The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 24, 1914, Page 1

“JUST A COLD PROPOSITION OF LAW W eyes upon the supreme court of the state, which has in the past been big enough and broad-| to determine what a reasonable fare would be in Seattle. minded enough to uphold such measures as the workmen's compensation act, the minimum wage, We don’t follow the judge at all. and the eight-hour law for women, Seattle today looks hopefully for a decision on the four-cent car ticket We're not asking for lower fares. We've had the four-cent ticket rate for several years. We're worl will not be based upon “a cold proposition of law,” as Judge Mitchell of Thurston county | merely asking for the privilege of buying them at convenient places—on street cars. How does it be- it in his decision yesterday. come a question of rates? We can’t understand these judges and lawyers. We can't understand the peculior twists in the But Judge Mitchell’s decision is not final. And Seattle is pinning its hope upon the broader view logic which makes of our troubles merely a “cold proposition of law.” of civic and economic and public service questions adopted by the supreme court in recent cases. BUT WE DO UNDERSTAND THAT IT’S MIGHTY INCONVENIENT FOR THOUSANDS OF In a larger sense, however, this continual bickering and strife between the public and the Furth | PEOPLE IN SEATTLE TO CHASE ACROSS 14 SETS OF TRACKS TO GET TO A CAR BARN TO| railway company, and the petty meanness and arrogance displayed by its officials, can eventually find puY TICKETS, AND THEN FIND THAT THE OFFICE IS CLOSED AFTER 5 O'CLOCK. but one remedy. oe ease Mitchell says in one breath it’s a question of rates, and in the next that he’s not called upon AND THAT IS MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP. - RAIN TONIGHT AND SUNDAY, BRISK TO HIGH EAST TO SOUTHEAST WINDS The SeattleStar IT’S COMING. AND SOON. ee TT More Than 42,000 Paid Copies Daily TAT THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS VOLUME 15. NO 2 : SU UN NOAAUUAUUNUE UATE 2|=EDITION= Z E MMMM SUUAUUDATUUUATUAAETLANNIT ONF CE ON ERALAY SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, 1914 TTLE SOCIETY HAS THE ITCH! be miess malady, which hak as. person will understand it is {mpos-| hood of {t fills me with ire learn that Harry Whitney Treat yeccr pag a bya he an ep! sible to even guess at the extent) From time tmmemorial It has!had the gout. He has twenty mil iteh whooe personal habits aredis cleac. of the epidemic, There is an odium been the poor man's inalienable lion dollars. While I have not wine Wee. fitan eae Huds cin one creee | attaching to te itch. and exclusive right to haye the sounded him on the subject, f practice, admitted ete ae One scratches furtively in exelu- fteh jimagine he would regard {t as an i gers today: oat many of his |, ,'t, # Induced. this doctor tells sive circles, not openly and shame-| The rich man has his gout, Did/{mpudent ptesumption for me, who eat tion Bf hypeructdity. leswly ax in the naive practice of yan ever hear of a brick-layer's am worth at the moment 20 cents at is, if you Indulge in.rich w the hot-pollot helper having the gout? For that (though this ts pay-day, heaven be he lies to add, itch, it is mot regular d heavy foods er it in only in recent rs thanked’) to have the gout hat appendicitis has become $0) I do not say that Treat has the The physician already quoted bl you are practically invi | Wteh, We doctors are puzzied to snobbish. and tella me that every member of ciuiarized an to be within, the/itch. 1 do not know dlasnify it itch germ to lodge on you and: a Capitol Hill family—father, peach of all 7. 8 “tt is, then,” I suggested, “sort ot Hankers get it. So do men of mother, sisters, brothere—came I once had a snobbish acquaint The point Lam trying to make f e | eilettied ited leisure. For ladies who breakfast to him separately, secretly, and ance who, after an operation for! (hat 1 see in this contraction of the *h would be more accurate, per-jin bed and rise at noon there is in great perturbation to find appendicitis, wax at pains to let itch by society folks the thin enter gam the physician, “to call | scarcely any escape. out what the trouble was. * me know he couldn't essociate with | we wedge, an insidious and sneak exclusive diserimina In {ts manifestations it ix not ee me quality because