The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 16, 1914, Page 1

THE WAR'S GOING FLOOEY, T. R.’S GOMIN’ BACK, THE AUTOS CONTINUE TO KILL; SPRING STRAWS ARE A CAUTION, WE'LL WELCOME THE SHRINE; “AIN'T IT AWFUL?” AAAAARAARAR AAA ARAL A DDD DDD DDD DPD DPD DEP DDD DDD DDE PDPD DEPP PEPPER EPP EP PDP HOW YOU STAND THERE, YOU MICROBE 2? F MORE THAN 45,000 PAID COPIES DAILY THE MORNING “STANDPAT- TER,” champion of John D., today attacks Brandeis as a blow-hard. VOLUME 16 ~~ NO, 71. A MOVING PICTURE OF THE WAR EDITOR HARD AT wORK SAYS BILLPOSTER BILL ~ = SEATTLE NEW SPRING STRAW HAS HIT / SEATILE BACK ON THE FRONT PAGE The Seattle Star SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, MAY 16, 1914, 10-cent meals, Mr. Nixon? cost $2.40 for yourself. $8.50 WAGES GIRLS TOOLOW OT MPIA, May 16.—It is only a trifle over twe blocks from the state buliding to Doan's restaurant here. Even if you are rich and inclined be fat, and accustomed to walk leisurely when you're not automobiling, The conference of three Jaundry owners, three inundry girls and three representatives of the public was divided last night In {ts recom mendation to the state minimum wage commission as to the minimum ndries should erie pe five men on the Souiurenee voted for $8.50 a week, and the four women opposed it. And while the laundrymen joyously gathered up their satchels to eateh the first train out of Olympia, the minimum wage cotnmission unani rejected the $8.50 recommendation, agreed to call a new conference, and passed a resolution declaring that “investigation has revealed the fact that $8.50 is not sufficient for @ woman to maintain her- health and comfort.” om Theos who voted for the $8.50 wage were: Rev. R. H. McGinnis, Tacoma; Judge FE. M. Day, Bellingham; Frank Nixon of Raymond Steam Laundry, Raymond; W. J. Doust of the Cascade Laundry, Spokane, and A. Jacobsen of the Rainter Launry, Seattle. Those who voted against it were: Mrs. R. C, McCredie of Sunny- side, president of the State Federation of Women's clubs, and three laun dry workers—Miss Johanna Hilts and Mrs. Hilda O'Connor, of Seattle, and Mrs. Julia A. Wilson of Spokane. There wasn't much chance, for the conference to agree. The view points were too radically divergent. Some 25 to 30 iaundrymen had come to Olympia to coach their rep- resentatives. They caucused till 3:30 in the morning Thursday, and with them the object of the minimum wage law was interpreted to mean: “WHAT IS THE IRREOUCIBLE MINIMUM UPON WHICH A GIRL CAN EXIST FROM WEEK TO WEEK?" The employes interpreted the law as giving them a chance to live decently—to save a penny here and there, perhaps, for a rainy day, when sickness and infirmity may catch them. So they wrangled about every item. The girls allowed themselves 10 cents a day car fare, or $36 & year. Nixon went as low as $20 on this item. Miss Hilts estimated $4 a year for petticoats Nixon wouldn't allow more than $2. Two of the girls went as high as $12.50 per year for hats, and Miss Hilts came down to $10. Still Nixon wouldn't allow more than $8. The girls asked $10 a year for amusements. NIXON ALLOWED BUT $5. And then came the question of room and board. Nixon was again low. . HE ALLOWED $2 A WEEK FOR MEALS AND $1.50 FOR ROOM The other two employers were more generous. They allowed 50 cents more. ovr eee It was five minutes to 12, noon, Friday. Mrs. O'Connor, who already gets more than the minimum law is expected to give the girls, was pleading, nevertheless, for her sisters slaving at the mangle. “Do you know what it means to eat on $2 a week?” she asked Nixon. “Three meals a day, 21 meals a week. It means less than 10 centa a meal. Have you ever eaten a 10-cent meal?” Nixon sald he had, ore ee Nixon pulled his watch out of his pocket. time for the conference to recess for lunch. course to Doan's to eat And when Miss Hilts and Mrs, O'Connor reached the same place, later, Nixon was having his check countersigned by the cashier. The state allows the members of the conference their expenses. AND NIXON’S