The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 30, 1917, Page 1

; HEAR THE BAND! There will be Band concerts at Woodland park and Alki beach, from 2:30 until 5 tomorrow, and at Y Volunteer and Leschi parks from 7 until 9 p.m live while being trained. Ets By Gilson Gardner “*" WASHINGTON, D. C., June 30.—The task of housing half a million soldiers while in training is now well started. Preliminary contracts have been let, and the cantonments, they are called, should be ready by Oc- tober. A premium is to be paid for speed of construction. ‘The army must be trained, and it cannot be trained until it is housed. Therefore the building of these cities before the snow files is more important than the saving of a few » dollars. Sixteen cities. each of 40.000 population, are to be con structed in 90 days. This is some job. Each city must have Its wooden houses, its streets, sewers, water systems, electric Meghts, railroad » garbage incinerators amusement halls, id scores of other in eidentals to the life of a military city. AS MUCH MONEY WILL BE SPENT IN 90 DAYS AS THE GOVERNMENT SPENT ON THE PANAMA i VOLUME 19 the Kind o CANAL IN A YEAR The sites have been » and laid off into their future stre dence sectic lumber and other materials are freight yards and re torial, and it is estimated 15 thelr usual business to take care Each of these wood of lumber, or 1 carloads carloads of crush roofing, 20 carloads of mis 30 carloads of ties and other of electric light pol OVERSEAS FORCE IE 85TH DAY OF OUR WAR | Siebert and his troops. Gen. Pershing today stressed task before the first American soldiers to set foot on French between Pershing and Siebert wee significant as being YW ropenn sail he of the people. eX that mertial lew wee in force in Spain, bet made reached details of the extent of the situation each @ move necessary were MeMOrecee ens withdrawing her consular agents from the central powers, and Pushing the work of composing the differences between the two factions of her _ ormy. “By Usited Preas tensed Wire Direct to The Star A FRENCH PORT, June 30.—For the first time in his | tory two American generals on a belligerent mission, have /met, saluted and clasped hands on French soil It was the me f Maj. Gen. John J Maj. Gen. Wm L. 1 here where the American ex peditionary army is waiting restlessly to get into action, safe land sound aiter a journey over perilous wate “Black Jack” Pershing arrived to meet with his men two ays after every last “Sammy” had been disembarked, lug gage and all. from the gr Pershing and American transports “This is the happiest of the busy days I have spent in France preparing for the arrival of our first itingent,” the commander-in-chief of the American forces declared “Today 1 have seen our troops! American speed and American gate on French soil from trans-\energy have made their indelible ports safeguarded in their trip impression on the city Reross the Atlantic by our W8F) 4 babel of sound arises every ships. where. Not the least contributing element to the noise is the chat ‘ Task Lies Anead 7 ee “Now our task as soldiers, eS ter of the American soidiers and ) clear ahead. We bh with the sajlors trying out their French on a aid of the French leaders, Who the tnhabitants, and the French have placed all the results of their searching their minds and twisting experiences at our disposal. to|their tongues trying to talk Eng make this force worthy in skill jen and determination to fight side by # with our brothers in arms of the French army Pershing received History may record that it was en. Pelletier who spoke the first words of welcome to Gen, Siebert mmanding the troops under Gen eee. He om | Pershing, ax he stepped formally 00 il ee shay sine A 1° shore amid cheers and the play Rah end a number of Ameri |'26.