The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 8, 1914, Page 1

e e : 1 > >= FF ‘Wilson Reverses Big Bus tatters TWO THRILLING WAR STORIES IN TODAY’S STAR} PPP PPP PPL PPP PPP PPD PPP PPP PPP PPD GUARANTEED PAID CIRCULATION OVER 50,000 COPIES DAILY VOL ~— S NOT FORGET, when we want to buy street car tickets six fora quarter, to patronize the merchants who gave us this privilege when the traction company took it away from us. appeal from the Thurston county superior court’s reversal of the state public service commission’s approval of the Seattle city council’s ordinance, ordering House that "Mae not yet decided the people's the right to buy street car tickets on the ca s, six fora q UME 16. NO. 246 Sounds like uarter. The RRA nnn The SeattleStar The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, 8 DEC, 8, 1914. Jack Built, doesn’t it? iness Policy. AST EDITION WEATHER—Occasional rain TIDES AT SEATTLE ON THADNS AND NEWS RTANDS. Be MAA ft 201 wom QNE CENT No, Millicent, the state supreme court the return to the people of | YES, IT’S SAME OLD | STONE & WEBSTER “f municipal competition. It’s the same old Stone & Webster company that used to charge 12 cents a kilowatt hour in Seattle for electricity before the city put up a lighting plant of its| ix cents. own and forced it to cut prices. Today it is but In Everett, the Stone & Webster company doesn’t fore the prices are high in Everett in spite of the so-called remedies of the public In Seattle, municipal ownership compels the Stone & Webster company to It’s municipal competition that does! come down to the rates made by the city plant. the trick, and not public service regulation. Oh, what a “dangerous —TO THE STONE & WE WEBSTER INTERESTS! ES, IT’S the same company in Everett as in Seattle, but in Everett it is free of| have to be good. There- experiment” municipal ownership in Seattle has rar President’s Gi Guns Heldin Messagels Vancouver, Yiidd| ‘ Y SUTDTISET By JOHN E. NEVIN | "The steamer Novgorod, of the = seimige dic) Aig 8— Russian volunteer fleet, clear | we ghey agp + €d from Vancouver, B. C., Mon- text of his carefully arranged address to congress, President Wilson this afternoon delivered | a direct message to the busi- | ness interests of the country. In effect, he declared his admin istration had completed its bust- ness executive program and that, hereafter, business interests would have a rest from restrictive and corrective legislation. The statement was day, for Viadivostok, Siberia, It is learned, without taking the email arms and cannon which, as told In The Star Monday, were slipped across the bound- ary |Ine as “mining machinery.” There may be a connection be tween the Novgorod’s failure to | take the arms an. the reported unexpected.| presence in Alaskan waters of a For a moment it seemed as !f| “mysterious” German warship 10 the point of his declaration had| days ago. been lost on the audience. But Report Verified, Allen Said many senators and representa United Sta District Attorney tives who had been sitting slump-|Clay Allen said Tuesday he had ed down in their chairs, suddenly | reason to believe the arms were stil! sat up, showing by their attitude | in Vancouver they realized the great importance | “IT- have had verification,” said/ of his utterances. Allen, “of the report. The arms Ends Regulative Program were seen in the packing cases in It wi evident to congress that | Vancouver. This department will the president had written “finis”| take no action, however,” he adde on his so-called regulative program. | “as I am told by Customs Collector The announcement was taken to|Harper that the customs department mean that business may proceed at Washington has ruled that arms secure in the knowledge that if It} are not contraband, that to ship shapes its affairs to existing laws.| arms {is not a violation of neutral it will not find {tself confronted {ty laws, and that the shipment by sudden changes resulting from/ would not have been stopped even new laws. | if it had been labeled ‘arms’ or Wilson personally read his me#|‘guns’ instead of ‘mining ma-| sage to a joint session of the sen-| chinery.’” 1 | . ate and the house today. Popular interest in the prest dent's utterances was intense and | admission cards were at a prem-) tum. Against Bigger Army The president declared emphat feally against enlarging the United) States army and navy for pur poses of defense The president urged congress to strengthen, rather, the national guard He urged favorable action upon “A Walter’ writes us. So far Carranza Is Reported in EL PASO, Dec. 8.