The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 26, 1912, Page 1

IG over this new parcel post “scheme? All right then, look on 4 today and see what The Star “fas about it. Story makes interesting ZZ) R. PICKWICK’S most embarrassing predicament is today’s feature in the Pickwick illustrated by funny Johnny Bunny. It’s on page 8. aaa HOME EDITION NEWS STANDS Se The Seattle Star _ THE ONLY PROGRESSIVE NEWSPAPER IN SEATTLE ONE CE! stories VOL. 14. NO. 258. SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2 26, 1912. IT'S OVER! AND IT SURE WAS SOME CHRISTMAS FOR LITTLE-CHIMNEY KIDS BY FRED L, BOALT. Scandal today Though half the husbands of Seattle’s seven hills were flying with their affinities, and half the wives were seeking solace of their “tame cats,” and every- body. were suing everybody else for divorce, the condi- tion—alarming enough, in all conscience—would receive want notice on this page ' Crime today? If every other house in town were burgled in the night, while stick-ups were in progress on t corner; if every madman and badman from Ballard iy Columbia City and from West. Seattle to Beaux Arts Village were running amuck with guns and knives and nite bombs, the “epidemic of crime” would get but wing mention here usiness today The nation may be on the road to commercial supremacy or financial ruin. Let the bulls chase the bears, or the bears rout the bulls. Or let them day, not one went away empty-handed { Today my mind is a pleasant chaos wherein I must now try to restore a sort of order as regards the events of yesterday First, then, there was the “biggest tree that ever was,” brought the day before by the Chica & Mil- waukee, with the snow of the Cascades still upon it, and set up in Dreamland, where its tasseled top swept the rafters. And there were the lights upon the tree—a twinkling, multi-colored lights hid cunningly tinseled foliage And there was dolls last apple two tons of When the gone, the last They and orange, last box two of candy—the real fun began sep 1 a family ind tree s 1,500 the were doll—there wa last bags, big ones, and each containing a tpy, two boxe candy, fruit and nuts From this point on, the narrative i entered past the ranks of stalwart, and two, boy and girl, stepping to music arated, boys one way, girls and round the blazing tree Big boys and little boys, mothers and babies, the line the polished floor, endless! paperbags dwindled to hills from mounds to nothing at The affair has been criticized, Some chimney kids who received gifts, it ha were not “worthy S« of them got “to The There are ked ened heaven heard an “unworthy” wa r do I for Christy and there were last game, sketchy the of candy—there smiling policemen Phe another, and marched re beneath the wn. They hun- their heels benignly di Phere line saw while opening of What quatting on 2d anta Claw iled were dred and ext were uch group you got loring their 1 little girls, moved over big girls length d while of lolls an from hills unds, and game all és I anc thousand in the and hee! never! mother, overc the tree of the had to Santa Claus—big to fit (Reporter Black is 6 feet 6, and the proprietor Costume Shop, Fifth av., who loaned the suit, ransack his stock to find a uniform to fit him)—viewing the tree in awed amazement and telling Mique Fisher that turn and rend the lambs—as they often do—until Wall in all his experience he had never seen a tree to compare gt. in a shambles and the Stock Exchange a lethal with it i. And there was Wag International politics today? Kings may abdicate. ‘Thrones may totter. Nations may go to war. These things are the merest piffle. The big news—the news deserving premier position is that yesterday was Christmas, and that of all tle-chimney kids who came to Dreamland ant JW ANY CITY CAN MANAGE ITS VICE: MAN HAS PLAN lege Bred Denizen of the Under- i luls lama throng world Proposes Solution of World- \ \U ge finding the ight ite ch Old Problem. Manning's Coffe She selected _ NEW YORK, Dec. 26:—(Spl.)—America was shocked a ago by “Mrs. Warren's Profession,” a George Ber- . play having for its heroine a “scarlet woman” with- shame, who flaunted her business as legitimate. Aad now a REAL “Mrs. Warren” has startled New York st their mother, which she fast- hers Tt li r one ates of were closed in her arn And a big policemar d ir an loted’ them to their me me men and v ave us, I never big-chimney or little Ne any kid to get “too much” mer's band of 40 men, each blow- And if there was, here ing at his particular instrument with Titian fury to make who hid his bags under his coat, and so coaxed the maximum of harmonious noise or even a fourth, from the dwindling heaps, wt So much comparatively clear. The «stage is For once in his starved and barren life he re