The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 8, 1915, Page 1

PAY ONLY ONE CENT FOR THE STAR Stories VOL UME 18. NO, 63 LE, WASH., The Seattle Star The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News PHAINS ON NVAMS SEAN SATURDAY. MAY 8, 1915. ONE CENT IGHT EDITION Weather Forecast—Showers 110k AL haribo High 1 at " 1b 1:08 p A Ds. of Disaster Told by Survivors! --Page 2 U.S. ASKS GERMANY TO EXPLAIN 1,346 Perish on Liner; Frohman’s Body Found Noted Americans Among Lost; British Public Is Aroused LIVERPOOL, May 8.—The body of Chas. Frohman, noted New York theatrical man, has been found near the point where the Lusitania was sunk, a cablegram from Queenstown announced this evening. LONDON, May 8.—Only 703 passengers. and members of the crew of the Lusitania were saved, and 1,346 probably perished, when the big Cunard liner was torpedoed | yesterday afternoon by a German submarine off Kinsale, according to atest reports re- ceived by the British admiralty up to 2: 15) this afternoon. At that hour the admiralty had received no further reports of rescues since a dispatch from Queenstown announcing that 45 addi-| tional survivors had been landed there dur- ing the morning. This brought the number of persons known to have been saved up to 703, which! figure the admiralty regarded as approxi mately correct, altho inquiries are still «. being made along the coast. Capt. Turner is about the only officer reported to have been saved. He was taken from the water three ho: fter his ship foundered. The total number of American passengers aboard was today placed at 188. A majority are believed to have perished. Noted Americans Perished At 9 a. m. today the Cunard offices here had received the names of only seven first class passengers who were saved. Altho early reports said that Alfred G. Vanderbilt had probably been saved, it is now believed certain that he perished along with Chas, Frohman, Chas. Kiein and other noted Americans aboard the liner. Even as silent, grief-stricken crowds stood about the Cunard line offices here and turned to the admiralty for news in the hope that) rome word might come of missing relatives, It was evident the sinking of the great liner h in England, It is already certain the government will be imped with pointed inquiries when parliament reconvenes on Monday. favor reprisals against Germany of equal violence. There is great criticism of the admiralty, however, for its failure to provi the Lusitania with an escort of stroyers in view of the fact that anonymous warnings had been gi would be attacked. Lord Charles Beresford, former head of Engiand’s navy, announced that he will inquire of Premier Asquith in the commons regarding why such an escort had not been detailed to see the Lusitania ely into rt. e It is understood the British government will exchange views with Washington #0 that an understanding may be reached before pariia ment reconvenes Monday. England Aroused by Tragedy Engiand was stirred yesterday by the torpedoing of the Lusitania, but confirmation of the enormous loss of life in the sinking of the vessel aroused the country more than anything since the declaration | ot war against Germany. British citizens are asking, and Americans almost angrily, how + Wilson will be able to maintain continued neutrality in view of American lives and his warning to Germany. Recruiting ha n stimulated by the appalling disaster. spirit of vengeance seems to at jast have pene rated the calm of Eng- land and feeling against Germany today hardly knew any bounds. Editorially, British papers express bitter condemnation of Germany. The Manchester Guardian declared The submarine campaign has now entered a new phai by greater recklesen for innocent lives than ever befo; Th | Post asserted: “W Geonany bee desired the power of the United States thrown on the scales of war against her, she could not have chosen a more of the io Many members " in that the giant liner" The THE STAR ONE LAP IN FRONT One lap ahead of all the other papers—that was The Star's rec ord Friday in reporting the new of the Lus The Star was 20 minutes 4 of all the other papers with an extra on the streets, reporting the sinking of the vessel It was ahead again with the edition intima » in the pink The Star gave the first tion that a terrific was feared. At the opposition paper big headiines that all aboard the vessel were safe Again, a night extra of The Star carried the first definite news in the city that over 1,200 had perished, more than an hour and a half ahead of all the oth er papers. The Star was one edition ahead of its rivals all day long loss of same Colonel Says U.S.Must Now “Take Action” SYRACUSE, May §& when Theodoré hy d news, declared that “We owe | Roosevelt, be the |not only to humanity but to ¢ national self-respect to take action with reference to the sinking of the Lusitania | This represents t merely piracy,” said Roosevelt, “but piracy on a vaster scale of murder than an old-time pirate ever practiced. is the warfare which destroy BP Louvain and Dinant, and bun | dreds of men, women and children jin Belgium. ‘It is warfare agaiust innocent men, women and children traveling on the ocean.” BRING IN BODIES OF 100 WOMEN QUEENSTOW? He May The nm and two aasigned to for dead from the Lusitania, re turned to pwn at € a om. with dies, & majority of ther mr ever be made the bodies of all vietims 61 MEMBERS OF CREW ARE SAVED | QUEENSTOWN, May 8— | Capt. Turner of the Lu | tania was being — cared for at the Imperial hotel here today. He Is suffering from the shock and exposure, | due to three hours spent in the water before being picked up. First Officer Jones, Second Officer Lewis, the second and third engineers and 51 mem- bers of the crew were rescued. | They were included in the to tal of 703 persons previously announced rescued. DIVORCE DROPPED Divorce sult begun by William Donlan, police sergeant, dropped Saturday. Mrs. Annie Donlan com | mitted suicide April 1 hast val mately Frohman, Elbert Hubbard, Vanderbilt Dead! Boalt, Who Knew Them, Tells What Manner of Men They Were By Fred L. Boalt. Cats may look at queens, humble newspaper reporters may gaze upon, and even interview, the rich and great Often, when a well-known name figures in the public prints, 1 feel that | have met an ac quaintance again, it was so | felt when J. Pierpont Morgan died, because | interviewed him once and he answered my ques tions in monosyliables or mot at all—and forgot my existence the instant | was gone Andy Carnegie once vouchsafed me a brief but kindly word. John D. Rockefeller once held by hand, and, evading deftly the burning Issue | wanted him to disc soft-soaped me with platitudes, | once laid eyes on the majesty of King Edward, and such im mortals as James J. Corbett, John L. Sullivan, Gaby Deslys and Wu Ting Fang have met me as their | equal and talked with me in} terms approaching friendly inti- macy A distinguished } wandering reporter meets | And so when | scan the first. | cabin passenger list of the tor. | d Lusitania | feel again that | | have lost old friends of mine— | Charies Frohman, Alfred Gwynne Vanderbiit and Elbert Hubbard, I remember Frohman as a short, dark, rather plump man, who was surprisingly agile. He was in bed in a hotel when | called. He hopped out of bed and into a big leather chair. He wore raw-sllk pink paja He looked like a boy as he sat cross. legged It was hard to realize that he was The Frohman, When you speak of “a Frohman show,” you know whose show is meant. Not Daniel's, Not Gustav's. Charles’, 1 noticed this about him: could talk art could talk dollar men are dullards Most business men are boneheads n art. The biggest man in the Ameri- can theatrical world he is—or was, for the dispatches do not say whether he ia living or dead, and company the My recollection of my meeting | with Elbert Hubbard is not a hap- py 9 The interview was not pleasant. It was at the time when Fra Albertus was at the height of popularity. He was vogue. Everybody read the Phil- ietine. _Reyorott products fetched “ LIBAU, CITY OF | 90,000, FALLS IN GERMAN HANDS BERLIN, May §—Libau, the Rus-| sian post on the Baltic sea, has| been captured, an official statement announced today | Liban is 105 miles west by south west of Mitan, one of the chief cities of the Baltic province of Rus. sia against which the latest German campaign has been directed | It has been bombarded at inter-| Dy German vessels. eee Libau is the seat of government of the province of Courland, Rus-| sia, situated on the Baltic sea, 150 miles southwest of Riga, It fs an importent center of trade and in | dustry. The population is approxt-| 90,000. effective methéd.” Ke LIVES WexT DOOR — THAT'S MR. RVMGARONER'S LITTLE BOY NORMAM, {Do You Secrer ¢ naw} TQ KNOW A SURE, SURE, WHAT is IT Now Tom — 1T MAY BE SOMETHING He SHOULON?y TELL aaa on us? \GUESS MY MoTHER () HOw DO 1S GOING To INVITR J) OU KNOW? You BoTH OVER FOR DINNER ToNIGHT }tons that stalk on Capitol hill DONT Question “THE CHILD ' enormous prices was over-worked. He gave a lecture before the t” of an Eastern city, | The poor man | After the lecture, society flocked about him and lionized him. 1 had to ask him, before all that Worshipful company, to explain |IF SHE ONLY WOULD TELL, SHE COULD GIVE YOU SOME MORSELS OF SEATTLE SCANDAL | THAT WOULD CURL YOUR HAIR UP IN KNOTS fi Mrs. Anne Inglis. If she would tell, Mrs. Anne‘ If a Capitol hill Inglis, special agent of the sheriff's 80°* to California ffice, could relate stories! | Mrs. Inglis, OFFS, (COME . POR , special det If she could be induced to gossip only an hour she could set all Se |attie a-whisper over its back fences lof strange happenings “below the |line,” and of weird family skele society womar “for her healta, an as likely as not, what all.” Nobody perhaps, weeks after, about town begins a tence. Most of her cases to do with juveniles. A young girl disappears mother, mad with grief, rushes tc the sheriff for assistance Mrs. Inglis is called in Knows Society Shoplifters She learns the story, and cause she knows every wall” below Washington st., usually brings. the girl home. She knows society women shop lifters, the would close the doors of every wealthy home against them. She knows of women, too, activities at night take them tc fashionable ballrooms and to dimly lighted, secluded corners of leity, Httle known some prison sen Hut she does not gossip. As the silent investigator for the state of Washington, in and for the county of King, Mrs. Inglis das learned the inestimable value of secrecy ned to hold her fund of rged history” and “back-stairs tales” stored far | from her tongue's end She Can Keep Secret She has proved beyond a doubt that a woman can keep a secret Her specialty is in the untang ling of sex mysteries, She is em ployed her entire time on cases where men would fall down mis erably in getting the facts. And she ne’ Is be. she I HEARD HER SAY IT WOULD ONLY BE FAIR, RECAUSE THE BUTCHER, BY MISTAWE, LEFT Your MEAT ORDER AT ao F OVR HOUSE Fa \ THAT WAY gets a knows the inside facts but Mrs. Inglis, and man however, have | Her| “hole in the tion of whose names | whose the US.Faces Delicate Situation WASHINGTON, May 8.