The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 14, 1914, Page 1

,\SeattleStar ' , { Ry Start Correaponde ONDON, Eng, Nov. 14— l England has discovered 4 the most dangerous job in the world and she has found the right man for the place The most dange: job is fishing for mines at sea The person who fille it Is the daring North trawlerman who leaves his shore cottage in a tiny schooner and comes We've Found the Most Dangerous Job in the World! Trawler Men Risk Lives Fishing for Mines at Sea back weeks la fish Sometimes he back That's part of life. Hunting for German mines le @ very businesslike occupa tion, Once away in the quarter where the mine: upposed to be lald the trawlers part off r with a load of doean't come his reckless in pairs. A atrong cable across from one other In the middle of the cable there Is a “kite,” a huge trian gular weight, which keeps the cable well down the water; the trawlers then sail apart, and tides, the weight aging down be. is stretched boat to the tween them. THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS VOLUME 16. NO. EXCARMY | OFFICER - NAMED! Louis M. Lang, a gen- eral contractor, living at 323° 13th v. NN, wi appointed chief of police by Mayor Gill at 1 p. m. Saturday to succeed Aus- tin E. Griffiths, resigned. The appointment came as a complete surprise. Mayor Gill had announced, when Griffiths rsigned, that he probably would ap- point a civilian as chief, but it was generally ex- pected the man would be someone better known. “I have chosen Mr. Lang,” said the mayor, “solely on his record as & good executive and disciplinarian He has no political or private en- Lang fe married, but has no chil- dren. His wife, until recently, was President of the Franz Abt Musical club. 2 Served In the Army He served in the United States volunteers both in Cuba and the Philippines. He served in Cuba as a captain, and afterward was pro- moted to the rank of adjutant. He left the army in the Philip- Pines to accept a civil service post tion as disbursing officer on gov- ernmental work. Later he was col- lector of customs, by appointment of President Taft, in one of the Phil ippine districts. He became {ll and Was invalided home. He has been in Seattle seven years. He was superintendent of construction for Gibson & Smith. Seattle contractors, for a good share of the time he has spent here, and, as such, supervised the con struction of the Y. M. C. A. build ing. Hr Is a Republican He worked for a short time, pre viously, in a similar capacity for the Seattle Electric Co. When he left Gibson & Smith, he opened offices of his own Lang. summoned to the city hall by the mayor, was personally in formed by the chief executive of his appointment. He accepted at once In national politics Lang is a re publican. CANAL CLOSED PANAMA, Nov in the Panama canal was again stopped today, another upheav st the bottom of Culebra cut, on the east bank, occurred late yes. terday. Traffic will be re sumed until the cut is entirely cleared. CHIEF TO TALK Chief of Police Griffith Virginia McMechen are a Speakers at the annual n the Brotherhood of the Fi church Tuesda 14.—Navigation t Baptist ing. The pub Death at Bottom of Ocean LONDON, Nov. * to the effect that the British dreadnaught Audacious has been badly damaged by a Ger- man mine off the irish coast are widely circulated today, al- though the admiralty will discuss the report. A report announcing the de- struction of two German sub- marin by British cruisers is better authenticated, although | not officially confirmed by the | admiralty. | One German submarine is said to have been destroyed when Brit-/ ish cruisers dragged the bed of the | ea near Dover with a chain weighted with powerful explosives, The other is reported destroyed off the Belgian const, where it had been operating against British war vessels engaged in bombarding the German right along the Yser. The report concerning the dam age to the Audacious, permitted to pass the censor, was that the Au dacious discovered a ship, fying |the Swedish flag. planting mines off the Irish coast She warned the liner Olympic, which was approaching that por-| tion of the sea, of the danger, and the Olympic changed her course Later the Audacious struck a mine in the same locality | AUTO HITS BOY —Rumors An 11-year-old boy hovers betweer Hlife and death today at the Provi-| ldence hospital, suffering with a] | fractured skull | Ralph Morgan, son of City Patrol | man Charles F. Morgan, 714 N. 81st \st., approached E. Aloha, on 16th.| fon his roller skates Friday, just | when an auto driven by R. D. Pin |neo, assistant general freight agent | of the Pacific Coast Steamship Co and secretary of the Arctic club rolled toward 16th Boy and auto came together. The boy was thrown backward His head hit the curbing. The police declared Pinned stopped within 14 feet. He war | booked at headquarters, but let ge | without bond. | Second period — Harvard 0, |Brown 0. Third quarter—Yale 19, | Princeton 0. 