The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 20, 1913, Page 1

seo ° \ some e . Phe everyone has, you know, at some time or other. Just like little Myra did, when she put her own self into the place of the wonderfully clever Lady Fessenden! But Myra’s = — ieve came out true. | Her knight rreally did step out of the dream and claim her as his own. It’s all told in the entrancing tale Gellett Burgess relates in today’s offering in i e Star's great series of “Lamplight Stories for Winter Nights.” Read it It’s on page 8 today, complete. ‘ } : . —4 UHURU TATU AA 2g} HUNT —S ‘ sien | Fr rae —_ — = H = More Than = = = t =| = = | f — 0 4 = = = \ =| 5 |= ; =| = / = = =| — sins | wild = Circulation Every Day = =) E D | i | oO N = =) MTT TTT nine THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS = a 5 TTT LULULLLULLLULLELULLLLTLTLL LUPE fd i ARES TO PR SSHUdAVUAUANNUANNUUNERAODNUAUONAAONNNIOUNNNOUDEGNGUONUUUN a i ‘ VOLUME 15. NO. 254, SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1913. ONE CENT viws tr ikon” be | tor fp z i ve. i ’ | ad ice I a cil " i By Fred L. Boalt | come down at 11 when the names are called and see for has had his four half-days already, and | ain't been called { iH nd ty? yourselt one. | got to get work quick!” } ane poverty” are relative terms, and There's a sign o} the wall at the bureau His boyish face was haggard, There was despera i most “Don't be disappointed if your name is not called ton tn his eyes k om who lost half villio’ o 2 . | promised to find out for them, if 1 could, where the / Yael eae ; bie * ae OOP. We have 1,000 names and only 61 jobs trouble lay, and started for the city hall. A dwarfed it | ‘ ice, and his wife, sweetly resigned, told my There was a long line at the window, all ages, ached himself from the crowd and followed | hereafter they would have to do with two all conditions vely across the park } automobiles instead of fo because they were so “Married? Can’ i ton’ he #ald insinuatingly, catching up, “mebby = ar | ateeunaees if Can't help it. It isn’t) our fault you got a pull up there,” nodding toward the city hall i Well, if they i Teenie ae tie + “What's the matter with your telling ‘em I've lived here H ell, if they are poor, I must be destitute. I Some of them lie,” the man at the window 18 years, and that I'm married, and that I voted for Cot i i cannot px ssibly afford one automobile, much less | told me. , “They say they're married when they're terill? Eh?" ! i in two. I find that, to make ends meet, and have a not. Not that T blame them. When they register, From the bridge on Yesler way I looked down | bit over, I must limit myself to two-bit noon the inspectors go to the addresses they give and find | and saw rich men working in mud and slime with | luncheons And I buy my clothes off the shelf out. We give every man ©. K.'d by the inspectors shovels. Rich? Certainly! Why, they’re getting Oh, I certainly am poor four half-days’ work a week, as long he f half-d. f work. Poe Na a eck, as long as the jobs las our ha lays oO a . k ] | saw some rich men yesterday AA ere using them on the slides at Jackson st. and A ragged man stood beside me. It sa Season of Joy and Than S- i It came about In this way: | pack of the city hall. The pay is $1.30 for a half “That's where I ought to be, by rights,” he said ree + . i x erovdst tein, TOIL the ‘ity Wianiey mane bureed In diy” sineiine giving at Home of Former Chief; 4 in the old Coliseum theatre buliding at Third and Jefferson, Later, on the sidewalk outside, an indignation meet Y 5 . 4 ; and marched to The Star, Halting in front of the bulld. ing was held. The disappointed ones all wanted to talk For this man was pegs ar A ngage bh Mrs Wappenstein Tells Star of ‘or Ing, they sent two of thelr numoer—an old man and a boy to me at once. ably poor rage rt Le ie fast al jidn’t le ce —into the office. Said one —he seemed a boy: “I got a wif stand a ghost a chance ‘ing any supper. T : i | “1 ain't kicking on my own account,” the old man you don’t believe it you come with me ane | rt} so I must again take stock of my Zonditon I heir lans for Future. i | said, while the bey nodded approval. “They say they're to you. Me and the wife are down to our last dime. Yet have had breakfast and lunch, and tonight J will dine i - | giving married men the preference at the bureau, and fella that registered when | did——I don't know whether My clothes, {f hand-me-downs, are whole. The rent is in ‘ 2 H | that’s all right. Only they ain't—not alwa You married or not—a week ago when the bureau opened pald in advance, 1am rioh! Well! | thought maybe you two weeks’ vacation, and Is rushing J were my boy when | heard the [home just as fast as he can bell. | expect him here today ‘Then, there is Joan, our daugh- fare a 6g? = We * aie ime — oom eee SS PEE AOE T EEL fron. Pullman. He's coming — ter, who