The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 10, 1923, Page 1

Another Semi:Arnuak Poyiak Statement Shows The Star Sul L nnn might and Entered as Second Class Matter May Wednesday moderate to fresh mt easterly wi Temperature Maximum, 60, Last OH Mini Today neon, 53, 4, 1899, 25 25. NO. 38. Orchards Publishing, Code and re Business All Losers for Waterhouse suzggszaguntntnatannnnnasanessittnteaeerereuuzaaasganamnanneeeetetiate spistssststssstess H ome |W. Howdy, folks! This is the season when golf balls and moth balls make their debut. rare) Mother away the «oolens and the moths cel return to normalcy, .- Every time the old « auled out in the spring call sounds for the moths eee The only thing that is safe ¢ moths ts canned puts winter | brate the} lar « t from soup. NATURE STUDY Spring ts here, and over in Benton county a new species of jack rabbit has sprung up. It is something like the Kansas variety, resembling a dwarf mule. j eee Interesting facts: <A delightful ‘ocktall cam be compounded of equal | parts of vermouth, Mother Winslow's Soothing Syrup, coca cola and iron ‘ings. one Don Marquis says bootlegging i* hat happens when an Irresistible hirst meets and Immovable Law. oe. EXCELSIOR The Star is running a series of rtieles on Frank Waterhouse, who began life as senographer and worked his way up to bank- Why doesn't he the League of Nations for repar- a all remind ua, should leave strange business: be, departing, leave behind us our cash in bank-rupt-cy. oe es of mag ile cooking steak 1 Gee Gee was burned she was burned yesterday, Would «-e ADVANCE NOTICE Baby Week is coming. Babies born daring this period will have two legs, two arms, two eyes and two ears. Tho height of affluence arms on a Ford roadster oes This is Rose Week in Sehttle. Li'l Gee Gee stops plucking out her eye- | brows long enough to remark that her favorite rose is the Winesap. EVERYDAY HEROES Ezra T. Bone, who took down the awnings the first time his wife told him to, For this exploit he was decorated with the Pome de ‘Terre, with three pomes. « Cecil B, de Mille is now putting | the Ten Commandments on The! Screen. His previous efforts have! mostly been confined to an expont-| tion of the Sixth Commandment. | Daylight robberies are growing) more frequent in Seattle. But yout can hardly blame the bandits. They need their sleep like the rest of us. ‘ . After all, you can hardly blame a man for being skeptical when he finds a plece of a dog collar in the isage. eee A Paris scientist saya he has found a heatless light, The Seattle} ‘as company beat him to it. oe One of the chief difficulties in sriting a colyum is that if you stick t home, you never havé anything. to write about. and if you run about, you haven't got time to write any-| thing. . if Sheriff Matt Starwich must use a crow bap in raiding booze joints, | Jet him use an Old Crow bar. rer Couches and chairs, thirty con- turies old, have been found in perfect conditon in King Wut's tomb. In| the long run, Hortense, it pays to) buy the beat oe oes of Spring: When you dts that your wife haw old your} favorito pair of golf shoes to the) Old-clothes man Another day, another dollar, heat ip Custom in mid-V; | scale. 'the Hyades, the Pleades, the Tremont, | profitable. “SEATTL E, WASIH., TU DA At the Postotfice at Seattle, W ash, under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879, Per Year, by Mall, $2.50 Y, APRIL 10, TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE, — Drops in Widelines His Earnings From Shipping a S Pioneer in Alaska Coastwise and Rive Transportation; Builds Up Fortune BY BOB BERMANN Forty-two years ago an English immigrant boy, 14 years old, landed in Montreal—with $50 in his pockets and 1 ental instructions ringing in his ears to make a fortune in the New World. Such was the Humble start of Frank Waterhouse, who | was destined to become one of the greatest shipping me n| lon the Pacific, Untrained, with but a nominal schooling, the boy w | thrown out on the world to sink or swim. That we ttorian