The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 19, 1914, Page 1

WHERE ARE THE MISSING WOMEN OF LOUVAIN? Mary Boyle O'Reilly, The Star’s correspondent in Europe, risks her life to pierce the battle lines, and talks with one of the ten thousand women taken away from their Louvain homes and husbands by the Germans to they know not JOSH WISE SAYS: “Saturday wur a Beeleysport. Bes public library dedic&tion amuse th’ crowds, there wuz a dead horse lay In Main. street ail afternoon ie ON VOLUME 16. NO. 177. 12 LOST OFF OREGON COAST where. SEATTLE, WASH., The Only Paper in Seattle That Read her story on page 3. > EE = SATURDAY, SEPT. 19, 1914. ON THAL NEWS WF ONE CENT The Seattle Star Dares to Print the News the NA AN AND be WEATHER sional rain tonight and Sunday i» AST EDITION FORECAST Occa verdict of the w. m. taday Southerly winds SANK OF CALIFORNIA HELD UP Bandit Flourishes Bottle of Nitroglycerine| in Second Av. Bank and Demands$2,000; Makes Escape With $1,700. A quiet looking stranger walked into the State Bank of Cali- fornia, 801 Second av., a few minutes before 11 o'clock today. He! at up to the wicket of Walter A. Heath, paying teller, and shoved! ‘menvelope before the eyes of the astonished clerk. In his right hand, Heath noticed the man held a bottle: On the envelope was written: “This bottle contains nitro- ‘ —. Give me $2,000 quick or I will break it on the floor. money or death.” if As Heath read, the bandit said, “Come across with / money, or I’ll blow us all up. Never mind reading any more.” _ - In the cage with Heath at the time were two other employes ofthe bank. All were enjoined to say nothing on pain of death. Heath shoved a number of rolls of gold coin toward the ban- dit, who dropped several of them on the floor in his haste to. 'gather them up and escape from the building. .s z As the bandit stepped from F 1 the door into Second av., Raiph | J. Hennesy, in a cage adjoin- ing Heath's, called out to stop the man, and ran from his cage and gave chase. i@ was joined by police. They chased the man down Co- lumbia et. to First av, and | north on Firat av. about five blocks, where he wae seen to rush into the State Hotel, | 1144 First av. 8. When the | police got there he had disap- | peared. The police and Hen nesy are continuing the searoh. The bandit ie described being 5 feet 10 Inches tall an weighing about 160 pounde. Checking up of the bank's funds showed that the man es- caped with about $1,700. Sev. eral cartridges of gold coins were picked up from the floor In front of the telier’s window, where they w dropped by the bandit during his hurried escape. The bank was crowged with ere but if wee between the usual Saturday morning She German right and the | rush of customers at the time ) lies’ left that the conflict was of the robbery, but so quietly of the most terrible character. did the bandit work that per- The allies’ failure to drive the) gone standing at windows a Germans from France was inter-| few feet away were unaware as indicating that the nu- that anything of an unusual na advantage the former en- ture was In progre at the outset had been over-| The Bank of California is by the Germans. located next door to the Ameri- Germans Reinforced can Jewelry Co., where a rob That the Germans had strength-| bery attempt yesterday result- @ed their defenses and received ed in the arrest today of Arno feinforcements was certain Grosser. Grosser wae arrest- The fall of Maubeuge, which the) ed at the Jeweiry store 20 min- | Yar office finally admitted, had| utes before the bank was rob- facilitated communications be-| bed. tween the kalser’s battle front and Hennesy caught up with the vy. man at the entrance of the Barbed Wire Defenses hotel. Every forjress in Germany was “if you follow me any fur- | id to have been stripped of its! ther, I'll blow you up,” the farrison, and the whole force rush-| bandit threatened, and waved (4 into France. | the bottle at Hennesy. Hen- The pertection of the German de-| nesy stopped and the man die fenses was the subject of admiring| appeared into the corridor fomment. of the hoter. | British aviators were trying to| Hennesy Investigated no | the German batteries, mask-| further until he had obtained | 4 in the woods | the assistance of a policeman. the | | } | | | ] | | Paris Folks | Getting Used BORDEAUX, Sept. 19— Fighting. northeast of Paris ‘was desperate today to an ex- tent almost unprecedented in the history of warfare, the war Office stated. It was fierce, also, to the | By Wm. Philip Sims | PARIS, Sept. 2. (By mali to | New York.)