Indianapolis Journal, Volume 51, Number 2, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 January 1901 — Page 6

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1901.

JoriiNAi.'s nLsi.xEs DinecronT.

Win. I I lie. Wt Michigan street. Tihor.es: Old. Ii7i;; cew, Jlü Territory weit of river. FLORISTS BERTERMANN BROS., New No. ! Mass. tv., 2. N. Del. it. Tel. SM. Iw.a.n i Ul.a AND UUATES T. M. PCUSfcILL i Mantels. Furnie), 231 Mas. l'ATUNT LAWYERS V. IL LOCK WOOD, 41S-4IJ Lemcka bul!dlf. BALE AND L1VKRT STAELES HORACE WOOD Carrias. Ttap. Due barl. etc.) 23 Circle. Tel 137. WALL PAPERS II. C. STEVENS. Nw Ftyl Wart Parr. Low piice. 93 S. Senate stc. Tel. 2 on gz. FUNERAL DIRECTORS FRANK P.LA.NCIIAP.D. W N. Delaware at. TeL IL La!y Attendant. TITTWILRR FON. Undertakers. III W. Marttt St Tel Hl flseual diiiectcjiis. FLA NN ER & BUCH AN A J (Licensed trobalners.) Can ship diphtheria and earUt ferer. Lady embalmer for ladles and chllJren. 2? North nol iL Telephon U, uw and old. Oii 20. O. E. KltLGELO. New 21 FUNERAL DIRECTOR, 2 N. Delaware St Residence 12 E. Vermont 8t. Colonial Flats. New Phon. 17. IL L. WKLLB Associated with C. K. Kregelo. ICO Colljte avenue. New Thon du:. FRET-LUllan Horten! Apr,??, daughter of J. Fr. mont und Mamie F. Frey. &"5 K-t r.leventn tre-t. on Tuesday mrminp, at 3 o'cl'X-k. f fourteen year eleven rnnnth and fourteen days. Furitral from Ft. Jwebh' Church, Friday nornlnjr, at J Vnek. HOWE Flora P.owr. died Dec. SI. 11. Funeral jan. 2. ll. at 2 p. ro.. from HD Central aveeu. Private. FINANCIAL. LOANÖ Moner co mortgagee. C ailu. U7 East Market Street. . Iaja on city property; &V i'1 c'"tv,IiLcJc mlslon; rroney ready. C M. WiLLIAJl CO.. 319 Lemcka bullding. com STORAGE r.Tnrifn'ivni'l.s WAREIIOUFE CO. W. L Kurtx. Prs. If. A. Cropland, MtT. l7-5iHJ M. IVnn. Telephone 1342. Y4 STORrl. PACK and HAUL. bloltAt'.E The L'nlon Transfer and Morar, Company, comer East Ohio treet and Ileoline tracks: only firat-clasa ftomire sollcite-l. CRATING AND PACKLNU OF UüUSEliOLD COODa X SPECIALTY. WAXTED-MISCELLAXEOIS. mnslo and notions. 4.1M) In all. One fre with every copy cf "Happiness at Home. to advertise it. Call early. Iii Virginia avenue. I'fU'LTllV, VllT STOCK, ETC. 2 mos. trial nuWrirdlnn to our paper l)c. INLAND rOL'L.Tliy; JOURNAL. Indianapolls. Ind. NOTICE. NOTICE-JOSCril JARDNKR, tin work and furnace. 23 Kentucky ave. Telephor.a 212. UaNTED Do not freeze, but keep warm. See Indiana Oil Burner, at ) Last omo street. Th annual meetlnfr or the ptockholders of the Indianapolis. Oreenwood & Franklin Ilailroad t'ompany will bi held at the company's otnee. at Greenwood. Tuesday, Jan. 21. 1j1. at i p. rn. NOTICE All work left one year and over will b sold to pay charges if rot called for by Feb. 1. 13d. LLO.MiAKU hUllUiiu. waicn TznkT and Jeweler, No. Indiana avenue. fcOTIÖIv V. W. Knight. whos horscphoelnirl establishment la at 1)H Virginia avenue and ;iJ Kast Maryland street, has changtl his new teiefhon number from No. 22 to No. 4.1. In order it enable the American National uanic 10 nave No. 22 over both 'pliorcs. WASTED-MALC II CLP. WANTED Kxpcrienced railroad telegraph op eratora for Western system; permanent posi tlcn; good f alary. Apply Room 21. Princeton 2IotI. V ANTED Men to travel; salary t2 a week; ail expense; no canvassln. Call at Occidental Hotel, a to 6 o'clock. L ca3h security required. Füll SALE .MISCHLLAXEOUS. FOR HALE Jackson coal, $. All kind fuel at lowest prices. MORGAN & JACKSON. 