Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 31, Number 209, 26 August 1906 — Page 6

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The Richmond Palladium, Sunday, August 26, 1906.

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Miss Dayse Deane Walker Visits Richmond in Interest of Noble Cause. WILL GIVE READING HERE HAS FOUNDED A "CLUB HOME" AT INDIANAPOLIS WHICH PRO VIDES TEMPORARY ACCOMODA TION FOR YOUNG GIRLS OF RACE. Several years ago when a friend as!:ed me to speak to a girl whom she feared was in danger on account of the "kindness" being shown her by a so-called "friend." I wondered what I could say that would really help. She was out of work, without a home in the city, sick and lonely for companionship. I had only a lec ture and sympathy at most to offer, while she needed food, medicine and a place to stay. Xo wonder girls go astray! And out of all the institutions in the city supported for the protection of young women, there was not one that did not close its doors against the colored girls, at least, not any that I could find, and I tried many. And yet the morals of the colored girls affect as vitally the city's life as do those of her fairer sisters." Such was ' the statement of Miss Dayse Deane- Walker, of Indianapolis who comes to Richmond in the interest of the Colored Women's Protection Association of 'which she is the founder. She will be, heard at Bethel A. M. E. church next' Thursday evening, August CO. Miss Deanes work has many Jcommendable features. The conditions she found in Indianapolis among theS women of her race, are to be found in all the large cities of the United States. The majority of the floating population of colortY girls that find their way into the large Northern cities being thrown among strangers in strange cities, and unable at' the outset to ' obtain work, gradually drift toM unpleasant surroundings1 and questionable employments. This due to the lack 'of Institutions that open their doors to such girls.4; Quite a large number of these girls ij come from the South and most of them from respectable homes. But being . anxious to assist in the support of '.maintanence of their families they are drawn to the North by the glowing' accounts of high wages and profitable employments that find their way to . the south. It was for: the protection of such girls as welHas for the betterment of the social conditions of the local girls that Miss Dayse D. Walker of Indianapolis, Ind., decided to establish and institution .that would help such girls to resist temptation. She raised the funds to start the work by giving a series of readings and lectures. The Pastor's were kind and at the close of their services permitted her to present her cause to their congregation, who always responded to her appeal for their interest in the development of such a work, and now there is at least the beginning of what we hope will be a chain of institutions, supported in every city where the colored girl and her needs can be attended to. The "Club Home" established by Miss Walker contains Reading, Rest, Music, Drawing room and Kitchen, Eath rooms, class room and office. The home is now able to accomodate girls who are in need and where they are out of employment, offer her a home until work is secured. As a matter of self respect she then cancels her bill and thus enables the work to go on. The rooms are open to her at all times and furnish rest enjoyment, study, and an opportunity for improvement. We believe with Prof. Daboi's, "In service, humble, reverent service from the blakening of boots to the whitening of souls." The home stands for honest, independent womanhood i and not cash but character is all that i is demanded and "not alms but a friend." It also offers accomodation temporarily to strangers (ladies') and; is a social and "Literary center for the1 Young people. The object of the C. W.P. A. are four fold. 1 To provide protection, accomodation for respectable colored girls and women who may be strangers or out of employment. 2 To support Club Homes as legitimate social and literary centers for our young people. 3 To encourage commercial enterprise aniong the colored women. 4 To endorse domestic science as a profession. 5 To recognize the true worth of capable and independent womanhood regardless of calling. Miss Dayse D. Walker who is the founder and president of this Home is. the product of that wizard of industrial educators Brooker T. Washington. She has been employed in this kind of work for several years having assisted in establishing "The Flaner Guild" an institution whose object is to rescue young girls and boys and to have them in industrial pursuits. She comes to Richmond in the interest of her work and will appear at the Bethel A. M. E. church of which Rev. Baker is the Pastor. Besides giving a well prepared program of readings and recitals, for Miss Walker is an elocutionist of unusual ability, she will thoroughly lay before the people her work and the need of support of such an undertak lng. She will btassisted in her program by Native Soih Africa Students from Wiiberforce, THE BI SS COLLEGE Will open Sept. 4. All wh5 arrange to enter ' 25-5L can should call before that date.

