The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 7, 1920, Page 1

THREE ARE DEAD IN HOTEL FIRE |SEEK MORE BODIES. IN SMOKING DEBRIS OF LINCOLN. EW Weather and Tonight Maximum, {il westerly winds. Temperatude Last 34 Hours 49 Today noon, 47 Thursday, fresh south- Minimum, 41 On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Entered as Serond Class Matter May 3, 11H9, at the Postoffice at Beattie, ~ VOLUME Re AS IT SEEMS TO ME DANA SLEETH mighty small and few in a our esteemed president, who one day not long ago, had more power in his hands than ali the armies of the earth. And yet, take that man in him self, huddied in his ch the Spark of life shining nm too clearly, separate him from his posi tion, and you have only a tired, dis sagas some wh he ly man, cing defeat at the summit of his life's work Kings, stripped of their deiegat ed authority usually rather poor specimens. Compared to the horse he rode the kaiser in his prime was a Mighty mean little animal The greatest man who . the biggest physical spect , exulting in hig might, isn't . thrown into a ¢age with a F hhalf-crown lion cub whg is late to are ever We are imperfect specimens, Weak vesecis, half-biind, unmus Beled creatures, that shiver in the Spring breeze shudder if we Rave the tooth: Man tn him is about the least glorious of all created creatures. Physically he each year drope in the scale, and the third generation of city dwellers are queer sort of cattle as to looks. UT man, as shadowed in big works, is wonderful Today I stood on the high hills back of San Diego and let the pan a of harbor and sky permeate Me. Overhead were a dozen great man birds from the flying station Beiow were the s' jogs a the hounds of the Paci fleet, t uld turn and city to powder in a few hours, Power and and sublime achievement; defying t ces of pature, scaling the he prob ing the depths of the white cities over deserts § ribbons of steel across co and flinging thousands of along at 40 miles an hour in per- fect comfort and safet Is th —a mount tience and a A few grimy a few fons of exph them 4 t spark, a and strets ) the plain Is there a ¢ oceans to un sand and in a few will be wedded and vided Out of nothing creates a dream walls of his min a ghostly picture city in the heart And insects come into and make this dream a | ity. Creation, not of your # not the nat animal crea but of kingdoms, and principalities and powers, and fairy lands built and concrete—ths grace ‘© 4 mountain to be moved that took infinite p of time to buil insects in 1 tinent to cut, two ? Send a few thou insects forth amu a continent di ‘On the ghont Veh of a fair white of the desert the desert se he paints of creation order and law, as some from our lives; as mysterious, esoteric somehow placed way y off there if heaven will be from rth, or if « in their different sin their We th of divine apart something something back there, or doubt very mu much different the creation of place nk of relig WASH., 5 PRINCE OF WALES AT SAN DIEGO Heir to British Throne Welcomed After Arrival in California Harbor Is The British go harbor at 930. formal welcome te ommittes inclu wn steamed « leet of destro: Overhead a squadron of 13 army planes hovered As the Renown came to anchor, the fog lifted and the navy spectacle pre sented an inspiring sight from shore } There will be but one pubile ap | pearance of the prince at the Stadi jum, at 4 p.m. The route of the | prince to the Stadium remains secret | and every effort will be made to pro | teet him from cranks while he isa on | shore, Both United States “ae \s rit ish secret service men will o | guard. BLOW OF LITTLE MAN IS FATAL TO OPPONENT CHICAGO, April Manne, five feet and was held by pol nection with the Walsh oda knocked Walsh swore in front Walsh died en route to ‘DAYLIGHT PLAN | 1S VOTED DOWN |Tacoma Electors Defeat It), by Five to One TACOMA dow ot Mrs. a hony Manne ital April 7 one. her associa rs f |U. S. Now Holding Embassy Pickets| Federal ot t WASHINGTON, Ap | officials today took ¢ proceedings against four ocates of an Irish reput keting the Br esterday for plc their appeara fter a night of ed | to have neh |Spokane Men Favor Daylight Saving SPOKANE, April 7.—Daylight sav ing won in a walk | plies from b [ber of Com |day. The ratio in f | turning is running about fiv 'Street Car Hits Seattle Woman Mrs 6 to one. Jthat the [Mayor Orders Sweeping _ Probe of Fire Hazards Sweeping inspection of all hotels in the city and the elimination of all buildings known to be fire traps was ordered by Mayor Caldwell Wednesday morning. A searching investigation of all buildings in Seattle will be made to ascertain precautions used in case of fires. The mayor's letter, which was addressed to James E. Blackwell, superintendent of buildings, was as fol- lows: 8 soon as you have finished the necessary in- spection of the walls of the Lincoln hotel left stand- ing after the fire of this morning, I wish you would begin a systematic and thoro inspection of all hotels, and later of other buildings, occupied or frequented by large numbers of people, with a view to determin- ing what, if any, places are not now fully complying with all ordinances and regulations at present in ex- istence for the prevention of fires and for the safety of the public in case of fires or fire alarms. “Particular attention should be given to the mat- ter of fire escapes, exits and fire alarms in buildings. “I wish you would obtain the assistance and co- operation of the fire marshal and the chief of the fire department in carrying out this request. “If there are any places popularly known to the fire department as fire traps or places which would be extra hazardous in case of fire, they should be given your first attention.” JAPAN RETAINS MAYOR PRAISES SIBERIAN TOWN FIREMAN HERO ..: Extensive Battle Is Expected C. R. Dooley Will Receive) With Bolsheviki TOKYO, March 31.