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

Weather Tonight and Friday, occa- sional ra i VOLUME 23 la Femme Copyright, 1920, by Doubleday, Page 4 Co.; pudlished by special ar- vangement with the Wheeler Syn- dicate, Inc, Robbins, reporter for the Pica- yunne, and Dumara of Liabeille— the old French newspaper that has Dussed for nearly a century—were goed friends, well proven by years Of ups and downs together. ‘were seated where they had a habit/ @f meeting—in the little, Creole:| Raunted cafe of Madame Tibault, im) Dumaine Street. If you know the place, you will experience a thrill @t pleasure in recalling it to mind. It is small and dark, with six little) Polished tables, at which you may sit and drink the best coffee in New Orleans, and concoctions of absinthe @qual to Sazerac's best. Madame Ti- Baylt, fat and indulgent, presides at tr desk, and takes your money. Bicolette and Meme, madame's Bleces, in charming bib aprons, Bring the desirable beverages. with true Creole luxury, cine his absinthe, with half. a swirl of cigaret ae The sale Gispose of the building ground, the complete furnishings of the and chapel, without reserve.” notice stirred the two friends reminiscent: talk concerning an Hae about two years) led the incidents, | the cafe. tthe line of their talk, and she | over to their table—for had it} " twenty thousand dollars—that the whole matter going? three took up the long-aban- E i & Ao chaff of it. It was in the this house of the Little Samaria that Robbins and Dumars had stood during that eager. fruitiess mews search of theirs, and looked upon the gilded statue of the Virgin. i “Thass #0, boys,” said madame, summing up. “Thass ver’ wicked man, M’sieur Morin. Everybody @hall be cert’ he steal those money I plage in his hand for keep safe: ‘Yes. He's boun’ spend that money, @omehow.” Madame turned a broad ool comprehensive smile upon Du- “I ond’stand you, . Ail those days you come ask Me fo’ tell ev'ything I know ‘bout M’sieur Morin. Ah! yes, 1- know Most time when those men lose money you say ‘Cherchez la femme’—there is somewhere the woman. But not for M'sieur Morin. No, boys. Before he shall die, he i« Uke one saint. You might’s well, M’sieur Dumars, go try to find thone money in those statue of Virgin Mary that M’sieur Morin present at those p'tite sveurs, as try find one | femme.” At Madame Tibault’s last Horta Robbins started slightly and cast a keen, sidelong glance at Dumara The Crecie sat, unmoved, dreamily Watching the spirals of his onl amoke. It was then nine o'clock in the| morning and, a few r-‘nutes later, the two friends separated, going dif. ferent ways to their day's duties | And now follows the brief story of Madame Tibault’s vanished sands New Orleans will readily recall to mind the circumstances attendant Upon the death of Mr.’ Gaspard Morin, in that elty. Mr. Morin was 4n artistic goldsmith and jeweler in the old French Quarter, and a man held in the highest esteem. He be- longed to one of the oldest French families, and was of some distinc. tion as an antiquary and historian He was « bachelor, about fifty years | of age. He lived in quiet comfort, @t one of those rare old hostelries in Royal Street. He was found in urn to Page 8, Column %) southerly winds. Temperature Last 24 Hours may oe 58, Minimum, 51. Today noon, 57. They | Been her lost money—her van-| mystery, threshing over the) thou. | Bis rooms, one morning, dead from | in; moderate Bntered as Second Clase Matter May 2, PITCHING, CLEVELAND iio. | On the Issue the lesnc of Anetviniets Fates Cokie No Combbhees > <a) eo Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The Seattle Star at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash. under the Act of Congress March 8, 1879. To Our 45.0002. New Readers: . DEAR FRIENDS: The circulation figures of Seattle newspapers, made pub- lic yesterday, which we republish today, have given us a new conception of our responsibilties, our opportunities and our