226 SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1914. ONE CENT WORLD CHAMPION GIRL SWIMMER LEARNED STROKES ON PIANOSTOOL Greta Johan demonstrating the Australian crawi, and in the lower picture the champion diver Is shown ready for one of her famous dives. BERKELEY, Cal, Nov Though she is only 19 years o Greta Johansen, formerly of Stock holm, Sweden, and now a resident of Berkeley, is the champion diver of the world, having won the Olym. ple games’ wr holm in 19 The youthful that the American girls learn the art of swimming before they reach “4 |the age of maturity To obtain grace and beauty, she suggests swimming, and declares that there is no sport as beneficial The successful swimming of Mise | Johansen is due to her confidence She is fearless While in the water she uses the breast stroke, the trudgeon and the crawling movements with ease and speed At the age of 6 she recetved her first swimming lessons on a plano stool in her mother’s parlor. Ever since she has practiced the diver's art, and now she is not only the champion diver of the world but she ts also the possessor of 65 silver cups and medals FEAR FOR SHIPS DETROIT, Nov. 14.—A gale swept over the ¢ t Lakes today, and fears are entertaine for the safety of a score of vessels known to be fighting the storm Many vessels, badly battered, dock ed in the harbor today State fish and game commission Darwin | for San Francisco with fish exhibit GiyLigt | was young and beautiful and because her beauty, if exp! dal awarded in Stock: | diver recommends terrific] | “Statistics | partment convey the false impr The mines might lie 16 to 18 feet below the surface That is about the depth of the vital parts of a battle ship's engine rooms, maga zines and coal bunkers A mine exploding there has a tremendous chance of do Ing deadly damage; if it oc curred at a shallower depth the chances are that although damaged, the ship would still NIGHT EDITION ‘ TRAINS AND NEWS STANDS, Be) remain seaworthy Perhaps for days the trawl ers sweep across the tides without result The skipper stumps round, filled with the pride of office, his hand returning at intervals to run along the trawl warp which stretches down like a silver band into the blue depths, to rise, a sagging, drip ping thread to the other little boat running alongside many yards distant. The skipper's hand is a sen sitive organ, hard and toll worn, but with the training of years he distinguish at once the vibration of water from that caused by a foreign substance The mines are anchored from the bottom, and the pa: ing cable cuts the mooring rope, which goes curling around the sweeping warp. The old man once There is a sharp blast of his can notices it at "the bawls across They have struck a channel sown with death, and where there is one there are sure to be othe The trawlers slow down and am apart. The connecting cable tau tens, and slowly above the heaving water appears a small, shining sphere. The bi of his warned the watchful boat in the offing ren has torpedo She comes up full speed, her crew glad of the chance of something to do The deadly mine is thrown off to float on the bosom of the waters, and drifts away On the war I*there is a flutter of white duck where the bluejackets are training a tight gun on the mine. A crouching figure behind bends back, there is a bark, and a wreath of smoke from the boat's bow, and, in answer. ing roar, a huge column of water shooting skywards, the mine Is exploced Risk! Those biuff, square built, blue-eyed sons of the sea will laugh at you. Their life is all risk After all, it is only another kind of fishing. Sd ° How the mines are destroy- ed. Sketch shows, above, tor- pedo boat exploding mine with light gun, after hidden charge has been brought to. | surface by trawlers in the dis- tance. Sketch below shows how trawlers discover mines, 1 ?| instead And every trade has the philosophy of the That Is - pers. Girl Bride Gets Divorce; “= | She’s The Star will publish a A series of short articles,)|/ "ame of her youth. written by experts, up- holding the theory of mu- nicipal ownership. The|/ PR erent first will be by Superin-|| Tt isn’t that. ' tendent J. D. Ross of the}, today. Now I want to die. man she had married. He * *% % |fell on deaf ears. Saves Us “There had been others before he came. away and, no doubt, they soon found solace. Then a hellish eternity Goin “What will you do now?” the lawyer asked. “I! am going home,” she said. “That is wise,” the lawyer said. With your own people around you, “My mother—” She choked. You see I didn’t want to bear his name when 1 died.” * They * was not her ideal. He sent men to her room. * * * |longer looked upon her with lusting eyes. Jackson was followed to t administering the worst » the stockade for tong Millions “The fury of a disgruntled 63 days The girl was taken to the city fought to live. By eer will | It was for that and that or the characterization | forgiveness made by J. D. Ross, city light superintendent, of A. V. Boull- attack upon the lighting plant and municipal ownership. Boullion, who was formerly superintendent of public utill- ties, and a candidate for mayor, has been recently in the em- ploy of the Puget Sound Trac- tion, Light & Power Co In this connection, Ross, and also Mayor Gill, sharply criticised the ao- called municipal eShiblt of the League of Northwest Muntelpalities nd av it is claimed, was ared by Whitman college stu-| and was placed for public] view under the direction of the Chamber of Commerce. It consists of various charts Says It's Misleading “The exhibit 1s misleading to the average person id Mayor Gill on city water de concern of yours. Friday was a tragic day In Judge Tallman’s court A two-weeks’ old babe, which whimpered feebly like some very young animal, and whose tiny, pink fingers clutched weakly at its mother’s dress, caused court spectators to blink when Margaret Van Ness told the story of