The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 31, 1915, Page 1

loid Sermons, Hot and Sizzling, Off Rev. Billy Sunday’s “Tam preaching for the age in which T live so-called Christian homes today with books on the shelves of the library that have ne child's reach,” “Don't try to cover up the cussedness of your life, but the service of the devil AND THEN BLOWING THE SMOKE IN THE FACE sticks or anything else, and use them for the advancement of His cause.” mother “When your heart is breaking you don't want the dancing master he ought to be there, he wouldn't be there.” or I am just recasting my vocabularly to suit the people of my age instead of Joshua's age.” more business there than a rattler crawling about upon the fh IT FIXED UP.” * “Death-bed repentance is burn GOD.” “The Lord is not compelled to use theologi “There are some or poison within the ing the candle of life in ans. He can take snakes, oor, “I don't believe there are devils enough in hell to pull a boy out of the arms of a godly or the saloonkeeper. No, you want the preacher,” “If a man goes to hell wr Sunday's Revival Sermon for Today Appears on Editorial Page | The Seattle Star VOLUME NO. 30. FOUR SEATTLE PIONE zee eee SEATTLE, WASH., ERS see et . ae eet WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31, 1915, ONE CENT a ee LAST EDITION sake ae e Ce! KILLED WHEN AUTO GOES OFF BRIDGE x keke WDS CUT TROLLEY ROPES AND HALT CARS 1 INNED IN MACHINE IN WATER ‘Four persons, prominent in Seattle and the Northwest years, were killed almost instantly, and another hurt in ‘an automobile accident in which the car swerved from its “to avoid striking two children standing in the center) nish bridge .at Allentown ‘Luesday evening, and Oe into the river. : aa tent dead : _ THOMAS W. PROSCH, 621 Ninth ave. former the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, one-time postmaster of and writer of Northwest history MRS. VIRGINIA M’CARVER PROSCH, daughter bn. Morton M. McCarver, who founded Tacoma MISS MARGARET LENORA DENNY, 1220 Boren , daughter of the founder of Seattle, the late A. A. Denny HARRIET FOSTER BEECHER of the West © apartments, wife of Capt. H. F. Beecher, who is the| the late Henry Ward Beecher These four were unable to escape from the car when it! in the river, being held inside by the hood and The morning nursing its perpetual grouch against The la went out of its way today to utter a malicious lie about us—a lie so plain that every Star reader knows it is a lie. THE P.-L, REFERRING TO TOWN TROUBLES LAST NIGHT, MOB AGITATION RECENTLY MUCH ENCOURAGEMENT FROM THE SE- ATTLE STAR. THE MASS-MEETING, HELD LAST NIGHT HAD BEEN WIDELY, ADVER- TISED.” ,% THE DOWN- SAID: “THE RECEIVED PORTRAIT OF AUTO VICTIM PAINTED BY WOMAN WHO WENT WITH HER TO DEATH owner Se-| ‘was sitting in the front seat) half an bour ie eatens, Paul Kure, 2|, 7"* Chauffeur, Kamal, who had) chal been in the employ of Mrs. Carkee had ap 18 miles an applied the through but four days, said be proached the bridge hour, seen the children, brakes and skidded bridge railing | Came Here 60 Years Ago Mr. and Mrs. P North west gaged in learly and Olympia, President postmaster. Throughout his life he took an lactive part in municipal politics Although he owned considerable city property and acreage outside the city, he always considered him self land-poor. Of late he had given his attention to writing and caring for * iness interests. Miss Den was 4 years old when her pa A. A. Denny and Mary A. Denny, crossed the plains to Oregon in 1847. She was a Uni versity of Washington graduate. Known for Charity Work j Although she was known to have| engaged extensively in charity} work, just how much was never learned, as she always maintained strict secrecy concerning It Mrs. Beecher was best known as a painter 1ough she Was prom inent in rar musical art She had lived in 0 years Her H. F. Beecher, is 10wn pilots on the machine went off the over. the _ When the m it turned completely of the both occupants front seat out Found Sitting on Hood Mrs. Carkeek is suffering a cut! ‘on the head. © She was found after the wreck, | Seated on the top of the hood tn “two feet of water, while the chaut four was diving again and again under the hood, trying to rescue _ the other persons. Kumai was held at the jail, pend “ing an investigation of the acct dent. He tearfully protested at be ing held. He probably will be re today autoists were returning from & Meeting of the State Historical society held in Tacoma. The a dent oceurred about 5:10 o'clock Frank Menalia of Allentown was the first man at the scene of the it. The two children who tad been playing on the bridge him that a machine had} ee over. He rushed to the river i Find Prosch Breathing | Bhaed helped Mrs, Carkeek ashore ©. Larson, F. Knipe, M B ily and 1. E. Miller, who were fn the machines, helped to Vyecover the bodies of the others Prosch was still breathing B. Boudwin of West |gave first aid to Mrs. Cark moved her to her home. to revive Prosch with a pul-|one of the best } Were futile, though the city| Sound I staff, rushed to the bridge| Mrs. Cark it. Hedges from police head- of Seattle rouch came to the ars ago. He work papers