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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-03
Another SAWMILl
GIVES 8-HOUR DAY

Developments Friday in the tim
Der workers strike In and about
Tacoma were the recognition of
the eight-hour day by the Marine
Lumber Co. across the bay, and
the closing of the Harding lumber
mill at Auburn by walk-out of
the employees.
The Marine Lumber Co. resum-
ed operations Friday morning un-
der the new plan.
United Press dispatches Friday
indicated that camps and mills ev-
erywhere in the Pacific Northwest
are hard hit by the strike.
In the Grays Harbor district
only eight out of 25 mills are OPP
Grating, and most of those rum
ming have conceded the eight-hour
demand, according to reports.
Face Log Shortage.
Less than half the camps in
northern Idaho are working.
Because of the strike in the log
ging camps, Western Washington
mills, which are able to operate
are threatened with a log short
age. Some have sent agents to
Portland to buy logs in the open
market.
Added strength to the timber
workers organization in the strike
is probable, following a meeting in
Aberdeen Thursday between Of
ficials of the Timberworkers'
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-03
MORE TROOPS
PREPARE TO
LEAVE CITY

Troop B, which was modified
at the Armory week ago, is
packed up and ready to move at
any time. I'VE don't know any,
thing about when or where we
shall CO." said Major H. w. Pal
mer Friday morning, "but we are
ready for hurry-up orders when
they come"
Tacoma's medical company and
field hospital unit have received
orders to hold themselves in read
mess, and transportation is being
provided.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-03
Mistake?
EDITOR THE TIMES:

DDlTOR THE TIMES:
In last Tuesdays Times Mrs
Grace p. Johnston. food inspector,
denied she made a mistake in the
case against the National Fish Co.
1t was not on account of any
body's kindness the case was dis,
missed.
The health inspector did not ar
rive in time for court and the case
was dismissed.
told the city attorney my case.
When Grace Johnston came he
told her ! was not to blame. He
said l had done more than my
share in keeping the place clean.
She admitted the department
was interested in was and always
have been clean and sanitary.
l asked her to rectify her mis-
take In The Times. She said you
can't do anything with The Times.
So l advertised the facts about
the case In your paper.
Hoping you will find a place in
your paper for this justified ex-
PLANTATION, l am, yours truly,
M. A. HAMMER
National Fish Co.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-03
WANTS LAW
TO PREVENT
CAR STRIKES

Legislation to prevent further
street car strikes, or sudden dis
continuance of labor in any public
service company, will be sought
by the city of Tacoma, as the re-
suit of a recommendation made to
the council by City Attorney U. e.
Harmon Friday.
Harmon suggested to the coun-
ell that committee be appoint
ed by the mayor to make full
investigation of labor conditions,
and to ask the next legislature to
pass state laws similar to the new
Adamson law, demanding arbitra-
ton of labor differences instead
of strikes.
Mayor Fawcett was authorized
by the council to appoint such a
committee. He will announce its
personnel next week.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-03
Suggests Petition

EDITOR THE TIMES:
We think your articles in The
Times with regard to government
conscription of too-large incomes
o. X.
But talk won't get congress to
act along this line.
Why not start something? Say
petition to congress thru The
Times signed by thousands of
people Interested.
I'm sure the common people
would be only too glad to express
their wishes in that way, and
while we're about it, let's ask
them to pass law that there
shall be no more lobster palaces
and big banquets where gay peo-
pie of New York and other cities
waste food and money, while the
working people are asked to eat
less bread and meat.
Respectfully,
A MOTHER,
Oakville, Wash.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-03
Omitted Press Leased Wire,

PARIS, Aug. "a birds eye
view of hell!'
This is how the Flanders battle
field looked to an American avia-
tor who flew over 1t at the height
of the great allied offensive.
81 flew at an altitude of about
200 feet" he wrote the United
Press from somewhere at the
front" today. 1.-THE land was
pockmarked by yawning craters
and holes, filling with water and
wounded men struggling thru the
mud. Tanks wallowed thru the
swamp like monsters.
1.-The old enemy first and Sec
ond lines could be traced with
difficulty. German wire entan-
clements we're buried. Down be-
low I could see tiny figures OF
men-French and British infan-
try-frantically digging in ev-
erywhere far in advance of their
detectives.
'Stretcher bearers could be
picked out, crawling back with
bandaged wounded. A German
aIbatross (biplane) could be seen
half buried in muck. Farther
back, scurrying from shell hole
to shell hole, the gray of German
infantry could be discerned. The
enemy fought desperately, yield
ing steadily.
Hundreds of spans bridged
the stagnant trickle called the
User canal, and over these bridges
scurried men and supplies.
81 could see artillery hurrying
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-03
Answers A. E. B.
EDITOR THE TINES:

