The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 3, 1916, Page 1

VEATHER FORECAST - -- Occasional Snow or Rain Tonight and Friday PIRILLO PPP PPE PPP PPP PPP PP PPP RPP PPP PP PPP PRP PP PP PPP PALA APA APPA PP PPP PAPA APP 7 Days More Time is getting short. Unless you register by February 10, you will lose your vote in both the pri- Andee annhdnintin nnn cRRD A: bitin nnorntnnho: SESE ORNS OE, mary and the final elections, Do - ‘THE ONLY PAPER IN ‘SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS it now. VOLUME 18 SEATTLE, WASH, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1916. ONE CENT oy TRAINS Ant r SEATILE WALKS AGAIN TODAY No Cars Will Rum to Outlying Districts; City Warned ot Floods | WHERE LOFTY DOME AT ST. JAMES’ CATHEDRAL CRASHED THRU ROOF ITTLE SIDELIGHTS 0 ee rs SITUATION 1S SERIDUS, STORM THAT HAS BROKEN =" * Ses ae US. OBSERVER SAYS; NO ). TMLAECORDSFORYEARS, «°C “SCHOOL UNTIL MONDAY. OME of the moat) most} They heard the G. N. officials were | | . . | accurate snow/|going to try and get them thra by) § a ‘ shovelers in the |Way of Portland, but that the snow - ; STORM CONDITIONS UP TO DATE world are as-jhad blocked the lines there, too. | : ‘ sembled Thure-| So the 20 refugees got mad at the - > . G Street car service will be resumed by evening on the day on Seattle's |snow, and the G. N. and everybody, ¥ ¢'; benicaas ae BS rg following lines; Madison, James and Yesler cable Laps roofs, giving/and went up to General Passenger Pe, 4 th marvelous exhi-| Agent Meldrum and demanded the é ‘ of) : Be; { Westlake lines to Fremont, Second ave. lines to Fifth | bitions of pick-| right to stay in the cara ae © ey i ave. and Lowell st., Jackson st. lines to 12th ave. and ing oft Legit Meldrum turned them down 1% Ye ae Jefferson st., Pike st. Lines to 14th ave. The Renton line rians on the lai th e dered | F wae ae ‘ope at 3 o'clo o Rentor aa caene tee or tro rg lh ga ’ . opened at 3 o'clock, thru to Renton i sidewalks seven |«iut off, and they were virtually ag ‘ . 5 Launch May B es foot of Madison st. for Bal- or eight stories | ejected. There were some women} Jard city dock at 5 below and children, they claim, who were Seek y @ Weather forecast: Océasional rain or snow tonight may have suffered during | tet: without money, but no pro! and Friday the lin raids, but think of the | vision bad been made to give them Be Slaughter had the Germans recruit-| food: that the company did not . i ped eps a eae the ranks of | give them city prices on the diners ae " Flaods predicted by Weather Forecaster Salisbury. Seattle shovelers’ Meldrum claims that every rea A 5 ‘Transconti al trains still stalle “asi ° DUG? achat Piavivate marksmen'eamivie nisoenmibotion eae. tn : Transcontinental trains still stalled in ¢ ascades, were {lized on the roof of the|tended them, but that some of . / Milk famine relieved by supply from Bellingham. Hotel dsor, on Union st.. be /them demanded pay for their loas| 1 y itneys reaching many outlying districts. tween tga and greedy? coe of time. die . Foot of Queen Anne Hill can be reached by jitney, nee over agpoin a eee ¥ but counter-balance is not operating pith Pecklegs abandon. Bushels| Some married men who had ; Health commissioner orders garbage burned. would fail with a thump | sworn to go thru anything for their - All city schools to remain closed until Monday. io them, They| wives struck qut and walked home , ed mp. Succeed-| Wednesday night, regardless of the \ yaining ates Floods, the most devastating in years, threaten Seatt! ‘land all the Northwest Eo rigs swith snow piled 25 feet Hives nee egphags od ec eae ae pen hrge fect Backbone of storm broken bent low and ‘ees f {that all public schools will remain closed until Monday morn= as the evening, they roped ing t Wind: ’ J > : : aed po mow lage Bsa » v | Unlike the soldiers in Europe, who are working in relays ‘The management didn't want to hie ; q F |“digging themselves in,” citizens of Seattle today began the knock any more pedestrians cold 5 a P task of digging themselves out ‘a yl . ; r Pues | Snow is piled six feet or more deep in the streets. The one-story structures ; “ " * j A city is as silent as a tomb They refused to be outdone by y 4 . . ee Ee f { An occasional automobile can be seen slipping along . @ seven-story people. 