is taking a training course home TO SEE HIS FATHER, (in the Seattle General, She will be i Whi i i and it’s going to be areal Merry ere, of cour 1 can't tell you Artiste vinbead Appear American Girl Belle ‘ Christmas this year for all of half the plans I'm making. Right | In First Sunday Pop of Big Ball in Pari us,” said Mrs. Charles W. Wap- now I just want to enjoy my fami penstein this morning, she I haven't heard from my hus- Opened the door for a Star r band direct, but the papers were | porter. jrushed right off to him and I think he will be here Sunday morning. Her eyes were beaming |” comegen es : “ ' Pardoned from the Walla Walla) “THE PAST,” she sald, “I have Hy penitentiary by Governor Emest "0! forgotten Fe Lister, Seattle's former chief of po-| |Jt was awful. Hice will join his family in Seattle|,, “But with all of the abuse and } some time tomorrow. the things that were not true that 4 Me eens BS | came up at the time of our trouble, ‘ BOWS 3 Plans a Big Dinner I can forget it enough to enjoy our | . ’ T b . | ee, 6 - ue _ . . Radiant with the joy of her go »d good fortune now 3 f Don’t Talk to Us About Charity! Officials of Employers’ Association) news, aire Wappenstezn ie Die) to “Only Uncleared Patch F * : : ¢ day planning a dinner—a dinne io ft 4 ; |e? Th U d: +! ch as the Wappenstein family has The report was circulated that _ We’rein This Thing for FUN, and) | Openly Announce Program; wotenjoyed for three Tong years. Te hd a $12,000 house on our plage. | 7 at Lake San a * At that time It will be a big family reunion— | fy “2 cos peiades . here was nothing but a little rough, e an ou to Lome rs ean War |for the head of the family will be ¥ . | | La or Leade ay t S _ there as well as the fon, daughter |!0f house, which had no finishings | pried and mother. Th, We want, today, to set you | It will start at 1 in the afternoon) } Beattie ie to be the storm [the fight It was no exuberant, impulsive ‘The papers are even yet talking right about our littlechimney and last till 3, or thereabouts. H | center of a “It i unfoniam or non-untonism. Joy, but a deep satisfaction ‘and | of, our farm on the lake. kids’ Christmas show at Dream |= If you are a big-chimney grown-| tween the F The mere fact that the nonunion happiness born of the knowledge It is really a little patch of iH lang. up, come and laugh your bead off. tlon of Employers of the iste claim to pay union wages and that her sorrow and trouble are at | round of five or six acres and not , You may have a wrong no [It will tmprove your appetite for coast and the labor unions on |keep unton hours {* but a subter last at an. end. cleared. The house has been fixed tion, as wide of the mark as the turkey dinner waiting for you) the question of closed or open fuge. wilt T Out Right jup and is a ittle beter now. zi that of a pompous and well-in- | at home. \% shoo. "Tne union standard will be main- urn Out a! | “We can raise tots of flowers tentioned gentieman who called If you are a bigchimney kid,| J. G. Barnes, state manager of the |tained only as long as organized m “But come in, any | and vegetables. Then we can fs on us this morning. jand have enough toys of your own) sxovtation, Saturday frankly ad-|iabor remaina in the field. The). |“I'm glad to welcome you. Every-| have some chickens, too. Soft “le it wise,” he asked, “to at home, come and see the Uttle- | lmitted the coast-wide scope of the [minute the open shop policies are jthing seems rosy for me today. ] won't be so bad. At all évents, shower gifts upon the children chimney kids get theirs. fight, and announced it will have|firmly established by the employ- “I'm so glad for it all. It means; WE'LL BE ALONE O} of the poor? Wouldn't it be If you are a workingman, earn-) practically unlimited financial sup jers, do you suppose they will con- #0 much to have our daddy back THERE TOGETHER, AND better to give them food and ing just enough, say, to keep your port ltinue paying union wages? again. I had rather hoped that the) CAN WORK AND _ ENJOY t clothing? And itsn’t it a waste- (family in decent comfort, come | | Labor Ready for Fight Lobby Against Laws. governor would see fit to make no| LIFE BY OURSELVES. ful thing to do—this expendi- and bring the youngsters, There'll On the other hand, President] tf they mean to do this, why Ie conditions about his home coming,| “I THINK I SHALL ENJOY THIS ture of money for toys and |be an armfnl of toys and candy | 4. Marsh of the State Federation of |(t that when we seek to accomplish but I know now, as I have tried to | CHRISTMAS BETTER THAN ANY e sweets? The children will, of | and fruit for one of them & who was in Seattle today.'by iegislation these conditions, |know all along, that ft will turn out I HAVE EVER HAD. We shall be 7 course, have a wonderful time | Don't stay away simply because ed that, fn the words of