The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 13, 1919, Page 16

BOY STEALS TO Scroct Teachers | Star Reporter Tries Job on the Dock May Accept Jobs CET CAR FARE _ During Holidays CONCLUDES THAT LONGS HOREMEN ARE reer ae EFFICIENT TOILERS| | Takes Pennies From Blind f holidy Sean an ti and He Works 12 Months mn 24 Hours ta newsstand of a blind news deal meee : er early this morning, a sob bing I@yearold school boy was brought the police station. : Ba So said t eruploy but t rida " the a 1 t rule waa bad for the school on time. 1 4 working spirit of My ould be late he sobbingly told I wou old S. Booking Clerk Frank Dt I already had 3 cents, I thought a kid, or a pla ‘or the wife 1d help myself to a couple of 7 i, or a planola for . nies. I left another in the || tween now and Christmas, box.” who saw you steal the Was it the blind newsboy 4-DuCett “Yea” choked the tt. =| PLEADS “NOT GUILTY” money trom the box at Third ave TO BEATING HIS BOY, [iS . and Cherry st. by the patrol n Former Policeman Urich M. Car EPORTED FOR DUTY the beat, put back the stolen coppers after he had been caught Officers at the 5 lad if he had ever by Jed not guilty of beating his 4 son, Phil ne with a st asked the! 10-yve sin tr FRIEND ed in at BY JACK HALL rake when arralg before, and when told that Ss Moana. Wea eaten is seed ; Bis not, they asswred him that his crime be was not very aerious, but admonished | degree assault KNOWN him for selectiteg a blind man as his oR YEAR a eve any bby punishment wit be| MAIL YOUR PACKAGES | |__}t¢ soon tones looked like plea ight. co mn isting mostly of @ severe) am. new parcel post terminal has | Nothing to é tt lle a reprimanc solved the problem of Randifhe par-| around a wharf and draw cel post package without conges- | check. | NEW YORK, Dec, 13—Emma) jinn postmaster Edgar Battle said| so 1 thought I would try It Goldman will nat be parted from | iiday duty at the France for Just much an emergency, ;and a look of patient suffering Alexander Berkr They will go} Fifteen auto trucks are making | e and a pair of blue denims that they When we commenced work in the be ge Aig ag ig tie my deliveries direct from the King at (Tha had decorated me with at Fort Law-| morning, I had an {dea that Dad within t days to be * ‘ * station Instead of the various postal | waitress pronounced it, a tor in t ys when the late war) would work perhaps one shift, earn Mise Devt bed) & vere bm neys | fubatations for delivery be right—she works In a restaurant.) | was geod principally with hie * or three dollars, and quit for the supreme court and announced| “And in the meantime, mail your| I wore an overseas cap, @ biot er ~ ho: ar nd atil | she had abandoned the fight to re-| Christmas packages today,” Post: | belonging to a German officer th | Den't All Heck On uth © waa, and etill trun . master Rattle said had retrieved from a salvage pile in , his truck at that infernal rate in in this antry. wos | The reason for these military gar-| of speed, albeit a bit red in the face menta ia b ume I wanted the Job. old chap, thought I, con And everyone who applies 4 n't demned in his old age to earn his land @ job on the wharve Not Of | pread by hard physiesl work, striv. 80 cents an hour If they did. ng vainly to do the laborious lifting 6 wouldn't be any lawyers left/and hauling that requires strength wn. and skill and the eternal energy of | The old-timers have first call; the | youth | ariszied veterans of the cargo hook. I pitied that olf man, I did, and) when I quit work at midnight, con! tent with my $12 earned that day 4 not tehin to be mea Dad was stil « Admiral Evans, and neamed and THIRD — 4ND — MADISON. ount * union buttons siders, expectally lily-finge {fice workers, @re not in demand on the Fine Men Physically —— Which reminds me that the pro Hut the top sergeant or the straw | fessional longshoreman is about the boas or whatever they call him is ical specimen of man geenrally a patriotic cuss his daily bread by hard, And they give a service man a fob toil | « etrong ARE CONTINUOUS HERE PERFORMANCES [f= they Sen aK, ees RE. My military hbabiliments got me | lot The two old Iriehmen who TODAY SUNDAY the jot ed the «ling were hoary with Only Select Few age, but they worked thru the long, | «rinding hours, steady as automa! | There weren't sufficient fobs to go Little red ticket which Im the hi acca at tan. ebiciunae wat Gt ni is the hand} Most of the oldtimers walk with truck pilot's commission. Nearly 40 others shuffled away, out of work | for the day. a limp or a lurch or a hitch. Years of working with heavy, dangerous | cargoes have left their mark, The| A longshoreman may make £004/ parties of industry leave their wages when he is working, but there| maimed as well as the battles of are many days when his income in! war | sare, | At & o'clock we knocked off for The lucky 30 were assigned to the| supper, I was too tired to eat. The Admiral Evans, and balf this crowd | thought of the effort of opening were sent below decks to stow away | and closing my jaws was nauseating. the cargo that was swung down by|1 was so tired that it waa labor to neh. Not being nautical, I de- | wink cided to work on the dock. | She Cut Him Dead The first hundred hours weren't 20| fo T mt on a fence rail near the bad. 1 didn't mind the skin coming | fire station at the foot of Madison otf my hands or the fallen arches | at. the green waters swirling around or the sharp pains that shot thru my | the piles below me and the evening eps, but when my backbone began | commuters running for their boats ABIG TRIPLE, ALL NEW FUN BILL THIS WEEK, WITH THREE OF THE WEST'S GREATEST COMEDIANS, SUPPORTED BY A TIPTOP ORGAR- IZATION OF MUSICAL COMEDY STARS “Slivers (ERT. C. HUNT) >» protrude thru the back of my/in front of my ti 99 neck, I felt that floral pieces would) As I sat there on be in order and nondescript cap, a friend About 3 o'clock In the afterr 1 I had known for years. 