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Now that Chicago's new chief of

police has decided that policemen

may wear wrist watches, we sug

gest that they wear sun bonnets in

stead of helmets.

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Early Rumors Are Confirmed - Tacomans Aboard

3 FROM

TACOMA

ABOARD

Seattle agencies of the Cunard

line reported there were three

T:n Humus aboard the stricken veti

■el. They were reported as:

J. A. Arter.

Mr. and Mrs. William Prother.

A search through the directory

■nd phone books failed to show

diaries ProluiiMi, theatrical

producer, a imtisonger on laist

tanla.

Passmger on liualtaniu.

that persona of Mfib names were

residents of this city.

However, the Seattle agencies

were mire that persons usins;

these names had been booked as

coming from Tacoma, and as be

ing on the Hner. •

Another Washington resident

was said to be J. W. Quilllam of

Spokane.

The only Trans-Atlantic pas

sengers which local agents knew

of was Robert Crothers and wif?

who were due to leave N«w York

today on the steamship Transyl

vania.

In the rn<-p-««i-tlii'-moiin(ni!i

picture, there are yet to be add

ed: Ohop valley, the racetrack,

waterfront scenes and others.

«

City Should Aim at Tree Water' Rather Than More Costly Water

Taroma will join in a sigh

of relief when it Is aasured

Hint the city has no liunicill

ate Intention of placing I<*

water Kale* on a meter baaU.

The adoption of tliat pol

icy would be the veriest fol

ly. The trend in quite in the

opposite direction.

The administration of our

water department, like that

of nearly all other cities, to

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MONTH | VOL. XI f. NO. 119. TADOMA. WAPH. FRIDAY, MAY 7, 1915. EDITION

THE SUNKEN CUNARD LINER

AVIATORS DROP HOMIIS

ON TIKKISH CAPITAL

PARIS, May 7.—The first at

tack of the war on Constantinople

is reported in an unofficial dis

patch from Athens. It Bald three

Russian aviators flew over the

city, dropping; several bomb*,

which are believed to have caus

ed extensive damage.

now entirely too expensive.

There is an endless amount

of red tape and fol-de-rol.

To install 9900,000 worth of

meters and to take on a staff

of men ot read them and

Tare for them would b« to

increase the inmhiiH.

Sntth 1h one city that In

beginning toY«4lte the fool

ishness ofnurh elaboration.

That city already in com-

In Sight of Shore

QUEENSTQWN, May 7.—The first report that

the Lusitania waa in trouble was received at Land's

End. The message reported that the. ship had been

torpedoed and was listing sharply.' Help was ur

siderlng; more or lens ser

iously the elimination of It

all.

It In proponed, in short, to

serve tne people with "free

water."

By that, of course, nobody

means that the water would,

in Nome miraculous way, be

made to cost the inhabitant*

nothing. •

Instead, the toat* of rnn-

iiliir the wster system would

be met out of the general

fund, and the water users,

•s such, would not be call

ed on to pay the bills, feS at

present. This would mean

a very slight Increase in tax*

at lon, with a more than oom.

pen sating decrease In house* (

hold expense.

There In very good reasoi

for approving this plan. If

gently summoned.

-'■fcatwr appeals for help were picked up at Queens

town. The port authorities at once rushed every

thing possible to assist the steamer. The Lusitania

lias torpedoed at 2:33 this afternoon. At the point

of attack the liner's course was normally in sight of

«fcore I__1 __

one does not stand ready to

accept the theory that it

•hoald be done because wat

er, aa a baalc necettoity,

•honk! be tarnished by the

public, Just as street* and

street light* are furnished,

there In a more immediate

and practical reason that

doubtless will appeal.

That is: Efficiency.

If, say, the city installed

meters, mi wh suggested, a '

bill would have to 1>« mailed i

each month to every one of I

the 17,000 utten of water. <

The consumer under the 1

present plan or the other

one either, would have to t

inn 11 back a check, or make 1

a trip to the city hall, and I

then the city would have to i

mall him Mm receipt. At the i

very least estimate, thte i

WEATHER

Tacoraa and vicinity: Probably

fair tonight and Saturday.

Washington: Same. Cooler in

northeast portion.

LIVERPOOL, May 7.—The Lusitania, one of the

largest and most magnificent liners ever built, was*

sunk by submarines this afternoon.

She was just off Old Head of Kinsale, on the west

Ireland coast, plowing her way towards Liverpool

from New York, when a torpedo exploded under her

bows, causing her to sink in a few minutes.

Latest reports say that all persons on board were

saved in lifeboats. Reports from Old Head of Kin

sale say that lifeboats are still drifting about the

spot where the Lusitania went down, jammed with

passengers, and waiting for some steamer to rescue

them. A dozen or more small steamers have put out

for the scene of the disaster, to pick up passengers.

Send Out S. O. S.

NEW YORK. May 7.—The Cunard office here re

ports that the Lusitania remained afloat for some

time after being struck by the submarine torpedo.

Her wireless operators were able to send out "8. 0.

S." calls for several minutes, and in that way sum*

moned aid from the nearest ports.

Save Passengers

QUEENSTOWN, May 7.—Latest reports here are

that 35 lifeboats, filled with passengers of the Lusi

tania, are drifting about on a calm sea, waiting for

rescuers to arrive. There is no doubt that the mag

nificent steamer was sunk, but all reports indicate

that practically every member of the crew and pas

senger list were saved. ~

Sailed Saturday

NEW YORK, May 7.—The Lusitania sailed from

New York for Liverpool last Saturday and was due

to arrive in Liverpool late today.

Fears for the big liner were expressed here before

she sailed, following the published advertisements of

the German government warning persons crossing

the ocean from traveling in British-owned vessels.

Among the prominent persons on board the liner

were Alfred Vanderbilt, Elbert Hubbard, Charles

Frohman, the theatrical manager, and Charles Klein,

famous dramatist. j

The liner carried 1310 passengers when she sailed.

The big liner made her first trip across the Atlantic

in 1907, and in a few trips soon established the record

for the run, doing it practically in five days, flat.

The sister ship, the Mauretania, built since, now

holds the record from Queenstown to New York of

4 days, 10 hours and 41 minutes.

The Lusitania was the first big vessel of the Guri

ard line to use turbine engines. They furnished 70,

--000 horsepower and drove the ship at a rate of 25

knots, or approximately 30 miles an hour. She could

comfortably carry 3,000 passengers on her nine

decks.

. LIVERPOOL, May 7.—At 5:45 p. m. the offices

of the Cunard line issued a statement positively con

firming the report that the Lusitania had been sunk.

would entail an outlay of

night rents for postage and

stationery on the collection

of a fifty-cent or one-dollar

bill—a preaosteroiift amount.

Then, the Hty would have

to employ a large Htaff of

bookkeepers and clerka and

meter readers and repair

men. All for the «ake of

merely apportioning among

tw the trifling coat c* A*

water we nee.

lMprU<«d, how mach wieer

Mid economical It woald be

to cnt oot all this white efae

phaat, and pay direct.

Bat, of coaree, rack a OTg»

ffiMtion will never Ml to

came a raocou* roar ef pro.

teat from the ettf haß-

Nataraily! It wo«M nteaa

tbe nUinlnatlon of doaena of