The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 20, 1915, Page 1

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‘ _ vision of a moonlight night in the/ PAIRIK BOAIRD LEAVIES MIR from three to six inches of mud stretch a tangle of wires current into the wires and TOUCH THE WIRE. Volunteer Park to Get There will be 14 Sunday concerts at Volunteer park, between 4 and 7:30 p. m., by Wagner's band. ‘That's thé extent of the park board's generosity with your money, a0 far as professional music in the parks is concerned. The board decided this ore] afternoon. Erastus Brainerd made a strong plea to provide concerts at Leschi park, Woodland park, and other) parks {in various parts of the ny. | but his plan was voted down. You ean go to Woodland park this | mer—the park board has not yet ordered it closed up—and you) can loll about in the grass, perhaps, | as of old. | You can go to Lesch! park and} look at the trees. You can go to Alki and gaze at the waves. But don’t expect any music unless you travel all the way to Volunteer park, on Capitol hill. And even then, don't expect too much. Perhaps, as the fine spring da: have set you dreaming, you have! pictured to yourself a glorious Httle | park, a clear sky above, and the sweet strains of music from a band) over yonder. | Well, forget it. There'll be no; evening concerts. Ah, yes! Let us not omit to men- tion that the park board did really | make a concession to public. An offer by a chap named Albert P Adams to recruit and conduct a/ band of semi-professional players was accepted. These sem\-profes atter 20 concerts In parks during the season. WHEREUPON THE PARK ROARD TURNED ITS ATTEN TION TO SPENDING ANOTHER MILLION OR 80 ON AUTO BOULEVARDS! | who own their autos and limousines, | it may be proper to mention the fact that Volunteer park is the only | park where you can drive right up to the bandctand and listen to the| music without leaving your car This does not apply to jitney buses JUDGE RONALD TO LECTURE Judge J. T. Ronald will give an filustrated lecture on the Passion Play of Oberammergau at Grace M K. church, Thirtieth and King sts.,! Sunday Bight. The Price of The Star Is Now, as It Always Was, ONE CENT L INDON, March 20.—How trenches Here's a litt out. Take a cold, damp cellar; flood it with fixed on the enemy's trenches. And a good sentinel! is suppo At a height of five feet from the floor he so heavy that every wire will be as deadly LUCK THAT YOUR HEAD WON'T PiilDRader ably dirty cltisens, They are 18 & tangle of sunken @ VOLUME 18 NO. 20. SEATTLE, WASH., y head down, but 1f you did that tn the trenches you woud be neglecting your duty It Is your duty, for instance, to fire eight bullets an hour if you are on guard. e recipe by which you can find Watehful eyes of officers will discover whether you are shooting Into the air or whether you are firing with your aim does it feel to live in the almost ice-cold his head above the trenches every ten minu ® going on outside. VICTOR CHAPMAN, A HARVARD GRADUATE WHO Turn _an electric AND HE USED TO SAY: “THE DANGER OF BEING SHOT gat! let the voltage 18 NOT GREAT. THE TRAIL OF A BULLET 18 VERY SMALL; THE SPACE AROUND YOU, AS COMPARED WITH The houses are holes {un the earth, The streets in my dis MUSIC OURSELVES! epesraves wrote 30] Signed dimes, and quarters, and larger sums, if pos- sible AND GET UP CONCERTS OF OUR | | OWN. | boys om Capitel Fil, spend its $3,600 on the | OLYMPIA, March 20—~Gov J Let the public itself raise the to pay | someting ” certionsen otenmeneniy | sion is empowered issue “certificates of ty S will be on before long. Let’s be- | ever, In the commission's Judgment the gin now. | nish adequate service at fair rates . ses ‘ | The bill also prevents munictpa!| Pacific coast expositions are attracting many ownership enterprises, unless the| SUN Eastern folk this summer. Thousands of them state commission Issues permiaston.