The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 12, 1914, Page 1

= 7a ¥ Py) & ONE OF THE REASONS, MAYBE, WHY FOLKS ARE OUT GUNNING FOR OUR JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERS Mra. J. M. Schmitt of 1545 W at The Star office yesterday after Market et., noon Ballard, was a ya She waiked downtown, carrying the youngest of her seven chil dren, a two-year-old git! “The others were in school leave her with.” FROM 1545 W. MARKET ST MILES. Mrs. Schmitt w looking for she explained. “I had no one to TO THE STAR OFFICE IS SIX job for her husband The Star the other day called attention to the plight of a man MORE THAN Girl Lives 13 Years as Man an 45,000 PAID COPIES DAILY WEATHER FORECAST — Fair tonight and Wednesday; cooler Wednesday; moderate easterly breeze. VOLUME 16. FIREMEN HAVE CLOSE CALL IN $100,000 FIRE Fire that started on the top | floor of the Gottstein furniture store, 1514-16 Second av., some time during the night, this morning totally destroyed the furniture stock in the store room on that floor and caused a heavy damage from water to the stock on the lower floors it was gotten under con- damage to building and fur niture will reach about $100,000, partially covered by jurance. The building, itself considerably damaged in the upper stor! is valued at $100,000, of which is covered by insurance. Stock Valued at $110,000 The value of the Gottstein stock is approximately $110,000, 90% cov ered by — insurance Furniture stored on the upper floor was prac- | tieally wiped out while the water damage below was heavy. | Helen Igoe's shop for women afd the Keating Millinery shop, both} on the ground floor, were flooded. | The Igoe stock, valued at from $50,000 to $60,000, with an un- known amount of insurance, was about 75% damaged. jin is Unknown ‘The stock, valued at $15,000, largely #aved becatse | it was enclosed in wooden water proof show cases. T fire's origin is unknown Starting in the excelstor king. it is thought tt emolde several hours until this morning, when suf. focating fumes were found through out the building. An alarm was o'clock Burning varnish and smoke from furniture-packing made it imposst ble for the firemen to enter the sounded at building for some time. Fight Fire From Roots the headway front and heat was As fire gained flames iched from the mounted skyward. The felt across the street The firemen made flank attac from the roof of Wilson's Busin college, adjoining, but progress was slow, and at 9 o'clock It was feared the whole building would go. Not until 9:30 were the flames un-| der control. Firemen Are Injured Two firemen were injured by the showers of glass that crashed down from the shattered windows, One sustained a laceration tn the | leg and one's nose was broken. Lieut. Pat O'Conner, standing on one of the fire escapes over Sec out 2 av., Was struck by a stream of ever: ts. saved himself by the railing of the escape Noor below. grasping on the WELL, WELL, IF HEREISN'T OUR GOOD OLD FRIEND, THE JUDGE! Summer is coming. The birdies; chirp in the trees. Hear the crick-| ets cricketing, and the green grass grows all around Vacation will soon be here. And Judge Humpbries has gone into training for his summer monologues. His first effusion doesn't cover the marathon distance for which the judge is noted, but it has some of his other well known qualities “Without egotism,” spake judge yesterday, “I y say that I am as good a lawyer as there is in the state.” With that as the major premise. the judge proceeded to elucidate thusly “There are lots of lawyers who don't know hell from gee, and there are judges who don't know any thing either, but that is due to their own neglect “There is one royal way for pov erty to raise its head to ease and success, and that is by steady self improvement and labor. I made the trip and I know. | com menced in poverty, worked hard. drove oxen, cut wood, taught school and practiced law, I hav 000 worth of books today. Nobody ever gave me any money, and I never bor. rowed a dollar in my life. Now that’s a good record for a poor boy Further hizzoner sayeth not