The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 4, 1913, Page 1

Don’t be misled by false issues. The logged off land district will not raise your taxes one cent. Any statement to the contrary is merely made to befog the true issue. Each of the candidates for commissioners of the district has pledged himself against levying any taxes. They will issue 20-year bonds aggregating about $200,000. It will not cost the taxpayers one cent for these bonds, for they arc to be repaid by the improved logged-off lands. The bonds are merely loans on the land. Don’t let the special interest gang befuddle you. The fact is that your taxes will be decreased in proportion to the logged-off area that is cleared. Increase the tax on stumps and reduce the tax on your homes. THE REAL ISSUE IS THE OLD ONE BETWEEN PUBLIC CONTROL AND PRIVATE GREED! GO TO THE POLLS SATURDAY, MR. VOTER, AND LET YOUR AXE DROP ON PRIVATE GREED! sy fQMUUUUENMUUU UOTE EUUAEEE UAHA es [si] The SeattleStar [iiss] THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT D. Tl INT THE NEW: rer - eae _THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS EMM SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, VOLUME 15 NO. 240. 1913. ONE CENT Siwitititon"s. A STUBBORN CUSS! We've Got to Admit He’s Stubborn, but It Runs in the Blood; and “‘Bob”’ Bridges’ Stub- : born Streak, You'll Remember, Has Stood Between the City of Seattle and Disaster to Good Advantage; Here’s His Story; Read It Carefully. G'R WILLIAM WALLACE, the most popular Scottish national hero, was a stubborn man. He started a rebellion against King Edward of England. When he had it going good, all the near progressive nobles and even some of the standpatters joined him, But old Ed sent armies against the Scottish rebels, and when things began to look bilious, the near-progressive and standpat nobles deserted Sir Bill. Did Bill quit? Not so as the historians could notice it. Bill fought and fought and fought, and always the common people lwere with him. For he was as good as brave and as wise as good. But by and by Ed’s armies captured Bill, and took him to jLondon, and they impeached him for treason, and killed him horribly. Then they confiscated his estates. The English have been lever a frugal people. That was a long time ago? Sure. Bill lived and fought in the 13th century. BUT “BLOOD WILL TELL.” | FARLY 0 years later Robert Bridges, a miner of Ayrshire—the shire of Bobby Burns appeared at the entrance to the coal mine where he was employed, leading by the hand his nine-year-old-son, Bob, a sturdy tyke, in brand-new work clothes and hob-nailed: brogs. “Mornin’, Bob,” said the mine boss to Bridges the elder. “I see ye have the ‘gaffer’ with you this morn.” “Aye,” replied the miner, laughing, “He makes us a’ stan’ roon.” Now, “gaffer” is Scotch for “boss” or “master.” Calling the little shaver “gaffer” was the mine boss’ little joke. And “Gaffer” Bridges the boy remained for many years. wie: as ee fe ITTLE CONNORS, a Norfolk lad, was the littlest and puniest of @he “drawer-boys” who pushed the cars of coal from the workings to the cage | at the bottom of the shaft. Because he was little and sickly, and perhaps weak-livered, one of the miners, a burly brute, found a coward’s pleasure in hurting him. d | One day, when “Gaffer” Bridges was 14, and when all the “drawer-boys” were gathered waiting for the cage to descend, the Connors boy came ~ ; to them limping and sniveling . ‘ He told them that the miner had followed him and his little mate along the roadway, cursing them because they did not go fast enough to please jhim and finally running them down from behind with a loaded car which caught little Connors beneath its wheels, tearing and maiming his legs. 3 | Just as the tale was finished, the miner himself appeared, | And “Gaffer” Bridges smote the bully with his “snibble,” a short iron bar used by the boys to check the impetus of the cars on the grades, felling him. He rose and rushed. And he was met by a counter-rush of 30 odd little boys, grimy, pallid, illiterate little devils, who with primitive fury beat him until he was all but dead. The bully never worked in the mines again. It is interesting to note that “Gaffer” Bridges’ mother was a Wallace, and a direct descendant of that Sir William Wallace who 600 years before was regarded by King Edward as a most stubborn man. Pe es HERE was a gas explosion in the mine. Six lives were fost. The mine was old and rambling, having many abandoned workings. The men, ing direct from shaft to whatever face they qv anys not familiar pwith its. mazes, wth secgp aed ee. She tit the boys knew the mine as rabbits knew their warren, and none ew it better Hthan the “gaffer.” sale Sate + ES So it was the “gaffer” whom the superintendent selected to guide the rescue party, and he led it true in Stygian darkness, for no lights could, : be carried for fear of the after-damp, through miles of abandon shafts and gangways, a circuitous way. oa And they found the dead and rescued the living. And it took them from 8 of a Friday morning till 10 of a Sunday night. ; | HE miners were on strike. Fifteen thousand of them, sullen, angry, afraid, were gathered together in a meadow. But none dared speak. The | leaders, Robert Bridges among them, were in jail. The constabulary were everywhere Little “Gaffer” Bridges and nine other mine boys, less afraid than their elders of the majesty of the law, spoke their minds freely. | An elderly man in civilian clothes, listening to the hot words of the “gaffer,” said: “Lad,stand on yon box and tell the crowd what you have just told lus. Or are you afraid?” 