The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 21, 1918, Page 5

(Advert isemeny SEATTLE’S STOCKADE HELL and QUARANTINE HELL Rhy EDWIN Last week I took you to the city *gteckade,” which is unfit for a dog gennel, Dut which is used to house human beings, and also give politt dans an opportunity to get a story about the city al » what is called Ward: It ought Blackmail! as the Blackest disgrace when that history writter There is no longer any question ghout both men and women being and “bullpenned” into quar grabbed! gatine in Seattle, just to get the foney when persons are not con tagious or infectious in any wise When I called at the Women's In tera Hospital (quarantine hell) I had the card showjng my clients to be free from disease. I expected to see and talk to my clients, but upon ar qving I found that a very clever gystem had been inaugurated. I was given an appli m to sign, which goed something like this: “Seattle Washington, City Hospital, May Sm. Edwin J. Brown, Occupation lawyer, 1212 American Bank Bldg washes to see Mra. May Jones.” This was clever, because the Health De partment could look over these ap and tell who was calling to disturb their pence of mind and profits or inquire about their private | ra I understand that six or seven ‘women have been killed or died from overtreatment with what is called 6, or for the want of proper treat gent in this quarantine hell, Deaths er murders in the City Hospital or fall are not investigated by the cor ener. There is no inquest. The City Hospital signs its own death certifi cates. Some snap! After making out my application to see my clients and waiting in the hall, jammed with people, for about I, together with about a . was allowed to crowd into a stuffy cage about three feet wide by seven feet long, partitioned off from the interned women with a fine wire n on the inside of the screen in the intern ward found out whom I want ‘ed to see, she would call out like the qaller in the depot calls out the Finally, when my clients | I was talking to them with same privacy one enjoys while | into a wellattended circus the fourth day of July. nurses all appear to have ears, and most of them got if one were on legal busi-| one’s coat tail and informed A the time was up, so that the herd could jam in. On follow Visits I had the door slammed face because 4 o'clock came Before I got to see my clients, and the nurse acted as though the city belonged to her. | FE talked with my clients. They the truth, because I had in them that a commission of would be appointed. by the J, BROWN court to examine them physical and testify as to their actual cond tions. One of these wome & patient of ming for ma They were both intelligent who gave me information have since been able to verify, nam ly, that a large percentage of the women in the Seattle Intern Hospital were clean women, but had incurred had bi y n years women that I the displeasure of some police off who brought them to jail, then r them with being a disorder at marked them up for th est, which, of course, is a fake ason for false imprisonment jess substantiated by physical man ifestations or clinical symptoms. It is the Idaho “bullpen” system agreed to between the health department and the police department of Seatt! Of course, it must meet with the proval of the Mayor, He knows un p att about it. I have been telling him for months about the crooks in the health department, but he defends this department, notwithstanding One nurse was discharged for allow ing him to come inte the women’s intern ward to see the actual condi tions, One physician was a dope one is now in jail and another is/ indicted. I saw things in the six minutes in the intern ward that I never be Meved could exist in a civilized » ety. I looked around, but had pinch myself before I could realize that I Was in the United States, I knew I 1d not be in F oma to exist; Tw tain that I was not in Turke cau Mohammed himself « t bear to witness such an outr Women were packed in rooms the resem. rooms cattle in a car for shipment so-called health department died a disease department with air space enough healthy people had eight for beds two and inmates in them who were supposed to be sick: windows were only down | low a few inches from the top to SEATTLE STAR—SA" 2) LUUNNUNUANUUNANOONNNUAENANUONUHAAN