The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 1, 1914, Page 1

ERE’'S a story that ls pretty sexies | | story—a novel story The other day a man named Ingram, of Ei Centro, Cal flowers were flowering, and the song birda were singing and birds are doing business, you always at once test the high, th tackled Mountain Springs grade, and, at one point, in turning a There are at least three waya to go Into a canyon, One is to Another Is to stick to the wheel. Ingram chose the latter, and ove Ing up againat a rock 300 feet below the roadway and still has a moral t MORAL TROUBLES. MORE THAN 45,000 DAILY PAID COPIES THE RIGHT performance of this hour's duties will be the best prep: aration for the hours or ages that follow. —Emerson ANOTHE VOLUME 16 oe AH! HAMILTON HAS REVENGE! HOLDSUP BILL HANNA’S PAY ’Twas Bill, You Know, Who “Crab-| Now, when y Did he cuss hie luck? the fact that there was about 1,500 feet more of that canyon-side down which he might have fallen, WE CAN CHEER OURSELVES UP BY CONSIDERING HOW MUCH DEEPER WE MIGHT HAVE GONE INTO OUR © It, and so we premise by recommending It to the reader as a nice , bought himself a bright, new automobile, The sun was shining, the u buy a bright, new auto in California, and the eun, flowers ¢ low, the intermediate and the neutral on a grade, and so Ingraham urve, Ingram’s machine went inte the canyon, walk in, Another ia to utter a prayer and dive out of the machine. rand over went his machine, In 11 complete somersaults, finally wind. He did not. Brulsed and battered, he called attention to he Seattle Star The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News HEN you are fu Providence it is that our If they did, we'd be or W But the worst of ‘em—thank heaven!—never come at all (they're the ones we worry moat about); while, as for the ordl- nary ones, apart from the variety they contribute to life, we're blessed in the fact they rarely come more than one at a time, which In only exerciee, We were at the bedelde, the othor day, of an old woman, a hopeless invalid, Her children are dead. Her support is gone. She en dures incredible pain. And she knows that for the rest of her daya she must lie abed and suffer. Yet her interest in life is keen, her out look upon it cheerful; she has great faith that somehow the Lord |# going to make up to her for all her suffering; and, anyhow, she bravely smiles and looks on the bright side of things She has ce id to worry-——she has found out It does no good. After that we th yht: “How silly to fret over little annoyances, mere bites of fa 8 we, you and most folks, do.” And it 18 silly, isn’t it? WORSE, EVEN; IT'S DOWN SEATTLE, WASH., JUNE 1, 1914. CARFARE PUT ‘SEATTLE HAS UP; PEOPLE 10 NEARLY 100 IN RIDE INA BUS ‘FAME’CLASS Humphries Is Listed Among City’s Represen- tation in “Who's Who.” Duwamish Valley Reoidente| Judge Will Get to and From | Homes for 15c Anyhow. | bed” That Automobile Deal; and|works IN PUYALLUP! NEW BOOK’s JUSTOUT Notice Hamilton’s Excuse. Sad, very ead, is the fate of; Bill went right along doing as all county treasurers do. County Treasureg Will H. Hanna. County Auditor Phelps strolied cannot. draw his salary for| into the commissioners’ office, this OO Moy. in apite of the | morning and asked the fact that the 20 days were among | he was to do with Bill's payroll the busiest in his career. | | Lafe Hamilton and Kris Kaoud-} sen, smoking calmly on their El keep his office open during busi nese hours fixed by Lafe and Kris. Smelierinos, cho Bill off the ror Hmmmm!" muttered Late Yep, it's true. when he heard the char, “Looks ‘ like bad business. Hmmmmmm! Bill's gotta be a good dog from That's Better cut him off the payroll! until now on or starve to death. the grim verdiet of Lafe and Kris,|he obeys orders,” or some such Bill doesn’t work long | words. z nn | HB | “Well, I think 80, too,” agreed Kris. thing. Dave McKenzie promptly voted against the plan Hanna Only Smiles It was at first suggested that |the monthly pay warrants for the force be held Inspectors Sanction Plan “I vote with Hamilton in this It seeme that Hanna has been opening the treasurer's office to the public at 9 and-closing