Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 264, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 March 1921 — Page 2

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NEW PARKING AREA PLANNED BY CONFEREES Council Members and City Officials Outline Provisions for New Traffic Code. URGE METERS ON TAXIS Flat parking will be In effect on all Btreets within the congested district excepting Washington, the Circle and the centers of Kentucky avenue from Washington street to Capitol avenue, and Market street from Pennsylvania to Delaware streets. If an agreement reached at a conference of three members of the city council with other city officials last night, is put into the new traffic code and passed by the council. The conference sat to consider changes In the traffic code proposed by the board of public safety in an ordinance introduced Feb. 7. The ordinance as originally presented provided for flat parking only In Capitol avenue, Meridian. Illinois and Washington streets from Washington to New York streets, and in all north and south streets in the congested district south of Georgia street. This left angle parking In Washington, Maryland, Georgia, Market and Ohio Btreets, these being the principal east and west highways In the congested district. Councilman Jesse E. Miller raised the point that If flat parking were to be established at all it ought to be in force in Ohio street because of its narrowness and the large number of street cars and interurbans which are operated over it. President Russell Willson of the council and Councilman Jacob P. Brown, chairman of the special committee of truffle, In whose hands the ordinance now lies, agreed with Mr. Miller, as did the other officials. Other members of the council were not present, although the meeting was to have been a gathering of the council as a whole. AGREE TO DAT AXI) NIGHT ZONE. Felix M. McWhirter, member of the board of public safety, In arguing for flat parking both day and night, which finally was agreed upon, pointed out that fire apparatus sometimes is delayed in the narrow streets because automobiles parked at an angle where street cars are passing take up so much space that the fire trucks cannot get through. He said that such an incident occurred not more than two weeks ago in Pennsylvania street, between Market and Ohio streets. Some of those in the conference objected for a time to flat parking being In force after fl o'clock in the evening, asserting that the theater crowds would be inconvenienced because fewer cars can park flat to the curb than at an angle. Mr. McWhirter asserted that theater patrons ought not expect to park in front of theaters. He said that in New Y'ork parking is prohibited anywhere in a theater block on the side of the street In which the playhouse is located and that this might well be done in Indianapolis as it would make it possible for cars to be driven up to the theater to be loaded and then moved rapidly away. The only other traffic matter upon whl.h discussion of any length took place was the addition of a provision to the ordinance which would require all taxicabs to be equipped with taximeters. METERS TO CURB TAXI “HOLD-UPS.” Councilman Miller said that there Is “nothing that gives the city a black eye with a stranger quicker than the fact that be comes into Indianapolis and gets robbed by the taxi drivers.” It was generally admitted that since the city has an ordinauce fixing the rates which taxicab operators may charge that there ought to be some iroVi*iofc requiring the use of distance measuring devices. Mr. McWhirter said that at least three of the taxi companies, to big knowledge, have installed taximeters. President Willson said that attempts were made for two years at the beginning of the present city administration to get through the council an ordinance requiring taximeters, but that it had failed of passage because of the sympathy of certain councilmen with the taxi men who said they could not buy such devices, but had to lease them at a high price from a company holding patents. It was not definitely decided to Incorporate the taximeter provision In the ordinance. The other new provisions of the ordinance, which Include such Important changes as the extension of the south boundary of the congested district from Georgia street to South street and the creation of several new places in which parking would be prohibited were discussed In detail and approved. Councilman Brown stated that he will report the ordinance out of committee at the regular council meeting next Monday evening. ANTI-ADMINISTRATION SIPPORT NEEDED. Since none of the anti-administration councilmen were present at the conference the administration members were inclined to believe that the ordinance will have some opposition when It is put to a vote. If the four "antis” decide to vote against the measure they could kill it, for with Councilman O. B. I’ettijohn In a hos p tnl with a serious Illness the administration can muster only four vote*. Corporation Counsel Samuel Ashby. City Civil Engineer Frank C. Llngenfelter and John L. Elliott, assistant city civil engineer In charge of track elevation, laid before the three council members the facts surrounding the request of the Indianapolis Fnion Railway that its track elevation contract be modified so that financial settlements for work done be made by the city on a monthly basis. The city, after deducting what the rail road owes It for work done on trc-ek elevation, owes the railroad approximately $225.000. which the railroad says it must have in order to go ahead with its share of the elevation. The contract at present provides for a settlement when the elevation project is completed, which may be months or even years from now. In order to make this payment it be necessary for the city to Issue bonds, which would require the consent of the council. Meanwhile, It is said, the whole track elevation work depends upon the I. U. going aheadMr. Ashby will confer the members of the council who were absent before submitting the bond issue proposal to the council, it is understood. Irish Relief Reports to Be Made Tonight Reports from Indianapolis worker* will be made tonight at the headquarters of the Indiana Committee for Relief in Ireland at 1617 Merchants Bank Building. P. C. Reilly, chairman of the Indiana committee, will preside. The committee and workers are arranging for an Intensive drive at St. Patrick day celebrations. Speeds Up Trial of Manslaughter Case With the speed which has characterized Prosecutor William P. Evans' action since he took office, a Jury was obtained In the Criminal Court In a half day and most of the outnesses were heard today In the case or Murile Robbins, charged with manslaughter. Robbins is charged with driving his automobile at a high rate of speed, striking* and causing the death of Mary Kbfgold. a girl, on Feb. 20. 1920

