The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 16, 1915, Page 1

UNDREDS ARE STARVING IN ITA zee * * LY! Me “Helle! FIGHT IS BEGUN ON JITNEY BU The Seattle Star VOLUME 16. IN QUESTION, “DOES Editor of The St When a man says to the w worldly goods | thee endow partner then and there The ideal busin the founding of a common tre: and supplementing her husband's Together they plan what to » When children are born, and wages are inadequate, and they sense of that term. Wf a good woman marri: she ever gets, but the par than ehe deserves. SHOULD A WOMAN FEEL BAND GIVES HER MONEY? SENSE SHE SHOULD HAV ite UNWORTHY. TS GIVEN THE $25 By FRED L. BOALT Of all the thousands of /et- tere The Star hae received, one had to be the best. it was a job to read and weigh them all. We culled them and read again. And finally we found the best let- ter. It was written in a wom- an’e hand and it was signed: — “Helene G. Johnson.” Now, some of the letters were wittier than Mrs. Johnson's, and Mrs. Helene Johnson, the wife some were couched in language more flowery; but none was more logical or more clearly and human ly expressed an attitude of mind toward the biggest question in the world— cee “DOES A WIFE WAGES?" With some misgivings I called on Mrs. Johnson, at her home, 2436 Irving st., this morning, to give her the prize of $25 which the Colonial theatre offered for the best letter. Once in the East | heard a wom an, who is a leader of women, lec ure on Woman. The excellence of her views so impressed me that, la ter, | soaght an interview with her at her home. And, oh, the disii EARN usionment! The woman, at home. was a frowsy|be housed in Rome and Naples Is| Mark C. Johnson, the husband slattern Her house was in dis order. The older children were quarreling. The baby was bawling Her husband—I had understood there was a husband somewhere in the background—was not in evs dence This woman had the theory. but she was too busy preaching it to practice it J hasten to say that Mrs. John son is not that kind of a woman. * Mrs. Johnson is the wife of a workingman. Her husband, Mark | ©, Johnson, is a sawyer. They own their own home, and they are rico 7 “(Continued on Page 3.) MRS. HELENE JOHNSON’S PRIZE BETTER he impli nership, and the woman assumes the responsibility of a working arrangement in a partnership of t access to the treasury, but each ri The Oniy Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News A WIFE EARN WAGES” | DOES A WIFE EARN WAGES? oman of his choice, “With all my the establishment of a part sort is ry. The husband earns and the wife administers the household affaire wisely and economically, get ting the best possible results from the least possible expenditure, efforts efficiently pend and what to save. Both have ects the other's rights. the woman's duties increase, mere should be partners in the highest 3 a bad man, she earns far more than type of woman usually ge more “DEBASED” WHEN HER HUS- NO! IF SHE HAS COMMON NO QUALMS ABOUT ACCEPTING WHAT 18 RIGHTFULLY HERS UNLESS SHE PROVES HERSELF HELENE G. JOHNSON BY ALICE ROHE | (United Press Staff Correspondent) ROME, Jan, 16.—Huddied in groups, without food, without fuel, without adequate clothing, hundreds of peasants, survivors of the great earthquake of Wednesday, are facing death today. Only the outer rim of the vast earthquake zone has been touched by the relief worke who are laboring under the min ister of war and minister of public works. Many of the Places wh destruction and suffering are known to exist have not yet been reached. The Campania and Southern Ab ruzzi regions have not yet received ny ald. The rescuers have made imost superhuman efforts to xe |to these plac he roads have been destroyed and there is no oth made last night would be reduced by more complete information. The Official death estimate {s still 30, 000, although unoffictal compila. tions increase this by thousands. The total sufferers—dead and in jured—probably will number 100, | 000, | Rescue to Take Weeks Eight thousand are dead at Sora, 4,000 are still buried tn the ruins of | Pescina, and 3,000 at Benedetto. It is impossible to get even an estimate from many towns in the stricken zone It will be weeks before communt-| cation is restored, except over tem porary military lines. The army engineers are doing everything in their power to r tablish liroad servic tions and to reate lines so that conditions may be as certained and adequately