The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 1, 1920, Page 16

ae oe a JumpDuring Year of 1919 ERE | Continued F we pape ters were getting 80 per cent more on October 1, increase of 4.4 per cent of their present scale there would | make their wages coincide with H. ¢ RENT DRIVER IS ROBBED OF $53 Forced to Carry Bandits at Point of Gun ‘Two bandits, wee forced W. B. them to a lonely spot on the Duwamish road and then robbed him of $53 at the point of a gun, at 5:30 a. m. today, are being by police. his amicable disposition saved violence at the hands of the two men, says Burk peep a word of this, #0 get caught, we're going .to Remember that,” one of warned Burk, after received a call to go to a at Mth ave, 5. and Main st $30 a.m. He parked bis car “@eFoss the street from the cabaret @nd went over to get his fare. He a find no one who knew any about the call, so Burk went to his auto. up your hands," someone de- as he was about to step tn auto. Two men stepped out the shadows. in the car,” the spokesman Burk did so. "Drive south,” was the third com When they reached a lonely Ne Baty o wee THE SEATTLE STAR BANDITS REAP $400 IN LOOT Operate in New Year's Eve) Fog; None Captured | rom Page One An} How Do You Sta | Fach person may figure how Mr, | Highcout affecting him, The process is to consider your 1913 wage jor at 100 per cent, Ascertain | what per cent the increase has 1 add it to the 100 wn index Taking advantage of the heavy fog which hung over Seattle | New Your's eve, seven holdup: were staged succossfully, netting thugs $100, In each instance the bandits escaped A lone bandit held up the Rarker S14 Bell at Wed while was | | | na lary | Rread Co. tin ‘ The ear the pla and eseaped with ntered the He lined the since then ar cont evening Lf your tner the ur index tract thia from 188, the index num of the living cost—this particular | pe In the store againet the wall, | case gives 28. Now divide this by Then he A the cash register | your index mumber, result 17.5 Two robbers entered Weller at. | cent behind H.C. I. If your index | and lugged Fong Lee, knocking him | number fs more than 188, then sub-| unconscious, The thieves obtained | tract from it the 18% and divide the | $40 | result by 188, to determine how much Delmer Hoffman, 1015 Thomas at. | you are ahead of H.C. L, was held up at Boren ave, and Thom: | Salter Wn ‘Geenk as at, and relieved of $2 } It is said if you melt the dotlar|, George Sanders, of Yakima, visit: | down and take the contents to a|!™ In Seattle for New Year's, was | metal buyer, he will give you $1.06 | Odbed of $75 in an alley on Washing: | for it. But take it to the general | '® &t., between Second and Third | merchandise store and you get 63/°¥°" 5 cents for it, The following table| H. J, O'Shaughnessy, 6236 Farrar | shows how the once almighty dollar | %t. Was robbed of $150 and his watch | has degenerated, as compared to its|!% &n Alley near Fifth ave, and Pine 1913 value Worth, |#t- His robbers lured him into the December, .100 cents | Alley on the pretext that they were | Destuber, . 99 cents | Ging to gett him a bottie of liquor | December, * 98 centa| John Harper, 7 Green Lake December, . $8 cents | WY, Was nipped for $10 near King | December, 1917. + 67 centa| #t and Occklental ave, | December, 1918. 58 conta! January, 1920..... - 53 cents | is to multiply his present | 1919 BUSINESS. This gives ye © has bee tomers, robber store a revolver per 1913. 1914, 1915 1916 | | the men robbed him, threatened and then told him to drive ION DELEGATE ae What Causes H.C. Lt T can positively account for 23 of the high cost of living. It goes into the federal treasury. Uncle Sam ia taking from the people $5,000,000, : * | ing Year; Ask More Men | — 000 a year more than he took in 1913. | Ho gets it anywhere he can find it.| He tells the businessmen to raise it.| ‘The Seattle police "did @ remark- They add it to rent, food, fuel./able business during 1919, Meirson clothes, amusements. It cost the! the book of arrests for the year) 20,000,000 families in America $21.-| just completed | one's earnings compare with his 1912 weekly stipend in dollars by 53 cents, | 23,001 Arrests Made Dur- | RESOLU mor, ther than say “Iwill not! say “Twill” Thit ie the new day of IN A day to hail with yoy and hope - and fear! “Jdoy that we live apd have our task to do. Hope that we shall not \\ Feer lest we be content to stognate shill. ( rr, Tis not enough that we He who hes pendered to an appetite And slays hie hobit, is Or has he merely ceased from doing wrong? Shall we rot be efflrmatively strong, And rather than I will nob" sey “I will. <( ather than say “! wil} not? say’) will,” FoF all the days which follow thie new ‘day Are. ominous with fete, end who shall sey But .you ere he to meet some humen need, | That you may do some work, or sow some seed, (2 2 tom TZ Seattle aw lly 4, Rather than say * Lwill not? sey *) wil) Awakes Thursday Minus New YearHeadache | | | | BOAT IS UPSET; | DEPUTY DROWNS Sent to Guard Chanslor’ Wreck, Loses Life MARSHPIELD, Deputy Sheriff drowned nes Chanslor wreck yester¢ Nj boat in which he and e riding aving capsized. n Johnson of thes went Jeter and three “ to guard the shore pers in the vielnity of the Chanslor and to watch for bodies of victima of the which are expected to come | O Coo. e-" \, X 4 1 | was the life | other Jan. Jeter oft the Ore our newesh year, H coant com halt, but see +4 Unovah. abate ovr ill. Se against dinaster wreck ashore | The four guards entered one of the Chanslor Mfeboats and put out to sea to get @ good view of the wrecked ofl tanker, The boat turned over in the heavy sea. Three of the} four managed to reach shore safely, | but Jeter perished, he doing right ? 