The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 13, 1915, Page 1

*JITNEY BUS DRIVERS WILL ORGANIZE; PLAN SCHEDULE A Day of Reckoning Has Come for Traction Company The jitney busses have come to stay. Already, they have taken many from the traction company. oeee thousand m it thousands of nickels away And they'll take a ore before they get through. with no feeling of revengefyl triumph that The Star witnesses this loss of revenue by the traction company. The traction corporation is a big and powerful factor in the community. It pays thousands of dollars taxes and gives employment to hundreds of men. The Star has pany often, and with reason. criticised the com- And now that the day of reckoning has come for the Stone & Web- ster interests in Seattle, The Star does not wish to appear to be unfair to them. However, IT IS THE ARROGANCE OF THE TRACTION OFFICIALS TOWARD THE CITY OF SEATTLE, AND ITS PEOPLE, THAT IS TO BLAME FOR THE PRESENT SITUATION. Just They took away from the people the privilege of buying tickets on the street They refused to make extensions. fused to give adequate service. that, and nothing more. cars. They refused com- mon-user rights to the municipal line. fended their patrons in a dozen ways. AND NOW THE PEOPLE OF SEATTLE HAVE TAKEN THEIR TRANSPORTATION VOLUME 16. SEATTLE, WASH., WEDNESDAY, JAN. 13, 1914. PROBLEM INTO THEIR OWN HANDS. The Star has suggested that the jitney bus owners get together and systematize their business. A meeting is to be held for this purpose tonight. There are many ways in which the new in- dustry can be made a more profitable one, both for driver and patron. Routes and schedules should be agreed upon. Passengers should be made as com- fortable as possible. Do all these things, then give the people SERVICE. Do that, Mister Jitney Bus man, and you'll get the business, They re- They of- WEATHER FORECAST—Rain TIDES AT SEATTLE High. ONE CENT 8 THttvs ann 4:45 a. nN EWS STANDS, Se THIS HERE J.RUFE IS ‘JAY’ RUFE Charies F. Smith had a fine time while it lasted. The lice arrested him ast night just as he and Mre. Smith were about to board a train at the King st. station for Portland. Smith looks like a In Sunday - go-to - meetin’ clothe Probably he is one. He says himself he comes from Spo- kane. Certainly he doesn’t look like any J. Rufus Wallingford anybody ever saw. Probably, Smith, under his uncouth exterior, has imagina- tion. And the fact that his name fs just Smith may have helped some. Anyway, Smith, the police say, went to F. S. Haines, manager of the Pierce-Arrow Sales Co., 1000 East Pike, and said he wanted to buy one of those Pierce-Arrow 1915 models. Now, probably, if Smith had spelt his name S-m-y-the, and had manicured fingernails, and well-tailored clothes, and a dia- mond the size of the stopper to a vinegar cruet, Haine ho wasn't born yesterday, would have been suspicious. Haines Reassured But plain Smith. in hand-me- downs, blunt and halting of speech and with the corns of honest toil on the palms of his hands, something else again, Mawrus. Haines knew Smith was all right. You know me, Al. So Smith ordered the 1915 model —it wasn't to be delivered until April, anyway—after Haines had taken Mr. and Mrs. Smith, from Spokane, for a spin on the beule vard And Smith, with his tongue firm ly clenched between his teeth, painstakingly wrote a check for $5,250 on the National Bank of was) "HOW GREAT GERMAN ZEPPELINS RAIN DEATH AND DESTRUCTION DOWN UPON THE EARTH FROM HEAVENS ROME, Jan. 13—Reports from outlying districts near here Indicate that an earth- quake which shook Rome at 7:56 thie morning caused losses of life. A number of bulidin; were destroyed in Rome’s out- skirts. it is reported 18 per- sone were killed at Pereto, a village in the compartiamento of Abruzzi. The shock was very severe out Iside of Rome. Telegraph and tele- |phone communication with many jtowns has been interrupted. The royal tobacco factory and one lof the railroad stations were dam jaged. The Aurealian column in the | | Ls |heart of the city also was damaged | slightly. | It was reported that there has Cheney, which {s a suburb of Spo-| been considerable loss of life and an| kane. The discerning reader has al- ready guessed that Smith hadn't the price of a ride in a jitney bus. After Smith had written the check for $5,2 he wrote some more—one for $900 which he gave the Ramaker Brothers for a plano which was to be shipped later to Salt Lake Ci and one for $1,600 which the Standard Furniture Co. accepted for Oriental rugs and fur- niture. Gets $25 in Real Cash Smith didn’t really get any of this merchandise. Probably he didn't expect to. Half the fun of being rich lies im ordering ex pensive things of obseqious mer. chants and paying in checks. Any poor man can pleasure if he will refrain from making the mistake of looking like a smooth swindler. Millionaires are often shabby dressers After Smith had ordered, for far distant delivery, in the neighbor. hood of $10,000 worth of luxuries he didn’t need, he returned to Haines and asked him to cash a check for a paltry as he found himeelf without Lhe ag ash. Haines obliged. He urged Smith to use a Plerce-Arrow car as long as he re mained in the city. Shortly afterward Haines’ bank notified bim that there was no such bank as the Natioual Bunk of | Cheney Detectives Montgomery and O'Brien arrested Mr. and Mra Smith at the station. Mrs, Smith, a comely woman, was not held.