Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 31, Number 183, 30 July 1906 — Page 8

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The Richmond Palladium, Monday, July 30, 1906.

MUCH TIME LOST

LOOKING Oil

Richmond People Can't Resist Stopping to Gaze at Improvements Being Made. AN UNSOLVED PHENOMENA IF ALL THE TIME WASTED WERE JUDICIOUSLY APPLIED TO HOUSE BUILDING, TWO COULD BE ERECTED EACH WEEK. If each person passing along the streets of Richmond who stopped to watch men work on jobs which called for ordinary manual labor, would spend this time in the erection of a new house, two could be built in Richmond each week. It is estimated that hundreds of hours are lost every clay in the city by people who cannot withstand tho temptation of watching other men at work. This attraction is regarded ac one of the most peculiar psychological traits of the human mind. If a laboring man takes a pick and Bhovel and begins digging up the street or a man is lej own in a manhole to make repairs, a crowd is always looking on and the passersby cannot resist the temptation ef stopping to see what is "doing." However, the greatest attraction for the ordinary Richmond man is the improvement or building of a street. Where the most labor is involved in the undertaking, or where some unusual repair on buildings is going on, is the place where the Richmond passerby loses the greatest amount of his time. The reason why a pleco of manual labor would bo such an attraction to a man cannot be solved, but nevertheless it is so, and it is estimated that nine out of every ten people will tarry to watch the work progress. Curiosity la the most likely of tho explanations for this phenomena. Tho improvements on the East Main street sidewalks have been the center of attraction for tho east siders lately, and It Is estimated that on the average every man, woman and child has lost at least five minutes each day by watching tho work as they pass by. TAGGART TO ERECT HOTEL He It said to be Negotiating for Site in Missouri Plans a 350 Room Structure. I Publishers Press Kansas City, Mo., July 29. Thomas Taggart, of Indianapolis, chairman of the Democratic national committee, is said to be negotiating for the purchase of what Is known as the Elms hotel site at Excelsior Springs, Mo. It is said Mr. Taggart has a noption on the Excelsior Springs property,' which expires Aug. 1. Should Mr. Taggart purchase the property It is said that ho will erect a 300 or ?50-room hotel on the site. TRAIN AND TRACK. The Chicago board of assessors has assessed the Chicago subway at $7,000,000. An electric engine attached to nine heavy Fullmpn coaches made a record of eighty-three miles an hour. Tho trial was recently made on the New Tork Central railroad. The Otnnd Trunk railway has instituted a new departure at handling the baggage of steamship passengers, and How a trunk can be checked in Chicago to be delivered to its owner at any European port to which the transportation reads. On some Prussian railway lines hot and cold drinks are sold to employees at the price of '2 pfennig (one-half cent) per portion of coffee or tea or for a bottle of mineral water. On some of the lines in Germany the employees have been forbidden to take any alcoholic drinks while on duty. LABOR AND PROGRESS. The total exportation of American boots and chocs In 1003 was $8,050,012. an Increase of $1,340,237. The largest pin factory In the world Is that lu Birmingham, England, where 87,000,000 pins are manufactured every working day. The census reports phow that in 1900 there were 337 cottonseed oil mills in the United States. In 1905 the number bad Increased to 717. The cotton states produced In 1903 133,000,000 gallons of cottonseed- oil. North Carolina produced over 0,000,000. Gas pipes are now made of paper in some cities of the United States. The paper is rolled In n receiver of fused asphalt and formed, around an iron bar. It Is then submitted to a great pressure and covered with sand. The outside is waterproofed. Th GruTtom Mahrntta. The grewsome mahrntta wadkah, the weapon of the Hindoo ( assassin. Is shaped like a tiger's claws and fastened to the Angers of the right hand by rings. With a treacherous embrace the murderer clasps his victim and teirs hira open, leaving hlui mutilated la a condition that leads the discoverer of the body to'bwlieve a tiger or some other, wild beast has clawed the tnau to death. Pnrrota and Rain. . Parrots are good barometers. Jnst before a rain the most talkative and gabby parrot becomes silent. . Th"! name wheat Is derived from a Saxon word, "hwaete," signifying white, because the flour from this grain is lighter in color than that from any

