The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 24, 1921, Page 12

PAGE 12 DEATHENDS: RICH MAN'S ‘POOR’ POSE Secret Sorrow Drives Fi- ~ _nancier to Live as Miser in New York Garret BY K. HW. WHITNEY ms RENSONHUT L. 1. May 24. What was the secret sorrow that so Wominated the life of Calvin Amory turned him fro g husband and fa into. @ bitter, miserly old man? Why did he abandon his beautl Pal home and forsake his charming Wife and daughter, to live in a gar) =) frethovel atop a dilap 1 business Wall st H) Sbullding in the heart of t istrict? Btevens, the miser, died suddenty} Min Trinity hospital. soklyn, on March 20. Screaming and protest-| HE against the invasion of the po | lice, he had been forcibly taken to} the hospital only after | janitor | Superintendent feared he would dic of starvation rvat r Bi @id not kill him; heart disease did | (LEAVES ESTATE oF FIFTEEN MILLIONS A simple court proceeding. brought | later by his widow, revealed that} Stevens had left behind upward of 915,000,000 in cash, bonds, real = tate, coal mines in Vir a and min eral deposits in W n states Wo will has been found. Whe court action of his widow ed of an idavit filed in pro. Date court asking for $10 from her husband's es “support and education @aughter, Kate, 15." Bhe submitted to the court Kate recently became the bri Richard Fasan, 19, a student at Dart Mouth collece, whose home is in Gal Yeston, ‘Texas. Kate has been a tate student at Mise i ‘s school, Overbook, Phila delphia She met Fagan at schoo! | “hops. The youngsters ¢ i = Wt was while living in modest earding house in Hoboken that © Stevens fell in love with a young widow and married her. Together > they went to Bensonhurst, where he Mrs. Jessie L. @rected a costly home. Within two Fears Kate was born. ‘Then came a weird change (above), Fagan, Mrs. 18 Kate in (center), ‘Stevens’ life. " For years he limited himself to patched his $0 cents a day for food, shoes himself with “geurried forth at rs and tin cans which | gold in the morning to junk dealers HAD ALL LUXURIES - EN THE EARLY DAYS Bout let his wife tell her story as told it to me: the early days it was all so Then we had all the (below) — widow, grandson of Ca Fles our hearts desired. T had a danghter, Jessie, ween @arried Mr. Stevens, She ie Anthony de Sousa, and her tid is an electrical engineer in as husband loved Jessie as his @aughter, Hoe was devoted to "Both girls, Jessie and Kate, and de file@ them nothing. But there was @ome sorrow in his heart—he never | Would tell me what. “As time wore on my husband Became obessed with the idea that everyone, no matter how rich, dispense with all luxuries. ordered plain foods and said we nowspend money for anything wasn't absolutely necessary, “Then came the time when we dispensed with our household em- and settled down to a hum ‘a existence. . Stevens became engrossed ‘ his business. He thought of else. It became a mania with him. “I can recall many a time when he came home actually il! from overwork, but he wouldn't rest Bight after night he would sit up a Jong after daybreak, poring @ver his books and his satchely of Stevens Stev Bobby Van Cleef De Sousa, 5 daughter Amory Stevens, all likely to 5,000,000 estate, Lift Off with Fingers JAMES HENRY ablished 26 Years Brands Packing House Products PUGET SOUND POWER & LIGHT COMPANY Has always furnished More Power to the citi- zens of Puget Sound than has been demand- ed. ron THE 1100 Wiret Avenue, PORT BLAKELY MILL CO. XPORT and DOMESTIC CARGO Mills: Port Blakely, W Offices: Seattle, Wash. sh, THs UNIVERSAL BY-PRODUCTS CO. SHARKSKIN LEATIOF ™ eng || Pacitic Bide, and vin orric shaTT Wasnt. iy CONTINENTAL Manufacturers of Mac Pipe and Semi-cire Phone Elliott 474 Went & | | Fiertda,. West 377 “I have peard his racking cough, and often’ went downstairs and| Doesn't hurt a bit! Drop a little Pleaded that he co to bed, to save Teezone” on an aching corn, in-| his health. But. no. stantly that corn stops hurting, then| Tel. 4 “ 8 jshortly you lift ght off with WORRIED OVER ONE CENT ctw fan at a aa Pius SEATTLE DIFFERENCE IN BOOKS oar ei . Your druggist sells a tiny bottle of | [. “There were times when he blunt-|-Freezone” for a few cents, sufficient Ty informed me that his books were | to remove every hard corn, soft corn, | ) 1 cent out of the w Mind you—J|or corn between the toes, and the 2 cent “s ae @ penny calluses, without soreness or irrita- | i to him, saying, ‘Why, here | difference.’ ’ ‘acturers of 4 ‘But he was not satisfied. IE d?, Oxyuen “Often I would walk into the 1 “yes yes Ti ire brary te find hie cliting alone. his| your eyes are tired: and over. 1109 Fost Street ey’ filled with tears, sobbing | we orked if they itech, ache, burn or M, Pre: hysterically. |smart. go to any Grug store and get : a botile of Bon-Opto tablets... Dre “He adopted his mode of living,|one tablet in a fourth of a gia and adhered to it, while I chose to| water and use to bathe the eyes eontinue here with my children two, to four times & day, _¥¢ “Mr. Stevens owned 140,000 acree orgie oe Opto brings ns 4p Virginia and had a home there,| Note: Doctors say Bon-Opto strength With servants and everything that in week's tim ® man's wealth could afford. Me iso maintained a room in a hotel Bri in New York, ness, I believe, but that in hie busi was necessa Bon-Opto a “I tried with all the love in my | heart to make him take care of him a self, to preserve his health The Ea % “Finally, I made up my mind not ° lest Way to interfere anything be did. “I am sure he left no will. I and all others who knew him will un derstand what a terrible ho There is one sure way that never hhad of death. He didn't want to |!" to remove dandruff completely Bpeak of it, and the subject of a|8M4 that Is to dissolve it. This de mill, he once said, was to invite|"T°% It entirely. To do this, just death.” get about four ounces of plain, or A SATO Pe ee dinary liquid arvon; apply it at night when retiring; use enough to moisten the scalp and rub it in|} lf YOU WANT GOOD PAINT Yor DEPENDABLE gently with the finger tips. | ¥ By morning, most if not af, of SER your dandruff will be gone, and 3 VICES three or four more applications will . gg compu dane ana ancy [WALWORTH tae stroy ever gle sign and trace of PRE- WAR BASIS it, no matter how much dandruff you may ft e. Eye Ricamisations You will find, too, that all itch- All Styles of Eyeglasses ing and digging of the scalp will . And Pyeglass Repairs stop instantly, and your hair will be i SINCE 1890 fluffy, lustrous, glossy, silky and ml soft, and look and feel a hundred i SHURON ctassis — | tres eter Great Western Smelting & KRYPTOK You, can get liquid arvon at any Refining Co INVISIBLE BIFOCALS drug store. It is inexpensive, and ‘ , four ounces is all you will need Senattere Ene Beiaaee ef Met No Charge for Kyo om RAHI Examinations This simple remedy has never been FOUNDRY and known to fail Advertisement Seattle Optical Co. Kat. Since 1890 715 2d Ave. 5s Relief to Cure Dandruff OPPORTUNITY TAKRWAN TADS ¢, in 1920 Ninth Ave, 8. rirk MANUFACTURI hine Wire-wound and ¢ ular THE SEATTLE STAR INDUSTRIAL AND BUSINESS REVIEW Ww" gas you how to avoid waste using them trode Saad appliances, and SEATTLE LIGHTING CO. Main 6767 1308 Fourth Ave. WALLS AND CEILINGS IN VERY KIND OF BUILDING PLASTER WALL BOARD F. T. CROWE & CO. LTT Dork Street, Ta Main 442 Seeurttion Mids CENTRAL GOAL CO. Miners and Shippers GRAND RIDGE COAL RAVENSDALE COAL One of Washington's Oldest Product ALK. ISmtaM West Coast Iron Works CASTINGS ID STAVE COMPANY ntinuous Stave Wood od Tanks, Flume PACIFIC CAR & FOUNDRY CO. CARS, TRUCKS, FORGINGS, BOLTS, EVERYTHING IN IRON AND STEEL CASTINGS orrick: w Hoat Spikes, Ship Rivets, Pipe 3800 Iowan Pacific Creosoting Cd. IFe HLDG. The Brinkley Co. | : FOR GREY ImoN CASTINGS AND TRANSMISSION MACHINERY 1020 Ist Ave. 8. Elitett 187 An All-Wood Pulp Hoard Manufactured by ALBION MANUFACTURIN 90 West Mad ™ Alaskan Copper