The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 11, 1913, Page 1

The Boy Loved the Girl, and the loved him, but— On his deathbed the Boy’s father told him that, through unclean living long ago, he had contracted the Black Plague, and he feared—he feared— And because of the quality of manhood that was in him, the Boy left the Girl and went away. But the Girl would not willingly { let him go. She urged him to make sure. told him that his was “The Dread Inheritance.” He asked the Doctor. Now, the Doctor also loved the Girl. So he lied to the Boy. He Convinced he was unclean, he made his way to the dance hall to drink of life’s pleasures to the full, as his father had done. But the stench of evil appalled him, and he escaped, sickened, to the mother of his sweetheart. ground of his fears, and— Would you have done as the Boy did? It’s only a story, of course—a vivid, gripping two-reel Victor drama at the Class A theatre this week. And there are other things on the bill. Doctor,” in “The Dread Inheritance. CLOUDY TONIGHT J. Warren Kerrigan The Son" and William Worthington as “The AND FRIDAY, TS 41,000 Circulation Every Day UUONEUOGUUNEGOUALAOUAA Can UUUANE}UA4E4OGuOAaoOY iF VOLUME 15 NO. 246, SEATTLE COUNTY POOR FARM. By Fred L. Boalt About 10 years ago the city of Cleveland bought 29 adjoining farms at Warrensville, outside the city limits, and grouped them into what is known as a “municipal farm colony.” The genius in whose mind the idea was born is Dr. Harris J. Cooley, the director of charities and corrections On this municipal farm are the workhouse, the infirmary and the tuberculosis sanitarium The farm produces grain, garden truck, eggs, poultry, milk and beef, which are sold to other city departments and in the open market. For example, the fire department's horses eat hay and oats raised on the municipal farm Everybody works who can. The workhouse prisoners perform the heavy labor There are no guards wnarmed foremen. : + I was in Cleveland during the first year of the farm colony “Not counting the sick, there is only one person on the farm who doesn’t earn her keep. She was deaf, dumb, blind and partially paralyzed. I have not been in Cleveland in some years, but the farm has been frequently described in the magazines, and the P—~ public is familiar with the success it has had, both as a solution of the indigent problem and as a sound business proposition The King county hospital and poor farm stand on about 60 acres in Georgetown farm” is no farm. The land is valuable for industrial sites, and two parcels of it are under lease for that It is worth, perhaps, $3,500 an acre What the poor-farm a hospital need than $400 a month. The total accommodation of the joint institutions is 350—if you pack ‘em in. The poor-farm at a pinch. The hospital, designed to take care of the sick, catches the indigent overflow To expect a poor-farm with accommodation for only 120 to solve the indigent problem in a county as populous as King is absurd on the face of it. : The Open Door Mission alone provides lodging for more than that-many homeless, jobless men every night. show you 120 indigent men on the sidewalks of a single block below Yesler way, almost any hour of the day. Nat only does the Georgetown institution fail to solve the problem, but it is run, necessarily, at a loss Y@ it has land worth more than $200,000 The Star believes that the hospital should remain where it is, close to the city Richardson has made it a model hospital. It is needed, But why devote a $200,000 tract to a poor-“farm” which is not worked? LEAVE THE HOSPITAL WITH AN ACRE, THE BALANCE COULD BE SOLD FOR, SAY, $175,000 —PERHAPS MORE. WITH THE PROCEEDS THE COUNTY COULD BUY, AT $1,000 AN ACRE, A 175-ACRE FARM 10 OR A DOZEN MILES FROM THE CITY. Farm colonies are no longer an experiment. Cleveland was the pioneer. them, merely One day Dr. Cooley said to me: I'll show her to you.” is a misnomer, There purpose id in the way of provisions they must buy. The egg bill alone comes to more will take about 120 I can As stated yesterday, Dr. Waldo Other cities have thtm. Germany has oi et aay wh tae In the county jail are strong men confined in cells. They have to be fed If King county had a farm, these prisoners could be working it, paying possibly returning profit to the county At the poér m” there are old people, infirm people, who out county had a farm, they could at least do the simpler and lighter “chores.” IT WOULD BE A LOT HEALTHIER AND PLEASANTER FOR THEM, AND A LOT CHEAPER FOR THE REST OF US. The Star has a staff man in Cleveland who The taxpayers foot the bills» with their labor for their own keep, and it the long, empty days in idleness. If King ? ' * Fi ‘* preparing @n article on the farm colony there. 