The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 30, 1915, Page 3

JTNEY FOLK WILL ASK FOR SAFETY LAW A mass Meeting of owners and drivers of jitney busses for the purpose of drafting city ordinances properly regulating the jitney bus traffic was called today by the Seattie Auto Transit association. The meeting will be held In Press club hall Monday night at 8:30, City counciimen, the mayor, police officials and the corpora- tlon counsel have been invited. The nec ity of hastening safety legislation is recognized as essentia to the existence of the bue business Secretary Prather stated in issuing the call. The busmeén, he says, are al! anxious to reach the councilmen ahead of their enemies, who are be Neved to be preparing dangerous laws One of the laws the fitney men want is an ordinance against drivers allowing passengers to ride on the running boards. Members of the as fociation are strongly opposed to this practice. Many of them are refusing to car ty more than capacity loads Sergt. of Police Carr will be pres- ent to give the jitney men pointers on traffic and how to avoid conges- tion. Counct!man Erickson has also Promised to speak @ association is at work today arranging down town loops for carr | Eastlake 19th ave Capitol and E. supplying the hill, Broadway, Union districts. Cars that heretofore turned back at Third and Union will proceed up Third ave. to Pike and out Pi ‘This will relieve considerable con gestion. Secretary Prather reports that many people are confounding the association with the Seattle Auto ‘Transit company, a private enter. prise which claims to be. makin Preparation for putting on a thou sand or so cars, with 4-cent tickets and transfer privileges. The promoters of the company have chosen a name similar to that of the association. There is no con nection between the two enterprises OH, GIRLS, LOOK AT THIS; HIS CLOTHES COST HIM $20,000 400 MILLIONS’ SPENTIN YEAR ONU.S.MOVIES | “You probably won't belleve me but over 400,000,000 was spent by the public in the United States tn moving piéture shows last year, 1 wouldn't be a bit surprised to ree | tt goover $600,000,000 this said C sales for t tion, now fr |vertising compatgn for tion. Mr. Seelye is vice president of the | Sterling Advertising service of New York | 1 have been conducting the ad-| vertising business for the Wogld Film Corporation for the last two years, and the result has been #0) wonderfully surprising that I now have the good fortune to be pulling | down close to $75,000 a year salary, sald Seelye. pattie directing an ad. that fnstitu STAR—SATURDAY, JAN. 30, 1915. SUED FOR $50,000 HEART BALM,AGED MAN GETS A LICENSE AND DECIDES TO MARRY I never saw such a live motion | picture town as Seattle,” he contin ued, “The exhibitors here are >the lvest bunch I ever run across, More money Is spent here by exhibitors tn advertising than in New York City | And, believe moe, it Is the right sys tem.” | Seelye ts a young, energetic chap But to look at him you wouldn't think he was drawing down tn real} money as much as the president of the United States. He {s a strong jbellever in newspaper advertising What | Think Abuot It BY FREODIE FILM OLIVER WALLACE, THE WIRY lindividual who draws real money for tickling the keys on the big pipe organ at the Clemmer, had a regular solar plexus blow | handed him the other day An old woman, who had admired | Wallace's playing, came right out land told him so. leame in with a lady friend, and sat down in the front row Wallace saw her. He got out his} imasterpiece, and played It beaut! fully, he thought. After he had | finished, the old lady leaned over the ralling and whispered ; “Would you mind playing some- |thing good now, Mr. Wallace, for |my friend here down ee ure of meeting Lewis Selznick! the main squeeze of the World Film Corporation, the other day. After I had spent a pleasant hour with him and smoked a few of his cigars, I spent the rest of the even ing: with a doctor. I can't stand these high-priced stogies. I would rather have one of Ed Kennedy's campaign cigars. eee A FEW OF OUR RESIDENCE exhibitors are waking up and send ing in their programs. Remember, if you're not in The Star's column yet, old man, opportunity only makes one visit and doesn’t leave his phone number. eee Cc. H. CODE, THE MAN WHO) peddies “Runaway June” to the ex hibitors, arrived in town the other day, accompanied by a brand new valise, with a number of big “C's painted all over ft. It made him look like a cancaret salesman. . FREDDIE GORDON, THE NICE, police little chap who opened and shut the door at the Class A, has SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Jan. 30. —Sartorially the Chinese male of the species has it all over us, if proof were needed, Liu Sung Fu can provide it abundantly. He is Chinese commissioner to the Pan ama-Pacific exposition, and he has @ $20,000 wardrobe! Lin Sung Fu wears the most re- splendent raiment of the color- loving Orient. A