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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-12-02
MUSHROOMS
ARE NEARLY
FATAL FOR ;

Three persons, victims of cat.
ing poisonous mushrooms, hover.
ed between life and death all last
night at st. Joseph's hospital
Those poisoned were Mr.. and Mrs
William Lyons, 1916 South Tia.
coma ave., and Claude Scales
their boarder. Late information
from the hospital today shows i'm.
provement by all three victims.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lyons, accompan.
led by friends, gathered a guam.
ity of mushrooms yesterday near
Puyallup. Shortly after dinner
last evening the victims were TAX.
en- with violent cramps and be-
came unconscious.
DR.. Hinton Jones was Gale
and gave little hope for the re.
covery of the men, but through
there was slight chance for Mrs
Lyons. She recovered conscious.
ness this morning at O'Clock for
the first time.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rufus Turner
500 South Yakima ave., accom-
panied the Lyons party on the
mushroom expedition. However
they ate the mushrooms Mr.
Lyons declared were bad ans
saved the others and suffered M
Ill effects.
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BV T.. A. Peters

~ SSs S&s - VIVIAN
While the operator Is changing
reels We wish to make a brief an
nouncement of our next film. II
is exhibited without the approval
of the social service board and
produced under the name of ne
great movie company.
This. picture is played in Ia.
coma. The title is, "She Dresses
by Her Window Mid the Gaze OF
Loving Eyes" Thank YOU fol
your kind attention.
Turn the crank, Jimmie.
CAST
Max Garretson, Harold Rock.
hill, Adelbert U. Mills, Edward
J. Hackett, ]. s. Ellsworth, T. L.
Stiles, A. V. Fawcett, Dewitt M.
Evans and others.
SCENE 4.
Cross-section view of Seventh
street side of Tacoma city hall
Time-Any morning between
and 10 a. m.
Max Garretson, tall, dark,
wavy-haired secretary to the COM
missioner of public safety. stands
contemplatively before his third
floor window. His mind might
be centered on the cost of hay for
fire horses, but it is not. He
might be thoughtfully considering
the fire report on school build
ings, but ftN
Suddenly his abstraction ceases.
He becomes alert. His gaze rests
steadily and with CLASSY intent
upon something across the way.
The telephone rings. He ignores
1t. A policeman comes in with a
report. Max Lets him wait.
The telephone jangles again.
Max impatiently jerks off the re-
ceiver and lays 1t on desk.
After minutes-make 1t a
thousand feet or so of film-the
secretary relaxes. He turns guilt
lily about. The cop is still wait
ing, report in hand. Max bushes.
He answers the phone. He takes
the report. With briskness he be-
gins anew the days routine.
Jump two flights up. We see
Eddie Hackett, clerk of police
court. He has ben nervously
pacing past his window ever
since he drove down from the
Hackett residence. >
At the same moment that Max,
downstairs, begins his rigid stare,
an electric shock petrifies Hack
EFT. He, too, gazes down and out
from his window. He vets his
lips. One hand passes trembling
ly over his shiny pate. Somebody,
calls Court is converting" But
the clerk is in a hypnotic trance.
Court goes on without him. N.
Another thousand feet, The
reel shows our statuesQud
actor slowly dissolving from the
pose OF 1.-THE Thinker" into the
more humdrum one of court
clerk busily trying to catch up
with his work.
Down one flight. Harold X.
gray, oldish, active lit
tie secretary to Mayor Fawcett,
In turn becomes a principal in our
all-star cast.
Ceasing in the midst of prepar-
Ing a speech for His Honor, Rock
hill suddenly evinces a desire for
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2O-MILE
LIMIT IS
ADOPTED

