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SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 1*1*.

COUNCIL SPLIT OVER CONCRETE ON STREETS

Hold Up North Third and College As Horrible Examples—Raider Sot Visible.

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Ei^ht members of ooancil present at the special meeting called Friday night for the purpose of appropriating $16,000 for the paving of North Seventh street from Maple avenue to the Ftort Harrison pavement North Thirteenth street to the county pavement, and Lafayette avenue north from Maple avenue to the city limits) were unable to agree whether the paving should be done with concrete or brick, and stood four to four for and against concrete.

In taking their fJtnrtd at?a!r»st "paring: with concrete Councilmen Leak, Zimmerman, Parsons and Pointer pointed

out some of the city streets already paved with concrete as examples of failure and stated that further paving with concrete would be a waste of money, as the streets would not stand the wear and tear that streets paved otherwise would do. College avenue, North Third street. South Seventh .'• street from Hulman street south to the city Itmfta and a number of other city •treats In bad conditions were pointed out as being concrete, and the four i councilmen desired to know why streets laid now would not become in the same state of condition after a few years.

EXerett W. Bray and John White, of the board of works, who appeased In the Interest of concrete pavements, pointed out that the streets mentioned were not real concrete but a substitute composition absolutely worthless for paving. They said that streets In other cities made of concrete were standing up under imjfch heavier strains and traffic than they would be subjected to here, and that South I Center street was a good example of concrete paving. The four dissenting members could not be convinced on the South Center street idea, on account of the bumps and breaks that are apparent from one end to the other, and still refused to vote for concrete paving.

Councllme# Griffith, Anderson, JPfccobs and Willis Voted for concrete, which made the vote a tie and therefore no appropriation could be voted until it was settled to the satisfaction of the four dissenting members, just what was to be used in the construc'tfcrn.

About An Inspector

It is provided by law that an appropriation must be made for the work within ten days after advertising and receiving bids for construction work for the city, and the termination of the fen-day period will end next Wcdnfts- .. day night. The entire issue will become void at that iime unless an approprlation is voted between no'v and next Wednesday night. It is hoped by

Everett Bray and the board of works, that another special meeting can be called before that time and an agreement be reached* No petitions have been received from the residents along the streets to he paved regarding whether brick pr concrete shall be used, therefore the councilmen do not know what the residents prefer. Coundlmen Terrell and Raider were not in attendance at the meeting, although it was rumored that Raider intended appearing at the meeting and claiming his pay check which iq in the hands of William J. Shepherd, city controller.

The hiring of inspectors to supervise the work of the paving of the three streets was brought up by Bray, and an appropriation of $9,630 asked to hire an inspector on T^ifayette avenue, f3,505 for an Inspector on North Seventh street, and $2,865 for one on North Thirteenth street. J. O. Leek, one of the objects to concrete paving, raised a q-oestion as to the dependency and reliability of such a person. Bray •aid that such a man coming direct from the factory of the concrete and cement maker, would have absolutely no interest in the work except to see that his company's cement was preperly laid so as to be a boost for the factory, and that such a man' would know his business thoroughly and better than any other person who could be employed.

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H. 8. Pinson Disposes of His Stock la Vermillion Coal Co.. and Betira.

By Special Correspondent.

It is understood these two men are the principal owners of the company.

Girl Hit By Auto.

By Special Correspondent. CLINTON, Ind., Aug. 10.—Ullie Elder, 9 yearrf old, was seriously injured when she was struck by an automobile. at the western limit of the city, Friday morning. A collar bone and an arm were broken, and the Child sustained some painful bruises. The child lives with her parents at Crompton Hill and was out in the road enjoying herself hanging on wagons as they passed her home going up and down the hill. She was hanging on the rear of a wagpn when Bat Boetto, of Universal, drove up in his FYrd. The girl Jumped off the wagon and started across the road, just as the machine was rounding the wagon. The movement of the girl was so quick and so unexpected that Boetto was unable to stop his machine in time to prevent the accident*

Returns to Home State.

By Special Correspondent-^ CLINTON, Ind., Aug. 10.—Prof. Charles Johnson, son of Attorney D. C. Johnson, with his son, Wilbur, of Wellington, Kansas, are in Clinton visiting the father, and grandfather, and within the next few days will assume charge of Johnson's farm in Putnam county, near Greencastle. Johnson, until the close of the last school year, was a teacher in agricultural and scientific farming in a Kansas college, and turns down a tempting offer to take charge of his father's farm and make his home back in the state which gave him birth. Immediately after moving on the farm, Johnson, jr., will begin the erection of a neat farm house on his father's estate.

fffebtfke for ..Merchant.

