The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 10, 1913, Page 1

» at a, ick, nen yn any nti- Pay 35m FAR vabi pelt nes ing of ap- tial be OME time ago we told the school boy and girl readers of The Star to clip from The Star “Quaint Customs of the World’s Queer People” and put them away in scrap books, and that for the girl’s book S most artistically and intelligently arranged we would give $5, and a like amount to the boy with the best book. We're going to print the last of the series on Saturday next, and by the following Wednesday, Dec. 17, we want all those who have prepared scrap books to bring them up to The Star office. They must be in the office before 4 o'clock on Wednesday afternoon. Then we'll go through them carefully and on the following Saturday, Dec. 20, will announce the names of the prize winners. On Monday, Dec. 22, the successful ones may come and get the money. It will help for Ch | vn. ut cH THUee Ueda ane More : “Than = : = Ite s000 Circulation Every Day ANNANANUUUUUANALUOUNONDGGUUCEANOUNGAONOAUUGOOOOONL) VOLUME 15 RAIN TONIGHT AND THURSDAY, WARMER TONIGHT; HIGH SOUTHEASTERLY WINDS. THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS NO, 245 SEATTLE, WASH., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1913. ONE CENT The SeattleStar zy Hse ee 3 STU UUAANUUNNUDUUOEALNOGANUSUOUUNNOOAUNAOUUUOUUELONNOUUOIL SaTAMUANNULUNLLLOLIE ON THAINS AND NEWS TANDS, fe Turning Our Aged Men. | and Women Out to Die! >. By Fred L. Boalt When Dr. Waldo Richardson was given charge of the County hospital at Georgetown, he promised that he would make of it the model institution of its kind on the coast | He has made good And he has failed miserably. oe If you would know to what extent Dr, Richardson has encceeded and in what he has failed, conjure up in your] mind a housew! whose activities are confined to the one room where she and works That one room she keeps spick and span, sweeping all the filth and re into the rooms adjoining—AND LEAV ING IT THER A “county hospital” is the modern term for the old-fash joned and more truthful “poor house " It is intended a refuge and haven for the poorest of the poor—the paupers, the down-and-outers, who have nowhere else to go, and who cannot, if we are to preserve our community self-respect, be emitted to die in the gutters | Dr. Richardson has made of it a model hospital, efficiently | ci nically managed | and economica ES 0, old John Hanna was poor commis lives use as Until a little while Hanna and Dr. Richardson quarreled : : | “You send too many people to the hospital,” complained the doctor. “We are apending too much money. How can we show a balance on the right side of the ledger if you keep | sending people to the hospital “Money?” answered Hanna. “What has money to do with It? These people are here. They've got to be taken care of. If they're not taken care of, they will die. If, instead of hun dreds, there were thousands and tens of thousands, It would still be my duty to send them to yop.” BUT HANNA LOST His JOB. THE NEW POOR COMMISSIONER AGREES WITH DR. RICHARDSON. The Aged Compositor makes bi-weekly visits to The Star office to see “The Town In Review” man. He knew “The Town in Review” man when the latter was a cub reporter The “Town in Review” man gives the Aged Compositor two-bite— sometimes four—which is poor economica, but darned practical charity. The Aged Compositor was a good man once—hard-working, sober, intelligent—an all-round good citizen. A stroke of paralysis crippled him for life. He went to the county hospital, stayed a little while, and was sent away. He appealed to the city, and got temporary relief. He appealed to charitable organizations, and got temporary relief. He returned to the county hospital, stayed a little while, and was sent aw Between times he went hungry. Suffered from exposure nights. Got sicker and older and more infirm. The “Town in Review” man helped ali he could. Every time the Aged Compositor climbs the stair department, he must sit on the top step to rest The last time ¢t Town in to the editorial He is very feeble jeview” man saw him, he was going to a quasi-public home for the aged, far out in the suburbs. He wasn't/of the municipal house is cluttered up with rubbish. sure they would take him in. He had one car ticket and no money The “Town In Review" man gave him four-bits, and the Aged Com positor wept unmantly ti “They're trying to make a . beggar of me, boy,” he said. . eee Ben Koom Is another bit of refuse that Housewife Richard- son has swept from the room. Old Ben has one leg. He was turned out of the hospital last July “A MAN WITH ONE LEG,” HE SAYS THE DOCTOR TOLD HIM, “HAS NO