The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 6, 1914, Page 1

MORE THAN 45,000 PAID COPIES DAILY Alye McKee will try for aero plane altitude record in Seattle dur Ing Potlatch. Hope she doesn't have to change the spelling to Alas. VOLUME 16, The Seattle Star The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News NO. SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, JULY 6, 1914. ONE CENT AST EDITION WEATHER FORECAST — Our weather man has dished out ‘noth- er fair day, with westerly winds. ON TRAINS AND Same tomorrow. NEWS STANDS. CHICAGO FINDS A WAY TO BLOT OUT RED-LIGHT DISTRICT. MILLIONAIRE OWNERS ARRESTED l] CLEVELAND MAKES MUNICIPAL DANCE HALLS PAY WELL LEVELAND, Ohio, made $7,000 clear profit on its municipal dance halls last summer, and it charged but three cents a dance. not as big as the Leschi pavilion in Seattle. It ran two pavilions in its parks, and both together are Summer dances under city supervision are profitable and popular in Cleveland. Why not have a municipal dance hall at Leschi this summer? Three members of the park board are ready to establish one if there is a real demand for it. What do you think of it? Write at once. Exterior of Edgewater park municipal dance pavilion at Cleveiang, with regular Saturday afternoon crowd. . CITY DANCE HALL IDEA RETURNS BIG PROFITS IN EAST CLEVELAND, O., July 6.—‘“May I have the next dance, please?” Cleveland young men can ask the question 25 times a night, and all it will cost them is 75 cents. The two three-cent mu- nicipal dance halls furnish the answer. So popular have these city-owned pavilions become that the two pres ent buildings are entirely inade- quate. Demand for a dozen new dance halis has been made by the city park department Crusade Started It Two years ago Cleveland was in the midst of a crusade against danc ing. Reformers attacked the dance halls, claiming they led young peo ple astray. Police charged youth ful wrongdoers made their head: quarters at some of the dance halls, and the public in general frowned that time total receipts amounted them. It looked for a time as|to $7,394.31, Expenses were it Cleveland youth would have to! $5,160.02, leaving a profit at If about ” Bewe Just Qe Mavs QRINTO all A clubwoman of St. Joseph, Mo., is trying to get a law in that state requiring all couples desiring to marry to show} at least $200. She argues that poverty and divorces than anything else Far be it from me to say she wrong, are that little Dan Cupid isn’t worrying over this to weight his arrows with a few ounces of gold It may be foolish to rush into matrimony but the world has grown such foolishness Shall thoughts turn to yaving of money when the glorious girl of the age smiles and gently intimates a for flowers or candy or picnics or trifles? Later, it is true, $200 might come may become more but the glory of real it doesn’t stop to count its pennies, It is this builds empires of generous thought that gives so couragement to “Lonesome Girl” in the letters of her that have come to The Star office last week, still pouring in Cupid in chains to a $200 keeper? count of any size? Well, I'm from society woman has got to ‘ give up tripping the light fantastic. Then came Fred C. Alber, park superintendent, with a plan all his own Starts Municipal Plan Obtaining small amount of money from the park fund, he laid maple floors in the shelter houses in two of the public parks and open ed up dance halls, operated under the supervision of the park depart ment A manager, a woman chaperon and half a dozen attendants are constantly on the job to prevent rowdyism and indecency, Charge Three Cents A rate of 3 cents a dance was adopted, and the municipal pavil ions prospered, Edgewater park pavilion, the first completed, was opened August 5, 1912. It closed for the season October 7. Woodiand Hills park pavilion was opened August 31, 1912, and closed September 23. In failure to save cause more} attempt minus cash, on most Later, love is fact that much advice and in handy real en to are Or to any bank ac- Missouri myself. And that Missouri ‘show me. | $2,2: of} } son. | halts of the city but the chances} desire | life} that | love | | tra 34.29 for 1912 In 1913 total receipts of the two halis were $18,491.16, and expenses $11,50771. During the on 616,373 tickets were sold, showing 1,232,744 persons used the dance floors. In the two years the dance floors have been used by 1,752,698 person The attendance so far this year has exceeded all former records. Officials estimate a net profit more than $2,000 already this sea Will Build New Halle They plan to turn exceas money from the dance hails into a fund to be used next year for the erec tion of new pavilions. “City-owned dance proved popular with says Alber. “City halls have all classes, officiala never hear now of complaints regarding the dance halls, as “in days of old. | Municipal halis not only have been kept clean themselves, © aided in cleaning but up the other “Reformers never jthe city-owned halls |fathers go there to |thetr children Chaperons Pre: t “The chaperons at the parks act as mothers and big sisters to the| girls, and the manager plays the} big brother to the boys, There is no rowdylam “Munielpally owned success, and the sooner every city finds it out, the sooner these cities