The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 15, 1914, Page 1

Will ORA AN and She S About Men ELEVEN MEN ARE KILLED IN AN EXPLOSION DETROIT, May 15.-—Though scores of police and firemen were searching the ruins today, it is be- Hleved that the number of dead in the explosion which wrecked the plant of the Mexican Crude Rubber Co., at Del Ray, would not exceed | 11. Ten are known to be dead and another is dying. Seven more were ously injured. The explosion resulted from the ignition of a compound used in the manufacture of tires. Police Commissioner personally directed the the rescuers. Company officials so far have re fused to give the number of em- ployes working at the time of the explosion The blast was of sufficient force to shatter hundreds of windows Gillespie work of and shake scores of buildings the neighborhood Thousand» of spectators gather. ed about the wreckage, including 8 relatives: of the employ HEAVED INTO BAY WITH HANDS TIED, TELLS OFFICERS Nagouch! Kamaskuk!, a sailor on the Awa ™ 1 ie nder arrest, charged with emuggling three of his countrymen into the United States. One of the smuggled men is said to have informed government offi cials that his hands were tied after being brought on the steamer’s deck when she was in Seattle, and that he was thrown overboard A Great Northern employe picked | him up, he says. The fact that each was supposed to pay Kamaskuki 120 yen, and that he paid only 20 yen, {s belleved to be the cause of the alleged murder | attempt. The other two were also thrown overboard, it is said, but their Bands were not tied, Man Lives Saw Men in| a Man Kiss a You, in Her sed, Worked and Acted as pease energie a DERSON Tells It. She Dress se: Sate inte tha ge ogee Out in the World Is Something Awful. I The Only Paper in Seattle Tha VOLUME 16. NO. 70. SEATTLE, WASH., | | cretion in that event speeders since the first of the year. THESE WANTON AUTOMOBILE MURDERS IN SEATTLE, Now, Judge John B. Gordon, a menace to human life. An Auto Death—anda Peep Behind the Scenes BRAHAM LEVY was a cook in a restaurant on Jackson st ‘The word “was” is used advisedly. He is no longer a cook. He is déad. Levy came to America, and Seattle, from Italy. He couldn't keep the wolf away from the door in his native land. He had been told one could earn a good living in this country, And, though it hadn't quite lived up to his dreams, Levy was satisfied The letters he sent home were full of hope. Soon he would have enough money saved to send for the wife and four girls. They should all live together happily again. So he saved enough to pay for the fare of one He sent it over the sea and the lonely, struggling mother picked one of the youngest, “Fannie” she is called in English. She was 18 when she joined her father here. Shy, but pretty, with her black eyes and demure ways, she soon found friends in the Ttalian quarter and was happy. The father went on working, sending every penny he could spare to his loved ones—and the sum grew and g back there in Italy | They that had been left behind began planning for the future. They were making prep-| the money stopped coming. Nor were there any) arations for the journey, when, suddenly, more letters FOR ABRAHAM LEVY WAS DEAD. He was run over on the night of May 4 b 1428 Ninth av. W., and gy so badly that he His homeless littie daughter sspeeasat == Fccee= TROOPS STOP CRACK TRAIN | Hatch, | ile driven by Orville C. afterward autom two | days thought her heart would break. And back in Italy the widow wondered and wondered, unt! one day there came a letter that told he ‘The money that was to have brought the little flock to a new 'e e ; home w soon eaten up for life's necessities Seattie People Help Them the BREAK STRIKE UP BY BANDIT For a month or two colony of Italians on Jackson st Seattle, clubbed together and senty TRINIDAD, Colo, May 15— Special Agent Davis of the von gag et ing Mog Tour tlelds to take striking mim. | Great Northern, Is today en yare, But they are ail voile. and even an added 25 conta | ers’ places, were stopped today route to Great Falls, Mont., to a month is the last straw with| by the regular troops. Investigate a robbery at Rex- most of them. So, finally the con-| They. wore neler errata | seek) toe hee le tributions ceased, and the little| nor deported, but simply told ‘ord, Mont., night, | family was destitute that they would not be permit: which bandits held up the | The mother and daughters face| ted to work in the mines. | star eation tn Italy. Their bread-| Twenty-five of the 30 were bound| crack transcontinental train, | winner is gone, and there is no | for the Oakdale mine, near La Veta.