The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 28, 1915, Page 1

aaa former Cleveland, O The United Press on Prince Alexander vew as the cabled followed by mall: report United Pr what Correspondent amy. The second article ton’s series is on page 3. Henry Wood of TT" STAR today publishes an Inside story by Henry Wood newspaper s correspondent in on T" French front, and at other points since the war began in which Wood tells how he interviewed a king Constantinople, stopped off on his way there from Paris to call The Star at that time printed the inter By Henry Wood. ® Staff Correspondent NS#. Serbia, May 3.—(By Courier to Athens and thence by Mail to New York.)—What is the mental state of an American reporter inter- viewing for the first time a reigning European PPADS REREAD APR A“Chicken” in Camp ND with a Canadian officer! Read thinks of discipline in the Canadian RESIDENT OF HAITI IS KILLED Sennen nnn nnnnnnnnnnn PLL LL LL PLL LLL LLL PPL Ohio Tells How He Interviewed a King I had arrived at Nish, the war capital of Serbia, after a 24-hour journey over a third class railway. In peace times only 11 hours are required. There was a sleeper, but so thoroly was it kept disinfected with formaldehyde as a preven- tive against the typhus epidemic which was then claiming hundreds of victims daily, that sleep was quite out of the question. During the long hours of the night, when I had leaped back into my berth with the same per- stency with which the train had jolted me out, or when I had hung at half-length out of the (Continued on Page 7.) monarch? In my own case, at least, | must admit that it was one of extreme nervousne but that the exigencies of modern “kinging” have given them an added affability and courteousness that few Americans have either the occasion or dis- position to cultivate. man, who has Rome, served In Serbia, Wood, now in Despite the democratic basis of our American life, | am convinced that deep down in the heart of every American there still lurks a belief that royalty is just a little bit different from the rest of humanity. I am convinced that it really takes two or three personal contacts with kings, queens or princes to demonstrate to the average American that they are not only just as human as every other mortal, brought It. The letter below My first interview with a member of Euro- pean royalty was with Prince Alexander, the pres- ent reigning regent of Serbia. While undoubtedly suffering somewhat from my innate American ideas regarding royalty, my nervousness was also increased by the physical dif- ficulties entailed by interviewing a prince under war and epidemic conditions. The Seattle Star AST EDITION | _WEATHER FORECAST— Fair Burton The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News in Bur- a TIDES AT SEATTLE eh Low. Tie eae i eae g 108 ft 4ana NO. 131 SEATTLE WEDNE 1915, VOLUME 18. WASH., DAY, JULY 28, ONE CENT nhwn srAN ra EXPECT INDICTMENT OF 6 IN EASTLAND DISASTER * port AU PRINCE, July 28. As a climax to a two-day rev- ‘Wution, President Guillaume ot Malt was dragged from iotiee 2 the legation with his family after being forced to ‘Pea from his palace when it Was besieged by rebels. ; President Guillaume's body | us front of the legation for threatening all cee we athizers and panic and terror. x 4 a c 7 Fy $ Aa Prince ts in control of Yi \ leaders. erday 1 directed the bloodiest upris- | fe Haiti's history Further { and bloodshed are feared 20 Die in Fighting hundred are believed to been Killed in street fighting fa executions ordered by Gen. governor of the province. Gen. Oscar's order 160 men shot by firing squads. All Political prisoners and itn- Gen. Orestes Zamor, former Gen. Oscar was captured shot to death. Rev @ Is General troops resisted for a time am attack was made upon President's palace, but when Mructore was set on fire, Presi- ame fled. g Tevolt was evidently planned feajunction with the movement Rorth, which is being led by Bobo. TO GO TO WAR? ASHI. GTON, July Santo Domingo and Haiti up as a possible out- of the revolutionary out- in Port Au Prince. eruiser Washington, Admtrat | commanding, is due at An Prince today z=, tow regarded as certain of the latest dispatches re- —," killing of President BRYAN TO GET TERE SUNDAY — 3 Bryan, the country's t pacificiat, will arrive in Sunday morning, anc several YY. will speeches while in e Principal address will be at in t Presbyterian church Mon ening. He will speak under fhe auspices of the Y, M. C. A. on Subject, “Fundamentals.” This be the only Bryan i Bryan wil 1 net h with Dr. M Matthews Sunday, and in the will visit ate his cousin Lillie P. White, 210 24th ay evening he will | fhe ttle Commere| Mand wil) addrew inch at Club at 6 the club me Principal address at the| esbyterian church 28.