By Special Correspondent. CLINTON, \Ind., Aug. 10.—W. G. Rhoades, prominent merchant of Dana, was called before Food Administrator W. C. Wait, of Newport, and handed an adult dose of rebuke for violation of the orders of State Administrator Barnard. Last Sabbath Rnoades admitted a man to his store and fitted him out in a pair of overalls, which 16 in violation of the state order, as well as a violation of the statutes. Rhoades had no intention of violation, believing he was accommodating the man, who wanted the garments so he would be ready for work early Monday. But the administrator took a different view of it.

Call For 27 In County.

By Special Correspondent. CLINTPCVN. Ind., Aug. 10.—A ca.ll has been Issued for twenty-seven more men from Vermillion county, and the county conscription board announces the date for their going will be given later. The cull is for fifteen white and twelve colored men. Charles N. Fultz, chairman of the board, was ill Friday, and little information could be gotten from him when he was called from Clinton. He says he will have the names ready for publication early next week. He believes, however, the call will be for between Aug. K and 20.

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MINE DEAL AT CLINTON NESSES AGAINST HOTEL

CLINTON, Ind., Aug. 10.-—H. S. Pinson, one of the organizers of the Vermillion Coal company, lias sold his stock and is no longer connected with the corporation. While his stock was assigned to the Vermillion Coal company, Pinson says the purchase was an investment of Chicago capital.

When the Vermillion Coal company was formed it took over the "Struggling Monkey" mine, which was started by Ben Whitcomb, whose management resulted in a failure. They put up a big new tipple, added new machinery, and now the equipment compares favorably with the other mines of the district. Miners were added to the force as fast as entries could be driven and rooms made, until now the plant is among the big coal producers of the locality. Archie Spears and A. R. Millward will continue as the local managers.

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some old man about 75 years old with a lot of money and bled him for all of it.

Q. How could she stay with this man Greggs, then? A. Well, she lid stay with him. She rented a room just across the hall from her own room and paid his room rent while he was there. At one time Greggs came to me and said that he had it "pretty soft."

Q. Who else of bad repute do you know in that hotel? A. All of these women we arrested are of bad repute.

Q. How do you know that? A. When they go to the hotel they are hired as chambermaids, and then go out "hustling" and bring in men. The chambeimaid stunt is merely camouflage they are there for an immoral purpose and Hall and every member of the police department knows ft.

Q. But do you knowf Are you willing to swear that these girls are prostitutes?

A. Yesf They stay at the Keith hotel, and when a woman stays there, knowing the conditions, she is a prostitute.

Gerdink raised an objection against the testimony of Barry, which was overruled by Judge Paul R. Shafer^. who said that Barry was merely answering the questions asked him.

Q. Who else of bad repute did you ever see in the hotei? A. A woman namer Overholser, who has been convicted a number of times, and Delia Rogers, a notorious red light character, who has been carrying on her practices here for eight years, and a dozen others whose names I do not remember just now.

Barry was excused. Other patrolmen who assisted in the raid of the place were called and testified to conditions and as to the complaints that had been lodged against the place.

Girls Are Called.

Then some of the girls arrested in the raid were called by the state as witnesses. Fay Tisher, Addie Murphy, Eva White and Hattie Dunn testified that they were employed as maids at the hotel at $4- per week, and had seen nothing wrong about the place. These girls were asked by Prosecutor Jefferies how it happened that they were able to weax expensive clothing and spend--rolls of money at various road houses when they were making but $4 per week, and why their duties did not keep them busy instead of permitting them plenty of time to be seen on the streets at all times during the day or night? Attorney Gerdink raised an objection, which was sustained by Judge Shafer,

Grace Robinson and Mary Huffman, who were also arrested at the time of the raid, testified that Hall made the proposition to them that they work as maids for $4 per week with the privilege of "hustling They said that Hall meant by "hustling" that they could have what they made whenever they were able to get a man to go to a room with them. Of course it was understood that Ha!l was to receive a sum for room rent which was to be obtained from the victim who went to the room with the girl. They said that they were not that kind of girls and refused the proposition and paid for thejr room for the night and stayed as guests, intending to move in the morning.

