The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 2, 1914, Page 1

MORE THAN 45,000 PAID COPIES DAILY AST EDITION The Seattle Star The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News , TUESDAY, JUNE 2, 1914, WHEN THOSE folks In the Duwa. mish valley start a thing, they gen: erally finish it. Read the article about them on page 2 WEATHER FORECAST—Gener- ally falr tonight and Wednesday; gentle westerly winds. ON TRAINS AND NEWS REANDS. fe PUT CITY GARS ON 4TH AY} Let the city’s cars run down town! Let them run on Fourth ay., from Pine st. to the depot on Jackson st. At present Division A of the municipal railway “begins nowhere and ends nowhere.” There is no use beating about the bush as to that. At present there are many people who have business on down town streets---Yesler, Cherry, James, Madison, etc.--- who will not patronize the city cars because they are required to walk from Third av. and Pine st. But why should they be compelled to walk? ALL THE WAY DOWN FOURTH AV. and Mr. VOLUME 16, NO. 85 SEATTLE, WASH ONE CE to the Union depot? Come on, Mr. Mayor, gentlemen of the council, Why don’t the city cars run GET BUSY! The city has a right—an absolutely legitimate right—to run its cars on Fourth av There is some dispute as to whether the Seattle, Renton & Southern company: has than it was three years ago. It is plain that if the company has no franchise, the city certainly has a right to run its cars on the Fourth av. tracks, which are claimed by the Renton line. even if the Renton line franchise is valid, the city would have the right to run its cars on Fourth av., because that franchise provides for common user. it ts evident that the city is passing up a great, big, dead-sure cinch when it fails to run its cars on Fourth av. True, there is an injunction in the federal court enjoining the city from interfering with the property of the Renton line. It’s a rusty old Hanfordized injunction—rather broad in its scope—issued by ex-Judge Hanford over three years ago. lhe city had declared the Renton franchise null and void, and the company got out the injunction to stop the city from taking physical possession of the line. Nothing has been done in the case since. It has not been brought to final trial. But even that injunction could not reasonably be construed to interfere with the city’s right to the common user privilege—and, if necessary, the city can go into the federal court now and get the injunction modified so as to permit the immediate use of the Fourth av. tracks by the city line, regardless of the final outcome of the injunction suit. Let’s go to bat with the Renton company! Let's run the city cars on Fourth av.! It’s our right, whether the Renton line has a franchise or not. lawyer can see it. And it’s up to you, city officials, to see that the cars are run on Fourth av. Es MISS JESSIE’S Corporation Counsel, and you ought to see to it that the people are not buncoed out of that right. | a valid franchise. This dispute has been on for three years and is no nearer solution today On the other hand, And, franchise or no franchise, | | i That's so plain that even a AT ONCE! PLAN TO KEEP VASHON FOLK |What's the Cutest Thing Your PEOPLE OFF ASK HAMILTI NN, Baby Ever Said? Tell Us About It Two DAYS OFF ————— FHEAS and mothers, doy oun friends laught at you when you tell ‘em about your baby? Probably! Most of them do. Most folks who haven't # youngeter are bored, or affect to be, when F* | YOUNG H HAS RED NOSE Proboscis: of President’s Rah-Rah| Son-in-Law, Here to Kaise Coin, Burned by Western Sun. The fairy with the cute little‘ curls who runs the hello switch- board at the Seattle hotel rang him up careless-like, just as if he were an ordinary, every-day sort of drum- mer. “He says for you to call up again at 10:25. He's dictatling some let- ters now,” she announced, pleasant- ly, and dismissed the subject. vidently she didn’t know he was Jessie Wilson's husband. Yes, siree; Francis B. Sayre hit town this morning In a plain bust-| ness suit and a fuzzy hat, telescope| shaped, and a sun burned. nose, and | a bow-tie, and low shoes, and blonde hair, ope,” but maybe he only said 0. nyhow, he was dead sure he knew nothing of politice. His mission was to stir up inter. Woody’s Son-in-Law Just from looking at him, how could the telephone doll know he} was the president's son-in-law and