The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 21, 1914, Page 1

send them to 1315 Fifth av., WHERE ARE THE CHILDREN THAT WERE HERE LAST inf > ary @wrwcavvoos » vnvenwooo at og od, RE SRT a al di a eka ea of in : ay ol S, e e 3 ne : e y: My re th n= as ee is * i at q Good friends, we find ourselves worried and filled with inde 1e fi eision e 3 Christmas is but four days away m ql We have slathers of toys and gobs of money for “the Iittlechim a pey kids.” a One minute we are tempted to say: “Enough!” is The next minute we want to shout: “Give us more!” 4 a You see, it's this way: We don't know—we have no way of r knowing—how many “littlechimney kids” will come to Dreamland Christmas. id 4 And so we worry. We can't sleep. We lose flesh Will we have enough, or more than enough, or not enough to 0 » ‘round? We shan't find the answer to that question until the last “little chimney kid” has departed from Dreamland on Christmas afternoon Last year and the year before, ing at our fears. BINGO! THEY we had a little more than enongh.| CAME THROUGH AT ONCE. Not one “littlechimney kid" went| Hood's Candy & Ice Crea away from the hall toyless and|sent 100 box eandyless. If a single child should | 100 pounds. So did H. R. Schmoyer go away disappointed and hurt|Co. The Superior, the Imperial, : & ext Friday, we should count our|the Queen Anne—all came to our Murphy Brose, sent 4 | enterprise « failure. | | ald. q | Then paper bags. For each 80 we will put Ps to you this| child's presents must be put in a way: You, our friends and part-|bag. And last year we filled 3,000/)) 0 °° ners In this enterprise, have been | bags. generous and kind. We have, we| “Let us know the size and num. think, enough. ber you want, and we will be glad But no kid ever got too much for | to give them to you,” says the Rich- Christmas. Certainly no “little-| mond Paper Co. chimney kid” ever did. And 80 it @ For a while the candy question) Now we haunted us. It worried us so that we wrote to the candy people, hin’ SAY, ARE YOU A MOVIE FAN? THEN GO TO SEE THIS SHOW Tan | OWhile the admission will be but my feelings will not @ enough? Not | (Continued on Page 7, Column 7. ¥. H. Smith ts a Tilikum. Also he {s proprietor of the Wash- ls cents, {ngton theatre, First and Columbia. hurt ff any on Likewise he 1s a regular human Smith has laid his plan before thé being. ersal Film ple, and they Smith wants all the “little-chim supplied him with a program ney kids” in Seattle to have a right moving picture houses merry Christmas. make their patrons pay 20 * said Smith today, cents to see is of my theatre| Listen to this be ys more. h som on Wednesday, between the hours A powerful two-ree! drama, of 10a. m. and 1:30 p.m, That will] “The Eyes of Genius.” When Ss include the noon hour the infatuated sculptor goes “| shall expect every Tilikum to blind, the gypsy model plots and} hi sp ruin. But the right girl ka her mind, and justice is my show during that time lo take with him at least one friend GAY TOM, \LL HAVE TO HAVE Avout$20% MORE TO FINISH MY SHOPPING UST think, if one “little-chimney” kid who comes to The Star's Ch be too late then to mend matters. So, if you haven't yet given anything, send a check, or bring the money, to The Star office. | to the Matteawan | crimin HARRY THAW ‘MUST RETURN, STAND TRIAL WASHINGTON, Dec, 21.— Harry K, Thaw, slayer of Stan- ford White, was ordered extra- dited by the United States eu- preme court today from New Hampehire to New York. The court's decision means that Thaw muet return to New York and face trial on a charge of conspiracy. The ruling today reversed ion of the New Hamp- court, which pplication for corpus. Whether Thaw will be returned asylum for the insane will depend on the pen York authorities. It Thaw's attorneys declare that if heir client is not tried for con | sptracy, or if attempts are made to hold him as an alleged lunatic, an \< | sther habeas corpus writ would be O- | sought. The court's optnion overruled nearly every point made by Thaw's ‘ounsel, saying in part: Thaw was a fugitive from jus | tice and was charged with a real crime. It is for a jury in the state of New York after considering the that state, to determine | whether or not Thaw was insane at the time of the act, or whether he is guilty is | bill, of crime against the jaws of New York.” done. The always popular Frank Ince in Danced Hirrself to Death,” a Vitagraph tango- itls comedy. When Ince dances himself to death, you laugh yourself sick. An Essanay! G.M. Anderson n “Broncho Billy and the Mine Shark,” a Western drama of the sort in which “Broncho Billy” jhines. Lubin comedy! “Too Many Aunts.” The title Is If that inn't a fine, well-balanced | wo don't know one when we see It. among Smith has given us 250 tloketa| which we will distribute Christmas| “ttle chimney” mothers so that they may take their een to the Washington theatre. tickets will be good at any ‘tebe |Thunderer Lost? | mation of NEW YORK, the Dec. report 21.