Attorney Fell* Blankenbak*r, who assisted Attorney Gerdink in the defence. askod occasional questions of the patrolmen and girls. Chief Beattie was an interested spectator.. For months he said complaints have been coming into the police station and all traps and planned raids have failed for Gome reason, until at last the moral squad was sent to the place to make a search.

Prior to the trial which was unfinished at 7 o'clock when court adjourned, Hall was arraigned on a charge of violating the state liquor law. Officers testified that a man by the name of William Donnelly had come to headquarters and said that he and another man had /gone to a room on the second floor ofl the building and paid 25 cents eachlfor a drink of whiskey. He offered to show the police the room and when escorted by the bone dry squad led them to the room, where a quart of whiskey and a glass as previously described were found. Donnelly who was released to appear as a witness, could not be found and after hearing & part of the evidence, the case was continued and the ^charge of operating a house of ill fame, brought to trial. The latter trial at 7 o'clock Friday night was not finished and was continued yntil Saturday morning.

DR. KL'GUTRE TO WED.

By Special Correspondent. CLINTON, Ind., Aug. 10.—Dr. G. C. McGuire will leave Sunday for Corry, Pa., where he will remain for a couple of weeks, enjoying a vacation and visiting hie parents, who are among the pioneers of the town. The doctor has been in Clinton about two years, and this is his first venture back to his boyhood home. As the doctor is not regarded as being subject to "homesickness," his going has given rise to some matrimonial suspicions.

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KAISER CLINGS TO NAME* LORD"

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ply which he sent to a congratulatory telegram from the University of Cologne, the kaiser is reported to have referred to himself as "the supreme war lord," and it is hardly likely that with such notions of his own importance he would bow much to the judgment or experience of any of his generals.

At "Great Headquarters." I had several opportunities to see the kaiser while he was at the various great army headquarters.

In the spring of 1916 I received a long-distance telephone message from the great army headquarters, which was then in the palace of the Prince von Pless at Pless, to the efTect that the kaiser wanted me to go there. I was told that the Ober-Hofmarshall-amt, the head court chamberlain's office, would^arrange for a pass and give me the necessary instructions for getting to headquarters, and the following day one of the secretaries called and gave me all the details.

On the trip down to Pless I was able to make better connections than had been anticipated and got in at 2:10 a. m., instead of 6:15, and the consequence was that no car,was waiting for me at the station.

The place was very dark and I had not the slightest idea where to go to spend the night. The station was apparently located in the open country and there wasn't the least sign of life in tlie vicinity. I knew, however, thai the village of Pless must be within reach and hoped to find some sort of hotel there. I applied to the stationmaster and he aroused one of his men and had him show me to a little hotel, the Hotel Fuchs, in the adjoining Tillage.

A bare-footea boy with a candle in his hand came down in answer to my knock on the door and he gave me the hest room the place afforded. Telling him to wake me at 6:30, I turned in without even having registered, but the awful bed and the smell of the old room allowed me little rest.

Sent His Officers.

In the morning I inquied of the proprietor where the great army headquarters was and he told me it wds right around the corner. I told him that I was to go there to meet the kaiser and he then informed me that some officers in two motors had been around looking for me half an hour before. "Tb«y first went to the station to meet the 6:15 train, and when they found you were not on that they came here, but you weren't registered and I didn't know you were in the place, and I sent them away. You can get in touch with them by calling up number 15 on the telephone."

I followed his suggestion and quickly secured a connection with the kaiser's garderobe. His secretary said he would send right around for me.

They came over in a big car, and after picking up ifay baggage at the station, drove me to the palaoe.. Sentries were posted at the palace gates, but there was no other sign of military activity that I could observe.

As we drove through the beautiful park surrounding the palace, I kept on the lookout for marching troops and other evidences of the bustling activity which I naturally expected to find at the great army headquarters of the largest army in the world's history, but everything was strangely calm and peaceful and I concluded that they were purposely keeping me out of the busy section of headquarters.