And the Solons’ll ‘Get You , Bee , es You Don’t Watch Out ’ COLFMBT'S, Ohio, March 15.—Having set out to regulate “kosher” meat, the lowly oyster, wash rags and other things, the Ohio General Assembly has been asked to extend Its authority over the busj, but often stinging, honey bee. Representative Frank L. Lytle of Medina, seat of the bee industry, sponsors the bill. It is replete with definitions and specific instructions to the State apiarist aud his assistant, who are to be bureau chiefs under the Secretary of Agriculture. Under it, “bees shall be construed to mean stage of the common hive or honey bee (apis mellifica) or other bees kept for the production of honey or w:>x.” "Bumblebees” are excluded. The officers, under the terms of the bill, would have search powers, and are to wear, on duty, “official badges or other Insignia of authority.” Joking lawmakers said this will enable the bees to know the real Inspectors and not permit improper persons to violate the ptlvacy of their dwellings without search warrants. Infected bees are called a "public nuisance.” The head of the bureau is to adopt rules aud regulations, presumably for handling of bees aud not for the highly socialized insects themselves. While fun is poked at the proposal, it represents the thought of persons with large sums invested in the honey industry, and will be pushed seriously upon the same general exercise of police powers as other regulations.

SAYS ASSESSOR IS S3OO SHORT State Board Holds Jefferson for Missing Receipts. Criticism of the method In which Michael L. Jefferson, Center Township assessor, paid his deputies last year and a charge that one dog tax receipt book was missing, are contained In a report of the State board of accounts. The report is In part as follows: “On Fob. IP, 1020, the township assessor received from the Levy Printing Company of Indianapolis, 156 dozen tax receipt books each book containing 1(W receipts. In his settlement with the township trustee, the township assessor accounted for 155 receipt books, or 15,500 receipts. Dog tax receipt book containing 100 receipts, from 15,501 to 15.600 Inclusive, has not been accounted for. “We think M. L. Jefferson, township assessor, should be charged with 100 receipts, $500.” CLOTHES FOUND HINT VIOLENCE While police officials seem content to recline in their easy chairs at police headquarters and call the clothing found In the lonely out-of the-way swamp known as Baker's pond, “old rags,” still thes have been unable to explain how the clothing happened to be where it was found. They have advanced a number of theories, but have not established ownership of the articles. The clothing was found Saturday by Mrs. Henry Hayward, 1536 North Delaware street, commissioner of the Girl Scouts, and Miss Bernice Smith, an officer of the Girl Scouts. The police were notified Saturday night, but because of the out-of-the way place in which the clothing was found did not Investigate until Sunday. The official police reports describing the clothing are inaccurate and deceiving. The reports would Indicate that the clothing was that bf only one girl or woman. In fact, the clothing appears to be the clothes of at least two young girls about 15 years of age. The clothing. Mrs. Hayward stated, was found within twenty feet of the bank of Baker’s pond. To reach the lonely spot the police traveled three fourths of a mile east of College avenue on Fifty-Ninth street. Near a small concrete bridge there Is a road leading south from Fifty-Ninth street. This road is only about forty feet long and then it becomes a path winding in the direction of the pond southeast. Fifty feet from the end of the road Hnd near the path in an opening among the trees and under brush Mrs. IJaywurd found the