The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 16, 1922, Page 1

| CHINA WARNED BY 5 POWERS! TEN FOREIGNERS ARE HELD DEATH CAPTIVES! © @put ‘em back. RING RIT WEATHER Tonight and Friday, rain; mod- erate southwesterly gala FORECAST VOLUME 24. NO, 227. Howdy, folks! The hockey season opened here last night, bat nobody was injured. Victoria players are called the} Aristocrats because they are Cana- dian club men. eee ® Mrs. Phillips and Join Don't tmit kill your rival with a hammer, @ hockey team and use a club. eee EXTRA-HAZARDOUS Canadian hockey players who | fought thru the war came home and took out accident insurance. eee ‘They play at the Arena because tt fe 80 close to the Cobb building. eee Next year they are going to bulld @ rink down near the morgue. eee Winter now ts coming on, We feet it in the breeze, And we'll see some hockey tf We only have the freeze. eee A number of the players are den- sts——they remove teeth but don't ‘The old-fashioned pioneer women croased the Rocky mountains in rts now have granddaughters who think they must put on pants to climb a hill eee Big dinner in honor of Senator. @lect Dill will be staged tonight in the Crystal Pool. Sounds as if the banquet might be wet. eee LI'L GEE GEE, TH’ OFFICE | ‘The toughest | chicken wine times wears th’ finest feathers. | Some day in the future there may be a political creed that isn't politi baci eee ti I love to hear the birdie’s chirp, The setting hen's grim cluck, But for a change I'd like to hear The hucklederry huck, eee “Douglas Storrs, lover of Ruth Garrison, left the penitentiary with- out visiting the girl.”"—The Star. Ruthless to the end. ore And The Star speaks of Mrs. Grace Storrs as “the 28-year-old Broadway high school graduate,” which is sure- ly an advanced age at which to com: plete one’s preparatory school edu. cation. . FARMING NOTE Acting Governor Coyle says Storrs was “the goat.” Well, shouldn't a goat be kept In « pen? . ‘The place to settle the wet or dry question is not in the voting booth, but in the kitchen. -. Bumper to bumper And hub to hub The cars are so thick Their fenders rub. oe The only working members of Jude Johnson's family are Mrs, John gon and Jude's cider. eee DOWN IN SUNNY CAFETERIA Los Angeles woman who killed cham with hammer will mot hang. In California juries | are the only things that are hung. Newly elected president of the W.) C. T. U. declares that the world will be dry by 1940. Does this include Beattie? { eee | Doctor—With care your husband will recover in a week. You don't, seer very pleased. Wife—-You told me he would die aw ago. 1 have sold his) clothes! | eee Aviators have only one law to ob-| serve while in the alr—the law of wravity. see HINT TO SCIENTISTS Why not cross honey bees with lightning bugs so that they can see to ‘k at night? o- A fellow can't push himself for: | Ward much by patting himself on the back. Aitand back, ment! Women and @ake-caters first! Murder Charge for | dry leaders here said today, SI The paper with a 15,000 daily circulation lead over its nearest competitor The Seattle Star Botered as Becond Clase Matter May 8, 1999, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash. under the Act of Congress March 8, 1879, Per Year, by Mati, 06 te 68 WARARAAAARAR WRARRARAR AR mt A — 8 16, 1922. SATTL TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE WASH., THURSDAY, NOVE UCCESS IN TACOM * * * *® * * * AS Pass Plan Showing Amazing Results * ** * * ** *& * * # * * * * * * * * * 55 Per Cent More Rides; No Extra Cost * ** * * * © * * * BRINGS FARES LOWER (EDITORIAL) The Tacoma street railway has hung up an ac- complishment in the last few months that the Seat- ps municipal system ought to study and copy. Con- sider: The T. R. & P. Co., as the privately-owned Ta- coma concern is known, is now hauling 55 PER CENT MORE PASSENGERS THAN BEFORE— and at no extra cost to the combined passengers. Thus the Tacoma traveling public has been given a very heavy reduction in fare. During the same period Seattle has been paying 8 1-3 or 10 cents for every ride! The Tacoma, system has been furnishing Taco- mans 55 per cent more service for the same money than previously. While doing so its own expense has not increased a cent either. What an object lesson to the Seattle system! * o o The