And now the little-chimney children come “too much,” but enough I did not count them. Mique Fisher estimates their The important thing number at 3,000. If so, there were twice that many paper kid was turned away tt wil - dine bt ‘ ‘ ‘ mother of took pin vile women but, kid for when a greedy ce of bags, laughed, land A pickininny 3 is 7 ¢ le hibited at Dr of the “specials” de- ly had lost her Chief Stet- blue and gon. She set is that not one little-cl imney eh son plendent brass was her home in cial buzz-wa when she hile M making a latform. It ggest tree he And the t And he said some nice William A smiling left Mean from the seen, he said he came. He Then Dr made a speech do aid, was § ural speech had ever ayor C Santa things abou Mayjor,: of J thing that pr could ren happy. ‘There called for three Fisher ar church, was chil d authority for t And cheers for The Star, and three for M nd then the band again mother’s the 40 blowing e depended on it. And r Fred A. Bennet flutist, gave a whistling his clear and notes rising high above r of the to mak jue up every shri Is full. Hers was the task for toys. 28-inch doll which the clerks market, had bought and wonderful of dolls sev- a Grey nney kids the best Store, | made for this 1 eral ates mately the doll w 87th av. W. Cynthia because both are pretty A woman’s reason! another Second gave the doll to brown hair and to Rut she Murphy, ays and have doll grey was candidate who almost got the indignation drove the play from the stage. centered attention on vice problems that every big city America is grappling with. m. Mary Goode is an astonish- Coming forth from the of the metropolis, a ful woman, a graduate of colleges, she asks N York tes to acept vice for “what necessary component of to put it on a recognized, rest of the citizens in keep ing the town clean. “We will keep the streets free of women who prey upon men. “We will do away with the noise and disorder of the white-light eec- “T don't mind.” doll in simply: “I said Ruth put the said et her have it Ruth’s arms, it never had a n Cynthia and Ruth 200 other dolls, however, al- dréssed by big-hearted and dolls’ dishes; and sets of tools wisely more than a! dolls, lovingly houses ; games; away folks beds; 1 Cyn and dolls’ nd elabe via gave th rate tions. “We will expose, from time to time, all the cadet masters who have young girls working for them against their wills. “We will see that girls under age are kept out of the section. : “Under such a controlled regime | THE Hw I AT it was all over and there and the little-chimney wasn't a toy or a box of k hands again with Santa hen Goes to the Homes. rone the most remarkable thing it is that the aldermante com- that is wrestling with the problem is taking her advice District Attorney Whit- is marshalling witnesses be-— ‘the grand jury in a “vice trus Dased on her statement: aad powerful and respectable wor of New York society are this “Mrs. Warren” to to diseuse with them plan of legitimatising the “so- al evil” and ridding the “red light wij} gay.” of its worst features. | talks to them as an equal, and unashamed, tating - sed ceased, ae GUEST AT HOTEL ellie peaedf FALLS 6 FLOORS; txn zoos ~ LANDS IN LOBBY can only CURB vico. You OT CURE IT. I have met} face to face, and I know! But| Bounding from side to side a too, that you CAN cure the ss he fell through an open stairwa: that surround it. And with|his body striking the bannisters ai fi vice ceases to be thejevery floor, William Devitt, sales Menace it is now. man for the White Sewing Machine Co., crashed unconscious into the lobby of the Plaza hotel, Fourth ay. and Westlake, at 1:30 this morn- ing. He was picked up with a fractur- ed skull, crushed chest and bruises all over the body, and is now in the city hospital, probably fatally tn- Jured. How he happened to fall in not | known. When last seen, he got out of the elevator at the sixth floor, In a few minutes Night Clerk R. A. | Kellard heard a cry and Devitt fell to the lobby floor, narrowly missing several other guests. The staircase at the Plaza winds |from aide to side, from the first she! floor to the sixth, leaving an open shaft in the center. jue she eh?” Claus “We'll the that do it year again next year, WD WAITING FOR DREAMLAND'S DOORS TO OPE? And after,” Santa answered, “and the LBOUIMNEY Kips” WHO aed WHAT THEY W ANTE ) there will be absolutely no graft, no scandal, no cadeting and no forced holding of girls. There will be nothing but the vice itself, kept to its minimum. “That is unescapable. Ask any man of the world—any really big man—tn your city, and see what he year after YOUNG WIFE, SHOT IN TAXI,TRYING TO. SHIELD HUSBAND BY KEEPING SILENT? Fred Curtis, aed 927% . Pike at., Motor Apart-/ then a dash to escape. Mrs. Curtisyjemployed