The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 7, 1914, Page 1

f OCCASIONAL RAIN TONIGHT AND THURSDAY, BRISK SOUTHWEST WINDS [ais] The SeattleStar (ies Paid Copies Daily THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS VOLUME 15, NO, 269 SEATTLE ETM —— Mn FMM Ai MMMM WASH., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1914 ONE CE HUMAN LIVES PAY FOR BUNGLING! 1 WILL PASS GAS ORDINAR CE Owners of Seattle Ships A COMMITTEE (ae USE Wen CRT WAS WILLED AND SH OTHERS HORT) Bitterly Oppose Move to PUSOK.ON ce ' Guard Passengers’ Lives Seattle, San Francisco, and all. over the Pacific coast over the verdict of negligence found at San Francisco recently against First Officer H. W. Ravens of the steamer President for the loss of four lives, three seamen and a passenger, at sea. It is liable, they fear, to link Officials of Company Go With Councilmen on Inspection | of Houses. itself up significantly with evidence before congress supporting the La Follette seamen’s efficiency bill, making human life paramount over profits. Phe President the of the Pacific Coast Steamship company’s vessels to come that has followed their fleet fever the past few years, bringing death ped that the “hoodoo” explanation might be accepted and further i THEY ADMIT DANGER| Con of 5 nvestigation directe urd mundane responsibility dropped Agree to Install Separate In- But the passengers who brought charges against Capt. R I. Paulsen and Second Of- ficer T. I Mathiese 4 vell as Ravens, would not have it so stallations as Required by Ordinance. They had witnessed the “hoodoo” resolve itself into “PLAIN HUMAN BUNGLING AND GROSS INEFFICIENCY, as far as the President was con- cerned “Three lives, at least, needlessly sacrificed,” they testified. And in the case of Ravens, whose license they suspended for 18 months,- Inspectors E> Even the opposition of the gas company has been swept aside. The Wardall bill for the _ protection of the public against _wecidental death by gas will undoubtedly be passed by the counci! next Monday | The public safety committ morning, with Chairman Haas and juthrie and Dolan sustained the passeng fhe tragedy was rehearsed by the unstrung passengers into hot terms of blame and stockholders, satisfied with inefficiency be- { their blame embraced ship i THE PASSED THE TOLL OF IN STIFIEED TO ERS ERS KNEW THAT EVEN WHILE THEY T COMPETENCY, A G JP OF WEALTHY SHIP OV » this} - “ih Wardall present cc | ! Pe . > e caged the ‘ill. for pose te | WERE PROTESTING TO CONGRESS AGAINST THE LA FOLLETTE BILL BE- This committee Tuesday after} AUSI VOULD HURT TRADI . EP Roon, accompanied by three offt Light I nts for negligence 1 incompetency, and their bearing on maritime | dials of the gas company, made a acd asntes lap revived by. the present: case : Ewer dota hocces where GOVERNMENT. RECORDS SHOW THAT REVOCATION OF LICENSES 1 SI Ss Jooming and lodging houses whore The Booth Home, Where it Lodged at the Bottom of the Hill After its Long Tumble. A Members of of the Famil Were Pinned Down : eaounal . [ARS, WITH A LOSS OF 81 LIVES ‘ecidental deaths by asphyxietiou 'nside by Wreckage, and We Rescued by Neighbors. {~— — ene EXTREMELY RARI IN THREE TYPICAL YI Dave occurred during the past BY WRE KS LESS THAN 10 LICENSES WERE RECALL i em goes ba ) ployme a Cs comps : vy RMN artiste ttstetin wens sa 1 é€ a es ome $30,000 A YEAR! This has probably grown up because the inspectors realize that skippers and mates Z | result of this inspection, conceded : ELECTED T0 FILL too often have had to suffer for the sins of ship owners Wy the gas officials, They pro ’ A flagrant case is that of Capt. Faria, whose haggling over the price of removing his ee coceerate tn redwping tt ‘ |imperiled passengers and crew from the wrecked Santa Rosa, resulted in the loss of four lives. _ SEAT IN “aigeany HE IS TODAY AGAIN IN COMMAND OF A PACIFIC COAST STEAMSHIP te a minimum. } “We realize,” said one of the cas | 4 “that the company's basiness | ; seriously damaged whenever an “ |cOMPANY’ S VESSEL—AFTER A SUSPENSION OF SIX MONTHS. ‘Accidental death by gas is report Cot 8. : Fitagerald, of Bal-| Another case is that of Capt. T. H. Cami of Seattle, who commanded the steamer vo vee Maced" eeen State of California, which