The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 23, 1912, Page 6

| SPEED! SPEED! SPEED! AND THEIR WAGES ARE WAGES OF DESP! WOMAN WRITER DISCOVERS THINGS UPON ENTERING CANNERIES AS DAY WORKER 1 was work: ing on my first job in the big, open bean shed of @ great can factory in one of the historic towns of the Mo hawk vailey, New York. | was an un. registered piece worker, the mere hold er of a punch ecard, tolling at task in which skill and extreme exertion SS" = might earn P weshaad O'REILLY me 60 centsa SAYS HE WILL KILL WILSON COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo Nov, 23.—"I will kill president-elect Wilson when | get out of here,” was the threat made here today by John Cohan, a one-armed man arrested for disturbing the peace, and held | pending an in tigation “A man like Wilson,” said Cohan, “with his political and religious be Nefs, should not be allowed to pre side over this great nation. Just leave it to me, and Mil fix him. FIRES AT RAT, HITS DYNAMITE—ZAM! SPOKANE, Nov. 23.—With his face, arms and body badly burned and his right arm broken, M. W. Neary, promi- nent Spokane mining man, is today in the hospital, the result of his having taken a pot shot at a rat during a hunting trip and hitting a box of giant pow- der. SURGICAL NEEDS “Do you have to be examined by @ physician before joining the Aviation club?” “No; not until after you have made your first fitgnt" Fifteen out of every. “100 | infants born in England die before reach- ing one year of age. KRISTOF ERSON'S PASTEURIZED MILK Haye this milk of certainty delivered regulafiy. 4. Kristofersor Phone Elliott 223. $7.50 This week we offer first @ not of teeth for $7.60. 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BY MARY BOYLE O'REILLY 1 hind “WHO eate all the Special Investigator for The Star.) beans he backless, knee-cramping day, Geside me sat Rosa Caru T pose wholesome italian girl who benches had done their egg | ve a Interest, curiosity, hope, a! learn: th job’ f Bn. “sacl by were merged in utter physical snipping beans. Around’ ge wore ranged five and nervous fatigue, | under elderly me 72 other women stood new why th se women and twie many children, It try to “keep up” on Jamaica was late afternoon. Wet from ginger—-99 per cent alcohol— wind-driven showers, we sat on and the paychology of the girl rough boards laid upon packing who drifts to harm ceased to be heise cold, weary ps ‘coratert a mystery, | began to under less, snipping incessantly. stand =the bent and broken The sound of coughing was lives one everywhere continuous.. A smell of damp among the women of the can- humanity permeated the place. neries. | The accumulating smetis grew “| ain't makin’ no excuses,” | horrible, the ache of sitting on sp of | low, rickety benches intolerable. a girl who sat near us. ut | Despite the chill, the faces of she ain't got no folka, an’ three | tired workers flushed. Vole sixty | grew shrill and combative, from | __“My God! groaned a voice be Osgar Swings Hi ae == ADOLF MUST a — Be IN TROUBLE IN DOT ALLEY, PARIS, Nov. 23.—That 1913 |is—Dug? Yes. He says, ‘Ease offt fs destined to be a bloody year | Ease off, you boobs Don't you is the prediction here today of | min, gh® DIS money's in a clone poring arg “ent a 1 see & squareshouldered man . with a pompadour, His name is mer friend of General Boulan Cotterill. He is talking with a long ger and the younger Dumas, jean man with a flowing mane. He and the conrted of the rich and | ;20 Oi a tatthews. 't am glad great of Europe. Paris, says Mnie. de Thebes, | #°t0r.’ says Cotterill, “to know you will be the scene of terrible theatre fire in 1913. man e@peror may The pope will die. Italy will Witness a political upheaval | and possibly will get a new king. The prince of Wales will resign. Poland will be vod Bulgaria will play a stupendous roly in Europe. Mme. de Thebes, it is said, predicted the present war be tween the Balkan states and being medicine " nnot slip, so eannot chafe or compress ‘against the pubic bon and have * y trentel APAQ ticmseives at home We prove what Turkey last December } eee BY FRED L. BOALT. | We have, alas. no Mme. de Thebes in Seattle, but we have done the best we could im the cireum- | stances. We have interviewed Madame | Raj, now of First av,, but formerly jof Bombay, and before that seeress extraordinary to the Grand Llama jof Tibet. We know this because she said so | Madame Raj ie a large, fleshy lady with a rheumy eye and an oc- jeult manner. She wore at our | seance a dressing gown of