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ONCE LIEUT.-GOVERNOR Was Prominent Citizen of Ft. Wayne, Where He Had Lived Since the Close of the Civil War His Political Career. fPubllshers PresaJ Ft. Wayne, Ind., Aug. 25. Col. Robert Stoddart Robertson, former Lieu tenant Governor of Indiana, died last midnight of chirrhosis of the liver after an illness of several weeks. The funej-al will be held Monday afternoon at 4 o'clock. Scottish Rite Masons will have charge of the exercises. Colonel Robertson was born at North Argyle, Washington, N. Y., April 16, 1839. He studied In the common schools and at Argyle Academy and outside of school hours helped in his father's sawmill and grist mill. In 1S39 he began the study of law in the office of James Gibson, at Salem, N. Y. and continued his stud ies in New York city under Charles Crary, being admitted to the bar in 1S60. lie had scarcely . settled to the practice of law at Whitehall, N. Y., when the war broke out, and he gave up his prospects to become a soldier. In 1SC6 he moved to Ft. Wayne, Ind., where he became prominent. both in the legal pi-ofession and in politics. In 1S67 he was elected city attorney for two years, and in 1S6S was nominated for Stafe Senator by the Republicans of Allen county, but was defeated. In 1871 he was appointed register in bankruptcy and United States commissioner. In 1876 he was nominated by the State convention for Lieutenant-Governor. BLEEDING KANSAS HAS GREAT CROP Train of Twenty Car Loads of Grain to be Run From Dodge City to Chicago. A STORY OF PROSPERITY CROP WILL REACH 92,000,000 BUSHELS AND MANY FARMERS HAVE BEEN ENABLED TO PAY FOR FARMS IN SINGLE YEAR. September 18th, a train of 20 carloads of Southwestern Kansas wheat, with an exhibit car of other products of that poron of the state, will be run for exhibition purposes, from Dodge City, Ford County, Kansas, to Chicago, where the wheat will be sold. The entire run will be made in daylight, with stop-overs at Hutchinson, Kansas, Topeka, Horton, Beatrice, Pawnee, Lincoln, Omaha, Des Moines, Rock 'Island and other important towns on the Rock Island Lines. Representative men from that section, about 25 in number, will accompany this train, and stops of several hours will be made at many points along the line to enable these gentlemen to tell people about the wonderful crops and resources of their, section of countrj It is confidently believed that in this manner they can double the present population of the Southwestern tier of counties comprising Morton, Stanton, Grant, Gray, Haskel, Seward, Meade and Ford counties where the bountiful crops of this year have enabled some farmers to pay for their farms with one year's crops, there being many instances of fields of wheat running 30 bushels to the acre, and some of it on sod too. The exhibit car, containing all the products of Southwestern Kansas, after reaching Chicago, about Oct. 4th, will be run to State fairs in Indiana, Illinois and Iowa. The train will be in charge of Syl Dixon, who gained considerable prominence during the presidential campaign of 1S96 by running the "Mc Kinley Corn Train," from Wichita, Kansas, to St. Louis, Mr. John J. Ingalls being master of ceremonies attending the leaving of the train. When the train had gone a short distance, it was struck by lightning. News was wired all over the country that the McKinley corn train had been struck by lightning and burned, presaging the defeat cf McKinley for president. Mr. McKinley, then a candidate, wired Mr. Dixon and received a very characteristic reply that only three cars had been destroyed, but that he proposed to run the train to St. Louis if he arrived with nothing left except the trucks. This led Mr. Ingalls to call Mr. Dixon the "Ajax of Kansas, the man who defies the lightning." The corn and wheat crop alone will mean $115,000,000 to the farmers of Kansas, and those who do not noyf own their automobiles will be absjidantly able to buy them during J$U3 bountiful year. i' The corn crop of Kansas arJcftmts to 211.000.000 bushels; the whefcrop 92,000,000 bushels. g. Truly it can be said that: KANSAS LEADS, THE Y'ORLD FOtAOWS. BUSINESS BOO Mi The Piano business cjWainly is a booming with Vatson si Son their trade has so icreasrp that thev have just purchased Vjf large Millinery stock of the Rus Sisters, 707 Main street Coionirijff building the stock of Milliner wU? be sold at once regardless of coSf.yWe will occupy this room with theWaest stock of high grade Pianos manufactured in this country. 26-2t

