The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 22, 1914, Page 1

MORE THAN 45,00 should have to Jahanna Hiite, |CRUZ, The following letter was received at The Star offien yeatarday f sundry irl She tells some stri pertences Biter four years of wo: Wrhheld. If it were given fired, an was Johanna Hitt told the truth because she Tam a laundry girl I have Worked four years in a Seattle laun- ary and know quite well the life of girl in my position. I am not because 1 do this sort of but have often thought if th rs really knew just how hard work gets sometim they Wouldn't quibble so much about s cents extra Wages a da. 1 manage to exist somehow. I) Bave few friends. The boys do not). Botice me now or try to flirt Me us they did when I first started Told to Dress Neatly When a girl gets 4 job fn a laun dry she is first told to dress neat ly. he command is posted on sizns about the work room. It's not so hard for a stenographer or a shop girl to keep neat, bat when our clothes are wringing wet after & half day's work in a laundry, it's mother matter. The shop giri fapber doesn't thousand unnat dey She doeant eve th stenog na or the to b have way ruin two or months. A lann girl does. Fingers Crack and, Bleed A young girl come in éry with pink rosy c if she works at the mangle she fa in a of at least 90 degrees and summer from 100 to 125. She is “green” when she starts. and burns her fingers on the hot ar e of the Her fingers crack and then bleed Even the old timers at the game cannot escape sore fingers. It is @ part of the work, Girls Lose Weight The heat makes her pink cheeks fade and st becomes pale and un- ARREST BOSS OF LAUNDRY WHO “FIRED” GIRL WORKER BF. Ivy, manager of the Troy laundry, was arrested last night on| a charge issued by State Labor | Toauanievioner E. W. Olson and| Prosecutor John F. Murphy, ac ensing him of violation of the stat minimum wage law The arrest followed an investiga- tion into the dismissal of Miss Johanna Hilts, an employe, who was “fired” after she had testified before the minimum wage hearing at Olympia Ivy was released on his personal | recognizance afier an appearance before Justice Fred Brown last| night. His case will come up for trial] May 29. His prosecution was recommend. | ed by Commissioner Olson, under | the state law, making it a misde meanor for an employer to dis charge or discriminate aginst an employe who has in pro ceedi relatt enforce ment of the minimum w law The penalty is a fine of from $25 to $100. William Kulemeter, of the Troy laundry, and Mrs. May Jeffries, forewoman, are accused jointly in the case, PAID COPIES DAILY MANAGER,IVY, of the Troy laun. adhered to the '» well-known specialty of “cling GIRL TELLS STAR ‘SOMETHING ABOUT HER LAUNDRY JOB [happy She loses flesh as the work name t¢|l0se from 16 to 20 pounds during might be/ the working season. VOLUME 16, NO. 76, SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, MAY 22, 1914 By Fred L. Boalt “Kill me!” whispered the dying man, and d ERA CRUZ, Mex., May 15.—As a boy I looked upon war as glorious. My father was The smell,” said the best-informed American, “was awf ul.” soldier. I wanted to be one. My small son's favorite game is going through a manual! eee ee of arms of his own invention with a wooden gun WO sailors, during the fight, came upon a little Mexican girl of 7 or thereabouts, weeping in a doorway. All the soldiers that I used to read about were brave and algo bg patriots who fought, | She explained to the sailors that she wanted to go home, but was afraid and died, if need be, for Flag and Country, and for a Cause that was always just. “We'll take you hor the sailors said, and because they were big, kindly he trusted th 1 w i All the pictures of war that I used to see were heroic pictures. Napoleon at Waterloo sat! them . ng y men she trustec em and went with his horse in gloomy but magnificent dignity while his soldiers fell about him, She walked between them, holding to each by a hand. They laughed away her tears and coaxed a smile to her In the pictures of war men, when hit, gestured dramatically, as do actors on the stage, lips ¥ and fell picturesquely. Even the corpses composed themselves in graceful death. Far down the street, crouching behind a corner, a Mexican patriot was