FALL FARMERS' FESTIVAL

ALEXANDRIA'S BIG EVENT Work Will be Started at Once to Have Show This Year on a Broader Scale Than Last Year's Program. it , Alexandria, Ind., July 29, (Spl.) Subscriptions are being called for to finance the annual fall farmers' festival dated for this city later on. The request for financial support is meeting with liberal response and there ls little cuestion but that last year's fund will be equaled, if not surpassed, the intention being to widen the scopeof territory and to Increase the prizesin number, if not in amount. It is "estimated that 20.000 people attended the last year's ' festival, known thn as the corn festival, and that, despite the rainy weather, and it Is expected' to add one-third to that figure In tt is year's atendance by more liberalladvertising and better attractions. 'TO SEE A FAST TRAIN STOP Railroad Detectives Believe Small Boys Caused Bad Wreck at Antlers, I. T. A SPIKE BETWEEN RAILS FIREMAN WAS KILLED AND OTHERS MAY DIE BY CANNONBALL EXPRESS GOING OVER EMBANKMNT. Publishers' Tressj Antlers, I. T.. July 29. Fireman William Skelton was killed and Engineer John Harlan fo badly injured that he will probably di in a wreck of the southbound Frisco Cannonball Express near here today. A spike had been driven between the rails on the high side of a curve and when the train struck It the engine rolled down an embankment, followed by the tender and baggage car. Engineer Harlan stuck to his post. His right eye was desrroyed, and arm broken and he suffered internal injuries. The baggageman and express messenger escaped with severe bruises. The passenger were badlr shaken up and some received minor injuries but none wa3 severely hurt. More than 200 Texans were aboard the train. Railroad detectiveswho are investlgatng beleve the wreck was caused by boys who had a desire to see a fast train stopped. George Was Too Late To See Baby's TricV IT was on a Sabbath morn, and George Murgatroyd had just turned over "to sleep again after making his sixth resolution to get up. But the cry, fraught with anxiety and trepidation, that came from the room below banished sleep instantly. It was his wife's voice the dear girl whom he had taken from a parent's or, ratter, two parents' care. "George! Come quick!" What could be the matter? "George! Why don't you come? Come! Come!" In his frantic baste he had on his trousers hind part before and his shirt was a wreck, but what of that? L.Ike a flash it enme to him, the tale of yesterday, told by his little wife, at which he had scoffed a tale of a dark browed nan wno came to read the gas meter an l who had behaved so strangely that Maud suspected him of being a burglar's spy. The man had come again. Even now, perhaps "George! If you don't come it'll be too later What were collar studs now that he should search for them? With one bound he overturned the rocking chair and smashed the water Jug; in another instant he had collided with the open door of the wardrobe; at the third step he tripped over his braces and came down on his elbows and countenance. "Courase, Maud!" he cried. "I am coming!" He was only a pale bookkeeper and unarmed save with nature's weapons, but not for a moment did he falter. "You're too late," said Maud, with a pretty pout, as George dashed into the room with a fire in his eye that the blood on his nose could not dim. ' "What where is he?" he gasped, looking around with, an awful falntness at the heart. "I wanted you to see the baby," said she in a disappointed voice. "He had his foot in bis mouth, and you've no Idea how pretty the little dear looked." Tit-Bits. The Perfect Lover. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catr, the famous woman's rights leader, said of an untactful motion at a woman's club: ."This motion In its delicacy reminds me of a Rlpon man. "The man got married, and after he had been married several years his wife said to him one night: 'Ycu do not speak as affectionately to me as you used lo, Hal. I fear you have ceased to love me. " 'Ceased to love you! growled the man. 'There you go again. Ceased to love you! Why, I love you more than life Itself. Now, shut up and let me read the paper.' "Philadelphia Bulletin,

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SHORT HISTORY OF FIRE DEPARTMENT