—Confir. |here today that the Fritish Dread aught Thunderer was sunk Nov. was wnobtainable today WHEN IS THIS CHRISTMAS SHOPANG GOING TO BND? MONEY, MONEY, MONEY, Do You WANT jstmas party at Dreamland Christmas afternoon, should go away empty-handed! published | VOLUME 16. SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, DECEMBER 21 You’d feel badly about it, now, wouldn’t you? If you have toys or candy, or anything else that will help to make a youngster happy, where the Metropolitan Motor Car Co. is permitting us us occupy a storeroom with our preparations. The Seattle Star The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News 1914. And it would E ONE CENT 3%,2%sine,A NEWS HTANDA. Second Ave. Landlords Hurting the "Seattle Merchants to | SEATTLE “) SUN WILL Unless Receiver S. P. Wee raall | the | | SUSPEND &@ satisfactory offer for purchase of the Sun property by Wednesday at 6 p. m., the paper will discontinue publica tion with the Thursday after. noon edition This announcement was made in a doubiecotumn notice published in the Sun thie after. noon, signed by Weston. ™ THOUSANDS 60 | SKATING ON ICE AT GREEN LAKE Seattle noses were still tinged pay 4 reddish hue. and folks shiv. Jered perceptibly, Monday, in the leontinuation of the cold snap which has prevailed here for two weeks | | The cold spell is stretching into lone of the longest in local Bs eg tod | ntstory A minimem temperature of 25! degrees above rero was recorded Monday morning. Save for the rec ord-breaking Sunday of a week ago, |when mercury dropped to 24, Mon-| day was the coldest December day | in 15 years, The weatherman can | see no Warmer weather in the near future, he saye Green Lake cars were jammed like sardine boxes Sunday, carry-| ing skaters to and from Green Lake. Fully 4,000 persons cut ca pers on the lake iteelf, Four hun- dred others confined their fun to the ice pond at Green’ Lake sta- ] This Is the Second ave. store of the Seattle Cloak & Sult Co. which ie going out of bi be cause it cannot pay the exorbitant bag ee Nh on ig on ey week. | rental of $700 a month for a 19-foot storeroom. Burten also Sunday. It ts entirely frozen over. Several lakes along the Byerett interurban line were popular. UNEMPLOYED TO GET CHANCE T0| EARN LODGING YEGGMEN BLOW OPEN SAFE IN Yeggmen gained entrance at 2)6:30, when Ralph Wing, proprietor, a. m Wing's cafeteria, on “ First ave. and, after blowing the| The same safe was opened by safo, cacaped with $622.86, the en, |Ye8SS three years ago and relieved - ‘ jot $180. This time the crooks tire nm pts of Saturday night and |used the “can.opener” method Articles found in the cafe were to er a conference Monday be hey had evidently tried to ry “iy ine ‘Mayor Gill and the citizens’ |the safe in the front room of the taste Ip ao awe grag ng committee of the Central Soctal| cafeteria, The first explosion tore | of “soup Agency, under whose auspices the|one hinge off. The robbers ae Hotel Liberty is being conducted, | carried the strong box into the | it was decided that the men in the | dishwasher's room and a second ex-| i be given one day's work |Plosion finished the fob. py ed ageing sag Pema A roomer in the Newport hotel THE WAR TODAY a week, or more, by the park de- | ent, to pay for their food | on the floor above heard the first | and lodging. explosion at 2:20 a. m., but thought} FRANCE AND BELGIUM—Vio- the men were at work cleaning out, lence of fighting Increasing; alll the place. claim continued gaine in north; sui ‘The second explosion occurred | mised general ck on German an hour or #0 later. Police be-| tines has begun Neve the time was taken up by the | ress in Argonne region. yergs carrying the strong box to song te -4 ‘i | GERMANY—Kaleer back at war the back room and trying to open it without the further use of ex. front against doctors’ protes Secretary Roland Cotterill sub- mitted to the conference a plan to furnish this employment without feopardizing the regular employ- | ment of those now in the park de- | partment. { plosives | RUSSIA—Slavs, 1,000,000 strong, Sergt. Fred Smart Monday found | arrayed In new line for Warsaw's ja suit casein the rear of the Ply-| defense; hard fighting In Southern| | mouth Congregational — church, | Poland. | WASHINGTON, Dec, 21— |Sixth and University, containing | AUSTRIA—Supreme effort in Crushing defeat of the Car |three canvas money bags, a flash n panstetae at Puebla by a force |light, and the bankbook of the Roce fe te ralee siege of Przemys of Villa troops yesterday was | cafe. jerce fighting in Carpathians; Ser- reported officially today. The robbery was discovered by |¥!