—Japanese troops will be withdrawn from Siberia after evacuation by the when the Japanese in Special Recognition Caechs, Siberia are safe and when condi tions in Siberia no longer con menace to Manchuria it was officially an lared We rts Ines ot n from stitute a and Korea, nounced today Al recognit to be extended to “SIE CHINESE FROM FLAMES ‘Crippled Inmates Rescued in Portland Fire PORTLAN al fat ve battle may soon forcements vik army at od, that the anti-| also from t Irkutsk were Bolshevik authorities at Chita wre waiting for from the Japanese, moving from the and that a battle was imminent t of that cit Militar perta Japanes Siberia region te the time of the ¢ army, the Bo were an ar 5.000 t an front, but many were withdrawn after K ollapse. Spring Will Soon Be Here 3ut USED CARS have not gone up in price yet. It is only natural to ex- pect them to when the demand gets greater as the weather improves, Many good _ second- hand cars are listed on Classified Page today. Look them over NOW. You will always find the |) best in the east estimated 8 now in the; al about 46,000, At of the Kolchak | © here © force at a litt rescued of a burning build wn after Chinese on ouch their ley were inmate in Chinat ers had refu itrymen bec 1f the Sit ahd Te eon work The fire in the ro Gim How, Chinese woman, wh tric om of the ignited heat from an elec stove paper decoratior When firernen found her, Gim was d trunk, She re fighters removed the t different, With tim was willing to to building and con |British in Turkey Retiring to Ismid) CONSTANTINOPLE, April 7 jand face t ¢\lumbus sanitarium ; , for Westinghouse Air Brake Co. | order | tingut sher away after futile efforts ted here| The Seattle Star Wash, under the Act of Congress March 3, 1819. Per Year, by Mall, $5 to #9 are Hi DITION INESDAY, APRIL 7, 1920, THIRTEEN INJUR ‘TWO. CENTS IN SEATTLE 300 GUESTS ROUTED BY BLAZE AT NIGHT FRED R. HAMILTON, 50, Berkeley, Calif., presi- dent of the Puss’n Boots confectionery concern; killed by leaping from upper floor. MISS GRAY HAMILTON, age 21, daughter of Fred R. Hamilton; killed by leaping from window. MISS BLANCHE CROWE, age 20, clerk in Smith building offices of Chauncey Wright Restaurants Co., where she had been employed one month. Came to Seattle from Vancouver, B. C., a year ago. Lived in room 636, at Lincoln. Body discovered in debris Wednesday afternoon. Charles F, LaCasse, 325 Third ave. N., fireman; dislocated he broken ribs and bruises. Fogelquist, 2302 15th ave. falle yn debris. Bruises and cuts. Martin Elliott, 3810 Aurora ave., fireman; back wrenched. M. Carleton, Engine Co, No. 2; face severely cut. C. W. Tebault, newspaper reporter, Lincoln hotel; hands diy burned. Clarence Tebault; burnt hand treated at Seattle General hospital; released. John Harrington, S., fireman; struck by all at Co- Harrington works mother, wife and daughter, burns and bruises. Paul Carlson, face and hands burned; John Deleszyeki, overcome by smoke; hospital. Leon Hannan, city hospital released from city sprained ankle; CITY INSPECTORS WERE WARNED OF HOTEL FIRE TRAP —SAYS VICTIM city hospital M. W. Meier, one of the sur- vivers #f the 1 said this afternoon he had been and made compelled to batter down a eater or of ed door and smash the sash a nailed window in order to himself and wife to the py? early this morning ther survivor, sai mpted to use a fire| and found it out of| bu aid he threw the ex-| ago the manage of the suites them into mailer rooms put in were me le of beaver board flimsy so " ment 8 he of fire, ating her | no good He co I took the | matter up with inspector. He said he couldn't do any: thing, but that it would have to be reported to the chief. I won't tell his name because he did heroic work at the fire this morning.” Meier is employed by Strang & advertising agents in the nk building. tried to ‘There find was and hose. to an ope it emergency none, he said. “My wife fourth floor Meier, “This which a father jumped to death was to get to t found that and I lived on the of the Lincoln,” said the floor from and his daughter My first thought fire escape. 1 wan ioced also employed in the Amer 1d went thru| ican Bank building, said he found the night watchman at the Lincoln attempted to put the fire out it the extinguisher was out of order,” 1. “We couldn’, do was with | anything with it, We hunted around and|for the emergency and it ‘wasn't there Pro: Amer Good. winde just lower sash down tight. Th a it I kicked {t out and myself to safety difficulty that hose, sot my wife | Illinois Primacy Due Next Tuesday NEW YORK, April 7.—Illinois is Jury in Mann Act Hearing Disagrees 8AN FRANCISCO, A | jury in the trial of Wil fs Wat the next hurdle in the obstacle race son, of Winona, Idaho, ch ged with \for the presidential nomination. inging his sister-indlaw, Miss levtha Akers: © ‘ortland in vio.