No Sign of War Here,

When we arrived at the palace I was ushered through long marble halls, the walls of which were covered with antlers, to a very large room on the ground floor. There was a bright red carpet on the floor and the furniture was in gold and white of an antique French design. It overlooked a terrace and one of the most beautiful garden landscapes I had ever seen. Lakes and flower beds arranged in the most artistic manner stretched as far as the eye could see. Long-tailed rolden pheasants were walking on the lawn some distance away and swans adorned the lakes. Away in the distance I saw two oiTicers on horseback cantering across the lawn, but they were the only soldiers in the scene, and there was absolutely nothing else to Indicate that this picturesque estate in all its peacefulness and quiet was nevertheless the center about which the whole world war revolved.

The kaiser walked in unannounced. He was dressed in his full uniform. "Isn't it beautiful here, Davis? -Did you ever see a lovelier place?** he asked, as he observed me studying the landscape.

I told him that the scene was too beautiful for description, but I didn't tell him what was actually !n my thoughts. I was thinking of whit my laboratory assistant had said when he returned from the western front on a furlough: "If the ones who started the war would be where I was just one hour, they would be willing to make peace immediately!" "Did you hnve any trouble In reaching Pless the kaiser asked. "On the contrary, I got in about four hours ahead of time, your majesty," I said, and I explained to him how it happened. "Well, it speaks well for our railway system in war-time, doesn't it Who ever heard of a train getting in* ahead of time these days?"

During the course of my work one of his private secretaries came in repeatedly with telegrams and messages for the kaiser, and he would usually excuse himself to read them. Sometimes he would be summoned outside to con suit with important persons who were there to see him, but he was never gone more than ten minutes at a time.

I did not think he looked exceptonally well. He seemed to be very tired and he had very little to say—in Itself an Indication that he was not exactly normal.

When my work for the morafng wan over and his valet, who had assisted me, had been excused, the kaiser gazed at m$ for a moment or two and then, apro is of northing, burst out with the rath remarkable announcement

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"The man who brought this catastrophe on the world, Davis, should be strung up by the neck, and that man i is not I, as the world seems to think! The czar of Russia and the king of: England, when they were at the wed-j ding of my daughter—guests at my own home, mind you, and my blood relatives—hatched this plot against me. They were envious of my power,! hut they will now learn what that power is!"

In the same breath almost he made i the inconsistent remark: ''England will never be able to raise an efficient army it took Germany one hundred years to accomplish what she has i done!" How ridiculous it was to suppose that tlfe Czar of Russia and the king of England could have hatched a plot which neither of them was the least prepared to carry out and which Germany was apparently powerful I enough to foil!

Always Talked "Plots."

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In the afternoon, after the kaiser had had his invariable afternoon nap, I attended him again, and that night I returned to Berlin. It was with regret that I left such a beautiful, restful place, for although Berlin in war-times was almost death-like in its quietness, it couldn't excel the tfrmy headquarters for restfulness.

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Se-^eral months later I was called to Pless again and the place was just as peaceful as it had heen on my first visit. Not even the ordinary precautions which one might expect to be taken at a place where the kaiser \pas sojourning were enforced and I was allowed to enter the palace without ever once showing my pass.

When I got out of the train I saw one of the kaiser's motors there. I stepped up, spoke to the driver, had my bags placed inside and was about to drive off when another motor, with four officers in it, arrived. One of them asked me who I was and where I was going, and when I told him, he said there must be some mistake, as the car I was in had been sent to meet some officers who were arriving on the train.

Wrhile we were. still discussing the point, a third car came, up and the officer who addressed me then asked the driver of the third car what he was sent for. He said he didn't know' he had been told merely to drive to the station. I accordingly transferred ray baggage from the car I was in to this third car and was driven off to the palace. We went through the gates without anyone asking to see my credentials. The whole incident was a sad reflection on Germany's boasted efficiency.

I was shown to the same room had visited on the former occasion. When the kaiser entered he stood erect, with his hands to his side, clicked his heels together and saluted me as a soldier salutes a superior officer, smiling as he did so, and I knew he was in good humor.

Nevertheless he had but little to»say. His criticism of Mr. Wilson on this occasion I have recorded elsewhere in these pages.*

Tn June of 1917, after the gTeat army headquarters had been removed to Homburg v. d. Hohe, and Krenznach (two neighboring villages) I was called there to see the kaiserin, and three weeks later I went there again to see the kaiser. I noticed at the station the kaiser's private train composed of five daiic green cars upon each of which was plainly marked the imperial coat of arms. The cars had special folding steps.