duties. We knew, because our circulation department kept telling us, that our circulation was going up. But we had no conception of the extent of the shift which twelve short months had shown. It is reckoned in metropolitan news- paper offices that each pa i issued has, jon the average, four readers. The Se- attle Star for the past six months has | been printing 11,749 more copies dail than it printed during the correspond- jing six months in '1949. That means |that 45,000 persons (to put it conserva- |tively) are reading The Star who did not read this paper a year ago. Bringing Circulation Figures Down to Date Government Reports of Seattle Daily Newspapers for Six Months Ending October 1, 1920, as compared with the corresponding six months one year ago: 1919 «1920 «=6GAIN LOSS The Seattle Star,.50,163 61,912 11,749 | In 1919 The Star was one of the two | The Second Paper 68,171 53,477 aps: | papers running neck-and-neck for sec- | T Thi? Paver..51.022 60.905 4 jond position in the field. Today The } Star’s Lead Over Second Paper... 8,435 | Star is indisputably in the lead, and the question is which of the other two pa- pers will bold second place. - EG: para lead of ee ai an a’ ‘or th of the eins Tih ts Star’s Lead Over Third Paper. .. .11,007 pots ds six months. ene Si for you will notice that The The Stars is ‘closest competitor is a FALLING ci lon. We do not aan to these facts boastfully. We do not lay claim to su rior or rlative editorial ability. Rather do we feel that The Star’s is due ape ally to its independence—to its absolute freedom from business or polit- that make candor impossible and sincerity difficult. = have no axes to grind. If occasionally we censure a man or an institu- tion, it is solely because we believe such censure will result in a public good. | We prefer to praise rather than to condemn. -|than hinder a bad cause—but if the public goed demands that a ba fought, we will fight—you bet your life we will! No man or institution is powerful enough to swerve The Star from what it be- thing be lieves to be the right course. Neither isthere a man, woman or child, however | | } humble, who, having been wronged by The ‘Star, can- not ask ‘and receive from this newspaper a direct and sincere apology. The little heading reproduced here- with appears in these columns once or twice a month. That it does not appear oftener is due to the fact that our hore try to be fair, try to be accurate, try to give all the facts—AND GENERALLY SUCCEED. Our older readers know these things. It is not for their benefit that this article is published. Many of them have read The Star thru thick and thin for twenty years. They have known its faults and for- given its mistakes—and watched The Star grow big- ger and bigger, better and better, year by year. They have originated many of our features, and suggested many of our most aggressive campaigns. To our 45,000 new readers we wish to give this assurance: jo GOOP thing is#oo weak to find a champion in The Star. No BAD thing is too strong to find in The Star an enemy. With YOUR help and YOUR suggestions, The Star stands ever ready and anxious to help any movement or institution that will make Seattle or the whole Northwest a better place in which to live. You D , BET. WeMake Mistakes and We Correct. Them, Too ‘The Star never intentionally prints an who call it to eur attention. —THE EDITOR, and ‘}ing. fa We would rather help a good cause | SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1920. POPULATION NOW 105,683,108 Ring Lardner Writes “Cronology” of Second Ball Game Gets Broken Seat and Is Peevish Stages Fast “Battle of Jokesters’”’ Bows Homage to Mr. Grimes BY RING W. LARDNER = FIGURESIN NEW CENSUS GIVEN OUT Increase of 13,710,842 Is Shown on Continent Dur- ing Last Ten Years WASHINGTON, Oct. 7.