| will visit Seattle. And they will have to be |The only exception is telephone Dispatches from Athens today)Chanak, and at intervals of tured} , : service jrumor would not down. entertained. What better entertainment can The bill apecttically allows any! we offer them than free concerts in our parks? telephone company to onerate Wit |carried the report that the fleet] mi n th " out getting permission from the| has re-entered the Dardane’ The Star invites the commercial organiza- state commission. Thin exception.|¢nat the shelling of the forte on| Denne tions, the Tilikums, and all individuals, to join it is said, was put in the bill at the! noun it of Samuel! Hill, the million itor of the Bell tete Woodland park, at Alki beach—at every park | phone system os The governor also signed the anti.| TeP° that is well patronized. picketing bill, He vetoed the bin| te Rui What do you say, folks? Jallowing the sale of university! Pear lands without the consent of the | board of regents money as a loan. While hunting a job, he has en who have offered to stake him or put him in a way to “turn a trick,’ Th j ed hese off judge Ronald Asks Help in Finding Work for Boy Wholie tine senodramaus ances ‘his| the Wants to Be Straight. reformation. He merely says’ “I'm| {ass through! C. P. RIOLDING THE BAG ADMIRAL IS REPORTED KILLED SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 1915 ONE that officer's hole in the ground dan elty; thi There is trading under and the Do ye ver In ou r sine telling '\¢ passerby The lle tenant |» practically t Keants might bo ikene way storekeeper ts th Mi Want to go to a musi WAS WITH ME, WAS SOMETHING OF A PHiLOsoPien certain dugout somewhere in the r trench, George Ullar chap, who, CENT ON THA NHS 87 The Seattle Star The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News INy ANY ANDS, Be These charged wires, In the darkness, represent the Invin trict converged In one place, which the Americans called “Long bie deadly tratis of the bullets that fly over your head tn the © Square,” into a very exclusive tangle, w all the offi trenches Of course if you want to be safe in the cellar you can keep re are street signs, too, telling how to reach this or And now and then there are to keep his head | mayor of this underground 4 to policemen too. Tobacco is the money any in time, bas another that Le f one thing than he wants or leas of hall here is trenches where d, a negro banjo with one a a ied gall THE TRAIL OF A BULLET, 18 AS ONE MILLION TO ONE Reis Ni hs tok peony aid “gn NOW BLOW OUT THE LIGHT, €0 THE CHANCES OF BEING HIT ARE IN THAT SAME In Gur mud hut there was the music ae CRAWL TO THE MIDDLE OF THE BUT IT DID NOT WORK OUT WITH CHAPMAN AT The German y 45 feet FLOOR IN THE DARKNESS, AND fj ALL NE WAS HIT THE VERY FIRST DAY this point, and t a STAND ERECT, TRUSTING TO BLIND oman) The trenches are an underground city, filled wi heer us There are many little tasks with which town busy themselves ure to bea musical men find, from Galveston, string, and on Thanksgiving day we arranged a feast in our hut, uth organs, an ac the eltiz and ens of the LET’S HAVE A LITTLE Vicious $B. TURKISH _ Sirls Get an Easter Hat Free” CAPITAL er LONDON, March. 20,-—A report gained credence| the band concerts, We can’t get anything \ other utility compantes , today that ‘Vice Admiral Carden, commander-in-chief from the park board. So let’s act for our- ee eee teene anit lof the Anglo-French fleet, engaged in operations against} selves. anelles, had been killed jan existing company does not fur fighting of Thursday, irresistible, Darda k. Although the admiralty unofficially o | resumed. the same time an unoffictal rtf m n ed off Straits of Bosphorus, and that its appearance has occasioned a panic oa -|in Constantino |Dearnaley said. Nor could the} Febery rem oO rFias JO ora Youn judge persuade bia to tke the/miral Cs | nouncement by the supreme command of the Dar and Accomplished Burglar? sisi ict tC fom ona! of Sat out of the fighting line Hes ha