Decatur Democrat, Volume 50, Number 21, Decatur, Adams County, 26 July 1906 — Page 2

BANKS IN A FIKE CITI | THE PRESSING NEED OF MONEY IN , . A STRICKEN COMMUNITY. Experience of a Chicago Financial House In 1871—Greed of Depositors and How It Showed Itself—An Cn- ] expected Proposition. Whenever a great fire devastates a large city the first effort of those concerned with the work of restoration ia to get the banks open so that the pres» j ing needs of a homeless population may be cared for. At such times business is done on a strictly cash basis, and everything sells at a premium. The consequence is an extraordinary i demand for hand to hand money, since ! the merchant can use the poor man's ; dollar to better advantage than the j rich man's credit in buying supplies to ! - replenish his flame emptied warehouse. | The struggle that ensues to obtain ; all the cash in sight is full of human interest It has its picturesque features. On Monday, Oct. 10, 1871, when all Chicago trudged downtown to see •what was left of the city, great crowds ; besieged the banks. Some men were . crying, others talked incoherently, and • everybody seemed half dazed. An offl- . cer of one of Chicago’s greatest banks, who fought his way through the smoldering embers to the white marble hall 4 which surrounded his vault, gave the 1 , following description of what occurred: i "Although the Iron door of the vault i had been somewhat expanded by heat, r found that the combination .worked ’ ( perfectly. That reassured me, and aft- 1 er hunting about the debris I fished out one or two iron crowbars and by wedging them in finally opened the i vault door. The inclosuie smelled i smoky, but I soon found that the cash , was all right, and so were our books j i That made me feel good, and I got i down to work in short order. The first 1 thing I did was to look at the balance I sheet and see what our exact resources Were. A glance showed me that by collecting what was due from out of town creditors the bank could pay everything it owed and declare a 10 per cent dividend besides, even if it lost every dollar due from its Chicago clients That was all I wanted to know. "On leaving the vault I saw four men waiting for me in what had been the cashier’s office. They were among our largest depositors, and I knew well enough what they wanted. They were of very different types—one a shrewd money lender who had $30,000 to his credit on our books, another was a •chool treasurer in an outlying district who would have been ruined had ws not been able to pay him $25,000, a third was an out of town banker with 1150,000 to the credit of his institution in our bank, and the fourth was a man who has since become one of Chicago’s greatest capitalists and who had always professed his sincere friendship for mo, It was a trying ordeal and one calculat ed to make each of my visitors show the real stuff that was in him. As events proved, this did not take long. “The little money lender grabbed me first. With a strange little wink ha forced me one side and said in a half whisper, ‘Do you know how much 1 have in your bank? "I said, ‘Yes, about $30,000.’ “ ‘Well, I will give you $6,000 if you Will give me the cash right Away.* “ T won’t do that,’ said I. ‘Your money is all right, but you will have to - wait a week for it until we get in shape again.' \ “ ‘What,’ he fairly gasped, ‘do you de- , ellne $6,000? That is a good deal of money in a city that Las gone to destruction.’ “1 ansv-'red no, that 1 would not. and told him in plain English what 1 thought of him. I said: ‘I am not knave enough to take your bribe and give you an unfair advantage over the other depositors, and I am not fool enough to do it, because I know as soon as you -discover the bank paid its claims within a week you would sue me for the $6,000. Get out of here right away.’ ” “That was the last of him. He took his money when the week was out and kept clear of the bank after that Then the school treasurer came to me with a straightforward story of bow his bondsmen were anxious to know how he stood. When I told him that his money was safe and that he would not lose a cent he burst into tears, saying the news was too good to be true. The out of town banker was also very nice, saying that he did not care to withdraw bis money so long as he knew it .was safe. Then the man who has since grown enormously wealthy accosted me with the remark that he had come down to see how things stood. That gave me a chance to test him, so I said brusquely: “‘You know how things are as well as I do. Can’t you see the position w» are in? ‘Oh, yes, yes,’ he answered hastily. ‘I