The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 17, 1915, Page 1

mayor. | will be up to the council to APPOINT his successor. have no opportunity for a whole year either to approve or reject euch appointment. ; | On the other hand, if Erickson resigns, his successor can be ELECTED BY THE PEOPLE i in March. 4 Looking for Santa? We have an idea that close ex- amination of The Star's advertis- ing columns will reveal the where- abouts of Try it. the old Council Drops|DISABI-ED LINER | Law Item in Arriving at an Agreement on Ordinance. A few moments after the city council had adopt- ed a new tax levy ordi- nance, Friday, with only one of the items which | figured in the recent dis- E’ eliminated, Mayor il announced that he | would sign it. When first asked as to whether or not he would sign it, he said he had not up his mind. to quote h as above stated. “T won't sign ft because | think it ts right or fair, because It iso't. he sald. “I will sign it so we may have a tax levy next year, and so that half of the city’s employes won't be thrown out of work—for we are £0 if there is no tax levy, ing to shut up shop! Ordinance Has Six Votes The new ordinance, which in cludes the item of $200,000 for re funding bonds, and $26,400 to pro- vide for raising street lighting rates from 4 to 4% cents per kilo watt hour, has a sufficient number of votes to carry It over the may ors veto, however. Councilman Fitzgerald, altho opposed Yast named item, voted for it after explaining that he figured the cit would be at greater expense wit t a tax Jevy than with the $26 9 included. ‘The final lineup was new ordinance—Fitzgerald, Erick. | son, Marble, Lundy, Bolton and Hesketh. Against Hanna | and Dale. } The ordinance will not be formal: | ly adopted untfl the amendment to} to the For the} Haas, c e the $2 ) has been work fm and the entire measure re-| drafted in the city controller's of fice. To Adopt Ordinance Monday This probably will require 48 fours. Afterwards the judiciary committee must approve and rec ommend it for passage. It is not probable that the coun cil will meet again until Monde morning, when the redrafted or nance will be adopted. Mean however, the work of prey next year's tax levy out tax notices will be begun by | the county assessor's office. A feature of the meeting of the committee of the whole F morning was an impassioned fense by Dale of the traction com pany. Dale Pleads for 8. E. Co In voting on including the street lighting rate increase, he said he didn’t think it fair fe said that, inasmuch as the Miy light plan Il the ad tage over the traction coms being exempt per cent of p lege of borrowing fund without its bond: be made “Rates should t than increased principle invo lighting depe on its own fe TEN REPORTED DEAD IN STORM MERIDEN, Miss., gets ¢ Dec. 17 Ten persons were reported killed in a tornado which struck this vicinity today At the ame time If re ported hurt. The 0 sald to have od with six killed there and getting |; - ERICKSON SHOULD RESIGN - OUNCILMAN ERICKSON should eeatdn his seat in the council while making the race for The Star believes he will resign. have asked him not to resign. Apparently they have been carried off their feet by enthusiasm for Erickson. They have t allowed their usual clear thinking and progressive tendencies to guide them. j Erickson should resign in plenty of time to give the people a chance to elect his successor in the council. , The people thus will be deprived of a direct voice in the selection of one of the nine legislators. gentleman. VOLUME 18 (Top picture The Hill liner ing towed into port at San F immediately went aboard ts Capt. o to port, after starting to send word of his gee ib nlc rie (nd ing pile | le said, to direct ordera from Port Superinten: , of the Great In uniform) Capt. Thomas Garlick (left), in command of the Minnesota, and Chief Engincer Jas. R. Preston, who took that post after former C Engineer Allen resigned, at Seattle,’ refusing to ility of taking the ship to England. Allen later Mt engineer. He had been chief en- This photo was made for The Star hip in San Francisco bay. (Two men in overcoats) Marine Superintendent C. W Wiley (left), of the Great Northern Steamship Co., and John W. Pree ton, United States district