Richmond Palladium (Daily), 21 November 1904 — Page 1
-v.. WEATHER Fair and Colder. EDa Try a Want Ad in the Palladium today. WBKKLY ESTABLISHED 1M1. DAILY ESTABLISHES 117ft. RICHMOND DAILY PALLADIUM, MONDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 21, 1904. ONE CENT A COPY. JOHN D. WIGGINS DISAPPEARED HOHSTEK BLAZE MAD DOG RUNS WILD j AN APPRECIATION OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT. I I By William Dudley Foulke in Everybody's Magazine for December.
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ABOUT FIVE O'CLOCK LAST EVENING WHILE GOING HOME 0 .
old Man became dazed And Turned in South A StreetPolice and Citizens Are Searching for Him. John' D. Wiggins, one of the best know citizens of Richmond, disap peared about 5 o'clock last evening and at a late hour had not been .found. Mr. Wiggins is about eighty years old and in a very feeble con dition. He is verv hard of hearing and nearly totally blind. About 4:.10 yesterday afternoon he was put on a car at Fairview and started for his home. When the ear reached Fifth and Main streets lie got off. A colored man who noticed his actions and thinking that something was wrong asked the. old gentleman where he wanted t go. Mr. Wiggins told him where he lived. The colored man hailed the next street car and told, the conductor to let Mr. Wiggins off at Fifteenth and Main streets, as Mr. Wiggins lives at 330 South Fifteenth. The conductor did as he was asked and let Mr. Wiggins oft at Fifteenth street. The -old gentleman walked south in Fifteenth and west in A street. The 4 last seen of him he was at Twelfth and South A streets going west in A street. Last evening Patrolman Sut.fftan led a crowd of sr.rL.Lhrunglv ' BeeyToiT'Twoods '." and ; through a number of the commons in the territory of A street, but nothing could be found of Mr. Wiggins. The oth- . - er patrolmen throughout the city' i were also instructed to keep vigilant j lookout for Mr. Wiggins, but they 5 were unable to find him. It is pecuI liar that Mr. Wiggins should get lost, as there is not a man in the ; city who is better acquainted with ' the streets than is Mr. Wiggins. For years he was connected with the City Health Hoard and his work took him over the entire city. He has been in bad health for some few months and at times he appeared to be in a dazed condition. An example of this was shown yester- , Vlay, when he was at the corner of Fifth and Main streets, as he point.A I f A P 41. 1-k,, 1 1 1 1M fve All 4 li 4i .jeorner and asked what building that was. He seemed to have no idea of -where he was. Allegheny Pigeon Shoot. Allegheny, Pa.. Nov. 21 The .fourth annual poultry and pigeon show which will open here today in Kenyon's Hall, is one of the largest poultry , shows ever held in the United States. Many prominent fanciers from all parts of the country have entered their best birds. The premium list includes twelve silver cups and over 200 special prizes. . j STYLES 1819 .;'-..., . i
f A Fashion Plate Pound by John W.
l- John W. Foi Foulke. rouiKe presented tne i:ai..II i . T 1 ladium with a fashion plate published in the year 1810. The picture represents the fashions of those early days and are in marked contrast to the cut of the clothing worn nowadays. The women of that early period ' wore their hair in long curls, wide . skirts of the Martha Washington pattern was the style. Shaker ishaned bonnets prevailed. J The men wore silk tiles of several ', different makes, and their trousersrfwere creased just like they are ioPdav. ' Mr. Foulke found the - picture among the effects of Mr. John $'Hara.