don’t care about the fire. We are all in the same fix. But I want to know how you stand personally. Have you plenty of ready cash? You cannot get credit these days, so if you need anything from the grocer’s you want bard cash. I brought you a little’— “With that the map threw ©pen his coat, dived down into bis pocket and dragged opt a roll of bills as big as his hands could grasp. Then he straightened them out and divided them into equal piles, retaining one himself and handing me the other. He was dreadfully in earnest, but I told him I could ■ot accept the money and that I thought I could manage without it He assured me that whatever he had .would always be at my disposal That man has always been one of my best trlenda,”—New York Post Hie Compliment. i “What a lovely morning,” he said, i “It is a perfect morning,” she replied. ’ "True,” ho said. "I haven’t seen anyfiling this morning 'that isn’t perfect.” And he looked her straight in the face. ( Then she blushed. __ \ i

FUdiif Meet letereßtiM* Cha pt era. Women as a class are credited with having no scruples about opening a book at the middle or end or anywhere else they may expect to find the most interesting chapter. A frequent feminine visitor at libraries was overheard revealing to a friend of her own sex her secret of locating at once the most thrilling chapter in any book, no matter how unfamiliar one may be with it “You simply close it tight” she said, “and glance along the, edge of the leaves. It is seldom, indeed, that you do not notice a distinct line, or even more than one, caused by a number of edges soiled slightly more than those about them. Open the book there and you have the best chapter.” A librarian explained this by saying that the reading and rereading of the particularly interesting chapters of a book naturally cause certain pages and their edges to be more soiled. Os course the longer the book has been in circulation the more distinct are the marks.— Philadelphia Record. — A Bit of Fairyland. Cruising down Milford sound, New ( Zealand, when the clouds are clearing 1 after a shower, the mountains are like fairyland. No longer grim and black 1 and fearful, they are laced everywhere with the streaming silver of cloud born cascades. One day we watched j the giddy journey of one of these cataracts. It sprang from the very top of the Lion rock, a 3,000 foot perpendicular wail. Long and slender and glinting like glass in the sun, it fell straight down over us, but never reached us. It had dropped, say, 1,000 feet, when it was caught by the wind, swayed this way and that, and finally blown clean away, dissolving in misty rain. We, steamed right under it, or, rather, under the place where it ought to have been, and experienced the peculiar sensation of looking straight up at a waterfall that, as the launch skipper put it, “never fell anywhere.”—Four Track News. Butter aa a Food. Butter is a hydro carbon, and all excesses of it are stored up as fat in the body. It gives energy and power to work to those who eat heartily of it For any one afflicted with consumption butter cookery, if' plenty of fat can be digested, is one of the best ways of curing the disease should it be in its early stages or of keeping It at bay If advanced. It is not economy to spare the butter at table even to the healthy people. Butter is not a simple fat composed merely of one sort. It is a mixture of no less than seven different sorts of fats, and no more complex oil can be taken than this. For dyspeptic and liverish people good bread and butter, along with fruit, should invariably take the place of pie, pastry and biscuits. Pastry for such people is only another name for poison, and biscuits are as often as not baked with lard. Ellsabetn Carter, Bluestocking. Elizabeth Carter (1717-1806) was one of the original “blue stockings,” of whom a biographer says: “A perfect knowledge of French, acquired at an early age from a Huguenot refugee minister at Canterbury, was the foundation of Elizabeth Carter’s education. Her father taught her, together with her brother, Latin, Greek and Hebrew, though the slowness of her apprehension tired out his patience. Italian, Spanish and German she taught herself without any aMlstcnc®, and later in life she set .herself to, learn but for want of books Shd made no great progress. Lastly she taught heoself Arabic and made an Alabio dlotlOnary, containing various mAuninge of words which elsewhere had been improperly translated.” The Iconoclastic Baroness How*. After Pope’s death the villa!', at Twickenham belonged successively to Sir William Stanhope, who enlarged it considerably; to