20 MEXICANS ‘Twenty Mexicans were spending | lof Police Lieut. J, C. Wickman, whe \is investigating a long Het of house robberies shoplifting and pick- pocketing by Mexicans here. The |record of each man held in jall will be investigated. win high heaven's hill! Infant Drowned in Water Bucket NEW YORK, Jan, 1-—When the steamship Nieuw Amsterdam ar lrived here from Holland the death of Jan Purtus, Jr, one-year-old non | of Mrs. Jan Pustus, became known. | The infant was left asleep with | hin doll in the stateroom while the | | mother went to dinner, During the | absence the child's doll rolled from New Year's day as guonts of the city, | on the top floor of the public mafety | p11) building. ‘They were jailed on orders| | drowned [New York Celebrates With Wildest Spree of Career NEW YORK, Jan, 1—This Is a eity with a headache There hibitioniat ever be The manne were more ardent pro in ‘New York today than history population turned n a bed of regret, hing ar in ite over clutched ite colle head, rotied it tongue nger! colorade maduro flayor and fervent: | ly swore “never a For painfully ing from in York was slowly and painfully—re r wildest and wettent t notwiths moet the hibition,” tanding The new year ft on an ocean of booze year wan drowned in the mame flood ‘The big hotels, restaurants and cab arets turned away thousands of per sons who had neglected to reservations days or weeks in ally floated in and the old ad BURGLARS BEGIN YEAR WITH RUSH ia that famitinr | Everything From Cigars Fieldglasses Taken Seattle burglars got away food wtart for 1920. Mra. A ory, 1934 enth ave. retul home late Wednesday afternoon hopping for New Year's 4 $300 in gold had been a from her trunk KE. Blaxwon, 3403 24th ave. 8, reported the theft of a $100 pair make field glasses. J, EB. Jamieson, 115 11th ave, vanee at from $10 to $60 a reserva. | reported the theft of a lap robe fj tion. Give Wine Away Practically everyone brought his or her own refreshments carried in pockets, traveling bags } ] 0 IC ARR § | suitcases, old umbrelias and, in one) | or two instances, drawn on children’s | sleds Bome of the cafes fulfilled advance notices by giving away bot thes of wine and whisky friends.” In many places it seemed that the degree of one's friendship was determined by the size of one's At midnight the popping of corks and clink of glasses was temporarily in a bedlam of whistles guns, shouts and tooting of horns. Just at daybreak a lone reveller Rroadway, whistling the “Cam-Ells Are Coming.” It prophetic. The distant rumbling of heavy trucks on the cobb river front might the wheel notes Wagon,” a requiem to John Barley corn Tho great drought has arrived. ye passed for San Francisco Has Damp Celebration BAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 1-—This ‘* New Year's celebration was | tottered down the street turning off | | tones of the| flannels New Year's day, for the “Water fevered his automobile at Fifth ave, jon st M, M. Rundell, 1726 Harvard ‘They were | lost $90 from his apartment, George W. Miller, 715 EB. Pine was robbed of a $30 generator $15 worth of cigars. R. Fukuda, 1706 12th ave. 8. a fur coat, three mult cases to “ola | With clothing and a kodak. Car, Full of Alcohol, Ru Wild on Hil Earl Edgerton, 2006 42nd ave, # is keeping his auto swathed in rt the od bus an as will an get chilled after-effect of tte New Year's eve celebration Edgerton left the car standi the curb at Summit ave. and st. Wednesday night, while he around the corner. Just about that time fei downtown were echoing their roar. é Seized with the Infectious spirit the bunk into a bucket of bathing | cit water left beside the bed. The in-| very damp in the many cafes, hotels fant awoke and in trying to reach |and clubs, where the new “bring ° Rivers of Booze | tor tie dot felt into the bucket and! your own" rule was in effect. All the new year, the auto yearned celebrate. Guiltily, it began to snes slowly and stealthily down Pine ai At last it got beyond hearing @ 280,000,000 to exist in 1913, These! 