NEW ORDINANCE BARS GIRLSUNDER 18 FROM DANCES Girls ‘wiles properly accompanied chaperons, will not be admitted into any public or club dance after this ‘The council passed the dance or-| dinance Monday afternoon, inciud-| ing the above provision. Another clause provides that per-| mits for dances, either single or serial dances, must first be obtain-| ed from the police department. ; Dance halls must obtain licenses. is, by under ‘NEW FACTORY TO OPEN HERE Work on a reinforced concrete | building, which will He used by the | Chappel Perkins Belting Co. re cently incorporated, will commence j immediately. The structure is lo- cated at 4 Ballard av. and will be ready for occupancy June 15. (FLOOD AVERTED FAIRBANKS, May 12.—Fairbanks was saved from 4 serious flood yea. terday by the breaking of the ice jam in the Chena river. The fc piled up to a height of 25 feet, caus ing the water to overflow the lower portions of the city. THINGS YOU OUGHT TO F*" an ordinary city, of international fame, ship Portland from Alask was a bustling metropolis, filled gold rush. Seattle stepped following the arrival of the steam first shipment of gold from Alaska and the Klondike and the first news of the great gold strikes. KNOW ABOUT SEATTLE Into the limelight ‘a on July 17, 1897, bringing the Within 24 hours the city with men outfitting to join the ome Backbone on the Bench Would Stop These Murders! A few months ago Bery! Bill, a { young girl, was laughing and | chatting on a corner with | friends. The next moment she | dead, a crushed and bleed- | ing victim of a huge Juggernaut | of steei called an automobile. SHE MIGHT HAVE BEEN YOUR DAUGHTER, YOUR 8i8- TER. THE RESULT WOULD HAVE BEEN THE SAME. | The police say the driver of the car was so drunk he couldn't talk. He was arrested, tried, and —the jury disagreed. Last month Mra, Her mit, aged and infirm. was eroas ing a crowded street intersection She was crushed under the wheels of an automobile. She died the next day SHE MIGHT HAVE BEEN YOUR MOTHER, OR MAYBE YOUR LIFE COMPANION OF HALF A CENTURY. THE RESULT WOULD HAVE BEEN THE SAME The driver of the car didn't stop. On Apri! 30 Christ Mackris, a youth of 21, gave up his life, an other victim of the Seattle speed fiend, The latest atrocity is the mur der of Dr, L. H, Redon, crushed al have | named Leed, stantaneous. But there have followed, have told how urgently they dren may eat They couldn't all be helped, not Mra, Schmitt, ‘Of course,” somehow, w. morning since last fall, of course like to have this poverty forever different “Lean see how you folke are fixed whey hy husband started out thie morning, to look for work, a three children and no job. Leed is working now in Leed's wake, a score of men who need work The response was in that they and thelr chil Newspaper readers do thrown in their faces, But But just like he has every 1 got the youngsters off to school and came in here to tel! you about it.” The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News he Seattle Star NO SEATTLE, WASH. TUESDAY, MAY IT WAS 3 O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON BEFORE THE She reached the door, and tottered under the weight of the LAST OF THOSE SIX WEARY MILES HAD BEEN LAID BE child HIND HER “it's just the walk,” she murmured, “I'm so tired.” “My husband, he's #0 discouraged,” she went on, “that I'm We tried—we in the office—to do something for her. BUT a terribly afraid something is going to happen. | have a daughter SHC WOULDN'T EVEN LET US LEND HER CAR FARE. who is working. She earns A DOLLAR A DAY, We try to manage Se ae Es on that. But it's hard. And most of the children need shoes and And there you have it. Some will say The Star is “knockin clothes,” the town.” Well, if this be * God help the town, that She picked up her little one. “1 muat be getting along,” she sald. “! there's no harm done in my coming In to see you, you can't help us?" knocking And even if Seven children! Nothing to eat! And nothing to wear! Who wonders that working folks are out gunning for our John D. Rockefellers! thank you, sir is there IGHT EDITION AND “DIVINE