Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 31, Number 113, 14 May 1906 — Page 1

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i! rrp BIG moot fa; Hi ill f I iii 1 VOL. XXXI. NO. 113. Richmond, Indiana, Monday, May 14, 1906. Single Copies, Two Cents. SHOT HIMSELF III HEAD WITH RIFLE DODDRIDGE IS NOMINATED RATE BILL IN THE BALANCE m Stormy Session Is Predicted for the Senate During Today. MEMORIAL CANDIDATE FOR CONGRESS Socialists Announced Yesterday That They Named Wealthy Wayne County Farmer on March 26 as Their Candidate for Congress. George Folkner, Apparently Without Reason Took His . Own Life. DEDICATED

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LEFT NOTE TO HIS WIFE

HE TOLD HER NOT TO WORRY BUT TO TAKE GOOD CARE OF THE SEVEN CHILDREN WAS A PESSIMIST.

Without any apparent cause, Folkner, aged 40 years, shot and killed himself yesterday afternoon In a barn near his home, three miles southwest of the city on the Lloyd farm. He was not In poor health and his business prospects were even better than usual, besides his wife, he leaves seven children, who are at a loss to assign a reason for his rash deed. Folkner was naturally of a brooding disposition although he never threatened to kill himself. When things looked their brightest, he con

tinued In a pessimistic mood. He ate a hearty dinner and staved In the house with his family for a bout an hour. He then got up without saying anything and went to the barn, taking'

with him his rifle, a email firearm, 22 calibre. Arriving at the barn, he

At their congressional convention which was held in this city March 26, In Carpenter's Hall, the Socialists of this district nominated James M. Doddridge a wealthy and prominent farmer of this county as their congressional candidate. Mr. Doddridge was the .unanimous choice of the en

tire party delegation which attended j the convention. For various reasons the nomination was not announced ! till yesterday. j One of the leading Socialists said i yesterday that there had been some I talk of their party endorsing the Rev. ! Mr. Kuhn but they decided after 1 considering the matter that their own candidate would be nu'di more satisfactory to the memreuirf the party ;

In this district.

THE MINORITY IS ACTIVE

DEMOCRATIC LEADERS SEEKING TO MAKE AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE OUT OF CHARGE AGAINST ROOSEVELT.

NEWBY FUNERAL HELD

.The Revs. W. N. Nelson and Allen Jay Preached Short Sermons List of Pallbearers.

The funeral of the late Thomas J.

Newby was held yesterday afternoon

wrote a short note to his wife, left It at 2 o'clock at the home, North Sixth

tinder his hat and fired a b".Het into his brain. A few minutes later his wife had occasion to go to the barn, which Is about 200 yards from the house, and there she found her husband In an

unconscious condition. She hastily summoned Dr. Zlramermaiv, who, understanding that Folkner was dead, took Coroner Markeley with him. Arriving at the home they found Folkner still unconscious. About five o'clock he expired. The note which he left was as follows: "Dear Wife Don't worry about me, but take good care of the children. So good-bye." It was unsigned. Folkner pressed the muzzle of the small gun to his forehead, and the bullet plowed a path through his brain.

Were Married Saturday. Edward Holtcamp" and Elizabeth Walkerj two' well known Richmond young people, were united In marriage by the Rev. J. O. Campbell at the Fifth Street M. S. church on Saturday evening. The ceremony took place at 7:30 with but two attendants, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Marble, relatives of the groom. Mr. Holtcamp Is well known. He is employed at the Gaar, Scott factory. The bride and groom will make their home in this city.

WEATHER INDICATIONS.

fair In Tuesday to east

Indiana Rain In north; south portion Monday: phowers: brisk northeast

wind. Ohio-Rain Monday, except In extreme south portion: cooler; Tuesday showers and warmer; fresh east winds; becoming southerly.

street, and was attended by a large number of the friends and relatives of the deceased. The services of the I. O. O. F. lodge, of which Mr. Newby was a member, were held on Saturday evening, with a large number of Woodward Lodge, in attendance. At the services yesterday, Rev. W. N. Nelson, of. the Grace M. E. church and the Rev. Allen Jay, of the Society of Frfend3, made short addresses. The pallbearers were Alden Mote, Jesse Brooks, Frank Davenport, William Mount, Earnst Rcid and William KepUnger. The burial was in Earlham cemetery. Mr. Newby was the last surviving

member of Woodward Lodge of Odd Fellows in this city ,and was prominent in that order. He was a well known resident of this city.

ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATED

Epworth Leagues of the Methodists Hold Union Meetings at Grace Church.

The Seventeenth anniversary of the organization In the Methodist Church of the Epworth League was celebrated last evening by the four Methodist churches of the city, at a Union meeting, held at the Grace church. There was a large attendance of members and an excellent program was rendered. There were representatives at the meeting from .the First Methodist, the Grace, the Third and the Fifth sJttIet churches. All the Leagues in the city showed considerable gains for the past year. The Rev. Nelson made an address on "Progressive Evangelism."

Daniel G. Reid, London, England. "Great day great church Gratitude." S. R. LYONS. The above message was cabl ed to Daniel G. Reid. the donor of the Reld Memorial Church yesterday in reply to his message received in the morning. It concisely expresses the feelings of the large congregation and the people of Richmond.

Publishers' Press Washington, May 12. The question

of veracity raised in the Senate Saturday by Mr. Lodge on behalf of the President in connection with negotiations on the railroad rate bill, may prolong the consideration of that measure. It had been the hope of the Republican leaders, now that a full agreement has been reached on all important controvered questions, to get a final vote for adjournment tomorrow night. Mr. Hale, however, has given notice that he will emphatically oppose any attempt to such hasty consideration of what he considers to be one of the most vital portions of the bill, the personnel of the commission. It is believed that tomorrow's session may exceed in bitterness that of

yesterday. The minority seators propose to make as much capital as possible out of their charge that President Roosevelt has surrendered to the railroad influences and that he betrayed the Democratic leaders in their attempt, upon the suggestions of the President, to aid him in constructing and passing a suitable rate regulation measure. It is understood that the President's version of his dealings with the Democrats, will be fully exploited. The aim of the Democratic senators, is to break the compromise agreement, but inasmuch as the last of these compromise amendments has been formally adopted, it is not seen how their efforts can accomplish more than to embarrass temporarily, the President and Senators Spooner, Spooner, Knox and Foraker, whom it is said the President repudiated, but which charge the President branded as an unqualified falsehood. An ear

nest endeavor will be made to secure a final vote on the rate bill before the last of the week.

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PURDY IS NOW IN JAIL

Indianapolis Publishr Must Stay Behind the Bars Thirty Days for Contempt of Court.

Palladium Special.! Indianapolis, May 12 By special mandate of Judge Fremont Alford, of the Marion Criminal court, Fred L. Purdy, publisher of the Indianapolis Sun, is confined in the prison department of the Marion county jail for indirect contempt of court. The term imposed by Judge Alford is thirty days in addition to a fine of $250. In passing the sentence Judge Alford directed Kheriff Edward G. Sourbier that Mr. Purdy be kept in the prison department of the jail. Sheriff Sourbier said, just before taking Mr. Purdy from the court room, that this is the first time since his term as sheriff began, his discretion as to the place of confinement of a prisoner has been denied.

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MEMORIAL ORGAN IN REID MEMORIAL CHURCH.

This Instrument, Undoubtedly the Finest in the Middle West, Is To Be Formally Dedicated thi

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MEMORIAL CHURCH, DEDICATED YESTERDAY.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE BEAUTIFUL EDIFICE