EDITOR THE TINES:
Here comes some one and says
your article "Revolution-or JUS
tice?" is a malicious SANDER and
that you are untruthful in what
you say, and sets up a howl for
the lumber interests, says wages
have kept pace with prices and
demand while board has only
slightly advanced. All of which
is untrue.
AS for stability of employees,
think they are very quiet. They
have to be, because they don't get
enough to make noise with.
AS for the eight-hour day, sure,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-03
SAYS $4,000
WAS DONATED

Chester u. Thompson, living on
a rural route near Lakeview,
wrote a letter to Mayor Fawcett
Friday protesting against the re-
turn of $4,000 to the army post
committee by county commission
ers.
Thompson said in his letter
that the taxpayers of Pierce coun-
ty had been led to believe that
the money furnished by the COM
mittee for carrying on the election
had been donated without any
idea that it would be returned to
the men who put 1t up.
We are now annually consum-
ing SO pounds OF sugar head.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-03
MAY
BE STARVING
Omitted Press Leased Wire.)

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. "a
story of shipwrecked sailors dy-
ing of starvation on Jarvis island,
a barren coral reef of the South
Seas, may come to solve the mys-
terry surrounding the disappear
ance of the long overdue steamer
Wacuna.
Captain John Foster of the
steamer Waimarino, declared to-
day that on the beach of Jarvis
island he sighted the wreckage
of what he Is convinced was a
Pacific coast lumber schooner.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-03
In the
Editors Mail

/ he is right. Things have happened
lately that go to prove that he IL
right in the big prevaricator class.
He speaks of the lumbermen being
In losing game. l think that
game was solo, poker, or ii might
have been cincb. 1t sure was not
the game of cutting and selling
lumber.
Taking 1t by and large. think
A. e. b. is a sorehead.
G. M. LISK.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-03
Pictures Flanders Fight a
"Birdseye View of He'll

to advanced positions. Pack
mules carrying machine guns,
more infantry vans, munitions
struggled forward.
lover all this dark scene of
carnage lowered black skies, pour
ing an unceasing torrent of rain.
The roar of guns was indescrib-
able.
Titanic explosions punctuated
the continuous fury of sound.
The storm increased in fury with
the intensity of the combat be-
low"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-03
GOES AFTER OXMAN

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. a.
Captain of Detectives Duncan
Matheson today took personal
charge of the prosecution of
Frank G. Oman, charged with
subornation of perjury as an
outgrowth of the Thomas Mooney
bomb plot trial.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-03
BUY GUNS TO
FIGHT DRAFT
Omitted Press Leased wire.)

WASHINGTON, d. c., Aug. 8.
Reports of threatened armed
resistance to the army draft in
isolated points of Georgia and
western North Carolina are be-
ing investigated by the depart
ment of justice.
Mountaineers and farmers in
these regions are reported to have
supplied themselves with new
Winchester rifles and ammunition
to fight the draft.
Special investigators have been
assigned to make careful inquiry
and stern measures will be taken
to repress any rebellion.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-03

What do other Times read
ers say to this proposal for a
monster petition? The Times
will be only too glad to start
another one II there is a de-
mand for 1t. The petition to
congress that we published I'm
the spring along "a similar
line received more than L.
900 NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-03

aluminium utensils can be
frightened by boiling tomato par
ings in them.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-03

The new gasoline stove folds
up into tiny box.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-03

A million and quarter horses
and mules have been exported for
war purposes since 1914.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-03
With Good Offerings; hs savings 3
Store Open
to 10 p. m.