TRAINED TEACHERS IN RURAL SCHOOLS

Special Qualifications, However, Demand Salaries of Fair Sort. NORMAL COURSE NEEDED CORRESPONDENT OF THE PALLADIUM WHO BELIEVES THAT PREPARATIONS SHOULD BE MADE IN STATE SCHOOL. Editor Palladium: We need more trained teachers If our schools are to improve. One district is as much entitled to a trained teacher as another, regardless of the number of pupils. If any district or corporation is un able to pay a trained teacher it is the duty of the State to lend financial aid. If we demand special preparation upon the part of the teacher, we must guarantee that we will pay a reasonable salary to those who make such preparation. If all teachers should be required to complete a course in a normal school, the state must make provisions for increased normal school facilities. The normal school problem is one of the first that presents itself for solution. A few years ago a plan was proposed to Increase normal school facilities with little additional expense to the State. This plan seemed feasible and is favored by many prominent educators in the state. The State Normal now accepts grades from four private normals, making it necessary for students to do one year's resident work in the State Normal School in order to graduate. These schools are: The Northern Indiana. Normal School, Valparaiso, the Tri-State Normal, Angola, Central Normal College, Danville and the Marion Normal College, Marion. These institutions are sending out tllmsands of students who are teaching in our public schools. All of these schools do more or less professional work. Some having professional training schools in which creditable work is done. Students who complete the course in these institutions are successful teachers. But the course in these schools are not uniform. The state does not rec ognize them in her plan of organization, although the various State institutions do recognize the efficiency of work done in them and gives full credit to their graduate students. So while the State does not recognize these private institutions in theory, she does in practice. Now if the general assembly would pass a law enabling the State Board of Education to prepare a professional course of study for these institutions, and appoint a board of supervisors to see that the course is carried out faithfully, no doubt each school would revise its present course and make it uniform in every particular with the course prepared by the State Board. This done, the State Board could issue certificates to graduates from these institutions permitting them to teach any where in the state without examination. This plan would give uniformity to the normal school work and place it practically under State supervision. This would furnish an adequate sup ply of trained professional teachers. Now the next thing to be done should be some legislation along the line of Township trustees. We have few good school men for trustees, most of them good men but not good trustees. A farmer or mechanic, except in very rare cases are not fit to be at the head of our township schools. They are not to blame however, we who vote them to the exaulted position I might say almost sacred position are at fault. A man who uses this office for his own aggrandize ment is a criminal of the blackest dye. Not consciously perhaps, but nevertheless it is criminal to place those very cadaverous looking people I mean physical as well as mentally cadaverous looking before our young children at teachers. As inspirators of all that has in our childrens minds. A good trustee means more to the township, is more to the township, is closer to us, his official acts affect us more, and is more lasting to us and our postarity than any other official in the State of Indiana today. Then should we not have some leg islation along the line of selecting our township trustees. All that is required now of them is to get enough votes to elect him. No question as to his fitness. . Citizen. Runaway r-reight Car. PittsSeld, Me., Aug. 25. One man was killed and three others slightly injured in a collision between a runaway freight car and the Knickerbocker limited, bound from New York to Bar Harbor. The victim was Louis A. Gilbert of Bangor, a traveling engineer employed by the road. The injured men were train hands. A number of prominent New York people were passengers on the train, among them being District Attorney William T. Jerome and R. Fulton Cutting. These, - with many other passengers, were badly shaken up, but none was injured. Killed In Church. Medina, O., Aug. 25. During a severe thunderstorm lightning struck a church steeple at Chatham Center, nine miles west of here, and following down the inside struck Sherman Rodgers on the head. The bolt severely shocked another workman, who with Rodgers was engaged in painting the inside of the church. Little damage was done the church.

LOWE TAX CASE OP FOR REVIEW (Continued From Page Four.)