| the Oriental Limited. D4 The other five were imported to s* is a custom of the country | Work in a Colorado Fuel property Advices to the Seattle office which decrees that no women shall| Attorneys for the Oakdale com- | gaid no mail wae taken. De | work in the sunny but poverty-| pany sales up Rn eaghgonyer in| talle were lacking. | |stricken land where the Levys | charge of the regulars, to ask for an dwell. And all the neighbors are | interview The train Is due here at 7 | as poor as the widow and her The colonel replied, granting It, Pp. m. today. eae but said he was acting under the war department orders, and that ve nee) eeene® modification of them would have to It 1s @ poor custom, you'll admit | come from Secretary Garrison him but it prevails, and it spells trag-| sare edy to these four victims “Fannie” has fared somewhat better than her kin, for she has |married. Yet she and her husband are wretchedly poor—too poor to |help the old mother and alsters SEATTLE RATES | The case of the Levys Is a sam- There are a lot of homes here In Seattle where hearts are | aching for loved ones that were snatched away by our citizens who speed their automob And meantime we stew and fret and forget about it—all except the ones in those empty homes—the ones with the aching hearts. THEY CAN NEVER FORGET. WILL FIGHT DUEL | pte MAY BE UNIT IN CITY'S SYSTEM The council franchise committee falled to get down to business to: | in a delayed consideration of | |the request of the port commission | for a franchise to establish a belt |11ne raflroad, connecting various |wtations and shipping points along | tee waterfront, with a view to \eliminating the present unfair die ASHINGTON, May 15.— The interstate commerce com- mission today suspended, until September 14, the proposed rate increases of from '/2 cent to 10 cents per pound on decidu ous fruits and vegetables from | Southern California to Seattle | and Tacoma, | REBELS MAY GO IN ON MEETING | | | BUDA PEST, May 15—Beconda| crimination in rates charged by aranged for a duel between Premier | rail companies sciahdladimicmad ahs i Count Tisa and Stephan Rakovsky,| Attorney Harold Preston, for the| WASHINGTON, May 15.—The re-! ja member of parliament port commission, outlined the plan | Port was revived today that the reb f the commission, declaring that |€l’ would be represented at the me present conditions are tntolerable, | @iation conference at Niagara Falls, Councilman Erickson mentioned |@nd this was one of the reasons |line an extension of the city munte-| Was delayed |{pal rafiway system when he asked CHICAGO, May 1 Ex-Vice| if {t would be feasible to electrify | pyatt-rowells, 4th and Pino, han a rep: President Stevenson, nd in rap-|the proposed line. utation of being thoroughly’ itgh-cinge {diy failing health, arrived from| The franchise matter was con-|1i,\* 00 (ie laren hunines schoo! imine Bloomington for medical treatment. | tinued, timo a as They Really Are—as They Are When FRIDAY, MAY 15, Girl on a Man. na Woman Is Not Aro s It True? t Dares to Print the News The Seattle Star on NEW 1914, ONE CENT For the second offense, BOTH FINE AND IMPRISONME Forget the fact, Judge Gordon, that a speed fiend who comes before you may be rich and influential. Your duty to the people lies in putting him behind real iron bars. NEXT DOZEN WHO COME BEFORE YOU AND IT WILL BE A LONG TIME BEFORE YOU GET ANOTHER DOZEN, AND A LONGER TIME BEFORE SOMEBODY ELSE'S LOVED ONES ARE CRUSHED TO DEATH ON OUR STREETS! ORPHANED BY A DEATH CAR Fannie Hason, Married Daughter of Abraham Levy UDGE CHAMPIONS HIS WOMEN JURORS Judge Humphries made a_pub-) offe » the most sensitive | te statement In defense of the fair | Woman. he court never permits | sex {n open court today when objectionable testimony in the woman Helen K. Allen asked | trial of a case and it should be > u de excused from service in the|the same in the jury room.” trial of George Williams, charged| Jurywoman Alien enlivened the jwith mistreating an 18-year-old | oase when she declared from the |sirl, |Jury box that she did not care to The genial countenance of the | #rve in the case. jurist grew stern as he Informed Woman Is Not Excused the jurymen what constitutes| “I don’t belleve I could discuss proper etiquette in the jury room, | the evidence in this case as freely and of the equal rights of men and | 48 in others,” she said women jurors The court reassured her. Can't Smoke ‘Em Out | But, your honor, would it be ‘ fair to the people who are inter. “Now, I'm not saying that any|osted in this case?” of you men would do such a thing, persisted the and I don't suppose you will, but there has been a tendency on the part of some jurymen to bulldoze jurywoman She was not excused the women who happen to be sit- FACE LIFE In PEN ting with them on a case,” said the court. “There has been talk of men| “Lf in prison 1s a long time in,” trying to smoke women out of|{s the opinion of Edward Rowan |their ideas on a verdict and ofjand Joseph Driscoll, two young other improper conduct jmen, who are awaiting sentence If there 1s a report brought| following conviction yesterday af. back to me of any smoking tac-|ternoon on charges of bei bit tics in this case, I'll see to it that /ual criminals you don’t smoke anybody else out.