clothing. SCENE OF DISCOVERY GIVES IP NO CLEWS. No signs of a struggle were in evidence and no foot prints leading to the pond were found. The pond in fact is less than two feet deep in water at that point, but probably two feet deep In mud. The clothing consist of two corsets. One was torn or ripped under the right arm, but had been repaired with a safety pin Both corsets appeared til be the same size and make. A belt wa a also found Two union suits, white cotton knit, were found, but there was also a larger suit of underclothes. A pink klmona with a purple or blue flower design and a boudoir cap of the same material trimmed In white lace, was found. Another cap of mohair, light in color, of the type used by women for automobile rides, was aiso found. Two black skirts were among the articles. One of expensive black satin had been torn on one side In front as if roughly grabbed by someone. The skirts were of knee length. In one was a laundry or cleaner's mark, ”H. 11 C.” fn one suit of the underclothing were the laundry marks: “H. 3 C, N. B. C., G. 4 8 C., C. 33 9,” all being printed with Ink, but a mark “X” with a line under It was worked In with thread. There was also a pink waist. POLICE HAVE FUN OVER “OLD RAGS.” No shoes or stockings were found. The clothing had evidently laid there several days and was water soaked. The police laugh at a suggestion of suicide, or of any tragedy having been enacted on or near the lonely scene. They say the clothing Is “just old rags that have been thrown away.” However, they fail to explain why some person wishing to dispose of clothing should have thrown the articles away at a point at least 100 feet from the road. They fail to explain why a Mack silk handbag with a fancy silk lining that is not worn out should have been thrown away. When found the hand bag was open and empty. The police suggest that the articles may have been left by a young woman who was a member of an automobile party. Two young girls escaped from the detention ward of the city hospital March 6. and it was thought for a time that these girls may have changed clothing near Baker’s pond, being takcii away by some person In an automobile, hut the clothing found does not correspond with the clothing taken by the girls when they made their escape. The two girls, however, are still missing, the hospital authorities report. No other missing girls are on the records at police headquarters. GUN TOTER FINED #IOO AND. Thomas Harris, colored, who said he came here a month ago from Nashville. Teun., was fined SIOO and costs In city court today by Judge Walter Pritchard on charges of carrying concealed weapons. Harris was arrested yesterday by Traffic Lieutenant Lester Jones, who received a complaint that he was carrying a large gun In the shining parlor at 4 North Pennsylvania street, where he had been employed. 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Marshal and Aids to Direct Parade on St. Patrick’s Day

PATRICK SHERIDAN

Arrangements have been completed by the Ancient Order of Hibernians and the Ladies' Auxiliary for the annual parade Thursday afternoon in observance of St. Patrick's day. The parade, under direction of Eugene Shine, grand marshal, and his aids, Patrick Sheridan and Anthony Sweeney, will form at Meridian and Vermont streets and will move at 2 o'clock. The parade will be led by a platoon of mounted police, which will be followed by the Newsboys' Band. Members of the committee in charge of the celebration and other dignitaries will follow in automobiles. The first division will be led by Thomas Backwell and will consist of a band, two juvenile floats, all divisions of tlie Hibernians and Catholic societies. Martin Carr will lead the second division, which will consist of a band, the