Mr. Welbore Ellis, afterward Lord Mendip, and lastly; to Baroness Howe. This lady was so much annoyed at the number of pilgrims who came to see the place that she razed it to the ground, cut down the trees and endeavored to obliterate all vestiges pf its former distinguished occupant —London Notes and Queries. Names and Divorces. An Australian divorce court judge thinks that there is a subtle connection between high sounding feminine baptismal names and matrimonial unhappiness. He has noticed that the names which generally come under hia judicial cognizance are Gladys, Gwendolen, Ermyntrude and the like and that he seldom or never in his official capacity hears of a Mary or a Bridget. A Tune or a Joke. “Was that a bonafide piece that Ethelinda was playing?” asked Mr. Cumrox. “Certainly,” answered hifiwlfe. “That was a selection irom Wagner.” “Well, of course I wouldn’t express any doubts in company, but half the time I can’t tell whether Ethelinda is playing a tune or a practical joke.”— Washington Star. Only Thinks So. "Does that young Featherhead play poker?” asked Robinson of a mutual acquaintance. “No,” was the reply, “but he thinks that he does, and we are careful not to undeceive him.’-’—Cincinnati Tribune, A Retort Conrteona. Student—There must be some mistake in my examination marking. I don’t think I deserve an absolute zero. Professor—Neither do I, but It is the lowest mark I am allowed to New York Times. Consciousness of error is to a certain extent a consciousness of understanding, and correction of error is the pl ilnast proof of energy and mastery.—Laai der. V

RUN OVER BY A BOX CAB John Geyer’s Foot Locked in a Switch While a Car Backs Down Upon Him. With his foot locked in a switch and two uncontrollable cars bearing down upon him, while he stood powerless to help himself, was the terrible position in which John Geyer, a Clover Leaf brakeman was placed Saturday evening. The accident happened near the Clover Leaf depot in this city. The crew was making a running switch and Geyer was giving the signals while the conductor was taking care of the switch. Geyer started across the track and as he stepped between the rails, the conductor locked the switch, catching Geyer’s ! right foot and holding it like a vise. ( He screamed to the conductor to ' throw the switch, but that official , either did not realize the situation or i could not unlock it in time. The cars came nearer and Geyer made all possible effort to free himself, but to no avail and he finally threw himself and braced to prevent his body from being drawn beneath the wheels. Only one car passed over Geyer’s foot and he was soon afterward extricated and , taken to the Burt House, where Dr. i Miller, the company’s surgeon, dressed the injured foot. An examination disclosed the fact that three bones of the foot were broken and crushed. 1 The man was taken to the Clover Leaf hospital at Frankfort on the 9:12 train Saturday evening. It is probable that at kr.st a part of the foot will ha' “ to be amputated. Geyer is a young man, his home being at Delphos, where he has a wife and one child. A. BCHEN’3 BARN DESTROYED Struck by Lightning in Sunday Night’s Storm. Sunday night during the heavy rain and electrical storm, the big bank barn owned by Alva Bohen, east of the city, was struck by lightning and totally destroyed by fire. The barn was struck about twelve o’clock and before assistance arrived, the massive structure was a mass of ruins. The barn was a large bank barn of modern structure find was up-to-date in every respect, and Mr Bohen’s loss is a heavy one. The barn was filled with hay, wheat &nl machinery, all of which were destroyed. Luckily, however, the live stock was taken out by Mr. Bohen and escaped injury. MOTHER OF MRS. W. B .HALE, Had Felt Badly Several Days, But Was Seriously 11l But a Few Hours. ■ . r (Special Correspondence. GENEVA, Ind., July 21.—Unexpectedly and without scarcely any warning, death came to the home of ' Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Hale, Friday morning and claimed Mrs. Clawson, ' mother of Mrs. Hale. Mrs. Clawson was feeling indisposed during the first of the week, but it' was thought that her sickness was just a bilious attack. Thursday evening her condition be- - came very much worse and was seriously alarming. Everything that could possibly be done to relieve her , was done, but death wanted her and. despite the efforts of her loved ones i she went to sleep and will not waken again. Mrs. Clawson was about sixJ ty-five years old and has made her home heri) with her daughter for some time past. She was a lady who I made eveyone she met