at 4. From § to 9 and from 4 to 5 the men work on a mass of mafl mat- ter which comes into every treas- ' office entire treasurer's up, f “The banking hours plan is sanc-| but the commissioners finally set ' tioned by C. W. Clausen and J. F. | tled down on Bill { Leghorn, of the bureau of Inspec | At all events, Bill ts shy his pay 4 tion and supervision of public of-|envelope. He is still at work and amniled. ‘Just another case of petty poll: | ties,” said Hanna. y men work Just as long as any other employes. If we opened our office at § in the | morning we never would get time to attend to a large amount of mail matter which ts constantly | fices, and {s in general practice throughout the state. But— Ordered to Work Harder Along about April 1, when Han- na was refusing to pay that $3,000 warrant to Cecil Upper in the wage | n fiton county ambulance deal, 7 “which Hanna was backed up by | demanding our attention. : the courts, Lafe and Kris, the ma “I'm glad they ¢ hold up t ie | / jority of the board, sent around | pay for the me would have word for Bill to work his crew | worked a hardship in many cases ' from $ to 5, with doors open to/|I same I can worry along for la while the public DECIDE TODAY ON REBEL DELEGATE June 1.;find he had gained ground at their | expense. NIAGARA FALLS, Ont., media- ~The American-Mexican soc tlh: SR RS eae ( tors here are expected to decide) en iets admitted today whether to admit the Mext) 5 eident Wilson and Secretary lean rebels’ representatives to thelr) pryan think no satisfactory deliberations. gain can be agreed on if it The controversy has blocked ne gotiations since*Friday The mediators were inclined to 1 keep the rebels’ representatives out f on the ground that Carranza has refused to agree to an armistice pending negotiations. Carranza’s endorsement ‘THANK YOU,GOV.| “Progress in Alaska means . is contention indisputably was : : tole Carranza arguing that Prest-| progress for Seattle,” said Gov. J dent Huerta would take advantage|/ 4 gtrong of Alaska, in a talk of delay to strengthen his position, and tha no settlement should be r bels would fore the King County Democratic | Saturda s 6 “public health and safety’’ The téhowing artes wee etéreeses to) that the “pub tna Balter of the tar vy former Mayor | required its immediate taking ef Cotteritt Felative to the recent prop on to purchase the Renton lin tt baying 28 per cont of the gross rev enues for 26 years. The proposition comes up in the council this afternoon By George oF. Cotterill The elty council is giving too ser. Calle it Preposterous Of course the real purpose would be to take the ordinance out of the |reach of the referendum of the people. believer in muck snot'see how any @ foun consideration to the Seattle, ordinary business principles jin Renton & Southern railway pro- less any advocate of municipal own: posal to turn its road within the should require any tim ‘ a limits over to the city on @ as th ae a aM ; ve nt te 25 per proposition. The npts of ; ee, Sees velaise Calhoun to persuade the . ‘ -rows revenues annuaKy Receiver Calhoun to 5 Os vente a council that this railw property it is even stated that the re-|has been or can be operated within 7 cent limit of the gross t active in pressing this|the 75 per cen Teas ccouall : earnings, are an insult to Jntelli deal has actually suggested that it be made subject of an “emergency” ginance, invoking the pretens gence as well as truth, One year ago thie same receiver | | tition, CALIFORNIA HAS over « radius of Through the List!| Maybe YOU Are One of the Famous Folks, People's Bus| There Compelled | Look Company to Put an Oppo- sition Bus Into Service. | | | t Residents of the Duwamish val-| ‘There are 95 famone people tn jo faethe, awn * rales on the’ Inter urban right home to the traction , ber In the latest tissue of * Who tn America.” ho's hog Judge Humphries doesn't head An auto accommodating 20 pas-' the list, because his initial ts a few sengers has been put into service | pegs down the alphabet; but he's to compete with the erurban be-|with the famous ones all right tween Georgetown and Riverton. | Yes, siree. The fare is 15 cente a round trip] The others are: teahella M. Anetin the old fare on the interurban tare F.. eames Senne: | tallinger ° tthe A similar plan adopted at Puyal lup and Tacoma has worked so suc y that the traction company, fort to eliminate the compe also installed a bus service! at reduced rates, hoping to force the Independent bus out of business. | The result has been increased bus service and decreased interurban travel LABOR UNIONS haries Fe mK Judge 1 WASHINGTON, June 1.