The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 11, 1916, Page 1

* * our en. ids. Ryther Ryther tag day. Can you unser where they belong. PORT SAN LUIS, Cal., leboats containing ~ survivors of the : disaster to the steamer Roanoke may be drifting in a rough sea far off Point Buchon today. The Roanoke, with a cargo | @f explosives, sank about 3 p. ™m, Tuesday, when a huge wave the vessel on its beam nds and shifted the tons of = in the hold. forty-seven persons probably perished. _ There are only three known ‘worvivors. _ . The Roanoke was one of the known steamers on the Pacific coast and was bound for South American ports when ed. only details of the horror so Met brought to light came from the of Joseph F. Erbe, 23, a San man, quartermaster of the ‘li-tated vessel. two Mexican firemen, Man- Web saved when his lifeboat drifted Shore near Port San Luis last ‘Right, Lying Among Dead Men All three were unconscious and found were lying among the Of five dead sailors, who had Weeumbed to cold and exposure Mad toppied lifeless into the bottom “@ the boat. Erbe said that the Roanoke ran A heavy sea about 2 p. m. Tues- Seddenly an unusually high wave into the steamer’s side As she heeled over, said Erbe, 2 Came from the hold a roaring found, caused by the cargo shift ‘tng. Captain and Wife Die The first victims to die were Giptain and Mrs. Richardson Dick fn of Oakland. her footing on the slop ME deck, the captain's wite tumbled the water. Intiantly the commander dived After her. N, ‘Main, ither was ever seen g tether who perished was John Denis of Portland, Ore., officer z hed 4 widow tn Portland. fw minutes after the cargo “ag the Roanoke plunged and b Recording to Erbe. mid that two of the vessel's five Meboats were swamped in leaving the sinking ship hav Maccounted tor Men Di ifebo Dorie 0 In Lifeboat 6 the night the cold became ‘tense, 4nd with dawn the men eratt began to die, Was no fresh water, One pez and Charles Roueiro, he} the | | | * * * iency of Our Army A7 LIVES LOST IN PACIF -MOTHERRYTHER Sunday is Mothers’ day all over the coun- , As you remember your own mother, think also of the mothers and kiddies Mother helps here. Saturday will be Mother Here is a ecrambied picture of a man who may be our next ble it? from the interior of the head outline. on a plece of cardboard, then paste the mustache, nose, etc., Cut th glasses, nose, etc., Paste the head outline - COAST-3SURVIVE SONS HEAR OF PARENTS’ DEATH WHILE AT PARTY OAKLAND, May 11.—The two sons of Capt. and Mrs. Richard Dickson, of the ill-fated Roanoke, learned of the death of their father and mother while at a young peopie’s party in East Oakland. The boys were stunned. Both are barely 21 years of age. T T. Tonneson, shipmate of Capt. Dickson, told the news. Among those probably lost in the steamer Roanoke dis Is Carlo A. Belgrano, student of Fremont high school, here, and a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity. His father Is Francis Igrano, vice president of the Italian Popular bank. The boy wanted to see some adventure, so persuaded his father to let him take one voy- age freight clerk on the Roanoke. Those who still lived had no strength to eat the hardtack that had been hurriedly tossed into the boat. Erbe also lost consciousness and was near death when the wind and tide guided him Into port. The Roanoke was owned by the North Pacific Co. and had been in the passenger trade on this coast for many years. She sailed on her fatal voyage from San Francisco at midnight Monday, bound for Valparaiso. Her cargo, worth $250,000, con sisted of 600 tons of dynamite, 1,300 tons of wheat and several hun dred drums of gasoline and oil. WAR BULLETINS ROME—French submarine de- stroyed Austrian port eff Albania, PARIS—With bayonets and hand grenades, French during the night repulsed German attack northeast of Verdun; west of Meuse there was nothing more than fighting last night