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Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-08-27
NEARS CENTURY,
IS STARTING ON
A NEW CAREER
A. Maynard Lyon, Possessor OF
Millions and of Mental Wgor
and Ambition.
WOULD WRITE "THE" ANTHEM
Declares He Would Rather Win Rec
oanitIon 40 a Successful Author
Than Own All Of New
York City.

New York.-The average person
who. being ninety-seven years old.
owned real estate and securities
worth several millions, besides a city
home in New York and country homes
in New York, Mermont and England.
probably would feel that he had
earned a rest and would not be seek
ing q new interest $685..
But that Is not the way A. Maynard
Lyon looks at it. and he Is ninety
seven years old and is the owner of
an estate Of the character indicated
above. In his ninety-seventh year he
aspires to be a writer. especially of
serious songs.
II am starting out fresh on a new
career" Mr.. Lyon said to a reporter
for the New York World. ITO crown
my life by the composition Of a Ma
tional hymn that will be accounted
great and accepted by the people Of
the United States and to write book
is my present ambition. l intend to
put in this summer in my country home
in striving for this great triumph OF
writing the anthem.
Never in my life have l felt as
much ambition or as much enthusi-
asm as l do now, and never have |
found 1t possible to get SO much out
of life. have always had an ambi-
ton to be q writer love to write
poems and to have them set to music.
! would rather make q success as an
author than own all the real estate
and stocks and bonds in New York.
Full Of Verse.
II can write better now than ever
before. It seems to me that more
thoughts that can be made into verse
crowd into my mind than when I was
q much younger man. / do not feel
that my work in this world is any
where near completed. Living is
sweeter to me now than ever before.
Sometimes when thought has oc-
Cured to me that regarded as worth
while have got out of bed at mid.
night to make q memorandum of It."
Among the songs Mr.. Lyon has al.
ready had published are Universal
Patriotic Anthem" for which War.
rem r. Heddn and c. G. Petraske com.
posed the music. and Il Wandered
Here and There Among the Wales.
which was adapted to the music OF
Beethoven's Funeral March" While
Mr.. Lyon has retired from active bust
ness, he takes time of from his lit
erary work to look after his material
affairs. He does not look q day over
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-08-27

and garlic. The
long tables we're
without clot h 8.
a n d W 90 d e n
benches took the
place of chairs.
Around the walls
was a line Of
hooks. from which
hung a motley ar
ray of wraps.
From the door
way they scanned
crowded tables for
an empty place.
How about that
other room? You
wait here" and
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-08-27

The nest Of q crocodile II the inter
esting object lately described BY w.
schultze Of the biological laboratory
at Manila. A peculiar mound on the
shore of lake near Taytay. Palawan,
proved to be the nest Of Crocodilus pa
lustris, about i've feet high and eight
in diameter. and was made from q
coarse, why grass that had been
cleared from . space Of I'VE or six
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-08-27

Miguel Diaz Lombardo. minister of
foreign affairs in General Villas cabi-
net. is in this country comforting with
officials of the Villa agency with q
view OF framing a peace proposal
which will have the sanction of the
American government. 1t is the plan
OF the Villa leaders to devise some
way by which suspension of hostili.
ties may be arranged and a general
conference of the leaders of the oppos-
ing factions called at which this pro-
posal will be submitted to Carranza. In
the event that Carranza refuses to treat
with Villa an effort will be made to
induce President Wilson to restore the
embargo on arms to Carranza.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-08-27

handsomely set gray eyes. a delicate
mouth. end small. white teeth. and the
height and carriage Of princess.
THE bright cheeks that 80 many Of
the Bulgarians have are q pleasant
change from the dark or pale skins Of
the Armenians and Greeks. Their
eyes are generally less large and Ian.
guorous than oriental eyes. looking
you squarely in the face. with, more
frankness and less seduction"
Miss Jenkins gives the following
melodious samples Of the names Of
her Bulgarian pupils: Nadezda. Ma
delka, Xarafnka. Blagoya. vesselina.
Goonka, Zdravka. The last names all
end in "off" for the men and iowa" for
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-08-27