a flow- fered Oriental design such as can ibe bought at any Seattle depart- [ment store for 98 cents | She speaks United States like a |native—of Bremerton. This, how: }ever, is @ coincidence. | “Lean tell,” said Madame Raj, as |she took our hand in her own plump, moist palm, “that you are | psychic. You are in love, but be * we interrupted, “with | our wife.” | Even a delver in the oceult needs| & . |@ cue. We stated our business inl wouNDED SERVIAN SOLDIERS j cold, cryptic sentences. ” | THE MADAME THROWS cme eA FT stwens| GOES BATHING bs aa WITH MAN; HE \she tee a fit and projected her astral body through limitless space SHOOTS HER to we don't know where, leaving us clinging hopefully to the clammy| ny United Press-Leased Wire paw of her earthy shell which re RENO, Nov 2%3.—Unless perl mained where she had left it in the] tonitis develops, Mrs. Estelle 8. chair on the other wide of the table.|Baggott of Los Angeles and Wherever her astral body went| York, shot at Moana Springs, n to, it sent back wonderful tidings|here, last night, by H. 8. Weems of for Seattle. Baltimore, who then committed It should be stated, parentheti-|suicide, will recover, according to cally, that this was a $2 sitting. If|a bulletin issued today by hospital you have a $1 sitting you get a|surgeon jood dollar's worth Jut it is un Weems ha sonable to r xpect two dollars’|his attentions upon me,” said Mrs. worth for one. Yellow journals con-| Baggott he most foolish thing sulting Madame Raj invariably ask|I ever did was to consent to go for the $2 sitting, while congerva-|bathing with him at Moana tive journals are usually satisfied | Springs.” with the $1 kind Weems shot Mrs. Baggott, follow | By the same token, an ambitious|ing a quarrel in the bath house man, wondering what the future] Mrs. Christine Barrett, a friend holds in store for him matrimon-|of the wounded woman, said Mra ially, can get from Madame Raj for| Baggott came to Reno to secure a 4 bride young, of wondrous|divoree from her husband, Lee uty and of limitless wealth,| Baggott, a lace manufacture sheap skates pay $1 and get plain 2 ae girls who are good cooks. INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 23,—Indica SHE GETS THE REAL tion that Judge Anderson believes DOPE ON OUR MAYOR. the government has presented a It is not for us to explain what] strong case against made Madame Raj’s lips move| Springfield, Ii., one when she—her real self—her ego: men on trial here for illegally trang: was far a getting the! porting dynamite, is seen by Indian straight dope from headquarters, if| apolis attorneys today by the action we may put it vulgarly of the court increasing Smythe'’s | It is enough that they moved, and| bond from $5,000 to $10,000. |from them issued sepulchral tones. * prin “I seem to see Is it? It] NEW YORK, Noy. can't be! Yeu? No? Yes, it is. It| Cornelius N. Blias is Tealey Raymond, still managing | interior during F aident McK the team, + The season is|ley's administration, left an estate halt over. The pennant is cinched valued at $4,851,854, according to I see @ large person, His name is— appraisal figures filed here today w. Smythe of of the union The late Club ii i | aeree with me that four-round bouts| 8 persisted In forcing | “— THE STAR—SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1912. And a little tater another girl | knew, sorely tempted, said hopelessly: THREE FORTY.ONE A WEEK— WHAT'S THE USE?” The scene shifts to a great cannery preparing room. An arrogant forewoman patrolled the ranks, igning taska by a method insuring maximum output for minimum wage. Her acousing finger indicated me. “Maria Tasso, you take this new girl,” she commanded, de. lbera airing greenhorn and hogger-in” (too speedy < Maria's manner was grim. “Come,” she ordered. “Kick away that stool. We stand. You trim what | pare. This Is piece work, y' onderstand.” Then whirring sh. pace imposing ting set a Hence, and the tere not only unsatisfactory, bu brutal. Hereafter finish fights wif be permitted. Will you be at the Austen - Hagen go tonight? At the ringaide, ays the long, lean lock In the evening Strange! The streets are fill ed with care * Bevery body sete a eat Py How polit the conductors are! The pas 400 FIGHTING FOREST FIRES By United Pres Le Wire SANTA MONICA, Cal., Noy.'23.