The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 12, 1922, Page 11

“AGE 10 ' FAMILIES SEEK ROOF IN BLAZE > . ' Apartment House Dwellers Escape Flames Driven to take refuge on the roof of « large, four-story apart ment house at 10th ave. and Yes ler way, when fire swept the building at 6 a. m. Tuosday, 10 families buddleg in terror and | shivered in the icy wind while five companies of firemen des perately fought the fire in an ef | fort to save their lives, When the ft » Were discovered | MA the basement of the building the} > fire had gained such headway thatal Mhree of the main entrances were ) Blocked. The occupants of the build ME scrambled from their beds in ter. For, many of them leaping from the while the rest ran to the fire escape in the rear of the build ing. Here they found a great col- ‘Bmn of fame shooting up the entire wide of the building. extending for a Hundred feet above the top of the Apartment house to escape, the people foucht their way up the John Wanemaker, famous merchant pioreer of America, Stairways to the roof, where [tho passed away at Philadel- they screamed tustily for help. | phia Tuesday morning. ‘The flames lit up the scene with euunittingnenttieenets glare that was seen from districts of the city. as soon as the fire sent In, three engine and two hook and Wagons were on their hindered in their work freezing cold, the fire “ally set about the task Feecuing the scores of trapped after a bard half |, succeeded in check- flames and bringing the people to the ground. HERE’S MORE ABOUT WANAMAKER STARTS ON PAGE ONE returned to Philadelphia in 1856. Anxious to engage in business, Wanamaker obtained a position in @ retail clothing store at 61.50 « week, from which he saved $100 f Hi H ra £ f i : ye second story of the building | This was the foundation of his been almost completely destroy: | fortune, together with the first floor and| Upon the outbreak of the civil war he sought to enlist In the army but was refused on account of his physical condition. nt. A detail of police, headed | Patrolmen A. L. Delaney, R. R. and Robert Bridgms, sided the rescue work and the handling the large crowd that congregatal Sumpter waa cannonaded, he opened @ small clothing store. War par alyzed trade, but by remarkable business tact Wanamaker brought his business thru the turbulent times and at the close of the war he was a wealthy man. OKGANIZED FAMOUS SUNDAY SCHOOL As years advanced Wanamaker became more prominent widened his mercantile operations Outside of business, he engaged in religious and social work. He or ganized the famous Bethany Sunday school with 27 members, and It now numbers more than 3,000. He waa one of the originators of the “Chris tian commission” during the civil “lwar and wag chairman of the gen- oral relief committee during the Trish famine, He served efficiently on the finance committer of the Cen- tennial exposition of 1876. Wanamaker was the founder of the first Pennsylvania savings bank, helped to start numerous hospitals, founded Wanamaker Institute of In- dustries, the Bethany dispensary, and had erected Y. M. C. A. and college dufidings tn India, China, Japan and Korea. In 1912 he was were scorched and slightly Damage ts estimated at $1,000 on buliding and $400 on the con- TER CLARA FOR FUGITIVE ANGELES, Dec. 12.—Mexico chartered two FOR TRANSFER transfers when the ordinance Mayor E. J. Brown's request that *| balloting on the reduced fare be post- poned one week was sgreed upon Monday. The mayor was expected to pre sent his petition for postponement by letter, but he appeared in person. ‘The only negative vote was cast by Counctiman Oliver T. Erickson. Erickson argued that the fare question had been gone into thoroly by the entire council In committee all plans proposed had shown the the best, and that no convincing rea- son for further delay existed. Hoe Brown replied that, since the fare Will not become effective until March} because of the recent attempt made 1, 1923, there is nothing lost by «| week's delay. His suggestion car 9 to 1—that final success of his own scheme of a 6%-cent transfer token supplement to the bocent fare ap- pears ponsibile. Final vote on the Fitzgerald fare ordinance will be taken at the next regular meeting of the council Mon- day. Young McAdoo Is Held as Speeder SANTA ANA, Cal., Dec. 12.—Wil- liam G. McAdoo, Jr., son of the for- mer secretary of the treasury, scheduled to appear before Justice of ‘9nd Harrison st., was struck by an|the Peace J. B. Cox, known as the ‘Rutomobile driven by George W.