The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 17, 1922, Page 11

ies li ial SE. ATL E, Ww VASHL, | WHERE NATION’S FIRE TOLL | HAS BEEN HEAVIEST Fire loss in the United States is $5 per capita. Cities exceeding this loss three years or more during the five- year period ending in 1920 follow: 1916 1917 + $8.25 $686 o12 6.31 MILUIONS | ARE LOST AILY IN| LAMES! Officials Alarmed by Huge! Spread of Red Menace | Thru Country | —_— — |Man From Seattle Is Disturbed by “Stars”; It’s All in His Name A modest and unassuming gen) But De Milles friends here know “Careleesness and ignorance are/tieman is C. B. De Mille, He ts/the answer, He has been thru it chiefly to blame,” says W. & Malla-; content with a succesful general before, And when he MA olleu, general manager of the nation-|insurance business here. He har he will explain patiently that it's ' al board of fire underwriters. Imever sought the limelight. Yer! only another reply to the old query Statistics just issued by the beard) down in San Francisco, where be “What's in a name?" ow & total loss for the latest five-|in visiting on business, be is @| “Whenever 1 go down to San year period of $1,672 Si7—-a sum | marked man, The prince of Wales! Francisco,” De Mille says, “I as that would have built enough $5.000 would receive no greater attention! mistaken for Cecil B. De MMe, the dwellings to house 1,672 people.|than that which has wearied Del moving picture producer, A wom Fire losses have increased heav-iasije since he registered at the|an or two, a bunch of actors and fy in recent years,” says Mallaliew, | Hote} st. Francis two weeks ago.|few newspaper men never fail to “despite progress made by the ma-| noni. have called b Spee a : tional campaign of fire prevention | ap him up, Prof-jcatl me on the telephone , fering every courtesy in their) “I do wish the newspapers would education. The situation has, of! scuret, been affected by abnormal POWer: Movie actresses have used/not ask me for my opinion of the Wd tell him of their movies or actrewen seek my annist the telephone to t-war conditions and by increased Spapelation, histrionic abilities. Inventors have/ance in securing jobs at Hollywoo Hore LIES IN asked for an opportunity to ex-| “Hereafter I will sign my ES motion ma: name on the hotel register—Charies = Plain their perpetual j0OL, CHILDREN SCH HI chines. Newspapers have asked for|/m. De Mille. Perhaps that will “Hope of awakening America ‘| nis Picture "ete." the fire peril rests with school ~ 118 Norfolk, Va. $7.73 Dubuque, Towa. Houston, Tex., 6.00 61 Little Rock, Ar 627 Fresno, Cal.....c0 « Fort Smith, Ark.. Des Moines, Ia... Tulsa, O&la. ..... Cities In this class twice fn the five-year period are Rock Island, ML; Sacramento, Cal; Cedar Rapids, la; Jersey City, N. J; Sandusky, Lima and Lakewood, O.; Nashua, N. H: Memphis, Tenn; Shamokin, Pa; Dallas, Tex; Great Falls, Mont.; Bloomington and Bast St. Louis I; Chelsea, Somerville and Chicopee, Mass; Williamsport, Pa; In dianapolis, Ind; Kansas City, Mo; Oswego, N. Yj Stamford, Conn; Ottumwa, Ia; Hoboken, N. J; Augusta, Ga.; Duluth, Minn.; Charlott Cy Wheeling, W. Va. and Saginaw, Mich. “RY EDWARD M. THIERRY NEW YORK, Feb, 17.—Amer- lea apparently grows more care less every year. Fire losses in 19tl were nearty twice as large ~ as in 1916. Our national bonfire last year cost more than half a billion dollars and took 15,000 lives, most of the victims being women and c! dren. We are trying to reach ; ents also thru the children eur carciessness,” says Mallalieu “it is a carelessness unparalleled in| the rest of the world. In 1913 our fire loss per capita was $2.10. Re cent figures are lacking from abroad, but even assuming that the per capita loss in other countries ts doubdled—which is unlikety—fire now costs every man, woman and child in America about $5 a year, as against an assumed figure of 98 cents in France, 66 cents in England, 56 cents| SKAMOKAWA, Wash. Fed. 17.— Starting from Punch Bow! lake, Ca im Germany, 50 cents in Austria and ad Italy, 20 cents in Switzerland and 22 ge Rocky mountains, in July, J. cents in Holland. &. Wood, 78 years old, has completed "EXPLORES aVER WITH BANDITS, Goes From Headwaters of 20 Others Are Wounded Columbia to Mouth After Bank Robbery PINE LAKE, Mich., Feb. 17.