The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 2, 1916, Page 1

es age Fy gether, you know.” ¥ year of her widowhood, 7 uusty undertaken to manage YO! underwrite the debut of her A FEATURE “THE WORLD'S SERIOUS IN PICTURES WELL BR THE TITLE OF A NEW SERIES OF BALL COMICS GENE AHERN, THE SQUIRREL ARTI IS DRAWING POR READERS OF THE PINK THE FIRST LAUGHAETTER WILL TICKLE READ. ERS TONIGHT. DON'T MISS IT—IT WILL INCREASE YOUR LAUGHING AVERAGI MIGHT BASH FOOD STAR Vv _ REFUSES TO WED MOTHER'S CHOICE le Deserts Gay Party as It Sails for Europe and Tells Mother He’s to Marry Shoe Merchant’s Daughter “NO. 13 WASHINGTON SQUARE’ By Leroy Scott (Copyright, 1914, CHAPTER | The Great Mrs. De Pe: HE unseasonable May chill Was) “Yes, ma'an He said the banished from Mrs. De Pey-|tortal supplement of his pape: Ster’s sitting roam by & WOOd week from Suaday wax going to fire that crackled in the grate. have a page of pictures of promi Reside a small steel safe, whose | nent society who were @uier cabinet work transformed ing for Europe. He said something that fortress against burglarious/about calling the page ‘Annual Ex desire into an article of furniture/odus of Social Leaders.’ He wants that harmonized with the comfort-|to print that pain’ of ble elegance of a lady's boudoir, | that foreign artist in the center of sat Mrs. De Peyster herself, trans the page. And Matilda pointed ferring her jewels from the trays /above the fireplace to a gold-fram of the safe to leather cases. ed MReness of Mrs, De Peyate Before the fire sat a iady whose You know my Invariable cus) tears had long since dried that she give him my invariable an had shed when she had bid good us Mra. De Veyster's crisp bye to thirty, A dozen years be Tespon fore, Mrs. De Peyster, then in the| “Pardon had Caro Matilda added drew me aside i that he wants your > Woe one who | pic ture. Wants my picture! Mra, De Peyster exclaimed er but, Cousin) ‘don't me, but pat in Olivetta this is different asked Mre. think “Differe: mt?” ster How “This is De Pey second cousin and bad tried to dis charge her duty in the important group ¢ jer of securing @ husband. But al le with vou her efforts had been futile, and to/!" the center of them all, where you! say that Mrs. De Peyster had not | >elone. Succeeded was to admit that poor| “Perhaps it may not be quite the ta Harmon was, indeed, a|*4me,” admitted Mra. De Peyster. a nent Foct ad But I see no reason for departing | from my custom.” Peyster glanced at the) if not for your ows’ sake, of her bedroom—hesti called: “Miss Gard then then a | Yetta parwued, a little more eagerly You have taken up M. Dubois, To rim and pretty girl stepped nave his picture displayed like that, Yes, Mrs. De Peyster. [think how it will help M. Dubois!” you pease call sie j dire, De. Pereier considered an “enee nore; fastant if there is any news about) “Matilda, you may give the man son? And ask when Judge|, photograph of the picture. But Harvey will be here.” Jon the understanding that M. Do Miss Gardner crossed to Mrs De bot is to have conspicuous credit.” 's deak and took up the tel! “Very well, ma'ami.” and Matilda went out. Mrs, De Peyster gave her cousin a suspicious look. ‘Olive have |you been allowing M. Dubois to pay you any more attention? nothing ‘o, no~-of Oliv eghnd—and Jud Judge Harvey? When pss pre ad he be here?” M. Dubois is a ¥: “His office raid he was at abyyt— eet eet Meeting of the directors of the) 1 understand, Cégsin Caroline,” New York and New England ratl-'ojvetta put in baatily 1 think road, and that he was coming here; (Continued on Page 4.) werent 3 “Miaw Gardner. Y you, as Gardner. on WILSON TO “SMOKE OUT” C. E. HUGHES now go on with my packing. Matias will be in to help you as ASBURY PARK, <é J., Oct. President Wilson is determined to} the servants.” “Why, Cousin Caroline, what is) “smoke out” Charlies E. Hughes on what the democrats have now de about Jack?” burst out Olivetta Miss Gardner had gone. “Has| | fined as the real issues of the cam- pa ‘They sat silent until the receiver) ‘Was hong up. “Well, Miss Gardner—any trace of my son yet?” _ pave learned course not,” cried bo you think, after what anything happened him?” Olivetta was one of the few per. sons with whom Mrs. De Peyster could bring herself to be confiden- tal. “That is what I want to