busily sniping. Being a patriot and hating ee ee 8 the Yankee invaders, he did his patriotic duty when he saw two American invaders bearing down upon him fy HE best informed American in Vera Cruz was sucking lemonade through a straw on I like to believe that he did not see the little girl who walked between them the Plaza sidewalk | The sailors had so far soothed the child's fears that she could laugh at their blundering Spanish and correct their mis- “It was right here where we sit,” he said, “that the marines did the best work with| takes, ¥ i the machine guns. Believe me, it was good shooting.” | The Mexican patriot took careful aim. The Me xican’s aim, at best, is never very good The marimes approached the Plaza de la Constitucion from the north and east. At their} HIS BULLET STRUCK THE LITTLE GIRL SQUARELY BETWEEN THE EYE first fire 12 men fell at the corner of the Hotel de Diligencia | 28.3, % & For hours they lay on the pavement and sidewalk in the awful heat. Those who ey not killed outright filled the Plaza with their anguished cries of “Kill me! Kill me!” One after another they died until only one lived. He lay with his legs crumpled aol under him grotesquely. It was as if his legs had many joints, or, more accurately, as if his} bones were rubber. “KM me!” he screamed, and a fleeing Mexican, willing to put him out of his misery, lunged at him with his bayonet as he ran The blade had broken off, leaving six inches of steel in his back. The fleeing soldier, in upon saving his own skin, had had no time to finish the work | Later, when the Plaza was taken, the federals driven to the hills and the city subdued, the| Americans found 11 dead men and a dying man at the corner of the hotel where now we! cross. foregather for our cooling drinks and gossip FTER the fight came clean and decaying matter was t and a mule, * had early amss. tent There were after the fight The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News he Seattle Sta ONE CE ing-up time surned with kerosene. ** On the cross sits a buzzard, gorged and sleepy. T several bonfires in the Plaza. oN NEWS 8 S BOALT HEARS OF IT IN VERA ISN’T GLORIOUS; HE PAINTS A PICTURE OF THE HORRORS OF KILLING — The Plaza today is as clean as the floor of a Dutchman’s kitchen. \HE first thing I hear in the morning is the bell in the tower of the cathedral across the Plaza, calling the faithful to The bell is cracked and gives forth a discordant sound. Thirty-six corpses were found in the belfry. One of them, it is said, was that of a priest. From where I write I can see the belfry and beyond that the round dome of the cathedral. THAINS AND The fuel that burned in one of them was a man, a woman IGHT! | Uiomonl WEATHER FORECAST — Show. ers and thunder storm tonight and Saturday; cooler tonight; moderate southeast wind AND. fe All refuse Atop the dome is a shining IT’S MURPHY’S MOVE! : ns AFE HAMILTON'S g goose is cooked. : Judge Mackintosh iast night denied a motion for a new trial in the case of Cecil Upper against the county, to collect $3,000 for an automobile which he bought from Hamilton, county commissioner, rebuilt, and sold back to the commissioners as a county ambulance. Mackintosh is a self-confessed friend of Hamilton’s. Dr. Rich- ardson is a relative of the judge. There was no prejudice against Ham- ilton in the case. The jury, you will remember, found that Lafe Hamilton was not owner of the rebuilt automobile at the time it was sold to the county for $3,000, BUT THAT HAMILTON WAS BENEFICIALLY INTER- ESTED IN THE Yael PUNISHABLE goes on. I have known girls to Some have to keep at it the year Tound. They must do something to ‘keep up. ‘hey learn to take “health tab. lets” of various sorts and finally e habitual “users” of some stimealant. [t's not a very pleasant) Under: the law, this complicity in the murder of her | year-old | last. After two hours and 45 minutes} NOT GUILTY. OF SLAYING HER HUSBAND Magdalina Werner, 26, husband, is a free woman today. V MRS. WERNER W | cou rt | itves. Beside: of gopsideration last night, the Jury | among.whom were. two men, the. OMAN PULLS OFF SHOE; THROWS IT ‘AT JUDGE’S HEAD LONDON, May 22.