—War! athe landing of marines and blue | lecture to} business Rade, af eimission ‘chasse will be! 1 AMM) be UV i GA U REAT DEATH Gh OR AWA ITED (DERTIFIGATION| CHICAGO ACTTY OF SORROW CHICAGO, July 28.—At least one high official is to be prose- cuted as @ result of the East land disaster, in which more than 1,000 lives were iost, re- gardiess of action that may be taken by county and state in | vestigators, it was learned to day. State's Attorney Hoyne alse Predicted that at least six in dictments for mansiaughter would be returned by the county grand jury before night. The inquest was resumed before Coroner Hoffman today while the entire city observed a period of mourning for the Eastland victims. The coroner is anxious to throw more light on the conditions thst | prevatied during the 17 minutes the Eastland was Itsting. He will try to learn from Capt. Pedersen and other witnesses why the passengers were not warned of the impending danger. Had warning been given it is be- | lieved all might have been saved | Startling testimony of the ineffi- ciency of the assistant engineer I who had charge of the water bal- last of the steamer Eastland was given before Coroner Hoffman to- day in the inquest called to investi- gate the disaster resulting in the loss of more tnan 1,000 lives. Assistant Engineer F. S. Snow sald he had been employed on the Eastland but two days before he was given charge of the water bal- last. He received no tnstructions. He said he merely knew that if he pulled one lever water was let Bey Ss a yO Bey Compe Le ea 4D NEWSPAPER BnTERPRISE ASSN + Eight hundred and nineteeen dead bodies of children, women and men were lying on this floor when Staff Photographer Jackson took the above photograph in Chicago. It a rey if he pulled another it was was taken just before the doors of the huge temporary morgue, the Second Regiment armory, were thrown open to the crowds for identification. | vite BECKER SMILES ARMY OFFICERS INSPECT |Business Suspended as Rae aR ITIES TO Chase \ ONDAY SETFOR SITES HERE FOR AVIATION Chicago Buries Its Dead PRIVA TE LAW PRACTICE HIS EXECUTION. SCHOOL FOR FLYING CORPS ixpress Vans Pressed Into Service When Supply of Hearses Is Exhausted. ifermeing one angle of ‘the ones to offer. ‘ sd CHICAGO, July 28.—Chicago Policy of military prepare jan Auto Inspectio Banas ras v: . ORPORATION COUNSEL BRADFORD told The Star Wednesday| NEW YORK, July 28.—But proposed by President Wilson | During the afternoon, it was “eth ape yea ae Mi rg ia a and C he would take no action against his deputies in forcing them to| for the request of Supreme and Secretary of War Garrison, | planned the visitors should be| "Ai! iy and county offices were stop carrying on private law practice on time which the city] Court Justice Ford that the | Col. Samuel Reber and Capt. |taken in automobiles to any of the! yoia” husin cal niapendeds] pays them to devote to the city’s business court be given more time to | RC: Marshall, of Washington, | proposed sites they wish to exam-| jie Gconed at half mast. crepe have nothing to say at th time,” he declared Anything I D. C., are in Seattle as mem ine at first hand from their staffs, and| have to say will be sald when-the budget estimates of this department, Consider hie appeal for a new | bers of a committee in search Sites ax far distant as Olympial Q Ricca come fore the budget committee.” trial, Chas. F. Becker would of a site for a school for army [and Hoods canal, and as near by REVISED TOLL OF “How many of your deputies practice law outside?” a Star man| have been executed today. aviation instruction. jas Lake Washington and the tide EASTLAND DISASTER asked him | The former police officer was It developed Wednesday that /lands below Ft. Lawton, were pro-| Bodies recovered, 831, No,” he replied. amiling and cheerful in his cell the purchase and equipment of | posed to the visitors. The govern Unidentified, 5. “All of them? | In the death house at Sing such ool Is to one of the ment now owns the latter site | Missing, 507. | “No—I