The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 29, 1913, Page 1

More Than 41,000 | Circulation Every D; QNNNANUUUUNGUAUNAAUOUUGNUORNOUOOUUOOOUOEOUCONOUONNL) THUAN MMHNLLANNN Te [Eicee | VOLUME 15. NO, 261, =| STAR REPORTER VISITS MUNICIPAL HOME FOR HOBOES RAIN TONIGHT OR TUESDAY; The SeattleStar THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS SEATTLE, WASI dei A "bo, he reasone, | ‘an't if BY HENRY CLAY | Set 1 might become a hobo In ladder. the pubiite. ; Pam a hobo! act. Tomorrow my editor | The city le the toughest might be a “big gun” . At present | am a hobo, due might editors some- place when work is not to perate criminal. But he 27.= to the fact that Saturday night, times ‘ou're fired! Get found, but there the ‘bo grav ' if a man is euch, he | pak during @ vielt at “Hotel De out of itates, for he ie not allowed to a "bo. . Ghat at sixth av. and Mad I might not be able to get a linger Idle in the country. Con A hobo, according to the def stables are vigilant and stern, Jeon st, In the old Providence Job anywhere in the Northwest In my line, There might be 20 b> ier | sesepted on invite ma to me the “cop” hae Hee te join local 22, ttle, reporters for every openin, understood the 'bo. An tlon by going bo scauuh of the tear But down deep in my heart, unemployed man, wandering Eitabel ttinerent Workaia at 1 am a hobo because | have a the streets, despairing and work which Jeff Davie ts president; feeling of fellowship and sym without a job, le d pathy for the man who would for the to which he ‘and also due to the fact that | 4 work If he could et work— “dick” ” id bi Gunday afternoon the Labor Q mooch,” or beg. Temple 1 paid Miss Alice Lord, for the man who has sunk, r be And eo | am a hobo. | secretary, a 2S-cent Initiation through no choice of hie own, tists. And the officer must be prepared for emergencies, for | in return @ to the lowest rung in the social active. He le paid to protect nearing my fee and received eriep, new card + mame and number Just now, however, | am hardly a hobo, in fact. | wear awhite collar. | have a ault of clothes and an overcoat. | eat three meals a day, sleep in a bed with sheets on it, and have 2 408. | But some day, | realize, it is an | DIRECE sdddEeee cocina line of human possibility PLAN TO SKIP CAR STOP AS _ TIME SAVER ‘With the intention of sslesiaiilt the pian to every car line running [from the city to outlying residence ‘gections, if it proves satistacicry | | } Superintendent of Public Utilities SA. L. Valentine will submit to tr Phinney Avenue Improvement «'nb he proposition of reducing to 17 o number of stops from & the Phinney av. line, between N.)| S0th and N. 85th sts, by abitab | what is known as the skip-stop care, to improve their run- }atng time, will stop at odd-number- Streets on the trip out and the Bumbers coming in. Posts will mark the stops, #0 that | ;eittzens may readily learn where ‘to stand, F “T believe the idea is a good one.” sald See Valentine. “If it is Mked on ft will be put into eff Should prove a big time ” saver in getting people home a and should mean a geueral in efficiency. ¥ TRYING TO MAKE SCHOOL COURSES MORE PRACTICAL To learn just how fully the public echoo! system in le is preparing boys and girs for efficiency in business, @n Investigation of broad scope has been started under the di- rection of Mrs. J. A. Reed. 2 ae t uf had only fainte He was dead. (¢ trom belongs CALUMET, d, Yh, have a card, and my dues are Mich., | | inition of Jeff Davis, is a man | who tries to better his condi. | town to town of necessity, looking for A ‘bo won't steal and |e forbidden by the organization | | | am | | | Dec MONDAY, pal Once | w secret club at college. | All one afternoon | chopped | wood as laughing upper cl men spanked me with wooden pa 1 went through ail sorts of fool monkeyshines before smiling co-eds. night | an DECEMBER 239, 1913. id for swe, menthe. and dress suits. * ee inte ited into a CLUB, and it But | enjoyed ii or more. dd! in Itting on a b “Hotel De Gink. public And at | took vows to do this | id that or suffer dire conse 10 “house bull there was a dinner, and there wer with negro servants, and eds. But it wi dance later, with pretty girle est fellowship (Copyrighted, 1913, by the Newspaper Enterprise Association.) Which Were Piied, Ceiling High, Bodies of Children, | The Fatal Doorway Entrance to Italian Hall, Eve. | Women and Men—Victims of the Horrible Catastrophe at Calumet, Mich., Christm 29 >ddEEeE By Gertrude M. Price “My little Albert, my little Albert! from my rah rah orga See ONE CENT was it just joard bt Saturday night | ate my Initia- | thon dinner into a REAL LIFE different ton. much 1 ate mulligan, drank a cup of “java,” ate a slice of d, and munched an apple, | ch at There were also in the party | No one hit me with a paddie no emiling co- one of the fin- dinnere | have I thought ‘Mother Tells Star Correspondent How She Saw Her Baby Drawn Into Mountain of Death in Rush That Followed Shout of “Fire!” in Calumet, and then they laid him in my arms, and his little neck fell back limp my ( it is too terrible.” |John C , (Copyright, 1913, by the Newspaper Enterprise Association.) Clasping and unclasping her hands in a mother's terrible agony of despair, and doing! ‘The investigation proposes, ac- Special Deputies Guarding Italian Hall, in Calumet; in the Upper). 