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Theodore Roosevelt has been elected president after a campaign in which the "paramount issue11" was declared to be"himself," What are the, qualities by wh jch he has won the love and confidence of the American people tThey are: '(. His unflinching honesty iu act and speech and thought, and a frankness that is absolutely; daring. He never says one thing and means another. He has no subtlety, no diplomatic finesse. He is not lacking in tact, but it is the tact that relies upon the good sense and love of fair play in those with whom he deals. His utter fearlessness,- not merely of personal danger, but of the consequences to himself from doing what he believes to be right, practicable, and for the public welfare. When warned that his intervention in the coal strike would blast his future, he set his teeth and answered : "Yes, I suppose it ends me, but it is right and I will do it." But although fearless, he is by no means rash. On all important matters he consults those whom he trusts, and no man is more willing to change his views if good reasons are submitted. Counsel is always welcome, control never. His accurate sense of justice. Every man is to have4' 'a square deal." When he was Civil Service Commissioner lie filled the quotas from the South by announcing that Democrats should have just as good a chance for appointment , as Reilliliciius'. he accords just as fair treatment to the Jew, Catholic, and the gnostic, as to the man who shares his' own religious beliefs. He is president of the whole peo;Ie. and not of those belonging to a single party, race or creed. His prodigious 'capacity for hard work. Tn this he is like Napoleon. But much of his ability to "get things done" depends upon others. His knowledge of men is extensive and accurate; he chooses" his agents with skill; trusting to them all details, and demanding nothing but results, he wastes no energy on trilles. The moment he arrives at a decision. it is carried into instant exeeution. ' His practical nature. He has high ideals, but he never seeks the unattainable. He will not struggle vainly for "the perfeet and abstract right" when he will lose thereby the good that can be accomplished by seeking something else. He has got. to make this great goverumentwork, and he will make it work as nearly right as it will work at all, but he will not give" up the job because all his ultimate desires can not be aceomplished ,V .-'-'His implicit reliance upon the better instincts of th people. . While 1 often distrusts his 'liticaF conditions, no imtn since litieal conditions.n o man since Lincoln ever had a sti ngor belief in the honesty and good sense ot the masses, Although he comes from an aristocratic farailv-, he is intensely "demoorotic ...in '-his sympathies. " I might mention "other charaeteristics of the "president ; his masterful personality;".' the strength of his affections and his antipathies; his brilliant x)wers of .-conversation; his literary attainments; his ideal home life; bis bubbling merriment, and his spirit of praetieal optimism, by which he epitomizes the joy of living and realizes to the full the old Roman ideal of the mens sana in corpore sano. All these things fit him better than any man living to be president of a young.vigorous, great and tlourishing republic. v
FIRE STARTED IN A TAILORING SHOP AND THREATENED THE
- , WHOLE .IAL.I - STILL BURNING AT
Quetschler Company Building Totally Destroyed -Assistance Was Asked From Neighboring Citie s The Loss Very Heavy.
i (Special to the Palladium.) Cincinnati, 0., November 21. A fire which started . here yesterday afternoon in the block bounded by Fourth and Walnut, Main and Third streets, threatened to be one of the most disastrous fires in the history of Cincinnati. Some of the largest buildings in the city are in this square and for a while it seemed impossible to save any of these buildings.'At this hour, 1:30 a. m., the fire is still burning, but is practically under control. The fire started in a tailoring shop underneath the building occupied by the Kineori Coal company. It quickly spread to the building occupied by. the Quets.diler Piano company. 