BY ANONYMOUS vote, Commits
sioner Mills new 20-mile speed
limit ordinance for automobiles
was adopted by the city council
today.
Mayor Fawcett and Commits
sioner Woods hooked a proviso
to their votes, however, by which
they demanded a repeal of tie
new traffic law later il it did
not prove effective.
lie latest freak feature OF the
ordinance popped out today, wien
Commissioner Mills notified the
council that he would post per.
manent signb0ards on the down
town streets, warning pedestrians
to cross the streets only at street
intersections.
These sgins will be suspended
from the trolley guy-wires in the
center of the streets.
BY the new ordinance, pedes-
trians must not cross streets 9TH
er than at regular intersections.
Autos and other traffic has right
of way in the middle of blocks
anywhere in the city, and can
drive up to 20 miles an hour. At
street intersections they must
slow to six miles an hour.
Commissioner Mills asked the
council today also to take actiog
to force northbound Point De-
fiance and Tractin cars to stor
only on the south corner of 9th
at Broadway pointing out dan.
ger of traffic congestion on The
north corner. Others in TIE
council objected, saying tn,
change would mean a discrimina
ton against property owners or
Broadway. No action was takel
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FLASHES

LONDON-British steamer Co
lenso and Orange Prince were
sunk today by German subs. Fate
Of the crew of the Orange Prince
not known.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Won Beth
man-Hollweg reported to have de-
clared he will bring peace dis
cussion before reichstag soon.
WASHINGTON, ID. C.-Neces-
sity of applying at the state de-
partment In person for passports
may possibly hinder a number of
the Ford peace party from setting
sail on the steamer Oscar III Sat
urday.
( ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS conferred
last night with King George, de-
claring allied army must be trip
pied to win in Balkans.
CENTRALIA--O. w. r. & N.
railway placed orders yesterday
for $4,000 ties. valued at $685.
600, among mills of the vicinity.
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What's DOinq
Today

Meeting of Tacoma alumnae
of University of Washington
Commercial club; 4 p. m.
Lecture on color photography
by Charles Bedford before Taco
ma Camera club; in clubs quar-
tiers; evening.
Trinity M. e. curch bazaar; at
church parlors.
Picture show for st. Andrew q
guild; Sunset theater; Sixth ave-
nue. and Fife.
Frolic club gives first dance;
Union club.
Tacoma Yacht club thigh
jinks;" at club house; evening.
Union label exhibition, Tacoma
theater building.
Tomorrow
Lecture, E. p. Marsh, president
State Federation of Labor, after
noon and evening, ON the "Uuion
Label" Label exhibition, Tacoma
theater building.
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FOOD QUESTION IS
AROUSING GERMANS

BERLIN, Dec. 2.-Germany
wants speedy settlement of the
questions affecting food prices
and food distribution. This fact
is clearly shown by the crowds
Of people gathered in front of the
reichstag today.
An inspired statement declared
today that Germany's enemies
would again spread ridiculous re-
ports about street riots.
The statement intilnated that
the chancellor will make q state
ment before the reichstag SCOT
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LETTER
ELLIS
LANS

PROVIDENCE, Dec. 2.-Con-
tinuing the revelations In the al
legged anti-ally bomb activities In
this country, the Providence Jour
nal today announced 1t had laid
before the department. of justice
some startling evidence in the
case of c. G. Crowley. held in San
Francisco as an anti-ally plotter.
The most significant EVIL
dence was a letter purportlng
to have been sent by Crow
ley to the American wife of
Russian Ambassador Belxhe-
meteff, at Washington, ask
ing her to aid as a Red Cross
representative in getting
cases of dried fruit aboard
steamers bound from Tacoma
to Vladivostok.
The letter announced: ''W~
have an agent in Tacoma who
could assist in shipments" and
1t is suggested the Blue Funnel
line could be used to advantage
because of its numerous sailingg.
The Journal claimed that Nine.
Bekhemeteff ignored the appeal,
suspecting mischief. In the al
legged letter, Crowley is quoted
as saying the California Fruit
Growers association wished 10
donate the fruit to tho Russians.
The letter asked that the ship
ments be facilitated, as the writer
understood that government sup
plies were constantly being shiIi-
ped to Vladivostok.
Boxes Contain Bombs?
The Journal intimates the
dried fruit" boxes in reality con-
tanned explosives and that Ger
man Consul Bopp of San Fran
cisco has received $500, 900 for
furthering the destruction of
wharves and steamers bearing
ammunition from San Francisco.
Tacoma and Seattle.
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AND SHE DOES
IT EVERY DAY!