—Bow street | prisoner street; became a pandemonium to- tried for|day the moment the trial began of | the 66 suffragets who were arrested Henry Werner,\in the two battles with the police an Ismquah rancher, on March 2,/@t the entrance to the grounds of Buckingham palace, where the king prisoner to the magistrate’ 's demand for her name, “Joan d’Arc,” said the second, and “Charlotte Corday” the third. Few gave their correct names. Some would not reply at all. The magistrate accordingly as signed numbers, under which they will be prosecuted. Chains Herself ‘Another s' " Self today to a seat in #8 the prisoners in the dock. pleture, but ft's the truth, constituted retiirned before Jvige Kenneth}court room was packed with hun- In work such as the laundry girt BY FINE OR IMPRISONMENT, OR . : ij Mackintosh with a verdict of not — of suffraget sympathizers, ty's theatre, where the k and ee xe Tat fo ae Be meat The recall is one method of eliminating a public servant who has | uilty a uae Palas: SOLA queen were watching a matineg. ie day's rush is over * . . * | performance of “The iver These 10-cent meals the invest! been unfaithful to his trust. This Upper case will make the success of |arctts, Werner showed the same} They kept the police a-fluttter ‘and began chanting aire Rear eee sre aang about Ack’ Wo the recall movement against Hamilton doubly assured. eee othe teal wai oke “nay| with banners of waving handker- Pankhurst.” is eee. far. towand: anata rl ga J jhours of the ordeal as she hae! chiefs and in an uproar with cheers! Attendants rushed to eject her, who has stood in miserable heat all! But there is another way. jerowenase re tial. for the prisoners, jeers for the po- but had trouble in doing so on ac. Seiiing ahs toe Pkaew! becomes] John F. Murphy, public prosecutor, knows what it is. A jury has ill! ‘she vroxe down and sobbed with |jutionary songs nn % TeV Count of the chain. For 20 min I have tried it convicted Lafe Hamilton of a misdemeanor. John Murphy, when he ter the verdict was read and) Custom did not permit as sum-! while the theatre employes worked In addition to the low wages in ix jurymen and six jurywom-| mary a clearing of the court room |to free her. went into office, took an oath to enforce the laws. SO THERE YOU ARE, MURPHY! Seattle laundries things that don't a lot of there are ook en filed and shook hands with her. solemnly out of the box) as would have followed in the Unit- led States. At length they abandoned the at- There were too many of; tempt to loosen the chain and un- There is one place which man woes id ‘ ee Seige at |the ‘disturbers to punish for con-|screwing the seat from the floor, — ages to keep the girls 10 minutes «gong Bat Wie bor stle Deby Uh) tempt, learried it out, suffraget and all. overtime every night. One morn snes, anioep ts her fan ° Throws Shoe at Judge Shouts From Audience ing a girl was fired becans: she BS ingen fon seam Dg od In the midst of the hearing, one of} While the struggle was in prog: was four minutes Iate. All the tiffly upright, looking at the! the prisoners snatched off a shoe|ress a second woman arose and, walked ont. But I guess = formal scene in childish - wonder-| ang threw it at the judge, who dodg- It rning to the royal box, shouted, patched the trouble up after a ment. % , Jed it by a hair's breadth “You ere a Russian czar” a dozen while. Fos gh gr shag es if poe, vari The attendants were on the alert |times before she was dragged ont. Swears at the Girls wat unchaken. eat near her. with |t®, Prevent more incidents of the| This incident was hardly over he In another place the foreman ras unshaken, sat near ber, with! kind, but the militants’ originality, |fore a third militant leaped. om swears at » girls all day long Contébbien in Evidence Tesource and daring were admittedly |the etage and attempted to ha- The work fearfully disagree able Prosecutor Résar J. Wright. in} the most constant |rangue their majesties. a be ae kn 4 sis: GtoeEaai Mierkcaasanlh tee teen! ¢ was needed, and even then| She was hustled into a wing ond complain. If they did they w + y lthat the state had placed before | als were in a state of unin-|expelled through the stage door be fi ‘ the jury a confession, signed by |terrupted worry lest some new man-| The uproar continued altogether In some of the small places a Sundell, who has a $15,000] Ing sults from him at 8 a. m. Mrs, Werner, in which