The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 1, 1913, Page 1

? ¢ be, 4 ’ , ' * } a Bd “telive De A LABOR DAY MESSAGE TO THE STAR FROM PRESIDENT GOMPERS, OF AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR “Though the common people still dig and delve, go down into dark and dreary plac many of them are comfortable and happy beyond the conception of former ages. ion of workers, ganized labor movement must win; it must not, cannot, fe existed wherever there is need and oppress How? il. Through the labor movement. l'o keep full and strong this tide of energy and rouse the people to strive for more is the great purpose of Labor day. he triumph ‘of labor for justice and humanity is assured.” In some guise, despite its , and do the work necessary to that intricate organization which supplies our social needs, yet varying movement has The or- ideals, that e775 vertisers do not have to take our the word, Come in and see FAIR TONIGHT; TUESDAY FAIR WITH RISING TE [M PERATURE; LIGHT SOUTHEASTERLY WINDS. ain THAIN fy, Ss Ds 1 @ Ss | Lb It’s Real Circulation! = oT dinouaes tealin’ "Bane tote te os s = = nd there's something that will In- Star are SOLD every day 4 = books. = Si MUNIN INTO TLNUTLLITTLL VOLUME NO, 159, 15. By W. H. Alburn TOLEDO, O., Sept. 1.—For 50 years John Kennedy “ef Toledo has driven a wagon for an express company without ever missing a day, without ever losing a age, without ever being late to work and without ‘aver being “called down.” Oa August etired Kennedy and pensioned him. refused to retire, in spite of his “You see, when trailed to the Pnion statio as though I ought t be ao the busy when the fast trains bet and = Chi come through, and mpany has a lot to wa don't you think you de fe the station, groumd an’ make “Hat after 50 years no oF myself work d, twisting his I dunno, | never w what to do with “re Wante@ to do any me feel like workin, byears I've worked of it me tell you this, ‘Deap o° thinkin’ in Piknw that WORK’S TH KEEPS A MAN CONTENTED. think 0’ troubles an’ deviltr Jour vork ie every day, hard, makes a man happy. ev. a mag tel tin Se ae but there's a nade for An an’ s0 every workin’ day That's ail there is to It young man. I've done a drivin’ around, an ONLY THING THAT Ye ain't got time to if ye keep your mind on it everyto.ng. ia Shout pighh.ow' yore helpin’ people to do an’ livin’ the way human beings was meant “Y" know, | feet sorry for those feliers that just al mound all day. When they go home nights if ood Ae home te go to, what can they say they've day?” “Caen threw his head back proudly, and there fe in his eyes ‘Am say—if It's HEALTH you're lookin’ for, don’t ow that work's the best medicine there is, for body? if a don't bell ¥e it, look at M 6 TICKETS FOR 25c | es many merchants Shee The Star, on Saturday @ercaming the.inconvenience to Be Pitts people it tickets on sale in their Star is going to print ‘Will bélp out. Here are those al are there who will sell six street car tickets pointed oat this method of partially which th eattle Electric Co, insist stores. ch a lat of the merchants who ady heard from eee The MacDougall- Southwick Co., Second and Pike. New York Outfitting Co., 825 Third av. S. S. Frink, stall 204, Westlake Market. American Paint and Wall Paper Co., First and Union. Wright Restaurant Co., Inc., 164 Washington st. |The Tailor Ready Co., Fourth and Pike. 'Golden West Grocery, 65th and Phinney. G@ your name in this list, Mr Mordbent You'll be hely Your ®ighbors and at tee same ) time doing yourself some good JEROME PLOTS) LABOR DAY By Unied Pres tanned Wire. | | and worries, for today is a day SHIRBROOKE, Quebec, Sept. 1. | | | Throw aside all your cares || * i] of rest. Let us all enjoy our- Wilthm ‘T. Jerome, New York's|| selves in our own way acd for Special counsel here, is preparing | get there ever was such a fOday | new plan to get Harry K. | thing as work. Just a reminder hol hto the eustody of Dominion don't forget that Star Want immigetion officials, with a view Ads never rest, but are on duty fo the speedy deportation of the|| #!! the time. They work ; @teapel Matteawan refuges you rest and are very faithful he's plan will be