912. MAKE FOR IO MINUTES HE WILE HANG OUT oF THE wiibDow To WarTcn 1S MINUTES + on wR « 1S MINUTES Comey + POORING SOPT Bowes TAK of the process by which food reached our tables. But what do we know of these factorics? The can we open to prepare supper—where was it made? Who gathered the material? Who prepared it? Under what conditions? We do not know. Did flith or poison enter the can from factory floor, machine, vat or atmosphere? Were the workers who handied the food clean them. Selves and free from offensive diseare? Did they have light, air, the elementary things of comfort and sanitation? Were their living quarters de- cent, permitting moral phy- sical cleaniiness! Did they get enough pay to CHARGE TO ITS SMALL CONSUMERS Lighting com- corporation, has into the pocket , and abstracted additional $3,000 "Ht anvlied to the Service commis- r to increase | fate to the con- thing was done in a most busi- wanted to ‘wate of 25 cents a cents. This is the “consumer pays, no he burns any YKEEPS CARROLL UT OF PENITENTIARY fhe charses made dur- ; “cattpaign that the of Harry Carrolt, Mr. and Mrs. M +r game” conspir- significance, Gov an order to the him from turn- to the pent- wa Sentenced to a term th e State public service | commission gave its consent./ A notice now has been sent out to each consumer. It spexks of a change of rates. ps you didn’t pay much at- the oaly rate real) Maybe you. Moat more than) : itt per { they depend |ehiefly upon their stoves, and use| only small “hot plates” in con ) sumption of gas. } The average consumer was not interfered with, The ig consutmer will not perceive any . The company asked other changes, but the public service commission | would not permit an lucrease of the $1.26 rate per 1,000 cubic feet | which those who consume up to an amount of 5,000 cuble feet have been paying. Neither would the commission Interfere with the 80- \cent rate of those who consumed | more than 5,000 cubic feet. But the company's engineer con-| — oa | jof \hree to five years. Barr has been at the penitentiary since Sep | tember. | Carroll had twice before been de- |talned at the county jail when the | penitentiary guards came for him.| | Judge Ronald of the superior court in the last order continued the de lay in transferring Carroll to Walla Walla until today. / But Gov. Hays order now fur} ther detains Carroll here. Se ES a ae: ANK SENT TO IE ASYLUM Wire. Nov, 22.—Alien- 4 John Schrank, Who attempted the officially de- insane here t Ang Backus of the mu- mrt committed Schrank to for criminal in- ih. The prisoner to the asylom to ANSWERS TO ULISH QUESTIONS take the odor of moth whinkers’—C. G. about it? Is the at- of gray whiskers in by the odor of have ESOt ask her, for she doe 9 If she loved you sh ‘ fold you the first we WB £000 substitute © dinner ?— Mr» L MF Be for Fd & recipe for can re. b. Ty Om pleas court is far ow in divorce poe Motto for a be Poll along,” “Well banquet and the your altars owi-|® YES, HUBBY WILL | BE GOOD NOW | MEDFORD, Or, Nov. 22.— With bis face terribly bruised and lacerated by a rubber tube wielded by his wife, and suffer- ing otherwise from abrasions about the body from the same source, Al Lemasters is in jail today, recovering from the ef- fects of the unique punishment, designed by his spouse to pre vent the attentions of other women. Mrs. Lemasters, after secretly reading letter from an admirer of bh husband's | in Klamath Falls, playfully | lashed hubby to @ chair, and se- curing him there, beat him about the face with a rubber tube. She then kicked him from the house, and the police gathered him in. BEDS FULL, COLLEGE GIRL SLEEPS IN TUB | ALBION, Mich., Nov, 22.—After | a recent freshman party a fresh-| |man coed accompanied two of her| lfriends home to spend the night ith them. Upon arrival at their ooming house they found them elves locked out by accident, Then | they all journeyed to the home of| the third girl. The bed in the Iat-| “ers room was rather small for 1 three, and ag all other rooms were) |oceupled, the hostess got a bunch| }of quilts together and fixed her- | self a bed in the bath tub. KREMER KHHKKhh * | WEATHER FORECAST * * Rain tonight and Saturday; * |* brisk southerly winds, Tem- * |® perature at noon, 53. e ealls throughout vinced the commission the compasy was losing money on those who do Bot consume more than 25 cente’ worth of gas a month, The statie tien were produced. It