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

Millions Fighting Hand-to-Hand — Over a Sixty-Mile Battle Line ' The Seattle Star The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News VOLUME 16. NO. 161. SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1914 AST EDITION To mortal mind the weath a IIttle chill and dreary this ONE CE! HOW SHE ESCAPED but the w. m. sald, as he always NEWS WTANDs, says: “Fair tonight and tomorrow.” ON TRAINS ANT LOTHES A”. escape from war-mad Paris in a man’s clothes, loaned her by a chance acquaintance, a harrowing ride on a crawling train, laden with rough, boisterous soldiers, a se- ries of long, disheartening waits before express and steam- ship ticket offices, and a ride across the Atlantic in a filthy steerage—all this is what befell Miss Gypsy Hay- ward, who, after an exciting dash across the American continent from New York, ar ived:in Seattle Sunday, only a few hours before “The Candy Shop,” in which she was to have made her initial appearance several weeks ago, opened its week’s engagement at the Metropolitan theatre. Yesterday she posed for The Star photographer in the garb in which she fled from the war zone. At the right Miss Hayward is shown as she appears as Gypsy Hayward her- self. In the following story Miss Hayward, who spent the summer touring Europe in a dancing act, tells about it: dance and sing and thrill with ex: citement of the nights behind the footlights. And— now—I wonder !f 1 ever shall be satisfied to be a sirl again. I had played ® boy’s part on the vaudeville stage, and knew I could get away with it. Otherwise I might “have been afraid. 1 wasn't afraid, for that matter, but there nothing else to do so I did it with- out ever stopping to think of fear— and here { am. But first let me tell you how it all came about: ° Parts was hot, crowded, hectic, hurried, confused. The army w mobilizing! The war had broken like a bomb drop- ping from the clear sky. It had come suddenly to most of us Americans, who in our eagerness to “do” the French capital had paid Httle attention to the newspapers. It was a very rade awakening. We came down stairs fn our hotel one morning to find an East Indian porter, several porters, a worried Russian proprietor and & weeping maid, all that was left of what had the night before been a complete hotel staff. “How comes it that Americans still stay in this city?” asked the Russian. His face was very pale and his eyes looked as if he had been crying. “It would be better that you g0 away.” We—my companion and I—went directly to the American express office, for all the money we had between us was a coin or two, amounting in all to about 15 centimes. Probably the majority of Americans in Paris were as- sembled there, on the Rue Scribe, besieging the express of- fice, the steamship companies, or the New York Herald's office, or talking together in excited, morbid knots. My checks were on the Mercantile Marine, so I went directly to the office of the American HMne for money and for reassurance about my steamer, the Philadelphia, which was to leave Cherbourg the next Wednesday on her way from Southampton to New York. The office was closed, but an English clerk came and talked to me through the grat- for a minute. “Closed for the day,” “Anyway, we can't cash your checks. We can't get any money ourselves. The Phil- adeiphia will sail, surely, but she’s probably the last one will sail, and it’s very doubtful if she will stop at Cherbourg. I advise you to get to Southampton at once.” Perhaps he did not know how fronical he was—for in my purse were 15 centimes and two 20 dollar checks of Mercantile Marine value. If he could not cash them, no one could. And he could not. The only thing left for us to do was to atay In the hotel until Monday morning, when the American Express office would open again for business, get some money and take the next train and boat for England. When we got back to our hotel, only the East Indian met us. The French porters had gone to the war. The weeping maid was serving dinner to the few remaining its. The Russian came in from police headquarters. “Tomorrow, at noon, I shut down,” he sald. “I have to leave the country at once. Stay tonight, if you will, but have all out of here tomorrow at 12,” Morning come at last, and we ate our rolls and coffee, for we were not sure of another hotel to give