The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 23, 1914, Page 1

fice kote » wtipuiated “For some hungry littlechimney kid,” he said $15, The Star's share of the proceeds of the receipts at the rink fellow who hasn't been away from He LEFT US A LITTLE SACK OF FEED, AND INSTRUCTED Tuesday night. Employes contributed their salaries for the day Other papers got a split for thelr Christmas funds Crawford White, deputy prosecutor, bought 200 boxes for us it, Befo: ot married and set: US CAREFULLY AS TO HOW OFTEN MR. ROOSTER MUST P 1 children and a home of my own, BE GIVEN A DRINK BETWEEN NOW AND THE DATE OF H to you, you r r e t ‘ lay x EXECUTION Me ho ; ‘ ; 5 . what ‘anil Oy Fred Boalt and Joo Schermer of Dreamland bad an exciting aft: ran downstairs WILL \ terday, shopping, They laid in an enormous suy box piled to ove DOWN WI i ) DINNER FRID olla, candy, frult and toys A corps of volunteer workers 1 Toys!” she gasped, ns res of needy f y A aled t ‘ y ‘ : ny at Fifth ave. packing the things into bags, and labeling women of the First Presh taken care of In t " ¥ have be beni. aot: them, in preparation for the Iittlechimney kids mer Also, the w Manager Par Dreamland, Christmas afternoc We're figuring ¢ 0 kid rows open to them, th hundreds of es re Christmas pres where uncom Mrs. H. L. Risdon, 4847 Morgan st., offers . Hundred We've arran t P ‘ os poverty h working girl as a Christmas present, She wants some one, now tributed amc A fireman » tele ant a K ) homeless, who will come and stay with her. Her telephone number {ng has been given p aqueered his broad, b+ is Rainier 110W r to the rial room, and igft a Plymouth Be The Koller roller rink, First and Seneca, sent up a check for = 000) | “The SeattleStar [Las The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News ee COPIES DAILY VOLUME 16. SEATTLE, WASH., WEDNESDAY, DEG, 23, 1914. ONE CENT gy yi"4it3 fae Sis guste 188 fe EXIGAN PRESIDENT QUITS CAPITAL ~e ee * ~** e& e * ee et ~*t ee ~“* *& & & ~k eee spend Christmas aundry, and hast | Landlord Gets "G, LEROY BALDRIDGE, STAFF ARTIST FOR THE STAR AND ITS SISTER PAPERS, 1S NOW | St ar M an and WITH GERMAN TROOPS; HERE IS THE FIRST OF HIS PENCIL SKETCHES FROM FRONT BigTributeOut ” < || Artist Inside of Corset oP a — ) _|| German Line Your kitchen, Mrs. Housewife, is about 10 feet! ; mas Na By H. P. Burt B mf You know how cramped and small it is. You know | 5. ; 4 eis ec coca oF Tee on Sormany si Melon Cul what difficulties. you have. You know how crowded} FAR ; Le ; a rode te, Berlin om 9, “ernch found food almost normal in cont—found it is if two or three of the kiddies come in there. 4 nN : aw "7 5 F i Ger Others will follow, ne-companied by sketches made by C. Ler Now, transport that kitchen of yours to Second ave. ' : ¢ oN Peery imiepess | 5 GME Extend it a little in length. Let it remain the same size BL AT 4 p 0 eater pg Sh ciel Dec —‘ZWEI UND VIERZIG! in width. i a ' : Those were the first words I heard in Germany. The And the greedy landlord will ask you to pay $4,800 ; = im, blonde girl whom I had or more in rent per year, or $400 a month! | f ° noticed on the snorting little —— | clates In the Moore Investment Co., bs! a teamer that brought us across Impossible? | $560 a month rent. He got a lease | ! | the most thickly mined sea in Well, then, consider the store-|for a term of four years \ f M pe ld sah cape sates rooms occupled by the Knettle Cor-| When the lea was v . - . the world, across from the set Co., 1328 Second ave., or the|}comb was Johnny-on-the-Spot ’ \ | south shore of Holland, leaned Huteson Optical Co., next door, | He had noticed Matzger’s ‘ ( b, | far out of her compartment These plac have only nine business flourishing. So, when pes ‘ 4 J > yl v | window and called them feet frontage each on Second ave.