The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 28, 1916, Page 1

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ONE CENT paws staed’ 2 Treat’s Famous Painting Goes The $35,000 Masterpiece of Leon Bon- nat Is Sent From Museum Here to Its Aged Creator in France BY TED COOK “Samson and the Lion,” a $35,000 painting, has disap peared from the galleries of the Washington State Art asso- | ciation in the White building Tn art circles, and outside of them, the disappearance of famous canvas, considered the masterpiece of Leon onnat, was a closely-guarded secret. } Harry Whitney Treat, who inherited the painting from his father-in-law, Charles Graef, of New York, was lord high custodian of the secret. | There was some overheard conversation between two} men who appeared at the galleries a week ago, about the} canvas being in “good condition.” | Even the secretary of the art association could throw no light on the surprising disappearance, and the air of mystery surrounded it. } “ADT know is that “Samson and) | the Lion’ is considered one of the | greatest works of Honnat, and has hung here for six or seven years,” she avid. “It was loaned to the a» sociation. Mr. Treat, the owner, or ‘his secretary, Mr. Havers, are VICTIM OF SHOT fcc Man Identifies Her in ia Hotel tell why it has been taken away,/ MAN FRIEND and where it's going.” Exhibited All Over World | It was explained that “Samson | and the Lion” had been exhibited in all galleries of note in the Unit- ed States and Europe, and has been looked upon with envious eyes by a multitude of collectors. The painting, completed in 1892, and purchased by Charles Graef in 1894, is 10 feet by 12, and Treat always said, “too large, to bang In my home.” For that reason it hung with the! State association exhibits, open to} the public. \t Treat was found at his home Wednesday night. Treat Cleare Up Mystery At first he inclined to with “| hold discussion concerning the dis- relatives that the woman) , ppearance of the masterpiece | shot with J. C. Gravier ati trom the public gallery's walle Hotel Walton by Mrs. Harry) pinatly he cleared up the mys last principal in Philade!phia’s tragedy of yester- is bis wife. She is the| soos diss, pearance » LeDuc said, of Philp) ~1 eon Bonnat, the artist, ix get ting old,” he explained. “He ix 83 years of age. Not long ago the French consul here, Louis Heritte, came to me to talk about the pic tu regard his wife as guilty of any she was registered at the wife of Gravier “It seems that Bonnat, in his old| age, wants to see it again. He has always considered tt his mas terpiece, but it has seldom been near him. Other paintings of his have been hung, and loved by the | as his friend must have LeDue under the influence) drug, or held her in his| forgive her?” he countered loyal little woman, and I ie her back home as soon as le for her to travel. I love ‘e her even more than be- She was lured to the hotel. ult. sire to the government minister of | fine arts. And the government| now wants Bonnat to see his own masterpiece before he dies, and} perhaps Pang ft in one of the na- tional galleries there. “The whole thing was to have been kept quiet, but {t might as well be known {f people are won | dering where the canvas has gone There was anxiety in France as to Ita condition, But there is no need | for worry. It is in perfect shape.” | He said that Louis Heritte has obtained a three-month leave of ab-| sence from his post here, and de- parted for France, taking the Bon nat canvas with him It seems that a $35,000 had been painting—not by Mr connoisseurs “Would you be willing to let the| picture stay in France?” Mr. Treat was asked Willing to Sell It RE Kas., Sept. 28 Beer will flow when J. Frank Hanly the prohibition presidentis! nomi- | nee, arrives here Saturday. But it} will flow into Coal creek. City of ficials and officials of the W. C. T. U. will escort Hanly’s party to the banks of the stream to witness the gemashing of several thousand bot thes of confiscated beer. Remove Bone From valuation of placed on the/ Treat, but by} “ A Afflicted Boy’s Brain) “ves,” he replied, “I am willing to well it to the French govern ae ment.” BAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 28— | So, Seattle may now rub her After removing emali bone | eyes, and realize that a great mas- fragments from his brain ana |terpiece, which has hung here for Grafting skin from his leg over [the public for seven years, has the incision, surgeons are to- been taken eway—probably day positive they have success | ever. fully removed the ca of the The artist, grown old, will be convulsions troubling 16-year. | made happier, Mr. Treat richer, old William Udell for years. Udell is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Raiph Udell of Divon. He has suffered convulsions since being struck on the head witn @ wire stretcher, six years ago. and Seattle poorer. | FRISCO PROFESSOR LOST IN GERMANY FRANCISCO, ABANDON POLISH AID SAN Sept. 28.