The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 16, 1915, Page 1

WAAR AAA AAAI ee PAY ONLY ONE CENT FOR THE STAR WOUNDED ARE GER TO GET BACK IN FIGH Once You Get the Smell of a Fight,’ Says One Wounded Trooper, ‘You ’ Are Bound to Go Back;’ 18- -Year-| Old ‘Bad Boy’ Who Ran Away to War Zone Now Makes Speeches! in Quest of Recruits. By Mary Boyle O'Reilly IDON, Aug. 16.—Every story the firing front of the great feiterates this cardinal truth: JONS OF AVERAGE MEN UNSUSPECTED HEROES. ing discovered their capacity heroism, they are bound to re- to anger. <= | o- authorities are holding In a small scalleywag, Harris, aged 13, who played te get to the front. wanted to join the army, but * ‘course, too young. he scraped together enough to reach Folkstone, stowed on the Flushing boat and to Antwerp. ‘brigades were en- the city. George was taken before a Ger- Neutenant, and order to Holland as a refu- GOES RECRUITING “The Gritish comsul at Amsterdam sent him home. ii i) i Lemma an Ws CORP DECQUITING- | if But London tales to commit the lad for truancy. } court order he goes to schoo! two days in the week and on the four days GOES RECRUITING. ‘His speeches from the steps of St. Paul's are amusing and con | “You fellers can take it from me,” says the youngest re- ing speaker in England, “the minute | get the chance, I'M ING BACK. SURE THING.” NDED HATE TO QUIT the danger zone of the Dardanelles comes a story of the Territoriais—militia from the shops and the mills. i “| eaw a transport full of wound- ed men cast off,” writes one not yet injured. “We cheered them and those who could, cheered back. “It gave me a lump in my throat to hear them. Wounded and broken, they kind of apologized for going out of action—crying, ‘Trust ue, mates, WE'LL SOON BE BACK. WE'LL SOON BE BACK.” | “You lose nearly all grip on civ-| says a private ixth Durhams. “To tell the! pent a fortnight ina proper! And yet, once you get the of the fight, YOU ARE hell. smell BOUND TO GO BACK.” BIRDMAN GOES BACK | An aviator of the British Roy. Flying corps out on a scouting ¢ pedition, encountered the machine of an enemy airman, to which he! gave battle. The G ans, seeing the Brit isher was having the best of the u, sent out 12 AEROPLANES TO DEAL WITH HIM. | ite their numbers, however, they were unable to bring him) | them, sent two Germans Finally the Britisher, circling high abo to the ground with shots from his machine gun. xing advantage of his superior altitude, he flew back and reached There collapsed and had to be taken to a hospital. » three days he lay delirious a it of the terrible strain. “But when Red Cross nurses declared him convalescent, HE ROSE FLEW BACK TO THE FRONT. \ (gut We 50 ! HANEN'T JBEEN in THE | PAPER FOR Lome | WE OUGHT To} Ger BACK RIGHT AWAY NEW YORK, Aug. 16.—Gen. United "Press, that the recent alist’ soldiers, The United Carranza today positively de attacks along the Texas border Pr asked Gen, Carranza for clared, in a message to the were not made by constitution. @ atatement as to reports in PRA NO, 147, "MERCHANTS GATHER FOR CONVENTION Two Thousand Business Men From Northwest Will Be Here This Week. DOINGS BEGIN TODAY Program Planned at Press Club; Convention Proper Will Open Wednesday. | | Hullo, Mr. Auto Owner! Feel like doing something for your country? Bring your auto—Fords not barred—down to the First ave. entrance to the Arcade build ing, Wednesday at 2:30, where | It'll be used to haul a bale of country merchgnts around the | boulevards. | They want to take a slant at | the city. | The Sales Managers’ associa. | tion has given the distress sig nal for 75 machines. Merchants began to arrive here to attend North west convention, which has for {te annual session to last all week Before Wednesday the prediction is that several thousand of ‘em will be in the city, The convention and the fair on the Manufacturers’ roof garden, which is to be a par of it, is the unique way the Sale Managers’ and Manufacturers’ asso | elations of the city have of bring ing country merchants of this state, Idaho and Oregon to Seattle to buy thetr fall and winter stocks. The Commercial Club, where reg istration of visitors began early! Monday, wan a busy place thrnout | the day Wednesday Is Big Day Wednesday will be the big day of the convention. Following a busi ness session and luncheon, at which Judge Burke will give the address of welcome. 