— Forest fires on the slopes of the Malibu section are raging aggin! today and a score of ranches are in imminent danger. ? Four ranch houses have been} burned and crops valued at many: |thousand dollars laid waste. Four hundred fire fighters undef the direction of forest ran * are flames, Others will be dispatched from Santa Monica today AGED MAN FOUND GUILTY OF MURDER ST. HELENS, Or., Nov His hair sparse and silvered, his hands palsied and his frail body trembling as though always cold, George ebber today awaits sentence after {being found guilty of murdering James Corrin on the Webber house. boat in the Willamette slough, ond degree mur was the verdict returned by the jury EXCUSE M’MANIGAL IN DYNAMITE TRIAL By United Press Leased Wire, INDIANAPOLIS, Nov, 28.—Ortie ©. MeManigal, confessed dynamiter, was temporarily excused from the witness stand today at the trial of union men charged with illegally transporting dynamite, after de scribing his operations just before he was arrested, He will not b recalled to the stand for" B8-€: amination until a score of other witnesses testify, contesting the advance of fhe) drive was on. Piec ork in the canneries soon w js out all but ¢ speedicst, route the ailing, We were an always inadequate number attempting to prepare a highly perishable product. in speed lay our only hope for a living wage. Among us one in a hundred earned $10 a week, seven in ten | dolla The average wage was $4.70, “Pay?” sighed Veronica P. when questioned. Me, | im % That is the most a week. My husband, Constantine, he make $5 for the moet a week.” And yet the canners who buy beans by the ton for twenty odd dollars and pay but two cents a pound for labor in preparing sell the finished product at such hat the largest corpora. , WHO GAVE Me DoT Awfur sengers, too. Sorry, says ay with her spirit control etor, “but this transfer is an hoor old Bo it in, a paseens aarees. ‘To tell the truth, I loiter et it y fair that I should pa fash fa PERFECT LADY GETS SEAT IN CROWDED CAR. Madams Kaj sighed heavily. as though she were trying desperate ly to get into closer communication singe tines | CARRYING SOLDIERS OFF THE FIELD BATTLE GROUND AT VRONIA, oe WILL ORGANIZE FOR PROMOTION OF WISE LAWS Progressives of King county will meet tonight at Arcade hall, to perfect a permanent organization, the chief purpose of which will be |to promote progressive legislation. Men and women alike, believing jn the progressive principles adopt: | Pd at Chicago on August 5, are en titled to membership and invited jto attend tonight's meeting, which | begins at 8 o'clock The election of officers for the Progressive league will follow adop ton of a constitution and by-laws One feature of the constitution that | jWill be urged introduces for -the first time in local history in a vol ‘ntary organization, the recall pro Vision, The election of officers promises to be a lively one dates for president have been men- | tioned. These include Will MH. Par ry, Thomas P. Revelle, former May or Dilling, and, it is understood, Glenn Corkery, candidate tor the legislature, is grooming a dark horse. SHOWS OFFICERS DYNAMITE CACHE LOS ANC 3. Hand cuffed betwee Carl Ret delbach, who threatened to dyna lie the central police station nesday, was taken to the Declex quarries in San Bernardino county today, where he has a cache of dynamite and infernal machines. The officers will return with their everal candi-| tions have filed no statement | part payment for their work 1 Faint and terborne 9 bell toteg of earnings or dividends paid | The pestiferous atmosphere in the v for last ten years. that came from the iil-emelling | if it was pei fers Mra, Kate Donnelly, a capper sleeping quarters, the open sew. sighed Josephine Porro | In Auburn, went to work at 7 er, garbage heaps and reeking Maria Tasso’s hands em | a, m. carrying her three meals outdoor closets emphasized our about her knee ae oe a | For nearly a month she never poverty, proved the hideous the ground. * | eam the evening, often not until 2 & ™ serve broke and the | WORKED 119 7.8 HOURS, In the hot night women too bitterness poured out, the sense | OVER 17 HOURS A DAY FOR j exhausted for sieep, too tired | of undeserved inju | SEVEN DAYS, while two other for family life, sat listlessly crude eloquence —s women worked 118 hours. Their outside the shacks. courage mates at the machines gave | Fifty girls, nervously over | “We are like ratel” the up, utterly worn out, but the | wrought, wandered about seek | “We have what we = Won who kept them ing vainly some simple pleas will work to exist, | led bore up to the bitter uring. Around them revolting not. The longer we pr | conditions and the forces of the less we can ever eapm } Our day's work over, we hur. evil gathered to