—Uncon- firmed reports recelved at Mexico City from Vera Cruz said Gen. Carranza had been arrested by his own officers on a charge of looting the Na- tional treasury of 6,000,000 pesos when he evacuated M. leo City, according to advices received here. The dispatch stated Gen, Car ranza was unable to account for the mo was thrown Into jail, and will be tried by court martial It was reported that Gen. Obre gon was in direct charge of the Carranzista movement The report was discredited many constitutionalist officers by Gen. Villa and Gen. Zapata were | J. Phillips’ preparing to start thelr expedition against Vera Cruz this week French Heroine Carries Mail to Verdin, MAMAN FPR Loh) BBP He re = Pret nie tt Without a second’s hesitation she sent the big car hurtling Thie te the third of Correspondent Hing,” Berthe, in the postoffice, | hed | on » uh te Fay Pam fo heard and turned pale—not for hae to grt from cach of the ‘ance, but for her Jean. warring: and Ger 18 Kogian have already been The order came for the postmas At a banquet in Mexico City m This *\ ter to tranapo peed Inst night, Villa took his first drink | from France, his ears ant Pia emepat of ms | of intoxicating Mquor ° © | Addressing the guests, Villa| PARIS, France, Dec, §.—Some ar eras, i WisecWeay es tee drank to Gen. Zapata's health in| day, when a new city arises upon Woa4 rung mescal the ruins of what was Briey, there | After embracing Villa, Zapata| will arise tn the market place at! A big motor car was brought, sald he never would accept the|Briey the statue of a young French | the money and papers were thrown Mexican presidency, as he and/girl, Berthe Levy. She will be into tt | Villa had agreed to retire to pri-| Briey’s Joan of Are The news came that the German | vate life as soon as they succeed| When word finshed all over cavalry had overrun the depart n pacifying the republic ' France ‘The Germans are com-| ment friend. EDDIE COLLINS | SOLD BY MACK PHILADELPHIA, Dec, 8.—Connie Mack announced today that he had |sold Eddie Collins, his famous sec. ‘ond baseman, to the Chicago White The money is coming In, but not coe Mack the refuses: to. state ping bill, saying | ! a De nee onze the |as we know, we have not the pleas-| We state, without comment, that |fast enough. | be. 8 . he governmen: | , i he’ ees ac Rae ec te amount he received for Collins, way in the new avenues of trade,|ure of his acquaintance. We know | a givers so far toward the Understand, this Ie not going to s way that afterward, when. private|a few walters, and even have a|Empty Stocking club have been be a charity show. We don’t ask| HR per enGital had been attracted to the|nodding acquaintance with a head| working people, such as walters, for second-hand clothes for the HELL BE MANAGE cephosition, the government, hev-|waiter, a haughty man, during |longshoremen, | teamsters and poor. We want nothing useful. | NEW YORK, Dec. §—Chas [ng accomplished {ts purpose,| business hours, but likable off| mechanics. WE WANT ONLY TOYS AND|Comiskey anounced here today might retire from the field | duty The donations of millionaires CANDY AND “FOOLISH” |that Eddie Collins would manage Demands oonomy | Our correspondent’s note 1*|and prominent church-workers are,| THINGS, IN ORDER THAT “LIT-|his club next year. He sald Col at legislation com-|*!§ne? merely © Valter |by their absenc TLE-CHIMNEY” KIDS MAY | lins agreed to sign a five-year con ee eee a vicat provides | Hie incloses a8 we go to press, conspicuous only' HAVE A MERRY CHRISTMAS. _ tract mended by the president provides | for the unlocking of the resources | of the national domain, under |», proper safeguards; the giving a w how much “A wages and tips | were vice do not earns aps you, ased with in who read this, his attentive the Philippines of a larger meas-| Pleated with tis oeenaps he had | ure of self government; the estab-|i,. -ittie-chimney” kids in mind lishment of a rural credits system, |e tea ny ae you, filled | and the safeguarding of the Alaska) yor giags, asked you If the roast amt tine. ed con.| WAS done to your liking, and, a deg B phe tng there lt agl PMlthe end, fetched you a finger] ress - e Concerning bilis before congress) °%!. ips 3 Pgs Reid for the enlarging of the ‘aident| 22 he bas sent us. We wish pelle dey ican ie el President) we knew his name, We would Wilson sal¢ tke to shake hands with him, We “The subject of national dotense| Hs, 12 8 proud to call him our| cannot be discussed without first sag sdb | answering some very searching questions “It is sald in some quarters that| war we are not prepared for by being pre “What meant pared? “Ip it meant that we are not ready upon brief notice to put a na tion in the field, a nation of men trained to arms? “OL course we are not ready ia GENOA, Dec. 8.