The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 29, 1915, Page 1

ee oe on August 16 Mise O'Reilly wae there, and sent this story to dam” out of the heat haze. ES LIMPING HOME”—I of London lighters towing the dim “Princess Juliana of Rotter. From the towers of 50 churches, the sirens of 500 ships, a By Mary Boyle O'Reilly ONDON, Aug. 27.—The war may prove long, but the tide hae turned—for Tommy ie coming hom The vanguard rd ‘They returned to an unfamiliar country, an England which knows that the campaign in Flanders ie not just another war. _ And the maimed men, broken in battle, know lees of the great fights, of which they are forever a part, than do the inquisitive armchair critics at home, ing you were all dead!” At $ o'clock watchers gathered on Tilbury docks saw Port ger lifted MOTHER SENDS HER BOY AY TO NAVY; ALL SHE ETS BACK IS F captured Mone. Ae the vessel came broad boyish crowd. “Home from hell!" yelled of the war adde to the r 5 BACK IS A BIG FLAG Remains of the men who perished in the U. 8. submarine “FA” in Honolulu harbor laet when the diver settied on the bottom in 330 feet of water, never to rise until recovered by ten bodies, many of which could not be identified, were borne to San recently. on vu. 8. Supply, and from there sent to their final resting places, in Washing: oc. . E HAD come back to her, on a furlough, from the navy, and had brought her -a.great bundle of Marie Van.Houttes, ready for planting. That was two years ago. The next day Mary Colwell and her boy, Harley, spent in the garden, setting out the slips of the roses + “I shall call them my Mary roses,” he said, “after you, mother mine.” Then the boy left Seattle and joined his comrades of the submarine F-4. , boy,” his mother’s last words ,were,. “I'm afraid that submarine isn’t _ nf on x , Gets Invitation to Attend Funeral of Her Boy. “He lied to her like a gentleman,” said his aunt, Marguerite Hall, yesterday. “He it was a death-trap. His letters had been full of it, and he had told his father ~ It was but a few months after his departure that the world shrank from the horror ‘the sinking of the F-4, near Honolulu. Everybody knows the story. _A few days ago the unidentified bodies of 14 members of the crew were taken at San Francisco and sent to Washington, D. C., where they were given mili- Tuesday in Arlington national cemetery. ry of the Navy Daniels:sent Mary Colwell an invitation to attend the fu- but adverse circumstances prevented her going. see @ *# # * ~ Yesterday, with full military honors, her boy Harley was laid away with the rest. Daniels was present to pay the last sad tribute. | A few days before he had sent Mary Colwell a package. When the postman de- fivered it at her home at 2303 North 62nd st. her fingers trembled so she coulé i percaly Open it. | Sends Only Son Into Navy; All She Gets Back Is a Flag. "> “Harley’s things,” she thought. And when she had loosened its fastenings, thinking to find there, perhaps, the she had given him, and the other things he had held dearest, she found instead D GLORY. It was the flag he had enlisted to defend Jong and six wide. “I shall never forget the look that came over my sister's face, as she drew it. out its box and it unfolded at her feet,” said Marguerite Hall. “I went out, leaving there with it alone. She had sent the flower of our family, her only boy, off to _%, AND HAD GOT BACK A FLAG.” |. Yesterday Mrs. Colwell spent alone with her husband, James L. No one broke in upon their sacred day. They wanted no one "s sister went away early. “I leit her sitting there,” her sister said, “alone with her dead boy's picture, her and a great cluster of his ‘Mary roses’ in her arms. ‘Why can’t your newspapers do something to help the other boys of our navy “Who are sent to sea in ships they know are faulty, but who are too brave to complain, and-would rather go down to death than falter in what the navy teaches them is = 8) . q It was beautifully: made. It was 10 Colwell, in their Even Mrs. powerful fighters crowded the deck rail, an ¢ storm of sound swept out to welcome 326 men wounded and rth, wrecks of jor, indomitable, And the dialogue from ship to shore begun. a stripling of 20. “Every day utation of Biemarck!" The homecomers bombarded the crowd with questions, “God knows, we worried ourselves sick in Germany think. up his voice: LAST EDITION VOLUME Again the voice, not quite one here of the name of Lacy? ide a bit, mon,” shouted some sympathizer, B here— the “mon” would not Then she stepped to the stringers of the dock, a little old, old woman with a substantial arm. “Whint, Patrick!” she adm be still; would you shame me Six foot Patrick subsided, A band played “Tipp: “Wha that?” calied crutch. 18, NO. 184. “le there any one here of the name of Lacy?” No answer, o full and steady, “is there any be denied, “is there any one | | cottage loaf tucked under one onished severely, “be still, tad, before tham all?” veteran, beating time with his aaa Ahother diasiliusion. The still fighting, fell back to the perary.” T’S THE SADDEST SIGHT IN THE WORLD men who fought at Mons, and Marne, did not recognize “Tip The moment for landing arrived. Port of London police head, sanded a path from the and sounded the official signal Then slowly, very slowly, haled the crowd on the dock. ship as royal paths are sanded, every man smiling away his pain, 300 Tommies crawied—home. Irishmen and Scotchmen predominated. They were dressed in extraordinary dishabille-—German prison-biack daubed igium uniform Thus the English returned Russian caftans, civilian cores wore wooden sabots, from their great adventure. The Seattle Star : The Only Pap in Seattle That Dares to Print the News : SEATTLE, WASH., WEDNESDAY, SEPT, 29, 1915. GERMANS SU ONE CENT ON 1MAINS ADD NEW GLANDS. Se FFER ERRIFIC LOSSES GOVERNOR SEES | A FORMER PUPIL! BY A POLICEMAN Willis Calle on John Boyd and! Inspects His Drug Store. REMEMBERS 12 YEARS| Twelve years ago Jobn Boyd, # druggi*t, proprietor of a #tore at Sev-| Jenth ave. and Union at, wae one of| 2,000 students in Oblo Northern university at Ada, Ohio, where) Frank B. Willis, now governor of Ohio, was professor of history and civil government. | ich is the Americantzed| Boyd: version of his real name—ts an Ar} menian. After graduating from Ada, he ca West, and has prem pered. On Tues: Gor, With with, Mrs. Willis and his private secre tary, was In Seattle. Hoyd went to Batler hotel to see his old surrounded gateritien, Ho heat tated to push into the foreground. Just then Willis saw bim. Governor Greets Him CONVICT IS SHOT Escaped Prisoner Who Killed Officials Caught in Albany, Ore. FOUND UNDER A HOUSE ALBANY, Ore., Sept. 29.-— Shot thru the chest by Patrol- man A. L. Long of Portland, Otto Hooker, the escaped con- viet who Menday night shot and killed Superintendent Har- ry Minto of the etate prison and seriously wounded J. J. Benson, city marshal of Jeffer. d at St. Mary's hospital before midnight whe being dragged, face from under a house Course of construction et end of Albany, at . to turn ever ahd alm iY ver at the officers, who ad found hie hiding place. A cough, whieh looker could not restrain, revealed his place hiding, A man living near ‘Kaiser Rushe | tentions of going to Berlin, a s to Western Battle Front; He Loses 120,000 Men in Cham- pagne Region. AMSTERDAM, Sept. 29.—The kaiser has abandoned in- ind has gone instead direct to |the Western battle front, it was reported today. German papers admit that perhaps the decisive struggle is in progress there. “The most formidable stage, and perhaps the decisive |moment of the war, has been reached,” said the Neueste Nachrichten of Leipsic. “If Gen. Joffre is able to force our | armies to take up new positions, the new struggle must result \in costing us, perhaps, terrible | them.” sacrifices. But we will endure |French Forces Make Important Gains PARIS gains in the Artois and Champeg yesterday and last night, the offi The Frénch stormed and , Sept. 29.