she admit-| festation take them by surprise. | for fully 30 minutes, The king and girl must stand in water while she |¢ Toate with the government for) Sunday. He rowed north, say. I ts Suie'seiahs” aor eoinon Numbered queen sat through it all with un- works. In all the laundries the! the erection of a factory and *tore-| ing he would pick up a friend hak Pee By moe vered the first/moved, mechanically smiling faces. work ts in The girls | house at the Bremerton navy yard, farther along. The boat was ae cm , fi - n re go home with their told Mr. and Mrs. B. Colling, with, found on Medina beach, ward to killing er husband, perspira- whom he lives when in Seattle, at, opposite Leschi, thi Paty 8 nm this alleged confession she clothes wrin: told of seeing Piconi run from the tion « are they have Sl! 20th av. 8, that he was going Beside the bathing suite w: — scen " D - _ cene of the crime and of finding to siand up in a draft in the street | out for a walk and would return for| hat with Sundells Initiale, e. A. Rollison, 35, « laboring man,| toe"? Of the crime and of find the result And there's not much | That Was early last Sunday morn-| He had about $3,000 in his pockets.|'8 ® Victim of fits, brought about] Col. Howard Hathaway of Ev-| an Ataeeon tor Adsior bills ta| ine : Colling fears Sundell has been| by leakage of the heart. erett made an eloquent argument mur wages. “$A. Carman of the Leschi | murdered and robbed »| The fita come over him about] {oF the defense. Attorneys C. K.| Work Fearfully Hard boathouse, told the police today | He was in no financial straits,”| once a month. At such times an pleaded before the jury, maintain- ap turns out, & man of Sandell's description |aays Colling. “The government] isc otttanle desire to commit| nee ke Jury, maintain. Th —_ Meer romboat and two b tos bath- lowed him §5,000 for finished work.” 0 mmit|ing the innocence of the accuse 4,000 pleces @ day, at a fair profit suicide possesses him hear: OEE t takes four girls to run | lati ill Seek Employment He f oming ; Sickes tate nuount elt it coming last Saturday.) sing. Werner will stay with her and Saturday night he quit his job with the contractors for whom he had been working several months. He Buys a Gun Since then he haw been fighting | The work is hard. You ery a lot times when you get ae bad night, and then go back again morning because you have oo sometimes think the owners Gout COMMITTEEMEN INSANE BANDIT APPROVE BELT | HOLDS UP AUTOS of , ft off. But yosterday he gave up, and care for them now just what we girls are up gad tokatita gin, Then'ne uboel Carl, one of the little boys, ts i a letter to a friend, directing dis-| W!th a friend at Clallam Bay; Henry h 4 ; ‘a ick on wages that LINE FRANCHISE. JUST FOR SPORT posal of his effects dag is with HT. Werner, brother of the reliev yd kick on * that . rdered m Marth: is t the a a ws Last night he stood on the bluff) murdered man i. 8 would Jet tis live respectably and that drops away from Ali av. he. | home of a sister, and Baby Agnes is n comfort Faia’ tthe port! Te.doke: in On Midoune. attomo-|teebn Xiedene ate Gucumies wee |at present at the juvenile detention commission for a belt ine railway | biliste, who held up by a man,|and pulled the trigger. The bullet | home. NS ‘ CREWS 10 RACE ommisel Waterfront was approved | apparently insane, on the Pacific| lodged near his heart PE ps Aled sila thon Ir a ut wa 4 “ ce night, and we rode home in a taxi by the franchise committee of the| Highway at Morningside station,| Rollison felt his knees sinking, t ¢ council this morning, A few minor| near Lake Forest park, north of|but he feared he hadn't aimed! cab.” said Mrs, Werner, delightedly, city straight. With sbaking hands, he| today reloaded, and this time sent a bul. changey in the original draft were | the *\recommended and will be made He ecenpes before Deputy Sher- | before the franchise is brought be-| {ffs John Roberts and Beebe ar- or let through his skull. He rolled the council on Monday. It ta] rived on the scene today. down the stéep bank and lay there Getiered it will be: gyaniad without] Autoists were stopped by a big/all night wi material opposition when the| pile of timber in the roadway, The Found by Lineman changes are completed man assured them a