Let us begin TODAY with all the earnestness that APPARENTLY marked the iEastland investigation to find out why todays marine castrophe occurred and who was 1to blame. Let us have NONE of the official criss-crossing and eagerness to apply thewhitewash thai marked the Chicago hearing. TACOMA WANTS THE TRUTH. i

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VOL. Xlll.NO. 23. TACOMA, WAS!!., SATURDAY, JANUARY 15, li>l(>

MILK CLEANUP SAVESLIVES OF 50 TACOMABABIES IN ONE YEAR

By E. A. PetersAt least SO babies are

rtlve and vigorously crowingtoday because The Timeswaged unrelenting \\m afear ago for a pure milk sup-ply.

Htutlsilt's gathered fromrecords of the city health de-partment today allowed thatwith ili«i rapid ImprovementOf milk In indium during101H there waa an amazingdecrease In the number ofdeath* aiming Infant*.There were 31 par cent lesß

deaths among babies of sixmonths or younger, in 1915 thanduring the 12 months of the pre-ceding year.

During the first six ttioi'ttis of1914 health records show that iibabies under blx months of agedied,many of them because of hn--proper nourishment. There were83 deaths in the latter hair ofthe year.

Great Improvement Made.Tin- deaths of these 164 infants

occurred before Tacoma's earn-ipalgn against tubercular milk I~a begun. lTp to that time the !

public and tlie dairymen had notbeen educuted to tlio perils of bo-vine tuberculosis.

Probably not one mother out \of 20 In Tanomu realized the Ire- ,mendous risk she was taking jwhen she fed bar baby the ordi-

- nary class of milk supplied bydairymen at that time.

R. A. Button, city milk inspec-tor, had done his best to obtain amore prue milk supply but hla ef-forts had been given no Rjmpathyor support.

In 1915 because of n stirringeducational campaign conducted

i by The Times and heartily sup-ported by Inspector Button, thecity's milk supply was trans-formed. From one of the mostdangerous in the country, it be-

came in a few weeks the purest.118 Instead of in I.

From Jan. 1 to June 30 last. year there were only 62 deathsof babies. Between July 1 andDec. 31, the death records allow,61 infants died.

There wore 113 Infantiledeaths as compared to 164 of theprevious year. In September,1914, the hottest month andtherefore the most dangerous tobabies being fed impure milk,there were 17 deaths. Last yearfive babies died In the samemonth.

Government statistics showthat bovine tuberculosis Is fatal IIn 50 par cent of its cases.

Mora than half the mothers ofthe present day are feeding theirbabies on cow's milk.

When The Times began itsfight for a purer milk supply, It, showed that hundreds of cows inthe Tacoma district, many ofthem In the herds of large andprominent dairies, were in thedeath grip of the dread disease.Yet their milk was coming tothe city dally In bottles and cans.Hundreds of mothers, unaware ofthe danger, were giving it to their

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maken a Rummer, any morethan one depositor makes abank.

But the fae, that this Bankmade a net gain of 1200 de-poHitora In 19)5 is signifi-cant.

Surely It Is wise for you, ifconsidering a banking con-nection, to ask us about thereasons for this success.

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babies.The facts shocked Tacoma into

action. With one great cry, par-ents made a demand that thedairies clean up. Arrests weremade.

Dairymen felt the wave of pub-lic emotion. Those who had per-sistently refused to obey ordersof the milk inspection depart-ment before found it was to theInterest of their pocketbookn toclean up. Wholesale slaughter ofdt&eased cows began. InspectorButton instituted a monthly re-port system by which he public-ly announced the comparativepurity of milk in the variousdairies.

Ilaliynic n Co-Operate.Tuberculin, a newly discovered

serum for determining whether

WEATHERTacoma: Generally fair tonight

and Sunday, continued cold.Washington: Same.

PASSENGER BOATCAPSIZES NEARPOINT DEFIANCE

OUT OF HIS HOLE

FLASHESNEW YORK—Russian govern-

ment gives approval to largeat Hatof ammunition contracts placedhere by any warring nation sincethe war began.

cows are suffering from tubercu-losis, was used on every herdsending milk to Tacoma. Duringthe past year 3,067 cows havebeen given the test. Dr. Buttonhas personally administered thetuberculin In mor* than half Ihocases.

