The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 28, 1919, Page 11

We Wanted to Be “King of —~~X { ' SREP ie Her Legs Insured for $100,000 stdses8 Seese x tte, star of the Parisian stage and possessor of what Paris are ths prettiest legs in existence, ts in the United States. are insured for $100,000. ) MORE SEIZURES, AYS U: S. ATTORNEY large for the business done. “It is the small business man with his petty profiteering that I am go ing to go after hard. I have evi- dence to show that the landlord, the restaurant man, the shoemaker, the tailor and the grocer are all prof- iteering. “Washington is keeping In close touch with the local situation, At- torney General Palmer hag been in- formed by me that the anticipated arrival of the Pacific fleet has stimulated profiteering of all kinds in Seattle.” To Hold Conference A conference of District Attorney Bert Haney of Portland, District At- torney Francis A. Garret of Spokane and District Attorney Saunders will be held in Seattle early next week to | formulate plans to combat the high jcost of living in the Northwestern cities. Due to the change in munictpal | administration, the conference sched- uled for Friday between Saunders and city, county and state officials will probably be postponed, said Saunders. ILMEN TO BUTLER BOOSTS CONFERENCE) SCHOOL DRIVE on and Chilberg Are|Speaks at Chamber Meet- on Committee ing on Friday H. Parsons, president of| As part of the “‘back-towchool” Chamber of Commerce, | PTORTam of the civic bureau, Nich. MJ. olas Murray Butler, president of SER. Chitbers, president of the | Coinehin university and noted American bank, andteconomist and publicist, will speak Of the board of directors of | before the el on council of the of Commerce of the| Chamber of Commerce at the lunch- qT! have been appointed | eon in the Masonic club rooms Fri (28 general committee which will day. His subject is “Education in er Statee of the arrangements for | the Worid of Businews.’* tional trade conference to| In view of its sponsorship for in’Atlantic City, N. J., during | “Back-to-School” week, August 24 to i 4 beginning September 29. | 30, the civic bureau will have entire 5 ‘ Resting is being called under | charge of the program, and Chair- | mstepices of the national chamber, | y / = “ui | man Worrall Wilson will preside. Dr. . Fepresentatives will Butier will make a special talk from Weent from England, France, | his vast fund of experiences regard: fom belgium. ‘These delesa-|ing the actual value of learning in Mill consist of five men each, oi cabinet officer ». | modern business ventures. He is one ieee’ crricere and others! of the country's leading figures in their ability and expert | aucationsl ute figures | iM handling trade problems. | al circles, a profound stu dent of economies and has headed the largest university in the United States for many years in delegates will be selected | general committee, Following = conference, the delegates plan to - oregano agenda | Me H, Olin will discuss the work tour of the civic bureau committee in trade centers of the coun | arousing interest in the return to | | school of young men and women . who have not completed their educa: Soldier Cemetery | tonal opportunities and will touch tCam Li . }Upon the value of education in ‘ p Lewis, Plan Tesponse achieving business success. to a communication the national affairs bureau of of Commerce, Senator L. Jones has written that he @ National cemetery should at Camp Lewin. from Senator Jones’ let FORM INTER-CHURCH LUNCH ORGANIZATION Ministers and laymen organized at Meves cafeteria Wedn the of | Church Noon Lunch,” electing R. L. Sweaney, president, and Rev, E. B Sutton, secretar The regular is to be the noon hour hb Wednesday, upstairs at Meves cafeteria. Kverybody is cordially | invited. On next Wednesday, U. K- Loone \9 invited to addreas the gath- under name this cemetery can be os by the department, and oe ee laken the matter up with the c=. I shall be glad to be of YEAR-OLD S0Y SAVES FE OF GIRL IN LAKE ‘\"* PePAME, Ward, Ave. xx MAN IS KILLED WHEN Peete tie O14 Siuons ‘tans. TRAIN SMASHES TRUCK 26, at Hayden Lake, | ins he had boy rescued the girl | Wallett yesterday evening, when the tuto truck in which he was riding fone under a wecond was hit by a train a mile north of | thin eit DAY NIGHT in will speak in the | of the eer Bt 6 py. m., corner | machine apa 4nd Washington, is BS meeting the other occupant was thrown from the Moretley truck 1s was hia companion, but [Was not seriously injured, Gamblers” Once; But Now Charley Louie Is Daddy | to5 Boys--and That M akes a Dif ference HAL, ARMSTRONG are ago, when I last talk | BY Three y ed with Charley nis necktie was flamboyant his tread was the elasticity of youth and the firmness of determination, and in his almond eyes blaged the fire of a He wanted to be the king of Seattle's gambling dens. Charley was the nemesis of the Seattle police, Some folks hinted that he had “inside connections” with the higherups in the department The higher-ups denied it and said the smart young Chinaman was dynamite.” But whether he was pulling strings or not, Charley was getting by” unmolested and piling up a fortune. Then Charles Beckingham became | police chief, I met Charley Loute jon the street. He wanted to talk, he said | I followed him down into King st. and up a long flight of dingy | stairs, A word to a Chinaman stand. |ing guard at a doorway and Charley | and I were ushered Into a wide room | filled with a motley crowd of mixed races milling about a dozen tables covered with green cloth and lighted from above by cones of yellow light Brings Out Bottle Coin clinked against coin. Chips | clicked, Men laughed or cursed in undertones, It was one of Charley's gambling jainte “Come,” he said, and led me into the office. Other Chinamen eyed me askance and shuffled out, leav- ing Charley and me alone. He gave me a chair and extended & box of cigars. From the safe he brought a bottle and poured out two glasses of & brand that is seen no more. Then he sat down and asked “You know Charley Beckingham?" I answered that I did. “What kind of a chief you think Charley Beckingham?"’ Charley Loule spoke almost perfect English. He was born and educated in Port land. “Well.” I told him, “Beckingham is & pretty good scout, Charley, but 1 don't think he'll let you run any Joints.” Loule, ana red. In great ambition. “He do business? You don’t think?" “That's it. I don't think you can do business with him.” ‘Tries It Anyhow “Well, we see. I talk to him to morrow,” said Charley with deter: mination. We had our drink and I went home. Three days later I saw Charley again. “I see Chief Beckingham,” he told me. “He good fella. I told him I lke to open up down on Washing: ton st, if everything go all right. He said, ‘You can't do that.’ But I do it anyhow. Next Saturday night I open.” “I don't think you better,” I ad vised him. But he did. Isaw the place the night he opened. He had rented a ground floor store building and the altera- tions he had made and the furni- ture must have cost him $5,000. A pretty good outlay for a Chinaman to make unless he was sure of his his ground. The place was filled with men eager to stack their money against Charley's bankroll Police history tells the rest. That night Chief Beckingham’s smash. up squad walked in and reduced Charley's tables and other furniture to splinters, It was a costly expert ment, but Charley was not dix couraged. He wanted to be Seattle's gambling king. Has New Boy I saw him some weeks later. He was grinning, highly pleased “Have a cigar,” he offered. I got new boy at my house.”* A boy! Good fortune seemed to be with Charley. Two boys had come already and now another. And & boy to a Chinaman fs an heir and an honor, unlike a girl. That was three years ago. Mean- while I had been away and hadn't seen Charley until tod I took a trip to Chinatown to visit him. 1 wanted to see the king of Seattle's gamblers. Down at King st. and Sixth ave. I found him. His red, flamboyant necktie wasn't ther His shirt was open at the front. His tread was firm, but not so sprightly, and in his eyes I saw a cold and cal- culating gleam. There were seams in his face I hadh't seen before. “How's business?” I asked him “Pretty good,” he said, “This ts my store.” He motioned with a hand th had once been soft ax a woma: to shelves laden high with groceries and dried meats and nuts and other commodities from China, His hand was calloused now. No More Gambling went back into the private office, There was no bottle in the safe, but there was a box of cigarets for me. “How's gambling?” 1 inquired. The “king of the gamblers” garded me at length much’ doing now," he said We re- jut the fishing boats from the canning factories will soon com- ing down from the North,” I com mented, “and then it {ts always good “Yeu,” he assented. “Some boats back now. Some Chinamen start gamble already. White men gam- ble. But I don't think I gamble any more.” “1 thought—" T exclaimed. “{ know," he broke in, anticipat- ing my remark. “But the high- binders. They very bad, The high- binders gonna kill me. 1 had to give them thousand dollar. 1 get little money, then the highbinders get it.” The Real Reason “Is that,” I as “what keeps you from opening u “Well,” he confessed, “I got more boys now-—two more—and girl. Two boys in school, 1 don't want American boys talk about my boys —their father is @ gambler. You see? I merchant now.” I saw, He was a good gambler, but a better father. 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He! other street, on the average, has|Anyway, it takes longer to make been taking on a cargo of rough and| has turned loose a small flock Of) 4 »rewery in miniature in the base-|raisin wine than to make home finished lumber this week at the| goats and the surplus foliage 16 rap | ont beverige, We don't call it veer, Brace & Hergert mill, and will sail| idly disappearing. Wales ‘reas lheud ken Well’ oa night get into trouble if we shortly for the Atlantic, via the Pan aac ama aa jtablished supply houses in the city | ama canal, | Seattle police are looking Thurs-|where the householder can pur Home beverage making has be-| ‘The vessel was built at the Ander. | se eee eng who removed |chase, for. the small expenditure of |come such a well established indus- son & Porter plant, at Raymond, and) 41" jron grating over a window at|$1.30, sufficient material for the|try, it is said, that some supply | was only tly completed. the Queen Anne market, 621 Queen|manufacture of five gallons of |ho ee have already pesun to} a i i Anne ave., and took eight slabs of| frothy, amber beverage |profiteer, Some are selling bottles | er thie of The Star bace ny eight ¢ ans of cooking com-| If one happens to be transient |#t 80 cents a dopen, while the| The Master Plasterers ing, thi ansas pound and 15 pounds sausage. and has no basement, the problem profiteers “are asking $2 for the - - —_—_——— — - - ——_—— jot satisfying the thirst for some-|same containers, Association needs the thing with a wallop is somewhat Gi) vy f 20 difficult But, if one happens to *¢° services 0! ex- s a /find the right person, one ean bus ;SOUthern Pacific : Tha: Haven 60 cents a quart * perienced plasterers: at the bever r 60 cents a quart, raffic Is Better — | Purchase of the stuff, however,| . 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DAMSON PLUMS Public hops, crocks, | malt, yeast.|""“sacramento. set. the example,|| Bidg., Between 9a. m. ae Gn be the atardé in town when the switchmen returned to d9 9 7 |"«foverybody’s learned to brew | Work here,” declared Brennan, “that| an p.m. Producers’ Direct Market | i277) cee ogy ete te ae tie Thursday ome the judges | owing i la at 2007-9 SECOND AVENUE |down at the court house. make the| | irgini |finest you ever tasted, I won't tell! If you would have a good servant When you think of advertis. Near Virginia St. their names raise him in public and reprove him | rt | ing. think of The Star, “Not quite so many are maklng!in private \ ‘ * LUDENDORFF'S SEE eee eC ce Se ec aaah cnet ie