—A/ fun fight between bank robbers and citizens, which «tarted in Grand Rap ids, ended here with one known dead, “Many city people think, because | cance trip from the headwaters of two reported killed and a score t ‘they hear the fire gong so often, that |‘h* Columbia river to its mouth, | wounded. the big crowded centers of popula | 2.350 miles. The bandits kiMled one policeman tion have the worst fire records. The} The big river rises in the Rocky a0d wounded another after looting | ficures, however, show this is nét al-|™ountains mear the 53rd degree of the Michigan Exchange bank at ; Ways the case. Sheboygan, Wis, a — ag headwaters. the Canoe een gro ca ped rg a train 5 * ¢ 1920 | Fiver, runs from a small lake in « wreeked their auto at Piainweil, en, st: SANs pee oe ee killed two citizens in a battle at let with a fire own of $91.21 per|Ftmarkable cleft called Punch Bo came next | Bly a few feet from another little | Bradiey and were captured in @ third ita. Galveston, Tex.. Suh $50.19. The previous year Ce-| lake out of which starts the Athe.|battle at Pine Lake Gar Rapids, Ta. bad @ $50.41 per|basea river, a tributary of the Mac. oe capita loss. kenaie, emptying into the Arctic and counted 93, of which the Spo-! ocean r : amette v=w “$ Loss kane, Yakima, Snake and Willamett i oy eenaee I, Wood, accompanied by an Indian are the largest. He portaged 42 rap f ER CS 4 iend, float. * t the mouth ° New York's fite loex in 1920 waa) Tne floated and paddied the long! ids and falls. At the mouth of th journey, stopping every day to hunt, fish or buy supplies. Herries were plentiful the whole distance. He ob- Cowlitz river the canoe was nearty upset by great schools of big salmon | rushing upstream to spawn $2.25 per capita. Yet there were 80 cities in which the loss exceeded $3, f per capita, Im 1919 ee rere sie | marred ma bears on the slopes such cities, in 29 in * | feeding on wild fruit. Otter splashed and 23 in 1916 into ine water at every turn whe Mrs. Bergdoll Loses The worst record for continuous high fire damage is held by Norfolk, Va., with losses exceeding $5 per capita for five years ccesmion. Cities in this class four years were Little Rock. Ark.; Fresno, Cal; Du- buque, Ia., and Housto x. while three cities, Fort Smith, Ark.: Des Moines, Ia. and Tulsa, Okla, were in the $5 class during three of the |mink and muskrats were numerous. |On shoro rabbits appeared to be jabundant and many kinds of game | were found. Fifty-three years ago, while an early Northwest trapper, Wood navi- gated the big stream to its mouth to |sell furs to the traders of the Hud. son's Bay company near Astoria, Ore Appeal, Fine Goes PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 17 Mrs. Emma ¢ Bergdoll and her co defendants, convicted in court recently on a charge of as sisting her wealthy Grover Cleveland Bergdoi) to dodge the draft laws, will) pay their fines amounting to $23,000, as a result of five years. Twenty-nine other citi ies | On his recent adventure he made the dismissal of Mra. Bergdoil's ap —the largest being Kansas City, “7 ; it @ point carefully to record every | peal in United States court Thurw dianapolis and Jersey City—exceede inta the Columbia | day (stream emptying losses two years had losses in excess of In succes $5 per ca Island, Ill, $25 per capita sion “There ts a fire every minute, 4 and night. in the United States.” said Mallalien, a daily loss ging $1, | adily increasing cost of the two years “The Season’s Greatest Event” 1916 i917 1918 1919 1920 ? 1921 . 500,000,000 Matches and cigareta and cigars are bidden to make m y, laugh, sing and 4 caused more damage than any other sain single agency in 1920. The loas to. dance at the most spectacular ball taled $90,271,334. Firebugs caused of the season, the 2.09 damage, but statis fans itional incendiariaem i« of tabulation, in done by apable 079 damage known cause.” Ballard Ready ‘ | Two-Day Carnival | ancing. decorated booth 1 be featured two-day midwinter carni opens under the auspices of rd of park commissioners Fri t in the Ballard playground Pirates’ Ball in pirates’ den of THE HOTEL BUTLER —ON— WASHINGTON’S BIRTHDAY Wednesday, Feb. 22 DANCING TO BUCCANEER TINY BURNETT'S AUGMENTED BAND CAPTAIN KIDD FLOYD'S “Sea seo) Legs 3 Largest Revue on the Coast sw gets back | federal) _ The Seattle Star PAGES 11 TO 20 FR IDAY, FE BRU aR df MN, 1922 RELLINGHAM, Feb. 16—Lyman | Seelye, Lummi Island farmer-writer economist, had a story published fn the Overland Monthly in August, | 1916. | A® & consequence of a weird chain of circumstances binging upon this story, “With the Aid of Tinker,” the | navy Intelligence service has just an nounéed it is giving serious atten tion to the most graphic narrative | t brought forward to solve the} American navy's most baffling mys | tery—the disap ‘ance of the naval collier Cyclops and its 300 people dur- | ing the world war | long past military