from Connersville, presented a proposition and desired a contract to collect the money which I afterwards recovered for the city. At the meeting of the Council, February 20. 1905, the minute records show the following: Proposition of Sylvester Meek to collect this money was submitted by the Finance Committee, and Mr. Deuker moved that the proposition of Mr. Meek be accepted. Motion prevailed. Mr. Leftwick then moved that the City Clerk and Finance Committee proceed and collect said taxes (Morrison Estate). Mr. Norris also pre sented a communication from Mr. Meek which was read and placed on file. The council that made the abov contract had Vvestigated the pi-ovis-ions of the contract and your city clerk, Mr. Taggart, had been unsuccessful in making collections on the adjustments made by myself for the County and State. At the meeting of the committee of the whole nothing was mentioned concerning the Morrison Case of the Clifffford suit or pro ceeding in any manner. I wish to state in connection With, this meeting that Mr. John F. Robbins, ,vho was then your able anJ concientious City Attornej', had maw j objections to the letting of this contract until he, as well as the whol council, found they were unable to get the information upon which to Inake their assessments for city pf rposes and the inability of their Clfrk and Treasurer to make the collections. The council then voted unafiimously to award the contract and if have turned over to the City morel than $25,000 as a result of the contract, which they would never have secured. The published opinion of the pre sent City Attorney, Alonzo M. Gardner, is to thefeffect that the contract is invalid an that the courts have so decided. defr the gentleman named to shot or recite any such decision in the State of Indiana and on the contrary if he will look up matters a littlfc more fully he will find that the caseiof City of Richmond vs Dickinson, 15$ Ind. page 345; 58 N. E. Rep. 2G0 ufider date of October 23, 1900, by theisupreme Court of this State decides fthe question of the val idity of contracts by cities in unequivocable termi. The council minutes under date of March 6, 1935, will show that Mr. John F. Robtfins presented his resignation as City Attorney on account of his having! been the attorney for the representatives of the Morrison Estate in tha former adjudication. I asked permission of the President of the Council to say a few words, which was grinted, and I stated to the council tbjat I thought it proper that Mr. Robbkns be excused and requested that our contract be read, which was dojjje by the Clerk. I then pointed cit the fact that under our contract, should we need the services of an attorney, the City need not pay a peniy as we had agreed and had a bon on file of $3,000 to protect the Cityf and to pay all attorney fees and other costs in the collection of the claims due the City. A motion was aiade by one of the members to the jieffect that Mr. Robbins resignation! be not accepted, which was carried- I also stated at that meeting, ani I think all of the members of the youncil will remember my remarks inn that occasion, that the matter pme clearly under our contract and tttat I would proceed with the collection of the claim regardless of the action at the former meeting of the council instructing the Clerk and Finaiice Committee to collect the claim. Mr. Blickwedel then moved to recorfcider the vote on motion made by Mrl Leftwick at the last meeting of the louncil (instructing City Clerk and Finance Committee to place Morrisoil stock on duplicates.) Motion predated. The motion of Mr. Leftwicli was then put and not adopted. I immediately emp :yed attorneys e a brief on in Indianapolis to ma the question of the ormer conipromise in which the ac s of a former in compromise municipality, fees for this council were attackec ing the revenues of t I paid $500 attorney work and advice and Rid not ask the city to pay a penny ilntil we fulfilled our contract in which! we were to receive twenty per ce't (20) of the amcvunt paid into tie city treasury. The records will shofv on May 1, 1905 that a bill was filcl and allowed by council regularly or the collection of these taxes any the Clerk read the items in the proSence of the City Attorney, Alonzp Gardner, who seenls to have forgotten that the claim had been presented to him duly certified by the City Treasurer and he was asked if an appropriation was necessary. He gave it as his opinion that all claims regularly drawn should be allowed by council which was done as shown by the records. Claims aggregating some $15,000 were allowed by council, no appropriations having having been made for any fund or any part of these bills. The new Towns and Cities law went into effect by proclamation of the Governor on April 15, 1905, which was just prior to the meeting of the council on March 6th, and the changes in the new law were, -so far as Richmond was concerned, imperative. I wish to further refresh the memory of Mr. Gardner to the following communication which was read in his presence in the Council Chamber before the bills were allowed: "Richmond, Ind., May 1st, 1905. To the Hon. Mayor and City Council of Richmond, Ind. Gentlemen: I take the pleasure of reporting to you in the matter of the omitted taxes in the Morrison estate that the same has been fully settled and the taxes thereon paid. into your City Treasury as follows: James L, Morrison Estate on Morrison Plummer & Co. Stock. . .$S607.96 Mrs. Elizabeth. J. Hibberd on Morri-

