The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 13, 1914, Page 1

COMTI TMLL ELL LULLLLGLLCLLLULLLLOLLCL DOLL LL bes ] More Than | 43,000 Paid Copies Daily is IMM U VOLUME 15. correspondent at the national capitol. sota, and Lee S, Overman of North Carolina again. Scrij%ps newspapers. Commercial Congress crowd, ostensibly to study Townsend di County Hospital Inmates Die Where They Light,” Star Reporter Discovers The Star successfully urged upon the county commissioners the es tablishment of a farm colony in King county, where the more rugged class of poverty victims can be of help to themselves and others. The commissioners fave advertised for bide. They will be opened in a week cr twe. There ought not to be any delay. The farm colony cannot come too soon. | A Star man visited the hospital yesterday. He found it jammed) with patients. Every cot has an occupant. After the farm colony is) working smoothly, the press at the hospital will te relieved. And then, | The Star suggests, the county commissioners might spend some worthy hours planning with Or. W. J. Richardson for at least a private room In the hospital where people can die in peace. one of the least of these, ye hare done it unto me. | Two Seattle women added stars in their crown terday after: | noor at the county hospital. They stopped for a moment to smooto the| pain-racked brow of an aged mother She was a pitiful, wasted figure. | She was dying alone. And yet, In the ward were seven or more; patients, and visitors coming in and going out The door to the matin | hallway was open, There were no relatives at the bedside. No tears | No interest’ Nothing to make death seem a sacred sorrow and mystery. GIRLS GIGGLE AND CHATTER No one seemed to care a rap, except two women Five girls, one sitting up in bed with her arms around her knees and four. ly eacent, giggled and chattere They looked | old woman's bed. It seemed to depress them en was placed around the bed to hide, after a fashion, ] to the! “Inasmuch as ye have done {t unte an she played with a toy lay on his back 4 the woman on the bed, “don't let me The two Seattle women stepped behind the s« smoothed. The old lady gasped lees often Is she v” whispered one of the women Yes, pneumonia. Too bad. Poor old mother! “IT’S SO HARD TO DIE ALONE” d the old woman gooogle'” cooed a womar Gooor’ i delight of a boy in a crib, who laughed as hi + “Ob, God!” pray eon aione. I ain't got ‘Thank you, lady to die It's so ha no folks ‘They're all somewhere. 1 don't know God bless you' You're friends to me. I'm glad some one stopped She said her name was Mrs, Hawkins. She was 85 T ; women left her happler-—if one can be happy in any degree de # door | 5 tough enough living at the county hospital. It’s worst to die there re is no place to die; no private room where one may gasp | one oa peace YOU DIE WHERE YOU LIGHT | @ to look after the living,” sald a nurse, “There are so mar When they are dying, there is nothing more to be done DOZEN IN INCURABLE WARD | Yesterday wa: siting day at the hospital. Flowers and fruit and] T were 12 men In the incurable ward They smiled at the vis-| OFA When they went Into this place they left hope in the hallwa ey are k daya some man there passees on and Aunt Carrie,” wh as been in bed ¢ rx with the rheuma ay rom the outside camie to see " sally shone right her rn 1 , wa RB 4 Hil Forman a has BILLY IS ALWAYS CHEERFUL 1 s00n be 1 go ou J omell the flbwers and the t 4 He's a good-natured one, is B La t » companion, Thorp en there five : yet ai dae i dow Mentally he ie quick and € ‘ f al i man 1 F lérioal work for som I could t nce, It deserves the ful * f « r cor nts have been heard ni C “ f et it be said, the floors are re “ t naturally fussy. Maybe out of the Maybe the commissioners would do just as well to keep an eye on the hospital, along with their investigation of pig sales at the county stockade and the latest quotations from the bond market Human beings are worthy of consideration, even if they ARE poor, and sick, and helpless, and useless NEW PENNANT COUPON LUE BURKE POSES and 1000 Second Ave Tw nty cents by mail and Bl each Pennant Star |, Flower Girl, Debutante. auty { | and j . CARRIE-NATION OCCASIONAL RAIN TONIGHT AND SATURDAY; BRISK SOUTHERLY WINDS he SeattleStar THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS NO. 301 rural credits abroad. There must be something in this Friday-the-13th thing. The city day. The telegraph editor has the biues. The telegraph oper. ator bursts into tears every time the key starts ticking an- other sob story. The whole staff is down In the doldrums. A BAD DAY FOR BOB! For the second time tn three