The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 21, 1914, Page 1

AMERICAN REPORTERS WORRY GERMAN GENERAL By Wm. G. Shepherd do thi while quarreling with German and Belgian lines the terribly.” Of course the general com ente?’ exploded the general “Wil order you all shot,’ the stone wall, and the disgrace 4 ANTWERP: Bent: 1 toy mail a mee 4 other day, and described some Sana the courler told thie manding the troops saw them * bee — “ Pci ion boomed the general, perhaps yd fed 4 ot + ge . Sept. 1 (by Ma t's the reportere—the chaps ator man, who happened to be Irvin > TH ICKING to New York).—The war cor fresh from the streets of Naw of the doinge of the £0 news the day they heard the and ordered them brought be 8. Cobb, well known to Amer feeling himself weakening at THAT TAXICAB METER respondents — the ones who York and Citicago and San paper men who were in the Germans were approaching fore him fean magazine readers. the sight of the fat reporter's OVER THERE,’ dress the part and act as war Francisco—whe are worrying Belgian capital when the Ger. five American reporters hired a “Who are you?’ he asked, in “Don't you know there are Jolly smile “The general laughed pondents in plays and the generals. A reporter has mans occupied it. taxicab at a fabulous rental broken English, probably think no correspondents with the “Then he spent 20 minutes “Gvery member of his etait are making little trou no dignity to keep—only news They're practi and went out to meet the in ing they were @ party of his German army?’ thundered the examining the quintet’s pave who understood — English the generals engaged In to get ers, , “because vaders. They drew up along inh enemies genera ports. laughed the present war A courler from Brand Whit the Germans won't let them side the road and prepared to We are five American re “'Beg pardon, general,’ said “‘'General,’ said Cobb, tinal ‘Then the taxicab with five A war correspondent muat lock, American minteter at leave or send any news out, but watch the procession as if it porters,’ oame the reply Cobb, ‘but you've got five with ly, ‘I can stand being shot; | American reporters joined the keep his dignity, and you can't Brussels, came through the they are worrying their captors were a circus coming to town “What's that! Correspond. you now.’ can stand the firing squad and procession into Brussels.” &| TheSeattleStar [Nic Weather Forecast—The w. m. has “After alt, Ja there, anything The rod Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News in this world that kin look i sad, pitiful and rundown as lf “ come to his senses at last, and we are to have fair weather again—till VOLUME 16. NO. SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, SEPT. 21, 1914. ONE CENT ok witaixe xv tomortew night anyway “Mary Boyle O'Reilly Sees Town of Louvain Burned; People Taken Out — of Homes and Slain, She Says! Household Goods?” at ‘Don’tFight It,Boy;It WillBe Easier,’ em rerx: Two days after the Prussian commander decreed the = q Sailor Tells Survivor of Leggett Leteaeten of Louvain, five American journalists were — - stalled for hours in the rail- 4. Rheins | is Theit Faith Close Doors eee | Wreck as Schooner Goes to Bottom oo? a aa eer eer. lop and carr! platforms. A camp com- missary slaughtered an ox under our car windows. A Uhlans crowded the great PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. him to safe ; rua payer. vouched. Ware’ tao } firing squad marched doom- 21.—When some 70 per- 8. ik: sate ate ! Ss! per-| atarday night. sia, ted es By Wm. ‘Philip Sims CENTRALIA, Sept. 21. — The ed men down the tracks to sons suddenly meet with a! were fairly unable today to fing Watery grave and two live words to express their indignas (to tell the tale, there is tion at the destruction yester (bound to be an interesting day of Rosime cathedral by the | story. For an hour this! German bombardment. 3 The outrage, they declared, afternoon it was my priv-! was worse than the one at ‘ 4 *t i pete ilege to talk with the gam A wooden framework had been|est man—or rather Doy—I) erected inside the cathedral to ae ever knew eilitate repairs, which were fo va * at the time the bombard-| For Alexander Farrell, Be recat foc Wounded lone of the two survivors; A asbell set fire to this seaffold-|of the schooner Francis H.) ag, and the Names ‘he noor on| Leggett, which capsized off| which numbers of wounded Ger-| the Oregon coast F day! were’ lying. TEs cea blabed up 20 quickly, jafternoon, is a lad of but it was said, that at difficulty was | 20) years, Sam in getting everyone) with all the candor of a boy, Al- exander told me what he knew of, Sethe famous