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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-08
BEGIN LOOP
FOR CARLlNE

On orders of the city council
Saturday, workmen will start con-
struction Monday morning OF the
new street car loop around 10th
and A street for the municipal
car line, and the new loading sta
ton and comfort room.
"You can't get the job started
any too sooL for me-" said Mayor
Fawcett, when the council in
structed Chief Clerk Bradley of
the public works department to
rush the work.
Plans for the waiting station
have been completed. There will
be long shed extending down
the middle of 10th street from
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-08
BY BERTON BRALEY

DI DnANION bIthI<GI
Behold the blithe New Yorker
Who always throws front,
His outfit is corker
For dressing is his stunt;
He loves to talk Of Broadway
With all its glow and glare
And whispers in an awed way
OF fortunes squandered there.
The sun, he thinks. arises
And sets within Manhattan.
All thick towns" he despises;
And from his little flat in
Two Hundred Ninety-third street
He boots small towns as slow,
(He came from some absurd street
in Chillicothe, o.
The guards in subways mash him
And when he goes to play
Head. walters stern. abash him
And hat boys make him pay.
Box office people job him,
Where'er he goes he's DONE
Why not? Unless you rob him
He thinks he's had no fun!
He seems chilly party
With quite q frozen map.
But deep down In his reart he !
Is quite a decent chap.
His pose is smart and sneering
Yet II you'll learn to see
Beneath this thin veneering
He's just like You and me.
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spurred them on. Many of them
were sflenced long before we
could get aid to them. / continu-
ed in a stunned way to help pick
up the charred and torn things
that had been men and women. |
worked until / was driven from
the scene by fire and smoke. |
began to get dizzy and realized I
had been bleeding from wounds.
My hands were torn from claw
ing at the wreckage.
All Guess Work.
Some time in the afternoon 7
gave up. My lungs were burning.
My eyes were hot Goals. was
stumbling in a daze from loss of
blood. The city swan before me.
when ! left Halifax (yester-
day. there were still men and
women in the wreckage. All
estimates Of the dead must De
guesswork, for it is impossible
now to calculate"
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Man Who Lived Thru Disaster
Tells of Horrors He Witnessed

ing in ruins. Only then did |
realize the full force of the blast
that had struck the town.
Confusion.
II began to hurry to the north
end, where most of my friends
lived. met men and women,
tears in their eyes, blood in their
faces, searching for lost friends
and relatives. One man, his voice
choked with sobs, rushed up to
me on the street and wanted to
know IL / had seen his wife and
children. They were missing, he
said.
"Firemen began rushing about
the streets. The confusion be-
came SO great / decided it was
useless to push ahead and began
to pick up the injured.
Men and women writhed in
the flame swept ruins. AS We
worked to get them, their screams
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-08
WINTRY
WEATHER
in EAST

CUnhtea fress Leaned Wire.)
CHICAGO, Dec. s.-The middle
western and central plain states
are experiencing cold weather to-
day. From the Aleglhenies to be-
yond Kansas and South into
Oklahoma and Texas, the mercury
Is steadily dropping.
Points in northern Wisconsin
have reached the 20 below mark.
Chicago shivers at six above
with promise of five below by
morning.
A heavy wind and snowstorm
Is sweeping over Indiana. Traf-
fic In Indianapolis is demoralized.
Trains n Central Indiana have
been delayed for hours.
Storm warnings were hoisted on
the lakes and q severe storm is
predicted to sweep all the lake ex-
cept Superior.
No boats are going from Mil
waukee today.
Unprotected cattle. in Kansas
suffered intensely when the tenn
perature dropped to 10 and IL
below. st. Louis, with tempera-
ture near zero, reports a snow
storm which ragged most of the
night and tied up traffic most Of
the night.
Telephone and telegraph COM
munication in Oklahoma has been
hampered by 50-mile norther,
which brought snow, rain and hail
rs far south as Oklahoma City.
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Newspaper readers OF America
have voted mo" on the proposal
to send the Barnard statue of
Abraham Lincoln-which has been
derided as 1.-THE stomachache
statue'-to London, to be placed
on a pedestal before Westminster
Abbey.
In national voting contest
conducted by The Tacoma Times
and other leading newspapers
turnout the country, an over
whelming vote has been registered
against this so-called "carica-
ture."
The st. Gaudens statue, in
Lincoln park, Chicago, was Sc
lected as the true representative
of American sculptured portrayal
of the great emancipation.
More votes for this statue were
cast than for the other three in
the contest together.
The Barnard work finished a
very poor fourth.
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POWER SITE
FOR 100000
George H. Tilden of Seattle

