The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 3, 1914, Page 2

a arent eatin . CATUR *, ocT STAR- OBER 3, 1914, PAGE 2, ANTS SAAR ETS New Detention Home Needed For Children By Fred L. Boot [in Scercestion: possi’ and ‘s King county needs a new| yard tor the play in-—that all We get two dependents Most of the pungsters as you uvenile detention home. he present home is too small, it is so arranged as to kinds of child and ‘del dependents ny quents. are asp Make segregation of chil-| saw of the t dren impossible, and—it is er ae ee ee ire-trap rt | ” mae tray r hese ‘dependent’ children Judge Dykeman, of the| juvenile court, has asked the county commissioners for $75,000. Ata meeting} watehtuiness, the ‘dependents’ Monday the commissioners} tice ‘ind ‘to learn the degener have done no wrong, General ly, when they come here, they know no wrong, It sickens me to know that, in spite of our | , isc S a ew hy ve acies of the ‘delinquents. Will discuss the new budget,| cies, of the ‘delinquente’ and the question of a new} you i yme 5 . ie 8 detention home will come} 1,. seconticn home was former up then. y a double house used as a private) It’s hoss and hoss | residence. On the third floor, used The other day Dr. Lippincott, of | 8% dormitories fo _ the divid the health department, asked Dr. |'2« wal atl jerced = by | Merrill, the chief prodation officer 1 ek : | to go with him inspect Mother Fach e attics is reached Ryther’s home for working moth ® ow that the ere and their children wa ad to turn “The place ought to be closed aking the aw Pn Dr. Lippincott. ~~. 1c eto Kee tiny. anaes “I don't agree with you,” sald Dr. Merrill, “It is doing a useful “Tt is a firetrap,” “Perhaps,” said Dr. Merrill. “Bu So is our detention home. Come » and inspect It.” Dr. Lippincott went, eee one at each end arred and padiocked to| © imposalb): ok from these windows blank walls of other also cf wood, jammed said Dr. Lip. | mal nd PR the bulldings, tight against the detent'cn ho-ne. is of ty If fire started.” said the judge, | "there is but one way of escape—| | by reluctantly Like Mother. Ryther’s, the these stairs, down which only detention home is a wooden | 0? boy can KO at a time @tructure. Like it, it is a three @tory building, and is used as aty o ‘ inten a deman er Ryther’s, the top _ Weed as a dormitory for boys. | But there are a ences: The detention And tn th iis ere barred, for tt ls 0 Dr. Lippincott says 1 teal iprieon. And, while the stair. [S0rry for Mother Ryther, but z leading to the top floor at have no choice in the matter bar IMetner Mithere le wide: te |Rome, as conducted, ts in violation at. the. detention Of city ordinances and must close Ae tesdioe hla eee All right. The juvenile deten tlon home, as conducted, is also in Tr rrr PPP | wtalation of the city onfinamecs - It hin eon “won't pass Inspection There 1, ae cai hundreds of other buflding city which “won't pass ins eep it nice and clean, Lippincott, evasively about fire danger?” ippincett scratched ris “It wouldn't pass in- ”" he admitted at last. he added, “you are best you can with Ryther,” re- Lippiscott must close then . OF, stand convicted of having |ringied out Mother Ryther for per ‘AM | DRUNK?” WELL, YOU CAN “Ie there anything | can do te help you get it?” asked Dr. Lippincott. “I don’t ask for anything fancy id Judge Dykeman today. A ding large enough to comfort- | 7 ly house the children, reason There between and 000 men arrested in Seattle every |year FOR DRUNKENNESS! | And all of them are placed in the are 5,000 }elty Jatl. | the city jail, to be sure, but Police Chief Griffiths believes the balance shouldn't be sent to jail at all. And hence his general order issued the| other day, instructing his men to |use discretion and to send the bal ance home, or place them in the hands of friends. ““I want the police of Seattle to use their brains,” says the chief, I believe the policeman the most of the Ladder | That is where the |] | — juseful member of soc lety. And vast majority of Peo- if | hence he should be sympathetic ple must begin their and Intelligent. He should