The Tacoma times. [volume], October 29, 1915, Image 1

About The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949

Image provided by: Washington State Library; Olympia, WA

                
A British private escaped three
bullets in an hour's fighting in
•France. One penetrated his pouch,
another the pack on his back, and
a third destroyed his rifle.
Calls Tacoma Schools Firetraps
$1,000,000 FIRE AT SEATTLE PIER
FOREIGN
FIREBUG
BLAMED
SEATTLE, Oct. 29.—Plre or
mysterious origin swept the sec
ond floor of pier 14, at the foot
of Broad street, shortly before 7
o'clock last night, and ln less
than an hour had caused damage
estimated at more than $1,000,
--000.
Confident that the conflagra
tion was tile work of lneendiari—,
the police and Fire Marshal Har
ry \V. j'ringhursl started an in
vestigation, which readied in the
arrest of I). Wilmann, who n.-ts
been employed during the past
week us a longshoreman on the
wharf.
Third in Week.
"She's going line. Let her so.
, Pier 5 will be the next one to
go." This is the statement at
tributed to Wilmann which led to
Ills arrest.
The fire was the third incen
diary attempt on the dock in a
week.
4>ne theory is that Ger
man sympathizers started
Hie fire liecause a quarter
million dollars wortll of
merchandise destined for
ltussiau port-, was stored on
the dock.
Another is that Japanese
The Times lias no intention to pry into the i>ersoual
affairs of any policeman.
_^^^S\ Wmm\M\9Tm "f
MtMMmi sup*
■H posed in lie on duty, we think It's time to protest,
wj K?i^__P '" visited a re-
'Hit \ o'clock hot night
*"" engaged :it length in light hanterlngs with the half
dozen scantily clothed women who reside there.
w9 For Hie benefit of Commissioner Mills, the house was
in the notorious llth street vice district—a district that
lie insisted a tew days ago did not exist.
might have caused it because
of their hatred for Chinese
crews on Klue Funnel liners
which use the dock.
The damage to the pier alone
Is estimated at $3 00,000.
Carried War Supplies.
Huge shipments of war sup
plies for the Japanese and Rus
sian armies have been assembled
on pier 14.
The British steamer Ixion on
her last outward voyage took big
of steel rods which
Avere for use in the building of
fortifications by the Russians.
There were also shipments of
wire for use in the entanglements
In front of the Russian trenchos.
The fire was discovered on the
north side of the second floor,
ln the same place where a blaze
was located Tuesday morning
about 2 o'clock, and which, ac
cording to Fire Marshal Bring
hurst, was of incendiary origin.
Immense Cargo Stored.
Merchandise, nearly one-third
of the $4,000,000 cargo discharg
ed by the Blue Funnel liner Ixlon
early In the week, was resting on
the two floors of the dock when
the blaze was located, besides
nearly $250,000 in exports, main
ly canned salmon awaiting ship
ment to Liverpool.
The dock was leased by Dod
well ft Co., agents on this coast
for the Blue Funnel line, operat
ing a great fleet of steamers be
tween the Sound and the United
Kingdom and ports In the Orient.
SIGNALS CAR
HIT BY AUTO
Mrs. Katherlne Mattlngly, age
72, 3703 So. 7th street, was
struck nnd painfully hurt by an
automobile driven by S. A. Hor
ton, manager of the Commercial
Truck Co., at 6th and G streets,
last evening.
Mrs. Mattlngly had stepped
back toward the curb Into the
path of the machine after a
Btreet car which she had signalled
ban failed to stop.
Witnesses said Horton was
driving slowly and was not to
blame.
-—■ ■ — -■*
PARIS —Aristide Briand. who
will form the new French cabinet,
Calls for meeting of candidates
for late this afternoon.
