The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 22, 1922, Page 24

Irving Moore, reporter Francisco Dally News and Sa Mento Star, worked « shift with Argon: He was the only newspaper man at the scene who got a chance te work recon Whiskers, old clothes, down-at-the- Reel shoes, and I was ready to pass| ax a tramp miner any place. ¢ T was on the stage riding toward | eat Gown the main street, entering the/ Village as if I were another news Paper man, not a miner. So I left the stage at Martell, two miles from Jackson, one mile from the Argonaut mine. I stopped at the at that boarding down in the hole, I walked down 4 streets of the men and saw familiar stopped in the shadow and dodged) afterward into @ saloon. I tried to talk to the miners, ia “ae, . : But they would not talk to me as ve laid " one miner to another. Adelaide F. Durant. I was a tramp out of a| broke. Poadhouse. I walked up the hot road toward the rocky hills, High on @ hill a slate-colored mill! times Stood out in bold relief—the Argo Saut_ mill. nearly a mile below in the damp, stifling heat, heat and bad air that only miners have felt, 47 square stone house. Bench stood on the porch of the; house. As I rested an Itallan, the| “What shift you work?” Ho had accepted me. He thought/a tramp and welcomed. “They're dead. ihe said to me. The miners nodded in silent agreement. “You Catini. You a lucky She spoke English slow. I was a miner. poorest English I could muster that | day,” I had just arrived and that I was/ looking for a job. I explained that I could find no ‘work in the city and had come to) man.’ Jackson as a last resort, Ho sympathized. I walked-on up the road. Rounding another turn tn the read, I was in sight of the Kennedy mine and, above the Kennedy, the Argo-| for the San jp naut, ut mine disaster rescue crew. paper Below the shaft of the mine— miners. Hetor, sat down beside me. I told him tn the DANCING CHILDREN’S CLASS Tomorrow 2 p. m. Opening ADULT CLASS Tomorrow Night at 8 DOUGLAS Studio of Dancing 10d: an@E. Pine St, East 6241 Unued. teresting “Dead? Several is Italian, lows none but Italians, “Bradshaw, down in the mine, smoke and started up with the two| skip tenders to locate They found the fire which had not) gained much headway, burning in the shaft. They went thru ft and came to the surface. Somebody said, ‘Send the skip down for the men.’ Some one else said, | old miner. "No, we will lose the skip.’” At this point everybody at the table began to talk at once. I) job?" I asked. lighted a cigaret and waited. When the noise subsided the Italan con-| othe Rescue Squads ; Curse Dangers Injured Thumb Saves One Argonaut Worker From Death; Conditions Underground Branded Perilous Houses with ugly, crowded flower wardens lined the road. “This te Jackson Gate,” a little Italian girl told me. I atrolied along. Httle attention to me, to be accepted as an equal s directed to an Italian min It looked in-| was time ba Jackson when I decided that it would| There, Mot be good policy for me to ride| What they disaster “Things like that do happen. You got to expect It.” I asked them if they thought the men were dead, Sure; first day.” former house, had been miners, men had been trapped. job and probably Just below the brow of a little hill, | made me feel it. stuck in on a dug-out slope, stood a| Before the night landed at Julia's boarding house. T was hot and dry. A rude wooden! Julia ts well known in the town! doth for her 400 pounds of live| weight and her good board. She) In her home she al “I was on Bradshaw's shift. A rock fell on my thumb, Smash ste him, Next night——* = threw up his hands mean- ingly. Julia filled the glasses, The men | sipped their wine. “Who ts Bradshaw?" I asked Several miners spoke at once./fiare of hatred from | Some in Italian, some in English.| pected to hear threats « the shift boss, was mine officials. After a m The people paid ng house besides it It Was past too, I asked the miners thought of the mine) the poorly Nght: | miners. town past news Several faces and wan over 1) Dead the first) 1, around I was the only/ time, place, He ex It was good) lodgers Edd i They were eeecnerenmpent = tN A a RON Pom Rickenbacher, daredevil auto racer and America’s in the world war, beaming on his bride-to-be, Mra San memantine ant pamper gman mes = ne Legato THE SEATTLE STAR A PAIR OF ACES They} anything. men had been there, skip had been sent down. But I was) the tapte| “Tee looked at me. “Pretty lucky, no?” I nodded. held up| came more mild. “You can't much. said Julia. others agreed. prised, A moment ago cursing him loudly excuses for his blunder. wine or wae it simp “What will hap the entombed men I expected this He smetied| spoke the fire.