STEEL OVERSEER IS ACCUSED OF MANSLAUGHTER (Continued From Page One.) thereby caused the metal frame skeleton construction work of said annex building to collapse and fall as aforesaid.” The Indictment is in two counts, the first charging the alleged commission of a criminal act in violation of the law which resulted in the death of two workmen. and the second count alleged criminal neglect by carelessly and negligently failing to protect the lives of his workmen. CHARGES VIOLATION'S OF MUNICIPAL CODE. The indictment is primarily based on the alleged violations of the 1917 municipal code of the city of Indianapolis. The violations alleged to have been committed are ns follows: "The bolting of the hangers and of roof bracing in south portion did not obey the code, which demands every other hole be filled with bolts. “The sway bracing called for in the code was not present. “The code was also violated in that the wall columns at the second floor were bricked in while bolted. These bolts were not in reamed holes These allegations of the state are based on statements of “expert” examiners of the building who filed a lengthy report with the prosecutor. Carroll and Ittenbach were, arrested on charges of manslaughter and bound over to the grand jury when Dr. Paul F. Rob inson, coroner, returned a report in which he recommended thst Ittenbach and Car roll be held for grand Jury investigation The men were released on SI,OOO bond pending action of the grand Jury. INDICTMENT CHARGES CRIMINAL NEGLECT. The Indictment Is specifically based on the alleged violations of section 363 of the 1917 Municipal Code of the city of Indianapolis resulting in criminal neglect which Is said to have resulted in the collapse of the annex. The section in question is entitled “Skeleton Construction," and is as follows : (a) The term "skeleton construction” shall apply to ..11 buildings wherein all external and Internal loads and stresses are transmitted from the top of the building to the foundation by a skeleton or framework of metal or reinforced concrete. (b| In metal frame skeleton construction the beams and girders shall be riveted or bolted to each other at their respective junction points, and when respective structural shapes are fastened together to resißt stresses, shall be riveted. If columns made of rolled Iron or steel are used, their different parts shall lie riveted to each other, unless the columns are of rolled integral section, and th* beams and girders shall have riveted connections to uulte them with the columns. If cast Iron columns are used, each successive column shall be bolted to the one below it by at least four (4) bolts not less than three fourths diameter, and the beams and girders shall he bolted to the columns. Bolt holes In flanges for connection from column to column shall be drilled. At each line of floor or roof beams, lateral connections between the ends of the beams and girders shnll be made In such manner as to rigidly connect the beams aud girders with each other in the direction of their length, i Cast iron columns shall not. be used which have a diameter less than five (5) inches nor a length of more then thirty <so> times their least lateral dimension or diameter. No cast iron column shall be used in a building over fifty (50) feet In height, nor shall the thickness of metal be less than threefourths (%) inches. (c) All steel trusses shell be riveted end all steel work in buildings more than fifty (50) feet high and In a building whose height exceeds twice its width shall be riveted < (and) Wherever it is found Impossible to rivet connections as herein deseribed and such connections are bolted, cold roiled or turned bolts of exact fit and diameter In reamed holes may be used In place f rivets with not more than ninety (90) per cent of the stresses permitted for field driven rlvetß (e) All structural members which are temporarily bolted together shall be well bolted In every alternate hole. (f) After the bases or base plates and columns have been set in pla< e, both shall be protected by a covering of cement concrete applied direct t> the metal, measuring not less than two and one-half I2K) inches thick from the extreme projection of the metal, filled solid into all spaces, and forming a continuous concrete mass from the grillage or other foundations to an elevation six (6) fret or more above the floor level nearest the column base plate or column stool. (g) All metal shall be clean and shall be free from loose rust and scale, and all metal except that to he embedded in concrete shall be protected with at least two (2) coats of metal protecting paint. (h) All structural details and workmanship shall be in accordance with accepted engineering practice. (i) All trusses shall be held rigidly in position, botli temporarily and permanently by efficient lateral and sway bracing. CARTER DRAWS INDICTMENT. The Indictment was drawn by Jackson Carter, grand jury deputy to Prosecutor William P. Evans, and represents weeks of untiring work and hours of examining witnesses before the grand Jury. Former Prosecutor Claris Adams did not undertake a grand jury investigation of the fata! collapse of the annex but “bequeathed” this task to Mr. Evans, his successor. When Mr. Evans entered the prosecutor's office on the first day of the year, he announced that a "careful aud painstaking Investigation would be made in this ease.” The case officially arrived at the grand Jury on Nov. 30 when Dr. Ro’ ’."son.

irvDIANA DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 1921.

