The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 4, 1915, Page 1

T we Got a Headache — Tring to ¢ out why Uncle Sam to Wear crepe over the sale ; ers to th Kisan Kaisha Or 1 Steamship Co, We fail to why & vessel with a Chinese crew and ‘American officers won't carry just as much freight and as many passengers under one flag as under another, wure TY detective, McLennan by name, was charge policeman can commit. A ‘girl makes the char 1 o'clock in the morning to arrest her. The girl say liceman charged her. This, however, is not importa ing to the girl's story, P USHE D HIS WAY INTO H FIVE CHILDREN BURN T0 DEATH SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 4.—The bodies of five dren, four burned beyond recognition, were recovered today from the ruins of the St. Francis Girls’ ectory, which was destroyed by fire a few hours When the fire was brought under control after burning rs hour, it was announced only one child, Katie O’Brien, perished. Daylight, however, revealed the full extent of ; tragedy and Fire Chief Murphy then announced that four bmore corpses had been recovered. One is believed to be that @ Elizabeth O'Brien, 14, sister of Katie There is a possibility, said the fire chief, that more chil- en may be missing. The work of accounting for the little qnes who were in the Directo ory when it caught’ fire is pro- Sgressing slowly because persons in automobiles attracted to scene took many of the children away when they were hed to safety by the sisters in charge Pers time St. Joseph's hospital, | “The fire was undonbtediy burn the school, was threat- jing an hour before we discovered Hit," she said. “It started in the | The biase was discovered at 2 a |roofing and burned down thru the ina stable and spread rapidly building. Trouble with water main building. Firemen re- pressure when the fire department to the three alarms but/arrived delayed the firemen. Had hampered by lack of water) we discovered the fire a little | sooner could have saved all the Sister Mary Agnes mustered the! | children. children {n the smoke- ceipers led them to safety | ‘away inthe sute-| Ten children are missing, she ot those who tad rushed to,*!¢- Rev. Mother Margaret Dt Meves five aro in the hands ing | Setahibors and the bodies of all from the chimney or a cirenit in the electric wiring) the dead have been recovered. | Seventeen of the rescued chil-| the fire, Ret. Mother Mar-|dren, uninjured, are at St. Joseph's. the mother superior, de-| hospital The rest are being cared | for in private homes. Ten Are Missing G LIMERICKS — _ PICKED IN CONTEST FIRST PRIZE $3.0 PRIZE $3.00 Why slam the sport irt 80 Ironic, When it’s merely a ihion Byronic? It's free and it’s easy, And likewise it's sneezy, Let's hope that it won't become chronic. —Richard P. Wood, 3116 Norton Ave., Everett. SECOND PRIZE $2.00 Hall, conquering shirt! Youre the sort For the office, the home or the court, | Tho the fossiis and fogies Trot out all their bogies, The eport shirt for mine—iet them snort! —Claire L. Monk, 6305 50th Ave. 8. E. 1 After laboring over hundreds and hundreds of sport shirt limertcks, he jndges in The Star's contest awarded the prizes as above, at a ia Friday night be The decision was made after the judges had scratched their heads Sd worried several wrinkles over a baker's dozen of the very best 4 es, from which all the rest, with many regrets, had ben eliminated > But finally the two printed above were selected, and for these _ Peasons: The first one, it seemed to the judges, sums up the public’s verdict @ the sport shirt—sums it up happily and accurately, too: Why all this | Wether and bother over the sport shirt? “It’s free and it's easy"—cool in summer, and St'll give you a cold for variety, and withal it’s a happy diversion for us, for the time being, | 0 let's wear it awhile and then relegate it to the forgotten yesterdays @ hobble skirts and peg top pants. * * * A pretty sensible and ory way to look at {t, don’t you think? As for the gecond one, its breezy, “I should worry” attitude and its Manner of sweeping all criticism aside with one swoop, made a big hit the judges. It sets the dissenters down solidly and tells ‘em to “stay sot, by cracky! (More Limeficks on Page 4) rc THE ALLIES OF couRsE? WERE Gonna FIGHT THE HIS CPINION. NOTICE SO Par Ive WHEN We To EUROPE WHich SIME Ane WE GONNA JOIN Ger orl | ing. slong the Well, the Old Boys Are Pretty Neutral at That EVEeRN MAN SMOULD COME OUT BOLDLY FoR. AG To WEAR my | FRENCH ARMY CAP AL Reany NO. 165. ge. She declares the detective came into her room at s she was innocent of the crime with which the po- nt ER A WARRANT HERE IT IS, GIRLS! rhe important aot # is that the