This may be the last time
you'll see this announce
ment in our ads. In accord
with the other progressive
merchants of Tacoma, we
shall ii the sentiment Is
shown to be for the move,
close hereafter at 9 o'clock
on Saturdays as well as week
days. Ii rests with the pub
lie and the other merchants.
Which way can we serve you
and our loyal salespeopIe
best?
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-03
Suits, Coats, Dresses
SO Garments, Were $500 to $500

the readytowear stock will present
clean bill OF health for the fall This is the last
the final opportunity to select Stylish seasonabie
apparel at such extreme reductions.
The following list compiled Thursday afternoon and is
subject to Friday sale
We advise early attendance for best choice of the sae
Final-No Refunds Exchanges.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-05-27
MISSISSIPPI BREAKS
DIPPING RECORD

Washington, D. c.. May 2e.-Aii
previous records for the number of
cattle dipping watts in use and the
number of cattle dipped for tick eradi-
cation in single month were sur
passed In April by Mississippi, accord
ing to reports reaching the bureau of
animal industry of the United States
department of agriculture. During
this month ss2.504 head of cattle were
dipped in the state in Ass watts.
During the period several watts in
Mississippi were dynamited by persons
antagonistic to the tick eradication
work being carried on by the federal
government. the state. and the coun-
ties. The fact that such record num-
Der of clippings were made in the face
OF this antagonism. however, leads Of
flcials of the department of agricul-
ture to believe that the vandalism de-
feated its own aims by awakening in
terest in the WORK on the part of law
abiding citizens and by Strengthening
their determination to free their ter
ritory from quarantine The destruc-
ton failed to bring about even the
temporary suspension OF activities in
the immediate localities. since cattle
were driven. greater distances and
dipped In less conveniently located
watts.
Thirty-two counties remain under
quarantine in Mississippi. The eradi-
cation works well organized in prac-
tieally every one of these counties and
Is progressing satisfactorily, field In
spectors report.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-05-27

by a cable. After being snugly fitted
into my old place ! began to worry
thinking that might again go to
the bottom of the sea. l was sud-
denly awaked from my reverie by the
rush OF water into the tube and be-
fore I knew Il ! had been expelled
from my resting place by pressure
OF compressed air behind my tail and
once again I was forced out Into the
hriny deep As J. passed from the tube
my starting lever was automatically
thrown to the rear, thereby lifting a
valve off its seat allowing my COM
pressed air to (Which previously had
been packed away In my air flask
escape through my tail and thereby
causing my machinery to run at ter
rife speed As previously arranged by
the naval gunners | descended to n
depth OF eighteen feet and then
straightened out on my course. NY
course was followed as straight as n
die for the whole run OF 10. 600 yards,
not deviattng two feet on either side.
My machinery worked like clock
and I knew that my run was being
arxiously followed by the gunners
who were looking through binoculars
from the deck Of the submarine.
Al the completion of my run came
10 the surface whereupon I discovered
that 7 had been fired at a target at an
s, 0e0-yard range and that I had
passed directly under the center Of the
target making a. perfect run which Is
known as "buli's-eye." | had a very
short time to remain IN the trough
Of the sea to be wallowed around. for,
within a very few minutes. one OF the
navy's fifty-foot speedboats ia d
caught up to me and soon had me In
tow back to the submarine.
Upon my arrival there was greeted
with cheers much laughing and talk
ing. for I had brought the first navy
prize for submarines, amounting to
twenty dollars to each one of the
gunners who helped to have me make
the buli's-eye.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-05-27
NATIONAL THEATER TO
OPEN AT WASHINGTON