- Preparations for a search of Ger WASHINGTON, Sept. 28.—With| many are being made today by the reply of Czar Nicholas to Pres-|tayward Reed of this city, «| ident Wilson's personal appeal for | brother-in-law of Dr. L. J. Demeter a Polish relief agreement among | assistant professor of German at the belligerents received today, it\the University of California who} was learned that hope for such an|has not been heard of for several | agreement practically has been) months since he departed for a abandoned. visit to his former home, Munich = — |The instructor's wife and young THEY CLAIM DAMAGE son are in Berkeley. Reed plans to sail soon, and to enliet the iat American embassy at Berlin in his Because the lowering of Lake|search for Demeter, who Is a nat-| Washington left mud flats in front! uralized American citizen. | of property in the vietnity of - | Hunts point, property owners bave| ABOUT 150 Bremerton citizens appealed to the county commis- entertained Secretary J. BE. Part of the Bremerton Commercial club, at @ banquet Weduesday night. sioners for bulkheads and a dredged channel. « |lowed }losses thar (The following interview with David Lloyd-George, the directing force behind Britain’s armies, asserting that the war must go on “to the finish—to a knockout,” is the first statement given by him to American newspapers since he succeeded Lord Kitchener as secretary of state for war.— By Roy w. Howard —Ed.) (Pre sident of the United Press Association.) (Copyright, 1916, LONDON, Sept. 28. 12 MILLION SHIP MERGER IS PUT THRU: Details of the merger of the ific Alaska and Pacific Coast Steamehi companies were announced today by Pres ident H. F. Alexander, of the Pacific Alaska, thru their San Francisco offices. The deal by which 22 large passenger and freight steamers will operate under one management, be- comes effective Nov. 1, the op- erating company to be known as the Pacific amehip Co. Operations along the coast and possibile extensions were contemplated by the new concern, | following ratification of the merger | plans by the directors of the older concerns. Ketter service can be given thru the new concern, according to Al exander, as duplicate sailing sched: ules, will be eliminated and more frequent sailings will be possible, owing to the larger number of ves- sels. In this way the compapy ex- pects to give better attention to the rapidiy imereasing ccartwise | business Alexander in to be president of the new concern, the other officers being: E. C. Ward, Seattle, vice president; R. J. Ringwood. Seattle, vice president in charge of traffic: William Jones, Tacome, tresrurer Admiral EB. B. Rogers, secretary The directors will be chosen from the directors of the Pacific Coast and Alaska-Pacifie com panies The ships iovolved in the merger are valued at $12,000,000 and have tonnage of over GREEK ARMY IS TO JOIN ALLIES LONDON, Sept. 28.—Greece's army of 300,000 men will be mobilized to join the armies of the allies, said an unconfirmed Athens dispatch today. King Constantine was expected to sign the mobilization decree within 48 hours. The government will then issue a proclamation denouncing igaria’s occupation of Kavala and other Greek ports, follow. ing this with a declaration of war. The Greek legation today had no| reports | confirmation of these Diplomatic circles, however, heard a rumor that Alexander Carapanos, Greek foreign minister, and ant ally in his sentiments, resigned, following a stormy seasion of the cabinet with King Constantine. Presumably his resignation fol. the king's reported decision | to range his armies alongside those jof the allies Contradictory dispatches Athens left the situation clouded, but it appears probable that ex-Pre. mier Venizelos’ arrival at Crete, where he received an enthusiastic welcome, forced the hand of the king. Venizelos caused a procilama- tion to be given wide circulation thruout Greece offering the king for-|one more chance to join the allies. | was a} The alternative apparently revolution | WILSON LUNCHEON TO BE HELD FRIDAY Dr. M. A. Matthews and Thomas M. Vance of Olympia will be the speakers Friday noon at the lunch eon of the Woodrow Wilson league. The meeting was to have Wednesday noon, but was post account of a court trial, had to attend, Ser ator James Hamilton Lewis may also speak Friday noon unless oth erwise engaged BULGARS ADVANCE | which ce 28. elements of The Bulgarians Serbian attacks on Katmak chalan ridge, but suffered such th did not renew the attacks, the war office announced today All other Bulgarian attacks in Macedonia were repulsed, PARIS, took a few trenches in sept entire | from | n held | ay the United Press — Copyright .