SALONIKA—Brisk artillery fight on northern Grecian front re ported toda Bulgarians are rein forcing south of Monastir and throwing up defenses, evidently ex- pecting an attack from allies con- eantraied at Viorina, The Seattle Star munitions trans- | artillery | * * Generals I * * % sort. : THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS : ON TRAINS AND NEWS HTANDS, fe SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, MAY 11, 1916, VOLUME 19 ONE CENT WILSON, ROOSEVELT OR HUGHES? W ILL it be Wilson and Roosevelt for the nominations? Or Hughes and Wilson? Or Somebody else and Wilson? Will Wilson be re-elected? Or will Roosevelt, or Hughes, or some one else beat But we WILL know about it. The Star has arranged for a city-wide ballot on the presidency next Saturday. him? Perhaps we won't know for some time. how Seattle feels It is expected that several thousand votes will be cast. That ought to be a pretty fair indication of what the voters in King county would like. In order to make the ballot as representative as possible, and to prevent duplication, the names of voters will be asked. These names will not be used by The Star nor by any one else. They will be destroyed as soon as the votes are counted. Remember the day! Presidential Preference Election Saturday! Ballot boxes will be placed by The Star at the following places: Bon Marche, Fraser-Paterson’s, New York barber shop, White Building barber shop, Here i president, Sanitary market, Westlake market, Pike Place market, Shafer Bros., Hatton & Oliver, Cheasty’s Haberdashery. WOOLWORTH, belong. } Spring © © © in song) eee birds |babbling brook * * * « smiling FAT AND RICH, STARTED TD “VISITS HERE. BAR JITNEYS 222°" Doctors Say He's Nervous; Petition Being Circulated Asks | tie old enduring, most powerful, Gives ‘Em Slip and Them Out Influence of the ages * * © the Comes West City Council to Rule jcall of LOVE seiasira It was over thus. Ae the first OWNS Sc, 10c, 15¢ STORES REPORT §., E. BEHIND IT F. W. Woolworth, 990 5th ave, | j man clasped the first woman to); |him, she whispered another | Heraiding t | “Your love I hold beyond all! | New York, arrived in Seattle | to bar the jitneys off the streets | tren sures.” early Thursday morning—fat, | of Seattle, a petition Is being Love °° © priceless beyond dyspeptic and nerve-tortured— playing truant from a corps of well nigh crazy ph back in the Empire state. widely circulated thruout the city Thursday, by persons pre- . sumably employed by the street car company. all treasure! Two months ago a jury in Judge Frater'’s court undertook an entt on the value of love | mate } They placed it upon-the jndictal | Three weeks ago his doctors If enough signers are obtained, bundied Woolworth onto a Ten the petition will result in the in-|scales; they met dit, and] nessee-bound train for Talt’s troduction in the eity council of an/ weighed it, and analyzed {t | Springs with strict orders to (ordinance forcing the jitneys to re-| They finally assayed {t at | remain quiet for a month, for. | main off streets on which street | $25,000 | | get business and give his cara operate, thus eliminating all; They awarded that amount to petite dig “en eeaies et, {DUB traffic In the downtown sec-| Mra. Carola B. Jones, who had lost | nd abhoe, Say Pharr tage eae the love and affection of Tom C Woolworth didn’t like the looks ot) The setitioh aba dik penttannnal Feaue Ge pines, sp he skedaddled |providing that, “among other| She blamed the loss of her love | i “ Af a saan don’t |things,” the fitneys be required to Tom's father, T. FE. Jones, al sie aubahad eke tal ate “To operate on certain |prominent contractor. It was he Winging thels hase th 8 tronsy,| S700? ON, Gnd for cortein | sho ould. who alteaated the young | Seguetiuesien 4 cen the maximum rates and from 6 a, | man's affections from her and thelr | > | m, to midnig > parent and raising professional “To refrain from operating ; eee zi That's the kind of a fellow Wool-} longitudinally on streets on | Young Jones Is 21. Mrs, Jones is) worth is. fea ppg, gry cas | They were married two years Incidentally, he is owner of the i |ago. They were in the spring of | Woolworth building in New York, allel with and within 600 feet | NF. They were oO ie eee. jeity, and controls more than 850| on either elde. Mntkina aide teaikered, Aoittiaal} 15, 10, 15-cent stores thruout the “To refrain from allowing | eee ew imitatione.