I) {ng encroachment upon the exclus ®& }uniike the plebeian itcl that you, Is itch, then, to become a fash. atill my appendix around ive right to seratch of the sturdy spread of} and I know so well |fonable malady? with me. but impoverished class to which I but” For a reason which any sensitive Mere contemplation of the likeli; One would not be surprised to! belong W. D. Wood is another intruder in the mayor- alty contest. Like A. J. Goddard, he has no excuse whatever for putting the citizens of this city to the trouble of eliminating him. His position is even more untenable than Goddard’s. Wood was mayor once. He didn’t play square with the city. He ran away and left the council to select a man to fill out his term. In addition to fizzling as mayor, Wood has of late years made a dismal failure in a business way, losing money for many Seattle citizens who bought stock in his Trustee concern. Now this man ‘Who quit on the job as mayor once before, and who has failed absolutely in his own business, asks this city to elect him as its head and to pay him a sal- ary of $7,500 a year. In Monday's issue of The Star, this space will be devoted to the candidacy of John C. Slater. [WOMEN WHO FIGURE IN DAY’S NEWS| DR net ee _.) 8 eee JULIA SP noe.on: WEST seaTLE cary WILL FIGHT Mildred Richardson NEW YORK, Jan. 24.—Just age . > / as Mildred Richardscn, 16-year. ’ ‘ and old chorus girl in “The Queen Mrs. Richard Coke Burleson a of the Movies,” was aboutto go | ern) cane all engagements ths on at the Globe theatre, a few | Mrs. Marjorie H. Cunningham Mra. Richard Coke Burleson, cance! e 9 hed enings ago, the stage man- the suffragist leader and wife and returned to ir | rr handed her a wonderful WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan of Lieutenant Burleson of the an operation for appendicitis. ced bunch of roses, with this note: 4) 23.—No more igtters can be de Third Field Artilt Sothern will come to Seattle “To Mildred, from her first | livered to Metjorie Hamilton, Ss a icici Alayna the week of February 16 with F stage-door Johnny. DADDY.” | the famed “Calendar Girl.” untarily given up Washington out hia wife. A capable under- inal om And, sure enough, afte: the Postmaster General Burieson society for the life of a student study will fill Mrs. Sothern’s fe ite ek show was over, there was issued a fraud order closing in the George Washington unl roles during the engagement Ne ee re airare’s AL Mire. id De Koven at t “daddy,” at the stage door. the mails to her and the com versity here. ae pail a arorana ere ie Ms h ¢ nt! tr inten ‘ 7 er A 1,4 ight, y vivants. it shows t He is W. E. Richardson o pany, which deals in an ant Her intention is to make h t Pasadena, Cal., last nigh $e tarrtie' et, suffered $800 dap Saskatchewan, Can fat “cure.” Marjorie has fur self of greater use to the suf the company rehearsed three Immediate appeal will be taken to the state supreme court by Cor- Miss Gould in the hand Brom There was no water. Fire- ie : feme medieval, id-embroid- ada, the long nished the pictures for the frage cause through a careful Shakespearean plays on the roof age oration Counsel Bradfo: half of th - oo en satin iecine, and gold trip to New York just to hie company's advertisements, study of economics and the of a hotel, that the understudy men used chemicals to fight the Sudge Mitchel! of Thonn soung ting zs emma with the famous little girl make her first stage while her husband, W. C. Cun structures upon which political might familiarize herself with mission's ruling and refusing to order the Puget Sound Traction, Light w and Power Co. to place 4-cent tickets on sale on its Seattle cars. e Judge Mitchell's decision means that the traveling public will have 1 { |SUFFRAGETS! ! wrms against the elty water depart-| 5 gig into its pockets for an extra $6,000 a month to Jacob Furth’s ment and are meking a life-sized company because they cannot conveniently buy“tickets. BOMB! BOOM! roar over the fact that for two days The question presented to him, said Judge Mitehell, was @ “cold they have been without wate Proposition of law It was one of rates, and not of service, he declared 9 crascow Jan. %4.