The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 23, 1915, Page 1

4 The jitney bus, in the short time it has been with us here in Seattle, has made gigantic strides. been wondering just what will come of the new industry--whether it ever can attain such proportions as to make possible ™ the substitution of motor vehicles for street cars as a general method of city transportation. pean cities have had motor busses for years. The traffic there has been systematized. The editor of The Star has obtainxed from a London correspondent an article descriptive of that city’s auto busses, telling just what kind of service they: give. PAID CIRCULATION GUARANTEED OVER 99,000 COPIES DAILY SEATTLE JITNEY BUS MEN TO OR INTERNATION TheSeattleStar [1-482 The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News ——_————————————— | Seattle people have London anc{ many other Euro- READ IT! It is in today’s. issue. eee AST Fair tonight. Cloudy Sunday TIDES AT SEATTLE Low VOLUME 16. SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, 1915. ONE CENT Niiws STANDA, be THREE KINGS DONT BEAT TWO PAIR IN THIS ‘Me Sova SIUM. THEN The Jitney Bus Business May Be Pretty Tough on the Poor Seattle Electric Company, But— Sie ?9"1D1B. AL DRIVERS’ ASSOCIATION AUTOBUS ‘nroentietne PLAN FOR GARAGE BANISHES | TO HANDLE WORK © TROLLEY WILL DIE ON A GREAT SCALE | also scl \eduled to take action in re gard to “ecquiring a large downtown garage, ‘where all the assoctation ig, 10, were struck at First ave.| by a swiftly moving Ballard] IGHT EDITION An International jitney bus association, probably with Se- attie as headquarters, is ex- pected to materialize the first” of the week. Victoria and Vancouver today notified A. M. Prather, secretary of the Seat- tle Rapid Transit association, of their willingness to become units in such a federation, and Prather believes similar organi- zations from here to San Diego will jump at the idea. der the Such an organization, it is schedules believed by the auto men, will Starters 1 Yave been at work for soon become a powerful factor |two days on | the B. Union and 19th in the transportation field. ave. lines, }nd have obtained am A committee of the Seattle asso-| agreement | tnder which all mem- ciation will recommend, Tuesday) bers’ cars wi ¥1 run clear to the end night, that it take up with the {dea of the line ex fery trip. at once and assume leadership inj In additiond to active members, carrying out the larger organiza-|the associat! pa proposes to estab- tion. lish an asso: fate membership, open” The Tuesday night meeting {s|to accessory .Ynd supply dealers. eee SE rr COME ON, HUSBANDS! HOW = member: ¥ cars will be repaired, in- spected . taily by experts, and sup plied at post with parts, tires, off and gaegfSne. An all-night service will ben Rintained. Action « ¥s8o will be taken toward the select! on of a traffic manager, | who shall « rect a corps of starters and place ®M the 300 jits now un association on definite LONDON, England, Jan, @ —A primitive moterbus puffed painfully over the pavements, and the populace jeered hilari- ously, That was on a day in 1899 when the first self-pro pelled omnibus made Ite ap- I ‘of at b @ boys were en » the! ia lei don. : They had hoped Today the descendants of that sm Pte PP ring populace have made the descendants of that awkward, much-despised motorbus their favorite vehicle. | The autobus has become the | autecrat of the arteries of Lon- | don traffic Last y over 450,060,000 passengers traveled by) bus through the thoroughfares of the world’s greatest city! | A description of the wonders ac | ‘he arrival of @ city ambulance. complished by the bus tn London The Koenige Hive in a ramshackle previous to the time when it war Roger Wi Dabsox. house at 221 Third ave, N. There 4 | erermandesred by the war office |" eight children, including the} Roger W. Babson testifying as 7 ’ fo ikals to aive a big boost to the|t¥o Injured boys. ‘The youngest is|a business and industrial expert | _ before U. S. Commission on Indus: | a urgent demand recently made ir |® child of 2, the oldest 16, Four are many American cities for motorbur irls. telat Relations. | - transportation A neighbor's boy who viewed the Wall street wants dividends; i8| Now Seattle husbands are going|the $25 will be ~#hown again all this Street Car Company Howls accident broke the news to the| satisfied if they come and dissat-|+, nave a chance to tell what they|cComing week 1 # the Colonial, to — For what the busses have dons | nts, Both immediately went to| {fled if they don't he policy I) oi at 5 * | gether with bot b the first and see | In London they can do in America | the hospital to Ket dividends by good or bad | think about the question, Does @) nq stories of “ Runaway June,” the | On dOn ey co en the most| During their sbeence, Jacob Koe-|™anssement. The backers wtioes Wite Earn