wreck bad| This morhing & telephone line-| taken place around a curve. He|man, ©, Moen, stumbled across held his hand on his pocket, as if} him A sudden wind, which sprang up| CLOSE FRIARS’ CLUB ready to draw a gun and refused to Moen climbed a pole, tapped the at noon today upset the hope that; porTLAND, May ~ 22 Two| talk | line, and telephoned the police this afternoon's race between the | militiamen were sent to Milwaukee| Twelve drivers were halted for| Rollison was rushed to the City University of Washington and Unt-| last night by Gov. West to close the|an bour or more, afraid to move,| hospital. He was conscious and versity of California eights, would | Friars’ club for alleged infractions| lest he shoot. The man took noth-|rational all the time. be run over smooth waters of the liquor laws ing from them. “IT don't want to die now; IT want) The inke wphosptesly Bh ya be | to live,” he told the doctors, “The | a) hoppy by the time fit 1s gone,” lM whieh starts from Medion yan. ry “His chances are good,” they say. |; +80 o'clock, and finishes at Leseht | rk in, Washingtonians announce shirt | be “se waist dance, mother, Mrs, Hall, st., for a time at least She witl look for employment in She wishes to collect her | family of children Seattle. Prosecutor Murphy said that Frank Piconi, the Itallan accused of the crime, will be placed on trial June 8 regardiess of the Werner verdict, which state at torneys consider highly unsatis- factory. PLANAGREAT | UNIVERSITY One large university 1 state-supported lontana is the plan to g to J ntany E. Kirkwood, at the University of Mon _|tans, who Is | in Seattle. THINGS YOU OUGHT TO Additional confidence was ae tn} Stroke Merritt, California boat today wh | | who has been Hl reported that he would be able to take his oar. Two preliminary races will be pulled off in order, a single sculling race opening the regatta, followed VANCOUVER, May 22.—Five hundred men are fighting a forest tory on the Pacific const. by A race the varsitY | tire that broke out this morning on the north Vancouver shore. Largest dry docks on the Pacific coast. scrubs, { It is sweeping over a territory ten miles wide. bering Interests in the United State: Within the thr ed area are more than 300 persons, Fears cific coa Largest flouring mill on Myron Cooley, “the newspaper | felt for their mills than any city In the country. Forest fires have done $1,000,000 damage in British Columbia In the last two dave evangelist,” arrives at Columbia Baptist church Sunday morning. coal fields on the Pacific coast within Largest shoe factory on the Pacific coast. KNOW ABOUT SEATTLE Largest jewelry fac Piece has the largest clay products plant on the Pacific coast. Largest milk condensory in the West. Largest fisheries and lum- Largest brewery on the Pa- the Pacific coast. More shingle The most important developed a radius of 100 miles, at 2617 W. 64th bsorb institutions of educators of | that state are working on, accord- professor of n | services Sunday, SPI session, Washing The Pi Cord Coast br toreal cisco, PY can Che Slope as: Paleonto! NEW Seabury frequentl The co acquit th The ju Seattle A. B. Wastell addresses Lumber. | | men’s club, Thirteen births. Hyatt-F ‘BIG WORDS ARE CAMPUS TODAY The Pacific Scientific fourth annual meeting, a three-day opened y 1 Society | termount societies, Philalogical association,!| GIVE HER A ek Biological society, Pacific Coast care! branch of the American Historical|| » ZN association, eto, 4 JURY GOES OUT IN BECKER TRIAL, in the murder trial of Lieut. Becker, | Becker was unusually nervous and | belteve the stories old by Jack Rose. Briagie Webber and Harr: LLED OVER | - Anevélatioa vot tal Societies is holding its on the University ton campus, esterday. | acific association includes | illeran section of the Geo-| of America, Pacific anch of the American His association, the San Fran- iget sound, Oregon and in ain sections of the Ameri-| mical society; the Pacifte sociation of Entomologists. | jogical and Seismological | of Business TLL BARK AND eta, YORK, May 22—Justice today instructed the jury y sighed deeply. ourt directed the jurors to} e defendant if they did not | Vallon. | ry retired at 12:52 p,m. | hold memorial | Press club. carriers wells, 4th and Pine, has x rep- i|