know. About a week ago Jack suddenly disappeared—" “How terribi cried the sym- pathetic Olivetta. “Went a week {* And then, suddenly: “Why, it was about the time that first ‘Tumor was printed of his engage Ment to Ethel Quintard You told about arranging with Mrs intard also to sail on the Plu- “{ had counted on the trip—! “Jack and Ethel being thrown to- he starts West tomorrow, to k in Omaha Thursday, the president will have completed his plans to force Hughes, if possible, into a thoro discussion of what changes will be made in the for. leign and business policies, if there lis a change of administration on March 4. Wilson will continue to use the taunting sarcasm employed in his ; address to young democrats Satur day RUMANIANS GROSS BULGARIAN BORDE BERLIN, Oct 2.—Rumanian troops have invaded Bulgaria for the first time since Rumania enter ed the war. from the war office today announc ed that the Rumanians succeeded in crossing the Danube south of Bucharest, gaining a footing on Bulgarian soil h, Matilda.” remarked De Peyster. “The servants, they all gone yet?” “The last one is just going, ma'am. There's just William and Me left. And the men have come to board up the windows and the door. Mrs. are You may help Miss with my things.” But Matilda did not obey. Dlinked her eyes—choked: then stammered Please, ma'am, downstairs there are six or seven i men from the newspapers. | ey want— THE “I shall not see them,” Mrs. Dela garde Peyster declared firmly. lock in She LATONA achool will open exhibit Tuesday at the school ) LONDON CHEERS FALL OF ZEPPELIN yeinity of London, last night's attack was signaled by no tremendous gun firing. few shots from antl-air craft guns brought thousands the rooftops or to the streets thru out Londor Grows to Flame BY WILBUR 5S. FORREST United Preen Staff Correspondent LONDON, Oct. 2—The huge super-Zeppelin shot down in jast night's attempted raid on London crumpled up and broke into several pieces as it plun ed earthward before the eyes of thousands of Londoners. The commander of the de- stroyed Zeppelin was found in a field near part of the wreck today, still alive, but terribly injured. He was driven into the wreckage with such force that the imprint of his body was plainly visible hen he was picked up. Thirteen bod- starlit con They gazed toward the heavens while chiights verged their silver.shafts on a Zep pelin, the whirr of whone could be heard faintly pelin was let to view for a moment Then suddenly a smal) red speck appeared in the heavens, gradually growing into a red ball of fire The flames spread like lightning lighting up the country for miles jes had been recovered at noon. around. The Zeppelin seemed te Fragments fell from 50 to 60 stand still for the moment “ong apart, and with them mangled senting an indescriba of bodies Its blazing, flaming fabric sib salt! the most! for the artist's sake!” Oit-| An official statement | to} ngines | Zz The Seattle Star (i THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS ((i THE or OLUME 19. 8 o EATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1916. ONE CENT Hapgood Spilled the Beans for Him In a Purn communication to candidate lares that the telegram New York to this paper furner further, tha of the edite The Star r, den t er, demoerati dex remark « 1 the ca make to st than why Sen nndexter The Star again publicly invites Sen. Turner to pre- sent whatever reasons he believes should convince The Star that he is entitled to support above Sen. Poindexter. It is a wrong assumption that The Star will close its ears to ary one who has something to offer for the public weliare—and the election of the best man to the United States senate is a matter of public welfare. In his letter, Sen. Turner istent to suppc publican for another This, of tion an independent is not a partisan pay It is The Star judge party courageous gardless of It knows less = NO DEATHS IN SEATTLE FROM INFANT DISEASE Rumors that 40 or 50 cases | of infantil paralysis were raging in Seattle, and that sev- eral had died, were branded as false by Health Commissioner ‘McBride Monday. “There are no cases outs! of the seven we have located. ; he said, “and there is litte chance of any being kept under ‘cover. If wetesrn of-any, we will prosecute to the timit” The Greenwood school, the firat to be