The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 4, 1914, Page 1

Your Chance Tomorrow! Put a Mother on the School Board THE IDEA of having a woman on the school board has been approved at various good service by very reason of her sex. In Mrs. Nellie M. Burnside, candidate for times by nearly every element in Seattle life, including most of the press. This school director, Seattle has a gratifying type of woman for the office. She is not approval, however, is futile, unless expressed at election time. The Star is heart- a politician. | She has no axes to grind. She is just a mother who has a real affec- ily in favor of the idea at election time as well as at other times. Tomorrow is the tion for rearing children properly. Her announced platform to aid in making ii ahon thn debi of Menidia cin Sole tu the eiaidh of proarees by divias to wore school training vocational indicates good common sense. The polls will be open ay J prog y giving from 1 to 8 p. m. Saturday. Don’t miss the opportunity to vote. .And vote for Mrs. an representation on a public board where she is most distinctly fitted to render Burnside. mom oe] The SeattleStar [Las 50,000 The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News —Setortey sree, oretatiy ran COPIES DAILY ig ; : Mea ft uae a me wos ft VOLUME 16. NO. 243. SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1914, ONE CENT Siwa'tranpe. te Be ee eee) eee (COUNCIL GOES TO MAT WITH SEATTLE ELECTRIC NO SILK STOCKINGS FOR $10-A-WEEK OFFICE GIRL emcrmyiae wera a WHY JACK RAN FROM THEATRE a \\ | ag if oninn nk “BUBONIC BUNK” Seattle Broker Uissitieaid te Sight of 1,800 \ Doomed Lepers, Kneeling on Beach, \ \ Ps Singing Hawaiian Farewell Chant. , , | , |! HE HAWAIIAN CHORUS in “A Bird of Paradise,” et | at the Moore theatre, was singing “Aloha.” ce “Come out of this!” said “Jack” Slater, his face white and ‘working with emotion. “I can’t stand that song.” | ! i ; He scrambled over a zen laps in getting to the aisle (e) : | There was considerable commotion g ” 1 HY;2 incuired his friend, “did you drag mo out of the theatre Of course, if your heart te :o Santee iaitt: ee in the middie of an act to get a drink?” & Spal ret pda gear “No,” said Slater, “though I need the drink all right. I guess SS: eee et oo, pie Ie 9 o an explanation’s due you, but {t will keep until afterward, You go Stocking club, and crowding In the office! | back and see the rest of the show.” of are Clete See ee ee | Neither is the joy of hearing It's @ good show, and “Aloha,”sung as only Hawaiians can Pi denrcteenl thing et from its plant on Railroad ave, rich rustling of her own sing it, is good’ music, if maddening. It piqued the friend's curiosity Say, Wes cant, ee wae went over two weeks Friday, wif taffeta silk petticoat! that a plaintive song of the South Sea could so upset a man of On the other hand, If thou } after lengthy consideration by True, the office girl likes to Slater's temperament sand-dollar contributions are the council franchise commit- a4 her nether limbs clad in For Slater is big, and fat, and jolly, He's a broker and what beyond your means, and you tee, gingered by spicy speeches. | thin silk fully as well as does {is known as a “hustler.” Also a “live wired’ still want to join the Empty 4 The council is inclined not Mrs. Capito! Hill, but members He emphatically is not the kind of man one expects to be af Stocking club, and if you like to, to grant the franchise unless the office help conferenc | fected by esthetic or poetic influences. to @ and go to the the traction company grants the Olympia Thursday, who rec- “T think,” sald the friend, “I'll stay and hear the explanation.” Mmahan” Why ema on in { city -common-user rights on its to the industrial wel- “L've never told this before to a living soul,” sald Slater, “but it may be you dou't quite see the i ear eeks; 00 Aho erie @ the commission a minimum T'll tel it now.” }connection between the big show a | municipal lines may be connect- of $10 a week ae ee see ee Santa Cla, Joe aenaeee, oe : i . ed and made to pay. tay she ought to satio ery: . a orld The Star are gotng to give little ¥ . 5 . | With the exception of one speak: with wool and cotton. | er - Leone A ei gg & trip around the world. / Chimney kids at Dreamland Christ i en Judge Thomas Bates, all Ecard men of the conference, rep-| age ose cto cee mas, and dancing and moving pic FLEL - 7 favored this plan, | uainted with a government surgeon, and be ting the employers, had noth-| 1 qpt scquatey s * be | tures | Councilman Lundy flayed that But you will when we explain. part of the press which is attacking to say against the silk hose and| invited me to go with him on a tour of inspection of the leper silk petticoats. oneny J | Joe Schermer said today: “I'm | municipal ownership and ridiculin| The blow to the office girls was The steamer makes a trip once a year, and takes, besides FOV | pine to give a dance at Dream us nobel bo eral z * from their own camp. ernment officials, relatives to the island to see the lepers. land on Friday, December 18. That | ty ines. " “An Unseeming Luxury” | ‘As there are 1,800 