—The state department today cabled Berlin ask- ing that Germany make a report to the United States on the sinking of the Lusi- tania. This government's request expressed the de- sire that the report be bas- ed on a statement from the commander of the sub- marine which attacked the liner, assuming that the Lusitania was sunk in this manner. | why he printed in the Philistine an editorial, without credit, which had been printed in a local news- paper six months betore. It was equivalent to a charge of journalistic petit larceny. Fra Albertus’ smile was benign. ut there was a steely glitter in his eye. ! cannot claim to have talked with Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt. But once @ London fish monger and | saw him, Vanderbiit drove a coach from London to Brighton, starting from the Ritz hetel. Brighton is the Newport of England. Vanderbilt charged handsomely for the priv- ilege of riding in his coach and gave the proceeds to charity. Titled people patronized him. Snobs and climbers courted him. The fish monger and | were standing together on the curb. The fish monger had anarchistic views. He didn't think a man had any right to have as much money as Vanderbilt had. And to charge for riding in his coach, when he didn't need the rroney, Vanderbilt seemed a likable man, clean-cut, very spruce. | w him gather up the reins, a | ied footman behind tooted a | long horn, and the coach rolled away. - BROADWAY MOURNS FOR 2 PLAYWRIGHTS NEW YORK, M May £—“Broad. way today mourned the lo: Charles Frohman and onnries Klein, two of the most no men associated with the theat- rical profession in this coun- try. Frohman was one of the greatest producers in the the- atrical field. He was en route to Europe in search of new plays, especially war plays, With him was Justus Miles playwright, who was ‘ch of new material. Klein was the author of “The Lion and the Mouse” and other famous Plays. GERMANS THOUGHT LUSITANIA ARMED WASHINGTON, May 8 —If Lusitania had been disarmed fore her destruction, no inforiaa tion to this effect had been re ceived, the German embassy nounced today The embassy, been previously liner was armed. It was added that the knew the Lusitania was arms and ammunition to England ‘DENY LUSITANIA oe ‘BERLIN PAPERS | WAS ARMED CRAFT calL IT TRIUMPH The Cunard officials deny the Lusitania was armed. COPENHAGEN, May 8— | Early in the war, they said, Berlin papers prociaim the it was proposed to mount sinking of the Lusitania in co- | guns on the liner’s decks for lossal headlines and decla' re Germany has registered 2 the protection of passengers triumph in her naval pollo. in case of attack, but an intimation that the U. § Th: published editorials de- government frowned on the clare that England received what she deserved. plan caused it to be dropped. WASHINGTON, May 8.—Chatr { the house foreign man Flood of relations committee would say nothing more today than that the situation was serious and detailé must be known before comment is made. In addition to information from state department today Ambassador Page in London and Consul Frost at Queenstown to furnish all particulars as speedily as possible High officials confidentially ad- mitted that what they feared most was the effect the sinking of the Lusitania would have on American public opinion. Fear Public Sentiment They are apprehensive that his feeling might be created and add greatly to the difficulties of at hering to a policy of neutrality, Officially ministration is “a waiting one.” Ambassador Page advised the state department that he had called on the Queenstown consulate for a full report and instructed that everything be done to aid the American survivors. Guard German Embassy au Capt. W. A. Castle and Capt. A, W. Miller, military attaches, nave been sent to Queenstown to render all aid possible, the ambassados said Police were keeping close watch about the German embassy here’ today to prevent any demonstra the request for Germany, the instructed the it was stated, advised that ha che embassy takme / WHITE HOUSE CALLS GARDNER DOWN FOR LUSITANiA COMMENT — WASHINGTON, May 8.—Sharp retort from the White House today followed a statement by Congressman Gardner that if the United States recedes from its position of holding Germany to “strict accountability” fof ss of American lives, the country will become nothing bette than an “international bluffer.” ¢ | “I do not care to comment on Gardner's utterances except to say that the White House resents his action in using it as an auxiliary to his press bureau,” was the declaration of Sec- retary Tumulty, following the congressman's visit. Gardner called at the White House, where he saw Tumul- ty, but did not see President Wilson. After his visit Gardner said: “T sincerely hope the president will not recede an inch from his notice to German that she would be held to strict }accountability if Americans were blown up. If tne president |recedes, Uncle Sam will become, in the eyes of the world, nothing better than an international bluffer,” the attitude of the ad: