The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 14, 1914, Page 7

SEATTLE SCHOOL| BOY WOULD BRING) ABOUT OVERTHROW | OF DOBIE REGIME Iron team, which meets Washington here today, Is Johnny Parsons, Seattle boy and graduate of the Lincoln high school, Parsons h | the star of the day every time th He Is one of the best backs in the conference on the championship Lincoln high squad. Wives, Keep Your Eye on Your Husbands; Boalt Gives ’Em All Dead Away By Fred " Boalt strenuous activities of our yesterday afternoon when I went down to float certain gilt-edge These tales you hear of the bunk. I found out to endeavor to negotiate moting. I needed about a dime T am a busy man Take reportorial duties, I not only about a toothache about the are largely financial district which I am. pro “tired business men” into the proposition this a loan yesterday afternoon, for example In addition to was trying to borrow a dime, but I also had to see a dentist about a stomachache, a lawyer about a libel suit, and an archi garage I intend some day to build when I can afford a Ford And, believe it or not, I couldn't find a single banker, doctor, dentist tect about the garage I intend some day to builnoon was young They were all at Brown & Hulen’s shooting billiards It was merest chance that I found this out. Unable to find I could lay my proposition, I went to Brown & Hulen’s, thinking into a game of billiards, persuade him to bet a dime, and then stick I play a very nice game of billiards. The very first men I ran into were N. B. Solner, cashier of the Union Savings , and George Russell, the boy banker of the American Savings, formerly postmaster, play k-line I tried to tell Russell about my gilt-edged proposition, but he wa watching Solner making—or trying to—a shot that he didn’t hear t he refused to talk business They said they never talked busi- ness and played billiards at the same time. I dared them to play me for a dime, but they wouldn't listen T turned away in des) ran smack into Marcus B. the orchitect who is butiding new Pantages theatre ‘The very man I'm looking fort I exclaimed. “I am intending to build a garage for a Ford when [ get one, and—" jn I a doctor lawyer or archi a banker before whom to inveigle somebody him in And so engrossed masse me a-tall Callatmyofficeat9o’clock,” said the architect, testtly, as he drove Separates ‘Em All an object across the table and back| Meeker's opponent was Dr. Hilt into balk, so that it nestled sweet-|retired capitalist, who used to fly ly beside ita mate. in China. Dr. Hill plays a wond A Gay Undertaker ful game. was playing with A It ti Shafer, undertaker lthree shots to get Anything in my gether, Collins, gaily Dr "I have no use for undertakers,” | in one shot. I told him. He had ther has Priteca. He's ahead | exceptional ability in this regard But wait! Being an under-jand | jud) that the moment was 1 always get ‘em in the end.|not opportune for suggesting that he lend me a dime. the worst. Have a cigar.” ir, and Priteca, the He line. Cc. Cob the balls to line?” inquired Hilt can get them separated just demonstrated his purty One of the mostfeared players on the University of Oregon gria- been! two elevens have come together. | In 1910 he played haif| my} & Ives and Hoppe | who was! now, taker, Ha, hi ||| I turned away with a shudder! Instead, I broached the matter to }!| |and encountered N. G. Slickery, an|J. UH. Davis, proprietor of the || |tmsurance man. He was trying one | Washington Annex hotel, Hi }of those hit-the-cushion-first three syne partners with J. W. Wab “ }} }cushion shots, and he didn't even sbek, who is a wholesale liquor Mi suggest my buying a policy dealer and has a new Buick car | |. He was playing with J. A. Scol-|against Charley Brown, who has ‘ [lard, curly-haired capitalist, who ‘oat store in the Empire build ' jhas scads of money, and C. N |ing, and Ralph Lafaver, one of the » | Bostwick, Leary building broker | main squeezes for Alber Brothers, | How these fellows can play bil-/manafactorers of cereals, who! a ards end make money at the|rides arcend tm the firm's steam same time I don’t know. | yacht ‘Ge Tries Balk-Line Pi | “We have no doubt,” they said, Vie I take part of that back, io can|“that your proposition is good 4 vaderstand = Bostwick’s making | but—" and they made excuses. money under any cireumstances.