be taught to use good judgment.” The chief thinks ft all climb to financial wrong, sending men to fail {ndiserimin success or compe- ately. It is inhuman, to say - least, he contends. And besides, tence. Very few, taxes an already over-taxed ‘att comparatively, start [J | seediessly 4 } It 1s a pity, he believes, to arrest their careers near the & man when he {s only mildly drunk, providing that man may be top, and there are sent home instead. But here agair “knocks” than arises problem How to xe more them It is a puzzler. T “boosts” on the way up. One round silver dollar or a one-dollar bill will start your savings account at the Dexter Horton Trust and Savings Bank. What it leads to will depend large- chief 8 he can't spare his me |to take all the dozens drunks to their homes. How to get them there ts still, |therefore, @ problem unanswered. But the chief is determined to | Pore it out, | | Editor The Star: You say, “Shall we can Confessions?” I say, no. 1 am an old woman, and from 8 a. m. until 7 p. m. am alone, and The Star has helped me to spend many hours pleasantly I have a book called “Gems,” in which I have placed editorials, Fred Boalt’s stuff, Taxes, Judges, Labor, Berton Bray ley, he Human Slaughter House’ |and “The Confessions of a Wife. | I would certainly like to finish the | book. CONSTANT READER, DEXTER HORTON | ee we Sone |Thousands Now Collecting War Pennants SRCOMD AND CHERRY Thousands of Star readers are tal ing antage of The Star's offer to supply them with War Flag Pen EWART HOUSE * BG Btewnrt at Near Pike Public Martet Ey A lt nants of the various Kuropean na Large modern outride rooms. for 3 tions now at war. or La These pennants are made on ex- cellent woo! felt, 1 5 inches in size, and handsomely colored. The flags on the pennants are mady up with the correct colors of the flags of the various nations. A flag cou- pon and 15 cents (20 cents by mail) presented at The Stat office will se cure one of these handsome pen nants for you Health --Longevity you know that nine bs of all arise from insidious self-potson 4 the omen by BaMtili living in the ow that YOGHUR tay destroy the Is the inte: y| Few of us know the flags of the | nations & the rid, and yet we should, Start making a collection of pennants at once Decora your den or It i} yor bh them THE SHOE REPAIR MAN 216 Union 8t-—2 Shope—110 Madison ‘DIVORCE MILL 'ASK COP NOW: The majority are fit subjects for | — ‘The Whip’ Comes to Moore; ‘Damaged Goods’ at Seattle; Grand Opera at the Metropolitan JUDGE STOPS TO WED PAIR Judge ably is « E. Humphries prob obliging *. He's always most is shining « or when the wintry winds wi, and in th good old summertime, we always }find the jedge willing to go to no end of trouble to help a feller out Yesterday afternoon, while his zoner was neck-deep tn divorces | while he was signing divorcee pa-| pers right and left and perspiring| freely—came word that a couple) Left to Right: Miss D. Parker, in “Cavalleria rtueticana,” With the awaited without for the jedge to| Standard Grand Opera Company, at the Metropolitan; Jennie Mal, at marry ‘em. Forthwith the blushing young! pair was ushered in and the wheel¢ of the divorce mill slowed down and stopped With fuss or ceremony, the the knot. Maria K in two minutes was the br’ Otta, Partamen, both of | castle. Then the wheels began revolv. | n | A lb-year-old girl eked for a divorce. |taches gasped. The court starea over its spectacles. She married James E. Jones Jan-| juary 7 of this year. But he fatled/ }to provide for her, and she went back to her mother. Whenever he earned any money, said she, he spent it in riotous living Also he was most cruel. He cure ed her. He called her vile names He called at the home of her par ents, where he beat her. Also, she declared, her husband jwent with other women, and con- ducted himself tn an immoral man- ner. cee There were others besides Elsie | and James. There was Florence Chandler, dt vorced from Wilbert Chandler, Thomas Ha }zel from Knocton, Lida GIVE BOX OF CANDY FOR “SCOUT” ESSAY Perhaps you have been hearing ot | the Boy Scouts of England and