4 2 rs - A jthe streets, but not a street car was moving Thursday except : y - fon the cable lines ’ | : . 4 3 hy | The snowstorm which raged with the violence of a Da- The drop was paren feet. ¥ wily é : oe 4 |kota blizzard yesterday put traction service out of commis- ia ot tie sete 'edbiindl te 0 “ F Fi sion, crippled telephone and telegraph wires, and transcon- ave. Aténe flattened her nose : |tinental railroads are unable to get a single train over the against the glass when she saw 50] , ‘ Cascades. No mails are being received from the F oatteetin it ‘ =x who tried to "bass the wot i mean cor one ere a | H f Superintendent Cooper announced Thursday afternoon Friend wife camped just outside laborers, without mittens, shoveling |the front ‘gate, warting: for tale | — he i Zusiness is almost at a standstill snow from the street car tracks. who said he would walk it. snow and the distance. Ki cA | HOME, DEAR— . | But many wives were still walt-| | | | HO CARS RUNNIN ing late at night for a look at their husbands. Lots of husbands who called up| and told their wives they would [have to stay downtown Wednesday night had a thunder of a time get |ting away with it i It’s too cold to play poker,” { the wives insisted The men explained that the street | lcars weren't running, and it would | never do to walk home | a ‘@ enough alibi this} | time. | Twelve bobsle gute? ltrucks and fi have signed up by Howard Pari Star's circulation manager. to |get papers to the carriers Thu day A bob sled loaded with the after Some of the men simply had tol noon editions of The Star, was stay downtown because of the/driyen clear thru to Reston Wed heavy snows. nesday by George Donohue, dix trict circulation manager Jeorge Nelson. They left Star office at 2:20 and arrived | Renton at 9 o'clock She appealed to the other girls, and arrangements were quickly made to donate cloth mittens to the jaborers he leader, loaded witha pile ae: ttens, rushed out to make the} About a dozen people, young a {rie delivery jo staged miniature snow b She was hatless and wore gauzy|tie at Second ave. and Pike st black garmnts. | Wednesday night By some miscalculation she fie} Women and children wer sed that the four-foot ridge of snow | “slaughtered” and had to take along the edge of the sidewals | refuge behind the piled snow en would support her trenchments But it didn't A lot of men near froze their And she sank four feet into the| feet by standing on the street cor drift |ners Thursday morning Lady give us da free mitt,”| Dozens of women came to work grinned one of the workmen, “now|clad in men's trousers we taka da collect an’ buya da d It made walking a lot easier. socks!’ they figured. They carried bundles ht pbb under their arms It was r ort About 20 Great Northern passen-|ed they had skirts in th 1 gers have been trying to get over| As it was said at the beginning the Cascades since Monday. Kach| many men nearly froze their feet time they have landed back in § tanding on the corn a The heavy snow kept them from getting ¢ They were ready to blow up the mountain passes Thursday—the were that sore. | > ‘ont of German When the Oriental limited pulled | lunch m Third 2 near out of Seattle Monday night, it got) Union built a fort as far as Skykomish, when it hit| With parapets, an Am an fisg the stormy weather and had to/@ tin cannon, and everything geome beck On it is @ sign that reada Then the train wae routed over| “Fort Joe the Northern Pacific tracks. put i y got as far as Kanaskett ‘re to the big It got back here at o'clock | di ay be made on Thurs orning—right where i had started The 20 passenger nked as the « familiar surroundings « joal yards