Two rooms were assigned to me on one of the upper floors of the palace and my meals consisted of the same kind of food as I had always had before the war, although a hunger epidemic was raging throughout the country. It was almost worth the trip for the sake of the meals alone.

After I had treated the kaiser in the

gest merchants in Berlin told me that he had heard on the stock exchange that the kaiser had made the remark that the king* and czar had hatched the plot against him, and as I had repeated the kaiser's statement to no one, I realized that he must have toid the same thing to other*. If this version of the starting of the war was put into circulation with the idea of absolving the kaiser, it certainly didn't i carry conviction even among the Germans themselves. The merchant who spoke to me about it, at any rate, made fun of the idea, and I never heard the point seriously raised by anyone else of influence.

Before I left the kaiser that morning he spoke of the Anglo-French loan which had been floated in America and condemned us severely for countenancing it. When I told him that Germany had also floated a loan in America, he replied "But ours was only $10,000,000, while theirs is $500,000,000!" to which I naturally rejoined that the size of the loan could certainly not affect the question of our neutrality in floating it.

He criticized our bankers who handle the loan, and when I asked him if he had ever seen the number of German names that appeared on the list of bankers wh& were interested in it, he said he hadn't read the list,-but he was quite sure there was one bank in New York which wouldn't touch it. "That hank wouldn't touch anything that would be detrimental to Germany!" he added.

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I lay down on a couch in my room and my eyes rested on a most fascinating painting on one of the walls. It showed a rowboat with four men in It going over a waterfall. Apparently the fate of the occupants of that boat was sealed. Nothing could keep the boat from going over the edge and being dashed to pieces at the foot of the cataract.

The thought came to me that the

kaiser and his supporters were Jn,

identically the same position as the man in the stern of that ill-fated boat and that in their U-boat campaign, upon which they relied so much, they were clutching desperately at a frail twig which might for a moment delay but could not possibly avert their doom.

After the kaiser had had his sleep, I Was summoned to his dressing-room. got there before he did and on the table I noticed a long envelope addressed to "His Majesty the King and Kaiser." It looked very official nr.d Imposing, but just what it contained, of course, don't know.

Fire Alarm Shirt.

The kaiser entered the room attired in a red flannel undershirt! It was the first time I had ever seen him in such a state of plehian negligee, and I received more or less of a shock. 1 had been so accustomed to seeing him in uniform, both in pictures and In person, that it had never occurred to me that underneath that cymbol of pomp the kaiser probably drc-sed tho same as us lesser mortalg, I noticed

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morning I went to my room, as I know it would be 3 o'clock before he would be ready for me again. He never allowed anything to interfere with his after-dinner Bap.

A Cheerful Painting.

The look of agony and despair on the faces of the, three men in the bow of the boat showed how clearly they realized the helplessness of their position. The man in the stern of the boat was standing up with one foot on the side. He had grasped a frail twig which overhung the bank, but it waft hardly stajich enough to stand the strain. Nevertheless, the expression on his face disclosed that, combined with the sense of irhpending disaster which possessed him, there was just a ray of hope that this little twig might be the means of averting the catastrophe.

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incidentally that when he put on his military coat he put it on right over his undershirt.

When I was drive*! through the* streets of Homburg. hofh coming from* and going to the railroad station, lit the kaiser's motor car, and the sec-

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Homburg was much nearer the firing line than Pless. although, of course, at a very safe distance. I noticed, however, that here anti-aircraft gun* had been planted, but apart from that there was hardly any more activity than there h-.d been at Pless. I .While walking down the corridor I was stopped by an officer and asked who I was, but, as a rule, I came anif went without molestation and seldom had to show my pass, which one of th* kaiser's adjutants had given me ant which permitted me to enter an4 leave army headquarters for the Whol® year 191J. "j

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out of stores and from afar to get tijj view of the important personage wh# occupied the kaiser's own car! Mantf 5 of them saluted me or raised thei# hats, and I thought hot** angry the\' would have been had they known they were putting themselves to so mud# trouble to salute an alien-enemy!

The ridiculousness of the 'S'hole thing impressed me *ery the moment I was part of th£ itaW: which was ever being made to im-». press and awe those whom the kalsei* was pleased to refer to as "my people," but whose approbation means every-, thing, even to a monarch who ruleU "by divine right."

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