Veteran Capt. David Miller has Kept Interesting Facts Concerning It AN ENGINE HOUSE IN 1855 THE FIRST EFFORT TO GET FIRE PROTECTION WAS AT A MEETING IN THE JEFFRIES TAVERN IN 183C. Captain David A. Miller ,of No. 1 Hose House, who is the oldest fireman in the state, entering the volunteer department of this city in 1855 and the pay-department in 1875, gives a very interesting history of the local fire department from its establishment in the "Town of Richmond" and up to the present time. December, 1830. Job. W. Swain, at the A. Jefferis tavern, just east of Pearl, (now Fifth) on Main street, called a body of fifteen men to order to discuss a plan for fire protection. A volunteer company was formed to man the old hand engine, "Grindstone," which had been purchased the year before. This engine worked six men on each side and forced its water, which was furnished by buckets, through a 10-foot hose. Council made a provision for repairs to the extent of fifty cents per month. First House Cost $389. The first engine house was erected in 1855 on lot No. 5, on South Pearl street, at a cost of $389. This at different periods was followed by more improved houses until the recent addition of No. 4"s in the South End. The first fire bell was purchased In Cincinnati in 1858 for $335. In 1861 there were four companies: "Washington," "Quaker City," "IIoosier" and "Mechanics." On July 16, 1866, the first Hook and Lacler was formed, with Simon Bachman as foreman. A steamer and hose reel was purchased Dec. 19, 1871. Began Paying in 1871. In 1871, the paid department was established. From a department that was composed wholly of volunteer men, the "minute men" service came next and than for a year a part of the department's men were paid monthly salaries, while the remainder of the force were still on the "minute men" rolls, responding to alarms and drawing $8 per month. In 1896. the department became "paid throughout" Few cities in Indiana and perhaps In the west, have as completely furnished and comfortable firemen's homes as Richmond today. SIKfc.5 AND SONS. John D. Rockefeller was offered $1,000 for a fifteen minute conversation by the Paris Matin. Champ Clark, the Missouri co&ffressman, never writes his full name, James Beauchamp Clark, unless on importarit occasions. M. Guesde, a French Socialist. Bays that when society is properly constituted nobody will have tq work mpre than eleven minutes a day. Adam Spies of Sterling, III., who twenty years ago left church owing people $50,000 and claiming he could not be a Christian under the conditions, recently paid the debt and rejoined the church. The Duke of Hamilton was a great swimmer and diver in his early youth. When he was in the navy he often used to dive right under his ship, and once received a somewhat serious InJury while performing this feat. Amzi Smith, superintendent of the document room at the capitol, has a marvelous memory. He is familiar with all the countless bills and documents for many sessions back and can get the desired one at any time without consulting indexes or file lists. Andrew Carnegie is believed to have been granted his "freedom" oftener than any other living man. A short time time ago he was gnanted the freedom of five English towns and cities in one week and altogether has been the recipient of about forty freedoms of this kind. Former Judge Alton B. Farker and his law partner, former Judge Edward Hatch, have been admitted to practice In the United States circuit court and in the United States circuit court of appeals. Another motion is necessary before they can try cases before the United States supreme court. Thomas B. Youngblood of Boonville, Ind., Is the oldest Justice of the peace In that state and will soon be eighty. He Is famous for marrying people under unusual conditions, but says that he established his record when he united a couple suffering from smallpox and bad to stand across the road from them to do it. CURRENT COMMENT. The peace movement in Russia appears to move crab fashion. Baltimore Sun. An Iowa farm product is a girl of thirteen who weighs 550 pounds. Talk about your eighteen foot corn and ninety bushels to the acre wheat! St. Louis Post-Dispitcb. Although only one additional star goes on the flag, some people persist in thinking that Uncle Sam is entitled to congratulations on his first pair of twins. Washington Post. A Chicago university scientist believes It will be possible to develop a race of people without the vermiform appendix, which, he declares, is a rudimentary organ anyway. Houston Post. France proposes to levy afn income tax on visiting foreigners. An addition to the tax already lev 11 by hotel keepers and merchants might easily kill the goose that lays the f olden eggs. Telephone the !nd Steam U Laundry to set your