—eoc : 15, 10, | oundariee—limitations—oclal bar United States. Passengers to ride on the door | vars—they cared nothing about Ho is many times a = multi-m I} or running appends any car or 43 a as ian Monatre—his stores handled $75,| on or In an unsafe place. i. m * ‘. |980,000 thru sales made last year.| “To pay the same percentage |, When. suddenly. the | young | Incidentally, Woolworth signed a| (2 per cent) on gross receipte [iy was to he he 2 om }lease Thursday morning on prop street railways are required to | On s davatter the wollte erty on which he will establish a d she was told that her young hus |store at Aberdeen. Several other To keep lights burning be fiand would never again return to stores are contemplated in the| tween dark and daylight in ev. | eee ee eter eee positic Northwest and will be established! ery Inclosed car while such |") soveuel to hie—when ¢ this year. | car Is serving the public.” Couns Sather ever saw his calle | May Enlarge Store Here - | ha nl eon Mr | If the prospects are right, in all/ pk all ye wodie you sa probability he will leave instruc |tions here before he leaves Thurs |day night to enlarge bis present | branch store on Second ave., or to move into more spacious quarters This ia Woolworth's first trip to the jury gave too big a verdict to |the heartbroken young woman? In this matter-of-fact twent! eth century, love is not price less Mrs. Carola B. Jones It Is not even worth $25,000. _ + idan s Shown in Discovery at Was és NEW Fl |§ 1s Love Priceless? Judge Frater Says It Is Not! EW FIGHT He Cuts Jury’s Price in Half; Offers Girl $12,500 eee al ce x ¥ ‘ peeare’ ta Neen *|) GIRL BRIDE WHO GETS $12,500 FOR HUSBAND LAST EDITION This fellow George Salisbury is a contrary He knows this is May and we're en- titled to fair weather. but—“Today f. and warmer, a scrambied picture of a man who Can you unscramble it? from the interior of the head outline. on a plece of cardboard, then paste the nose, etc., where they HENRY BRUERE quit a $12,000 job as city chamberlain of New | York because he said It is an un the Pacific Coast, tho he has been to Europe 21 times A Golfer, by Heck It has been 60 decided by ju dicial decree, by Judge A. W Frater of Seattle. Back on Long Island, where | necessary position ater of Seattle, Woolworth owns a country estate, | i a MT ay t he is known as a nut on the sub 2, By what subtle scales the ju. dicial mind was enabled to weigh the value of love and de- | lJect of golf, and is said to be cap-| lable of giving the best of the boys lq hard run for their money, tho he | Nation’s Champion Father Is 91; Eldest Child 54; His Youngest 3 |is well past 60 years See aL i iee enlyeucreen tioned master. His policte » You wouldn't think him almost a | Tey aes thbtnan brated tee WHITESBURG, Ky., May 10,—|tloned maste is policies are | nervous wreck e - |People in the neighborhood of/the household's. He lives by rule It 1# hard to reconcile nervous: | — icucls el go pnt | Rockhouse Creek, near here, claim|and by rule he governs Iness with a rotund figure, and| PLEA FOR GUM CHEWERS| Tddwe rater today.-wote up thi |the acquaintance of the champion) jiore are some of his rules and Woolworth’s contour is made up of| made by Wisconsin educator, od ee n ta hha Senne dite it father of the country! iedlalak <hbotrreuvice suitie voluptuous curves wants schools. equipped with racka rir te nis decision of $12,600 / “Uncle Bob” Bates is 91 years of Po it Gon't pay. . TaRBee He met at luncheon with 16 of containing numbers and pegs, #0) i,stond of the Jury verdict of $26,-|ag@ and the father of 24 children.