The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 22, 1916, Page 2

e uy Ff E STAR—SATURDAY, J ULY 22, 1916. PAGE 2, Woman Writer “Rides the Ambulance” in Grim Fight to Save New York Babie AS NURSE, SHE PEEPS | INTO WEARY HEARTS OF TENEMENT FOLKS BY BETTY GRAEME YORK, July Are you on this call? The words were directed at me by a young interne and were the first spoken to me after [ secured permission to “ride the ambulance” tm the tragic fight being made in New York against infantile paralysis, the dread disease that is reaping a death harvest of one baby an hour. To the interne I was, in my nurse garb, merely one of many nurses Working in this great campaign inst death “Have you got your blankets, night gowns five this trip.” There is an excitement about cli ngisg to the back of Tance as you whiz around corners, everything giving way Which was intensified when the doctor said “There will probably be a scrap or two. Are you afraid? T said I thought | was, but that wouldn't prevent my going ahead , With the job; that I would not faint or scream. 1 did not tell him it ‘War my first trip to the East Side. Os “Well, you know they are pretty excitable, these foreign. ers, and they object to giving up the children, to we have to take them by force. If there's any trouble, we'll get a police man.’ pins? There will be an ambu before you. _ We stopped at a grimy tenement on Henry st, and (mmediately a ‘@rowd swarmed around us like files at a ptenic. Down a dark, narrow passage, wp dirty stairs, flight after Might, the doctor, knocking at every door, making inquiries. ____But no one had ever heard of Mikel. For they are all banded to- Bether by ties of race or fear, and none will give information We finally located the room. The child was gone. disease. The victim is To these people contagion is not even a name. The plague ts but an indication of the wrath of Jehovah. | Often it is impossible to persuade them that the child ts affected ‘They will explain with many gestures that {t is only because “Ikey & fraid on you” that he is unable to move one side of his face or to stand upon his pathetic little legs. oeeee ‘The next call was in the Italian quarter, on Delancey st., and they prepared ‘The father blocked the door, and when, with a quick thrum of the the muscular young interne caught the man and pushed him out of way, We were met by a flanking squad of male relatives Twe policemen brushed me aside and bore down upon the fray, leaving the doctor free to examine the child. Wiid howls of rage and anguish rose from the throats of the mother, grandmother, sisters, cousins and aunts. Chairs were splintered, heade were bruised. | saw a big, burly fellow hit a biuecoat on the jaw, and the efficer drew a Fhe driver. hearing the rumpus, had the engine going, and the car under way as we tumbled in, the doctor carrying the child ce ee At the home of a Syrian named Isaacs, on Furman st., Brooklyn Was a terrible scene. Mother and father fought like tigers for The father snatched it in his arme, and, ning up the fire escape to the fifth floor, threatened to jump if approached. ‘ When he was finally overcome and the child taken from ‘him, he screamed curses after the retreating ambulance. ‘The saddest cases are the nursing babies not go, too?” the mothers beg. “De baby, he is fraid on strangers. I would do anything. On, “How do you stand it?” asked a dig policeman when one removal been of a particularly heart-breaking natura “y t!” I replied, battling to keep back the tears I thought bow mueh greater the baby’s chances were at airy hospital, with clean beds and wonderful care, specialists ‘all that science has to offer, than this loving but {gnorant mother her squalid surroundings could ever give, I was glad the little one have that chance. eS Scenes and Figures in Strange Tra \Mrs. Oscar McDaniel, who was murdered; Prosecutor McDaniel and their home in St. Joseph, Mo. eee | | | | ARMY TO LOOK INTO KILLINGS SAN ANTONIO, July 22. Col, J. A. Gaston today was in structed by the Southern de partment of the army to go to Alpine from his neadquarters at Marfa, to investigate the Shooting of Col. M. C. Butler. Gaston will decide whether Butler was killed in “the line of duty,” which will determine whether his widow will get a pensio f Butler ip shown to have had a moral right to be with Mrs. Spannell will be con- sidered to have been shot while In “the line of duty.” OF DEATH IS BEGUN County Prosecutor Feels | Wrath of Man He | Punished . HIS WIFE MURDERED, 8T. JOSEPH, Mo., July 22.