'Phonea zzn. FOR SALE. FOR SALE One 20-horse power steam engine and boiler; also, two steam pumps; cheap. . "WANTED FE 31 ALE HELP. WANTED Ten women to sell "Happlnees Home." 1.0M) or premiums. On with eacQ paper. E3 Virginia avenue. SEALED PROPOSALS. PROPOSALS FOR FLAOSTAFFS St. Louis. Mo.. Dec. 3. 1K. Sealed proposals, in trlDll rate, will ba received hre until 12 o'clock noon. Jan. 3. 19Ö1. fr furnishing this department with twelvo Iron nasstarrs. in Unltcl states re serves rlßht ti accept or reject any or all pro ixjsftls. or any tart thereof, information fur ulthed upon aipl.cation. Envelopes containing rronosals to be inarkta lTopO"al." for la tafTs." addressed Lt. Col. D. D. WHEELER, Depot Q. M. Ill A CRITICAL CONDITION. City l)ispen.ary Physician Called to Soe AV. O. llay. Dr. Wright, of the City Dispensary was callcl at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon to U Weft Michigan strict to attend William O. Hay?, who wa3 fulTerlng from what was thought to lx morphine poisoning. Dr. Wright worked with him until an arly hour this mornlnjr, at which time Hays'? condition was yet critic!. Members of his family were very secretive and Dr. Wright said he was unable to learn from them any cf the circumstances and he claimed not to know whether the morphine had been taken with suicidal intent. Hayes it wa paid was despondent, but rothinR further could -t-e? learned. II has been employed at Klr.san's, and four years uro was the RepuMican nominee for city clerk. Hi nomination on account of his prominence In politics, was almost unanlmaus. CITY NEWS NOTES. Mr. John T. Vawter and Mr. Walter S. Eprankle have Just returned from their trip to New Orleans and other points of interest In the Suuth. The Local Council of Women will hold It rtgul.tr meeting at the Propyiaeum this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. The meeting yesterday was postponed because or New Year's day. The fire department had several runs yesterday, thouqh nonf of the fires to which they were called resulted si riously. a tufective nrate in tho rooms of tho ötar Club in the Drandon block, at Washington and Delaware streets caused a fire yesterday evening which attracted quite a crowd. The carnage was placed at 13. 'Printer' Ink has given me a prosperous year, and I want your entire force to take one on me to-day." was the message accompanying a large number of cigars sent by IInry D. Vöries, of the Vöries Dullness College, to tho several newspaper offices of the city yesterday. Georg F. Averlll. a young man living at CQIO Ruckle street, fell on the slippery r.avement last night about S o'clock, at the corner of Illinois and Market streets ar.d broke hi right arm near the writ. He was carried to the office of Dr. Roberts, in the De,)urator Medlcr.l Institute, where his rrn was set after which he was ,ent to his home. Traffic on the Chicago division of the Dig Four was delayed for soverul hours Monday night on account of a wreck at Raub itation. The engineer of a train on the main line pulled ahead too soon and his engine collided with another which was backing onto a sldintr before It had passed the clearing post. The vmclnvmen of both trains jumped when they saw the collision was probable. T.a engines w re derailed nd three box cars were demolished. Tho wrecking crew worked for -'veral hours t'cre the track could b cleared. The r.f't sxprefJ from Chicago, which li due et 3.C") a. m.. rill not reach the city until : iTly 15 o'clock yesttrtfay morning.