Washington. May &c And now. In
spite of wartime worries, 1t is I'm
Gle Sam, impressario." for the capital
today is preparing for the opening
here June | OF Americas first truly
national theater, built and backed by
the government.
The theater is an outdoor play
house. built I'm the shadow of Wash
ington monument. 1t. Is modelled af-
ter the theaters of ancient Greece,
and with its opening those who were
Instrumental in founding 1t believe
the rebirth OF the drama In America
Is heralded
President and Mrs Wilson are ex-
pected to witness the first perform
ance. The National Sylvan theater.
as the new playhouse Is to be known,
will be opened with mammoth spec
tacle. THE Triumph of the Drama"
in which some of America foremos
stage artists will appear.
The play was written and will be
produced by Mrs. Christian ID. Hem
mick. It was Mrs. Hemmick who
first interested the government In the
proposal to build a national theater.
Her plan was put forward after she
had devoted several years to study
of tho outdoor theaters maintained
before the war by Russia, France and
Germany.
"The Triumph OF the Drama" will
be given In three parts, The Birth
OF tho Drama" THE Degradation Of
the Drama" and finally The Triumph
of the Drama" For four months
Mrs Hemmick has been busy enlist
ing actors and dancers for the first
performance.
The list of those who will appear
in '"rhe Triumph Of the Drama" In
cIudes Mr.. and Mrs. r. II. Sothern
Julia Mariowe), Mr.. and Mrs. Will
liam Faversham (Julie opp. Mr.. and
Mrs. James X. Hackett (Beatrice
Beckley), Mr. and Mrs. r. d. Shep-
herd Or. D. Mclean ana Odette Tay-
-lor), Otis Skinner. Maude Adams. Will
ton J-ackaye, Viola Allen and Mar
garet Anglin.
Nine. Louise Homer will come from
Lake George to Washington to sing
"Orpheus" at the opening perform
ance rsadora Duncan, Paul Swan
Mrs Glenna Smith Tinnin and the
Russians, pavley and Obelinski, are
included among the dancers The
music for the first production will be
furnished by the United States ma
fina hand
Following the Triumph Of the
Drama" will be many other pageants
to be produced by Mrs. Hemmick dur
ing the months of June, July, August
and September. For the performance
that will mark the dedication of the
theater no admission fee will be
charged The actors and dancers
have contributed their services gratis
and all other expenses will be borne
by Washingtoflians interested In the
new national enterprise.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-05-27
WAR HITS ITALIAN
BIRTHS AND WEDDINGS
(By CayniIio Cianfarra, International
News STAFF CORRESPONDENCE


News STAFF Correspondent
Rome. May 26.--~-Statistics ti~st pub
lished by the government give some
interesting and eloquent figures con-
corning the influence OF war on the
number of marriages, births and
deaths.
Tho figures regarding the number
OF marriages cover only the last six
months of the years from 1913 to
1915, From July to December, 19l 3.
121,oG5 marriages were recorded.
This number decreased to 100000
during tho same period in 1914 and
fell TO 1920 in the last six months
of 1915, after italy interviewed in the
war.
Notwithstanding the large number
of bloody engagements at the italian
front. the number OF deaths in the
last six months of 1915 are not Inn
pressively superior to that Of 1914.
In fact while from July, to Deem
her. 1874 the number OF deaths avsere
312.932. In 1915. after seven months
of constant fighting. they had in
creased only TO 35S.932.
The figures so far received from
every province in the kingdom indi-
cate that war has had e. marked ef~
feet on the number of births. Dur
ing the last three months OF 1915.
asa. 900 births were registered, against
ESQ 600 in the same period In 1874.
Emigration has suffered more than
else. chiefly on account Of
the fact that late in 1914 n decree
was issued prohibiting the emigra-
ton -ef- a4tli men still subject to milf
tary duties, that Is, men from eigh-
teen to thirty-nine years of age
Early In 1915 another decree was is-
sued and emigration further re-
stricted.
During the f1rst three months of
1914 there left for both European and
countries 100000 emil
grants; 80 900 in the second three
and only $40 in the third
quarter. IN 1a15-ls the average de-
partures every three months were
about 10000.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-05-27
vIETOR's EMPLoYE Is
SENT TO GRAND JURY.

Although Justice Crutchfeld in po-
lice court admitted that evidence
against the accused was very slender.
Richard Jones. colored. employed at
the II. X. Victor tobacco warehouse.
was held for grand jury yesterday on
charge of assaulting and robbing
A p. Bryant. q private In Company F.
Richmond Grays Bryant identified
Jones as the man who knocked him
down with brick and then robbed
him of 1880 at Fifteenth and Main
streets about midnight on May s.
Persons with whom Jones boarded
declared that he did not leave the house
after s +. NJ, on the day mentioned
Bryant had received his pay the night
the alleged robbery took place, and
had been chatting with some of the
other militiamen at the government
warehouse near the spot where the
alleged assault occurred. Justice John
intimated that the evidence against
Jones was slight. but Commemorative
Attorney Wise insisted that the case
be sent up. otherwise a bad precedent
would have been established, he said
Jones was released on $500 bail, fur
nisAed- of L. C. Rewfctt. an empioye
of Victor.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-05-27


