The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 2, 1914, Page 1

i } ; AG * Gnottiees have Iain h Cleveland has had suecessful three-cent @treet car fares for nearly four ye \ s efully have the channels of information been guarded What |, therefore, is a mote conspicuous demonstration that five-cent fares f ft bbery he city \\ ton more than a million doll A year are being extracted fre ! enge to pay d end mW red stock is ars, millio Americans, or the profit of a few are m the ckets of street cat Congress has before it a bill, introduced by Representative Crosser of Ohio, empowering the com- missioners of the District of Colum! per to buy out the two Private street railway companies at a nego- tiated valuation or by condemnation on a government bond issue at 3 1-2 cent, merge them, and operate ON THE BASIS OF THE BEST SERVICE AT THE LEAST POSSIBLE COST. Conditions in Washington are favorable to a successful fare plan even lower. than Cleveland rhe erage haul is short, graffie is steady and there are no morning and evening peak loads to make frantic the 1 most cities at these times have to hang on strap Anviow, the Crosser proposal i rth tryin it " It congere is really free of special interest control, itewif turn the job over to the ewe 1 mmi ioners and let them sh the nation what public ownership can do And the result will add another stroke to the handwriting on the wall which already looms large in the eyes of Jacob Furth and the other gentlemen who ride in their automobiles ON OUR NICKELS, while we hang onto straps. It will be one more step toward municipal ownership of ALL Seattle’s street car lines. SOUIVUNNUNNUUEnEAaeeneUac acest eae More Than : 42,000 jal Paid Copies Daily ETM PIM Mn VOLUME GRIFFITHS 1S. Griffiths is not unfit to be mayor. record on which the people can judge him. incompetent, neither is he exceptionally well qualified. FAIR NO ] taki a E. Griffiths stands out as an exception. for mayor, not by a long way. Yet he knows something about the job and a majority of the other candidates don’t know anything about it. strated some ability to make good. Most of the other candidates have not demonstrated their ability. Some of the other candidates are absolutely unfit. Most of the other candidates have not. Griffiths is not TONIGHT AND TUESDAY, The SeattleStar THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2, LIGHT NORTHWEST TO NORTH WINDS ee rT A =EDITION=2 | TTT! ON THA wes 1914 ONE CENT AMONG what is without doubt: the worst lot of candidates, ng them as a whole, that Seattle ever had to pick from, Austin 1 AGED MAN SLUGGED BY CONDUCT OR TRANSFER IS . OLD; OTHERS SAVE HIS LIFE | Scarcely able to talk, his right eye badly swoller, and discolored from the effect of a blow, suff from a fractured skull, Henry A. Behnke, 60, of 91 \27th av. S., told a Star reporter today in the Provi- He is not an ideal man Griffiths also has demon- _ J. REDELSHEIMER IS DYING| | PARALYSIS HITS |VINCENT AND HIS MERCHANT AS | BRIDE-T0-BE 10 HE ISAT. WORK) TAKE YACHT TRIP.” Julive = Redelsheimer, pioneer | merchant, probably never will see the beautiful home he ts building | in the Denny-Blaine addition, on the shore of Lake Washington. | It has been his hobby, that home. | It he sald, to be the most! deautiful residence in Seattle. | Years had been spent in its plas | ning and building. Several of the rooms had been made ready. Mr. and Mrs. Redel- sheimer were to have occupied them in another week. Seized With Stroke But, Sunday morning, Redel-| sheimer was seized with a stroke of paralysis while engaged with some work at his store. He was rushed to Providence hospital His | condition today was serious, and doctors feared he could not recover He had been feeling badly Sor] some time. Now,” he told friends only tant | week, “that I have my house about finished, I snppose one of these at tacks will carry me off before I have a chance to enjoy !t.” It seemed to be his chief con-| cern Right Side Paralyzed Helen Dinsmore Huntington Dr. Frank M. Carroll is attend-} | ens age {ng bim. His entire right side in| NEW YORK, Feb. 2-—Vincent affected He lapsed Into compiete Astor is are ‘ ae ng 7° fousness ¢ this morn. (cruise with his bride-to-be, Miss aR cue tap, y Helen Dinsmore Huntington 1 7 The Pp ch 1 include Carroll called on Dr. George The party, which wil tidsten ana Dr Shanaon| Mrs. Robert’ P. Huntington and M for consultation Redelsheimer {s 61 years old and was born in Fort Wayné, Ind., gaining experience in the clothing business there and In Chicago and Mrs, Ava Willing nearly the| Vincent's mother, is to cover ver » followed the late Jacob Astor in his ymoon trip. San Francisco before establishing It ia said that the cruise will last 2 bout two months his firm here 24 yeacs ago. His) aly “ , present store occupies three floors}. Astor's yacht, Noma, Is being at 800 to 804 First av. put in shape for the trip. WHO KILLED MEN “JUST LIKE INSECTS” TELLS STORY OF LIFE _ [bor wae YORK oth for the pe AAPA PDP PP PPP PPP PPS ‘Feb. 4 py four oT Peer a terror has ‘ through @ dark streets 4 ghe darker y hatiways of the 7 iy dee are and ‘wono troubled. wondering wb viyaer they und z ttle ones awake to = , another ‘or whether ~~, %, “muffied roar *pand@ crash In the fend oof = night