months the home of “Bob” Hes keth, president of the city council, 4718 Latona ay., was ransacked yer terday.The thief turned everything. even the papers In Heaketh’s desk topay-turvy and stole $27 in mon 7 of the sym being taken from the baby's bank ee POOR OLD A. J.! And burglars visited (he residence A. J. Copeland, business manag of the Seattle Sun, 6264 19th av N. E., and took a $100 diamond ring and a bracelet STUFF And the burglars who broke into the International saloon, 212 Fourth were so mean that, when th had for open the cash regist and found no money in it, they smashed it, It cost $250 WHAT COULD HE EXPECT? And A. M, Galvin, 2 Day st (mark the number!) was robbed of $33 b at. and levard hold-up men complained it was hard iuck—they had to split .the money so many ways eee SOMEBODY !8 LUCKY! And Frank L. Crosby, clerk of the United States court, disco ‘ed to day $2,0 which doesn't belong to him, and he can’t find out whom it ongs to, and, of course, he can't And it's most annoying ents accumula dvance payments for costs attorneys upon the The spend it The me tions of made of cases “CAP” ANDERSON UNLUCKY Fire of unknown origin destroy ed the teamer Urania, of the An derson Steamboat Co. yesterday afternoon, at the company’s at Houghton Loss $20,000. It had sroken propeller, anyhov NINE FROZEN IN EAST Folke back East are out of luck. Nine deaths from cold were reported this morning in New York. The lodging houses could not accommodate all the homeless. It was so cold the hungry could not stand in the bread lines. Hundreds sat up all night in the police stations. Twenty were bunked in the morgue. There were 50 fire alarms in nine hours, The fire men were handicapped by wat ef freezing at the nozzies Poor siobs! But pect any luck live back East is raging on the Atlantic of incoming liners, gay mountainous . they can't ex Masters ice-incrusted, are running, THEY'RE BIDDING FOR CARL And here's one from San Bernar five hold-up men at Charles | samen neers WHEN FRIDAY AND 1 | ' 1 | | if they continue to snow And a terrific gale throughout Pennsylvania and Ohio SEATTLE, WASH,, s The chief movers against Gardner are Senators Duncan U. Fletcher of Florida, Elihu Root of New York, Charles E. Townsend of Michigan, Theodore E. Burton of Ohio, Knute Nelson of Minne- All of the above senators are “standpatters,” and have been so labeled by Gardner time and They have been angered and annoyed by Gardner's dispatches, printed in The Star and other For instance, Fletcher didn’t like the story about the $25,000 junket taken by his Southern n't like the publication of the testimony brought out by the Mulhall lobby investi- gation, showing Townsend to be in high favor with the National Manufacturers’ association. Burton didn’t like the published accounts of his conferences and friendly co-operation with the shipowners’ lobby and the unfortunate effects of these conferences on the seamen’s bill. Nelson didn’t like what Gardner wrote about his services in helping kill anti-trust legislation and his indorsement by the National Manufacturers’ association. Republicans and democrats, all of these, are agreed that Gardner is a pestiferous, annoying, es NOW I WONDER WHATS GOING To HAPPEN TO Carl Richardson was engaged to marry Marina Fox Carl's father took one slant at | Marina, who wears a slit skirt, and said he'd disinherit Cart if he mar ried Marina dino, Cal | Marina's mother wired Carl Stick Yo Marina, and we'll make your father's $6,000 look lke 30} cents.” eee UNLUCKY DAY FOR THOMAS Read this from Portland and shed ear Thomas O'Brien was arrested for carrying coneealed weapons. They going to let him go, but first anked him a few questions Married? Ub-huh | GUNMAN LOOSE IN. FRIDAY, B GET TOGETHER! FEBRUARY 13, 1914 CENT prying, and, of course, untruthful person. The correspondents are admitted to the press gallery “as guests of the senate.” Why not throw him out? et ; The rules committee agreed to help their disgruntled friends, and invite Gardne The senators got together. } f : the following members of the committee held an informal session behind closed doors: John W. Kern, James A. O’Gorman, John Sharp Williams, Augustus O. Bacon, Francis E. Warren, Jacob H. Gallinger and Knute Nelson. They next sent a friendly correspondent to Gardner, inviting him to see Overman and_ talk Gardner didn’t go. Finally Overman wired B. H. Canfield, the Chicago manager of t P ing that he come “voluntarily” to Washington to confer with Overman in regard to “charges pending against Correspondent Gilson Gardner before the rules committee of the senate.” | In speaking of the complaints of individual senators as “charges,” Overman lied. Nevertheless, shington “voluntarily” to see what the bother was all about. ed toward the Chicago manager a benign and fatherly attitude, saying he wished to “settle the matter quietly,”without publicity or anything so disagreeable as an “investigation” or “trial.” things over. Canfield went to There the matter now rests. WILL CONTINUE FOR A FEW DAYS LONGERguietly,” without publicity or anything so disagreea The Star and other Scripps newspapers are the reverse of reactionary. “stand pat.” Who performed the ceremony?” “Judge Boone of New York When? Five years ago.” ‘ And it just happened that Judge Stev neon of Portland used to know Hoone of New York, who has dead ten years. O'Brien got 100 days in jail CHAMPION 1S 23 TODAY w ding fighters are is Willte’« 2 ed to je Ritchie is worried, says a ateh from San Francisco. All iperstitious. And thie d birthday, He refus this morning When urged to do a little road work plied No there's probably a banana peel just waiting fcr me to slip on ere r he DOWNTOWN CAFE Bi ns MPs Salih Ald RG SUPREME COURT ASKED TO FREE ‘MOTHER JONES’ DEN VER release Feb. 13 through hi by for Mother as Cor Horace Min Jones was Hawkins, local atte ers’ union Without wasting time on the low er tribu Hawkins filed his peti pus #0u ale tion with the state supreme court asking it to take original jurisdic tion in issuing the writ In causing “Mother” Jones’ arrest the Gen mill vio bill and in detaining her a prisoner petition charged that Adit John Chase, commanding the tia in the Colorado strike zone, lated the constitution and the varda |of rights 11 DEAD OF COLD NEW YORK, Feb. 13.—Eleven| persons had died of the cold here| up to noon today. At that hour it wat 9 above zero and the mercur' was rising, but a northeasterly wind, reaching the proportions of a blizzard, was predicted for the aft ernoon, Railroad men feared the would paralyze _ traffic The Parent-Teachers’ association will meet at the Madrona 2:30 Tuesday, February 1 Sydney Strong will lecture Child's Welfare.” achool at Dr on| Chet McGinnis was arrested at 1! o'clock this morning by Mo. toreycle Offi Clarke, and book police headquarters, charg with the shooting of Joseph Ward, | seriously wounded at 6 o'clock this morning in the American Bar, 408 ike wt Ward was shaking dice with a friend and the bartender, he says when the man, standing a few feet away, Jerked a gun from his pocket and fired. Ward was hit in the right side, and fell to the floor The assailant, revolver in hand backed through a doorway and es. caped A hurry call broug squad of the saloon five minutes A systematic search of the neighborhood was begun Ward ts years old and is a marine Fifth av When the police fireman. Me lives at 1590 sought Ward's father, Frank H. Ward, 58, to no- tify him of the shooting, he could not be found at that address, other members of the family saying he had gone out last night and bad not returned It developed that the elder Ward fell on the sidewalk jnjuring his head, He the Cit hospifal and a dozen cots from that of bis son. EVELYN COMING Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, wife of Har ry Thaw, who is now fighting for his freedom in the courts of New Hampshire, will appear in Seattle at the head of a big vaudeville com pany, accérding to announcement by Manager Ben Ketcham of the Moore theatye, She ts hooked here for the nights of April 28 and he au Hyatt aay Camera Clicks ' as Girl Jumps | Lofty Bridge fe <= Constance Bennett— NEW YORK, Feb. 13.—Con. stance Bennett, 19, had just jumped with a parachute from Williams burg bridge, New York, when this pieture was taken. Miss Bennett is the first woman who ever tried to te Steve Brodie in his brid mping feats—and she lives to tell it As you may bave guessed, Miss Jonnett’is a moving pictt 7 Rodman Law, the “humar | played opposite to her in the bridge-Jumping act | | | | ‘DRIVES AN AUTO WHEN DRUNK! Two taxicab passengers hast- lly disappeared, but Charles Halbert, a taxi driver, 2529 Eighth av., was hurt and taken to the Pacific hospital yester day, after his car ran into the end of a line repair car at Fifth av. and Pine st. . A suit case and three bottles of beer were taken from the taxi by the police The physicians at the hos pital say Halbert didn't know who his two fares were, where they went or where he was go- ing He will be charged with driv Ing an automobile while intoxi cated. SHS PAN =| wae S. SENATE TRIES TO MUZZLE GILSON GARDNER, CORRESPONDENT OF STAR! A remarkable tribute has been paid The Star's correspondent at Washington, Gilson Gardner, in an effort made by the United States senate to set up a censorship