cloned, was reopened Monday. The two schools which; were Inst week will be opened, probably, next Monday “Many parents .interpreted our advice to ‘keep children at home’ as advice to keep them from school,” Dr. MeBride said. “I meant to keep them from unnecessary gatherings of children, such an parties and shows, But they should be sent to the schools, which are being care. fully watched. “I have recetved hundreds of tel- ephone calls from parents asking about this My anewer ts, ‘Keep |them in school." Of course, this }does not apply to pupils who at-| tended the two schools we are still | [keeping closed.” _T. R. TO TALK MORE NEW YORK, Oct At least four, and possibly six more care fully prepared speeches will be made by Col. Roosevelt within the next two or three weeks will be, so republican offic of the same “skin-em-alive’ as that delivered at Battle Creek Saturday Plans tentatively settled upon call for a speech at Chicago, another |two days later at Denve third at Louisville on the way to New York. | ROME, Oct. 2-—Reports that |Greece is about to declare war on the side of the allies has led to the | wholesale massacre of Greeks in | Asia Minor by the Turks, the Greek ‘Tegation was advised today ASK BUDGET DETAIL A more detailed published state. ment of the 1917 school district budget “would give taxpayers a | better idea of how thelr money ts being expended,” according to a letter directed to the school board by Secretary Homer Hill, of the | Taxy ors’ league v Every detail stood out as if lined by some artist depicting a scene from hell Looks Like Comet For several seconds the burning alrehip rested on even keel, Then it tilted downward and shot earth ward like a rocket Pieces of flaming material sep. arated themselves from the main ass, dropping along the sidé in ong flaming tongues that gave the plunging flery mass the appearance of a comet. An aweinspired silence settled over the crowd as the Zeppelin fell There were no explosions, No roar from the rush thru the air of this great body reached the London crowds, With the dying afterglow, a mighty cheer rolled up from North London and swept the entire efty, a In in A Unlike previous raids in the vi-|houetted the aluminum framework. | registering Wngland’s triumph, rt a democrat fe newspaper candidate: independent dozen and soon egg stains on one's |ized a campaign to advertise their taller told The Star Monday. feed has gone up so high, increased exportation of grain, that | ing juggled chicken hens laying Hence the decrease in supply drink have advanced except coffee, cents charging 43 and 45 for the same during the last ping of dairy products to foreign |among the leaders in the race, with | but markets,” who is free of bossism and has to “handpickers” the no en The Monday, | for the United States sen sent by Norman Hapgood | } Star interests iragement George public given n politi at liberty to show why such favored Sen. ‘Turner should now he disearded and Sen. Turner's letter follow “was : t he r to any hould inopportune Sen anotlfer ° that appeal” support him fears telegram he may ther “Editor The Star: “I know that the editoria | officed of The Star are wide open to all who want to discuss anything involving the public good, and have been contemplating a visit to them for the pur- pose of suggesting that it is only a half-dupport The Star is giving President Wilson, when it advocates the election to the te of a gentleman, who, whatever his private worth and past record, is now supporting Gov, Hughes and is now deciar- ing that he will ‘take advantage of the earliest opportunity and every occasion’ to substitute for the Underwood tariff Jaw ‘a ariff bill carrying out the policies of the republigan party, as 4 in its recent platforms.’ ir, Hapgood’s telegram to The Star was inopportune, to | fear, closed the ears of the editor to any app . | did mot telegraph to Mr. Hapgood, or to any one else, that | had convincing reasons why The Star should support me instead of Senator Poindexter, and Mr. Hap- Qood's telegram to you to that effect was evidently the result of a very broad construction of a telegram to another gentie- man in New York, which | did send, referring to what | con- sidered the incons! nt position of The Star. that office also assumes at and a ge is exactly the take, “The nonpartisan is in w one course should posi Star s on their own Sen. Poindexter senator merits, re- as a fear who has served | | | THINGS TO EAT COST MORB HERE and Mrs. necessities, is hitting Mr the there The recoil war prosperity Seattle Cait 5 in solar plexus thru a steady rise in prices of revealed Monday, few indications of a fall in the cost of living as winte ymes on. Many milkmen, for instance, left tender little messages with their Sunday morning “Milk will be 10 cents straight, per quart.” they read, “and the 12 quarts for rate will be discontinued. A rate of 11 quarts for $1 will apply only to two-quarts- ay customers This, it was predicted, It also announced that daylight agreement between the union milkmen Their hours will be from 7 a. m About 45,000 homes are affected on er and were customers $1 ae everybody will will affect almost deliveries and their until 5 p start Thursday, employers was following an m 50 cents ay; men, a couple of weeks ago, organ: | ago. Exports to the Orient and Europe on |are responsible, the millers say But the coal dealer is the boy with a horseshoe in his glove. Here's the cheerful prediction |from one of Seattle's coal men “Coal didn't go down this last summer, On August 1, some grades advanced 25 cents a ton His competitor, two blocks away, On Sept. 1 the same grades ad. ‘however said: vanced another 25 cents—and are “The meat prices are going to) now bringing $7.60 at the bunkers. be about the same that they been during the last two winters, | thru, there won't be any coal to ad- When beef goes up 1 cent, lamb/ vance. If the strike doesn't occur 1 a few Gaye.” ‘goes down 1 cent. We're getting and the wage increase {s granted, The best grade of butter costs 40 cents for T-bone, and that's all coal will go up from 6 to 10 per a pound, with some stores what we've gotten for the last two | cent winters.” So, with all the prosperity, ther it grades have advanced 5 cents| All condensed milk prices, to the|are thousands of folke, who ar few weeks, ‘retailer have advanced. making the same salaries the: “It's due to the increased ship- Flour, of corse, up| have made for the last five yéara, their dollars can't do the this winter, that they used Good eggs are now |products for local consumption, that there's an over: production here. Meat is high est will be a mark of opulence, “Of course It’s too high,” one te-| the theory “But | due to} Quotations are be- men are killing their | There aren't 80 many around these days. nd “It's almost impossible for me to cut the cost out of meat,” one big ‘retailer sald Monday, ullets, he resulting rise in price.” Nearly everything folks eat and nd the coffee salesmen are warn: ng the retailers that “she'll go up) is right | work’ not long! to do. for brands they $1.60 |folks paying retallers. explained lwere getting for On the other hand, the dairy ware NEWS STANDS, Be “But if the miners’ strike goes}ply was served and much of that jet its NIGHT EDITION’ WEATHERMAN SALISBURY 18 A BIT DUBIOUS TODAY MEBBE HE WAS LISTENING TO A DE BATH ON THE OUTC 1” THE WAR, OR THE ¥LECTION, OR SOM AT ANY RATE, HE COMES WAVERING BAT THUSLY AND AS FOLLOWS: “TONIGHT AND TUBSDAY, PROBABLY PAIR Ann 80 PER CENT VOTE TO CALL OFF DOCK WA | Only awaiting the final count of a vote taken b |striking longshoremen Sunday, a settlement of |long-drawn-out strike on Seattle’s water front jcertain Monday. The vote was taken on a proposition to return work "at the present wage schedule, and after 10 da ihe question of wages is to be arbitrated. It is sé that from 75 to 80 per cent of the strikers have acc ‘this plan. The following statement was issued Monday n |by William Blackman, United States commissioner’ | mediation and conciliation, and Henry M. White, Unil States commissioner of immigration, who alse is a diator in the strike: “The only question which they longshoremen are now considering is whether they will call the strike | COnferred with off and return to work under the wages and conditions now in ex- istence, and after 10 working days jthe question of wages can be arbi- trated by the men employed “The question of cents per hour straight time and 82% cents per hour overtime is not consid- ered.” Should the men return to work— and they are expected to do so with- jin 24 hours—they will receive the |present