Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 31, Number 140, 14 June 1906 — Page 8

The Richmond Palladium, Thursday, June 14, 1906. BOARD OF WORKS DEFERS ACTION G., R. & I. BUYS LAND POPULAR REVIVAL OF LAWN TENUIS MAY BE REVIVED AGAIN WAYNE COUNTY OF n hd p POKIEAPPL FOR CANNING. A LONG TIME AGO WILL REBALLAST TRACKS NORTH A ST. IMPROVEMENT Walter Ratliff Hat Sold Fourteen Acres of His Farm Northwest of the City at an Avergae of $342 Per Acre Deep Gravel. Old Petition May be Succeeded by New One and Improvement Asked for During Present Season Property Owners Favor it. The Vacation of Fourteenth Street to Come up on Friday Morning. Richmond People are Taking up With Racquet Game With a Vengeance. In the Eighteenth Century It a Contained Cities of Chicago and Detroit FINE, FRESH, FLORIDA STOCK

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QUESTION OF DAMAGES

JOHN A. EVANS MAKES REPLY TO BOARD OF WORKS MEMBER WHO CLAIMS DAMAGES CANNOT BE GREAT. The Board of Public Works yesterday took no action in the matter ol the proposed vacation of North Fourteenth street as petitioned by the Hoosier Drill Company. The Board held no business session, deferring the street closing matter until the regular session on Friday. There have been no new developments in the case and not until the board's decls?jn Is announced Friday at to whether the vacation shall be ordered, will there be any steps taken by the - city toward the fixing of damages that result to other manufacturers. The Palladium yesterday received the following 'communication from John A. Evans, proprietor of the Quaker Machine Works: Editor Palladium: I notice in this morning's Palladium that one of the members of the Board of Works whose name is not given in the article gives an interview in which he says that my damages cannot be great for the reason that I will not be inconvenienced by the closing of Fourteenth street; that my draylng to the depots can be done by way of F street. In reply to this board members' comment I simply desire to say the matter ol inconvenience is not the only basis for damages that will result to my property. Does any member of the board or any citizen of Richmond presume to say that he would pay as much for my property if the street were closed as he would as it stands riow? No, not one half. It is the depreciation in the value of my property that is the basis of damages that will result when the street is closed. With the Hoosier Company owning every inch of available land on all sides of my plant and with Fourteenth street closed, is my property as valuable as it is today? I believe every fair minded man understands that it cannot be. Again I wish to place myself on record as saying that I have no desire to hinder the Hoosier Company in expanding its plant. I much prefer to continue business as 1 am today, regardless of damages awarded to me Whether great or small, but I do protest against the closing of the street , which ruins the valuation of my property, unless I am compensated for such loss. Every sane man must certainly confess that I will be greatly inconvenienced, in fact to the extent that I will be unable to do business there, and no one but the Hoosier Drill Co. would consider the purchase of my property. Respectfully, John A. Evans. RICHMOND TO HAVE Eastern Capitalists Buy Large Tract of Land North of. School Street. fO BUILD THIRTY HOUSES '.AND TO BE USED WAS SOLD EASTERN PROMOTERS BY CORNELIUS RATLIFF FOR $10,000 INCLUDES THIRTY ACRES. Cornelius Ratliff, Jr., has accepted an offer made a few days ago by eastern capitalists for a plot of ground located north of School Street. Fairview, just outside the city corporation line. The deal Involves the transfer of thirty acres of land for which Mr. Ratliff will receive $10000. All negotiations have not yet been closed but will be within the next few days. This deal is the biggest transfer in real estate made in this city for some time past. It was stated last evening that it is the Intention of the syndicate which has secured the property to lay it out in a residence addition. It is probable that this year streets and alleys will be laid out in the new addition and the plot divided oft into lots. Next summer it is the Intention of the syndicate to erect twenty or thirty modern dwelling houses and on the completion of the residences they will bo disposed of at reasonable prices. Fairview" has been booming for some time past and that section of the city has rapidly become one of the most popular residence portions of the city. It is expected that when the addition Is completed it will incorporate into the city. GRACE CHURCH DINNER. Today at nooxTthe ladies of Grace noothe 1 Methodist churcnvMll serve a 15 dinner a bouNfulrfcast fgr-a very small fee., BusJsKjtaiOT especially are invited. TlmeNJjSO to 1. Palladium Want-Ads Pay