4 “I am not afraid,” said the “Gaffer.” i There were mine-owners in the crowd, as well as miners. The “gaffer” told the crowd of his own life—of his father’s long hours, and the mean wage that could not feet 12 mouths; of his oldest brother, who entered the mine at 7; of himself, who entered the mine at 9; of the little brothers who soon must _ follow; of the oe or day; and of how, with all of them working, they still earned not enough to fill their stomachs. THE STRIKE WAS SETTLED, SATISFACTORILY TO BOTH SIDES, BEFORE SUNDOWN i tee ak. ss ® | 66 AFFER” BRIDGES married a lass of Ayr, and in 1881 came to America, bringing with him his wife and a year-old baby. He worked for a time at | Braceville, Il, and later at What Cheer, Ta | At the age of 21 you find him with a wife and family to support, still a miner, and unable to read or write. In 1889 he came to Black Diamond. & 4 stubborn boy, he was now a stubborn man—big, loose ted, with a face like Pe In Black Diamond he saw in a stationery store a case containing envelopes which were examples of how various mail communications should be: “We couldn't do that, Bob,” said the “gaffer’s” mate. “We could learn,” said the “gaffer.” That same day he bought a slate, a pencil ~ reader, and for six months studied in his home. | He acquired arithmetic, too. Every night the superintendent wrote on a blackboard the amount of coal, in cars and bushels, each miner had dug Ithat day. At the end of the month the totals were given | Every night the “gaffer” scanned the figures after his number, and made a mental note of them. His mate scribbled the same figures on a bit lof paper At the end of the month the “gaffer” and his mate compared notes—mental notes and penciled notes—and it was seldom the mental notes were in error | See he has ea “cf \FFER” BRIDGES came to Seattle in 1887 and opened a tiny store at the foot of Main st., selling cigars, stationery, fruit and so on. He prospered | Today he is well-to do. He has a wonderful mind, developed in the University of Hard Knocks. He has stored in his mind an amazing amount of technical and business knowledge. He is shrewd, cautious, bold, and square. But his grammar is not good. And he is still very stubborn. . . . . ten how he fought single-handed the Ayers Harbor Island swindle. ' Fe Now he’s asking to be re-elected to the port commission so that he may give to Seattle his toil, his caution, his boldness, his shrewdness, and his experience—without pay—in order that he may help to complete the ambitious and comprehensive harbor projects already begun. Being a stubborn man, he'll probably win day after tomorrow. \66 AFFER” BRIDGES has a curious ambition. When he: is ch enough he is going back to the old country and try to get the Wallace estates out of chancery. The crce7n wants them. But the “Gaffer” is a stubborn man. TO KEEP AFTER (patrie up | STATE STRIKE SHOOTS HIMSELF DEFENSE SCORES WHITE SLAVERS| IN THE SKY) MAY BE CALLED ..:.: ots x'oezoct 2) IN KNABE TRIAL = | iy haven't forgotten how he walked to the convention at Ellensburg rather than accept a railroad pass. You haven't forgot- — “In the wartare of the future,” ’ t shot No change has been made In the : “ ' oy eA, dition, having accidentally shot) gipeRyVILLE, Ind, Dec. 4— national administration's policy re-|| YS Hudson Maxim, the famous c ec garding International and inter inventor, “armies will line up on state cases arising under the Mann | opposing sky lines and fire at white slave act; four men have : been transferred from adminis trative affairs in the Immigration Union lead ' oust ar or | ar ere here j icted tod ge A ihe himself through the arm and liver|pne gefense scored another point State Fede nm of Lave ie. St noon today Darling was at at the trial of Dr. W. B. Craig, cide, at the meet 1 16, tempting to extract a shell from |charged with murdering Dr, Helea each other over the enormous ' é the gun, when it exploded. The | Knave. _ arena in Wetween them, They 8 srado coal miners.|aceldent’ occurred in his home at} Mrs, we Shen mae, gocuniad 1 the Rocke-| No, 11, Ballard Beach ' nent opposite Dr. Knabe’s, office to an actual enforcement of | will have their seouts and rifle} 010% Ton largely represent testified to having seen a man peer w; duplication of work will J men armed with silent guns, and J [aller Witeretee nny ines, are | ing. vhrough the window isee aa » eliminated in the future, and a | the sky will be clouded with porta in cena Genie , {Knabo apartment some time before more niet volley of prosecution un fleets ot scouting, alr craft ip ¥ z | \the killing had been relled 60 der the Mann act w! ne followed jerbe juick’s grea’ e - | | by the pros jon to identify the Such were the emphatic declar , de WATER SHUT OFF | — speapat’ ap OME: ‘ = = =. — = ations of Commissioner Henry M. |} scribing the tast of all | Water will be shut off on | | A Ine of freight steanwships ply-| “Instead she sald, on cross-exami- COUPON 1ES BORDEN DIVORCE | White, of the Seattle Immigration | this’ earth, The aeropla | sist av. 8. ang. 8nd av, 8, | Ing betwoon Seattle and Portland | nation, that the man was no more ¥ (CISC! ° A office, and United States District [| the biggest part In Qui - from MeClellan st. to Mt on a regular schedule for the first megliu m CO SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 4.—The jagest p: than megium sized. 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