0. C the Graves, of Cheas ty's, will speak on “Store Manage ment,” and H. T. Mason will talk on “Fire Insurance,” the visitors will be taken for a rubberneck trip over the boulevards. Having shifted the Manufactor ers fair from the roof garden of the White-Henry-Stuart buildings, to | the main exhibit halla on the first) and second floors, to comply with | an eleventh-hour ruling of city offt clals, the Manufacture pela. tlon opened its annual show at 1 o'clock Monday afternoon. Authorities Shut Roof Garden | ‘Fire Marshal Bringhurat and | Building Inspector Josenhans decid. ed the roof garden, which was open | during Shrine week and the Knights of Columbus convention, was contrary to city ordinance, and ordered the tents, platform, booths, ete, removed | Monday evening on the main | floor of the gg building and at ithe Press club, a program of indus- trial moving pictures and music will follow a public reception given | Thomas Wardall, Seattle's cen tenarian, who will speak briefly on Manufacturing. Decorate Vacant Windows | Thruout the week the fair will be open from 1 o'clock to 11 p. m | Moving pictures, Including views jtaken in the manufacturing dis- tricts, will be shown. The dining car department of the | | Northern Pacific has presented the Manofacturers’ association with a cake, which {is large enough to serve 1,000 persona, to be cut Sat-| urday night Saturday will be Made-in-Washington day Every vacant store window on First, Second, Third and Fourth aves,, from Yesler way to Pine st is decorated for the week with dis. plays of goods made in this state. fell, Well! Look Who’s Here! Old MUTT Himself and His Side Hick, JEFF! “(ON , POOR GOOF, S rHars ALL THE MORE REASON y One DAT MORE OR LSS DON'T Hury, LET'S WALT THLE AND } St | leaders BUT WEVE BEEN \ OUT OF THE PAPER. SO LONG THAT iF WE Dom'T GET BACK S00N “THE READERS WILG For.GeT VS, Washington that the bandits cans desiring Intervention. The have of the identity of the at who made the raids on the bor “first chief” was als@asked as tacking forces, and replied der were financed by Ameri to the knowledge he Rall “With respect to your mes The SeattleStar | : The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News : VOLUME 18. ON THAINS ATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, AUGUST 16, 1915. ONE CENT NEWS STANDS, TAFT ASKS INTERVENTION BY U.S. IN MEXICO GEN. CARRANZA DECLARES TO UNITED PRESS THAT HIS. SOLDIERS WERE NOT IN BORDER RAIDS | sage, regardingewho attacked affirm they were not attacked the cities bordering the fron by constitutionalist soldiers tier, | have no information, but “V. CARRANZA.” 5 ( AST EDITION rain; Tues Tonight probably fair TIDES AL SEATILE Low. AND be lwo JODLAND NYMPH WEARING LACY CAP AND 600 NAMES IN SMILE CAUGHT AFTER A CHASE BY PC )SSE! *“* * * & * * | Modern Eve Hides in Bushes While All Men Quit Jobs ALREA R to Hunt for Her; Sheriff Puts One Over on Hunters } and Wraps Her Up in a Horse Blanket. CAMP DRILL es Seattle Business } Men Jump at Chance to Qualify as Offi cers in Event of War. DATE SET FOR CAMP Will Be Given Course of In-) struction by U. S. Officers at American Lake. Between 550 and 600 busi | ness and professional men of THE NYMPH Seattle, Tacoma and smaller WAS SOME nearby citi had enrolled OPRINTER> Monday for the military train me J Cos grove, American lake, near Ta coma, from August 23 to Sep. 12, ing camp to be held at tember Inclusive. To facilitate the registration of men, the Metropolitan Bulld ing company has donated an office at 1220 Fourth ave. which opens this afternoon at ~\ 2 o'clock, The office will be THe " vi open from 2 to 10 p. m. the re- THE YOUNG mers mainder of the week. \ VACATIONS The surprising total of names ARLY from professional and bus ranks, testifies that the citiz the Northwest are in fav policy of preparedness. | Every hour brings an increase to the roll, and it would not be ex aggerating to predict between 700 and 800 will attend the training) camp. | >yY Educate 'Em for Officers | ~/A The idea of the camp is educate \\ Z an Intelligent class of citizens, \ iv in the professional and business world, as officers for vol unteers, so that should a call to The Sparta (Wis.) arme ever be sounded, the citizen §peciai to The Ste THE SHERIFF BAGS “TRE? NYMPH Eve in Her Eden. scomed to thinkshe belonged tn 16.