amazing results have been brought about by the weekly pass plan, which was OM peep to the Seattle city council two years ago by Benjamin H. Petley, Seattle engineer, and turned down. installed ae 24, of this year, in Tacoma, The w prior to its adoption the Tacoma sys- tem carried 306,000 passengers. In the 14th week of the plan’s operation, the latest for which figures are available (the plan is now in its 17th week), the Tacoma system carried 475,685 passengers, Of these, 265,000, more than half, rode on passes. These passes are sold at $1 each and entitle the holder to ride as often as he desires, They are transferable. ss ° s During the whole period of the experiment the company’s revenues from fares has not varied $500 a week from the figures prior to the plan's adop- tion. The number of the passes started at 7,007 and in- creased in the first three months at the rate of 250 a week until they reached nearly 11,000. The week- ly pass sale is now increasing by 350 a week, and officials of the T. R. & P. Co. anticipate that the Christmas rush will bring the weekly total to 15,000. The car-miles operated has remained almost sta- tionary. For the week before the passes were is- sued the figure was 94,045 car-miles; for the 14th week of operation it was 95,317. The cost of operating the system has not in- creased. Savings are made in printing and handling transfers and in accounting. Also a considerable saving is made in efficiency of operating the cars due to faster loading and unloading made possible thru time saved in making change and issuing transfers. It was A canvass of Tacoma’s business community shows great enthusiasm for the pass plan among all classes of merchants, theaters and downtown churches. Some report their increase in business directly attributable to the pass plan as high as 25 per cent, * An incidental effect in Tacoma which would not apply to Seattle was the result on jitney competi- tion. When the passes were started 10 or 12 jit- neys were beginning operations with the approval and support of Mayor Fawcett. Their number in- creased in four or five weeks to 48, but has gradu- ally declined until only 10 or so of them have sur- vived, the competition being too keen. . Py * Men who have studied the Tacoma experiment with a view of seeing the idea adopted by the mu- nicipal system here urge that the passes be sold at a slightly higher rate than $1, perhaps for $1. and aim not only to increase greatly the system’s service to the riding public but at the same time to considerably increase the revenues. By such a plan, they urge, the Seattle railways can be brought to a paying basis, while at the same time doing the maximum of transportation good for the commu- nity. To back up this contention they point to the example of Youngstown, O., where 17 weeks’ oper- ation of the pass plan, with passes selling at $1.25, resulted both in a 50 per cent gain in the number of passengers carried AND A 31 PER CENT IN- CREASE IN THE GROSS REVENUE. THE SEATTLE CITY COUNCIL SHOULD TAKE ACTION. SERRE RSERR BEERS! Tritt OTHER MARRIED Poison Bootleggers| WITH DAUGHTER SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 16—A| NEBRASKA CITY, Nov. 16— Mother and daughter were married law making the seller of polson | ii aoubto wedding here when Mra, mpootleg”’ liquor lable to conviction | Siiinie V, Whitmore, 45, became the for murder may be introduced at *he | pride of George Schaeffer, and her daughter, Nona, 20, married John fanuary session of the legislature, | 4 . J 5 Rubink. Famous, Interesting Island Is Reported Sunk in the Ocean Supposed Remnant of Lost Pacific Continent, Site of Mysterious Ancient Civilization, Said to Have Vanished By Robert Bastien Bermann If the reported destruction of Easter Island is confirmed, jit will be a heavy blow to science. For Easter Island has |been generally believed to contain the key to one of the lgreatest mysteries of the ages—the lost continent of the Pacific. While scientists disagree on the theory, many dis- tinguished savants have contended that the little island was all that was left of a continent which, in prehistoric times, supported a vast civilization, possibly equal or su- |perior to modern civilizations, but which was annihilated jwhen the continent was sub-) AND GONE? SANTIAGO, Chile, merged by a giant tidal wave.! Archaeological remains had al- ready been found to bear out|| Noy, 16.