Works Marine & General Coppersmithing HONE BA SEATTLE BOILER WORKS Manufacturers and Dealers Rollers, ‘Tanks, Pipe Lines, smokestacks Done on ort Notice 1128 W. 45th St. Repatrin, We HURRY BASS-HUETER PAINT CO. ANY PURPOSE, CALL ON 1OTT 5820 RASS FOUNDRY All Kinds of BRASS CASTINGS Lander st. C. C. RAMSAY & CO. New York Block Main 1090 REAL ESTATE Su S will help you choose the most economical _ i yas! |All Lines of Industry | React to Iron and Steel The Responsibility of Business to The West’s Great Mercantile House Believes in Home BY A. K, ISIIAM, | West Coast Iron Works | Products ° When the price of iron or steel] One of the largest mercantile lows wult, This ean be verified by|# Co, of thin ett patrontaing lany who has followed the prices |Home industries to the exfent of BY ALVAN T. SIMONDS of products and manufactured |4ndling the total or partial out sident Simonds Mfg, Oo. articles the pst 10 years of man Northwestern oncerr When a man extablinhes a busine The market valuc of almost any|There can be no doubt ax to whe and begins making or selling 004*,| product in directly contingent upon. t company stands regard te ' ating a large find the price of steel, for rteet in king, |bome products sponsibility, as well as contr There is no industry which is not| Similar to the practice of our local A certain degree the welfare dependent upe it. The average |fetall stores, the company purchase piness of all whom he employs, 204 puysiness man's mind is fixed up nome of their products in other part ho minimum of education, or passing |ine commodity which he is handling, |0f the counte This due to the of mination pocuring a license | ang he sometimes does not under. |fet that many lines of merchandine in required, In th®@ responsibility Of /wtand the reason for ite rise and fall /“f@ not manufacttired here h 4 man to soclety any len than!in value. He can find the anewer| Take most of the garments of vonmibility of the public ac lin a study of the iron and steel mar) Wearing apparel; these are not made nay in the West and cannot be secured protects itwelf aguinst dis In answer to the repeated, state. |here. Hosiery must be bought in aster, lows in health or resources, bY| ment that the Northwent im indus.| other cities. Tools are not manufac requiring that thone who nerve it 1M | triatiy independent of other parts of | tured to any extent west of Bt. Louis responsible positions shall be educat-/ing country, it in apparent that we | #4 they must be bought where they od no as to dincharge thelr duties are not, and never can be, until t are made without lons to the welfi and hap! Northwest produces and manufac-|. 1” ¢very case where an article can pine@s of the » ty that employs \tures its own iron be supplied b a local orthwe them. By genera’ cement, educa-| geattie han today a large plant en-| firm, Sear in glad to buy tion for this purpose has come to in gaged in the man turing of stee) |'t Thi n is made unresery Je study t will broaden the | trom pig and p iron. This cc edly by the the mind, also that it will give #kill and \ooen has five open hearth furnaces |bouse. All wall board, roofing and knowledge of the kind needed for the | with a dally capacity of 600 tons,|C*ment handled by the company i dincharge of the duties of the physl ne city has another up-todate plant| Purchased in the » A number clan which manufactures bolts, acrews,{°f Tacoma firm. well an Everett, Ever since men began to be divid-| rivets nuts, xpiken, ete The city |contribute to the stock of the com ed between the educated and the UD! Kocsensem many jar len en. | PaNy educated, the world han been weeking | Vagna in the canting or iron| People have wondered how Sears. for a subject of study that would) and rans, where almost everything | Roebuck & can sell their prod combine the greatest possible mental | consisting of these metals can be|UCts so cheaply; one of the reasons incipline with the greatest pounible | piade is that a great quantity