The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 10, 1915, Page 1

EGINNING Wednesday, The Star is going to publish, EVERY DAY, a special article from one of its herd, William Philip Sims, Henry Wood, Ed L. Keen, and others. many correspondents in Europe, giving intensely interesting sidelights on some one phase of the For instance, Mary Boyle O'Reilly, daughter of the fagnous Irish patriot and one of the best huntan war. Now that the belligerent nations have been locked for more than a year in their death struggle, interest writers N York ever turned out, left Warsaw just a few days before the Germans entered the the world is just beginning to realize what a monstrous thing it all is. We in America, and in Seattle, Polish capital. She saw the heart-breaking suffering there of a people compelled to forsake the land of are seeing an epochal Stage In world history. There never was such a war. their nativity before the conquering hosts of Von Hindenburg. AND WEDNESDAY, IN THE STAR, The Star Is in a position to publish special articles from correspondents in every one of the warring SHE IS GOING TO TELL YOU ABOUT IT. countries. These are not articles based on the terse reports of the government “communiques,” but his will be the first of these stories. The Star will have one EVERY DAY, remember. You will the stories of men and women who are personally at the front, seeing these things. get an understanding of what is going on in Europe from the articles in this paper that you can get in They are going to be flesh and blood stories by such writers as Mary Boyle O'Reilly, BiJl Shep. no other way. If you aren't getting The Star regularly, subscribe now. HE STAR today presents its . A S T readers with a representative up of advertisers of which The ED Sar is proud. ITION Patronize the merchants that advertise in The Star's columns, and you'll get what you want— reasonably, too. WEATHER FORECAST—Fair. TIDES AT SKATTLE ich Low. 12.6 ft. 10:24 « m., 16 ft 15.8 ft. 10:58 p,m, 88 ft oe VOLUME 18. NO. 142, SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1915. ONE CENT Seed "Atos oe UNCLE SAM PREPARING TO RUSH BATTLESHIPS TO VERA CRUZ | JOH ; U.S. sta ot IN SESSION ai TR OUBLE SLIPPIN NEAR IN IT O ? MEXICO ; Industrial Relations Com-| x abieraivat Sybase rs : é (Carranza Moving Capital to mission Split on Coming: Mexico City With Sup- Report; Has z rogressive | posed Intention of Defy- i This picture of the members of the U. 8. trade commission was take: it the completion of ring here Monday. The members, | rs PY Member Flopped e Parry drom Beevers pt Nie ake N. Hurley, George Rubles, Wm, J. Ha Chairman Joseph E. Davies, and Will H, ing | Inited States. *_* * © * & By C. P. Stewart | | WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.—Trouble with Gen. Carranza | |is deemed imminent. As a result, every preparation is being } ;made by the navy department today for the concentration Ves warships at Vera Cruz. e le The battleships New Hampshire and Louisiana are tak- ing on coal and provisions at Newport and will be ready to | | | | sail for Vera Cruz when orders are received. | BOARD Orders are also believed to have been prepared. for the remainder of the Atlantic fleet to steam for Vera Cruz on short notice. Charges that the accounte COPENHAGEN, Aug. 10— ; of the city lighting department Several Russian warships are B F L Pronidant Wiieets;-Aohsg, Apcdel:. totes secklddak ‘Ail Bedies eos are distorted to keep down the reported to have been trapped y Fred Boalt j to Barat his in eieniomad date oy ed on foreigners and restored Pe bey Cagle: ie rig ae tn the Gull of Riga by the aud: The chairman wags a perfunctory hand. and return to Washington from/all property confiscated from for- inge so home consumers ane den appearance Sunday of a mi: bony. 6° - 7 “ . | Cornish, N. H., presumably because |eign and American merchants in power consumers may be large German battle squad- Please, please remember,” he remarks, “that a discussion | of the Mexican situation Chihuahua under a recent decree, forced to pay a higher rate ron. of the tariff is not germane to the—ah—purpose of this— ee ag Bl ree! neal: wee age This action was taken following a than necessary, were made by The official statement from | inquiry Resume.” | requested hon ei aph McNames | ce werence with Gen. Scott, chief Councilman Erickson Monday Petrograd announcing the Ger. | 1 ]Uir) requested by Commander McNamee Saathonine waitnueete oe man attack, declared Russian The wrathful manufacturer “resumes.” | peebdetion’ ef faretenets Wie are| "ie met Gen. Scott on the Amert- ships helped to repel the | rk ! et ttn ae fol 1 1 e sab to be in temainantt Gunwer can side of the border and con- nat is, he goes right on telling the federal trade com- n im ger. lferred with him for four hours. as the city utilities committ was considering the depart. ment’s budget estimate prior enemy. | j a | ‘ . Fy Put Up to President to submitting It to the budget | The whereabouts of Russia’s | mission about the tariff—or the lack of it—and how it is commite 9 a dreadnaughts has been a mys- The navy and state departments | appEeaAL FOR PROTECTION knocking his business galley-west are believed to have put up to the NOGALES, Artz, As a result of these charges | tery. Some or the ships trap- / : ei if Aug. 10.