Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 31, Number 363, 1 March 1907 — Page 4

The Richmond Palladium, Friday, March 1, 1907. THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM C. C. & L. DEAL CONFIRMED News of the Railroads Local and General Knollenberg's Store Entered at Richmond Postofflc as gooond Class Mattar O.OWEN KUHN LITIGATION AT AN END

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RICHMOND, INP.BS

NUMBER 301.

GOOD OFFER FROM HENLEY

WILLING TO GIVE $2,500

In Case that Nine Other Men in the City Can Be Secured to Give a Like Amount" to the Y. M. C. A. The Committee Encouraged.

Workers in the cause of the Y. M. C A are decidedly happy now, all occasioned by the statement by M. C. Henley, to a committee which called

FAVORS COVERED PATROL

OPINION OF W. P. O'NEAL Thinks that Person Arrested Should Not be Compelled to Ride Through the Streets of City in Plain View of Everyone, W, P- O Neal of the Board of Public Works thinks that a cover should be placed on the patrol wagon. All f the police officers are of the same

Dispatch from Cincinnati Says that Bradford's Roads will Now Have a

Through Route from Queen City to

Chicago. .

NO DIRECT EFFECT HERE

RICHMOND DIVISION TRAINMEN

WILL NOT STRIKE.

Cincinnati, Feb. 25 Confirmation Leaders Among the Men Say They

was secured here of the report that J.

P. Morgan had agreed to compromise the suits instituted by W, A. Bradford, president of the Chicago, Cincinnati &

Louisville railroad, Rudolph, Kley-

bolte and other owners of that property, and that the complications grow-

Will Stick by Company Officials Willing to Concede.

The strike orders issued by the offi

cials of the Brotherhoods of Railway

Trainmen and Conductors, will have no

ing out of the breaking up of the great I effect on the Richmond division of the

central system is to be definitely set- Pennsylvania, although it may be in

tied,

directly affected through other divis

inno rf tha crct&m T .rrn 1 riff lrl al t

papers are now peine; prepared mua- y

It was authoritatively stated that

upon him, that he would be one of! opinion but there is a hindrance to

ten men to give $2,500 to the cause in this city. Mr. Henley stated that the

Y. M. C. A. cause in Richmond is

good one and all should lend their aid

end assistance to the work. The

committee which called upon him is

Bow actively engaged in securing the names of nine other Richmond citizens

who will contribute $2,500 each and they are confident that at least that many men in the city will show their

willingness to aid the cause, by mak ing donations of that size.

In addition to the amount pledged hjy

Air. Henley, the members of the execa

tive committee reported thirty-nine subscriptions amounting to $1,G46,

making the total fund up to date $31,872.50 It is hoped that enough can be raised before tonight to make

the amount an even $32,000. Would Be Poor Distinction.

An interesting fact was brought to

light yesterday, in that if Richmond Tails in raising $100,000 for which the

members of the commttees are work

Jng, it will be the only city out of

twenty-five during the past year, which did not raise the stipulated amount set. In many cities the donations have by far exceeded that for

Itvhich the people were working. The Idea of failure, however. Is not entertained by the members of the committees, and the -work will be pushed to the finish. MAY FESTIVAL OUTLOOK IS EXCEEDINGLY GOOD

Encouraging Rehearsal Held by the Chorus at Which Lee B. Nusbaum Told of Trip.

A very enthusiastic and encouraging rehearsal of the May Festival chorus was held Wednesday evening at the Coliseum and the work done showed that both numbers are well under way. Most of tho time was spent on Brahm's Requiem," which is the most difficult of tho two numbers. "The Swan and the Skylark," however, was sung from beginning to end and practically has been learned, as far as the mechanical memorizing of the notes. Only the different shadings and interpretation work remain. During the rehearsal, Lee B. Nusbaum, a member of the executive committee, who has just returned from New York gave a short talk to the chorus. Mr.' Nusbaum, while in New .York, heard the Mendelssohn Choir of Toronto, the greatest chorus choir in the world, comprising two hundred and twenty voices. Three of the soloists of this choir are the same that will be heard here at the May Festival and are among the greatest in the world. It Is a significant fact that these singers, who are creating so much enthusiasm in New York, have been engaged to appear here in May. Heard Corrine Ryder-Kelsey. Mr. Nusbaum also attended on Sunclay evening a concert at the Hippodrome where a chorus of eight hundred and fifty voices, with, a full orchestra, rendered "The Creation." Corrine Ryder-Kelsey, the soprano of tht quartet, could easily be heard, when occasiou demanded, above the chorus and orchestra, and the enthusiasm of the audience was unbounded, the applause in one instance lasting for five minutes, after her solo numbers. The chorus felt much encouraged over Mr. Nusbaum's talk and was further encouraged by a short talk by Henry Gennett. The executive committee feels that the coming festival will be the greatest held in this city and will be a success, both from a financial and artistic standpoint.

