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yb Suge tiS Ol pines Ww TAL te aNees ee esr . oe cats JUN HvNUF TEU UUAeE UU More Than 41,000 Circulation Every Day TMM SUUAMMUNOANANGQAAUSAUNAHINITSs VOLUME 15 “When Glory Ceased”---First Chapter of Star’s who fs a war exper(—there have been generations of newspaper men since the world has seen a war. | was damn fool enough to think we'd By Herbert Quick (Copyright, 1913, by the Newspaper Enterprise Association in the and Great never have another—-and this thing Britain.) broke like a thunder storm. We all| — |agree that if we can have the big CHAPTER |. | battle covered from a woman's view KNEW that they/polnt, psychically, and an aero-| had been talking plane, physically, it will be a seream with our women readers. You're the only woman | know who the editorial con-|C#2 both write and command an ference. I had|®eroplane. Will you go?” | been at work on} Asain my heart rose, and agatn | my women’s fea-/S@2k. tures for the Sun-| “Sure!” satd I about me soon as I came into Travis of the Times was the first man I met when | reached the! newspaper men’s camp. He broke out {nto an awful tirade against the editor who would coin a weman’s | blood Into money for his paper, and | ordered me off the grounds 1 laughed at him hearts’ Bloed has been late. The discussion was et the rapid. fire stage when T came tn—bdut !t died out oddly as) I entered, Into sudden significant stlence. Did you hear?” asked the man-/epilied for Ned war,” sald |, “and | expect to | aging editor. | eal ' “No,” “Ip the School give women the real facts of the ae Greatest battle in history. It will “I think we'll let you In on {t,”| be something new—a woman de-| said the M. E. jecribing to women the way their | “The ground floor,” sata 1) pring lovers, brothers and husbands | “Thanks.” are disposed ef—in war.” the matter of covering tne| “I claim the right to prot said he, looking defiantly | urged Travis. “A special right! at the Sunday editor. e think of} “Not yet!” said I. “Help me get having you do it.” | settled, won't you?’ He stopped as if to let me resign.) He took care of me, swearing My heart rose inte my throat, and) All they gave me was a little tent sank slowly to aad boots. lend & packing box for my type “Well,” said [ writer. Hawkins, my mechanic, “You see,” went on the M. E,/ they stowed away, the Lord knows “there isn't a newspaper man left| where. He was always about the at fe | ination of the middlemen. The formula for a home egg | storage plant, as explained by | + s ‘ie sliatal, Goi cigs Wot he own game was the plan pro . posed In the big mass meeting conduct ‘of Seattle ed Mre. Smith, consists of one by the Weet Wemen's quart of water glass, a prepara- | \_ improvement club, today at then of silica, which may be bought at any drug store, to 15 quarts of boiled water which has been cooled. | “Put your fresh eggs, small end pera hovee. Every Koasepite in the city wae urged to establish her own oa ye plant in & cam nt peninet the aah oeet of living and down, in this preparation in a stone| & demand for more stringent laws jar and place iid over the top. Let against the wiles of commission about ¢ inches of the solution men and jobbers. cover the eggs, and you will have Plans for a petmanent organiza just x8 good @ storage plant as can tion of Seattle women for this pur- be made,” explained Mra. Smith, were outlined at the meeting. “and it will save you 20 and Buy From Producer cents & dozen for eggs in the win- Mrs. F. F. Martin, organizer of the West Seattle club and former Don't Favor Boycott {/ president; Mrs. George A. Smith ! of Alki Point, and Mrs. J. W The speakers declared they ai Brown were three of the women not favor the boycott of Eastero women, as the plan is not consid ered a permanent cure. Legislation was proposed and fa yored to require all eggs to be marked at the date of laying; to Iimit the time of storage of exgs to three mopths; to prevent a monop oly of fodd products; to reduce the yored conditions which will enable price snd establish a better system the consumer to buy direct from | whereby the producer can reach the the producer, resulting in the elim-|conaamer directly. who explained the intended move- ment against the exorbitant prices for eggs and other food necessities. | It was declared that 40 per cent of the high cost of eggs is incurred fn overhead expenses due to han- ditng and storing The meeting enthusiastically fa 9 k | Hinze wealthy farmer, county offi. | thusinatic ent of Davenport, headquarters, where a spectal suite] ” Bridges wat re-elected cited for jsalarien to the commissioners. Propositions 3 and 4 provide for the transfer of funds from bonds Bob’ a three-year term on the