| Smith is held on an open charge pending further investigation ZAPATA TROOPS LEAVE CAPITAL TON, Tex, Jan, 1% Mexico City has been evacuated by the Zapatistas, according to a cable gram from Vera Cruz received by John T. Burns, Carranzista agent. here. There is no confirmation, have this| enormous damage in the province of Abruzzi Entire provinces suf. fered, and many small towns said to have been nearly wiped out | Rome also suffered Many Crushed to Death Many persons are reported to various towns and crushed to death The different barracks in the vi have been denuded of troops, have rushed to assist In the work lof rescue. The minister of war have directed their |subordinates to do everything |the quake. Convicts Mutiny shaken the prison there was par tially destroyed he convicts mu tinfed when an attempt was made to keep them inside the walls, in spite of the damage. Officials here declare the quake was the most severe ever felt hb and they fear that a large death Ii will be shown when full details are obtained. RECOMMEND 2 BATTLESHIPS | WASHINGTON, Jan, 13.— The house naval committee to day agreed to recommend the | construction of two battleships | next year, thereby defeating the “little navy" advocates. The committee also recom: mended the construction of 16 coast defense submarines, eight of which will be assigned to duty on the Pacific coast; one sea-going submarine, six destroyers, one hospital ship, one transport @nd one oller, are} | ernoon cinity of the worst of the damage|delivering some cocaine to a | bonds and minister of the interior and) witness. in| Caldwell, | their power to ald the victims of cane WIRELESS OPERATOR A German War Zeppelin and How it le ——— ARREST COCAINE SELLER Spotted caine vender, by the police as a co W. C. Hulfer, clerk Several towns in the province of in the drug store at Broadway and Madison, was arrested Tuesday aft- by Officers O'Brien ‘and Montgomery at First ave, and Mad have been caught in the ruins of|{son st Hulfer, according to the officers was caught red-handed as he was man Who named Austin Hardwick Hulfer was released on $1,000 Hardwick {8 held as a Deputy Prosecuting Attorney who investigated the is convinced the state has an open and shut case against Hulfer My information {# that Hulfer When the town of Frosinone was) would come downtown twice a day to deliver cocaine,” said Caldwell His customers would call him up by telephone, and he would meet THE WIRELESS OPERATOR KEEPS CONSTANT “TOUCH WITH AERIAL BASE. | them on the street, delivering in| We will prosecute to the limit and we will break up the sale of the drugs if possible.” That boys are sold drugs tn some beyond THIS OUGHT TO MAKE HIT WITH | ONE BOB HODGE IN mbne- wares, stores Is to Caldwell The drug store at Broadway and Madison {s one of those in the list, of stores selling cocaine the police by OLYMPIA Jan. of the legislature still was transacted, it was of a very |through space without visible sup mines bathie confron man who struck her] port until I raised the glasses still| Probably the most important bill) dows I she remembers. | more. introduced was one by Senator ses the house showed! AND THERE IT WAS—A ZEP. Wray of King, to fix the term of/7thing had been stolen PELIN! sheriffs in counties having a popu Did my friends the, Germans, | lation of 300,000 or more at four| James Withycombe, Oregon's new|*tartie you?” asked the elderly| years, and increasing the salary to] governor, asks for strong antt-liquor!~—— (Continued on Page 7.) $6,000 regulations enforcing prohibition today While some business|& noise in the kitchen 500° FT LONG SPEED 60MILES AN HOUR The Star. DIPPING PLANES BY H. a “PHILLIPS ARBON, Switzeriand (via Rome), Dec. 26.