— Without a dissenting vote the house today amended the pro posed administration anti-trust bill to exempt labor unions from action under the terms of the Sherman law There were 207 affirmative votes on the administration's | re Be © compromise committee amend ‘of The ment. 2. Shepard. awyer: Joseph Bhippen, lawyer: Prof. J Amith, ex-Senator Squire, Prof. Start, Attorney General Tanner. Gen Prank Taylor, “WM H., Thomp [lawyer and authe der, forester; © Lieut. A. B. Wryeko! REAL VOLCANO IN HEBREWS WILL ERUPTION TODAY "1D IMMIGRANT Hugo A. Winkenwei ae. Wright, yer; RED BLUFF, ,Cal., June Seattle Hebrews are planning a new crater on the north Toon a )0 nettiement house to aid im | Mt. Lassen was in brisk eruption migrants It will be located at 18th today | 8. and Main st Rocks, ashes and lava are being | scattered to a th of two feet yards. JACK LONDON ILL The eruption was accompanied by a rumbling sound, a great vol-| VERA CRUZ, June 1.—Jack Lon. ume of steam, and a barely per-|don waa very ill here today of in ceptible ake, testinal trouble, London came here # a wack of flour | as a war correspondent. His wife is thrown out tod with him increasing the “strap passengers | handed me, as mayor, a formal “re-| possible by coiver’s statement” which | oti hanger” percentage of hold, showing the entire tine, In-|from the 33 per cent averag in cluding the Renton extension, COST | 1912, during the rush period (5 to IN 1912 FOR OPERATING EX-|6 20° p. m.) to 48 per cent in 1913, PENSES, 83.4 PER CENT OF ITS| But even this abnormal and In GROSS RECEIPTS. | tolerable traffic condition only had The Seattle section, the effect of reducing the expense the same statement showed, HAD COST 91|to about 79 per cent of the gross PER CENT OF THE REVENUES earnings FOR EXPENSES on account of the! Again, applying thelr own per lower rates of fare centage of distribution, the 191% Ka this en M Calboun’s| record will show per cer ex fellow-recelver, Mr. Parkin, shov pe on the section inside the me the statement for 191 elty limits This made a somewhat improved Will Increase Wages showing for the entire line by rea An soon as Seattle takes over the son of 10% per cent Increase in| Renton line, the wages of the em-| traffic without corresponding 1n-| ployes will be raised (according to crease in the operating expense. rates already fixed for the munici- This improved showing was made} pal railway), about 20 to 25 per e: | first WHY BRUCE ISMAY FEARS THE WORLD “By that time — every wooden lifeboat on the for ward side bad been lowered away, and | found they j Were getting out the for. 1 ward collapsible boat { As the boat was going \} over the wide Mr. Carter and I got in. The boat had between 35 and 40 tn it most pf them women. ee “Mr. Carter and I did not get into the boat unt!) after they had begun to lower it away.” Excerpts from Bruce ts. may's story of sinking of Titanic. E BURIEN. LINE STARTS _ INFINE STYLE The Lake Burien Ine, Division B of the Seattle municipal railway which began operation Satu |yenterday carr approxi |1,600 passengers, according to Sup rintendent of Public Utilities Val ntine. The line extends from Riverside to Lake Burien, nine mil Uith mately it is hoped the line may be extended to Three Tree point, two }miles further, where connections | may be made with a Vashon ferry, | George Gunther, a realty dealer jin the Lake Burien district, was the | passenger on the first car Sat urday. He tried to buy $100 worth | lof tickets, and did clean Conductor | Ralph Winsor, son of Judge Richard | Winsor, of all he had—$10 worth | The cars run every hour, leaving the city end of the line on t mI te our, - DAD'SPARADE TO | : HAVE A “BAND OF | HOPE” DIVISION Dad's day, a