—The build AND WITHOUT NOTIFICATION The enforcement of the commission's order, Judge Mitchell said, ce at Mabie «thal tintéatont FROM THE DEPARTMENT “would result in a substantial continuous loss to the company.” : ings,at Kebb' alace an THAT THE SUPPLY WAS TO BE “The commission's order is evidently based mostly upon the evi : *) gardens were wrecked, #uy pe OFF. dence as to the convenience of the company's patrons to purchase com- by a suffraget bomb, today ‘The motors at the West Seattle mutation tickets,” said the court in its written opinion ear! —s her mother. appearance. ningham, directed the business. | campaigns are builded her parts. s are up in REPR Ss T¥o mote country girls found them there the next morn: valuable nts were destroy a A Mexican soldier boy at 19, Per-. stole oaf of bread and a search-| pumping station burned ~ out, ac And the court holds that the convenience of the public was not the been “vised up” by a Pairs course | ing. wpateinnnn tind chncily Taetits ce cbatcantion, 4. tollawer ot. Cel ght from the store of Charles cording to city water officials, and | sue before it, but that the point involved was one of rates. ee life. Atty. Jesse Frye, for Knapp. @X-| guished the fuse on one bomb, but. y wed bg »kon at Woodinville,” sald Dep- caused the shutdown. The damage Whether the rates allowed in the order of the public service com- Knapp, aged 24. pleaded| plained that his client had been | ciner overloo & aebod’: Gab cot fleeing to the United States iy proseentor 9) He loo! i heen repaired and water will; mission are reasonable or unreasonable, Judge Mitchell holds, can be my tae Morning before Judge | employed in a large lumber mill at jy wag planted r his home and family were de- | jjke an honest boy and has told an|be furnished today determined only after a physical valuation of the company’s property is f to “contributing to the de-| Anacortes, where he showed such > stroyed In the fierce fighting in the honest story, frankly admitting his) Sehoc the water famine dis.) obtained by the commission. In the meantime, the company cannot be PWemeeey of a child” Florence | marked ability that he was promot TO THIEF TO GO juares district six months ago, was t. I recommended that sen. trict were closed yesterday required to sell tickets on cars, he rules. a iaroht girl living at\ed and brought to the head office AU the central figure in the prisoners’ | tence be stayed until we can find “Why, everybody knows why Assistant Corporation Counsel Ralph Pierce, for the city, contended |, between and Ta-|tn Seattle, where it was thought he TO PENITENTIARY sock (oday before Superior Judge ’ or for him and place him in| the water wae shut off,” said | tn the hearing that the question of rates did not enter into the case, be- | ma, on the interurban line would have larger scope for his Mackintosh a 1 home a department official The | cause the company itself admits an obligation to sell tickets at the rate WAM. Crawford, « moving-picture| rather extraordinary talents ‘ eitalie. io. auianiobiial ae wamiten if the United States, but [West Seattle folks have all | of 4 cents. ‘, eae hot guilty to a similar He arrived in the ¢ ahd the | iicvcs manerior Judae Mackiatost r hink ike Mexico been calling up the office here The point at issue, said Pierce, was only whether the company cou uttorney, “at 5 in the afternoon. seriaced L. T. Romer to six commit ¢ he boy to a Star rey It cut and we told them what caused | designate its own places where tickets may be bought by the public, Attend Public Dance and was arrested at 10 next morn er ae gust (a thar Wain aessgar yet pretty: Haren date tees Cuvier the | ‘wee. treble.” whether the public service commission can order them sold by con- e and Ethel J 3 Walla prison this morning on an ut “ sdded to the romance fighting and | ran one d when I A reasonable = ex - er ductors. to Beattie on a recent Satur Judge Frater fined Knapp $199.) 0106 theft charge. Romer stole | of | fe, won him frte on the got scare The bullets were fl s. Still, West Seattle PeT CESS $$$ Ta a4 went to a public dance king that, being “such : if ys I t ‘ , ublic dance nar kin ak vei WCh &/the machine of Dr. Peregrine. prosecutor ta ne everywhere, 1 just. lo: ” ui Where they met Knapp and. bright g man," *he wonld prob |" " a re And Percy will not go to the re head. And afteg 1 crowsed the Mix ic DOWN TERM Bee ene fe “vac atin a ie TRIES TO GET BOND "717, onions nw tin tie se” BROSPECTS FOR than depot. While they Crawford was I, arrested ine WASHINGTON, D.C, Jan, 24.