England—drastic, but often ductive of remarkable results. In such a way empire- ers have made their first steps. Young Waterhouse at first showed no indicaticn of business genius which he-was to display later. E Finds Himself After Variety of Hard Knocks He knocked about aimlessly, working on farms and in logging camps, acquiring little of anything except a lot of j hard knocks. Eventually, he drifted to Tacoma and, after being em- s the pro- ployed at one thing and another, entered the service of the| |Northern Pacific railway as stenographer. Later, he be- came an agent for the Equitable Life Assurance society, and moved to Seattle. And thus we find him at the age of 30—a Jack of all trades, not a particular:success at any; a typica} drifter of | the frontier. Then, all at once, he found himself. He went into the shipping business—and stopped drift- ing. Somehow or other he contrived to get the old steamer Garonne thru his English connections and from this begin- ning gradually built up a fleet. The Klondike rush came and he started charterir hips and operating them to Alaska. He was a pioneer in Yukon river transportation and placed the first refrigerator boat upon that stream. He was responsible for the first fre | meat business that Alaska ever had. Next the Spanish-American war, and, tunist, he began chartering steamers for transport service. RROUGHT Thousands of Dollars in Trade Here In this manner he brought thousands of dollars worth of business to Seattle. Many of his steamers, used to trans- port livestock to the soldiers in the Philippines, w out- fitted in this port as animal-carriers, and practically all of the supplies sent to the islands from the Pacific Northwest were carried in his bottoms. Later, he was to branch out in many other di He established the first thru line of steamers opers tween Europe and Puget Sound ports; his were the first cargo boats to ply between the Sound and Hawaii and New Zealand and Australia and North China. All the time he was operating on a greater and greater The names of his ear the Pak Ling, the Kin Tuck, the Onafa, the Mogune, Yangtse, the Port Albert, the Port Stevens, the Bloemfon- tein, the Beachy Head, the Oleric, the Suveric, the Kumeric, dozens more—are practically synonymous with the early shipping history of Puget Sound. Even his bitterest enemies conceded that Waterhouse did more, possibly, than any other single man to place Seattle upon the map as a great seaport. This pioneering work, however, was not particularly Sometimes he made big money—but dropped it on the next venture. He was often in financial straits and was frequently hard pressed to find the money for his charters. A good idea can be obtained of the desperation which ‘he | sometimes felt by a little fact with which many of his friends are familiar. There isn’t a perfect book in his library. The fly-leaves of every one of them are marred with pencilled figures— so difficult were his problems that he was unable to read a book for any length of time; he would stop in the middle of it and start figuring, trying to hit upon a scheme to make both ends meet. S Commanding Figure in Shipping Industry However, he gradually built up his company and, ‘even tho he was often in difficulties, he became a cormiaandinig figure in the shipping world. It was in 1911 that he came to ‘the real turfing point in ‘his career—he didn’t recognize it as such and, as a matter of fact, it was a seemingly insignificant event; but it was the turning point. There was a great boom in orchard property at that time and many of his employes were desirous of investing in orchards. Always a believer in concerted action, Waterhouse sug- gested that they might as well all go in together and do something worth while, and out of this was born the com- pany of Frank Waterhouse & Employes. They acquired two farms east of the mountains for ap- | proximately $ business. A small enough thing in itself—and yet it was the be-| ginning of the end of Frank Waterhouse & Co, It marked (Turn to Page 9, Colunm 3) the ever the oppor-| * | death ships—the Ohio, the Oregon, | the} the Shawmut and/ 55,000 and proceeded to go into the orchard), | It’s jammed full of it l# . .