Going a Long
Way for Job
MISS DOROTHEA t'LAYHKIttt
She'll travel half way 'round
the world to seek a career when
in- is graduated in the spring
from the College of Engineering,
University of Illinois, at Cham
paign. Miss Clayberg has been
engaged as assistant to Walter
Hurley Criffin, royal architect In
.Melbourne, Australia. She's ||
and one of the few women archi
tects in the country.
HORSE THROWS
KING GEORGE V
RUNG GEORGE V OF ENGLAND
LONDON, Oct. 29. — King
George is suffering from severe
bruises caused by a fall from his
horse, says an official announce
ment today.
The accident occurred yester
day while the king was inspect
ing the army in a field in north
ern France. His mount, excited
by the cheers of the troops, rear
ed and fell, throwing the king.
The king was confined to his
bed but passed a fair night, his
physician stated.
PLAN TREES IN
J>ARKINGr SPACES
Fwbwlng requests from sev
eral citizens, the park board Is
preparing to make an estimate of
the coat of installing shade trees
on parkings throughout the city.
nil m m*
The Tacoma Times
30c A
MONTH
VOL. XIJ. NO. 266.
WILL NOT BE
BORN IN JAIL
Child of Woman Mur
derer to Conic Into
Flee World.
JUDGE IS LENIENT
SEATTLE, Oct. 20. —Mary E.
Lillian's child will not he born
in jail.
So declared Judge Smith yes
terday when the woman who
killed Howard Borders the man
alleged to have betrayed her when
she was a young girl and de
serted her came up for sentence.
She had been convicted last
I week of manslaughter.
Judge Smith Imposed a sen
tence of one year ln the county
jail, but in the event she 1b to
become a mother, her sentence
will be autoniatlcaily concluded a
few days before the child is born.
WILL GET SOME
LAWYER TO TALK
The college-professional club of
Stadium high school met yestor
duy morning for the second time
this semester. It was decided to
obtain some Tacoma lawyer for
the principal speaker at the next
meeting, Nov. I,
TODAY'S (TJCABINUS
Clearings $218,922.90
Balances 40,197.43
Transactions 689,610.27
SERBIA
IS NOW
DOOMED
PARIS, Oct. 29.—Serbia seem
ed doomed today.
Invasion of the territory by the
Teutons and Bulgars proceeded
remorselessly.
'Hie allies a,-e preparing a tre
mendous attempt to stop the on
ward movement before the ad
vancing forces reach Constantino
ple, but indications are that this
struggle will occur either on Bul
garian or Turkish soil after the
Teutons pass through Serbia.
WOMEN IN BATTLE
BERLIN, Oct. 20. —
"Fiercer than Belgium" was
the semi-official description
today of the resistance to the
meeting of the Teuton In
vaders in Serbia.
Though it is said the central
allies are progressing more rap-
Idly than was expected, the diffi
culties they have to face are tre
mendous.
They are now ln the Serbian
Alps where the advance is par
ticularly arduous. The Serbians
are fighting madly, with women
and children participating. Snip
ing and bushwhacking are inces
sant.
It is officially claimed that
Serbia's resistance is collapsing,
however. The main drive is ad
vancing west of Bapovo toward
Kragujevac. Heavy fighting Is In
progress outheast of Svilajec.
HI I.H tits ENTER PIROT
BERLIN', Oct. 29.—"The Bul
garians victoriously entered the
fortress of Plrot today," said a
Sofia official report. Flrot is on
the Nißh-Constantinople railway
between Nlsh and Sofia, and the
victory is regarded as important.
SCHEIHLE GAME
LOS ANGELES. Oct. 29.—The
University of Southern California
and U. of Oregon football teams
were matched for game Nov. 6.
THE ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN TACOMA.
SCHOOL
DANGER
OF FIRE
"With all our talk of fireproof
school buildings in Tacoma, there
are ■ few, schools left that would
prove as terrible crematories as
the one in I'eahody, Mass., which
gobbled up the lives of It chil
dren yesterday when It caught
Although he expressed confi
dence in the majority of Taco
tna's public schools, Fire Mar
shal Harry C. Chandler today de
clared that some of the buildings
here are veritable fire-traps.