George H. Tilden of Seattle,
prominent banker and broker, Of
Tered the Lake Cushman power
site to the city council Friday
afternoon for 100000. Tilden
appeared before the council in
City Attorney Harmon's office.
All litigation over the title to
the site has been settled and Til
den guaranteed clear title to
the land and water rights.
His proposition will be placed
with several others that the city
is considering, and on which the
taxpayers will be asked to vote
next spring.
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TO DRAW UP
ARTICLES OF
IMPEACHMENT


SEATTLE, Dee. 6.-Responsi-
bility of deciding whether Mayor
H. C. Gill should be impeached
was passed by the whole city
council by the judiciary commit
tee after a stormy secret session
this afternoon.
Members of the committee
unanimously agreed to recon-
mend that the council request
Corporation Counsel. Caldwell to
prepare articles Of impeachment.
The council then is required to
decide whether, impeachment
should be launched
1t was also recommended that
the proponents of charges already
filed, representing civic organiza-
lions, be requested to furnish
Caldwell with further informa-
ton on which to base the charges.
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folk.
The horse show, which begun
Nov. ~, is a Red Cross benefit.
The directors decided to pay all
expenses themselves and to tur1
over the entire receipts to the
American Red Cross, totalling
propably 100000.
Many prominent women who
have not exhibited horses in Mad
ison Square for many years, real
izing the opportunity for patriotic
service, decided to ride or drive
to help the soldiers win the great
war for democracy.
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Pacific to A, with an opening in
the center for Court A. Street
car tracks will extend on both
sides of the shed. There will be
accommodations for four three
car trains.
Tickets will be sold at either
station, and no one will be admit
ted to the shed until he has pur-
chased a coupon.
The comfort station will be un-
derground, with the entrance ON
Pacific avenue.
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Especial to The Times.)

Especial to The Times.)
NEW YORK, Dec. 8.-The
world calamity has been a wet
blanket to the brilliant fire of en-
which the New York
smart set has long been wont to
enjoy in the winter season.
A sweeping abandonment of
festivities was expected to make
this season quiet one, but such
affairs as the grand
opera and the horse show will
serve to keep alive some sparks
of the lighter side of life for gay
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-08
HEAVY GUNFIRE

PARIS, Dec. 8.-Heavy artil-
lery fire around Hill 344, Bezon-
vaux, Beaumont and other points
on the right bank of the Mouse
was reported in today's official
statement
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-08
BLIZZARD IN N. Y.

UNITED Press Leased Wire.)
NEW YORK, Dec. S.-New
York had the backf fling OF a bliz-
card today, manifested in brisk
snowstorm and a whistling wind.
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Cavalry engagements have play
Cd q small part in the great war,
except in Mesopotamia and Pales-
tine where General Allenby, COM
mander Of the British mounted
forces, is pushing forward toward
Jerusalem. The British forces
have already advanced almost to
Jaffa, the terminal point OF the
only railroad from Jerusalem to
the coast.
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supply approximately three
fourths OF the governments re-
Quirements.
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REVOLT IN PORTUGAL.
(United Press Leaned WIRE,

LONDON, Dec. 8.-A revolution
has broken out in Portugal. Off
cial advices received today con-
firmed reports of an uprising.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-08

The decision of the question is
in the hands of the British COM
mittee in charge of the centenary
celebration Of British-American
peace
This committee already has
cabled the American committee,
headed by Charles P. Taft Of Gin
cinnati, NOT to ship the Barnard
statue, which the American COM
mittee recommended.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-08
Phone Trouble
EDITOR THE TIMES