Saturday's Review

Domestic. . John D. Rockefeller returns from Europe in cheerful mood. Rumor that Mrs. Longworth, on return to Washington, will introduce British customs and revolutionize society. John R. Walsh's project for completion of railroads said to be in fair way to success. Foreign. Russian revolutionaries hold up passenger trains, kill two generals and several soldiers andtescare with thousands of dollars. State. Thousands vis! Winona and other thousands are expected this week. Democrats of First District will nominate Menzies of Mt. Vernon for Congress at Tuesday's convention. Local. Three-year-old child of Mr. and Mrs. John Pyle fell from second story window and escaped serious injury. Hoosier Drill Company occupies that part of North Fourteenth street declared vacated by the Board of Public Works, and announce that work on the factory addition will begin at once. The capacity ot the plant will almost be doubled. A Richmond casket manufacturing company fills order from Anderson for casket six feet and six inches long; three feet in width and two feet and 4 inches in depth. The casket was used to inter the remains of Joseph Roadcap, who weighed 450 pounds. Richmond manufacturers declare themselves in favor of revision of the protective tariff. Morrison-Reeves library issues catalogue, which shows that circula tion of books has increased 9,000 during the last year. Horticultural experts pay visit to Isaac Dougan farm and demonstrate work of spraying apparatus as remedy for ravages of insects that destroy fruit trees. TEMPERANCE CAMP ORDER OF GENERAL Canteen Law Passed by Congress Will be Enforced at Fort Benjamin Harrison. MIMIC BATTLE IS PLANNED ADDITIONAL REGULARS ARE ARRIVING AFTER LONG MARCHES FROM VARIOUS FORTS. Publishers' Press Fort Benjamin Harrison, July 29, (Spl.) One of the first orders issued by Brig. -Gen. William H. Carter, after taking command at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, was for the strict enforcement of the anti-canteen law passed by congress. Liquor will not be allowed on the reservation or in its proximity. The order forbidding the maintenance of canteens, either by treats or men, will apply to volunteer forces as well as to regulars. Lawrence township is a temperance eomanlty and the citizens of the township will be expected to enforce the liauor laws outside the reservation. Men with "hop ale" and other imitations of beer have alreadv appeared outside the reservation and they will be given notice to "hike." "Congress has passed the law forbidding canteens, and it must be obeyed where I am in command." said General Carter today. "I will notify all volunteer organizations of rav Intention to enforce the order as soon as they arrive in camp. If it is the wish of the people that there be no canteens then there must be none." Planning Maneuvers. Gen. Carter was visited by Major John Tillson, commanding the Third battallion of the Fourth Infantry, and the officers of the battalion this morning. General Carter told the officers that the approaching maneuvers were going to be different from their predecessors in that the men were going to be instructed, not overworked on long marches. It is the commander's purpose to have two forces, a blue and a brown army, just as in previous maneuvers, and they will be arrayed against each other in mimic battles, but instead of racing over fences to nm each other down, the Question of position for attack or denfense will be considered. It is to be a camp of instruction, not of foot race. Two more companies of regulars arrived at Ft. Benjamin Harrison this morning after a long "hike." They were Companies G. and H. of the Second Battalion, Fourth Regiment, commanded by Major George W. Mclver. The Second Battalion came from 7t. Brady, Michigan, having been transported br train from that station to Columbus barracks, Ohio, whence the soldiers marched across Ohio and Indiana to Ft. Benjamin Harrison. DEATH IN A WASH BOWL Aged Woman Meets Death by Falling Forward Into The Water. Iafayette, Ind.. July 29. (Spl.) "hile standing over a washbowl, bathing her hands and face. Mrs. Barbara Burns, 75 years old, of Otterbein, was stricken with paralysis, and fell with her face in the water. Before her daughters could reach her side she had succumbed to death, re sulting primarily from suffocation in I the water.

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