The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 23, 1916, Page 1

ADDED TO THE FAKE TER MANUFACTURED BY DATE FOR GOVERNOR, BY A, 0. RURMEISTER, LISHED AT THE DEATH REVEALS FACT MAN HAD TRIO OF WIVES Desire for Children Led At- torney to Establish Three Homes A RESPECTED CITIZEN BY BETTY GRAEME NEW YORK, Aug. 23—Was the craving for children to bear his name, to carry on his line, imherit his wealth, the irre- ible force that drove Wil- Ham Wallace Snyder, respected citizen of New Jersey, to build THOSE LETTERS or FAKE SHOP ‘HERE GRAND LITTLB OLD CAMPAIGN ‘Order $56,000 Boost in Phone Rates "BEAUTIFUL WOMEN USED 1 TO WIN RUMANIA’S AID THE G. 0. P'S NEW HEAD and maintain three homes? Two of the three women wid- owed by Snyder's death have gone into the courts to smirch his memory in a quarrel over his real ate. They have bared a@ strange romance In 1876 Snyder, a lawyer, married Phoebe Baldwin, and they made their home in East Orange, N. J. where Mrs. Snyder, gray haired and placid, survives him. Undisturbed by the stories of the other wives, she refuses to be mixed up in their contest. Besides her home and her own tn- dependent means, Snyder willed his first partner $50 a week. After 11 years the yoke of matrt mony that failed to bring the closer tle of parenthood became too heavy to be borne. The sweet, placid wife shared in his disappointment also. Remembers First Wife ‘To divorce her would be cruel and unfair. A quiet, reserved man, Sny- had no wish to hurt the wife ho had been his true and loyal panion. So he established operand from the first that they would never meet. To Mrs. Lucinda Pabst Snyder. whom he met in Trenton, and to whom he gave his name, William Wallace Snyder was a eapenter. She helped him build the little home at 318 Seventh st.. Harrison, N. J., which the tl 4 Mrs. Snyder is now trying to wr from her. Quarréys With No. 2 But again a great disappointment awaited him. The wish of his heart was denied. He grew restless; he stayed away Jong. Once Lucinda accused him of caring for some one else, and he flew into a rage. Once she found him in New York with another woman and forced him to accom: pany her home. These things did not endear the silent, dignified man to her, and when his will was HER NAME WAS NOT MENTIONED. In 1898 Snyder married, at Buf- Jo, Sara D. Whiteneck. Beside the income to his first * love, Snyder willed to “Sara D. Whiteneck, daughter of Alfred Whiteneck, of Pleasant Valley, Mer- cer county, N. J., $5Q a week during her natural life, if she shall so long remain single and unmarried.” intiment Governs Him It also directs that any income above the $100 be used to educate his children, Helen, born at Irving- ton in 1899, and William Wallace, born at Mount Vernon in 1901, and at the expiration of the trust for the two women, the estate shall be di- vided between these children. The first and last Mrs. Snyder are made executors. To the end, deep sentiment gov- erned Snyder's life—a desire to make reparation to the first woman | he had wronged, and to have her| share equally with the woman who had gi him the crowning joy of iife—his children. When the battle has been fought out in the New Jersey courts these | children, for whom William Wallace Snyder dared everything, with the} memory of a loving, indulgent father, treasured in their hearts will be alone in their respect for is memory. A Question B of Honor Jimmy Farquhar lost his | Is job as mate of a Pacific liner because of a misun- | derstanding which honor forbade him to explain. It also punctured his chance for further ac- quaintance with Ruth Os- borne, daughter of a mil- lionaire | So Jimmy joined two others at Vancouver, B. | C., and they went north to retrieve a fortune supposed to have been lost in a wreck, and there Jimmy learns “The Secret of the Reef.” Begin this new | novel in The Star next Monday. wide railroad strike appeared INSPECTOR SAVES GIRL! FROM POLICE “TRAP;” HELPS HER REGAIN HEALTHY BEAUTY BY CORNELIA GLASS to tell more that Powers told me want WANT “Mike” from the police beat. 1 gentleman to from some murders one story Then I want to rightfully and” undiscovered bomb the thing is in perfectly good condition This, like the one Inspector “Mike” “Lillian,” of a girl She out. She she had no