port com- mission Saturday by « three-totwo| vote over his nearest opponent, O. J. the logged-off land dis-|than originally intended CLOUDY TONIGHT AND TUESDAY, WITH ‘PROBABL E RAIN; MODERATE, EAST ERLY WINDS. The SeattleStar | THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES.7TO PRINT THE NEWS NO, 243. MORE creation of a special how | tee to Investigate the suffrage ques | the HAVE WE HEARD FROM YOU YET? The following contributions for The Star's Christmas tree for the littlechimney kids, at Dream. land hall, on Christmas day, have been received up to noon today: Previously acknowledged $ 72.00 Pat Sullivan and employes Byron Phelps Johnny Clancy Clarence Geraid Oraheum Orch M. A. Gottete Abe Hurwitz Total GONE WITH LULU LOS AN tra LES, I Dec, 8 62.50 10.00 10.00 5.00 5.00 6.00 1,00 $170.50 }elal and Sunday school superintend \TO BUILD AUTOS' Neb. wae arrest Seattle's first automobile factory the branch of the begin pany, will operation iready voted to other port projects! aout January 1 with an output of ‘ord Motor Com on William | London at noon. or WOMEN IN MASS MEETING MAKE PLANS FOR | CITY-WIDE WAR ON THE HIGH COST OF EGGS SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, DECEMBER 8. “You're the Only Woman | Know Who Can Both Write and Command an Aeroplane. He (ON HNHHAHU AH tL N IGHT =EDITION= = = “2 if 1913. ONE CE) ON THAINS AND NEWK STANDS, he Great War Story biplane when IT was awake, and 1) Ben, Ladysmith, Port = Arthur,, belleve he slept with it Adrianople. It was a hell of barb vin was so surly that I got my!wire entanglements charged with start on the facts from little Ever-|searing electricity, wireless and ett of the United Press. wiry telephones and telegraphs, The whole world understood the| searchlight, Zeppelins, dirigibles, awful situation, however The | cannon and email arms. They were Greatest war of all history turned| all at it as | looked. on the possession of the great forts| ‘The attackers were desperate at and the city which oceupy that|the delay. They had expected to |Iittle pentnaula covered with hills,!eat up the town and forts in on and scored with ravines and the/ tierce, bloody gulp—and there the aprangly fingers of the harbor. The| tittle force still lay like a desperate army of invasion, with « tigerlike ne its flying column of was reported that this was rightly eo called, as it was one of the largest aeri armies ever mobilizes Every ey in the two camps, and in the small army of camp followers like myself, as scanning the horizon for thi first sight of the aerial host. When it should try to overpass the lines and throw itself into the besleged city, the crisis world be on. For the whole nger of the place lay in the diminished num- new army ct relief, It flying column gray old rat in his hole, eyes glar leap, had crossed the international ing teeth bared, gathering the | Per of the defenders |boundary an hour after the war| power of rage as it lost in physical| Supplies they bad in plenty, am- jwas declared, under full speed,|strength, unconquered, unfearing,|™Unition and material of war in horse, foot, dragoons, motor cars| courting death when death was re.|Plenty; but the thin line in the jand aviators |quired, cautious where caution was | ‘ene hes spoke pitifully of those | ‘The invaded nation had to bave|essential, the marvel and admira-| Who hed died in the breaches, sor- jtles and reconnaissances of that wonderful defense 4 Thus were arranged the pieces Ia time to cone |of fortresses over which nitrate into the group Hawkins tion of a world—that splendid, fear- ome, enthralling thing, an army at jand I circled in our biplane on my/bay before a superior force en 1 co 4 first scouting flight. So 10,000 men|dowed with the dash and abandon |'h® game when Hawkins and f took six hours in which to die; and| which hurled men ceaselessly on /t00k the air in our biplane for our firat examination of my fearful aw signment. (To Be Continued Tomorrow) even at that the oncoming host, {ts|the narrowing front {n an unreck- infantry in motor cars killing time| ening prodigality of blood which | that the cavalry might keep stounded the onlooking human} swept down on the town on race. le 7 4 25 a r 7 ri " {heels of 25,000 of rear guard. sweep-| 1 learned from “Everett that the | |” T°mrtia® Preigeie he them kn as @ walters brush) crisis was about to burst like a ” sweeps crumbs, and closed up the!breaking dam. And this criste I The girl reporter reaches the newspaper men’s camp just before the Great Bat- tle—and meets a lover. You see, the great armies locked in fearful combat— and the alr fleet gets Into the g It tells ah will happen when France and Germany, or the United States and some other power, go to war. neck