Iadoga. the great reservoir for Petro-
grads river Neva, is the subject OF the
following war geography bulletin
issued by the National Geographic So
ciety:
'If the Caspian sea be rated as a
sea instead Of a lake, Jadoga takes
premier place among the lakes of Eu-
rope. with it's area OF 1000 square
miles It very nearly approaches in
size our own Lake Ontario, which has
a water surface slightly exceeding
1900 square miles.
'Ladoga has recently appeared in
the public prints owing to the revoln-
tIonary activities or the munitions
workers at Schlusse<burg. the fortified
town situated at the point where tho
waters OF the lake find their outlet to
the Gulf Of Finland through the river
Neva. BY the water route it Is dis
lance Of forty miles from the western
extremity OF Lake Ladoga to Petro-
grad, but In an airline It is only TWEEN
ty-one miles.
This great sheet of water is fed
by more than seventy rivers and
streams. the most important OF which
are the Syas Svir and Volkhov. all of
which are connected with the Neva at
Schlusselburg by canals The canals
have been dug in order to relieve ship
ping OF the perls of the lake, which
are numerous-frequent gales, nu-
merous reefs and rocks, and dense
fogs. The most important OF these
canals connecting the Volkhov and the
Neva, was dug nearly two hundred
years along the southern shore OF the
lake. In 1s81-ss the old waterway
was supplemented by a. new canal run
ming parallel to IT. BY means Of these
70 tv
with the Authenticity OF Novgorod (not
to be confused with the great fair city
OF Nizhni-Novgorod) the seat of gov
eminent of the Voikhov Republic in
the eleventh and twelfth centuries In
this city originated the proverb, II
the prince il bad. into the mud with
him the advice being frequently
acted upon.
What little commerce is carried on
the waters OF the lake itself. from tho
northern shores TO sScf3fusselftlrr mast
be handled during the summer
months for ice blocks transportation
for about $50 days out OF the 365
While the ice seldom Is more than
three or four feet deep 1t frequently is
piled up off shore to a height OF sixty
to eighty feet and In the early sum-
mer. when It begins to float down the
Neva IL has very perceptihle re-
frlgerating effect on the climate OF
Petrograd.
The chief products handled by the
little lake steamers are hay, iron. tim
Der, firewood. koalin and granite
Much Of the marble. granite and sand
stone used in the buildings of Petro-
grad come from quarries on the
sparse!y settled north shores
"One Of the most interesting OF the
numerous small Islands which dot the
surface of IadoRa Is Va1amo. the seat
of the famous monastery founded IN
the tenth century by Sergej and Her
man. The retreat is visited by thou
sands of Russian pilgrims during the
festival Of st Peter and st. Paul in
June OF each year. Valamo itself,
which has an area OF about twelve
square miles, is surrounded by about
forty smaller islands, A second mon
astery on the island of Konnevitz Is
also n popular place OF piIgrimare
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-05-27
Don't Lay Up Your Car

Bring your battery to me when it
needs repairs or recharging, and won't
hold up your car minute longer than it
takes me to remove your battery and
replace it with another.
Stop and let that sink in.
Whatever the make and model of
your car, have rental battery for your
use while yours is being fixed.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-05-27
THREE ARE HELD WHEN
CLUBHOUSE Is RAIDED.

Members of the Social Star club, 1908
Chaffin street. appeared before Jus
tice Crutchheld yesterday morning on
a charge of violating the prohibition
laws, Paul Bender. the president; Ev-
erett Wright, secretary. and Samuel
Wright, a member. were held for the
grand jury. Eight other alleged mem
hers were dismissed They were: Will
liam 4. Kruse. william Isaacs, Thomas
Harlow. e. Glenn. John Wolf. A. Sale.
Charles Murrat and c. Johnson. .
Police Captain Sowel1. Sergeant Way
mack and Patrolman Reid raided the
club Thursday night. and seized III
quarts OF whiskey. 1t is charged that
ardent spirits were being stored there
to be sold. and 1t is also charged that
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-05-27
oNERCoAT AND STRAW HAT
Is FHEQI'ENT COMBIS ALTON,

(special tn The Richmond Virrinian.)
Harrisonburg, Va. May 2G.-~Unpre-
'eeGcntedly cold weather for this time
'of the year prevails in this end of the
valley, slight frost is reported from
the county and farmers and gardeners
declare that crops are Mt standstin.
Much corn Is being planted seconti
time.
Furious hail and wind storms visit
ed parts of West Rockingham. Near
Mount Clinton night or ,wo ago barns
We're unroofed and sheds and outhuiia-
Tags l4Is-mfa-f:a~fIi.-
oVe-cnats and straw hats are q fire.
quent animation on the streets