air. Up goes the WINDOW. ROCK
hill needs still more air, SO he re-
mains, drawing in cold breaths-
and staring.
A reporter hops in, looking for
the mayor. Rockhill Is too busy
drinking in early morning ozone
to notice him-and his gaze is still
unwavering. Harold carefully re-
arranges the posie in his button
hole. Every exhalation sends lit
tie puffs of steam from his chilled
lips He waits, and watches. At
precisely the same moment that
those two other transformations
occur Rockhill jerks down the
window. He resumes his type
writing. He smiles at the anx-
ious reporter.
Let your mind conceive some
thing similar in the windows of
every other office on the south
side of the city hall, and only on
the, south side.
City Attorney Stiles interrupts
his gaze from the window of his
private office only long enough
mechanically to rub his glasses.
Mayor Fawcett combs out his
.mustaches.
Commissioner Mills, feet wide
apart and hands folded over his
corpulent bosom, smiles as he
stares.
Judge Evans interrupts his
morning athletic exercises in his
private office long enough to per-
form a thousand-foot pose.
Secretary Ellsworth of the civil
service board lets several appli-
cants for jobs stand idly about
while he strokes his brow and
gazes.
And at the same instant each
window dreamer does a DIR. Jekyl
and Mr.. Hyde change and becomes
his normal self again.
Ah-ha, the plot is thickening.
SCENE 2.
(Place camera in third floor
exterior window of city hall, south
side. Aim 1t at window of hotel.
Wait for action. When blind flies
up, begin cranking. Action also
simultaneous to first scene.)
In dim light is seen a dresser,
drawn up to a corner Of the left
window. A bed dimly shows in
background.
There is a flash of white. Then
of pink. 1t perches on the beds
edge.
A hand raises. Something long
and black bangles into view. In
One quick move, the white-clad
figure bends down--and reap
peafs without the black thing.
Repeat this once.
There are more flashes of white
andsblack and pink. Many white
things, lifted from near and far,
float towards the central object
and dissolve into one indistinct
mass.
The cloud of white arises, and
advances to the window. All, a
woman! Large. shapely. beauti-
full!
But her garments--well, Theda
Bara might get past the board of
censorship with them. but we
wouldn't bet on it.
Then begins more action. New
can now discern that
they are lingerie-are seized and
donned. Hooks are fastened and
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T. R. WON'T

: NEW YORK, Dec. Q. - Col.
Roosevelt intends to stick by biz
guns and not back the republi-
can party, according to a state
ment made today by Chairman
Perkins of the progressive execu-
tive committee.
''In fact the colonel has with
drawn his name from the repub-
lican nomination In Nebraska, =
he sd1i<148 should put an end
to all sdeuf!alk, he thinks.
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CROWLEY WON'T TALK

DAN FHANCISCO, Dec. IL
Crowley wouldn't discuss the
Providence Journals allegations
that he wrote to the Russian am
bas6ador's wife to secure creden-
tials for shipping dried fruit"
aboard munition steamers out of
Tacoma. He referred the inquiries
to his lawyer.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-12-02
YANKEE
KRUPPS
ACTIVE
BY Gibson Gardner