money and she had no j Inspector to resign it to the Aside plots return whom it belongs told me about is the story was down and had no home, b. All she had was a pair of lungs that didn’t work any more, and a doctor's assurance that with proper care and nourish- ment she might live three months The night he told her that, wearily along Second ave. much, where she went she dragged herself It didn’t It took her constant atten- tion to keep up the painful process of breathing. RUNS INTO POLICE FRAME-UP A man touched her arm and spoke looked at him dully “What did you say?" she asked The man turned and whistled shrilly corner rushed toward them. “She accosted me," she heard the man tell the officer. She looked at them listlessly. They seemed very remote and unimportant, Then the two faces blurred {nto a grinning gargoyle, the pavement rose very cold and hard, and the patrol wagon carried an, unconscious girl who had no lungs and three months to live, to jail CARRIED HER INTO POLICE COURT They carried her into police court next morning. ‘The stool-pigeon teld how she had actosted him on the Gtreet the night before. Judge Gordon knew the stool-pigeon for what he was, unencumbered with heart or conscience. He turned to the gir. “Did you?” he asked She looked at him listiessly and without fear. “He spoke to me and I did not hear him,” she gasped. "I asked him what he had said. Then the officer came and I do not remember any more. Judge Gordon cleared his throat. “I put the case in the hands of the nounced, There was a mist in Inspector Mike's eyes as the story went on “I went up and talked to her in her cell after that least I talked and she would nod or smile gone weak from coughing, the poor little kid, that she couldn't speak. Lord, she was thin—just like a shadow. Her ears were dead wax white, and her face and fingernails that drab gray, that don't mean nothin’ but a ticket to the long sleep. “She managed to gasp out what the doctor had told her, and that she had just as soon spend her last three months in fall. It was warm, anyhow “She had a funny crooked little amile that got me, all right. Brave as a fighting cock she was, too. Well, etr—ma'am 1 mean—I came back down here to my office and I was pretty blue. “A man dropped in after a while and asked me to dinner at the Frye, and by George, it was providence. | met a chap a big cattle range down in Southern Cali- 1 told matter to her, to her. She A policeman on the Inspector,” he an At She was #o dog said he'd take her down and let her ride in the sun. BLOOM OF HEALTH IN CHEEKS NOW “She was so weak that we were afraid the trip might be too much, but she wanted to go. Said it was a sportin’ chance and it didn’t matter such an awful lot after all. I took her to the train and said ‘goodbye!’” Inspector Mike's voice trailed off into sflence. That is the story of the €irl who had three months to live as it happened two years ago. But there’s an epilogue. it’s a picture that came to In- spector Mi Powers last January from Southern California. Already it is faded and smudgy from much exhibiting. The picture is of a girl, a laughing, healthy girl, with windblown hair, sitting astride a big white horse, holding him easily with two muscular young arms. Across the bottom of the picture fs written: “The horse belongs to me—I have $600 in the bank that I have saved in the past year—and I'm so wonderfully well and happy!” And that is the story and the epilogue of the gir! who had _ ures months to live. FORCES SEEKINGRAIL PEACE ARE IN JAM BY ROBERT J, BENDER U. P. Staff Correspondent slate commerce igiee to nine members The Increase will be necessary . 