—The French forces made important me regions in furious attacks cial report claimed today. captured Hill 140, dominating the Vimy heights, éast of Souchez, taking 300 prisoners. German losses are more he 120,000), it was officially estimated “Hello, Joun!” be shouted, and| house, which he knew to be unee-| captured in the Champagne clapped the gratified druggist a a sounding thwack between the lahoulder biades. “How are you?” It had been 12 years since Wi be | had seen him. And Boyd was but) one in 2,006 students at that time. And i “Hello, John,” said Mra. Willis, ing forward ‘ve only got an hour before | leave for San Francisco,” aid the governor to John, “and I've got lots of places | ought to go, but I cer tainly am going to bave @ look at your store.” Boyd went back to Seventh and Union. Visits Boyd's Store He told his clerk a governor would be in presently to call on him | The clerk was politely skeptical Soon an automobile drew up, and) Gov. Willis and Congressman Hampbrey alighted and came in. | Humpbrey was introduced to Royd. Both gentlemen walked! back and forth, and John showed them everything he had, from soda fountain to prescription counter. He then accompanied Willis to) the dock, where the governor met) Mrs. iMia. | “Ma,” said the governor, “you) Just ought to see John’s store. He's) jgot the finest store in the state.”| There isr.'t a happier pharmactat | in town today than Boyd He Talks Politics Speaking before a largo gather: ing under the auapices of the Young Men's Republican club, at the But ler hotel Tuesday afternoon, Gov. | Willis sald: -"Tho peace is our }county and Guards L. must be prepared AND JEFF—AND NOW JEFF 1S APT TO GET TOE-MAIN POISONING. (Copyright, 1915, by H.C. Fisher, Trade Mark Rew. eupled, heard it and notified the offictals, Drag Him From Under House Patrolman Long, Deputy Sheriff Christofferson of Multnomah D. Moore and John Talent of the state pent tentiary were at the depot await ing trains in an endeavor to locate the fugitive, They hurried to the house Hooker was quickly found. The officers were dragging him by the legs and shoulders from under the house when, twisting himself, he whipped wolver from beneath his body and almed as tho to fire Without hesitation, Long fired with bis KragJorgensen rifle and the bullet plowed its way thru the conviet’s chest, emerging at the back Hu. Policeman ts a Killer Long came to Albany yesterday, bringing his bloodhounds. Long is one of the most fearless men in the Portland police depart- ment. Only three weeks ago he held a score of rioting Austrians at bay at Linnton, a suburb of Port- land, and shot and killed Joe Kocar as the Istter was preparing to strike a fallen brother officer on the head with a club. He was vin dicated and praised by the cor- oner's jury. 'U.S, MAY INTERFERE TO SAVE ARMENIANS WASHINGTON, Sept. 29.— President Wilson is consider. Ing requesting Germany, on grounds, to hait outrages of her ally, Turkey. U. & Pat. Off) 7 igo Yes, AND evean Trak | THE NURSE BRINGS A WOUNDED MAN / HiS Foo SHE Kisses HIM, TS OTHE PREMCH CUSTOM HER? OH, SHE'S ONE 5 JOP THE sueses FOR THE | WOUNDED. TE YOU TH \SHE'S PREETI You OUGHT © SEE SOME OF THE + \ermen Pecnes j-—— aust sHoorT ME IN THE FOOT, ID DO AS MUCH For vou age “ YABSAH, Ta DE awese ! As INDEED! & LADY NURSE 7 OH, No! YO MUST BE THINKICN! OF DE BReTinty 4 HOSPITAL. TSE a 1? DA.ONLY NURSE Rie, HERE f see THAT j MAN IN 21 AlNTT / Sick HE'S CRALY! were among the booty. In the Artois region the French are advancing day and night. In a fierce fight around Massign: 1,000 G French, resident Praises Men Serious artillery fighting marks the line aorth and south of the Aisne, the region of the St. Mard the invasion. } BERLIN, Sept, 29, — Several |rows of trenches captured by the British in the battle north of Loose, on the western front, have been retaken by the Germans, to- day's official statement claims. At every point of the western front the allied attacks during the past 24 hours have been repulsed. BY ED L. KEEN LONDON, Sept. 29.