- ~The pomse, too, and joined the she }soldiery could be more rapidly) SPARTA, Wis, eae te | made ready for military service. [chase is over! It w some chase before the The course of instruction will be-| Sparta’s farmers have returned | posse ght that nymph. She gin with personal hygiene, camp to their fields, Sparta’ smiths are traveled Ight, no tube skirts to sanitation, company administra. bauy at their anvils again. Sparta’s halt her speed: she climbed trees tion, rationing and clothing of vol-jnymph-Diana of the horseblanket |and swam creeke—a wisp of golden unteers, and, as knowledge in-jand the lacy breakfast cap is a)hair would lure the hunters on: the creases, military map making, rond | captive glimpse of a snow white figure | sketching, tactical walks, short) It was a farmer's boy who two flitting thru the trees made the| practice marches, instructions {in Weeks ago brought to town the tale |chase good, and the hunt worth | of the nymph—the young lady who while. guarding the rear, the van and cor “had nothing at all on but a lace ering detachments, in short, the baste facts, the meat of military /°#P With a ribbon in It matters. | Posse Easy to Get | She was always dodging behind Those aaiteink wilt no given (the bushes, he sald. Then a fisher certificates of proficiency on which 4? faw her. Everybody was in inane ce terested. ‘They'd Just ike to know assignments as officers of volun: if that lad waan't telling whoppers. Sparta Forgets to Work Daily for a week Sparta forgot to toll In flelds and shops. Monroe county was scoured from end to end before the hiding place of the swift-footed damsel was dis covered. Sheriff Boss put one over on the teore In time of war Pobieg i ret | Sheriff George Boss was sum-|posse, He was right there with a All men of reasonable education. | moned, or at least he broke into|horse blanket, brought along for from the ages of 21 to 45, are urked | the chase. |just such an emergency. to enroll at once. The telephone! tie would have called a posse, but) When Diana's retreat in a sylvan number of the enrollment office Is he didn't need to, the posse was\glade was discovered, the nymph Main 630 right there with field glasser—|was brought back to town in a The Northwest camp will be inievery man willing to lead the | bundle. charge of a competent corps of in-charge into the verdant grove Now the girl won't talk Until structors from various army posts|where the elusive sprite, garbed |she tells who she is and where she |comes from, the sheriff's wife will do the best she can to make her Manuel comfortable in the Sparta ES the Sear veer in the Northwest only in @ lacey cap, One infantry company from Fort) the shrine of nature Lawton, a machine ae ne agp Humane Agent cease CY BUDGET CUT $94178 worshipped at George . and visional machine gun cscs Fvcet the Second regiment of the N. G.| W. will compose the staff of teach-| ers. Will Pay Own Expenses A deposit of $25 to cover cost A food, camp and military equipment will be required at time of en-| campment, unused portion to be re temrencoemneoenntnees turned Sept ae she be rate ‘on With the first survey of @ loes of $494,998, of which pected ceed tro i os be jo exces rom $15 budget estima practically $350,000 is due to loss of liquor lice revenues, The council will meet at 10 a.m, Tuesday, to decide on Councilman Erickson's proposal to incre the owance for street lighting by $42,000, This is In conformity with his While the men will be put thru a atiff grind each day, considera tion of the fact they are novices will be taken. Saturday afternoon and Sunday will be vacation days, | jand plenty of recreation will be ‘on! completed by the budget com- mittee, a cut of $94,178.25 be- low the 1915 allowance has been effected. For 1915 it was $3,836,440.25, The 1916 estimates have been oe Program, tho ariils with | pared thue far to $3,742,262. assertion that the light depart. arms, general shooting practice, | e city’s revenues for 1916 ment is not charging enough and unraveling of military strategy| are estimated by City Comp- for street lighting, and charging | will in Itself be diverting from the| trotler Carroll at $915,021, as rates too high to home power humdrum business life | against $1,410,019 this year, or | consumers. (Copyrieht, 1015, by H.C. Pimhery By BUD FISHER BIG ARMY OF 250,000 MEN ‘Former President Declares Time Has Come for Uncle Sam to Step In and Stop Fighting in Mexico; Declares He Was on Point of | Recognizing Huerta When He Left White House. ST. LOUIS, Aug. 16.