detective, accord- d today with one of the most heinous offenses that a | | ROOM WITHOU' | AND RE- ! + Don't be shocked, girls. ee They're pantalettes, and ee fectly proper, too, we Mn you. Worn, ae Miss Helen Spencer is wearing the new ga with a thick corduroy skirt, it makes a Capital combination. Many of these clever eubstt- ter band which holds them in | | place. CARRANZA MEN CLASH WITH U. S. TROOPS ON BORDER Pight-| killed before fled BROWNSVILLE, Sept. 4 the surviving Mexican border is all wearing the uniforms of Gen. | back, and it is believed some of the y ‘i rmy,| Mexicans were hit. Capt. McCoy accept trousers? This couple got into an auto, the Lillian McClurg, who declares Detective Daniel ee tae tte Paatieael line's Merle from Mission with rein Trouserettes,” suggests Mon.| irl says, and kept pace with! entered her room in the Oxford hotel to arrest her, and remained in daylight and encountered a detach-|forcements of U. S. cavalry, fear- Fashion — all ie way to headquarters.| the room while he made her get out of bed and dress to accompany ment of American troops near|ing Mexican soldiers in superior) Mme, Fashion ts thoughtful, but} There McLennan and other de-| him to the police station. Madera. A short battle followed, in| numbers would attempt to tnvade her eyes sparkle. “The idea is so|tectives bullied her for an hour which seven of the invaders were | Texas —_—<S——— ?—A limerick came to The Star office Friday afternoon with f only these directions on the brown envelope containing it (it | | nearly won the prize) | | PI take me around to The Star, | Where the sport shirt lconociasts are. | When they look Inside Of my brown paper hide, 1} They'll purchase a bucket of tar— | (—and feathers, and the writer Is a good runner when chased!) | —Jack Adams, 4121 Arcade Building. ates o| (Cop: by tC. Fisher) ( 50 were » GONNA Fight THE GERMANS You'LL eVeEn Sone AND We WEAR rHese CAPS BRCAULE we WANT THE MOULD Have tho they neas knows! could think of something ne “Why not something ol | Mon, Fashion. j}it is as good as new, any old idess of mine around the help yourself.” says Mme. Fashion. 1 shall have to linvent fomeihing entirely new thin I've borrowed about every: department I jcould possibly use—mannish talior- | mades, Russian boots, military h: it laundered collars “T'm afraid, , time. } {thing w pean ea THe CouR AcE MAINED LEI judgment on this man until all the evidence is in. urday of greatly, The Seattle Star The Only Pa r in Seattle That Dares to Print the News : VOLUME 18. SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, the gi howeve % THE High. Low. 1 to 8 SCENT ON TRAINS AND 1iah ps mms LEB fC 0 ps mos 82 fe 1915. ONE CENT NEWS BEANDB, be FFICER ENTERS INNOCENT GIRL’S ROOM AT DRAGS HER TO POLICE STATION HER TO DRESS. The Mayor Gill, following got pss on the case himself, and will dig out the truth. RE WHILE Star HE COMPELLED rl’s story, in case the ca of Mr. McLennan a i beside that of Louie Lang. AGHAST! | Doesn't Take Kindly to Dame! |= Fashion's New Dictates on the Trouserette. SAYS IT’S OLD STUFF Seattle Stores and Are Showing ‘Em; Really Coming, ! By Fred L. Boalt. Trouserettes are the newest gar rious downtown department ment in women's wear sto it appears that Mon. Fashion She spent one year in Alaska and Mme. Fashion are working in, as night nurse in the hospital the most perfect harmony It is of the Copper River & North. evident they exchange ideas western railroad at Cordova. One can imagine Mon. Fashion| The girl appeared Friday after remarking to was nice of ehirtwaist idea ye of a little ingenuity Mn to By ler Iw adapt it to men's needs noticed how many men are Wear At midnight Thursday, the eve. ing Gertie rhirts? ning before the trial of Mrs. De- “Indeed I have," replics Mme. Vorss, the latter woman appeared Fashion, “Your standpatters in at police headquarters in company “Thanks, from at “And what may that be?” “TROUSERS.” Mme. Fashion gives a feminine “Goodness gracious! “My clients would never trousers idea how conservative they are in |some ways.” oy rj ‘Tut, tut!” tho, your dress couldnt laugh it out of style, tried hard enough, Ob dear! “If it 1s old enough, | cuffs, « canes.” tutes are on Chg aoe] ‘There in one garment which you ete *8 and go to the station with) Indian | ind fini ¢ |) | have entirely overlooked,” says!” .. o lower Hom with eat Utte: gar | || Mon. Fashion. It couldn't have been a half min- You chides Mon. Fashion. ‘It is easy to allay the suspicions of conservatiam, _ Be are quite as conservative men, would have taken to the five ‘wearing of e#hirtwatst called them peek-a-boos Do is ! But I called em Sport} McLennan than walked with her pidly ¢ from the hunting Almost at the same hour Mex!