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WIFE ACCUSES KENWORTHY
Charges Recent Divorce Granted In Tacoma Without Her Knowledge
ONCE TACOMA SCHOOL
BOY, THEN DOCKWORKER,
NOW STEAMSHIP KING!
By Mabel Abbott
"Started on a shoe string,"
hrlefly explained President
Hubbard FoNtei- Alexander
Tliiii-silay i c.
The consolidation of the Pacific
Alaska Navigation Co., of which
Alexander 1b president, and the
Pacific Coast Steamship Co., into
one gigantic corporation called
the Pacific Steamship Co., and
his selection as its head, had just
been announced.
The new company owns or has
under long-time charter 22 ves
sels, carrying nearly all the pas
senger business and most of tho
freight business between northern
and southern ports on the Pacific
coast, and said by shipping men
to lie worth $12,000,000.
Their gross tonnage is more
than fir.,ooo tons. They cover
the coast from San Diego to Alas
ka. One of the company's freight
ers, the Admiral Sebree, is on the
Atlantic coast at present, loading
at Norfolk for South America.
Great Fleet Now.
The vessels Involved are the
Congress. President, Governor,
Spokane, Umatilla, Queen, Sena
tor, City of Seattle, Curacao, City
of Topeka, Ravalli, Atirelia and
Homer, belonging to the Pacific
Coast Steamship Co., and the Ad
miral liners Dewey, Evans, Far
ragut, Schley, Goodrich, Watson
and Sebree, and the chartered
vessels Harvard and Yale, con
trolled by the Pacific Alaska Nav
igation Co.
The officers of the new com
pany are H. F. Alexander, Taco
ma, president; E. C. Ward, Seat
tle, vice president; R. J.Ring
wood, San Francisco, vice presi
dent In charge of traffic; William
Jones, Tacoma, treasurer; E. B.
Rogers, Tacoina, secretary; A. F.
Haines, Seattle, manager.
Wi'l up, rule All.
In the statement given out by
President Alexander, he said the
Pacific Steamship Co. plans to
operate all the vessels of both
companies, extend the service in
other directions, and maintain
more frequent sailings on the
routes.
The consolidation Is the big
gest thing that has happened in
Pacific coast shipping circles for
years.
And it is headed by a man 37
Are We
Justified?
Perhaps we ought to
he .satisfied with present
11. lib-wiiii nt. Hut, you
know, "the more a man
gets the more he
wants."
This being true, wo
are then justified In so
liciting new biiNiness;
and especially so, since
we are so well equipped
to handle it.
PUGET
SOUND
BANK
TELEPHONE OPERATOR'S JOBI^NOSNAP
3y Cynthia Grey.
How would you like to be a
tel.-ni.one girl?
low would you like to spend
one day In the perpetu.il buzz of
hundreds of chattering voices In
front of a hoard that fairly daz
zles with its popping lights?
How would you like to say,
"Number, please?" In an angel
sweet voice in response to 2,000
calls a day?
How would you like to let
everyone call you anything, and
■till keep smiling?
It's the Life of Hello Girls.
It's the life of tbe girl behind
the busy switchboard In Taco
ma's telephone office.
It's the life that stretches
nerves to the breaking point, ex
hausts hearing and dulls bright
ayes.
It's the life that about 200 girls
ln Tacoma are following!
years old, who 22 years ago be
gan work as a longshoreman on
the docks of Tacoma.
He came to Tacoma 26 years
ago, when he was 11 years old,
went to school for a while, and
when he was la, began his career
as a steamship wizard by hustling
freight Into and out of the holds
of the big vessels he loved to be
near.
Fights Way l'p and I'p.
For two years he did this. Then
he became a clerk in the employ
of Dodwell & Co.
Presently he was general man
ager of the Commercial Dock Co.;
then president of the same com
pany; and then, when lie was only
27, he was made president of the
Alaska Pacific Steamship Co., and
a little later became also general
manager of the Alaska Coast Co.,
of which he afterward became
president.
The Pacific Alaska Navigation
Co. was Incorporated ln 1911, as
the holding company of the Alas
ka Pacific Steamship Co. and the
Alaska Coast company, with Alex
ander as its head.
"It's been pretty hard pull
ing," he observed, as he swung in
AGAINST SLICING
COMMANDMENTS
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NEW YORK, Sept. UH
"Hliouhl any church üblirivl
ate the ten eoiiinianiliiient.s'.'