Reid Memorial church is by no means the largest church structure In Indiana, but It can be safely said none other in the State and in fact in the middle west combines so -many striking features In general architectural design and in ecclesiastical decorations as does the edifice given to the United Presbyterian congregation by Daniel G. Reid, and his daughter, Miss Rhea Reid, as a memorial to the parents of Mr. Reid. The general dimensions of the building are 90 by 120 feet, the general style of architecture being a modification of the English Gothic Cathedral. The massive tower located at the correr, forms a central feature In the perspective. The exterior walls are ail of finely tooled Bedford stone with elaborately moulded and carved trimmings of the same stone. The roof is covered with corrugated red tile and all cornices, gutters and conductors are of copper. The interior walls and ceilings are of hard plaster, sand finished, on metal lath, the ceilings being groin-arched and decorated in stucco fan-tracery and c'etails. The interior wood finish and furnishings are of mahogany and birch with finely carved details. The spacious chancel contains the choir, the divided organ and the pulpit platform. The seats are in circular form orf.a slightly bowled floor, and a gracefully curved balcony affords as desirable sittings as those cn the mein floor. The Sabbath School department which is quite separate from the church, consists of a large central room, with class rooms In two tiers on either side, all arranged to open together by folding and sliding sash doors. The pastor's study is located on the rr.ain floor, fitted up with book cases, mantel and toilet rcom and opening into the church auditorium and the Sabbath School Room. The basement, which is designed primarily for the social life of the church congregation is a feature that perhaps cannot be duplicated in any church edifice in the west. The great hall, designed for entertainments of any sort is well lighted end well ventilated and for the uses intended its appointments are as near perfect as the skill of architects and artisans could provide. For congregation feasts there are special features provided. The kitchen with its complete ranges and every facility for the preparation of foods, is a model. The table service, designed esoeciaily for the church is of great beauty. The building throughout is lighted by both gas and electricity, artistically disposed and heated with steam, with a thorough system of gravity ventilation, accelerated by rarefaction. The seating capacity of tha church is 1,050 divided as follows: Main auditorium and choir, 400 sittings; balcony of auditorium, 150, sittings; main Sabbath School room, 2C0 sittings; class rcoms, 160 sittings; kindergarten room, 140 sittings. , THE WONDERFULLY EXECUTED DECORATIONS. The decorations of the church are vonderful, chiefly for the almost perfect harmony that has obtained, one part with another, and the total absence of naudiness so common to most church decorative schemes. The decorative work of the entire interior is the work of the Tiffany studios, New York. The color scheme of the various rooms is coriepicucus for its extreme simplicity, the object of which is to obtain absolutely correct harmony of color without resorting to lavish decoration. The mottled effect noted on all the walls is an absolutely new departure in the fild of decoration and is original with the Tiffany studios. The effect is soothing and pleasing to the eye, features that are not obtainable from the ordinarily opaquely painted walls. The whols scheme of color effects, intermingled with golden traceries, is artistic in every detail. Great skill has been displayed in the toning of all the colors, making them complementary to the rich green, nold and blue of the windows and the rich mahogany of the woodwork. THE ART GLASS WINDOWS BY TIFFANY. The windows throughout the church are also the work of the Tiffany studios in New York, and are constructed of Tiffany Favrile Glass in purely Gothic design, which harmonizes with the architecture of the. building. In one of the large windows in the auditorium are the figures of the Lord and the four Evan gelists. while in the oreat window of the Sunday School room is depicted that famous scene in the life of Christ, when as a boy he is found by his mother in disputation with the doctors in the temple. These figures are not taken, es is found in many of the churches of this country, from some of the works of the old masters, which were intended for paintings and not for glass, but are original productions of the artists of the Tiffany studios and were especially designed for works of art in glass alone. ORAN UNLIKE ANY OTHER IN THE WORLD. 1 At a cost of more than aMr. Reid purchased for the church one of the finest organs in the country as a memorial to hi? late wife, Clairessa Reid. It is, in fart, three seperate organs operated from one console. The plans and specifications for the organ were drawn by W. H. Donley of Indianapolis and it was manufactured by the Hook-Hastings Company of ' Boston. The instrument is unlike any other In the world, and its installation marks an epoch in the manufacture of church organs. The great and pedal organs are located on one side of the choir chancel, and the swell and choir organs on the other, while the echo organ, with Its wonderful effects is situated in the north tower of the church. The console is directly back of the pulpit and is so placed that the organist can have complete control of the choir, which is between the two sections of the organ. The action is electropneumatic. There is only one contact, which is under the keyboard and Is controlled by the slightest touch. The flute registers are of great variety and special beauty, every known quality being represented. The string tones are close imitations of the orchestral instruments, and when all the string registers in the organ are used one can easily imagine he is listening to-a large string orchestra. The reed registers are numerous and of great sonorousness of tone, making the full organ brilliant and bright. The pedal organ is especially large and particularly rich and complete. The pcsibilities of the organ are infinite, and while it is a wonderfully brilliant and complete concert organ, it is no less, by the exceeding richness of its foundation stops, a perfect church organ. "The organ would make," says Mr. Donley,

"the central point of attraction in some of the greatest cathedrals of Europe. It is the most modern and

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Beautiful Edifice Given to United Presbyterian Congregation by Daniel G. Reid, Formally Opened Yesterday With Simple Ceremonies.

AN EPOCH MAKING EVENT

Formal Presentation of Church Was Made by Mr.j John B. Dougan on Behalf of Mr. Reid, Who is Abroad Cablegram from Donor.

FORMER PASTORS PRESENT

REV. ALEXANDER GILCHRIST DELIVERED THE DEDICATORY SERMON AND SEVERAL OTHER FORMER PASTORS OF THE CHURCH TOOK PART - IN THE SERVICES THE MUSICAL FEATURES WERE ESPECIALLY STRIKING DETAILED ACCOUNT OF THE EXERCISES.

Carrying out the Ideas of the donor, that of simplicity and appropriateness and favored by Ideal weather, Reid Memorial church was dedicated

to the service of God yesterday morning. With a pastor, whose kindly personality and breadth of thought have endeared him to all church going people of the city, with leading minds of the Presbyterian church taking part In the services, and with a choir of the city's choicest voices, the dedicatory; services were entirely In keeping with: the grandeur of the structure which Daniel G. Reid has erected to the memory of his mother and father. An Epoch in Church History. The occasion marks an epoch In the; church history of Richmond. TheJ finest church building in Richmond perhaps, of its size in the West, was thrown open to the use of the .public. For In every feature of the services,' the fact was brought prominently be-' fore those assembled for the exercises,'

that the place of worship was not alone for the United Presbyterian congregation, but for the entire citjrand even broader than that, whoever

might enter therein. Message from Mr. Retd. j Mr. Reid was not present at the' dedication although in the mind; of, every person there, his generosityand' rrrftof Is-ttri f nr Vila nornnta nif ' T7 1

mond secondarily, were . uppermosL A message was read from Mr. Reld shortly after the services began. It was a cablegram which he had sent from Lrondon, England, to Dr. Lyons, the pastor. The cablegram read: "The Rev. Dr. Lyons. United Presbyterian Church, Richmond, Ind.: "Best wishes for a pleasant ' and happy day. "DANIEL G. REID." A singular thing, due to the difference in time between this country and England and noted by Dr. Lyons as be delivered Mr. Reid's message to the congregation was the fact that the message was sent from London Sunday morning at 8:15 and arrived in this city at 7:44 o'clock. Flowers Only Decorations. There were no decorations, other than three vases of flowers. The vases filled with nature's gifts, lighted by the "warm sun as It shone softly through the gorgeous windows added a touch of color to the scene presented. In a vase south of the pulpit there were Bride's roses of pure white. The vase sitting north of the pulpit was filled with Golden Gate roses of bluish pink. On the pulpit proper, In a cut glass vase presented to the church by Mrs. Oliver Bogue, a sister of Mr. Reld were delicately and curiously shaped orchids from the estate of Mr. Reld on the Hudson river. Those on the Platform. On the platform were seated besides Dr. S. R. Lyons, the pastor of the church, three former pastors, the Rev. N. E, Wade, of New Brighton, Pa., who was one of the earliest ministers at the old church. Dr. J. McD. Hervey, of Providence. R. I., and the Rev. Dr. Alexander Gilchrist, of Pittsburg, who was In the pulpit here for several years. Besides these were the Rev. Dr. J. A. Wilson of the Pittsburg Theological Seminary at Allegheny. Pa the Rev. Dr. Joseph Kyle of the Xenia Theological Seminary, the Rev., Dr. I. M. Hughes, formerly pastor of the First Presbyterian church of this city, the Rev. Dr. T. H- Hanna of Stueben(Continued to Page Five.)

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