of the mer utility here are unquestionably large | Cbandixe handled’ is manufactured by It hax not been clear to every foetiatee of iron ore in’many sections | the company’s own factories in the that no man was educated unless he! oe the Northwest which only await | Mi West. Sewing machi was of use; and nm until today line iabor of man to uncover, One| cream separators, farm impleme many } J that man could | of tone attle or some other | of Various kinds, wall paper, paint be educated ply training bis! oy of the Northwest will have fur-|P' . organs and gasoline engines mind to think « and Gentil |e ae cetuntion: a teen | ore consumer is thereby able to natingly When thet. Gme nex, the North-| receive an article direct from the It Almont impossible to believe | weet will be absolutely independent | Manufacturers without the costly that men have not realized to a full| or the rest of the country |intervention of wholesaler, commis er extent that the welfare, and there When the pec of Beattle and|*ion merchant and jobber. No at fore the happiness of rociety, has the Northwest purchase everything | tempt is made by the company to pended on the working of no-called |i tie tine of manufactured metal | Compete with the local department econon wa more, probably, (hah | proquets from our own home plants, | tores; the aim is to reach the out-of IpON any ¢ » factor wad the time will not be far off when|town trade, and through their sys plies to ite broad * |iron will be mined in close proximity,|'¢m of mail-order handling, get the world ety. No country, PO land the industrial emancipation of | Product from the manufacturer to race, fo Individual ts free f this nection will follow. |the consumer at the t possible effecta of these laws Millions are ~ ammo | Cont. While 90 per cent of the busi starving In the world in 1921 because | WaKe ery i. Kh and | all prices very | news is mail order trade, the store f the inevitable working of econom| ing’ men to state legisiatures aed (has opened ite stock to direct pur fe law even to congress with the intention | chasing by customer since April 1 The state does not allow men te f having bee eat = brevieion a te} ratte seven and c - 2 ‘ele witheius ¢ that some provision were | men mend men 0 : * should be prop buck & Co, at Firat Ave. 8, and ccure the proper amount of : |Lander st one can speak too apital or eredit to enter upon a the education of our children | highly of the courtesies extended s me nt magazines and books, imaelf and bis future, but also the nd to fit them some with well-equipped ture welfare of thousands of oth ofitizens, to and health department, When a company employing ~— Faas caer * gad post voume for women y ‘of the public iibary. bs rty thousand men and women falls use maintained within the buliding fwew ct. every care * woaune of poor management duc t eee ane | gilt fact every care that @ large in ignorance of fundamental eco let uslby Bears, Roebuck & Co. Opportu nic laws, something har happened becin- | nities for the best forma of social t noctety should not allow high | intercourse are provided by the A great business enterprise bears amagennt, See Soe meer. toy, & very clone likeness to a great ship} ployes have organized to feel a spirit at sea, The welfare of those on the|* tte study of the laws ship is, to a large extent, determined by the kill and education of the cap. tain and hin aoxintante If the ship meets stormy weather or unforeseen conditions, {f accidents occur, the education and experience of thone in charge must make it reasonably cer tain that the ship with its cargo and through |tlen Let us wee to it that it, does A reat business carries the fe-| so no longer, for from these schools sponsibility of the welfare and hap. pet a ES | rere er and the operly presented, it can be made intensely interesting, for chil- dren are chiefly interested in tho» things which affect life as they Ii it and are to live jt outaide school. Re jthe juntor high