—As | left my hotel and wandered down to the water's edge the early morning mist was just rising RELEASED FOOT BOMB DROPPER AT over beautiful Lake Constance. WORK 2,000 FT PP plo bys she BELOW DIRIGIBLE penetrate the vapor. Then the toot of a steam- | boat's whistle and, as if by sig- the WOMAN | | its natural grandeur, so near doubt, according | and yet 90 far away trom the BOOM! I shifted my field glasses. and given to gazed out into the lake quickly enough to discern a geyser-like nal, the mist parted and winter sun id down to reflected on the surf: marvelous body of wa fog disappeared, Here was Switzerland in all the case rise and return to inland sea spread of water the bosom of the little Returning to his home at 1020] m | Thistle st. at 1 a. m. Wednesday,|45 Zeppelins Within | Merl L, Middleton, a clerk, found| Striking Distance his wife, Margaret Middleton, un-} Before I had time for conjecture | conscious on the kitchen floor with| another explosion resounded across " . ‘ or | the lake both arms bound and a gag In b Dee away this dtee, hist anit mouth. within my horizon from the little Mrs. Middleton said, when her| bluff where I was watching husband had revived her, that she] Then, elevating the glasses, T |caught sight of a most peculiar ob 13.—Both houses| had been attacked by a burglar. | [a\! practically atood| About midnight the women hear | A mile above the lake a man }rode in a huge basket. He soared Opening the kitehen door she was | SAY HELEN, IF were | | GOING TO THE THEATER \You'LL HAVE To HURRY | Vii 68 READY IN A FEW MINUTES SWE OUGHT -ToGeT WERE IN TIME FOR. THE LAST AcT NOW WE'LL HAVE Time. , i | GUESS TOM, DON'T} GET EXCITED (~ a UP IN ONE HALF MINUTE AR FLEET gets much worse TAM SURE | PKKED THOSE TICKETS OFF ‘THE ‘TABLE AND PUT THEM IM THIS PockeT Will Discuss Issue Trans Proposal to fers and Pre- pare toCombat Opposition to New Organization. The incorporation of a company, which will at once put 32 cars on three Capitol hill lines, giving a three-minute ser- vice, and the call for a meeting nesday night, jitney bus and stage men into day's autobus developments. The meeting tonight, = | Mrs. Mercy R. Murray, 2014 E. Denny way, Seattle which at the Commercial Club Wed- where it is expected to organize at least 200 a great association, were to- is set for 10 o'clock, will Gay pioneer woman | Jitney bus driver | perfect a permanent organization, discuss means of installing ja transfer system, and take steps to meet any opposition that. may arise toward a spread of the newest transportation system. | The autobus men have heard ru-| mors that other traction Interests | [Plan to put through the city council | an ordinance requiring a bond of each driver to protect passengers against injuries If this 1s done, they propose to| have it arranged so a blanket bond | may be taken out by the association jto cover all members, Councilmen} |today deny they have heard of such | @ proposed ordinance | To Publish Directory The publication of a Serioatea| jlisting all the autobus }ines in the) city also is contemplated In addition to the fitney men wis} have promised to attend, the Both-| ell, Duwamish, Issaquah, Ratnter | Valley, Edmonds, Tukwila, Renton | jand other interurban stage lines | Jare expected to be represented Homer Bull, the printer, is one of |= the promoters of the organization | The Auto Rapid Transit Co. is the name under which a group of Seat tle business men propose to incor- porate They say they will have 32 white cars in operation within a short time, 10 on each of three Capitol Hill lines and two as reserves. Cars will all run south on Second ave, around the railway stations and north on First, Second and Third These cars are to run 24 hours, maintaining a three-minute service between the hours of 8 a. m. and 6 p.m, From midnight to 6 a. |they will charge a 10-cent fare. The small cars, all Fords, will be replaced in 60 or 90 days, it is an jnounced, by a larger car which will |seat § to 10 passengers. As fast as one group of lines is made to} pay the company expects to start others BUSSES THREATEN FRISCO COMPAN SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 13.—"It the jitney busses continue to cut! into the profits of the United Rail roads, the very existence of the car} | | | | line is threatened,” declared Man-| Jager Black today. “We shall cer-| tainly have to quit business if it| he said |which were fired on by ATTACKS REPULSED aed THE WAR LINEUP. RUSSIA—Petrograd claims Turk. ish transport Maria Ro: sunk and cruiser Medji damaged in Black sea naval engagement, Janu- ary 6. AUSTRIA—Vienna decla’ trian artillery repulsed Ru: at. tempts to cross Nida river. Denies reports Przemysi offered to surren- der. PERSIA — Petrograd announces Turks occupied Abriz, second city in Persia, TURKEY—Fighting resumed In Caucasus. FRANCE—Fighting for 24 hours before Spur 132, near Soissons, Ger. mans attacking savagely, day and night. Aus LONDON, Jan. 13.—It is re ported that two German sub- marines attempted to raid the harbor of Dover, Eng., and were sunk by the land batteries. Up to 2 p. m. the admiralty had@ made no announcement regarding the fate of the two submarines the shore forts at Dover. All the newspapers, however, printed long dispatches from Dover, claiming that both submarines had been hit and had sunk The Evening News’ Dover corre spondent said German aeroplanes ac ompanied the submarines [Look 4 ak Bess Hadi! 4