James cathedral, high in the auditorium A view of the interior of the wrecked St debris piled CATHEDRAL DAMAGE $75,000 jmain chamber A cordon of police kept showing, at the ton, tne yawning nore in tne Foor wrere the dome fell in, and the Tha great pipe organ Is ree | in ey re acane. “Not a sede lbulb jot the elesteig light clusters surmounting damaging the pipe organ, erected in the east , and the entire roped off today and GALOSHES ee es, the old fash So far as is known in the church at the Until repairs ed hole in the the Cathedral hail construction beings Wednes Dealers In shoes found a ready snow-proof footwear and when the Sir Guy Laking, armorer of the the building it window disy ing many of them fect condition is known, was Worth about $1,000, Seattle enjoyed at least a temporary lull Thursday in the |most severe snowstorm in years It stopped ‘Snowing at 2 2a.m | Weather reports, however, say there is no indication that |the storm is over % Twenty-five inches fell here since Tuesday morning. All |trains and nearly all street cars are still blockaded. All lschools remain closed é Altho a number of minor accidents were reported, the loss of but one life is the toll of the blizzard thus far. Alfred Olson, a laborer employed in shoveling snow from the roof of the Sartori build 314 Second ave. S., fell to his death thru skylight late terday The roof,of West Seattle ¢ hristian church collapsed last night, the loss being timated at $2,000. Long distance telephone service wh milk has been. pieced Gill north and south is ¢ ff, and but|sale in great quantities one line is in operation between Weather Observer. Salisbury here and Spokane. | sald ently Seley thes eral bridges have been order: | y tele ed closed until the snow is removed | (Continued on page §.) ‘and Superintendent of Buildings | : ‘Josenhans r his warning to-| . Pi day to keep roofs clear Thousands of unemployed men} are at work in the streets and on| roofs of downtown office building shovelers yesterday was betwe $6 and $7 Old Timers’ Tongues Wag When the kylight of the Sartort Huge mounds of snow are piled | butiding, $14 2nd ave, S., broke late high in Seattle rets, and the | Wednesday afternoon, Ajfred Olson, tongues of th rs are Wag-/a snow shoveler, plunged six stories ging. Despite > fieulty of/down the elevator shaft to his reaching downtown office buildings (death. He was instantly killed. and stores, pedestrians are in good| He was one of a gang of 20 men humor, breaking narrow tratis thru |cleaning off the roof, and climbed the snow, waist deep, for every out-jon the skylight to clean off its top lying district, Other workmen heard a crash and Hotels did a record business last} when they looked thru the hole in night. Thousands of people re-|the glass, saw him lying at the bot- mained downtown, tho few were |tom of the shaft seen on the streets after 9 o’clock.| Olson lived at Everett v Trains Still Tied Up months ots pith) The Clemmer theatre, one of the principal moving picture houses H T rly midnight, closed {ts doors! tany Seattle residents were every effort with rotaries, big Plows. /that every room in their places had ;|and armies of men with shovels to |heon taken before § o'clock Wed« break the blockade today, trains are | rena lent still tied up in the mountains, with “ : little possibility of getting out with- |), Many s B Binge er int w hole in 24 hours, at least, if no more | 0ors of hotels In order that their snow falls employes might be on time Thurs Mails are being distributed with |4@! morning, difficulty, in spite of the small! 2 amount going thru the postoffice Health Commissioner Me Qari Mili in Grere Bride Thursday requested The r to ask downtown stores Groceries are unable to deliver put their garbage cans ont is eatables, and threatened milk) on the sidewalks instead of in shortage has n somewhat al the alleys, so that city wagons | eviated by poperation between | could get at them Ithe dairies and downtown stores, |@— ite Poaaman mC ET