to, guard the angored by|4Md she jumped inside the vehicle,| mines, where a strike is on he told, and Boyd hopp , J an cadapadé of bimeyoung wife,|” n y pped to the) was drank, he sald, when he got PUrtver’s seat |home Wednesday. His dress to which he discovered upon unex-| As they started, Miss Patterson! day testified to this. pectedly ‘returning from « trip to! declares she heard Curtis scramble| “W hen the taxi drove up to the ent, shoot her Wodnesday night/on behind. He clung there, she! Motor Apartments I was just com in the jaxicab in which she was re | Says, for some distance, then began| ing out,” he sald. “My wife stepped turning home | to fire through the back of the taxt| out and I passed some remark that And is his wife, denying from her) at them. There were four shots |I wasn't getting decent Christmas cot at the city hqspital that Curtis) One of them struck Mre. Curtis in| treatment. Before I could say any shot ber, only trying to shield him! the hip. more the chauffeur jumped onto a. bind paps | Pog d gt | Boyd, guiding the speeding ma-|me, and so did Miss Patterson, and eae teat y aM) chine, heard a scream and divined| that Is all I know about tt tes M ve é |what had happened He drove to When arrested Curtis did not letective department today! the Seattle General hospital, where| have a weapon. To his father-in ves Weostling With these questions,| sirs. Curtis received medical at-|law he is reported to have said, oliowlng Curtiy’ arrest Wednesday! tendance. Later she was removed| after the shooting night at the home of his father-tn-| to the city hospital You always hated me, and I al-| law, J. W. Patterson, 4127 Aurora] While the police were this morn-| Ways hated you. Now I've given won nits ing attempting vainly to draw a|¥ou something to hate me for.” Who a 4 ig oe yng wite| (omfession from Curtis, Mrs. Cur] AUTO COMES TO HOUSE away. About 6 o'clock in the af | 2% soutly denied he had shot her.| phe Curtises made their home at SAYS HE WAS DRUNK the Patterson residence previous to| ternooh a taxicab drove up in front| SAY! , | of hie apartments, It had come! 4 zo did not shoot me,” she} moving to the Motor Apartments. ! jeclare: bee from the Milwaukee hotel. Inatde 7 = wore Mrs. Curtin and her 1%year-| WhO did, then?” she was asked old sixter, Miss Marjorie Patterson.) WhO else could have | From this point the stories differ.| |, Phage ne ey - cag have TELLS OF BATTLE | would say nothing of the af. Miss Patterson told the police al fair beyond that. Her injury is not story of a thrilling fight th on| serfous the street; how Curtis had selzed I did not shoot my wife,” Curtis’ his wife when she stepped out of/ said, when interviewed at the city the taxi, of a general melee, in| jafl this morning. “I love her. Which, Mise Patterson and the/ She's only a little kid. I'd do any Chauffeur, George Boyd, mixed it| thing for her, I wouldn't harm her. furiously with the husband i, and] Curtis said he had recently been anaes - . 2 put away by our smugly ite existence. once recognized, it can be upon the right basis. It be segregated, disease can in abeyance, it can be n the virtu- it is more |, 1 can be d to ite normal size. foon as it ie under strict control, police and Detty grafters will cease to} upon the women who are in Proposes Commission. New York “vice trust,” controlled by perhaps q men. They are lquor)| B high police officials and ward | LOGGER HANGS SELF and they have as collectors} When a chambermaid at the » detectives and others Mattson hotel, 619 6th ay. 8., ‘ts just one way to do, and | opened the door to a room occupied | one way. |by Ell Toby, a logger, at 12:30 to- must take th: houses out day, she found Toby's body dang- control of the POLICE and/|ling from the end of a strap, fas under the jurisdiction of altened over the door. An over- WSSION. They should be|turned chair told the story of the d so as to keep the clean | man's suicide, Toby was broke of town clean forever. and despondent. He was 50 years return for such recognition ae HUSBAND AND WIFE FIGHT REVOLVER DUEL IN INDIAN STYLE FROM BEHIND POLES Renton, According to Mrs. Greg who He runs the Motor Apartments, a party of men and women drove up in aa auto and visited the Curtis resi- dence Tuesday afternoon, after Cur tis had gone. Miss Patterson, according to ™ police, said her sister and she wi to the Milwaukee hotel. ta names do not appear on the hot register. The Curtis residence today gives the appearance of a cyclone having struck {t. Chairs and tables are overturned, drawers emptied, cfoth- ing and papers and beer bottles jand glassés on the floor. Curtis is said by the police, to have been Involved in a shooting |affair a year ago, when he fe al- He }leged to have barely missed hitting