cathedral today ts a levents from the time the schooner mass of ruins, along with all other first got into trouble until, ten SE ee eee eee tia | boars after she sank, he was lifted city, |aboard the steamer Beaver. | During the shelling of the city | A, Parrell talked he sat in the| *t 3: last person you talked with on the| execution. IT WAS THE VERY CRATER OF WAR! Prisoners on” a > troop train, we five watched the flames overwhelm the his- toric town. A prisoner, I was sent to Holland. But continued as fiercely as ever deposits of more than $1,000,000, today along the Alsne and to | and the Union Loan and Trust Com- the southward. |pany, with deposits of more than Apparently, however, It was | $240 500, failed to open thelr doors ati!l, thue*ar, a draw... « ‘The allies were making atrenu. | todays following an inspection of the her. Junt then we all went over! ug efforts to crumple the German | [nstitutions’ books by Bank Exam. She was very brave, Nelle was, and) oo ing right under en. Von (ner Lloyd L. Mulit, never yelled once, Her father is a) ars" | U. 8. Attorney Clay Allen and| || sen captain Gen. Von Buelow. at the right of | Marshal J. M. Boyle are expected Orders Every One Below lthe German center and between | Here in connection with the closing “When the esa got very bad,|Gen. Von Kiuck's and the crown {of the banks. Their mission has not ’ “eben announced. I knew there was a world prince's armies, was endeavoring a a eerie pees 6) to plerce the allies’ line at Craonne.| The closing caused no little ex ‘Phe fighting st this point was |cltement, but the directors of both story at Louvain and I de- particularly desperate, Again and |!nstitutions eanert they will turn Mary Boyle O’Rellly termined to go back. An | Fi =p rye pln aver ail theteparsonal teanerts, ie 7 Rt S A again the Germans charged at the | tr to caitor will be paid in ful. accommodating German consul at Maestrict gave me a point of the bayohet only to be 4 . beaten back with dreadful slaugh City Has Heavy Deposit |pass, not knowing that | was an American newspaper ter. | The heaviest depositor in the|., ’ We have advanced,” said to-| banks was the city of Centralia, WORE. : " ; : nh he grag preme oMgpabeltjard Preatlag fr gr aR ag PRE Thirty hours later | sat amid the ruins of Louvain, |Noyon, and on the right bank of the municipality with but $10,000/Ou Saturday, August 29, the southward was still stand. ‘ the Oise. The enemy has been re-|cash on hand from its spring tax ing. North, east and west stretched miles of desolation. | pulsed at all points east of the | recetpta. me oe ’ ae > | ee |, The greatest factor in the clos-| Spires and pinnacles yet unfallen showered down “The bombardment of Rheims|ing of the doors of the two banks, bs oJ ‘ f by the Germans heavy. guns con.! according to George Dysart, one of |SParks. From the flat roofs of two squat church towers tinues.” ]the stockholders, was overconfi sharpshooters watched the deserted streets. | PARIS, Sept. 21.—Fighting United States National nk, with | and the boy looked very/ it was little Nellie Ander She was 12 years old, Nel! war and T put a life preserver on Alexander Farrell That County Commissioner 1 Ten minutes later, he says, Hamilton kicked J. R. Mein by the Germans the cathedral was b ¢ his brother's family, ten-| ‘2 boat went over. * | dence on the part of the bank of-| * struck eight times by shells. Garis caro for aud locking axiroen| Preferring to take chances. with pm Op ge yp ed ey ficials in the handling of commer-| On the central grass of the boulevard 30 bodies Th thedral ‘as half dazed, was the testimony Ic! ser. , an: aoa is 4 . 4 Rheims ie the greaten Inistorical | dinarily Re crvecteses 00 ton nant Up the steamers deck oad, rather] given today before w Jury in Judge | N INE eee om ach It was found tay as they had fallen. Eleven were the bodies of wom- ie é . . epee nere lone of Che war. | Sloss on a hurricane sea with noth-|than « boat, Farrell managed to| Ronald's court by Chairman David | cial stress came. en, six showed gray hair, all were shot or bayoneted. President Protests ing but a railroad tle to cling to keep afloat through the stormy aft. McKenzie of the board It fs said that the trouble is di Gen. Gallien! asserted that the be ve McIntyre, a former deputy sher. |rectly due to financing mill and Other bodies were said to be lying in the Place de kaiser’ {lle fa ontienatiy|. The Francis H. Leggett sank at|ernoon and into the morning, until) Mcintyre, a former deputy shen | logging ties, in which th Ss ; I did h ital Place bei aiser’s artilierymen fntentiona Sinks’ trek the Gf tanker ¥ , in au amilton for $10,000, 