The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 5, 1916, Page 3

AVY WAS DULL BOY AT SCHOOL He emember ‘ ell, Look Now Couldn't Tv 3 at Him A WIZ4RD te HAS MIND Davy Roth When Davy Roth School in Cincinnati, all ers said that . rent” sign under his h He couldn't remember a thing. It made him angry ed out to develo: wer doggone and he start ory t he can do that how 80 many tricks earning a liv Temembers how When wer asked a Star “October 16, 1893," we answered “Well, that was Monday,” he said T can remember all the cal endar dates for the last 70 years.” Remembers 100 Names Of course, nobody has a come uback when he tells the day of the| jek they were born on } He has some other tricks to +Prove he's the world’s greatest re ™memberer. A few weeks ago he went to a Rotary club meeting He was introduced to more than 100 business men | “Just a minute,” he sald to the chairman, after he had gone the Founda, “I wonder if I got all the Tames right.” Then he got up and called each | ™man’s full name and pointed him out as he did it. Says We Don't See Here is what he says about the| rest of us: “Too many people walk thru life and don’t see anything. A lot} “of the others don't remember what they see. Ruskin was right when the said there are 1,.000 thinkers for every one observer. “To remember, you must be an observer. You must link up men- tal pictures with your observa- tions. “The man who trains his mem- ory can remember every headline and news item he has read for| ten succeeding days.” | Roth says people's brains can be ade to work like cash registers. “When I see or hear something femember,” he deciared | up in my mind and it| It's always there if I to remember Fb. Wal .to “I ring it registers. want it. A class of city detectives and firemen are studying how to be come memory experts under Mr. Roth. He has regular class rooms in the Henry building. ‘STAR CARRIERS STAY ON THE JOB Use Bobsleds, Auto Trucles, and Work Trains, and | Anything Else DELIVER THE PAPERS | Paralyzed car service and all the other barriers heaped up by the snowetorm, did not rep 59,000 Stara from the omes all | For | forces, doorsteps of er the state three days the circulation under the direction of Man ager Howard Parish, have won out against big nd furnished] service to Star All carriers had first to be noti |fled by phone and told where to} [meet bobsleds or automobiles that |were fighting thru the snow with| |thetr suppliew of Stars. The editorial and mechanical forces cut off valuable minutes in producing papers, and they to Parish as ¢ avor would pe: auto trucks and a«mall| loars were waiting to take the pa-| Many of t arrlers came to| © Star building and went out} with the papers in the autos, In| districts bobsleds and sletghs| had to be used Some Rough Riding bobsled carrying papers to} with District Circulation | Manager George Donohue aboard, | left The Star building at 2:30 in| the afternoon Wednesdyay, and} reached Renton at 9 p. my | When it went over the same route Thursday, people had gather ed all along the line to get Stars Roats from the Colman dock car ried the papers and carriers to South Park With every bundle of papers that left the office was a Star employe, sent to-see that the papers actually were delivered to the homes. Used Work Train Subseribers along the interurban Mne got their papers, first sent to Georgetown in autos, and fre there a work train got thru t snow to the places along the line. Boats carried The Stars to Ever-| ett, where there are twice as many Stars read as all other Seattle pa pers combined The West Seattle papers were taken across the bay on the ferry, and automobiles took them thru from the slip. VANCOUVER, B. C., Feb. 5.—No word hating been heard from the steamer Onward Ho, hope for her has been abandoned Nothing has been seen or heard of her by any of the late ships to put into port SAY 160 PERISHED SHANGHAI, Feb. 5.—Reports| say 160 Hives were lost when the! Japanese liner Datfin Mara coliid-| ed, Thursday, with the steamer! Linan. The accident occurred at} night, about 80 miles from Swatow, TO BUY RAILROAD MANILA, Feb. 5.