provided for | Every hospital, public building or | structure where injured persons can bailiffs. They can call the witnesses into the room, when necessary, SAN DI O, Jan. 16 Recover-| Pape 28 Sane | just ae easily as the bailiffs. They can make all the necessary an-/iD& from an attack ot paeamouis, Many more are in a eriticial con The vocal duties easily could be absorbed by the clerks of the! Heink, the famous singer, is at her | dition, and death is almost certain courts. The deputy sheriffs could absorb the duty of escorting juries to A amc home, near n Dieg The relief work is b 4 em.) today | sstoatt orecie AntoustMties tons Keestace' tee y io [ will not sing again for a year,” ed with food, clothing and wv jeal| If the jury retires in the daytime, even a deputy sheriff could be said the contralto. 1 e worked supplies left Rome for various parta| dispensed with, as the jury rooms adjoin the main courtroom, and no hard for 37 years, and now I'm go of the quake zone | quards.are necessary other than the judge and the clerk ling to reat here at my home | | THINK ILL TAKE HELEN OuT To | | SAY HELEN, | WANT You TO COME ‘ I es DINNER “THIS EVENING, | HAVEN'T DOWN FOR DINNER TONIGHT ~ YES DOULET EN CASSEROLE, | poe HAD NER DOWN ‘TO EAT FOR A | at -WAY~ NOTHING'S THE BE SALADE MILLEFEuiLies| Wig liono Time, VLt TAKE HER TO } MATTER. NO-I HAVEN'T HADA AND A DEMI TASSE. jue DEST PLACE [ + |N TOWN TOO : ee SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 1915 | a Fa ON THAINS AND NEWS STANDS, Se Seattle’s First Woman Judge ' and Business-Like on First ONE CENT ! | through the courtroom, a thrill compqunded, doubtiess, of many | elements, from the lump in the | throat of the justice's mother, Mrs. T. S. Bosley, to the delight of the curious who jammed the | doorway, and the chaotic bewil- derment that must have attend. ed the furtive efforts of the prisoners to “size up the judge. Their repeated and anxious glances showed their embarrass ment over the problem. You can get some idea by looking ata man judge what to expect; but what chance have you to guess what a judge will do who looks like a pleture, and wears a dress of blue serge wnd black satin? Business Is Kept | Moving Right Along “State against Cristotero DAm ico,” sald Justice Whitehead, evi Idently quite unconscious that she | was a problem | Cristofero was instructed, aid of much gosticulation ‘up, and the prosecutor read some- |thing very fast, that ended with iIty or not guilty? “Guilty,” announced Cristofero | with a promptness that taused the justice to look at him in surprise and send for an interpreter. A flood of Italian made it clear to Cristofero that he was charged with | non-support of bis two children, and a long and excited oration from him er method of communication. 1 | was translated “not guilty | Government officials atweitted) oO» His trial was set for Wednesday | , the today that there was slight hope Business moved briskly in | that the estimates of fatalities | 2499® Rhea Whitey e looks on the bench, and (below) with her | woman's justice court. H. Nelson, ‘off dut y” emile. a negro, charged with burglary, { the second degree, pleaded “not guilty,” and his trial was | [DEADWOOD | yu rues || THAT MIGHT BE CUT OFF TO REDUCE TAXES} DROP A FRACTION CHICAGO, Jan, 16.—May dropped to $1.44% at the opening of the pit today, a decline of half a cent over yesterday's close. It rec | Every court has a bailiff wheat Some courts have two bailiffs. They get | approximately $1,000 a year. In round figures, King county and Seattle pay $20,000 annually to bailiffs. Now, there are two duties which bailiffs are required to perform. ded %c more | The first to knock on a piece of wood when the judges come in and/15 minutes of trading. By 10 a. m \ cry out: “Oy, Oy, Oy!” The court is now In session,” or words to that | May wheat thad dropped to $1.42% effect July wheat opened at $1.26% and/ later reached $1.24% The second is to take juries out to lunch and to guard the Jury rooms when a verdict is being deliberated upon. Why can’t the clerks of the courts do the first, and why can’t dep- vty sheriffs do the latter? If the court's arrival has to be announced, the clerks, not being deaf. the FAMOUS SINGER QUITS FOR YEAR mutes, can raise their voices to the proper pitch Just as well a WHAT ARE YOU GOING | By Mabel by the; to stand | for a fter the first) WHY, ER, | THINK VLLTAKE HAM AND IGHT EDITION Ir tonight; Sunday