The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 27, 1916, Page 1

Star Readers Talk r Politics om Page 6 e | e a e IGH They tell who they want for Have you a _ choice? Wyte The Pier ond Well wo whet : THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS EDITION it is. Keep your letter down to Li ccnaouinanaantehatarnnotuie hihinannAnneenbtn Ap pamdaanaamauaa naar AAA eA 150 words, or le VOLUME 18. CATTLE, WASH,, THURSDAY, JAMUARY 27, 1916 ONE CENT vews +] MAYOR GILL BLAMES LUNDIN FOR ‘DISTRICT’: THREATENS TO FIRE PATROLMAN-WITNESS Hloity Toity! Secretary Yandell's Six-Thousanmd-Dollar-a-Year Digmitty Is Ilurt! OOMING up like Mount Rainier on a clear day is the fact that the Cait: of Commerce — has a moving aes theatre and speaking out in open meeting about the same thing _ Steadfastly held aloof, and refused to join in the efforts to remove the discriminatory tourist rates “It does not add to the reputation of the commission for judicial procedure,” is Yandell’s maintained by the allies of the O-W. railroad against Seattle's commercial interests. No, of course not! Chairman Reynolds wasn’t a bit “dignified” “ hen he refuse: {to let Yandell find In the face of this fact, Secretary Yandell of the chamber today heaped insult to the injury of Seattle a nice, cozy pigeonhole in his desk to bury this whole matter. AND IT M AY NOT BE ‘ DIGNIFIED. i: business men when he sought, in a letter to Gov. Lister, to discredit the work in this respect of Chairman EITHER, TO CALL THE ATTENTION OF THE CHAMBER ITSELF TO THE “‘t NDIGNIFIED” C. A. Reynolds of the public service commission. THOUGHT THAT ITS $6,000-A-YEAR SECRETARY IS JUST A STONE AROUND THE NECK OF While blowing hot one moment by declaring the chamber has been trying to “adjust” these rates for SEATTLE BUSINESS MEN WHO ARE TRYING TO FREE THEMSELVES FROM AN UNFAIR RAIL - two long years, Yandell blows cold the next by s eynolds made himself ridiculous by appearing in’ | ROAD YOKE. . REYNOLDS CITY PROBE POLICEMAN FIRES HOT TO FOLLOW WhO TALKED AUT BACK DEATHS OF UPIN COURT HT FORTEN AT YANDELL) SIX IN FIRE TOLOSE JOG No words were minced by Chair-| Startling disclosures In regard | Mayor cin pa sased the buck man Reynolds of the public service] to the conditions’ that resulted \ Thursday to Prosecutor Lundin $1,000,000 ANYWHERE? Malt Correapondence. TACOMA, Jan. 27.—Lost! B [FORE the war their case was FURY enough. Citizenship was denied them, tho they were taxed. Education was refused them. They could not own propert They were spat upon, and per- secuted. Often they were butcher and their women were raped, these orgies of lust and blood being government inspired. W hy? One million doll worth of commission Thursda when in rom : ” nday } y ‘ in the controversy arisi the property of the Pacific | They are Jews. formed of a letter to Gov. Lister,| 0 io Mian panting: Fire the disnevary thata ote Telephone & Tei ih Co.! . H . criticising him, writ by Secre ednesday, at a cost of six ted t 1 ep egrap They lived in pales. Their women might leave the pales and live tary ‘Yassell cf the ‘Chamber ot| lives, Will be the beste for ‘an | ‘Dearborn ‘ets ear Mayen Or, to be exact, $1,050,745, It’s gone, mysteriously missing. Whether {t's copper wire, a runa-| way electric spark, a sizzling lovey } el c {Commerce and given out here} among the Gentiles, if they were young and comely, and if they car- ried the Yellow Ticket. For the Yellow Ticket was proof that they were wantons, No Jewess could leave the pale and keep her honor. Inquiry by the city council. | Arrests and convictions in tl Fire Marshal Bringhurst stated| neighborhood,” said the ‘have been more frequent than Sm any other part of the city. We have turned over every Yandell’s action came following | the mass meeting held at the Amer. | Thursday that altho he knew before | fean theatre Tuesday to protest|the fire that Winkleman was dry. | jagainst the unfair discrimination | dovey telephone conversation or ¥ what, te company is unable to say Then the hell of war burst over Europe BY TED COOK in tourist rates maintained by the |'2% 884 baling hemp in the Walker/ ord of such convictions to All the company knows !s that ¢ a t over & ’ The fellow who has the highest| Southern railroad allies of the Ore |building, he badn’t enough autnority | cutor Lundin, for the purpose 7 income out