The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 1, 1915, Page 1

/ Uhh lte z Mijw. 44 aN oe) 7] y Oa - * e f ee real ie WU ; OU may think the ication ‘ ; e a + ot f A Guy, T Biaitble tees. Theres biaree yA Gig 6 - EDITION news on the editorial page. It's the ir Ga) Aa first of a series of articles which WEATHER FORECAST-—Rain ~ will teach you how to keep well. TIDES AT SEATTLE Dor#t miss one of these. 6 oe mnthT fh, 1108 oo ies BE « k INS AND m, 164 1 1147 pm, 18 tt a % ANDS, be RITI ‘Admiralty Announces Loss|New Year’s STAR HAS A PLAN of the “Formidable”; Only| Greetings baie 71 Men Saved Out of 1,000] to the U.S. ! WRITT! THIS ISA LONDON, Jan. 1.—The British battle- |] “"'Ha'ustres'enete”°" | ae CINCH ship Formidable was sunk in the English || 037770" ott: tacit Semeas || 2 channel today, the admiralty announced. Man Batare sata oe bend AL The statement said: ‘The battleship For-|] Te *ve of thie new year midable was sunk in the channel this morn- || Vin words are vain to epend— ing. It is uncertain whether it struck a mine lor was torpedoed by a submarine. Seventy-|| ver thus the mother spoke. |\one survivors were picked up, and it is pos-|} ocean that scemed 20 wide, sible that others were saved who have not}| When first ye crossed its been reported.” It threatened to divide ‘The Formidable was a battleship Bi es bg tact al of 15,000 tons displacement. | coat more | ! 3 ler ‘complement, In peace, was 781 men ell vieeuleey enorme while in war time it probably 7" it sbout 1,000. She carried fow | linch guns, 12 Ginch guns, 18 12 pounders, 4 %pounders and 4 tor. For peace and liberty pedo tuber. ‘neath the | The skip, which was considered safes psn Bite man’s c=" pone iot Ya tant at: Stee Peo AND.2 ; And the love of our own kind. ij a Bo this wishes be, * Perper aro wd ne Ha in hand, mind with mind in the fighting along the Belgian || That we stand till we quell coast NEW YORK, Jan. 1—Offi- And in straight limite bind Despite the admiraity’s expres) ciais of Lebanon hospital de- War's rage, the storm of hell. sion of uncertainty, it was the gen-| 4 eral belief that the work of destruc | l#red today there was no hope | \tion was done by submarines. for the recovery of Mrs. Ida | The Star, therefore, has a counter proposition, which should | In official circles It was said the| Snlffin Rogers, who swallowed | 9 | placed before the people and voted upon at the same time as Jons of the ship was not matter of| bichloride of mercury two |2Syear plan. Let the people decide which of the two plans great importance, since it was old preter, and somewhat out of date, but the| °A7* #90 and then gave some Put this question on the ballot: “SHALL THE CITY death of the trained officers and| of the polson to her two bab COUNCIL CONNECT DIVISIONS A AND C OF THE MU- men who manned ft was a serious One of the babies, a boy, ie | NICIPAL CAR LINE BY A SYSTEM OF AUTO STREET blow. dead, and the other, John, 2 | GARSE tig, vagal oak a : What other warships accompa id, t ‘ riefly, e Stare pian is to Invest, say, $25,000 or years old, Is dying. | $30,000 In motorbusses to connect Division A and the Lake ail fed the Formidable at the time Lorly Elton Rogers, father | : the Glaaster was not kaewn. tata Usb pre SAR ng td octime’ | Burien line; to operate on a loop on Second ave. and Third —— _——_— — - ee woman's husband, has been at | - ave., of the downtown district, connecting with the depots, and | ne ae | ’ the hecoieal oe to branch out into the wholesale and manufacturing district on @ | Mrs. Rogers was 4 Whatcom ave. ‘ | His legal wife, formerly Miss} You will be glad to know that Se- The crying need of the present municipal railway situation is j | Caroline Giddings, sister of Prof.|attle’s first 1915 baby weighs 10|!ce in the downtown district. The city has two branch lines, | | | “ | Giddings of Columbia university, | pounds and that both mother and | #re unconnected. The motorburses would ply this connection, Seattle celebrated the advent of! There was plenty of tooting of|ty a nervous wreck at her broth-| child are doing well addition, the motorbus system sould also “handle downtown 1915 decorously. thorns, and clanging of cowbelis,/er's home as a result of the ex- It was 4 a. m. today when the| generally, and would supply to the wholesale and manufactu The town did not get hilartousty and blowing of whistles. There! posure of Rogers’ alleged duplicity.