"I wouldn't give two cents for
the life of a child in one of them
If it caught fire,' said Onantler
today.
Hives We Names.
The fire marshal did not name
the schools that he considered
dangerous. But he declared that
they were a few of the old, wood
en structures, some of them with
out fire-escapes, that have been
allowed to remain in a dangerous
condition while thousands of dol
lars were spent on the larger
bchools.
"The majority of our schools
ure in good condition to with
stand lire,'' said the lire marshal.
"They have either adequate fire
escapes, fire-proof construction,
or plenty of wide halls and good
exits. Of course, a panic might
develop in the best school build
ing the world, and cause more
deaths than fire itself would ever
cause."
Should He llrhullt.
Chantler said that the private
schools of Tacoma aro, compara
tively, as well protected from fire
as the public schools. They
either have fire escapes, or plen
ty Of adequate means for quick
exits.
State Probes.
PEABODY, Mass., Oct. 23. — ■
Twenty-one of the children, vic
tims of the parochial school 'ire
yesterday, are awaiting burial to
day. Following a careful chock
of the school register, it is
thought other bodies are still in '
the debris.
' Every door in Peabody was
decorated with black crepe, be
speaking the worst child tragedy
in the history of Massachusetts.
State investigators are trying to
discover the origin of the fire.
Local officials are blamed for
the tragedy because there were
no fire escapes in the school and
all the doors opened Inward.
It is not known yet what action
will be taken.
TO GIVE
FIRM A
CHANCE
The stale will give Jacob Vo
gelbaum, proprietor of the Home
Cloak & Suit House, an oppor
tunity of settling with the nun- 1
dreds of women who have pro-
tested against the alleged lottery
game conducted by the firm.
Deputy Prosecutor Selden said
today he Is willing to let the case
drop If satisfaction is given, but
that so far as he can learn the
limited stock is insufficient to
equal the hundreds of dollars col
lected on the "lottery" schema.
Crowds of women continue to
besiege the court house with
tales of having been duped, thetr
losses varying from 50c to $19.
In practically every case they de
clare they will feel a severe loss
If forced to accept merchandise,
as the goods, they declare, are of
inferior quality.
Voglebaum Is still out on bond.
Even If he makes good to the
patrons, prosecutors declare, the
firm will not be permitted to con
duct business in the future un
der the same methods. . .
Friends of Irving Helllg, who
furnished ball for Vogelbaum,
said today that Helllg is not di
rectly interested in the cloak
house.
Two months ago, they said, he
had loaned Vogelbaum money
with which to buy stock, and had
no knowledge of the alleged lot
tery. He furnished ball for the
man as a protection for his loan,
and for no other reason, it was
explained.
TACOMA, WASH., [-TODAY, OCTOBER 29, 191 ft.
HE LIVES IN
SILENT CITY
Tacoman Suddely Loses
Sense of lleaiing;
Still Can Talk
NEED- WORK BADLY
By Edgar C. Wheeler
Suppose that one day yen went
about your business like any oth
er ordinary being, with the h.tiu
of-street cars ami autos and the]
sottiul of your neighbors' voices >
in your ears. Suppose you vent
home from work at Bight to be
greeted by your wiles laughter
and the latest words your baby
had learned to say.
Then itippoM the next day all
these sounds you had lived -villi
every day the music that had
■■de your lieari sing —were shut
out as if a prison door h id been
closed tt|ion them.
Ueally i'an* of l-'uiilkner.
How would you feel, and Where
would you turn?
This Is exactly what happened
Ito F. S. Faulkner, who came, lo
Tacoma last summer —iMtftßg to
relit a tmall farm where lie and
his Utile family might live hap
pily .
As Fattlkuer went dowi tnc
hill form 1 tie Tacoma Hem-nil
hospiial one day early in Septem
ber he reeled like a drunken man.