rain VIDES AT SHATILE 146 1 1188 ian ft Is Firm Day in | Court; Sentences 2 Men to 6 Months Abbott THE \¢ " =e FRANCE — Germans recap- tured positions at Notre Dame Lorette. Ten German corps | massed along Aisne, new French artillery hurried there. BELGIUM — Ostend corre- Spondent of Tyd claims Ger- mans evacuated al! coast towns at far north Mariakerke, TURKEY — Russians claim t of Turks in RUSSIA—Russian forces 40 miles from German fortress of Thorn. Petrograd predicts Ger- mans must abandon Warsaw drive. HUNGARY — German troops nt to aid Hungarians to de- fend country. AFRICA — British troops capture Swapomund, town in German Southwest Africa. PETROGRAD, Jan. 16.—A sweeping victory by the Rus- sian armies operating against the Turks in the Caucasus wa announced by the war office today Eignt transports gonveying Turkish troops from Anatolla are reported sunk in the Black The fate of these troops is not known, but It is believed | many drowned. The Tenth and Eleventh 7 army corps, which were re defeated in the Caucasus by sians, endeay rkish ly Rus d to reorganize and but were beaten with enormous losses in the inity of Kara Ur jan, according to the announce ment This engagement was marked by ja series of d rate encounters. Regiment Wiped Out | The Sixty-second Turkish regi ment was practically annihilated |when Russian infantry swept their |trenches with a bayonet charge The Turks stood their ground |bravely until the whole regiment | was wiped out. The commandant jand several officers and men were [taken prisoners FIVE CENT | Ham ve HERE} LL KNOW UM EATING offer a united front to the Russians, | IF 1 DRAG A | pousT TAKE || WAS READING A DRIVERS OPPOSE MOVE TO BAR’EM OFF BOULEVARDS Jitney drivers today planned vigorous opposition A motion to deny the Brainerd. He insisted the and for that reason should and children. The board got into a tem to the jitneys was made last night to a proposal of the park board to bar autobusses from all city parks and boulevards. use of the entirg park sys- y Erastus busses are common carriers be kept out. He added that men,|they occasionally are operated so recklessly as to con- the| stitute a menace to life and limb, especially ot women lively discussion of the sub- o! ject and ended by laying the matter over for one week. In the meantime the Rapid Transit association autobus men have decided to call their organization, will hold a gen eral meeting at the Press Club auditorium at 9 o'clock Monday levening One action the members say they almost certainly will take is committee to walt on the park board at its next meeting and vig orously oppose the p Brainerd’s motion. Few Use Boulevards sage of As a | LJANDCUFFED together, tw half a doze | | one them a negro, stumbled awkwardly inte | prisoners’ corner below the judge's high desk and big leather chair in the courtroom of Justice Reah Mary Whitehead | Friday afternoon. The chair was empty and the « | the judge's private office was closed | The guard removed the shackles, and retired outside | the enclosure Clerk Boxill mounted the platform, laid a |mighty volume open on the desk, and descended to his own t deputy r d his pap on the { ¢ the b buzz of paration in crowded courtro then a sudden stillness, as the door opened quietly and a little figure in dark blue serge like a nun's habit, climbed the steps and slipped into the|t© Instruct ether an.attorney or a great chair The Honorable Just Court of King County, Seattle | Precinct, was in session, with the first woman justice on jthe bench “ " | | aie matter of fact, there are A queer fittie thrill ran | few jitneys ‘Gslng boulevards oF parkroads and not much chan that, as the industry develops, there will be occasion to use many of | them, | However, there are. occasional short stretches the jitneys will need to traverse in order to serve some routes and the auto owners do not propose, they say, to be legislated off a public highway with- out a fight. Furthermore, they say, they do not like the alacrity with which Brainerd has rushed in to regulate them. One of the chief items of busi- ness coming up Monday will be a report authorizing a legisiative committee to ask the council vol- untarily to pass an ordinance regu- }lating the traffic. The regulations | will have to do chiefly with safety of passengers Motto Is “Safety Alway The jitmen in the association say they will prosecute any driver observed breaking the speed laws lor otherwise