RIGHT” BAER Is just as dead as any common man would be. ON THAINS AND NEWS STANDS 12, 1914 ONE CENT d Has Two Wives Tt was love at first sight_on my part and we became engaged. I grew tired of life a at home and told ‘Ralph’ he ‘must marry me at on r it was all off. ‘He’.told me he ‘ had a secret he would tell me after marriage and ‘he’ went out and procured the certifi a cate required by the eugenic law, and on the 24th of March we were married. I did ne know until just before ‘Ralph’ was arrested that ‘he’ was not a man, and it almost broke ‘ my heart, but I determined to s d by ‘him’ and be ‘his’ chum if 1 couldn't be his wife.” STATEMENT OF DOROTHY KLENOWSKI, CHILD eBRIDE, WOOED AND WON BY THE MAN-WOMAN ‘WILSON IS WORN OUT BY WORRY IN MEXICO FUSS | WASHINGTON, May 12.—A very heavy drain on President Wilson's | physical powers has been made by the trouble with Mexicu. pres. ident has taken this matter very }much to heart and has Jost & great deal of sleep. He is under orders of Dr. Grayson |to conserve his physical powers in le way ¢ backyard, i. which h of his time, is one feature. An important result of the presi dent’s great care for bis health is |his increasing isolation. He sees lfewer people every day | GIRL WHO WORKED, LIVED AND LOVED AS A MAN | WITNESSES RETELL STORY OF SHOOTING IN BECKER TRIAL CHOICE TO WED” PRETTIER GIRL: By Idah McGlone Gibson he ILWAUKEE, Wis., May 12.—"Did this woman, as far as you know, wear male attire for immoral purpos Did you ever see her do anythng vulgar?” asked j the judge in the case of “disorderly conduct” brought against Cora Anderson, who, until last week, as Ralph Kerwinieo, had worn men’s clothes and posed as a man for “While in male attire how did she act?” the judge continued. | “Like a PERFECT GENTLEMAN,” was the policeman’s answer, much to the amusement of the spectators who filled the police courtroom in Milwaukee. a And this is the verdict of almo&t every third man in the city who knew Ralph Ker — Ml and never for a moment suspected tha: “he” was a woman Aa h many more witnesses. Judge Pane could not find the charge sustain and girl-man” who sat so caeeeely through the trial was allowed to go free” with the command that she should resume her woman's dress in the fuutre. ‘ | This is the end of one the strangest cases of double life that has ever been written } ce 8 ee HIRTEEN years ago two girls who had studied to be nurses at the Provident hos-— pital, Chicago, found out how hard it is for a woman (especially a woman with £3 |dark skin) to make an honest living, and decided to double up and form a home. Anderson, looking the Indian she says she is, thin, straight, was to pose as the a and Marie White, plump, pretty and feminine, was to be the wife. re “Weedid: this," says Cora Anderson; the- husband;.“for™ financial -as well as | reasons “As girls working outside the home we had been subjected to all sorts of over- tures from all kinds and conditions of men. If I assumed men’s clothes I would be better able to obtain work and as a ‘man’ I could protect my ‘wife’ from insult. The into as unthinkingly most marriages are “We wanted to live honest lives and become respected citizens of the community. ture she is shown attired “We started this masquerade in Cleveland, O., and for a while I was bellboy at # as a man, a garb she has Hollendon hotel. Then we came to Milwaukee and I entered the Plankihton as bell 4 affected for 13 y ett + We furnished a little flat, and to the world we were Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Kerwinieo. “No one at the hotels ever suspected me on | “In a short time I thought of myself as a man, and it never entered my mind that ~ ‘ NO TRACE FOUND I was any different than the men about me with whom I laughed, joked, worked and played my part. ° THREE POSES OF THE MAN-WOMAN — Cora An derson as Raiph Kerwinieo t left above, and her. self at right. In lower pic compact was entere “I have always done a man’s work, and I think in most cases I have done it bet- ter than the men about me.” This statement was confirmed Manufacturer Cutler “Ralph