EMPLOYES' PENSION PLAN

Tili: SYSTEM IS RAPIDLY CAIMXG FAVOR ON LEADING LIVES. If Tlenorta Are Trne, Trunk Linea Are Xot Living Lp to Agreement on Weat-Iloand Ruten. Employes pension systems are gaining favor with "American railroads. The Pennsylvania Railroad proper was the first to Inaugurate such a system, and it proved o eatisfactory to tho company and its employes on the lines east of Pittsburg that it was decided to Introduce the sys tem on the lines west of Pittsburg, in cluding the Grand Rapids & Indiana and the Terre Haute & Logan?port, and, doubtless, eventually tho Vandalla proper. With in the last thirty days the Lake Shore has perfected arrangements to give tho system a trial, and it is stated that the New York Central contemplates establishing such a bureau. The Chicago & Northwestern is another line which yesterday started a system for pensioning old and deserving employes. There is much difference of opinion among Western railroad managers as to tho practicability and value of tho renslon system of tho C. & N. W. Those opposed to It do not thlnH it will prove of much value to the roads or benefit to the employes. They say few railway employes remain In the service .- the company thirty years, and few of them reach tho age of seventy years; besides, they say, 1 per cent, of tho monthly wages re ceived by employes is not enough to do cn old man much good, and that an employe who has had a salary of less ihn $10? per month might juat as well be discharged outright as to bo given a beggarly icnsion, as outlined in the plan of tho Chicago & Northwestern more noticeably than in the others. The president of ono of tho Western railroad svntems savs: We are not going it adopt a pension plan on our system yet. I do not think tho plans thus far evolved are practicable, and instead of proving an Incentive for faith ful work, I think they will have the op posite effect. There is scarcely a railroad In the West which does not take caro of Its old and faithful employes and provide ror tnem much better than they would be provided for under such pension systems as have been created of late years." Many Freight Agents Mny Co. The Pioneer Press of St. Paul saya this morning that there Is now being prepared in St. Paul a special train seven cars in which officials of nearly all the prominent railroads of the country will visit the principal shipping points to study the conditions with a view to doins away with fast freight lines and local freight agencies. The plan is to have from each city one man to represent all the different roads AH freight business will be done through hlra and he will see that each of the roads secures its share of the business. To il lustrate the plan, such concerns as the Erie Dipatch, the Merchants' Dispatch and sim ilar orga nizations of the fast freight lines will cease to exist; railroads not entering a shipping point, who now have to maintain c freight agent to look after their interests there will in the near future be repre sented by a Joint agent of all the roads. if this gigantic plan is carried out. At least ten thousand high railroad officials, it is asserted, will be placed, thus affording an enormous saving. But the main object of this community of interests is for the main tenance of tariff rates. Railroad officials, It is said, have long seen the folly of raLj cutting:, but have not been able to avoid lt while there has been such active competition. Should the plan suggested be adopt ed, there would, of course, be no longer any competition for freight business and Liriff rates would be maintained. The sav ing In this one respect would, the promoters of the scheme predict, result In enormously increasing he profits of the roads. There would bo no necessity for differentials In favor of weaker roads. The joint agent at each competing point would assign to each read Its equitable share of business this share having previously been decided upon by the high officials who have the matter lr. hand. James J. Ulli, president of the Great Northern Railroad, when seen in re gard to the plan outlined, denied any knowledge of it and said, so far as he was aware, there were no preparations being made for such a trip as stated. Dancer of a General Cut. Trouble seems to be brewing between the differential lines on west-bound freight traffic, and whether the conflict occurs In competition between the differential lines, the Erie Dispatch and the Merchants' Dispatch for freight out of New England and from other Atlantic Eeaboard points, depends altogether on the policy adopted by the roads interested In the two fast freight lines mentioned. Freight rates west bound from such points nave been unsettled for several months, and it is whispered in traffic circles that the low rate contracts which have been for some weeks a source of annoyance and have threatened to cause an open rupture will be carried beyond Jan. 1. A knowledge of such a possibility is creating o:v u.it-asi. ness among conservative freight men. Several months ago there was grave danger of a break in the harmonious relations which had been maintained during the greater part of the year, because of the contracts made at low rates, and a rale war was on'.y averted by a meeting in which it was agreed that no more contracts of the tame character be made, and that rates on Jan. 1 should be restored and maintained, with the understanding that all pending contracts would expire on Dec. il. muiiiuiioii iiiuii tut- lasi lew uas T .1 Af 