1 at me 1 amiled, 1 away with an expres , ain. “ The incident puzzled, baffled me w were loading miscellaneous!) pad made mud ples with that girl cargo Into the hold of the Admiral whe was cutting me dead Evans. I nay miscellancoun advised I remembered the blank look y. The greater bulk of that cargo h whe bad greeted my salu was pig iron and sheet lead seen me. Her Dancers Have Advantage o a waterf Two men with cargo hooks loaded an unhappy expre each truck, They stack the «tuff fence rail ity of toll in a pile, you ran the sharp ed « your truck under the stack, the load hen three more acquaintances ers, with a Jab of their he hurrying for the steamer Bainbridge the pile, you “broke,” an: cut mo dead, I began to realize that ing at a person, in the eyes of the fair sex your truck ! owns an importance and © in exact proportion to the nat point of sartorial dingi * ne a man would completely disap. from the sight of feminine is unknowr yoked at my watch. It was 9 o'cloc n the morning. 5 hours more to got “ABIE” Eccentric Comedian and Seattle’s Favorite, With “ABIE”’ (LEW WHITE) ut 2,000 p That ia it fell on your truck if it didn't fall on your toe With the ton of unwield on your truck, you jog ng loaders, Famous Hebrew Fun Maker oe ee | But tw to transparency ift he prom. pleasant, It was ¢ ing and the brisk nig wind from the Sound was Completing the Triangle ? “OLE” oxygen Gave Up Profession I forgot that night zer than day hours and of a soft pillow and 1 feather b © madd to a man who b Ireadly strug thru ong hours of honest but hellist in the Achilles tend: »—a | cont tender part of the anat-| frow 1 got thru the hours until midnight is a mystery. After years 3c iE . we got an hour off| of exercise no more vigorous than (OSCAR GERARD) to eat. I didn't have any appetit Sad els I could barely get thru a stack of|ing at a typewriter, I was hots, two bowls of clam chowder, a/aamit that longshoring is a plate of ham and eggs and a plate of | tive, but not an eriticing profession macaroni. | for an ambitio Before I had finished—and they | threw the stuff at patrons in that lit-| sion of longshorit ra Popular Swedish Laugh Producer ‘ the profes —IN. tle waterfront restaurant—it was 12] ‘Ten minutes later I was deep in a o'clock | feathery bed, with a deep pillow un Funny how fast that hour went| der my head, and a strong smell of and how slow the preceding ones | horse liniment prevading the room had passed. And I didn't care if I never | “Dad” Fooled Him awoke! | a} | When we began on the afternoon | Bytes shift, T noticed that “Dadd” was stil} Of the twenty odd million acres with us, Dad was a sickly little} which comprise Ireland, nearly one man, about 70 years of age, with a|seventh are barren, belng mountain, | | thin, drawn face, a neat white beard, !turf bog or marsh “NEVE AGAIN” DLID HOURS OF GIGGLES, Seen | SI ~~ ~ a y FU. S. Aces Deny Report Quentin } Roosevelt Was Deserted in Fight Dec. 13¢-Captain|day that Roosevelt was killed, ‘This Eddie Rickenbacker and Maj. James|accounts for the many persistent ; payee ames|umors that Roosevelt was deserted R. Meissner, aces of the A. E. F..)1¥ nis comrades,” Meissner asserted testifying before the aviation sub-| “After the cloud lifted, Roosevelt | found himself in the midst of | OUS NOVELTIES FUR BY OUR LARGE AND PEPPY BEAUTY CHORUS Rights and Sundays 40c—Mat. Today 27c jcommittee on expenditures of the yesterday, denied reports that|squadron of German plan t his death | shot down after two minu him. ing.” when a squad-| At the ron of aviators flew into a cloud, | Rickenbacker told how he was arrest they all separated for fear of col|ed in England as a German spy and lision, and such was the case the! ordered to return to this country, “OLE” “Ag was customa THE SEATTLE STAR Christmas Shopping Hours-- Commencing Monday, December 15 THE BON MARCHE CLOSE AT 6 Until Christmas Open at 10—close at 6—that’s the Christmas schedule of The Bon Marche. It’s a case of the greatest good to the greatest number—as it gives the many who stop work at 5 p. m. a chance to do their Christmas shop- ping. ESTABLISHED 1890 Stuart Walker presents Booth f rhingtons With the Identital New York Production and Cast PRICES 50e TO $2.00 YAY MATIN 50e TO $1.50 AR WEDNESDAY MATINEE (BEST SEATS) $1.00 3EATS NOW PAE SELLING _ rorun COMI A. L. ERLANGER Presents —IN— “MACUSHLA” A BEAUTIFUL IRISH COMEDY IN FOUR ACTS a—!Mr. Olcott Will Sing Four New Popular Irish Son; WILL OPEN AT 10 AND heBon Marché FIVE DAYS COMMENCING oe | Tuesday © ‘ q WEEK STARTING SUNDAY, DECEMBER 21 No Matinee Christmas Popular Wednesday Matinee CHAUNCEY OLCOTT Co ci. o cee us wets ws ce Gu gee ee oe SPF 89336 £38 Stirs om epasce 8. see82e Se eRe hc COREE OR CT CES