The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 26, 1915, Page 1

W-S Spells News DY GIVING our readers the news D fromthe corners of the . The Star is carrying out the ing of the worth NEWS—North, West, South. four epee * pAD's OVER THERE B fants tis 3a Gk "to the blood stained fields of Europe to give up their ? How are they enlisting? answer in his letters from n Canada. wer ee blood, also. across the line to report war conditions in Canada for The Star. How does the country look under war conditions? NO, 129 SEATTLE, WASH., [ oa Ee Watch for his letters. The first will appear What do the people say MONDAY, JULY 26, : The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News : VOLUME 18. 1915. St rn ee nt tn ee nn cette ret REE é tomorrow. Are the Canadian All these questions and many more Correspondent Burton | on NEW THAINS TAN ONE CENT EAL WAR PICTURE TAKEN BY STAR MAN IN CANADA SUNK re | ‘ P isn't a photograph of a dead strewn field but a picture a our neighbors’ little children across the way in Montreal, Canada, urging their big brothers and fathers to rush It shows the war spirit of Canada and is a picture secured by our staff correspondent, Harry Burton, who s fight crazy? Are they for Was ESSE 22035, ae ARE STILL MISSING | eee | EASTLAND DISASTER FIG URES AT A GLANCE KNOWN DEAD, 820. CHICAGO, July 26—While | ‘Chieago continues its sorrow- fel task of searching for bodies @ those who went to their Missing, 456. ‘Gath in the Eastiand disaster ‘ id, 2,408 Meturday and = Investigations Peleg a ing | started by city, county, | @ and federal authorities, it uncertain today how excursionists perished the big steamer turned Over 400 bodies believed stil! under hull of the vessel, bring ing estimated toll to more than 1,200. <a grace abe be will not stand up withont water than 1,000 was accepted dallast with a maximum load of guthorities. At 8 a. m. passengers, all on one side,” An- Bodies had been recovered. ‘rew Furuseth, president of the union, said. “All seamen knew the Eastland was a ‘cranky’ ship, meaning it was not carrying the proper solid ballast. The federal steamboat in spector is to blame.” Victor Olander, secretary of the Lake Seamen's union, said “The federal inspection service has been an open scandal with sea- |men for years. The Eastland cap sized because the inspection ser: vice permitted too many passen- gers aboard It was the last act ofa long record of improper in spections.” City in Mourning The entire city is in mourning and during the next two days will see a series of funerals such as has not been equaled since the Iroquois fire. those who left their homes the holiday with the em- of the Western Electric and are supposed to have aboard the Eastiand, 460 migsing. Sixteen bodies are held at the armory, which a8 a temporary morgue. phave not yet been identi- Many Missing With these figures avaliable, Depity Police Chief Schuettier and| Hoffman estimated the of dead at from 1,200 to 4 and dredgers resumed of searching for bodies early Bota many of the oper who went aboard the Mastland may have been crushed {ito the muddy bottom of the river {4 problematical ) PRISONERS ARE. e e EDS OF BODIES | - REMOVED FROM. zn Cheek Collection, But—!| | prisoner, It was the exact time describ. ed by the poet as the stilly hour. Not a sound but the flap- ping of canvas in the night wind, cr the distant throb of a belated street car hurrying for the barns, interrupted the silence, surrounding the tent tabernacle at 3rd and Virginia Not a sound, that is, until— “GET OUT OF HERE!” It came like a pistol! shot from Mrs, Clifford €, Favor, wife of the tent manager. COUNTY JAIL Manacied by and rded by heavily armed men from the United States oftice, every federal prisoner in the| King jail, including awaiting trial, left here Monday tor | Tacoma. There were 20. together, two two, | marshals county those | The transfer was made thru tn-| [structions from Attorney General | Gregory of Washington, D. C., and ‘FORD BAND | HERE; an order from Federal Judge Neter-| er, who declare the prisoners were {n unsafe custody under the care! of Sheriff Hodge | GETS KEY TO CITY; TO PLAY TONIGHT ‘The sheriff, whose honor #ystem has been under fire of the federal| Completing the “thrnt leg of a ic aaron of justice for a ifs |5,000-mile transcontinental tour Foe eee eee en at teed | which includes visits to 21 cities Tears stood in the eyes of many |4nd the expositions in California, of the men as they grasped|the Ford Motor band, of Detrolt Hodge by the hand, thanking him| arrived in Seattle Monday morning jfor the kindness he had shown| from spokane. They were wel them In treating them like men comed to Seattle by Mayor H. C.