—There is no end of The Wednesday afternoon session of the Swezea divorce trial was devoted largely to ef- forts by witnesses for Swezea, Seattle clubman, to prove misconduct by his wife and Cal Dubel, hired as a chauffeur by Swezea to spy on Mrs. Swe: | Former maids who had worked in the Swezea bunga- low on M edly testified to having | Mrs. Swezea and the young | driver together in a balcony bedroom and the bathroom. | Mrs. Stella Dennett, who came from California to testify for Swezea, described the home as a large, one-room affair, with an Jopen halfstory balcony at one end, |which was used by Mrs, Swezea as a bedroom. \ Denies Being Paid "1 would sleep downstairs,” she testified, “while Mrs, Swezea would be upstairs. It would be on these occasions after she had re. tired that she would — recetve | Dubel.” | “Did you ever tell anybody about these occasions?” Attorney Hall asked her on cross examination 4 # A $100,000 EDUCATION didn’t equip Jack De- | Peyster for an honor- able, independent career, and he knew it. BUT his mother didn’t. She misjudged her boy—and unconsciously tried to make an ass of him, The story is well told by LeRoy Scott in “NO. 13, WASHINGTON SQUARE” It’s a novel which will be | printed complete in six consecutive issues of The Star, beginning Next Monday. | in Great the war in sight. Britain.) Any David Lloyd-George and Family _ BALCONY BEDROOM SCENES DESCRIBED | IN SWEZEA. TRIAL ! Yes, T told a friend.” Did you ever tell Mr. Swezea?” paid for this tes mony, aren't you?” asked Hall, she said, | She denied that Swezea had bid | den. her during the days previous to the trial and that she, together | jwith other witnesses, had held a rehearsal of the testimony. Mrs. Dennett became confused jand mixed up some of her testi }mony during Hall's grilling. Later she corrected herself and stuck te naciously to her story | Mrs. Schumacher, whom Hall at tempted to show had been hired by Swezea to apy on his wifo, testi. | fied that Mrs. Swezea had not con- | ducted hereelf as she should. H. C. Brown, Swezea's secretary, said that Mrs. Swezea had been ac |customed to come to his office and pester him for money. I have often seen tears in Swezea's eyes after his wife left,” he said | “Was that before or after he had given her the money,” he was asked. “It waa after.” Interested spectators, including a large number of well-dressed |women, packed the courtroom | Thursday's session was devoted to medic al testimony as to Swezea's condition It in believed that all of the tes timony will be taken by the end of Thursday afternoon. Final argu ments will follow. JUDGES’ VOTE TOBE COUNTED | Superior Judge French gave a | final mandamus decision Thursday compelling the county vassing board to recount the September |primary vote for the superior court judges, in which {t will be definitely determined if the six |contesting judges shall appear on the November ballot unopposed In case it is decided that these judges had more than 60 per cent |of the total votes cast, it will mean that there will he only three judges to be voted for It is believed it will require a week to complete the recount, ‘hin a 5c aN |as an unneutral, pro-German move. The United Press is able to make these statements on no less authority than that of the British man of the hour, Rt. Hon. David |Lloyd-George, secretary of state for war. “Britain has only begun to fight; the British empire has in- ‘vested thousands of its best lives to purchase future immunity |for civilization; this investment is too great to be thrown away,” was the Welsh statesman’s size-up of the situation. “More than at any time since the beginning of the war, there step at this time by the United States, the Vatican or any other is evidenced thruout England a popular suspicion toward Ameri- ‘neutral in the direction of peace would be construed by England, ca, a suspicion that did not exist a year ago. “Sam Hill Sees ' Seattle as the Orient’s Market Taking the cue