over his correspondence. It is the first time in the history of the senate that an attempt has been made to gag a newspaper news| TTT U LLU. NIGHT EDITION STO EL But in this instance e 2 fa Therefore, why Overman, paper service, sugges! Overman adopt- TRENHOLME | WON'T TELL. CASH SECRET An investigation was made yesterday of charges that J. D. Trenholme is trying to buy the mayoralty. | A Joint committee of the Taxpay ie dengue and the Federed Im- provement clubs made a fruitless lattempt to get either J. D. Tren |holme or J. L. McLean, his cam- |paign manager, to make public jtheir campaign expenses, and | where the money is coming from. The committee interviewer en both, and has made a report that neither would give the de formation. Pigott Makes Charges The committee was appointed as fred in- the result of a stat t made by [8 C. Pigott at the Good Eats caf eteria at noon, wh both clubs were in joint session Pigott said “$50,000 will be spent for one candidate before this campaign is over,” and that the | same ring attempted to buy off John C. Slater last Sunday for $5,000, so that he wonld withdraw from the race * Immediately B Bellows, a worker, jumped to his feet, denied Pigott’s statement in behalf of Trenhol and offered to take him to Trenholme head quarters and prove the denial by |the campaign books Accepted Challenge | t immediately accepted th | dd that it rests once Id serv su ty'’s in f the clubs appointed a commit to make the estigation. A jecordingly, Judge A.W Hastie, Thomas H. Bain and Smit! chosen, The committee 1 that neither , n woukd divu and answer to questions says the mittee report, “Mr Trenholme said antiall “1 have no knowledge or infor- mation regarding the expenditures in my behalf other than my person: | al expenses. The total amount is a little less than $200. | will say fur. ther that | have not paid nor am | |paying any man or men for pre |cinet Work $5 a day, as has been charged, or any other sum. For information regarding the expenses of my campaign committee, | refer you to Mr. McLean, the chairman of that committee.” The committee thereupon wai on McLean, The latter told them he handled very little of the mone 8 f Trenholme Refused Statement | He refused flatly,” says the re. | | port, “to make to your committee lany statement of the sums passing }through the campaign committee's Jhands, or to give any detailed in |formation regarding the sources of |the commit revenues or the [nature of the expenditures, Re Sferring specifically to the charge that large numbers of men are be ing hired at $5 a day to do pret jcinct work for Mr. Trenbolme, Mew Lean said * “‘lam not prepared to say wheth= er any men are being employed precinct work at $52 wings ARE SENT TO OUR HEADQUARTERS TO WORK FOR MR. TRE HOLME, AND WE SEND THE! OUT TO WORK. We do not ask and we do not know how many these men are hired by the who send them here, nor how mi | they are being paid. , “Your committee bexs leave ta report further that it is convinced, as a result of its investigations and observations, that large sums of money are being contributed to Mr, Trenholme’s campaign fund by pers sons who are concealing their ins terest therein.y This method of conducting a campaign is unfom tunate, as it mak possible for those responsible for it to evade the laws requiring the publicity of campaign expenditures.” Backed by Grambs Amplifying his charges, Pigott last night directls Billy Grambs, sal manager of the Puget Sound jon, Light & Power Co., as having obtained th ndorsement of the mployers’ as- sociation for Trenholme, and per sonally solicited financial support for Trenholme’s campaign. rambs is the man Mayor Cot om his office when he city admin- labor unions terill eje the for ist ation of ng inst the employers Grambs,” said Pigott, or who will bring on industrial warfare.” Furth Picks a Slate That the Electric Co. is behind Trenholme’s cand is evidence ed by the further fact that R. Wy Ankeny, cashien of the Seattle Nas tional bank, of which Jacob Furth, is president, has sent a number of letters, suggestin a complete slate in the coming election with J. I Trenholme at the head as mayon The “slate” includes D, C. Com over as corporation counsel; Hat. ry Bruskevith Portland Hunt; Norman Abrams, and C, B. Fitzgem ald for the council SMALLPOX AT NIAGARA FALLS NIAGARA FALLS, Feb, 13.—State |Health Commissioner Biggs warned the authorities that unless they act [more vigorously to stamp out @ |smallpox epidemic, he will isolate ithe town wants @ a bloody A teacher in a Kansas school h. resigned, following a “recall” vote her pupils. 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