wagon load of trunks are nec- | essary to carry the 150 silk and embroidered robes the dapper com-| missioner will wear at the various state functions here during 1915, VICTORIA, Jan. 20. of Victoria's school been reduced 10 per The salaries teachers have nt TTCHING, BUSTERED | SKIN-ERUPTION ALL HIS LIFE, NOW CURED “All my life, until about ago, 1 was troubled with blisters and sores over my entire body. The itching and burning was terrible and I could hardly sleep. I used many treatments that were unsuc-| cessful and did not give me any relief. I started using Resinol Oint- ment and Resinol Soap and they| helped me wonderfully. I WAS RELIEVED AT ONCE, and after about two dozen applications I can| ay that I was free and cured of that awful disease. My skin now is as clear as anybody's.” aned) | Geo, Whitcher, Jr., R. F. No. 64,| Caledonia, N. Y. Nov. 1914 Resino! Ointment and Resino| Soap are sold by alf@ruggists, For trial) free write to Dept. 9-R, Resino Baltimore. «a year dD. 19, gone back to Buffalo to shoot buf. faloes for his uncle, who makes safety razor sharpeners for a liv- ing. Too bad to send a good fel low like that East. PLAYS At the Class A Until Tuesdsy Night “The Black Ghost Bandit.” dra ma; “One Flight Up,” tworeel drama; “Mutual Weekly”; “Caught in the Rain,” Keystone comedy, fea turing Charlie Chaplin | oe 8 At the Colonial All Week “Restitution,” two-part drama featuring Marte Doro. | oe | } | | | The professed lo G, Gard ner, @ wealthy music dealer hei for Miss Marguerite Coffey, less than one-third his age, has been | put to the 4 test, The girl sued him for $50,000 under breach of promise proceedings. Gardny responded by getting a marriage It and laring his willingness to marry the 21-year old girl at any time or place, as serting that he still loved her. “It was only after I had repeat jedly a utilely urged our early | marriage explained Gardner, “that I broke our engaRement. felt that her apparent wcsarolild This week she/to have the banns published tok-| ened that she really did not love me | “I spent money incessantly on her from the time she first came to my store,” he said. “I bought her clothes, promised her property and trips and a maid to do the housework as soon as we should be married. “My friends and relatives had Coffey Gardner | Marguerite and A, G. jand being made the victim of my own credulity “Mins Coffey refused to marry | Me except on terms and conditions |which demand the payment of money and which were unreason able and no part of my proposal of marriage. “She is otherwise and demands money, wards which I was ex unreasonable gifts and re ted to sup ply before she would agree to the); 1 HAD saci’ EXTREME PLEAS. | Warned me that | was an old seal baaraishsnchell Reanty dra tory No. “The Spirit of Givin 1a; “Runaway June, drama. . . At the Clemmer Until Tuesday Night drama, featuring Mre Du Barry Leslie Carter. ee At the Mission Until Tuesday Night “Captain Alvarez,” drama featur ing Edith Storey. eee At the Liberty Unti! Tuesday Night “The Morals of Marcus,” drama At the Alaska Until Tuesday Night “The Girl I Left Behind Me,” dra | ma, featuring Robert Edeson; also a comedy. . At the Tilikum Until Tu Night “The Stranglers of Paris. | drama, jay Night * six-part RESIDENCE THEATRES At the Bungalow Until Monday Night fuardian,” drama; “A Scrap of Paper.” drama; “The Great Imperial Arkus,” comedy; “Hen pecked Gets a Night Off,” comedy oe At the Greenwood Nnght “The Master Key,” episode No. drama; “Beau and Hobo,” comedy “Rill Goes Into Business,” comedy; In Danger Hour,” drama; “An fn dian’s Eclipse,” drama “The False HAIRCUT PRICES DROP EUGENE, Or., Jan. 20—The 25. cent price for haircuts, which has held up for 18 months, has fallen with a crash, Haircuts are now two! bits Until Sunday! | ‘HAAS TO LEAVE RENTON DEAL TO THE VOTERS; President Haas of the council Friday served notice on the recelv ora of the Seattle, Renton & South orn line that he will not vote for any direct purchase of the railway, but would Insist that the propost tion be submitted to @ vote of the people. Councilman Dale, sponsor for the newest ordinance to buy the 8, R & &., thereupon obtained a continu ance for a week while Councilman Cooley and himself go over the ordi nance with Corporation Counsel Bradford and the recetvers. They are to report back next Frt ‘| day. Samuel Atkinson, a recent arrival from Rochester, N. Y., where he was organizer for the electric rail way employes, urged the finance smmittee of the council to pur chase the Renton line He nald he was speaking from the | standpoint of organized labor. WASHINGTON MILLS LEAD IN OUTPUT HOQUIAM, Jan. 30. Three Washington mills are among the atx mills which show the largest output in Washington, Oregon and Califor nia during 1914. The Washington mills follows: Hoquiam Lumber & Shingle 105,698,246 feet, sec ond; Gray's Harbor Lumber Co. Hoquiam »,706,680, fourth; St Paul & Lumber Co., Ta coma. fifth | Tacoma 