| Matzger asked for a renewal % he, rie ae ea ie ht he hulle And they each pay $400 a jtbon og of the lease, Whitcomb cold ‘ f / ~ hrough the night to the hulk- rent. bloodedly announced a raise by A . ing guardsman who was com- They pay $44.44 a month per| in the rental from $550 to h ; | ing alongside our halted train. front foot. $1,200 a month for a store rans The girl spoke th in clear Just think how many corsets| that had only 20 feet frontage, TS ne ae tae must be sold to pay the landiord!| OR $60 A FRONT FOOT! ew , tnd f ous tones, and his “Ja! ja! We don’t know much about ‘cor Matzger quit business about 7 - . rf ‘ as just as ringing sets and the corset busine But! # year ago. Seattle has been - = i The spirit of jubilation with figuring that If a corset costs $5 to| his home for many years, His : bibh'> these sist. “tedden the ultimate purchaser, there Is a| children have been raised here. . which _ the peor ta profit of $1 to $2 on It to the re-| He does not want to move out struck me like a spray of cold tall Strike an average of $1. 50.| of the city ‘ } rain. I had been in London That means that Mrs. Knettle! He wants to reinvest his must seli 266 corsets at $5 each| money here if possible. But . | ten weeks and nourished ex Just to pay her rent. so far the landlords’ uncon. et clusiv on English war must be, sclonable terms have made “new and I had concluded That means that there it at least 10 customers, as the aver impossible. f af en . | that Germany was. starving, & After that, come the customers the truth abou € 1 ed and tragic accents to pay the lights, the clerks, the | landlor ; . were the only ones in use in the kaiser’s empire. Raee of advertising, the taxes der a ater ting the town | Y) But I came later to know that this spirit of jubilation Tet Sowerthec, the "iret 10 cus-|tlese stories. ath | is the spirit of all Germany—absolute confidence in the great tomers pay their money to the| It’s always some one else who Is A = rman fighting machine, confidence in what it will do and landiord. if he isn’t paid first, out |hurting the town—NEVER THE SKETCHED NEAR MENIN, WITHIN THE GERMAN LINES, BY C LISBON, Dec, 23.—The Portu » rising temperature has put in what it has already done with its 42—‘zwei und vier- t store. LANDLORDS. LEROY BALDRIDGE an end to ice skat in Seattle plete : porta: i “ ’ 96ND IF TEN CUSTOMERS GET The Star belie that the “This incident | sketched between Menin and Roulers, only a few. guese chamber of deputies to- [Ice on Green Lake and also on the |Z centimeter guns, with its field-gray-—“feldgrau Unie INTO THE KNETTLE CORSET) people of this city are entitied | kilometers from the fierce fighting about Ypres,” Baldridge writes day voted in favor of prepara « at ireen dake malice was/forms and with its daring su marines unterseebooten CO. STORE ALL AT ONCE, IT 1S| to know the truth “The Inhabitants have fled, and their neat front yards have been turned waking up rapidly Wednesday ——) The train had wound its way ALMOST AS PACKED AS A SAR The landlords are keeping | into killing pens by the German soldiers for their own cattle and hogs.