— a committee, composed of | ped in the Guif of Riga may be Naturally, a discussion of the tariff is not “germane be |e ere hie ee Ee oe eee | Ranches in the San Rafael valley, ; j : ; = a gs eter "ee | Berlis wae silent grit on the! fore & Commission appointed by a democratic administration, | did not wish to take the step while ab pg aor go own, Par & beaks Wei ‘aupaliied Ae ch |claim of the Russians that a Ger.|even tho that commission be non-partisan, oe er boar tix thorities for a troop of cavalry to amine the books and to report |™man cruiser and two destroyers) But the manufacturers who appear before the federal | eens pail eg » protect their holdings from Mexi- back before the budget mak- | Were damaged during Sunday's at trade commission insist upon talking tariff and ship-subsidy,| Officials admit a growing anti-| a" raiders. tg BrMcrig er. ra esil Sa thede ee Petrograd statement ae-|2"¢ they damn LaFollette’s seamen’s bill—and everything hence feeling is evident at Vera us o | » ; - rug. utterances while J. 0. Lamb, |Clared the German fleet consisted| they say goes into the record a aaah Se dilimehaibeal the bookkeeper, wae explain. (Of nine battleships, 12 cruisers and| The commission is an experl- The gunboat Marietta was or-| ing facts and figures. a large number of torpedo boat; ment. It was created a year ago dered to Vera Cruz today to bring} cant property. Erickson point. ect of breaking thru the mine bur- cratic inertia.” Mexico City today. ed out it behooves these own. = riers, but all were repulsed by Rus-| It is its duty to bring “first ald” Be Co Minister Ortega of Guatemala, ers to keep the street lighting %!an seaplanes and warships, which to the harassed competitor, to en- on ach at ney who was expelled from Mexico by The street fightin; cost is destroyers. Three attacks were by congress to “eliminate time the Brazilian minister to the United partly paid by apeeie of va- (made, it was stated, with the ob-| consuming red tape and bureau- Stork Visits Woman States. He will probably leave AN AIR RAID cost as low as possible, to pro- | Co-operated in repelling the attacks. force the antitrust laws, to guard NEW YORK, Aug. 10.— Carranza, and his family arrived tect their own pure With the German armies closing against unfair monopolies and While 350,000 hol Gataly at Vara Orde and took teruge oom eat in on Riga from the jand side, and methods of competition, and to jon the U. S. gunboat Sacramento at x PLEASE TRY IT AGAIN the German fleet outside the gulf, bring sweet harmony and prosper- 9:20 last night, John Silliman, spe the plight of the Russian ships ity into the world of business to Smith, of New York, gave cial agent of the state department, seems hopeless. the end that everybody may be birth to a baby boy on the || reported. LONDON, Aug. 10.—Thirteen Tco much smoke to see the! te ——- {happy—even the consumer! beach of Coney Island. i witt Move 4 a hin} Persons were killed and 12 meteors Monday night. Try ft Only Hears One Side jen. Carranza is has ected pita wor icu adn . By Dean Halliday again Tuesday. There'll be + RUSSIAN ARMIES ita toe Gadty to sedge then coke preparations to move to Mexico! Botton east coast bys Gen | City, where his position will be shower of ‘em up North somewhere} mission. Probably by the time the ss TO | fs man alr squadron, it was an- (Correspondent of The Star) after dark | ESCAPE GERMANS commissioners have returned “s/RU IANS NOW | stronger than at the southern port-| ounced today. One Zeppelin | W x om Washington, D. C.,’they will havel He could declare himself peaess was brought down and destroy. CHICAGO, Aug. 10.—What will Prof. JOHN R. COM OFFERS PROTECTION pare pang tlle Mi sea bore EVACUATE VILNA|“"« defy the U nited States. | Thia| be HONS, member of the Industrial Relations commission, do| PETROGRAD, Aug. 10—Dofeat |}, intelligent use of it, they. may Pati dpc ate Ty | i of the major objective of the Aus| ne able to effect genuine reforms) ppTROGRAD, Aug. 10.