| Wouldn't Gamble With Lawyer Between turns he talks and other| I had no better luck with R. S. people just hand him money. iristy, restaurateur, and “Big As I couldn't borrow a dime of at” Ovington, who ts the grand the three-enshion billiardists I|sachem of Lake Crescent turned to H..M. Meeker, of the| They play very poor billiards. Stewart & Holmes Co., wholesale | but they are good-natured about It druggists, because | was told he| Just then I ran into Bill Morris, hated three-cushion billiards. criminal lawyer. He offered to He's a balk-line player. Every | play 100 points for a dim Bat! jbalk-line player belleves a three- never gamble with lawyers I ushion player would steal sheep. | want a chance What anybody can see in that} When I left, Morris was playing three-cushion game is more than I| with Charles Nutter, from Alaska. in understand,” I sald to Meeker. | Nutter is so ‘oted to billtards Lend me a dime.” that, when he’s in the North, “My sentiments exactly,” ex-| where there aren't any tables, he laimed Meeker. “Of all sflly,| practices on the floor with a inane, and idiotic | broo nd two round mentioned enough names, DO YOU KNOW TIP FOR ORIVERS Editor The Star: A regrettable indifference 1s shown by the aver age team driver concerning the | blinders he compels his horse to BROWN & HULEN ||": Often I see blinders so loose and Second and Spring Third Floor |) out of place from careless handling jot the harness that they flop back and forth against the animal's eyes lat every movement of its head. | Surely that must be torture to the | brutes and a menace to thelr sight S$ ma: | I have also seen the blinders fit ting altogether too snug. Asthma! tat It makes me feel that if Uncle i! | Sam went to war I would not want | < cardghhagb a ‘coe — | to fight to protect the industries omen rod fmm basi Powe |which refuse aid to myself and) Cured. asthma of 30. years’ ff] ‘milly during times of peace standing, not in” Boston and {|| short time ago we hoard overy-| New York, but here in Seattle f| ne #8Y, “Buy @ bale of cotton.” A | and towns around Seattle, and paeee tater He was: WY © dor a Ihave not failed in one of ff) apples.” I think an appropriate | them. Now, {f you are » suf- [| Slogan at this time would be ferer from ‘this disease and “Miive = eitisen the 30 can't sleep nights, 1 will give J rellef at once and a cure in time. The following diseases I will absolutely cure: Asth- ma, Bronchitis, Catarrh in all its forms, such as Tonsilitis, Adenotds, Gastric Ulcer of the Stomach and Bowels, Catarrh of the Bladder, Prostatitis in all Bowel Diseases in Rheumatism all Epilepsy, Heart and Eezem and many others too numer- ous to mention. If you are in doubt, write apd I will give names and addresses of people I have cured. usually given to the world with the best of intentions, but when it ©omes to the actual estab- lishment of these social centers, the viewpoint of the “Shorty” Smith of this city should be given careful consideration. Why not let these men who desire to establish a social center buy the elegant Hyde saloon on Pike et. Take it just as it is, with all “ite fixtures. Let it remain in its present state, making not a single change in its appointments or In ite methods. Fit it as a social center by That Seattle has the finest billiard parior in the world? Come in and see. HAS GOOD IDEA Editor The Star: I am an Amert. -born citizen of Seattle and it) | makes me sore to walk about this city in search of employment and | see 75 per cent of the men employed | on outside work are foreigners. of drinks other than intoxicat- Ing liquors, and give to the | piace all the earmarks of a | saloon without the “booze.” The writer believes that many men drink in saloons be- | cause they feel free to enter and retire, and because it offers an inviting welcome six days In the week. | Many men, without doubt, | drink intoxicating bevera | who would far rather not have | “booze,” but who are obliged to be “game” and play the game | because it's a custom. These same men would, | be- lieve, prefer to dispense with “booze,” and drink the kind of | drinks that the usual soda foun- tain dispenses. It’s not the cocktail that many desire, but | rather the freedom that Is of- fered by the hospitable saloon. FRANK ASBURY. | A. M. WHAT ABOUT “SHORTY” SMITH? Editor Seattle Star: Your edition of the 10th had a very interesting arti written by one who as an experienced Inhabl- tant of the world CRITICISES COMFORT STATIONS | Editor The Star: When visiting | the public comfort stations of the city It comes to mind that there ts A great deal of diffe » in the cleanliness of that part of the sta | tion open to the general public, and that which will open to the jingle of a nickel. In facet there is so h difference that there t# no question as to the use (if you have one) of a nickel The charge of this small piece of money {# a good thing, no doubt, but | the part open to the general public} should be kept in a more cleanly | condition, if only on general sani-| tary principles. suggests and criticises relative to “social centers.” The views of men like “Shorty” Smith should be con- sulted in matters euch as plan- ning of social centers, The theories of the clergy and of men who live in pleasant homes and who associate with a type of humanity very