| “terror of speeders,” tommorrow on a | Beott, 1423 10th ave. N. His footi charge of speeding 20 miles an hour was badly cut. across an intersection. |O% IF SICK, TAKE “CASCARETS” Clean Your Bowels! End Headache, Biliousness, Colds, Dizziness, Sour, Gassy Stomach jeCracken, 1106 E. Marion ‘tor of the street car, report- the police that he was unable boy until he reached the to an embankment the hill. is , 14, Bellevu ave. N., while coasting at Yale av will start the bowels acting. When teken at night, the bowels work wonderfully in morning. Cascatets never sicken or incon _ To clean out your bowels without cramping or overacting, take Cas- careta! You want to feel fine; to be duickly free from sick headache,| venience you next day like pills, @izziness, dillousness, colds, bad] calomel, salts, or oll. breath, a sour, acid, gassy stomach,} Children love Cascarets too, 10 cent boxes, also 25 and 60-cent sizes. Any drugstore. constipation. One or two Cascarets, any time, meetings, that a careful weighing of | Present form of the ordinance to be/ ried by such a preponderate vote—| | } | | upon them. {don today PEK ARN HERE’S MORE ABOUT MAYOR STARTS ON PAGE ONE but he didn’t show up. ‘I'l be ready for him when he comes,” Dr, Brown said IS TURKEY A WICKED BIRD? As a sidetight on his contro: Versy with the prenchors of the cy ever the view situation, Mayor BE. J. Brown issued a statement declaring that “the turkey has a debasing influence upon the youth and manhood of our land and has become a real nace to the purity of our mor. and suggesting that “logts jon ls needed to make it a mis demeanor to eliher associate with turkeys or have one in your pos session.” Hin statement wan 4 satiricnl reply to a letter which he hed reoolved from Rey. H. 1, Chatterton, tive secretary of the Feder Churches, calling his attention to 4 number of cigar stores where turkey raffles were being conducted 1 received this communteation from him on December 1," Brown said, “at @ time when my chief of police and his department were using every effort to put down banditry highwaymen, sluggers and automo bile thieves. Lam nearly ¢9 years old. spent my entire life under the Red White and Bjue of Old Glory, and I've had my firecrackers on the Fourth of July and sometimes my turkey on Thanksgiving and Christ man. “[ have always considered the tur key gobbler to be Just @ litte bit the noblest bird under the sun. But after reading this communication from the Rev, Mr. Chatterton, I am convinced that perhaps the blue lawn of Connecticut should be revived, and that witches should again be stoned and drowned, and a ban put on the tie I have On April 1, 1861, the day Fort) turkey.” HOUSES ARE CLOSED NOW ‘That half of the disorderly houses reported to him by Rev. HL. 1. Chat terton, executive secretary of the Federation of Churches, have already been raided, and that four of them were raided even before he received the clorgyman’s letter, wha the a nertion made Tutaday by Mayor BE. J Brown, “I turned the letter over to my chief of police as soon an I recetved it," said Dr. Brown, “and he now to forms me that at least 60 per cent of the houses mentioned have been closed. This just goer to show that the preachers aren't making any ef fort to nee what ts being accom plished—they just want to attack =m." Other developments tn the vice controversy which ts raging between the mayor and the clergymen of the city Included the preparation of a list lof more than 30 names of persone! | whom Mayor Hrown will Insist upon | summoning before the «rand jury to tentify an to vice conditions. ‘Thees witnesses include: Chief of to the Police W. BL Severyns, Inspector | nom. |Harry O'Brien, Capt. of Detectives! Charles Tennant, Lieut. of Detect. ives W. BE. Justus, Capta, B. C. Col- Her, J. T. Mason, EB. L. Hedges, D. F. Willard, M. T. Powers, W. H. Sea ring, C. C, Bannick, Hans Damm and Charlies Dolphin; Lieuts. J. J. Haag, Georg? R. Cometock, R. W. Olmatead and Gus Hasselblad; Sergts. W. H. Steen, C. F. Watson, L. L. Norton, J. J. Crawford and P. F. Keefe; Pa trolmen N. P. Anderson, 8. H. Wil Mamas, Thomas Feeks, G. H. Bower, With the adoption of Scent car | Daniel Drew and W. G. Morrison; fare for Seattic in the offing, council William H. members are confident Tuesday that| Kays, executive secretary of the As. a emall extra charge will be made for |%0ciated Industries; Jon Maraell, EL Morris; Maj. Harry L. Dowd and Roy Thornton. LABOR HEADS CHARGE VICE A resolution denouncing Mayor Brown for hia sponsoring the two. new dance halls below Yesler way and declaring that organized iabor should have no part in backing the mayor's fight, was the latest develop ment Tuesday in the fight over al leged vice conditions in Se: be- tween the clergy and the mayor. Two delegates to the Central Labor Counoll, A. Berg and M. M. Mooney, Prepared the resolution, which wi |nent to Rev. H. I. Chatterton, exeou- tive wecretary of the Seattle Federa- tion of Churches. Their action was taken, they sald, by Mayor Brown to secure an inves. tigation committee from the counefl to inspect the dance halls and pass Such @ report would be given his attention over that of any other body, Mayor Brown f alleged to have said. Strong points of the resolution aret That the dance