endangering passen gers’ lives Their motto is “Safety Always,” and they are going to observe it, they affirm. Other regulations will have to do with the number of passengers carried and the bond ing of drivers. The fitmen are emphatic in their assertion that they are not fight- ling the Electric Co. but simply are |striving to build up a new industry and will work with the traction company in serving the public to the best advantage. ‘SAN DIEGANS TO IGNORE BOARD'S "BAN ON JITNEYS 16. board SAN DIEGO, Jan fiatce of the prohibiting autobusses from using boulevards near the exposition en by the Open de park mandate trance was promised today Diego Autobus Men's associa was sald they would run ma- chines into the forbidden territory in close succession today, courting arrest in ord that the dispute may be threshed out at the possible date. earliest | mer Fifer, a driver who, it is sald, was not acting under instruc tions, ran into the park this morn ing and was arrested, The park rd said it would make this a se. pretary Russell of the autobus men, in a conference with lawyers today, was advised jitneys have as much right in the park as any other automobiles. BOoW THE WAY } UPSIDE ANO™} 1 We SLANTS AT {| DOWN Bus News The Blue Bus line, operating be- tween the postofice and Aloha st on 19th ave. distributed copies of its schedule turday At present the Blue Bus has two, seven-passenger cars leaving oppo site ends of the run every 156. mine utes. Two new cars will be added in February. H. E. Ford and O. W. Steffey own the line. i eee —After dark it is not easy to dis- tinguish between jitney busses and privately owned cars. Owners of | private Fords and other small cars jcomplain of being constantly stop- |ped by people mistaking them for |Jitneys, George Bail on the Summit run, Friday night installed an elec- | tric sign on his car. "We don't hurry, but we beat the cars,” reads a banner carried on jan Eastlake jitney owned and op- erated by I. C. Replogle, 5648 46th 3. W | eee ~-The invasion of the jitney bus has been the means of furnishing employment to 200 or more men, otherwise out of work, according to figures vouched by Alfred Linz, the Seattle originator. eee | ‘The jitney bus has had a pro | nounced effect on the price of gaso- |line, many pumpmen having drop- | ped a cent from the price, At sev- eral “geysers” gas is available at 12 cents per gallon. ore —A number of university youths who have their own cars attach jit- ney bus signs to the windshields while traveling to and from school every day, and take in enough to pay for gas and other running ex- penses. eee -A bank cashier, a real estate broker, the president of an insur- ance office and a building owner are among the regular passengers jof G. T. Thompson, a Capitol hill |Jitney driver ee. —Patrolman Peter Schilling de- nies the story in The Star riday, to the effect that he attempted to shill” his way down Second ave, on a jitney bus by showing his police- man’s star. He says the story wa a fellow-officer as a joke. eee tarted by Harry Juul, 5 th ave., driy- jing a jitney bus, Friday hit Mrs, J. McIntyre, of 103 13th ave. N,, at Third and Union, and a moment later ran into Miss Jeanne MeGow- an, 6th. Both women were able fo proceed unassisted. Juul failed to stop after the acciderit and was overhauled by Policeman Carter after a mile chase. eee One of the first to jump into the jitney bus swim were a number |of newsboys who have prospered on good downtown corners. Seven newsies have forsaken thelr cor jners for jitneys. The boys who jhave entered the new ~ field are Harry Marks, Dan Lyons, Moy Ma- kow, George O'Malley, Charley Cole, Melvin Peterson and George Wit- ney Jitney busses have just invaded pokane, according to word received |from the falls city Saturday, At | present only the principal streets are traversed, it is said eee | One of the big steel Seattle, Renton & Southern cars ploughed into a small bus at Fourth and Pine |st. Friday morning. The engine didn’t even stop, and after straight. ening the car, the driver proceeded on intact. The car fender was bit. ly bent. " eee The building of a number of jitney busses with comfortable ac: commodations for 10 persons each has been started by the Elbert Mo. tor Car Co., and the first of the naw | cars will soon appear ou the streets, he car is constructed so exch per }so can step diregtly into the ear without treading on the feet of [other occupants, @