23— J WASHINGTON, Aug. |to provide rapid hearings on the The three-cornered effort un- /rallways’ certain demand for rate der way here to avoid a nation- |ivcreases, following any agree- | ment to the eight-hour day demand. today to have run into a jam. |e€' by the brotherhoods and the Leaders among the railroad president presidents said they could not | Rall Heads Seek Salvage see how any conclusion could ‘The railroad presidents, for their be reached in | than 48 | part, are working now to find a} pill pa hours, At the same time in |way to accept the eight-hour day another part of the city leaders | id at the same time preserve| commission frem DIPLOMAT SAYS RICHES PLAYING BIG PART, TOO | to Drag Bucharest Into Conflict | German Tells of Allies’ Efforts) FIGHTING Is POLITICAL BERLIN, Aug. 23 utiful women and huge sume of mon- ey are being used by the ailies in the great diplomatic battle being jed at Bucharest, the alll Ing to bring Rumania into the war. A distinguished German diplomat, whose name was not revealed, made thie charge thru the semi-official German News Agency today spite the allies’ efforts, Ru- mania is yet undecided, he said, adding: Rumania bas been the sphynx and is still shrouded with mysterious veil, behind which th political passion and agitations, not only of the Rumantans, | pitch The allies’ agitation reached its at the beginning of the last an offensive,” said the diplo- But de | but of} the allied agents, are at the highest) At the same time the allies an- nounced a Balkan offensiv. by Gen. Sarrajl, which was undertak- on purely for political purposes. The central powers, in thetr oftt- clal reports, <tigmatized Sarrail’ operations ‘feigned.’ ‘ow a sudden Bulgaria noffensive has put a quick end to the allies’ activ. itles. The Russian offensive is ap parently slackening “At present Rumania " decided. She probably will not'give Pp ber wellcalculated, clever neu- trality, which has brought her an enormous gain in power, aniess thinks that a really turn has been reache Meanwhile, trade re! Rumania and the continue small.” ‘ALLIES LAUNCH } jahe tions between central powers | es LONDON, Aug. 23—A great battle of nations, with the | troops of nearly every Euro- pean belligerent involved, is gradually developing in the 8 the fighting along the 150-mile front increases in fury. Turkey is sending reinforce mente into Bulgaria, accord- ing to an Athens dispatch to- | day. At least one division of | Turkish soldiers is en route to join the Bulgars in the attack on the allied lines, while anoth- jon will be so placed hould th: enter the to country decide war on the side of the allies. Austria will be asked to send a chments to the Greek bor: join the Bulgars, Germans | (Continued on page 5) few de der to *Tis a Privilege to ‘| || Live in Seattle le — ‘Tis a privilege to five In Seattle. While it was pretty warm here Wednesday, the weather reports from the East made it seem mighty cool. “Three persons dead at New York. “One killed by heat in To ledo. After an 81-degree day Tues- day, people were glad to retire between warm blankets Tues. day night. The temperature in New York was over 100. ‘Tis a privilege to live In Seattle. NEW ARMY BILL NOW PASSES THE SENATE {INGTON, Aug. 23.—The ).10 army appropriation ed the senate today bill included the senate’s revision of the article of | WA | $26 The original decisive | in the war.| BALKAN ATTACK KNOCKO- PACHYDERMUS AS THEY SAY 4 1H LATIN CLASSICS, EH, WHAT ? 4 DE 4 Je: e “FAIR TONIGHT AND i ¥ as O wi WEATHER MAN BY a Aah eA THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS : } ) PRINT THE NEWS : } NEWS RIED HECAUSE ? 0 an BUY HIS “DUCKPOND.” VOLUME 19. SEATTLE, WASH., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1916. ONE CENT ™ 7™A!x KIDS! ENTER NOW THE STAR’S BIG LABOR DAY BIKE RACE Hey, you kids, get out your bicycle and oil v's going to happen! before Labor d. Some ‘em up Get ‘em in apple pie order Ask dad about the old-fashioned bicycle races they used to stage when he was a boy. He will tell you all Well, on Labor Day, boys of 17 years and under wh The first prize is a handsome Excelsior bike of motorcycle $42.50, but Piper & can see it in Piper & Taft's window on Seneca st., is a beauty. Take a look at the first prize, then watch The Star for some new announcement each day COURT MARTIAL ORDERS “SPATS” So Private Picklesimer at Cal-| exico Gets a Warm | Hand-out Pr a5 } ALSO A GOOD DUCKING HEADQUARTERS, WASHING TON NATIONAL GUARD, CALEX- | ICO, Aug. 23 ne punishing of Private Picklesimer” will remain | with the Second Washington In fantry as a classic of military jus tice and a “war memoir” long aft er Northwest troopers have re- turned to their homes, Company 1 | troopers predicted today | | A few nights 0 Private Picklesimer, Co. I, from Spokane, went to sleep at his post, an amaz-| ing breach of military discipline, Jall agreed. A court-martial