The clatter of dishes mingled With
the hum of voices, and the air was
lob with cunnkn
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-08-27

expects his wife to hang up his coat
and hat for him and get his slippers
Is a low-grade Citizen" he said.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-09-07
Titled FOREIGN PAIR
Die IN SUICIDE PACT
Wright Park
Saved From
Destruction

Would you believe it? When we came down to
work this morning Wright Park was still there!
The park board will be immensely astonished
when it finds this out.
The common" people who used this public
tract yesterday for the celebration of Labor
Day didn't stamp single hole in the pavement
where they danced or kick out any of the curb
ing.
We confidently expected to find the $1,000
specimen trees of 300 varieties" which the park
board has been cherishing, all moved down or
uprooted But they weren't, at all.
We didn't even find the sod torn up or the
glass walls Of the conservatory demolished. The
goldfish and swans apparently had weathered
the shock and escaped the luncheon tables of
the picnickers.
Whether anybody was lawless enough to sing
hymns or to pray in the park, contrary to the
boards rules we cannot say; at any rate if they
did, their anarchy seems not to have withered
the grass or blistered the paint on the benches
In fact, the laboring people of the city, who
help in some measure to maintain that park,
didn't ruin it after all.
We expect now to read in certain safe and sane
papers of the city editorials commencing the
unionists for their forbearance.
It really was nice in them.
But it will be shock to the park board.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-09-07
MORE BOY BURGLARS

He told the police that he had
robbed several grocery stores re-
Gently, and that he had been
sleeping in an abandoned section
of sewer pipe in Gallaghere
gulch. ~
He led the officers to cache
of stolen goods under the M st.
viaduct Of the N. p. tracks, where
he had a months rations OF
canned soup and meat.
The boys robberles recently In
cluded the Armstrong grocery.
1901 Sheridan ave.; Edmonson
grocery, Center street; and
Square Deal grocery, 23rd and
Wilkeson.-
Detective Geary last evening
arrested Charles fillmore and
James McArdle. young boys Of
Fern Hill. and charged them with
robbing four dwellings In the SUI
burb.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-09-07
UNIONS
WIN BIG
VICTORY

One of the greatest labor vic
tories the Northwest has seen in
years will be signed up late this
afternoon, when the Employers
Association of the Pacific Coast
and the International Longshore-
mems association come to terms
on a closed-shop basis.
This makes the Pacific coast
strictly unionized string of ports
from San Diego to British Co.
lumbia.
With the tactical victory of the
unions comes also an agreement
on the part of the employers to
raise the wage scale from 45 to
55 and go cents, with overtime
on certain articles running as
high as IS cents an hour.
The triumph of the workers
comes after a seven-year fight for
the close dshop.
With the greatly increased
amount of shipping due to the
expectation of war munitions and
supplies, there has been an en-
larged demand for labor. This
situation was the underlying
cause of the unions victory.
The formal papers will be sign
ed late today by President John
Keen of San Francisco for the
workers.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-09-07
MONEY
TOPSY
TURVY
BY KENNETH w. PAYNE.

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 6. -
by coming to terms with the
United States on submarine war
fare, Germany has robbed Great
Britain of the mightiest weapon
she hoped to WELD in this war,
the financial power of America.
For had the United States
Joined the allies in war on Ger
many, our chief function would
have been to share the burden
off financing the struggle, and
England knew it.
eBut now 1t seems suddenly
that We are to remain neutral,
our great financiers, while still
aiding the allies, will make them
pay for that service! 81.
And the great burden of the
losses of the struggle, which we
would have had to carry, had we
become belligerents, will now fall
on the people of France and Eng
land. That is really the true Sig
nificance of the sensational fall
of sterling exchanged"
Thus Americas greatest aca-
demic authority on international
exchange and banking, Professor
Thos. Conway, head of the money
and banking department of the
Wharton School of Finance, Of
the University of Pennsylvania,
showed up significant connec-
ton between the two most sensa-
tional features of the current
news, namely, the startling break
in international exchange, and
the clearing up of the German
American crisis over submarine
warfare.
The mprccedent condition
of finance and commerce in
which we find ourselves has
Continued on Page Three.)
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-09-07