at the untversity Goean't | gon-Washington company to put bim out having them abated under the German and Austrian linked arms with Bulgar and Turk. Gaul A. bulldog drag him over the| Reynplds was questioned Thurs-| putiding Inspector Josenbans com-| U&*t law, but he won't do it” they have It somewhere within the limits of the fe of Washington, “tnd tt” shat sey cant and. Briton. and Slay made,a_si tee round th the, 6 central powers. tee Boypten! Sosanh led oe te “ i ad ee Daa Gone: Dott Wig Where she WU thle struele the Tews have no sting gest ek ae sages them are sony sntive-coli dap at Tacame. where be is Dee {pinined that “the code divides re| Patrolman "Lr sake ¢ fruita of victory. phone rates. sponsibility and makes efficient pre-| mony at the trial of Policeman Or, as J. C. Laerone, one of the company engineers, put it: “If I'd have known where it was I would have located it.” { And so the telephone company, in| the state hearing here, asked the public service commission to allow | these mysterious missing million. doliar belongings to be included in} the appraisal and estimated cost of| reproduction of the company's prop-| | erty. And on the estimated] valuation of property are to be based the rates which you, Mr. and’ Mrs. Citizen) Yet their young men were firet pressed into the armies—all of the armies, Then the middle aged men. Now there are left only the very young and the very old—and the women The Russian “steam-roller” rolled over Poland and Galicia. The Germans drove them back furiously. Again the Russian drive start And again it was checked. Stalemate! 1 have the word of one of the caution impossible ward J. Margett, is under seruti moat respectable business men in| Councilman Hesketh terenpon| bY the mayor and Chief Lang, Seattle,” Reynolds sald, “that Yan-/announced he would introduce a| have secured a transcript of dell ts tn the direct employ of the |resolution calling for an inquiry | part of the evidence bearing on ratiroade, and that they are now Winkleman, ft {s charged, disre-| Dearborn st. district. using bim for their ‘kick back’ to|garded warnings from the fire mar | The mayor said if it was fo stem the fight against discrimi-| pa! and insurance men, and went| that Smith had testified bers he natory rates if possible \ahead drying hemp on the sove-| Was under orders from headquam Repeats His Charge |tpes ters to protect houses in that sana 1 again repeat that Yandel! him- In my recent report to Mayor Gill| borhood, Smith would be self told me the reason the Cham-|1 asked that the code be changed to| charged. ber of Commerce could not take up| concentrate the responsibility to} “Neither ex-Chief Griffiths, : this fight Is because it had recelv- this office or to the fire marshal for| Lang nor myself ever made such am ed large contributions from the |ingpections after bufldings are com-| order,” he declared railroads affected. If the Chamber | pleted.” said Josenhans Thursday.| Following is that part of the testi: of Commerce did not get these con-|Ten men patrolling the downtown | mony of Policeman Smith, refe 3 tributions, Yandell himself Hed to |qigtrict would put a stop to half the| to the Dearborn street district, “cc O ACTIVITY” tn Galicta and Poland! : That's the military way. That's the war way There is “no activity” in Gal fcla and Poland, other than the swaying backward and forward of two vast armies, locked in a death embrace, over a warscarred land, where every house, every barn, every hay stack, every tree, has been destroyed in order that no shelter may be afforded the enemy And in Galicia and Poland millions of Jews bad their miserable homes, Now thelr homes are gone. They are driven this way and that by the struggling armies, like chaff before a wind Tens of thousands have died in battle. Hundreds of thousands have died of cold, and hunger, and bitter want, young and old, men and women together. And these are the Chosen People! When night comes, the earth is their bed The snow and mud are their covering. Lucky they who do not wake when morning comes! ¢ P OLAND js a long way from Seattle? The m h ae fires by removing the cause |taken from th of Seattle, are to shell out 7 : at senst i e man whe gete the most dell nays ter h c be Wash.