Cynthia Grey's LETTERS STVINU HUH HUVEUGUGUAUAIAE She Would Dispose Of Santa Claus Mins Grey not Santa Claus of German origin would not thin be a good | t rid of all that make the little ct It ery young t « n | n children were so troubled ler one “vd them = there ta Claw The fully be ved there wa. a great neficent being who loved to bestow gifts on us, and were heartbroken when told it was not true, And the fact that we, their parents, had deceived them made it all the harder for them | An the day ix kept for the Christ,| | why not so teach it to our children that we give because God gave to he gift son i Him could do some other wa an they prefer Hut our hildren OY H-idol from actual flesh and blood, Saint Nicholas of Myra. He was one of the chief saints of the Greek ureh | and was called the “Wonder. | Worker.” He was born at Pa- | tara, Province of Lycia, toward | the end of the third centur | He died at Myra, December ¢ 342 childrer ¥ | | maidens and sailors. On May 9, 108 his bedy was translated and arrived in his native city of Patara amid great rejoicing». His festival, the anniversary of | his death, is at pt with spe | cial ceremonies in a number of | European countri 80 you | see, Santa isn’t purely a myth coms me that if this | of the past repre i the kind: ly spirit of St icholas, the | 41 of the Christmas pres wer, they should not feel cheated or deceived Single Women NOT 5 k TUPDAY, DPs. 21, 1918 At the Theatres_ | fresh air; garbage cans made t | Dear y Prof. Roswell presence known by their stench;|Johnson says tt hingle women| toilets were overflowing so that are Ww ? | was necessary for the inmates to] We 1 we are not wel 1—Leo Beers, at the Moore, 2—Moore and Elliott, at the Palace Hip. walk on the high heels of their ra | come ur « We are de | in “Business Before Pleasure,” week of Dee. 29. 4—ituth to keep their feet from getting wet. | nied a ion t Lriment houses,| ew soubrette, Levy's Orpheum, 6—Porter J. White, at Pa —Lew subjects to be quarantined, but about | 4», tia to stay off the streets, out] “OR WILKES PLAYERS | PLAY COMIN three out of every four were jobbed or framed in there because they had offended some officer or failed to get the money in time to get the right The Wilkes players will be seen in comedy “Seven | as their offering of the stores, and off the cars with four children. I am speaking from jexperience, as I have one small the mystery Keys to Baldpate,” farce child, and this crusade against chil- - > ood tes for Christmas week at the Wilkes kind of « bi * dren by the public in general haa|\ Today there are 140 women {n-| discouraged my husband and me ut.| ‘etre, starting with a matinee Bun terned in Seattle. We, taxpayers, are | te toward bringing into this|day paying about $6,000 per month to|world any more unwelcome off George M. Cohan gave something | keep them. in false imprisonment, | spring. new to the «tage in “Beven Keys to! while, as a matter of fact. and I can) Under such conditions I certainly) 4, sh ma aret prove it, there are only 20 or 25 who! cannot condemn any woman for re-| #*!dpate.” In that it was the firs ought to be in quarantine. The other| maining single, nor can I n} mystery farce comedy to be p 115 women are being kept to furnt blame he? Let thene ople, most-led. The play abo | a reason for spending our $6.000 per) jy men, who get up on a platform] " h pro surprine three acts with a pr month, and to gratify the cussedness)and how! about the race-suiciders,| be and insane desire of a depraved mind| get in and spend some of their| «Ue “nd an epilogue in which the | for revenge breath making conditions suitable|#ction centers aro young novel Next week I shall tell about) for bringing into the world families. | ist who makes a wager that he can preparing for legal procedure to give relief to my clients, and what our mayor advised me to do. SEATTLES BEST PHOTOPLAY NOVSE FROM BILLIE BURKE'S CELEBRATED STAGE SUCCESS GUTERSON’S RUSSIAN ORCHESTRA Overture, “Tancredi” . “Largo” FIFTH AND PINE SPECIAL BIG CHRISTMAS WEEK ATTRACTION STARTING WITH A MATINEE NIC and Saturday, ITS—200, Be, PRICE “OV WATCHES” A brilliant comedy-drama concerning 4 will of her own; Ernest, studious, but who really craves a little high life; Andre, noted “lady-killer,” who marries Jacqueline STARRING CORINNE