The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 13, 1914, Page 1

Wat's the matter with our readers, anyhow? Here we ask them cism, telling us just what they think of The Star, ing the old Ned with us if we weren't giving and ra them what they wanted. We made it plain that ful suggestions—that we wanted JOSH WISE SAYS: “A bathe fot of runnin’ around, amy movin’ picte yor don't believe it.” 8 just an Steo int tar Correspondent With Russian Army in East SWEPT ACROSS LAKE IN HOUSEBOAT MILLIONS SWEEPING — INTO GERMANY: RUSSIA WOMIEN Cast adrift in a houseboat on Lake Union, and carried two miles at a speed of 18 miles an hour, believing any minute the floor of the loosely built structure would under them, was the experi- ence of A. N. Williams, a fire- man, stationed at Harvard and Union, and his wife and sister-intaw in the storm which swept Seattle Friday be- tween 1 and 3 a. m. Williams and wife live houseboat moored at the foot of} Aloha st. on the east side of the lake. Cables attached to two! rocks held the houseboat in post- tion. A heavy gust of wind carried | rocks and all out into the lake. | Buffeting its three = terror/ stricken passengers about in vio- Tent fashion, the houseboat flew | across the lake at the speed of aj motorboat, the prow high out! of the water, and the stern weight ed down by the heavy stones. The terrified screams of the Women brought scores from their beds, along shore. Carried Clear Across Lake The wild ride ended at the foot of Newton st. on the west side of | the lake, where the boathouse butted into a houseboat occupied by John Zang. The roof of Williams’ houseboat was ripped off by the impact. The two women were seasick, but otherwise suffered no ill-ef- fects. it was the strongest wind storm on record at the local weather bureau. For two hours the wind averaged | 54 miles an hour. Between 2:13 and 2:18 a. m. it rose to 64 mile Port Wharf Damaged The grain .conveyor over the second story of the port commis- sion’s new wharf at Hanford street collapsed. Damage is estimated at $1,500. A pile of lumber tn the yards of the Stimpson Mill Co. at Ballard| blew over on Night Watchman Wilder. He sustained a bruised shoulder and a wrenched arm. Snowfall Coming? | Telegraph wires on the Northern Pacific were down all forenoon be-| tween Arlington and Sumas. Four. teen inches of snow in the moun-| tains threaten an approaching snow storm of formidable propor tions Dozens of plate were shattered | Shipping in the harbor dragged or, at least two houseboats on Union, near Latona bridge, known to have been wrecked, house was blown from its dations and a woman injured, a porch !s missing from another, a of busines are with late fronts as a result ling cornices and chimneys telephone and telegraph communi on out of the cit glass windows houses glass ‘ed in a dispatch received here from TOM,) THINK IT 1S AWFULLY COLD IN THIS HOUSE ey infernal ¢ theatre, ef flaws in us. And what to write us letters of criti- we were looking for help- ! them to pick like? Tell us about it. VOLUME 16. BELG|. t : (THE PICTURE shows the plight of hundreds of thousands of Belgians. This family has lost everything but the clothes on their backs. The blankets that cover them are from Minister Whit- lock’s American relief depot. But they are glad to have found even a stable where they can sleep in peace! Frosty nights are already the rule in ium. Ina woke or two, winter will be there; es. poor, war-robbed people are still clothed in sum- mer They have no homes, no work, no money, no food! England, although pressed by war herself, is caring for 50,000 homeless refugees whom she brought over from Belgian soil, and she is also sending thousands of tons of food to Belgium every week under permits from the Germans. But thousands of tons more are needed, as Mayor Gill Will Refuse Chance to Be Next Governor | And he meant !t! Want Him to Run The republicans, flushed their victory of November 3 agreed, practically unanimously that Gill should run for governor The nomination would be handed him on a silver platter. Political gossip in ibiican elr cles has it that Gill would ea walk-away In the election True, Gill has recently: sald would never run for office again But,” says political gossip, when the campaign comes around To be governor of a great state, next to being president of the United Stteas, is a dream which has fascinated nearly every American boy at one time or another. In his youth, Mayor Hiram — in C. Gili undoubtedly shared such a dream with countless other millions of American boys. The mayor Is 48 now. And Mayor Gill does not want to be governor of the state of Washington! “if they'd give me all the money {n Seattle, I wouldn't be governor of this or any other st for one | week,” Mayor Gill said with have (Continued on Page 2.) TURKS DECLARE WAR ON ALLIES Constantinople by way of Berlin, Enver Pasha, the Turkish war minister, is likely to take the field in person against the allies, it was said AMSTERDAM, Nov. 13.—Turkey declared war today on all the pow ers of the triple entente, it was stat \ weit, I'LL Go } DOWN AND ————— and almost to a man—or woman pleased they are with The Star. ters appear today on page 11. 