°F & band €an officers who have been bustly A big, husky negro, one of the Working in the Rue Constantin, |*tevedores on the transport fleet, Paris, preparing for the fighting |#nd an enlisted worker, thought he ‘men. had found a friend when he espled & The American army joined bands | the black face of a French colonial With the American navy in a lunch-| He went up immediately, bis black icon which Admiral Gleaves, com-| face parted in a smile of greeting, tmmanding the navy co: % squad. @nd spoutin way about how “glad fon to the transport flotilla, ten he was to another nigger dered Pershing and bis staff Put the French colonial, who This French port looks to be the spoke only French, didn’t ander busiest spot on the face of the stand the dusky and voluble person eorth who bad accosted him. He mutter ‘The streets are crowded with |ed a few phrases in French, looked ‘army wagons and trucks, the side-|a little frightened, and tried to slip Walks choked with men in the |b American khaki, the American ‘That's the ignorantest nigger I @avy blue, mixed with an occa-jever saw in my life,” disgustedly gional glint of the French army |remarked the American negro to a uniform | soldier passing by JDAHO IS LAUNCHED Dreadnaught Ready By United Prees Leased Wire {ted to the launching. There was, CAMD! J., June 30.—The ’ * however, no secret of the ship's Preadnaught Idaho, sister ship of specifications except detail of hull the Pennsylvania and Mississtppl,| construction altered after war was Most powerful of America’s fight’ declared. The Idaho will be, in ing ships, was launched at the/the belief of naval officers, prac yards of the New York Shipbuild- tically submarine proof. ie company here today Miss Henrietta Simmons, grand- detail of 100 sailors from the Vi. 8. Destroyer Downey stood at ‘attention and the band of the build- was sponsor for the ship. * company foe gied Banner as the huge fight-/ her and broke a bottle of Snake ing ship slid down the ways Owing to the war with Germany, | Simmons dashed a bottle of cham ‘the general public was not admit-| pagne against the ship. River water over her bows as Miss| Alki ‘Sunday afternoon from LAUNDRY STRIKE Under the cataclysmic head. line, “Owners Wrong In Strike of Laundry Girts"* Business Chronicle, the organ of big busi nees in the Pacific Northwest, edited by Edwin Selvin, prints an article in its issue of Satur. day, which, the paper admits, is unprecedented in its history “This is the first time in ite existence says Busine: Chronicle, “that this newspaper, which is opposed on principle to strikes and the generally arro gant attitude of organized la bor, h en merit in the etrik ers’ cau Selvin's reasons for this departure from his usual policy, asegiven in the article, are that the laundry girls’ cause is just; that they to have no friends and no money and cannot buy advertising space in the daily ers laundry owners pit He sen that the laundry committing a crime h will masses owners ar against invested capital, w all the more inflame th against all employment,” and are evading the minimum wage law by a subterfu and that “laundries that wil) not pay their female help enough to live on with at least some semb! Id nee of decen ould be rebuked not only in the name of also for the good of quotes a statement by A. Crangle, assistant missioner, explain ndries evade pay im wage of $9 by paying the girls at the rate of 18% per hour, and docking them if they get thru thelr work early on Saturdays, or at r time We found ya Miss Crangle’s it, “that the Model Electric laundry was laying the mangle girls off in the middle of the day, and then speeding the mangle machin ery at the highest rate of speed and hustling them thru the latter part of the day, thus getting eight hours’ work done {n six hours, and rr six hours’ pay TACOMA COUPLE IS HELD IN ST. LOUIS ST. LOUIS, June 30.—G. W. Ed ds and Miss Mabel Bates of Tacoma are held by the police here at the request of Pierce coun ty, Washington, authorities, pend rg the arrival of a deputy sheriff from Tacoma, who ts sald to ha warrant for their arrest. The © arrested Wednesday rrived in the elty wards said he had no idea why the Pierce county authorities want ed him unless it waa in connection v'th the failure of an importing firm, with which he was connected in Tacoma ing ment of the min cor couple we when they Shipbuilders’ Bands Play Park Concerts Shipbuilders’ bands will give Se attle free music Sunday, The Ames band, with Miss Mae Raddeaux as soloist, will play at Volunteer park and the Duthie band at Leschi vark from 7 until 9 p. m. Later daughter of Gov. Moses Alexander,| jn the season the Seattle Construc A school-| tion & Dry Dock and the Skinner & played the Star mate, Miss Honora Devers, assisted | Eddy bands will contribute con certs, Adams’ band will pla at p. m. until 6, while Wagner's band will be at Woodland park. 2S SR terre meng INERT e Seattle Star The above photographs show the kind of buildings you will live in if you are