— Was the murder of Mrs. Oscar D. McDaniel, wife of the fear less prosecutor of Buchanan county, the first blow In a cam- paign of “death, hell and de struction,” threatened McDaniel because of his re | lentiese prosecution of St. | | " hement? i. | lies Tetng asked |, Co! J. BE. Muchert of the Fourth | This ts the qu Texas infantry made the following by the police of Kansas and Mi®* | geraiied report of the affair lsourt, who have joined forces in| “Col, Butler was aitting, with oth |eearch for the men who entered the |er officers, citizens and me, tn MeDantel home and beat Mra, Me: front of the hotel, about ®:45 p.m Daniel to death July 20, when Mr. and Mrs, Span | “Death, hell and destruction nell drove up in their car. Span shall be visited on you'” a convict-|nell called Col. Butler to the car, led burglar shouted at MeDantel re-| reached back and opened the rear cently as he was being led from) door and asked Col. Butler to take court to be placed in the asylum forthe seat with Mra. Spannell the criminal insane. | “Col. Butler did #0, and Spanneli | A few days before the murder (immediately drove away around | this man escaped from prison. |the corner of the hotel | He wrote to McDaniel, re After the car had proceeded peating the curse. At 11:20 the night of the murder ‘McDaniel recetved a telephone call |to go down town to a place where. it was anid, his brother was In trou ble. He went in his motor car Jabout 600 yards into the residence | district, Spannell shot and killed j both Col. Butler and Mra, Spannell | He then walked to the jail and sur. rendered to the shert Ball Masque and Pageant to Net Funds to Boost City Pians for the firet big adver: tising show ever held on the Pacific coast, which is designed to be a complete exposition of the art and business of adver. tising, have been completed by the Ad club of Beattie, which has been quietly at work on the project for several week Announcement wae mad: it. urday by President T. 0, Daken that the advertising show and ad masque pageant ball will be held in the Arena, Seattle, & tember 5 to 9, with the ball masque on the closing night of the show. | ‘The purpose of the show will be to set forth, by means of exhibits, |pageantry, motion pictures, lee jtures, all subjects coming under the heads of “How to Advertise,” Why It Pays to Advertise, “Where and When to Advertise, “Why It Pays to Patronize Adver. \tisers.” The pageant ball, planned along the lines of the big masque Order of Day for Bravery Gers SIX DAYS' LEAVE By Henry Wood United Press staff Correspondent PARIG, July 1.—(By Mall.)— Every United Press office boy In America, and all the other office boys as far as that’s con- cerned, will be glad to know that Jean Vililer, an office boy in the Paris office of the United Press, has been cited In the | order of the day several times for consplouous bravery in the French trenches. Villier is now 19, and has been at the French front for a year and a half. A year ago he received his first citation and was given for | recompense the choice between | the decoration of the Croix de Guerre or six days’ leave in Parle. } He took the latter. He overstayed his leave two! days He was taken before his commanding general, and for pun |6 zedy SEATTLE TO SEE OFFICE BOY HAS COUNCIL WILL FIRST AD SHOW AREAL SYSTEM — KNIFE BUDGET IT WILL BE SEPT. 5 TO 9 Cited Six Times to French | Finance Chairman Says Tax Rate Will Be No Higher TRIMMING ESTIMATES Before the city councilmen get thru with their 1917 budget || deVberations, they will have trimmed approximately $142,702 from the estima submitted by all departments for next year’s running expenses. This was the prediction Sat urday of Counciiman Fitzger ald, chairman of the finance committee, When the total figures are ready for the final ordinance, they will be no higher than last rs. Fourteen city departments hav estimated their 1917 expenses wi be higher than during the last year Six department» have asked for decreases The biggest decrease is in the po Nee department Ite figures are cut $16,312, No Need for Alarm “There {s no need of anybody getting alarmed about the $142, increases asked by the vart ous departments,” said Councitman Fitzgerald The total figures for 1917 will be cut down to equal last ball held in Oakland last spring. ishment ordered to the front line| year's.” will, according to announcement, be