| Preferential primaries will be held | lation of the Mann act, to California,| there next Tuesday Fifty-eight re- le iiengreed. today publican and a like number of dem. | ocratic delegates to the national con | Still More Wet _ Weather Coming vention are affected. Illinoig has its own “favorite son’ candidate for republican honors. Father and Daughter | Leap to Death From Window; Third Body Found in Ruins Firemen found the body of Miss Blanche Crowe, 20- year-old clerk for the Chauncey Wright Restaurants company, shortly after noon today in the ruins of the old Lincoln hotel, at Fourth -ave. and <r which was destroyed by fire this morning. She is the third victim accounted for. Mayor Caldwell has asked Building Inspector Byackwell to launch a sweeping investigation of all ~ |hotels and large buildings, to see if fire safety laws are being enforced. Three hundred transient and residential guests were sleep- ing in their rooms at 12:40 o'clock this morning when Frank A. Jacobs, a photographer, passing by, heard the ringing of an automatic alarm and saw a puff of smoke coming from a basement window. Jacobs ran into the lobby and shouted to the night clerk: “Your hotel’s afir At noon today the bodies of two victims lay in the morgue, a dangerously injured fireman was fighting a des- perate struggle against death in the city hospital, a dozen other persons suffering from burns and broken banes were seattered in hospitals thruout the city, scores of men, Wo men and children, clad in nothing but their night clothes, were in refuge places near the fire, and half a dozen hose lines were playing constant streams of water on the still smouldering ruins where intrepid firemen searched for other bodies under smoking, tottering walls. The ruins presented at noon the appearance of a monster ant hill torn to pieces. The west wall facing the harbor had fallen in, leaving the three remaining walls standing — with watersoaked curtains flapping in the wind. CHECK NAMES IN HUNT FOR VICTIMS i Inside the wa Ss a great heap of tumbled and twisted | debris. Over this, and high up along the walls, scrambled firemen in slickers and waterproof helmets, apparently un- | concerned about their danger. Points of flame still darted out of the smoke, stubbornly resisting the streams of water pumped by half a dozen engines. Third ave., below the ruin, was a blackened river. An effort was being made to check the names of guests, to ascertain whether any still lay buried in the debris, as jwas feared. The result w several unaccounted for at noon. | Fire Chief Frank Stetson said at noon there was no way of telling whether more persons had been lost. Police Chief Warren, who spent the morning helping in the search, would not venture to say whether all had been accounted for. | When Photographer Jacobs shouted the first warning to |the clerk, he rushed to the floor above, while the clerk was |carrying out the money from the safe, and by shouts and pounding on doors, aroused many sleeping guests. Another hero of the fire was C. W. Tebault, a newspa man, who ran to the upper floors and awakened sleepers, en assisted in their rescue, remaining at his self-appointed task until his hands and face were painfully burned. When the fire apparatus began to arrive from all points — of the city, smoke and flames were pouring out of the row of basement windows all along the alley. The fire rapidly | spread to the elevator chute and shot upward into all the | seven flo Smoke filled the corridors and rooms, blinding and choking the scores of persons running for the fire escapes, FLAMES SHOOT UP ELEVATOR SHAFT The elevator shaft made a perfect flue for the roaring fire beneath and the rapidly increasing throng outside saw a great flame shoot up 100 feet above the roof of the build ing while firemen ran up their scaling ladders and unleashed life nets for the rescue, A rumor that some of the doors leading to the fire escapes were locked probably was occasioned by several perenne leaping out of windows. In this manner two were kille While the work of rescue was being started, the face of a man appeared at a fourth story window. He crawled onto the ledge, where he stood a moment shouting some- |thing, then jumped. His life was crushed out on the E pavement below. A moment later a young girl came to | the window and, looking out, leaped with a scream and fell | beside the body of the man. Death for both was instan- ~ |taneous. They were identified as Frederick R, Hamilton British troops in Turkish Asia stinor| today were ordered to retire on Is) More showers—that's the program mid, about 60 miles east and south | for ‘Thursday, according to Weather lor ¢ ntinople, on the Scutarl-|Opserver Salisbury, who displayed way. [southwesterly wind signals, “buys” and his daughter Gray, 20, of Berkeley, Cal. Hamil was part owner of “Puss’n Boots,” a confectionery here, (Just turn the page.) Frank ©. Lowden, Neverthe: , Major General Leonard Wood invaded that state in a spirited campaign for its indorsement. J “Want” columns of The Star. scious Don't worry over lost opportuni: | cuts, bruises and pouatbl ties. Keep your eyes 07 for the|of the brain when hit by an ext one that comes along. son car at Sixth ave. and Pike st, 7"