EDITOR THE TIMES:
Perhaps you will consider this a
foolish question, yet same is asked
in the best of faith:
Is there any other way of get
ting your phone in working con-
dition, other than by reporting
same to the company? The writ
er's phone has been out of COM
mission now approximately three
weeks. This fact we have prompt
ly reported to the proper authori-
ties, and since then has been
brought again and again to their
attention, some eight or ten times,
without results.
AS conditions now stand in our
neighborhOod, Oakland district,
there has been since Saturday no
phone in operation that we or
neighboring families know of.
AS before stated Saturday closed
the usefulness of our last connec-
ton. Conditions existing make it
practically imperative that some
action be secured, whether thru
company or otherwise, aud prompt
ly. Can you suggest some way
towards this end thru your col
umns? Respectfully, M. e. l..
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-08

A little flag on the waist OF
coat, with a star for each war rel
alive in the army and navy, is the
latest fad. And--it is more than
a fad. 1t serves the spirit of pa
tr.otism.
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! suggest that you bring
the matter to the attention of
the city council provided the
company continues to ignore
the difficulty.
Probably, with the linemen
back mt work, the proper re-
pairs will be made in reasOn.
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The national vote, as turned in
by the neWsnanerS which took
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-09-21
QCNEfXI1lNS:oEaWfH
INJURY Is NO BAR TO HAPPINESS

"of course Mssa" ssa Paula have only given you these
S The play which vgSs sss the Ssy for you know
and &
van @ S & ssa tn. p an and
yOu Mays greatly eomplmented both jeff and Tom
40 this s to s NV o, clothes to Emens
instead them back myself the rehearsa began in
land almost Immediately The English made show of
resistance about having the leading but jeff and Tom
declined to allow it to be produced without me-
wrote Emeine she might had selected her stock she
wished duplicates which
had her the she for
she very happy the the venture both for her
morning promised,
and somehow had orebodng all not right and when Tom
Pey name was sent to knew something had happened
Tom white when him the door Of sitting
What has happened Tom? Tell me- exclaimed almost frantic
"'You must be calm, Paula, he said.
jeff dead? AS said these ateful words all knew
ge how will for months taking to for
granted all something will that will make
the whole world nothing without that per
in M This thought came to me with crushing force and sat
down rather suddenly
is quite shaken and cut little about the head
Before he half thru had hat and said Take me
to him.
waiting immediately to the hos
pa and found Jeff coming out of the anasetc after having ms
He not himself and he kept saying Don't
let Paula worry, don't let Paula worry. 80
But jeff I'm here exclaimed kneeng by his bed and III
will only we'll I'm going to stay right
here with you 20. IT. - ,o. ur
Yes jeff mean low always answered.
Jeff could not move but he looked at me SO appeahng oen
kissed his plaster decorated face
I'm not good to look at sweetheart he said anty
You looked good to me in your ife dear Jeff
say Tom, exclaimed jeff pretty rough to have
proposal of marriage and not be able TO ry II
Again ignored bent down and kissed
his lips chung to mine realized that for the first time
death dear parents was happy
Ito Be Continued)
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j. S. ENGINEERS Get
A BAPTISM OF fire

duel was raging. Aeroplanes
swooped overhead, patrolling the
sky for the Yankees.
En- route to their positions be
hind the front the American boys
gazed from car windows at evil
dences of real war. They passed
thru shattered towns and were
much interested in the rusting
wreck of a train that had been
bombed some time before.
The soldiers told of how one
American railroad crew was forced
to take refuge under the tender
of their locomotive a few nights
ago when a German airplane at
tackled. The Teuton flier first
dropped bombs around the Ameri-
cans and their train, then flew
low pouring a stream of bullets
from his machine gun at the Sam
mics. When he departed the
Americans emerged from their
temporary shelter, mounted the
bullet pocked train and continued
on their way.
Members of the U. s. units now
taking charge of railroad opera
lions were recruited from the
great American railways. They
include operation experts from Ia
coma and many western cities. All
are in the best of health, and
they're all happy.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-09-21
CARELESS USE Dr
SOAP SPOILS THE HAIR