Wages?” | cad storiee cr oa, ontecae remarkable xystem of transpartatior | Dig, 14, next to the oldest boy, com business {t is to get the dividends! ‘The one who does the best job|the same wife's | wages problem. in the world forted his little sisters. have nothing against lapor. They of it in a letter of 150 words will| Manager HamrJch had only the They carry passengers faster | When a Star reporter arrived at| Simply orgy See labor one ree airs 6 $2 a prize and be [nee atory Yehoduled for aa 0 oly pi jt joure, Jacob wi yaup| g, - Sarygey | cinematographe week, but foun ae ene fee Sen are ah oy Digest letag or ttemn a - spores fe § jd fs o or| Manager Hamrich of the Colonial demand on the part of film fans TH ondon thetr flerce competition | the little redeyed ones about him|ica, where he. t for South Amer-|theatre was so delighted with the|who had missed -tt for a repetition fe — |ica, where he will make an eX-|recent contest of a similar nature |of the first that he decided to ex has driven the street car system | not to cry tensive study of trade possibilities |conducted by The Star among|hibit both into a corner, and It is howling for oe Injured boys attended the/for readers of The Star. wives of Seattle, that he deter-| A movie picture ) of the winner of = & a tliat ane eauiot Pir tor via Direkt ‘egg satiate tas mined today to give the other side the husbands’ wontest will & i Gerrmees Sate eer ae Basg i , S99 » a hearing shown week afte w next, wit American cities to free themselver | high Third The motion picture of Mrs.|third story of “Bi maway June.” from the ruthless tyranny of thet:| The motorman on the car, Alvin Helene Johnson, winner of the! The contest clo ses Friday night NOW street car monopolies would be tc| Russell, 311 Valley st., and the con SHORT NEWS women's contest, and of Fred L.|and the movie film will be made _ | Institute a comp hensive motorbus | ductor, M. C, Hohall, 733 N. 76th Boalt of The Star presenting her’ Saturday. car com-| Were ordered to report at police feach car, which buried thelr home coaster nearly 26 feet and in-| the boys so badly both are! expected to die jure The car was brought to a stop 90 feet from the spot of the crash. find some} waste coal, of which the Koeniga were badly im neea The father, J. K. Koenig, has been ont of work a year Today, after the last bit of fuel had been used up, the brothers vol- unteered to get some The coaster was reduced to kin- Gling wood. Both boys sustained tract skulls, They were carried into the Eilfott grocery to await HELP!! WE'RE BEIN' ROBBED tae" “TReR g sere service—and the street -: b ] | panies realize it headquarters. | | | "They fight the motorbus toot? ———____—_— LET IT FREEZE! | and nail whenever it is #0 much Kal RAE. be | 4 mentioned in an American com NEW YORK, Jan. 33.—-Brooklya | paachorrs doesn’t care, Only persons | } |heard Rev. H. F. Fuessle preach on | | 1 ae is Ray ~ Bo phe ; Will Hell Ever Freeze?” | . ¥ | means two conts U. 8. A—is the| A special meeting of the council E-LIMB-INATED m tockney’s phrase describing with| Will be held at 5 o'clock Saturday |, BOSTON, Jan. 23.—Mayor Cur , s@e lfair accuracy the rate you pay on| afternoon at which time bids will | Hoy atest edict ts that “limbs vi ‘ . dan Oke eh Zepatietel |a London ba |be opened for the $500,000 loan | means | ee ba ante| Sinaourusinn etocien Qa. | tad cromteued thee toapital’s on } aed a cits 70.000 Joan | Barefoo cing may de pe , n ries of al- m 18 Co een et ote ae in cn advionty, pores eg TO age ee | In a scurrying current going any | 20 oe E a 4 tir 2 : bt Al ted, but the t Aeon’ geokinite nee ego ‘Gateane vy Villa and tire police force , and that te a correspondent of The Star, ls serving in an advisory capacity to LEDO, 0. Jan. 28—Judge| where and everywhere that YOU |ICU dititions will compete. The | limbs” dancing | Zapata soldiers in Mexico City | drunken soldiers were enter : ” United States commission on John M. Killitts of the U. 8. court] want to go, over 3,000 busses were |i 0 i. tg «be for a three-year —— were told in dispatches receiv- ing homes of resid ents and in- industrial relations, in its investi- today found the Toledo News-Hee|Plying night and day at steady) oerioq and is to bear not over 6|HIS GIFT TO SCIENCE ed at Carranza headquarters discriminately abusing women gations of the unemployment prob- Publishing Co., and Negley D. Coch speed, before the war broke out per sent ' INDIANAPOLIS Jan : 1,| here today from Vera Cruz. and girls. ores «mening Lrsepuadiixsapr’ bd ran, editor of the paper, guilty of|,, 4%, ery, comer ts the sonter of —- ———- Mark Goldblott, leave my body to| Wholesale _ indignities upon The streets wens--said to be unemployment a 8 causes thai . |the city it was possible to Ket a bur!» @|the medical college to be used for| women of all classes were re- deserted. Anarchy and panic any