1913. BULLETIN CALUMET, Mich., Dec. 11.— The defenders of the miners’ federation hall, at South Range, surrendered to the Citizens’ Al liance at noon after ten hours’ resistance, The battie began at 2 a. m. The miners, numbering 40, and heavily armed, mode co effect: ive a defense that the attack: ing party had to call for rein- for ents and at 5 a. m. @ special tra! the Citize Alliance Houghton for the scene of the engagement, followed by an- other trainioad at 9. The federation hall was sur- rounded but the rain of bullets from within kept the besi . at a distance, Deputy om Driscoll of Houghton was fatal- ly shot In an attempt at @ rush and others wounded. At noon a hurry call wae re- esived for still more reinforce ments, and a third especial trainioad of members of the Citizens’ Aillance was dispatch- ed in hot haste. The fire belle were rung here and at Houghton, summoning all members of the alliance, and several thousand were held in readiness to respond to the next call. BRIDGES DINNER, At the dinner to be given tonight at 6 o'clock to Port Commiasioner Robert Bridges at the Good Eats Cafeteria addresses will be deliv ered by C. J. France, Mixes Mary O'Meara and Dr. Herman Brauer of ithe University of Washington In addition to the speeches sev-| Jeral matters of public importance | | will be taken up for discussion Go there tomorrow afternoon or evening. PROBABLY RAIN; MODERATE SOUTHERLY WINDS, The SeattleStar THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS WASH., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, ONE CENT oo ON _THAINS NEWS STA’ 2ajNVHALAUUREUNULGLOUTO N =F DITION= OTT It was she who pointed out the false The Star gets the money for the little-chimney kids’ Christmas tree. IGHT he End of Their Lives!REAL WAR IN MICHIGAN! STRIKERS SURRENDER AFTER 10 HOURS’ BATTLE en Up the Churches There are hundreds of wandering, homeless men in Seattle---honest men who are willing to work---who have no place to sleep. And there are hundreds of thousands of dol- lars invested in great church edifices that are opened for but a few hours each week... - : Isn’t there a common ground somewhere be- tween the House of God and these men made in these men for whom, just as with all the rest of us, He gave His son? . Why not open the doors of these great edi- fices, with the use of their heating plants, to the men who now, at night, crowd together in vacant shacks and holes along the water front, seeking the warmth that comes from bodies huddled close together? (F CHRIST CAME TO SEATTLE, WHAT WOULD HE DO? REBELS ATTACK | UNDER THE EYES. OF U.S, ADMIRAL TERA CRUZ, Dec. 11.Federals | in Tampico were resisting a fierce attack today, according to wireless messages John Lind, on board the battle: ship Michigan, a half mile off shore here, was in constant wire: liexs communication with Admiral | Fletcher, on the Rhode Island, off Tampico, receiving the admiral's reports of the fight, and relaying them to Washington. | The rebel assault began about | 11 a. m. yesterday, continued until nightfall, and was resumed at dawn today | Whether Admiral Fletcher had landed or intended to land marines | to prot ven hundred Americans an¢ ropeans are said to be gathered in the consulates in the city. Charles R. Case, lof streets, told the Central Labor | |Counct! last night that money ap- |propriated by the city to provide work for unemployed married and |single men would not furnish jobs ald that the unions de work for those men to organizations. if PRESIDENT.IN BED WASHINGTON, Dec, 11 President Wilson's cold was worse today, and he was forced to cancel all engagements and remain in bed. Secretary Tu- multy said the president's cold was aggravated by his attend- ance at the Red Cross meeting | yesterday o| 11.