Soap should be used very care
fully, If you want to keep your
hair looking its best. Most soaps
and prepared shampoos contain
too much alkali. This dries the
scalp, makes the hair brittle, and
ruins it.
The best thing for steady use
is just ordinary mulsified cocoa
nut oil (Which is pure and grease
less), and is better than the most
expensive soap or anything else
you can use.
One or two teaspoonfuls will
cleanse the hair and scalp thor
oughly. Simply moisten the hair
with water and rub i. in. 1t
makes an abundance of rich,
creamy lather, which rinses out
easily, removing every particle
of dust, dirt, dandruff and ex-
cissive oil. The hair dries quick
ly and evenly, and 1t leaves the
scalp soft. and the hair fine and
silky. bright. lustrous, fluffy and
easy to manage.
You can get mulsified cocoanut
oil at any pharmacy, it's very
cheap, and a few ounces will sup
ply every member of the family
for months.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-09-21

Dear Miss Grey: Some auto
owners paint the upper half of
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-09-21
How to Destroy
Catarrh Germs and
End Catarrh Forever

Catarrh, according to a noted
authority, is. germ disease and
the only way to cure 1t so It will
stay cured and never come back Is
to kill and drive out of your sys-
tenn the catarrhal germs which
have found Judgement there. When
the germs go the catarrh will stop.
There is nothing better for de-
stroying eatarrh germs than
breathing into your nose and lungs
the pleasant, soothing. healing,
germ destroying air of Hyomei
pronounced High-o-me) made
from purest oil of Eucalyptus and
combined with other powerful
healing, antiseptic and germ de-
stroying ingredients. Hyomei pen
etrates and heals the inflamed
swollen membranes of your nose
and throat, stops discharges, clears
the passages and completely over
comes the disease by destroying It's
cause. For catarrh germs cannot
live in your body after Hyomei
reaches them. Crown Drug Co.,
1872 Pacific, and many other good
druggists in Tacoma and vicinity
have long sold Hyomei on a posi-
tive guarantee of successful re-
suits or money back and find this
generous policy pays.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-09-21
Invasion of the United States

Early last when the United States the breaking
with Germany always last plea made by those who for
another unwilling to take the step.
Iet war; they always urged "unt
yaded.
They would admit Geany lawesness her rthssne her bar
bat they might that civilization
ed by her frightful course.
But they would inevitably conclude and nation ought
until ditch
its continued existence Actual invaotat they said the
point at which we would be justified in acting
WE'LL the Zimmerman public with its Of
disclosures intrigue within the United against
the safety this nation then replied that
al, literal invasion
national
along the line
Today climax these disclosures furnished
that
fluence the of the United States
The difference between this sort of attack the direct assault of
armed landing shores purely nominal 1t the difference
between numbering by the his food the
meat
by the Pussns-that
diplomatic sensation furnishes
long list of massab being
zollem.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-09-21
Another PulmOtOr, Please

A pulnotor doesn cost much.
The saving of single life worth than the price
There have been drownngs American
lakes from time to Time and the nearest pumoor Tacoma
When the daughter of
lying the water Tuesday after few minutes Immersion there
chance that the little life might be saved could
had Knowing that fact Tacoma police made breaking with
the apparatus ng their lives everybody along
road, in the effort to annihilate time.
They did absolutely that human and gasoline could
debut Possibly child
reached they could
if she could have been saved by doing
Why wouldn't idea the
ties both together to maintain pumotor at the
from which could be rushed anywhere might needed
than it can be taken out from Tacoma?
If should only life its whole us
itself
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-09-21