was shown there are 4,000 such consumers in Seattle, 2,000 of whom are in the downtown business district, and keep gas facilities only for cases emergency. The other 2,000 consumers are thy working people. It is out of their pockets the 8 attle Lighting Co. will take $500 a month for the five or six wintry months, All told, the company will put an extra borded of $4,000 a year on the consumers, ARGUE FOR HEAT IN STREET CARS Physicians and laymen alike ap peared before the franchise com- mittee of the councl! this morning and riddled the “germ” objection advanced by City Healih Commis- sioner Crichton against heating of street cars. Superintendent Kemble of the Puget Sound Traction, Light & Power Co. was present, but did not addrees the committee. About 76 people were assembled in the couneil lobby. Promises His Aid Dr. Walter Christensen, who ft troduced a bill in the last legis! ture to compel car companies to furnish heat during the winter, and who pledges himself to reintro- duce the same meastre at the next session, spoke of the long rides which the people of Ballard are compelied to make in the cold and wet, He warned councilmen that it was not heat that produced the germs that Seattle must fear, but that bronchitis and pneumonia are attributable to germs generated by cold. OLDEST TEACHER 70 YEARS IN HARNESS PHILADELPHIA, Novy. 22.-—Dr. Zephaniah Hopper, professor of po- litical economy, the oldest school instructor in the United Staves and probably in the world, in the Cen tral high school, started his 7lst year as a teacher in the schools of Philadetphia. Dr. Hopper, who ie 88, has been an inatrocdor in the Central bigh school for 55 years. SAMPSON SUES FOR HIS CREDENTIALS “Judge” George W. Sampson, elected by stickera to the superior court for the two-months short term, this morning brought man damus proceedings against County Auditor Case to compel him to is sue an election certificate. Judge Albertson this morning signed an order citing the auditor to show cause next Friday why Sampson's request should not be granted, “HELLO” GIRLS GET 14,000,000,000 CALLS BOSTON, Nov. According to figures compiled for the American Telegraph and Telephone Co., there were twenty-two billion telephone the world during the year 1911. Of this total the United States had something over 14 billion, or 60 per cent Capitol Hill car No, 643 night, at Tenth and Pine, struck a wagon belonging to the Geo, W. Albee Draying Co., causing rather severe injuries to ita driver, C A, MePher son, 172 Thomas st, The entertainment, last night, for the benefit of the Sisters of Char- ity orphanage in San Antonio, Tex., recently destroyed by fire, was at- [OOOO tended by over 300, keep well and decent? Were they heipless women exhausting t Have human LIVES and hu- man SOULS gone into those questions Mary ly will anewer in a series of remarkable reports The St She will at not all of the can- bad, but that teme of them, because of filthy con. ditions and inhuman treatment of women and children, are hella on earth. Miss O'Reilly, who le the daughter of John Boyle O'Re mous irish patriot ar: Inently fitted for the a DISCLOSES } 4 } Mary Boyle O'Reilly, photograp Riley, the bean snipper. "FRI ra ne ae ee: SCO ELOPEMENT the assumed. She won dis ion as prison commissione Maseachusetts, a fr oe investigator and soc er in many fields and as a iter for newepapers and mag- ines. Mer account of the can 0 industry is the result of a rough and detailed invertig: extending through the » if and fall, during which time tin the VERY STATEMENT SHE MAKES 18 CAREFULLY 1GHED, EVERY FACT SSTANTIATED AND PROV £ BY DATA IN POSGES. DN OF THIS NEWSPAPER ONE CENT ~The Seattle Star HOME EDITION 0} READY To BnOW You HOW THE LaTeST FiGaT CAME OUT FOUND BY WORKS a chronicler of facts. |; me factories, is eminently qualified to dis- cuss her subject. Are you curious to know more of her? See page 7. LAUGH? 