us me along with a room and no money in advance. I knew that it was the experience of a Mfetime for which (Continued on Page 2.) sald he. is fell By Robert Rounder An automobile negotiating the double curve on the Spokane av. bridge, one night about six weeks ago, crashed through the railing and | fell to earth, 12 feet below. A young woman, Miss Bessie Holmes, and Wellwood torney, who occupied the rear seat of Miss Frances Holliwell, who sat b car, Is now insane. Murray, an.at kil the car, is In the county | is set for preliminary hear- Ing In Justice Brink court this afternoon. * | him? The four had been at Luna park, | dancing. They left the park about) midnight. | Two boys sat on a fence by the! road, two blocks distant from the) bridge. These boys testified at the coroner’s inquest. They sald: | That the machine passed them at | a high rate of speed; that it siowed| keep her balance? curve in| Taylor says he doesn't know ed from| whose arms interfered with his peared its|steering. Miss Holmes might ind that It; know, but she fs dead. Murray off the bridge in making the might remember, but he ts dead. second curve. Miss Helliwell might explain the More important, the boys said | true cause of the accident, but she the woman in the beck seat was/is insane. standing up when the machine, She Is recovering slowly, But, as passed them. | regards the accident, her mind is a |blank. She does not know that two of her friends are dead and that Taylor is in jail. She Is at the home of her father, Sidney S. Helliwell, 1703 Grand av., auditor of the National Bank of Commerce. There will be no preliminary hearing, Assistant Prosecuting At torney Ellis having filed a direct \{nformation in the superior court Will Miss Helliwell be in a fit | state, mentally, to testify when the case is called? By euch fragile threads as this are the scales of justice often | hung. WILLIAMS NEW TENNIS CHAMP He remembers, he said later, that some one's arms were about| NEWPORT, R. 1, Sept. 1--R. | his neck and that he threw them | Norris Williams of Philadelphia to- off with a tremendous effort of his day won the national singles lawn shoulders. Then the accident hap-|tennis championship by defeating pened. |Maurice E. McLoughlin of San | Francisco, the former title holder, | lin three hard-fought sets. Or the arms of Mise Holmes, now dead, whom the boys saw standing up in the rear seat when the machine passed them? Did Mise Holmes, when the machine hit the curve, convulsively seize the nearest object—the neck of Taylor In front of her—to A newspaper reporter wan on the scene shortly after th: He testified that Taylor he didn't know the names of the jwomen. He also stated that Tay }lor seemed dazed and perhaps | didn’t know what he was saying The question of Taylor's con | duet ts technically nice. Taylor, possibly dazed by the ac- cident, told an Inquiring reporter he didn't know the women, Was it to save them from publicity? He | said the woman beside him had her arms about his neck, which in. terfered with his steering. Later, he changed this story in one detall. He knew the women A friendship between Miss Helli well and himself, of perhaps six months’ standing, is admitted. eee Whose arms? The arms of Miss Helliwell, who sat beside scores were 6-3, 86 and 10-8 | 1 never heard of Lord Wimborne of England until a few days a when his will Yet here was a nob in who didn’t need an artificial title to prove it. Lord Wimborne wi real man, whom |the world ought to have known better. With these words: “1 THANK GOD THAT HE GRANTED ME A WIFE SO SWEET, 80 LOVING AND SO CAPABLE,” Lord Wimborne concludes a 40-word will, leaving to her all his property. Because the baron is dead and some of the property is in America and subject to an inheritance tax, a copy of the will hase come to my notice. | How thoughtful of him to pen a tribute so that it would come as) from a voice out of the grave. The |? War th ens most of the property thus willed, a war he did not | lIve to see, But | fancy that his widow would rat i it all than to have missed the enduring memory of so touching jonial. nvcnacas AE LOST LONDON, Sept. 1.