| mine bosses hell. but was! work—got to leave. for miners, no work.” work here.” did not know. I explained tha! We Want Every Man and Woman in Seattle to Read This 100 NEW HOME OWNERS HAVE BEEN ADDED IN LAST. 20 DAYS “Everybody at the shaft was excited, Bradshaw did not know what to do, so he did not do The fire could have bwen put out cary If some good The men |; could have been taken out If the With out the skip down there they | had no chance to get out.” ended his conversation tn Catint continued to grin. The conversation be ers with interest “Accidents happen tn mines all the| were paired off in groupe. Got to expect them.” myself an outsider and I sat silently, | blame Bradshaw eo | listening : We're all fools sometimes,” | Two big Irishmen were discussing I was sur) they were | degrees. No air Now they made| Was it the | tirade. “Them birds are dead anyway. a death trap. The Kennedy is worse than the Argonaut was. “In Montana the mines are differ hey got decent equip: ‘They have encape shafts, I'm | | ute Julia | going back to Montana,” Here are the fellows I want to get They | ‘They got} |up from the table and went to the! sinat the | ment “I guess the government gives Maybe no work for year, maybe two, No Bad—bad = | bar Catini nodded, still grinning. “Already many men leave,” said an/erai attempts to “They got to live “Do you think I will be able to get t I was without « “You eat here,” she sald T felt like « criminal lie to the good-hearted Ita remembered the words “Get down tn the mine.” t Hill to the i | | | ‘The group broke up. | He/1 got « job. I went to bed. At the breakfast table the next! |morning I looked at my fellow-lodg There were Ital They 1 fteit jiane and there were Irish, work in the Kennedy mine “It's a mudhole It" ent. The acquainted with, I thought | will tell me of the mines. I followed. The Irishmen No|convermtion I went out on street. (fore tomorrow) THE HOMES THAT PAY FOR THEMSELVES. LEARN. INVESTIGATE. 700 FAMILIES HAVE TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF AN OPPORTUNITY TO OWN THEIR OWN HOMES AT LESS THAN HALF THE RENT THEY HAD BEEN PAYING. 60-foot Streets, 16-foot Alleys, Sidewalks, Ci twice a day. City Garbage Collection. Police Protection. downtown stores make free deliveries in this district. See the Fastest Growing Section of Seattle SEE THE Water, Electric Lights, Phones, Mail Deliveries Churches. Stores. Schools. All DUMAR DISTRICT LOTS $200 to STOP PAYING RENT GET THE SAVING HABIT COME OUT AND SEE WHAT OTHERS HAVE DONE. SAVE YOUR RENT MONEY. BUILD $375 NO INTEREST FOR 2 YEARS TERMS $1 Cash—$1 Weekly EVERYBODY HAS A CHANCE HERE. 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ELMGROVE ST:! sisi [Job or money and must find work Julia looked at me sympathetically I hated to Rut final I went down | miners’ boarding . where I had already engaged | | board and room, to be paid for when Mot as hell, 130 I'm about through.” The other Irishman took up the were not sociable. They mistrusted me, and after sev. break Into thetr the It wae already bot, The sun beat | down on the narrow streets, reflect.) Catini said yes. Julia sald no. The | ing hot waves, unbearable. |Murder Defendant's Story Contradicted EVERETT, Hep, 22.—Cont ing the story of the defendant, 1 |200-Year-Old Clay Pipe Plant Closes BRISTOL Eng, Sept. 22-—Its This May Be Funny, but the Laugh Is Missing!) on a ved by in yom of Torset, rancher, tar state's : pubiia favor, the Let us start with » funny can do exactly the work of the Dis news in the trial of Don Stey ‘ ne world ‘ ve Eackory 1 (ie verde| Story taken from » funny paper. |abled American War Veterans, Com: jfor the surder of A. A. Alm hen a 7 cl e Jestnan . Twe doughboys walk down the | munity Fund, which ts the reliance |Beattle sa than 200 years, ‘0 doughboys for funds of half @ hundred organtza- | stand here that he heard « rey} = street in « drenching rain, Thelr J ,, dothes are beginning to fray. ere’s Preacher's tions doing social work in Seattle, | shot on the morning of the murd last year and this year accepted the| Stevenson, telling his version “ o9| One walks with « limp; the other | Disabled American Veterans as one | the killing, de he struck Idea of Flapper sways on a crutch, Says one to | of ite agencten mour over the} with « club wp NICH, Sept. 22.—The ultraamart the other; “Doesn't this make Bhortly now Community Fund will |the salesman attacked him. @igy women who lead in winter galety on| yeu think of the Argonne, make Ite second annual appeal to Be | son said he refu to asniet A) the Bivieve afe Weabtng tong Greseee rs ‘. attle for funds to carry on its work in a rotbery the latter plagned, [having the effect trom neck to cent duck?’ And the other says: | in seattle (thru its member agencies, Authorit have failed to fing ene of the “Yeah; but we nad jobs then.” leach acting in its own way) during | weapon near the Funny, ten't it? 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