carrying this plan into effect. Owing

to the fact that the stable in the rear of the city building where the patrol wagon and ambulance are kept is so low that if a top was placed on the wagon, new quarters would have to be arranged for or the height of the

wagon considerably lowered.

Every unfortunate that Is forced to take an involuntary ride in the "black maria" dreads the trip worse

than confinement in the jail. They

are exposed to the view of the curious on the streets and they experience the same feelings as a man who is exposed

in a pillory.

"It is bad enough to have to arrest a man but is is a shame to force him to

ride through the streets of the city in a patrol wagon which does not protect

him from the public view," said Serg

eant McManus, and his statement was

an expression of the views of every officer on the force. If some arrangement can be made by the Board so

that a top can be placed on the patrol

wagon no time will be lost in making

the Improvement.

BIG GAIN IN MEMBERSHIP

ODD FELLOWS GROWING

Figures Compiled by Grand Secretary

W. H. Leedy, Show a Net Increase for the Year of 1907 of 3,637.

Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 2S. The re

port for the subordinate lodges of Indiana, I. O. O. F., for the year ending December 31, 1906, as compiled by

Grand Secretary William H, Leedy,

shows that there was a greater nat gain in membership during the year than for any preceding year, with the exception of 1903. Last year's net gain in membership in the state was 3,637, while the net gain for 1903 was 3,760. The following is shown in the recapitulation of the report: Subordinate lodges, December 31. 1906, 728; num

ber of members as shown in the preceding annual report, 68,941;; nunmer

of members initiated last year, 6,463;

number admitted by card, S96; number

reinstated, 615; making a total of 76,

915; number of members withdrawn by card last year, 1,034; number sus

pended or dropped for nonpayment of dues, 2,443; number expelled, 115;

number deceased, 745; making a total

of 4,337, leaving a net membership,

December 31, 1906, of 72,578; number of members relieved during the year, 8,582; number of widowed families re

lieved, 265; number of members bur ied, 743.

Amount paid for the relief of mem

bers, $194,070.65; amount paid for the relief of widowed families, $3,0S6.19; amount paid for relief and education of orphans, $193.45; amount paid for burying the dead, $51,607.11; amount paid in maintenance of the home, $16,939.97; amount paid in special relief, $11,704.02, making a total of $267,601.39. Receipts from dues, $404,149.81; receipts from admissions and degrees, $79,3S6.02; receipts from rents and invested funds, $110,794.07; receipts fro mother sources, $122,552.49, making a total of $716,S82.39. Number of weeks of sickness for which benefits were paid, 52,262. Amount paid for the working or current expenses of subordinate lodges for the year, $164,19S.74; amount paid for expenses of the Grand Lodge, $23,726.10; invested funds of subordinate

cinnati, which will provide for an issue of $400,000 receivership certificates of the Pere Marquette and Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton, which are to be

turned over to Messrs. Bradford, Kley

bolte and Fernald, owners of the Chi

cago, Cincinnati & Louisville in con

men will walk out, as the railroads at the present time will meet almost any

reasonable terms the men ask, in or der to keep the min the service, ow

ing to the present conditions, which

exist all over the Pennsylvania, and

other roads of the country. Espec

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, , r., . tally is this true of the freight condi Morgan the $3,500,000 collateral trust . . . tUn i ? . ,m . ' ' . . , . tions, and the reputation of the rail bonds which were made a special issue . . . . ,

for the purpose of reimbursing Bradford and others for the Chicago, Cin

cinnati & Louisville. Will Settle for $400,000.

This means that Bradford and oth-

The vast amount of freight on the dif

ferent divisions must be handled

promptly and successfully.

The Richmond division conductors

are well satisfied with their conditions

ers will settle their entire claim for and under.no circumstances will they $400,000, practically cash and that the strike if the other men walk out, as $3,500,000 trust bonds with their ac- they have been through strikes and cumulated coupons, will be turned ov- find that they generally terminate

er to the court through the receiver for with the discharge of the men, and at

cancellation. - the same time profit little, if anything

By the settlement, Bradford gets to those who remain in the service

back his line under full ownership and They say that the Pennsylvania rail

the Chicago, Cincinnati & Louisville road has been kind to them in the past

obtains an entrance into Chicago over and at the present critical moment

the Illinois Central. The latter line they would not walk out, and leave the held off from validating the contract I road in a rut, such as would happen

entered into with the C, C. & L. un- Hn case the trains were left for non

til the friction between Bradford and union railroad men to move

Morgan was settled. A G. R. & I. conductor, yesterday

The C, C. & L. will have a through said that he would not strike as he

route from Chicago to Cincinnati with had been through the famous strike of adequate terminal facilities at each '92 and '93, and was "burnt" to such

end enabling the road to exchange an extent that under no circumstances

business directly with the Wisconsin would he obey strike orders. He Central on the north and the Southern based his opinion on the same grounds

on the south. as did several Richmond division con

Three Suits Settled. I ductors

Three suits are settled out of court The railroad telegraphers, who are

by this adjustment. The suits settled aISO anectea Dy me smue oraers are

are those brousrht bv Bradford in the not members of the trammens un

United States court at Grand Ranids. ion, and will not strike in the event

Mich., for the collection of $20 Der cou- tnat a" the other trainmen walk out

pon on a large part of the $3,500,000 1 aeY aiso Dase ineir opinions upon collateral trust bonds: another simi- the generous manner In which they

lar suit brousrht in the same court bv nave Deen nanaied Dy tne r ennsyiva

Kleybolte, and the cross suit brought nia as a railroad corporation. The

iw ih rpopivpr tn cnni ho snorial movements or me men on me omer ai-

Pere Marquette stock issue on then'Islons 01 tne Pennsylvania ana tne

erounds of its alleced illegality, otner raiiroaas, are watcnea wun ea

All claims on both sides have now ger interest, among an tne rainoaa

been wiped out. The C, C. & L. had nien located in Richmond

entered larere claims for the confisca

tion hv tho Pere Marauetta and thai A NEW RULING IS MADE.

Cincinnati. Hamilton and Davton

equipment, turntables and other ma- Telegraph Operators Cannot "Double

terials, and the Morgan interests had

counter claims which have now beenl

withdrawn.

lodges, $3,277,106.62; invested of the Grand Lodge, $55,900.

funds

0XXXOXOXX

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Up" and Get off Day.

The Pennsylvania has made a new

ruling which will and is greatly af

fecting the telegraphers in its em

ploy, as well as a number of other

men who are required to work seven days in the week in the operation of

its trains. Heretofore Richmond tel

egraphers and train dispatchers have VtoAn "illnu-oH in Hnii Vilo Tin on rintv

A representative of the Gulf Pipe I ... Knmo -w ernnlnw and ,n lhat,

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reporter, that owing to the scarcity of labor, such as tongsmen, tank build-

SCARCITY 0F LABOR.

Holding back the Completion of the

Two Big Pipe Lines from Tulsa, I. T to the Gulf of Mexico.

ers, structural iron workers, telegraph and telephone construction men,

painters, teamsters, laborers for ditch

ing, etc., the work of completing the pipe lines from Tulsa, I. T., to the gulf

is not progressing as rapidly as it !

should.

The Gulf Pipe Line Company can I give employment to an army of men J

for the work as described above. The

climate in the southwest, where the I

way get a day off during the week, but in this way the man who does

double duty is required to work twen

ty-four hours. The Pennsylvania

officials give as their reason for the

new ruling that in case a man works

longer than fifteen to sixteen hours

at the keyboard, he is unfit for duty,

in that he becomes careless and s so completely worn out physically that

the trains are not handled in the best

manner.

In speaking of the matter yesterday

lines are being laid, is such as to make ri7rav..1

the great railroad systems of the

out door work just as pleasant and

congenial in the winter as in the sum mer months. We believe the great number of un

employed men throughout this section would do well by writing the Gulf Pipe

Line company of Tulsa, I. T., for full

information, etc.