—The Expreas published today a thrilling story by | *% wounded British soldier of the battle of Mons. “The Germans came on,” he said, “deapite our artiliery fire, which mowed them down in heaps. Their cavairy failed to break our jine. Finally their machine gune assailed ue At thie we charged, yelling. The Germans broke and fied. We followed, shooting them in their backs and bayoneting the survivors. \s “Some of our artillery had reserved its fire, and when the German attack was renewed the enemy, believing our guns h HOUSE FIRE An early morning fire, which completely gutted the Miller house, a frame structure at 500% Sixth av., caused the death of Guro Jokelich, 26, and im- reached the can- we opened fii and the German force was periled the lives of a score - |of others. To the heroic most annihilated, British rifie- men easily picked off the few agreed the Germana outnumbered * ogres nee | the flames at 4:40 a. m., =_ while walking his beat, Discerning smoke pouring forth HERE FRIDAY from one of the windows, Aasland , way up and down the smoke-filled Following @ triumphal march! corridors, the officer aroused the States senate, will hold a downtown!” aj) -but Jokelich awakened, His rally in Seattle Friday noon at the! room was situated toward the mid- thustastic receptions In every town! cape was quickly cut off. 8 and county he has visited. He tn- the salute war ‘forced to hee tase He speaks at Bremerton Thurs- When the flames subsided, fire. day night. men went into the building to “peech at the Grand Opera House/ uted to asphyxiation. Jokelich was Friday noon he intends saying aja Montenegrin, work of Patrolman Hans survivors.” many of the roomers owe turned in the alarm, and then rush- through the state, Ole Hanson, pro- sleeping inmates by vigorously Grand Opera House. dle of the house, and the flames tends to wind up the primary cam-|the street clad only in night Hanson fs probably the most pow-| search for Jokelich. His body was few things that will count, The Miller house {s a total loss, ‘Paris Prepares for Siege as Four German Armies Pound Away at French Defending Forces. PARIS, Sept. 1—A German mono- plane appeared over Paris at 6 p. m. today. \alarm. F The Eiffel tower aeroguns were manned jand a volley was fired at the airman. Wheel- |ing, he disappeared to the northward, unhit. VIENNA (via Rome), Sept. 1.—“The |greatest battle in the history of the world” was the war office’s description in a state- ment today of the conflict raging on the |Russo-German and Russo- Austrian frontiers. Upwards of 3,000,000 men, the war office said, are en- gaged in actual fighting. Every branch of all three coun- | tries’ services is represented. The tide of battle ebbs and flows. is yet in sight. Whole Army Corps Is Annihilated As a result of a concentration of forces between Lublin and Grubies zow, 60 MILES, the struggle is said to be jalmost HAND-TO-HAND. Having split the Austrian army in Galicia in two, the | Russians have practically annihilated its 10th corps, it is ase | serted in a dispatch from St. Petersburg to London. The issue of the fighting in Galicia, it is admitted, how- ever, is still in doubt. Germans Try to Cut Off Allies LONDON, Sept 1—The Germans were concentrating today | effort to crush the Franco-British allies’ left and center. Develoganai In the fighting make It evident that German maneuvering In the past 10 days has been with a view to surrounding the allies and cuttl ig them off from A corbegy ba of supplies. ‘ continent Is more than ever, but the war fice inte at important _lagarenation (dee made pobtte som. aa p repo: itish reinforcements have |: Belgium and that an offensive movement by a combined. Gritish. Belgian fortes te contemplated against the Germans. RE Mat stories are current to the effect that the German Hnes breaking down and that there Is a scarcity of provisions at the front. Pounding Away at French Left Four German armies, under Grand Duke Albrecht and Gens. von | Klug, von Buelow and von Hausen, are pounding the French left today. | The allies’ tine, though intact, is nevertheless retiring. Having | mounted heavy artillery, the Germans are murderously shelling the French entrenchments from Se to the south, The French continued on the offensive along the Lorraine frontier. In anticipation of a siege, however, the exodus of inte continues. All trains are packed with them. Fifty troop trains ars provided by the government to facilitate de partures. Even these are inadequate, and the jams at all stations are 80 great that the police have all they can do to prevent serious acol- | dents, The authorities