—Ben Rob-| * CORVALLIS, Dee. ertson, a member of the Oregon Ageles during the season just clos. ed, has been elected football cap- tain for the 1914 season. ot foreigners and thelr prop. jerty, could not be learned. i superintendent | We 4 Little Seattle Girl Loses Her Hat; Uncle Sam Buys Another WASHINGTON, Dec, 11.—Touched by an appeal voiced in a letter from little Lottie Lester of Seattle, for a 63-cent Panama to “replace the one her bunny chewed up,” Assistant Secretary Hamlin sent her a new hat donated by a Washington merchant. “Uncle Sam wishes me to write you that he was greatly pleased to receive your letter of December 2,” Hamlin wro to go right out and buy a Pan a for you “He to he did not want to send you one of those he had taken from a naughty man who tried to bring them into the United Statees without the payment of duty.” Everyone’s Invited to Star’s Big Dance Dreamland rink next have four-bits. Four-bits will entitle you to bring a lady | and to dance your fooligh head off Indeed, you are pressingly sday urged to come, ‘OU are cordially invited to the dance which The Star is giving at That is, if you your wife or another’s— While we should prefer that you bring your own wife, still, if you \UNIONS TO HELP | ,,ccr to ctcor somebody else's it is, of course, your own affair, and | lo not wish to seem prudish We are sending special invitations to Harry Whitney Treat and | Josiah Collins to be the guests of honor, We believe that thelr p ence would give to the affair a tone which it might otherwise lack. Not that either dances well. Marry and Josiah 1s one of the punkest two-steppers we ever saw he fact something no blinkin indefinable necks. called and you've gotta hand it to them “culture” is only a mediocre waltzer,| But there's | they have that wrich is missing in us rough 500 WORKLESS MEN GRAB CITY | JOBS FIRST DAY So many unemployed appli | Work at the free pile a = ;reau, opened today in the store at the northeast corner of the Coll- mt Fagen that the clerk had to |send for more application after 200 had been filled ose The stream of unemployed seem- ed unending, Before the day is over, not less than 500 are expected to have sig- nified their willingness to work for $5.50 a week, the maximum allowed by the terms of the council ordi- nance, Twenty-five men were put to ) work immediately on the Jackson street slide at Ninth ay. Resident | married men are given the prefer jence by Supt Case, who is in jcharge, but their term of employ- ment is limited to four half-days a | week, Resident single men are next preferred. Transients come last The men will be paid in cash for each day's work, The Coliseum building, sug: gested as a free lodging house, was found by the city authori ties Insanitary and uns: d arrangements are under way to obtain the old Providence hos. pital for this purpose. With Harry and Josiah on hand, the rest of us can go as far as we} like | THEY LIKE HIM We dan't care a hoot what you wear, so long as it has a pocket with; four-bits in it tans. It's all right with us. If you are pompous, climb down off your high horsp, rich and important, forget it. lowly, stick out your chest. If you are bashful, buck up. THE SOCIAL BARRIERS ARE DOWN. COME! THE LITTLE-CHIMNEY KIDS’ CHRISTMAS TREE GETS THE | from a cash dials PENNANT COUPON — If you have a swallow-tail but no patent leathers, wear If you are If you are This Coupon and 15c, when brought 40 The Star office, at 1307 Seventh Av., will entitle you to a 65c Pennant, size 15x3! Pen. nants will be sent by mail if Sc additional for each Pennant is Inalanad. Montana, Wyoming and Kentucky Pennants out this week, F. M. Spinning has been the vic. tim of three burglaries*in three weeks, one at his home and two in | his hardware store, at 1417 Fourth | ave He is loser about $90 in cash | this time. The money was secured register, which was broken open during the night. NEW P. 0. SUBSTATION | Interbay is going to get a new | postoffice substation. Proposals for sites have been asked for. by Inspector Henry D, Temple. The present station has been found to be inadequate,