-. picturesque Basque shooting apes , tempted lynchings herders, And there is beautiful, urt interest in the big ne “WHISPER successful novel, THE in tions as He T umb JACK ANGELE ¢ #tood bY | Los JUNGMEYVE R April 10,—You fa | x. stemplejack, } afraid of, But eae ed r guys are |dropped thus to [been certain death |benavotent tate a» cushion under him. His spectacular fall camo when Goss and a companion buflding. cleaner were precipitated from the eighth story a» a scaffolding gavo way, Brownie Browky was horribly and fatally mangled, but Goss bounc led off an awning within a second of and landed unhurt most street What he thought, saw during the seven clock ticks it took him fo plunge 112 feet is here pic tured as he related it within an hour after the experience BY E R GOSS Daredevil of High Places TIME, 11:90:00 (Night). — Eight stories upon a scaffold cleaning the Metropolitan building. Just looked at my watch and started across the board to help Brownie tie in his end. About time to eat Suddenly J see the rope part and we start down. ws we're goners, Brown I yell. He doesn't answer. He's strad die the plank, And the moon white on his face, Lam standing up. BROWNIE FAINTS giaoai- Wo paax the fidor, I start to swing my arms to keep upright, Browne fainte—T nee his head wobble, Scared A tackle hook bounces up and wal- lopa him on the chin as the board |nicks a cornice, He still clutches the |board, riding like a buckaroo. Below I seo a man start out into the empty ntreet. Looking up. Mouth open, THINKS OF MOTHER 11:30:02—My mother In Gary, Ind, How bad she and dad and the kids will feel when they bring me home, She used to bawl me out for doing this dangerous work. I'm falling 11:30:03—My, thoughts flash back Brownie, riding that bucking (Turn to Page 9, « Column 5) PAINTER FALLS 30 FEET; DIES seventh neloas, to at Lake Forest School ¥red Baker, 40, a painter, living at cdmonds, was hurled to his death ‘Tuesday when a ladder upon which ho was standing painting the new Lake Worest Park school building slipped and threw him 30 feet, Bak atruck his head upon a conerete kk walk ond was Instantly killed, Coroner W. H, Corson investigated the caso, Baker t« survived by a widow aud @ small family, Beginning Thursday, April 12 It’s Full of Action! ‘Falls Seven Stories and | Remembers Every Detail Daredevil Gives Graphic Picture of Sensa- |; on the} j and. felt But} Strikes on Concrete Walk), SULLIVAN IS SENTENCED 10 PRISON TERM! IF ormer Captain of| Police Is Given i, | | WEDS NOBLE | | Six Months to} 15-Year Penalty} serve «ix months to 15 n tho state penite John M. ¥ hard riding cowboys battles for water ang fights . at- dynamiters sheep King county panned of grand Jar sentence. colorful romance, too—real w western story, ING SAGE” serialized form, STAR ney John F. d immediate ne for Sulll- ig the trial Mion for a n trial was 5 to Judge Dalton by Atto » prior to the sentencing. will appear The} ted without argu SHORTAGE FOUND AFTER RESIGNATION Sullivan served as a captain of | police and secretary of the police de- partment for 13 years. As police secretary he handled amounts of city funds and his arrest came after the slection of Mayor Edwin J. Brown, when Sullivan was ousted as wecre tary, State accountants, checking up pomesxion which could not be ac. counted for and shortages in other funds. The specific charge was based on a check for $595 re: n from the United States govern- nent for feed! yal prisoners in the city jail, k was shed Sullivan personally. After the} | discovery of the shortage Eullivan |made good the deficit. I NOY URGED |BY THE JURY sonsation caused during lal of Sullivan when Attorney ated argument to the character of one ind les F ‘rom Building was GOSS’ CLOSE SHAVES $ was nded by the court. The jury returned a verdict gullty but recommended lenie puril SON- “IN-LAW OF BROWNING SLAIN’ Gun