ANTHONY SWEENEY.

EUGENE SHINE.

Knights of St. George In uniform, two Juvenile floats, the members of the Ladies’ Auxiliary in automobiles, and citizens. The following line of march will be traversed: South on Meridian street around the west segment of the Circle to Washington street; west on Washington street to Missouri street, countermarch on Washington street to Alabama street; north on Alabama street to Market street and west on Market street to Tomlinson Hall. Immediately after the parade the annual mass meeting will b@ held In Tomlinson Hall. George E. Gorman, former Representative In Congress and at pres ent assistant State attorney general In Chicago, will deliver the principal address. In the evening an entertainment consisting of Juvenile drills, songs and musical numbers will be given at the hail.

coroner, addressed a communication to the prosecutor and the grand Jury. The vital recommendations of Coroner Robinson were as follows: I herewith submit to you the evidence and verdict in the deaths of Ezra Tabor and Edward Hess, who were employed on a building under construction at Merrill and Union streets for the Emmrieb Manual Training High vichool, the steel structure of which collapsed about 11 :45 a. m. on Thursday, Nov. 18, 11)20. The evidence of witnesses shows in the main that the collapse wus caused by the weight and vibration of a large ana improperly guyed stiff legged derrick, which was owned and operated by the Ittenbach Stone Company. There is evidence that this derrick was opernted in a dangerous and unlawful condition under the orders of one Carl Ittenbach and was operated by one David Carroll and Marion West, foreman and engineer for the Ittenbach Stoue Com pany. The evidence obtained during my Investigation of this case also shows that this stiff logged derrtek was being operated without navtng been properly rigged and guyed and with brake linings which were completely worn out. All of this Is in direct violation of the Indiana State law In view of the fact that the law was being violated at the time of the collapse my verdict in the case Is manslaughter, and I have ordered the arrest of Carl Ittenbach and David Carroll and Marion West who, the evidence shows, were operating this derrick I nave been unable to find other violations of the law In connection with the collapse of the structure, but there has been considerable conflicting evidence in regard to the bolting ami riveting of the steel super structure, however I was unable to find that the law was being violated In this respect. With these recommendations the January term grand Jury began Its investigations which have extended Intermittently over a period of over two months. COLLAPSE OF STRUCTURE OCCURRED NOV. IS. Shortly before noon on the morning of Nov. 18 last the steel framework of the Emmerich Manual Training High School collapsed, killing two men and Injuring about twenty workmen. Many of the in Jured workmen have been seen to enter the grand Jury room during the investigation Ezra Taber was killed tnstantly and Edward Neff died later at the city hospital. The Investigation of this collapse was one of the several big tasks which former I’rosecutor Claris Adams passed over to Mr. Evans. I’rosecutor William P. Evans made the following statement after the grand Jury reported: "A considerable portion of the time of the grand Jury of the Inst several weeks has been directed to an Investigation of the Emmerich Manual Training High School and this indictment is the result. It should be borne In mind that the grand Jury was not concerned with the civil responsibility, but only with the question of criminal responsibility.” ‘DOUBLE’ KILLED AND NOT DECKER Authorities Suspect Murder to Get Insurance. Special to The Times. PLYMOUTH, Ind„ March 13.—The body supposed to be that of Virgil Decker, who was said to hays been killed by a Pennsylvania passenger train at a crosjltig near Atwood, has been identified as the body of Leroy Lovett, 19, of Elkhart, Authorities have advanced the belief that his death may have been the result of a plot between Fred Decker sud his brother Virgil of Kosciusko County to collect $24,000 in Insurance on the life of Virgil Decker. Coroner Asplnwall of Marshall County pointed out that Decker and Lovett bore a marked resemblance to each other. Decker carried $19,000 In insurance, payable to his hrother Fred. Some of the policies contained provisions for double payment in case of accidental death, which made the total $24,000. Coroner Aspinwull believes the brothers planned to kill Lovett, identify the body as that of Virgil Decker and claim the Insurance. Coroner Charles A. Kelly of Kosciusko County will hold a Joint Inquest with Coroner Asplnwall of Marshall County at Bourbon today. Pair Caught in Raid on Resort Are Fined Marie Thompson, 23, alias Frances Hinton, 421 East New* York street, was found guilty of a statutory offense In city court late Monday before Judge Waftwr Pritchard and was fined $5. Robert J. Lemings, 540 East North street, arrested with her, was fined $lO on a charge of associating. The case of Bertha Everling, said to boa maid at a rooming house at GO4V& East Washington street, where the arrests were made, and who Is charged with keeping an immoral resort, was taken under advisement. Lieutenant Woollen and squad made the arrests Sunday night. Marie had been arrested Saturday night by the same, officers and on the same charge at 322 North East street with three other women and two men. That case was continued until tomorrow. . Three File Notices of Their Candidacy Three men filed a declaration of candacy with the city clerk today. Patrick J. McCormick, 375 Prospect street, an attorney, filed as a candidate for the Democratic nomination of judge of the city court. Two Republicans filed. They are.: Sylvester C. Jackson, 1622 East Nineteenth street, for councilman of the First district. and James H. Hamilton, 107 West Merrill stratafor councilman of the Fifth district,*