revealed,|| Servants. Keep this in mind tts @pected, when Thaw comes | ¥ you } yur | 8) on habeas corpus hearing to-|| Phone number is Main 9400 morroy 4 nde By Peter Witt (Cleveand, Ohio, Traction Com-| missioner) ttle Electric Co. twists the screws and the 300,- On 000 inhabitants of Seattle Bs the morning of Novem- || squirm—and pay. It's an odd fr: tuation, a city of Seattle J wt, 1906, with Tom 1.1) oie and power groveling before lohngn at the controller, the ] the money just of one single corporation, The &. E. Co. recently adve tised it gives better street o service than Cleveland, 0, The first three-cent car line in Cleveand began operation on m ave, Star promptly spiked the tle. Fron that day until March || Cleveland car riders, The Star 1, 191), as franchise rights ex-|| pointed out, pay Scent fares pited on one street after an-|| 47% Get transfers on tickets. Peter Witt, Cleveland’s traction commissioner, has written the following message to the Sea the public regarding Cleveland's rvice: — 1911 rarznew lines were gradual-| Ypited on a three-cent fare On be first of March, 1910, street ratirond _tettiement, known | Ss theTayler grant, went into ef fect, ma an fnitia} fare of three —_. with a penny charge for a @, was installed on all eity the this rate of fare had proved s0 profitable that the rate was reduced to flat threecent fare, wth free tra@efers. Even this rate of fare has been Fido wouthe later, ou June 1,|found to be in excess of the actual HERE YOU CAN GET 08'S A PITCHER six merchants have telephoned that they will at); | Alki. | | “" WELCOME, BOYS! |! a fat man, but SEATTLE, Mba MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1913. ASK WARRANT FOR U.S. | A warrant for the arrest of As |elstant United States District At- torney John J. Sullivan, for assault and battery, will be asked tomor- row by Attorney Thorwald Sieg- fried, in behalf of Calvin Ruther speech at City Hall Sunday afternoon, Sullivan abruptly terminated by a stiff up- crowd Frank is aleo accused of officious | ly ordering one bystander to accom: pany him to police headquarters, and, while making no charge against him, pummeling him in the corridor, six feet from t desk sorgeant’s window, before re leasing bin | Rutherford Walloped Sullivan and Fi broke in up on the Ff ech Defertys eague’s bad me mad Mrs. Minnie Parks and Glenn Hoover Rutherford, who {# father of a new religious doctrine, followed! | with a speech on his own account.| |He was warming up to a great cll- ) max “Where did J. Plerpont get his money?” he asked. And he an- wered, * c } " HARRe his, own, queation as. | “Morgan got this money from the Roman church.” Frank Oraws Gun Refore he got any fur ner. Sulll van made his way to the piatform,| sand, without further ado, struck the! speaker with clenched fist squarely on the jaw You're a Har,” he told Rutherford as he walloped him a second time Frank immediately got busy, ex- hibited his marshal’s badge and juggled his gun. Things haummed. The principals and a portion of the crowd finally went to police head been Mayor Fob Hosketh thin after quarters, but Capt. Seart . apt. Searing refi noon pitched the first ball in the 9 arrest Sullivan es ee big, game at Wood)and park, be the federal official was charged tween the two lubor teams who are ny Attorney Siegfried with Inciting contesting for the champlonship of the Seattle Labor Council. The'dig * pionle drew an immense crowd to WIIl Ask for Warrant } the park early in the day. This The application fo Hivan's ar-| ening the labor folks will wind rest wil morrow be up the Labor day celebration with fore Pollc ORK a dance at Dreamland pavilion, Sunday, the| decided to hold street meetings at other cor: | ners than Fourth and Ptke, to} learn whether Judge Humphries’ | Labor day will bring the season to an end at the municipal beach at A big crowd {ts out there this afternoon. Pienicu are also being held at/ blanket tnjunction would be widen-| Wildwood and Fortuna parks, Ad in Its scope so as to include all| | baby show features the outing at streets, Madison park, arranged by the ishioners of St. Benedict's Cath church par. BRIDGES TO QUIT “Bob” | sioner, Bridges, the port