The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1917-07-18
HEP! HEP! HEP!
Walk and Smile During the Strike;
You'll Find Ii Healthy to Take Hike


Women automoblllsts are
moro selfish than meni
This was the ediet OF women
walkers. who called up The
star to protest about tho way
women drivers passed up"
pedestrians.
Many women rode comfort
abb alone 90 and from town In
their motor cara today. and
didn't even look at their less
fortunate sisters, forced 20
trudse.
n Meat sale. downtown have fallen
off one.half because OF the strike.
butchers say.
Shipysrd employees. almost 20 a
man. are getting TO work on time.
The eobblers should worry
Union men say they won't ride
In the street cars II non-union mon
try TO operate them.
|
John .. Rockefeller was
made several thousand dollars
richer today thru Increased
gasoline sales.
Jimmy Crehanp Ford carried
! numerous congregations from
Queen Anne hill this morning.
my Idea Of 4 mean man."
says jim, Crehan, "is . fellow
who'll ride down In an auto
without . load and psss up .
lame man"
Joe Sharp. Star composition. pick
ed up women only in his auto this
morning.
None OF them were young" he
/ insisted
Joe refused 10 take fares. nitho
one elderly woman worker wanted
, TO pay rs cents for the ridc.
Charles Pringie. 1908 Tenth ave.
W. has rheumatism In hi. feet
but | walked both ways Tues.
day" he says. And climbed tho
bluff from Elliott ave. 10 kinncar
park TO boot"
Heavy wire netting viii he
placed around the rear ends OF
street cars when they are operatcd
/ by non.union men, street car OF.
ficials say.
Bump, bumpty. bump! After
riding or a moving van you
must realize how the furniture
feels each spring.
| The painters and piumbers'
unions last night voted TO i'm
pose q fine payable 20 tho
street car men on every mem
her who rides In q Traction
Co. car when they begin oper.
alton.
IT'S fine business for the shoe
men. anyway" was the way Prcsi'
dent Leonard. OF tho Traction Co,
greeted a Star reporter this morn
ing
Regardless Of any emerqen-
cies, speeding OF autos 70
strictly forbidden. 50 declared
| Chief Buckingham. He has
ordered traffic officers 10 ar
res. all speeders.
Secretary Whiting. Of the Jitncy
Mems union, today announced that
/ iitneys arc running on every limo
where they had given service for.
merry.
Keep up the good work" says
a hotel proprietor on Third ave.
IL slept like a log last night for the
first time since have been here In
three years. The tracks are bad
past here. and The street cars are
menace TO sleepers.'
People look on the strike az
purely a strike OF motorrnen and
conductors" said T. J. Cusack,
strike leader, this morning. when,
as matter OF fact, there are IL
unions involved. representing. out.
side OF the platform men, about
600 workers"
That the street car tie-up has
chilled the arder OF women bar
gain hunters was evident in the de-
partment stores"
NJ. G.. Davis. 1924 14th ave. ". f..
a jitney operator. refused an offer
J OF IS to take n man TO Green Lake
Teusday evening, preferring to 40
commodate a carful OF Cowen park
passengers. even tho he lost mon
ey on the deal.
MY children met their daddy for
the first time today" said c. A.
/ Swanson, l3fs Dawson at, motor
man on the South Park line. and
In tho seryice ~ yearg