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

AYBE it’s the Seattle climate that keeps the figures of our men folks so symmetrically beautiful. of a time trying to find a fat man in Seattle who is deserving of the name. over the country up any candidates of sufficient heft. in the Arcade, and who, together, tip the beam at 600 pounds, haven't a ghost of a chance, ent, Miss Nixola for America's fattest man. Greeley-Smith, We're going to give him a medal when we find him. Little fellows like Dugdale, and,Crawford White, and the Hay brothers, twins, who have a barber shop Only today we received word that our correspond- located a man back East who seems to be the daddy of ’em all. He’s a regular whale. Jackson, he lives in Brockton, Mass., and HE WEIGHS 625 POUNDS, Tomorrow’s Star will tell you all about him. WEATHER FAIR VOLUME 16. ‘| WE GO TO WORK EARLY HERE IN STAR OFFICE The Canadian Paelfic railroad ran a epecial train from Seattle thie morning bearing exeursionists to Vancouver, B. C., to cele brate Dominion day there today. The proceedings will take the form of boosting maple Products of Canada. Rep- resentatives of The Star were Invited to a 9 o'clock maple breakfast on the din- Ing car before the special etarted. If the breakfast had been held at 5 o'clock, The Star staff might have been on hand. But 9 o'clock Is the mid- die of the afternoon for The Star force. NAVY DRY TODAY; DANIELS’ ORDER PUT INTO FORCE WASHINGTON, July 1.—Ex- cept among surgeonw ‘ores, there was not a thing alcoholic. to- day on any United States fighting sbip, or at any i” naval sta- on earth. The navy “went dry” at mid- night by oe of Secretary of the ‘Sohn Ba Barleycorn hag sailed the seas on American naval ships ever since there waa ao American navy. To the enlisted men the new or- der made not a\particle of difter- ene, re, only. Dereenscat. Yoo Were Alone. ia "Declaring that she suffered ‘tan attack at the hands of Lieut. ‘Sie he, ney 0 United . leycorn were the officera. U.S. HAS PLAGUE UNDER CONTROL WASHINGTON, July 1—*“A lot of foolish notions prevail regard- Ing the bubonte plague situation in New Orleans,” said Assistant Sur- geor Gen. Rucker today. He said there was no necessity for pesmi A KILLED IN-CAVE-IN}: Charles Hassen, 123 Sixth av. was killed today and Sam Ja! 2610 Fifth av., sustained a © frac- tured hip, when the Wy 4 a Shy they were workin W. and Kennedy caved is on ther on the sISHOW BANK GAIN ‘The bank clearings for Seattle during the firs six mouths of t year amounted to $316,706,168.40, a 3: at . W bes denise saeesee barrens } | Then I am moody todays My mind rey’ Sack to the sc@ne nsas City, Mo., last week, where there was rewire reets alive with men making merry. Bands playing. Shouts of greeting, cheers, rollicking songs. ‘The occasion “4s the departure of 12;iron workers, convicted in dynamite | ‘conspiracy cases, to the penitentiary to begin terms of three to six years’ penal servitude. Enter this place and no matter what degree your in- "mocence, or what the provocation for your unlawful act, you ‘ar, forever, a brand,,a brand that descends upon your| ren. God may forgive but man forgets not; nor lets} jorget. hese 12 men making merry in the path to the peni- are not habitual criminals. They are skilled work- ‘They are not what.are classed as “low and ignorant.” are, perhaps, above the average as to intelligence. They| owned homes and ‘taken part in the making of govern-| for all of us It is an awful thing that they march into that prison ing, with the cheers of their fellows ringing in their ears, it were heaven instead of hell they were entering. “ Whree years,-four years, six years at hard labor as felons! The songs will change to curses. The cheers will be followed tears. Twelve able-bodied, intelligent artisans disappear hind those giant steel doors, and crowds make merry over i! A dozen of our fellowmen branded as indelibly as was in, and the bands play, the streets resound with expres- of jollity. Eat, drink and be merry, for these men are ! |. Woe: to us, if we do not discover why such things come NO. 110. he Seattle Star aye Poly Paper | in n Seattle That Dares to Print the News | snenaicien . oe BABIES! BABIES! BABIES! 