The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 29, 1916, Page 1

tn en Notice the Beat im Cars Mornimg? Neither did we! Weatherman announces lowest temperature of day was 18 degrees. Felt like 18 below in car we came down on. Let's all call up Kempster! The Seattle Star “THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT ‘DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS SEATTLE, WASH., ONE CENT ON 4 News x ANI MTANDM, Be VOLUME 18. SATURDAY, JANUARY 29, 1916 PPL LPL LLL LLL LLL PL PL PLP EPP IGH EDITION WHAT SEATTLE THINKS OF DRY | AW AFTER 4 WEEKS DROUTH | Arrests 75 Per Cent Less. 7, in he tal fear Ago; B | . is booming and aAaQy Than Year Ago; Bus iness & Cc alar ae ae ¢ Men Declare Trade Better : , ' c c 1 the savings 4 %, ld t t tt to the law. Dur- 3 Times as Much Meat So ever we a t 1 h € « c re In SaVv- Only 26 arrests ha een t r drunkenness duri ; : nest ( ‘ esi the Ge America ¥ the 28 days Seatt as beer ae : pee i a a ngs acc nts at Never a month, in the ays, that re been on tl Hee ne ? pre “drunks” booked and haule fr mor rt t be u e to the dry law,” he said) at the city’s expense people are ng t r ith their money were ther a ghting rder ie | it how up i ce banks in the m of saving conduct e The ur} NEW CLASS OF BUSINESS STARTS | weeks just f days o % a in. the m was u \r e ly ne ‘ s has sprung up sinee restricted, the } peg Mer f mere ial inter= x bi e formed the t ns’ | Any saloon ea t an will te that : e 1 Those me ! tak are bachelors, as th : how mostly ‘ : how the ne re t t The entleme o not te off jail maintenance won't be known until the middle ’ : : : a t 1 eH a uys February, when the have come in and been paid for heck th five ‘ Fecal be Sut Frid 1 ! Above, a scene in the American cafe, at Fourth and Pike. A girl 4) nt front said Capt. A. ¢ ullivan, secretary olice, Friday 1 walter is seen serving kickless drinks to a party seated at one of the Dg ee : number we as decre A big percent |tables. Note the man at the right, looking accusingly at his glass, The ¢ he most cardrooms, may be used tg pure bth aa re Ne bar is shown in the background ¢ iy and drinks—and are good of the overheac emains me, so the cost per Below, a scene in the New Cecil cafe, which has reopened as a soft te oe prisoner will increase but the total cost will decrease.” drink emporium. One of the female patrons of the place is shown at - pee . : the bar, drinking the health of the photographer a atronize ese places is a quiet, orderly ree e " CASH CHECKS NOW AT MEAT MARKET | poneane Whe ale candy men are c ng a healt The Wh Use Green building basement, and | ness the Th 1 5 1 ver iki ieiea tae d *alace Market, in the Smith building,} The nickels that used to go ove rae ee ‘ Sacer 1 ave., are examples of this class of pint get a oat to cash many checks prior to January 1, to eat and things to wear here 4a lifferente between the tw \ a’? ; . a ait c o places, however. MPA916. There were too many bars between his establishmen: Anywa » that’s the opinion of dozens of business men The Whitehouse ‘Management caters to a caéinnoktaa pubs and the waterfront. Weeks’ observation. ~t S. E. COMPANY MUST PUT ON MORE CARS CITY DEMANDS SEATS FOR PASSENGERS The “Thalfa‘is"@ handsomely furnished amusement pate “But they cash ‘em with me now,” he said Friday, “The real estate busimess tias picked up wonderfully,” lor, drawing an exclusis patronage “Dozens of them have remarked as they bought from me: jsaid G. B. Kittinger, of McGraw, Kittinger & Ca ey, “Well, we can’t buy booze, so we'll buy meat.’ jestaters, Friday olle are much better. If SHERIFF'S” SON OPENS SOFT DRINK PLACE 1a wk onl { this kind I’ve noticed and had the snow and cold I kno , uldie = heard of. It has ireds of times during the last be booming. People won't g Be ae rty dur The Thalia w ormally opened Friday nt with a four weeks. The workingmen from the waterfront are buy- ing cold weather rogram. It included Miss Edith Barstow 4 ing more meat and other things to eat bec hey cash their t “Practically all of the saloon rooms nort f 2 1 toe dance Mme Mittair sad R "i * Rall checks in the stores a shoot all money over bee le effort. In the Pike st. distr 1 ig s Ol 7 Geek sca nie the bars.” stand several of the ms have rented for m " ry Miss Hele H fe i ionamin money than they did before * at elen Jewel -—- pire ?o, Henry Broderick said that t r 7 ftene } | BUSINESS PICKS UP DURING MONTH 14 Pisetiobartly ’ rixed | r ser, were serve - ee cece ——T orharkn ; . v mely de t t wi were seated some word for the effects of the dry law | rise oe ea t,he sa rhe Thalia is under the management of William Hodge except for the cold weather rd eae e eterm ¢ lengt Within t weeks,” said Hodge will have a gentle- The opinion is general a Star reporter, readjustment per me t and card room open, adjoining the main room.” that the last 28 days ha on-|_ DURING THE FIRST 17 DAY> OF JANUARY PREDICTS ACTIVITY IN BUILDING , ir youn en ¢ ners have been engaged, and tinuous sieg ld we nd| THEY SOLD MORE MEAT, EGGS AND