1 SPOSE 10 HAVE To HANG AROUND HERE BOR 4 MINUTES BErORE A CAR Sows uP-- FoLLoweD BY We USUAL tiow ue SOCIAL REFORMER WHO WITH THEM IN FACTORIES BY MARY BOYLE O’REILLY Special Commissioner for The Star. I am a working woman unlike my sisters only in this—fortune has made i No motive underlies this study save the wish to help the helpless, the | desire to do for other working women what they cannot do for themselves. It was to give these mute toilers a voice that 1 became one of them, and AWO BY CORROBORATIVE | as Mamie Riley, a bread-line worker, sought for jobs in the canneries of the 1GIAL DATA FILED vor TOR WHO 'Y CONDITIONS in’ the ‘character of Mamie & a ENDS IN PRISON HERE The romantic elopement of Taki Muraoka, a pretty 17-yearold Jap- anese girl of San Francisco and Rigo Custidio, a Porto Rican, em ployed in a San Francisco moving picture theatre, ended last night when Custidio was arrested in a saioon on First av, and foreed to tell where the girl was concealed She was found in a First av, room ing house. A telegram from the San Francis co police thie morning secured her release. She is now on her way home with her father, F. Muraol a wealthy Japanese of San Fran ciseo, Seattle police, pending the arrival of San Francisco officers, There |SITE Custidio is being held by the | jis a warfant out there for his ar reat on a charge of abduction. The elopers left home Sunday morning, arriving in Tacoma Tues day. They were refused a mar riage licensé there, and came to Seattle Wednesday. Here, too, they were refused a license. The ad. dreas of their rooming house was obtdined by License Clerk Gage When Mitraoka and his interpreter, FP. Tahaguichi, who had followed the vouplé, went to the courthouse, they sueceeded in locating the couple, Citatidio worked for a while in a poof room in San Francisco owned by Maraoka. He had planned to leave for British Columbia with the. girl today. = a! LIVELY CRICKET DISTURBS COURT LOS ANGELES—Court sus pended 15 minutes while Sup for Judge MeCormick, bailiffs, and stenographers searched for a cricket whose chirrupings dis turbed his honor, The hunt was fruitless, It will be resum- ed today. GETS 99 NICKELS IN CHANGE; HE SU ES ALTON, Mo., eo, V. Stahl, a newsapape , has filed a complaint with ¢ Alton Street railway officials against Marion Bailey, a conductor, to determine whether @ conductor can tender 99 nickela to a passenger in change for a $6 bill, CAN'T SELL CIDER “DRY” VILLAGES ILMINGTON, Del., Nov, 22.— As the las word in local option, the town councils of Milford and Geofgetown, two “dry” villages near here, have passed ordinances forbidding the sale of sweet cider, becanse there were #80 many “drunks” from the so-called “elde The farmers who sell cider ha banded together to test the law. SOCIETY HAS NEW STYLE IN GARTERS | NEW YORK, Noy, 22.—Mrs. Her. |man, Oelriehs, mounting the broad stairease at Madison Square Gar- den last night, daintily Ifted her ekirg and @ diamond <assel, seintil lating brilliantly, stood out In strong relief against a black silk stocking. The clustef of gems was suspended jfrom a point a little below the knee and Mrs. Oelrichy raised her skirts so all could see, »| New York shows a surplus of All canneries in the 'N | fertile Gennessee and Mohawk valleys in western New York. United States are not bad. Women and children | are not slaves and filth is not the rule in many American factories where fruit jand vegetables are packed. But I found after an is | conditions which amount I chose to study the inquiry among government and state officials that ere are noisome canneries in the east, in the south, in a belt across the middle west and on the Pacific coast—noisome because of the slave-driving of women and children and because of the filth with which they reek. Noisome to a national scandal. canneries of New York because central and west- ern New York is the metropolis of the canning industry of America—an in- dustry which employs hundreds of thousands of people in a season and rep- resents an investment of more than a hundred million dollars. As cannery ditions where these settlements under which people famie Riley” 1 worked in many towns and many factories, and lived in many non-re ident workers are housed, being subject to all the con- live and labor, sharing their toil, their food, their hours of relaxation, afd their intimate personal life. I know how the food of the people is prepared in these canning factorie: what the folk endure; never been told, and that not cannery and I know and I know that the truth about factories has half of it CAN to be told, in print the worst 3 I know that women have had to work 120 hours a week under incessant strain, result- ing in physical and mental exhaustion. I know that children under 16 have toiled day after day from 17 to 18 hours, and that infants of 5 and 6 years have labored for a pittance. I know that girls obliged to earn a living in can