3 ping hee } i t af blinding he rs, Mr i ‘b> Lus : fR baul- cording to Superintendent of! wingows, Where People May Be Seen Looking Out, the Christmas Enter. | utmost to keep the hot tears from blinding her eyes, Mrs. Jacob Lu , of Raymbau Schools Frank B. Cooper, to dis z ” 4 8 town, a suburb of death stricken Calumet, was making an almost superhuman effort to hat ch 4 talnment Was Being Held Before the Cry of “Fire!” Started the Stam. t’' i r gg pe in ar ng pede tell me her own story of the terrible catastrophe which caused the death of 72 here on e nit: m advancement ie eggs = Sa Bre te ea Christmas eve | effort. A story that no one of the people who saw it has told in its entirety to the world *, The scope of the investigation before will cover the number, age and) * dability of children forced to leave | ool to go to work; visits at In- WRITES IN ALASKA e, tha t she would talk to me I had knocked timidly at the kitchen door, reassured by the young Finnish interpre- ter who accompanied dividual homes to get the child's “You are a friend?” she commenced. in a low, anguish-steeped voice, as she led me “4 rv a coniitions under into the clean front room and pointed to the open coffin at the window ey work, and consultations oe nr here.” tw rs with employers for suggestions é here, there It was all she could utter. 2 Tt is believed the results will She made a gesture toward the crushed baby in its casket . show what occupations are open to uh peer “Yes,” I answered, trying to put something into the reply that might give her cour- 4 children, the probable demar4 for| Helen Van Camt has a curious method of writing stories. age to continue { Rew workers, the training business} * gig w places where she was, but isn’t 7 ‘ e . : . men want in their employes and A Star reporter interviewed Helen at the !rye hotel today, and | It seemed to give her heart he slipped into a chair near the coffin, gripped her for which they are willing to pay, gap ey ‘ asked her why she doesn't write|hands with a stern determination, and through her tears she moaned her terrible story a tse application of educational about the place where she ts. She) out to me Machinery to the needs of such answered Wy Bve- little chil sat . ser to } ening: before Ch = ehildren, and the teaching of ore going to—when 1. atm. come My five little children and I went over to Italian hall the evening before Christmas| mich-needed lesson that remuner- where’ eine.” to attend the Christmas tree celebration The place was crowded, mostly with women] go hand tn You know the Van Campen|and children. The exercises were nearly over. A part of the little presents had been stories about the Great White Way,| distributed when some one called out in English, ‘Fire!’ It seemed to come fron, the back and and leading ladies, Ingenuee| part of the hall, but I couldn't say for sure who said it and aquabs, and heavies, and vaude 4 ) ee | villians. They get into the Satur There was a terrible rush toward the stairway. I called to the people around me not day Evening P Collter’s, Me-lto run, for I could not see any signs of fire any place 3ut the would not stop, and ict Clure's, Everybody's, and other)... 1 turned to call to them, I reached out to put my hand on my little Albert, who sat Motorcycle Officer Webb, speed magazines eve 4 Hele ine whtle nj beside me estern a ‘ Wd You pieture¢ elen, when you}? ve ~ : ng oy ae i arr ae read her last story, "A Week on He was gone. I called to him. I looked everywhere for him, and then as I rious injuries w he did a the Big Time,” tr the Fos looked into that awful pile of men, women and children that was being thrown up incoln Beachey stu with his ning See slare of B | at the entrance, I realized that he must be there. Machine while trying to dodge aa | vA® n matter of fact, she wrota I remembered the other children. Three of them were there safely with me. One Ee Giotorcycle 414 a fipfloy 1A| that excellent yarn in La Touche,|had left the hall ten minutes before the panic. Oh, woman, what was I to do then? ; the air, coming down on top of| Alaska, where there tan't even a “If I rushed into that dreadful crowd my other three children would rush after me. MASE, Sho reported at the station| Lp one Sera Anitne “Or wait till I could find out where my little boy wa 4 kept at work ¢ t c jon . ie ow ; hile A Bey 3 ; an denpite al oo iain | Gulf of Alaska, where {t rains, and ‘W ell, I waited. And while I waited f prayed the people