1 . V- . . of the likelihood that the low rates would be continued after Jan. 1 has created a good deal of antagonism, and threats are made that if these reports are later confirmed ftll lines will meet that sort of competition with open reduction. Conservative freight men hope that the fast frtight line managers will move cautiously and not provoke such a conflict. Personal, Local and General Notes. J. F. Angel! yesterday assumed the duties of superintendent of the Toledo & Ohio Central. The Wabash has completed and placed in operation the second track between Re ment nnd Sangamon, a distance of fifteen miles. The popularity tf giving longer limits to holiday travel has been fully demonstrated. and doubtless hereafter the limit will bo extended. A. D. Stlckney, president of the Chicago & Great Western, will this month be mar ried to a daughter of Judge Joslah Crosby, of Dexter, Me. A number of Eastern capitalists are con sidering the building of a large car manu facturlng plant near Buffalo to compete with the car trust. The January number of the Railway Journal, published in St. Louis, contains a photogravure of J. J. Turner and also a sketch of his railroad career. The Rig Four freight crew, including en glneer and firemen, who are held respon sible for tne wrecK at cold springs, re cently, have been suspended. For the first time In the history of the Wabash the pay cars of the lines were run on Sunday that the employes could have their money In time for Christmas. The dynamometer car of tho University of Illinois is now in service on the Hlg Fur between Indianapolis and Springfield, O., making tests on the P. Ac E. division of the Ills Four. Benjamin Woodard was burled at Newark. O., on Sunday, dying at the age of eighty-two. Ah its civil engineer he located the Panhandle line between Newark and Fra7eysburg. Circulars announce the nppolntment of William WalnwrUht as controller of the Grand Trunk Railroad Company and Frank Scott as treasurer, vice Charles Perry, resigned. There was not a month in the year irxo that tho revenue from sales of tickets at

Indianaoolls for the Big Four lines did not

exceed thoe of the corresponding months of IS'-fJ from :t.5 to J5X). Charles Mixer, late traveling freight agent of the Vandalia In this territory, who resigned a few days ago, has accepted the position of chief weigh master of the Texas Pacific at New Orleans. IL M. Diehl. air-brake instructor on the Pennsylvania lines west, is having the air brake car rebuilt on more elaborate plans. The car will have twenty-five air brakes instead of seven, as heretofore. The Southern Railway Company has plans completed for a new depot at Sey mour, the structure to be built or Letlford stone and finished in its Interior after modern plans for such stations. Wallace F. Guilford, son of Nathan Gullford, freight traffic manager of the New York Central, has been appointed general Rastern agent of the Western Transit Company, vice Theodore Vosburg. On Jan. 1 IL W. Forward assumed the duties of assi?tant general passenger agent of the Erie lines at Chicago and Thomas Beard the position of foreign freight agent of the Erie, with headquarters at New York City. The circular Announcing the appointment of R. E. Bunch as assistant general pasFer.gcr agent of the Southern Railway, with headquarters at St. Louis, has been with drawn, Mr. Bunch having accepted service elsewhere. Dr. J. E. Bliokensdofer. of Columbus, O., succeeds Dr. E. F. Wagner as medical .examiner of the Pennsylvania voluntary relief department at Fort Wayne. Dr. Wag ner to-day becoming chief examiner on the Grand Rapids & Indiana. Frank A. Bescher yesterday became the Richmond freight agent of the Cincinnati, Richmond & Muncle Railroad. Bescher has been in the employ of the Panhandle freight department, but resigned yesterday. He has had thirteen years' experience. J. C. Graeblng. who has been the A darn 9 Express Company route agent, with head quarters at Richmond, yesterday became the city agent at Columbus. O., and E. M. v oglesong, route agent, with headquarters at Columbus, succeeds him at Richmond. Yesterday J. C. Hagerty took the posi tion of trainmaster in the Cincinnati, Washington and Louisville district of the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern, and J. M. Mack, that of chief train dippatcher. Loth to have headquarters at Washington, Ind. Amos F. Barratt. who had been con nected with tho Pennsylvania lines for thirty-seven years and for some years past in charge of the dairy traffic freight of the Union line, was buried at Columbus on Monday, ho dying quite suddenly of pneumonia. James Shehan. who died on Sunday nieht. the result of a Fecona stroke of paralysis, was buried yesterday, a number of railrcad men attending his funeral. He had been employed in the shops of the Belt road twenty years and was much esteemed by his associates. The Pennsylvania Railroad will experi ment with locust ties to test the durability of this kind of wood. The locust tree matures rapidly, and if it is found that locust ties will last long enough to Justify the expense tho vast tracts of barren mountain land will be planted with young trees to provide ties for the future. K. G. Krclson. engineer of maintenance of way of the Pennsylvania lines west, with headquarters at Fort Wayne, has been promoted to assistant chief engineer, with headquarters at Pittsburg. W. B. Blake, engineer of maintenance of way on the Louisville division of the Pennsylvania lines, will succeed Mr. Ercison at Fort Wayne. J. R. Carey, who lias been B. & 0. 