May Polet, a former chum of Mrs. Curtis. Mise Polet refused to pros- ecute, the police say. Curtis is 29; his wife 24. How to Pull the Stumps Is the Problem There are many thousands of acres of fine land fn this state which could be transformed into rich farms as soon as the stumps are removed. The problem has been to get a method that would re- move them not only quickly but economically. The Pacific Mfg. Co., whose ad appears on page 3 in today’s Star, believes it has solved this problem with the Pacific stumppuller. They tell you how and why in this ad, which it will pay you well to look up if interested in the subject of clearing land. Star want ads are just as powerful pullers in their way as the machine told of above. Back of every want ad in The Star you have a guaranteed circulation of more than 40,000 copies daily. You just can’t help but get results from such a vast army of readers, Phone Main 9400 or Elliott 44 or call at the downtown office, 229 Union st., with the Souvenir and Curio Shop, RUTH MURPHY, WHO GOT “THE BIGGEST DOLL,” BOUGHT AND DRESSED BY THE CLERKS OF MANNING'S COFFEE STORE, PUBLIC Manees. | | DR. FRIEDMAN IN FEAR OF FAKIRS; HOLDS UP CURE By United Press Leased Wire, CHRISTMAS GIFT MISSING? MAYBE IT’SSTILLON WAY) =~ If you didn’t get all you thought BERLIN, Dee, 26.—In answer to| was coming to you for Christmas, hundreds of letters, telegrams and, Cheer up! There is still the hope. . | Santa Claus cablegrams to Dr. Frederick "4 \ happy surprises of Christmas day Friedman, asking when he will give| until the end of the week. Gifts out his now famous tuberculosis |from distant relatives and friends cure to the world, Dr. Friedman de-| Will continue to come to you in the] F, F, Bergeon, 45, real estate clared today that he had not yet ar-| “priors baw for the next two daye1qeqter, 1608 21st av., was found rived at a Geelsion as to what plan] onormoug amount of mail which | dad, with a bullet hole in his left he would follow in making his rem-|nag piled up in the office on acitemple, in a room at the McFar-|,,,7 es Row» edy available in all parts of the/ count of the delay of malls from F jane i fbr 4 land hotel at 10:30 this morning. | world, |the Bast will be cleared by Sature One thing which {s making Dr./qay, All records have been broken} @® »@4 shot himself. Friedman slow to give out hie dis| this year in the amount of maif|he used was at his side | covery was the experience of Prof.|handied by the local postoffice, Beatt¢ on the floor was a Ehrlich, discoverer of "606." — It tn quantity of strychnine, A glass,/all warts, and claimed the moment Whriich an- JOTI III IIIT half emptied, contained a strong | smoking. nounced he had given out several wisolution of the drug, He had evi phials of bis serum to physicians, 7 WEATHER FORECAST lontly taken a big dose of it, then scores of unscrupulous doctors in|* Rain or snow tonight and ®, shot himself, America advertised that they were|* Friday; increasing southerly *| Bergeon registered a@ the hotel treating with “606,” and as high as|* winds. Temperature at noon, #}at 10:30 last night, When found, $200 an injection was charged,|# 48, jhe had been dead i0 or 12 hours. when, as @ matter of fact, they did|* %# |The bed was untouched, [pot have a drop of the remedy, OOO op ee) His wife could give no reason for has extended the her he was going to hunt up some of his old pals. Bergeon had three | SHOOT HIMSELF sae SANE ANSWERS TO éally. in the best ‘ot spirits, He told GOES TO HOTEL T daughter rs, all married. FOOLISH QUESTIONS revolver duel between a man house, the woman ran up to her his wife took place at 6 o’elock rooms and secured a_ revolver. Morning, when Morton Free-|Coming down again, the quarrel and his wife, negroes, fired| was renewed. Stepping behind a| shots at each other from be | telegraph pole, Freeman drew his ad telephone poles at 14th av. and | gun, st. The eight shots went The woman also found a pole, jand the sheoting commenced, At duel was the result of a quar- the fourth shot, Mra, Freeman re- ween the couple, which start-|treated to the Collins park play When they left the all-night /field, In the meantime the police | given at the Manhatt club | had been notified, and Motorcycle southern part of the ny ee prior Follrich and Sequa were dispatched to the scene, Follrich | captured the woman and Sequa nabbed the husband. Both are about 35 years old, to smoke PEGGY Please tell me_ how It depends on whether you pre The revolver |fer Old English curve cut or fine cut. Lasso the ham, run it through a corn shredder, carefully remove water well before do you roast a turkey MABEL. How Stand it in a corner and ¢ w as 2 Study the aecrs sign boards, can ory? 14th . their words grew hot. reag@ing the apartment