selected for service in the army. They were taken at Quantico, Va., where Uncle dentical, in type, with the 16 others to be provided thruout the country for the select service army. ected and mort of them surveyed , drill grounds instances cities stone for laneous of plumbing material, 192 carloads of ranges, pipes, electrical materials timber spikes, rails, fish plates, 114 carloads of wires, insulators -PERSHING GREETS ‘<i? SLAV BANDITS GE si SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, JUNE 30, 1917 on the way Divert 150,000 Cars for Supplies Rach cantonment will require 4,000 carloads of diverted cantonment work 26,000,000 ne carload of roofing nails ators and the like three carloads of ser 20 carloads 12,000 cuble yards of 100 FROMBANK BY WM. G. SHEPHERD The incident led to strongly repressive "0 measures by the government today to put navy yard! pr down crime. tically made to conform to martial law. Un- 4*'«!! told a Star government 6 Subjenskie coal opera recente TQ L, BILLINGSLEY 5: tors and their m employers are ing demands are German pris rty-four Russian soldiers, em- having too much booze American ambulance time he was in San Fi enter the Legion of Death—an or- thori Low, and with the avowed purpose of fighting the Germans to a stand Since 1914, one-third of the Ar- ory at 8 p. m. Satur starved or been! ausptces of the Second tnfantry,|Co., and was war continues thru another two years, the increase in national debt will be colossal W may find ourselves! ably was to be selected at Satur paying interest on twenty billions, or even forty billions ith the New Republic common folks, THIS TIME, HOWEVER THIS WAR, I CONSCRIPT LEAS’ ER TO GIVE Conscription and confiscation are closely related In digging around for interest on twenty or forty billions of war| debt, democracy will not be likely to overlook its power to suppress peace horrors. plutocracy kicks against temporary surrende abnorma) surpluses and war profits, the stronger and clearer the tnvi-|drunk June 6, Charles tation to democracy to take what it surely can | It will be miraculous If world-wide democracy doesn't shoot wis. dom into other autocracies than the German, altho said wisdom may ‘arrive too late to do our own moneyed slackers much personal good. fear en nergy teagan = = “GREATEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF ANY NEWSPAPER IN PACIFIC NORTHWEST | te” ONE Town Youll Live In at American CENS LAST EDITION Maybe 1 n enough for aster Sallab saynt Fair tonight and er Sunday.” pstistisi sts ststiisssssssisstistties rloadé of sand The typle antontnent house is a wooden af set up ball fields. on posts about four feet from the ground; the peaked roof is the about 25 feet high, and the floor of each house is about 25 wide and 125 feet long Men to Sleep on Double Deckers In most of the plane the men are to sleep in double tiered bunks Each house has its little book case, wooden table and } wooden dresser The window in screened with me ! concrete and 1% 1 He screeni squares of Kach city must hay arate bunks and mat 20 carloads tresses, which will require 125 ears to move them heaters, stoves Each city will require 150 carloads of hospital equipment ms and 20 carloads of construction tools dings. The build of railroad Each cantonment will contain about 1,000 b: 10 carloads kitchen and the mess hall are separate from inex; each company having its own kitcher MRS, AXTELL HERE ON WAY United Presn Staff Correspondent work in the legi al board She arrived in Seattle Friday evening, accompanied by C Ps the counct!, and the three w Saturday, with Com ant RE. Coo yaratory ning work at the navy yard All court procedure was prac- "f,"07% 1 {he navy ar’ reporter at Lincoln hotel, "This and navy yards, and I have travelipg for two months; but tremendous possibil y today that the wo - Investigates for Council be forced to 9 | controversy be: the women in war work “The war bas m for the government to tak rminedly resist Deputy Prosecutor Helsell filed the miners—of 9” affidavit, Saturday morning, re sisting the motion of Logan Bil lingsley for the return of $ eight roubles hail he forfeited last Octe > it nec ) ca jer, wher instead of tWo he failed to appear before Judge them in crowded spaces Dykeman to answer a charge of *f up the work in every way she said. ‘The natural result big jump in the numbe dents, The commission called upon the nationa council for a survey Famous Engineer today voted to later waa arres d all over Russia a was to have been held at the Arm-| ed States afety engine has been postpc ———————-- | surance commission —~~—~.