United States were directly due in most cases to the overwork of train

dispatchers and telegraph operators

He stated that this was the reason

why the older telegraphers were so

much in favor of the telegraphers'

bill now pending before the Indiana

general assembly, in that it did away

with inefficient operators, requiring

all men at the railroad keyboards to

have a state license, also uniform

John L. McCulloch Has Brought Suit hours of labor. Although it was nice

Aa;c Mar! TriK... D..K he said to have a day off by doubling

done owins: to the sxeat danger.

ASKS FOR A RECEIVER

SMALL PLACES NOT KILLED.

Clarion, ma., tea. jonn l. mc-i a traveling man from a prominent

Culloch, one of the large stockholders wholesale house in' Dayton, and who

m tne Clarion iribune com pan y, does a large business in the smaller which published the Marion News towns on the interurban lines, said

Tribune, has filed suit against the yesterday that interurbans did not kill

company, asKing ior an accounting the smaller places as people had been

wont to believe, but otherwise was a

great benefit to the merchants as

well as residents of the smaller communities. He said: -

"It is true that -the electric roads

and for the appointment of a receiver,

He alleges mismanagement of the

plant, asserting that Charles "W. Ell

and Oscar E. Halderman, who have held a majority of the stock since 1902

have elected themselves annually as affor(j cheap and easy access to the

wU4x.o ... "iutiiuan cities, but they also bring more.

nas oeen namea as president, tun ai- grangers into the small towns. In derman vice president, and Oscar E. additl0n they force the merchants in Halderman, secretary and treasurer, thA Rniali tnwnR in tw, with tho

from year to year. Mismanagement I merchant nt th Urr .ihk an

is aiiegea. me complaining stocKnoid- thJs cneapen3 me- price on all com er asserting that no dividends are de- moditiP5 .rhi rinMn-t .nrt a Wfl.

clared and that the controllins stock- sW on the small merchant either, ! holders are taking up the profits in sal-1 JSJ

I T. . ,7 j v I as "e fcciis mure gwas man ae uiu

i : f. 7 before the prices were lowered, as

companies to the extent of $1,000

worth a year has been given, the officers using the transportation and passes for their personal use and render-

no account to the stockholders.

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Folk Signs Bill

s.

Jefferson City, Mo, Feb. 28. Gov

ernor Folk has signed the bills passed by the legislature providing for

a 2-cent per mile railroad passenger

the people of his place would rather trade at home, just so long as they can get their goods at prices equally as low. I visit many merchants lo

cated on the interurban lines and I

sell more merchandise to them than

I did before the traction lines were

built. My observation is, that inter

urban lines help everybody."

BIGNESS OF PANHANDLE. The Pennsylvania system Is too

large to be grasped by the ordinary

rate and the limiting of the salaries j lay mind. In the annual report for

or insurance companies, doui those I the road for 1&06 occurs the state-

incorporated under the state laws and j ment that the linea carried 16,SS3Vforeign companies doing business inUSS.QO toes of freight one mile. In

Missouri. They -will become laws the report of the previous .year th& ninety days after the adjournment of figures were 14,223,451,000. The in-

the legislature- . I crease is 2.662.O34.0OO. There is about

one trained reader in a hundred that can grasp the meaning of the change. In 1906 the AVabash railroad carried 2.339,770,00 tons of freight one mile; the Lackawanna, 2,713,S2D,000; the Delaware afid Hudson. 1.7S2.363,000; the Reading 1,324,829,000. The increase in the ton mileage on the Pennsylvania in 190J was greater than the entire ton mileage of the Wabash, the Delaware and Hudson, or the Reading. If the entire freight business of the Wisconsin Central, Central Omaha, and the Chicago Great Western had been added together the total would have been 400,000,000 tons behind the amount of increase of tthe Pennsylvania, The growth of the Pennsylvania is doubtless at a great cost, but the cost does not compare with the capital of the Wabash, the C, II. & D. nor the Reading. Those billions of tons of freight represented are merely fruit of investments made by the Pennsylvania two, three, four and even five years ago. The investments cost much money. These investments are paying in two ways, on the dividends of stock purchased, and by the creation of new freight business. ELICITS MUCH COMMENT, The report of the interstate comuierce commission of the block signal systems used by the railroads of the United States, in which the commerce commission condemns the system as it is at present conducted, has elicited much comment among the officials at the local Pennsylvania station in that it has been the general impression among them that the block system was almost impregnable. In speaking of the matter, a railroad man stated that the present block system was the best means of protection he knew of and did not see on what grounds the commission had based its complaint other than