| tions to join Great Britain In Thirty-three degrees w as the pena : @| through Holland, past long dykes, DINE BOX. needed manufacturing con- | Within sound of continuous artillery fire, and the occasional screech of jminimum temperature for the day across smooth canals, through cerns out of Seattle because | English shrapnel, the soldier-butchers work calmly, quickly, skiilfully,, the European war Fifer PNR ohana 4 These contributions to the | |@uaint villages where Dutch girls The Knettle and the Huteson| they have put prohibitive rates | and, with their usual thoroughness, they gather the fresh hides for ship: | F tle change of temperatt S| | “uittle-chimney kids’ Christ- | | With wild rose cheeks and starched stores rent from the Hutchinson| on their property. ent to the Pathariand.” ROUMANIA EXPECTED To predicted by the weather bureau mas fund have not previously || bonnets sold milk chocolate and : They are crowding r bi DECLARE WAR ON AUSTRIA coffee for eight weary hou estment ( y @ reputable | _ been acknowledged hours. tne fatchinec n compan | merchants to the wall, | LONDON, Dec. 23.—An attack . Thomas, $2; Davidson en suddenly it halted in the from David Whitcomb » SEATTLE OUGHT TO ‘DEAL NOT MADE YET! HE’S ON HIS WAY by Roumanta on Austria was be Co., $2; No Name, $1.50; | | cen st, dark field of the building. | KNOW WHO ITS REAL EN Heved here today to be foreshad ‘ Councliman jt pulled open the window of my Whitcomb 1s a “leading citizen. EMIES ARE. owed by the news from Petrograd —— A Dad,” Mrs. | | c tment, and way up the track rill tell you this rv he | NEW YORK, Dec, 2 po 23.— | that the Roumantans had agreed to NEW YORK, Dec. 23.—Al. Loulse Richardson, $1; Mrs. aw a group of soldiers going in He will 3 SaRLERE AMSTERDAM, Dec. 23 is city and that ruins the city. »| CHARLESTON Dec urn to Bulgaria the bulk of the| fred Henry Lewis, author, died James McEwing, $1; Koller | | and out of compartments almost as ‘wilt hold up his hands in horror at|Gov. B 1 led 16 de-| ritory they received from the| here today of a complication roller rink, $15. jfast as the guardsman with the lan this mea 1 at th v as a r 4 » i v LR ¢ r day on his way to the western |jatter at the time of the Balk a | of diseases, aged 57. He had | | |tern could open them, I knew then There is always something else | were mvicted of nslaughter re brewe fighting front war, been Ill three months @)|that I had reached Goch, the first The kaiser reached Cologne to Whitcomb, and s i re | 1, with everyone else on the Thomas Burke among us. tise me y | DONALD You SHOULD WORK | YES, AND HE. WAS tenders. yi | UNCLE TOM He was one of the srchant rate. He refused to-be bled to fi + I . Gutierrez and a few loyal business in a ladle 1 | o , > Angles and Palafox was the ployed 35 people—tme 1 4 } ( J 7 capital. store. J tistas will rule the capital hat hurts the towr town across the German frontier are quite a few of them y | train, was to be exa mined to see get the most “leading” citizen if there were any sh spies . t on the greedy I wasn’t exactly afraid, but all the Jandlords for the condition of Seat. | —_ - reer wae, Gena rman I know I learned in on@ tle’s mercantile dustrial ¢ "4 | (WELL, HELLO) HELLO Wii \ WELL, DOWALD,HOW ARE 3 DONALD /| THERE || Mov 6RTTING ALONG AY | HARDER AT SCHOOL AND | d (Continued on Page 3.) They don't blame the greedy - _—"_ |Youn6 MAN | i) | SCWOOL! HAVE YOU TAKEN} ___t LEARN YOUR ALGEBRA. PRESIDENT OF THE — } 5 citizens” are the very worst of-| HELEN AND Rx ————~"__ | Stem “10 LEARN, is A ALGEBRA Joseph Matzger has quit busi = ness. He quit while the quitting " QUITS was good. Gy > b whd absolutely refuse P aoa H vA \ SAN ANTONIO, Dec. 23,— bludgeoned into a robbery rer “y That Provisional President pancial ruin A | > a ] \ troops had left Mexico City aft- Matzger did a fa pro} 4s) W —— . er a disagreement with Gens. establishment at 1307 Second ave. ’ | news received here today in a fn the Arcade building : P dispatch from the Mexican én—in a factory on Ur ; = The dispatch said that a com- gides the clerks in the 1 ~~ Fg . mission of Villistas and Zapa- He paid into the greedy pn ot | pending the selection of a new David Whitcomb and his avs provisional president