was the only alternative apparently “In real war times, you would be of the railroad brotherhoods |the principle of arbitration for the| war which had not been changed | were planning ways of holding |future. Fighting against abandoning | for 100 years, in place of Repre-| in check an uprising on the |»hat they term the “final barrier|sentive Hay's revision, which ex-| part of the brotherhood repr |ogainst labor aggression,” they | empted ired army officers from | tentativ A unanimous |! asked President Wilson for|court-martial and which made Wil-| strike cemand might come |some concrete proposition for|son veto it last week | then, they said. {avoiding recurring labor differ-| nator Underwood's amend «resident Wilson, in a confer-| ences. \1 t providing that no one under ence with Chairmen Newlands and| Apparently convinced that set-|21 years should be allowed to en Adamson of the senate and house|tlement now must be worked out! list without neent of his parents interstate commerce committees|on the president's fundamental | was beaten, 26 to 23 lurged the taking of a step that ob-|»roposition, the roads are trying | viously contemplated final agree-|to “save as much as possible from WATER SHUT-OFF NOTICE ment by the railway presidenta|the wreckage.” They want protec.| Water will be shut off in all of] with his plan. jtion againet further strikes and/ the district between Austin st, and| increase |. C. C. Members |some assurances of increased rey-| Gazelle st. from Beacon av to This was the passage by the sen-|enne to meet the added xpense | 60th ave, 8. supplied from Gazelle ate of the bill already passed by| which they claim would attend ac-|st. tank, on Thursday, August 24, house to increase the ioter-|ceptance of the eight-hour day, from 9 a. m, to 5 p. m. cP OAMARU SA SI SLR about them. The Star is going to stage a bicycle endurance race for no have bicycles. Taft have donated it as the prize for the winner of the race. It sells for You It certainly model just below Second ave. I] Here's Latest Picture j of City’s Strong Girl | 2 (DR, NEW! NEW New Thought Exponent Is Charged With Mail Frauds {TO BE LONG AFFAIR SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 23.— “Dr.” Newo Newl New is on trial for using the mails to de- fraud, But with the beginning of the defense today, it begins to look as tho the members of the federal district court jury hear- ing the case will have to be- come members of New's New Thought church, and thereby attain immortality of the body in order to live long enough to finish the case. A copy of Newology, the New |Rible and New Thought Science has been given to each juror, and shot,” a, staff officer alta sone fe Maa [| in addition there are scores of other EVaiaon of & court-martial, head. |. Here's the latest picture of Miss |books by New and other expound. aueN Ces Ol eclded. to, Jet Pickles’ (Furry, the Queen Anue high school |ers of similar doctrines introduced company comrades try his case, |Physical director, who is the strong | by the defense. Lieut. Whitmore preferred {@8t girl in the Harvard summer Many of the witnesses are very charges; Private Mark Robbins |School for physical education, and lotd They declared their unfalter- prosecuted, and Private Fred | beats half the male students, too, {ns faith in New Thought and ex Nolan acted ax counsel for the de-|according to strength tests just |Plained their aged appearance by tense. Private Alf Patterson, | held Basketball, baseball, rowing | Stating that they have not as yet perched on a biscuit box, was ele: jand mountain climbing are her fa-|a@ttained the perfection of New, a voted to the dignity of dude jvorite sports bald blond giant who insists he is 90 7 years ol¢ scropot tity cous aioe em RAIL WORKERS HERE °c", Ga'.c tie is coming when lack of hair upon ency and admitting his guilt. The} the Heade.of both ten eam Wemur judge looked st the Jury, and the] WILL MEET SUNDAY wit bec criterion or their ‘spirit ho answered with a mute re Local railroad workers will meet ual and ihe anvel phan It} sponse of “thumbs down Sunday at 7 p. m. at Foresters’ | 2¢ Lap ae ba wont ns 8 +e ewok | After being convicted, Pickle 1923% First ave. to discuss |°8Y Sives | thom Tome te then! simer was led away with a gallery | the