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Walter Ratliff has disposed of 14 acres of his farm, northwest of this city to the G. R. & L Railroad Company. Mr. Ratliff received for this land in the neighborhood of $4,800, an average of about $$342 per acre. The railroad company will use this land as a gravel bed. Next summer the G. R. & I. will re-gravel its roadbeds and the land secured from Mr. Ratliff was purchased in anticipation of this work, a vast amount of gravel being required for this purpose. In 1882 the G. R. & I. purchased 33 acre3 from the farm of Mr. Ratliff. The new land the railroad company has taken over contains soil, the average depth of which runs from 13 inches to 5 feet. In some places there is gravel to the depth of 40 feet, but the average depth is about 15 feet

SUGGESTIONS BY SUPT. F. A. State Superintendent Gives Advice on Schools and Their Management. NAMING SUPERINTENDENT HE SUGGESTS THAT COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT, IF HE BE CAPABLE, BE RETAINED IN OFFICE. Supt. Jordan of the Wayne County schools and every township trustee in Wayne County will today or tomorrow receive a circular letter from Fassett A. Cotton, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, relative to the proper selection of school superintendents and the sanitary and athletic conditions of schools. The circular is as follows: "A year ago the State Board of Education made some suggestions to school officials over the State in regard to certain phases of school life which were considered of such vital importance as to call for special emphasis. During the last year considerable progress has been made in educational affairs. More care than ever has been taken in the choice of school grounds. School premises in many instances have been made more sanitary. Better buildings have been made more sanitary. Better buildings have been constructed. Better facilities have been provided. HIsher wages than ever before have been paid, and public opinion has conceded the necessity of it all. The Most Important Duty. "The very progress of our schools has come to depend upon intelligent supervision, and more thr.n ordinary interest attaches to the choice of superintendent. Inded, the choice of suserintendent becomes the most importantduty of school trustees, and they can perform no larger service than maintaining a high standard In making this choice. "Much more is demanded of a school superintendent. He must be competent to deal with the business side of the school, but he must be much more than that., He must be a close, discriminating student of human r.flture, a man among men. He must be familiar with all school problems. He must be skillful in organize tion, and a constructive leader among teachers. He mu3t be a teacher himself and must believe in the profession of teaching. Tenure and Responsibility. "But the mere choice of the best man is not sufficient. In the first place, he should, after serving acceptably for one year, be chosen for a term of years, with the understanding that his tenure is to be during good behavior, "More attention should be given to the aesthetic and sanitary conditions of school premises. The very best site should be chosen. The best building from architectural and sanitary considerations should be constructed. There should be neat fences, pure water, green lawns, fine trees and beautiful flowers on the grounds, and the best furniture and the most attractive decoration in the building. These things are educative in themselves. The outhouses, which not infrequently are co neglected as to become a menace to health and morals, must receive constant attention. They are just as important as the schoolrooms themselves and should be kept clean. The- janitor must be made to understand thatthis is his business and he must be held responsible for the conditions that exist." Picnic Arranged The Richmond Business College will give their regular all day picnic at Jackson's Park Tuesday June 19. Every one having attended the R. B. C. is cordially invited to attend and try and make the day an enjoyable one. The larger part of the company expect to leave the city at 9:30 on a special car, all former students who can attend are requested to call or telephone before Monday evening. Information in regard to refreshments, etc., can be obtained at the College. '

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CITY HAS MANY COURTS . . . , . i PERSONS IN ALL WALKS OF LIFE ARE BECOMING DEVOTEES OF THE GAME SITUATrON AT COUNTRY CLUB.