Sat: | these same interests behind the em right in the end together again. I am happy to ac on Christmas; but what of the | you're not fiat, stony broke mpers, “organized labor can't! ployurs’ associations, lobby against | “William. our boy, is in his first |cept our gift just as it is. other da: 1 do not doubt,” WHEN ANYBODY SAYS CHAR. red,” and will be prepared for|\t and fight us so desperately? |year at Pullman I thought it wise| The Wappenstein cottage at 1058 7 ' he hastened to assure us, “that ITY TO US, WE SEE RED. the fight al) down the line “At Olympia these same people \for him to go on to school, and M aks Republican st. is modest and © f your motives are excellent ore ee | Barnes declared it was the em-|fought against the elght-hour law | Wappenstein wanted him to. He has | homelike. 7 Sut—” We wish ministers and Sunday ployers’ assocjation which financed /for women and other labor meas Pie Ge toe a 81 eee school superintendents would an the mill owners of Ballard in the|urex which they now say they | ; h- We explained and explained, but | nounce tomorrow that we want recent strike, and that they are be-| favor. he went away, frowning Sunday school kids to come to our hind the drayage companies in the! Barnes declares the employers s, And yet he {s smart enough in| show | teamaters’ strike will vow adopt union tactics—a vir- te some ways. You couldn't fool him! We hereby notify the authorities | | Says It Was Victory tual boycott of union men. d in matters pertaining to cent per of all juvenile institutions that the | — Raraes claims a victory in the Adopt Boycott Plan : ‘eget j kids within their walls are espe-|j Ballard strike tn that {t was settled| “When a non-union teamster at- y sut his tgnorance of kids, big-|clally Invited. if without conceding to the unions the |tempts to deliver a shipment to a | ee h chimney and little, ts colossal, There’li be enough, and more closed shop clause union bartender, for example, the ™ WALLA WALLA, Dec. 20.—After] Wappenstein's heart was over | abysmal, appalling! than enough. it Marsh, on the other hand, aays|latter refuses to accept it, and his| Mrs. Myron T. Herrick, Jr. |) ine known as Convict No, 6539/flowing with joy at the Christmag 9% ? Who sald charity? Uk gers Aes lp the quertio of open or closed shop | employer is compelled to notify the| Parte newspaper say that Mrs.|¢. 19 ths in the prison, many gift that Gov. Lister had given him . these boneheads, this Come hear “Dad” Wagner's did aot enter in that str bit | transfer company he cannot do busl-|Myroa T, Herrick, daughter-in-law |r 1® months tn LS sapaee ¥ lin the form of a conditional pardon, isn't charity. This is fun -plece band p and see the that | was rely fight for the |/nesx with it | unless it employs|of the American ambassador to cells of which were filled through put he did not forget to profusely 3ut how will know,” asked eat and mo rful tree in union wage scale, which was won, union teamsters France, was the belle of the Per-| his efforts as a peace officer, Char. thank the officers of the prison for the pompous and we » world. Come and see a vaude We hold,” says Barnes, “that as We shall do the same sian ball held in Paris, The picture W. Wappenstein, former chief of po- the kind treatment he had received. could tell by t his aye ville show. Come and see Assist lon we pay union wagea and When aunion teambter attempts| shows the costume Mrs, Herrick lice of Seattle, left the state prison he walked down the corridors } hat he thought <quirm- | ant Prosecuting Attorney Crawford maintain union hours, we e the to deliver something to an ‘open-|Wore at the fancy social affair this moraing a free man with springy step to the waiting ng, “how will . that the White, WHO STANDS SEVEN OR right to employ whomsoever we|shop’ employer, the latter will re > Twenty minutes later he boarded taxtcab, he shook hands with every: children wh ive gifts at EIGHT FEET HIGH AND want, and the untons cannot make | fuse 17 accept it Nest modern outside rooms in/a train for North Yakima, where one he encountered h ‘our show are poor? How WEIGHS A TON, as Santa Claus us take only unton mer “Wa have a rieht to organize for | Seattle, 26¢ to 50c, Stewart House, |he will confer with friends, and| During his confinement Wappen you be sure that children of How could such a whale of a! Untoniam or Non-Unionism. protection, and the fight will be 86 West Stewart (near Pike Public |from there will go to Seattle to join stein had been a trusty in charge of q z. to-do parents will not receive|man get down little chimneys? “1 @igiike the terms closed and|carried into San Francisco, where | M&rket.)