have nothing to say.” | Sing, where he was buoyed up Initial ateps towards placing a | Col. R, H. Wilson, commanding | @ ae asl TPP And at that point the conversation on that subject was dropped by hie wife and attorneys, who corps of aviators atevery army |the 14th infantry at Ft. Lawton, ghia atlhy city bells tolled as No indication of what he was going to say or what action he visited him post In the United States, and | was expected to confer with Col,| early bod men, bs and chil- l{atended taking was given | Becker's execution for Instigating| Putting the country on a sound |Reber and Capt. Marshall Wednes-, “ren, vietlms of the retype dis-| Bradford's staff includes the following the murder of Herman Rosenthal, &d@ modern military footing. =| day afternoon aster, were borne to thelr graves,| Three chief deputies, each $250 a month is now set for Friday, but rumors Thruout the morning Col. Reber) Gives Exhibition Flight Not since the Iroquois fire has One police prosecutor, $250 a month are current that Justice Ford will and Capt, Marshall sat closeted) During the morning Aviator Ma-| Chicago been so torn with grief One deputy, $200 a month grant him a new trial with a sub-committee of the Cham-|roney, of Everett, gave an exhibi-/ 4nd suffering Two deputies, $185 a month This would be the third time ber of Commerce, which submitted| tion flight over the city, following Appatied by the first realization} One chief clerk, $175 a month |Becker has fought for his life in 20 proposed sites within a short|a conference with Gen, Robinson, | Of the extent of the disaster which One claim agent, $150 a month. |the courts distance from Seattle, for the ap-| “It takes about six months to| befell the happy excursiopists Sat- These law clerks, 0198, 6190 end 6196.0 month. It was reported Justice Ford|Proval or rejection of the visitors.)make an army aviator,” waid Capt.|YTday, the city stood mute today Several stenographers. might announce hia decision to Looking Over All Sites Marshall. “The government intends|4# the loss was even more deeply This is a tairsized staff, yet not a bit too large, if the city’s law| morrow, or ask that Becker's exe-| Capt. Marshall, who in associated| to tablish one large schoo! where| !mpressed by isis ote iret requires it Jcution be again delayed with the quartermaster's depart-| ll aviators may be trained, similar| Provessions which moved thru the But when deputies find time between rounds with the city's legal| ment, U. S. A, Informed The Star|t9 the navy aviation school at! streets opponents to conduct private cases, and to wrangle with the court over GUARD U S EMBASSY Wednesday that he and Col. Reber| Pensacola, Ma. The anpoly ot hearses in the ity private fees, as did Deputy Egan a few days ago, The Star believes it «Os had been sent out by congress to] “A® soon as we find a euitable| 88 quickly exhausted. Many sor is time for # council investigation | lool over all possible sites afforded | ite, it ts altogether likely that the | Twful processions were led by ex-| Mr. Bradford has always told the cotihci! how busy his is LONDON, July 28—Fearing |on the Pacific slope and the At-|Present army school temporarily Press vans, swathed In crepe, and] kept. Legal opinions are delayed because of the p of busir a hostile demonstration, the | lantic seaboard located at San Diego will be aban.| Dearing reas “g The Star believes the men in Bradford's office are earnest, faithfull| German authorities have espe We will then make our recom-|doned. Col, Reber is in charge of dread 04 ig? _ pressed sato| workers. | clally guarded the American mendation to congress on ovr re-|this school.” * 08. pon this rough vehicle poffina were borne to the Polish metery Grave diggers have been working steadily since Sunday in the va xlous cemeteries, turn to Washington,” he sald He declined to express any opin-] Two million acres open for set. | fon of sites already visited, but sald|tiement in South Dakota September | he believed Seattle had some good| 10, embassy in Berlin delivery of the note from Washington, according to an Amsterdam dispatch, But The Star does not believe they have a right to steal time trae since the the city to make more money. IF THEIR PAY FROM THE CITY DOESN'T SUIT THEM, THEY | SHOULD GET OUT OF THE CITY'S EMPLOY, Harbor, Mich., who was in charge of the Eastiand t i i Ria i! i Ey hit hi ii i i xf j i i . 1 et i