He t lung to posts and trees lor
support. Passers-by stared and
soldered, and mistook him for
a common drunk.
iU- had undergone an opera
tion to save his life, and the op
eration had destroyed the delicate
mechanism of both ears.
Now he and his wife aim baby
have just three dollars between
them and starvation.
Still 11ns His Voice.
The only way he can hold a
conversation with 9 friend is to
read what his friend writes with j
pencil and paper. Faulkne.-, how-|
ever, i-an reply verbally. His
volte is as clear and as normal j
as any body's.
How is it when Tacoma it s'l- 1
ent?
"It is appalling," says Fa.ilk-I
ner. "Street cars go silently
along; autos refuse to honk at the
crossings; even the new._oys cry
their wares In pantomima."
"Wonder changed to dismay.
Music, singing and many of the
old pleasures were gon?. Wee
Elizabeth would come to say
'Daddy' and would creep away
puzzled."
Need* Work Badly.
Bui this was not all. There
came the question of how to sup
port the small family. W'it'i his
head swimming at the slightest
exertion and his legs refusing to
follow a straight path, Faulkner
has been unable to find any work
which he can handle. The op
eration had injured the mechan
ism which is his body's balaui'-j
wheel.
With able-bodied men compet
ing for every job, what '.'hanee
is there for a crippled invalid?
Faulkner is appealing for some
one in Tacoma to answer this
puzzle and find means of cards
for the family which depeucs on
him.
The prominent Tacoma physi
cian who performed the >imratioii
says that he will not regain his
hearing, but that the trouble
.which throws him from his bal
ance may gradually be righted.
I flashes!
LONDON —Gen. Joffre, com
mander-in-chief of the French
ami}, visited the war office here
today ln company with Minister
of War Kitchener.
WASHINGTON —White House
attaches declare less than 50 in
vitations will be issued to the
president's wedding.
NEW YORK—J. P. Morgan
»aa operated on today for appen
dicitis
LjONDON—English war office
obtained Information today of
GeAnan plan to land expedition
ary forces in England within short
time.
BERLIN — Imperial chancellor
takes advantage of federal coun
cil's order empowering him to fix
toed prices, designating the retail
price on potatoes as $1 09 a hun
dredweight.
PHILADELPHIA —Bethlehem
Steel Co. sued for $3,000,000 by
Churchward International Steal
. Co. for alleges infringement of
patents in making war munitions.
HOME
EDITION
Man To Whom Tacoma Is
Noiseless, and His Family
F. S. Faulkner, suddenly stricken deaf, with .Mrs. Faulkner
and Baby Faulkner, whose support now has become a terrible
problem to him.
Officials Knew.
But Didn't Act
The Times has the word of a leading tailor of Ta
coma that as much as six months ago he complained
to the prosecuting attorney of the operations of a
cloak house which now faces a mass of litigation,
criminal and civil, for the alleged fleecing of hun
dreds of Tacoma citizens.
Furthermore, a second leading business man, as
sures us that months ago he brought the operations
of this company to the notice of the city authorities.
He succeeded in stopping its agents from soliciting
business in his particular part of town, but nothing
more.
The prosecutor's office denies it ever was in
formed of the deal until a few days ago, and we'll
have to take its word for it, we suppose, but it cer
tainly ought to have had wind of so generally operat
ed a scheme, that is certain.
The losses bid fair to aggregate thousands of dol
lars and to be distributed among hundreds of Tacoma
citizens who can little afford to pocket them.
We do not know how the victims feel about it, but
it seems to us that a considerable share of the blame
should rest on the shoulders of our easy-going offic
ials.
Months ago, before the duping took place, the po
lice, at least, knew as much about the way th 3
scheme was run as they do today.
They didn't act, and in not acting they became a
negative sort of partner of the concern now accused
of a felony.
- Talk o' the Times -
The Central Heating Co. seems
to cause a chill at the city hall.