hit an uncharted mck in Alaskan waters last summer and AUSED THE DEATHS OF 32. ther 15, 1909, the tug Goliath, C T. Bailey, master, with the British barge ow, ran aground near Gray Is'and while en royte to Cordova. The barge i Require Separate Fixtures As recommended by the pubtic Mafety committee, the Wardall bill | S ant Makes it unlawful for anyone \o tine combination fixtures an! re @ires the owners of Rouses, hotels and Baby Booth, 3 years old, was Douses, to shut off the gas at the) killed, and six other members Source where such combination fix of the family of Simon Booth, “on as ¢ ed fi rot * 1H. T. Bolton, In the resulting investigation at Seattl:, Bailey was exonerated, and the accident a. mane Poni Sy pa ar was found to be due to an “error of judgment” of First Officer T. H. Cann. In the State of California investigation, held here at Seattle, T. H. Cann, now captain, been 20 ballots # for 55 minutes to} f hour the mud and id tures exist, and where the gas !s| an Alaskan Indian, were injured continued to rise, and react , pitexerald has 1 n Seattle} was exonerated of all blame. of Ep pent only in emergency cases for i! when their home on the bluff level with Mra. Booth’s ehir ‘ h em THE ACCIDENT, IT WAS FOUND, WAS UNAVOIDABLE. al ting purposes. on Alki av., near Fairmount av. A tas the rescu emoved the ¢ ount rious a | Where combination fixtures exist) West Seattle, was swept 25 feet = mud it would rush back n $ES C08 é ' | id | for illumination and gas is nlso| down the bank by an earth slide Booth rowing his f fren ar t 203 ont | iy tet for cooking and other domes-| at 6 o'clock Tuesday evening old, out br ye oh a candidate | tle purposes, the bill requires sep | and wrecked oy, Shien he March ¢ for the j Srate installations When the house commenced to attrac > » ert of hin wife Violations of the ordinance are|rock Mrs. Booth selzed’ the baby he started to rescue t But his ig GOT HIS $10,000; exSONTIKES MAN IN TEMPLE tyen weo evar | Punished by a maximum sentence and attempted to leave by a rear lets were pinior tb t i @f 20 days and $100 fine eo mr PR a the lecato Sitab he wa in id j _————— A storm of rain and mud f NON iu d ; her back into the ro The Haas was caught ag a piece of farr 1 th eee : ture and killed PORTLAND, Jan. 7,.—Awak The body of the dead robber : is ; Mrs. Booth fell through a b and William. ened early today by two burg was removed to the morgue. George Swan, 60, is suing Any the floor as the ding how 4 hous lars in the room in which he Before leaving the Hatcher /Archibald and her husband, D. M. . pecoh 1 apart, ar ir LT an Eric of a} and his wife were sleeping in home, the robbers exchanged a Archibald, for $10,000, claiming * as to San Prancisce,| fis home at Lents, a subury, number of shots with Hatcher, that the woman defendant won his . eerie ta. cocsttnne ols ‘ akon t se H. J. Hatcher opened fire and but neither he nor his wife was affection, cozened him out of 4 n t M « »| Shot one of the highwaymen struck. : money to the amount named, and through the stomach Hatcher told the police he then married another man. Ks R D. O. Powe f the First Seventy-five feet away from thought both bullets which he suit was filed in the sup2r- a : the the door of the home the took effect might have been jor court yesterday . LO8 ANGELES, Jan. 7.—plight- tt me of the wounded robber fell, and from his gun. The police clung Swan sets forth that he met Mrs @4 romance is believed to be re Ave his partner, believing him to the theory that the dead Archibald at Port Townsend, that Sponsible for the deaths of Mrs.| I asked f mortally wounded and likely | man's pal had shot him. he advanced money to her, and Laat pat pela be . to confess, shot him throug the understanding was that she " ox, her daughter, | 1 he w to go t the temple, killing him ine |@ a —__———-e wis to invest it and divide the f rence, 12, and a man believed | siti t the al stantly | | profits with him 3 Ue Wiliam | Metton, a rook a er P oe ae 8 a a ST get ini S fre, Eri 8 well He then removed all means HAVE YOU REGISTERED? Later she married Archibald, «10 broker. which to tar « of identification from the body The registration Tuesday is made co-defendant, and the court k TE taldes of