was the best MAN I ever had at work for me. And the men with whom ‘he’ worked at this store made up a purse of $65 for ‘him’ and one of them went on ‘his’ by all “Raph’s” different employers. The mystery of the death of Dr Oa epee ie ee snte Oe. Li Red . Acktis wh vebihans seo How did the secret leak out after all thesé years? edon, Be e physic! e “ ” ; o ici dusiy, Mabaas pinay ats The “marriage” began to grow a little irksome to both the young women. wounds received when strock down| Marie White thought she saw her “husband” growing coarse ulna icuhecaensin weds y petites | “IT felt it was time she had again the refining influence of skirts,” she said. entrance of the siesaed 40! Cora Anderson (Ralph |Kerwinieo), on the contrary, become more and more mannishy| tak dsat<ak thai tacs, buiining She frequented the poolrooms and barber shops and other places where men “a bly will go down in the list of it Was whispered that “Ralph” had a_ flirtation snow and then. d auto killings in Seattle. yes ding Mig! he sus investigation, conduct A BOUT six months ago things came to a climax, and after a bitter quarrel “Ralph” 7 4 ye police ag neg Sgt home arid started boarding at another place of his unconscious body, has come| 7 x to naught | Afterward in one of “his” vsits to a dance hall “he” met Dorothy Klenowski, The coroner's inquest in the|pretty and very blonde k case was held this morning in the| “Tt was love at first ” Bonney-Watson undertaking parlors. | t z aight on sny part, “says Dorothy, "soe ee wee engaged. Only a meager hope was held that|8t¢W tired of the life at home and told ‘Ralph’ he must marry me at once or it was ‘ new evidence would be tnearthed.| Off. ‘He’ went out and PROCURED the CERTIFICATE REQUIRED by the EUGENIC The Rey, E. V. Shayler will read} LAW and we were married by Edward J. Burke, justice of the peace. 4 NEW YORK, May 12 Bald; the car around and wai Th the f i: pievicns 3 Dr. Red k K" ste efore are fixed. Beck ed ‘em he funeral services for Dr. Redon | * d no c vefore s es Jack” Rose took the stand before | Or mee. i's & - tomorrow afternoon, 12:30 o'clock, |:, a4 : vg v4 3 obi ea igs ‘ petore” ale. e arrested that he was not a mam and noon today at the trial of Former at St. Mark's Episcopal church it almost broke my heart, but I determined to stand by ‘him’ and be ‘his’ chum if I couldn't Police Lieutenant Charles F. Beck be his wife ‘ er, charged with slaying Herman | FIGHTS UNSEEN WPSTER SHUT-OFF NOTICE __“Miss Marie White told my employer myecret in revenge for my leaving the house,” Rosenthal | . Water will be shut off on | |said “Ralph,” but my employer was game and never gave the story away for two mo! " b a ory a nths— - Becker watched Rose closely ENE 1ES: D Ss Lucile and Findlay sts, east | [not until Miss White, finding my employer was not goir _ throughout his testimony M ’ IE of 46th av, 8., Walker st. from | lithe police 8 i going to do anything, tipped it off to. Rose recited the story of his al-| pscvattoes 46th av. S. to 2nd av. 8, on ae { leged negotiations with Becker, ex Frank Hadavis, an insane} | Meade st. from Bist av. 8. to | But no one can find that I have done anything wrong.” plaining Becker wanted Rosenthal| man taken into custody at Ravens-| | 52nd ay. §., on Gist av, 8. from | |~—————— PES PRG! PERE ine LT killed because the latter had in-| dale 11 o'clock Monday night, died Orcas to ade st., Wednes- | | formed the district attorney that/at the county jail at 6:30 today day, May , from & a. m. to Becker was sharing {n the profits|/Lying on a cot, he imagined he| | 5 p. m | lof Rosenthal’s gambling house. was being attacked. He fought off @ o riier Wm, Shapiro, a chauf-|his invisible adversary all night At the clearing house session o a o ee ed , p CH at ” d succumbed to ¢ nustio: 1 } al tpt eg ln eM aa ee LANDMARK GOES ii. seaitic reat estate association . Metroy where Rosenthal was| At the Port Commission office it today at the luncheon In the Raths wot down was &. that hich wharfage| A landmark 30 years old is tol eer 50 new members signed y Aa we neared the Metropole,” | charges