Belgium the work they are doing in the present Eur and good ean war. Guarding bridges, carr messages they For next Uncle Jack wishes the Circlettes to write a story about a Boy Scout, The title of the story will be “What a Boy Scout Did.” and helping the people are having a very busy time week's contest The story must be written on one side of the paper, with the name and address of the contest ant 160 words. The FORM SCOUT ORDER R, W. Smith Is organizing a troop of Scouts with headquarters in the Essays are limited to prize is a pound box of M. KE. church at Sth and Garfield. Two assistant scoutmasters will help Smith Appleton has a troop well start ed in connection with the Settle ment House, North Seattle NEW FACES COMPETE The Circle's popularity ha ing by leaps and bounds dur last few month Man new names have appeared among the list of contenders for the week ly prizes, The Star Circle is for every boy and girl under the of sixteen. Any boy age } contests. | the Tivol Elsie M Jones | ciarn fro | non r girl under) Kath) | the above age may compete in the| Blanche | Gayton, Le the Moore from Charles Gunde, John William Coo Rudolph E. Mackinde from Charles Zeller, Mary K John T. Prescott, Raymond ies | Mary Taylor, Leona from Orrin Mc Nettle from David Sutton.) m Joseph D. C ~ sg or — | Gow Court at-| Parrish from Carlos Voi Emma from William a sotoatt| Elizabeth. from James Ferguson, | Mary from Cornelius Walsh, J. H }from Laura Booth, ©. EB. from Em: ma Simmons, and Evelyn from Har ry P. Dignan RUSSIA IS ALREADY DISTRIBUTING LAND BUCHAREST, Oct. 3-—The Austro-Hungarian provinces of Bukovina and Transylvania have been offered by Russia to Roumania, it was officially an- | nounced here today, If the Rou- manians will join the allies im. | lately with their entire ac | tive army and conquer Tran- sylvania for themselves. Two uniformed Sunday echool celebrate patrols the ar-Bangled Banner last Sunday. | dress on of Boy “The Development of Our GYMNASIUM COURSE ‘The field houses of the variou nasitum work Thureda Th devoted to the bo: and r on a BOY SCOUTS RALLY The opening Scout rally Leschi park pavilion tonight. Follo gram. Tracy Strong, Y. M. boys’ se An added feature will be the st the Boy will lead. Prof. H. O, Sexsmith of the univ He will Scout song book recently pr also show the Scouts how t Frank Compton and Mildred Cottellan, in “The Whip, = OPEN ST. JAMES’ FAIR MONDAY |: Mayor Gill will ope open the program of the St, James Cathedral fair at the Perfecta cafeteria, Third and James, Monday night. Beside the mayor, Bishop O'Dea and J. J. Sul livan, chairman of the fair commit tee, will make addresses. A big tent has been built In the rear of the fair grounds for games A committee ‘of young women of St. Teresa's convent will have charge of a parcel post delivery |booth, which promises to be a unique feature, Another attraction will be the dintng room at which meals will be served beth aft noons and evenings. Judges of t ms contests will be James H Samuel Morrison, James Py and George F. Russell Kane, Agnew STAR CIRCLE FOR YOUNG FOLKS ve sy |GIRGLE CLUB WILL BOY SCOUTS TAKE PART IN CELEBRATION RUBY FOWLER GETS Scouts helped the Asbury M. E entonnial anniversary of the birth of the delivered an ad-| Major Ingrabam Flag.” FOR CHILDREN OPENS flelds resumed their will be i Seattle play fternoons of the week days AT LESCHI TONIGHT and supper of the season will be held at| wing the “eats” will be a short pro- cretary, will give a short talk inging of the new Scout songs from nblished ersity will take charge of the games. o start a fire with “rubbing sticks: GIRLS’ CLUB WILL MEET EVERY SATURDAY The Sigma Sigma club holds its to 12 o'clock, The fancy work Bible class by Mra, C, E. Moore an¢ Dickerson The executive board 1s composed Jackson, president; Agnes Younsg second vice president; Minnie treasurer; Helen Harl, class chairma man; Gladys Kalser, friendship chal man » HAZLEWOOD PUPILS The of the showing of ite teacher. During the neither absent nor tar Edna Oberg, Tommy Oberg, FI en Kemp, Levis Jones, Olive ay, Lucile Guay, Marv pard Gayton