5 Please light into us! Tear us apart and analyze Is there any department in The Star you don’t If enough of you agree on TheSeattleStar > | The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News do they do but down, tell us how well A lot of their let- its place. about saying so. SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1914 well as warm clothing, shoes, medicines and other supplies. If England at war can do as much for these poor, suffering innocents, cannot the United States do a great deal more? If you feel that you can afford a Thanksgiving or Christmas offering to this great humanitarian work, donations of beans, , bacon, flour, wheat, ly received by” the of Commiérce, which is gathering foodstuffs for the relief of these starv- ing folk. Other commercial bodies throughout the state are co-operating with the local chamber, A great shipload of food will be sent from Seattle about December 15. Contributions of food will be accepted in large or small quantities at either the Chamber of Com- merce or the port warehouse in the East waterway, the use of which has been tendered to the cham- ber by the port commissioners. GERMAN aviators | DEALERS FLY OVER ENGLAND] by WT K WARNED Nov. 13—A flight an aviators over | and Harwich, Eng- land, was officially announc- Ctreulars prepared by health — department, farmers how to detect t mouth disease of cattle, and warn. ed today. ing them that if they note symp MAYOR URGES tle will be re , Friday afternoon, and distributed to every plying this city Three representatives of the health department started Friday NEW YORK, Nov. 13—Ma- {scouring the big district from yor Mitchel recently wrote the | Which Seattle draws her milk sup. board of education urging the abolition of the rule that mar. ried teachers would be dis missed if they became mothers. He declared today that with in the last 24 hours he “had received an impression that the board will adopt the reason- able, wise and rational policy of allowing some sort of leaves of absence to teachers about to become mothers.” the city instructing foot and were issued are being dairyman sup: morning tatives will working north from Portland, vis farmer shipping milk n that district, in cows and warning caution one of start them to exerc The second representative will start south from the Canadian boundary. The third will work through district adjacent to Washington The letter themselves carriers much delivering Seventy-five per cent of the work of manufacturing rifle thon ifor the United States navy is done by women. Sundays by chureh walking on letters aromur arm it, we'll throw it out and print something ajse in If you like us, by all means don’t be backward Heaven knows of this sort of thing. But criticise us, too. We in The Star office try hard to publish what we believe you will be interested in, but naturally we hear little ONE CENT {iwatranon ae we can’t always just get your viewpoint, and we make mistakes. For we are, of course, only human, just the same as you are. For the best letter that comes to us, be it a letter of praise or a letter of criticism, we will pay $25. So come on, folks. Let’s have your ideas about the paper. Please try to keep your letters short. AST EDITION SOME wind last night, folks; but the w. m. promises only a moder ate s. w. to w. gale with occa rain tonight and Saturday. AND nal i} USTGETTINGSTARTED Although Hussia ts Special ( The first of his OSTRICH HERD IN the nomical STAMPEDE KILLS WOMAN AND TEAM PHOENIX, Ariz. Nov. 13. —Three hundred ostriches stampeded here today while Ing driven along a country road, swarming over a car- riage driven by Mrs. L. D. instantly killing the and reducing the carriage to = putp, A panic among ranchers and their families followed, res of cowboys were requisitioned to round up the birds. * The ostriches were being driven from an ich farm near Phoenix to another to- cation farther in the coun- try Twenty = mounted vaqueros had them = in charge. Mrs. Rosseau, wife of a wealthy pioneer rancher, was driving toward Phoe- nix and was directly in the path of the maddened birds, The birds scattered over miles of country, frightened dozens of ranche to their hous of them have rounded up. been ECONOMY IN STATE AFFAIRS A policy of economy will be rig idly ture, bers who are followed in the next legisla according to republican mem in control At Olympia, Senator Carlyon put the blame for the high tax ate of last session upon the de crats and progressives. He was promptly Lister, show publican, failed to vote against any appropriation the tax rate. The licans Ww lature two years ago and they to be held responsible. Whatever the In Portugal) been) King at} make the called by Gov who challenged Carlyon to where he, or any other re. that would reduce overnor insisted the repub: ‘e In control of the legis. are past’ may have republicans, especially in county, seem determined to next legislature as possible, Luts Go TOA PICTURE SHOW AND THe HOUSE WILL BE WARM BY THE TIME We GET BACK J 1 DIDN'T BOTHER [ TOM, To Wat eated ir oe AT FOR JUS SAY 4 Mio tocks} | PID You SAY —\ You WERE respondent W. Ht tters is printed in The Star today. as eco-| NEVISON, who