the brother-in-law of the secretary of the treasury? Looks more like a rah-rah kid trom the university “Any political significance in your trip?” he was asked. Frank laughed and showed a of teeth that is entirely credital to a presidential relative. “Nope"—it sounded like he said HANNA MUST HIRE LAWYER TOGETMONEY County Treasurer Will H. Hanna | fs consulting with his attorneys to-| “We have plenty of buildings and | day regarding the necessity of | equipment at Williams,” Sayre sald, court action to compel Lafe Hamil-| “and what we want now is big men, ot | Francis B. Sayre Jest among alumni of Williams col- lege, which is trying to raise a | $2,000,000 endowment fund to bring | | the biggest professors in the coun | try to the “ the world. Sayre is assistant to Pre \Garfield of Williams college, | {amstown, Mass. He Will Speak Tonight wih ton and Kria Knudsen, county com-| who will leave the impression of missioners, to pay him his salary |large personality upon the stu for May dents.” Hamilton and Knudsen voted{ Already about $800,000 has been yesterday to hold up Hanna's pay | pledged. warrant, charging he had refuse: ed! ‘Tonight Sayre will speak at the to obey their orders in regard to! College club, where he is to be the the hour of opening the treasurer's | guest of Williams alumni Judge - office | A. Ballinger and former Mayor Se It 1s probable Hanna will petition } mour of Tacoma will also spe sak. for a writ of mandate compelling| ‘This afternoon Sayre is visiting the two commissioners to retract | Tacoma, their action, which is generally re | Mrs. Sayre did not accompany him garded as ludicrous. on this trip. “I saw Prosecutor Murphy about | SOME SALMON in the matter and he told me he| would give no opinion until one} was asked for by the commission- | or Auditor Phelps,” said Han-| ma tod aad | ASTORIA, June A Royal nL wtp | nt ghing 87 “L. suppose I shall have to take Chinook salmon ie nae pounds, the largest caught this sea the trouble of hiring my own attor- hey to push the matter.” |non, is om display here. iggest small college in| ident | ALL STREETS RESIGNATIO | petitions asking for med with esignation of County sioner Lafe Hamilton and the missal of Road Supervisor J. FE. Brockway, on charges of criminal misconduct In office, a delegation of citizens from Vashon f{aland ai peared before the board this morn Ing. The petitions were signed by 70 | residents of the {sland The Brockaway petition was for The much-discussed ordinance tc prohibit |downtown streets except at inter | sections, passed by the council yes terday, is still lying on Mayor Gill's desk today, unsigned. The mayor says he will veto tt because it isn't wide enough in its! scope. “That ordinance would drive a pedestrians from crossing man to drink,” he said today. “A i presented o eo pard fo man comes in here a stranger. He|™Ally presented to the board for is permitted to cross any old place *Ction, the Hamilton resignation resolution being held back until the Dut r by this ordinan: south of Yesler, by this a board votes on the Brockway mat He goes up town a way, then | 0s breaks the law, crossing between | "°t. intersections. But if he goes far The delegation asked Rrockway's ther up town he {s out of danger “/#missal on the grounds that he pera was recently fined $100 and costs in justice court on a charge of tr regular transactions as road super visor of District 5, Vashon The board took up the Brockway petition this afternoon The mayor wants an ordi nance covering the entire city, and will hold a conference with Chief Griffiths this afternoon. He believes if the measure appiies to one part it should apply to all, but that it need not be enforced except on the crowded streets. LEPER SHOWS UP | AT 2 SPEEDERS _ AS HOTEL GUEST | AND--FINES "EM | When E. W. 8 y, a be praetor | T T | motorcycle driver years old, ap-| | peared be! fore Judge Gordon this | morning, he was given solemn| warning that if he ever appeared | WASHINGTON, June 2— |again ona similar charge, he would| John Early, alleged leper who | go to jail recently escaped from the Then he was fined $24 quarantine station at Diamond | Head, Wash., after being ship- | ped from Washington several years ago, arrived here today. 