man in America. He visited contempt of court for publishing| avery 20 seconds in either dire | | scientific purposes only. It is posi-| Ported. prevailed. Wholes mle exect Europe to study unemployment con Save ie nae cop Sheng gg | oe WATER SHUT-OFF NOTICE | |tively not to be buried.” Having The dispatches declared Car- tions also were rem wted. ditions for the Wainwright commis- prove Dp _ Moe Cause No Congestion Water will be shut off on||written this will, Goldblott shot] ‘anza_agente had informed pean rags? Wey a sion of New York, Upon his re- Tt - SS ‘s In the rush periods, about Second ave., between Pike | himself SEALERS JIT BUSSES Cc OST port the New York state legis!ature tase ereay aaa ree ane Was busses per hour passed one pot Pine sts, on Sunday from based the labor exchange law. Dr. eB psher a in Oxford at. a.m, Ul 8 p. m., also on Val “ATTERS 40 PEA 5 A SUM Sciecaund 16: eomatrestive eter | The court held that Cochran was) yo the busses caused no cons’ ley st, between Terry N. and ace pyre Da hoa ee RAILWAY RG er, as well as a student of thie sub an employe of the paper, and notition, They dodge in and ont amor Minor on Tefry N., be-| |snousand dollars worth of pearls y SAN FRANCISCO, 7 on. 28.—The ject, and any constructive work to he principal in the offense, and th» rest of the traffic. tween Mercer and Lake Union are scattered through the down, ~~ v. jitney busses are costi: @ the street be done b ythe United States gov. that, “as this was his first offense, if the machine ahead breaks dow: | | snd on Fairview ave. between | |tgwn district of San F 2 Bec Vienna dls. Sy oan aan Bean plans ee ernment to relieve unemployment his fine should be ighter.” which it mighty seldom does Roy and Valley on Sunday | | Mrs, Washington Dodge today | Count Stursks, the At ‘ignation of) minute, according to {i pares made In the near future will necessarily Both were given until April 15 to they duck around It. from 9 a. m. till 6 p,m naked the police to ald her in find-| Count Stursks, the Austtlan prem py statisticlans today.” be done by the United States gov pay the fines In the caso of a street car break |) . ing the gems. ‘The necklace string |e" Was printed here today by the - — > has been. asked by Uncle Sam to Counsel for the defendants de-|qown, there would be an endless Ue: a was intact when she left the ferry | Messagero. i DALLAS, Tex., Jam, 23.—J. B. suggest a way to insure the coun- clared they would carr the | Case blockade formed at once, If thr |to go to her home, 100 pearls, | It w rumored that differences Good, socialist candida te for con- try against periods of unemploy- tothe suoseme court of the United| siota strect ta closed, the bur| Chicago counciiman announcer | worth $40 each, being included in | between Count Sturgks and Baron gress in November, w: ts arrested ment in future. This interview is Stat nceeearhenancaeaia es ~ our] many of his fellow citizens are sut-|the set, The string broke, and|Burian Rajecz, the new Austrian today on a charge of sar Ying a let- in four parts, of which this is the The ea grew out of Toledo's , strain, due to trying when Mrs Dodge got home only 60 | foreign mint . were responsi ter to Mayor Holland, ¢*#reatening c Dr. William M. Le fight for 3-cent street car fares (Continued on Page 8.) or through dirty car windows pearls remained ‘tor the former's resignation to blow up the city hal first—Editor.) By Don McGregor CHICAGO, Il, Jan. 23.—With an idea of getting inside on the unemployed problem, I called on Dr. William M. Lei- serson at the offices of the United States Industrial Relation the man who knows more about the real facts commis of unemployment than any man in the United States—the “job expert” of Uncle m’s investigators | “Can you estimate the number of unemployed in the| ”” I asked | cities in the United State he said, “and if I could I wouldr't. It isn’t impor-) ped! For weeks I had been hearing stories of the| york this winter—ghastly | Leiserson aaid the number of thousands out of most of them—and Dr im “But there right now,” I said of them » cold and hungry, and their) women a their children are cold and hungry. .What are you going to} do about it | “They and their women and children must be fed and clothed| and kept warm by charity How that is going to be dome, I don’t know Ym not that kind of a doctor, The work of the industrial relations commission is not that of applying salve to the wounds labor already OW MY— PUFF } ENJON- PUFF IT- PUFF-VERY WWE ARE GETTING ALONG JUST FINE ARENT WE? You ARE.SvOW A : SPLENDID DANCER, po You ENJOY [MES BGGERS, MEET MY \WsBAMD M® DUFF [~~ ——— hs IcHARMED |GETTING ALON ©& ATLAS HOLDIN | | ALLRIGHT \ | BELIEVE HELEN [5 BRINGING THE WORLD [THAT MRS. BIGGERS oveR. To DANCE WITH ME! 1 WISH | CovLD [ a Duck ovT AND fy SNAG A SMONE iG ~ a olaiiline { DELIGHED \mrs. BIGGERS| ONES TALL ONES f= fh