has be en in Petrograd and with ket through to the United States som @ intensely interesting news rity effectivelly cut off from the west by the blocks ded Baltic and Black seas and by the he Ht By W. H. Nevison (By Messenger to Athens and Mail to United States.) ROGRAD, Russia, Oct ‘The war is really just starting in Russia. The bear is only now rising to the attack. Despite the millions at the front, they are still flocking to the colors, tramp- ing and galloping in by every road This has been going on for two months. It probably will gc on for a year and the never-ending ranks will be made up of faces new to the fighting front On they come—Circassians, Cossacks, Little Russians, Siber jans, men from the regions of the Altai and the Urals, and, most terrifying of all, the wild-eyed confused Mohammedans from Turke- stan and the Kirghez ste —the stolid peasants to fight for the little white father, the tribesmen to loot and slay! j 1 would hate to be a German fighting man after what I Have seen And that’s no~®lur on the German. For even if a soldier of the kaiser vanquish ten of these fierce oe or ona ten more will rise up to take the places of their slain ‘ellows, Those are my impressions after an eventful trip to Warsaw, Murder a Pleasure; Robbery a Boast But perhaps my opinions are swayed by visions of the uncon- quered and untamed Bashi-Bazouks, a thousand motley bands of savage horsemen, with whom murder is a pleasure and robbery @ vast In mob formation they clatter along the abominable road, ponies snapping and biting at each other, their no less vicious masters grunting strange Moslem oaths—‘“Mashallah” and “Wullah” and “Billahi—which seem to start deep in the throat and get no fur ther than the teeth. The only uniformity in the half-crazed horsemen is found in their red riding boots, and in the broad knives and wooden-butted pistols which are stuck in their sashes, Five saddle bags they carry ‘One for the rider, one for the horse and watches,” the interpreter will tell you with a smile, And it is true. The gold watches are those the wild Bashi-Bazouks have been told are carried by every German soldier. Love of the little white father has not brought these terrible men into the war It is the gold watches with which, some one has told them, the kaiser supplies his whole army Go to War to Get Germans’ Gold Watches It is the ambition of each Bash!-Bazouk to bring three saddle bags full of gold watches home with him after the war! This I discovered after half an hour of hard work on the part of my interpreter He is a young student, son of a high official in the government, and exempt from military service because he is awaiting appoint- ment to a diplomatic post as an undersecretary, He had spent a year in England studying. Through his her's connections I was enabled to see War saw—or as much of it as they would permit me, without an army officer as guardian. I suppose this was partly because Russia needs every officer has and further ause these Russians are extremely hos- pitable people. The word hospitable may sound strange after just describing Basni-Bazouks. But these wild men are by no means the Ivan Ivanovitch, or ordinary soldier, of Russia. The real Russians outnumber them 20 to 1 ter didn’t like th of it with a sh They are country Real Russian Soldier Is a “(Regular Guy” The ordinary Russian, the man from the small towns and farming country, is a good-natured fellow, who would give you his shirt or make the children go to bed hungry in order that the traveler could eat He Is stolid ined Ivan at close America ar r guy But withal Ivan is a queer Devotion to the emperor-—they don’t call him czar over here— is not the only thing that makes him go to war with delight. He has ‘another reason If. he goes to war he doesn't work with a constancy that would hobo, For war is merely getting shot, sleeping in damp trenches and going without food—an every-day experience to the Russian peasant. Poland, Like Belgium, Pays Awful Toll Gen, Rennen mpf continues to hold vasion along the Vistula west of Warsaw, gium, has paid its awful toll The country is devastated, near famine. The Grand Duke three for gold the My young interpre- idea of their being {n the war, but he disposed and gesture. he said ug Russians, “Let them fight for thetr but T like him him what we sy going and lazy range and find I have exam- would call in cuss. have put to work, and Ivan shuns to shame the American in- Bel- German like the Poland, back but the crops ruined and the people Nicholas, commander-in-chief of the armies, divides his time between the Polish theatre of war and the opera- tions in Austria conducted by Gen, Russky A gruesome example of what war in this nation means occurs red in one of the battles at Lvoff, near Lemberg. In a hospital I have seen a Jewish soldier who is raving mad, He was in the first line of a charge. He reached the ranks of the Austrians, and in the man-to-man fight he drove his bayonet through the chest of his opponent. As the Austrian fell wounded to death, he shouted the Hebrew death prayer, which begins, “Hear, O Israel.”. The Russian Jewish soldier feil in a faint When he had recovered he was a raving lunatic,