would rend the * Grail tenemest walls, and set their frantic hordes battling with flame and smoke and par No one Knew at whose door next bomb of the Black Hand migt lier Long tives has re ent rounding-up of the Alfred Lehman and hard we o. | has been responsible for this reigr f terror uited in the appa gang that) LAWYER WILL BE FIRST : ELKS’ . arrested for was Arthur Wate jatealing « horse and wagon saved from a term in the re! tory today in Judge Frater’s court when Attorney W. A. Holabeimer an Elk, agreed to act as sponsor for the boy and help him lead a better life. The case ts the first to claim the attention of the Elks league, organized to ald young be in trouble “This boy has admitted his guilt and I don’t believe he has had a very good chance tn life,” sald Dep: uty Prosecutor Crawford White | I recommend leniency | Arthur grew red in the face as he admitted he stole a horse and | wagon on Pine st., between Second and Third av., last De Daytor av a bill of |sale under the name of Harry Wil | Hame. | “The boy's mother |ney Holzheimer lof six by washing " sald Attor ‘supports a family She needs this |boy, and I want him to go home to |her. He will report to me once a | week, | The court nded a year’s sen | tence in the reformatory SUBMARINE E-2 LONG OVERDUE WASHINGTON anxiety was felt tod | ty of Submarine F ton, Tex., last | naval station Fe 2 the safe at Galves Friday from the at Guantanamo, Cuba h School, 4th and and among the witnesses for state is Alfred Lehman, a litt hard-faced, tired-looking boy, bare ly out of his teens Lehman, on the stand, admit ted having committed every species of crime from petty lar ceny to a nation He told of having abducted girls for white-slave purposes. He said he had with his own hands planted 33 bombs In stores and tenement houses. Did you have tio regard for hu man life when you set off dynamite ig crowded ment asked the d attor tene strict bombs houses? ne No—no more than f would have fo! something of the stor warping of a Wuman soul into such a monstrous travesty upon humanity My father and mother died when 1 was a baby When 1 was eight I was sent to a House of Refuge. I've been through them all houses of detention, houses of ref. ge, houses of cor reforma tore i the places” where they send kids that are bad They don't any of them do a Angelino Sylvestro is on trial,| fellow any good, AMERICAN AND WIFE HELD Fo ROME, Fob Early arraign of Santa Rowa, of charged with Sigal. Cal the murder Moritz wealthy promised by the Rome police today Sigal, it is said, was infatuated Big Brother! With Mrs. Wolff, who is young and | pretty, Sical met death mobile ride with the Wolffs He dropped dead as he alighted | Victoria Hotel f from the car at the here. According | was shot from outs! The police scout this declaration, asserting that the body of the car cloned at the time, is without elther a hole or a seratch A revolver that had been fired was found on the San Remo road The police all that Wolff is a notorious international thief. POOR GUSTAVE HAD TO DO IT | LONDON, Feb, 2.~Aviator Gus tave Hamel was the guest of King George and Queen Mary at Wind. astlé tod By royal con |mand, he flew over the castle and p 14 times | looped 4 the lo | BEGIN INQUIRY acnal | NORFOLK, Va, Feb. 2—Federal Inquiry will begin here tomorrow into responsibility for the collision between the steamers Monroe Nantucket, tn which the former vessel sank with a loss of nearly 50 lives. The captain of each accuses the other of ‘running a aA dangerous speed last weel vesne A eee ot A boy gets In with older erimi nals, and they crook of him b One day make a pretty ‘ore he gets out.’ r | got out a fellow fair wanted me to go along on a ‘job. I went They killed a man, and 1 got his money The gang saw | was game and took me into the Black Hand. I got from $2 to $25 for placing bombs, The ‘big men’ in the gang got the biggest part of the Black {mail that was collected What I've done is done to take what and I'm read ia coming me Alfred Lehman is not the point} of this story He {!s only*an incident His story is told, and some penal institution will take him off the hands of society, doubtless, for ome time ta come. But the nation will still be full of Alfred Lehmans in the making, of boys to whom socie ty must recognize and fulfill its duty as guardian and educator if it would diminish the num ber of Alfred Lehmans, who are filling its court dockets and populating its post-graduate re form schoole—the penitene tiaries, ment of Longfield Wolff and wife, al merchant of Leipsig, was during an auto- | and| \ ‘dence hospital of his experience with V. L. Cline, 25, a street car conductor who assaulted him Satur- \day night in a dispute over a transfer. Girl Murderess Is Re-made Since Killing Man Who Wronged Her | Cline is held at the city jail on an open charge |pending the outcome of the old man’s condition, ‘Phy cians believe Behnke will recover. “I had a transfer from a Green Lake car Saturday after, {noon and got on my car for home at Pike st. and First av.,” said Behnke land that I would have to pay a new fare. He finally let told me j4ne go inside, but later came in and he would — |throw me out if I didn’t pay him, E ong Of hose e cheap pid st ia cae “vou won a ely Pe this with me