her friend and was loved by all who knew her. She was a member of the Eastern Star lodge here and also a member of the Rebekah order in Windfall, Ind., her former home. The remains were tak- : en to Windfall this morning and the funeral, which will be in charge of 1 the Rebekahs, will probably be held ' some time Sunday. The members of j the Hale family and Mrs. Towne, a representative of the local Eastern Star order, formed the funeral party. r Forrest Elzey closed a deal this I morning, whereby he purchased a half interest in the barber shop of 1 Arthur on Second street. Mr. ’ Elzey is a hustling young man, a good barber and we predict a bright future for this new firm. [ Lew D. DeHaven, chief engineer of . the Indiana School for Feeble Minded » at Ft. Wayne, and his family, also ’ Mrs. Sarah Huss and Mr. and Mrs. George Weiss and his wife and .daughter, of Vera Cruz, were visiting at J E. T. Haecker’s yesterday. Mr .De- . Haven is enjoying a two weeks’ vaea- • tioh and travels in his automobile.— •Berne Witness.

I TO OUR FRIENDS AND PATRONS. 1 V e desire to thank you for your patronage during the past years and assure you that the Wemhoff Monumental Works will continue as before. All contracts on hand will be cared for and new work will be givi en the same careful attention as here- , tofore. We shall make every possible effort to retain and increase the trade built up by many years of work. 1 A J&K ~ I German Inscription. We are still prepared to inscribe stones in the German language and guarantee our work to be first class and superior to any in this part' of the state. Again, we thank you for past patronage and solicit your future trade. The Wemhoff Monumental Works. RAILING WAS INVINCIBLE Let Them Down With Five Hits and Struck out Seventeen Men — Locals Hit Biersdorfer. Tom Railing, with his shoots and slants, demonstrated to the Genevaites that he is, without question, the best pitcher in northern Indiana, and stands head and shoulders above anything. that has been seen on their grounds this season. Up to Sunday, the two teams had won a game apiece and the locals journeyed to Geneva with blood in their eyes and determined to win at any hazards: Biersdorfer was on the slab tor Ge-, neva and his curves were touched up for eleven clean hits, several of these being for two bases each, while he could fool only ten of the local batsmen into striking out. While on the other hand, Railing struck out seventeen men and permitted only five hits to be made off his delivery, and allowing only one man to reach third base, shutting Geneva out by a score of seven to nothing. Score by inning— Decatur ..1 0 4 0 0 0 0 20—7—11—3 Geneva ....0 0000000 o—o—0 —0— 5 —6 Batterjes—Railing and Fisher; Biersdorfer and Klipg. Summary—Two base hits, —Hender- . son, Linderbeok. Sacrfice hits—Fisher 2, Railing. Stolen liases— ■ Bales 2. Struck . out ~ By 1% by Biersdorfer 10. Bases on TSalls—Off Railing 1; off Biersdorfer 2. Double plays—W. Seaman to Burns. Time Qf game—l:4s. Umpire—rßriggs. LUCKILY NO ONE WAS INJURED Wagon and Three Tons of Ice, a Team and the Driver, Andrew Foos, Dumped In the Lake. An accident which might have resulted seriously oeurred at Steele’s park Monday morning when John W. Kleinhenz’s ice wagon, loaded with three tons of ice, slid into the lake, taking with it a big team of horses and the driver, Andrew Foos. The wagon had been loaded and Foos started to town to make his regular delivery. His wagon got .stuck and an extra team of horses was secured to pull the wagon out of the rut. As the wagon went forward, it slid too • near the edge of the bank and top- ■ pled over into the lake, pulling one > team with it. Foos went into the . water, but soon managed to get out, i luckily uninjured. Jeff Odell went ■ into the water, cut the harness, and i soon had the horses out of their ■ predicament. The wagon and ice are • still in the lake. The customers of i Mr. Kleinhenz were without ice this ! morning and this explains the reason. ! The damage will be several dollars, : but it was a lucky accident, neverthei less. lA ‘ NEWS FROM THE COURT HOUSE, i ■ ■ , A marriage license has been issued ’ to Thomas W. Andrews and Lucile Gessinger, both of this city. i ; An inventory -?f pergonal property was filed today in the H enr y Chrisman estate. The value of the proper- ’ ty is $712.75 . I , ► Adolph Huffman, who had his sing- , ers mashed Saturday, while assisting - ,in setting curb along Second street,: ; was forced to have one of the same - amputated at the first joint, as the . physician was unable to save it. Mr. - Huffman will be off duty for several weeks. " ■ .

REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. r David Studabaker to Archie P. , Hardison Inlot 379 Geneva $125. * Wm. E. Butler to C. Fred Scheuler . sec. 30 Root township 80 acres >6OOO. Thos. C. McKibben to Daniel O. - Roop sec. 11 Monroe township 40 Irvin Brandyberry to Lawrence E. - Opliger In lot 77 Decatur, Ind. >3500. John H. Smith to Noah Nussbaum see. 5 Jefferson township 4 acres <SOO. Levi Barkley to John Miller part , Inlot 334 Decatur, Ind. |2700. ' Harvey Harruff to Nellie M. Eady j et al part inlot 900 Decatur. Ind., <BO. Mary Forbing to John B. Tudor N. E. % sec. 9 Washington twp. <9333. Nathen A. Ayers to Harry R. Moltz part Inlot 113-114 Decatur, Ind. 8625. David D. Clark et al to Emily Johnson W. % N. E % sec. 3 Monroe twp. 75 acres <4325. Wm. L Foreman to Samuel M. F isher sec. 33 Blue Creek twp. 40 aejes <3OOO. Fred Troutner to Daniel Trotner and wife sec. 28 St Marys twp. 4 acres sso'' Hallan H. Burchnell to Miles Wesley H»rv. r ick sec. 9 Blue Creek twp. 30 A. <IOOO. Rachel S. Paulisoh et al to James Hurst and wife one lot 722 Decatur <625. , Frank McConnell to Fort Wayne & ■ Springfield R. R. secs. 16-17 Root twp » <llO. J John Trim to Henry Trim part on® lot 85 Decatur, Ind. <125. Edward R. Good et al to John A. Whieler W. % S. E. sec. 22 Wabash township <SOOO. Franklin G. Haecker to Emanuel T. Haecker S. E. % S. E. part sec 2224 Monroe twp. <ISOO. Margaret Kuber et al to Edward Meyers' et al N. W .N. E. sec. 22 Washington township <2BOO. Chares W. Railing to Adaline Faughty In lot 770 Decatur, Ind. SIOOO. Abe Schnepp <o .hni M-i Gill S. W. 5 S. E. part S. W. sec. 18 Washington township <2OOO. Della F. Fetzer to Catherine Rugg Inlot 192 Deoatur, Ind. <IOOO. Decatur Cemetery Assn to Heirs of Jesse Brandyberry Inlot 342 Decatur, Cemetery, Decatur, Indana <9O Sophia B. Mangold to John R. Parriah pt one lot 94 Decatur, Ind. <IB2O. Nicholas Grasser to Anthong Glen-

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dening Inlots 11-12 Berne, Ind. <750. Adam Gillion to John Lobsiger sec. 21 French twp. 86 acres $2550. Christain E. Peoples to Dallas G. M. Trout pt N. E. % N. W. sec. 16 Washington township SSOO. Harvey Harruff to Martha E. Hay et al Inlot 900 Decatur, SBO. Minnie Twigg to Rhoda Rockwood part Inldt 179 Geneva, Ind. $350, Isaae Lehman to Daniel L. Shalley part inlot 181, Berne, Indiana,s 600. Earl G. Coverdale to Phillip L. Andrews, inlot 277, Decatur, Ind., SI2OO. Amos Reusser to Jeptha F. Sprunger pt in lot 468 and 469 and outlot 20, Berne, $550. Decatur Cemetery Association to William Baughman, inlot 293 Decatur Cemetery, S3O. Peter D. Steiner et-al ot John Winteregg, inlot 208, Berne, SIBOO. Christian A. Augspurger to Clark B. Funk, inlot 194, Berne, $2250. Jesse Koos to William J. Heath pt sec 8 St. Marys township, $5.00. Wesley McKissick to John Hilt, inlot 9, $220. Wm. Elzey to Fred L. Litter pts sec 25 Root township, 77 acres, $2500. Edward B. Booth to Fred W. Busche sec 29 Washington '2O acres, SI3OO. A GUARANTEED CURE FOR PILES. Itching, Blind, Bleeding, Prottuding Piles. Druggists are authorized to refund money if PAZO OINTMENT fails to in 6 to 14 days 50c. TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY. Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine Tablets. Druggists will refund money If it fails to cure. EW. GROVE’S signature is on each box. 25c. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Robinson spent yesterday at their former home in Adams county with the family of MtJagob Iseh, who purchased, the farm from them in the spring. They report the old farm in fine condition under the splendid management of Mr. Isch. —Bluffton Banner.

TO GOVERNOR Will be Gone Over by a Commis-to sion Appointed for This fi Purpose- fl Scripps-Moßae Special. IH INDIANAPOLIS, July 23.—A seß ries of resolutiosn has been by members of county boards of ejluß cation in the state and and they fiavß| been presented to the eoinmissioßl appointed by Governor Hanly to sider new laws. The resolutions *altß as follows: I 1. Towns and cities (incorporated) | should have no choice in the election I of a township trustee. 2. . Township trustees should live 1 outside of such towns and cities. 3. A persps- shifuld be appointed or elected to take charge of relief work in cities, and also take charge of the dog fund of cities and towns. 4. The president of the school board of cities and towns should have I a vote in the selection of county sup- I erintendent. 5. Advertising for bids for tovn- 1 ship supplies should be dispensed 1 jvith. 6. Public depositing banks should I be established and ’ownsbip trustees I should be relieved of the responsibil- M ity of public funds in case of loss, fl when deposited in such bank. # 7. All road tax should be paid in fl

~ T— l cash, and road supervisors should be fl authorized to employ labor to work fl ; on the highways, issuing orders on fl township trustees for payment of such labor. fl 8. Trustees should be allowed to z ' 1 pay supervisors for more than forty ■ days’ service ot $2 a day, if actual j service is performed. 9. The pay of township trustee shall be $3 a day for time actually J| emplyed and .<» .township advisory 1 board shall set apart less than cne hundred days. ERWINS HELD FAMILY REUNION Richard Erwin, who resides sev v <r miles west of Fort Wayne, celebrated W his seventy-fourth birthday, Sunday, I the occasion being converted into a 1 big family reunion ,attended by all I the Erwins, big and little, from, miles I around. Judge Erwin, Daniel N., and I D. B. Erwin and their families, from ■ this city, were among the guests, 1 they being nephews of Mr. Erwin. In 1 all about seventyfive guests were ’ present, a sufficient proof that the I family is with Roosevelt on his race L 1 suicide question, if nothing else. Os H course, the day’s festivities included I i plenty of good things to eat and it I * was a delightfully happy occasion. ■ I 4