Bringing the total number Of
child criminals arrested in eight
days up to Is, the Tacoma police
last evening put in jail three
more boys accused Of being bur-
glars.
A few of the 10 were sentenc-
ed last week to the reform school.
The remainder are in the Tacoma
juvenile detention home or in the
Chehalis reform school.
at is the worst epidemic of
child crime in the history of the
local department, I believe" de-
clared Captain of Detectives d. o.
Smith today. The boys, In gen.
eral. are hardened criminals,
too"
A 15-year-old boy, son OF
prominent West End parents, was
caught at 18th and Commerce
last night with a number of raz-
ors, revolvers and other articles
in his pockets.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-09-07
N. P. CINCHES DOWN
ON ITS RIVAL lines

be expected here as the result Of
the rates, both William Carruth-
ers of the Union Pacific and Sam
Wilson of the Milwaukee, In eff
feet, said today:
"No, we're stuck, that's all.
The Northern Pacific is within its
rights, under the lease we have
over its lines. So far as the pub
lie is concerned, it simply elimin-
ates competition on local freight,
and gives all that to the Northern
Pacific"
Rumors of separate terminals
or switching tracks for their lines
were denied by both men.
In Omaha and Denver, the
Union Pacific occupies the same
position as does the Northern Pa
cific here, and some observers
think that this road will recoup
its Tacoma losses by tariffs which
1t has the power to file against
the Burlington, another Hill road
in those cities.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-09-07
Eve K|DO|ES HAPPY;
CAN GO To SCHOOL

boring man whose LIE was mace
more burdensome than usual be-
cause whe nhe left for work each
morning, he had to leave his kid
dies alone.
Now, understand, this story
wasn't printed In the Cynthia
Grey department of the paper, or
anything, but when Mr.. Widower
read of the plight of Mrs. Wild
ow, and her ambitions to care for
her brood, he saw here was just
the chance for him.
So he got in touch with The
Times, and The Times got in
touch with Mrs. Widow, and now
Mrs. Widow is keeping house for
Mr.. Widower, and the whole
world looks brighter. And all
five children are in school.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-09-07
FEARED
WIF'E'S
EXPOSE

ROME, Sept. 7.-CIasped
in each others arms, Odillo
Won Walderson, the beauti-
full daughter of the Dutch
minister to Italy, who is
baron, and Count Gaelani
del Aquila Argana were
found dead tOds In the
counts villa near Naples.
I'VE prefer death to separa-
tion," read a note which the
count had left.
I'VE cannot live without each
other"
The two have been infatuated
with each other for some time.
The count, who is of a wealthy
Neapolitan family, has been sep
arated from his wife for some
time. Recently he has been on
the Austrian front, where he has
fought with distinction.
He was on a short leave Of abb
sence when the tragedy was plan-
ned and carried out.
1t is believed that his wife had
threatened to expose and dis
grace him.
The news of the deaths aroused
deep regret in court and diplO-
matte circles.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-09-07

II the present fracas
among Tacoma railways
keeps up, there'll be need for
a corps of trained war nurses
the care for the disn.antled
and banged-up combatants.
1t all follows the filing Of
recent schedule by the
Northern Pacific on switch
ing cars which the other
three roads here-the Great
Northern, the Milwaukee
and the Union Pacific sys-
TENS declare Is exorbitant.
In some cases, this switching
tariff is as high as $22 a car.
So far as the other roads are
concerned, this has cut them Of
from the carrying of all loca'
freight for miles out of this city
For long-run and through freight
they have, and will, absorb the
charge, and charge 1t to prof.
and loss.
Asked II a railway war couli
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-09-07
German
Movies
Coming

Declared to be the first and
only authentic, authorized motion
pictures taken on the German bat
tie line, a set of six reels of Ger
man war films will come to the
Tacoma theater Wednesday for q
four day run.
These pictures were taken UNI
der permission of the imperial
German government, and a great
many of the scenes were taken
during actual warfare, on the
Battlefield.
On page 8 of today's Times will
be found coupon, of cash value
to any person wishing 10 see the
films.
Persons who have witnessed
the production declare that the
movies of German warfare are an
education in themselves.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-09-07