BUSINESS AT THE POOR FARM. YOU SHOULD GET OUT AND WORK, AND EARN MONEY ENOUGH TO BUY AN ARTIFICIAL LEG.” Ben is going the usuai nope round of those not wanted at the hospital—Aseociated Charities, city, Salvation Army, a few good fellows like the “Town in Review” man, the Open Door, and #0 on. Out at Youngstown there are three old people—two men and a) poor, They have worn out their bounty woman—living in a shack in the woods. welcome at the county hospital. They pay no rent. The neighbors feed them, In a condition of filth which they are too old, too weak and too hopel: to even try to better. The best thing they can do it to die in a hurry oeeee These are samples. We get them at The Star office every day While The Star congratulates Dr. Richardson on the mode! hospital he Is running, we insist that his policy, certainly not humane, is not even economical, And certainly it is not efficient, when the community as a whole is considered | | | | I do not know how much the great Cyrus Walker estate pays toward support of the indigent poor of the city and county, but I am sure it does not pay its share I'am equally sure that “The Town in Review” man pays 50 times his share The Aged Compositor, old Ben, the three old people in the shack at Youngstown—these and all the hundreds of others cannot be allowed to die in the gutters, They must be housed, clothed and fed. If the government won't assume the burden, we as in- dividuals must If stingy men shirk the burden, generous men carry more than their share It is expensive for “The Town in Review” man, who is and I am not sure it is good for the beneficiaries of his His heart is bigger than his head His system may have a tendency to “pauperize the poor.” If all the indigent were cared for in public institutions, the work would be better done, the burden would be equitably distributed, and the Cyrus Walker estate would pay its share —and not feel it must cee ee All this is destructive criticism. And destructive criticism, without constructive remedy, is no good. The Star will suggest a tentative remedy tomorrow. The one room—the county hospi! spick-and-epan, but the rest ' | Adopted Daughter of Tim Sullivan, Now Playing at Empress Theatre, To Get $50,000 Share in His Estate Today The Star's telegraph wire) Drought the following item of news from the East | NEW YORK, Dec. 10.—Mar- garet Catherine Sullivan, 17, tng adopted daughter of “Big » Tim? Sullivan, who was killed ty a train in the Bronx last August, is to receive $50,000 of bis estate, it is announced to | day, a compromise having been reached with the executors of his estate. An order permitting a settlement on such a basis has been obtained by Miss Sul- livan’s attorneys. Sullivan did not provide for his adopted daughter in his will. Miss Sul- livan is at present in Seattle, playing in vaudeville. Fate loves its little tronles. Big Tim Sullivan, the New York congressman, Tammany leader and thead of the ivan & Considine Vaudeville circuit, who wandered » from ‘a sanitarium recently to his/ })}death on a railroad track, left an} iestate worth from $2,000,000 to} } $3,000,000 | Miss Margaret Sullivan plays a! | minor part, as chorus girl, in Canoe Girls,” at the Empress t tre, a Sullivan & Considine ho: this week, sings and dances, then > slips away to the little hotel which/ her modest salary will allow her. Yet this slip of a girl has been| for years introduced by “Big Tim” and Mrs. Sullivan, who died a year previous to her husband, as their} ter—adopted daughter | Fifteen years aco, when she was +2 years old, the Sullivans took her & New York foundling asylum Their own littie girl had died, and bereaved parenta hoped to find ©OMsolation in little Margaret Fought Girl's Claim } Sullivan's relatives declared she ‘Was not lega’ adopted, and for| Feason denied her any claim Tothe estate. Sullivan did not men-| ton the girl in his will | But the will offered for pro- says Margaret Catherine| Bullivan, which is her real name, | hot the will my father made in Senses. His relatives kept | my father separated from me during the last year of his life. I Was not permitted to see him, or! ig even talk to him over the tele Marearet phone,” | . { SOURDOUGHS SELL i FOR HALF MILLION Bill James and his wife, and Nels, States” are even now beginning to Nelson and William A. Johnson of | Pall. They are already planning Bhushanna “wanted the gold, and|t? 0 back to the northland to re member the words TO GiVE THAN TO Many Yoara’ago there Wax born far from the Nerth pole, a little Eekii int joni # patron to learn the arts of civilization. story of the Child born In a manger, It wae—and still js—the custom to send each