01 properties, in which the These ot si c aimed at the city’s principal struc- | 4:19 o'clock pemeny sxwmmeon, wae} 6. rout Tree he. Ol tenber BYES) cae that the coeitilesioner a people were interested la Station. These | did not see, the capital Place being Saten, eI |atruck him without provocation State Bank Also Closed a military post. But I did see what seemed to be a bune 1 A formal protest to neutral pow-| | when he attempted to separate Me: | The State Bank at Tenino. p of rz “ha illar b a ers against the Germans’ destruc-| Kenzie and Dr. Richardson of the| lowued bs the same interesta na | dle of rags changed to a pillar box, the body of a human : tion of the Rheims cathedral was county hospital, who were fighting | the two Institutions which closed| being fired by petroleum. : ordered by President Poincare. in the commissioners’ office. | here, also failed to open its doors ¢ ed streets sc j i “The Germans, from no military The hearing adjourned at 11:16] 2. this morniag ie Through the sunlit, deserted streets scouting parties : necessity, but from the sole pleas this morning till 1:30 this after-| She turned her limpld blue eyes| The failure of the Tenino bank,/of three men marched abreast on patrol. This was ; ure of destroying.” he declared, | noon, to give the complainant an|upon him and gave him their full Which is under the jurisdiction of the state bank examiner and not|in the district not yet destroyed, and I watched the work “systematically and furiously bom- | opportunity to bring a witness from | radiance ‘ as t yet é A : barded the (pth cpr vad famous | Vashon Island to corroborate Mc-| H. E. Kelley of the Stanley apart oe ane pee sprig iing regis with awful fascination. Sometimes the three paused 4 basilica is a mass of ruins.” Kenzie's testimony. The defense; ments was enthralled He gazed; @ue, dank officials stated io the ear { a cella PH , - for wi ifle : Nae contestant, the president Po geal eto with rapture upon her lovely face, | fact that bank had invested heavily | to peer into a cellar window, to confer with rifles cocked 4 added, was an act of vandalism | Besides McKenzie, who stuck to| She shook the yellow curls on her|!® commercial paper similar to and to fire a test volley into the dark. 4 which ought to arouse the whole his story under rigid cross-examt-| head so roguishly, dimpled her chin | that held by the two local con-| ; is ee a . : ‘world’s indignation. nation, Mrs. Mclntyre testified| and smiled jens Behind them came the raiders, picked soldiers of > that her husband lay unconscious| Kelley was gone! Ninth army corps. Cae the or eight 4 5 d that after that Fros Clancy's roadh vh as * oe BOMBARDMENT Tentaytevtan aon ty op margin |r cit ae od ata tn | mle atoms. wtere’ ROUMANIA’S HAT fest toe oon in Cageer jane aa WAS NEC ARY, + Catlerenl be ne $1,000,000 | rupt end when Corporation Coutise! | hospital took her riding in a taxi, She told) TOGO INTO RING | cjothes, their faces PRAC BERLIN ASSERTS. paid by the people for the Ren. | Bradford insisted that any such| McIntyre was treated for concus-| him her name was Marie | ’ UE acai rl Al L Y : MASKED by motor | ton line. The question will not | proposed offer would jeopardize | sion of the brain | At Clancy's they had partaken of ROME, Sept. 21.— Rou. goggles. Each scout carried a small note book and a ea even be submitted to the vot- the city’s contentions In the courts | “near beer” and other beverages| mania's entry Into the war as niece of chalk Consulting his emore F selec i BERLIN, via The Hague, ers. jand before the public service com] AUSTRIA’S RULER | !hat made Kelley's feet heavy and) an Anglo-Franco-Russian ally piece ot chalk. ; met ult g his memoranda, he selected 4 Sept. 21—The bombardment of The council, in secret session | mission, should the people reject DEAD |" Bend tight, and when he woke| was reported today to be so im- {Certain houses, inscribing upon them “Bon gens” (good Rheims, explained the war of- | catirday afternoon, voted to drop|it at the polls, Bradford showed REPORTED A up at the Del Norte hotel, Sunday| minent that the German minis- people) “Germans” or “Stons schenon” (spare the fice, was rendered necessary, (¢-ther consideration of the pro-|that the Renton company could | LONDON, Sept. 21—That |morn, hix gold watch and $10 in| ter was sald to have been re- | , . % e owing to the heavy French fire | soxed deal. The only concession |maintain that the city offered| Emperor Francie Joseph of | cash were missing. So was Marie, called from Bucharest, the | house). ; from there. made the Renton company ts that| $1,600,000 for the line and thus be| Austria