VOUCHER FOR ONE MEAL AMOUNTED TO $2.40. MAN ROBBED AND It was noon, and it was Nixon took a straight LEFT SENSELESS into an automobile with them. j sald they were riding Country club when one of them struck him over the head. He Found lying unconscious by the road, near the Country club, early this morning, Al Reetz, 24, a jum ber mill worker, was brought to the county jail, suffering from|#4¥8 $225 was taken from one of wounds believed to have been in-| bis socks flicted by men who robbed him of| $225. His condition !9 considered serious. F. B. Rogers discovered the body and notified the police, who called| the county sheriff's office. Depu-| ties Beebe and Roberts investigat- ed and returned with the insensible He near the REAL ATHLETES Franklin high school girls in gymnastic stunts last night in the school gymnasium proved their Mtsetz told officials he had been|*Pility before an interested aud! ari never! men onjence. The drills were pertormed Firet av! and remembered getting! by 350 girla “Yes, it’s easy enough for you to s you would give a laundry girl for all wee FOR LAUNDRY | EMPLOYER ASKS 10-CENT MEALS FOR {ils WORKING GIRLS; PAYS $2.40 FOR HIS OWN that girls can eat at 10 cents a meal. | Talking that way doesn’t hurt your stomach and it doesn’t make your heart faint and your head swim as you slave, slave, slave. What do you know about = Your meal at noon today—here in Olympia— You've allowed yourself at one sitting more than —MISS JOHANNA HILTS. | Johann HALT DIVORCE | FOR THE SAKE. OF CHILDREN Children are to be considered {n/| divorce suits in the future, in Judge Kenneth MacKintosh’s court, at least. He declared himself against the easy divorce when he sent three pe- titions for divorce to the prosecut- ing attorney's office yesterday, with a demand that an effort be made to reconcile the difficulties of the fa- thers and mothers. a Hilts LANE SELECTS SEATTLE MAN AS ASSISTANT WASHINGTON, May 16.—Bo Sweeney, a prominent lawyer of Se- attle, was today nominated to be as- sistant secretary of the interior. Bo Sweeney has been leader in democratic politics in Washington for many years, and at the last state convention headed the Wilson dele- gation from King county The appointment {s a complete surprise, as Sweeney was not con Whenever the care and education of children becomes a feature of a} divorce case, he announced, he will not grant a decree until persistent |efforts at reconciliation have been | s where the husband cannot be found, women come before the court asking a divorce and the care and custody of a family of minor | children,” sald the court. “They do not seem to realize that a judgment for maintenance against a man who cannot found Ia not likely to be effec- tive. | “As the result of such decrees, | | women leave the divoree court to lenter into a struggle with life to} support their children. | They are without protection, and | hardships follow, and the moral con-! | dition of the family ta In riled. “The court will re to grant such decrees in the future until the | jcases are thoroughly investigated by | the prosecuting attorney's office.” TO STUDY NORTH. } With a company of Seattle busi ness and professional men on | board, the steam#hip Admiral | Sampson, of the Pacific Alaska | line, sailed last night for various} ports in the North, The Seattle men are guests of H. F. Alexander, president of ‘he company. sidered a candidate for any position, having recently formed a law part: nership with Judge Moore. The office of assistant secretary of the {Interior ts the most impor- | tant recognition given by the pres- ent administration to the state of Washington, and Sweeney's nomina tion is a victory for what has been named the Todd-Heifner forces. Sweeney is at present at the ga- tional capital, A Chilean province has establish- ed two floating schools to enable the residents of tslands to obtain an education, City’s Wants The wants of a city the size of Seattle are as different as can be Where one wants to work, hia neighbor wants help; where