Last summer a popular revival of the game of lawn .tennis was started. This year marks the completion of the revival. Tennis is now here to stay and at the present time the splendid game is as popular as it was several years ago before many followers of the racquet and net turned deserters for the Scotch game of golf. The majority of tennis players who forsook the game for golf have now returned. to their first love. This is not only true in Richmond but all over the country. In walking and driving about Richmond of an afternoon between the hours of 4 and 6 o'clock cries of "love set", "outside" and "thirty all" can be heard on numerous courts which are located in every part of the city. Somo afternoon if you walk into some place of business and injuire for the proprietor, or if you call at the parsonage of your minister, do not be surprised if you are informed that they are "not in now, out playing tennis you know." The game is not confined to the youths of the city alone, its devotees include staid business men, athletic school boys and college men, dignified ministers of the gospel and pale faced, round-shouldered clerks. The tennis germ is working overtime now days. Illustrated at Cuntry Club. To illustrate the great popularity of tennis in Richmond the Country Club offers a striking example. When the golf course was first laid out two excellent tennis courts, as good as any in Eastern Indiana, were built. For two or three years they had but few occupants but the golf course was trampled over by hundreds. Today go to the Country Club any afternoon and you will always find the courts populated but but only the incurable followers of the Scotch game on the links. Among the best courts in the city are the two courts at the Country Club, the six courts at Earlham college the two courts at the public play grounds, private courts on North Twelfth street, South Fifth, , South Ninth street, West Third street and the Richmond Business College court. Richmond has turned out sevearl excellent tennis players, among them being Walter Cain, now residing in New Castle," who a few years ago was the tri-state champion; Dudley Elmer, formerly state champion in singles and doubles: Isaac Wilson, who won the state doubles championship with Elmer: Miss Rae Chandlee, Aloward Seaton and others. THE CITY INBRIEF Telephone the flflimond Steam Laundry to get your' laundry. tf David Overman who died at Marion last Sunday and whose funeral was held yesterday, was one of the most widely known Friends in Indiana. He was a momber of the idiana Yearly Meeting. Phone 812 H. berries. bjen Kuth for 7-6t Dr. E. II. Mendtyhall, 114 S. 9th St. Day Phone 435, night phone 1236. eod-tf. . On next Sunday Univerpalists services will be held in the uiiion church at Ablngton and J. W. yaldwell will deliver the sermon. His subject will be "What is Christianity' Teeth extracted4Wiwiour. no charges. C. J. HbnJBenhal, See Kibbey's line of genuine Pana ma hats, $3 to $15. These are busy days at the Kuth berry farm, scores of pickers being engaged harvesting the bountiful strawberry crop which almost entirely is consumed by Richmnd people. Don't suffer Petro-Pine Pile Cure at any drug 15 and 25 cents. Kibbey's hat staresole a Hopkins and Knoljcraw hat: ll-t gents for hats. Ringling's circuis will be at Muncie one week from today and excursion rates over the C. C. & L. will be given from all points within fifty miles. It is an unusual thing to see a circus billing Richmond for a Muncie date. FEW SARGASSOS ARE LEFT Remaining Numbers of Earlham's Splendid Annual Have Been Placed on Sale at Nicholson's. The Sargasso, the Earlham College annual, has had an exceptional sale for the first year, but there remains still a limited jiumber of copies for public distribution. All those persons who have not as yet obtained copies of the book and wish them, can get them at the book store of Nicholson and Bro., on Main street.; where they will be placed on sale today '

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The original petition asking for the improvement of North A street by construction of cement curbs and gutters on both sides of the thoroughfare

was presented to council two years or more ago. No definite action was ever taken. It transpires now that this old petition has been turned over by the Board of Works to a property owner on North A street with the understanding that a new" petition is to be prepared and presented to the board. A majority of property owners, it is believed, favor the proposed improvement and would like to see the work completed before the present season is over. WOULD HAVE CITY FIX ITS SALARIES City Clerk Taggart Expresses His Views at Municipal league Meeting. DR. DAVIS ON SANITATION RICHMOND'S HEALTH OFFICER SPOKE AT MARION BETTER GOVERNMENT THE KEYNOTE OF THE MEETING. IPalladlum Special. Marion, Ind., June 13. The sixteenth annual meeting of the Indiana Municipal League, which is in session in this city, promises to be the most interesting ever held. The forty-seven cities in the league having membership are represented by many State officials. Jeffersonville was the first city to register a delegation of six. Madi3on, Vincennes, Evansville and all the cities in the southern part of the State, were among the first arrivals. The principal address was by Mayor Brouse of Kokomo; his subject, "Should . Mayors Have Judicial Power?" in which he took the negative side of the proposition. There was not a voice raised in opposition to his declaration that they should not have judicial power, while there were a number who entered into the discussion of the subject in support of his position. Mayor Sweezy had similar views and John F. Taggart, clerk of Richmond, declared that each ctt should have control of the salaries of the officials and should not, as in' some instances, be compelled to pay salaries fixed by legislatures for services which they do not render. Several others entered into the discussion which was concluded by George W. Shaw, city attorney, of Vincennes. . Looking to Better Government. . James McWeeney of South Bend, told of the purpose of the meeting, and dwelt upon the manner in which it "should be considered. He said: "We wish to have better government of the cities we represent, and we wish to express our views on the subjects here presented. It will be my policy to speak openly on the weak points in the government of South Bend, and it will be the purpose of the delegates to exchange their Ajiews freely upon every subject. We expect to be opposed. We expect debates. From debate there is much to be gained, and it is with the view of gaining something that we have assembled in Marion." Public Sanitation Considered. The session opened today with reports from delegates from various parts of the State. Applications for membership' were then filed from a number of cities. Some matters of business were taken up, and Dr. C. Henry Davis, of Richmond, spoke on the subject of "Public Sanitation. He was followed by W. A. Mclnerry, of South bend, his subject, "Collection and Disposition of Garbage." FORMER RICHMOND MAN Harry B. Smith Who STed at 'ndianapolis Recently was Born and Reared in This City. Harry B. Smith, v.-ho died a few days ago at Indianapolis was forfifteen years general freight agent of the Indianapolis, Peru & Chicago, RV., but later retired from railroad service and for two years was too ill t& attend to business. His wife is nowl very ill, being confined to her bed.' Mr. Smith was born and reared in Richmond, and his old home was on North 5th street (Old Pearl). He enlisted in Co. A. 69th Indiana Volunteer Infantry August 6, 1862 as a private, was promoted to Quartermaster Sarbent serving as such until he was discharged July 1865. He left Richmond for Indianapolis some time in the sixties. Now Ready for Business. The newly completed South Side hose house is ready for occupancy, fire alarm telegraph connections having been made yesterday with the structure and the electrical apparatus put in place. As soon as the hose wagon arrives the" new "crew will be ready to respond to alarms.