Dec. 2.-Public service or
private graft?
That is the question which
has come to the front In con-
nectiOn with the administra-
tons preparedness program.
Are the millions to be
spent really for defense or
are they to he distributed a.
enormous profits to the steel
trust, the powder trust, the
shipbuilding trust, and the
other American Krupps?
Shall the government
spend the money and get
dollars worth of prepared
ness for every dollar spent,
or shall the government let
the private corporation take
from 20 to so per cent I'm
private profits for doing 1t? 6.
This is the very real and
practical question confront
ing congress. 1t cannot be
lodged.
A group of determined col
gressmen will force the issue dur
ing the whole time the prepared
ness program-both army and
navy-is on the floor of congress
These men will not oppose pre-
paredness-but they will oppose
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
The question will be empha-
sized, too, by the attitude of Sec-
rotary of Navy Daniels, who
charges openly that the shipbuild-
ers are trust; that their bids
are collusive, and that their pre-
fits are extortionate.
The question will be forced
from another angle by the charges
and counter-charges between the
navy league and Representative
Clyde Tavenner, the league
threatening libel suits and Ira
venner threatening congression-
al inquiry to determine whether
the league is supported by men
who profit by private munitions
manufacture.
A hint as to what has I'm
the past become of the stag
gering sums appropriated for
preparedness is to be found
in the fact that four firms
have received since 1887 Or
ders aggregating $175,OOO,- i
900, and have been paid from
20 to 80 per cent more than
the same could have been
manufactured for i'm govern
ment arsenals and navy
yards.
Secretary of the Navy Dam
iels has stated officially in
his annual reports that the
navy department can manu-
facture every single item
from paint to superdread-
naughts cheaper than the
same articles can be purchas-
ed from private manufacture
ers.
This is true in spite of the fact
that government employees are
generally better treated, have
shorter hours of labor, more holt.
days and better pay than is the
rule in private plants. These
government arsenal costs also In.
clude Is per cent for overhead
charges, depreciation of plant and
similar items.
All these facts are going TO be
pointed out with great emphasis
on the floor of congress.
But that isn't going to he
enough!
A rich lobby is to be on
hand for the American
Krupps.
That rich lobby is to be as
sisted by another rich lobby
of social influence.
Congress is easier than
you think! It's not going to
be hard for the lobby of priv
ilege to make congress vote
their way unless
The American public
wakes up right now--rigbt
now quick-and cells con-
gress that
This nation will not stand
for anybody TO profit in gold
and silver from the blood
shed by it's army and navy!
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fling at the belief in Germany's
ultimate economic depression. Il
continued: Nobody IN Germany
can understand why the alliea.
after repeated. diplomatic and
military defeats. do not sue for
peace.
1t Is believed the chancellor
will show the allied fuI6lo M
being led blindly to further actior
as . result Of the rumoFu t16t
Germany faces stAxvn1ton nd6
economic prostratkSA.
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MONTENEGRO
TO BE NEXT

AMSTERDAM, Dec. 2.-Monte-
negro is the next nation in which
the central powers intend to con-
centrate their armed forces. Both
Germanya nd Bulgaria announced
today that the Serbian campaign
Is at an end.
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KING rs CHOSEN
AFIFI POTENTATE

e. B. King was elected poten-
tate of Afifi temple, Shriners.
last night to succeed Bishop F.
w. Keator, who accepted the Of
flee of high priest and prophet.
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Don't get your JOhnsons
mixed Saturday. There are
two of them running. Walter
l.. is the right one.

Edgar Wheeler, highbrow
Times reporter, told his wife last
night that he was going to begin
raising Belgian hares--you know
he writes articles about 'eIn
every little while. And she told
him she wished he would raige
some sort of hairs, because he's
threatened with what herpicide's
used for.
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WILL HELP SERBIANS

ROME, Dec. 2.-Italy definite
ly decided today to send aid to
Serbia. This announcement, made
by Foreign Minister Sonnino 10
the Italian parliament, confirmed
recent reports that Italy intended
to take an active part in the Bal
kans.
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. Talk o. the Times .
HOME AGAIN.