the most spectacular masquerade lever undertaken in the Northwest | These extensive plans of the Ad jclub, perfected at several executive committee sessions, were founded | lo bring futuf™ conventions of ad |¥ertinsing associations to Seattle, also to advertise Seattle In a buat |nesslike manner thruout the coun- try, especially as the center of a great tourist country and a summer | paradise. | ‘The club also feels that the time lis ripe to demonstrate to the public | generally in the Northwest some of the facts about advertising which never have been thoroly under |atood. Hence the show at the Are |na will be a combination of educa- tional exhibits.and pageantry, the latter designed to entertain the |public, while the former features |will educate in adverti#ing whys land wherefores To act as managing director of the show, the Ad club has eht Louls W. Buckley of Oakland to Seattle and has given him general direction of the enterprise. Buck ley is well known in Seattie, hav ing been director of ceremonte and epecial events at the A-Y.-P jexponition, in 1909. Buckley has |Just opened offices on Fourth to will be prepared to give full infor. | mation to intending exhibitors and | partictpants. ‘The committee In charge of the nd masque ball Include Ec IVE—T. D. Dakon. chairman Rorert Akin. Kenneth © Kerr, J. Fret Braid, A.J. lnsard, RoR Maxfield, Hugh Ae Fo Mel. Radford AUDITING—R mF Woodman CR AND chayrman PRES# AND PUBLICITY —R_B. Mor lean. Fo Mel. Redford. HG. Ree r r Finley, chairman Judson T Sergeant, George « AND hairman ADMISSIONS on “uoF Retily “Mugh © Kerr, Rober new Akin | hwesne ECTION OF JUDGES Moore | the Stuart bufiding, where he Woodard | trenches. It so happens that after Paris there is no place in the world that Jean loves more dearly than the front line trenches. | It in the only place at the front! bravery that win him with their accompanying crosses—or trips to Paris. Since then Jean has been cited to the order of the day four differ-| ent times. ch time he has taken his six days’ leave at Paris instead of the war cross Each time at Paris he has over-| stayed bis leave two days, and each time upon his return to the front/| jhe has been ordered to the front line of trenches, | Jean thinks his system beats anything that anybody aver — | citations | war out PIERCE IN RACE FOR CONGRESS | Ballaine Addresses Large Audience at Commercial Club on Alaska R. R. | CROMWELL'S IN RACE) Frank Pierce, publisher of state and national law books, has decid. ed to file for congress for the Se- attle-Kitsap district Plerce’s platform will be short nd to the point | “Employment for every one | seeks it!” Frank Pierce is a lawyer by pro- He in not actively em | ployed in the practice of his pro fession, rather giving his time to the publication of Pierce's Code of Washington and Pierce's Federal Code. His home fs at Harper, Kitsap |county, and he maint, bust | nes office in Seattle at 83 Pike st | “The United States government | should at once enter upon and pur- who | It was predicted that the biggest fights would come over engineering and streets and sewers budget esti mates. The engineering department asks for a $44,470 increase, which in jon a desire to establish a fund for) where a man has a chance to per-| cludes salaries for some 16 inspect advertising Seattle, The club plans) form those conspicuous deeds of | ors The streets and sewers depart ment wants $48,300 more than it asked for last year. Paysee to Get Raise While mlary increases will be granted in some departments, a fight will be made to equalize the Increase by cutting down some where else in the same department The council has decided to grant Port Warden Paysse an increase in salary from $1,800 to $2,400 a year. Other jary increases already granted a Harbor department—First assist |‘ ant port warden, $1,320; marine utility man, from $1,200 to $1,320: clerk-stenographer. from $960 to $1,020; computer, from $1,020 to $1,080. Judiciary department clerk, from $1,500 to $1,680 pro tem., $159 to $300. This is ow ing to a longer period necessary on the bench next year, in the absence of Judge Gordon Board of public from $1,200 to $1,320. Superintendent Youngs of the wa- ter department will be the next de. partment head to appear before the from $1,200 to Chiet works—Clerk, |committee, Tuesday morning. jable, it is believed the machinery department will be forced to close STANDS UP IN CAR TO GET HIS EXERCISE Letcher