year to faraway Kodia for a Christmas tree, which, when it tmas day when the | The mat! steame a—Collector of Cust bag of cand no toy! She did not cry. Silently, crowded room; swiftly she ran t the one street of the littie town t sped over the They found her next day, flo red had soaked through and dye er ay for y in all the year nds of The 1 rink dat fatlure is ov terpr ine a Goody! The Class A theatre, Third av that every cent ¢ and Friday You ought to take n is featu evening will be turned ov | plying a “bigger tree than Mique's Now he says he's going to give a us the mone The tree will be in ree city treasurer, has have went one for who looks as if he Ho wouldn't Sullivan Ed L, Terry Shafer Hrog And a fellow ‘I have showed you all things, how that so laboring, ye ought to support the weak, and to re- how he said, ‘IT IS MORE BLESSED the words of St. Paul, Acts xx:35. she lived on the edge of Santa Claus’ country, she knew nothing of the | By and by the Itthe girl was sent, alone, to the mission at UU! And at the mission she was told the eter of His birth children receive gifts. C. Gray of the Alaska Comm Co,, and the few mer f the coaling station—were resourcefu | built a Christmas t on rollera, and they filled tt with toya/ tick candy, I barber poles--and when all Unalaska was} th the sme ne kerosene iampe in the town hall, the yen the floor. white or copper-colored, received ¢ toy and one small y. Amid the shouts and laughter no one noticed that the little Eskimo girl had been overlooked. There hadn't been enough to go ‘round! ¢ toward the open sea In one dead hand was clutched the bag of stick candy. this Christmas between Pike and Pine, seflds word | ver and above actual expenses ta in the Class A this week, anyhow ed in a two-reel Victor drama, son of an unfortunate father who hae left him the “dread inhe ean I «. It is a powerful drama, wonderfully por is a Wise Old Bird” 1% a solution of the servant prob. lem which is funnier than practical. “Pearl's Hero” and “How Freck les Won H ide” eomplete the program Go to the Manhattan theatre, Howard and Howell, tonight. We get| ALL the money. First-run picturer and vaudeville | And there doesn't seem to be any stopping Joe Schermer He Isn't content with lending us Dreanland for our show, and sup- | dazzling social function, It will be your privilege to dance around It ! of the Lord Jesus RECEIVE.’’’--From near Point Warrow, which isnt so) mo girl It is strange that, though Dalask: | and she learned that on the anni at Unal where no trees grow c—-two days’ journey by steamer— came, Wan set up in the town hall ittle Eakimo girl was 10 years ol1| r Dora had been wrecked. But the ms Gauntiett and his two Inspect She had her bag of candy, but unnoticed, she stole from the hrough the etarlit night across 1 the beach; never halting, she ating at the edge of the Ice The d the paper. Christmas is either hen the glad Star, if a single little chimney k shall count our en we n in all day Friday | er to us for the Iittle-chimney kids Warren Ker. ‘The Dread Inheritance danc piace Tuesday, the 1t6h, and hand then, and, if you take in this sent a check for $5. $10 works for his living has just been give his name and seemed embar celina cree picasa | 66 b] in and left @ dollar, | ransed Friends of Robert T, Bridges port commissioner, will gather at the Good Kats cafeteria tomorrow a a night at 6 o'clock to celebrate the victory of their guest of honor, and! incidentally to say a few kind words about The Star and ite ad After dining, spe will be de-| vocacy of the Bridges candidacy Wi R E COMI ANIES Bit hes rae ant eAreeer ae OVER Old Cripple Turned Out of Hospital to Walk Streets and Beg for Living | Ben Koon, One of the County Hospital Inmates Who Was Turned Out to| Beg for a Living | | * ohn f | County Commissioners Give Puget Sound Co. Year's Lighting Contract. |McKenzie Turned Down on | Motion to Award Job to Municipal Company. | No, the city did not get the | courthouse lighting contract. The city’s bid, the lowest in the history of the county, was rejected two weeks ago by Commissioners Knudsen and Hamilton. | Both the city and the Puget Sound company’s bids were thrown out then on the alleged ground that | they “were too high.” | It looked rotten. When the com- missioners asked for new bids, it was apparent that some new piece of skuiduggery was on foot. And it manifested itself today when the private company submit- te bid which Norman Brockett, its attorney, admitted “was a lop ing bid.” “We are making it so,” he said, “to absolutely get this contract. We are willing to iose money on It to get it. We have been accused of putting something over and this