8. Wenzell was given the same fine, and the same warning. Sperry was traveling 32 miles an |hour when nabbed by Officer Stan He told newspaper men that | ley, according to the latter's testl- he had “returned to Washing. | mony ton to stay.” | Judge Gordon scowled fiercely Health officials were detain- | when he sounded the warning. ing him temporarily at a local | hotel. Early registered at a promi. | WORK FOR MANY nent hotel as E. J. Weston of New York. Or. 1 PORTLAND, June 2,—From | Apparently tiring of hie un | 19 099 to 15,000 men, at from $2 to eventful sojourn, he revealed | y, will be needed in the re ny Ss eee ee |harvest fields of Oklahoma, accord: French insurance companies keep | ing to a communication from Secre | records of the teeth of their clients|tary of Labor Wilson, who asked| |to Insure identification after death. | that the news be spread broadcast SURE, JOSIAH’S OUT FOR NEW CHARTER Collins defends|King county, voting at large, he and travels|wouldn't have a ghost of a show. | Ina small district Collins can fare better, | He spoke before the Knights of} Of course Collins favors 30 coun |Columbus last night jcllmen, each elected tn a small dis Collins {# a good example of what | trict | | Senator Josiah |the large council plan, all the way to Kurope to prove its success fons in small districts means. Quite naturally, the Hinky Dink | Collins’ record in the state senate|thing looks good to Josh, but he} fi been out of tune with the de-|has a mighty hard job to find a elty mands of progressive Washington. jin the United States where the large | If Collins had to depend for his,;council plan has proved satisfac jelection on tho people of Seattle or|tory. i JUDGE SCOWLS would be embalmed and held in the # of local cemeteries until all hope {# gone that they will be claimed by ves, when the Canadian Pacific will bury them The funerals were held Monday of nine members of the crew Lieut. Gov. Sir Francis Langter, staff representatives of the Do-| |minfon military and naval forces The Star bright sayings, ence. going to laugh when you tell them Who'll be first? make it long. you tell ‘em what a cute thing little Bobbi a plan whereby you ind tell It to an appreciative and sympathetic audi- Lots of Star readers have littie ones at home. What is the cutest thing your baby has sald. Don't aid this morning. in tell about your child's THEY aren't about YOURS, So, come on, now. GETTING INTO “It's a peculiar thing about “this | ‘Who's Who' book,” said Judge Humphries, during a lull in Judicial work today Now here my name comes out in the book and the newspapers play it up tn big headiines, I don’t fee why they singled me out in stead of someone elee who got his too, I cen't understand bwapapers, 4 I'm not sure I understand Who's Who" idea. A fellaw | this SORT 0’ SURPRISED THE JUDGE, Big “WHO'S WHO” c wie tate my office some time axe and asked me a lot of questions about myself. He wid it wasn't going to cost me anything, so I told him. Now I see my name is in the book I suppose somebody will be around soon trying to sell me one. I guess that's the way they pay for | them fter all, I suppose {t's a gocd idea to have the books handy, #9 when a big man dies you learn sometiing of his history IDENTIFY ONLY 89 VICTIMS OF GULF DISASTER QUEBEC, June 2.—Of the 188 corpses of Empress of Ire- land victims in the morgue | here, only 89 had been Identi- fied up to today. The others, it was announced, | and leading Canadian Pacific offi clals marched in the procession, \27 Couples Get License to Wed A new June bride record was hung up in Seattle yester- day when marriage licenses were issued to 27 couples at the courthouse. This smashes all precedents for June 1. Alfred P. Raven of Falls City and Maud E. Weatherbee, a local girl, were the first couple. JIM CHIPS IN $5) James Platt bas a poor impres. sion of Seattle. He arrived yesterday from St Louis, and was promptly arrested for trotting a horse over a street intersection This morning he said he didn't know tions, the regula | nobody'll His ignorance cost him $5, AW, C’M ON AND TELL US, GIRLS Well, the Joke's on us, fellers! Twenty-three thousand women are keeping a secret! They all know what P. E. O. means, and they won't tell It's a national woman's organiza- tion “You may guess all you like, but ever tell you if you're * says Miss Edith Prouty, the me president, spection tour Isn't it annoying! HINDUS MUTINY ON PRISON SHIP AT VANCOUVER VANCOUVER, Mutterings ind B. C., June 2 