—Paris has been through so much that it ems as if it had got past ever be. Ing excited or frightened | again. This afternoon I was sitting on a} terrace in front of the Cafe Car It was quite warm and very pleasant. Scores of men and wom mostly women, with a scatter. | of young boys and old men—| nearby, imbibing syrup and water Everything was peaceful and se rene. Presently a passerby stopped and, shading his eyes, gazed into the sky. Bomb Drops Around Corner “Another German aeroplane,” bh remarked The people on the terrace looked | up. Sure enough, high over head was a Taube, meaning “pigeon,” a| German monoplane. “What nerve!” said a pretty young French girl, sipping a pome- granate mixture, | ddenly there was a boom. A mb had exploded just around the! corner. The German aviator had | dropped ft Two British troopers in khaki stopped in front of my table, fired then grinned became clear Cee ee tenes ees | when it | missed People Go on Drinking people on the terrace kept | The their seats. | “Such a poor bomb,” little French beauty |so loud as a cannon.” Then another bomb and a third After that the aeroplane swept deliberately over the Biffel tower from the topeof which a machine rattled away. Next a cannon somewhere near the Champs de Mars—again and again, Funny they can't in,” said pretty little French woman, straw in the pome sald the “Not nearly etka yared from One day a precious book was mis sing from the table in the home of Y next-door neighbor, while a three-year-old was strangely quiet. a investigated. No sign of kiddie in his usual haunts, Was 8 splash; and when pa opened the door the book w the Hope of the Home, looking up, smiling, lisped: “Boat, dadda; boat.” You could not blame baby; you could only try thereafter to keep | Prized books out of baby’s curious reach. Instead of a book you could 4 age? @ boat. 4 hich suggests a parallel. F 4 Courage, fortitude, ill inoneed to dare and suffer are qualities which | humanity cannot spare. But in order that they may be developed it ian't necessary that childish statesmanship should be permitted to play | With man-killing toys. We can take away their Zeppelins and their guns Wools of industry and innocent sport replace them. Clearly that is the way to Insure the world’s future p 80 heip to form the world’s opinion for It the But in the bathroom there | dabbling her sinking, while | ranate mixture | “Armored,” explained her |panion in a bored way | mored aeroplan The aeroplane disappeared and the crowd on the terrace went on with ite drinks com : “An ar SOME HANDLE TURIN, Sept, 18.—Because of the splendid noise” of his name, local futurists are enthusiastic over the appointment of Xenophon Altimo| Squainahol as royal inspector of schools, and let the useful VWISK WHEN WeRe OUT Ia COMPANY You Woe QuiT TELLING PEOPLE 1 PROPOSED ‘To You! WHEN A MAN’S MARRIED THis TALK OF YouRS ABOUT ME RoPING You WM-1S GUTTine TMESome. — uaa Twenty-Two Seattle Folk | Aboard Foundered Schoon- | er; Only 3 ASTORIA, Sept. Reported Saved. 19.