| nurse at the Swedish hospital re-| trict transportation service that is now almdst entirely lacking. drunk as on some previous occa. was @ bit of serpentine warfare.) The mother of Rogers’ two chil-| ported to Daddy D. Desmore: the whole risk would amount to not much more than $25,000—an in sions. Thousands paraded the atreots| dren declared Mra, Rogers had| “A girl, sir; and as fine a baby| significantly small amount compared to the $1,500,000 which the 8, — downtown, chiefly on Second ave.| agreed to divorce her husband, las I have ever seen.” & 8S. receivers demand for their rundown car line. meee }-~about 60,000 strong. “Lorly had fulfilled certain con | Daddy Desmore is proprietor of Traffic experts who have studied the problem declare such mt a . | polsterous merry making] ditions at a great sacrifice,” sald|/the Alaska hotel, 84 Seneca st. | @ motorbus line would make money—ENOUGH TO QUICKLY poy Runnin Awa ot former years which approached|the dying woman. “Then his wife! Seattie’s first 1915 baby has an WIPE OUT THE PRESENT MUNICIPAL CAR LINE DEFICIT the degree of rlotous celebration,| refused to keep her word. Wel abundance of dark har, and pretty AND LEAVE A HANDSOME PROFIT BESIDE, EVEN IF A oe {gs 7 was absent for the most ‘part/could not marry - esa ngp | pyes which promise to be bine,/ FARE AS LOW AS THREE CENTS IS ESTABLISHED. Bpecial Correspondence. AW Thureday night " our darling babies. was sick and! jike her mother’s.. It is too early © ATLANTA, Ga, Jan. 1—Unless the supreme court of Georgia, 4 BY 4 rh was comparatively no|the strain maddened me.” in the young lady's career to state Division A of the city car line cannot be a money maker until \ whieh Is to rehesr the marder case against Leo Frank, finds him inno- YJ trouble on the streets, and th an a tye oa stakes att | ets downtown connections or bulids into Ballard. Court entai rt : q 4 Se Oe ne ee ae ae are keeping it off downtown Fourth ave, It cannot get into Bi ent, Frank will be hanged by the neck until dead lice, who usually have their hands EATTLE POLIC er” her father or her mother. til th y Rall built, Ww " “ ! Bye Miss Desmore has 10 cute fin-| Until the new Rallard bridge ts built, which will not be for at least #7 He has been sentenced to die January 22 Y | full on New Year's eve, spent an $ E a: Cnd an oaual number of fas} Year. And the autobus loop, The Star believes, is the way out. * Frank's friends say that were Leo M. Frank as black as the pit evening. } It’s a seriocs thing to tie the hands of the city for 28 yea with = still would he be a wronged innocent compared to the state fn 1 The cafes og a hase Png KEPT ON THE MOVE aps vn teageeos ae, Oe | men of the council, une if the people would sabes to Ps tie eae ~ They assert that Georgia has violated the purity of Amertcan Jus | ST eee 6 Her first words were: “All in-| pal transportation ‘problem by autolusses rather than by street tee, has besmirched the constitution with the filth of vile persecution, y / The rainy weather may havo had| , There We 2,278 arrests by the) dications lead me to belléve that) ways, they ought to have a chance:to say #0 ; has deliberately betrayed her most sacred trust and has attacked one Ly something to do with It | Seattle police during the year of| our fair city is about to enter upon| = Who knows what the future may be in the field of transportation?” her citizens with the vengeance of a bloodthirsty beast a | 4 14, A large portion of the arrests an era of unprecedented prosper-| Who knows but that motorbusses will take the place of street rail ot own rens bret tive of thie case, whiék is unique fs Ail = were made on chirges of drunk and ity and that we are about to wit-| aitogether in years? Already motorbusses are doing a big busin Following is a briet ang ive of this case, | State fish commission won't rec-! disorderly conduct. February, 1914, ness a commercial and industrial] in various sections of this country, and are doing practically all of ti the anpals id a ne punditekensens iad. cart owner jot te : ommend fish code to coming legis:| proved the heaviest police month,| awakening heretofore undreamed | downtown business in London and Paris, — ceed uM. ogy tr ng He p ne anon in Brooklyn, N. ¥ lature 2.178 being arrested then. lof. You will