— |The census bureau announced jthe population of continental United States as 105,683,108. | Increase of 13,710, 842, or 14.9 |per cent. WOLFF HANGING ‘The hanging of “ot Roy Wolff, Calt | fornia boy-elayer, was vigorounly | Star is 8,485, but we direct your attention to the tact a mee tat oawd Cent Temple ‘Wednes. | it on record as op- posed sing of Wolff, A) | comm from the Central) | Trades &n@ Tabor Council of Brem erton bought the matter before the jocal council. Bremerton tabor fe ald to be fighting strongly for the commuta Uon of Wolff's death penalty, as two of Wolffs brothers are members of Bremerton unions, More Cafes Cut Prices (See Page Seven) AGED COUPLE SEEK DIVORCE Love coming late in life doesn't always run smoothly, as was evi denced Thursday in Mra Hattie M. Glass’ sult for divorce from William H. Glass. William {# 79, while his unhappy and dissatisfied spouse is 63. “He refused me the necessities of life,” the wife alleged. The husband, to refute this, fur nished an itemized list of bills total ling $895.95, which he claims he paid} for his wife, “Ho treated me scornfully and made me unhappy,” continued the day treated her as kindly as a man of & woman,” THE STAFF. WILL ROGERS (HIMSELF) errs IT ste Here WHERE A SwiNDLeR, Ss HAVIN’ A TOVGH Timm | 1 | ROY GROVE DRAWS THE PICTURES FOR to mete out proper justice. They) were married in Everett in 1916. THE JOKES WHILE Yes- we \ LAMS THE. ABANKS PROMISED I$ PROTESTED: | Per Year, by Mail, BROOKLYN, N. Y. Oct. 6.—The bona said it was the custom Amist good reporters these days to write things up in cronology order and use the present tenta, in writing things up, so why don’t you try it once, he says, so I thanked him for the compliments, and ask him what and he exclaimed himself, so we will start in with this a. m. and fo thru with the day like it was diary, 1 got up at 8 o'clock, and go in the bathroom to take a bath, but the |water ain't hot, so I don't take no bath. ‘The same thing has happened the past six days, maybe the water will be hot in the hotel at Cleveland, Oh, diary, I hope so. Shaves myself in the ice water, and puts on my world’s serious close and go down to breakfast. The salt and pepper shaker hasn't worked good all summer on account of the |damp. 1 pound hard on the pepper shaker to wake it up and the ‘top }comes off, and old Oscar Pepper dives into the eggs in toto. My first for | Wife says she will get thé pepper out tunes on different instruments witch I have mastered and finely it comes along noon and I start for the! ldayly pilgrimage to Brooklyn, and |stop and pick up Gene Buck that | writes the funny gags in the follies, and take him along in the hopes he will make a few cra write up, and give you We get to ebbets field, and up in out its.a broken seat and about as/ jcomfortable as a man betting on {Cox and I wished I had my thanks back. ‘Well, Gene looks at the score and jon the cover theys a picture of Rob- bie, and it says “Wilbert Robinson the man O'War of the 1920 BB sea- son." “That's funny,” says Gene, “Nam- ing a baseball Manager after a race horse” so I mays, “yea, and expecial- ly robbie don't Khow any famous elephants,” “I will make you a lit- Ue bet" says Gene, “that if robbie and man-o-war is very matched in a hoss race, the winner wont have =| |such cute first name like Wilbert.” “ThAt is," 1 says, “unlest a should happen to get away in front, and when man.o-war seen him in the way he would think it was road | closed and detour to another track.” | That is what I and Gene has to say about the picture on the front of score, and I will leave it to the public to judge witch one of us de- serves the biggest laugh but nobody ever ast me to write the gags in the | follies. After a wile the Clevetand boys be- |sins throwing the ball around like | and the b—1) was he talking about, | cizveLané LOSES TWO CENTS IN S . many times in the past 10 years I have forced a smile in responses to age that the plot of them was about speaker speaking. | SENSATIONAL PLOT IS UNCORKED I look around the press box and notice that a few of the boys looks pale and wan, but that ain't nothing | new for a wor.d serious, and