—The wreck of the teamer Francis Leggett was caused by the |deckload of lumber shifting and causing it ito turn turtle, and all but two of the 74 on board lost their lives, according to those on 3—@| board the S. S. Beaver, which arrived here shortly before 1 p. m. today. The Beaver brought among her passen- |gers Alexander Farrell, a survivor of the {oSkyBommbs Boalt and Chauncey Wright — Try Unscientifie Charity — When Millionaires Retuse By Fred L. Boalt The way we have arranged it is highly unscientific. Chauncey Wright, the restaurateur, is unscientific. Dr. A. W. Neitro is unscientific. Captain and Mrs. Oscar H. Ebbinghouse are unscientific. And so am 1 am sure Organized Charity would not approve. ,|the woman is “worthy.” We only know that she was penniles We do not even know that and sick when Mrs. Ebbinghouse found her and took her into her home at 1005 Fifth av. W., a week ago. The woman is 40. Once she was pretty, and tH@re still lingers in her face a She was the wife man In San Francisco. This is of a wealthy The man died, She and her son, a boy In his teens, toured Europe. They returned to San Francisco. then, the earthquake and The boy had been ¢ the frony of fate! career.” He ts dying sanitarium With a fine, if pe educated in a California arhaps foolish, pride, the woman fled from the pity of her rich friends She thought and in this certainly she was foolish she could earn her own living. Applies to Y. W. C. A. She couldn't is musical, She ix a has been “polished” travel, But it can do any useful th Hers all “graceft mente She found hersel without a bed, with She applied at the home of the Young W tian Association. TI was told, were ‘money in advance.” Mind you, she and she was hungry Mrs” Ebbinghouse ‘Oh, sure,” said the tain when he return station that night, as long a Yesterday sent for me. Mrs. “The situation ts Just this,’said' and both sides “The woman Is way to fatigue at once, deadiocking | the bai Mrs, Ebbinghouse, She can sing. is doubtful 80 hadn't She linguist. She by study if she ing very a1 accomplish If in Seattle, out a nickel new palatial yomen’s Chris he rates, she much, and a nickel found her big fire cap ned from the ‘she can stay she likes,” note for a “diplomatic and | well. | | | |faded prettiness which is more spiritual than physical. born to be poor. her story: sick. I have seen Dr. Nettro and he will treat it takes a year. In a long and heart-breaking search Dr. Neitro is the only really charitable person I have found, “But Dr. Neltro alone solve this woman's problem. Or ganized Charity can't—or won't. In all Seattle there is no place for this women “Dr, Neltro says she must have three special treatments a week, each treatment lasting four hours. It is necessary, he says, for her to live close by, as her conditton ts too eritical for her to travel long distances. She must have a room near the doctor, She could stay cannot ( PARTIAL both sides was having its effect to- day on the fighting in France. The lull reported to have taken place in the fighting Friday ought, [by right of logic, to have affected the Germans first because of their Ebbinghouse | terrific efforts to reach Paris, War, however, is destructive of logic, m to have given her without cost, if! EXHAUSTION ON | Such a woman was not here, so far as we are concerned, but we cannot afford to rent a room for her. | Interviews Millionaires “T have just returned from inter viewing nine Seattle millionaires Jor their wives who. have reputa- |tions f ping charitable, And I |have been turned down just nine |times, The experience was as il lun “T reasons for refusing help were in all instances alike ““My husband,’ said the wives, | ‘gives so much’—hundreds or thou |sands—'a year to the Associated Charities, or the Y. W. C. A. or the Y. M. C. A, or some. home or (Continued on page 4.) to nating as it was humiliating. | Leggett. | Farrell was confined to his stateroom through exhaustion, after 10 hours of float- ling about in the sea, from 3 p. m. Friday afternoon until 1:30 o’clock this morning. The warship which last night picked up the “S. O. S.” call of the Leggett and relayed |it to Astoria was the Japanese cruiser Id- zuma. Details of the The two survivors were picked up by the Beaver last night, while she was on her way to Portland }from San Francisco. The names lof the men are not given. | A message received by the Grays Harbor Lumber Co., owning the Leggett, stated there possibly are but three survivors of the wreck, crew, perished when the ship foun- dered. The Reaver reported by wireless that there are two ships at the spot wher. the Leggett sank. Bits of wreckage on