Instead of resisting official In-spection dairymen began co-op-erating with Dr. Button and de-veloped a keen desire to bringtheir milk up to the highest markof purity.

Best In the 1. 8.A federal milk inspector tested

samples of Taeoma's milk lastfall and was so surprised at thehigh scores of bacterial countthat he would not believe his ownfigures. He slipped quietly backinto Tacoma six weeks later and

college on preparedness question,and negative team loses on samequestion at Portland.

purchased bottles of milk fromdelivery men of every dairy Inthe city. He made another bac-terial lest and the result was ihesame as before.

NEW YORK—U. S. submarineB-6 today blown up and sunk atBrooklyn navy yard.

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The inspector pronounced lacoma's milk the purest in thecountry.

Today's figures from thehealth department showing a de-crease of Til deaths among babiesin one year, proves his statement.

One small boy and two girls are known to have drowned, several others are believed to have perishedand a half a dozen persons were badly injured at 11 o 'clock today when the double deck gasoline launchVictor IIcapsized off Point Defiance pavilion.

The launch, which left the municipal dock at 10:30, was making her way toward North Bay inthe ter-rific wind and high seas with a load of passengers and lumber piled on her upper deck when she wassuddenly bowled over by a wave, throwing the passengers into the water.

As the launch lay bottom side up in the icy water the passengers clung to her sides until the steamerAtalanta, which half a mile away was plowing her way from Gig Harbor toward Tacoma, came to therescue.

The known dead:Walter Bower, age 7, son of Mrs. 0. S. Bower, F ox island.

- Florence Bower, age 14, her daughter.An unknown girl about 12 years old.Seriously injured:William Clark, Seattle, cut about the body and suffering from exposure.WillMclnnis, lumber worker, Vashon island; may die.

i P. O'Donnell, Vashon; cut and bruised, suffering from exposure.Peter Sandberg, 406 North Tacoma avenue, Tac oma, in a raving condition, suffering from exposure.- Mrs. 0. S. Bower, Fox island; hysterical.

w' Helen, her 17-year dfd daughter.Joel Bower, 18, another son of Mrs. Bower, was rescued, but did not suffer serious injury.It was impossible to tell the exact number of ' ~

pjassengers aboard as the fares had not yet been takenup, nor was it possible to determine the exact num-ber of persons drowned.

The wave which bowled the Victor II over hitthe launch so suddenly and with such force that therewas no opportunity for a warning to be given or forthe lowering of lifeboats, according to the survivorswho were brought in on the Atalanta.

"Aterrific sea was running, and we don't exactlyknow how ithappened," said Dick Wayson, captainof the launch. The boat was unable to ride the wavesand buck the gale."

In her effort to save the passengers the Atalantawas washed from stem to stern by the waves andbuffeted about in the high wind.

The accident occurred just as the launch wasrounding the Point on her way down the sound. Assoon as he saw the vessel's plight, Capt. A. R. Huntof the Atalanta put on full steam and hurried to therescue.

Opposite the smelter heavy waves began rollingacross the bay, driven by a terrific northeast gtde.that swept down the east passage.

As ue small craft proceeded, the waves mi-i creased in size until they were as high as 10 feet.The boat bobbed about like a cork. Her captain

• steered a course diagonally across towardsYashon island, thus taking the waves partiallyhead-on, and hoping to gain the lee of the islands

The little boat floundered about helplessly inthe trough of the waves. Finally her engineswere disabled by water shipped aboard, and shedrifted Crasily about in the huge waves. Pas-

jfeeugers confined to the cabins, which had beentightly closed because of the stinging cold winds,were panic-stricken. The boat rolled until itsupper-decks often lay almost tint on the water.

The boat drifted, helpless, a mile from shorepnd almost directly opposite the park pavilion,

f until one wave larger and more powerful than itsfellows, gave the final blow that tinned the littlecraft upside down.

The Victor IIis a gasoline passenger steam-er with double decks, and about 50 feet in length,practically the entire deck space is enclosed incabins, making it necessary to often carry freighton top of the^econd deck.

The vessel makes regular trips on alternatedays between the Municipal dock and North Baypoints, stopping at 20 or more small docks andlandings in the Bay Island district.

She left Tacoma this morning on her regularsouthbound trip. Until the Victor II reachedmid-harbor she encountered no heavy weather.