—The Rus-| Still Hope for Peace | MORE ON THE WAY crisis? : > a : ‘ ; . Tek BERLIN. v 7 to Say-| tro-Germa the capture and Tout! in business. ns Hs P als COMMONS, professor in democratic Wisconsin Uni-| BERLIN, via Wireless {in busi . sians are preparing to evacuate| Officials are hopeful that he will) AMSTERDAM, Aug. 10.—Fivo : a acon 10.—Prince Leopold, |Of the Russian field armies, 18| 1+ there is any fault to be found] viina. ‘The libraries and museums | yield rather than force armed in-|Zeppelins were sighted at the en ville, Aug. S ciacanaiimaaanantaruh dares aes oe . commanding the Bavarian troops in|claimed in unofficial dispatches) win the «cheme, it is that, unless| of the city have been removed me | ; " ‘ a | : A | » ac. n |trance of the Zuider Zee early to- - COMMONS, the man, supposed friend of labor. control of Warsaw, has prociaiined | hee today. which Field Marahat|t?® commission has sources of in-| cording to reports today. y admitted, however, ‘here| day, cruising in a northwesterly di- Has he been drawn over to a piffling, toothless report by|@mple protection for the citizens | | 4 , |formation other than public hear-| Vilna {s 55 miles east of the be-|are ;rospects that Carranza may|rection. Their course would take ‘ i ission? and property of the city. Von Hindenburg sought to sur ings in Chambers of Commerce, It|sieged fortress of Kovno and has| resist them to Scotland Industrial Relations commission? , sn Be Za round in the Warsaw Alstrict, are| @& 4 ie ° ress has | resist h T asked Prof. Commons if he expected to vote with the NG 66 TISFIED” declared to have escaped the trap] 2°Ver hears more than one side of| direct raflway communication with} When the conference between a ed. 5 £02. + : LA SA / \a story Petrograd, It is about 225 miles | re STi Lattin-| Y IN EAST, TOO talistic members of the commission, who have decided | set for them In New England manufac | northeast of Warsaw | Seerewrs Lansing sad ne i sd aire o ms came’ ; P whe ed © now to be retreat- 3 | American envoys te resumed to-| PETROGRAD, Aug. 10.—A Ger vhich would be a mere slobber|_ Police Chief Lang, when ask They are now said retreat-| turers in the textile and shoe It is toward the Warsaw-Vilna- | tail 7 fa report to congress which would be a m Tuesday about the “Oriental Beau-| ing in orderly fashion on aline run-| inguetel morrow the working out of details! man Zeppelin bombarded Bielostok, pour their troubles | Petrograd railway that the Ger-| or ine peace plat agreed upon will! 4 whine—this after the commission has spent two years) + ‘narior, said he Is “satisfied| ning northwesterly from Siedice to | : | the railway center north of War- y” pa & into the ears of the commis. | mans have been driving in their at-) 4. caken tp. | saw, killing one woman and wound- ’ 1 ili le’s money investigating ever ith it.” the east of Warsaw | ot to bloc 6 | oe re roger hi post arty oo pie 2 Ek chdel inh inhertisd ii toaei'a| py withdtawing, tecet Pegs. the| aSienere eves es me ee pene. / SRDE $0 Blom the Russias reerest.| ing a child, it was announced to- Met cet rr) RASWER former .dminiatration Warsaw garrison has also made iwenlitaed en Pia © John Condon, blind race track|CALLS OFF WAR LEVIES —— |day. Another airship dropped HE REFUSED U4 pal VER. W Kick “all So it is still running good its retreat, it {s declared lowner, dies in Chicago. | EL PASO, Aug. 10.—Gen. Villa| bombs upon Kovel. “Is it true,” I asked, “that Commissioner Weinstock, after ae vot hati : et meeting in New York with John D. Rockefeller, re ge ane pete FON MAY 08 Per N For a lot of San Francisco people long before he got famous; once he ran four-bits into thou- © 1 won't discuss such a question.” “= sands, betting on the races. Did you ever hear how Bud Fisher got the idea? Here’s the story: errse Git thie, majority ot) Tee. ‘Lennon end O'Connell, with ° mine ee gone over | Chairman Walsh, are for @ report | pm ‘This ts the second Fisher became so well acclimated each anniversary as Mr. A, Mutt's|a composite type. what Mutt was going to do about, broke, and Fisher. showed real F jwith teeth. There's FOUR, also. WE of several art’ el \during bis stay in San Francisco | birthday “He had to be a weak guy, and I/| betting and followed sult. genius in devising means for his pT Won't discuss that.” That leaves COMMONS—John HOW We Vieher, the cren. | that he still speaks of that disaster! He was not at that time accom-|made A. Mutt with no chin Fisher named real horses {n real | character to obtain money to begin |The commission,” he sald, "has Rogers COMMONS. [SGOT HIM } tor of Muti ana Jett, | an the “fire,” as do all the resi-| panied by his side “kick” Jeff, who| “He must be nosey to get the feed | races at real odds in his comic, and | all over again. that nothing shall be given’ Has COMMONS flopped to Rock-| the comic, which wil | dents of that city. | entered the select society at a later bag news, so Mr. Mutt had a long /he obtained his data from experts Hearst Offers Him Job ‘until th finished.” fellerism? | When the Sunday Chronicle re-| date, but that is another story. nose. Then he was tall and thin|of his acquaintance, | The character parlayed 50 cents ie report is finished. efeller a ? ae e 4 sumed its art department Bud went Mr. A. Mutt was a hit at once.