| m the stenographic Siam True, the sufferings of millions 7,000 miles away does not touch the heart as does a money at the university Is the, ee bates ed aac weil . Lee MeKenste, peg od ° Wash of i Martin, court reporter * pots Ington Surveving and Rating bureau, | the Margott trial case of genteel poverty next door. pes AS But Poland {a not as far away as it once was. The ocean liners, the railroads, the telegraph and cable, the newspaper®—these have brought the far lands of earth close. Tho far away, the hunger and the suffering of the Jews In Poland and Galicia are very ren). Pres Yt Wilson has named Thursday as Jewish War Relief day. ‘There is in New York a national relief committee, of which Felix Warburg ts treasurer, ‘The national relief fund, it ts hoped, will reach $5,000,000 ‘The Seattle citizens’ committee met the other day. This committee consists of non-Jews and iw headed by J. E. Chilberg. All the banks and newspapers in Seattle are designated as collecting agencies There will be no “overhead” expense. If you send a jitney or write your check for a thou sand, the money—all of it—will feed hungry stomachs and cover shivering bodies in Europe. eevee for your telephone service.) The million dollar runaway elec tric sparks the company calls) “omissions.” That's what the company told th public service commission thi morning. The sparks got away from the company’s engineers when they were making their $200,000 in- ventory of the property ; Cal! It “Omissions” The runaway was discovered ;when the state and company en gineers, who have been preparing : the appraisals of the company and the publie service commission turned tn their reports. The company’s estimate of its property was shown to be $26,892 700, or $10,127,300 more than the! commission's estimate. AND 5 PER CENT or THIS AMOUNT THE COMPANY two years and that there has been in charge of insurance invertign:| (Redirect examination by lberman. He Goesn't smi a“ no inclination ‘on his part or the| ‘ d amioke cigar-| Oy bers to sanction this diecrim |tions, said Thursday he did not! gett.) know hemp was in the building, or Q—Mr, Smith, jets, He isn't rushing any of the} | , ination in tourist rates which o |sorority women, And joe P- Ah ake’ nd he doesn't! srate against the Interests of Seat ae boar Beye je jset his income by writing touching! 11. pusiness. as a maton of fact, every house on Dearborn Bringhurst sald the insurance men) from Maynard on up to Eighth San letters to dad or mumma. |did know hemp was tn the building.| was at th at time and is # not @ ukalele player, elther,| committee Getting Busy land that, after consultation with! eupted by professionally ‘amo work? What has been done? Ang (tim (Bringhurst). they decided to! women whom the police depart whan? raise the rate and let the work £0| ment has a right to suspect are oe, a. ews and Rng co-eds T have « totter trom 3, 8 Gola ‘sg such, and they are living there um- — jAnd he doesn't: play poker |amith, an officer of the Chamber molested? lomy haerall thin mower 0, bd per sayiaa hie. scnatalives will cane the A.—Every one the untversity? at! matter up Friday. If the Chamber Q.—And are they living that way Rursar Herbert Thomas Condon,| ©1% been taking it up for two years “—t 6 ')iwhy this sudden activity of Mr Every one. . Questioned by Lundin % la .Re-cross examination by Lun in.) are of more moment than territory and boundary lines—Europe will remember, then, that Amer |LL. B Goldsmith's committee? ica, aloof, sane and calm, thought only of the pity of it and the inhumanity of it Everybody Must Pay ‘As far as Yandel! is concerned Well, to be perfectly frank about it, we are asking you to send as much money as you can af He sits at a desk in the Adminis-/; want to say that many leading ford. If you will send a little more than you can afford, #0 much the better tration building, one floor below) huginess men of Seattle have told Q.