feature of Se- attle’s Potlatch this year, will be rendered famous by the “Band of Hope,” a division of married men who are not dai It will be headed by Jack | Slater, draped in an American | flag. Tired-out old dada from all over the are warming up to the proposition, and requests are flood ing the officials for permission to ome and join the fun, Washing ton’s dads are going to turn loose jand be regular cut-ups. | Mayor Gill and Goy. Lister are |both boosting for the affair, which | | will be featured in the big Potlatch | parade on the afternoon of Satur. | day, July 18. FB. ©. Chensty {s said to be plan ning the erection of a three-story building on his property on Fifth] lav. between Pike and Union jcent., at increasing the operating cost st $15,000 per year, The people will rightly demand a reduction of the “strap-hanger” overload, which will require at least 10 to 16 per cent more care and running expenses. | If the city should pledge 25 per| cent of the gross revenues for 25 years, Jeaving only 75 per cent avail able for operating cost, an annual deficit of $25,000, to be made up by taxes, is inevitable—ANO THE DEFICIT WILL INCREASE ANNU ALLY. The term “operating expenses” in cludes payment. of taxes—in fact, all expenses except those due to “fixed charges” of inte fund provision and stockholders, dividends to ed up and worried, troubles never come ail together? ushed by the avalanche, of course RIGHT SINFUL ONE CENT Staff Cable COSTELLO, GAL- WAY BAY, Ireland. June 1.—WHERE IS BRUCE ISMAY? During two years the director arraigned for the tragedy of the Titanic has been missing from the world he knew. The captain of the lost liner is supposed to have gone down with his ship, the first mate ended his broken life, and Bruce Ismay, shouldering his way into a lifeboat and onto the deck of the res- cue ship Carpathia, sailed to safety and the over- whelming disgrace of the congressional and_ the British admiralty inquir- ies. Then, of a sudden, he disap peared Run wh ed tt one time ii nv that clut committees desired his resignation even that his mind had failed under the terrible strain He's Hiding in Ireland Few men would be willing to live the life that Bruce Ismay | from the sea No longer a steamship magnate, }no longer a Beau Brummel tn Bel jgsravia, suddenly “among the miss » question of his where tery a mys Meantime, In the case of the Renton line, the] annually for 25 years to the people {tem of taxes and gross earnings|who now have to pay It, INSTEAD percentage now amounts to about 9|OF RECEIVING IT IN THE PUB. per cent of the total revenues “Municipal Imbecility” In the present exhibition of figure|eclent to capitalize income in fixing juggling, this 9 per cent is skillfully eliminated by the receiver, on the theory that “the city will not have to pay these taxes. Ky this ingenious deduction an ef. fort is made the d bet to pers tha line can be « than 75 per cent by the cit Suppose it could be demonstrated even by the most expert juggling of figures that the line can be operated at 75 per cent of the gross revenue if | Here Are a Couple of Good Thoughts for or Today if You're Feeling Gloomy! nd the liver lan’t work ing well, FOR IT SHOWS A LACK OF APPRECIATION OF oN NEWS WEAN! BRUCE ISMAY IS DISCOVERED IN HIDING! PART OWNER OF LOST TITANIC WHO SAVED HIMSELF LEADS MISERABLE LIFE _ tisementls‘Simple — -—___-—_ —___—__ Bruce Ismay and his lonely Irish prison, chosen a fimacif to escape the || Deliberate falsification of the Jeers of the world. No out- | |facts Is the charge made against sider ever sees the interior | /the Electric company’s press of his stronghold, and from ‘ him the destitute fisher. | |*0ente In Seattie by Robert Wy men of the neighborhood | | Hobbs, of the bureau of informa- never receive help. tion of Cleveland, in a letter to ° ie —————-® | The Star. j will buy. But he cannot shake off saved | bog, and moor, and fields of stone. s assumed the significance of| CHANGE PLACES WITH THE the lost director was| LOOGE—BRUCE ISMAY.” STOP 25 PER CENT DEAL FOR RENTON LINE, WARNS COTTERILL!! sat on debt, sinking | the 9 per cent taxes Is eliminated, it apple, has been purchased by H. C would be an exhibition of municipal | Imbecility to present that 9 per cent! the 100-acre tract, hiding in a remote house on Cois did you ever stop to think what a merciful arrangement of ABOUNDING BLESSINGS. AST EDITION WEATHER FORECAST —Falr tonight; Tuesday generally fair; TRAINS gentle westerly winds. ‘Cleveland Official Tells Star Local Company’s Adver- : and Unvarnished Lie.’ You may have noticed the com pany’s advertisement In the kept press regarding what it alleged was the failure of the municipal lighting plant In Brooklyn, a sub: urb of Cleveland. . But here Is what Hobbes says! about that: is going out of sere, agar bec Cleveland ° muah larger plant “much more cheaply than it can the old plant.” Here is another interesting tt tle item: “Let me suggest to you,” says Hobbs, “the fact which we have discovered —that the private com- panies doing a lighting business here are fairer with their patrons because of municipal com- petition, and more anxious to accommodate them and give a better service at a cheaper rate.” Sounds quite familiar, doesn't it? Fhairrge, at the Heel of the Sea. [You remember how the Seattle The loneliest road in Ireland runs | Electric hog jumped the rates on from Minna to Costello, along the | you and told you to go to blazes If shore of Galway bay |you kicked on the service before Sheer moor, quite treeless, bleak | the city plant w. tablished. And beyond words, hardly a stone cabin! you remember, don't you, how the in sight, and no path but the/ private company came down in the straight mall road. | rates when the city rates were low. lered? Cannot Lose Memories | Hobbs spikes another Ile: * In the heart of this Irish wild . ness a solitary lodge shows white “The Seattle Electric ad- its surrounding pateh of yertisement,” he says, sd 'gate fottsas entrinen “makes the statement that nas, the old jarvey, flour-| Cleveland has never sold accusing Whip lash through; light current under 7 ming rain cents. As a matter of “Look there, where he hides in misery and shame. Never a gentie.| fact, the prices prevailing man have | brought here but was| until recently in the turned away from the very door.| Brooklyn light plant were Money he has, and all that money, 8 cents and 5 cents per K. W. hour, with an av- erage of right around 6 cents, AND AT PRES- ENT THE PLANT IS SELLING LIGHT CUR- RENT AT A FLAT RATE OF 3 CENTS PER K. W. HOUR.” the memories on his mind. “Day after day he must hear them —the shrieks of drowning men, cry- ing down the wind. “This Is his curse. What he’did| will be remembered until the Titan- lc is forgotten. “Lonely enough the place is. He little thought we would know him —WE that stood round the Marconi Evidently the Seattle Electrie masts at Clifden, waiting a long) company thinks Seattle has forgot ray for a word from across the ten that its prices were twice Its | present rates before the city’s com | petition forced It down to 6 cents, 9 IT ALSO 18 HIDING THE FACT | have seen men and women |-rHAT RIGHT NOW IT 1S CHARG here, decent, civil people, blue with |ing 10 CENTS OUTSIDE OF THE | hunger and starved with the cold.|city WHERE THE MUNICIPAL BUT NOT ONE OF THEM ALL,|pLanT HASN'T EXTENDED OLD OR YOUNG, WOULD! ve_r, “The operation of this Brooklyn plant and the other small municipal plant here has been so successful,” says Hobbs, “that a short time back the city of Cleveland, at a general election, voted by over two-thirds vote a bond issue of $2,000,000 for the erection and instai- lation of a new and more adequate lighting plant. “Cast your eye about this place—| MAN WHO LIVES IN THAT LIC TREASURY. It ought to be considered suffi- the sale value, without seeking also igereg Woes annual outgo. es “And that brings us ‘ $1,200,000 fixed phion wiatna | down to the charge of year ago, actually proposes to ca your electric company in italize taxes and make the comm its advertisement that the cape cage eS tytn municipal plant is to be | scrapped and the invest- WENATCHEE, June 1.—-The old) ment is to be completely Indian place on Wapato lake, birth-| wiped out. place of the famous Chelan Beaut “THAT IS A SIMPLE AND UNVARNISHED LIE.” Bumgarner, who pald $15,000 for