and Walter clas pupils under t month of meet every Saturday from 10 8 is taug nt by Mrs, Ella Houtz, the 1 the gymnasium by Miss Elizabeth 1 of the following officers first vice president; Smith, secretary; Gladys Johnson, an; Marie Smith, membership chair rman, and Eva Timkle, social chair Dorothy Harriett Hud HAVE GOOD RECORD Hazlewood school at Hazlewood, Wash., ha of Mi the a right to be p! Nellie following ‘ond he charge the tember pupils, were jorence Lindborg, Ward Kemp, Jr Jon iddie Jones, Josephine Guay, le Guay, James Gayton, trauther, Perkins of the Y. M. C. A } Louise | masters will be held at | building October 6 at week, commencing Sunda Owing to the fact the play ath g. the curtain will 2:16 in the afternoons and the evening Such spectacular scenes are shown as an automobile accident train wreck, a race with live} orwer and a see at the Olympic club, tn which wudience seen fox hunt pa play had a long run, open n the Drury Lane theatre, nit ed to Aus Y and now t in the West ° © THE SEATTLE “Damaged Goods,” the play that stirred up such a rumpus in the East, will be the offer. ing at the Seattle theatre for | the coming week. A ruling has been made by the management to the effect | that no boy or girt less than 17 years old will be allowed to witness the performance with- | out a specific request from Pantages. | the parents or guardians. | } pite its subject matter, play carries a splendid interest throughout the It teaches a strong lesson and the patrons will look on fife from a different viewpoint after eceing the pro- duction. the heart three acts | THE TIVOLI ° "Dain" will entertain patrons of the Tivoli theatre during the week. Al Franks and Lew Dunbar will the bill at the Empress next week. Prof. Wormwood, who has been training animals for 85 years, fea tures a mathematical and = mind-/ reading dog. The Irish star, Eu gene Emmett, will be seen in his playlet of old Ireland, “The Sun beam.” Other acts: ‘The Hippo: PRIZE FOR A STORY ABOUT WASHINGTON Whew, this week's conte: was a hard one to decid When Uncle Jack finished wad- ing through the big stack of letters yesterday he was ready to take a day off to rest up Forty-three stories on the life of the “greatest American” were piled up on Uncle Jack's desk, and from these he picked the composition of Ruby Fowler of 1772\% Market st., Seattle, as the best. Her essay follows + " ~ a GEORGE WASHINGTON By Ruby Fowler Washington, the first president of the United States, was born in Westmoreland county, Va., Feb 17 He was alwa thful painstaking tn his we His bravery, patriotism and mili tary skill, as shown in the last French war, led to his selectior as commander-in-chief of the Ame fean armies during the Revolution, by the continental congress By reason of his modesty he shrank from this service for which he was admirably fitted | He refused to recetve any pay |during the entire Revolution, It may be said that he proved him self indispensable, His success lay | not in intellectual brilliancy, but in well-balanced judgment His administration as president lasted from 1789 to 1797. He died at Mt. Vernon December 14, 1799. SCOUTS TO MEET The monthly meeting of Scout Central 0 p.m, ——¢! deal ont comedy patter. The pop- ular foubrette Jeanne Mai will \have the role of “Lulu,” a flirt | tious young actress who brings all! the men to her feet. She finally falls {n love with end marries a country boy who has been be queathed a fortune. THE EMPRESS 7| A comedy animal act will top The Seattle Players in the Monster World Sensation “DAMAGED GOODS” “WHAT EVERY ONE SHOULD KNOW” Minore Under Seventeen Years Positively Excluded | Ac Evening prices, 2 Oc and 7c, Matinees, Sat. and Sun , 50e. BARGAINS, Monday Evening and Wednesday e, Any Seat 25¢ BEGINNING MONDAY MATINEE WORMWOOD’S ANIMALS THE HIPPODROME FOUR Dogs, Monkeys and Baboons THE STANTONS The Irish EUGENE EMMETT & BOGERT & NELSON THE GARDNERS In “THE SUNBEAM co Week Commencing With Sunday Matinee, October 4 THE MUSICAL LULU COMEDY SUCCESS Spiced With Catchy Songs and Dances. A Brilliant Fun Festival, FEATURING AL FRANKS IN HEBREW