again “T told him I thought the transfer was all right, but he kept on with his abuse. It got so bad that passengers protested, and one lady said she would report him. He went to the end of the car again and as I w get off at home I said to him, ‘You're a real gentleman, you are,’ and then he hit me. That's all I remember.” | Mrs. Behnke, who was called by neighbors. to take her unconscious husband home, said she had proof from several passengers that the conductor started beating Behnke at 26th av. and Dearborn getting ready to going to throw him off the car when several citizens interfered. “T have proof that Mr. Behnke was lying on the floor bleeding the car stopped,” said the wife. “IT was called to the car when it stopped near our home and asked the conductor how it happened before he | ““T don’t know anything about it,’ said. ‘Hurry up jand get him off. I can’t stay here all day.’ everal men assisted me and we took Mr. Behnke home. | The nductor made no effort at all to help us. | “Mr. Behnke’s overcoat was stained with blood and his face was covered with blood The conductor was pale as Leah Alexander, Who Killed J. D. Van Baalen, Who, She Claims, Ruined |death and I guess he thought he had killed my husband. Her I have turned the case over to an attorney, who is get- SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. It is a new Leah Alexander who has/ting the names of several witnesses who will tell the whole been freed in a superior court here on a charge of murder from the one a ean tie erktene wen who shot and kil J. D. Van Baalen, a few months because she| Story when the proper time comes claimed he had ruined her and then cast her faded flower Cline, in his report to the police, says Behnke became The terrible thing about that other Li before this) abusive in the argument over the transfer and that he finally trial, was that she had forgotten her pathetic, shabby, broken little! struck him to stop the insulting language metho had gone her proud, confident, spoiled way—and had bien} Behnke denies that he abused Cline and declares that \the conductor was at fault in his language wrecked | and Is likely | The new Leah ix the girl who has found her mother never to lose her again. The old Leah had said of she killed him: “I love him! Hut the new Leah says is kind I remember only his face as he pushed me out of his office and slammed the door on me, Now pet out—I'm through with you, body and soul! am not trying to excuse myself. But, oh, it 1s strange to look | back ied think of myself that day—I, who would not have hurt a living creature. It seems like a dream the man she claims ruined her, Just after I will not believe he is dead! I can't remember a thing about him that the cruel, ugly look printed on it— saying: Forward to the Farm! Here’s Your Chance If you are interested in the “Forward to the Farm” movement, don’t fail to read the announce- ment of the Kittitas Land and Livestock Com- pany, which appears on page 2 in today’s Star. W. W. Robinson, the largest hay and grain dealer in the state, is at the head of this company. On 2,600 acres of irrigated land near Ellensburg he proposes to establish one of the finest stock KINGSLEY TO PLAY PARSIFAL Parsifal,” at the First event In the mu Bruce Gordon Kingsley’s opera recital on terian church Wednesday evening, is a unique sical season Dr. Kingsley will cover the entire opera by means of a number of colored picture jected on a screen and painted by one of the great est artists In the country, His explanatory remarks, given in the en tertaining and musictanly ma for which he is noted, will be in. terspersed with many music ctions, both vocal and instrumental. several of the characters in the great masterpiece being represented by well-known concert singers. like po aie hace alec, > sony need re vo on and dairy farms in the entire Northwest. You | chestral score may join with Mr. Robinson in this great under- is taking if you desire. Full particulars will be found 9 DOCTORS SUED STILL FIGHTING in the large ad on page 2 in today’s paper. Don’t fail to look it up. Sult was filed in the aipéiion | Representing the : Seattle Cham. | court this morning sor $10,090 dam-|ber of Commerce and the Seattle ages by Morris and Rose Pruzan Clearing Houre association Attor. against Drs, H. A. Griener and M./80y Branelaco to attend the region | NEW PENNANT COUPON Marion Nudd, the plaintiffs alleging 4) bank commission hearing there. that He will answer the argumenteef Cal plyelciane ifornia for a single reserve district Noni oma JAPAN COMES IN through the negligence of the their danghter, Lily sn operation at the BILLIE BURKE POSES at Star mail and each Pennant Twenty 15 cents Ave coupon and for 1320 Second One office and at branches Noble hospital The death of the Pruzan child was cents by mentioned In The Star recently in articles. dealing with the alleged) TOKIO Eee he commerce | Bathing Girl, Co-Ed) Flower Girl, Stage SMe |"Green Lake medical trust migistry officially announced Japan | Hi é rel balay Hort C rnity are attorfeys for | wit take part in the San Francisco | Matinee Girl, Office Girl and Debutante aintifts, exposition the p “The conductor said the transfer was too old — ¥ oe st., while the gates were closed and that he was