jeause Carden was “tll.” |shore, while some of her crew took | e statement admitted also that!to the boats battleship Inflextble, Carden's| She had struck a mine, and mani} hip, had been damaged by 8/80 rapidly only a few members of By Ed L. nied Press Statt ( f the Narrows has been|for several Keen nrreapondent nutes, two more shells exploded | . and/lat almost exactly the same spot smoke obscured the fort} but when ft! minutes, cleared away the Tur Petrograd states that lack wea fleet has ap- the entrance to the s regarding Vice Ad » followed the an Ki d been transfe BE Sa aD . ward position Doesn't Want Dirty Money Judge Ronald wants a job for a|pals, and go to church every Sun He is hungry right now! He burglar. day! ov id get bi He does not want a burgling job.! Dearnaley is at liberty on a con-| Could. he says, ‘go out and get be ; tween $50 and $60 before 6 o'clock He wants an honest job ditional pardon. , tonight, and not get caught.” But The burglar has quit burgling. He| Up to now he never really bad a ss he “She taaee” ee ales. tan picking pockets, atjchance. He wants one now. His wire be Lae hanes | which act he ts an adept father died when he was 5, his|"*{\el Mm aid has the utmoat|® His name is Edward Dearnaley,| mother when he was 12. He grew udge swage : faith in Dearnaley, and says he will and he is 24 years old. He nas just/ up anyhow, and became “wise” in 15-Inch Detailed stories of the bombard. ment received today stated that the} d the w rding etile Guns Score Hits {the strait, and that her 15-inch guns|of smoke. nost to one correspondent. | d from one of these guns were still in action or wounded in the! when the battleships Ocean and| and the French battleship Bouvet were | denied it, the kish batteries Turk Warship Routed Meanwhile the other ships of the lid Bahr, flames Turkish shell, which struck the for-| her crew escaped fleet, cruising in circles to spoil the aim of the gunners ashore, inces. santly bombarded both sides of the strait A Turkish warship appeared near | but vanished when the/ fleet showered her with sh the admiralty that) gmoke and were discov ered rising from the French battle nd she moved | d made for Sinks in Cloud of Smoke The British battleship Irresistible | The Ocean is belie had been badly damaged, and war burning in several places before she | superdreadnaught Queen Elizabeth | fouled a mine and went down on the | led the Anglo-French warships into} Asiatic side of the strait in a cloud! Several shells from the rtable hits {shore batteries had exploded on her] | ved to have ed othe magazine of Ft gone down near the paibtoon ta ” 7 The boy has pald finished an 18-month term at the| many things which are better not| pe his sponsor. | hhe ily sane rt Monroe reformatory. Judge Ron-| known. He made a living picking, ™!® ¢ ald imposed the sentence pockets a Instead of feeling bitter toward) Toa § clean, says the judge. So | “ke! 1 “playing the ponies,” ot b the judge, Dearnaley calis him his; been a crook because | figured {t “pest friend.” Judges Ronald and! was the easiest way to get money 0 0 A Everett Smith have tried to, flud| It i N YOUR W Y, ALLEN work for Dearnaley, and failed Judge Offers Him Money Admits Record |s Bad Dearnaley, since M. ch 4, has Counctiman ( C. Allen Dale in go-| around the movement of the Ru PETROGRAD, March 20.—A veil of secrecy today was thrown jan troops who are reported to have The judges have called the atten. been wearing out shoe leather look.