—Rumors were jthis theory to a certain extent|| persistent here today —and further investigation} that Easter Island had j might have established it beyond a 1 di ed doubt. But thin, of coarse, has been || completely isappear made impossible if the island bas || im the recent earth- | been wiped out. quakes. This report could not be confirmed, however, and many government officials declared it un- true. Easter Island is lo- cated off the south Chilean coast. It has j In any event, the island held! forth such romantic poanibilities that }its team will be felt keenly by all aclentiste, whether adherents of the | continental theory or not. Lying 37 degrees and 30 minutes! wouth of the equator, 2,000 miles from the mainland of South America, and 1,400 miles from ite nearest nelghbor, the Pitcairn Islands, it w so remote that comparatively people have visited ft. WAS FIRST CALLED OF DAVID ‘This, however, has simply added to ite romantic tnterent, As far as records show, ita first appearance in history was in 1687,/ when Edward Davis. a buc commanding the Bachelor’s Delight, | came upon what was probably Easter | island in the course of a cruise of! the South Paciife, He named it} the Island of David, but the name didn't stick, What most historians view as ts really authentic discovery did not} come until 35 years later when, on| Easter day, 1722, the Dutch explorer, | Jacob Roggeveen, formally took pos | sonsion of the island. He named it} Paasch eyeland, Dutch for Easter | island, on account of the date, and it has retained the name ever since No white man approached the island for nearly half a century after this, Then the Spanish, seeking a naval base in the South Pacific, sent out an expedition which “rediscov: | cred” it, naming it San Carlos, after | Tachaikowsky, seemed to feel about the then Spanish king, Don Carlon.|the room, extending tteelf—a thing This narne, however, was no more|that crept blindly and disturbed as permanent than Capt. Davis’ choice, | tho it would escape from something and the island soon reverted back| that followed it tirelessly and invis- . idly, om Tae It required the fingera of a master, on the board of a keyed instrument, to produce these sounds. They came from the room beyond, a second an area of 50 square miles and a population With Steel Fingers (A Thrilling Short Story of the “Triumphs of M. Jonquelle” Series, by Melville Davisson Post, Copyrighted, 1922, N. E. A. Gervice, Inc) The great drawing-room thru which Monsieur Jonguelle advanced was empty. But it was not silent. S peeders See Maimed Tots in Hospital! Autoists Sentenced to Jail Hang Heads at Piti- ful Sight BY WILLIAM ARKELL DETROIT, Noy. 16.—Ptcture, row upon row of tiny faces ar. rayed in hospital cots, erippled children, maimed for life in traf- fic accidents because of thought- lons speeding and recklessness. Bots de Boulogne, Monsieur Jonquelle had not al- lowed the servant to announce hyn. “One is not permitted to disturb Lord Valleys at this hour,” the ser- vant had said. Monsteur Jonquelle’s card added to the man's perplexity. One was also not permitted to deny an entrance, anywhere, at any hour, to the Prefect of Police of Paria, The man had made a hopeless gesture, like one resigning himself to the in- evitable, Monsieur Jonquetle, after the door had closed behind him, remained for some moments quite motionless in the eddy, as one might write It, of this strange, weird music, in which there was always a note of ruthless vigor—a note of barbaric vigor, harsh Coy Judge heen gaed LL a and determined. Wit, Deron Rey Sows Ye Monsieur Jonquelle could not place aisle of the hospital ward in es the music In any remembered com- position. It was not the work of any master that he knew, -It was an {m- provisation of the fingers that pro- duced it. Presently he advanced into the room from which the music issued. He paused a moment in the doorway, watching the figure with whites, nimble fingers hard as stecl, Then he spoke, “Your pardon, monstour,” sald the Prefect of Police, “I am desolated to disturb you.” The man at the plano sprang up cort of 70 convicted traffic vio- ‘ators, trooping in grim proces- sion under police