} Hodge felt the sting of their re moval keenly, inasmuch as he has never, in six years, lost a federal | despite the fact that they | een given unusual liberty | the jail Nearly every man| considered an honor prisoner him I'm Gill, who presented the key to the city to HS, Morgan, who ie in charge of the party on the long journey The members of the band, all of | whom are employed itn the Detroit} factory of the Ford Motor company, were escorted to the Seattle assem bling plant of the Ford Co., and |later taken on a boulevard tour At noon they started for a ride} on Puget sound, with a visit to the| navy yard at Bremerton The band will give a free con-| have t about was by | sorry to see them go,” he sald, “not because it discredits the| honor system, but because of the men themselves. The government, by these tactics, 1s injuring only the prisoners. . Where is Blame? cert in Volunteer park Monday | "Who is to blame?” is the big evening from 8 to 5:30 o'clock.| Westin now to which officials are The program follows an answer Each of the March of Triumph—‘Entry F, Gt investigations which have start | of Gladiators” Fucik 4 4 will be pushed to an early con- | Overture—“Orpheus".Offenbach , it was declared today, in Grand Fantasia—“Way Down M@ effort to fix responsibility for Upon the Swanee River,” the Worst disaster in Chica his-| at vy with variations Douglas Bf tory. | CHICAGO, July 26.—The horrors) the river Cornet duet—“Ida and Dot- The questions to which an! of the Eastland disaster were lived, Occasionally, as the day wore on, tle” Mewer will be sought thru each’. " le} a a storm of weeping swept the en stra robe are: a tad BO en. verre. oer ite plant All pretense of work! Selection—“Mile. Did the Eastiand have more | Vivors dragged themselves to their! was abandoned Many collapsed | Herbert Passengers aboard than per- | benches and desks of the Western! and were removed to their homes “Vesper Bells”. Clark mitted by her license? Electric company's plants In Haw-| Women and girls became hystert he Ford” Zickel Was the capacity of the |thorne and Cicero at the usual on 2 shee atief and terror a the) rhe Ford band bas been organ-| f overrated deliberately | time today vacant desk or bench beside them! 1,64 four years, Every member is| 46 for gain? Tears streamed down the taces|recalled to mind the death a#trug-|. \ueuiar employe of the company Was the ballast out of adjust- |of men and women alike, as they |gles of the relative or companion) jiy in appreciation of thelr. ef ment? entered the offices and work who sat there only three days @80. forts and thelr splendid work, the Mf this was not known by |rooms, There was hardly a depart To Give Pensions Ford company is sending them on the inspectors, who did know | ment that did not Mose at least sev. HS, Albright, general manager,| the tour of who criminally permitted [eral men or girls in the disaster B capacity load to be taken on |The twine room in which a score face of such knowledge? |of girls chattered happily on Fri day, of the excursion, was empty This department and some others were completely wiped out Floods of Tears Workers, rey-eyed from weeping explained that now, more than ever before, must they continue their labors. With others who helped to: ward the support of families gone, few could afford to lose even a portion of their wages. * hatte rt Reid, federal inspector of issued the Kastiand’s license. Reid's son-in-law, J. M. Erickson, tland’s chief engineer, who Fs & large salary, had charge ballast machinery wm was today centering the government steamship in- for permitting the Kast- b long known as a “cranky” and having narrowly eacaped er before, to remain in ser Others said that by en, Otficiais of the Seamen's|they hoped to forget Were bitter in their eriticiem| sights they had seen when the inspectors |eteamer plunged its precious Passenger boat is safe that| freight into the muddy waters of hard work the terrible said no definite steps had yet been) ° oa |exploded in Martin's hand, Nation, Horror-Swept by Great Disaster, i in Deep Mourning And a strange man scurried off into the night. Favor thinks he was seeking the church collection and had not reckoned with the fact that Favor and his wife sieep ther He got only some small chang from Favor's trousers. It happened at 3 a. m. Mon- day if you wish to # where it happened, attend one of the meetings, any night except monday or Saturday, advises Favor. ONE MAY DIE; TWO OTHERS INJURED IN “MOVIE” BATTLE VENICE, Martin, Cal aviator July 26.—Glenn and three moving pieture actors are confined to their beds, man is fatally injured, and several others slightly as the one powsibly burned result of participat ing ir a moving ploture war scene. While the cameras purred and imitation dreadnanughts assailed a canvas fort on the beach, a bomb berning cannon into a him ely, and a heavy was discharged point blank crowd of “soldiers Oscar Demp sey, 5. 