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HOW IT ALL CAME ABOUT

WAYNE COUNTY, OF TERRITORI AL DAYS, EMBRACED PART OF INDIANA, OHIO AND MICHIGAN FINALLY GIVEN TO OHIO. The Indianapolis News last mght printed a story of the Wayne County of the 18th Century, which is very in teresting. In part it follows: "What would you do if you were throwing the mail on one of your runs and came across a letter addressed to Chicago, Ind., or to Detroit, Ind.?" was asked of a railway mail clerk. "Well, I guess I'd be a little stump ed," he said, "and I'd throw it for Chi cago, 111., or Detroit, Mich., and iet the letter carriers search those cities :r the addresses." "But suppose the letters were addressed to Chicago, Wayne County, Ind., and Detroit, the same way, what then?" "Then I'd conclude it was a bad case of mistaken address, and I'd shunt them in the dead letter pile." In that the modern mail clerk would be right. But there was a time when the present cities of Chica go and Detroit were both in Wayne county, Indiana. At that time, areo both of those cities were situated just where they are now, though the boon daries of Wayne county were very dif ferent. The cities have not been moved, but circumstances have chang ed. This is how it was. Counties State-Like In Sire. In 1796 the county of Wayne was cut off the northern part of Indiana and named in honor of Gen. Anthony Wayne. Wayne county comprised the whole of what is now the northern part of Ohio, west of Cleveland; all of Indiana north of Knox county: the whole of what is now the State of Michigan, except its extreme north west corner on Lake Superior; a small corner in the northeast part of the present state of Illinois, including the present site of Chicago, and so mucn of what is now the State of Wisconsin as is watered by the streams which flow into Lake Michigan. The coun ty seat of Wayne county was Detroit Chicago Added to Wayne County A year later the United States ac quired the Indian title to six miles square at the mouth of the Chicago river and that becam a part of Wayne county. Michigan was not part of Indiana Territory very long, only five years but during that period Detroit was in Wayne county, Indiana. By the sep aration of Ohio and Indiana Territo ries in 1800, Wayne county was di vided, its eastern portion falling to Ohio. ' ' Detroit Attached to Indiana. In April, 1802, when Ohio was about ready to be admitted as a state, Con gress provided that that portion of Wayne county, including Detroit, should be attached to the Territory of Indiana. In October, 1804, a town meeting was held in Detroit to petition Con gress for a separate Territory, and on December 6 of that year a petition was presented in Congress, of "the democratic republicans in the county of Wayne, in the Territory of Indi ana," praying for a division of said territory. The original county of Wayne embraced parts of the present States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Michigan, and there is still a county of that name in each one of those states. VOTE AGAINST PASSES National Editorial Association Would Have Anti Pass Provision Include Its Members. ' Palladium Special. Indianapolis, June 13. The National Editorial Association today tabled a motion to petition Congress to amend the railway rate bill, so as to exempt the newspapers from the operation of the anti-pass clause. There was considerable discussion on this motion and w.hen the vote was taken on the motion of W. S. Cappeller, of Ohio, to table it there was a remarkable likeness in the number voting aye and no. The president declared, however, that the ayes had it and the motion was tabled. EARLHAM HAS HER BEST GRADUATION V (Continued from Page I ) the privilege of doing his part in fromotlng and advancing civilization and in achieving the highest destiny o mankind. 5 u I, Strive to Achieve. SLIfe in each soul becomes mor; abundant when we strive to achieve the loriginal purpose that is revealed to vfe. Lfe becomes barren unless we preserve and develop the tendency to do things we plan for ourselves. In creaie of power some surely from everi honest effort to achieve. Every time? a man in any stage of his development does a true thing he gains in many ways; he has more power to achieve, he has more tendency to achieve, he has more joy in achieving, he haa a fuller .revelation of his power and better still he has a clearer insight Ui regard to the next work he ought td do. The true test of more abundant life is the broadening vision

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