guard, “Children,” announced the Judge, “I've sentenced theee men for speeding and I have brought them here to show the result of Detroit's thoughtless driving.” ‘Three little boys look up eager: ly and glance from face to face along the line of prisoners. The latter shuffle their feet nervous. ly and hang thetr heads, afraid to meet the children’s gaze. Five boys and two girls had Jang turned swiftly as tho his body their lege weighted down in | accomplished the act with a singte heavy iron equipment. Three of | motion. the men winced visibly. To the eye, the man was strange. “An automobile fixed me,” one His shoulders were very broad and boy said innocently, » tO," | stooped; his face was wide, massive sald a little girl from another =the face of a Slav, His hair was corner of the ward. thick, close and heavy, but it was Judge Bartlett cleared his | not tong, and affected no manneriam. throat The man was very carefully “You see, gentlemen, most of |aroased, after the English fashion, these children would be walking | and with {ts well-bred restraint. But with perfect limbs today but for | the impression he gave one was de- the carelessness of motorists. It | cidedly not English. It was that of {s unpleaasnt to send anyone to |@ Slav adapted to an English aspect jail but you now realize that tt The eyes one did not see, One is my duty to protect these chil rarely saw them. They seemed to going to ut” dren. None of you are drive recklessly again, are every volce replied “No en they marched to jail to being their terms, be hidden by heavy lids lke cur- tained windows, And there was no expression In the face, The face was ta mask, Tt seemed always In repose. The big nose, the square, brutal jaw, A vague! music, like some weird conception of | drawing room looking out on the| had) CLARA PHILLIPS Los When Vivian Strong Hart IS CONVICTED |Verdict of “Second Degree Murder Returned ANGELES, Cal,, Nov, 16.— Clara Phillips beat Alberta Meadows to death with a hammer, she did #0 under extreme provoca- tion, the jury in her trial held to- day. Nine men and three women who rendered the verdict of guilty stipu- lated the crime was second degree murder, The verdict was returned, after approximately 23% hours of delib- eration, at 10:30 a. m. today. Ten years to life imprisonment will be the penalty. Mrs. Phillips, deathly pale, re- ceived the verdict without moving | @ muscle. She seemed overwhelmed. Absolute silence prevailed in the court room after the announcement, | until broken a few minutes after by the sobs of Clara's two sisters. City Employe Hurt in Cycle Accident Struck by a motorcycle at Second ave. and Cherry st., Wednesday, M ©. Morgan, 2436 Third ave. W., of the cit possibl: toreych Kreger, of the Arista hotel, was charged with reckless driving. y light department, received a je fracture of the lex. The mo- 6 was driven by Willard N. Kreger and the wide planes of the face, were white as with a sort of pallor, Mon- sieur Jonquelle had a sudden, swift impresston, | the greatest criminal or the either The man before him was greatest genius that he had ever seen, Jong Pression of failure. uelle had also a further im- He had meant to startle this man, and observe what followed, And he had startled him; but untrue to every experience, there was nothing to observe. face ret The man’s mained without an expression; he was behind it hidden from every eye. It was a mask that could not be changed by the will of another, Mon- sieur’ Jonquelle wondered in what manner it would change at the will of the man that It so admirably ob- secured, It was a thing he was not interested to discover, Tt was only for an instant that the man was without expression. ‘Then he smiled and came forward Into the room, lifting The amile began with a queer of the ip and extended vague- ly with but a slight changing of the man's His volce, when he spoke, was low, | well modulated and composed. manne: “An! Jonquelle, the Prefect Paris. Monsieur Jonquelle gloves; them features. His r was easy and eracious. he sald, “it 1s Monsieur of Police of T am honored,” removed his he rat a moment twisting in his fingers like one In a (Continued on Page 6) | —Photo by Curtis Studio, Inc. ° oo Vivian Hart Gets Opera Contract Over Italian The Century theater, in New York, recently decided