8. Stewart and J. 8. Heney were hurled thru the air and their clothing torn from their bodies | Dempsey may die DECISION HELD UP CITE INSPECTOR FOR GRAND JURY CHICAGO, July 26.—The first actual step toward fixing responsi bility for the overturning and sink ing of the Eastland with a loss of more than 1,000 lives, was taken this afternoon when States At torney Hoyne called Chas. H Westcott of Detroit before the county grand jury, Westcott is the supervising federal inspector ed the licen: permitting land to carry 2,500 passen Kern. Hoyne’s action apparently halted the plans of the federal inspectors to investigate their own service. The steamship inspection service was under a heavy fire of criticism today from all sides. Hoyne main- tains that neglect on the part of the inspectors ix responsible for the disaster The investigation by the federal grand jury attracted the greatest interest today Judge Landis called the jury without the slight est hesitation After questioning a few witnesses, however, it was de cided it would be better to post-| pone the probe until Thursday, giv- ing process servers time to locate the 560 men drawn in the panel One Escape Besides 30 of the crew, Walte Steele and Martin Slatow, offic tals | of the St. Jos Chicago line, operating the were in custody today. George Munger, purser of the ship, is being sought His son, living in Kalamazoo, re- ceived a telegram from Munger, | saying he had escaped, The son |has no idea of his father's where-| | abouts, however, and fears that he is prostrated somewhere & Eastland, ‘tut S. SHIP TORPEDOED Sach tatiana TOOTS PPP PPP DLP PAPA APALL LLLP LPP PD PPP PPP PPP PPP PPP PPP PPP PPP PPP PPP The Seattle Star WEA AST EDITION THER FORECAST—Fair 11DES AT SEATTLE High low AND 2:27 a. m., 19.7 ft. 10:00 wom, OF ft a, te 6:05 pom. 14. 10:58 pom, 02 ft BY SUBMAR OF CR GERMA INE; ALL EW SAFE LONDON, July 2 rt from Kirkwall clares the America tc northwest coast S ew a wa The Leelanaw was built in 1886 at tle, Eng. Its gross tonnage is 1,923. It is 273 id of 36 for beam. The normal crew is 34 men The Leelanaw is owned by the Hardy S. Co. of New York. She delivered a cargo of cotton at Archangel and route ing to last report vith a fl p here not heard of the ha been sunk Given Warning? {rearched as aired by interna- Later dispatches arriving here tional law, before she was tor- indicated the Leelanaw was etc pedoed, the sinking of the vessel by the submarine before g will not precipitate a crisis be- sunk, When it was ascertained tween the United States and Ger- that she was carrying flax, the|many, The case will then be identi- cargo was declared to be contra- cal with that of the Wm. P. Fry band and the which was sunk in the South A ordered to take to th lantic with a cargo of wheat It Leelanaw was then t If official reports press dispatches as naw having been would not be regarded as a repeti- tion of an attack without warning. The Leelanaw was commanded by Capt. E. B. Delk 'PUERILE. WHINE,’ SAYS OF S. E. with a puerile whine of pessimism, indulges dole lamentations not unworthy of the ancient Jeremiah.” In this manner, Corporation Counsel Bradford sums up the com. plaint against the city filed with the public service commission, by the traction company, In a com munication he sends to the coun tell, Monday. Commenting on the fact that the company seeks to be free from pay “The company, BRADFORD CO. COMPLAINT ing tos local Bradford says provements, etc., In other litigation with the city, the company found it legally convenient to urge that these franchises constitute binding contracts,” Answering the plaint of the com- pany anent the municipal line and jitney buses, he says: “It should be borne in mind that the city, even if it had desired, could not |have granted to any company ex- clusive franchise rights. The law doesn't permit it.” NELL’S PANTS CAUSE LARGE FIGHT IN JAIL Nell Pickerell, a police charac ter, widely known as & mas querader in riale attire, 1s con fined in a cell all her own at police headquarters, and several other women who occupy the women’s ward are nursing bruises and black eyes One of the latter made the mistake of uttering a joke about Nell’s trousers. In a wild hurri- cane of girlish fists that fol lowed, Nell came out victorious. She was removed to a more se cluded part of the jail. THREE TURKISH BOATS ARE SUNK 26.