-/*ay not e gig Borer-ny haat, to armed | can soldiers fired across the bor Shirts, and they went like hot}? ye ree pen 5 jOuteite clashes between soldiers of the U.| der at a company of Texas rangers cakes.” - J: | aa 4 t 5h aa Re a S. and Mexico. Twelve Mexicans,| near Cavazos. The rangers fired “I know,” agrees Mme. Fashion.|@0d the man who said Miss Mo “But by what name would women Fashion the you THE PANTALETIE PANTS-2 GIRL SAYS DETECTIVE BOALT IS MADE HER DRESS WHILE HE REMAINED IN ROOM Mayor Gill began an investi- | gation Saturday of charges made by Miss Lillian McClurg, 24, of the Oxford hotel, 1920 First ave., that City Detective Daniel McLennan arr her in her room at 1 a. m, Fridi Modistes then compelled her to dress They're while he remained in the room. Folks. Miss McClurg’s parents live | In Port Angeles, She has lived | In Seattie for about two years, and has been employed in va- It noon as a witness against Mrs. i nd me the/lie DeVorss, charged in Justice exe e Brinker's court with shoplifting as able to Mre. DeVorss was convicted and Have you fined $50. with @ man. | Complain to Headquarters The man said a girl had robbed him of his watch. Mrs. DeVorss told the police she had seen the watch in the posses- sion of Miss McClurg. Detective Mclannan accompant the pair to the Oxford hotel to ar- rest the girl. There was no war- | rant tasued. “The detective, after the clerk had refused to let him come up to my room, called me from the hotel) loffice on the telephone.” Miss Mc- |Clarg said to a Star reporter. “He jsaid he would give me five minutes i 1 wish I asks If you see ute afterward that he pounded on) my door. I had slipped on a kimono, and I went to the door and opened lita litle. The detective then push- jed bis way tn, and ordered me to| | dress, * she have no! | Stays in Her Room | “He stayed right in the room with| me. Finajly 1 took some of my! clothes into a small bathroom that opens off my room, and dressed in jthere, but I had to do it with the door open. “He wouldn't allow me even to |close the door.” suppose | if 1 had 1 should Clurg had stolen his watch. new, so utterly revolutionary—"|and a half, Miss McClurg asserts,| mony in the DeVorss case. “On the contrary,” contra. |trying to get from her a contes-| Detective McLennan would not dicts Mon. Fashion, “it ie very ae on she had stolen the man's admit to The Star Saturday that} a K watch oe. tag "ae ‘old onedeh, Finally, at 3 a. m., they decided be forced his way into the girl's)» it new. The j|they “had nothing on her” and re- room. He says she asked him to your cli. |leased her. come in Spends Evening With Friend He stated, however, that ne After a -littie more discus- Miss McClurg had spent the stayed in her room while she put sion, Mme. Fashion falls to jevening before, when she was de- her clothes on in the bathroom work designing a pair of trous | clared to have stolen the watch, at adjoining. erettes with which to woo the |the home of a friend, Mrs, Martha! After it was all over, he sald, fancy of a finicky oll Metz, 119 Fifth ave. N. She de-and he had heard about the De- |\—_-._ -_————— ——|clares the whole affair was en- Vorss case that was to come up on (Continued on Page 4) Kineered to discredit her testi-ithe day following, he made up his| knew Lire AND ALL HANDS TO THE . 4 Boats, GERMAN | SUBMARINE OFF FORT } THE SHooT AGL SURVIVING ALLY SYMPATHIZERS 4 Sieg Fe CONICET onde a AST EDITION WEATHER FORECAST— TIDES 1 A.M. does an investigation by The Star Sat- The Star would rejoice facts bear out the accusation made by the girl, to behold the official scalp mind that the girl was innocent. Miss McClurg is still in a highly nervous state as a result of her Xperience. “I never was inside a jail or a [police station before in my she declared. subjected to such were forced upon me by Detective + McLennan, were said to me while the detec- tives were trying at headquartera to make me confess to a crime I By “Bud” Fisher | AT SEATTIN not wish to pass McLennan Girl in Nervous State life,” “Neither was I ever indignities as and the things that nothing about.” Last Excursion} . of the Season Tomorrow The popular excursions Puget Sound which have been run during the summer months, will be brought to a close for the on sexson tomorrow, But the final one is one of the best. The steamer What- com will happy crowd of excurstonists to Whidby island tomorrow, leaving Colman dock at 9 4 m. And for this one au especially low price of Oe for the round tri been arranged, whil costs only 25¢ for round trip for the hil dren. To find out all about it, turn to the large lisplay 1 which appears on page 3 in today's Star carry a the rs