rate of 40 cents and 50 cents an hour for straight time and 60 cents and 75 cents for overtime. As employes of the dock owners | they will, then, m 10 days, nego tate for a new scale under an arbi- tration arrangement. the — striki ‘aided in bringing about the ised peace. While the statement officially | sued Monday says nothing al it is generally known that shop conditions are to prevail, in the past. The strikers, ho declare their fight was not on fl issue, but on the question of BOSTON BRAVES: the season by : Braves here this eg 2 to | At no stage were the chances for slipping down the nant pole endangered. thousand fans crowded the { | watch the contest that sta champions down the home s§ in the pennant race. sentatives of the strikers. the brief statement none of the men interested would say anything for publication. International President O'Con-| nor.” of the Longshoremen’s| union, is due to arrive Tuesday, | |and Secretary Madsen of the local unton Monday refused to say that the negotiations for strike settle | ment would either await O'Connor | or would not await him. The evident conclusion of peace on the water front follows several) conferences held by the mediators in the past few days with represen- |tatives of both sides. A special labor union committee, consisting | Wednesday, when the miners of Counctiman Hesketh, Bill Shorts|on the referendum pliner jot the miners, and Dan McKillop of | compromise wage scale . ithe ship workers actively partici-/ embodying a 5 per cent i | pated. | for day work and # 3 per cent ‘The strikers met at their hall| for other work, The miners Sunday, to discuss the proposition| for a flat 5 per cent ine offered them, and a vote was or-| If the vote is unfa’ dered. work suspension will be A rumor current on the water) into a strike, But if not, the front says that Senator James] will return to work Thursday, Hamilton Lewis, who still holds a| leaders will give several talke § card in the Seatvle Longshoremen’s|the various mining camps, ex] ynion, and Ole Hanson, of Seattle, ing the referendum vote, SEATTLE RALLIES: WIN ORIENT TRE Action! Action! Action! Seattle, embodying all the old- time virility of the famed Se- ipirit, and kindled to even greater energy by greater op- portunity, is taking to Samuel Hill's summons to seek Russian and Oriental trade like a duck takes to water. | Samuel Hill will meet Tues- day again with the special com- mittee of busin were selected Work in all Washington — mines was suspended at Saturday and will remain 501 vy between this port and | tries. te, Chilberg offers the condition that $2,500,000 be a in 30 days. So optimistic are Seattl ‘men of the future comm attle with the countries nan It is generally believed Chil condition will easily be met, / Ir harmony with the } plans for forwarding teresis commercially, the” tion of the Chamber of and Commercial Club is par | than probable, par, ai a city-wide program to capture this trade. | The question of long-+ In the meantime J. E. Chilberg/for the new trade is ‘has given impetus to the plan by | being given consider offering $100,000 toward organizing as, in Russia espec#! a Seattle corporation to establish basis of trade is ne agencies in Siberia, Russia and the|lowed, From thred I} Orient, to study the markets, and | mostly the latter p j|to promote the extension of trade | allowed, PANGS OF A Mike FAMINE ARE FE | NEW YORK, Oct. 2. started probing pees the first pangs of a milk fam- ine today, Only half the usual sup ‘This city; thorities | questi New York had probably only customary 00,000 qual }was milk stored up state in antict:!this morning, The grownups too |pation of the strike, |the milk: famine philosophicallyf: Meantime the distributors here| They abstained from cereals hg —the Big Three—sought to have the |ing milk or cream and took dairymen's league, the producers’ }coffee straight. This was in combination, investigated as an or-|ing with advertised appeals of | ganization in restraint of selling.|“Big Three” that patrons eons The dairymen's representatives re-| just as little as pine’ could torted with the claim that th ¥,| dor that ren bab formed merely a co-operative or-|not suff wats bu ganization and the Big Three was in jranged that these two reality a trust, And at Albany, au-! should get first oon: ri #