The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-07-14
MANY SLIP INTO THE
A.-Y;-P. T. GROUNDS
THROUGH NEW SEWER
Hundreds Have Entered
the Grounds, Using the
Manholes, Where no
Toll Is Collected.

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Beating the A.YsP. exposition
out Of several hundred admissions
daily. crowd Of employees on tho
north trunk sewer Just completed
through the fair grounds. with their
friends. relatives. aequaintances and
some strangers. have been making
their entrance 10 the fair grounds
through the eapaclons tunnel OF the
new sawer. aud up through Il man
hole to the fair grounds.
The scheme OF free admission
was discovered yesterday by Chief
wappensteln's guards. after they
had been working a week on the
case. lying IN wait along the fences.
guarding the lake front and trying
all manner OF schemes to discover
whence came the groups Of men
who appeared eAcn evening walk
ms up the paths from the north.
east section Of the grounds. brush.
ing dirt from one auothers shout
ders.
Here Was a Mystery.
THE mystery OF the muddy shoul.
ders, from being a sort Of joke
among the guards, became a serious
matter when CHEZ Wappensteln
learned that the exposition vas los.
Ing probably more than 800 a day
because Of the mysterious entrance
to the fair grounds
An inspection Of the fences was
ordered. but revealed no break or
{ opening Meanwhile the number Of
muddy shoulders increased daily. es.
peclally In the evening. and every
guard In the district back Of the
forestry and machinery buildings
/ reported scores OF cases where be
observed men coming up the paths
from the Lake Washington shore,
brushing dirt from their shoulders.
All sorts Of men were observed.
some In laborcrs' clothes, some well
dressed. some apparently young
college men. The puzzle was tan.
TALKING one TO the chief Of guards.
They didn't climb the fence. they
didn't crawl under the fence. they
didn't come off the lake. The chief
could think Of nothing else. unless
they came by airship. The muddy
shoulders were his only clew.
The sleuths Succeed.
Yesterday afternoon the mystery
was solved by the discovery OF hun
dreds Of footprints that had beaten
down the soft earth around a man
hole leading out Of the new sewer.
where It passes through the woods
near the N. P. Railway track. back
Of the Natural Amphitheatre.
Climbing down the msnhole. the
guard found at its foot big torch
made OF rags soaked in oil. Light.
ing this, he proceeded northward
along the sewer. which is new and
clean. never having been used, and
large enough for several men to
walk abreastsin He came out q
quarter OF mile TO the northward.
outside OF the fair grounds and on
the university campus, Just above
the university boat house, where
work Is now In progress on the
sewer. Here another torch was
found
Two Other "Entrances."
Further investigation showed two
other open man-holes inside the
fair grounds, one located back OF
the Michigan building, and another
Just below the railroad track oppo-
site the Great Northern Railways
locomotive exhibit About each
were signs OF much traffic. where
the men with the muddy shoulders
have been entering the fair grounds.
The dirt on the shoulders was cas-
fly explained by the small Size OF
each manhole, where the men must
have brushed against the sides as
they came out.
Chief Wappenstein is OF the opin.
ion that employees on the sewer. dis
covering how II led into the fair
grounds. spread the glad tidings, IN.
III hundreds were using the North.
west Passage" as It has been nick
named. daily. The existence Of the
subterranean passage Is said TO
have been a secret In the bosom OF
several university fraternity houses.
and the college men did not hest
tate to slip into the grounds through
the secret tube.
After solving the mystery Of the
muddy shoulders, Chief Wappen-
stein quickly olamped on the lids Of
the manholes, and hereafter any
wayfarer In the under ground en-
trance will find himself barred from
the grounds above.
Caught in the Act.
Last night Chief wappenstoln de-
tailed Private Gassert and patrol-
man White to watch the manhole be-
hind the Ampitheatre, and at $50
the Officers rounded up six men as
they came w from the tunnel All
were young fellows living in the
ncighborhood Of tho fair grounds.
and they admitted that the tunnel
entrance was we'll known to them
mud their acquaintance and regu-
larly used. None OF those arrested
were laborers on the sewer which
confirmed tho theory that the UNI
foreground entrance has been extern
slvely used by several hundred men,