The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 31, 1913, Page 1

RAIN TONIGHT AND THURSDAY, BRISK TO HIGH SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST WINDS. The SeattleStar SX] TTT AUT PT E] More Than | 41,000 | fa SAU ATHAEEAL TTT = Circulation Every Day | =_______< THE ON ; Br . THE NEWS EMMI : wich: lbodtewacdle Merida. ox incl inesti OT | VOLUME 15. NO 263 SEATTLE, WASH., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1913. ONE CENT Siwa'trawnn te | = ; ' LLB LLL Celt : T I i The eyes of the nation are still moist with the tears dropped over the coffins of the little ones interred The glasses will tinkle, orchestras will play, squads of waiters will be on hand to minister to the revelers, in the stricken Calumet district. rollicking airs will mingle with ribald jest. And Seattle will get drunk tonight. Young, old, decent, indecent will join tonight in unwonted democracy—reduced to the alcoholic level, and the Quavering prayers for food will rise from childish throats tonight in Michigan, mingling with the moans and groans of bereaved parents While at the same time, Seattle will spend $75,000 to drink itself drunk— riotously drunk Hundreds of men, now in Seattle, are walking the streets, aching for work, and starving to get it, sleep- ing on bare floors for want of a dime for the cheapest kind of a “flop.” But if there is a sorrow in the world, Seattle will not have one sympathetic thought to waste upon it New Year's eve thousands of whistles heralding the New Year will be no shriller than the drunken shrieks, alike of the drool- ing sots and the young “bloods,” the outcast and milady with silk and satin lingerie Except in certain spots, Seattle will greet the New Year by getting gloriously drunk. AND WITHOUT A KIND, SYMPATHETIC, OR WORTHWHILE THOUGHT FOR THE THOU: SANDS AND THE MILLIONS WHO NEED, UNTO THE VERY EXISTENCE OF LIFE ITSELF, OUR VERY KINDEST OF THOUGHTS Star Photographer Plays Human Fly on Peak of the Smith | Building; Hangs at Rope’s End to Snapshot Last Bit of Work | By Fred L. Boalt “Plummer!” called the City Desk “Uh-huh,” said The Star camera man, drifting forward.) “Go to the Smith building and “Yeh>" said Plummer, scratching an ear with a finger tained yellow with dark-room chemicals. “And get a picture They're putting the last piece of material into the tower. I want the picture to show 'em doing it.” All right,” said Plummer “And hurry,” added the City Desk, departing Plummer hurried | The City Desk tucked the matter of Plummer and the picture he was to take in the back of his brain, and turned his attention to other things Plummer, Graflex in hand, hurried They're putting the last piece of material into the tower,” the City Desk had said. “I want the picture to show ‘em doing it.” Plummer was! oeoeere Plummer is not a heroic figure. The thick lenses of his glasses give him an mic look. * He is tall and gangling. He isn't the sort of individual a superficial judge of men woula choose to carry a message to Garcia. Still, If his commanding officer told him to carry a mes sage to Garcia, he would probably say “Uh-huh”—and carry it. | Plummer found J. P. ¥ hall, the superintendent of the eky- scraper | Got a balloon?” asked Marshall, grinning | No; why?" asked Plummer | You'll see,” said the superintendent, and together they were shot) 30-odd stories skyward | Then they climbed up and up, past little triangular windows, to where the tallext skyscraper in the world, outside of New York, tapers | off into thin air. At ‘er peak, as you know, is the big light, and into this Plummer climbed. wascold up there, and the wind blew a gale. The tower | seemed ‘to a | Two men, Robert Pritt and Earl Shaw, were lowertng a swinging scaffold over the edge into the open abyss. Ae they sank, swinging and swaying, Marshall sald ‘ou you would need a balloon.” asked Plummer, who Is stingy with words. The men on the scaffold could not now be seen. “You saw that 18inch slab of terracotta they had?” said Marshall. Regent Higgins Takes New Washing ston Won’ t Stand setting ready to put it In. How yox wolas to get ‘em withont « balloon" R Earth lay, a apidery map, below them. The streets were the lines mt We Yeie ot for Gaby’s Pet Hen and Rooster“ cant take the picture trom here" sald Plummer. I've gota have a rope. This Picture, Taken From the Balcony Below the Pinnacle of the Smith Buliding Tower, Shows the Scaifold Siung Outside the Light. It Was Upon This Scaffold That the Men Worked Who Placed the Last Sit of Construction Work on the Building. And it Was on This Scaffold, at the Point Indicated by the Arrow, That Plummer, The Star Photographer, Stood While Taking a Picture of Them—a Picture, by the Way, Which The Star Isn't Using Today, Because it Believes These Pictures of Plummer Himself Are of More Interest. In Order to Get Far Enough Away From the Workmen to Get Them Into