When the wife bolls some
onions for dinner, how sav
ory tlie aroma—but when a
neigh boa does the same stunt
how rotten it smells 1
Now if Chiefs Lang and Loom Is
only could send each other to jail
simultaneously.
Londoners don't appre
ciate having the Herman
Zeppelins making so many
WEATHER
Tacoma: Unsettled, probably
showers.
Washington: Fair east, unset
tied, probably showers west por
tion.
calls before even the first
one Is returned.
An Indian has just died at
Hart, Mich., at the rtpe old age
of 118. He probably got a good
start before germs were discov
ered.
CZAIT_-_-VES~FOR
SOUTHERN FRONT
PETROORAD, Oct. 29.—The
emperor of Russia has gone to
the southern front with Crows
Prince Alexis.
FIEND
STILL
FREE
Police detective* have
in.nl,• an Ineffectual search
of over IH hours for Hie
fiend who la.t. nißlit sel/ed
Antlica. Il.ii 11--..n. a pretty 15
--year-old lour* mriool girl,
threw her down on a North
Iml purklng and attempted
to choke her.
At a late hour today no
arrests had been nuule and
Hie officers udnilMed that,
they were baffled. A Hieory
of Mrs. Ijiiii-.i l<\ Harrison,
Hie mother, thai tin- innii
ml-j-lil I"* her lumbal—, fi-.un
wh nil she is MM.led, la
scouted Wy the officers.
Aiithiii had left home at T
o'clock to visit v girl chum. She
had gone hardly a block from
home, 14 07 No. Anderson St.,
when a tall man with Van Uyke
heard, stepped out from behind
an electric polo and seized her
wrist.
The girl, almost hysterical with
fright, started to scream, but her
cries were muffled by a hand
plared roughly over her mouth.
She struggled, kicking and biting.
The man had said nothing during
the at—uult, und the only sound of
scuffle had occurred with tin*
girl's first scream.
No one had been attracted to
the scene.
Finally Kscapea.
As the struggle continued, the
girl seemed to be getting the
better of her assailant. Sudden
ly loosening his grasp of her
wrist, the bearded man gripped
the girl by the throat, forced her
down to the grass of a parking
beside the walk, and started
choking.
Miss Harrison has no idea how
long she remained there, or how
she released herself. AH she re
members Is a raininess, a last
flash of strength in an effort to
get away, and then she was run
ning down the street, the man
pursuing.
She rushed Into her home, and
Mrs. Harrison telephoned police
headquarters. Detectives arriv
ed in a moment, and searched
the entire neighborhood, but
found no trace of the man.
Believe Man a Fiend.
Police officers had the opinion
today that a father, trying to kid
nap his daughter, never would
have taken such drastic measures,
and lay the assault to a fiend.
Tho Harrison home, 14th and
Anderson, north. Is in a well-to
do residence section ot the North
End. Several detectives are work
ing on the case today.
The girl has not yet recovered
from the shock and injuries to
her throat, caused by the assault.
0. A. C. TEAM
IN MICHIGAN
EAST LANSINO, Mich.. Oct.
29. —The Oregon Agricultural
college football team arrived to
day in a special car for the game
tomorrow with the Michigan ag
gies.
The westerners are somewhat
tired but expect to tie ln tip top
shape tomorrow.
1 What's Doing
Today
Lecture, Wesley L. Jones,
"Washington, the Capital City;"
First Swedish Lutheran church;;
So. Bth and I; evening.
Hallowe'en party, youn; peo
ple's unions ot all churches and
Y. M C. A. and Y. W. C. A.,
evening.
Tomorrow
Formal opening. University
club; 8:30 to 10 p. m.
Football game; U. of Waahtag
ton vs. Whitman colege; at U«_
versliy grounds; Seattle,
Hallowe'en dance by jitney
drivers; Eagles' hall; Ip.m.
Charity film show at Colonial;
proceeds go to Thankagiving din
ner fnnd tor the poor.
Nailer skating tournament, Y.
M. C. A.