son Plummer & Co. Stock... 1,092.00

$9,699.96 Respectfully submitted, W, F. Charters By W. E. Lowe. Agt.' This communication was read and ordered placed on file by the council and is now in the hands of the City Clerk at Richmond. I ask you, Mr. Gardner, if you don't remember the above communication and if you thought I was so magnanimous as to go out and spend my good money to collect funds due the municipality just for the pleasure derived from it? I say that you did know that my bill included the items in this report and that you have known right along that I had collected my fees on this case and that you have discussed this with me in connection with the Clifford case you have discussed it with others as well. The Clerk's records will show, under date of May 1, 1905, as follows: The City Clerk then presented certified claims amounting to $15,000 which, on motion of Mr. Deuker, were allowed and ordered paid. Mr. Gardner was present during all of this session and knew what business was transacted as I was present in the Council Chamber and heard the bills all read and all the other proceedings during the evening. Our bill was regularly drawn and properly allowed and we were clearly entitled to our fees under the contract, having performed the services and getting the results. That Mr. Gardner may hold some opinion as to the advisab ility or vadidity of such a contract has little weight, if any. As to the Clifford case that so much has been paid concerning our liability for costs accrued inthat matter, will say that the suiy was brought prior to the time thaJr I secured the City contract and thre has never been a word said concerning the costs of this mattca It is wholly out of the question i our liability and is absolutely absjISd. Clifford brought suit to collect is twenty per cent (20) on the fmer compromise of $2,000, made ii1897, whicji has been pending severa years, and after I collected $10,000nore he amended his complaint aim Is now demanding twenty Ver m nt commission on services peWorMed by myself after he had been seclusion or oblivion for seven long years. I do not feel called on to defend any suits that have arisen under some other contract or with which we have had absolutely nothing to do. While this communication is lengthly I have tried to set forth the facts I believe the public is entitled to the full facts regardless of who is to blame. I stand ready to defend my acts and am not ashamed for the public to know. I desire to brand as absolutely false the statement that any county or city official, assisted me to secure the city contract, and I also deny the statement that any information was denied the City Clerk by any of these officials. I, alone, was responsible for the information being withheld as I had a perfect right to do. Very Truly. W. E. Lowe. ROOT IN CHILE Secretary to Visit City of Valparaiso In September. Santiago, Chile, Aug. 25. The United States cruiser Charleston with Secretary Root on board has arrived at Punta Arenas, on the strait of Magellan. The Charleston will reach Lota, 300 miles 'south of Valparaiso, Aug. 29, where Secretary Root will be received by the Chilean foreign minister and the American minister, Mr. Hicks. The ministers will go to Lota on a Chilean cruiser. A great reception had been planned here for Mr. Root, but all plans are changed as a result of the earthquake. The secretary is expected to arrive at Valparaiso about Sept. 3. His reception there will be informal, and he will come to Santiago to extend his personal condolence to President Riesco. Washington Statue In Hungary. Budapest, Hungary, Aug. 25. The authorities of the city of Budapest have decided to unveil the Washington statue now under erection on Sept. 16, and have sent out invitations to the mayors of American cities, presidents of American universities and many notable public men of the United States to attend. The idea of raising this statue arose out of the erection in Cleveland some years ago of a statue of Kossuth. KungarianArlericans who were instrumental in bringing about the erection of the Kossuth monument were so cordially supported by Americans that they decided as a mark of gratitude to raise a Washington monument in the capital of their native country. Woman Under the Bed. Lorain, O., Aug. 25. When John Engle, 19, got ready to retire he, with true woman's instinct, looked under the bed. Then he loudly called the police. They pulled from under John's couch a comely young woman, said to be Mrs. D. R. Hippie, who came here recently from Indiana. Engle says he met Mrs. Hippie at a dance a few days ago and she had followed him ever since. At the jail the woman, who had a revolver secreted on her person, said she could not live without John, and that she would kill him sooner or later. Dynamited Police Station. Berlin,- Aug. 25. A dispatch from Kattowitz announces that a bomb was thrown at Bendzin, Russian Poland, killing Police Captain Jakubik and two policemen, and dangerously wounding another policeman. The bomb was evidently intended for Jakubik, who commanded a patrol which on Monday killed a Jew. The explosion destroyed the district police office. A detachment of Cossack3 fired several volleys and wounded a number of passersby. Torrid at LouisvfKe. Louisville, Ky., Aug. 25. The thermometer shot up to 93 degrees and three more deaths and one prostration from the heat were reported. No relief is In sight-

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