died a week ago, the Kelley told his troubles to the po-| Roumanian capital. fee an AS eee % “Seer - It was declared that orders! i¢ the recetvers should put up alable to secure higher rates, where-| news having been suppressed | jice The fall of the Roumanian | The eels passed on. Files of 20 soldiers lined ec a sity making an offer to the com ne o orth 006 ser ai i y » Naveme " 4 Cy ne ueaucll agrees to submit| . It.is practically.certein tbat the| Laueanne, Switzeriand, jut | BABY LECTURES | the poopie tetermination to |Way. A gruff word from. the pavement and 20 axes , a ra " |that proposition to the voters receivers of the Renton ling will| back from a visit to Vienna, The mothers’ training school has| join the allies is increasing in broke open 20 unprotec omes. T sap < WATER SHUT-OFF NOTICE | tne te the Renton bunk scheme|not make any offer to the city| according to a Geneva dispatch | arraigned a series of fall lectures,| strength broke ope I cted homes. The sappers knew += @ Water will be shut off on 15th av |endeth. The formal funeral ora-|along the lines discussed last week| received by the Chronicle to- | beginning Tuesday afternoon at 4, The royal family, pro-Ger- ltheir duty. Everything useful to the army must be car- W. Galer st. to W. Boston | tions were to be delivered this aft-|and that therefore the people will| day. The same rumor had o'clock, at the Bon Marche, Lec-| man in its sympathies, is hold- . Wh z" paeeday “September 22, from ernoon at the council meeting by! not have to vote on any Renton| been circulated before, but en- | tures will be given every Tuesday| Ing out against the popular de- ‘ried quickly to waiting cars at remained must be _: p the six councilmen who had wast- scheme on November 3 tirely lacks confirmation. afternoon mand. (Continued on Page 4. “Can Confessions,”’ Writes a Man. “My Wife Knows Too Much About Me Now!” — WHAT DO YOU THINK OF ‘CONFESSIONS OF A WIFE’? TELL US | The editor of The Star has received a letter from a woman who right. ve % wi ted ork.!" be ’ 4 i “ait long Secunia a brother to young Mary would turn up and give Jack can’t say as | blame them, because they have all they can do to care 3 ‘“ ” “ “Can the ‘Confession: e order of a man, who asl a goo eating.” | signs herself “Contented Wife.” She sald “The Confessions of . that “Hompecken”’ be used ae hie"algraseee, MMi wire enewerten ce eee ver treroeeiy Wife,” which have been appearing dally in The Star for severa much about me now,” he wrote, “and | don't want her to learn any The writere roughly are divided into two campe so far. One | Margie and al! the rest of her folks are just the same as real q months, are “catty.” She wanted them stopped. more from a dame as smart that Margie.” side criticised what is termed the “ordinary life’ of the charac- | people to me. I've got so | can see every one of them, | live right What do YOU think? Have you been reading them? Is Margie, | * vie oe ; ter The other says there 1s much pleasure in reading such com- | with them and try to figure out ways for them to get out of their who has been writing the “Confessions,” right, or are her critics | “Tell Margie to keep on telling about her motherIn-law,” Is ments on every-day existence. | troubles. ight? the substance of two letters—one by a man and one by a woman. “Don't pay any attention to those who want everybody to ‘live | “| want to see them all turn out right and do well, Please don't rio ere are a few other letters to The Star on the same subject: “My mother-in-law was just such a woman as Mre, Waverly,” happily ever afte dvises one woman. | do anything that will take this pleasure from me. There are lote e “For heaven's sake, don’t stop ‘Confessions,’ wrote a young | wrote the woman, “I've seen to it that she read what Margie wrote oe re | like me, “FORGOTTEN.” 4 bride. “You cal ine how much I’ve learned from them, | about her husband's mother, | never would have had the nerve to Here's one letter that may provide some thought: “Please, Mr. | #8 See wish | had been smart enough to buy two steaks the first time | tell my mother-in-law what a nuisance she was, but she has changed Editor, don't stop printing ‘Confessions of a Wife.’ | am an old | What do you think? tried to.cook, One hint like that occasionally i a lot since she read the ‘Confession: woman without chick or child. an't get about to talk to any of WRITE A LETTER TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR AND me, I've often wanted to shake hands with the author. The man wrote: “I wish oid Mre, Waverly would croak before the neighbors, and it's seldom any of them pay attention to me. | TELL HIM.