—You say there are immoral sonic 1 : atre. Walk downtown tomorrow and send the jitney you would have spent for carfare | After filling out the registration | golidation of the Chamber and the| ,!mmediately “following the tele- ff Mid a ee A dole to charity that 1s not a sacrifice will not go down in the book the Recording Angel blanks, every one who enters the|Commercial Club, and that {f Yan-| Phone rate hearing now on in Taco. 4 is born Juniversity has to go to the bursarl del! is retained aa secretary, they |™4. the public service commission r3--4ul are now? i fact, he geta the money from : LOOK upon this movement as the finest possible kind of “preparedners W Enrope, when she has recovered her reason, when she is no longer trou by obses sions to kill and destroy, when it i# borne in upon her and her peoples that life and liberty We dare to ask that you go without a cigar or two. Miss a performance at your favorite the the recorder tad that if Gee Uhould be & co | CHARGED UP TO “OMISSIONS.” keeps jand Aisraree. - ' will come to Seattle to take up the Can't Imagine What gad pews gdsctyme iyi hee rich men and the near-rich men. ota or some of them | nD domencaiabiay an lee pra eos hy pent Pama | mater of heat in the steest sash a I don't know anything abou 7 ‘ a om ep 7 1 , Ww. When H. B. Noble, of Seattle, and De eae et set you out. "You have a personal responsibility here. You are a two-legred | Accuses Reynolds BSrerpecdgee Ply Aeeer recat ie Goof taibieht- you apd In hia letter to the. governor, | Mission, said ‘Thrumday the Tacoma Y andelt sash Rovaaien deliberately [case would require at least two| A-—I said they were there, misstated the situation when he de. | Weeks more |. (Redirect examination by Moti tlared that the Chamber “has not| It ts impossible, as yet, he said, to| “™baum.) moved in this matter because the |M@Me an exact date for the heat Q.—-Under what instructions from, railroads concerned are large con- | hearing | Your superiors, under what ctrogaas tributors to the Chamber's funds.” | Word was received by The Star,| *tances are women of that charge To business men, shippers and | Thursday, from C. W. Jordan, of the| tet to be arrested? others who are members of this Riverside Commercial Club, of Ev-| Must Catch Them at It Chamber,” said Yandel, “it has |érett, stating that the club would] A.—When we catch them in the been unnecessary to deny this ri-|have a representative at the hear-| act J. C. Lacrone, telephone engineers of the company, took the stand to ‘tell about the getaway, Assistan¢ Attorney General Scott Henderson tried to pin them down to name just what property it was that could| not be located | They couldn't say Both declared no matter how carefully they might make an in you won't ess and cold human being, with a dollar or two or three that you don’t actually rt Anyhow And in Europe there is a two-legged human being who is hungry and hom stary and sick We don't ca Jong as it is all you can 6 The responsibility is yours KICK IN! 4 whoop how much or how little you give—five cents or a million dollars—so ting, nded by Gentiles and Jews, sub is over, the Citizens’ committee expects to N SAN FRANCISCO, Wednesday night, a maa 1 if scribed $200,000 for this fund, and before the ventory certain small p ot 000 have $250,000 | _ a property were bound to be over At a benefit dance given at Dreamland rink Wednesday night, In Seattle, approximately $2,500 |diculous accusation, inasmuch as it |1n€ Q.—And at any other time? Are © looked was raised, An appeal for aid to this fund will be made by the pastors of all Christian churches is a matter of common knowledge | yan, allowed to. arrest thets aia Well, can you give us any one Sunday that the transportation burean of | other time ee A.—Well, you have to catch them thing you would have been lik |this Chamber for more than two| y in the act of soliciting or knocking to omit?’ asked Attorney Hender Contributions to the Jewish war relief fund may be sent to The Star, Times, years past has been seeking dilt the Matnbirw BP icra : © remove ‘ fe windo aon_of saa haeress P.-I,, Town Crier, any bank in the city, or directly to Treasurer E. Shorrock, presi- Some boys work their way thru a, BE pail OR Se A SALE OF °F Q.--Those were Chiet Gren Be tne inate dent of the Northwest Trust & Safe Deposit Co., who is treasurer of the citi- college loading liners at the dock. The fact that Reynolds discover: | : orders? + “T remember one instance where 1 omitted a loop of power wire from position to position,” the engineer answered. I did it on purpose 1 knew it was there, but I couldn't et at it and I didn't know how zens’ committee. may that, and I don't care whether|¢d this discrimination only a short HIGH-GRADE Pantin: By permission of Mayor Gill, Thursday has also been designated as tag day, you are & reporter or pot,” sald the} OS ORS’ nie abstract. aod teno-|| eet ee and a small army of girl volunteers are helping in this relief work by selling tags | ga iting tallice ve required | Pant state of mind,” with reference MEN’S SH ES A.