—At the last meeting of the legistature, $4,000,-| 000 was voted for the purchase of the Manila raliway some The Renton SCENE PROM ROSEMARY, Her name might suggest The weather might suggest her name —BUT IN— 5 SOZ moa Dna w> es the weather. mous novel, the Rex theatr ning Sunday, F and Beverly Bayne will be featured. lroles in which they excel received many entation of last week's STAR—SATURDAY, FEB, 5, 1916. ‘PROMISING BILLS AT SEAT Anna Held, at Coliseum, in “Mme, Presidente” Famous “Yellow Passport” Gets Here; Also Anna Held! ‘Graustark’ to ANNA HELD MAKES DEBUT AT COLISEUM THEATRE Anna motio an actuality in “ Presidente,” to be pres at the new Coliseum, heading the new show Sunday. A score of noted French actresses have had thelr innin it imper- sonating the volatile Madam- olselie Gobette In Paris produc- tlons of the Hennequin-Veber classic, but mone have ever brought to it quite ¢ prettiness of face and figur the magnetic Anna Held. Held’s long-heralded “GRAUSTARK,” WITH F. Xx. BUSHMAN, AT THE REX George Barr McCutcheon’s fa- ‘austark,” in pletur raction at k begin Bushman ized form, will ancia X F. X. Bushman, at Rex, In “Grau- rk.’ This play furnishes both these fa- mous picture favorites with the Manager Rex theatre, has quests for the pres Graustark,” and has at n to secure it for a engagement ee Hamrick, of th “GREEN STOCKINGS” WILL BE SEEN AT LIBERTY THEATRE “Green three days’ day. The Stockings” will start run at the Liberty play is a comedy a to of Show at Rex “ROSEMARY” TO OPEN AT STRAND THEATRE Marguerite Snow, the charming and piquant dramatic star, will be r at the Strand theatre, begin jning Sunday, in “Rosemary,” « five-part pleturization of the well jknown stage play of the same name. In the supporting cast are Paul Gilmore, whose talents tn tm- |portant roles have won him wide recognition, Frank Bacon, the in- jimitable character actor, William | Clifford, Maurice Cytron, Virginia | | Kraft, George F. Hernandez and jothers. “Rosemary” ts an adapta- |tion of the famous English roman- tle drama, in which Jobn Drew was | starred on the speaking stage. j . |“VELLOW PASSPORT” AT THE AMERICAN Clara Kimball Young, ever beau- tiful and popular, appears at the American theatre, commencing Sun- | day, in a brand new photoplay, “The | | Yellow Passport.” The story opens in Russia, where the Jews are per | | secuted, and has Its finals in Amer: | }ica. To save her family Sonia has | apparently become a woman of the restricted district. In reality she bas remained innocent, but she | must thereafter, while in Russia, carry and oxhibit.a yellow pase |port. She escapes from the czar’s | dominions, and coming to America, [becomes a great artist. An enemy follows, and when Sonia bas won| the love of a great man, her sup-| posed black past is thrust into the | light, and for a time the much-tried | |sirl has no way of establishing her| | Innocence. eee “KNIGHT OF THE RANGE” |TO OPEN AT THE MISSION Rough riding {s a form of amune- ment found only on the plains of |the Far West. These feats of horse: | |manship never fall to thrill us to the core, and in the Universal Red Feather five-part drama of the| | West, “A Knight of the Range,”| with Harry D. Carey, which plays | at the Mission Sunday, has an ex-| Jeeptional cast of rough riders. A |news pictorial concludes program. | cee | SHE OUGHT TO BE USED |TO TRAIN WRECKS NOW | In “No, 413,” the attraction at the! Hippodrome beginning Sunday, fea | turing Antta Stewart and Harry T. Morey, there is @ scene which gives| lyou all the thrills of @ real train! wreck. Anita ought to be getting} used to this kind of wreck by thi | | Hippodrome THEATRE Third Ave. and Cherry St. Eugene Levy, Manager “TOMORROW EVERYTHING PAGE 3. JURY GETS CASE OF MRS. MOHR ‘ PROVIDENCE, R. |., Feb. 5. —The fate of Mrs. Mohr and her alleged negro accomplices was tn the hands of a jury to- day. In his charge to the jury, Judge rns swept aside State Attorney Rice's conten- tion that the widow had en- slaved Brown and Speliman, using them to sult her will. Mrs. Mohr,” he sald, “can- not be found guilty unless you find both Brown and Spellman guilty, or one of them guility, for an accessory before the fact cannot be found guilty of a higher crime than the princl- al.” Pathe widow may know her fate today. The defense Is preparing to time. She's been fn one in Juggernaut,” too. cee SEALED VALLEY” COMES TO CLEMMER THEATRE “Sealed Valley,” a fiv tion picture production, based TLE PHOTOPLAY HOUSES | | | “The | act mo-| on the book of the same name by Hul- burt Footner, comes to the Clem-| Dorothy “Madame X,” mer Sunday late star of featured. will Donnelly, be led Valley” 1s in five acts, ! hundred scenes and was pro under the able direction of | Lawrence B. McGill for the Metro | concern PHILIPPINE BILL IS PASSED BY SENATE WASHINGTON, _ Feb. 5.