is our answer. This bid is not based on any fair rate-making basis. Bue iness does not justify this rate. But we have made up our mind to get this contract.” The company's bid was 2 cents per killowatt hour and $100 month- lly minimum, The city bid was | $173.50 minimum per month, an@ | 2 cents per kilowatt. Before the opening of bids, Chain. man McKenzie introduced a reso- lution to reconsider the action of |two weeks ago, when the city con+ | tract was rejected. | __Neither Hamilton seconded the motion. Hamilton discovered a new rea- json for having previously rejected [the city bid. It was that the bid | was for a five-year contract in- stead of one year, Norman Wardall, clerk of the board, aiso offered an additional |reason by claiming that while the company’s bid did not state so, a discount of five per cent had been intended, and for that reason the county would have had to accept the company bid instead of the city bid, He wrote this explanation to H. |L. O'Neill, secretary of the Elec- trical Union, who was present this morning to protest against giving the company the contract. He denounced the lower bid of the company as a “cut-throat scheme" to ruin the city plant. He pointed out, as Chairman Mc- Kenzie did, that the people, who | owned a plant themselves, were be- | ing compelled to pay out money to |a rival. ‘TAKE UP TRUST nor Knudsen \ ad phone and telegraph. However, the administration will not act hastily me The question is a broad one. Roth President Wilson's mind and | my own a open regarding the HAVE WE HEARD wisdom of the move. We are tn FROM YOU YET? veatigating beth here and abroad The following contributions to The Star's Christmas tree for littlechimney kids at Dream: 1 expect to have something to say | regarding the matter in my annual report liv! by Mr. Bridges and numer , 40 v-| | sume their prospecting WASHINGTON, Dee they got it.” | peeve ; pus other orators of io al renown./ernment ownership of telephone They got it to the t 0.” J. ©. Dutton, who opposed | and telegraph systema is under con 0 the tune of a half n an graph million dollars VICTIM OF TAXI Hridges for reelection, has been |wideration by the Wilton adminis . invited and will be enen | tration ct a transferring the James ] D | Following a visit to the White — {9 send out pay dirt last sum 4 MINERS ELECT Burleson issued the following lorie, 3: tyes, Frank Manley, Georg M. Irving, of 810 Howard tatement nstly of Beattie, and J, J. Price 4 There ‘is a concerted demand of this city, hax just been announc-| St Injured Sun¢ when he and) Results of the election of offi!» PUBIC” ombaaahin obithe tah iH ed. The pric # between $400,-| his brother, M. L. Irving, riding a cers of the United Mine Workers, ial viet cx deciles 0) and $50 motoreycle,,collided with a taxicab, |in this state, will not be known un i} The new owners will leave the 2 R t Bighth tt! Wednesday ni Twenty-alx | Hirst of the year for the North, and | 17Ve" by George Kigks at RIBhID jocais were polled Tuesday, ‘The Promise an early development of 804 Pine, @ed last night at the | selection of president les between the claims, Providence hospital 4 Thomas W. Russell of Renton, the The “sourdoughs” who struck it| Police officials today turned over| present president, and Martin rich have been stormed with con-| information on the case to Prose @ratulations, But the “ways of the cutor Murphy and Coroner Mason. | Fiyztk of Wilkeson, at present vice president. nante will be sent by mail if 5e Inclosed, This Coupon and 15c, when brought to The Star office, at 1307 J.) Seventh Av., will entitle you to a 65c Pennant, size. 15x35. Montana, Wyoming and Kentucky Pennants out this week, land hall have been received to date: Previously acknowledged. $211.50 Julius Shafer ........... 10.00 Ed L. Terry . 0 6.00 8. H. HW. ... 1.00 COUPON Pen- additional for each Pennant is Total ... i | PROGRAM NEXT EXTRA! PORTER _ wasiuxcron, dec. 10—Prest dent Rie eae Souterren today with REFUSES A TIP! yc isa program A difference of opinion LOS ANGELES, Dec, 10. prevailed afiong the members of ed porkaré at Lan Grande wa the committes as to ine character i seta h z +p, [of the legislation needed® All were tion here refused to handle the |agreed, however, that the Sherman luggage of the Due de Riche- [law should not be touched, Neu because he “ordered them di cenaetatene about.” A third porter carried | ionger to complete Hyatt Fomntte teens his. baggage to the train, but ines a hand, but results prove 7 Pika wid \ rity and real worth of th Lanentlly ignored the proffered | jivart-Powells School, ath and. Pies Ds oe AdVerUaeens WON'T RECONSIDER) ~ ‘ANOTHER | RAW ONE FORCITY |