GRIFFITH Rossini . Handel 200-B1e, NOW PLAYING Jacqueline, a mias with CHRISTIE COMEDY WAR REVIEW P. 1. LOCAL EVENTS THEATRE PLAYERS SUNDAY JHAN SUCCESS GEO. M. BIG LAUG KEYS TO BALDPATE” A MYSTERY FARCK COMEDY AND A RIOT AT THAT Matinees, Sunday, Chri Plas War Tax. it be well Make It Bone-Dry In Every Sense | Dear Miss Grey: By it seems that ministers am quite sure that all then will A MOTHER write a novel in 24 hours. The com arise when his friends edy situa ta of difficulties In his way | puta m lone the wager. | SARAH PADD! is COMING TO MOORE in order to make the dry law] the only are ones that can get “booze,” and that Christmas show that starts a |for sacramen purposes | ngagemen he core x |Sunday afternoon in headed by an A protest against much a condition.|act presented by Marth k. It is The very ones who are fighting for| stien Sarah Padden in “The Eternal | right and purity have this stigma| farrier” Mian Padden will be re-| placed against them. In righteous! memt by le playgoern for | indignation I say, shame on the| rhe ¢ Of last season. | church that shall use the cup of Rubev . a comedy number devils for sacrament use. When! with 10 people is another food spot rood tour ‘dion the bill. The act takes place in bread and the fruit of the vine, the! general store and winds up with a pure juice of the grape surely rep-| clarinet band resents the pure blood of our! Leo ra will be back with his Saviour more than fermented win: Nghtful “single” entertainment My husband i« a minister and has| G Yuk Sealok Gf the teare. a administered the sacrament many | Conro Le Maire, tlackfade a¥t times aed our church thruout the! ist, will be another feature land never brought reproach on the| ‘The Four Buttercups have a com cause of Christ by using the fer-| ody singing act mented cup that brings ruin and ace Nelson, American prima heartaches, but the pure, unfer-| donna, will take care of the musical mented juice. Let those who of the bill otherwise quit or be made to. » and Maybell are slackwire us banish this evil absolutely and rs of circus fame completely from the land An added attraction is the showing M. E. D. | of the only official United States mo. ° | pictures of the surrender of the Query About | German The trav weekly Fruit Cake as xcenes from faraway lands, and Dear Miss Grey: Please print in| ‘th? concert orchestra has good ac your paper a recipe for a fruit] OMPAnyine mu cake that doesn’t call for lemon] peel or citron, as we do not like| them. MRS. H Simply substitute more cur Sunday will witness the opening rants, raisins and nuta instead | Performance of Eugene Levy's owr of the lemon and citron peel. musical comedy company in a bur - __ | lesque, “A Night in Madrid,” a Span ish omelet in three scenes, spiced by girls | The ne | " enque Humphreys’ “Seventy-seven® | that under the guidance breaks up Coughs, Colds, | iehn, the same produce Influenza, Cold in the Head, | duced i: a hea Bas he + vill 4 sure knock-out here, Rehn i Catarrh, Sore Throat, Quinsy, Tonsilitisand Grip, Atall Oruggist COLDS P at | t and will be seen in one of | the comedy of the offering. The | one of the Irish comedians on Cor er comedian, k Clifton, who | a a Swede fun-mak stage, will be one in the « Jack man, | in ble known Jon the vaudeville | of the new member | Jackson, the nim a on ew leading ble 4 toes ant and with t 1 Lucille will de of musical of- | with a Stove Repair & Plumbing ¢a.| Firebacks, linings and repairs for kinds « ranges naces and good \ the Krammer noubrette all} light with a number Lehi ha | ferings. Edith Wilma, Helen Jewell, | ie Dunbar and the Metropolitan Jo will delight with a number of | rialty offerings on the illuminated | as well as on the stag Jackson with G |Rehn, leads the = | Le has just Lewis, Within 12 he discarded had signed his name to a contract a Water backs coils put. in and connected. 