"Most certainly NO!"
This Is the dirtum of Dr. Sam
uel Schulmun, president of the
central conference of American
rabbis, and himself rabbi of the
great temple Bethel ln Now York.
He makes It as a result of the
proposal to boil down the ten
commandments given by God to
Moses thousands of years ago.
This proposal, to be considered
by the convention of the Protest
ant Episcopal church In St. Louts
ln October, Is stirring opposition
in many Quarters.
The Episcopalians, many of
them, urge that brevity ln the
form of the commandments is
going to result in added emphasis
to their meaning.
He Tells Why.
Rabbi Schulman, is member of
the board of editors of the Eng
lish translation of the Bible for
the synagogue and a noted con
tributor to Jewish religious liter
ature.
"The question as to whether
the original form of the ten com
mandments was the shorter one,"
he said, "is of course not a new
one.
"I should venture to say that
the very captivating character of
the simplicity of the short form,
which is used as an argument for
it, is a PROOF of its untruthful
ness!
"I believe the longer form is
the original form.
"The variations of the
wording in Kxodus and Den.
teronomy are well known
and, with respect to the
fourth commandment con
cerning the Sulilmt ti, are most
important. For they give a
complete theory of the Sab
linth.
The one in Exodus em
phasizes the Habbath us an
Institution for God and the
one in Deuteronomy einplia
sizes it as an institution tor
WhaiS the Inside story of it?
Is it hard?
Mrs. Glen Dies, who spent sev
eral months in the telephone of
fice before her marriage, has
given me some of the "dope."
I pass It on in hope that It may
help Ihe public and the girls.
He (.ailed Her Down.
In relating her experience on
the switchboard, Mrs. Dies said:
"I remember one evening when
I went In on a line and said,
'Number, please?' I could hear
someone talking to another per
son, but I couldn't get any re
sponse.
"Again I said, 'Number,
please?' At last I heard a voice
■ay, 'I want Central.' 'This is
Central,' I answered. He said,
'Don't speak so d cross;
you've got the biggest snap in the
city.' I wondered at the time, aa
I have many times since, how
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his mahogany chair between his
mahogany desk ami lilk mahogany
table, In the private office outside
of whose door reporters, shipping
men and prominent citizens were
encamped on the chance of get
ting a word with the head of the
biggest shipping on the Pa
cific coast, and one ol the biggest
in the I'liited States.
"I've lived in Tacoma, and so
what 1 did, I did in Tacoma. 1
want to live here as lon^ as 1
can.
And That's Why It Was.
"1 began as a longshoreman;
but the real beginning of the bus
iness was when I got an option on
two vessels, the Buckiiian and the
Watson, and got some Tacoma
j men with money lo back me.
"Once they had got In, they had
to keep on going." he grinned
confidentally, "and somehow we
weathered the panic of 18 97, and
the company grew - and that's
the way It was.
"The Pacific Alaska Navigation
has for some time been tlie larg
est steamship company on the
coast. The Pacific Coast Steam
ship company was the next larg
est."
man, li-u lilng the tlemoerntle
dignity oi nil liiiniun ticin-;s
anil tlicii* equality in betas
entitled to n week day of
rest.
"For teaching purposes in the
modem Jewish Sunday school we
glvo the commandments in an nb
brevlated form to the very lowest
grades, but as soon as the chil
dren are old enough we make
them memorize the commanj
ments In their present form.
"As to whether it Is advisable
for any church to shorten tno
ceeiniiindnients 1 certainly would
tay no' CERTAINLY Till: JEW
ISH CHURCH WOULD NOT
THINK OF SUCH A THINC!"
BEER WILL FLOW
Hulled i'r.-.« I.eiuao.l Wire.)
HUTCHINSON, Kan., Sept. 28.
— Beer will flow when J. Frank
Hanly, the prohibition presiden
tial nominee, arrives lure Satur
day—ln Coal creek.
City offirials and officers of
the W. C. T. U. will escort Han
ly's party to the banks of the
stream to witness the smashing of
several thousand confiscated bot
tles.
Floyd Was
In Bad Way
CANTON, ill., Sept. 28.—
With a bee ln his ear and
several more angrily buzzing
about his head with their
bayonets leveled and intent
on a charge en masse, Floyd
Hammond of the Newman
store made a lively getaway
when taping a bee tree on
t he farm of his father.