different from that of the cl: for whom the social centers will be bullt, are LEARN TO PLAY Any one wishing to learn the game of Pocket Blillards will get @ world of Information by attending the games played by experts every afternoon at 2:15 and every evening at 7/30 At the White House Billiard Parlors In the Joshua Green Building, Fourth and Pike. An academy with seating capacity for 300 people has been uilt to accommodate the public. you Olympic View Sanitarium, 14.16 W. Harrison OR. G. J. NUERNBERG Phone Queen Anne 3127 A READER. Editor The Star Now, that the Electric company has prohibited smoking on Its street cars, it would | | be well to take up another nuisance | STREET GAR ROWDIES | | \ | ing to a great number of its pat- | warts of hi | houses | bomeless man an | porary house. | ually, STAR—SATURDAY, NOV. 14, 1914. PAGE 7, | SEE THE BOAT. CAN THE BOAT RUN? NO THE BOAT CANNOT RUN. WHY CANNOT THE BOAT RUN? THE BOAT CANNOT RUN BECAUSE it of IS A SPFED BOAT. | T think, of our colossal 1 have no to convince you that most | tired business men” are frauds doubt they return t their homes after an afternoon of billierds and tell their wives how hard they work Watch Them, Wives CHICAGO FED TO SEE TAFT Wives, don't be fooled. Look) CINCINNATI, Nov. 14.—August them over for blue chalk marks. | Herrmann, chairman of the national They will have washed their hands | baseball commission, denied here after the « but the cha today that Chas. Weeghman, owner are they will have neglected to rid of the Chicago Federals, had com-| thetr clothes of cue chalk pleted negot na for the purchase | When you discover the chalk jot the Chicago Nationals. marks look your husbands coldly! “Weeghman will come to Cincin in the eye, and say: “Henry With. | nati next week t yosult with Chas oringt Belmont Snodgrans|P. Taft over the prospective pur Jones"—or whatever the scoun-| chase of the Cubs,” he sald. ‘I be drels’ names are- rou are telling | He the sale will be settled one me a lie! You haven't done « tap|way or the other at this meeting of work all afternoon, You have! and I have high hope, that been playing bf! ris at Brown &/ing this, peace in Hulen's!” °. Then wateh them squirm! ! | “This latter, howev | means certain, but we |for great things, and probable.” | PORTLAND, Nov. 14-Experte| MRS. FORBES CHAMP) in collegiate ports are of the opinfon that the score in the came| BREMERTON, Nov. 14.—Scor here today between the Oregon Ag: | Forbes won the sev-| ricultural college and Universtt: Indies’ champlonship| of Idaho will be very close. yard. Friday , ia by no are hoping they seem though how easy it would be to} erase it and put a cross alongside of Carrigan and Knudsen. equally disgusting and more annoy- rons than smoking. On a car leay- ing the West Seattle ferry station | at 10:30 p. m., a number of “hood: | lums,” between the ages of 18 and 25, boarded the car for Seattle. | They kept up a running fire of naw | seating, disgusting remarks the en tire distance The motorman and iiekiaasl should be given the power to eject, peaceably if possible, with a club) if necessary, these hare-brained anity who make life! miserable for decent, self-respecting | patrons of the lines. A KICKER. OHIO METHOD IN DENTISTRY Missing teeth are replaced by e cage a The Ohio Method by artificial teeth COFFEE HOUSES that are natural as your original Editor The Star: There are|teeth. Examinations are now be- probably a large number of men on| {ng conducted without charge, and this western coast without homes | estimates are furnished fn all cas and friends who live in lodging| We Stand Back of Our Work and hotels, in which the! *G atmosphere of home tm sadly lack-| 2, f0F 12 Years sae ing, to whom the saloon offers a|®2> Set of Teeth seeming ray of comfort and cheer. | Guaranteed To this class of men I would sus-| @15 Set of Teeth. gest a substitute such as they have 8 esed in England, called “Coffee Houser juarantee In many instances these places are | $10 Solid Gold or brilliantly lighted, comfortably fur-| Porcelain Crown ... nihed, WES ® -Eheatn. madiag | $10 Gold or Porcelain | room, bureau of information and | Bridge Work other features rendering to the} attractive tem-| Solid Gold Fillings Other Fillings Some of these places have music, | swimming pools, concerts, and in a | Office hours, 8:30 to 6. | thousand different ways appease | 9 to 12 | the men's taste for Hauor, and help O Hi iO Cut-Rate Dentists MRS. B. SELLEN. 