|and angular so he could bustle.” | Gives Public Good Tips jinto thousands of dollars and then ‘here you have it—there the) Prof. Commons has a ly 4 ry | back to work |He had been confined to five “Mutt” Wins San Francisco | His tips were good, and Mutt at lost it all on one smash. Mutt at be gee pth gil 9p Aya bine esha tat pe tf 7 fe He wanted to start drawing his| columns on his debut. The manag.| It took a week to convince the|one time actually roiled up a for-|the races had San Francisco by the “4 Sy ie aid aac | . cectaieuse Gaukaae Wikes,, oer, Be jcomie strip, which has made the|Ing editor interviewed Fisher the| editor of the San Francisco Chron: |tune on paper. jears. ry ‘4 ¢ FOUR TO| He has studied labor. He h had quit the Hearst service, at ® | world Jangh, a year before he ac-| following day l{cle he wasn't giving up good space,| Fisher each night would take the| The Examiner, which had refused roe © (ie 2 etal ae be oon ' record-breaking salary. Added to | tunity did | “Make {t seven columns wide for| which could have been used for|entries for the races the next day|a job to Bud Fisher when he was Te cin: sasbithens ot owe ce Re MAILED FIST OF Thit| Sli Sia Sert oan sive’ tale’ peret But he could not convince the| tomorrow,” he directed | news, to junk and select a horse for Mutt to play.| willing to draw layouts at $15 a rial Relations commission. |SYSTEM We an unparalleled comic service. If | powers who were on the Chronicle Started Race Comic | But Mutt won his way into the His choice soon began to affect | week, now made him an offer which rir Gane ta Ciccus sark:| Piftece votre ane he wae sum- iting The St | at that time. “Before I started the comic,” said hearts of the San Francisco folks) the odds at the track, and the book-|he accepted, and Mr. A. Mutt went r ain or th fe “of 1 at "eed a4 Wise Pollgloue- | | Goes After a Reputation | Fisher, “I used to go to the races | over night makers would back down the price | to Hearst's San Francisco paper istock, Ballard and Aishton,| cloaked and Standard Oil con the paper delivered at your door. | “They said [ hadn't reputation | pretty regularly. 1 would see fel-| Even the skeptical editor wan|if they saw tn the morning Chren- ittle Jeff had not yet entered Relies “of apengdi’ ahath trolled Gyreéues university for enough,” Bud says lows tearing around among the|convinced when he watched the|icle that Mutt was playing Feedbag | the strip Siiineesctie vagtkae’ ho |” his. advadeed ceteranc | find Fisher, creator of Mutt and| So he set about It to accumulate |hostlers, touts and bookmakers, | thousands of fans going to the race | to win This change was made in the Me the slobbieh repo ractically| Since then has has continued to| Jeff, to appear exclusively in The/a reputation by illustrating court | trying to pick up tips which would |track reading Mr. A. Mutt in the! If the horse had won on the pre-| middle of December, 1907, after ASHING ROCK EPEL LER make a study of the strife between | Star beginning Monday, Aug. 16,| stories, prize fight yarns and the-| make them some money. They all| Chronicle to see what his tips on | ceding day, Mutt was prosperous in| Mutt had appeared in the Chronicle D KOCKEFELLERIS B labor and capital, after 1901 as| started drawing on the San Fran. atrical interviews: looked as if they needed the money | the horses for that day were | the paper on the following morning, | for one month, i have Probably “Won over |ansistant secretary of the National|cisco Chronicle in 1905 and con-| On Nov, 15, 1907, Mr. A. Mutt ap-|to feed their families According to Bud, the prototypes | and he announced on what horse he man, the New York #o-\civic federation, and since 1904 as|tinued making layouts until the| peared in the San Francisco) “I decided to make one of these |from which he had drawn the char-| would stake his fortune that after-| Another Installment of the story Woman * member. THAT'S ‘director of the American Bureau of | earthquake interrupted things in | Chronicle. ey track frequenters the charac-|acter of Mutt began to read him | noon. of Bud Fisher's career will be pub ter of my strip, and so I picked out conscientiously every day to see If this horse lost, then Mutt was! lished tomorrow. Industrial Research, the western metropolis. | Bud still celebrates the date on