608 PIKE ST. Main 875 REGISTERED DENTISTS Out of the high district, per- and moderate tin runway Jack who, or new company at come from Camp hours of the time Jackson his uniform ing enable me to make you th Edith Wilma, prima donna, hae Ge to any dentint, get hin been here eral times before, She then come te me and s was one of the stars in “A Prin cut from his figure ™ painless tmethode and personal atten: || for Tonight,” at the Moore. Helen tion. | Jewell, the new character woman, is | from Los Ani The Metropolitan Trio, harmonists neludes two of the members of the old Alhambra theatre trio Dr. J. Brown’s New Office ORFHEUM BUILDING ‘Third and Madison. Business Be tinge theatre su traction at th: of December 29. Ny Pr is the third of the and Perimutter « Pleasure,” El will be the at wure” medies by gue Glass, creator of t haracters, and Jules I man. +The company which will ir terpret the new comedy te Jules Jordan as Potash and Charles Apson as mutter L th SHRUP. 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Kerr, of the City of Chicago, “From my own experience with i ted Iron 1 feel hoe val blood and body with Wilkes Players > —Chartes Lipoon, Krommer, White, with Monte Carter company COMEDY CIRCLES TO HEAD PAN PROGRAM HIN'« comedy circus, with trained baboons, dogs, ponies and a bucking mule, will of vaudeville ¢ Monday aftern ‘orter J, Whi n “The Visitor the Christmas offering t the Pantages, open action CHAPLIN MIMIC ON NEW HIP BILL “A trand two-player comedy name of a which will the show Sunday aketch have premier ho opening at Eu have the twe Ded Vv Charlie Chap! will Charlie ¢ ° Palace Hip mer nd ke medy ree FP More Florence t, well wn ¢ pair of ny 6. impersor and } acrobi . ny number in is present n's the Capers Park A Sure Cr e for the Blues,” act, will be pat and song presented w Pe Adair, # MeNight ter b ams and Howard. Other Frick accordionist ne sand dan and comic “CHRISTMAS TANGLE” AT CARTERS OAK acroba Monte Carte Christmas show tartg Saturda and continues hru next Frida It is entitled “A Christmas Tangle,” and, like the last vow, has a coherent plot as well as usual dozen m numbers and danc tacle The plot of how hinges on several mistaken s. There is a love story woven thru the production Molly Mack, danseuse at the Vitagraph's Million: starts Champion Truant Found Sleeping in Downtown Alley Orin Davis, § years old, premier ific coast truant, was discovered asleep in an alle Fourth ay 1 Stewart st. Saturday morning y and taken to the police station. Orin left home Thur morning at 9, nd hax subsisted or ents in the The t parents, “Mr. and Mrs ph Davi at oO st than any t his age that can be immediately called to mind, accord: he leaves home, sometimes with the family cat as companion, at others wi ‘year-old sister Lois, He ta excursions into the re forgotten the num ber of times t have picked the boy up—it's buried in im nt boy, with regular features and dark hair and THERE NOW, TOMMY! TAKE YOUR OLD JOB United Press) preparation that it oughtto be | every hospital and preseribed LONDON, Dec 1—(By Mail.) W, every physician in the country ‘Oh, if the men would only hurry up fuxated Tron helps to make health ' 4 omen and stronger, sturdier men. ake back their sed by more than ip to the ears with I y creases the strength and of weak, run-down, nerve been 1 about thru cold and anteed of mone ' ar an autobus, funded. this was what one conductoret re goed drug. p | plied today when asked if she would be willing to give up her job when { |the men eame bi from war Ma answered in the same tone others "|| WME Ra Ra Ra Pa PEP RS My y Sy \ . iy ZS EEE EEE EE FELLER PE SERELE SESE SES ws Z, Rarth has proposed that the council ot | | |Germans Keen for | AMSTERDAM, VAGE 5 ae eee 4 4 DAYS ONLY STARTING SUNDAY TOM MIX —-IN— 4 4 - First Run In Seattle x Peace Discussion Dee, 21.—Richard fa dudngntste' Prue fies re, fal 0 aek the allies if they n ” Of BARS rrr SUNDAY, MONDAY, TUESDAY WILLIAM DESMOND —IN— 66 99 Deuce Duncan Handsome Bill Desmond in Another Western Thriller ALSO A SHOT OF KEYSTONE COMEDY wix we Class ‘A’ Theatre 3rd and Pike Srd and Pike OA Starting Today—Contin MADISON Retween First and Second MUSICAL COMEDY COMPANY AND THE DANCING CHICKS <i ien A Christmas Tangle NIGHTS, 10c, 20c, 30c Twice Every x Mats., 10c, 20c Matinee Daily Except Night, 7 and Tuesday and Friday “A Fight for Millions,” today Vitagraph's Stupendous Serial, starts Seats May Boe Reserved for 7 o'Clock Show Every Night Except Saturday and Sunday, CONTINUOUS SUNDAY AND CHRISTMAS NEW P Matinees, 2:3 ANTAGES ts, 7 and 9 BEGINNING MONDAY AFTERNOON SPECIAL BIG CHRISTMAS BILL Hill’s Comedy Circus Including trained baboons, trick dogs, ponies bucking mule. 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