The Tacoma times. [volume], May 08, 1915, Image 1

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U. S. IN NO DANGER OF WAR; DONT BELIEVE SCARE YARNS
If you move telephone Tho
Times Circulation Department,
Maiu 12, and The Times carrier
boy will see that you do not miss a
single copy of The Times. Remem
ber the number, Main 12.
ANOTHER LINER LOST
MOTHERS' DAY
TOMORROW
Miss Anna Jurvls, the "m other" of mother's day.
Mother will be QUEEN tomor
row.
She will be the sweetheart of
the world.
The carnation, symbol of
maternal love, will be the na
tional flower for one day at least.
In churches, in homes, In pris
on cells, in hospitals, in the har
vest fields of the went and in the
slums of the east, every one will
pay tribute to MOTHER, or to
MOTHER'S memory.
Miss Anna Jarvis of Philadel
phia is the "mother" of Mother*
day. Right years ago she invited
her friends to join her on May S
In commemorating the death of
her mother. The annual tribute
to mothers which Is now a world
wide custom was the outcome of
Finds Husband
at Last-Dead
QUEKNSTOWN, May 8. — At
a local hotel today Mrs. Stanley
L. B. Lines found her husband.
He was dead. Mrs. Lines was
picked up by a fishing boat, ana
throughout the night searched
vainly for her husband.
Weak aud exhausted herself,
she went from hotel to hoiel, ana
called at hospitals during her
search. When Bhe finally located
Lines, tt was only to claim hi*
body. He had perished from ex
posure.
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that little meeting.
The (ifficitil program arranged
by Miss Jarvis for the celebration
of Mother's day includes tii"
Mother's day prayer, the procla
mation of the president rocog
nizing Mother's day, .lames Wliit
conib Rlley's poem on Mother's
day and the singing of national
anthems.
Practically all the Tacoma
churches are preparing Mothers'
Day music and sermons, snd one
way of honoring our mothers will
be by church attendance on Sun-
day.
The Rev. Frank Dyer of the
First Congregational says his ser
mon on "Mothers of Men" will
bave a section for those much
abused persons—mothers-ln-luw
ond stepmothers.
GASOLINE
IN SEWER
EXPLODES
m
Three man-hole rovers on Hth
and 15th streets and A street
were thrown 60 feet into the air
at 8 o'clock this morning by an
explosion of sewer gas In the
15th street sewer. Each cover,
made of cast, iron, w^s shattered
Into small pieces when It fell back
again to tlm pavement. No In
juries resulted.
Commissioner Owen Woods
said today that the explosion was
caused by gasoline from garages
leaking Into the sewer and becom
ing ignited by a cigaret or cigar
■tab. He declared that he woulJ
introduce an ordinance making it
unlawful for garages to pour
gasoline into the sewers.
"That sewer might have 'it
ploded under a building, or the
man-hole might have killed some
one," 'said Woods.
PASSENGERS
CANNOT SUE
LONDON, May B—Ail tfce pas
sengers aboard the Luslt vila, be
fore sailing, had signed a>vay the
rights of their relatives to sue In
case of accident, so Charles Stew
art, New England manager, said
today.
He said also that the only
vulnerable point of the Lusltanla
was near her engine-room.
The Tacoma Times
ILLUSTRIOUS DEAD
AS REPORTER MET
THEM WHEN LIVING
BY I It I l> li. H<> VII.
< «1s >im\ limiK Ht queens, anil
limniilf hi'h -i>;i|i«'i- reporters may
j!»/"' ii|Min, ami even interview,
the rich and
Often, when a well known
iiihih- rigure« iv the public prints
I feel tliat I have nut nn m -
<iu;iinijiii( <• ukhlii. It was so I felt
when J. I'lerpont Morgan died he
cause I interviewed him once and
lie answered my questions in
monosyllables or not nt all—and
forgot my MMMN the msi.-nn i
van Kullr-
Andy < -n ncnif once vouclifciiffMl
me a hrlel' hut kindly word. John
I). Rockefeller once held my hand
and, evading deftly the luirniiiK
Inmiio I wanted him to <11kcii«s
«mll--c»ii|>< il me ullh |>l:itl(iul<--
I oiKe laid i-jes on the majeHty
of KiliK Kdward, and Much Inuiior
(iiU 11 k .Inmi"- J. i <>il)i-(t. John li.