lepers, of course only a few of them can re js Just one week before Christmas a ithe lewspi pers Ri WMiss Blanche Crimp of Etlens-| celve visitors at a time. On this trip there were 100 visitors. Ali the money I take fn after the If the city has to spend a half- hee, Mrs. Ethel Y. Carison, Ta-| I remember a man who was going to see a brother. They ses are pald I'm going ‘and Miss Gertrude E. Mc-| hadn't seen each other in 12 years, and it was pretty certain this to use to buy toys to fill the stock b of Seattle, representing the; would be their last time together. ings of littiechimney kids. oyes, were of once voice in the ‘There were husbands going to see their wives; mothers going And the manager of the Class A rr. to see their children, and #0 on é theatre, on ‘Third ave, between “Silk hose i ticoats,” We went ashore in small boats and spent the day on the isl- Pike and Pine, said: “I will give ‘a agred, ve og aur and. I'd never seen any lepers before. I don't like to talk about | to your Christmas show all the re user rights,” he declared, and an improper garb for an| them I wish I didn’t have to think about them. It’s an awful | ceipts of one whole day, after the , Judge Thomas Burke, defending girl on a small salary.” way to die! regular expenses have been met. | ‘ - the Traction Co.'s steam service, | Good, warm woo! or cotton stock When the time came for leaving, we went down to the beach, | will let you know the day so you Z 2 said {t was fine to have his office ic et and I put ‘an announce it beforehand. nice and warm when he comes Bhp and petticoats may not have| and all the lepers followed us at a distance. The doctor and I pu Fh meg cog = nloe and iware, best ae: Smee ‘rb 2 pleasing effect on the eye| off In the last boat | x , : fad ear, they said, but they are And as we were shoving off, the whole crewed | rushed down ticket window box into hich Ewald, < tthe Commercial BT Bore in keeping with her $10 a upon th Tong Ayal olay knees and thelr Bodies weaved. | Grop his small change, ate steam just a8 good. mv 4 _ — Tru Tneapher, o ie a ‘The men members of the confer Then a volce was raised—a thin, sweet, wailing voice—the st pen Tncorurareent club, said ee concurred by thetr silence, but| yoice of a woman who might once have been beautiful. | had never Y a |that whereas the S. E. Co. {s ask- boked doubtful heard “Aloha.” It wasn’t as popular In this country as It is now. p “i, LADEN ing valuable concessions from the same conference today ts con it means “Farew: to The you know. She was saying | city, it is the council's duty to see Mering 2 minimum wage for good-bye to some one she lovedand whom she knew she would that the city gets valuable remun- Binors under 18 employed in of. never see again. | a eration fees ‘A boy near her—a, fine, handsome boy, without a mark of the 2 ‘ ‘Wants Club: Remeved The employers are represented by disease showing, but doomed, nevertheless—joined In with a fine, A letter from City Light Super 6 F McAnley, North Yakim: ec intendent Ross urged some pro- > 7 Mi tenor. es Think S$. Bayley, Seattle, Harry L.| pigs one by one, they all took up the song—old and young, y |vision be made so the Traction Parr, Olympia. } ith arms outstretched and with Co.’s steam service cannot be held doomed and dying. They sang w disinterested public is repre- | i hey knelt in the sand. as a club over the city light plant bday, Ener ao galore A -oey At present It is the practice of feited by Prof. J. H. Morgan, El fax away, the eound came'to ve) am, at heasburg, Mrs. Margaret C. Munns,| Even Wen tne eter FAREWELL TO THEE!” |, NEW YORK, Dec. 4.—The Hol a \ FLEA HOUNDS the Traction Co. to install steam le Mre Elwelt Hoyt, Tacoma,| faintly across the Lachey akg land-Amertean liner Sommelesdyk) : Meade ad thee. tortalariael Eat : sailed from here at 11:30 a. m. to 5 HAVE PROVED trons to use its lights on pain of | having the steam service removed. | - FAILURES | Councilman Erickson: “I don't | was sung by those 1,800 lepers, And you have never heard | German and Austrian hospitals a | think the company should have the | anything so terrible 5 It was all sent by parcel post) leffrontery to ask a renewal for | ‘The excitement and emotion of the day on the island threw | and was in response to a suggestion | FFYHEY'RE squabbling Inthe city council over the “rat-proof” ordinance. The health department and| Nothing. It has a valuable prop- | me inte « fever—nothing serious, but enough to send my tempera- | py Correspondent Wm. G. Shepherd) | | | | | | | | | | The matter of granting a new franchise to the traction com- pany to supply steam to build- ings in the business district ends of the municipal lnes, the blame should lie at the door of the press which {s attacking municipal ownership and the traction com- pany, in refusing to grant common- FEDS GET THE RUBE NEW YORK, Dec. 4.