1 | | Four Hundred of "Em Entered | in Contest to®Be Held July | 4 at Leschi Park. LOOK FOR TRIPLETS| Many Pairs of Twins in, But) | the Judges Want to Go Them One Bc tter. ore than 400 Seattle bablew| mind been entered tn the Fourth Annual Better Raby contest, which will be held at Lesohi park Satur. day, July 4 | ere's going to be twice that) many when the curtains go up on show day, ff indleations count for) anything. The alsies tn the registration de- partment at Panton’s Seéond ay. store are crowded every day with mothers who are placing the namer of their young hopefuls on the lat If your baby isn't on the books! yet, you ati! have time, Many Prizes Offered Seattle merchants have donated various prizes. The Star has posted a handsome silver loving cup for the best all- round girl. The Star trophy fs the grand prize for the girl di- viston. Then there tw the loving cup to, eo by the anwar for the grand jaw © Seca nurses will be on ‘the little ones are Leoking for OS Low hater will the Ty babies, little babies, twins and triplets will il be remem- bered with prizes. Up to date there are efght pairs of twins entered. The committee ts looking for a set of triplets. The boy in the picture ts George Ernest Groppenbacher, son of Mr. and Mra, George J. Groppenbache;; N. 75th wt. SBATTLE, WASH., be setbientate isk 1, 1914, ONE CENT PEOPLE THROW HINKY Anyhow, believe us, we're having a deuce The Star, with its sister papers, is conducting a search all And The Star is having difficulty in lining Name’s Charlie EDITION ON TRAINS AND NEWS STANDS, be HAR TER IN DISCA iT LANDED THAT ONE PERFECTLY THERE CONSARN YER TAKE THAT == established a record of own at 10 months, when he weighed 35 pounds. He weighs only 81% pounds now, as bis exercise dally about the house and yard has reduced him to fighting trim. He will scald 2 years old July 2 IF YOU'VE NEVER | ¥ BEEN IN-VENICE, HERE'S CHANCE If you've never been in Venice you'll have a chance to go there next Tuesday night, July 7, aboard the ferry Issaquah, leaving Leschi park, An excursion given by the Seat- tle Clef club will terminate at some secluded little bay, on Lake Washington, where the big ferry will. moor. canoes will float slowly around, bearing male | quartets,| mixed and women's quartets, man- \dolin orchestras, guitars, and all sorts of musica) instruments, attle Herald—all pushing of the people. ward. Ready? Forward, Well, we had an election yesterday, and we find it’s not so bad at all. two to one—and the newspaper control? Why, bless you, it was all a bogey. The newspapers didn’t control at all. There they were—two dailies lustily crowing for There they were, periodicals and weeklies, the Argus, the Town Crier, the Rainier Valley paper; the Se- the Dinky thing, and together to get the charter over. greater and bigger things. Let’s forget this * _ march! ‘There'll be dancing on the ferry’s|7 upper deck. The clib has ordered | moonlight for the ocoasion. ITS NEARLY TIME Carrying out ” plang to eliminate | treacherous passageways along the coast of Southeastern Alaska, \party of 21. men in. the United| | States geodetic survey service, ieft for the North last night aboard the} tug Chehalis The party is equipped witha wii drag which will be used in ldcating | uncharted rocks and shoals, 5 yma Girt" ta 20, has worked since) king end Bent | har ideal. to her, saying took aeiee nich permission to itak. th her He anke ber him her tele. | 16 18 the won t y thine | him come to | Cupid is not discouraged. What fe oth. * |with the big wheat crop and feat of the charter, life isn't gloomy, Cupid induced 605 conples | °°! to think his way during June, egtab- | wna lishing a King county record. ror will @et 95.00, . lade The ‘Washington naval scitdas! M. ©. first division, Seattle men, will Join| advises the Tacoma and Aberdeen egon forees on the cruiser 4} the quentic Seattle Star, Anacortes, Wash., yme Girl to invite n to ber home, soe,” In the Ver advice, ‘DROP HIM QUICK BEFORE HE DROPS YOU"; MAN WRITES TO ‘LONESOME GIRL’; 1S HERIGHT, | you out to meet your company.” A. B, Clyde, 708 University. st., tells “Lonesome Giri" not to worry. “Think well of yourself, Your character, love and purity are qualities universally recogniged as priceleas, Worthy in my estima- } tion of any man’s. millions. If, on the other hand, you ¢annot over- ‘come your fears, put the case