halls are believed to be run by those who are exploiting the working men; that women cannot work in such places without being subjected to temptation and that they must sell questionable drinks te retain their positions; that such places are common stamping grounds | for men and women of bad morals and diseased minds and bodies, and that there are enough fields of worthy endeavor open to the working classes without frequenting such places. The resolution ends with the state ment, “It is our bellef that this agt tation about the two dance halle be low Yesler way is (whether purposely Planned or not) diverting the atten- tion of the people from the evt! con. ditions that Mayor Rrown and others allege exist in resorts uptown.” In his statement Tuesday Rev, Chatterton charges that a certain element in organized labor would form @ labor organization of dance hall women and that certain dele. gates favored the formation of such bodies, LONDON, Dee. 12.—-Premiars Potn- care, Mussolini and Theunis left Lon- by different trains thus emphasizing their dissension over the problem of how to collect reparations from Germany The London conference broke up’ last night when the French stood firmly for armed occupation of the Ruhr valley in Germany. Bonar Law of Britain and Mussolini of Italy, new premiers, just as against the French policy as their predecessors had been. were THE SEATT Send Relief Many Citie to Fire-Stri ASTORIA, and the lan . Deo, 12.—The Hon » © hied them to coormmon h and & common coun ctl table here as the problem of re Hef and reconstruction in being faced with oour and faith by every man, woman and child tn the olty Old-time differences have been laid aside, petty politics and economic “i social fade have been buried, ong with the muntelpal hammer and hatchet, and the town hans ite coat off. In the netehbors, matter of relief, Antoria’s ae far cast as the Allan tle seaboard, have been more than generous in their proffers of help | 4nd the actual contributions in mon: | ey, food and clothing Word was received yesterday that Portland wan not eatinfied with the pcm convert tie osm mend to CHINAMAN OFFERS TO GIVE BACK PAY || ASTORIA, Deo, 12-This sort of thing makes our immigration problem all the “harder,” While the fire here waa at ite height John Seid, Chinese bakery employe, approached bin employ er, whore plant was wiped out Seid held in his hand his pay check of the week previous. His employer thought he wanted tt anhed. | have no money, John,” the employer said, “Keep it. You'll able to cash it some time.” No want cash, Thought maybe you need it, lost so much,” «ald the Chines. ee mere $25,000 asked by the stricken city, and was doubling that amount. | More than $36,000 already has been pledged. Seattle hag been asked for a considerable sum, and ts expected to exceed the quota with very little trouble Clothing has been received by the) earload. Household supplies of all kinds! have been more than sufficient to meet the situation. Attoria now Has requested thru the coalition committees of 10, which now admin- |inters the city’s relief and recon jatruction affaire, that communities [anxious to help withhold their sup plies until requisitioned and then send only those things which are requested Immediate relief, such ae three square meals dally and « place to! sisep for the 2,600 homeless, has been aystematized, and every person | ha equate quarters furnished by | the ty or by friends In the un-/ stricken portions of the elty | Meanwhile, plans for rebuilding | Astoria are being laid with lehtning| speed. For many years the city! fathers have planned wider streets, | filledin ofares thruout the city] jto replace the piling which finally sneompassed the municipal doom, | jand better lebting and street oar | service | “Now t the time to put all these; Plans Into effect.” is the commen jory, and the unity on the plan has resulted in the emerging of several benefictal and reconstructive resulta | jtrom the new unity and harmony | which t# Astoria, “the city that is” The building code wil! be revised, according to the plan. Fire fimits/ will be extended to prevent fire) STAR cken Astoria The Astoria chamber of commerce | replied Monday afternoon to t grams offering assistance from Be attle with the statement that help ta hot immediately needed, but that am sistance will be needed very portly. Eagles’ Danes to Succor Refugees | To create « fund for the relief of| Astoria fire sufferers, Seattle aerte No. 1, F. ©, B., will hold # dance at | their hall at Seventh ave, and Union at December 19 With the an nouncement that every cent of the Proceeds from the dance will to.) ward Astoria relief, the Kagles are! advertising the affair widely and ex-| | pect a record attendance. Gentlemen will be charged 65 cents and ladies wilf be admitted free, the announcement saya. Pitney Retirement | Officially Approved WASHINGTON Dec 2 Preat-| dent