Lambuth stood up in the street car Saturday morning. “I never take a seat. I always stand. The shaking of the car Judge! » t |sue a policy of affording the meas gives me exercis says Lambuth. Lambuth lives at 400 12th ave, N Mr. Theo. Karle ure of protection necessary, and to |the number of industries neces- sary, to give employment to every citizen ‘now within or coming with- jin Ite Jurisdiction,” ys Pierce. TEXAS BALLOTING Tex,, July and that 22,—Texas means the are primarying on ev from prohibition to dog and from school bonds to jtates senator. Today's voter probably faced more yards of ballot than ever be fore in his career The principal issue is the ques tion for “submission” of state-wide prohibition In 1887 prohibition was defeated *o many thousand that no one had the heart to commit the figures memory. Only years ago, however, the drys were defeated by only 6,000 in 400,000 votes. xan voting strength of 625,000 DALLAS. democr people erything warde United to ve has a now JEWELRY IS STO! A wedding ring, vracelet, brooch and two other rings were taken from Mabel Harris’ room in the Waldorf hotel Friday, she told the Make an Appointment With Us Today one of our expert your teeth a examination it you just what is needed to put ther Into perfect condition, and also jum what the cost wi For the convenience of those who are too busy on week days to have attended to, dent We will be giad to ypointment with u for that fent for you nber, every operator in this ia @ graduate, registered den- his ‘certificate from board hanging right front of his dental piain sight of all. Each and every one of them has grad- uated from the best dental colleges Thus when you come here you are sure to have work done by a man ho knows his business for the very g00d reason that we have no other kind here. w able to guarantee you that rk will Be done a F e@ been putting f having necessary work done on of fear that tt would hurt you to have it done. You need de- ay nger on this account. ~ We give with all work our iron- guarantee of satisfaction, which both by the operator who gark . owner and manager o office, who is thoroughly res; mare: - oe FIFTY MEN LAID OFF | BREMERTON, July ~ Fifty men were Inid off in the public works department of the navy yard| because of the failure of contres: to pass the naval bill before July 2 Unless quick action is taken by congress and money made avail ° Our pric Take Your Meals —when most convenient during the day at Bird’s Pierce served tn the 1913 legis- lature, Altho a republican, he | voted with the progressives John F. Ballaine, republican cay: |didate for congress, addressed an | audience of 350 at the Seattle Com mercial Club Friday noon. He} |traced the history of the move-| ment for the government building of @ railway in Alaska, showing Tomorrow Afternoon, 2:30, | the Guggenheim-Morgan interests in opposition to it even to this day | “The Messiah’ when they are seeking by ob-/ tiv | Other Soloiste—Mme. Mary ye yp im to retard its Louise Clary, Mme. Alma Simp- | Friday night, Ballaine was the |] 80% Mr. poe. 8. PP oenconger with principal speaker at the South End || the great festival chorus and or- Republican club. C. C. Tiffin, can- | chestra. renege hrongt he gh oeh} "ao | Price 25¢ & 50¢ the Union | Dentists Are Best iim Reaching the place, he was told his brother was not there. Suspecting a plot, McDaniel hastened home. As he ap proached the house several shots were fired at him. returned the fire, then dashed Into his home. On a bed, her body crushed and bleeding, he found his wife, dying. Seattle’s Greatest Tenor Will Sing At the Arena Fifth Ave. and University St. SUNDAY Banking F acilities For Business Men lhe steady increase in the num- ber of our Commercial Accounts is because so many business men KNOW from experience that we GASOLINE MASSAGE RESULTS IN DEATH do business on a basis that is fair | alike to the custome? and to the bank. Liberal banking faci are combined with conservative bank- ing methods, so that expansion is encouraged and safety at all times absolutely assured, Daylight Cafeteria —which offers continuous service from 11 a. m. to 8:00 p. m. n 5 PORTLAND, July 22.