Notice how certain news
papers, highly excited over
the arrest of some easterner
for possible completely in a
Seattle powder plot, fail to
betray even q lukewarm in
terest i'm the very evident
plot of big, greedy corpora
ton to cripple our own Ia
coma lighting plant!
In Biharkenzteser, Hungary
cat meat is selling at 2S cents
the pound. Must have run out OF
dogs early.
Greetings to DIR. A. j. Carl
son Of Chicago! He says that
q nice breakfast of ham and
eggs, or steak is a cure for
morning headaches.
Rev. Elijah Voliva, of Zion
City, remarks that the devil in
troduced the tobacco plant. Must
have had help IL 1t was the brand
a dear. knowing friend has Just
induced us to try.
pins are jabbed in here and there.
The leading woman remains close
enough to her window to permit
camera man to get every move,
every detail, every expression.
A thousand feet or more film.
Her hat. her coat, her gloves
all are in place. Slam-down
comes the blind again.
The city hall quivers from its
morning thrill. Please don't
crowd as you pass out.
(The End
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In Biharkenzteser, Hungary,
cat meat is selling at 2S cents
the pound. Must have run out of
dogs early.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-01-05
MARINE TIDINGSy
BY Merchants Exchange
70 NJ. Saturday. January , 1o1

~ NJ. Saturday, January 2, 1915
Suva-SaiIed Jan. l, SIS. Makura, for
Honolulu. .,..
Mahukona-Arrived, December 2s,
sehr. Annie Johnson, from San Fran,
cisco. r.. *.
Port Townsend-Arriyed, Jan. /, schr.
Alice Cooke, hence Dec. 10.
San Franciseo-SaiIed, Jan. ], SIS.
ArizonRn, for Honolulu.
Radiograms
b. 8. s. Mats6nia.-Arrives from San
Francisco Tuesday morning with 81
cabin and 30 steerage passengers; 81
bags mail, l04 packages express mat.
ter; 1858 tons cargo; Hilo, 2365 tons
cargo, l3 autos. II .., s.,
U. s. A. T. Thomas-Arrives from
Manila Tuesday daylight and proceeds
to San Francisco same afternoon. n
l p. NJ, Monday, Jan. A, 1914.
Port Gamble-Sailed, Jan. 3, schr.
Okonagon; for Honolulu. .t'
San Francisco--Arrived, Jain. A.. q
a. m, SIS Shinyo Maru, hence Dec. 20.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-01-05
new NATs0N LINE
!. FREIGHT CARRIER
Francis HanitN Cahrtered For
HonoIuIu-San Francisco Run
Soon In Commission

n DYIGES HAVE BEEN RE.
~ ceivcd by Castle & Cooke stat.
ing that the latest addition to
the MHtson line Of steamers, the,
Francis Hanify, will be ready for dc
livery in San Francisco on or about
February l. In, order to handle the
fast growing freight business OF this
company, Captain William Matson went
East during the latter part of last year
to pick up a cargo carrier to take the
place of the HonOlulan, which was I'M
der charter last year to move the 1914
sugar crop. The Francis Hanify was
secured and the vessel will maintain a
twenty eight day schedule b. tween San
Francisco, Honolulu and island ports.
She will leave the Bay City for Homo.
lulu the early part Of February. = Z,
The steel screw steamer Francis
Hanify, building by the Harlan e. Hol-
lingsworth. corporation of Wilmington,
Delaware, for the J. n. Hauify Com
pany of San Francisco, was launched
on October 90. IL NJ 80,
The vessel IS 3O9 feet long, As feet
broad and 2l feet 6 inches deep main
deck. She has poop, bridge and top
gallant foreeastle, machinery being To-
Gated aft and quarters for engineers
and firemen are in the poop and house on
poop deck. The captain and navigating
officers are located on bridge forward
Of midship, the deckhands being housed
in foreeastle. The officers and crew
have comfortable quarters and are well
supplied with baths and toilets. The
vessel is rugged with three steel masts,
eight long cargo booms, and four double
drum powerful hosting engines for the
rapid handling of lumber. She Is
equipped with steam windlass, steam
steering gear steam eapstan, steam
towing machine, refrigerating plant and.
electric generating plant.
The vessel has been designed to carry
lumberSin the holds and on deck, also
70 carry oil in bulk to suit the owners
requirements. She has double bot.
tom all fore and aft for storage of oil
fuel for long voyages from the Pacific
TO the Atlantic coast through the
Panama Canal. The hull is divided
longitudinally and transversely by
bulkheads forming oil.tight eompart.
ments Mrmounted by deep oil-tight
matches. :. ~. = Z
This vessel was almost completed on
the stocks and all that remained to be
done after launching was the install
ing Of proPelling machinery, masts and
rigging. q. ys.Etf. T.,
The engines are triple expansion, sur
face condensing, three-crank type, hay
ing cylinders 81 inches, 80 inches and So
inches diameter, and stroke of AZ inches,
driving a single screw. Steam is SUP
piled by two cylindrical return tube
boilers y feet inches diameter and
y feet o inches long, which will
drive the vessel at a sped OF eleven
Knots per hour. Oil fuel is used in the
boilers, the burners being Of the Dahl
design. #slEt Sh Gr.@ III
The vessel is complete with all pumps
for handling oil fuel and rapid dis
charging of oil 'cargo.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-01-05
.kAhE0HE Day PROVES j.
4 GREAT ATTRACTION