—Wal- fer Ward, secretary of the Brooklyn Federal league club, announced today that Pitcher Rube Marquard of the New OU heard that song tonight, and {t was beautiful. But you | day with 26,000 pounds of medicat Y have never heard anything so beautiful as “Aloha” as it | ed cotton for wounded soldiers in : n some doctors are all het up over the danger of bubonic plague. The plague flea hides in the hair|€rty in our streets and we have a parte of the United Press, who first an of rats. The rats get into hen coops and other buildings. The flea hops from the rat to a hen, for|Tisht to ask something in return, ‘There was a doctor on the steamer—a chuckle-headed fool, who | nounced the need for proper dress: instance. And we get ‘em a la Maryland! This Sounds Reasonable thought himself a humorist. I asked him what was the matter | ing for the wounded in Vienna. | Therefore the doctors say we ought to have concrete hen coops. | _L. C. Brown (of the Commercial Oa end he, for a Joke, looked me over carefully, and solemnly | There were 7,599 packages, con “Bob” Hesketh is fighting the ordinance. He says the docs are trying to scare people and get free ad-| “INP; Take Burien property own. ronounced my case leprosy tained in 1,048 mall sacks, in the} vertising. er) If municipal ownership, as d | |the Traction Co. contends, has al- eed Giants had signed a con- ; Abb agen | ways been a failure, this is a mag- ict to play with the Brooklyn oba” sounded constantly [nificent opportunity for the com- Federal cro iy vision. ser every state in the Union ry e | ‘i — - " roWhen 1 awoke again, I was in a hospital in Honolulu. Thad | ‘rhe Sommelesdyk will land tho| WATER SHUTOFF NOTICE |pany | to prove it by giving the Jost 40 pounds, and was so weak I had to abandon the world trip. | cargo at Rotterdam tn ample time|® W Pill bacwiet ote tn eh mY 4 ae - sate fo Comes ae two HOUSE BURNED It was a year before I was myself again to catch special trains, which will] ater be shut off in the ¢ | divisions of the m r 28. is I returned home. weed trict between West Galer st. and this would prove their contentions, “o'6¢ > 2 learry it everywhere fn Austria, An open fi : West Howe st. from Third ave. W. | why does the company oppose it newly completed houae at 3850 HE other day I went down to Tenino, It was during the early |Hungary and Germany before! (“Ee venth ave, W., Saturday, De | de opinion waa read them Gomme: “ith ave. 8. W., Friday morn- I ofl excitement. I was talking of! with a group of men at the | Christmas cember 5, from 9 a, m. to 3 p. ration Counsel Bradford, saying x —| the company has no right to main- ing, to di th: 1 4 hy hotel when a cracked phonograph in another room struck up — _ ilies Grice ont a tae “Aloha.” Swise government issued warning) Use Star Want Ads for Re-| 90 - tain. feeder steam pipes in the Bathe will have to’ ost 5 how I suppose those men are still wondering why I ran out of the |to military aviators of belligerent SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 4.=The| mer Seattle banker, charging Mrs.| streets without a grant from the fh \countries not to fly over Swiss soil. sults complaint of 8. Foster Kelley, for-|Iva May Henry with obtaining $500/ city, and advising radical changes : ——— nae —/by false pretenses, was dismissed|in the terms of the new franchise today by Polloo Judge Crist if it is granted, so the company 9 Kelley told the court he brought will not wield #0 much power : merely to make her realize her ARREST aeeos — y ee position. 1 ¥ ne ST LOOKING | HELEN, THIS 1S AN WELL You KNOW ‘Tom, | | SoRkY Tom, Bur You wien | COME KITTY- KITTY ek ge ee ivaue. | In half an hour I was raving. [ recall that in my delirium “Al | shipment “Vic” has here pictured the horrors of a war with the plague germs. ears, and horrid shapes pa 1 The senders of the cotton repre-} ———— ace —_ ene - ae a hotel into the rain without waiting to get my hat and coat ed for an explanation, Kel | |AWPULLY SMA 1 HAD To CUT Quire HAVE TO DRINK YouR COFFEE) | d | SMALL PIECE R KITTY - uf THE ‘TELEPHONE : ; OF MEAT APIECE OFF FOR THE } BLACK TONIGHT, | GAVE J | “N 8 s the 8 N Ae AVE iA } Trae cam 16 THe [- Txeueey | $7) } ooK TOME ¢ Haley tat perparnian ageneiat, : LKITTEN, IT WAS [~ ‘a |I love her, and always will, 1 have L_.52 HUNGRY : given her every dollar that I pos- sess, and I have made a will be queathing her all of my property.| |T would rather spend ten years in| jail myself than see her go there for a week,” E. H. Wells and Roy Pinkerton, editor and city editor of an afte noon newspaper, were arrested Fri- day on a criminal libel charge pre- ferred by Prosecuting Attorney | Murphy, based on a news article | printed October 31 Mrs. Henry «smiled continually » released on personal throughout Kelley's testimony Tallman sald the $500 referred to by Ke'ley| The article purported to be an in his complaint was part payment] interview with Murphy, in which the jon a note for $10,000 he had given) hatter gave evasive answers to a de- her. | mand that be issue warrants for fl The warrant charged that Mrs.| legally registered voters against Henry obtained $500 from Kelley | whom the evidence was furnished, |by representing that she had just} Murphy declares there was no in submitted to an appendicitis oper | terview of any kind, and that the ar ation and needed the money to pay| ticle is a pure fabrication, expenses,