factory towns are driven to despera- tion by wages of from $3 to $5 a week. I have seen shacks in which workers imported from the large cities are obliged to live, filthy and lacking in the and moral decency impossible 80 common conveniences of life as to make health, cleanliness I have seen canned food in course of preparation handled by the fingers of unc diseased workers; I have seen this food which, like as not, you will wee on ee this winter, passing through hands cut, festering and wrapped in dirty rags, in malodorous and filthy factories. The But such things 3 so that the people may know, tion and administration people's food and the welfare In my article tomorrow of the Canneries.” COULDN’T FORGET || WATER; JUMPS IN | Ry United Press Leased W LONSDALE, R. L, Nov oui }ean’t get the water off my mind This note was found here today) among the effects of Miss Norma Garvin, daughter of Former Gov |Garvin of Rhode Island, whose body was taken from the Black stone river. 22 | SPECIALS IN NEWS | Becaus dren are using a branch library for! a gymnasium and disturbing the/ library patrons, the education | board has been asked to keep a school open till bedtime. San Francisco.—John Jones, a negro trusty ed money, so he! took down the police station stove, put it on a wheelbarrow and sold it for 55 cents. John is no longer a trusty. Santa Rosa, Cal.—For the first | time in this country’s history, a full-blooded Indian woman resorted | to the divorce court, charging cruel- Teh!" said Husband Joe Man-| ‘squaw heap too smart.” Di-| vorce granted, Los Angeles.—Because his wife boasted that she was “the man of) the house,” Douglas White wants a} divorcee, Los Angeles has 6,140 more men! than women, according to statistics. 100 women. City officials have sug gested an exchange bureau, } San Diego.—‘Tom,” a giant cat, | chased up a telephone pole by a! |hostile dog, remained there for |three days and nights, when he was rescued by Detective Joe Lopes, who took him home, George Doidge, accused of buying blankets from a soldier at Vancou- | ver, was given a mock trial by fel-| low prisoners, and “released,” the | “court's” findings being identical to the findings of Federal Commis- sioner Scanlon, | whole story of the ¢ in eve healthy Portland chil-| 5 ' anneries can be told only by one woman to another. a decent reticence may permit in print, I am going to tell in detail, and so that an aroused public opinion may compel legisla- ry cannery district in the land, for the protection of the of the wage workers who prepare it. will tell the readers of The Star the story of “The Women = = - os — os = GIBSON NOT TO | REPORT 1,200 DEAD TAKE THE STAND) IN MEXICO’S QUAKE Deion’ N. Y., Nov. 22.—At the | By United Press Leased Wire. trial here today of Burton W. Gib-| MEXICO CITY, Nov. 22—Thi son, New York attorney accused of i murdering a former client, Mrs. |177" Persons, and possibly hundreds Rosa Szabo, it was practically de- |More, lost thelr lives in Tuesday's cided that the defendant will not earthquake, is reported here today testify Jn his own behalf. in dispatches from the stricken Mex- | PENI jlcan districts, near here, Tce teens, The towne of Acambey and ‘inal é \p 4 appear to have suffered most, At The Carnegie Corporation of New |Acambay a church was filled with York will hereafter give ex-presi-| people attending mags, when the dents of the United States and | tremor shook down tne walls, crush- their unmarried widows annual/ing every one within them. pensions of $25,000 as long as they| In the center of the stricken re- remain unprovided for by the na-/ gion a large hill suddenly burst into tion. jan active volcano. OF SPECIAL NTEREST TO MEN will be found the announcement of Frost & Co., Tailors, which appears on page 2 of this issue of The Star. It tells of an opportunity to save several dollars on tailor made suits and overcoats. This is just one of the good things which will be found in the advertising columns today. Read them care fully—almost anything you desire to purchase you will find listed at a distinct saving. Have you an empty room in your house that might as well be bringing in several dollars per month? A Star Want Ad will get you a first class tenant quickly and at a cost of only a few cents. Phone Main 9400 or Elliott 44 of call at the down- town Want Ad office, 229 Union st., with the Souvenir and Curio Shop. OVER 40,000 PAID CIRCULATION DAILY