The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 15, 1915, Page 1

Sirs STAR today publishes an interview with Irvin Cobb, the writer, recently returned from the war zone. Cobb strips war of its glory. Every one in Seattle should read the blunt, hideous truths about the fighting in Europe. He informs George Davis, representing The Star and its sister papers, who met and interviewed him during a lecture tour, that he has been compelled to tone down his talk because men and women fainted nightly in his audiences. If you’re a man, and have a sneaking idea you'd like to see what war’s like, or if you're a woman with an ambition to be a nurse on the battlefield, read what Cobb says and change your mind. TheSeattleStar ([L4sz The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News an VOLUME 17. NO. 305 SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, FEB. 15, 1915. ONE CENT Jiwe'sranps, se CT CALLGIRL KAISER GUESTS OF muse xnisen. CHELSEA DO WITNESS _ GERARD the Underworld,” Goes on Battle Front to Discuss | Trial in Superior Court War Zone Decree. IMPANEL JURY TODAY WARNS NEWSPAPERS os Pri Editors Tone Down |State Declares Prisoner Issued| Berlin 2 “ i | Permits for Girls to Enter | Editorial Utterances Fol- Staff of Fashionable Family Hotel Quits, and; Resorts. lowing Admonition. Prominent Seattleites Have to Carry Out Secrets of the underworld witl be| THE HAGUE, Feb 15.—The Garbage, Cook, Tend Switchboard and laid bare” Monday “afternoon by |kalser ts trritated at the growth of "3 a . Gladys Bates, principal witness | fee ne nericans 7 Do Other Menial Duties; Receiver May scaiss reiix Crane, whose trial on | 9) DE Aealuet Am se Fob “i the charge of accepting earnings Be Appointed Today. Ss istialt heion want bee \atinilaty Ganbaraven-ia onae of teh | Ee ae Judge Ronald's court in the fore angry By Fred L. Boalt ' it was dauntiess “Jack” Nich- noon PAID CIRCULATION GUARANTEED OVER 9,000 COPIES DAILY Nigh IT om, 140 ft. 12:09 ret) |Famous Writer, on Lecture Tour, Describes Hideous Horrors of Battlefield in Inter- view With Star Correspondent; Declares This Country Ought to Increase Arma- ment as a Protection AGAINST WAR; — Says He’s Going Back to Europe Again — minents made by the news papers, As a result the press ix | ols, of the Dodge Bros., automo- The entire morning was taken up Lite had run smoothly for us at} with the examination of prospect ive jurors The Hates woman was one of the the Hotel Chelsea. And why not?) It is—er was—and will be again, 1 hope—a nice hotel. The prose Pectus I read before I took my fam- ily there spoke blunt truth. “Situate,” I quote the truthful prospectus, “on Olympic place, with beautiful Kinnesr Park opposite, it | commands a superb view of City,| bile manufacturers, who first looted the larder of chops and eggs oranges and grapefruit for his wife and child, Pretty Miss Cora M. Gustison of the Mutual Life Insurance Co., her soul orderly and rebel- ling. commanded George W. Bel mont, manager for the John | denizens of the tenderloin district jover which Crane, negro saloon keeper, reigned su leged Charged Sliding Scale ony will be produced by to the effect that no won it is al more restrained in discussing the American note submitted regarding the extension of the war zone to British waters This news from Berlin today car ries a semiofficial confirmation of the ort that Ambassador Gerard had n invited by the emperor By George R. Davis Cleveland, O., Feb. 15.—Irvin Cobb talked to me here of his experiences and observations at the battle | Next Month. \front of Europe. His talk lays bare the grisly, shriek- a ling, rotting horrors of war. | Cobb was known, before the war started, as @ Deere Plow Co., and myself to empty the garbage—and we jan was allowed to become an in with him at the eastern Bay, Sound and Mountain.” }mate of any of the resorts below | Dattle front lt does—it does! The view is did! ly Gerard has accepted. He will be reat. True, one cannot eat seen. Yesler way until granted a permit v : " . n y oe tk GA we, The oxtatne was Hiram A. Kimball, eesistant | by Crane. The latter. it is charg: |sccompanied | by Chancellor Von humorist, an author of short stories, and a descriptive — excellent. George, late of Tokio, is| general freight agent of the (ed, dealt mostly through agents. | Bethmann-Holl weg. i a . = x a chet tm & million. Great Northern, set tables; Otto | in a few cases, however, Prose.