PROVISIONS @ the Thalia roth L evening from buyin THAN DURING THE THREE MONTHS PRIOR TO Quite a change | me over Seattle g the mont cold. Aieteantts sth ‘ave. cunn ine Morris & ( ke sioner | JANUARY 1 Everywh ticeable But the 4 ted = a — behibanbbahts ee first to directl the rejuve Markets, and grocers all over Seattle report imilar in-| hasn't | Continued on page 3.) WILSON THRILLS PITTSBURG FOLK Why stand up in a cold street car? Because there are not enough seats. After checking up on the Ra venna and Cowen Park car lines, the public utilities depart ment learned Friday that the cold weather is throwing busi ness to the street cars, and the PITTSBURG, Pa. Jan. 29— | cool when the world is running red company has not adjusted its Warning the American people [of blood, and it is hard to keep the service accordingly i that “new circumstances have | passion of sympathy under control Between 5 p. m. and 6:32 p arisen, for which the country |of the judgment m. Friday, 30 cars on these must Prepare itself,” President | “But it is not wise to be ¢ lines carried 2,340 passengers. Wilson today asked that all |by the impulses of passion. And On the Ravenna line, 27 per “tend té the business of pre- |while we admire the zeal of the paring—wot for war, not for ag professional enthusiast, 1 would — ia ression—sbut for national de- | not wish to be guided by him wee 14 beine ‘vat ‘set dense.” Thereupon he reiterated views bin eit » “would « Thru speech, there was a expressed in his New York wch | sfac ’ strain eave warning that | Thursday, indicating that the s Renipeiee yng Bl perils may be just ahead. Dan tion must stand with its neighbors ds = ers yroaee a and} gers to America he termed to th South against foreign ag- PA's” ond wilt trae this subject “grave and constant.” gressions aimed at this hemisphere - : a The struggle road has now Wants Citizen Reserve age of * 4 lasted a year and a half i I am not going into the details {° PO! C 4 tak ‘The end is not yet-—and all the|of the military program, for details | ‘"* : e Men on the other litical time, things are gett! more 1} ma no difference ave teat da-ont astic for this as more difficult to, hand Ifa convinced of one thing, | 1 t would # shamed of ar am. 1 would feel asham Souls gee the dijsparcie a a piBhrsp bere should be lfriend of mine who views it differ ry hour, they would kno w dif-|a great militant force in this coun: |. +1/ AE, LP BED, Peete 10 Nee try, but ingtead 4 great reserve of Band Plays Wedding March orb. ne oe eee ee thousand persons crushed in The president's words stirred | the servic their country. Amer-|, “stomorial hall before the presi e than 6,000 persor rammed | ica is noth t consists of each {0° * rer aio Piven Mer hall en of us; it must consist of us all ‘at - eee nf tor ‘ha r pac nto t Vhat tb eally proposed It is ‘ the ; Others we erde ocked id thie nation will |Played; then t residential along the al 4 nding e1 t eceive threats of dan- |Party arrived, tt and burst forth trance k ‘ nth in Wedding Mareh reat was the throng that the 1 be | am proposing a very |While the crowd screamed its ap esident a d an | businesslike thing, for, alc with |proval and the pre and his erf meeting ndustrial and vocational education, | wife smiled fusior expressed on nationa 6,” he|the young mer this country in resident's appearan | a the use of arms. Wilson was escorted e proceed fro ent Up to the Young Men tion of women aod not fe free to criticise It will not then be necessary for Next Stop Is Cleveland * ene t i a countr men rude, green and raw, to come The executive planned to address f ession to the defense of the countr an overflow m ine women If « peace According to our plang, it will|the banquet room of the hal the ¢ » to the young men and their His next stop is Cl land, where t ¢ of en e will then see what |be is # i to speak tonight ed to be neutral, not| The pre t sald he did not Ilwaukee, Chicago, Dea Motr c ' t eeling. | fea ongressional debate on the | Topeka, Kansas Cit Louls It te 1 cep the judgment| prep ness program end declered |cine, Wis Kenosha, Daver cent of them nad to stand up, and on the Cowen Park line 25.5 per cent couldn't get seats Superintendent Valentine, of the public utilities department, said Saturday the company would be asked to increase service on these lines The street car company has little cause to worry about thie cold weather. The jitneys, according to the official check, carried only 306 passengers during the time that the competing street cars car. ried 2,340. port a City, Grinnell, lowa, New ton, Lawrence, Kas,, and Kast St Louis are slated to hear him also In the president's party were hi secretary, physicians, three stenog raphors retinue of clerks and a a f newspaper men UNIVERSITY ©. A. Reynolds, chairman of the public service commission, and leader in Seattle's fight for just tourist rates, said Saturday the law epartment of the University of Washington had started work pre paring legal papers in connection with the sult against the Southern | silroads and the O-W Dean Condon, head of the depart ment, offered the services of the | embryo lawyers at the university at the outset of the campaign Reynolds said. A great many of the minor details have been left up to them Reynolds is ill at his home Sat ur He intends meeting tomor row with T, D. Rockwell, secretary of the hotel men's association, with | rd to matters pertaining to th rate case VILLAGE WIPED OUT BY TORRENT OF WATER; BODIES WASHED OUT TO SEA SAN DIEGO, Jan. 29—(By ;the Tijuana raiiroad cut ieved correct canyons of Balboa park, «1 ong Federal Wireless to Los Ange The big Sweetwater dam | f work for the few who eb-|isth 18th and acaey Sma fes.)