up to | him fairly and squarely—this will appeal’ to his manhood.” “If L were you,” says Mrs, J. Mac- Donald, 523 Second av. N. would tell him the truth: Stand right in front of him, look him straight in the eye, and say we cannot all have a lot of money, Be a Iittle; independent. It is no disgrace to be" poor or work for a living,” Med since 1f yeup your bumble surroundings make no, difference to him, and he inyites his friends’ and. mother, you can be sure of him. | But Jf, when yor are with him, he avoids his friends, then I advise }you to drop his acquaintance,” In an: altogether different,.tone | | writes Experienced Man, He says: “The Idie rich all ha’ hob- ble Some pass their time making love to yeting ladies, where there Is julf so far be- ocial point would kick If they brought to thelr midst. ly on thelr per id the pres. createe for uee their for thelr own Forget this “Without the ald of The Star, belongs the credit of obtaining a May the “Congratulations to The Star, to men like Chief *Grietithne, James ton and the others, who. fou; at your should get the real credit af the tires, he task to defeat the proposed undemocratic charter. Star can justifiably be proud of itself."—JAMES A; HAIGHT, t side feople’s victory. THE NEWSPAPERS AND THE CHARTER! = ‘YESTERDAY'S election results bring to view a ray of sunshine in what the Hinky Dink orators pre- dicted would be a dark and sad state of affairs. When confronted by the fact that under the ward system the ward heeler would flourish, the Hinky Dink defenders used to come back with the statement that without the ward system there is danger of newspaper bossism in elections. A pretty blue outlook in either case, you'd imagine. The ward bosses got beaten} one sitting on the fence. And on the other side, all alone, was The Star—alone among the newspapers, but with the dinieigy That’s all there’s to it. The people bossed their own election and the powerful combination of news- papers and periodicals didn’t feaze them one bit. So, cheer up—Seattle people, having shown themselves entirely capable of taking care of themselves, are ready now to advance by-election, and move for- ARREST DOCTOR The arrest of Dr, John’ ‘Sorensen today by Constable Jim Shannon on @ wartant charging hiny with practicing medicine without a M- cense, marks ‘the third offense of this nature. by Seattle physicians withinsa month, Sorensen |s a chiropractor, with offices -in th tel® bts Bhai ng MAIL BY AU’ AUTOS fon and de. in ‘Seat- lc mall The auto mall coll livery service began. tle, supplanting ele Jt would have been an impossible To The. i proval for t rallway. ownership advantages vote of gone to d ood work of The Star continue.”—OLIVER T. ERICKSO! The Star hae received numerous auch telephone and péreonal, if which this paper ls deeply kful,, to say, however, that ItJa to the peo The le who vated" and ight, C. W. Doyle, T. H. Bol- aide with: The Stacy nn A. H receiving a majority Ward Plan of 4 ment at Depalet 9 In Tuesday's The: people ain voted: in franchise pe sere hig ae Peay thie Is the tl junicipal league. | | you up to ask you asa And up went | phone receiver, . | oe. a pe and bee pete of | fourth Each time the answer the ‘game, though ‘the su court has rafed that the | have no voice in the pat ever. A Uttle over 20,000 votes cast, which, while: falling shove the municipal — electio ve number usually pating in sotool, port, and - special elections. Every ward in the city we against the Hinky Dink plan. Seventh ward gave the propo charter {ts best support, ~ Selfish Appeal Is Vain In Ballard, Fremont, G; alarge vote by the: sel! to. ward “ ” the -Hi ists were eee: In each of these ' districts, # vota was overwhelmingly | the charter, ne The Ballard bridge. bon The Star advocated in qrd open up the territory on ‘the to the municipal ear lne, by a safe vote, receiving than the 60% necessary Close for Fremont The Fremont bridge bon oaition No. 2, also Ginnita: by 2 row margin. inn eer ds were fos 3, es t re, ithe ‘within'a few vo failed to come near the 60% Proposition 4, the Mantlane p was rejected by the t jority of all thé. bonds. he W Spokane bridge, Broposition, also rejected by a geo i The Ballard bridge to SS and the Tyolnoaé to $i Tn y addition, the . county spend $70,000 on oe bridge. o