the waves are the only relics of the ill-fated vessel. Pick Up Man at Sea | A wireless message to Portland | from the Asociated Oil tanker F. H Buck, en route up the Columbia man floating on a piece of lumber at 11:45 iast night, but that he was too exhausted to talk, with the ex- ception of saying that he was a survivor of the wr.ck of the Fran- cis Leggett. The man was picked np off Cascade heads, The Buck should arrive in Port land at 2 p. m The Leggett, Cept. C. Morro, left | Hoquiam, Wash., for San Francisco Thursday morning, and, besides her passengers, carried a big cargo |of lumber and ties. The Marconi | Wireless Telegraph Co. station at Astoria, Or., picked up and relay- ed this message to ‘Seattle last night: “Leggett sank at 3:15 p. m., 60 | miles south.” | While the message was unsigned, the information was gleaned that {it }was sent from the Japanese cruis- er Idzuma. J. R. Irwin, manager of the Marconi Wireless Co.’s station jat Seattle, secured the assistance of Japanese Consul S. Takahashi in jan effort to get in communication with the vessel, Referred to Vancouver The tollowing reply was receiv- ed | “Get any additional information |from the Japanese consul at Van | couver.” | The Vancouver consul, however, was unable to throw any further light Nothing sn the messages indicat and that the rest, passengers and) river, stated she had picked up aj; wreck are lacking. ed whether there had been a cok lision between the warship and the Leggett, or whether she had met station inter- prets “sixty miles south” to mean that the Leggett went down sixty miles south of the Columbia river. A 60-mile gale was blowing off the Oregon coast yesterday. There were 22 Seattle people on the Leggett, most of them recent arrivals from Alaska. They left here at 4:20 Wednesday afternoon ou the Milwaukee line, and board- ed the Leggett at Hoquiam. The following is the Leggett's passenger list: SEATTLE PASSENG Snediker, Raymo: HM. Van Heusen, George Poelmar, D. A. Goldsmith, P. H. Fields, ©. A. Rohera- bacher. ABERDEEN PASSENGERS Mrs. Nellie Anderson and Mrs. Helen Anderson, wife and daughter of Capt. Anderson, of the schooner Carrier Doves Miss Goney, Nellie Jules Wunder- A. Vande longshoreman; J. son, Capt. J. Jen- ly master of the schooner on Clipperton island; An- HOQUIAM PASSENGERS J. Ohman, M. Peterson, R. T. Taylor, FE. MeSealy, John Peterson, Vern Lansing, James Smith, The Leggett was a steel steamer, built at Newpo-t News, in 1903, for the Hammond Lumber Co Her tonnage was 1,606, For the past year she has been operated by the Chas, R. MeCormick Co. of San CLAIM BLACK NOW HAS A LEAD EVERETT, Sept. 19.—A lead of 40 to 100 votes is claimed for Judge W. W. Black over George Turner of Spokane for the democratic nomi- nation for United States senator, Lioyd Black, son of Judge Black, says the official returns are more favorable to the Black cause than the unofficial figures SPEND FIVE MINUTES HERE EVERY DAY AND YOU’LL KNOW ALL ABOUT THE WAR the contest along P at least. | The. advantage of this lull must have been with the Germans, who are on the defensive. The slack- jening in the energies of the allies’ attack should have given them time to strengthen their fortifica- tions and overcome the advantage the French offensive possessed through being so much nearer to of supplies. the Alsne, in ! WITH THE MEMORY STILL; 80 recent of what happened to Von Kluck’s lone offensive against Paris, it seems unilkely that any part of the German front will be permitted to move forward egain in isolation and on its own ini tiative. eee | STORIES OF DEVELOPMENTS in the southeast are conflicting. [Russia claims en | River San and Austria admits the loss of Eastern Galicia, giving the familiar explanation that it was a “strategic necessity.” On the other hand, Vienna con- tends that the Russians were de- feated at the center of the San de- fenses and, in view of Russia was forwarding relinforce- ments to that point, it seemed pos- sible that the wavering Austrian line was being stiffened to save successes on the| Cracow and Western Galicia.