to produce a new opera. It's a good opera—but one of the feminine parts In it Is so difficult that the theater manage ment believed it would be Impossible to find an American who could sing it sqfisfactorily. So plans were made to send a representative abroad to se- cure the services of a world-famous Ttallan prima donna, Then, by chance, one of the pro- prietors of the Century happened to hear Mrs. Vivian Strong Hart, of Seattle, sing. Immediately the Ital fan trip was cancelled and a three. year contract was offered her, Mrs. Hart's voice, it was found, was ex- actly fitted to the difficult require. ments of the new role. So Mrs. Hart has agreed to appear for 30 successive weeks during each of the next three years at the Cen- tury theater, beginning in January, when the new opera will be given its premiere. Mrs. Hart, who fs one of the most beautiful women on the opera stage in America, is well known In Seat- tle, having appeared in a number of engagements here. Her success {s considered un- usually remarkable because of the fact that her entire training has been under the tutelage of her mother, Mrs. Kuria Strong, 317 Harvard ave, N, Mrs. Strong for many years was head of voice culture in the music department at. Washington § State collvge, Pullman, Besides her Seat- tle prominence. Mrs. Strong ts wid ly known thruout the state, par- ticularly among collegtans. She di- rected for a number of years the Washington State College Glee club and accompanied the club on its an- nual trips, Many Washingtonians will remember Mrs. Hart as the dainty principal in the “Doll Maker” as sung by the glee club. 385 MAROONED BY DEEP SNOW CHEYENNE, Wyo., Nov. 16.—The return of 35 persons, marooned on a ranch 18 miles north of here by the deep snow for six days, was awaited here today. A reseue party of 15 men, traveling in a truck be- hind a 10-ton army tractor, left yes- terday for the ranch. The men were expected to reach the ranch last night and leave for Cheyenne today The 35 unexpected guests were en: tertained at Staley’s ranch, but word was received yesterday that food supplies were funning low, Snow made the roads impassable. FEAR MEN IN ORIENT WILL BE MURDERED Prisoners BY RAY G. MARSHALL PEKING, Nov. 16. — The © United States, France, England, Italy and Sweden today present- ed an ultimatum to China giving China one week to release 10 for- eigners held captive by bandits, If the release is not completed within that time the five nations promised to publish to the world a statement branding China as irresponsible nation domi- | nated by bandits. “ | The bandits who hold the prisoners” [have demanded admission of 10,000 — jof thelr number to the | army. They have notified the Peking g ernment that if force is used in am attempt to rescue the foreigners, the captives will be regarded as ho and will either be placed in the front | Ines or will be murdered outright, Information here shows all of the prisoners thus far as safe. ae The belief was generally enter tained that Wu Pe! Fu and his forces would be powerless to effect a Declaring that all Japanese be barred from permanent in the United States, Senator. C. Dill discussed this and other portant legislative matters Thi at the Frye hotel. with a view to lowering freight rates, so that the farmer can send his prod uce to market and make a profit, “Lower taxes. That isone of the most insistent demands I hear from the people everywhere,” Dill said. “There are two ways to reduce taxes, and we ought to employ both of them. “First, cut down federal appro- Priations, Second, raise the ex- emption limit of the income tax, so the burden will be shifted Dill ts opposed to the ship subsidy, “I am against’ taking any funds from the United States treasury and handing them over to private inter — ests," he explainud, He also opposer the Daugherty in ee and the labor board. i sf minimum mast be sufficient enable a man to rear and cate his family.” Dill declared that he will to progressive principles party affiliations, “If the people could rise party to elect me,” he said, can and will rise above 4 t a BA quet, at the Crystal Pool, Ready to Hang Up Your Coat and Hat Homes that are complete In every detail, some partly furs nished, others just vacant. 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