to go slow. But they would rains, and rains, Sometimes 1t|/not Weten sar tear Ven Camgen. “Tt is terrible to tell you about it. At.last I managed to get down stairs another way ere r. > ° z ) eee Ae eave "ne Gus | Still I was sure that my dear little boy was sife. T was certain some one had carried venheims have a copper mifie at} him into the open. But every moment T waited at the foot of that awful stairway, my Connetimar ble has in La Touche, Helen Van Campen’s heart 5 fainter They began to carry out people, bruised, scratched and suffo-| ode, xd a bill before the council husband gets large sums of mone’ | ty podie asking for an appropriation of $10 rly from the copper kings for) °* “7 hey t Alt 1 laid yar 000 ae funds tot ce the installa making the e pay dividend Then they brought my little Albert to me and laid him in my arms. I tion of a draw and the use of the He is, one infers, a masterful per thought he had only fainted. But his little head fell back limp, and I knew he present approach of the Stone | son, for he found Helen oh Broad must be dead. . BY. bridge after the opening of the day, writing, probably, about Tim “The , as Lies looks just as if he we ‘i ” MPM ERineton sans busioe, or some auch cutofthe-way| There isn't a mark on him. Look at him, He looks just as if he were sleeping om; piace, and married bh and drag, I turned from the open casket and gave my hand humbly to the woman whose mother | DANGER is OVER ged fer off to La Touche, where|love was so great she had forced herself to act in wisdom for the benefit of the greatest | she Began’ writing about Broadway.| number of her little ones While theresshe gathered mate. CENTRALIA, Wash., Dec. 29 rial for some corking Alaska stories | Deerelty achocie, closed tor. sorne| that rim, raw-meat atutt-—and| @Q Y LATE ’ BRE ING DOWN Be cy hain sone er sme] tga aaa ee] ONE DA AK epidemic, were re-opened today. Dr.| met . them, SPRINGFIELD, Maas, Dec, 29 Eugene Ke health officer, The first thing she did in Seat! was to buy pairs and The mother of F. W. Vaille, super NEW YORK, Dec 29.—Hans believes tht all dar if a spread pairs of shoes—shoes with cloth tops, low s and high shoes, intendent of the ratlway mail serv | PORTLAND, “Dec. 29.—Twenty-/ Schmidt, Anna Aumuller’s slayer of the disc past patent leather shoes, shoes with high heels, shoes with fiat fice, Seattle, died here Sunday, Her two Insane Chinamen, tpder guard, Conansed in his cell before court heels—but all dainty and in the mode two other sons, H. T, Vaille and Ff. passed through Portland today LUNA angh “cig dbl ose heard ae. * : MB te You see,” she explained, “up {n Alaska | wore boots and a slicker.”|O. Vallle, made an effort to reach | the asylum at Salem, en route to conven be condition Raept oR ye Ryne Now, with her @&pewriter before her, in a luxurious, steam-heated | Springfield from Denver before Seattle, where they will be depart when @he trial opened, has grow phe super . . worth of th® apartment, and wearing a fluffy kimono, she ts writing that grim, raw |\thelr mother's death, but wero a/ed on the 8. 8. Minnesota tomorrow worse with the strain. His nerves Bees _ sth and Pine—| eat #tuff at the rate of 18,000 words a month. day too late, ‘tor Hong Kong. |soomed completely shattered, Aovertinernent the governor’ ja successor should be found. the ethics of the profession that no Kane ts evefi a ok | | WALKER RAPS LISTER AND QUITS AS REGENT BRISK EAST TO SO'JTHEAST WINDS 2 HHUA 2UUUNUUUU LATTE ENAENA ON TRAINS We STANT attended. “Youse can tell the guys at your office you et a real ‘bo muiligan,” said Jack Dean, Pa cific coast organizer for the Hobo Union, who Is soon to tour Callfornia | had gone down to the ‘bo hangout, in the first place, merely because | had the as signment. 1 didn’t relish the Job at 10 o'clock on Saturday night. | might have spent it more profitably, | thought, be- fore | went. | changed my mind after a tour of four rooms filled with sleeping, jobless men | found that among the 500 men, who were grateful for a “flop” on the floor there Sat urday night, there was absolute order, and not a whimper of complaint, “Cap” Baldy, head sleuth, and his 10 “jungle cops” prevent disorder, If any should break out. NIGHT UUAUODNENEAANAHAUL As | went up @ stairway, a house “bull” was leading @ drunken man down into the dark and the street. “Whasher tryin’ ter do?” he muttered. “I ain't drunk. Ain't had a amell fer a week.” | But he went out just the | same In the group of 500 there was an artist, many former busine lawyer, a doc- | tor, a telegrapher. All down-and-out. The artist had drawn neat “Don’t spit on the “No smoking after 10 ete some cheerful genius | had hung up a placard: Smile and the world smiles with you; Kick and you kick alone; | For the cheerful grin will } get you in, Where the knocker is | never known. CAN'T RETAIN SELF RESPECT AND HOLD JOB Declaring no self-respecting man will