—Advertisement. his family. |the penitentiary powltry farm. that ought Whoever you are, whatever you }open shop,” said Marah. That |the closed shop practice is the lita if “eeee LET 'EM! WE CAN'T STOP "EM. of well-to-do or girl to foe us, all right. of the Man of de e Rertillon measurements to satisfy oursel at they are “worthy” of a doll, or a woolly dog, or a bag of candy Go to, you knockers! KIDS ARE KIDS. And men and women are kids grown up. And Christmas is And we dn't give anything ful to a i s if the salvation a it “He's dead, in he? Well, it's bad business, but i guess he Won't bother me any more. Those two fellows have wor- fled the out of me for twenty years and | decided to Tinish the whole thing.” a wealthy d mo n the from will the r ‘ hospit® e Door with n, a sailor on the ste pk ere in the latter oom a thi# morning in the Grand Pacific hot 1, 1116% Wirae are—whether you be rich as Croe-| sus or poor as Job—whether you} ive tn a Capitol Hill mansion or a) tide flata shack—come! MAY BE TRAGEDY Mystery follows the discovery of} a row boat containing a man's hat early this morning on shington, off Leschi park of the Anderson and cane Steamboat The day b Lakew notified yester W. Morris, 123 Mrs. Av, were she heard cries ke th for help from the offi Motorey gated at the ut found no trace of anyon er Stanley 1 % assistance URDER CHARGE when Geddes, It en opened fire on them through a gla door Hiinn, lying on the bed, was shot through the head Erickson fei to the floor with a- bullet wound in his knee. He Is now fn the efty hospital, but will recover | On Way to Australia Patrolman R, W. Arnold, attract ed by the shooting, entered tho! room next to Erickson’« and dis-| armed Geddes. H 4 taken to the volice station by Sergeant BE. L. Hedges and Patrolman C, M Geddes sald he was on his way Oo Australia and stopped here to have out” with the two men who, he says’ have “bothered him His bank books showed large de posits ip Davenport banks. He negmed Uttle excited over the | attair 125 ecauts to a dollar, | | Above, Miss Mary Kingsbury; Be low, Henry Allen, °° SEATTLE TO GET ITS FIRST “POP” CONCERT SUNDAY. | Miss Mary Kingsbury, who. though young, has won recognition locally by the pleasing quality of her voice and her power of expres ion, has been gélected as the solo: ist at the first Seattle “pop” cor cert at the Metropolitan theatre to morrow afternoc hen the Seat Allen, of New York, will render a program which should please ord nary musie-lovers, though it may not satisfy Unicks who are strong for the high-brow stuff, The program reveals a preponder- | ance of Victor Herbert numbers, Vic is always popular wi just folks Coaductor Allen has planned two more "pops" on 8 ding Sunday afternoons, and It is the hope of the by the time of the third “pop” lic opinion will demand that the yecome @ permggnent weekly fix ture, The Star's “little-chignne, kids” Christe tree gets part of the proceeds Beats can be reserved for does not explain the real crux tn CURR PASSES SENATE WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.—The administration currency reform bill | was parsed by the senate last night | by a vote of 54 to 34 Senators Poindexter, progressive, and wford Perkins, Nor-| ria, Sterling and Weeks, republi cana, voted with the democrats for the ‘All Th | | Jones ate Dill differs to some the bill passed by the house, but democratt« realy ferences confsrence The bill went committee of the and se » immediately after its passage, and It is believed all dif ferences will be adjusted so that It » to the president for his sig not later than Monday these may natura night NO, ‘TWAS ONLY 30 ABOVE ZERO Breer! It was cold Weather Prophet Salisbury in wists it wae 30 ave at 5 o'clock this morning, but having arisen at that time, and paraded about our domicile in flimsy togs and bare tootaler, we know better We are! quite sure It was that much below Twas the second coldest morn Ing of the winter i} PENNANT COUPON > atroncent ENGY BILL [ASK UNCLE SAM TO TAKE PHONES, WASHINGTON, Dec. 20. Government ownership of te phone and telegraph tines is Bought In a bill Introduced In | the house today by Rep. Lewis of Maryland. The postoffice | department, if the bill becomes | | a law, will take over th public utilities January TWO MORE ARE IN Councilman Austin E. Griffiths and J. D. Trenholme Saturday morning filed their candidactes for mayor, delivering to the comp troller the requisite $75 each Councilman A. J, Goddard def initely announced this morning that his hat 1s also in the ring for the mayoralty job TAFT KIDS HIM NEW YORK, Dec. 20. The Wil on vdiministration took that Cara-| boa dinner:too seriously,” said ex Presicent Taft N©W YORK, Dec, &. A lot of so-called spuge are plain tightwads said Louise Dressef. This Coupon and 150, when brought to The Star office, at 1307 Seventh Av., will entitle you to nante will be sent by mail inclosed thie week., If 5c additional for each Pennant Florida, Washington, Mississippi and Frisco Pennants out | a 65¢ Pe. | te | Pennant, @ 15x35. THE REAL SANTA CLAUS