207 UNIVERSITY STREET CORNER SECOND AVENUE Sundays, AGAINST PENCILS Editor The Star: I am against County Commissioner Hamilton and | his gang. At the last election, when | I put an X opposite the names of McKenzie and Christensen, IMPERIAL BAR AND READING ROOM At 206 Occidental Service Bar and Pool Tables in Connection _ CHOICE LIQUORS AND CIGARS ————— ened the Philadelphia Athletics, already od college and was | ington w | with ink | had answe | men as shields to prevent the Boers Christy Mathewson tells of a time when he signed a contract with but couldn't play for Mack becaust he had gned up with the New York elub, Mack heard of Mathewson when tarring on the football team. tract unaware that he could not break the other. ball Magazine. GREAT “We've Just about run the length of our string de by Coach Gilmour Dobie, the “mir man” of the Northwestern in tercollegiate football conference to day, regarding the probable outcome of Washington's with Oregon here this afternoon. Brisk weather prevailed in the morning, and there were good pros pects that the field would bein top: notch shape for the battle. The| lightest betting in years {s reported This is largely due to the apparent| evenness in strength of the two ag gregations, For the first time since Washing-| ton entered the business of winning conferen championships under} Dobie's direction, the varsity will| take thafield under a weight hand cap. Oregon averages 185; Wasb-| ighs about elght pounds That was the only comment ma less Oregon will be minus the eetene| of Quarterback Cornell and Malar- key, the halfback, Both are unable to play on account of injuries.| Coach Bezdek believes their loss will be heavily fett Charley Smith, W alar pivot, fs th not tmopr ble on the sidelines. The Oregan light workout on afternoon. In the evening the play- ers atte a “movie.” The game starts promptly at 2:2 o'clock A LARGE EVENING FOR THE SONTAGS The Sontag family of boxers almost made a clean sweep at the Seattie Athletic club smoker Friday night. All three brothers |! fight for the club. One of them, Valentine, the oldest, met a rep- resentative of the Vancouver A }) C., and the other two had local boys for opponents. Two of the Sontags won and the third lost. Val beat Athens of Vancouver in three rounds; Harry outpoint ed Hubey, and Charles, the youngest, lost a close decision to Madden, The S. A. C. swept the boards winning all four of the interna. tional events. Tommy Pheips won his bout by knockout in the first round. hington’s reg bad shape, and it is} that he will remain! team COMPANY. B WINNER Company zB, National Guards, won the annual track meet held in| the Armory Friday - ee and A. Campbell w the big} point getters for the wins ballots should be marked The lead pencil was tn- troduced at the polls for fraudulent purposes. Make them change it, Mr. and Mrs. Voter. CHARL All DORFFEL. | SHE KNEW “UNCLE JOHN” Editor The Star: While lying in a hotel in a strange town for the past few weeks I have spent many pleasant hours reading The Star, One day, when I opened my paper, whose picture did I see but “Uncle | | JOhn” Clark, looking as friendly and honest as I knew him when I a tny girl My first thought was: “Here ts| an article I know will be interest telling of the long, faithful ser- | vice of a trust employe.” To} my regret, I read that he had lost| his job with the traction company I saw him several times whil he was looking after the sick street car men, and he looked as serious as If the trials of others were his | trials too, | am sure more than one | 8. E. C. man has been helped and | comforted by his kind and cheery | words, Wishing you success in the future | and double success to “Uncle | John,” 1 remain, MRS. HARRY PHELPS, Burbank, W HE HAS COME BACK Editor The Star: Regarding the question, “Why Does England Fight? Britisher” thought he the question right. | Let me tell you, “Britisher,” 1 m self feel sorry for poor little Be gium, but didn’t you feel sorry for the poor little states of South Africa? Do you forget that strug gle of men, women and children against a BULLY AND BRAG- GART? Didn't the man Kitchener destroy farms, towns and use the beloved wives and children of these brave j | “A from shooting the English soldiers? A HOLLANDER THINKS HI'S WRONG Editor The Star: Mayor Gill says the unemployed men are a bunch of drunks. He says, if starving, women can go to the poor farms and their children to the detention or charitable homes. The stockade will take the men My husband has been out of work for six weeks. He is no drunk, either. If Mayor Gill was put In our place, would he like to see his wife go to the poor farm, his children in a detention institute and would he himself go to the stockade Just because he had the |elub for cops | game in San Francisco with a cham | ptonship | read in your paper the story of a | because she could | sell their souls jin the stores, “BIG SIX” MATTY ONCE SIGNED TO PLAY WITH MACK AND PHILADELPHIA in the December issue of the “Big Six" attends| Matty signed the con-| keep jumping. . . THAT'S SOME IMPORTANT On this big football day at Denny field the recent victory of the Braves seems about as important as yesterday's paper The