—“Intervention in Mexico seems necessary today. The United States can no longer tolerate the confusion and dis- order in our neighboring republic,” declared former President William H. Taft, in an interview today. “lam in favor of peace, but not In this foolish sense of security without foundation,” said Taft. “Today it looks as if the United States must intervene in Mexico. This would require 250,000 soldiers. “At the time | left office | was considering a plan to recognize Huerta. In my judgment, this country made a mstake when it ousted him.” Taft will addre St. Louls business men today. CARRANZA AIDS DELIVERY OF PAN-AMERICAN. NOTES WASHINGTON, Aug. The battieships Louisiana and 16.— | duct to messengers who will carry the note to Gen. Zapata | | | | New Hampshire, en route and other factional leaders. | south, were to ordered by Gen. Villa's reply to the pan- wireless to proceed to Vera American peace note is reported to be en route to Washington and is jsald to be favorable. Carranza’s answer is not expected before Saturday. Reports today declared the “first \chief” might call a conference of his commanders to frame a joint reply to the communication. An armistice between Villa and Carranza is in. prospect. Military operations are expected to be sus- pended during consideration of the peace appeal. JOLSON RECALLS OLD TIMES IN SEATTLE; 20 SHOWS A DAY Cruz. | pe prevent the transmission of the pan-American peace appeal to Mexican leaders and gov- ernors, Diplomatic Agent Par- ker jorted to the state de- partment today from Mexico City. Gen. Gonzales informed Par- ker he would grant safe con- Al Jolson came off found him out. Now his name glit- alaie’ shing ers in electric signs wherever he ovnge Parse, aL che wee goes. He gets a fabulous salary e laug a Y | for his songs and jests. The songs to his dressing room. he sings are at once popular songs, Then he sat on a trunk, | and are sung, played, whistled and aan laughed hummed from coast to coast Sang Here in Old Times You see him now, the pivotal figure in the Winter Garden pro- duction, “Dancing Around,” now Playing at the Moore. It was one long Jaugh, but, at some point in Jol- son's progress from stage to dressing room, the qual- bye: phigiin ser A doven years ago Jolson sani ity of He cuaneen Bes Wet and Jeste@ in Seattle. Probabiy stage laughter when 1 he is better now than he was then started, but it was the -more finished in his fun-making. genuine thing before it But he was good then, tho the ended. freapes aig were a long a ee me finding him. I got to thinking of the It was thinking of the days when old days,” he said, id be was undiscovered that made the I can’t help laughing black-face comedian laugh. Then Jolson’s light burnt feebly a long, long time before Broadway (Continued on Page 5) N Lincoln Park, Chi- cago, Sunday, a big, - BAG, courte too \ Pda, Consciencious BUT To SATISFY You 4 U'LL MATCH YOU FOR IT. TR YOU WIN WELL WORK TODAY, IF YOU Lose we WANT TILL TOMORROW: NOW WHAT COLOR AM T THINKING OF, RED OR BLACK? ete memmcan: THEN WHERE broad-shouldered man } might have been seen as- sisting a little gray-haired woman to a shady spot under the trees. A basket the big man carried was unpacked. A table cloth was. spread. And then ap- peared sandwiches, and cake, and pie, and olives, and all the things that go to make up a lunch for an outing. The woman sat and ate, and looked up at the big man at her side while he talked to her. The big man was Hazen J. Titus, superintendent of the dining car department | of the Northern Pacific } railroad, The little wom. { an was his mother. Sunday was her birth- day. Titus went all the way from his Seattle of fice to Chicago to spend the day with her, and take her to the park for an out A414, Myf Qasr, ing—an outing such as WLS they used to take occa. . f hi k AWATINAYAIINUECNE ves sionally, before his wor! took him away from home. What are YOU doing to make YOUR mother's old age happy?