Some cold water was
poured Into his ear, and out
came Mr. Bee, still very
much alive.
many people actually think that
a telephone operator's job is the
easiest in the city."
For the sake of hundreds of
operators 1 want the public to
read this. Just Imagine saying,
"Number, please?" the live-long
day. And all the time you know
there Is a supervisor on the line
waiting to catch you in a mis
take.
Someone is always calling for
better service. It Is up to the
public as much as to the girls to
bring this about.
Don't for Kverybo'i-y-
If YOU want your number
quicker, and your connection on
the wire clearer, read these
"don'ts" which Mrs. Dies has set
down, and heed:
"Don't flash on the line. It Is
almost fatal for an operator If she
does not answer a flash immedi
ately. Yet it may be almost im
Cross-ComplaintFiled
Naming Women Her
Husband Is Alleged
to Have Favored.
J. Fred Kcnworthy, wealthy
TSWHIS grain dealer and secre
tary treasurer of W. 11. Ken
worthy & Son, is accused, Thurs
day of having slipped through a
divorce from Agnes Kcnworthy,
his wife, in Judge Clifford's court,
without her knowledge.
In alfl'idavlts tiled with the
clerk of the court the prosecuting
attorney and Ken worthy's attor
ney are accused of letting the ll
vorce decree go through in viola
tion of the court rules.
With the filing of Mrs. Ken
worthy's answer, the court is
askctl to reopen the case.
Sensational chaises are
brought against Kcnworthy.
ln her answer his wife names
at least half a dozen women with
whom she alleges he bus had
amours since their marriage In
July, IS9B.
•still Loves linn
In spite of it all, she declares
she loves him and Is willing to
have him return to her If he will
live a straight ife.
She alleges that during the last
five years he lias led a dissipated
life, openly associating with num
erous women of the streets,
squandering large sums in pro
curing their friendship and fav;>r.
One woman in particular she
clnlms he has taken to public
dances, cafes anil other places in
Tacoina; also that he lias taken
her in his auto on various trips
to Seattle. In other auto trips
into the country, she says, he has
frequently remained away with
the woman all night, returning to
his home at (i o'clock next morn
ing.
The wife declares Kenworthy
has driven the woman in his auto
about Tacoma, openly and pub
licly.
"Could Get Divorce."
When she protested, she de
clares, he told her "he had more
love for the woman than lie ever
had for her;" also that "If his re
lations with the woman did not
suit her she could get a divorce."
Mrs. Kenworthy asserts that
her husband Introduces this wom
an, whose name she gives, as his
Talk o' the Times
(•reelings, do you favor
"boiling* down" the ten com
ma ndments?
"Prosecutor Takes Hand in
Rioting," according to a morning
paper headline. Mr. Reruann,
we're ashamed of you.
The Rotary club lias lieen
doing a lot of figuring on
how to establish new Indus
tries. Hut the city council
now finds it can add n mill
without the least effort.
there nothing a manly
Man admires more than a
girlish oirl or a womanly
WOMAN.
It probably seems drier
than ever up at Wllkeson
now.
The sporting editor is reminisc
ing again about the pre-DRY
ERNELL daya.
possible.
"Don't watt eight or ten seconds
when you hear the operator say
'Number, please?" Give your num
ber at once. A second lost puts
the operator behind that much on
every call In the day.
"Don't scold the girl If she
doesn't hear you the first time.
Her head-set may be out of or
der or the chief operator may be
giving her instructions at tlAkt mo
ments.
"Don't hold on to your receiver
when you are cut off. If you do,
your line tests busy. Hand up.
Never go ln and say, 'Oh, Central,
YOU cut me off.' Remember
there are from 30 to 300 opera
tors In an office. Don't lay the
blame on any one girl.
"Don't allow children to play
with the phone.
Don't Jolly I'lh.no Girl.
"Don't attempt to atart a con
wife ami that he 'frequently
kisses and can-esses her in ihe
presence ut others."
"They are so frequently togeth
er that many ol their casual ac
quaint. .tin's believe he and the
woman an- husband and wife,"
says the complaint, 'Many of
the little rbililren in Sontli Taco
ma address her as Mrs. Ken
worthy."
The complaint alleges that
Kciiworthy had associations with
another woman as early as IMS,
taking trips lo Scuttle over niulit
to see her.