too much mother- in-law. She married E. Van Ness in New Jersey in 1909 He took he: mother nd ly I couldn't # sald the wife And the divoree knife sliced an other home cleanly in twain. . . Four-year-old Margaret, with gol |den curls, and round cheeks like | apples, stared curiously, with wide: Postmaster General Burleson de-| open eyes, at mother, Ida M clares in favor of government own-| Pinneo, as the latter told how Peter ership of telephone and Selégraph) W. Pinneo left her. lines Margaret | t the age when she r to live with his he used me so bad and it, #0 I got out,” the (Continued on Page 2.) her YOuR WIFE WAS IN WHILE You WERE OUT TO LUNCH, SHE SA J) GUESS ID SHE WALD To 60 BE BACK IN A HALF HOUR - = SHE WANTS You) hese SOME PLACE IV PLANNED ON GOING TO THE FOOTBALL GAME THIS Ly AP TERHOON om, * — | YouR SITUATION Reminps | [> 2) (ne OP THE WAR jad THE WARE i i WHY THE i Pe. he room by Officers O'Brien ue-lash * * * hospital. For a she rose from her bed ily she wanted to live time She to |needs a father to romp with her bear with her But—swish! knife, And father. went the Margaret divorce lost her When Mannetta Lund came back from a visit in Minneapolis, and tried to telephone to her husband at their home, she said she found the number changed, and the voice of a strange woman on the other end. Yes, this was Carl Lund’s home. but he wasn't In Even the loca tion had changed, to North Broad way And when she did find him, he reprimanded her for coming home at all, Also he stayed away, pr sumably with the other woman The knife descended, and the Lund home fell into fragments. been All the plaintiffs granted divorces lin Judge Tallman’s court were wom. one of the days was Christmas! faded from her cheeks, leaving them sunken and gray! Her strength was gone. and Rey her retaine¢ get rid * * * * * «/ * Id He was arrested * * life was despaired of 1 Attorney P. D. of a hated name Judge Tallman never grants divorces to persons married less than a year, except in extreme cases. on he granted a divorce quickly and eagerly And now that her maiden name has been restored to her, she wants to die. yen Friday to ride her on his knee, and to play! T hose not previously mentioned 2. Whitney from Geor; Sarah Haidar from | Joseph Haidar; Florence A, Wells |from Edwin S. Wells; Carrie M R. Whitney * But, oddly, she wanted to live Hughes to Jackson, g Home to Die WOMAN left Judge Tallman’s court yesterday, accompanied by her lawyer. She was young in years, but she looked old. The court had just released her from, a hated bondage and given back to her the you will be able to forget.” I have known—the doctor has told me—that | haven’t long to live. I wanted to live until had made love to her. But gently she had sent them After all, they were only boys—good chums of her girlhool. They did not measure up to her ideal. So when Ernest J. Jackson asked her to marry him, she said, “Yes,” at once. For he was tall and handsome and a “gentleeman.” They were married December 6, 1913. They came to Seattle, and on the day of their arrival Edna Jackson learned to her horror the manner of He was all of the things she loathed. He took her to a First av. hotel and told her bluntly, brutally, just why he had married her—because she loited, would work to his profit. Prayers, entreaties during which the roses Her beauty, too. Men no Police Judge Gordon, a prisoner ever received at the hands of that capable tongue-lasher, sent Jac She secure a divorce released, came whining for But to Edna Jack- What that name is, is no Gimbly from John 8. Gimbly; Janet Newton from Walter W. Newton; Lorena Carter from Guy N, Carter; Julia Heims from Edward J. Heims: Ida M. Peyser from David M. Pey ser. SOLDIER S$ LIE IN ICY TRENCHES ON By Ed L. Keen LONDON, Nov. 14,—Though it was admitted there were no signs of an early ce tion of the German attack on the allies’ line engaged in defending the French coast, the war office was highly optimistic today. Unofficial reports that the allies had reoccupied > cepted as true. Everywhere, it was glo-Franco-Belgian holding their own That the men in the x the greatest har Dixmude were the An were said forces field were ships was ad by fierce is drenc swept by attleground ains and The trenches are half filled with icy water, and so vigilant, It was declared, are the marksmen on both sides that the slightest move ment, even to relieve a cramped arm or leg, brings a storm of bul lets, In many places, aid, the ng ines of intrenchments so close the men could hear the enemy talking. it was were BELGIAN FIELDS } Night attacks are so frequent the troops can sleep only fitfully. The marshy ground in the dis tricts flooded by the Belgians is reported thickly strewn with corpses, which the constant shell fire makes it almost impossible |to bury. | As graves, it was stated that the holes torn in the ground by the big shells were proving extremely con- venient, many of them being large “,enough to hold 15 men and several horses. It was asserted tod that the British had advanced north of Ypres, beyond a wood which the Germans had used to cover them- selves, the Teutonic troops resist- ing desperately but ineffectively. An appeal was made to the pub- Me today to contribute heavy cloth- ing to the soldiers GIVES GIRL BEER PORTLAND, Noy, 14.—Having pleaded guilty to a charge of giving intoxleating liquor to a l4-year-old i girl, Joseph Berger, a diamond mer: chant, is awaiting sentence today.