and appointed 60 y newspaper established Tacoma Grant en here in attle. | him ins. | vg M. J. Carkeek, owner of the|quarters, worked over his body) | ! h ts, Pohtograph of a painting of Miss Margaret L. Denny, one of the auto victims, by Mrs. Harriet Foster Beecher, another victim, The photograph was made by Miss Imogene Cunningham. SPRINGFIELD, MASS., HAS CAR STRIKE SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Mar, 31 f sand persons walk ¢ today when the em any wages improved mall car working conditions. | were running. land Only VW nd coast was 55 years old SAN Plans bring and San games world FRANCISCO, March 21 are under way today to the winners of the National American le » pennants to Pri isco roa series of iately following the! sin the East Capt ed to wor has been a resident! ployes of 1879 declared a strike for imme nce 8 Ker A LOW-DOWN LIE! The only thing The Star has printed recently, any other time, regarding the mass-meeting, or the proposed strike, was an absolutely unbiased news article, which appeared in Tuesday's editions, Stating that a protest meeting would be held Tues- day night. The Star will speak out just as loudly as the P.-1. against mob violence, and against all unlawful tactics on the part of the strikers or any one else. And The Star will be sincere in its attitude, WHILE THE P.-I. ONLY WILL BE TRUCKLING FOR MORE FAVORS FROM THE SEATTLE ELEC. TRIC CO. LANE WILL ‘THEATRE MAKE TRIP MANAGER TOALASKA ARRESTED or President Wilson will make | C. La Richard official announcement of the | Seattle Stock © choice of Seward as the tide [of business after water terminal of the govern- | gagement ment raliroad in Alaska, al- |on comp ready announced positively in leading The Star, as soon as Secretary irloining Lane returns to Washington (he had signed to pay her $200 a| from his trip West. This will | week for 25 weeks be in four or five days, it is ex- Richards, who is manager of the pected. Empress theatre in Tacoma, was And in July Lane will go to sed on $250 bail, deposite air Seward to personally review fo » Whitehead’s court. 1 the construction work. technically charged with petit This information is cantained in| ceny advices to The Star today from| Miss Brown's criminal complaint Washington against Richards is the forerunner About 2,500 men are to be put to) Of & sult for damages, work on the government Hine this spring. Work Is to be pressed on three units of the system,, from the headquarters to be setal at Ship Creek t the head of ( let, to M 1 from Ship Creek Ke inect with the and on recon Alaska Northern manager of ‘el which went k's en was arrested in Tacoma aint of Miss Kitty Brown ady, who accused him of the written agree: one we s phe Utica, N.Y, when M importuned me to come here, she said We paday in her suite at the Sherwood apartments. “He prom ised to pay my fare both ways and $200 a week. I didn't even get one week's salar STEAMER GOES DOWN LONDON, Mareh 31 The 8. 8. South Atlantic en route to Glas gow from New York, collided with jan unknown vessel and sank off Arran last night, according to dis patches received today, The c Arran is an island off the coast of Scotland Richards n cre a Northe ton rn the ard north It ix planned to put several thou sand men to work next year, when | at least $5,000,000 more of the rail road appropriation will be avatlable for use The at which the and Secretary Lane made for the purchase of the Northern is $1 00 ‘The bondholders held out $5,000,000, their original investment in the property, with 6 per cent ir t but Lane finally od 200,000, and refused to budge a cent from that fig struc of from Se president the deal Alaska m7 west for ed when a G hed into the auto was driving at Railroad Vine st Tuesday the death of Albert Peter Gen. Villa makes Monterey mer-|son, 31, early last night. Peterson with 1,000,000] was a chauffeur for the Booth Fish 8 Co Ir truck ay uries susta motive he of era noon chants come across pesos, Ho, hum! Come ‘ON Jim, a] VLE DRIVE You OvT HOME ‘| GUESS You Witt \WAVE To shove: WOM f NOW You CAN |\ NOJTHAT Won'r GET IN TOM ILL SHOW \ou HOw We'LL van PLENTY OF SPEED op nt | 1 a splendid engagement in| AFFAIR IS OVER, SAY LABOR MEN Failure of the employes of the 8. E. Co. to quit work has ended the demonstration against the street Tuesday night, following a monster by organized labor. pany officials and by union labor a “strike.” ‘stem precipitated suddenly ing at the Labor temple car protest me Statements issued Wednesday by both the com- leaders agree that there never was “There was no strike deciared,” the statement signed by organized labor leaders reads, Nee the men emplo: Pointing out the “unfair and no one had any power to declare a strike @x- un-American attitude of the Puget Pete Traction, Light & Power Co., in refusing to allow their employes Ag organize,” “Labor and enthus lan the unit the labor statement ind the people of Seattle have declared them tically against this treatment. ed support of the community. concludes as follow s openly The employes were as- They have failed to avail themselves of that support, but last night's demonstration is merely a forerunner of what will occur in this