| finished with Mare last on the Ist Island ager” and two or three local safe » local board to complete leave t the survey day's conference, and the pa 6 tough on our moneyed aristocracy day are going to come out of this war elther as a democracy licked| Mrs. Axtell and Price will speak to a frazzle racy with much more of virile conscte interest on national debts is dumped over upon| Monday evening in one Way or another, while the uncommon folks} their ordinary fat, or extra fat, produced by war| MOCRACY 18 TO LEARN THAT IT CAN \ PART OF WHAT ARISTOCRACY DORS hailed before Federal Judge i? rer in federal court Saturday leharged with ir select service Four pleade guilty sentenced. Thirteen pleaded {guilty and will stand trial of its} Carl Gillman, who said he ray ch |David Anderson were ¢ enced for eight month ehmidt, an German, sentenced to 30 days. Sam is constructing a cantonment for United States marines. s pr ” 4 Buildings like these will soon spring up at American lake, near Tacoma, where Northwest troops will train. At the left is shown a row of “bunk” houses on the freshly cleared land with the primeval forest in the background; in the center are some houses nearly completed; at the right is a typical street between the almost finished dwellings where men selected for service P 8 y comp & YE 8 TO NAVY YARD At the head of @ survey of States arsenate - and navy yards, made necessary by the large number of accidents caused by speeding up war plants, Mrs. Frances C, Axtell, of Belling PETROGRAD, June 30.—Ten masked (ie fh ocinc. or! the Unites bandits in the most approved Jesse James style held up the Oceanic Bank of Ust, terri- fying the town, stealing 100,000 roubles, (about $54,100) and a number of valuable documents. Several townspeople were killed and wounded when the bandits went thru the #! sft) council, who streets demanding everybody’s valuables. |tivy"ser met here by Lou Palm The 10 got safely away. ie-titp ini tah States employes’ compensation commission, formerly a mem- ber of the Washington state ature, has returned to the state for the first time since her appointment to the nation. Price, field secretary of the nation making »y Lou Palm president hand tz, of the Bremerton to begin particular der the new plan, a jury may consist of survey bas taken me to 16 ar three soldiers and even the prosecut or may be a member of the army. been fascinating, constructive work, with survey, ashington woman is investi gating, for the council of nations e, the replacement of men by y green hands all at once in 1 yards and arsenals, to work and to f ace refore saf POSTPONE MASS MEETING “Mr. Price is one of the most fa The recruiting mass meeting that| ious safety engineers in the Unit He was for many years jay, under the) With the International Harvester the Wisconsin state industrial We have just Che local district manager prob. ty ex pects to visit Bremerton during the ce before the Commonwealth club. more of live brains the Good Eats cafeteria, at Slackers, for the first time, were failing to register and were sen- | ations. Bernard This cantonment is Cost of Buildings to Be $7,000,000 ‘The government already has had some experience in rushing up th mushroom cities for the army. On May 14 the quar- termarter’s department received orders to have quarters ready on June 15 for 150,000 men. This meant the erection of $7,000. 600 worth of buildings at nine different posts. That work has been completed A typical city of this sort is located at Quantico, where 8,000 marines are to make their home At one end of the cantonment site one sees the virgin for ents, next he sees where the forest has been burned and felled; next to this are the scantlings and posts stuck into the ground which are to be the foundations of houses, and then come the houses in all stages of construction, with the completed prod- far end of the camp weeks ago this land was as Capt. John Smith dis covered it. Now it is practicaliy a city with paved streets, modern improvements and a teeming population. PERMIT COUNTER CLOSED AT NOOR The death tollof the permit system for obtaining booze rang out at noon Saturday a No more of the stuff that makes men’s eyes twinkle and 7 steps