school. they * » know” about business, about gov- crament and about the factors that | make these good or bad. Our public piness of thousands of men, women) uld mot society protect itself |® and children in many homes. It ne no one to estab! seems almost criminal to allow such an organization to exist under the eA gregh Ag tell amination or certificate by some ac- | direction of thom who know little or nothing of the laws which make for ite nafety. The number of failures occurring annually proves that this in a real and constantly recurring danger. One hundred and twenty thousand corporations in the United in 1917 produced no profit There were 1,641 commercial failures in the United States in February 1921, representing an indebtedness of over #ixty million dollar If we are going to protect society from the misfortune and misery that follow incompetence and ignorance involving the affairs of others, then no man should be allowed to engage in business—at least, in business in volving capital larger than a certain fixed amount—without passing an examination and securing a license, the doctor and the lawyer are now required to do one familiar bankrupt condition street railway systems and of the steam railway systema in America, brought about by the making of laws by those who had little or no knowl edge and appreciation of the force of the great economic laws that affect all of us When @ great part of the popula- cepted schoo! that h undertake thie business ordinary risk of minfe nd therefore to #o- | ii ry Staten is with the almost of the LOGS, CEDAR POLES, PHONE MAIN 1303 tion of America seems to believe that all that is needed to mak everyone happy and prosperous ja t have congress pass laws making “ae “SAVE IT oom ICE” Phone Sidney 720 WASHINGTON LIQUID GAS COMPARY, Inc. ufacturers of LIQUID CARDONIC ACID Gas 772 Bast Marginal Way = , A.B.C.""* WAREHOUSING and DRAYING 204 Raliread Ave, So. jott 5210 Main THE Ich DELIVERY COMPANY SAN JUAN FISHING AND PACKING CO. PACKED AND FRESH FISH TTLE, WASH. i“ KELLEY-CLARKE CO. Merchandise Brokers Roslyn and Queen Coal FOR THE RANGE OR FOR THE FURNACE Ask Your Dealer ROSLYN FUEL CO. SEATTLE n LEPHONE MAIN 1817 2RIOR FIN- LASS MILLWORK TREGONING MANUFACTURING CO, Life Heats, Tugs and Cruisers Stetson & Post Lumber Co. Manufacturers of LUMBE LATH, SE , DOORS, WINDOWS AND MILL WOR! and Whatcom Ave, Hanford St. Telephones: Elliott 711 and 712 | Seattle company, | Dairy Promotes notes High- the important contributors to Seat tle's Imany of the city's private homes, hotels and restaurants this excellent milk is served, h | Dairy, at 1809 Minor ave. j tts present bigh mark. —_ ithe branch, esta ee pride in the possession of this Grade Milk The Independent Dairy is one of higherade milk supply. In » C. H. Peterson and F. O. Kalberg re the operators of the Independent Mr. Kal affecting any large number | | berg is one of Seattle's pioneer dairy: |men, and he has co-operated at all is prepared to | times to bring the milk standard to without and the employes reflect this effi- mows the many —* of eceview majority of the Sa ave had with the company. PUGET TIMBER CO. PILES AND SPARS 414 MARION BLDG., SEATTI HI-JINX AND HIGH BALL FAMOUS BARS MANUFACTURED BY ANKE CANDY -Co. H. L. Bennett Box Factory, Ine. 2500 Ninth South Western Store: Seattle, Wash. Growing and Expanding RAINIER VALLEY, a district of homes and home owners. A nr Cause s CAR SERVIC tht REALLY SERVES WUESDAY, MAY 24, 1921. BARTON & CO. PRODUCERS OF ‘ HAMS LARD LAMBS BACON Main 9228; Fm 3ATR y SIMONDS’ SAWS ARE BEST WESTERN SMELTING AND POWER | COMPANY Smelter, Rese Power | and Lighting Plants Cooke, Genera on1-2-S-4 tte! Balla: Sea Plant 99% Seed If you want a good lawn and Fertitizers SEATTLE SEED CO. 810-812 Western Ave. corran AND BRASS GOODS 2015 EF. Madisea St. WE DO REPAIRING 1614 Third Ave. Main 5683 DRAIN roe RE BRICK, ETC. Rxeavait ‘Telephone Elliott 2398 General Contractor and Builder 303 ALASKA BLDG Seattle