—Involun jtary manslaughter {is formally |eharged today against aged Dr |George L. Harrison, as a result of the death of John O. Lindblom The latter was receiving a gaso line massage from Harrison when @ spark from an electric ma*sage instrument ignited the fluid, inflict-) ing fatal burns j NAVY ENROLLMENTS | TO CONTINUE HERE Enrollments will be continued for the citizens’ naval marine until 2,000 are enrolled. This is the an nouncement made Saturday at the | marine quatters, in the Marion building. Enrollments will be re |ceived from 2:30 to 9 p, m. eve Thursday | | FILM CONFISCATED Mayor Gill Friday film, “War's Women the: ly ingh tior Second at Seneca On Street Level J nsenennerstasraninesisnbesneanintianeconsesi( Little Mary Elizabeth Tiffin, | | | 4, daughter of the candidate for coroner, strayed away from her parents’ home on Four. teenth N. E. on @ cam- paign tour a few days ago, and got into the shopping section | of the University district When she realized that she was without escort, she resort ed to tears and stormed at the policeman who tried to pacify her and identify the run-away Mary Elizabeth would not tell ber name, but, spying a poster aanouncing Dr. Tiffin's candidacy, her tears cleared up and she proudly announced “That's my daddy! KES PLAYERS CGrekreum We will be glad to welcome and give every proper care to your ac count, be it large or small; busi- ness, household, personal or sav- ings. Mr. 1 ‘* Last Time Ton Summer Pri Matinee 100, Saturday, PALACE Secgna The advance of “dental sc at Spring has takes long ence it experience demonstrated this fact Foreign Exchange Importers and Exporters have been || particularly pleased with the excep tional foreign service that The Scandi navian American Bank through its DI RECT connections abroad has ren dered during the general disturbance years A No 1 equip. duce de® T QUAL same time|to do PAINLESS. Many i an plus an ment, t at tal work of the HIGH my @)] rry, and at the W. F. Cromwell, real estate man |} !f POSITIVELY and resident of Tacoma for 30| years, for the third time will try for the state anditorship on the re publican ticket this fall, he an | nounced today Cromwell was elected constable at Tacoma tn 1894 and again tn! 1896. Mr. Cromwell was elected the first city treasurer of South Bend and in early days was an| aide and first Ieutenant on the staff of Gen, A. P. Curry, com: mander of ihe Washington Nation al Guard He served as financial clerk in the Tacoma postoffice for five years, In contesting be Mats |MEN, | KNOW THAT Improper fing heme ol dentists have offices completer chanical detat mented us upon tl and abiilty of the are in our employ The UNION DENTISTS have been ih loca tor ne and Pike St tle) our the me- compl great skill ntists who ordered the at the Strand confiscated after personal ng the show Chief Beech F Mino witeaaued. tha gue dne measures than disease are often the cause of long standing trouble n foreign exchange facilities caused by ae vi the war vi Many have been good enough to tell u a to add that it should be civic pride that this one has been enabled to in such an excel which had been passed on fa by the city and a national and The complaints it indul 0 {t portrays the vorabl boar chief, however citizens, held | suggestive, even t horrors of w SHE IS A CAT NOW PORTLAND, Jul Patrick wae relleved of paying all s former wife fol Gaten to Their wonderfully in creasing practice proves — how highly they are esteemed by their patients: 8 of conn Pp t matter of in Seattle the situation way mayo the elty on bank handle lent at was work tions are mad materials, and are ITIVELY PAINLE for the office of | In order to introduce our [state auditor in 1908 against | ennesthetic for g oR gant | Clausen he was defeated by a ma-|f EXTRACTION of tooth jority of 20,000 and in 1912 he cut] reer Remember, we | this majority to 10,000 original CUT RATE Our 1 » the plates, crowns, bridge and filings of all descrip of the very best rted POS. ar Come to me for reliable Wasserman Blood Test. DR. DONAWAY Liberty Building ird. Opposite Postoffics, Interviews invited se new mony to t today lowing Judge failure patch up the difficulties | Wasn't your husband affection you?” he asked the me off too Scandinavian American Resources Over $12,000,000. within SEATTLE CLUB women greeted Mrs. Joseptiine C, Preston, state | superintendent of public instruc tion, Friday at Calhoun hotel after | her arrival from the East and as sured her of their support in her [campaign for re-election, the ute to He told + EXAMINATIONS FREE UNION DENTISTS St, Cover Owl Deus Seattle, Wash woman his and thre I wa C2 tenish,” she retorted Store), | “Divorce granted,” the court said | rs and 3rd Aves Hstadlished 1903,