Focus, Plummer, Supported by a pay akg ae Hie Body and Held by Men in @ 8mi Window Above, Leaned Back Off the Edge of the Scaffold, with Nothing Betw im ment But Some 400 Feet of Thin Al HIGGINS AND M’EWAN RESIGN 2 . * Sacre! Mon Dieu! Eet eez terr- for Henriette, who lay one fresh egg If he had said, “I can't drink unsweetened tea. I've gotta have His Resignation. . | sugar,” he would have sald {t the same way 4 eobie! for mademolselie’s breakfast mgt A rope was tied under the camera man's armpits. Two men held day, and for Hiram, ze grand roost. | one end | “There will always be on the | Ze Washington hotel z ‘ All ready? } board at ieast a few men who | truly wizout heart, wiz sympatny er.” “Yeh,” sald Plummer. | possess quite as much intelll- gence othe governor and (none at all. Ze hotel—eh, what eez But do ze hotel make ze reserva Then he, too, disappeared Into the abyes, but hie feet could be whos bined judgment and heard scraping against the sheer wall as he descended greater OT raaliiats ait «aah glia aes a lt as tlone? Oe r facts make their decisions upon (“gets ze goat” of Monsieur C. P. Non, non. ” ra wently thy 3 et rope siackened, and Plummer's voice, very smail, floated up i rig university matters much more | Greneker. “Nozing doing on ze poultry,” say Three men now stood on a narrow pla Relow the plank was 465 dependable than the gov- This Is a Kodak Picture Taken of Photographer Plummer, While ernor’s.” M. Greneker eez ze press agent feet of nothing and a stone sidewalk | He Was Snapshotting the Workmen Laying the Final Piece of Construc- Monsieur le Clerk. Welcome to our city!” said Pritt and Shaw Nothing suprises 1 ® above is an shar gagee: 9 tok zat famous Franch actress and Poultry! Sacre! men who build skyscrapers. tlon Work, by Another Workman in the Window Above. & statement by Regent John — Higgins of the Universtiy ‘of Wash. | enchantress of ze royalty of Portu Henriette, she is Victorian Leg | 1 want the picture to show ‘em doing it,” the City Desk had anid $ a n Plummer, teetering at the far end of the plank, tried to focus his Pyotr gicctee oti Mop ped gal, Mademoilselie Gaby Desiys. M horn who come all ze way from Lon- | box on the workmen who were fitting the sinb into the hole. He was| jov. Lis ternoon sos |Greneker have come to Seattle to “ Ing. too close up afternoon in accordance with the don. Male “nosing dotig” He cupped his hands and shouted to those in the light above: “Haul latter’s request. President Alex F. “Male ze rooster,” shriek M. Gren-! 1» tf) I tell you to stop!" MeBwan, of the board, also sent . ED... :ntig: ig name” Hicam, ‘for se The rope tightened. Hooking his toes on the end of the plank : ‘ : »lumm 1 body t into Higgins disputes the governor's : ‘ a eveenae' of Gallieenin® thc Pat ane or deer far out Into space. right to remove any regents before | . The » held taut thefr terms expire, but ts resigning, P ee "| should worry!” say M. le Clerk ne rope held tau . Thi render cused ou stance «| ee eo rdte ar cn oe re Th us sup end , he again focused, and found the distance right. I! it.” All right | what are you going to do to-Jand no one will object con ons which are already Piso fe . tendin > Satverstts ‘Derrt wanah me,” asid ei See oat a ae | night? “We shall serve a dinner from 5 gett! sort of ¢ Plummer's eyes were glu 0 the finde e strain of the rope There's enough riety in the until 1 in the morning if anyone on his chest was hard to bear, but he could stick it out 1f he had to, He body wishes it at that time,” said’ Man- learly Intended in si ener mn AAS SRL On eta: He: Die, 808 In a medley of popping cham-|ager Morrison of the Rathskeller. f the board of regents - ee ee pagne corks, the clink of glasses, ak will cost money. So we charge or when it fixed the The He Annttne opping like a hooke. .-|way laughter and singing, sweet|$5 for each reservation term of. ap; mt to six years, They hauled him, dangling and flopping like a hooked fish, back to| isi. of the churches, the twink-| “We shall not limit our drinks the big light et s to ¢ Di e, | He was a little breathless when he returned to the office. He had|!in& dance of the cabaret singer hampagne, but will serve no #0 as to 4d the quadrennial the ringing of bells and shriek of | mixed drinks. It will take too long changes 1n the political administra- hurried an . tion | . ¢ histles. inight parties in hun-,to make them for the crowd we e City De o lent > , e whistles, midnight p } 4 Forces It Into Politics = be oie eel 4 him malevolently. Nobody ever hurries enough dreds of homes, special shows at|expect. We have made about 600 sult a City De i “red servic ch | reservations now.” The practical applicatio y etl." barked the City Desk, “did you get it? theatres, sacred services at watch | reserva oe pene ten apron Ae ey __sUnn pi ead ‘i wer. Se eer |nicht meetings, the infant 1914/ Special music by the