are encouraging all but soldiers to quit the city. No steps have been taken toward moving the seat of government to Bordeaux, though the subject has been considered by the cabinet. Gen. Joffre predicts the Germans will not get closer than within 60 miles of Paris. Declares Germans Are Weakening Joffre and French, the French and British field com the German troops’ attack is weakening, War Minister No decisive result non-com “We are making many sacrifices,” sald Minister of the Interior Malvy, supplementing Millerand’s announcement, “and we may have to make more, but France will win In the end. “The nation Is passing the supreme crisis. Everything Is ready for a long war. The people's spirit is unconquerable.” The alarm over Sunday's bomb-dropping exploit by the German avi- ator who flew over Paris, hurling explosives into the streets of the northwest section of the city, subsided quickly, Anniversary of Battle of Sedan Chief reliance Ie placed, however, on the capital's own of flying men, who, It Is hoped, can guard the place against any formidable attack from the air. } Denying reports of a disaster to Franc ‘itish allies, the war of- | flee admitted this evening the Germans had again pushed the Angio- | French line back. At latest accounts the Germans are still furiously pressing their attack. It Ie the anniversary of the battle of Sedan, and It Is sald they are anxious to signalize it by a notable triumph. The cabinet considered the prospects that Paris will have to withstand a and agreed there le no immediate danger of one. Prepa r such a contingency are still to be taken, however. REPORT BIG RUSSIAN: DEFEAT WASHINGTON, Sept. 1.—An overwhelming Russian defeat was reported In a wireless message received from Berlin at the German embassy here toda. “In one battle,” said the message, “three Russian corps were anni- hilated and 70,000 Russians taken prisoners.” All. accounts published here) Aasland, who discovered ed into the house, Fighting his gressive candidate for the United pounding on each of thelr doors. Hanson has been given most en-| spread with such rapidity his es- paign in his home city. clothes. erful orator in the stdte, In his| burned little, and death is attrib- AKE YOUR MAP OF FRANCE, With Paris as Its center and with a diameter of 80 miles draw the aro of a circle to the northeast of the French capl- Ital, 45 miles from tip to tip. h © represents the La Fere-Laon-Rheime line of fort gainst which the Franco-British now have their trying to stem the German rush toward the Seine, About 25 miles further to the northeast of Paris, in the gen- eral direction of Liege, draw another arc 60 miles from tip to tip; This arc, passing through St. Quentin, Vervins and Rethel, represents the German frontal line. Besides this frontal attack, the Germans are engaged in two flanking movemonts. The line of one army extends west from St. Quentin, passing through Perrone to Amieps. The army which has crossed the Meuse from Longwy through Stenway gap is advancing east toward Rethel. The purpose of these three movements—one frontal and two flanking~—-undoubtedly ts to bottle the allies in the La Fere-Laon- Rheims fortresses, after which the Germans could proceed to Paris without serious opposition eee ee AT LIEGE, NAMUR, MAUBEUGE AND LILLE THE ALLIES avolded, however, the kaiser's efforts to entice them Into their own fortresses, where they could be surrounded, but retreated, keeping their field forces intact and in the open. The allies have evaded encircling traps hitherto by desperate MINUTES HERE EVERY DAY AND YOU’LL KNOW ALL ABOUT THE WAR fighting and skillful retreats; now they are backing into the most alarming one of all Time, however, {s working for them. It seems impossible that the Germans can continue much longer to deliver their terrific mass attacks without rest. eeeee RUSSIA'S ADVANCE IN EAST PRUSSIA IS NOT PRO. gressing as rapidly as early indications suggested. For more than @ week fighting has been in progress in the marshy lake district about Allenstein, The Germans are giving way slowly, appar- ently fighting as tenacious a defensive battle as are the allies in France. WAR ATLAS COUPON This coupon, with 20 cents, if presented to The Star office, 1327 Seventh Avenue, entitles the bearer to a 20-page War Atlas. (25 cents by mail,) THE SEATTLE STAR |Soldiers sighted the aviator and gave the