'c"--Thisv'ibirdihigi'iHrasV soon totally destroyed. By this time all of the departments in the city had been culled out ami assistance had been asked for from the surrounding sities. On account of the high wind prevailing it was thought impossible to save the square and a large number of the firemen were set to work to save, the surrounding buildings. The wind died down about midnight and the firemen soon gained control of the blaze, but not until it had destroyed the building j occupied by the Oxford Stationery company and several others, making ja total of eight buildings and an agTegato loss of -f. 100,000. For a i long time it was thought that the St. OVER GAPE ANN Pennsylvania on Trial TripThe Vessel a Large One. Post on,; Xov. 21. -The armored cruiser Pennsylvania, which was launched several months ago by.Miss Quay, "daughter of the Jate Senator Quay of " Pennsylvania, makes : her oilicial trial over the,. Cape Ann course today. The cruiser arrived here Saturday and was boarded by the Naval Hoard and officials of the Cramps' Company this morning. No effort will' be made to break records, but the builders are confident that the shii will exceed the contract speed of twenty-two knots. Th.? contract for the building of the Pennsyl vania was signed with that of the Colorado, her sister ship, in 1001. She is a protected cruiser of the first class and with the Colorado will represent a new and jxnverful type. The vessel is 502 feet long, CO feet. 0 in. in beam, mean draught of 24 feet 1 inch and has a normal displacement of 13,090 tons. Mr. Alford Johnson and son. Chas. left Sunday evening for Pueblo. Col., to make that place their home for a while. . . . .:.-"
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THE LAST REPORT Paul building, the new First National Bank skyscraper and the handsome Masonic Temple could not be saved. The streets were crowded with people soon after the fire started and it was impossible to get wihtin a square of the blaze. The entire police reserve force of the city was called out in an attempt to hold back 'the crowd of sightseers. Xo accidents have been reported at this hour and it is not thought that a person has been injured. The fire in a great many ways resembled the Pike theater fire of a few. years ago. The building occupied by the Lloyd, Andrews Co., suffered $22,000 4 loss. At 1 a. m. tKe"chief -of the fire department said" that he -was sure that the fire was under control and woidd spread no further. Two Companies from Dayton. (Special to the Palladium.) Dayton, O., November 21. Two tire companies have been sent from here to assist the Cincinnati fire department in subduing the disastrous fire, now taking place in that city. Company Ready to Go. (Special to the Palladium.) Hamilton, ()., November 21. The chief of the Hamilton lire department has two (ire companies in readiness to send to Cincinnati in case thev are asked for OFFICERS ELECTED For the ' Columbus; Greensburg and Richmond Traction Co. At the annual meeting f the stockholders wf the Columbus, (Jreensburg and liichmond Traction company, held at the offices of the company in. 'Indianapolis, Friday afternoon. November 18, the following directors were elected: Amos K. Hollowell. Harris F. Holland, William P. Myer. August M. Kuhn, Walter MoConaha. Charles E. Par-rett-nnd Albert H. Carter. At a meetin- of the directors held . immediately after the stockholders' meeting, the following officers were elected: President, Harris F. Holland: vice president. Walter MoConaha; secretary, Albert H. Carter; treasurer, William P. Mver. Great Lakes Naval Training Station. Washington. Nov. 21. Another meeting of the commission appointed to select a site for a naval training station on the great lakes was held here today. Senator Knox presented the claims of Erie, Pa., while the interests of Milwaukee. Racine and Muskegon. Wis., were also represented.
..' AN APPRECIATION OF CHARLES W. FAIRBANKS By Booth Tarkington in Every'bodv's Magazine for December. Charles Warren Fairbanks , comes from a stock which has for forty years produced the strongest vertebrae in the backbone of (he country; the governing men of the Cent nilStates pioneers' grandsonsand farmers' sons. Most of them have been tall men, all have been hardv. Thev are the men in whom common seuse has amounted to genius, and in those states the tide of emigration from the South met that from New England and mingled with it in the early years of the nineteenth century. It is a fusion which has caused the Central States to produce more characteristically than any other section gives evidence of it, what may be broadly called "the American Spirit." It is possible, too, that this fusion of New Englanders and Southerners was the cause of the vehement political activity of their descendants. Nowhere was that activity itself more vividly than in Indiana, both in the lesser and the greater politics. Of the eight presidential campaigns which have been fought since fieneral Grant's presidency, six have seen a citizen of Indianapolis the nominee for president or vice president on one of the two great tickets. During the last campaign Senator Fairbanks was the '.logical candidate" of his party nationally for the vice presidency, just as he had been the "logical candidate" of. his party in Indiana for the senatorship in 1902; in the. Jatter-."inst auqiUilxaa v.. ha said, that he was more the candidate of the whole state than of merely his party, for the