One Of tho most popular resorts dur.
ing the holidays, for tourists and Ho-
nolulu residents, has been Kancohe Hale
and the wonderful coral gardens of Ka.
neOhe bay, which can be seen by those
starting from tho new resort. formerly
noted for the hospitality Of II. L. Kerr
of this city. Mr., and Mrs. A. l.. Mac
Kaye are now the managers of the
place, and without exception all who
have been there express their intention
of returning at the first opportunity,
and many of them have done so.
Among those who visited Kaneohe
Hale during the holidays, were Mr.. and
Mrs, NJ. H. Brownell, Boise, Ida, Mr..
and Mrs. Max. Greenbaugh, il. L. Kerr,
Mr.. and Mrs, w. Watts Taylor, Homo
lulu; Mrs Blanche Baldwin, Anahole,
Kapali Miss Helen s. Cummings, and
Miss Mabel G. Jackson, Waimea, Kauai
4. $. SPalding, Hononfu, Hawaii; Henry
J, Lyman, Kapoho, Hawaii; r. ].
Hughes, Melbourne, Aus; Elijah Mac
kenzie and w. r. Warren, Honolulu;
V, A.. Hansen. Cashier; Harold C. Hill,
William ]. Lanquist and Harry J.
Eyensen, Honolulu; Lloyd r. KiIlam,
Y. M. @. A. Secretary; Miss Leonora
Andersen and Miss Hazel ]. Kellogg
of the Y. w. G.. A.; jerome L. Mears,
A. +. Jordan and Sydney r. Jordan,
Honolulu; Misses Olive Rand aud Kath-
ryn Rand, Seattle, Wn.; s. L. Baston
and y, w. Sharpe. San Francisco; Don,
aid Ferguson and Frederick Cramp, Ho.
nolulu; R. f. Lambert, U. s, Navy;
James A, Rath, Honolulu; Mrs. Ethel
f. Morse aud Miss Anna G. Murdoch
Boston, Mass; Mrs Louis r. Wallace,
Miami, Ariz; Deputy City Attorney
Philip L. Weaver and Mrs. Weaver and
Oscar y. Hyatt, Honolulu; Arthur r.
Larimer of the Y, NJ C. A. and Will.
liam A; Chcn, w. Il, Duny, Wong Piu,
Y. Y. Tser, Charles Q. Char and A.
Soong of the Washington Club, Homo
lulu. -
Some of those who have been guests
at Kaneohe Hale during December have
returned for the day s outing three or
four times, each time finding something
new of interest. Full information about
the coral gardens Of Kaneohe can he
secured at the promotion committee Of
fee, Young building. .