will be rid of the taint of the rowdy and indecent dance hall.” The dancin hours are from to 10:30 p. m. daily, and on Satur. day afternoon from 2°30 to 5. Children under must chaperons Each hall has a six-piece orches- The city 1s making money and the people are enjoying them selves complain of Mothers and dance halle are Is have Proponents of Seven Sisters peti- tion claim 385,000 valid names, enough to pv* petitions on ballot, of} they | with) Write to The Star, and we'll let the park board know what you have to say. NAB BANDITS NEAR SCEN _ OF TRAIN JOB PE | res ‘DLETON, only 20 Ore, miles July 6 from é | scone of the robbery of the OW R. & N, passenger train No. 5, near Kamela, Ore. early last Thursday Albert Meadows, 20, and Clarence Stoner, 28, have confessed to: that they were the two bandits who escaped after the third ied by Deputy Sheriff McDu in a revolver duel also stated that the dead was not Hugh Whitney, as waa at first believed, but Charles Manning, a professional gambler. Stoner and Wh All three men were from Coke Wyo., and, according and Stoner, Menoing sugge planned the holdup and acted as leader. Manning left a widow children at Cokeville EXEMPT ULSTER was ile, and ae LONDON, July 6 Lords tonight ‘The House of passed the bill amending the Irish Home Rule measure. The amendment ex cludes Ulster from Home rule oper ation for six years and allows the} Ulster counties to vote every six years of accepting it. Interior of the Edgewater pavilion. The floor of the Woodland Hills park pavilion, Cle ¥ are cousins. | thereafter on the OO | pon | YOU OUGHT TO | | KNOW; DOYOU? | | Do you recall the design on the silverware used at home? Have you been observant enough to know what sort of knives and forks you have been eating with twice a all this time? Another little of observation. JAPS AT GARDEN PARTY A big bunch of officers and tailors from the Japanese cruisers left for the Sound navy yard thi |] noon to attend a garden party given in their honor by the of- J) ficera of the Puget Sound naval station and of the Pacific | reserve fieet. The doin | on from 3 to 5 p. m. ind’s second. mu-} i nicipal dance hall, is 76 by 33 feet. RY’ PETITIONS HASED BY A The congregation of the First) Methodist church was treated to a |regular Diamond Dick sermon last night, when the pastor, Rev. Adna Wright Leonard, told in thrilling de tail how the initiative petitions for prohibition were smuggled out of ttle the other morning at 3| o'clock and taken to Olympia and/ filed. A picked squad of police oferty panied the three armed occupants of the auto to the city limits. “Almost as soon as they started |they noticed a mysterious touring lear behind them,” said the pastor, while the congregation's hair stood at. attention. and when {ft struck | ALYS M’KEY TO GO AFTER NEW “T) Fords are light, Declaring that she will break the record of 19,200 feet set by Aviator Silas Christofferson, Alys McKey-} Bryant, the daring woman flier, who| made sensational flights during the 1913 Potlatch, and who retired from the air sport for a time after her husband, John Bryant, was killed at Victoria, has announced that she caution Was unnecessary | petitions were in a Ford.| @ boys who stole the cakes. boys will call and pay for them, he the law on them. ALTITUDE MARK’ will arrive in Seattle tomorrow-for a series of flights from Harbor leland. | a8 UTO? a plece of bumpy road tt bounced right along, but the mysterious car behind was ditched. The occupants of the Ford had their revolvers drawn, ready to shot, but the pre The pur suers were left behind and the peti tions were saved, By night they had been filed with the secretary of | state.” SCOTLAND YARD OUTDONE Mr. H. P. | without a Eubanks found out the If the will let them off; If not, he will use The Alpin Cor Perry Co. (Ark.) News. . SCARING THE PATIENT Mrs. Bertha Ansell was taken to Jacksonville | Thursday in Syd ney Ansell’s car to undergo an oper. ation, The last news at this writing she was getting along nicely, the operation had not yet be formed.—The Kumpsville Cor. Calhoun Co, (Ill.) Republican ¢ BOYD'S SOME CHAUFFEUR Link Beachey may hold the palm the The floor is 83 by 34 feet. July 6,—Chicago is SMASHING in a new and SUCCESSFUL way They're stamping it into the ground from the TOP down. Chicago police used merely to raid the resorts—whick reopened next day, as usual NOW the police are raiding “respectable” OWN- ERS of resorts—the wealthy and prominent men, who secretly lease their property for immoral uses, because thus they can double their gains. A Chicago multi-millionaire, a prominent club man and philanthropist, has just been convicted and fined the maximum on the charge of owning property used for immoral purposes. And the police have a list of FIFTY more well-to-do property owners, who are to be prosecuted on the SAME charge The wealthy widows, of society men, of rich real ¢ have been linked with the notorious titles THEIR property, though they never cared CHIC cialized AGO, commer- vice names of dealers, f tainted hotels to mention it The first tate blow in this new campaign against vice was struck by Rev. Elmer L. Williams of the Grace Methodist Episcopal church—Chicago's “fighting pastor” they call him» “The fighting pastor” reasoned that perhaps the OWNER of a certain