| A life sentence Is imposed in such Women Have Equal Rights cases, “Women have full rights with | men in jury cases and there must| A number of tramp steamers of- never be any discussion in the’ fered Portland exporters as grain Jury room that could possibly be carriers through Panama canal, and Not Tell? age 2 Today. She Lived Life for 13 Years a She Had Her Wives Read Her Story and Think It Over. a . But She Was a Woman und—and What She Says AST EDITION WEATHER FORECAST tonight and Saturday; erly winds. — Fair gentle west- THAIN AND 5 RTANDS. PUT EM IN JAIL JUDGE! Seattle Ordinance No, 31103 provides: That any ‘person violating the speed limit ordinance is subject to either a maximum fine of $100, or a maximum imprisonment of 30 days, OR BOTH, for the first offense. | the first offense the presiding judge may use his discretion as to both fine and imprisonment. the magistrate before whom most automaniacs are tried, you have the power to throw the fear of the law into their hearts. ONLY ONE OF THEM HAS SERVED A TERM IN JAIL, and he served ONLY TEN DAYS. Judge Gordon, it is up to you to impose prison sentences AND PUT A STOP TO And, Chief Griffiths, it is up to you to make your men enforce the speed laws. NT ARE REQUIRED BY LAW. The court is not given aa The police have arrested hundreds of Remember that he is MAKE AN EXAMPLE OF THE HOW THIS STATEIS © GIVING ITS GIRLS LIVING WAGE RATE | Start Special | Tr which, 3 after considerable Darleying, OLYMPIA, Wash., May 15.| was also finally accepted ae i storeowners. |: -You are your brother's Discuss Laundries Today : | keeper And your sister's. Thus, too, the three public rep > | That's what these wage con-|resentatives made it possible to ferences mean | reach an agreement of $8.90 a week If you are an employer.| | fos ae who work in the indus- there was a time when you) And it will be the three disinter- could calmly shrug your shoul-| ested citizens’ who will no doube der and say it wasn’t any of influence the amount of the wage for laundry girls, the conference for which is now in session. The minimum wage commission paid|plans for near future conferences jestablishing wages for telephone girls, office help, ete. The dates have not been fixed, your concern if the girl ‘who | |worked for you couldn’t man-| age on the wage you | her. You don’t say that now. It jis your concern Beat Oregon's Plan | Washington is demand- In Phas an a flat minimum rate f as been established for workti } ing that her daughters. | ciris of all classes. Washington i sisters. wives and moth- [in advance of th t step, for it | conside ring each line of work sep ers should get wages that will enable them to live iach me 2° mere | establishments {s givem | decently. : | n the girl in the fae | How ts that minimum wage to/tory because she b sie careaia on t she bears a greater | Feet os caiheeln. (Se ee | € thority tc Within two months after the fix wages for girls in a comm of which Labor Commissioner OL son is chair Members of Commission minimum wage commission adopts the recommendations of the cone ferenc he law goes into effect, The other members of the com mission Mrs, Jackson Silbaugh of Seattle, Mrs. Florence .H. Swan son of Raymond, Mrs. W. H. Udahl of Tacoma and Rev, M. H. Marvin i But this commission has deter. . mined to let the employers ¢ employes get into conference with is ’ disinterested representatives of the | general public to thresh the mat-| ter out for themselves and thus leave no further room for argu- ment. Employer Is Learning The plan adopted calls for three employers and three employes in NEW YORK, May 15.—Harry Vallon resumed his testimony to day in the trial of Chas. F, Becker nt age murder of Herman Rosen- | : |the industry under consideration, | vation OP ree oO ae jand three disinterested citiz p , Dago ja Frank’ Cirofici’s house to get | . That Is why the employer of Cirofici, Sam Schepps drove the | today Is busy learning what it | sutomobile and we took "DAgs | costs a girl to board, how many | Frank’ to ‘Bridgie’ Weber's poker ete ° rooms. We found Jack Rose and | year, the price of petticoats, three other gunmen there. | “Later Webber located Rosem |thal at the Hotel Metropole and the four gunmen left: I separated from them, but remained near enough to the Metropole to hear the shots.” Under Defense Attorney Man- ton's questioning, Vallon repeated the details of the Harlem “murder and underwear, and suits. Yes, and he is learning, too, that working girls need recre- ation and that It must be paid out of her wages. The commission has printed | forms asking both employers an employes to estimate what it cost |, a working girl for meals, room, | shoes and rubbers, repairing shoe: brwutcoNag nie bg |conference” and described Becks sults, coats, dresses, and aprons, |¢"* Alleged violent language there | shirtwaists, handkerchiefs, corsets, |i", ordering the “croaking” of | corset waists, oves, neckwear, | Rosenthal |hats, umbrellas, repcir of clothing,| DELINEATED DEFINITIONS | laund medicine and der Al |street ‘car fare, newspapers rey magazines, stationery and postage, | WHAT NUMBER} association dues, insurance, va COMES AFTER tion expenses, amusements, church and other contributions, inct- dentals, Force Compromises It is natural that the employers should estimate all these {tems at | the very lowest cost. It is natural that the employes’ | estimates should be higher than | | the employers’ | } And there’s where the three dis |interested members of the confer Jence strike a fair avere | Thus it was the three tives of the public who threw tb balance in favor of the girls in the mercantile establishments and fixed the minimum wage at $10, FIVE “Making little things count”