eight-hour day proposition and sched ighgw yay press wg of nearly a hundred following to|other matters ee an cher aan Growing. witness the punishment Support of the position taken by |More beautiful eve 1 “Twelve sp.ts and aducking,” the}the representatives of the four lcourt had ordered, and the order| brotherhoods of railway men at was earrled out to perfection with} Washington, D. C., In the pending |ing to about $20,000 awaiting the the exception that It was exceeded {1 sotiations with the railroad man [discovery of a cure for Asiatic about threefold agers, will be resoluted, cholera. | GOES ON TRIAL LAST EDITION THURSDAY,” CHIRPS THE THE WAY, DO YOU KNOW {UMPHREY WILL HERB . BE GETTING WOR. YET OFFERED TO 7,000 TO LOSE $1.50 RATE BY STATE ORDER After September 1 It Will Cost $3.50 to Have Phone Installed PARTY LINES HIT, TOO An_ increase telephone rates amounting to more tham $56,000 a year was the dose handed to Seattle by the state public service commission it a ruling, announced Wednes- day, which will go into effect here September 1 The new rules governing the Pa- in opinion, missioners Blaine, Lewis and Spinning, ed copies did not reach the city utilities department until Wee nesday The 29 pages of technical | printed -matter contain two radical rulings that will affect | seattle rates. One is that the corpora may hereafter charge $3.50 “connection service charge,” unless the new patrons sim- ply take up service of a phone lreadv_ installed, ‘ The city utilities departmel new phones were installed ann during the last three years. means an increase of approximately $9,500 added to the burden of tele phone users. The other radical change is the elimination all “obsolete rates.” 7,000 Lose $1.50 Rate This means that all telephone veers, and there are approximately 7,000 of them, who constructed un- der the old $1.50-a-month rate, will have to pay the $2 rate after Sep- tember 1. Some of them will have to pay @ little higher rate, according to rarty classifications. The city utilities department has cetimated that the increased rates from this ruling will total approt- mately $46,800 a year, All rates, from now on, will com commission. No Party Business Lines It eliminates, for instance, two end four party business phones, and unlimited apartment house service on one phone. These changes will all increase jthe revenue of the telephone cor | poration, and increase the cost of living burden on patrons, The order followed the commis. sion’s inquiry into the valuation of the telephone interests in the state, when it was brought to light that the corporation had listed “un. accounted for assets of $1,000,000." Plant’s Value Fixed In the report, Seattle telephone [investments are listed at $6,799,- 902, and revenue (under the old ystem) at $1,639,724 a year. The jexpenses are listed at $1,459,538 an- nually, and the net revenue at $180,186. A net return of 2.65 per cent was jestimated, under the old way of op- erating, and the new authorization jof “obsolete rates” will increase the return to per cent, while other [new rules will increase this still }more, Just how much the commis. sioners fail to make clear in the 29 |page report The whole inquiry started May 31, and the commission called itself. he complainant, and named the cor poration the respondent The general result is an order to increase the monopoly revenues in |practically every city and town in the state. | oad a | Mutt and Jeff to Be Back in Star Tomorrow On with the dance! Mutt and Jeff, those comical cutups created by Bud Fish who kept the readers of The \ Star's sport page In convulsions | of laughter all winter, are back with us again. Mutt and his little side-klck arrived in town today from New York and will be on the job tomorrow at the top of the Sport page, as usual. Insist on getting The Star! William “Rosweldt, a young farmer Wis, has a suf She will not permit of Greenville, fragette cow, In France there is a prize amount-|a man to come within her stable, To milk her Rosweldt disguises lhimself by putting on a Mother | Hubbara and @ bonnet, findings and P cific Telephone & Telegraph ® company’s operations thruowt™ the state was signed by Ca timated that an average of 2,733 form to a schedule on file with the — 5 August 5, but printe 7