8. W. trainmaster, with headquarters at Washington, Ind., for several years, has been called to Newport News, Va., to take service with the C. & O. Ho Is succeeded by John C. Hagerty, who has been chief train dispatcher, with headquarters at Washington. Hagerty will be succeeded by John Mack. Beginning with yesterday the Santa Fe will have three dally trains running each way between Chicago and bau I rancisco, the California, Limited now being a dally train. The improvement to the passenger service since E. O. McCormlck became pas senger traffic manager of the Southern Pacific causes the Santa Fe to bestir itself. and there is now no better service than that these two great transcontinental lines offer. The Wabash is so pressed with business that it is borrowing engines from the Grand Trunk. J. B. Barnes, superintendent of motive power, has been given au thority to at once purchase thirty-live heavy freight engines and fifteen passen ger locomotives. .Mr. liarnes has tne specifications for tho new locomotives ready and says the passenger engines will bo fast runners, with eighty-Inch driving wheels and cylinders nineteen by twentyeight inches. W. O. Thompson, formerly engine dis patcher for the Lake Shore lines west of Toledo, with headquarters' at Elkhart, but for the past year a salesman for the Hancock Injector Manufacturing Company, of Boston, has been placed in charge of the engines of the Toledo, St. Louis & Western, with headquarters at Frankfort, Ind. All matters pertaining to the locomotive department on the entire road, except the shops at Frankfort, will be under Mr. Thompson's supervision. Charles M. Hays, the new president of the Southern Pacific, spent the first day of his employment In the company in making an inspection of Its terminals at Galveston and examining the harbor and port facilities. The development begun there. he said, would speedily as possible be finished. Mr. Hays says he will spend a great deal of time on the road. As soon as he gets settled in San Francisco he expects to start out on a trip to inspect all tho lines of the Southern Pacific. A. W. Mlllspaugh, the oldest railway man in the United States in point of active service, died at his home in Kansas City, Mo., yesterday, aged eighty-six. Mr. Mills paugh was born in Mlddletown, N. Y., in 1S13. During the civil war he was em ployed by the government to superintend the transportation of soldiers to and from the South. He went to Kansas City In 1ST0 as general agent of the North Missouri Railway, now the Wabash, and later In the same year became ticket agent at the Union Station, a position which he held up to the time of his death. Friday last Mr, Mlllspaugh celebrated his birthday, and in receiving guests contracted a cold that caused him to take to his bed. A novel dispute Is in progress which dates back to the Johnstown flood. May SI, 1SSD. The controversy is concerning the ownership of seven or eight sets of trucks and many tors of old iron, and between the contractors and the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. In making excavations, last week, for the new Pennsylvania traffic building at Johnstown the railroad people ordered a wrecking train to remove the wreckage of several passenger cars that had become unearthed. Contractor Seibert says that a published order soon after the flood put unclaimed relics on the list of public property. Mr. Seibert declares that he found these trucks, and that they are his property. A plate bearing No. 41 was found among the wreckage which belonged to tho dining car of the ill-fated day express train which was lost in the flood, and also some of the dining room equipment. At the Crossroads. You to th loft and I to the right. For th ways of men must sever AnO It well may be for a day and a night. And it well rr.ay be forever. T.ut whether we meet or whether we part (For our ways are rat our knowing). A pledge from th? heart to Its fellow heart on the ways we all are going l Here's luck! For we know not where we are going. We have striven fair In love and war. Hut th wheel was always weighted; We have lost the prize that we struggled for, Wc have won the trlze that was fated. We have met our loss with a rmlle and a sons. And our gains with a wink ami a whistle For, whether we're rieht or whether we're wrong. There's a rose for every thistle. Here's luck! And a drop to wet your whistle. Whether we win or whether we lose With the hands that life is dealinx. It irf not we nor the ways we rhooe l'.ut the fall of the cards that's soalinjr. There's a fate In love and a fate in fight, Ana the bst of us all go under And whether we're wrong or whether we're risht. We win. sometimes, to our wonder. Here's luck! That we may not yet go unJer! With a steady swlnr and an open brow We ha tramped the usys together, Put we're claoplns hands at the crowoads now In the Fbnd's own ril$nt for weather; Am whether we bleed or whether we smile In the leagues that lie before u.x. Th- ways f life re many a mile, Ar.O th dark of Fate is o'er u. Here's lack! And a cheer for the dark before us! You t th left and I to the right. l-r the ways of men must sever, Atid It may well bt for a day an J a night. And it may well be foremen imt whether we live or whether we die j For the end In rat our knowtng). Here's two frank hearts and th open sky, a fdr or an HI wind blowing! Here's lutk! In the teeth of all wlnda blowing! Illchajd Rover.