of the peninsula. The to “cover” for my paper. |would never have got tn ne crisis was impending, be. |10,000 had not consumed those #1x | cause-the attackers knew that they {hours in dying Blood was well ex-) must take the forts at once or turn pended for delay-—according to the| away from them and fight an army || principles of war. as countless as the sands of the sea | The result lay under us as we|~—-the huge army of relief coming on lflew. It was Port Arthur over|like @ hurricane. This army they again. The besieged held on with | could not move against, leaving the that multiplication of faculties that|forts !n the rear. They had to have |mark sieges in all ages—Malta, Se-| the port as a depot of supplies. | bastopol, Gibraltar, Vicksburg, Like a cloud in advance of the| Will You Gor” WILSON FOLKS IN RAINIER VALLE REFUSES | WOMEN | WASHINGTON, Deo. & Pacing [a Dig suffragiat delegation, Prest- | dent Wileon refused today to send! | & Special message to congress, ure ing that women be enfranchised, | He declined also to incorporate | |such a recommendatiog in one of; bie regular messages. Uotll congress requests It, he j added, he could not recommend the | ae commit: The euffragette conference was | Picturesque. The committee march led to the White House in the face of an fey wind, determined to force the president to speak President Wilson stood tn front of his big di d received the pommitter appeared drawn alt of hin re shook hands Anna Howard ill MeCormick He haggard as a re but Dr ent illness be cordially with Shaw and Mrs. Me land smiled at the other women | The president was most courte ous, and was #0 diplomatic In his refusal that the suffragett eft | the White House satisfied that he} would ald thetr cause if he got the | opportunity WOMEN TO FIGHT Dec, 8.—At Hberty on leave from prison, Mra. Pankhurst arrived oat was met by an en LONDON, seven days FEuimeline throng of wittiabetiens| and went at once to suffragette| ed yesterday ona ve ‘ge of embez-| had been prepared for her. . ° . . ot Ps |zling $200 county funda and run-| Her rooms, it was announced by|av. is the key road to the region. Swampy, oozy, muddy land in the residence district was to be filled in | ning away with Lulu Huston, 20, his| Mra. Dacre-Fox, a leading militant. q wife's “bired girl.” | would besbarricaded to prevent the |with 12 feet of dirt in places. ( police from rearreating her at t je xpiration of her leave. For the authorities the situation | | promised to become an embarrass-| |ing one. STORM IS OVER oR, Dec 8.--Shoveling Denver today {# throwing DEN ©, Dutton; atitomobiles a day The new trict proposition was defeated; the} Miss Mary G. O'Meara gave) factory, which is rapidly nearing present school directors, Pigott,| Nathan Eckstein a hard fight for! completion, is located at Fairview | manfully Pckerein and Spencer, were re-|the school board in some of the pre-| ay and Roy st elected jetnets | Two hundred men will be em Bridges’ victory was complete. He| The vote stood as follows ployed and the annual payroll will Three-Year Term Pigott 7,492, Eckstein 6,458, led in practically every precinct ‘The achool bonds won easily The port bonds had more diffi-| O’Meara 3,777, Leo 2,192, Parke culty, and some are in doubt | 1,446, Stapp 1,288, Rogers 1,249, The bond propositions require a| Smith 136. three-fifths vote, and Proposition Two-Year Term Four on the port ballot seems to} Spencer 6,086, Schroeder been defeated. With the elty| 2,383, Tripp 1,741, Johnson 818. have returns cc and 50 country Complete returns in the city and precincts heard from, the vote on|41 country precincts give 4,789 for Proposition Four was 7,166 for and|the creation of the togged-off land against. Proposition Three) district, and %,910 against it In may pull through with 7,607 in favor|the elty, the vote stood 4,458 for 6.068 againat it. Propost-|it and 7,889 against It Returns from the city and 50 pre cincts in“the country, 73 yet to be heard from, give Bridges votes, Dutton 4,952, and Hale: Only one person in 100 inhab: litants of Great Britain owas more iday amount to more than $260,000. Socialists, an the result of a campaign who “have been div 4 in two-bltter factions for the | past two years, will attempt to rec oncile their differen at a har mony meeting tonight at the Good ria , will be made to get to gether so that but one set of so. clalist candidates will be presented in the coming elty election MANY GO TO CHURCH LOS ANGEL! Dec, 8—Two hundred thousand residents of Los Angeles went to church yesterday go-to-chureh-Sun off its snowy mantle, All the prin-| cipal street car Hnes are running} again | Southern Wyoming is still isolat ed snd there is little relief in w Mexico. *| * MioGeT HIGH SCHOOL Ll BRAZIL, Ind, 1 George Fi iding, a reaniian in the Brazil high school, ts the smallest pupfl who tered the school H ! 