— © Pacific conductor, who wa iting for the last car, a fire Isis moving-pictw t at First ay. and Yesier The girls are detained by the po Harry W. Ho t ile crowd at the fire, they met| counestien! with dbs down ot Kier | Gaer ¥ RAISE HER FRISCO ROCKED BY BUSINESS C000, rhe final vote on the Alaska Rail: 10 Walla Walla today to besin L Sere: mranaer to them, for] ARREST TEAMSTER 72.07 (i en een eee | puyMoU'Tit Jan, 2 Aitempta | /WO EARTHQUAKES D liar titewace Tas scante poseen | reine © $32 chéck, WO God H. Reno ihe 8 “year-old Nort 2 tft r ‘eh 4 her escort ” ¥ & The se Last Car Home Jack Smit 4 id to be a team. Mackinto He i¢ making an at-/to rate th nken 4-7 had to be SAN FRANCISCO, Jan, 24.— day, by a vote of 44 to 17, voted SUP Prise waiting for hin . : i, Crater miased the last | ster, is und a reat charged ith tempt to raise $5,000 ond ab ie ‘ ned Ne mipor arity today on ac Two earthquake shocks—the mic ae 6: emanne iperior Judge Mackintosh i the Witten ns nae. op ent a eutting har a9 from 8 Sound , rinse alli and the second de nt to lease the railway Teduced the minimum sentence to Wher. ol, Ff n a anefer 0 eam e@nte a at - cl pevere—were here by six 01 hs. q f Crawford lived police Fou th av, and Union st CHILDREN ASK FOR COTTMAN RETIRED about ch 45 last Ganlbs : NEW HAVEN, Conn. n if he aay d see fit to do so, Sen The « ase Was unusual . i gre It was too early for evening | Secretary of Commerce Reatie Md, nd tor Poindexter of Washington had Judge Mackintosh. “I would sles MUNIC AN OPEN.-AIR RINK BREMERTON, Wash. Ja crowds to have gathered gen. |) dressing the Chamber of Comme made a strong plea to have the gov- an application for bis pardon, if it ; 4 IPAL LEA UE 24.—With the announcement erally, but in continuous per- | liere today, roundly denour the ernment directly operate the line, were presented to me ij that Rear Admiral Cottman, formance theatres, cafes and prophets of evil, who, for p teal | ———-— —— ee ieaetiininiagiahpventienialage wnat bs FOR CUSHM N SITE An ‘open-air cement roller commander of the Puget Sound dance halis there were several | purpose prenee. pygrsuwe orm A akating rink on the Rainier Navy Yard, will retire from ac near panics, women screaming, He admitted that the Balkan war Beach playfield is desired by. tive baw ise February 1®, on ac a few fainting, and in rhs ‘4 vnd currency changes had given NEW PENNANT COUPON ae si i pupils of the Emerson school count of age, arrangements have stances entire gatherings run. cause for business arene mas BILLIE BUR q = peeve league voted fast ght in favor of Immediately we A petition sent to the park been made by the Bremerton ning Into the street now, he said, they were 4 ore KE POSES eat ushman power site. ‘The vote was taken after a de board yesterday was submitted Commercial club for a farewell No damage was done Besides, he added, the trade depres THI . ‘ perintende oC to Superintendent J. W. Thomp banquet in honor of the admiral sion tn the United States at its Ss “M © 499 te woke nt. D. Rows, City Engineer A. H. Dimeck and son for an estimate of cost and.) Mra. Cotman on ‘Janu : 5 " worst was less than that which pre WEEK a inee ir t cutnan i peathet *he adoption of the committee report oppe Residents of Northeast Seat ary 29 PLEADS NOT GUILTY sailed abroad ‘ Meentatives of the ide hacer lot! baseeles teal rama ena wal h M. Newall, arrested hy Offi One coupon and 20 cents for each Pennant at S } ld hcl) Seattle Electric co and aot the, Chamber of board to request that a oar fine Ra farewell party will be given in) cers Collins and Jones, charged | The annual report of the Ladies’ J Gifice and branche Twenty-five cents Asecuntt | Mister enn ght for the repor ey have recently be immediately constructe the old vuilding, Fourth) with Kidnaping a young married | Montefiore Ald society, of which ‘ : : o. f Wh Jaton’ .”,the.seaque. The discussign lasted until midnight. into that district, provided a and Seneca st., Thursday nifjht, woman, entered « plea of not guilty |Mrs. J, 8. Kane is secretary, shows Bathing Girl, Co-Ed, Flower Girl and Stage ke the Perchee a cenrman of the gommmtoe vi lich reported | bridge could be secured for 15th hy the girls of the Federated Clubs | when arraigned today before Judge |the membership kus increased to/F Pennants ean iae.tie ead hie sbeak ‘ ne site, av. N. E. of the asse@giation i Macktatosh 1263. i