Harding haa signed the joint | resolution permitting the retirement | of Ampociate Justice Pitney, of the; United States supreme court, it waa| announced today, Pitney ts il Tomorrow the senate judiciary! committee meets to discuss the nom. | ination of Pierce Butler, Minne for Pitney's place. Butler is being fought by Senatorelect Bhipstead, Minnesota. é ‘ HERE’S MORE ABOUT WEATHER STARTS ON PAGE ONE Forty-two accidents caused by autos | crashing into street cars were re ported over the week end, he paid Altho «@ full report of burnted pipes had not been tabulated by the city water department, they expected hundreds of reporta to be turned tn by Tuesday night. Frozen, ginssy tracks proved no/ great @ifficulty to municipal street | cars, but several were delayed late Monday and Tuesday by failure of air brakes to work, owing to con-| Gensor pipen being fromen. { WATER SUPPLY | BELIEVED SAFE | ‘The Cedar river water supply witt| not be cut off or endangered, accord. | ing to General Foreman Frank An-| drews of the water department, who returned Tuesday morning from a« survey of the river and the mains | delivering water to Beattie homes. j Hampered somewhat by fajlure to obtain muffictent cars to bring add! tional fuel into the city, wood and coal dealers are reporting sales mounting over previous years In) some yards an increase of 200 per cont over salen of Inst week were re- | ported. Wood seamed the favorite | fuel In many yards, due, they aay, to! the use of fireplaces and the hasty installation of stoves to asnist fur- naces tn combating the record cold wave ice was reported Tuesday tn Lake Washington by the shivering Untver.| worst geile of the winter on Lake LAKE Pare Values in Velveteens One lot of beauties in brocaded, metallic and matelasse bodices, with velveteen skirts. In navy, brown and black. Sizes 14 to 40. Regu- lar value $15.85, Priced for this $8.85 sale, only Don't VESSELS BATTLE STORM CHICAGO, Dec. 12-—-Two lake vee nels, Jong overdue, battled with the see them and seize them—a wonderful 1,000 Dresses At Marked Reductions Every Dress in the house has been reduced to a price that promises to establish a new record for Seattle. 1,000 Dresses include a large assortment priced as low as $@.85 ‘COLD WAVE TO WASHINGTON, Deo. 12.—The en tire northern half of war) strongly | sity crew men. Green Inke and sev- oral of the emalier lakes and ponds qurrounding the city are reported freesing and skating will be ponsthle Michigan today trape from encroaching upen the > The Alabama, Goodrich line, from business section, and every building which henceforth rises will be bufit with a view to preventing the recur. renoe of the holocaust. ee PLAN AID FOR FIRE VICTIMS Financial aif for the fire viettms of Astoria was to be determined upon Tuesday noon by the financial com mittee of the Beattle Chamber of |Commerce when all the facts ob. tained to date will be laid before them. President Frank Waterhouse has received aasurance from Division Commander George Filmer of the Red Cross in San Francisco that na- tional emergency funds are avatiable for relief and that additional assint ance from the Seattle body will be asked for when needed. | map continues, the park beard an- nounced Tuenday noon. COLD SNAP Wrrs TACOMA LIGHTS ing. Officials of the line declared they had no fears for her safety as she was @ steel boat and able to in ® . a weather the worst lake storms. ae. aad rata veole The City of Grand Rapids, Graham | result of enter shortage at Ya Morton line, Chicago to Benton | ™ Grands power station. The limit of | Harbor, bad failed to arrive early to | Power was purchased from the Ta. o : coma Raflway & Power company! | and the St, Paul mill, Electric heat-, The United States coast guard cut- |B ores in the light department office | ter Unalga woe to return Tuesday to & wore ordered turned off to give the her winter station In Ketchikan. She maximum amount of current to Ta-| will proceed from there to Racate coma homes. | wtrait if the missing fishing vessels, The Green river water Intake was | Convention and Morenger, have not being kept open Tuerday by a force | yet been reported. The Unalga has of men who will dynamite the rap. | been in Seattle more than two weeks idly forming cake ice to clear the undergoing her annual overhauling intake and allow the water to pass and gotting outfitted for her winter unobstructed "St al |# Maybe he won’t tell you . what he wants —but he’s kind o’ hoping you will take the hint of the Christ- mas Faces. And make it a New Improved Gillette. The most appreciated of all Christmas Gifts for men. A life- time of service—and every day a grateful remembrance of you! GILLETTE SAFETY RAZOR Co, “Why, that looks just like—!” s “Find the Christmas Face” Contest a 156 Prices for beet resemblances to Oillette Christmas Paces. Boston, U. S. A. 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