| young-uns. jhis Northwest store managers at) pupils may check their gum be-|oo0 ‘he will not grant hor father-in.| The oldest Is 54, the youngest 3 “Bring children up to respect jthe Washington hotel, and will|tween chews, tha) a saw: (lal “Uncle Bob's” descendants num-| you and they'll respect them- leave the city at 7 o'clock tonight. | If she tnsists on the $25,000,|ber well over 100. selves. there will be a new trial to go| “Uncle Bob” confesses he can't “Children have got to bi 'SOCIETY WOMAN 2 ay J. 3s hen | count bis flok, outside his’ hile] taught te eave. . ° Oi a a Under the law, . Judge has the | dren : F “Um partial to girls. They right to make such a condition Lor’, man, ask me something| stay at home. Boys get SHOOTS HERSELF Ore, P . a, te easy!” he pleaded when the sub: | They got to, | reckon le is ‘eee The sun may shine thru the | ject came up Unele Bot hildren are sel CHICAGO, May 11.—Mrs. Annte —" great windows of a big court Thirteen children still Hve at When they are, he says, Baker pring Grove society ma “MOVIEITIS” was diagnosis of | room Jnome. The other 11 are married|a dose of sassafras tea 1s medicine tron, committed sulelde today, Her | 15-year-old girl’s trouble in Pater The vase upon the judge's jand their far re soattered. | enough body was found on the Lake Drive|son court after she had cut hair to| desk may even be filled with per Uncle Bob" 1 en married Uncle Bob” owns most of the with a number of bullet holes {n it.| become cowgirl and wrecked sev-| fumed flowers. | twice | mountain around Rockhouse Creek She left a note saying her act was|eral rooms where she had been| But look not in this piace At home, this venerable Ken-|He is « bank director, He is said caused by ill health, employed, fog the Spring, tucky father is still the ungues-|to be worth $100,000, U.S. ARMY BOARD REFUSES OFFER OF BEST MACHINE GUN * % hington, D.C. IC WR ECK Do we get it? Yes, heavy frost; Friday, fair ” says George. be our next Cut the gl: nose, etc., Paste the head outline By Kenneth W. Payne Staff ‘Spectal WASHINGT May 11,—This is the story of how THE GREATEST SMALL-ARM INVEN- TION OF THE AGE was lost to the United States. It is the of the Lewis machine gun. | It is a story we ordinary | people are not supposed even to know about. Army officers are tryin, to shroud it in a tangle o} evasions For at the very time when their preparedness cry is being answered thru- out the land, this tabooed tale casts grave suspicion on certain officers’ OWN PAST METHODS . OF PREPAREDNESS. Of all forms of munitions now being used in Europe, the Lewis |machine gun, the-air-cooled, light- weight, rapid-fire terror, invented |by an American army officer, has proved one of the greatest marvels, German officers recently drove their men to the slaughter In a certain desperate attack just to capture Intaet a Lewis machine gun, so they might copy it for their own use. RUSSIA BOUGHT THE LEWIS GUN FOR 50,000 RUBLES, | CANADA BOUGHT IT WITH A | VAST POPULAR SUBSCRIPTION. | GERMANY BOUGHT IT WITH THE BLOOD OF SCORES OF |HER OWN SOLDIERS! | AND THE UNITED STATES ARMY OFFICERS DIDN'T WANT |I1T WHEN IT WAS OFFERED TO | THEM FOR NOTHING! story The most successful machine gun now used in Europe is the Lewis. Rejected by the United States Like the two other leading ma- chine guns, the Hotchkiss and the | Maxim, it was invented fn the Unit. ed States. And—also like the Hotchkiss and (Continued on page 5) OBBERS GET $10,000 SAN BERNARDINO, Cal. May 11.—Cracksmen escaped with $10, 000 in gold and several thousand dollars in cheeks, after! ooting the store of James Ilingsworth, at | Ransburg, on the desert, today, The money Was part of the payroll for the Yellow Amer mine,