—The | ipon this foundation ts but 210 pounds per sq inch, it will be ble to resist this load with a safety factor of 83.” The foundation should if it can carry a dam 8% heavy as the one we have 5 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 ERICKSON EXPLAINS | HIS POSITION ON DAM be safe times a bullt, (Question ¢) “Is there danger of seepage thru the north bank with water at an elevation of 1,590 feet, if the lake be raised by gradual ages covering a series of years?” Another location The answer to this question ts These three engineers ticall duplicate of a Fapore @ Teport ade by landes and eporta set in of the university, some two as not properly ears before the engineers were em foundation was were em ployed to « of because eee that signed and it ably not safe. alarm among people in Renton and the Cedar Ki valley that it was thought best to have engineers not with the rt ques. cireula| Robert tion de prot he universit to the report was made rin July, 1910, paragraph reads probabilities ale a certainty that rge lows from the * around the north niess great precau- it may be neces a wing from the north dam in the form of @ concrete curtain wall, extending 7 down to bedrock. Should a tong wall prove impracticable, it may be sufficient to puddle the slopes of the reservoir.” After recommending the digging of a series of test walls, the engl © neers’ report says: “Under the high pressure which would obtaim against this bank, we believe Roth ing short of a very thick and a very well compacted mat of clay puddle would be effective against seopane and such provision would be abnor mally expensive,” From these extracts it will be seen that we learned nothing from these engineers about seepage but what Landes and Roberts had told ” us long before. What most people do not understand {s that this dam: is @ necessity to store water for] Seattle when the population com | sumes more than the Cedar river | will supply in seasons of low water, | |AND THAT TIME IS APPROACH- ING! | It may prove expensive to seal the river bed and make the dam” available, but how vastly more @x+] pensive it would be to duplicate | |the Cedar river water system! : | It is useless to speculate, bee jcause there are no available ~ |streams and lakes tributary to Be attle comparable to it The use of the dam for purposes is merely incidental. caused so much| “ate on and the conelu connected city der ments tlons (Question a) “is the proposed lo- | cation of dam suitable for such a structure, and if not, what location should be selected?” Here are some extracts from the report in answer to this question “We do not by any means regard thie site as an ideal one for the height of dam proposed, It is our opinion, however that a stable and ecure dam can be bullt at this site even to the height proposed by the city engineer. Between this site and the present crib dam there is least one site that appealed to us strongly. There might be a DIF- FERENCE OF $1,490,000 IN FIRST | COST of the two structures. OUR PRESENT OPINION i8 THAT A SAFE, SUBSTANTIAL AND PER MANENT DAM OF EARTH, OR OF EARTH AND LOOSE ROCK COM. | BINED, CAN BE CONSTRUCTED AT THIS POINT.” The suggestion of saving $1,400, 900 by building an earth dam tn stead of concrete will strike the readers’ funny bump when he | learns that the concrete dam has been completed at a cost of $1,260 000, | Cites California Disaster These engineers did not give the jestimated cost of their proposed earth dam, but by deducting what | they estimated could be saed from the cost of our concrete dam, It will be seen that apparently {t | could have been built for $140,000 LESS THAN NOTHING! I maintained when this report came to the council, and still think,| When people