sweep the un | see and | know, The ried to the “camp"—filthy | wary into an undertow; for im pays. a | ghacks where imported work : ers from the big cities are and discomfort, is the conse | Tomorrow—THE CHILOREN housed by the employers in | quence of cannery camp life OF THE CANNERIES, an n the Dark and Nearly Hits. Wrong Man No, t be true. You, yea! I get it now, per rine say | way fect 8 ® And she says —she saye—she *. ‘T I see a man with a badge on his vest. I is arres Becau berries. the qua a She bottom, Laake Furth He |Haneon that what this ie lore | tow i | den are hea abo no t of a It is a pleasant evening in Jone. Hundreds of t of W. stu ts throng the campus. What! they waiting for? Happy antici-} [pation iNumine they are-—yes, they are waiting to r the they are! At this juncture Madame Raj came out of her trance with a jolt and remarked that she hadn't the least idea what she'd been talking vat 2 SALOON LICENSES |°t"*"_* few hundred feet S AL square mile of slaughter-houses— head of a $50,000 insti On the ground that the city char-|the Chicago stockyards ries, assembly hallg, ter limits the number of s two on a block, Mayor Co a forward a veto to the council next |‘smelis’” explained Miss Mary Mc Miss McDowell is about Monday of the license to P. EB. Sul-| Dowell, the plamp, jolly blue-eyed only livan for a saloon at 1406 Third av a workers and their families, “Mees RICHARDS FREED McDowell is an angel. | Why - IN MURDER TRIAL | t##e union ever attempted in “Not € 10 Ib. stea 40¢ doz butt laye Tae chop ton Ibs, prisoner late today, ders, 8 brought in by the jury at 8 o'clock last night in the case of T. en IRA WR RAG = : ards, tried in Judge Ronald's court ae < < THEN for the murder of Henry Diliman. KISSES TASTED DIFFERENT, Dillman had sworn out a warrant against Richards for breaking a It's leg. When the two met the shooting took plac claimed Diliman atta This plac spring lam Th, chops, i2% ke a jsteaks and ronsts, | 15¢ bacon, 20¢ tb.; shoulder 1b; leg mutton, 12 ge loaves bread, 15; seeded raisins, on, pkg. 7 WESTLAKE | A 8be to box rui Ibe; quinces, 4 Tbs. Se; Jemona, creamery butter 1 buns and doughnuts, 2 doz rca 1b. pa, 12%; ribs and loins of mut-| Ps. 1240 Ib; mutton shoul-| | ch Spiced Alask almon 1b.) ones, She ¢ all Kinds Kosher sausage sirloin steak, 16¢ Ib: lamb’ ¢ 1be eh ing pt | er governn jlic utilities corporations, but Doctor | | Leonard butts in and says the se : sack, delivered: apples, & livered: brussels sprouts, home until 8 o'clock in fact that we were less value IF 17 WAS THE 7 ble than cattle In an employ she said sharply, ne | | IN ONE WEEK GHE | en's estimate morality, a8 well as ugliness Words Music ” mY, VOT A = Revier! = lL THOUGHT f= A = . acta ' 2 HAD HIT eur a Der DER WRONG he ve Fecow! CLUBBED “ANGEL OF THE STOCKYARDS,” THEY MISS MARY, BUT SHE’S A FIGHTER, Te no'” she murma Ine car is full. A | lady~-te standing. A man Take my seat, madam.” he hank you. le in a food inspector, He ting somebody. Why? Why? the man sold a quart of ‘z What is the matter with rt of berries? The box has - fm the lites t-control of prosperity is a wide-open ery face, They chimes! Oh, how happy MISS MAKI ed ae Chicago university has two set She opened her MAYOR WILL VETO tlements, one in the aristocratic re- | small storeroom 14 ott : gion near the versity, and the she expanded to three from a a feed store. Now she mato; “One was located among the ¢ mnasium and cohool 8 rill will | ‘swells’ and the other th. the sicians, nurses and t recreation is trim real 8 chwoman, who is the darling | t's The mayor will also veto the I | Packingtown. ing girl cense asked for the Minnesota sa-| However, Chicago people are! wives ar loon, in the Junction building, inj more apt to refer to Miss McDow-! she explains Ballard, because there are 14 sa-|¢ll as “the stockyards’ angel time trimming = loons in the immediate neighber And in the stockyards district, to most expensive hat hood. thousands of Polish and Lithuanian She organized the first woman's | heed t ing an insanitary stockyards, and insisted upon 1 suppose it ts t/ ter working conditions for the girls | people do it for hi j}and women American. guilty” was the verdict Rich Dora! Richards | AOORE ed him with You mained sledge, Re Oe et Oe aS kes legs spring lamb ribs and Joins spring lamb KE | herring, 6 for 2 fhe each; amoke oleomargarine polling 't MA sez > Bs MusT HAVE @ } ae 2 SON h T-bone steak, lhe Ib. Mong, § Ibs. 10c; fancy ‘t 8 1S french mustard 20e and! kippered 15e and 25e can; ext. honey i}