Still another woman Kenworthy
Is alleged to have met on a trip
to Mt Tacoma,
I 'alius lie Heat Her.
On one occasion, Mrs. Ken
worthy says her husband cut und
beat her, kno'-klng her down,
alter a package had arrived for
him containing a red necktie.
Four other alleged I'llrtallons
and amours are specifically nam
ed.
In 111. and 1115, it is claimed,
he Ir-ld wine suppers in Tacoina
with strange women at Tacoma
hotels
The wife charges that he aban
doned her in August, 1115, Hi it
sha Itntiiored him to come back
but 11l a t In* said he wanted to ne
entirely free to do as he pleased.
The divorce which Keiiwurtliy
secured by default gave him the
custody of their 11-year-old child
and all the community property,
it Is alleged. Walter Harvey rep
resented li I in.
BREAD UP 50 PCT.
(t'nltnl l*i. ss I ruaril Win |
DENVER, Col., Sept. 28.—
Next Monday prices of all bakery
goods in this city will be advanced
approximately 60 per cent. This
was decided on at a meeting of
the master bakers of Denver.
REPORT MI'TIXY
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EL I'ASO. Tex., Sept. 28.—
Anti-Carranzii publications print
ed here today report a mutiny of
the entire Carrunza garrison at
Moctezuuia, state of Chihuahua.
A SKNSIBI.E START
The couple were married at the
home of the bride's parents,
where they will remain until the
bridegroom gets a job.—The Cen
traliu (Mo. I Courier.
Til 10 CHAP WHO COt'RTS
MORE THAN ONE OIRL AT A
TIME IS COURTING TROUBLE.
HKHK'H A FACT TO
roSTCAHD TO YOl'R
11:11 \i»s it \t X EAST
Throe factory buildings
that have been standing Idle
on the tideflats for several
years have just been occu
pied by plants that needed
larger quarters and are
throwing out an immense
hum to swell the industrial
chdrns.
vernation with a telephone girl.
She is not allowed to converse.
"She is permitted to say a few
set phrases, as, for instance:
"1 am ringing them." I will give
you the supervisor.' 'I cannot hear
you; will you please speak loud
:er?'
"One day a man called In and
aaid, j'Central, give me heaven,'
All I would say was, 'What Is the
numbfcr, please?' He said he didn't
know; So I said, 'I will give you
Information.'
"In the training school the
girls are taught to memorize
rates, names of towns and how to
Inflect their voices. I guess you
have noticed how an operator
rolls her three's.' She HAS to do
It. If she forgets, she Is 'called.'
If she doesn't raise her voice at
the end of a number she Is 'called-'
It's no snap to be a telephone
clrl. Try It!" i f -
PEACE TALK INSULT
TO BRITISH NOW, IS
MINISTERS VIEW
Editor* Note—Following inteiiiiv with Havtd Uuyil-t.eiirge. the diiecling force behind Hrilain's
Hi'inics, asserting thai the war must go on "to a knock-out," Is Ihe first stiitemeiil by him
to .American newspapers since ho succeeded Lord Kitchener as secretary of state f«»r «nr.
(I'reslile nt of the Culled I'ress Associations.)
(Copyright. 11)1(1, by the I lilted IYcsn.)
Copyrighted in (.i-cat Hi-llhlii.)
LONDON, Sept. -'X.—There is M end o\ the war in si^ht. Any Step at this time by
the United States, the Vatican of any other neutral in the direction oi peace would he con*
tinted by England a- an un-neutral, pco-Germm move,
The United Press is able to make these statements on no less authority than that of the
British man <>i the h. ur, Rt, Hon. David Lloyd-George, secretary of stale for war.
• "Britain lias only begun to fij,rht: the British Empire has invested thousands of its best
lives tn purchase future immunity for civilization; this investment is too great to lie thrown
away," was the welsh statesman's siae-upof the situation.
Uoyd-George was asked tn give the I"nitetl I'ress in the *siin|>k"-.i possible language the
British atliliule toward the recent |>eace talk.
"Simple language?" he inquired with a half smile. Then he thought a moment.
"Sporting terms ate pretty well understood wherever English is spoken," he replied.