—Storms of shells are bursting over the West- lern front In the second phase of lone of the greatest battles in his- tory. The allies’ first mad rush in | their reawakened offensive is over. |In the Champagne and Artois re |gions, the allies are steadily ham- mering the Germans, hoping to ex- haust them until the way is ready for the second dash and the new attempt to penetrate the German woods, near Troyon, and the Vailly’ Austro-Germans Advance on Serbia ATHENS, Sept. 29.—Three hundred thousand Austro- Germans are advancing against Serbia, according to a Nish! message. The Serbians are confident of being able to repel! than three army corps (about More than 23,000 were fegion. Seventy-nine cannon region. President Poincare sent a letter to Minister of War Millerand, which he declared the French proved their superiority over the best German troops in the terrible battle now proceeding. Millerand forwarded it to Gen. Joffre, with a note of congratula- tion, Berlin Reports Slaughter of Allies | “We have been unable to eject | |the enemy from 100 meters of trenches northwest of Souchez,” jsald the official statement, “but the constantly advancing waves of | French were brought down before our inflexible resistance.” The |Baden Rhinelanders and West- jphalians were mentioned for gal- Hantry. Allies Trying to Exhaust Germans ; front Berlin reiterates that the allied loffensive has been halted last official report-said the French | were gaining, “foot by foot.” Yes- |terday it was said, “Step by step.” This was taken to indicate their progress is slow because of strong resistance. The London official statement covering operations areal than the Berlin announce- |ment reported progress against Loose. BY BUD FISHER | in) The} EGG HAS ‘BANANA FLAVOR And Now Dealers Are Suing Ice and Storage | Company. ja? PECULIAR TASTE “Waiter, bring me a couple eggs.” “Yes, what please?” “Guese I'l| try strawberry to- day. The banana flavor didn’t taste so good yesterday.” Pause, dear reader, before you consign the above to the un-under- standable litereture of the futur- ists. Withhold judgment whilst the case of. Perry Bros. commis- sion merchants, aceinst the Dia- mond I¢e & Storage Co. ts ad- judicated. For $s not a futurist dream of the ty cssible, but take it on the word ach of the Perry brothers, the banana-flavored egg has come. Eggs srd Bananas Mated Luther Ru:benk bas experiment- ed with flowers—a fruits. The Yogis claim to burbank souls. But who, ere this, even dreamed of mating eggs and bananas? The mating, or rather, meeting ground occurred in the refriger- ators of the Diamond Ice Co. say ithe Perry Bros. And the Perrys jfurther say it was an unhappy | meeting, or mating. They want $1,019.07 for alienation of affec- tion, or something, as damages. It seems, according to the com- plaint filed in the superior court Wednesday, that the Berry Bros. received a carload of eggs in May from North Dakota. The commission merchants put the eggs in cold storage at the Dia- mond Ice Co. plant. Eggs Taste of Bananas Later the eggs were sold. A lit- tle Jater again, Perry Brothers be- (gan to hear from their customers. “Those eggs had a banana taste,” was the plaint. Perry Brothers investigated and found that the banana taste came to the eggs because they lay tn |close proximity to numerous |bunches of bananas in the refrig- lerators of the ice company. | The complaint alleges thet, as a result, the eggs were damaged, and they sustained financial losses. alr, flavor, | You Can / AND THE NvRseS Kiss THE PATIENTS dO THEN? ti Hn Conrriaht 11S by HC Pievee) Save Money AND A LOT OF IT By reading the ads carefully every day and taking advantage of the bargains which you will find in them. 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