79,300,000, PAGE 3. LEAGUE WILL 2 INDORSE FIVE CANDIDATES No tndorsements of sekabeait candidates were made at the Pub He Owner ing in the night, it b such action While only to be ele: league will candidates, clalists, C. Jacobs The three non-soctalists spectally favored by the league are believed | to be T. H. Bolton David Me Kenzte and W. P. McElwain Counctiman Erickson and Corpo ration Counsel Bradford addressed the league. Erickson urged the voters to give a strong vote of approval for the Hight plant, the’ autobus plan, and the extension of the municipal railway to Ballard Bradford pointed out the dangers of senate Bill No. 46, introduced by Howard Taylor of King county and| written by attorneys of the Puget|—_— Sound ragpion, Light & Power Co, | = ALASKA THEATRE| SUNDAY—MONDAY—TUESDAY 3—DAYS ONLY—3 David Belasco---Charles Frohman--- Reunited Great theatrical names coupled again by Box Office Attraction Company with the screen production of the Great American Classic, which opened the Empire Theatre, New York, hip league mass meet Labor Temple Friday & agreed to postpon until next w three candidates are 1, it is believed the indorse at ast five) two of whom are so-| D. Raymer and C. J HUTICUATUUTUAUIUUUUUUAUAUEAET TTL An exciting drama with rapidly changing scenes and quick-fire action. Plenty of col- or, strong characterization and excellent photography. A big cast of resplendent stars, including obert Edeson The creator of many star roles. An actor known in every corner of the country—his name is synonymous with “perfect heroics,” DICK RETURNS (Copyright, 1915, by the Newspaper Enterprise Association.) This morning before I was up I was awakened by the sound of Dick's latch key In the door. I | must have been listening for it in |my sleep. Oh, how glad I was to have him home! Hut I could see he was nervous and tired and he kept walking up| and down the room, asking short | questions, I dressed as soon as sesible and we went out to break: | Pz | HUQAAALOOUUUUEANARAOEDUUUAGAAGOANOAEEUUUUGGOQOARAEEUUOGOQOOOOEEOUUOUGOOOOOAAUUOOEAAOAAU UU wonder if every woman {deal laos her husband when he ts away | from her. When Dick is away I lonly think how much I love him. I Jendow him with all the virtues; bl |forget all bis little foibles. When he returns {t is two or three days | before he gets settled down to j}home life again, and during that time I must confess to you, little book, he gets on my nerves terri- bly—he is so nervous himself, and it almost seems sometimes that we have to get acquainted all over again, and every little thing fn the house that don't ran just to sult him makes him unhappy. Dick is like all other men when he {fs un happy. It hurts him to seo any one else happy. I have often felt sorry for those women whose husbands travel They are always either passing through this adjusting process or| = else they are leading lonely, long: | ing lives. “Absence makes the heart grow fonder,” is another one of those beautiful lies that sounds so poet-/ feal and disappoints one so terribly when one learns that absence will just as surely make the heart grow colder as {t will in time make one Direction Lloyd B. Carleton. Claire Whitney, Stuart Holm " filmdom. 10c SSUUUAUANNNANUUUUUUUUUUNAAANAAUQGUUUUUUAAAANT ADMISSION “popular idol” and “Standing Room Only.” Cast includes es, Walter Hitchcock and many other leading lights in —3 10¢)7 break tt," I said. “He ts very un-| WANTS OPTION kind to Mary, who is doing her ON CITY BONDS forget entirely one has learned by| sad experience a much disputed fact. If this were not so, prolonged absence would be unbearable. As| |it is with Dick and me, he has to be-| |gin all over to know me and love me, and I have to take my {deal of him that I have been nourishing and building up and hide it away again while I also get acquainted with the real Dick I wanted him to stay and talk to me this morning, but he was sim ply crazy to get to the office, He asked me about his mother, and when I told him the state of affairs | |he swore under his breath “You will have to see Jack and| make him understand that a pro-| bated will cannot be tampered/ with unless he intends to try and STAR CIRCLE FOR YOUNG FOLKS HOBBY CONTEST | FOR NEXT WEEK Atherly, Hazie-| suggested a contest Uncle Jack thinks all the Circle- ites will be interested {n. That i to write a short letter, not exceed- ing 150 words, telling of your chief hobby. Uncle and girls. largest Willard H. ot wood, Wash., | | | | | Jack knows that all boys from the smallest to the have something they like a little better than anything else. Maybe 4 likes rabbits or marbles, or he is interested ia elec trielty. A girl may like dolls, sew ing or cooking if you have a hobby write and tell Uncle Jack about it. A dollar will be given for the best letter. | ‘The contest closes Friday after-| noon at % o'clock. Try to get your | letters in before that time. State! your age SHE WON “PRIZE! Owing to an error, the winner of last week's contest was not an-| nounced. Josephine Sullivan, | 26th ave, ts the winner, Instead ot being awarded honorable men-| tion she should have been award ed the prize. The box of candy awaits her at the office. HARD TO PLEASE i 0 COLVILLE, Wash., Jan, 40.