NOTE TO HUNS DENIES FORCE KILLSTREATY Versailles Pact Justifies Penalty, Reply to German Contention. PARIS, March 15.—The reparations commission today drafted a note to Germany declaring that the allied military and economic penalties were justified legally under the treaty of Versailles because Germany had not paid the amount of money pledged under that covenant. This allied note was designed as an answer to the German contention that the advance of the allied troops on the Rhine nullified the peace treaty. The document was drafted at a meeting of the reparatlona commission. It pointed out that Germany had paid less than half of the 20,000,000,000 gold marks due from her under the terms of the treaty by May 1. The argument of the Germans that the amount had been fully paid was rejected. Dr. Walter Simons, the German foreign minister, in a speech at London, offered tile allies fifty billion gold marks indemnity. He contended that Germany already had paid twenty billion gold marks leaving thirty billion gold marks to be paid. The present military and economic penalties imposed by the allies on Germany are incapable of giving France the amount of reparations due her. according to former President Poincare, In an article printed in the press. “The total of the Rhine customs will not exceed 500,000,000 gold marks annually,” said M. l’olncare. “At the end of ten years we will find ourselves far from being reimbursed. It Is difficult to guess the results of the export tax. The only present valuation of the sanctions is the coercive power they give. If we want to be paid we must take other steps.”