age. Thruout the war he lived at his farm on Lummi Island, 15 miles | from the mainiand, and so smal! that | very few maps show it. | RECEIVED NEWS | BEFORE NAVY But despite / quent mail service and the fact that }he was 6.000 miles from the West | Indies, where the Cyclops waa last | heard of, Seelye heard the story he} han told the government just three collier w pene before carefully we naval dispatches even hinted that her loss | was feared. “I bave no means of verifying all jof the details,” says Seelye. “Rut Seelye in er the tall of my careful checking «ince the | time of the disaster has convinced me that the information given me! was American history, not a wild narrative, I gave the data to the government for whatever use it might be in solving the Cyclops mys tery The Cyclops dimppeared March 4 Th de the Lyman Seelye e Cy nt This brougt Austrian. 1918, On March 21, 1918, a high | the mines just dropped. caste Japanese, versed in English. SHIP SINKS 1 at the Seelye farm, close to UNDER BLASTS of the cannertes * email coves. Ajone with Seelye, the Japanese po. ltely asked Information concerning & woman Seelye never heard of—a on one of the party Two terrific in the Lucia, Without @arning, the Walb lingen cut. across the bow of the col- lier just before daybreak, March 5. lops swerved to avoid ace ber parallel 4 into the path of blasts were heard by | girl, powerboat within a minute for une of its wireléns lof its shells—and the | wan also obliterated | | | islands. various West Indies ading material yy. and the woman America. in English. As they were for the United States, verged entirely in English, tom themaelves to the tongue. had al ‘ARM SQUEEZE. too quickly even zine a story, Waiblingen All aboard both vessels perished. ‘Their powerboat made its way thru thrown into craft from the Waiblingen contained an old copy of the Overland Month Wickman, the “chief engineer,” | lived The Japanese was versed heading | way.” they con to accus | The woman rena, from the maga COSTS 4 LIVES Story of Cyclops Mystery’ “By the Aid of Tinker,” | written by Lyman Seelye the Japanese was carrying ‘The Japanese recalled her mention of Beelye, and he made the trip to see him. The| “Many women and girls work in their |the three canneries on the island in \the summer,” says Seelye, “and it is generally known that 1 write stories. It may be that this mys- in|tery woman at one time worked on the island and heard of me in this Seclye was putting the narrative into verse and story before the navy department abandoned search for the Cyclops. -|GONE 10 YEARS, HEIR IS FOUND Filipino Views | Caress as| South African ) Will Inherit Deadly Insult MANILA, Feb. 10 | fiancee, Mora Jumalia, lieved by |by the Koran, | scripture, Salabudin. started out with h The | avenge the alleged insult, 7.—Recause Moro Mahaludin squeezed the arm of his an act the Moros to be forbidden | mourned as Million LAKE CHARLE , La., Feb. 17.— be. | than ten years, in which time he was dead, Frank O'Meara, Mohammedan sacred | son of T. P. O'Meara, multi-million |p brother of the aire of Pietermaritzburg, Natal South | resident of bolo and when Cyclops was blown to bits and sunk | ne nad finished his work, Mahaludin search of four jane three of bis relatives were dead. South Africa, Canada and parts Of! was 35 years old. to Africa, has been located here, Location of O'Meara culminates a months, covering the United States. After an absence from home of more | (CONGRESS MAY HELP WORKERS Discharged ‘Navy Yard Men | Ask Assistance Buy the Cyclops avenged itself. As| “Why, 1 ‘know that | man,” the| }it dropped beneath the surface, the | woman said. Then she told of his Jourrent caumd by this wudden wink: | island residence in Sound ling quickly drew its destroyer into| ‘The party entered Ameica at |the vortex. ‘There was another| Houston, Texas. Wickman @ied, The) mighty blast—either from the ship | woman disappeared one, also, hitting its own mine or the exploding |were valuable international papers WASHINGTON, Feb. 17,—Com- gressional action on behalf of navy employes, furloughed without notice or pay, as the result of the arms conference, was in prospect to- |day as appeals poured in from the men summarily thrown out of work by Secretary of the Navy Denby’s order. A resolution may be put thru re, questing President Harding to put navy yards to work repairing naval vessels, scrapping those doomed by the naval treaty, or doing some work for which they are equipped so that families of the discharged men may |be saved from destitution. The navy department thra Assiste ant Secretary