of Samuel Hill, Seattle capitalist, student, night at the Rainier club, where he was welcomed home from his recent visit to Petrograd. Former Sen. Piles was toast- master and about 350 business and professional men were invited guests Several speakers were heard be-| sides Hill Hill gave forceful, constructive ed famfliarity with the Slavic lan-| NEAR DETROIT guages, or proper laws in aid of} | foreign commerce. Pa Wants One Commercial Club | Pair of Bandits Escape Posses Outline of the possibilities of edi with Russia and emphasized fact that at present the United | | States has neither ships, the need- He urged that Seattle should With Their take immediate steps on its own Loot |account, without waiting for gov- — ecmvatal aid, to unify its busl-| FIREMAN Is BEATEN ‘ness interests thru a single com ] — mercial body. | DETROIT, Sept. 28—At the In a statement to The Star today,| outskirts “of Detroit masked Hill declared that our shipping; laws are 200 years old, and fail to | | meet conditions of the present | oes that they ought all be wiped J out and regulations started anew. Some epigrams from Hill's trade |extension speech follow: | “A learned Englishman said to |me The nation that COD] of the heldup for hears arter ltrolled the trade of the Orient has | the robbery, were still without always dictated and shaped the) any clue tod 1 the where. policy of the world. | abouts of the bandits. Passen- | The chicken never enters its | gers were not molested. shell again, and so the United Value of the loot was still un- States can never go back to where| determined early today. it once was, It is out in the free| Only two men participated in the and open and must play its part/hold-up, They are thought to have/ jin the world’s development or must | aoe the train at Ypsilanti |forever perish from the earth Descending into the engine from | “Russia occupies one-seventh of | the coal tender, where they had the area of the globe. It has ajteen hiding, the bandits covered | population of 200,000,000, and a| Engineer Harry Palmer with a gun |fountry so rich in resources that |&Nd forced a sudden stop at a point no one has ever been able to prop-|® mile and a half east of Dearborn, erly portray it ja Detroit suburb. They disposed of | “pe titted \Gtates ahd Russia |t2e fireman, John Doherty, of Jack- |son, who showed signs of fight, by possess the two great food areas |peating him almost 4 5 Jof the world; they have much in|." ™® aap celnes scene |common, and with better means of | communication, would have still more. “If Canada can establish a line} of steamers to Japan, China, and |the Philippines, why is it that the United States are so helpless?” — | bandits last midnight held up and robbed Michigan Central passenger train No, 14, Chicago to New York express, and es- caped with the contents of two registered maii pouches. Half a hundred deputy sher- iffs who patrolled the vicinity Miner Learns War Is on for First Time MARYSVILLE, Cal, Sept. | First of all, we must put our| 28—Stefi ion has been out- house in order. The business men| Stefanssoned. John Carleton, of Seattle must get together, must} hermit-miner, came into town today from the mountains for the first time in three years, and learned there is some sort of contention among the na- tions of Europe. He quit tak- ing the papers 11 years ago, he said, and since has read only the Bible. amalgamate the Chamber of Com. merce with the Commercial Club. “No great foreign commercial or banking house thinks for a moment of having a staff that speaks only lone language. “I would also like to see fice with the an of proper exhibit and jand traveler, the city is today taking the first direct steps }toward a definite organization for trade expansion in the | Orient, and chiefly with Russia thru Siberia. A meeting was held Thursday morning at Hill's resi- dence by several prominent business men, and A. B. Stewart was elected chairman and O. D. Fisher secretary Stewart, Fisher, William Pigott, FE. A. Stuart, C. D. Stimson, H. C. Henry and Chas. H. Lilly were named as a committee to confer with Mr. Hill along these lines, as the} lresult of a dinner given in the latter's honor Wednesday “This feeling appears directly attributable to the notion general- ly entertained by the man on the streets that President Wilson might be induced to butt in for the purpose of stopping the European war. Similar suspicion of Spain and the Vatican also is manifest.” Uses Sporting Language Lioyd-George was asked to give the United Press, in the simplest