community unless the company changes its attitude on the question of organization of its employes.” The labor leaders strongly deny that the protest meeting was spon- | sored by the |. W. W., ai “Nor were those pr the Seattle Electric Co. organs claimed. ent at the meeting a ‘bunch of hoodiums.” They were respectable citizens, Including hundreds of women,” the a, men say. The statement len issued by organized W. Doyle, R. Loewe, Ed T. Levi, Martin Flyzik, Wm. F. De Laney labor officia signed by F. B. Ault, officers of the Central Labor council and Sam Atkinsgn and W. B. Fitzgerald, national officers Str of the Amalgamated Association of t and Electric Railway Employe: Outside of nominal property damage, no change i apparent today in street car service as the result of Tuesday night's demonstration. All lines operated as usual All night long street car barns jand power houses remained under Jextra police guard, and at police headquarters, following a number of small riots, emergency patrol men were held in reserve. Twelve men were arrested Tuesday night for cutting trolley ropes and other wise susp i of riotous conduct They w refused bail, and are held under open charges. Thousands of peopie on down town streets joined in the efforts to persuade the car crews to leave the cars when the la declaration was made, about 9 p. m Demand Right to Organize The issue between the electric company and organized labor is demand by the men of the privilege ganizing. The Seattle Electric Co., a Stone-Webster corporation discharged a number of men who recently were suspected of union affiliations. Most of the arrested were strike sympathizers, | ‘The principal crossing points In the city were black with people }last night, and for the first hour lof the strike the street car system downtown was almost paralyzed Hold Overflow Meeting The Labor Temple assembly hall was too small to hold which gathered at the protest meet ing, and an overflow meeting was held outside | Resolutions to ask the carmen to |suspend work until given the right to organize enthusiastically adopted, and the crowd immediate: ly left to notify the street car em. ployes At Fifth and Pike st. the first ca of the the Bellevue-Sumit line, was jhatled, and after a few minutes’ conversation, the crew left the car The crowd cheered them moved toward Second ave Trolley Ropes Cut In less than a quarter of an hour st t car service was suspended on Pike st, Pine st, Third ave Second ave, and First ave. In Jsome cases the car crews left vol untarily, In other cases the trolley | and emergency alr brakes |were cut, forcing a suspension of | service Reports. made to street car officials complain of a number of fare boxes and controller handles bei lifted from the cars On behalf of the union men tt Is charged that one of the officers of the company, Superintendent of Transportation Hen ‘son, first to strike a blow by swinging a controller at one of the men in a ‘owd at Third ave, and Union st, There was no police interference of org were ropes the police by the crowd | and) was the | and no trouble for the first hour of the strike, but the situation became more tense when the electric com- pany sent out emergency crews to move cars that had been left crew: less. Most of the disturbances occurred at Third and Union st. with thousands of spectators lined up on the sidewalks, and the steps of the postoffice serving as an extra gi lery. ave. Many Arrests Made The following were arrested on the charge of cutting trolley rc H. R. Cleaves, S5th ave.; John © ster; W. J. Thorp, Howard De Ve worker; Frank Alfred Dahl, 41, Dahl, ironworker; axicab driver motorman; G. H. 8 veyor. Mark Elliott, street car conductor, 2318 Second ave., were arrested by 2318 Second ave., ere arrested by Detective O'Brien on the charge of attacking H. Stout, a street car in- spector, at First ave. and Cherry st., shortly after midnight Neil McKinnon, a longshoreman, was arrested on the charge of in- terfering with the police. Mob Chases Inspector Stout was chased by a mob from First and Yesler, where he assisted in putting up a trolley wire, te Cherry st He received several blows before O'Brien rescued him James McPherson, 2703 First jave., a spectator at Pike st. and Third ave, was, perhaps, the most seriously injured as a result of the strike, when a trolley pole, jerked down with tremendous force, snapped in the middie, and the broken end hit Pherson on the head He was rendered unconscious, but |regained his senses by the time the police ambulance came. .T. N, Hay, @ teamster, was burt by a street car at Fourth and Pike st., when a motorman attemptéi to get past a congested crowd. It was Bellevue-Summit car, No, 103, Jitney Buses Active | A live wire was suspended from the trolley line at Third ave, and Pike st. for a half hour Tuesday |night, threatening to stop all ser vice on Third ave. r way service was suspended at 11 when a crowd pulled down the trolley and cut the rope of a Ravenna car, leaving it |disabled at the intersection of | Third ave, and Yesler way, and placing an effective bar to farther cable service for the night, , team- 6, an electrician; ger, 20, garment Lyons clerk; Emil Jamison, Mc