the fact that men were overworked

and did not hold back trains from en

tering blocks on which there were

others. He said that in case of

freight trains it was of not such vital importance, but all passenger trains should be held back at least five minutes, in order to give the other train plenty of time in leaving the block. Under the present conditions and long hours of extremely trying duty, he said, block signal men sometimes became careless and he could see no other reason why the system should be condemned. With the pjfssage of the La Follette sixteen-hour bill by the house, much of the present trouble would be done away with, in that men in charge on the towers would under no circumstances be allowed to remain on duty until their work became a burden.

FILING OF TARIFF SHEETS. According to the reports about the

Pennsylvania station, the interstate commerce commission has agreed to

modify its decision in regard to the filing of railroad tariff sheets and a clash between the commission and the railroad authorities has been averted. According to the former ruling the filing of the sheets was to take effect March 1, but according to the statements of freight officials yesterday, the commission has granted the railroads until May 1 to conform with tho requirements.

GENERAL TRACK ELEVATION. Rumor has it in Pennsylvania rail

road circles, that the company will soon begin the long cherished idea of track elevation over its entire system. Several of the most prominent engineers in the United States have been employed by the officials of the

Pennsy" system to look over the sit

uation in several of the larger cities,

and it is expected that some visible signs of the promotic of the work will be made within the course of the next few months.

RAILROAD NOTES.

The Big Four shops at Beech Grove,

a new suburb of Indianapolis, are being built with great speed and are expected to be ready for occupancy byAugust 1.

A. R. Gould, traveling agent for the

Chicago and Northwestern railroad.

with headquarters in Cincinnati, was in the city yesterday, conferring with

local passenger officials.

A New York legislator will introduce

at the present session a bill which re

quires all railroads to publish their

time tables in daily papers. As time tables were formerly published by the newspapers for passes, it is probable

that the railroads will fight the measure in that cash will have to be paid

for the advertising.

W. W. Richardson, assistant gener

al passenger agent of the Pennsylva

nia lines, with headquarters in Indianapolis, was in the city yesterday, conferring with local officials.

For fear their rates will be lowered

a Missouri, the representatives of the

various express companies operating in that state, will appear before the state commerce commission, asking them to legalize the present rates and not molest them.

Warren Holton, traveling passenger

agent for the Union . Pacific railway.

was in the city yesterday, conferring

with local passenger officials. His

visit here, was that he might more

forcibly impress upon local officials the beauty and high degree of service

given on his road.

BEAT TRACTION PEOPLE

Pennsylvania Railroad Company

Wins out in an Injunction Suit at Columbus.

Coltnnbtts, lad., Feb., 23. Tn sus

taining a demurrer to the complaint

n the case . of the city of Columbus

against the Pennsylvania road, Judge

They go on sale this Friday morning WHAT? A BEAUTIFUL ASSORTMENT OF Printed Foulard Silks at only 58c per yard. There are but JO different styles, but everyone good for either Waists or Dresses They are just the thing. We would not bz surprised if every yard would be Sold in One Day.

Every lady interested in this SPLENDID BARGAIN should be on hand promptly. The price is but j 58 Cents Per Yard Don't forget that and be sure to come early. The Geo. II. Knollenberg Co.

Hacker, of the Bartholomew circuit court, has decided that a street is not a street until it is opened for travel. The city sought to enjoin the railway company from putting down additional tracks across a new street which had been ordered open by the city council. The railway company had laid some additional tracks, the railway officials alleging that the new street was merely being opened to give he Indiana' polis, Columbus & Southern traction company a way out of the city for its Seymour extension. The city applied for an injunction but the railway company's attorney argued that while tbe street might have been opened by the city council

it was not open In point f fact, hence they could not see how any one could be restrained from laying tracks across a street which was not in existence. Judge Hacker sustained the contention In the demurrer which the railway company filed and now the city will either hav to amend its complaint or get out of court.

Blacksmith Falls Dead. St. Paul, Ind., Feb., . 28. Michael Leffler, of this place, fell dead while at Greensburg yesterday. He was a pioneer blacksmith of this place, and he was preparing to remove to Greensburg at the time of his death.

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