attorney at San Francisco, who has gained ational fame because of his prosecution of alleged German agents 1d of planning to destroy American property, Superintendent ed orders to Capt. Garlick to refuse to anewer ques 6 the belief that epics had disabled the big finer. ‘WHITES WILL GET JOBS OF ASIATICS loyment eattle was facir serious unemp Today this problem is rapidly disappearing, under the stimulation of the prosperity wave that is sweeping West ward. | try reviving so rapidly that mill- men 1 ars muting for logs, and loggers are sit ts cloping gray hairs on pr ns of how t 1eir output, Seattle and the West are convales« ngly from t roubles A year ago we had a Hotel Liberty, where men out of jobs were housed. This year there is no necessity for such an institution W. D. Lyman of the city free em-}with Oriental bosses spra 10. ployment bureau, who daily comes! They always had their coun a into touch with men out , in sufficient number is i who keeps a finger on the| fact, rather than wages, has been nt, is author he determining factor. t men Find Jobs for 7,000 nts Fall Off i. m3 t balls nee ¢ unemplo: half as pie , created here, It | ‘Another promising factor in the situation is the attempted wholesale substitution of white labor for Oriental in the fish canneries of the Northwest by the state of Washington, as a solution to the annual unem: ployment problem THIS NUM OF ER, BETWHE 000 AND 10,000 ARE JAPANESI SD CHINESE ieee Will Hire White Men iy tate Labor Commissioner Ed Goes After Business taking the: init Of course, the government free received encouraging | employment bureau here can not from some of the big can Iminateas againgt reste presenting 4 $1 e made upon al Industry, that white mer Olsen te h canners to patron well as om 4, so that th nay regain the jo n veh the Thes Seattle Star THE {"; HE ONLY PAPE PAPER IN SEATILE THAT TAX BILL WITH 2 DISPUTED ITEMS INCLUDED FIGHT IN DEPARTMENT STORE; TOYS GO TO WAR MINNESOTA “AND HER OFFICERS AT FRISCO! $ 226, 400 Renick First Pictures of Arrival of Big Craft i in Port, After She'd Broken Down on n Way ¢ to East Awiatics have ouste ~d him, | Several members of the Public Ownership League If he does not resign, and if he should then be elected mayor, it The people would IGH EDITION Mt () SHE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DAR nnn ry DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS re 20 PAGES ON TRAINS REWA BTAN SEATTLE, Ww DEC. 17 1915, any ae ASH, FRIDAY, Miniature SoldiersSufferTer- ' _ rible Slaughter in Attack } - on Fort; Watchman Says © _ Boalt Was Dreaming. ne cael oes oa ee 6s i t sai “that so many war toys sho i ii the stores this Christmas.” " ° “om oa “Why?” asked my jingoist friend, the night watchman, who works in a depart- ment store. “They will play war games,” said I. “And quite right, too,” said the ae watchman. Whenever | haven't. i to the night watchman sud early, Sar seen t, too,” I mad. : "have got so mad i I hadn't been tired ih oT got mad was dragged from store to store Christmas shopping. My wife piloted me three miles of crowded aisles, first at the Bon Marche, then at McDougall & oe 's, and then at Fraser-Paterson’s, and we wound up at Frederick & | n’s. ; She saw, handled and priced nine million toys, and asked about ier — of mye ar : — our fer gs —. would like ak: Better one ou! Pp ind ¢ thi d sz orked? |T hate to shop. That's why I was tired ee ae | Oh, it wasn’t so much what the night watchman said as the nasty way he said “Right?” said 1. “Right that our children should play at war? t that | should be taught, thru their toys and games, to regard war abi ertinn | Right that little children should be misled, thru the medium of toys, to believe | that only war is glorious and only soldiers heroes? Right to teach them to kill? il T say it’s an outrage. ,_ There | ought to be a law against it. It’s worse than—than ie reaiey NES! U.S. NOTE MAY wsiypit BE AN ULTIMATUM” (Continued on Page 12.) | | | EXPECT VERDICT BELGIAN RELIEF | WASHINGTON, Dec, 17.