-~The council has declined to confirm the appointment of H. D. Williams as marshal. This is the fifth cand! date for marshalship to be rejected since Mayor Townsend took office, Here’s the Picture The above snapshot Is a picture sent In by the winner, Mary Ottin- ger, of Lake Bay. It Is a picture, she says, of her little brother, who Is a strong advocate of the Germans That Cops $1 Prize In the present war. He felt so deeply concerned over the condl- tions In Europe that he put on a helmet and went to war with his 42-centimetre gun (in reality a stove pipe.) BET THESE KIDS ARE A unique safety contrivance In cane of fire has been established at the Holden school, Chicago. This is a tube constructed egainst the outside of the bullding and con-) necting with the school room by double doors This tube is to be used in case PULLING FOR A FIRE fire cutsi@ff the step exits. Children can be shot down this |tube In half a minute The children sit at the top with their feet In the tube, give them selves a gentle push and away they | os The bottom doors open when the child’s feet strike them. | ea! ‘COUNTRY LASS PRIZE WINNER This week's photegraphie contest | was more successful than Uncle |Jack had imagined it would be The amateur photographers of the! Circle certainly worked hard to win that dollar. Mary Ottinger, of Lake Bay, Wash., {a the winner. Mary sent! in a pleture of her little brother playing soldter. Many others sent in fine pictures Their names will be found where {fn this column else | |_worTHY MENTION | The names of a few who sent in the best pictures are as follows: Mary Loo, TOOL 4th No; Reuben Horn, Foster, W ude Kolleon, 4248 Bixth ave, N 4980 Midvale ave Frank Heteh rice Mid 4239 Mukliteo: Morey HERE’S A BRAVE. KID) The people ‘ot “‘Comansville, Ga.,| are working for a Carnegie medal} for 11-year-old Georgie Bacon, who,| at the risk of his life, saved three} persons from death {n a swamp. | HE MAKES A RECORD} Fred Hinckley, 13, of Dawson,| Alaska, recently went hunting with his father and brought down thr grizziies and a deer, Quite a rec- ord for a boy, eh? | }to us.” Jing about your husbands. jof duty duty, even if he Is ugly about It.” | “Til attend to him,” he answered a at shortly John EB. Price, head of the bond- He was pleased that the ing firm of the same name, applied business was going on so well, and/to the finance committee of the smiled when I mentioned Mary, 80 | council Friday for an option for 30 knew he was going to take her|days on $400,000 of masonry dam are |bonds and $125,000 of Firland hos He also seemed glad that I had | pital bonds, which bear 4% per cent been with Harry and Eliene 80/ interest, and which have hitherto much while he was away. “Wealth heen unable to find any market has not spoiled the Symones,” he |The committee, however, did not said with his wry smile. “They | grant the option, because the coun are just as good as poor folk.” |ci1 expects to call for bids on the| After a while he looked at ™M ponds March 20. rather queerly and said: “Well, what's the great news you have for me? Elfene is going to have a baby.” a moment he grew red and n white and then, after a slight itation, he said Margie, I thought you were go- to say that baby was coming book DEBATE ON SINGLE TAX | attle and W. H. Kaufman of Bel. lingham, former assessor of What- | com county, will debate on the question, “Single Tax vs. Social ism,” at the Labor Temple, Satur Are you disappointed?” my day night, at 8:00 o'clock. Horner voice trembled and the tears were | will speak for single tax. The labor dy to fall |chorus will sing. Dick came around the table (we | were eating our breakfast) and I mall hered me up in his arms. “Here, h . old girl, this will never do. We'll get along if we Here are nine vacant circles. Place in each any number from 1 never have any children, I shall/ not worry as long as I have you. to 9, so that when complete, they will sum up 22 both ways. Do not use Besides, there is a lot of time yet. the same numeral more than once, To Think of Eliene.” ive you a start we have placed one of tt he ing She doesn't want a baby now.” What!” “You see, she ts afraid she will | love it more than she does the twins, and she doesn’t want to do that.” Dick just shouted. “Well, ff you! women don’t beat everything In this world for conjuring up some. thing to worry about. You would not be happy if you did not have a little worry or two. I suppose that is the reason why children are sent They keep you from worry. You re member David Harum: It was good for a dog to have a few fleas; they kept him from thinking of his other troubles.” (To Be Continued Monday.) 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