commis. who bore the brunt of the battle in advocating munielpal con {trol as against the Harbor Island fake, will not be a candidat» for re- election Bridges made this announcement Saturday, at the noon luncheon of} the King County Democratic club He gave notice that he Intended to do his part In the campaign to elect | as his successor a man who shall be free from the water front nopoly Tomorrow o'er the holiday will be . Geraldine, we're not abor day just now, We are referring to vacations. More specifically, we are calling atten tion to t Judges’ vacations Tomorrow, all nine judges of th superior court will be back agai on hill, where, In the y have been so overwork ed ten months of the year that they decreed themselves rest for the remaining two. talking mo-| Myatt-Fow f being thor the largest > ells, 4th and Pine, has a rep uahly high-cle Jsiness choo! in in unquestionably the best Careful now. You may laugh at utetion don't laugh fat a| it!" fat man needs for operating fixed charges, and ult the city was confronted on May first | it of this year with the alternative of still further improving the service or going fo TWO AND A HALF many ramifications of Cleveland! street-railroad history. Suffictent is, for the Information of other American cities, to state the three | fundamental principles upon which a settlement was effected between | CENT FARE. the efty and the company, whereby The street car altuation in Cleve. both parties are mutual benef! land may, therefore, be epitomized ciaries, They are | as follows 1, The best railroad trans; tion at tost, con ent with the * curity of the property. 2. The largest powers of regula- tion in the interest of public unrivaled day cellent rush-hour ventilated, well-heated and well- lighted cars, running on as good a roadbed as cari be found in any Service. t city in the country with few or no 3. A fair, fixed and certain rate exceptions and operated by the of return on the investment. highest-paid, best-treated trainmen The car-rider’s gains under this in the United States, is an actual, arrangement have already been tn pe tent and permanent reality on dicated—excellent service at three | exhibition 24 hours a day in the cents 50). 13 sixth city in America, with a popu-|) frrom the hd votny a! b sto x | lation, including its environs, of and bond-holder, the situation has three-quarters of a million Inhabit-|been equally happy. Not a ivi+ ante. ° lend has been passed, not an in-| It would be gotng afield to| terest payment suspended. In fact, sive a complete account of the|an indispensible element of the or-{ || NATIONAL LEAGUE | Meyers. Cady. THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS. ONE CENT. SPEAKER IN PLEADS FOR |An PARK IS HIT | UNITY WITH Me NT TRE , Plead omer eo lationst t | the United Stat Viscount Richar chancellor of Great Britain, spoke ax the guest of hon | American Ba: | al co fewociation in annu: nvention here United States a The d Canada| percut to the jaw. an t Britain together form a Act may also be ought! ¢ nich ts unique; unique be against Deputy Marshal Ladwig) cause of {ts common inheritance tn Frank, Sullivan's companion, who « surroundin and in| is said to have drawn a gun on the Viscount Haldane, | “It may be that there are re- lations possible within such a group of nations as ours that are not possible for nations more isolated from each other and lacking In our identity of history and spirit. Canada and Great Britain, on the one hand, and the United States on the ether, with their commen tan guage, their common interests and their common ends, form Something resembling a single society. If there be such a so- ciety, it may develop within Itself » foundation for interna- tional faith of a kind that is | “Ite substance, If it is to be real- ized, must be sought for deeper! down than in written agreements | and treaties; it must be found in an inmate social life.” Soe eae Senne ANOTHER | DEFEAT TACOMA, Sept. 1—September morn didn't break very well for the Seattle ball team. Another de recorded this morning} Tacoma Tigers took the feat was when the Champions into camp. The score ttle oe S07 om 8 Tacoma eS eh Battertos—Mclvor and Cadman; McGinnity and Harris. MORNING GAMES. AT NEW YORK—Ten innings Roston . a 211 2 New York 371 Hess and Whaling; Demaree and| AT BROOKLYN— Philadelphia Brooklyn .... Seaton and Killifer; Wi alker saa Miller. AT PITTSBU Ra— }Cincinnatt 1 | Pr os burg . 