opposition to him was nominal. Senator Fairbanks is, of course, politic, and he is practical. To be both as practical and as politic as he is means more than a practical olitician; it means a statesman. Moreover, he is one of the most energetic men alive; his great frame contains an infinite capacity for work and for bearing fatigue, but his is an energy not to be confounded with impetuosity, for he must be esteemed one of the shrewdest men in the country, ami his shrewdness is of that kind which means a cool head, though not temperamental coldness. He is a man whom it is almost impossible to confuse, mentally. He sees his point always clearly; he can not be deviated from it and is persistent beyond computation. In a word he is a man who "makes things happen," a man who achieves by service to the country, his state and his party. He is of the modern order of public men, not of that older generation of thunderers, pier tuix'sijue figures that they were living on glitter and oratorworship, but so many of them useful only to themselves. Sena tor Fairbanks has reached his present . position not so much because of his unusual capae- ; ity for organization as because of his public utility. He is a lawyer, a business man, able to handle, carefully and needfully,. small and large affairs, to carry them through surely what is called a "safe" man. I In political management he has not been one of those who bludgeon men in opposition until they are ready to take rewards for ''coming the right way." He does not antagonize. He moves quietly and surely, understanding and dealing with all compromises which can be made with honor. He is a peacemaker, calm, steady never swept away; and, competent tn meet intensely strained situations, he knows how to bring violently opposed factions into harmony with a tact which amount? to power.
OVER THE STREETS OF RICEMOND YESTERDAY
BIT SEVERAL OTHER D06S . ; Killed by Mr. Frank McClure Abo-t 11 O'clock Yesterday Morn- . ing. i Considerable excitement was caused in the down town streets yesterday morning by the appearance of a mad dog running' loose. The dog first made its apjearance iu West Main street, near Fifth , and was running east. Every time it would meet with another dog a fight immediately ensued and the mad dog usually came out victorious and in this manner a number of dogs were bitten and a number of them had. to be killed. The mad dog ran south in Seventh street, where it bit a number of dogs and he was .finally caught in an alley iu A street, jnst off of Seventh street. A man by the name of McClure who had been fol-. lowing the dog in its mad flight, caught up with it here and succeeded in shooting.. it-with a revolver. It' is not known just how many dogs were bitten nor who they belonged to and the police advise all owners of dogs to be careful with them for a few days and keep a good watch on them. It is 'not believed that tho'd.'g attacked :any Pons- .'. - Gotch-Rogers Wrestling Match liuffalo. N. Y.. Nov. 21. Frank Cotch, the American wrestling champion and Charles (Yankee) Rodger, the Roston wrestler, will meet in this city tonight. The betting favors Got eb. Lederer Gets Philadelphia Theateer. Philadelphia, Pa.. Nov. 21. -Geo. V. Lederer, the well known theatrical magnate has secured control of Gilmoiv's Auditorium Theatre, this city and will open it tonight, changing the name to the Casino, after his famous New York day house. Grand Opera Season to Begin. New York, Nov. 21. Tonight sees the opening of the grand opera season of 1004-1005 at the Metrojolitan Opera House. Coming directly after the close of the Horse Show, which took on an international character, this year because of the large number of foivign entries, the ojera will be favored with an audience composed of persons socially prominent from as far South as Georgia and West as far as California. "Aida" will lx the ojwning ojicra nnd the principal roles wil be sung by Mme. Emma Eames and Signor Caruso. That Four Thousand. Teacher's Desert the Ranks Each Year. Four thousand Indiana school teachers leave their profession annually. Such the frta tnient of Superintendent of Public-Instruction Cotton, but he does not, say from what causes they leave.: Matrimony may be blamed for a part of it. Superintendent Cotton has compiled a table containing a number of. interesting things about school, teachers of the state. It . wag compiled for the benefit of J. W. Carr, of Anderson, who is chairman of a board of the Town and City Superintendents' Association, which is investigating teachers' salaries in Indiana. Among other things it " shows that the average salary of teachers a year is tGS4.Sl and the average term of service four years. Male, teachers ar paid $2SS7?(l.ftj and female teachers $3,944,359.85 annuallv.
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