The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 24, 1924, Page 9

“SECTION TWO (a PAGES 9 TO 16 The Seattle Star t SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, MARCI 24, 1924 | * Will YOU Go To |SEEK POISONER _ | The Poorhouse? [tie scien Lives of Children Reform Wave Sent Ed There—Another of |! Pgh ob a Series Telling How the Inmates ‘ a peat Became Failures ed nov \ endangered Sa DD Committee of Washington Men to Aid in Depicting Nation’s Resources Sentence . eral of the ground BY JIM MARSHALL HE reformers sent Ed Devlin to the King county poorhouse out on Corson ave. é In the old days Ed was a faro dealer, one of the best on the Coast. fession in his enigmatic smile, in the long slim fingers that un lock the doors of the little chapel. Ed looks after the You can see traces of his pr * Kills Self When | Girl Hugs Riva chapel and tends the crematory plant just behind, Th ho p or ur house a mammoth) Port larch 24.—Be One day a preacher will read a burial service over United States map at Babson Park, Ma. ause he found } of Lorain Will Influence Tenants Y n the c a e re » fire e i My a Naltg rg 7 ne equaint the ied in the chapel, and he will go thru the fire in th | Has High Rating sieein tha sat ia: | eussesed ey set ian" PP eth ped Per conan to Rent Your Houses crematory. a little heap of bones will be stacked, | Mins Loretta: Murr oattlolt ' ita ‘construction Thorpe aaa Mp 5 aie with the oth n the rows of little urns he now keeps —,"* exchanged to Kansas Cit t { t : } eatataris BOUT those houses you're building—you'll so neatly in the room of death. eee sta J maelf find them much easier to rent if you install Ed knows all this, but with the gambler’s fatalistic | cit ‘ RELIABLE “Angliron” Gas Ranges equipped instinct, he doesn’t allow it to affect him. Helen Re ‘Belle” May Lose with the FOLLOWED RACES ALL HIS LIFE; vod Unclaimed Letter OVEN HEAT F REFORM WAVE MADE HIM FAILURE 1M SRPGNRTRED, MAtoh 1#47—Aste LORAIN tasuon i Ed was born in England 68 years ago. All his life he | Murr e ne-third When a prospect finds a Lorain-equipped Range in your house, she immediately favors renting it. It mak 1 most attractive feature— and one hard for any housewife to pass up. Most prospects know that Lorain enables any woman to do these things: Seattle Lighting Co., 1308 4th Ave. followed the races. He wa bookmaker for a time, attle he was known as an ex- square shooter.” Card playing r all he knew—but he knew it. It was his specialty, | «randma prayer s life work. that God should pleas. her s the city grew up and began to put on airs . ptt be photo-| in c waves hit it. A faro box began to be regarde te ¥ a tion lines as at or work of the devil. And then, on an evil day for n| 2 aa . OCU SAL OTe faro was relegated to the limbo of forgotten arts. tick. TI a , ; ; i oe : ———— our master faro dealer was out of a job. a stick. ne chapel is his to keep spotless; the ———————————— He lived for a time, by doing other work—but what | (Tematory his to keep efficient; the urns of ashes his to WE TELL IT WITH VALUES || can a man do who has trained for life at one specialized way on greeny rows until his ashes shall join them. job? *" he says, opening the steel doors to the fur- | ‘ All ready for the next one.” Then rheumatism came to complicate matters i n There is even a little wooden roller at the doorway old friends of the gambling days had drifted a + ready to pies the next Bode anes itis f A SOOEERY such friends will. | ; after Ed Devlin. “Everytuing all ready,” says Ed Devlin, faro dealer then surrendered. hapel. Now he is assistant to C. H. 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