GIPSY CLAIMS CURIOSITY KEY TO SALVATION (Continued From Page One.) ground to him aud he seemed to feel at home. Asa result, he swung into his sermon with a sureness and certainty that gave his arguments an added power. APPEALS TO REASON. It wus very noticeable that in his appeals to church member* to lead a better more Christian life and to put into practice every day in the week, in the homes and in business, the professions they make on the seventh day, h * In pressed upon his hearers the idea that he was appealing to the brain aud not to the emotions. Time after time he usjd phr.isea each as “listen to me all the way through before you make up your mind,” “think this over In your saner moments.” “I don't want to work Op a wisuttou; what you do you do iu sanity,” etc. The evangelist Is not a shouter, he carefully and studiously avoids appeals of an emotional character, although he is Intensely drumatlc and speaks in a soft, well modulated voice that carries to the most remote corners of the big tabernacle. Every argument is directed to the reason of bis hearers, and all he does is to ask them to think. At one time In his sermon last night he said, "Think, think, think, and then make up your mind.” SHELL HOLE EXPERIENCE. The climax of his sermon came, when, after recounting at length all the shortcomings of church members in their daily Uvea, he turned In contrast to an event that had happened while he was In Fran-®. “one day I went Into a shell hole in France, where nine boys—our boys, your boys—-lay dying They lay in the mud, in pools of water, the nine dying heroes surrounded by their dead comrades. A man came* with a water bottle and passed It around among these boys. Every boy took It, ralted It to his Ups, but when the last boy handed it back not a drop of water had been tnken out of that bottle. Each man thought the others needed it worse than he. There Is true Christian self-denial. One of these boys dying said to me, 'Gipsy, did we do our best?’ and I said to him dying in the mud of that shell hole In France, ‘God help me to make ns good a showlug when my time comes to die.’ RETURNED CARDS) SIGNED BY 1,400. It was a wonderful climax of a powerful sermon. The audience was mute; throughout the big hall hundreds of persons. men and women alike, furitlvely or openly, as the case might be, brushed tears from glistening eyes. Immediately afterward Gipsy Smith, a marvelous student of crowd psychology, directed that cards be passed among the audience and fully 1.400 were returned to him signed, a reaffirmation of faith and a promise to lead a more Christian life. It was a great triumph for the efforts of a great preacher. The meeting opened with the usual song service by the choir of 1,000, directed by William McEwen of New York. The choir work was noticeably better than on the opening day, and it, like Gipsy Smith, lilt its stride las*, night in a manner that brought forth from Smith the comment: “You are the best choir I have yet had,” and McEwen immediately broke in with, “You are a great choir.” Following this the opening prayer was made by Dr. C. A. Barbour, president of the Rochester Theological Seminary of .Rochester, N. Y. Gipsy Smith then went into action and wasted little time In preliminaries. First he Hsked how many people were in the house and from one corner came the voice of an Irrepressible youngster, who shouted, “Nine thousand." Every one laughed, including Smith, who said, “That is young America for you, and he Is an optimist, too.” Before starting his sermon be read from the first chapter of John, beginning with the thirty-fifth verse, and used these verses as a text and basis for his discourse. "Hear me though before you come to any conclusion,” he said. “I would rather have fewer persons sign these cards that have thought things out for themselves than many who have not. The great trouble In the world today Is that there are so many who call themselves followers of Jesus, who don't follow him. When you do this, when you pretend to follow and then fail to do so you do more harm than good. 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Old Dobbin Retains His Fighting Spirit Special to Thie Times. COLUMBUS, Ind., March 15.—“01d Dobbin” Is blind and getting along In years, but he hasn’t lost his fighting spirit. He was hauling the grocery wagon of Joe Kroot about the city when he came into contact with a sedan automobile owned by Ammie Sims, of this city. Upon striking the automobile "Old Dobbin” appeared to recognize his strongest competitor and leaped onto It, striking with his fore feet and biting with his teeth. A fender, a headlight and the hood of the machine were smashed and the radiator, was badly damaged.

you must live like Christ You must dethrone everything else and enthrone God In your soul. If you did not have that purpose when you Joined the church then jou did not begin the right v.ay. I know that I interpret the feelings of every preacher iu the bouse when I say that many of them look over the church register and see your names and then wonder how they got there. MINISTERS SIPPORT SMITH’S STATEMENT. “Am I not right?” Gipsy Smith said, turning to the preachers. He was answered with a chorus of “Yes” and several feelingly shouted, “Sure.” “Following Jesus means more than following Him for one day,’’ he continued. “It means following Him every hour, every day, every month, for the full year through. It means an unbroken fellowship with Him. Mow many of you church members have this? “Jesus wag a praying man. He would not, could not, have done the work He did had He not prayed constantly. How many of you have prayed today? You call yourselves church members, and yet you sit down to eat like animals, without thanking God for the food you have. You go to bed like animals, without prayer, or else you are ashamed to pray, and pull the sheet np over your head and make a feeble, fruitless effort at prayer, it cannot be done that way. Y’ou live in prayerless homes. If I came Into your homes, could you show me the spot where you kneel In prayer? Could you show me the Bible you use In family prayers? "Don't be a hypocrite in your religion; either get in or get out.” Only on„‘ during the entire evening did Gipsy Smith make a statement of the Sensational order, of the kind one hears attributed to Billy Sunday, for example, and that was when he said, “Some women would rather nurse a dog than a baby." OBBKRV ANCE OF SABBATH. Turning his attention to the matter of Sabbath observance, he said: “Suppose the truth were told about some of you ; a record kept of your Sabbath observance. Would it not read like this:? " 'On Sunday morning, as was her custom, she went to church, and in the evening she gave a bridge party.’ “ 'On Sunday morning, as was his custom, he went to church, and in the afternoon he played golf.’ ” In leading up to his climax of the wonderful self-sacrifice of the nine dying soldier* in the mud-soaked shell bole In no n an's land he made a strong plea for self sacrifice, for doing something for others, for doing away with selfishness In every day life. •‘Self-life Is not the Christ life,” he said. "You can not be self-centered and selfish and be a Christian. What I pray is that we come back to the Jesus way, the quiet, sincere, earnest, transparent Christian life that He led." It was announced that about 1,000 cards had been signed at the first day of the meeting. It was also announced that hundreds of persona had gathered in tlie afternoon, although for the present no afternoon service* will he held.