10 inches high. He st in his studies, His hor Carbon ° - ° WAKEFIELD BAKER DEAD SAN FRANCISCO, Dec, 8 Wakefield Baker, capitalist, and brother of Leavitt Baker of Seattle, fdled suddenly on a ferryboat be tween Oakland and San Franciseo | Sunday a This le One of the Street Scenes in Southeast Seattle, Where a Big Fill and Street Improvements Are Bei ng Hela Up on Account of a Legal Squabble Over Raising the Séattie, Renton & Southern Tracks on Rainier Av. Many of the Houses Are Built on “Stilts,” as the Greund is Oozing With Seepage. You can buy real estate at bedrock prices in Southeast Seattle. The chances are, however, that you won't buy any after you look around. The residents of Southeast Seattle and the merchants admit that no great movement in real estate been noted for some months past. There is a universal roar going up in Southeast Seattle and the citizens certainly have a. ROAR ; coming. 5 Sometime ago the city ordered street improvements in that district. Rainier av. was to be regraded \ and raised about seven feet. Other streets in the vicinity were to receive the same treatment. Rainier ha The plan of the city sounded m improvement assessments. ghty good to the citizens interested, and they made no kick on the | The Seattle, Renton & Southern rallway runs out on Rainier s road favor the improvement and would like to see the city buy ont the The road is in the hands of a receiver, Officials of the line have re-| read.” fused to comply with the city’s order to elevate the tracks to: comply | Pettey & Stone, grocers; C. A. Collins, meat market man; Morrl- | with the regrad The matter has gone into the courts with all the / Son, the hardware m and F. Rayner, baker, were others among @ a customary delay and quibble, It is a pretty muddle. of citizens who deciare conditions are unbearable. And all the while the Southeast Seattle folks are waiting The next bout between the city and the railway company fs sched- purt on De ay, imp | uled to take p suite in conne ember 16, Condemnation yvement will be heard at ace in the superior impatiently for a chance to improve their property and make pa y a 3 tion with the Rainie their real estate worth while. They also want to make their residence section attractive that City officials interested\in the improvement are hope’ to homebuyers. that thi may be straightened out by the first of the new year, They are and that the Southeast ks will come into their own, They are tired of the delay and demand action. strong advocates of the plan for the city to buy the &, R. & S., and end, once and for all,the legal squabble about track raising, thus permitting the needed improvements throughout eattle fc NEWSPAPER MAN DIES 'NARROWESCAPE | the district 5 cin “ i INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 8—Phillip | i Part of the trip along Rainier ay, is Hike a Journey through the! Rappaport, founder of the Indian i ei a IBCO.. Thee § “jungles.” Muddy roadways Ihe the car tracks; in places swamps] anolig German Telegraph-Tribune _ SAN FRANCISCC Dec. &. : and marshes add to the diverse views, clevated walkways run from! died here last night of heart failure. 5t™@pped in his _hydro-aeroplane 7 the tracks—and then there is the planked street way for teams and| jseat, Silas Christofferson fell 2,000 automobiles, cen Gea é ‘ | rifle more an iuie| feet, head downward, into the bay It Is called a planked way, through courtesy only ; Me Sooniete Aivathwowelia aswel i ei ‘ The “planks are broken and crushed. The splinters and nat!s | keeping and shorthand, but reauits prove | ¥* erday, but disentangled —him- 4 stick up to annoy horses and auto tires the ‘eupanloriiy end. real, worth ame to the surface and was R It is worse than a corduroy road—half logs latd side by side in| Ader 1 the mud — ‘s yee Mets ‘If you've got any cash, now's your chance te get a bargain,” re C. B. Bengle, a Southeast 8 pe barber. "The citizens out here are xettin sore on the deal they tting Fully 90 per cent of the residents Will be glad if the elty buys the and goes ahead with its improvement We wapt sewers, too, If we dig a hole 10 feet deep, with water ih 24 hours." We'd like to have something done, and done quickly,” said Harry Shaw, drugetst Everybody but these vho are connected with the This Coupon and 15c, when brought to The Star office, at 1307 Seventh Av., will entitle you to a 65c Pennant, size 15x35, Pen- nants will be sent by mail jf Sc additional for each Pennant le Inclosed, Montana and Wye¥y Pennants out this week. road it is filled le

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