prevailed, but that|fall. Workmen are preparing to| thetr names to the roll ‘ 1id Shapiro, “I heard one of the | they gradually being reduced, raze the old Providence hospital, at} — - — —-| Welghing more than 200 ‘pounds, , “Frisco, 1 Frisco,” who later admitted her — gunmen—I think it was ‘Whitey’ | sin competition started between | Fifth ay, and Madison st. A Hora dressed in a new suit of man’s cloth-| real name is Frances Agnew An iow s—way Have the driver turn the municipal und private wharves, |for the work has been issued. | ing, with yellowish blonde hair top-|drews, and tha: t she and her hus- to Insensibility by an unknown autoist and dragged into an alley to die EITHER OF THESE MEN MIGHT. HAVE BEEN YOUR BROTHER, YOUR HUSBAND, OR YOUR SWEETHEART THE RESULT WOULD HAVE BEEN THE SAME, THEY ARE DEAD. Ponder on this. Since the first of the year between 300 and 400 persons have been arrested for violation of the speed laws. From all of these cases the city has obtained the piffling sum of about $1,500 in fines, ONLY 1 AND HE GOT BUT TEN DAYS. | The speed fiend pays his fine with a grin, His next victim may be YOUR wife, YOUR child, | YOUR aged mother or father. Not a happy picture, is it? But a true one. Where lies the fault for these motor murders? Not in the laws, The laws pro. vide ample punishment. Not mere piffiing fines, but real jail fentences. Not with the police. The po- lice have arrested reckless speed: ers, only to have the cases | thrown out of court or passed | ONE MAN WAS SENT TO JAIL | over with trifling fines. ped off with a rakish silk cap which jhalf hid her pink face and nose 7 glasses, a woman giving her name GOING § A |as “Frisco” Andrews, 32, was arrest * Bled today in the King st. railway Are you going to spend the rds by Patrolman W. 8. McGraw day at home, or are you going Hers was a poor disguise to avail yourself of this excel: | A small fortune in gold and bills band are separated ie “L was going to Alaska last night and missed the boat, so decided to go to Butte instead Bought Man's Suit Here ‘I never wore men’s clothes until last night. I bought the outfit here | and cut hair, Some folks THE FAULT LIES WITH fortun Ow my THE JUDGES AND WITH THE lent spring sunshine for an totaling $1,332.85, was found on the have been following me around, and PEOPLE WHO SIT ON JURIES, | Outing? If you have not as Jj) woman when she was searched at I just wanted to get them off my A JUDGE ON THE BENCH yet decided upon your desti- Jf| police headquarters track, I never beat my way, I ale ways ride on the cushions, My home used to be in Omaha.” Officers who talked with her be+ lieve she may be suffering from @ slight mental derange tent, nation, let us suggest that you Carries Gold in Sack carefully peruse the announce A glittering heap of $20 gold ments on pages 6 and 7 in The | pieces was carried in a canvas sack Star next Saturday afternoon. {in the woman's outer pocket, Tbe You will then be able to pass | bills were secreted in a belt. WITH BACKBONE, is | NOT AFRAID TO IMPOSE A | JAIL SENTENCE ON A SPEED | FIEND BECAUSE HE IS RICH, | WOULD PUT A STOP TO THIS | WHO WANTON MURDER. an enjoyable and profitab’ | The woman was taken before De- There is no doubt as to the bi ae day in the open, ineldentally ff; tective Capt \nant, who ques- pile of geld coins and the rolls oj Put them in a real jail, with affording yourself a chance i@ 9; tioned her at length. She probably | bills she had, however, real iron bars between them and look at some of Seattle's most [f| will be released, as the police are liberty. Brand them as criminals. pleasant summer homes and fflinclined to believe her story is a | AL JOLSON, in blackface, thrills That is the remedy. camp sites, within a few min- 9} true one. theatre crowd, singing “The Rosary.” WHAT. SEATTLE FOLKS utes’ travel of the business | "I made my money in dance halls Wonder if they'd cross the street, if WHO WALK NEED IS BACK center Arizona, and then decided | he'd wash his face, to hear him Sute jacw n in to come said |day mornings in church, to the Northwest,” BONE ON THE BENCH,