| Editors Tone Down Attacks writer of real power. The quality of his stories from Sociability we had, too, at the| J. Keefe, coal dealer, arranged j[cutor Lundin claims, he dealt di-| The American ambassador will Chelsea, exclustve family hotel. the flowers. rectly with the onfortunate women. |endearor to acquaint the kaiser ‘ , There never was anything garish Oh, we all did our part—and onr|. Crane, accordingly to Lundin,| with the exact attitude of the about the Chelsea, mind you, never | wives cooked breakfast, washed the had & sliding seale for alleged po- | United States regarding the war anything resembling vulgar osten-| mountain of dishes, and tidied up|'ic® | Protection. Sometimes, tt | zone decree. ~-¢ation. Other hotela may bave/ ine kitchen. would run as high ae $5 a night. In} A majority of the newspapers more marble and polished brass. Later we heads of families, thin.| Most cases, the amount extorted /have toned down their attacks on u At some hotels the clerks are) iipoed stern and grim, met in the) rom the women was $10 a week ithe United States. I met Cobb here on his lecture tour. ‘ haughty gentlemen, the waitresses | WPPed. stern and grim, met In thejeach, it 1 alleged. There have| The Lokal Anzeiger, however The window of his hotel room here looked out supercilious ladies, and the bell- been as many os 50 women who «aya thet while nothing more than hops overbearing pirates who will came under Crane's alleged juris-|-e purely shop keeping conception’ Gardener Tells Story of a Poe og ee wines appears ° letters 7 give you no service unless you * diction lof international r ore © d be %. ‘eross their palms with silver We must take the management.) 4 second charge was filed laxpected from England, such treat 2 . Tos. . Se cite ate uct the that. |temporarily, isto our own hanés|acaingt Crane Saturday night, tn-| reer roe ee ' H H W d H | |size, wearing laced boots. ; Wo Gansel informally aventags.| We followed righty the rules of|voiving practically the same gen. | Ont, "es not anticipsted trom “the Ow reiress 00e im *|Boots a Concession to Promoters | the war, and the wide circulation given them, have made him the celebrity of the day in America. Just now he’s — a greater celebrity even than Mary Pickford. a |man. These big corporation men are cool in emergencies 2 y Mamentary procedure. We draft-| eral fac as in the case now be! We played bridge. We gossiped, | P®* : ral facts in the case no ‘NE ‘through whose veins flows such an z ed resolutions. We named a house|tried. Prosecutor Lundin, how- 7 “ | . 5 . 3 We were Bappy en adhe ree ever, believes he has a stronger immense quantity of German) 9 This “Romeo of the Garden” Wants| The boots are a concession to his theatrical pro- — gi gl | On it were Albert E. Disney,|case in the Inter charge Teasdale Wiathe 8 ow 1s 0 e Garden ants |moters. The promoters had suggested that he pose for © Head Waitress er cate tana | Lane eee Smee 8, |: the, Tagentett warns’ the. Cnieot $250,000 From Her Pa and Ma. his picture in the clothes he wore at the front in Belgium. — Quits; Chef eee tay,| BB automobile man, and myself. "| case himself. ere is at ee oe ba “But they dropped that idea,” he says, “when I The waitresses quit Saturday The house committee at once for Crane, Former Prosecuting |"? badfi * * ‘ " Slay trad ‘nat bein paid. for goed: | went toto executive seaston Attorney Vanderveer and. Pormer clafes that the plans of the Ger-|ene world was and, the garden wan! stand pointed out that I had gone to war in a light summer ness knows how long. Miss Florida Singleton came be-| Deputy Prosecutor Silvain appear Lamy Sangean Syed not be altered) 4 Sas, the ‘Meembt, sighed ¢ifi ‘ After the ce Jullet was suit, and that my straw hat soon lost half its crown We waited on ourselves, and! fore us as counsel. Crane was surre as the result of the | Jaltet smiled aken home rolded and Max) ¢ bei 1 . E muddled through the day somehow T deine.” eahd Mies Singleton, “it| Monday morning to the custo All the German 8 declare | : was banished to New Mexico rom being slept in. We had foreseen trouble. A NeW |the tittle Japanese boy would ex.|the court, and hix ball of $2,500 that fears expressed in the United) New YORK, Feb. 15.—Max| Only he refused to stay banished “When my shoes wore out I bought a pair of big — manager had come some time be-| piain it a little, | could run the tele-/C28h will be used, his attorneys States that one of the big American| Kies, the “Romeo of the garden, felt sli 1 lik 1 4 fore. We had thought at first that | Phone exchange.’ say, to secure his release on the liners carrying American citizens) who captivated 18-yearold Juliet elt slippers that looked like badly stuffed kittens. In he was a good doctor come to nurse | "We fy onked her, and whe quietly second charge in case he ts acquit-|Will be sunk as the result of the! Areitung, only daughter of the mil TOMGRROW You ” \this rig I would have leoked more like a moti ‘i the Chelsea back to financial " ted on the first charge. If he ix | proposed German attack on British! joneire banker, Edward N, Bret "y 1 ” q health and vigor, It didn’t take us Pet te eioren {ncomparable| Convicted, be will remain in jail, ax /merchantmen are not well ground-|tung—same Breituing who sent the MUST VOTE FOR tute comedian than like a war reporter. . long to find out that he was @/ 147 “stay with us, else helpless "!* attorneys told the court he ts \ed ship Dacia to the war zone not long Cobb arrived here today with two representatives, — lest come to sit at the bedside| "0" Ou? im unable to raise any more bail - » that if he ot have A ri pri women and children starve Jago—says tha be Saat have COUNCIL TRIO a collection of hand bags, a cane and a wrist watch. of a dying management, to await | ¥omen and children | je, Prosecutor Lundin has asked Judge J toe mnie dias woke the end, to close the eyelids of the |, Ceorse sald he would stay a little Ronaid to fix Crane's bail at $5,000, Prize Court to Get Ko, The wrist watch is one of the sort worn by army of- ° ago, he must have 0,000 of good bal corpse | r ni - . . | Bre to salve his heart The poll i ne ol y . F The head waitress stuck untf| | We sent for Prank. prince of jan ° Wilhelmina Cargo)?! a veg am to 8 pte Takin vian ficers. It’s the one thing he wore in Europe that he after dinner. She wept in the soup. | tore Stay with us, else helpless WATER SHUT-OFF NOTICE jact a et thus gietiaeny Gil sean ee day, e ; . Gore, couric, sled |moan tnd sen trees'™ Pak) | Watt been rom || LONDON, Wh 15-The gore] gt! yd aaah aa (eroueht Backs to America, the roast with his tears. id he wou! 9 a. m. to 4p. m. Tuesday on | ment announced from the floor of | 0° ° . " aad voor ibe. Sunday morning dawned rosily,| Sato next. Sato runs the elevat-| the high points in the district | |the House of commons today that| While Max piied the spade and/ three GaMdsthtan Ho han: the rlght ee ee oy « Sew it and trom our windows we looked | Or and goes to high school | | bounded by Juneau st. Ken. | |the cargo of foodstuffs of the Amerl-| ited the June bug. the heirens|to vote for less than three but not “Of course, I-don’t think of myself as a celebrity,” out upon* City, Bay, Sound and I stay,” anid Sato. yon st., Beacon ave. and Lake | |can S, 8. Wilhelmina seized by Brit hs ia him of ber love and of her sol-|for more. —— Cobb, “and I don’t f ha‘ Id om ogee |Receiver May Be roe at | lish authorities, would be submitted) O10 intention to marry him, accord-| ‘There are 22 candidates on the|wos eee m't forget: what\s men: Jeet a But there was no breakfast! =| 4S ointed Today RTE @ to a prize court Jing to. Klelat’s testi:nony in court.|hallot. SIs highest. will be nom- Bridgeport. He said his colored cook had been read- Hall boys followed, Washing Said She'd Marry Him inated Tuesday. ‘These six will ing my wer articles with great interest. The day after They Make Boalt dishes was not their work | When he was about to leave the| then run it off ahd the three highest : ° . , 8 Empty Garbage! matter. They would wash dishes Breitung estate, at Marquette,/at the final election of March 2) MY interview with Lord Kitchener was printed, she : We found George tapping at the | nd let the halls go Mich., to seek bis fortune, he tes-|will be the new councilmen. came to him and told him that the war was going to management's bedroom, door and| We inspected the larder and the tifted, Juliet heartened him by say-| If you don't know the location 19+ three years. That, she said, was what the king of laintively explaining through the| coal bin. We ordered a ton of coal, ing jof your polling place, ring up Main patatiy ay 8 ie was no one but/| and ice, milk and cream enough to H p | 1 hope you will get a good posi | $800, ask for the registration of: Europe told Ty Cobb.” 4 y | entry 2 ; tion, for expect to marry youlfice a st your information. . - sinoalt io provare eaktaet sod [CRE 24 wer es we tad A, srg eter ag Cobb, the humorist, talks like that, But when he recital dacetats It was just before the secret mor) WILE REPORT ON |talks of the war itself he’s no longer a humorist, but a The management stuffed pfllows | all looted the larder and munched in its ears and turned over for an-| crackers and smeared our ears with| So great has been the success of fixtures are removed will the pa-| riage, in New York, 1913, that she : ; other 40 winks grapefruit when noon came municipal dances at Collins play-|vilion be available for other pur-| wrote to him ELECTION TOPICS man with a message. One does not realize that from . We advanced upon the Kitchen,! George got dinner. It was a good field that it has been practically| poses. 4 ‘ | “I have something nice to ait} his manner, but from the message itself. — followed by our dependent women| din We had breakfast this decided by the park board to open| Negotiations have been opened! you. I have made up my mind to bas, py : Pm and helpless children, and found| morning. Me 1 have dinner|the Leschi park pavilion during the|with the park board whereby an| marry you as soon a® I get to New| two committees of the Municipal ‘My purpose is not to comment on the war,” he ( George, disconsolate, surrounded by | tonight coming summer ag amr immense individual may take over the man-| York and have a ¢ league, who have been working to-/8ays, “but to describe it. I try to present a real and true mountains of unwashed dishes. For| About midnight yesterday we got city-operated dance hall agement of the pavilion. If this Is She Asks for a Kiss | eether on an investigation of the | ni . A " te «the dish-washers had quit the president of a bank which, we| The Church Athletic league is not done, it is likely that the park| At the very beginning In the/charter amendments, propositions picture of what I saw. The first time I did this in pub- It was Francis R. Singleton ier was the biggest creditor, on now using the building for a series board will itself operate the hall garden she had to admonish her|and bond tssues, er which Seattle lic, three women in my audience fainted. Men, too, of the Chamber of Commerce, ! |the phone. He was shocked and of basketball games, played three The Tuesday night dences at Col-| timid “Romeo” for his chilliness. | voters will ponder at the polls in . * ° F think, who fried the first rasher | grieved. It is Mkely that a receiv. or four evenings each week. lins field house are now on a pay-| “You shouldn't be so cold; you| Marel fainted. This happened again at my second address will submit a report at the of bacon, Mrs, Singleton |er will be named today and a ne wil) continue for o'ing basis, The regular playfield] may kiss me,” she said, according| leag Tuesday noon, at}and at the third. Since then I have not been telling cacomiied egos managament natal month or more, and not untfl the ‘ aver ta thet x told on the witness | ( cafeteria WI “ more, and n SE Biwous Le Sees ERA. jall I saw. “Even now few realize the full horrors of war. Girls (Continued on Page 7.) | ] ’ TOM= DID You ‘TAKE TOM- HAvE You i WHY poN*T You IGUESS MISTAR COUNCILMEN IGNORE GILL S | WonDER WHAT TOM | DID WITH THE MAGAZINE MY MAGAZINES GOT MY MAGAZINE? r ANSWER Me-% DUFF AM Gone | | | WAS READING 5 ~ aoe - out : - City councilmen Monday refused} "Besides, we are finishing serv- to take seriously a proposal from i to 5,000 6,000 persons, and Mayor Gill that the city stop oper: |fyit 1 af este ve pouaeae 4 ng division A of the municipal/on service it furnishes West Seat- q }ear line. jtle, for instance, but there is no } | Councilmen Erickson, chairman | pr 1 to discontinue that, y of the utilities committee, and Fitz-| “The S. B. Co, lost money on op | . }geral@, Chairman of the finance /erating its new lines, but after a i \ |committee, said the proposal would |short time? ap each case, they were | not be considered, The council|made to pay.” , | | will continue to appragriate funds| Gill's statement that he would § } \ to meet the small operatiag deficit. shut down division A unless the q Ml ‘© stop joperating the line at/council authorized further expendi — t NY, this time,” said Ericksong,"would | tures, was called forth by a finan | V . Sx mean that we might never be able |clal statement, sh that there ; |to make the desired connections, |remained only $127.60 available for If connected up, the Ine will pay. ithe line's expenses,