the trio, perforat-| 008 is. t | Aye was ng $10 and escaped wae oh ‘ is asked to order the defendants to ; 4 by bullets. were foucd shortiy | bureau toda 1000 a the same small average Is | make an accounting to Swi i ere found sk e ’ Mahia ae, caasts. were found si igie 2 j ; : sid SAY IT S FALSE maintained for the remainder ' Hotel Vidamar |rain during the next 24 The doct t ¥ f of the 2 dare for s the boows Ate ; c et oa : : : are closed there will be many Fi police belte the oma the fa ll be muct 1 V OUVE Rn. ¢ \ BEET cer Geuchter naa the ann | it has been in the past fc ary to give : beet A RB lan, 7 —No thousands of qualified voters Scaflbenage te edited i vid B c 1 Litt a " . who will lose their votes in } Persons in the hi t \ e fall thus for it D ame 1 se : the coming elections, Either —— J is in th the time| The rainfall thus f = : pss este t Pers, en that, or there will be a big A meeting has been called for id that th hear le 5.11 inches, excee 1 1 fr t rg veard ast ash during the last few day Wednesday night at 7:30, at the shots, No on Toom untli the p Mrs. Cox enga room hotel December | 7 » | ous records whole of Jan Traffic ha Gra re Ashi tires (Satu Register university branch library, corner uf “nae ss t now. Books are open at tho ; |S50th av. and 10 av. N..B., by +h . t on ' 1 Prefont building between _ University J. D. Trenholm club. J. D. Trenholm will attend and ill both in Seattle } ea De man : d * " j Thom she introduced ax ner proth:| Northwent. Locally, the Al cal offices of I bh) PRESIDIO, Tex. Jar speak at length upon the 10th av, f sonnel Mapa va lca le rat ; & Sst the < D have rebels had closed in on Osina Le @ bridge project. The public is in: easions ha tin h Incident gain today, They resumed the as vited and everyone desiring the ‘o- i the gir out 1 a taken her and nee . 7 EN sive on Gen, Herrera’s artiva cation of the bridge at 10th av, } FF To SPEAK a, eAP STSTONT S MOK FAGTS ONLY) ws my wee Fe: Sorel SoS le ss ecco. . Who watched doctors sew A b To auurtets h * m the rted t or book which the vice president killed in the fighting up to toda id ‘i ff Dav e hoboes | rainfall \fter ac ‘S: sent to the chief executive of whom 300 were of the town's de teacher, who practiced peu up his heart after a stabbing : vi dene benins at the nobow ee gale ocaiaanie eh a ' ve tatidare manship on bad checks | affray, died 24 hours later ; Ras Denny| Rainier Beach, Lau Rer m. T. Je 1 ARREST HOSPITAL HEAD The news reached here that a 08 s. 7:4 1 {ay evening.|ton and » Duwamish le te ts, not ne For failing to report promptly 450 rebel prisone were put te h been com, 1 Thaw's met ondi:|the auto mecident to Mine Lydia nth in Oftnaga Monday, and 1s NEW PENNANT COUPON | . sii paneer a tea of the floo tion w Hobe ! ve you| Rainey, one of the nurses, a few yesterday s ae ber ttle mes, and | The basement of the Van Sick-| submit t to the commission at 20, Mrs. A. M. Dickey, secre This did not include the seriousty BILLIE BURKE POSES id and, by a few cases the actual moving len apartments, at Bighth and Uni-| Ji @. m, Frida tary nd manager of the Pacifle| wounded rebels who. were “put out THIS ae en houses to safer locations has be-| vers numerous other base Fhaw and his mother attended | hospital, was arr ted Tuesday |of their misery” by parties sent out i 9 4 Art Series of Pennants can be had at The Star office and its branches by presenting this coupon and 20 cents 2 for each Pennant. Twenty-five cents by mail. enn, ners 2 spo ort in this town game, a man came to The Stag offic steel plant there THE BUBBLE BURST! years fe into getting that; bundred dollars will rid me of the All mail orders must be addressed to The Star, oe to bet $200 at odds on the| sald { want $200 He told all be Plowing praphe: ae} of The man returned to Seattle, He property, and 1 do not want to lose! shark 1309 Seventh Av ne ¢: elf th 3tee] Corporation and! got bia old job gaek. He b ed Str It'll never be worth ch Well, its a gamble, but The Sta i . ra 2 man AGE st arnplonah by alfes) extxte voomer ol LhRC AMMAN! Gt \oAp saberke to play 0 but At Will ba Ansan lan Hate Ha a genie but aue Star] Main Branch: Northwestern Photo Supply Co., Inc. 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