I didn’t | think nothing about it till a few of them keels over in their seats, and I begin to make inquirys. (ome to find out theys a plot to destroy the Maxwell, of Philadelphia; Nick Fiat- ley, of Boston; Horse Power Ed- wards, of Cleveland; Bill Peat, of Pittsburg; A.D, Runyon, of New petition for pinch. by James A! Streets St 8 009 oF Menge ought it shaving up in time good. Gene me who ing for Cleveland now and I |him Uhle. 80 he says this hat I can| ike & good spot for a swiss song # @ laugh. | Number, hk, Uhle, Uhie-lee-lee-o! Watch 'how we go through alpine snow. |the press box and theys a friend of |Hughy Fullertons setting there and | Uhle, Prison Ub-lee-lee-o, with a truly ] ast him to move over a seat and | U sute-lee-o. kive Gene and I 2 seats to-gether. So Hugheys friend gives up his seat |S¢t* up and says goodbye to Gene, and I thank him and come to find| nd he asts what is the matter and When the 8th Innings fs over I | 1 tells him I can’t spend no more time in a brogen seat on a empty stomach, so I grabs the subway, and come down town to write this diary, and I am still picking Smith to pitch !tomorrow tho-ugh robbie may cross | me by sticking his § M 8S, Marquard, |Mamaux, Miljus, Mohart and Mitch. ell, with Miller behind the bat, My- ers in center, and Mccabe running for sweeney. Now I am going out to get my chow, as I have nicknamed dinner, and oh diary walt till the bell syndi- cate inc sees the old expense ac- count. (Copyright, 1920, by Bell Syndi- cate, Inc.) ‘THREE DEAD IN SHIP EXPLOSION NEW YORK, Oct. 7.—Three per- sons are known to be dead, four others are unaccounted for and be- tween 20 and 30 others injured as 4 result of an explosion caused by | when the innings is over gene says! wife. j they had spent Tuesday evening list-|an acetylene torch on board the oil “I wanted a home,” countered | ening to a speech by a former feath- jtanker, G. R. Crowe, lying in a William, “and I still want it. I\erweight champaign box fighter, and| Brooklyn dock today. John Starr, foreman of a gang of My axe could be expected to treat|he bets speaker will do some speak- | boilermakers employed on the tank- jing when he comes in to the bench, ler, Barney McCoy, and Thomas Fox, 60 O10 THe PROHIBITION ISTS “PROMISE TO HELP BRYAN OUT AT THE DEMocrRsric CONVENTION Judge Everett Smith will attempt | Gene aint seen no BB since the first/a plumber, were killed. Starr was bounce was out and the boys all dir-| blown 200 feet, his body falling on ried beards, so he didn't know how the deck of a ship adjoining, WOT’S NEWS TODAY? BROOKLYN WINS IN CLOSE pe i i RR AD : 3 i 3 FI 2 g ES 5 i 5 iF 5 4 aE f : i Sewell, who had an off 4 to Caldwell's troubles Griffith's easy roller. Hi Mails, who relieved the Caldwell, pitched fairly and in spite of a tendency to be wild, kept the Brooklynites aw from the scoring station was relieved by Uhle in the Uhle performed acceptably, and not scored on. WHEAT TAKES HITTING HONORS Zach Wheat carried away the’ tung honors of the day. singles in four times at Brooklyn's total accum' base hite—rang off his wicked Hi Myers also had a good day, scored two bingles to his credit, Brooklyn's sixth hit was ed for by Olsen. Speaker's double tn the fourth the only regular hit of the ¢ variety off Smith's delivery. A ple of Texas leaguers went to credit of Steve O'Neill. That all the Indians could do. In They look far from being a club, and seemed ready to come at Brooklyn with both fists Saturday. Real baseball weather v today, and the result was bal enthusiasm of the world seri variety for the first time in # days. The park was packed to pacity, more than 23,000 fans thru the gates, | Olson to Konetehy, ‘No runs, to bite,” errors, BROOKLYN—Olno: Wess J. ston sacrificed, O° : hobble of an way for Caldwell ma but Ray was very wild and was, fast. Hits by Wheat and Myers him to the dugout. SECOND INNING CLEVELAND—Gardasi hit two Inches over Une, then he fled to @ |lyn fly-chaser moving; Wood made a ona