3 DEGREES ABOVE ZERO

THE COLDKST "WEATIIEIt YET EXPERIENCED IN INDIANA. Moat People Thought Is Was 3Incn Colder The Temperature In Other Localities. As usual tho weather report of yesterday gave very little satisfaction to those who were much affected by the cold and wanted tho thermometer to register tho fall in temperature as they felt it. The average opinion ysterday was that tho mercury should be down anywhere between zero and ten below. Everyone on tho street walked briskly, the men plunged their hands deep Into their overcoat pockets and left nothing visible above their coat collars but their nose and eyes; the women shivered with unmuffed ears and tightly held the hands of tho children, if they happened to be along. Indoors, comfortable fires of wood and coal were going, the gas having passed away with tho nineteenth century. Callers wero hustled into these warm apartments without the preliminary. knocking, for, in most cases, some one was on watch and could see all comers, and they were assisted in undoing their wrapb in order that they might get warm the quicker. Altogether, it was a typical Now Year's day, except on top of the Majesilc building, where the Weather Bureau keeps, its 'registering apparatus. The weather :nen confess that the people were justified In feeling cold. The sudden change in temperature made the weather feel more severe than under ordinary circumstances. The difference In temperaturi from noon Monday till 7:30 o'clock yester day morning was twenty-seven degrees. At 7:30 yesterday morning the thermometer stood at three degrees above zero, the lowest point reached during the cold wave. Irom 7:30 o'clock the mercury began to rise, and slowly worked its way up to four teen above at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. It stood there till 3 o'clock, then reached fifteen at 4 o'clock, when it began to go down again, and at 9 o'clock last right. when the last temperature was taken at the Weather Bureau, it was, eleven degree above zero. The cause of the present cold weather was a cold wave which swept the country from north to south about .one thousand miles west of Indianapolis. There is nothing extraordinary about this cold wave. The weather men say it is simply a touch of common winter weather. Indianapolis was just in the edge or tne cold breath that sent' the mercury below aero in the AVest. Under the conditions that brought about this wave it will be a day or two before it wears away. Wyoming seems to have been In the center of the wave and the mercury there went down to twelve degrees below zero. Chicago experienced a temperature of six degrees below when the thermometer was at its lowest point in this city. Following Is yesterday's temperature taken by the hour: Above. ' 7 a. m 4 7:30 a. m 3 8 a. m 4 9 a. m. i. 5 10 a. m 7 11 a. m 10 12 noon 9 1 p. m 12 2 p. m It 2 p. m 14 4 p. m 15 5 p. m 13 6 p. m 13 7 p. m 13 S p. m 12 0 p. m 1 11 Yesterday six inches of, Ice covered Broad Cut on the canal and all day long tho ice was populated with skaters, some spreading the eagle and cutting figure eights, while others showed a decided preference for "stars, becattse they could be made with less skill. This Is the first opportunity of the winter for skating and it was improved by many who love the sport. The ice ponds belonging to Ice companies wero also frozen and men were set to work yesterday cutting and marking for the packing, which will begin today. There is a rrohability that the Ice will be two inches thicker this morning. XOT SO COLD TO-DAY. Wentlier Will Re Fair and the Temperature Slightly Higher. WASHINGTON, Jan. 1. Forecast for Wednesday and Thursday: For Indiana Fair, on Wednesday, with moderating temperature. Thursday fair; winds generally westerly. For Ohio Fair on Wednesday, except cloudiness near the lakes; warmer in northern portion. Thursday fair; westerly winds; fresh to brisk on the lake. For Illinois Fair on Wednesday, with moderating temperature, except in extreme southern portion. Thursday fair; variable winds. Local Observations on Jan. 1. Bar. Ther. R.H. Wind. Weather. Pre. 7 a. m.. 30.54 4 N'west Clear T. 7 p. m..30.G2 13 61 N'west Clear 0.00 Maximum temperature, 15; minimum ternrerature 3. Following is a comparative statement of the mean temperature and total precipitation for Jan. 1: Ther. Pre. Normal S2 0.10 Mean 9 T. Departure 23 0.10 Departure since Jan. 1 23 0.10 C. F. R. W A PPE N H A NS, Local Forecast Official. Yesterday's) Temperature. Station. Atlanta, Ga 1 Min. Max. 7 p. m. 44 41 Bismarck. N. D Buffalo, N. Y Calgary, N. W. T........ .. Chicago. Ill -4 Cairo. Ill 10 Cheyenne. Wyo 12 Cincinnati, 0 8 Concordia. Kan 2 Davenport, la 0 Des Moines, la 2 Galveston. Tex. .. Helena, Mont Jacksonville, Fla Kansas City, Mo 4 Little Rock. Ark 24 Marquette. Mich Memphis, Term 23 Nashville, Tenn 21 New Orleans. La New York City North Platte, Neb 12 Oklahoma. O. T 12 Omaha, Neb 0 Pittsburg. Pa 2t -5 21 4 14 2Ü 16 20 20 50 30 C2 24 C4 6 30 3 20 2S 2i) 30 lß 20 24 20 10 10 11 0 12 24 2 22 .10 16 16 60 6 GO 20 32 4 T 2H 4S 6 21 It! 2 2G 12 IS 18 , 4 12 24 40 Qu' Appelle, N. W. T Rapid City. S. D Salt Lake City St. Louis, Mo St. Paul. Minn Springfield, 111 Springfield, Mo. ., Vicksburg. Miss Washington. D. C 0 4 8 s 38 44 41 Snow In Texas. DALLAS, Tex., Jan. 1. The first snowstorm of tho winter set In over northern Texas to-night. At this time the ground is covered at Adams and the snow is still falling. Parry Company Prizes. Tho semi-annual distribution of cash prizes to employes of the Parry Manufacturing Company for the best suggestions was made Saturday at the plant. There are two classes of competitors, one for foremen and the'other for workmen. The successful competitors were as follows: ForemenJoseph Bryce, $33; Charles Brad way, $20; Sam Smart. $20; James Carpenter. $3; John Lane, $5- Workmen Robert Pierce. $17.50; Martin Dufty. $17.w); Ben Spander. $10; Carrie Pothas, $10: John Scholz, $10; William Matthews. $5; Dan Morlarty, $5. er 1'tiiun OlHrrs. The Beer Drivers' and Stablemen's Union held a meeting yesterday and elected tho fulluwln officers: President, E. Schwartz;

vice president, F. Rueter: secretary, J.

Hoffman; financial secretary, J. Long; treasurer, N. Zimmerman; delegates to Central Labor Union. George W. Hagerdon, J. Young, J. Mahoney and E. Schwartz; executive committee, Chris Brehob, L. Burghman, J. Wlnkelhaus. George Hoffman and Charles Simon. SHIP SUBSIDIES. Argmuent In Support of the Ulli Xovr Before the Senate. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: In order to prejudice the public against the shipping bill some of our newspapers attack it in a very unfair way. One paper sa3s: ,"The ship subsidy bill is not a subsidy bill at all, but a bill for the relief of Rockefeller, Griscom, the Standard Oil Company, the Standard Oil Bank and various other interests that live off the people." Again, it refers to the bill as "The scheme which Mark Hanna Is trying to fcrce on the country." The Standard OH Company canot be benefited by the bill because tank steamers carrying oil in bulk are, W commercial principles, excluded from" receiving benefits. Mr. Hanna's interest in shipping Is confined to the lakes and he could not become a beneficiary unless he should in the future Invest in ocean vessels or shipyards. The bill now before the Senate has been indorsed by over two hundred commercial organizations. It has been recommended by the President, the secretary of the treasury and largely by the press of the country. Its purpose is to build up a great American merchant fchipping that will facilitate the exportation and sale of our surplus products and to establish a vast shipbuilding Industry. About CO per cent, of our exports arc bulky agricultural products and any system that will stimulate exports by carrying these products direct to the ports where they will be consumed at lower ocean freights will be a great benefit to all. The Senate committee on commerce estimates the caving to Americans in freight will amount to $25,0O0,0uO annually, or threo times as much as the subsidies. At present over 90 per cent, of our commerce is carried in foreign vessels at an expense ol nearly $200.000.000 annually. Forty years ago we had three times the shipping engaged In foreign commerce that we now have. This decline is due principally to the greater cost of constructing vessels in this country and to the lack of governmental support. European governments grant subsidies amounting to $20.000.000 annually, which are paid to 274 vessels owned by foreign corporations. In addition to this the United States government pays $100,000 yearly to foreign vessels for carrying our mails. The United States expends less than one million dollars annually to American ships. Last year little Japan paid subsidies to her merchant shipping amounting to $3,402.000, and she now has a larger tonnage in foreign trade than we have. The German Emperor has expressed an ambition to make his country at least equal to Britain as a maritime power, and by Judicious governmental support Germany Is coming to a position where she will handle all her own freight. Last January there was launched at the Vulcan yard, Stettin, a vessel for the Hamburg-American Company called tho Deutschland. This is next to the largest and probably is the finest vessel alloat, and represents the culmination of the art of shipbuilding in Germany. At the launching of this vessel the Imperial minister of foreign r.ffalrs. Von Buelow, made a speech in which he substantially said that Germany's great progress was due to the consolidation of the empire, the reawakening of national Industries, aspirations for foreign commerce and the promotion by tho government of shipbuilding under the German flag. It is contended that because our shipyards are operating to their full capacity there is no reason for asking for government encouragement. True, they arc crowded with work, but it is nearly all for Coastwise trade and for the navy. Last year th? new tonnage built on the great lakes r.