An insistence on Industrial
democracy and of a sort of mill
tary preparedness which will not
menace the rights of labor mark
ed Labor day addresses all over
the country yesterday.
Getting down to particulars,
the labor speakers praised the
Manley report Of the Industrial
relations committee; protested
with vigor the recent action OF
the Chicago board of education
which destroyed the teachers
union there; denounced the ju-
dicial travesty by which John r.
Lawson was railroaded to con-
viction for murder in Colorado;
and upheld the progressive mod
ern legislation Of California.
Here in Tacoma, Martin Flyzik,
himself a miner, asserted that
Lawson had been convicted by
picked attorney general, a picked
Judge and a picked jury of a MUIR
der, when 1t was proved he was
20 miles away at the time of the
killing.
"He was convicted of the MUIR
der of a man of whom he had
never heard, and whom he had
never SEEM" declared Flyzik in
his final appeal to laborers to
write letters to their congressman
and to President Wilson, demand
ing a fair trial.
Ernest p. Marsh, head of The
State Federation of Labor, in
sisted that labor should see that
the Frank P. Walsh section of the
Industrial relations committee
was published to the world. He
warned that the stand-pat press
would carefully smother it If II
could.
Already, he said, Walsh had
felt the invective Of this press be-
cause his report went straight to
the heart of things.
Marsh also roasted the last
legislature for its attempt &c
throttle the initiative and refer
endum and other progressive
laws, and for its ham-stringing
of the mothers pension law. The
Times fight, conducted legally by
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-09-07

or the SWarmS OF livery
youngsters that poured in on the
Lincoln school today, there were
five mighty glad that they had
the chance.
For, a month ago, prospects
of an education for them were
pretty slim.
Three of them were the chill
dren of widow, who was cut
off from the mothers pension
roll by the ham-stringing amend
ments which the last legislature
attached to the 1913 laws. The
Times heard OF her when she
called ON Homer T. Bone, attor-
ney, who is seeking to correct the
law.
The other two of them were
the children of a widower, la
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-09-07
TO
REMAIN A.
REPUBLIC

PEKIN, Sept. THE retention
of a republican form of govern
ment with the presidency perma-
nent and hereditary has been de-
cided on by the government, ac-
cording to authentic Information
today. A.
President Yuan Shi Kai, in a
message to the council, declares
that although many citizens have
petitioned the acting parliament
to change the form of govern
ment, that such an action is in
compatible with his position as
president.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-09-07
CAT EXPLODES.
SPEED COP HIT

G. ". Chilberg and Elmer
Brown, brother speed cops, were
resting on a log meath. the shade
of a sheltering pine on the noun
tain road yesterday. They were
tired.
Elmer was fondling with his
weapon, a 80 h. p. howitzer. The
thing exploded and s. Cop Chill
berg picked himself off the
ground, producing a steel jacket
ed bullet from his sweater as evi-
dence of the attack.
1t seems as If the barrel had
been clogged with a bum bullet
and the barrel exploded, not in
tentionally.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-09-07
HESPERIAN NOT
BEING Conveyed

The United States today order
ed it's representatives abroad to
determine whether the Hesperian
was mined or torpedoed.
In a confidential preliminary
statement, Consul Frost, OF
Queenstown, eclared there is ex-
IRENE doubt as to the exact means
of destruction.
The Hesperian was sailing as
an ordinary passenger liner. not
as vessel commandeered for
the British government service,
the British admiralty today in
formed Ambassador Page in Lon
don
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-09-07

TALK OF TEXAS
REVOLUTION"

BROWNSVILLE, Tex, Sept.
7.--Gen. Carianza has ordered
his followers along the border
not to mix into the Texas revo-
luton"
This revolution" is called by
the Carranzista press and Off
Gals an internal strife sweeping
Texas and threatening to spread
along the entire southern border
OF the United States.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-09-07
AGAINST
DRAFTING

BRISTOL. Eng, Sept. T.
Condemnation Of any govern
mental plan of compulsory en-
listment was voiced in unanimous
resolutions voted by the trade
union congress here today.
The action followed reports
that the government had under
consideration as q possible fu-
ture step this method Of forcing
"shirkers' into the military.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-09-07
SINKS WARSHIP
is SUNKIN TURN