possible language, the British at- |titude toward the recent peace talk “Simple language?” he inquired with a half*mile. Then he thought & moment. “Sporting terms are pretty well understood wherever English is spoken,” he replied. “I am quite sure they will be understood im America. “Well, then, the British soldier is a good sportsman. He enlisted in this war in the sporting spirit— the best sense of that term. He went in to see fair play to a small nation trampled upon by a bully. Fighting for Fa’ lay “He is fighting for fair play i international dealings He has | fought as a good sportsman by the thousands, He died like a sportsman. He has never asked anything more than a 8j chance, and has not always that. When he could not get tt, he did not quit. He played the game. He did not squeal, and cer tainly he never asked any one to squeal for him.” The secretary for war, Wao looks, acts and talks more like a American business man then now, speaking real United States, with scarcely any trace of the usual British intonation of accent, con- tinued: Says Germans Squeal “Under the circumstances British, now that the fortines of the game have turned a bft, are not disposed to stop because of the |squealing done by the Germans or |for the Germans by probably well jmeaning, but misguided sympathiz- ers and humanitarians, “For two years the British sol- |dier had a bad time—no one know: |as well as he what a bad time |was. He was sadly inferior | (Continued « on Page 5) 5) UNIONS VOTING ON BIG STRIKE A referendum vote of all labor unions in Seattle was begun today jon the question of a general strike in sympathy with the striking long- shoremen. The vote probably will not ne completed for three weeks, and tae council set October 19 as the last |day for balloting This action was taken unani- mously by the council at an execu- tive session, held in the Labor temple Wednegday night Members of the council generat ly felt favorable to the sympathetic strike, contending that the future of unionism as a whole is at stake on the outcome of the dock strike | The resolution presented by the {strike and grievance committee called for a sympathetic strike in the transportation lines, but tne council, it is said, was of fon that a general strike, should embrace all crafts, it in | | | the opin- if calle, ewe | reading room marked, ‘Seattle jin Viadivostok, Jone fn established and Board of Trade’ one {n Moscow, and Petrograd STRIKE IS MILD NEW YORK, Sept. 28.—The sec: ond day of what was to have been a general strike of union workers jin New York revealed no change Jearly today in the situation marked yesterday by practically complete |failure of the men and women to |whom the call was directed to re | spond Hest {nformation showed that a {bare handful of workers went out on sympathetic strike AFTER BRIEF TEA HARPER AND LA Altho George Rummens and How- ard Cosgrove, of Seattle, holding proxies from Eastern Washington counties, attempted to stir up old animosities by objecting to Senator Dan Landon as secretary of the state republican central committee because of his progressive activi the state central committee, thoro discussion, went thru the program of giving both | tles, after with fair representation in the new or- CAN'T BLAME THEM |:x2!:"-°- Fred G, Harper is the new state chairman and Landon {s the new state secretary. When the secretaryship came up, the name of James A, Wood, for Two young women ran away and | deserted H, C, Scout, 615% Yesler | Way, when two armed hold-up men relieved him of $15 and his wateh! mer sec! retary was put up, as well [in ayenns park, at 9 p, m, Wed-/as Senator Landon’s, After some nesday, ording to a report made} discussion it was decided by the to the Dative, State committee to leave the ap- the regulars and the progressives | POT TEMPEST, NDON ARE NAMED pointment to the chairman, Harper appointed Landon. Executive Committee He also appointed the following executive committee, which in- jcludes a number of progressive Headers Charles P, Lund and E, Roy Slater, of Spokane; E. K. Brown, of Ellensburg; Corwin Shank, of Seattle; James McNeely, of Ta- coma; N. RB, Coffman, Chehalis; J, L, Sharpstein, Walla Walla; W. B, Whitcomb, Bellingham; E. A. Bry- an, Pullman; Sam C, Walker, By- erett; Swan Samson, Tacoma; H, A. Sparling, Kelso; Dr. A, D, Sloan, orth Yakima; T. M. Brunner, Ab- erde Tom P. Fiske, Shelton; Perry Niles, Everett; W. G. Potts, |Seattle; W. M. McCurdy, Port Townsend, and G. M, Lauridson, Port Angeles, and other English man in public life }—