—Two Turk and an July a transport mer were sunk by ATHENS, ish ammunition ste a British submarine which pene trated the vast mine fields of the gunboats, Dardanelles and entered the sea of Mormora, dispatches today stated This is the second time since the | attack on the Dardanelles began that a British submarine has slip ped by the forts and thru the mine- fields into the sea of Marmora. IN BECKER CASE MYSTERIOUS “S.0.S” ANXIETY IS FELT ment to obtain a new trial, In the meantime, all preparations for the electrocution of the convicted po- lice officer Sing Sing were going forward at ‘MOTHER SAYS STAR ERRED IN ARTICLE Mrs. Mary McDonald of Issaquah, who says she Is the mother of Kd ward Curtis, arrested recently, fol- lowing a report that he was shoot- ing at workmen who attempted to cross the railroad bridge at that place, says The Star erred in print ing the supposed facts The Star said the authorities be Heved the boy was mentally unbal anced, She says he is not, She says the boy's father was not m killed, but died a natural death during |} ipohipgcne ; No Hope. Mr. Rabbit (to inch worm)—And taken to provide tor the afflicted At a meeting of the board of direc tors, however arrangements will GREY is | pay all funeral expenses for all families making such requests ON HER VACATION La Incapacitated members of families whose bread winners we . rere , Ss GRE lost tn the disaster will be pen M S CYNTHIA GRI Y sioned by the company on a one week's While inside the plant there was\|.. me ey only heartbreaking grief, a ittle|f Vacation, and no letters army appeared at the offices, show. J Will be answered ing no signs of sorrow. On the|fher absence. She will be contrary their feoee were alight back at her desk. ‘next with hope. They were seeking > jobs which the Eastland calamity|{ Monday morning, Aug bad made, |how are you today? |. Inchworm- The doctor says I'm) dying by inches} NEW YORK, July 26 Justice Ford this afternoon re-| served decision of a motion to grant former Police Lieut. Chas, F. Becker a new trial Becker's execution for the mur der of Herman Rosenthal is set for Wednesday, W. Bourke Coch ran delivered the principal argu | GALL PICKED UP NEW YORK, July 26.—A mys-| terious “S. O. 8." call received at} the Fire Island station last night | caused apprehension in shipping | circles, | The distress call was picked up by the Fire Island station and ceased before its origin could be as-| certained. | SULLIVAN REPORT 18 PLACED ON FILE | WASHINGTON, July 26.—The re. port of United States Senator Phe jan of California, who investigated the alleged questionable conduct of James Sullivan, United States min-| ister to Santo Domingo, was filed | here today WE'RE DRY AND HOT) Temperature at Seattle this year || has been two degrees above nor. mal, according to Weather Observer | Salisbury, who bases his statement | on statistics for 32 years, Precip! tation has been inches below | normal, | Dr, Everett Lincoln Smith has | applied for a permit to build a four. story hotel, to cost $90,000, ‘Fourth ave. and Marion at, is AT WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, July 26.—The government had received no report NOTE ASTOUNDS GERMAN PRESS By Carl Ww. A Ackerman BERLIN (via The Hague), July 26. rman people approve the editorials of Berlin, condemn- e new American note. I learn- ed today in conversation with men in all walks of life. There is a feeling of surprise that the United States failed to grasp the German viewpoint as to the submarine warfare and greater sur- prise at the wording of the new communication Indignation was evident as a result of the statement that further submarine attacks cost- ing American lives would be re- garded as deliberately unfriendly. The German people will not sane tion an abridgment of the sub marine warfare, however much they may desire the friendship of the | Vaited States. The leading German papers unite Jin dec laring that the submarine warfare must not be abandoned. LEELANAW USED TO RUN ON PUGET SOUND SAN FRANCISCO, July 26 The Leelanaw was well known on the Pacific Coast. For ten years she engaged in the coal trade be tween San Francisco, Puget sound ports and Alaska, owned and con- trolled by the Hill-Hubbel company, The Leelanaw was sold in Feb- ruary to the Harby company, hav- ing offices in New York and Gal- veston Jas to the torpedoing of the Leela-| naw up to 11:30 4 department it m was confirmed that tion of the atts ok. At the navy | LONDON, July 26.—The British |the Leelanaw was of American reg: |S. Grangewood was sunk by a istry Officials displayed some|submarine yesterday off the Shet- anxiety, but declined to comment, |land Islands, The crew landed at pending the receipt of confirma:|Serwick today, The Grangewood was a vessel of 3,422 tons ‘SHOPPING NIGHT IS AN ART | | | The principal thing ir the average family is to know, it, and then WHEN to bu The products of the enti | the stores of Seattle. An to tell you about in style—the prices—the word of these ads is of stores carry liberal advert every day. \| fully. You can’t make time it takes. d these stores use their ads them—what is the correct thing bargains, etc., etc.; every saving to you or additional service. Make it a point to study the ads care- 1 supplying the wants - tirst, WHERE to ty it to the best sive re world are assembled ,in interest to you and means Seattle’s best ising space in The Star a better investment of the