remain on a “dummy board of regents,” such as Gov Lister is apparently aiming to obtain, George H. Walker, of Seattle, appointed regent by Gov. Lister less than two months ago for a six-year term, today tendered his resignation. Walkers versity year. Four Asked to Quit lea to include A {John C ho statement today. Is Equally Responsible “Tam not one of the men the gov- " gays utes of the ernor has sought to remove day, |sponsible wit lot the board Walker minces no words. |torms the governor's mate filnctions of the board.” “It was not believed,” says Walker, “that the governor would eo misconceive the cor- relative duties of the governor and the board of regents as to remove four regents for exercis- Ing their deliberate judgment on a matter with which they were entirely familiar, and con- cerning which the governor had only second-hand, hearsay infor- mation. “In severing relations with sideration tory man may entertain overtures lo. towards the acceptance of t ction was prompted by statement Saturday that he had demanded the resigna- tions of four of the regents because the board had removed President | Kane during the middle of the unt. Those asked to resign are beltev L. Rogers of Wat- jerville, Alex F. McEwan of Seattle, Higgins of Seattle, and F. | A. Hazeltine of South Bend The latter already has forwarded | bis resignation to the governor, and Higgins, admitting be lad | by ft. | been asked to resign, would make /|is wholly immaterial in the present Ww tker in a prepared statement to. “but I hold myself equally re them for the actiou|to procure a board subservient :o lie|such a board and preserve his seif attitude as | respect. “pernicious and unwarranted inter.) he ference with the proper and legit!- Dr. Kane, the board endeavored to ex- would be interesting to know what tend him every courtesy and con-|big university will “seize upon Dr. It had been determined that his service was not satisfac It had been determined that It is should be accepted as fact that Dr. | presidency of a university until be- yond any and all doubt there ts 4 vacancy Show Kane Every Courtesy The right way, from the stand- point of both Dr. Kane and the uni- | versity was not to treat him as a hired man, giving him notice that he would be obliged to quit at the end of the year, but to give him an opportunity of tendering bis resig- nation, he to continue in active ser- vice until the end of the school year. “This was the course pursued by the board, but Dr. Kane refused to” ‘resign, intimating that, having for {three years successfully parried alt” efforts of the board to retire him, he might hold on for three seats more, In this situation the board had a@ option. They had to remove Pir. Kane. Stands by Board’s Action “The action was right, and I stand But whether right or wrong | situation. The governor has usurp \ed power for which there is no was rant in the constitution or the stat- State. Stripped of all verbiage, the governor's two inter views declare it to be his intention |his will, No man can remain on “The governor must recede from the position he has taken, or the people of the state must content | themselves with a dummy board of regents administering the affairs of an institution that touches them in a most vital spot and upon which they have spent and are spending | millions of dollars.” Hazeltine Aiso Resigns In tendering his resignation, Re- gent Hazeltine expresses satisfac- tion that he can now devote himself to the state-wide prohibition cam- paign without any other demanfs on his time, He also observes it Kane.” Hazeltine, who has been rated as a progressive, has provi- ously expressed surprise that tt “mild progressive.” Regent McEwan refused to make e,any statement today MAY SHUT US OUT | That the Pacific Northwest may | be eliminated entirely in the selec |tton of cities in which federal re- serve banks are to be located is the advice sent to the Seattle Commer. cial club by Senator Miles Potndex: ter. The information comes dexter's reply by the senator to urge The senator says in Seattle's Poin to the message sent Commercial club asking the claims. “Lam vigorously presenting the claims of Seattle to be made a fed- eral reserve city. Spokane is also making claims, which I have pre sented, but have urged the latter elty that any rivalry should be en- tirely friendly, so that the advant- ages of each may be urged to gthen the claims of our state, rather than to weaken them. The difficulty will be to secure any re- serve at all in the Pacific North- west.” FEAR OUTBREAK AT INQUEST CALUMET, Mich., Dec. 29.— Coroner Wm. Fisher started an inquest today to fix responsibil- ity for the panic in a moving picture theatre here Christmas eve, that cost the lives of 76 persons. Striking miners and members: of the Citizens’ Alllance today Jammed the room where the in- quest was in progress. 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