-as equal to that built on both ccatds, exclusive of government work. Steel shipbuilding is a comparatively new industry in this country, and our present shipyard capacity is only one-tenth of that of Oreat Britain. It is claimed that the American line and other existing owners of fast vessels will become the principal beneficiaries of the bill. Owners of vessels are required to give bona to build in this country at least 25 per tent, addi tional tonnage before they can draw one dollar of subsidy, while special privileges are offered to citizens not ship owneiö who desire to enter the business. The bill also restricts the collective amount that may be drawn by twenty-knot vessels to $2.000,000 annually. If it is de fcircd to give less encouragement to fast vessels the bill can be easily amended to pay a greater portion of the subsidy to slow vessels, lt must not be forgotten that we now pay $1.400.000 yearly for carrying the malls, which hereafter would be carried free. The annual expenditures under the bill are limited to $3,000.000, but $1,400,000 should be deducted Irom this, making the total annual expense but $7,600, 0G0. Some years must elapse before even this maximum payment could be attained, and before the subsidy payments could amount to even $4,000,000 there must be $40,000.000 worth of new shipping contracted for. This would require the Investment of at least $50,000,000 private capital fn new shipyards and the employment of many thousands of workmen. The bill provides that vessels receiving compensation shall be officered by citizens of this country and that 25 per cent, of the crews shall be Americans. Also, that for each 1,000 tons capacity one American boy must be carried as a member of the crew and taught seamanship, engineering or other maritime knowledge. Anticipating the passage of the act, several lines of vessels are already projected to run to Europe and the orient, one line to Russia via the Black Sea and Odessa, the present line to Australia to be doubled, and two new lines to South America. The passage of the shipping bill should logically precede any bill for the construction of an isthmian canal. W will not reed the canal until we build up a merchant marine. The construction of the Nicaraguan canal would require the taxation of the people of this country to tho extent of probably $300,000,000 to be expended in a foreign country to foreign workmen principally for the use of foreign vessels. JOHN C. DEAN. Indianapolis, Dec. 31. Chrlstmastlde Tracredlcs. Detroit Free Tress. There is at least one young man who i arranging to make a run on the merchants of Detroit just as soon as the holidays are over. "You can bet your life," he says with the emphasis, of youthful ardor, "I'm going to get money Into circulation with both hands for about a week during the reactionary period that follows the holiday rush. I have a wad In the bank now, and I have a pretty god thing coming in by way of dividends and interest. You lust wait and watch me down the line." "What are you going to invest in?" "What f.iould I invest In but Christmas presents? I'll buy enough to fill a fur niture van. ir they cater, me among tne fhorts i:ext year I'll agree to hire out to a farmer for eisht months at nothing, and pay my own board. I'm only twenty-six and nn athlete. Within ten days I've turned gray around the temples and have insomnia. All over holiday troubles, mind you. My best girl is in California. I bought her some jewelry that was the pure quill and ordered it marked right away, for I'd rather not do the thing at all than not do it right. I happened in the place the day before Christmas, and ;ust to make talk I remarked that I supIoed my things had been shipped all right. I had sent the proper letter two weeks before. "What do you think? The stuff wasn't even marked, and they had some 400 and odd pieces ahead of mine. I was so unad tnat I took the articles and bundled them all over town to have them marked. It was no go. and I looked like a whipped rchoolboy whn I took them back with an order to hustle. She'll probably get them about the middle of lent, as I figure it. and then she'll be cross enough to ship them Kick. "I ordred an overcoat built for the governor, nnd the tailor is hunting for one sleeve of It yet.. A package I sent to Louisville is beim? traced, and I'm wild about a watch an old chum says he expressed to me. 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