Sullivan, «;«li> l>( !ys and Wu Tin*;
I'aiiK have met me as their equal
and talked with me In Utiiik ap
proaching intimacy.
A dlsiiiiK'ui-hiMl . iiiii|i.ui> the
Miindoring reporter mwN.
And ho when I seen the fln«t
tabin passenger list of the tor
pedoed l.usiumin 1 feel again that
I have lost old friends of mine—-
Charles Krohman, Alfred liwynne
Vanderbilt and Klbert Hubiinrd.
I remember Frohman as a
klk.ii. dark, rather plump man
who was surprisingly agile. Ho
was In bed In a hotel when 1
called. He hopped out of led and
into a big leather chair. He wore
raw-silk pink pajamas. He look
ed like a boy as he sat cross
legged.
It was hard to realize that be
was The Krohman. When you
speak of "a Frchman show," you
know whose show is meant. Xot
Daniel's. Not (Justav's. Charles*.
I noticed (his about him. He
could talk art and drama, and
he could talk dollars. Most artln
tic men are dulh.rds In buslnMs.
Most business men are boneheads
in art. .
The biggest man In the Ameri
can theatrical world he Is—or
wan, for the dispatches day Ins
body has been found.
My recollection of my meeting
with Kllmti Hubbard In not tt hap
py one. The interview was not
pleasant. It was at the tim
when lin \lln-mis won nt the
height "I Ills populnrity. He wns
vogue. Everybody read the IMill
f-«liir. Koycroft products fetched
enormous prices. The poor man
was overworked.
I He K"ve a lecture before the
"smart set" of an eastern city.
After the lecture society flocked
.about him and lionized dim. I
had to iivk him, before ill this
worshipful company, to explain
why he printed In the Philistine
an editorial, without credit, which
I."'I been printed in i local news
|ui|ier six months before.
It was equivalent to :i charge
of Journalistic prtit larceny.
I ni Albertun' smile was benign.
Rut there wan a steely glittor In
his eye.
• • •
' I cannot claim to have talked
with Alfred Uwynne Vanderbilt.
BBut once a London fish mon
ger and I saw him.
f- r 1 "r WHEN A MAN'S MARRIED r- —- -r
Vanderbilt drove a coach fro:n|
London to Ilrighton, stiiritnr from I
the Rita hotel. Brighton Is the ■
Newport of Knglaud. Vanderbili I
charged handsomely for the prlv- !
ilege of riding in ins iujhcli ani
gave the proceeds to charity.
Titled people |>Htronized him.
Snobs and rllnjberH courted him
The fish monger and I were
si miri inn oil the cur)). i he fisli
monger hart anarchistic views. Uc
didn't think a nian had any rlßht
to have as much money as Vait
derbilt had. And to charge for
riding in his couch, when he
didn't need the money was "tykln
the bread out o' poor ■ wen*
mouths."
Vanderbilt seemed a likealilo
man, clean-cut, very spruce. I
saw him gather up the .reins, a
liveried footmen behind tooted *
long horn, and the coach rolled
away.
LONDON, May 8.---I'lUll th«
disaster of yesterday, the Cunard
line had been able to boast that
Id all Its years of service it nevrir
had lost a transatlantic i>a*sen
ger.
NO REASON FOR
I. S. TO BECOME
INVOLVED IN WAR
I-ONDON, May H.—Onlj
708 pn«N»ngpi-M and member*
of the I. mm in nlh (tm have
been saved and I,:hh have
lin-n lost, tiKonliiiK to re
port* received by the Itriilsh
admiralty at 2:15 iiiis after
noon.
At that hour the admi
ralty had received no further
report*) of rescue since the
dispatch from (jueenntown
announcing that 45 addition
al sur\lvors had l>een lauded
during the forenoon.
This brought the total
number of waved to 708,
which the admiralty thought
was approximately correct.
It is evident that the sinking of
the great liner has brought about
a political crisis. In Hgland. Many
members of parliament, which is
to reconvene Monday, favor re
prisals of equal violence against
Germany. Criticisms are hurled
thick and fast at the admiralty
for not having provided tbe big
ship with an escort of cruisers
and destroyers.
Prominent Men Dead.
NEW YORK, May B—ln no
list of survivors have the names
of Alfred G. Vanderbilt, Klbert
Ilubbard and Charles Krohuian
appeared, and their friends have
given up liujm for them.
Garrison Htay* on .lob.