Inventor’s Kin Are Held | for Shooting of cy in feet oft bruises 100 fect off smoke: Waukegan, IIL, into 4 of ashes on passing knocked wind out. pped 112 feet from Los Angeles bullding with broken scaffolding, landed on awning and bounced to street; stung his feet He has seen four of his high job companions killed. PUPPY MOURNS | JAP MISTRESS Nipponese “Woman, Worn Out, Hangs Self to Tree oc hment into load | | SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, April 10. |}—Benjamin J. Ballantyne, aged 56, | former bank teller here, and son-in- law of John M. Browning, of Ogden, machine gun inventor, died at a local hospital last night from a bull | wound alleged to have been inflicted jby Marriner A. Browning, cousin of | Ballantyne's wife, According. to the story told by Mar-| riner Browning and John Browning, ja brother-in-law of Ballantyne, the husband had been drinking and abusing his wifes The two Brownings came to take the| Mrs, Ballantyne to her father’s home jin Ogden. Ballantyne is sald to have first agreed to let his wife go and | then to have objected. The Brown- ings sald that Ballantyne menaced them with a revolver and that Mar. riner shot in self-defense. The Brownings are held In the city j Tho shooting ja Browning revolyer, Marriner Browning is general treasurer of the Browning Brothers company and |keneral manager of the Lyon Coal }company, They came from Ogden yesterday afternoon to the Ballantyne BY S, B. GROFF Keoping faithful watch over dead body pet of the Midlake, late Moni ing party mokki, , 65, a tree limb, Worn out from her labors on the family truck garden and suffering from a severe illness, Mrs, Shimog ki decided Sunday to end hor life. She told her husband that she was on her way to visit her daughter, | : " a short distance up the road, arid) nome Solreth Wah aOR taking her’ pet puppy, disappeared. We Ao Ba are samitced, shat Mrs, Shimogki walked for two] miles to an orehand, Then she pr oF duced a rope and procevded with her hastly t while Poppy. | whining with fear, looked on, | All night long, Poppy whined and | barked, but the thing swinging | from the branch refused to answer Dawn came, and still Poppy waited | for Nix mistress to come down, It} was late ol and} atton: | of his mistress, Poppy, Shimogki household at Lake Washington, y afternoon led a sea to where Mra, Drie Shi- had hting herself from HOW ABOUT THIS ONE? Are you looking for a plece of land ready to live on afternoon before he HET WUY AL rAitM home, barked, attracting the a party of sfarehers. Hej} pm to the kpot, and then re: to Jeave hiv dead mnlktcoas | van t edod in ; AT) acres good, rich soll, in the fa- mous Stillaguamieh valley, neat Ars all rural fused ae \ aide, Forlorn and miserable, Poppy was | tied up and taken back to the home | that never again will be the samen] $0 fine hearing frult treeny farin tools and lve stook, eto, NEW YORK, April 10.<Htuyye want Mish, director of the Missouti, | Kansas & Texas railroad and of the National Park bank, died suddenly here today in hig office at the bank ou will Mind the of this property in today's Want Ad Columns, Turn back NOW, Sullivan's office, found funds in his/| ved by Sul-| was done with| | Paper Serves It Best| | Pe a Here's Marion Louise Prendergast, Cincinnati s80- ciety girl, who has married} |Sir Hennessey Eden, British| nobleman. HART PROPOSES WAGE MEETING. Urges Parley of Governors | on Court Decision OLYMPIA, Wash, April 10.