2 Packard and Clark, Kling; Adams, Hendrix, Robinson and Si. mon, Gibson | AMERICAN LEAGUE "MORNING GAMES AT PHILADELPHIA Washington ... 15 6 Philadelphia .. oe Boehling, Gallia and Henry; Ben der and Schang. AT CLEVELAND— Chicago ...... RPT, He ae Cleveland , 610 1 Cleotte and Schalk; James and O'Neill AT BOSTON New York sovccectes® 4 4 Boston 612 0 Schulz and Sweeney; Moseley and dinance is that stock shall regular ly yield 6 per cent and bonds the stipulated interest of 6 per cent Since the Tayler settlement be came effective, the company has paid taxes on {ta full valuation There is no inducement for tax dodging, as the company is secure its profits. All ‘al excise tax to the state government and a corporation tax to the federal government are aiso paid, while the company bears the coat of city supervision of its man agement and operation (about $45, 900.00 per annum), and shares 5 per cent of the burden of maintain ing the state public utilities com. mission. The company {8 a generous em ploy The rate of weges for mo |[tormen and conductors is 30 cents an hour (27 cents for the first year), and the average for the sys ten, about 29 cents an hour, is con | Certainly |} no more money siderably higher than the average rate In the United States, whether for unionized systems or not. HOME EDITION. ON TRAINS NEWS STAN AND DA, Be NT CMM TL terest the smal! boy in this con- nection, on page 4 of Tne Star today anni IS IT FOOLISH TO WORK? IS IT FOOLISH TO LOAF? Here Is the Opinion of an Honest Old Man Who Has Not Missed One d Here Is the Opinion of a Man in Seattle Who Never Worked a By Fred L. Boalt Bill” Sawyer has granted me an on “work.” “Windy interview The bartender “Windy Bill.” “"Windy Bill,’” “is th’ fella you're worked in his life Billy th’ Mug’s.” “Windy shouted the bartender at Billy the M gent wants to buy you a drink “Windy Bill's” elbows were hooked over the bar. His weight was thus evenly divided between arms and legs. Standing that way jis nearly as easy as lying down. said “Windy,” without turning r changing position. “Pass it along at Clancy's told me about said Clancy’s bartender, lookin’ for. He never You'll find him over to s, “here's a youse The ning glass slithered the length of the w bar, passing from hand to ‘hand Windy” drank the beer; then rehooked him- self to the bar and resumed his nap, It took 10 beers to rivet “Windy Bill's” at- tention “Labor day?” bor—day? “Work? he repented after me, sleepily. “La- So it Is. Labor day, to be eure. he repeated after me again, “Work? -The bartender ie a workingman, but at the moment he Is unoccupied. . . Just#o. . . Shoye it along~-youse, . a ‘ “You, I speak as an expert. 1 shail, bf course, sp of ‘work’ only in the abstract. You see before you"—this proudly—"a man who has never worked with his hands. It ts not because I am lazy, that | do not work. It is because I suffer from inertia. “I went to college once. It may surprise you to know this, but ft is so. Yes, I went to college in that part of Illinois which men call ‘Egypt’ per- haps you have been there where they grow corn. “I learned—and forgot—much at college. I have not forgotten, however, the definition of ‘inertia.’ ‘It is a property of matter by which it tends to preserve a state of rest until the matter is tmpelled to move- ment by a force stronger than himself. “The secret of my success is that I have always been able to dodge that force—always, that is, but once. Of that distressful time, more anon.” “Windy Bill's” voice was sad “IT have a brother in Chicago. He is rich. Poor fool, he is very rich. He says | am lazy. He does not know. He suffers from nerves and will send me I have neither money nor nerves. “It Ie silly to work. It is foolish to live in houses and cities. if we were wise, we would live under fruit trees and wait for the ri@e fruit to fall. Under present abnormal conditions, | make the best of a bad business and get along nicely without working. “I am the proprietor of the Hotel de Sawyer. is a houseboat on the tide flats. A man built It. Foolish man. Then a fit of restlessness seized him and he went away. am never rest- It They come ‘Certainly,’ to the hotel and they say “Windy,” I say, ‘but first you must saw wood.’ “The incoming tide bears driftwood to my door. The tramps saw it and leave it where it Mes. Come, then, to me other houseboat and shanty men and say: on my doorstep. wood.” “Help yourselves, I say, and watch them. “My guests stay sometimes as long as a week. entatia no labor. They sleep on the floor. “Tramps, a8 a class, regard themselves as clever the “IT come. “T have but sometimes I did not eat, “I fell asleep on a train in Kansas. farmhouse. ging a ditch, “Finish this ditch, he said, “| wae hungry. It was 10 miles to the next town, had _over been Jn my life before. BOATIN DISTRESS fact, now, to the one blot on my esentcheon. said 1 am not restless, I am not, so I knew that something But some years ago | A brakeman kicked me off while the train was moving. I was hungry and I wanted to get to the next town Day’s Work in the Last Fifty Years} BY OFFICIAL UNCLE SAM Day in His Life and Is Proud of It “Windy Bill” Sawyer more. The hotel is convenient to the railroa@ less, I came along and took possession of the house- boat built by another's labor. ‘The tramp of fiction wears whiskers, The tramp of fact is generally smooth shaven, That one seem- | ingly trifling bit of knowledge has enabled me to live without work. At the Hotel de Sawyer I have a razor—nothing yards. All the trarips on the Pacific coast know the Hotel de Sawyer. let's use your razor.’ I sft “Windy,” sell us some They pay me and go away, They shave twice in that time, Every day they saw driftwood, They amount of labor performed by a tramp in his lifetime ts appalling, Entertaining them imagine they do not work, As a matter of wandered West. was wrong witli my system. I did not work, I sought out the farmer, He was digy ‘and I will pay you and give you your dinner.’ 1 didn't want to do it. pee dug the ditch! AMERIGANS STAY LOOPS THE LOOP But | was hungrier than ft | have to confess it—! DUG THE DITCH!" ‘The schooner Alice, the first of| my United Press Leased Wire |g 2UNISY, France Sept Je the codfish fleet from the Bering | MEXICO CITY, Sept. 1.—The ex: Chncted in France wae wievessel soa, was caught In & heavy gal¢| pected exodus of Americans from |here today when Aviston Posed and is in distress outside of Cape | Mexico as a result of warning ‘driving an seroplane, - looped the Flattery voiced in President Wilson's mes-|loop at an altitude of 1,800 feet. received by and a tug was Sunday, This message wireless here sage to congress, has failed to ma Pegoud started his plunge at a terialize, height of 3,500 feet, turned over has been dispatched to relieve the | 4 few Americans left the capital and before descending to altt- situation « |today, but the majority will remain, tude of 1,800 feet had easily right- The wireless was sent Capt. | yeing unwilling to sacrifice busi-\ed his machine, Hundreds of spec ‘risp of the United States revenue cutter Unalga. It reported that the , | becomes alarming. Alice had but two days’ supply of | ness interests unless the situation |tators cheered the daring perform. ance. water, and that provisions were low, "The Alice, owned by the Robin: mm Codfish Co., is bound for Ana-| cortes, ] 5 NR AS | Any four MUNICH, Sept, 1—The crimes ; of deans 'Pomprey, the” famous }fff consecutively n American pervert, who is a life |i] Star office wi prisoner in Boston, were equaled I @& cent Pennant. here today, when a boy of 7 years found in the outskirts of the city, was discov to have butchered a little girl 8 years old The boy had stunned the child with a club and then split her head open and severed her arms and legs. He is believed to be insane The Seattle PENNANT COUPON NO. 56 coupons clipped from The Star, mbered, when presented at The ith 15 cents, will entitle you to a Minnesota Pennants now out. Pennants will be sent by mail if 5 cents additional for each Pennant is enclosed. 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