#n-Montenegrin forces advancing Nine care of wounded eol- |N. Sato, a Japanese dishwasher |" Serajevo. | dlers already have ched employed in the restaurant. Sato| TURKEY — Anglo-French fleet | Vera Cruz. did_not_report the robbery until’ battering Dardanelles inner forts, _ WELL ITS DP To YOU TOM, IF You Donir WANT ME TO GET You A PRESENT ALLRIGHT, |VeE PURCHASED ALL THE (DONT WAMT To BE TIGHT BUT wa casty BUY PRESENTS Fon Breve _M Yow! _ |tortionate rentals. You feel it. WING'S CAFETERIA; GET $522 tons claim prog-| Town; What Is It That Is Cossnalitas ts to Quit Business? ENTS! | ¢¢ }ORCED out of business by high rents.” This has been the tragic end of altogether too many business firms in Seattle. The time has come |to tell the truth about the greedy landlords. | There is no use disguising the facts. It is false pride to keep quiet about a condition that is fast becom- ing intolerable. Business houses are having a struggle to meet ex- We all feel it. You feel it because you, who are not in business, must help |pay the burden imposed on the merchant. You buy the goods he has to sell. pay a higher price so the landlord can pay his rent. And you must Like a cancer eating into the vitals of the city, high |rental has been forcing many reputable business houses to the wall, and at the same time has been one of the |biggest factors in boosting the high cost of living. i | High rents have kept manufacturers and industrial activity out of Seattle. High rents are the curse of the city. The Star does not intend to keep quiet. The Star intends to show up the landlords who have fixed rentals on Second ave., Seattle, on higher basis per front jlarge as Seattle. H'GH rents are forcing the Greater Seattle Cloak & Suit Co., 1418 Second ave., out of business, and removing several thousand dollars of capital from in- vestment in this city. John B. Agen, landlord, is the man to blame. This store, 1418 Second ave., has 19 feet front. AND THE RENT IS $700 PER MONTH, or $36.84 PER FRONT FOOT PER MONTH. Here is a rental that is as big as the average paid on Broadway, New York, the greatest commercial street in the country. i H. AUSLANDER, owner of the Greater Seattle Cloak & Suit Co., after two years of business in this store, went into bankruptcy. S. Wolff of fodad e purchased the stock from the bankruptcy court. | Wolff intended to locate in Seattle permanently. He wanted to enlarge the store. For his purposes, 19 feet front were not enough. He figured on taking the next store also if both places could be obtained at a reasonable rental. | He went to see John B. Agen, landlord. He ex- plained. Agen told him he could cut an arcade through the stores, but Wolff would have to pay the expense of the alteration. This would amount to about $8,000. “How about the rental, then?” asked Wolff, think- ig this would be reduced if he agreed to pay the costs of the improvements. “The rents remain the same,” formed him. he says Agen in- and are, $700 for the Wolff store, joining store, where Japanese curios |are now on sale. ' The latter business also will retire at the beginning of the year, it is announced. T° PAY the rental alone, the Greater Seattle Cloak & Suit Co. now has to take in more than $150 a day from sales. This amount does not include any part of the expense for light, clerks, etc. One hundred and fifty dollars a day! And only 19 feet front! Can you wonder that one Seattle firm went “broke” there? Do you blame H. Wolff for retiring? If you want to know the name of one man in Se- attle who has hurt the town, it is John B. Agen, land- lord. There are others. The Star will tell you about them, also. DETROIT TO SELL HUGH JENNINGS DETROIT, Dec, 21.—The sale of Hugh Jennings, manager of the Detroit club, to the New York Americane, was reported imminent today. Frank Navin, principal owner of the Detroit America today to confer with other magnates regarding the If Jennings is sold, he will manage the New York team, and Bill Donovan, It Is expected, will be appointed manager of the Tigers. foot than on State st., Chicago, a city seven times as”