\—While American cavairy |ported dangerous, and people whe nder way 1a big sum| Dynamite bi ; w fired rode thru the muddy desolation | live below it are ight hag bean colnet Be aes a / rea that once was Otay valley's fa The Otay da oke Thursda San Diego water supply is|from piling up. ° ae mous “frostiess belt” today |ternoon, but the country Is so « uate. Whate. ues piso See at A yt hunting for bodies of 50 men, ly isolated that there was no P z ce saved pany from flooded g fo 0 t i t it i a da to draw from and a secc s Two ¢.idences on 14th women and children kitted jhint of the catastrophe until the symem is in reserve reel aE soci on 10m when lower Otay dam collaps wreckage was found within the bay oppled over on their sidea, od, 8 dreary party of refugees |The territory devastated is two ae ieare wuter eek ane _ Apartment and private houses Started for San Diego, surren- |miles long and 15 miles wide. It Saba lated he rag Aa of | from the ve k to the bay shore were dering all idea of finding their |has been under cultivation since of hutshas followed n | undermined Occupants fed, cupy loved ones’ remains. 1895, , sday followed the|rying their valuables Since Thursday night, when the| Damage is estin more than |°*V8lrY horses thra the devastated | breaking dam sent a 40-foot wall of | $1,000,000 ieee St LORRY, Sang tat edie SKATIN T water thundering into peaceful or-| When the dam collapsed 11 Par Were WAG DOME Aa. ears G 0 BE 0. K. » groves and ranches, a hand-|900,000 gallons of were teioe 1 house A survivor ful of those who escaped remained |leased The once fertile A mad ON LAKES SUNDAY near-by, bh 4 inst hope that! San Diego policemen and firemen, | yes | riends or relatives might by some/with many volunteers, have been i : nex be bee aid eee aut? miracle have been saved Jrushed to the scene’ to atter ice this morniy rey headed a} Ska Sunday Those who remained were killed |rescue hie ddveivcce [rears proces Mourners fo You becher where they stood, The water trav-| The ¢ of 50 dead is be-|lOWed at their heels on horseback At Lake Burien and at Green eled at express train speed. Every sti nd js gic . thing living in Its path was doome th f the valley they the municipal car, nicely The first intimation of the disas | en a 1 group ef horrified | heat to Lake Burien, or the float: ter was when bodies of animals arvivors who had refused to leave.|i2& ice rinks to Green lake. Bat Neces of furniture and bits of sctie People From Houses there'll be skating in both placts houses were observed floating in| parts of San Di Anak ay, the officials declare. It's the bay opposite the San Diego wa Qn meine continue grave. At Old ro t Green lake today, tar. front Town the police and. milith wer but the park department thinks It When the dam broke those who | t reucuate: ant’ cE 1; Wit e shape Sunday, for had not heeded the warning no| ating May : ' let the fled from their homes had no Sen Diego river at Li i ‘ es artiment 0 lake of j chance | Information re 1 Sherift|hecame a menace, and citizens) TORE Be Overnig Jap Colony Wiped Out Hodge thru the Central Labor ec heeded the wart » flee |Heved to have been engulfed jell Saturday that a number of men proKe, and water rushed from the | The only story of thes disaster|Were Patrolling the yards of the TO 18 DEGRE Javatlable is furnished by a few |3eattle Constrnetion and Dry D een _ ’ ES ranchers who viewed it from near-|CO. displaying — deput herif sAT ' oe by hills, They say the dam burst |badges as marks of authorit oa oon \(. The mercury got down to 18 ear with a roar heard for many miles He deta Depu McGillivray ie . te ¢ ‘ily Saturday morning A sea of water spread down the |With orders to search a {| pretty.cald' Smaeitumed town a valle obliterating orange grove; |Sons, and, if the r Was true ens wer lig ion January 11 and ranch houses, and carrying on {arrest them for impersonatir ~| "There is no indication et esi ite crest a whirling masa of houses, | ficers. : Tonight and Sunday, generally n the cold spell, according to bodle nd tre Three hundred men are on strike) fair; continued cold;s tempera-\| Weather Man Salisbury it will The village of Otay, on the rail-lat the yard re ‘ I} ture, 18 degrees. }i stay cold for at least 24 hours and road to Tijuana, was wiped out, and rines are being TE PEI pares oe Tee AN DIEGO DAM BREAKS; 50 DIE’ : el