Pacific Athletic club, the, prices and firemen, will put! on its regular monthly boxing card next Friday night. Dan Salt is busy arranging the matches and promises an evening of fistic enter tainment that will be right up to nuff, For a headliner signed Sailor Burge: Swain. Burge: the jackie who gave ivan Miller the surprise of |mistake, The people of California his life and ali but beat him at the/ want boxing, but marked their bal- Austin & Sait show. Swain hails |lots wrong, which fits in well with from Tacoma and is on of the | the usual theory that the people do claimants of the “middleweight|not know what they want and championship of* the Northwest,”| shouldn't have it, anyhow. whatever that gets him, Another| ° ° bout that ought to be a good one is A New York sclentiot 1 Gale match Salt has arranged be-| voiced that bad odors are ben- ore n Billy Ballou and Ad Schaffil. Scias, Waich aay Se Ge iit be given; Srciay we ‘ The complete card wi 9 strued into a boost for the box out later. fas pea ° Jimmy Coffroth says it le all a Some foike in the East will have to trade that bale of cotton they wit s€ic on apres) They ery hard times and prove it by paying $300,000 to see Yale and Harvard and $100,000 to watch Welsh and White fight, proving that hard times Is confined to the 7% boys. Those European nations who think lightly of our ability to mobilize rapidly ought to see 60,000 persons mobilize for the Yale-Harvard game. e the South for a _ steak if meat bought to relf pound of rou ‘FRISCO PROMOTER DETERMINED TO REMATCH WELSH AND RITCHIE SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 14.— 4—Pro , Angeles on a business trip, but will moter James W. Coffroth still| |return in a few days. “I expect to put on a hoped today to usher out the fight pionship affair,” he said, bod eee admit the chances now look pretty slim. Mike Gibbons would not come to the Coast to meet Jimmy Clabby, and Welsh so far has entirely ig- nored my telegrams. There is a faint hope, however, that Welsh will ot in an effort to secure|consent, as this is the last chance Welsh's consent. | for him to get into the big money in Coffroth will leave today for Los’ California.” PACKEY IS HOPEFUL CHICAGO, Nov. 14.—Packey Me- Farland announced today that he had practically agreed to a 10-round bout, to be staged in New York in January with Freddie Welsh. All details, be said, would be ad- justed at a meeting In New York next Wednesday. The weights mentioned were 136 | pounds for McFarland and 135 for | Welsh. McFarland and Wi met three times, the bouts r in two draws and one decision for McFarland. match between Willie Ritchie and Freddie Welsh. Ritchie ts willing to concede most everything for another chance at and Coffroth is keeping the |toyed with the West Seattle play- ers Friday. Lincoln won, 19 to 0, — once extending. Paul Lincoln halfback, starred. gg oo Anne and Ballard play today. BATTLE IN A STORM MISSOULA, Mont, Nov. 14— The Montana university team de- feated North Dakota, 13 to 0, im a blinding snowstorm here Friday. afternoon. HOLD SPLASH MEET A three-cornered swimming meet between water dogs representing | EASY FOR LINCOLN the Washington Natatorium, 8. A. Cc. and the Y. M. C. A. was won by high m!the Washington team Friday night. The Lincoln school t misfortune to lose his job? A READER. BLAMES SOCIETY Editor The Star: Recently | A few weeks ago he phoned me | that his wife was sick and he could not possibly come to work. 1 excused him gladly, but on going 1} down town that afternoon I saw him marching in the “dry” parade, I discharged him and now would like to know the opinion of some of The Star readers as to whether I was justified in doing so. young girl who committed suicide not find re spectable employment, and chose death rather than a life of shame. I read and hear quite frequently of young girls who are forced to, ———____ because they can- not exist on the wages paid them laundries, etc. In my opinion, society fs much to blame for the death that girl unjustly sent to the gallow: J.C. SCHULY. WAS HE JUSTIFIED? Editor The Star: Iam a manu- facturer on a small order in Seat- tle and had in my employ a man determined that the state should | go dry, notwithstanding the fact that it meant the loss of his po- sition and the breaking up of my business, as "SANDERSON’S PILLS For women only. Most popu- lar and only reliable remedy. Curse | the most obstinate anes in 2 to 10 days. Pri $2 bor or 3 Boxes for $8 Money returned if they fail after fair trial. Open evenings, RAYMUND REMEDY ©0. Room 2%, 217% Pike St. “ SMALE R NOT BETTER™ THEY COULD BE BUT NO EXCUSE for the man who uses bad judgment in selecting his cigars. Is there any reason why you should spend 10c. for a cigar, when you can buy a JOHN RUSKIN for 5 cents? 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