COMEDY AND THE BEAUTY CHORUS IN GORGEOUS COSTUME EFFECTS Matinee 2:15 dally, be and 10c ren under 8 free. Evening per ances 7:15 a and 2 Tuesday—-AMATEUR AND BARGAIN NIGHT—Any Seat FRIDAY NIGHT—THE CHORUS GIRLS’ CONTEST AN TAGE Unequaled Vaudevitie—Our Policy Never Changes 15¢. TAGES 11 Colonial Minstrel Mids 11 Willard Mack's Dramatic Sensation. _ “BE GAME” 10c AND 200 jdrome Fi . in Dinklespiel's | Garden, xylophones; Jay cael and Georgie Nelson, blackface, in se tts PLAN MEETING GREAT FAVOR It begins to look as if we in | Washington really were going to eat a lot of those apples, after all. Everybody's helping the “buy-a- box-of-apples” idea today. The railways operating in the state are going to feature the apple on their dining car menus, Ditto in cafes and restaurants throughout the state. Storekeepers everywhere " grand opera, by the Stan-| dard Grand Opera Company, will jopen Monday night at the Metro- |politan for a week. The first at |tempt to give Seattle people grand opera at reasonable prices, by a mpany composed largely of Se le people, met with unprecedent ed success in May, and indications jane that next week will witness a [repetition of this success The opening attraction will be len ‘Trovatore,” which will be re-| re arranging their apple displays peated Wednesday and Friday| #0 temptingly, people will just stm- nights and Saturday afternoon. | Ply HAVE to buy ‘em |“Cavalleria Rusticana’ and “I'Pag-; The Eastern Washington or \iiacet” will be sung Tuesday, Thurs-| Chardists will meet tonight at th rday nights and Wed.| Arctic club and seek ways of dis- day and Sat nesday afternoon posing of the 1914 crop. Sas if over 70 trained sing-| There are possibilities of an ap- ers of renown ably supports | Ple parade in Seattle soon. the leads, who will alternate on dif nt nights, ON Theo Karl Johnston, Mme. Hesse — Sprotte, who has trained the com-| hose receiving honorable men- pany, Mrs. Romeyn B. Jansen, Mrs.| tion for this week's Circle contest George F. Russell, Miss Gwendolyn | are Florence Baes, 4703 81st ay. S., ;, Lester Fe: oeety eal Begley, Walter F, Pau Seattle; Monroe; Ruby Ernest C. Morck, Mrs. C. H. Hop-| Fisher, Elaine, Wash.; Morris |per, Mrs. Florence Woodcock-Mc-| Goodrich, Engene, Ore.; Minnie |Kinstry, Mrs. D. Parl Mrs.| Hastings, Winlock, Wash.; Helen George B. West, Mrs. F. E. McGreg Vancouver, Wash.; George or, Montgomery Lynch, G. BE. Hill attle, and Harry Frost, 5037 H. H. Tuttle, G. A A. Nordskog Hastings and A Manager James Woods of the St, ° @ Francis hotel 1 Francisco, ac- THE PANTAGES cepted presidency of police com- bar @ mission The Pantages will offer as its | ~ S800 i lareiiatle natin headline attraction, the eleven | Colonial Mins Maids, an all-girl b) jtroupe. Isabelle Fletcher, Charles | 6 9. |Aryer and company will present a Joneact play of the Canadian | woods, “Be Game.” Other 8 Fae cad ee adie aie ae For Grip, Influenza, on and the Adeline Sisters, in a : antomimic novelty; Elwood and Coughs, Sore Throat , ventriloquial entertainer THOUSANDS ENJOY PUYALLUP’S FAIR COLDS I have used Humphreys’ ‘Sev- PUYALLUP, Oct. 3—Thou enty-seven, Grip and Cold remedy, of residents of Pierce county, bull| for eight years, and hate given it moose, fruit growers and me to others and d it to be all that are enjoying their combined day edie CORN the Western Washington fair here 4 jtoday, “One of the ures of the me free Dr, Humphreys | day series of drills and ma (cal Book."—writes a British Jneuvers by Boy Scouts, who| Columbian camped on the grounds last night To break up a @old take “Seven- | Five thousand people enjoyed y-seve at the first sneeze or the sunshine yesterday the first rive have about completed their we ity anita wold. be anne ea in the variou irtment Dt | sea and: change® cn; thea Pt final awards are t i} mi lay . “ ¥ way ake Of the 90 babies examine the | onse Ketter Babies’ contest, one y re Two size ce and $1.00, at all ceived a perfect score, and his | druggists, or mailed name will be made known when aphreys' H Medicine Co, 186 the prize is awerded this afternoon, W York. —Advertisement,