che wants a house, another “ants a tenant; where one wants a farm, another has one fo sell Other than Tae Star Want Ad page there is no better place to find stories of the want of a hustling city Don't neglect the big oppor. tunity page-—the Want Ad Page in tonight's Star AST EDITION WEATHER FORECAST—Fair to- night and Sunday; warmer Sunday; gentle westerly winds. NEWS STANDS. be BOALT IN VERA CRUZ: “MEXICANS SMILE AT RAG’ DANCEIN PLAZA ON THAINS AND ONE CENT By Fred L. Boalt. (By Mail From Vera Cruz, Mexico.) INH on the plaza | Vera Cruz is tryi In two sides are the square hotels in from of which we drink lemonade, The waiters, who LOVE US WITH) THEIR LIPS AND HATE US IN THEIR HEARTS, are devastated with grief because [ there is no ice Jeing members of a stern and heroic race, we continue to drink the lwarin, sickish stuff | In a third side of the plaza the cathedral jcannon shot from the fleet when the city fell. In the tower four sentries stand, looking down into the plaza. A fifth man flashes messages to the fleet and the outposts. All around the signal lights are flashing, Shafts of light from the searchlights streak the sky. On the fourth side of the plaza is the Constitucion, where troops are quartered. The provost guard brings in peons who are drunken on vino. They think they are going to die. Tomorrow, sober, they will be released and fed. Already they are learning that TO BE ARRESTED BY THE AMERICANOS IS NOT HALF BAD. In the stand in the middle of the plaza a soldier band is playing. When it strikes up “The Star-spangled Banner,” we rise, our soldiers and icers very stiff and erect. An American planter who has lived in Mexico 20 years, says. “By-——, that listens good”, But the Mexicans sit scowling at their little tables and a group of British naval offi- cérs “from the ‘issex remain seated, “NO Wiseourtesy is meant. “To stand at suth a tinie might be interpreted as “taking sides.” Not so a group of French marines in top-heavy white helmets. They rise to their feet and bare their heads. They are short, stocky men, and they look efficient, for all their ill-fitting clothes, but on their sweating faces is an almost sickly pallor that contrasts curiously with the ruddy complexion of the Americans The band strikes up a lively ragtime tune. Two soldiers, khaki-clad, slither over the flagged floor of the plaza, A rifle is slung from the shoulder of one of them Even the Mexicans are compelled to smile glumly at their antics “ee @ wo ERY difficult to place are the women at the tables. A few are wives of officers. Others are expatriates. Even the young among them seem old. They are over-dressed. Their faces are strained. Perhaps it’s the heat. One imagines they are tired, and that their gayety is artificial and forced. There are celebrities on the plaza. Tack London, in loose-fitting khaki, knows every one and continues his bout — John Barleycorn. Richard Harding Davis, the novelist, looking uncomfortable in correct and starchy clothes, ho aloof. To him comes a filthy beggar, whining and showing hideous sores. Davis shudders and turns away. The crowds at the tables thin. The women have gone to bed to toss through-sleepless hours in stifling rooms. in Mexico no woman of virtue may go abroad without escort at any hour, and not at all after 9 o'clock. eS Come then pretty and smiling senoritas of the underworld. Come, too, “slinking from the alleys, THE CREA=) TURES OF THE MEXICAN NIGHT, to search for scraps among the tables and in the gutters. Gaunt they are; and very timid oe Taps has long since sounded. The magpies in the plaza no longer chatter. All round the lights are winking, from hill and ship and steeple And so, finally, we go to our beds. g to pretend that it is enjoying itself. One of its bells is silent—shattered by a rrea bk. poan “cs. © © * | WAS having breakfast on the sidewalk of the plaza when a boy stole a roll from my plate. He expected instant | death. So when T spared his life and let him eat the roll, he explained to me in dumb show that his