— Declaring that the minimum wage jdecision of the United States su- |preme court ts second only in effect pon economic and industrial Iife to the famous Dred Scott decision, Governor Louis F. Hart, in a state ment ixsued today, greed the call- jing of a conference of governors of all states to create public sentiment which would force congress to sub- mit early next session, constitution jal amendments which will permit the enactment of adequate minimum wage and child labor laws. FEW WOMEN TO ___ BE AFFECTE | Decision Doesn't Affect Organized Workers Here Annulment of the miniraum wage law for women in Waghington thru the United States supréme court de- cision Monday, declaring that the principle {s unconstitutional, will have no effect on the wages of the organized women of the state and would only reduce the wages of those who are unorganized,” Will- jam M. Short, president of tho Stare Federation of Labor, declared Tues- day morning. LAW ANNULLED BY DECISION “There is no doubt-now but that vy Will be annulled by the de- cision," Short said Tuesday. “Tho wages of the organized groups of women laborers in, the state, how- ever, are now more than the mint. j;mum wage law ppovides and their | Wages are set by their trade agree- jments, rather than by the wage | statute, he said. | “Phe decision may work ‘to the ldetriment of the Wage-earning girls jin the state for the time being, but I believe that {t will have a good jeffect on conditions in the future, ‘The annulment of the law will not (Turn to Page 4, Cotumn 5) saling- By MORE THAN 15000 a Day PARA AAA AAALAC » CHAMBER wats IN SEATTLE, = TRIAL CROWS ACRIMONIOUS} | Bitter Innuendos Exchanged by Op- posing Counsel as Case Starts Both the Seattle and the Seattle Chamber of Comeg merce stand accused, by innuendo, @ | Of attempting to influence the court) and jury tn litigation over the affairs ot Frank Waterhouse, 4 The charges were nade in Judge |Calvin 8. Hall's department of sus | perior court Tuesday in the course) jof acrimonious wrangles which | marked the opening of the trial 6f9 the suit of W. T. Laube, as trustee |in bankruptcy for Frank Waters | house & Co., against Waterhouse for J | $187,000-0dd, which Waterhousg.@ accused of abstracting from com pany funds to pay losses involved in the construction of the steamer EL Aqua Referr National banie | 5 to a resolution ciret. | tated the Chamber of Commerce” \in reply to charges against Water house, printed In a weekly business) publication, John B. Hart, of couns) sel for the trustee, asked a pone q ive juror: :d “If it should Aevelop that this reso lution was sent out with the idea influencing the court or jury in case, would you be influenced in” reaching your decision?” Be A few moments later Clarence Reames, of Waterhouse’s D countered with the que “Would you be influenced If th fact should dévelop-that on the ev of this trial the Seattle tional aid for the circulation of 6,0007 of the Business Chronide d this attack on Mrs) copies BY, A ERBAL TILTS ‘he entire morning session was fe of verbal battles between Op paae |ing attorneys that only three venines | men were examined in the first b |and a half, and it seemed likely | selection of the jury would consu the whole day. Various Seattle newspapers werd brought prominently into the angus) ments and particular stress was laid upon the special serles of now appearing in The Star (Turn to Page 9, Column 2) Vag Is Held for $30,000 Robb OAKLAND, Cal, April 10.—S. |Cupp was held in jail here tod as a suspect in the robbery a few lweeks ago of a messenger for the | |Sam Seeling stores in Los Angeles of $30,000, He was arrested on a charge Gf” yagrancy and police made a tentas” tive identification of him as the™ man wanted for the Los Angeles robbery by means of photographs, Five Are Burned to Death in House CITY, Ia., April 10.—Fi including four children, burned to death at midnight wh fire destroyed the George Baab house near Whiting, Ia., according” word here, % Apr. 1, 1914. Oct. 1, 1914. Apr. 1, 1915. Oct. 1, 1915... Apr. 1, 1916 /Oct. 1, 1916. Apr. 1, 1917 Oct. 1, 1917, jApr. 1, 1918. General ) Oct. Strike Apr. Period Oct. | April 1, 1920 Oct. 1, 1 Be )Apr. 1, 1921 /Oct. 1, 1921...... , Apts Up L0 Re. rea ae Oct...1,. 19220... 'Apr. 1, 1923. . 1, 1918. 1, 1919. 1, 1919 ‘'|Seattle Knows Which The record of the last eight years in Seattle afternoon newspaper circulations, as disclosed by official statements: ~ Seattle Afternoo Star 43,689... 48,763... 54,693... 57,651... ag thE aes 59,667 63,130 69,643 Bh TAL ae 57,904 See The Star's official circulation statement for past gi months, on page 6,