| ing to leave us. | ecoupled Meiva, an important port in East Prussia on the Baltic sea. tion of The Star to the case, Has|ing for a job. Friday he returned| For six months | A semi-official statement declares the enemy has destroyed Russian anybody got work for a burglar? |to Judge Ronald to report his fall, He's asking for a leave of absence! property worth 8500,000,000 as he was being forced back through Poland Dearnaley admits his rec Is| ure The judge had given him ato visit the Prisco fair. to the Prussian frontier. bad. But he promises, if given a dollar. Now he offered him anoth-| Will the council grant him the Troops are declared to have devastated 95 towns. Twenty-seven chance, to abandon his burglarious| er ‘leave? thousand smaller villages have been partly wrecked and 4,500 totally ways, forsake his old haunts and {1 don't want that kind of help, It will destroyed SAN FELLOW, Do You WANT A PARROT _ PLL *|MAKE YOU A PRESENT OF THE BIRD, CAGE AND ALL : | 1S THE LADY HERE Yes WELL HELEN | Gor ) | | Suppose You FEEL WHO BOUGHT A PARROT RID OF THE PARROT | BETTER NOW, BUT \or me SEVERAL DAYS { |COME IN ALL RIGHT ~ THE rp POOR BOOB WAS GLAD TO GET IT | HATED To Ste POL 60 AGOF GUESS IF THEY'RE MARRIED ) | Just DISCOVERED THAT THE FELLOW WHO SOLD ME THE PARROT, STOLE IT AND THE OWNER A THEATRICAL PERFORMER, HAS OFFERED A THOUSAND DOLLARS REWARD [ es, FoR \v Riese payer Make Men Fight IGHT EDITION WEATHER FORECAST—Fair TIDES AY sKATTLE Low IDA ft, TAT a om, 76 ft 12.6 ft 1:56 pom. 80 ft You'll see a man cleaning his rifle. Another will be re- flooring his hut with straw; another will be rigging a bottle on a stick for the Germans to shoot at Two or three may be preparing a dummy figure for a Ger- man target; another may be marking bis initials on the side of the trench by sticking his empty cartridge shells into the earth. There are artists, too, in this strange colony. Almost there Is a wooden tombstone or two to prepare. it was my duty to decorate tombstones with some sort of design, and a Belgian named Gurmain always did the lettering. You might find us any forenoon working away with a red hot poker, burning names and decorations on a wooden cross which we had constructed out of any pieces of wood we could There were three Americans in my machine gun squad of 16 men—KEugene obs, who still owns a butcher shop in Pawtucket, R. 1; Victor Chapman of New York and myself, and Jose Amer, an Argentine, heard that we had picked up some stray chickens and had shot a goose, and that Jacobs was cook- ing them for some sort of t quet, and he invited himself, say- Ing I know what Thanksgiving day is, and I'm South Ameri- can, #0 I think I ought to come.” The other 12 men in the squad did not know what Thanks- giving day was, but they knew chicken when they smelled it, so we invited them all. an You Design a Spring Bonnet? Try It! Get Into @ The Star’s Big Easter Contes | Age Beate | Girls | Here's your chance to design your own spring bonnet— along the most fashionable lines and have it presented to you (if yours is the mo: attractive design) made up—FREE! Phe Star will give the “Prize Easter Hat” to the girl or woman who submits the design of the most attractive Easter hat Each day for a week The Star will print a dummy ‘head, leaving space for your design. Each face will be of a dif- ferent type to give variety lhe general spring styles: must he adhered tc You may make it the small chic hat or the hig, artistic one BUT IN ANY EVENT, ALL THE MATERIAL MUST |NOT COST MORE THAN $10, RETAIL PRICES. lake your pencil or pen and sketch in as plainly as you jcan what you think would be the most attractive Easter hat. | K drawing wo1 idea ¢ rly under CONTEST CLOSES APRIL 1. PRIZE HAT WILL BE AWARDED IN TIME FOR THE DESIGNER TO WEAR IT EASTER SUNDAY, When you have made your sketch, fill in your name and address in the blank space and mail it to the "EASTER HAT EDITOR” of The Star, The JUDGES will be Cynthia Grey of The Star and Mme. Pearl A. Hemer, of the Paris: Millinery, 1433 Fourth aye. count—but you must make your ood \ No sketch will be returned Phere is np age-limit—any girl or woman may enter this Easter hat contest You can send in as many drawings as you wish, provided, Jof course, that in each case one of the dummy heads printed {in The Star is used Mme. Hemer will make the hat for the winner, from the prize winning design.

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