orchestra says Higgins, “tr Ub-huh,” said Plu will be ushered {nto Seattle to-|and singing will be the Rathskeller orces the university Into a polities, It {s hard enough to ke night at 12 entertainment, Souvenirs will be ae A 4 given the guests | Nothing Doing After 1 a. m. | Similar plans for the pleasure of | Chief Bannick has ruled that noj| guests are being made by the New joore” of any kind may be or-| Washington, Savoy, Butler, Frye | H |that the eating and drinking place will close just as soon as they nay At City Hall Park | t rid of their guests. Cafe men A watch night service will be say they will obey the order. held at the city hall park from 10 | It is predicted that between 50,-/to 12 o'clock. The Central Council 100,000 merrymakers will | of Soctal les 000 and Agencies has the meeting ‘1 is fod 1 ft epend It will be ¢ e university nor makes him ynaible for the actions of the board of regents ns says the removal of resident Kane is not parallel with the governor's removal of the re. gents, because the latter's terms oat hil throng the streets tonight in charge, and it {s open to all are fixed w, while the pres! LOS ANGELES, Dec Fates! OLYMPIA, Wash., Dec, 31.— About $75,000 will be spent for| Mayor Cotterill will preside dent of the university holds at the Gavin Cratg of the jor court! Judge Mitchell, of the Thure- | }iquor | New Year's eve’ services will also f [will rexentence Bandit Ralph ton county superior court, this Cafes and hotels where reserva-|be held at the Swedish Baptist 3 a not a Pa ‘arise Friday morning for the mur: morning took under advisement re made have disposed of|church, 8 side a 6 no ite ea anraiiaehianta kek bon for Milac@aby dion Parise are made ha posed of|church, Sunnyside ay, and 46th st tt ew f make 9 y ler of H, FB. Montagu the appeal of the Puget Sound ating capacity, Hun-|E., at the Trinity Parish, where Y t to take « she give one matinee and one performance in ze Attorneys for the man will plead Traction, Light & Power Co s had been retained |special music by Organist J. Ed ‘ ‘ he is mentally unsound and that) from the recent order of the f $ , nde il be r fe . 12, at ze Moore theatre. I in by paying $10 or $5 a guest as a/monde Butler will be a feature, and evening of Monday, January at ze Mo 7" ise there 1 not consti state public service commission fee You can spend more, though, ‘in other places of worship. Eh bien, where goes M. Greneker? ‘ tute first-degree murder requiring 4-cent fare tickets, to | —— ae Heirship OD eae gr ge ee B oa IN FLAMES ; If Craig again sentences Fariss! be sold by conductors on all . To ze Washington hote Wide aN to the gallows it was ‘regarded as Seattle street cars. ‘ ‘ | s w Ce} fe} “Bet coz Mile, Gaby's desire,” M, Greneker speak ‘ | probable that the youth's attorneys) The decision is not expected for | NE PENNANT COUPON s C \ would appeal directly to the state! two week | ‘ Dee. 3 nie ht oe with much politeness, “to have one suite for her \ d * | supreme court IN THE MEANTIME, THE Com.| BILLIE BU RKE POSI & 6 rly to na * wan overjoyed a . : — whi 1 five-story brick tene charming self, s'il vous plais, and rooms for three . Farias was overjoyed at the lift) PANY WILL NOT BE REQUIRED ‘ne A iol elmo Py jing of the death sentence hanging TO SELL TICKET® ON CARS, | THIS ” Ment o at., 0 is f Bio maids and one secretaire, and for ze manager, and jover him. He apparently has been James B. Howe appeared for the a | he o-Ed t 1 ‘sections of th made to believe that his chance to! company and Ralph Plerce for the WEEK C ca livé is very bright city, ‘Rhe guments presented T ; b ce i gis OA th tie GOR repeater tidy repay 7 BURGLARS GET DIAM sg | Were practically the same as those b Art Series of Pennants can be had at The Star office b 1 removed to the Gow the port c&mmission Tue b ONDS — srude at the fime of the hearing Pand its branches by presenting this coupon and 20 cents ernoon epresentatives of the Chil-| pA FRANCISCO, Dec. 8 before the commission for each Pennant. ‘Twenty-five cents by mail 4 sd taaeh ll feoeneen , From Leach! park to Medina for » on the private boats Im ¢ i ‘ rovernme pt in atten tn Ie th ni f lars robbe a ¢ bas, Sion, a more and takes a little Main Branch: Northwestern Photo Supply Co., Inc. OKIO 1 fadgutt wih in ganie ubmarine vacosagasta us |aoldier, of $180 and two diamoné 0 Myatt i i Ae : “eq in cvastacow Tener a nickel : wunched Wednesday morning from rings worth $800 in a downtown thand, but renul (Eastman Kodak Co.) 1320 Second Ave. ; Formocn thitteon ten nero! ‘That will be the rate on the Port| Twenty tickets fors$1 will be/the Seattle Construction & Dry |hotel early today, Simons was too and real qorth of the Bathing Girl Pennants can also be had this week. School, 4th and Pine. — bublicly executed today at Talhoku, of Seattle ferry “Leachi.” as estab-|sold by the port, | Dock company plant. ill to resist,