—The Amer. lean Christmas ship Jason, bringing presents for the chil- dren of war-stricken Europe, arrived here today. The government furnished a to do that; and we shall never be in| special train to carry the ores “(Continued on Page 7) | and Germany. ents to the children of Austria | NEW JOAN OF ARC IN BIG AUTO RUNS DOWN UHLAN Lead; Phillips Tells How She Risked Life for Her Country. NO on LP Eure man great numbers across the river at} priest. It is Gen. Schonburg, |Metz, The postmaster was ready By this time more than 1,000 men are gathered but in Briey were his wife and| ajar 8 100 feet below the his family, | They are given “At eare” and stand as much like it as ts possible “Stay, M’aieg.” wild Berthe, “Re.| W188 50-pound sack on each back and a cold wind blowing. ? mat with sour tenily. Twit gor | The priest turns to his lean-to, faces the rude altar and kneels, ; “But you will be captured, shot | General Kneels Humbly on the Earth “No matter,’ she replied. “It is duty—the papers, must. reach| | The mass for soldiers, living and dead, 1s begun | Verdun. At various junctures, where the service requires that the worship. | Through a Hail of By William G. Shepherd PRZEMYSL, Nov. 1. (By Courier to Vienna, Mail to New York.)—It is the evening of Sunday. I went to church today hence b It was a wartime service on battlefield amid a litter of trenches and rifle shelters Two of howitzers valley, 300 boomed at intervals. batteries in the distant, Our own shells screeched high above the improvised altat jand went their way to death _ Imagine a chain of hills covering an area the size of t |city of Chicago. You stand on the safe side of the hil nearest the Russian lines. Then you'll have the scene of th service, i You are near the top of the hill and have orders not to show head above the rim, as the slightest movement might give the R lookouts the range. From your be? you can see other hillsides. Across them fers in This is to be a service for the Tyrolean sharpshooters, the Austro-Hungarian regiment i | The men who are marching through the cold gray morning are straight from the trenches, where they have Iain for three weeks. The black earth is on their clothes, hands and faces. The altar is a small lean-to, made of fresh pine boards. There is a Christmasy air about it, for it is’ decorated with pine boughs, amidst which candles fiicker with a pale, ghostly light, The priest is waiting. He is @ short, bearded man, and ruddy—a pilot of men who, at any moment, may take the short, quick journey fa- to eternity Big noots and heavy overcoat appear under his white and gold vest- ments. He is bareheaded, and the raw wind stirs the hairs on his face and head. A soldier comes along near the brow of the hill, stringing a wire on the ground behind him | Telephone Put in Place for the General He lays a small box and a telephone receiver on the ground near the altar. Gen. Schonburg, the brigade commander, is coming to church to | | day, and he must be in touch with headquarters every moment. More lines of men pass through the valley and climb the hill. They against the nearest Uhian’s horse. | Tange themselves beyond the first comers, 4 From another part of the slope a tall, broad man, accompanied by pouring in in| 9 group of neatly dressed officers, appears and shakes hands with the They had come ers kneel, too, and cross themselves, the men raise their hands to their caps in salute. Their general kneels humbly on the earth and crosses himself with heavily gloved hands Then the priest Home. He calls the men “My war companions.” “| know how much it means to all of you,” he says, “to get a letter from home. It is the letter from home that encourages us most. “1 have for you all this morning a letter from home—from | heaven, our last and best thome. This letter tells us that when we reach there a welcome will be awaiting us such as we have never known before, stich as even those whom we love back In the Tyrol could not give u And she showed them a revolver as she sprang to her seat at the (Continued on Page 4.) RESTAURANTS RAT PROOF NOW A sister bill tothe talks to the soldiers. His text is “Letters From “ehicken ord! nance,” recently Introduced in the] counctl, ts the “rat-proof bullding| “In these times we cannot tell who will be dead and who fee . | will be alive tomorrow. | pray you all to be ready and worthy ordinance” proposed by Dr. B. J of the anplenrie thee baleen Wil einer Lioyd of the federal public health A bell tinkled again while the priest bowed at the altar. service | The battery roared, Far away, the Russian guns bellowed an an- Dr. Lioyd wants all buildings| swer where foodstuffs are sold or served | In the valley below were huge patches of newly turned earth, where | to be “rat-proof,” meaning they| the Russian grenades, daily visitors, had left their mark, 7 At last the service was concluded The soldiers passed down the hill, trailed across the valley, and a | thetr gray lines crawled up the slopes of other hills and sank from view over the crests. Church was over shall have concrete floors, ceflings | of metal lathing, etc Now It's up to rest 3, cafeterias, meat 1 and seed stores, etc,, ants, baker arkets, grair to worry