WASHINGTON, D. C, May M.<
—Owing to the Lusitanlu's sink
ing. Secretary Garrison of tha
AMONG THE LOST ABOARD LUSITANIA
Fra Klbert Hubbtml, Writer and l'ul.lisl.«-r, of Kant Aurom, X. V.
♦ 4> <$■ •s<s■«> ■<**4>**-»<S>* •«> ♦
«> ♦
» ATTACK I.KHH HKKIOIH ♦
THAN ON (.11-1 I.Killl •
M» WASHINGTON, U. C, *
m May 8. —Chairman Stone of *
♦ the senate foreign relations ■>
" committee asserted today ♦
••- that the attack on the •
<•- i.usiiHiiia was, as a matter •
• of international law, less -'v
4 serious than the attack on #
'•• the tank-steamer Gulf-Light. ♦
# ■ The Luaitania was a Brit- ♦
4 ioli ship and subject to at- 4
• lark by Germans, he said, •
♦ and Americans had sailed at ♦
•$• their own rink after the full <$■
<•• warning given. ■$>
'war department called off a trip
tof Inspection. He said he did not
v isli to be absent from the na
tional capital when such "inter-
'(•sting" events were happening.
siuti- department and White
.House officials are still reticent.
— ■
liberty Bell Probably
Here On July 15
The Liberty Bell probably will
be In Tacoma July 15.
' I'lilh date Is not positive as yet,
but the date- for its nrrlvtl In S>
4ttl« from Spokane, Wrnatchee
«nd Everett has been set as July
44. A great ceremony has been
planned for the Seattle occasion.
< luiili-s Klein, noted |>lay
wrlKbt, who whs aboard big liver.
TACOMA
SALOONS
HOPEFUL
With the saloonlsts of practi
cally all other cities of the state
making plans tG turn their estab
lishments into soft-drink parlors,
Tacoma proprietors still are re
taining their hopes that the pro*
hibition law will be declared un
constitutional, or that arrange
incuts will be reached so that its
provisions will not be rigidly en
forced.
On this basis, most of them are
planning to keep their places
open until Jan. 1, then await de
velopments.
WEATHER
Tacoma and vicinity: Showers to
night and Sunday.
State: Showers west, probably
showers east; cooler east portion.
2nd Vessel
Is Lost Off
Irish Coast
LONDON, May B.—With a loss of life not yet de
termined, the British steamer Don today was tor
pedoed and sunk off the north coast of Ireland.
This admission was made by the admiralty.
Although it was sure that this would be over-shad
owed by the terrific Lusitania disaster, the admiralty
made no attempt to conceal that the disaster was one
that ordinarily would be regarded as most serious.
The most strenuous efforts are being made to ax
rive at the full details, but the facilities of the depart
ment are taken up largely with the Lusitania dis
aster.
SAW TORPEDO, SAYS BRYAN
WASHINGTON, D. C, May 8.—"All this depart
ment need do for the present," said Secretary Bryan
today, "is to tell the public that we are arriving at
the facts as rapidly as possible, and caring for the
injured."
Pressed for information, the secretary said that
someone on the Lusitania had seen the periscope of
a submarine, and the vessel evidently had met her
fate by a torpedo.
U S. ASKS FULL REPORT
WASHINGTON, D. C, May B.—The state depart-
I ment today cabled Berlin for a full report of the sink
ing of the Lusitania. The request desired that the
report be based on the statements of the commander
of the submarine which attacked the liner, assuming"
the liner was sunk in this manner.
In effect, the United States has asked Germany
for the usual formal statement as to the responsibil
ity for the disaster.
REPEAT FORMER WARNING
NEW YORK, May B.—ln the face of the sailing of
the Transylvania, the German embassy again today
printed advertisements warning Americans not to
travel on the allies' ships to Great Britain. It is the
same text as the one published the day the Lusitania,
sailed.
. EMBASSY DIDN'T KNOW IT
WASHINGTON, D. 0., May B.—lf the Lusitivnia
was disarmed before its destruction, the German em
bassy here said today, no knowledge of it had come
to the Germans. Previously, it was claimed, the em
bassy had been advised that the liner was aimed. It
was added that it was known that a cargo of arms
and ammunition was on board.
FROHMAN'S BODY FOUND
LIVERPOOL, May B.—The body of Charles Froh
man, noted theatrical producer, was found dead near
where the Lusitania sank.