wake up to the that if we could get the earth dam|that their water system is invol' for nothing and a concrete struc-|some of the public officials ture cost us $1,500,000, we could not;are now working with private | afford to consider an earth dam, | tereets to delay sealing of the dal And the disaster which followed | will get the ax | the washing out of an earth dam in| The council has made two sub | California a few days ago is a sad| stantial, appropriations to go |commentary on the folly of such|with this work during the last | dama, subject to flood conditions months. (Question b) “Do the general| The board of public works, plans and designs for the proposed ever, has not been permitted structure conform to the best en-|turn a hand toward sealing gineering practice for dams of this; basin. magnitude; if not, what type should; And yet, in face of all these be adopted?” |facts—facts proved by the pul The report answers this question | record—Mayor Gill, with el plainly: “In our opinion the general|tic and brazen untruthfulness, type of structure proposed, namely,|/been crying from the a masonry dam of gravity type,/about Cedar river dam, THO does conform to the best engineer-;- KNOWS THERE 1S ABSOLU’ ing practice for d of this mag-|/ LY NOTHING IN THE HIS’ nitude. We have carefully comput-/OF THE DAM’S LOCATION ed the stress that would obtain in| CONSTRUCTION WHICH IN this dam and find the section to be| SLIGHTEST DEGREE REFLEI amply safe, in fact, over-conserva-/ UPON THE CITY COUNCIL tive,” DISCREDITS THE (Question c) “Is the foundation) MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP, of the dam sufficient to stand the| If Gill's desire to help m load to be placed upon it, and suf-|ownership was one-half as J ficiently impervious to prevent/as his desire to cripple it in the im under leakage?” terest of private corporations, he The report indicates there can be| would explain the facts instead |no question about the stability of/trying to mislead the peopl ‘foundation, for it says: “As the| “There is no le so vile a - maximum pressure to be imposed 'truth.” OLIVER T. ERICKSON. By Popular Demand We Present GEORGE BARR McCUTCHEON’S PHENOMENAL SUCCESS GRAUSTARK 6 Acts Two answer the following n sary to carr end of the the dam » taken take an appeal in event of an adverse d TOMORROW AND WEEK TOMORROW AND WEEK Philippine bill, granting more free dom to the islands and promising! complete independence in four! years, passed the senate last night by a vote of 52 to 24 TRY TO WRECK HOTEL BUTTE, Feb. 65.-An attempt was made to dynamite the Florence hotel, here, wterday. The place eaters to the miners and there were several hundred asleep in the build ing at the time of the explosion. A few broken windows were the only damage, | Scene From Y's SSANA Es 6 Act Feature GraustarK ‘Rosemary “THAT’S FOR REMEMBRANCE” —of— A Delightful Romance of Youth and Old Age, based upon the famous stage play of that name in 5 wonderful acts. Bre>Zo-4>zamaz Hippodrome Acts —and— Photoplays Continuous Perform- ance, 12:30 P. M. to 11 P. M. FRANCIS X. BUSHMAN LOWER FLOOR 10c BALCONY fj] > 1] | ATTEMPTS ESCAPE MOUNT VERNON, Feb, 6.-—D. B. . Leadbetter, charged with murder, tried to escape from the authorities by diving out of ® second-story |window of the jail into a snow i bank. A deputy sheriff dived aft er him and got a strangle hold on| #iMg jhis ankle. | ‘DEFINE. FISH ums | 5C OLYMPIA Nothing. in Pie~ tures Too Big for the REX, COMING Griffith's — Mas- METRO FEATURE Weekly Matinees 5c Evenings and Sun- di Lillian Walker at Liberty, in “The Green Stockings.” | English life, introducing many hu morous characters, This produc tion has such noted characters as Lillian Walker, Louise Beourder, Adele De Garde, Frank Currier SECOND AVE., BET. SPRING AND SENECA Keep your eye on the the biggest, but the cosiest Thea- tre in town, JOHN HAMRICK, PROPRIETOR AND MANAGER SECOND AND UNIVERSITY Feb. 6.—Indians can not fish except on streams travers-| ing their reservation. This verdict was handed down yesterday by the supreme court. and hosta of others. It opena with scenes in the home life of an elder daughter, who ts for to wear “green stockings” at marriage of her younger ister. ' the