please excuse me now, Twenty-eight years ago the electric street railways were just fom! Pencil factory, tn ants J ako Ab ap Goral B oh fen: as I wish to take a nap. ting their inning, just as the motdérbusses are getting their inning tad in the schools there, and later was graduated a 1 - Daddy Desmore says he and his/ gay, If the S, R. & S. proposition Is accepted, then Seattle has tied | ate eee 4 i | we ty | wife haven't made up their minds | eeit treet for 28 years, regardless of whether these Shalt gt . pxiended ov ears, duri hich | . a 4 eelf down to street cars for 28 y 9) ether thege rd eis om game is'cet bes, « neStiabel Sinesit Reona ef iis Solis yet as to what they will name the| be a newer and better means of transportation during that period. | Aap A ths ough-soing, intelligent, reputable young man 2 . , baby. Mrs. Desmore {ts named It seems to The Star that the people should have both proposi * oo eae 2h . Minnie, The baby may be named] pegore them at the March election. They can then decide which of the le teow about 20 years old —— ; Minnie.” The bat | $x the ital room of the National Pencil factory bleck-baimd, | That young man whom The Star] C. Gerhardt, of the Wright Ros-|“"it {ya practice of mine,” sald two methods they prefer. ¢ mame, operated one of the machines ey ay PRS... t Ns E Z who se roled c he refo a 2, We = At 3:20 on the morning of Sunday, April 27, 1913, Newt Lee, |(T feel annoyed when fiends depart} |V%0 wa# paroled from the rma| star office " Gad FE ath) Dh a fe: hipan in the pencil factory building, was making his regdlar|! | £04 their ebsence gravelin, TO ee ee ee eee a, AOA ORM GON ence: Nepenand amelie 168 aie ea e a es oO 4 2 . &E bear’ ||0% condition that he would return |hardt line to bee boy OF @. girl.” SMe . “ os ‘ » Phage ¥ Yo. 6 Washington le-cheeked, strikingly pretty girl of 14 years, Mary Phagan by told you about yesterday—the ono|tsurant .€ 164 é Daddy Desmore, who is the father army Fy ccna ‘ad about him and phoned The| of several, “never to name a baby fh But, oh, confusion of : , rhe y t to work 4 roped his. way through the basement with the ald of rhe flanie ‘ear to prison on New Year's day {f he) The young man went to work in < | tet enon tele a pacha ares |] When my silk hase went ‘reveling couldn't fin a job—remember? |Gerhardt's restaurant this morning.| New Westminster council ad- d x (Continued on Page 6.) —— | Well, ho isn’t going back! Happy New Year! ' Journs to prevent fist fight. 66 99 ; } ———————— — Itmey Dus ea Have you ridden in a “jitneyy The pioneer, so far as Seattle fs. bus"? | concerned, is Alfred Linz, a whole: a ———— You get a $2.50 taxi Journey for! sale dealer in hair. Linz is a motor 1 IM '" r Tei. HIM | TORE IT THE MAN GAVE ME 5 cents, ~ +s ee ing MuEaladty Se eight = Eu. Hi i Perhaps at first you langhed at)cars, He saw a@ “jitney bus" tn lnc inverters TH ryote Regd he Susie aap THES the “Jitney bus.” But you've got to| another city, took a ride in it, and cs I a ws [SALESMAN WiSHES TO | SEE You. HERE 15 ; take It serousiy now. The. street|then caught. the first train for See Ware WS WERE TWO PORA car compantes all up and down the |attle, his home. > \CARD BACK Ty NICKEL ic coast do. He bought three Fords, found |, Recaeente y, “4 The idea, so far as anybody can|three drivers, and rented the capa discover, originiated in Los An-|to the drivers at $6.00 a day. geles, Somebody with a Ford went} Linz says he's going to have 20 broke. He began competing with|“Jitney buses” before long, all using the street cars. the postoffice for the downtown ter Now there are 600 “Jitney buses") minal. in Los Angeles, doing af estimated} “And,” he goes on, “I'm going to business of $1,250,000 a year. This| have a uniformed starter,” money comes from people who “Jitney Buses” Save Time would othetwise use street cars, Ling’ buses go out N, 40th and Started In Los Angeles | Latona way. Another man has a ling San Diego and San Francisco|from Kinnear park to the Bon liked the “jitney bus” notion, It} Marche. The Kitnear street car” swept up the Coast. Portland das | service is poor. : ae them. So has Tacoma. Little Ev-| “I selected my routes because the erett has gone “jitney bus” mad, It}street car service out that way is has 60°or more, and nobody rides | ——————————————_ op the street cars any more, (Continued on Page 6)