father, too, |was hungry The waiter, whose English was better than my Spanish, would have driven him away. asked “They were prisoners, senor,” the waiter said. “The sailors of the Americanos came and released them from Over” yonder.” ss “Over yonder” was the bull pen behind the Constitucion. It can be seen from the plaza. A huge building, like) a public market place, but barred . “Why were they prisoners?” With many gestures and shoulder shrugs the waiter told the story. It was Diaz who put them there—they and many others. They were peons and very poor. The/master told them to fight the soldiers of Diaz. So they fought. They did not know why they fought, save that the master told them to, When the Americanos came and opened the doors, the prisoners thought they were some new and strange kind of Mexican rebels and that they would be immediately slain Instead the doors were opened and they were given food and let go. now. “Ask them where they came from and why they don’t go home.” They had worked for the master. It was far aw How should they know how fat?) Where? Had the man a wife, the boy a mother? senor. Alive or deac How could they tell? Did they know what the Americanos were doing in Vera Cruz? Nu, senor. 4 T gave them 20 cents Mex. to pose for a picture and they called down upon-me the blessing of the particular Virgin of the district whence they came There the look in their eyes that you see in the eyes of a mongrel who expec “Why are they hungry?" . Sahar They couldn't anderstand it. They can’é They did not know, a ki nd receives a caress. SPECKERT CALLS SERIE CALLS CROOKED COURTS © OFF SPOOKS HE FORROSTERS OF siecenoncaueT) wuo.ow muta AID HIGH FINANCE . | WASHINGTON, May 16.—The interstate commerce commission to- “The only spirits I've got work- day disclosed information that part of the New Haven’s high financing DENVER, May 16—In re- | | | | sponse to a resolution, Adjt. due to the infl f th rts, reached through politici ing for me are good ones, and| was due to the influence of the courts, reached through politicians, pad aa iia s attorneys| oe”; Chase - today submitted Solicitor Folk asserted that one of the 13 demands voiced before jthat's more than some attorneys} to the state senate the rosters the New Haven purchased the Westchester road was that the courts around here can say,” said Attor-; of Troop A and Company | should uphold the validity of the franchise. ney A, J. Speckert, epiritualist min-| . 8, whose members participat: Only three of the 13 demands have been published. ed in the battie at Ludiow. The roster of showed 130 olusive of mine guards. WILL CELEBRATE ister, who has placed a motion be- fore Judge Frater to defer action in an alimony ease, pending further argument, 1 Attorney Frank A. Paul, appear. | It was not disclosed just how the judges were reached. ‘TO INSPECT BAY HOWDY, DO, TOM! When a f it car filled with beer was opened here yesterday, a big Troop A enlisted men, ex- officers, and 122 A marine excursion is to be en ing for Mrs. Regina A. Speckert, charges Speckert {8 $1,400 in ar rears in alinrony syed by the members of the Seattle pal Hstate assoc’ on Saturds mc are ‘ | An order committing Speckert to ieeet matane eenccention Garurtay tomcat, ‘hardly able to walk from jail will be held up until argument} Seattle Norw ns will celebrate | May 23, stérting at the foot of | § arvation: spppan at the door jis heard in the cage next week jtomorrow the centennial df Nor-| Spring st. at 2 p. m ne big cn RARE ene aie offt- | “It has been said that T am us-/way's gaining her independen A steamer has been placed at) Scalod in the car’ at Mitwauken ing spirits to Influence the courts | Open air festivities in Volunteer | the disposal of the in this ca The idea is sald Speckert, "The ca: decided on @ legal basis,” association bsurd,” | park and a program at the Moore in|through the courtesy of Capt. -Lil 4 will be|the evening will be the main fea-|lico of the Lillico Towboat com-| Carola club dance, Broadway tures, pany, * hall, tonight. April 18,