(Ooatlnuad <m Pin My.l

PETER SANDBERGAMONG INJURED

Physicians attending PeterSnndberg report his conditionvery serious. He hwallowed con-siderable water and wag badly cutup. Sandberg began breakingwindows in the cabin when thevensel capsized to let the.peopleout. He broke seven window*with his fist.

Sandberg said that at leaqt twopersons were drown that he

TOW LAUNCHTO NARROWSThe tug Elf landed the Victor

II at the Narrows boat houseshortly after 1 o'clock, where Itwill be beached as soon as thetide goes out. Members of thecrew were unable to say whetherthere were any bodies aboard ornot.

ence, Austria contemplates thecreation of an office for the < on-trol of import! and to excludeluxuries.

VIENNA—After abandoningMontenegrin capital, Cettlnje,Montenegrins returned along thewhole south and west fronts to-ward Albania.

LONDON—A futile attempt toassassinate Premier Radoalavoffof Bulgaria was made recently,according to dispatch today fromAmsterdam. *

BERLIN—Germany rejects SirEdward Grey's proposal that IheBaraloug case be investigated bya court of American naval off-icern.

UOMK—Diplomatic corps hasfled from Montenegrin capital,Cettlnje, and has readied Scutari,Albania.

LONDON^-Reports from Hol-land today are (hat the collapseof the Zuyder Zee dikes causedfar greater damage than hadbeen supposed.

Be Carefulof Chimney

A. ting Fire Chief Schlegel is-,aned a warning today to Ttciini^iagainst th« dangers -Of ohtmneyfires. , There is more danger offtrea caufted by burning soot tnthe chimneys at pretest than atany time in the year, becausewarmer fires *re kept In stoveeand the high wind fora* a atroMdraft

The Elf fastened a line aboardthe Victor shortly after it sankand towed it around the point to\u25a0till water.

VlENNA—Capture of 5,100Russians in a recent offensive onthe Qalician and Beisarablanfronts claimed in official dispatchissued from war office.

VIKNNA—Baron Burian, Aus-trian foreign minister, teday re-quested American AmbassadorPenfield to transmit to the Brit-ish government a protest againstthe arrest of Teutonic consuls atSalonika.

Colder-Whew!CHICAGO, Jan. 15.- Colder

weather than any yet experiencedla destined to strike the middlewest tomorrow, the local fore-caster announced today. Lightsnows are predicted throughoutthe area.

knows of. Great rear was shownby all the passengers when theboHt tipped over.

The women and childrenshrieked and made a wild dashfor the door, but were thrown viheaps, while the water poured inin torrents through the brokenwindows.

Sandberg iii<l not lose con-sciousness. It is thought he willrecover.

UNIVERSITY OF WABIIING-TON—Affirmative varsity debat-ing team win« h«r« from Heed

ArrestWomenUnder orders to "clean out" all

disorderly women in Taconia, asquad of detective* assigned toenforce the prohibition law lastnlgbt rounded up four womenand sent them to Jail.

Three of them, Celia Smith,Annlii Goldstein and Vergls St.r.lair, were taken from a house InCourt A, after one of the women,it is claimed, had solicited a de-tective.

The fourth, Helen White, wa»arrested in a house on Marketstreet.

Detectives today gave orders toall cafes where dancing Is per-mitted, that the dancing mustcease tonight and every otherSaturday night promptly at mid-night.

LONDON—Owing to serious |fall in her exchange, saya theMorning Post'i Berne correspond-

I - Talk oy the Times \u25a0 IGood iiKirniiiK.Is jour

foul bin eni|ity?

HABIT"(ilrnine a bier," said the esd

faced person as he entered Mel-liager's.

It take* a "boil it" cam-paign to prove to name folksthat water i^n't merely topnt in harbors.

It you find it too much troubleto carry a hot water bottle withyou on your street car journeyswe suggest * heated brick .^.Cau-tion: Do not heave the brick too

recklessly as you debark from thepneumonia boxes.

Optimism note: I'ossilrfynext winter will b« so mildwe won't rare if the cansaren't heated.

This Is the year of prouiite.if you don't believe tt, hark towhat the candidates are savins;.

There I* uothsM pereusMt!•boat «hls, but «*• tlifak tlteeditor of The Whets* (»eeMA^n A.\ iiti*A« Im ft1m j^iriiM

who wrat* tfa* imh «n"How Ma*r Ueaksy* Ar«¥o«r« I