uncertain E Mayor Gill has decreed that all liquor found in the city noon Saturday will be considered contraband. and the ers will be prosecuted the county “bar” was closed, following the decision ed States Attorney Clay Allen and Prosecutor Lund that the Reed amendment to the postal appropriation bi enacted by congress, applies to this state It prohibits shipments of liquor into states where t manufacture or sale of liquor is "prohibited by law. Washington prohibits the manufacture of liquor witht its boundaries—hence the application of the law providing /512,158 permits have been issue em, does not tech- and 1,000,000 quarts of liquor hay: hibit the sale of liquor been passed over the boards at thi So the “wets,” who are in- local express offices. ed in the referendum peti-/ Seventy-five per cent of the against the state Liquor imported is whisky. There bone dry Jaw passed by the last 2re 32 drinks to the average quart, state legislature, have hopes of re- Which means that every person in | ng Allen and Lundin attle could have had 100 drinks rest cases are expected to sound Guring the season, ff the apportion. 7 ments were made. District Attorney Allen, when The drug stores are not believed asked if the federal authorities to be making any efforts to re were going to enforce the Reed plenish their alcoholic supply. amendment provision, said any one recelvin shipments “would do it “| HOWELL SAYS BONE 4 DRY PETITION WINS. Liquor advertising or liquor so-| liciting by letter, postal card, circu-| lar, newspaper or other publication | ny United Press Leased Wire of any kind, is barred from the| TaCOMA, June'30c= by “act of congress,” when MA, June '30.—< Tat ea ressed to any one in dry terri-| Um petition No. 10, on the bone tory dry law, appears to have sufficient knowingly" sending Signatures to make it legal was the i ~ But Washington, by the permit sy nically tions directed 4 out the issue. Any one a liquor ad in vic ess, whethe CONVENTION CLOSES : A banquet closed the fourteenth | annual convention of the Scandi. ravian fraternity Friday night at PORT VOTES T0 {the Swedish club. ' pnt | EXPLOSION KILLS FOUR An explosion in the DuPontDe mours powder plant, at Augusta, Colo., Friday resulted in the death of four men, including the superin- tendent on of this act| statement of Secretary of State publisher of @) yf Howell Saturday, A Mst bearing — spa 500 names turned in after the orig- iquor dealer or his agent, is liable t to $1,000 fine and imprisonment for inal document would probably make offense, a year’s imprisonment may | e be. Imposed ‘DRY SQUAD RAIDS in dry territory are likely to receive TRIO OF JOINTS their papers “censored” of lquor| the part of news dealers the dry squad, made three raids Not only states which are com-\early Saturday afternoon, Beer and even wards, in subdivisions of gt., % Washington st, and at the any state or city otherwise “wet”! Jersey house. soliciting by mail During the open season on per Lew r or his agent, or any fix months, Wer au subsequent | UP any deficiency, he said. Newspaper and magazine readers ads by the liberal use of shears on; Sergt. Comstock, at the head of pletely dry, but dry counties, towns.| and whisky were found at 7 Union are closed to liquor advertising or mits, which began January 1, 1916, Immediate construction of a belt line to serve the East Mar. ginal way industrial area, far south as Cariton st. (some- times called Eighth ave. S.), was called for in resolutions passed by the port commission | ao een | | | | “Number, Please!” ECHO ZAHL, of The Star, is going to tell you in Monda: paper how she worked in the Seattle telephone exchange as a telephone girl, With employes of the company tHteatening to strike, Miss Zahl applied for and obtained a position as “hello: girl so she could give read of The Star a word picture of: the conditions under which these young women toil, Her story {J will be told in two chapters, 9] Monday and Tuesday. Wately for them Saturday morning. Funds to start on have been as-| sembled from harbor area rentals paid to the commission. | ‘The matter of a belt line for this district has been the subject of tri angular discussion for weeks a eral shipbuilding and manufactur ing firms are only waiting for rail- road accommodations ta start oper The railroads have been trying to obtain a franchise for the line. The port commission already has a franchise. P