BERLIN, Sept. THE Ger
man submarine U-27 sank q
small British cruiser off the
West Hebrides islands Aug. 10
and is believed to have been sunk
herself. the admiralty today an
nounced.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-09-07
COMMERCE ST.
TO STAY

Rather than spend $4,000 to
put the electric light and power
wires of Commerce street under.
ground, the city council today
voted to replace the old, rotting
line of poles with new line, at
an expense Of $4,000. The trac-
ton company, Joint user Of the
line, will stand half the cost.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-09-07
To Our Boy and
Girl Friends

the lives of 1900
Tacoma children. They returning school.
ines hat
them SUCH
share of its and small
o. its and thought to their work.
In children will DEPART
ment espe fOr this hereafter.
will find 1t 2. We going to
try TO make it interest every children enough
read nd al parents.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-09-07
CALLS FOR STATEMENT
OF RANKS CONDITION

WASHINGTON, d. c., SEPT. Z.
The comptroller of the cur
rency today issued a call for a
statement of the condition OF ma
tional banks at the close of bust
ness Sept. q.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-09-07
WALSH URGES ACTION

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. Z. -
Before a tremendous crowd at
the fair. Frank P, Walsh, head OF
the industrial relations commits
sion, predicted that 1915 would
see the dawn of an industrial
democracy.
He said it was up to the work.
ers to insist that the wrongs
which the commission discovered
should be righted.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-09-07
GOMPERs SPEAKS MIND

MARION, ILL.,, Sept. Sam
uel Gompers denounced the Chi
cago school boards action in de-
nying its teachers the right to
belong to a union, an action talk
en- last week. He said it was a
damna BILE blow at freedom.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-09-07
Smile Awhile

Come into the Puget
Sound State Bank of
Tacoma and you y will
be greeted with q pleas
ant come right In,
which will make you
feel that you are visiting
a home OF q friend. You
will find here . true
friend in a business way
and the connection =
we'll worth while. Big
enough to accommodate
attention enough to
H. N. T1NKnn.
Prsaidenl
Z. ID .E-.z.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-09-07
JOHNSON SCORES TAFT

JOHNSON SCOhFS TAFT
LOS ANGELES, Sept. Gov.
Hiram johnson, speaking to a
Labor day meeting, scored ex-
President Taft for his recent at
tacks on recent progressive leg
islation in California. Z.
Taft attacks our railway
commission" said Johnson, Say
ing it will drive capital away. To
Mr.. Taft, a railway commission
appointed and conducted by rail-
way politicians is satisfactory;
but commission selected by the
people themselves and treating
the railroads just like other in
dividuals fills him with dismay."
THE ex-president," he said,
"is living in the past politically.
The onward sweep of democracy
has left him standing bewildered
and lost"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-09-07
CELEBRATE VICTORIES

NEW HAVEN, Conn.,, Sept. Z.
Organized labor celebrated the
winning of 35 out of so strikes
where the eight-hour day and
better wages were the issue. There
was a monster parade.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-09-07

LONDON, Sept. THE Allan
liner Hesperian was not being
conveyed when 1t was torpedoed
off the Irish coast, 1t was stated
authoritatively here today.
4 An official statement places
the number of dead at 26.
An investigation is under way
to determine the circumstances
surrounding the explosion. The
official report OF Capt. Mains is
expected to reach the admiralty
today. 4
NINE OR TORPEDO7
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-09-07
LABOR SPEAKS
OUT IT'S MIND

Attorney Homer Bone, to correct
this law, was given a strong i'm
piled endorsement.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-09-07
a coma
Liner Is
Subbed

LONDON, Sept. THE Har-
rison line steamer Dictator has
been sunk by a submarine.
The crew of AZ was rescued
and landed today.
The Dictator is . vessel Of
1000 tons. IL
The Dictator is one Of the reg
ular Harrison liners, sailing from
Tacoma to the United Kingdom.
Her agents here are Balfours
Guthrie & Co.
They said today that the vessel
was on her way out Of either Liv-
erpool or London, bound for Ta-
coma and other coast ports. when
Summarized.
She had left here Just short
time ago for London with a large
cargo. which had been safely dis
charged and replaced with cargo
for the Pacific coast.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-09-07

NINE OR TORPEDO?
WASHINGTON, d. O., Sept. 4.