ating another mut inous outburst are heard today among the 100 Hindu immigrants held on board the steamer | Komagata her | Yesterday when the Hindus, who | are British subjects, saw 600 Chi-| nese land without opposition, they rose in mutiny, after having been detained aboard ship for ten days, | and drove the ship. the armed guards from Only the arrival of oity police and constables armed with | | rifles suppressed @ serious riot Opposition to the landing of the Hindus develops from the glutted condition of the labor market here VOLCANO BUSY REDDING, tion from the summit of Mt, Lassen was again visible today from the town of Mineral, 18 miles from Redding. Cal, June 2 new crater at the here on an in-/ Erup-| EVERY WEEK FOR WORKERS Eastern Merchants Will Close Stores Every Saturday During Summer Months. merchant v wae general of the United States, and te noted for the “bigness” of the things he does. At 76 he has anticipated progres and has put into practice a dr —a five-day week for store emp! By H. P. Burton | PHILADELPHIA, Pa., June 2.—“Giving our | workers an added por- tion of the rewards THEY HELP TO EARN is every bit as good BUSI- NESS as it is good MOR- ALS! If people are treated like OXEN, they can be depended on to | make only an OX-LIKE | return! Treated OTHER- | WISE, the difference is a | MIRACLE!” This ts the ch maker the gre enge John Wana. dry goods mer chant the world has seen, flings } across this broad land! The famous Phiiadeiph store is going TO CLOSE TIGHT E ALL, DAY SA SUMMER, MAY HAV | pt RIN | HIS CLE NJOYME EACH WEEK am sure John Wanamaker ae that this latest proposal of | his IS ines BUSINESS. of His Ground The Sactain manner in which he flung his answer to my question proved that. Listen to John Wanamaker five minutes, and you are sure that HE is not the type of man who “bites off more than he can chew.” | He thinks in far too straight a line for that! “Closing our doors and our work shops tight HENCEFORTH during Saturdays of July and August is sim one more step in the evolu | tion that has been working in bust ness for over 50 years,” began Wan- amaker to me Conditions Are Improved | “The position of the working man in 1861 and in 1914 shows a great change for the better, ‘When we began business, all the stores were open from 7 in the morning to 7 in the evening! Gradually we got to a 6 o'clock | closing, and now it is 5 o'clock ev }ery day and opening in the morn ing at 8:30 Inst of at 7. This shows three and a half hours EVERY “DAY given to work thin a single LIFETIME Y HOLIDAY FOR THEIR OWN | NEW YORK STORES 10 GIVE SATURDAY OFF NEW YORK, June 2.—The stores of B. Altman and Lord & Taylor have joined the movement for a five-day week. Both have announced that their places of business will be closed all Saturday and Sun- day throughout the months of July and August, thereby per mitting employes to enjoy two full holidays every week with full pay. found ways to establish annually a two weeks’ furlough in the sum- mertime WITHOUT ANY REDUG- TION IN PAY ‘In old times clerks and others in the store had to work also at nights, especially Saturday nights, and they had VERY LITTLE TIME for education or recreation, “To close this store for one WHOLE day EACH week is to pay SIX days’ wages for FIVE days’ work, IF things are to be counted by the RULE OF THREE, but | firmly believe, and HAVE PROVED TRUE, that there Is much MORE in business than just the Rule of Three! “There are BOTH sentiment and the humanities in busl- ness. “We have found that the in- creases in wages we have made and a minimum wage rate in almost every section of our business have actually PRO- DUCED, to a large extent, in- creased efficiency and goodness of service. “For years we closed at noon, but noon oftentimes was 1 o'clock, and when our people reached their homes at 2 or 3 o'clock, the WHOLE of the Sat- urday was practically GONE! “Now that the store closes at 5 o'clock, the people are free on Friday to take late trains to shore and mountain places, and on Monday mornings, taking turns, half our people need not report for duty until 9 o'clock. “This practically gives TWO FULL DAYS of country rest if so desired, to our workers,” FURTH IS WEAK The word toda: m the home of Jacob Furth, president of the trac- tion company, was that he was very weak, but in no immediate “While this was coming on, we| danger.