—Pre Another exchange of correspond: dent Wilson and his cabinet today | ence, it ts felt, will probably clear the situation, read Austria's unsatisfactory reply }to American demands in the An |cona torpedoing case, They map: ped out a course which § If Austria, in Her reply, had com- piled meekly with the strict Ame ican demands without a show of fusal or disapproval, such compli- ance would have met with popular denunciation and would have cost WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.— Considerable apeculation is in- dulged in here today concern- ing the hour of the oresident’s TODAY ON THE SHIP IS SUNK; | MINNESOTA © CREW SAFE | retary | Lansing will execute after the pres jident leaves on his honeymoon to: wedding. Altho it ix etill un- | morrow night anak oe - 4 i answered, it is believed it will | Lansing will draft a definite final ch fcc BAN PRANCISC CO, Dec, 17 ROTTERDAM, Dec, 17.—The re occur In the evening. |rejoinder, which ts expected to —. re nite cause for the disqbling of lief ship Levenpool, from New} The ceremony by the Rev. }mean one of three things the boilers of the Minne ola WAS York, has heen mined or torpedoed | Herbert Scott Smith, Epleco- | First, a severance of diplo- ntablished today bY! oi. way sinking when last ret palian minister, will be held in| | matic relation between Ameri- he Bon Marche who began a Sh 7 n last report) Mra, Galt's home without | ca and Austria minute inspection of her boiler | pomp. Only a few will witness | — Second, that Austria will * tubes The Levenpool was a 4,884-ton| it. back down. ill Be Open Inspect of Hulls and Bollers pngitah vessel, but was under char-| It is said the president will, not} Third, that Austria will pre Guthrie and Dolan completed taking 14. of the Amert jeven have a-best man to attend! sent eVidence refuting the Aus- testimony from members of the ; rican commission far! nim, trian admiralty statements as aturday Night crew today the relie: Heigium, She flew the} List of the Guests to the torpedoing, on which the Dolan said it would require only relief flag, under which she w The guests will be: The presi-| first note was based. ; 5 as q a short time to establish whether supposed to be immune from attack, | 1ent’s relatives- his three daugh When he has completed his re. Good news for those the tubes were collapsed because! he British at my jters, his brother Joseph and wife, | jJoinder, the secretary will take it ike . ‘ they were old or from other causes. |riving today, rennet yee ar and he sister, Mra. Aona Howe; |to President Wilson; if the latter] Who like to bring. their Repairs will cost appro: tel pcp ported she passed! Mre, Howe's daughter, Mrs. Coch-| approves, it will be forwarded to ‘amili acre approximately the Levenpcol, sinking, naar Kent-|rny face Cochran's daughter, Jo|Vieuw hed families down town 7 ishkock, but that the st er P, ‘ he Tr Blt "hin ‘ wad The examination of the boilers “ ‘an-| sephi ary of the Treasury This answer will leave no loop ’ ) air a acre, meee dion G a torvedo boat off the! MeAé president's son-in-law. | hofe for -prol and dc their Christmas John K. Bulger, United States su ays he Mrs, Galt’s relatives——her moth-!whigh the Aus shopping in the goo. pervising ector of steam v torpedo boat standing by | or, three sisters, five brothers, her| ered as bidding Pping 6 sod sels, is expected today from So- sled ths 1 that no aid was! prother-in-law and three sisters-in-} In effect, it will be an ultimatum old fashioned way. attle, bringing with him the re : 2 Mad law it Is b f ports made. by inspectors who | Friends. ofthe Dr. Carey | not The Bon Marche is Pore a the Minnesots, betore whe |(@ gee enn irayson, Miss sodrow | is in F fferi : poet spite f W h F = Bones and Alice Gertrude Borden, | nishing unquestior offering many special eather Forecast §) rx. Gas wara fe fei, womiraiey Ps a ts de aa D’YOU SEE THE SNOW Rain tonight and Saturday \ H a maerS % iny Theres, ya wrong aturday rgains for | aged negro mammy and other old| BERLIN EXPECTS NO BREAK Star Readers—You will 3 “Y/servants of the Rolling family at} BERLIN, Dec. 17.—That Ame j It rine tds HDRES AY SEATTLE 4) Wetheville F Roa ek EES dl co find them on pages 9 a iit evening 5 14¥.es dhe: 8 They will assist her with her| Ancona case ted hore The er was actually white in!) y2:a9 p. m., 18.0 ¢ wedding gown, and in preparafton| Austria fs willing to make pte es and 20. spots for several minutes. | of the wedding feast sions to prevent such an outcome. -