A rummage sale for the Chill
dren's Industrial Home, Oakland
Station, will be held Thursday,
Friday and Saturday of next
week at McCormack's old store
building at 18th and Pacific.
Custer Women's Relief Corps
will give card party at the Arm
DRY at 2 o'clock Saturday. All
friends are invited.
Marriage licenses were issued
Thursday to Robert Z. Lee Gar
der and Clara A. Raneweiler, of
National; ] d. Lane and Mary
Turosky, Tacoma; Rudolph Ber-
toldi, Seattle, and Clara Neher,
Sumner; G.. 7. Morris and Julia
M. Bates, Centralia; Larry M.
Smythe and Helen F. Kelly, Ia
coma; Milo Solomon Brady, Van
couver, B. c., and Victoria Essey,
Tacoma.
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Dear Miss Grey: Formerly
lived in the country and had a
sweetheart there who wished to
marry me. | came few
months ago to the city to live
and find l do not care for this
young man now. He keeps
writing to me, and don't know
how to break away. VIII you
advise me? CLARICE.
Abe very certain that you
are not casting aside q worthy
man whose love you Will wish for
after q time. Sometimes removal
TO new surroundings causes a gAs
TO become disconnected with form
er friends, because Of fancied
for new ones. So be
very slow about making q decision
But II you finally decide you can
not care for the man, then tell
HIM frankly that Jon do mot care
TO continue the association, and
~ I'm nrf e x:e ron again.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-09-21

HEADQUARTERS OF THE
AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE,
Sept. 21.-One military railroad
close behind the fighting lines is
being operated today by a regi-
ment of American transportation
engineers, some of whom have al
ready received their baptism of
fire from an attacking German
airplane.
The Americans, as they arrived
at their new barracks, were well
coined by the roaring and thump-
ing of trench guns few kilo-
meters distant, where an artillery
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-09-21
MAYOR HELD
Omitted Press Leased WIRE,

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 21.-
Thomas B. Smith, mayor of Phila-
delphia, was held in $4,000 bail
today, awaiting hearing next Tues
day on charge of conspiracy to
commit murder and other crimes.
preferred by State Representative
Isadore Stern.
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| AN S WE RS !
s BY CYNTH IA G REV )

Dear Miss Grey: am al
most beside myself. Less than
Q year ago, my only child,
daughter, married against my
wishes. My objections Nwere
based on the fact that she was
too young, not on any dislike
for the man. Now she is not
contented. He is as good man
rs the world affords. He has
given her lovely home and his
family are very good to her.
She comes home to me nearly
every day and has 1t in her head
to leave her husband. | know
she will regret it when it is too
late. Can't you help me to
help her? Surely there must be
some argument | might adj
vance that would appeal to her.
DISTRACTED MOTHER.
A.-Bcyond the advice which
kou have already given the girl,
kou can do little to avert this CAL
hnhty. The problem seems to be
enfirely i'm the hands of the hus-
band. He must use every means
Isf his command to keep the love
III fds wife, and make her con-
tented. You can advise him
shout this. Let him find out the
Pause of her discomfort and in
flulge her in II for time, IL neces.
pary.
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their lens and some paint the
lower half. Which Is correct
and in accordance with the
"anti-glare law"
CURIOUS.
A.-The law requires that the
lower half of the lens be painted,
because this throws the light on
the street, instead of binding the
eyes of drivers coming I'm the OPP
posite direction.
Dear Miss Grey: l would
like to say in answer to Hope
ful's" letter about desirable as
soc.ates, that | heartily indorse
1t. 1t certainly does lie within
ourselves as to whether we
meet nice people or not; be-
cause there is a law of attrac-
tion that cannot be contradict
ed.
Her letter sounds little
New Thoughty"-that's what
l am. When a bunch of boys
and girls cannot get together
and have a good time, then
there is something wrong some
where. There are certain boys
who are too evil-minded for a
girl to have a good time with.
Give me the fellow who I can
be a real pal to and to whom |
can act as natural with as with
girl. Il.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-09-21

Are you lame every morning,
tired all day, tortured with dull
backache or sharp, stabbing pains
Don't drag along with 1t. Suspect
your kidneys. II you have head
aches, rheumatic pains, dizzy
spells, with annoying kidney ir-
Irregularities, don't wait for worse
troubles to set in: use Doan's HID
ney Pills. They have worked we'll
In thousands OF such cases. You
can try them with confidence.
HOW A TACOMA
WOMAN WAS FREED
Mrs. @. M. Erion, Bill N. Sew
enth St. says; my kidneys were
troubling me and I had a heavy,
bearing-down pain In the small of
Imy back. When I bent over to lift
Tor when busting, sharp pain,
Icaught me right thru my kidneys
and when l Strengthened I became
lawfully dizzy. Doan's Kidney
Pills soon cured me and have
been well and strong ever since"