"II Fl, thru, tin- Br it tth .soldier is a good sportsman, lie enlisted in thin :ear in the sport
ing spirit the best sense of thai term. He MSUJ in to see fair play to a small nation trampled
upon h\ a hnllv. lie is fighting for fair play in international dealings. Ile has fought as a
good spoilsman by the thousands. Ile has di<-'.l like a sportsman. He has never ash'Cil any
thing more than a sporting ehanee and hasn't A'tVtVft had that. When he eouhl not get it, he
didn't ijuit. lie played Ihe game. He didn't sjiieal and certainly he never asked anyone la
squeal for him.
"Under the circumstances, the British, no# that the fortunes nf the punt have turned a
i>it. are not disposed tn stop because nf the sqtealing done by ihe Germans or for the <_cr
mans by probably well-meaning but misguide! sympathheets anil humanitarians, Por two
years the British soldier had a bad lime—no o.ie knows so well as he what a bad time it was.
"He was sadily inferior in equipment. On the average he was inferior in training.
"Fight Must Be to a Knockout"
"lie saw the allied cause beaten all about tie ring but he did not appeal to either the spec
tators m- a referee to slop (he fight on the groiiul that it was brutal nor did he ask to have the
ink- changed. He took his punishment. Even when beaten like a dog, he was a game dug.
When forced to take refuge in a trench, when t>o hadly used up to carry the fight to the
enemy, he hung on without whining, fought off every attack, billed his time, endured without
wincing, worked without flagging."
Lloyd-George's eyes snapped, as, sitting at his desk in the war office, he tilted back bis
hair and studied the ceiling, as if seeing there a picture of Tommy's game fight in the
early stages of the contest.
"And at this time, under these condition., what was the winning German going to do?"
he asked. "Was he worrying over the terrible slaughter? No. He was talking of annexing
Belgium and Poland as a result of his victory ami while he was re-making the map Of
Europe without the slightest regard for the wishes of its people, THE BRITISH PEOPLE
WERE PREPARING TO PAY THE PRICE WE KNEW MUST BE PAID FOR THE
TIME TO GET THE ARMY READY.
"It is one thing to look back on the pounding the British soldier took the first two years
of the war, but a different thing to look forward as he did and know the beating couldn't be
avoided during these months when it seemed tlie finish of the British army might come."
"Germany eleeFd to make it a finish fight with fingland. The British soldier WAS riili
euled, held in eontempl. NotV tee intend to see that Germany has her way. The fight must
be to the finish — to a knockout."
Dropping his colloquialisms, the half-entile fading from his face, Lloyd-George contin
ued in a more serious vein:
"The whole world, including neutrals of the highest purposes and humanitarians with
the be«t motives, must know that there can be BO outsiile interference at this stage. Britain
asked no intervention when she was not prepared to fight. She will tolerate none now that
she is prepared, until Prussian military despotism is broken beyond repair.
"There was no regret voiced in Germany ocr the useless slaughter. There were no tears
hy Grman sympathisers when the few thousand British citizens who never expected to be sol
diers, whose military education started only a few months previously, went out to be battered,
hombetl and gassed, to receive ten shells for every one they could fire —went out, fought like
sportsmen without even a grumble.
Neither Clock Nor Calendar In Army
"But in the British determination to carry the fight to a decisive finish there is some
thing more than the natural demand for vengeince. The inhumanity, the pitilessness of
fighting that must come before a lasting peace is possible, is not coni|>arable with the cruelty
that will be involved in stopping the war while there remains a possibility of civilization again
heing menaced from the same quarter."
"But how long do you figure this can and must go on?" Lloyd-George was asked.
"There's neither clock nor calendar in the British army today," was his quick ref>ly.
'Time is the least vital factor. Only the result counts — not the time consumed in achieving
it.
"It took England 20 years to defeat Napileon and the first 15 of those years were black
with British defeat. It will not take 20 years to win this war, but whatever time is required
it will be done, and I say this recognizing that we have only liegtin to win. We have no de
lusion that the war is nearing an end. We haven't the slightest doubt as to how it is to end."
"But what of Prance; is there the same determination there to stick to the end, the same
idea of fighting until peace terms can be dictated by Germany's enemies?" Lloyd-George
was asked.
The war secretary carefully matched each finger of one hand with each finger of the
other, and as he turned his chair slowly to gaze slowly over the khaki-dotted throng in
Whitehall, it seemed the interruption had stemmed the flow of conversation. There was .1
full moment's pause and as the chair swung round again, the reply came in a voice and manner
impressively grave.
'^a! (Continued on Page Four.)
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By Roy W. Howard