—Those are the orders now, on downtown streets lfor each semoster by a measure|t rate-making 0 reed cane norceticns a passed by the last legislature, It] at awoman of that phere rest a woman of that character uns long it was.” We en, if you knew it w took effect the first of the present * sa RCE ce Well, then, if you knew it was ees ot he rae TESTIFIES IN TEARS is told of in a large ad J} tess caught in committing a crime? | A.—Or with a warrant there, you didn't overlook it "| Re te tien, ‘ 4 fay? accom tami en (SEARCH FOR ED EN IS ORDERED th buraar my ten 0° on page © in today's s net : J | Q.—Who gave you those orders? Lacrone thought perbaps not pay the bursar my ten. PROVIDENCE, R. I. Jan. 2 Star f Mente tH yho gave } All Right! Our Ante Is In GHILUe clearly, ‘tho often in: tee | Star. It’s at the Men A.—Woell, I guess there's a Writ: + “Can you think of anything else? ! I ain supposed, in these articles, Ron r Booter i the shoe ten order to that effects t cou t k of anyth Moh or oO ootery, an 1é shoes ry > if I could think of anything to be conducting Star readera thru M2e..0°. eranelin Mohr, in her own} T) adits Judge Tallman; You may pro- behalf, today denied the state/] involved are Flor- duce it in court ht have omitted I ert, Pr charge that she hired two ne Waraett recent raid of the Ralnler club,”{ filing a complaint against Eden di police o (Continued on page 5.) wou not have omitted it While detectives and $ } h 1 nid Hodge, “we have been unable} . t ams Price re teers two grand Jur No Duplications every city from British Colum waid Hodge, “we hiave been uable| rect In superior court before the " re groes, co-defendants with her oni Shiems. Prices are Ma- J isnaictments ermrging grand larce Lf Eve dy in the court room! to California * seas hing Thurs. to ao ; ie ee re aes td warrant had been served KILLS FAMILY WITH . ph Sberge, to oy her doe terially reduced Sel- ]]| Having been acquitted of the ace pera Fe rr dey tor John C. Eden, we | been informed he has left the fda Cs lnlick Gd Vailas [torhuxband, She dented, too, th jousation that he took monde Do you know of any way the/attle cub ted were for, Members of Kaen’s office force lee Giiliam fixed ‘the ‘bond st Nhe Bad intimate buainese-retacionsiy. dom does an opportu ciismas gonen wn unmeroe ney oe on co determine confe olation oF t at the erior Portland n arm with ithem, that she financed | nity like this present it- ]}ter for protection, was, hows ah fons?” the|iaw, his busine oclates are Co,, however, said Thursday that| law calls for a bond of not toxs| 41 plot to Kill the doctor aes ever, rely ad in the department ey cone he is still in ' 1 becn it town Wednes-| than $1,000 in such cases, No poor| xpw YORK. 27.—Nathan "AN ‘he told her story, the court self. You will find and ‘assigned to daty Thursdeyiall wale e 1 1 was even then expect a ould ever have be allowe - 00) atened tensely » ror ile ( at : < npa p r said | eriff Hod he! da n i} man would have been allowed! pullman, suspected of killing his|" ca ae rOe tie bidow talteren tt: Well. worth ‘while ‘fo hief Lang had notified ¢ e west | to ar he office a $50 bon | wife and daughter with an axe} pes 4 nae look up tl 1 and Ai <4 engineer 4 7 " 4 vate dt as she talked, but she finished her 00 up this ad and : pig coast that Eden is missing and ey denied that he had left the after a theatre and dinner partyltentimony in an even tone | peer ane te emt at had) ordered him arrested and be city Dwight Rose, 16, and Edward] early today, Jumped from the third read it carefully. Then TIDES AT peen no dupiicat Pe Ever since Eden wrote me a let-- Hodge is indignant what he! Simmons, 17, hurt in coasting acci-| story of the Third Avenue hotel! G. Stewart, of Suva, Fijt Istar n it ee ven nd appraisal of the prop) | confessing he was the owner of, considers a discriminatory act ot} ent at Kaat 40th at, and Brooklyn| this forenoon, fracturing his skull.) in town seeking trade to exchange 10:87 p.m. 19.5 ft. 4:18 pe me erty. the prosecuting attorney's office in'ave, Wednesday night He died in a hospital, for productions of Polynesians | oe Pe: fa large quantity of liquor taken in