4, an 29.001 arrests were made in| 20,000,000 families must pay this ex-| 4) 4) . | « i Orns. ” Rae eO cer aen iust Day this eX-lthe city. ‘The arresta included of-| Seattle awoke without a headache Chicago “Enjoys Sion Gulatiien bau tee toceme. tan, fenses varying from bootlegging to) Thursday morning, aftér staying up Ja bit late to shake hands with the| ANS GAS RAISE murder. tables at the city’s fashionable re- Lighting Company Is \ Anti-Union Fund |v; ‘The raise in gas rates asked by Seattle Lighting company is a d attempt to create a to fight organized labor and the open shop upon Seattle, H. Phillips, business agent of the Workers’ union, said at the Cen- Labor council Wednesday night. He urged every ugion man to pro- the raise. “Bhow them there is opposition,” ¢ No action was taken. stand of the council against ‘ of Hindus was commend. im a letter recevied from the Pa- Coast Hindustani association of Francisco. Investigation of the is added to their living costs and the! men from whom they buy food, jothes and fuel hand it over to ‘nele Sam. In 1919 every family paid Uncle Sam $500, One who thinks the men | ¥#¢ be a big month with big Incomes pay the taxes are| In view of the large number of as blind as the old-fashioned person |8rrests made during the past two who used to think the saloonkeepers| months, Chief Warren declared he kept up the government. Who pays| Would communicate with the proper | the excess-profits tax? The man in| City authorities at hin earliest con the street, of course. He also paya| Yetience, with a view toward obtain. | about $5 for every $1 Uncle Sam|!ne the 75 additional patrolmen gets. asked by himself for the proper pa Subtract this 23.5 per cent from | trolling of the city the $8 per cent increase in the living| He tx expecially destrous of obtatn- cost, leaves 64.5 per cent increase. |ing seven new automobiles for cov- That is, this would be the normal in-| ering the outlying districts crease in the cost of living. —__—_— ‘The records show that burgtaries took a big jump in November continued thrueut December. police feel that January will like- , and The| OSSINING, N. Y—Thirty men in the death house at Sing Sing joined with Jack Hulburt, official execu tioner, in cheering the arrival of the i young visitor—Master Nineteen! Twenty, who arrived at midnight for jan extended sojourn, A considerable number of people, young and old, stayed downtown for} the beeasion, roaming up and down | Second ave. until the whistles blew | at midnight Cafes were packed to; the doors, and many were turned} away There seemed to be some misunder. | standing as to the rules and regula tions for the occasion. Chief of Po | ioe Warren had suggested that there | be no hard liquor in circulation, but | somehow several celebrants seemed | to carry Important “packages.” The wellknown midnight din was introduced about one minute b re) midnight, and continued for five min | utes pats | He has no force with men who has | faith in himeoelt, CHICAGO, Jan. 1.—Young 1920) was drowned. splashed into Chicago early thie| — morning thru rivers of hip boors. | While this year's celebration was | 84 Newlyweds Leap ratber tame compared with previous | * Fearn there wanna particuine short| _ Into Marriage Sea age of red liquor. ‘The cabarets and| Forty-two pairs of newlyweds be- cafes had to lock their doors early, | RAN the new year as domestic part. when all available accommodations’ nérs Thursday, They made @ rush had been gobbled up. fat the marriage lcense window late | Police had orders to take the names| Yesterday, while in superior court of those who carried liquor on their | Tooma, two floors above, 14 divorce They turned In note booka this | actions were filed. i morning filled with Smite and/ —_———— have headuehen this morning. "| SPOKANE JITNEYS ARE NOW ON THE DECREASE WILSON QUIET TODAY WASHINGTON, Jan, 1—Preaident| SPOKANE, Jan. 1—Stidnight saw Wilson spent a quiet New Year's day.|the passing of the fitney bus as a He expected to come down to dinner, | means of transportation here, after a but Dr. Grayson kept him on a diet, | four-year reign on city streets, remembering that ill effects followed Only five busses remained yester the president's celebration of his|@ay. At one time more than 100 birthday ‘were operating. sorts were filled early in the evening and thé hilarious «pirit did not abate until long after the youngster 1920 arrived. Everywhere there was faint tinges of radnens whenever some kill-joy re- minded the revelers that “this is the |tast chance to celebrate before the jong drought.” Pocket Flasks Aid Detroit Festival DETROIT, Jan. 1--Under the watchful eyes of Detroit's police force thousands of revellers ushered in the new year last night with the merry gurgle of the pocket flask. ‘Taxicabs were busy all last night carrying “casualties” from downtown cafen Many Detroitérs visited friends in Windsor, across the inter- national line, when the hip supplies here ran low. | Pine st Edgerton, and then— The machine shimmied an —for it was cold and foggy Pine st. Wednesday night—and a buck, just for a starter, skated. few feet on the slippery paven and then ran down the street. With a radiator full of alo the old bus couldn't go in a 4 line, and finally staggered clumsily up to the window of a store-at 42 There was a crash, the car sobbered and suddenly stopped. Edgerton took charge of his car. “It's enough to make me cranky,” he said, “but 1 won't be too on the old bus. Lots of things hap- pen on New Year's eve,” a CHICAGO, Jan. 1—A $100,000 fire early today threatened an entire block in the warehouse district. John Felker, a fireman, was seriously in” jured by falling glass. The Bon Marche will be closed until 12 o'clock noon FRIDAY, JANUARY 2 In order to complete stock taking FROM 12 TO 5:30 P. M. All odd lots will be disposed of at sharply reduced prices 50c—Your choice of any Woman’s Hat in the Bargain Basement—50c The Bon Marché ESTABLISHED 1890