vicious resort—the Medinah hotel—whose pres ence was polluting his neighborhood, might be held SOME= WHAT responsible for what went on within the place, So he “went for” the owner—and he “got” him. And the man he “got” was Washington Porter, the mile lionaire member of two of ¢ hicago’s exclusive clubs “There are men of his kind in EVERY city,” said Fight- ing Pastor Williams, “and more of them than you might think. It's hard to convict them. They are men of influence and position. They often belong to churches, and are prominent politicians. Their property is leased and sublet, and rented again, so that it's almost impossible to trace the ownership to the man highest up. But he’s THERE, all right. “We've a list of 50 such property owners right now, and — fc jare going to begin prosecuting them at once.” The city has worked on this principle for a long time. There has been a committee of 15 citizens who peri cally published in all the papers alist of every house of i fame in the city—TOGETHER WITH THE NAME @O THE OWNER t There was many an erstwhile respectable citizen wha blushed and squirmed inwardly, one morning, when he saw his name printed thus, for all the world to read, next to the jname of a red-light hotel. But now the reformers have hit harder still. begun to CONVICT in open court, and fine heavily, tha same men It's the most effective blow that has ever been struck commercialized vice. HAMILTON'S AIDE WE'RE ALL READY NOW Under the supervision of Lighting Superintendent Ross and City Engineer Dim- ock, the city Is ready any moment to make the actual physical connections nece: sary to carry the municipal cars on Fourth av. There's about half a day's work left. The actual connection will not, however, be made until after Friday, when the old Hanfordized Injunction comes up before the three federal judges for modifica- tlon. BALKS ON RECALL; -0.K. WITH MURPHY When complaint was made this morning to Prosecuting plbigi ss Murphy’s office that J. M. Oglesby,school director of Vashon island, § liberately refuses to check up the recall petitions against Lafe ame ton, county commissioner, although the law expressly requires him to do so, said prosecuting attorney's office shrugged its shoulders and walked out on the protesting delegation, “We will not discuss the matter until the county auditor makes an — official request to us to direct Mr. Oglesby to make the check,” was the statement issued by the prosecutor. : The only other man who has the authority to check the Vashon pes titions is J. E. Brockway, the road supervisor, who was convicted of vir tual graft, but who was retained in office by Lafe Hamilton in spite of the conviction. HARD LUCK, DICK'S'LONG, ADMIRAL “Thanks awfully, The two cruisers constituting ry I can't come. Japanese training squadron That's the substance of a letter| steam out of Elliott bay tomorrow received today by Mayor Gill from| morning and turn their prows to Dick McBride, premier of British | ward the land of cherry blossoms. Columbia. | The flagship is coaling today and He had been Invited to the Pot-|all preparations for going to sem | latch by Hiram. will be completed by night. 1 ANTIPODEANS WIN IT LONDON, July 6.—Norman Brookes of Australia and Anthony Wild: — ing of New Zealand won the Challenge round for the all-Hngland tennis | championship here today, by defeating Barrett and Dixon, 6-1, 6-1, BY and § 8-6. you know. Sor- | John V. Boyd, of the Boyd pharma-|was a narrow escape from | stands peer asa trainer of wild, man-eating automobiles. At} Ninth and Columbia — yesterday | Boyd made his machine turn a somersault and a half, gently toss-| |ing three occupants to the ground without so much as scratching them. Mrs. Boyd, Boyd, sr. and! |Hoyd, jr, aged 6, went north, east| and west respectively, The car; | went south. ¢| cy, Seventh and Union, THE LUCK THAT \¢ | SOME MEN HAVE | oe e Adam Schenk fell off the runway | the Fernholz lumber d on Monday forenoon, and landed on his back at a point near his kidneys on | |a stake on the wagon, breaking the| |stake off. He, no doubt, will be| contortionist-aerialist, but|unable to work tor a few weeks, It\~ more | @—— serious injuries, as he might of fell | HOW TO BE BEAUTIFUL so that the stake reached a more! vital part of his body.—Jefferson (Wis.) Banner. — One of Turon's most handsome | young ladies says that she steams jand sweats her face regularly once a week over her mother's wash tub, . y E @ |She says wringing out clothes makes IT WASN'T THE BRIDGE | her arms so plump, and hanging out Mrs. Munson’s bridge party was a| clothes has enlarged her bust meas- great success socially. The hostess| urement several inches, while the appeared in a large bunch of spring|exercise of stooping and lifting | vlolets.—Lane (W, Va.) Recorder. |clothes makes her vale @)smaller.—Turon (Kans.) N AN OPPORTUNITY | | joa LET US SHOW YOU OUR PETTICOATS Mrs, D, Dawes & Daughters Ady. in Elizabeth (Il) News. , BUT NOT WELL overcame his mothe! wah diebhaos | HAVE BEEN TAKING A NAP AT The bridegroom was dressed in| THE TIME."—Extract from Seat- light tan shoes and gloves to match,|tle morning pape: account of Francitas (Tex,) Bee, lwoman's death by phyxiation. o | WHY THEY START SCHOOLS OF JOURNALISM i* “It is the theory of hi WHEN SHE _ DROPP! | NEW QUARTER th