Roosevelt has inform ed the house naval! affairs committee in effect that reduction of naval per- sonnel, affecting the floating estaly lishment, will result in a cor respond- | ing curtailment of shore stations an@ probably will mean abandonment Of — | some navy yards entirely. lc. E. Bradley, Local Lumberman, Is Dead plans with bis yard } While disctssing wife regarding a dance~he expected 7 to attend Friday evening, George ~ Bradley, Seattle lumberman and the city for 35 years, | was taken suddenly ili at his home” at 203 Harvard ave. N., Thursday evening and died before medical as sistance could be brought Bradley He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Sadie of Seattle, and son George E. Bi ley of New York city. Funeral lrangementa have not yet been made. woman in Germany's xpy system ‘The murders occurred on Lugos The Jap dropped hin politeness, and! PJUC, ey S$ island, province of Siasi in the Sulu| Since his disappearance O’Meara demanded the information. Even « | erahtdiuathe has traveled over the greater part brent was resorted to by the des ahr white of the world perate Nipponese. Then Seelye, mrs e n When Salahudin learned of the tn- ~ a tified as to the woman sought, drew bs ayeda; ou sult to his sister, he summoned a the man the amazing narrative friend. They sharpened up their 0 of the Cyclopa bolos and invaded Mahaludin's house. Seelye, and now Fall of Shot! @|hold. They slashed right and left the navy depart and department of justice, fol-| lot ment lows } to « the submarine warfare to an waters. As a mother ship an Austrian steam yacht, the Wai x left & Mediterranean port. | Four thousind new explosive shelly. known as “little Berthas,” formed a | Part of her cargo PASSED GIBRALTAR BY BOLD BUSE | bt sel, the State of Maine, the Wail |lingen by sheer boldness passed thru | |Gibraltar, picked up several spy op- | eratives moleated fa. in Spain, for the West Indies. and headed, un rod He ta also famed for his siniel Te P. Calhoun, Former Kent Mayor, Is Dead! ‘The body of Imac Pine Calhoun,/ | the reputation of being a dead shot,| 64, who died ‘Tuesday in California, will be brought to Kent where fu neral services are to be held from Macquerading as an American veo ls mysterious intestinal sickness, Ally the Chittenden mortuary at 2 p, m.. | efforts of physicians to relieve him | Sunday, was resorted to, the cute little plates revealed wtines contained hun. resulting in lead po nomic | Today that Bell's | ASTORIA Burnside, 4 river. tle Feb. 17 Ore, and his birds fall Some days ago Bell became fil with to an X-ray | . Ireds of shot, | Off the South American coast, the |Walblingen was advieed that the | Cyclops was coaling off Bridgetown, ‘a port of Rarbadors island. It car- Two handred been recovered, but the X-my shows that over a hundred more remain in | the digestive canal ried a cargo of manganese Belt ix still seriously At daybreak, March 4, 1918, the [Cyclops left the Barbadoes port. |as the shot are removed Ore of her engines was crippled. Her | Progress was slow repared to | A lieutenant commander on the Waiblingen was a brother of Capt. | | Wickman of the Cyclops. A natural lized American, had joined the} | Austrian army, when America entered the war transferred to |the civil marine service. | Wickman’s commanding officer tn he but he ve at ed that he have no part in the| the University campus: sinking of hie brother's ship. Wick-| Professor Gould man, the Japanese diplomat, a man| New York to study the known as “chief engineer,” who ap-| plans of the national Y. M. parently shadowed the Japanese, and the woman picked up in Spain, wer put in one the yacht’s powerboats | 49 provisions, reading material, | From this they saw the Cyclops | disaster ‘The with | ete co! od yacht overtook ‘ommi Construction will commence June | It will follow in design the Gothte hitecture adopt- A cam-| |paign to raine funds over the state ucted by Y. M. C. A. see American Meat Co., 519 Ballard Meat Co., 54 Professor Carl architecture department of the Uni- | nelected to design the building for the new Y. MC. A E. and 43d st., rity 15th ave. Hegia for 1 the crippled | ig being cond collier 20 miles off the island of San | retaries and business mon. has been N e atyle of a ersity WE FURNISH YOUR COSTUME Tickets, Including Cover, $5.00 Make Reservations Now 7033 Downtown Th Maii The Beet om Stage and Screen! os Bay City Meat Co., 1420 First Central Meat Co. 1420 First Olympic Meat Co., 1426 First Western Meat Co., 1102 Western Seattle Market, 109 Occidental F. 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