Trust Idea Best for Handling Foundation The purpose of the Indianapolis Foundation and the desires of its sponsor* that It eventually solve many of the future problems of community charity, formed the theme of a paper by Henry H. Hornbrook, rend last night before the Indinnapo’ls Literary Club, at a meeting at the Propylaetim, by Evans Woollen. Mr. Hornbrook, who is secretary of the local foundation, was absent from the city. The paper reviewed the history of charitable programs of various types and showed how they generally have lacked direction when they have attempted to discount the future. It took up the community trust Idea, as outlined by Judge Frederick H. Goff of Cleveland and ohowed that it Is already on a firm basis in thirty American cities, of which Indianapolis was among the first ten. That the community trust Idea, which is the basis of the Indianapolis Funaittlon, has been analyzed as the most scientific manner for individuals to bestow gifts for the public welfare of the future, was clearly shown in the paper. The plan is Just as feasible for small communities as for large, the paper contended.

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Majority Oppose Abrogation of National Agreements, Assert Union Leaders. WASHINGTON, March 15.—A majority j of (he rai.roads of America oppose abrogation of the national agreements. In the opinion of Bert M. Jewell, rail union leader. In statements by Jewell and Frank P. ! Walsh, attorney representing the unions, i today, it was disclosed an effort to prove this will be made before the United States Railroad Board Friday. Railroad executives will appear before tKfe board at that time to be questioned by union attorneys. “W. W. Atterbury, rice president of the Pennsylvania Lines, hacked by the powerful Morgan and Gary forces, has exerted sufficient influence with other railroads to secure their support In the battle to crush the unions," Walsh declared. Jewell believes the effort to break tfie national agreement has a three-fold scope. The purposes he said were behind th erailroads' demands are: 1. A part of the national campaign of big Interests to bring about general open shop working conditions. 2. A forerunner of the fight to cut wages which will eventually come before the United States Labor Board. 3. To drive every man who seeks to hold his union card out of rallroaa system. Jewell said the railroad executives craftily struck the weakest of their unions first—that of unskilled labor. The plan, he said, "is to wipe that union out of existenceandthen the other unions will be dealt with separately." Under the railroad board's order executives must open the records and minutes of the agreements. Union leaders said the minutes would show many roads opposed to abrogation of the national agreement. They believed they will also disclose the Influence which caused the executives to demand abrogation of the agreement. Through questions put to the executives the union attorneys will attempt to contradict the contention of Atterbury that the agreement leads to waste and extravagance In railroad operation. Walsh expected the "lews of some executives to differ with that of Atterbury. Jewell declared the railroad unions had not opposed changes In the national agreements. He declared they had sought in vain for conferences with the executives to wipe out the unreasonable rules in the agreements. Through the examination Friday, he said, the public may learn that the railroad executives were the ones who first advocated national working agreements. NEGRO ACCOSTS WOMAN. A negro entered the kitchen of the home of Mrs. Ella Shaddy, 511 Agnes street, today and attempted to seize her. As she eluded him, the intruder drew a revolver and ordered her to keep quiet. She screamed and the negro ran from the house and escaped before the police reached the scene.

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