Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 32, Number 266, 4 November 1907 — Page 1
RICHMOND PA ABI AND SUN-TELEGRAM RICHMOND, INDM MONDAY EVENING, NOVUM HE IS 1, 11)07. VOL. XXXII. NO. SINGLE COPY, 2 CENTS.
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FIVE PERSONS ARE INJURED IN CRASHjnTREET CARS Two Tnterurbans and One City Car Came Together Near Country Club. BIM FOR THECATOTPHE HOT PLACED All the Cars Were Going West, Making V- fcie Accident One of the Most Peculiar on Record-Wilson Langley of Easthaven, Worst Injured.
THE INJURED. Wilson Ungfe, Richmond, nged about. 30. left leg broken. lace , UdUl VMI, j.i... .444. Condition considered sertous. Passenger on city car. , L. Baker, Milton, nsed about six-ty-th j e"irg, back sprained and brjuisf-d. condition not serious. Raydo Flower, Greenfield, motorman on intern rban, face cut by flying glass. J. C. Bledsoe, Greenfield, conductor on interurban. body bruises. Riley Cook, Greenfield, face badly cut, long gash above left eye. The third and most serious street tar wreck that has occurred on the Richmond city street car lines within the past ten days, was that of this morning when three cars, one city and two interurbans crashed together between the Country club and EarlSiam cemetery, west of the city. All were going west. Wilson Langley, a fireman at Easthaven, and L. Baker an old man of Milton, received the most serious injuries. Langley was taken to Reid hospital where he is suffering with a broken limb, bad cuts and internal injuries. Raker had liis back badly bruised and sprained. He was later taken to his home at Milton. Langley was just boarding the city car when the accident happened. Raker was a passenger on the interurban. Injuries of the others, who were either motormei. or conductors arc not considered serious. Will Make Investigation. Indianapolis, Terre Haute & Eastern traction line officials will investi gate the wreck and the blame will be fixed. There is a division of opinion sis to where the blame shou'd be placed. Interurban motorman Flower, on the passenger car, said the tracks were so slippery that he could not control his train although he saw the city car several hundred yards ahead. Motorman Riley Cook of the interurban freight car corroborated Flower's statement as to slippery tracks. Passenger Conductor J. C. Bledsoe, said that Motorman Elmer Rhodes of the Easthaven city car had stopped his car to await the arrival of Wilson Langley, who was running to catch it. Motorman Rhodes had not turned on the lights at the Asylum Aveliue switch, that the interurban motormen who were running their cars on pchedule time, might, know that there was a city car on the tracks between the avenue and the car barns. The ptretch of track between the two places Is considered the most dangerous of any surrounding Richmond and for that reason electric signals are used to prevent accident. The whole affair will be investigated thoroughly. Was Peculiar Wreck. The wreck was a most peculiar one find is without precedent in electrical railway operation in this section of the country. The three cars that figured in the wreck were all going in the same direction. Motorman Rhodes was in charge of the Easthaven city car coming toward town. After he had passed the Country club coming down a long hill, he heard the signals of Wilson Langley, who was running to catch the car. and Rhodes brought his car to a halt a few feet to the east of the Clear Creek bridge to await the arrival of Langley. There Is no official Stop iA this point. Langley had just stepped onto the rear platform of the city car. when the crash came. He was completely buried in the debris. His agonized screams and groans sent a thrill of horror through those near him. As poon as the car was stopped, it 1 avIng rolled up the track probably two " hundred feet from the scene of the collision by the torse with whtcji it was struck. Langley was picked up in a semiconscious condition and was later taken to Reid hospital in the city ambulance. That the man was not killed outright is a marvel. The rear end of the street car was completely demolished vhile the front end of the Interurban car was badly damaged. Langley's hat. was found Inside the front vestibule of the. interurban car. Motorman Flower in charge of the interurban stayed with his car, and for more than four hundred yards fought with the aid brakes. In the endeavor to bring his car to a stop. Reverse power proved ineffective. He was thrown violently from his seat when tao train crashed into the city car. Flying glass cut his neck and face. Bledsoe's Forthought. An unusual bit of forthought on the naxt of Conductor J. C. Bledsoe prob
ably saved manv of the twenty-eigth
passengers on his car from injury. After the first crash came his first thought was of the interurban freight train, which was following in charge of Motorman Riley Cook and Conductor Oliver Hill. He knew that the freight must be close onto the passenger car as both were running on the same schedule. He immediately and frantically called to his passengers to get off the car and do it quickly, as the freight car was coming and there would be still another wreck. Twenty-five of the twenty-eight passengers had just alighted when the freight car crashed into the rear of the passenger car. Conductor Uledsoe noticed L. Baker, the old man from Milton, placidly sitting in his seat as if nothing had happened. It was thought he had not heard Bledsoe's cry of alarm. Two girls seeing that they could not escape, ran back into the car, but neither was injured. Mr. Baker was thrown violently out of his seat and was injured about the back. He was carried into the Earlham cemetery office and cared for. Heard Long Distance. When the second crash came Ihe sound was heard for many bundled yards. The rear of the passenger coach was completely demolished while the freight car suffered' in like manner." Conductor Bledsoe w,as just about to jump, when the two cars came together and he was thrown violently into the road. Motorman Riley Cook of the freight, remained with his car, all the while thinking that he could bring it to a stop. He received a long gash above the left eye and several body bruises. His face was otherwise cut by the flying debris. Motorman Rhodes of the city car was uninjured, for he jumped and ran to the other side of the road several seconds before the crash came, according to the reports in circulation on the scene this morning. One lady passenger on the city car was also uninjured. The local interurban wrecking crew was engaged in clearing the tracks the greater part of today. The cars were taken to the local barns where repairs will be made upon them. In remarking of the wreck, one of the street car men said that it. was a most remarkable thing that neither of the three cars went over the twenty foot grade leading to the Clear Creek bridge. Neither left the tracks. He said that this season of the year is dangerous for interurban cars, in that the tracks are always more slippery than at any other season, due to wet leaves and frosty tracks. WILL ATTtll) EXERCISES Demarchus C. Brown Accepts Earlham Invitation. Demarchus C. Brown, state librarian, has accepted the invitation extended him by President Kelly of Earlham college to attend the dedication of the new librarj" at the college and deliver an address. The exercises will be held on Tuesday. December 3. RANGE WASFROM Z3T0 25 Rainfall for the Past Week Was Quite Heavy. From 2," so -V, was the range in temperature th past week. The record is as follows; High. . .."" . . .- . . '2 Low. Oct. Oct. Oct. Oct. Oct. Nov. 43 : 23 11 41 4.i 42 Five partly 's 2t :: ill i i'ov. 2 54 ! The rainfall was 2.43 inches. I days were cloudy and two i cloudy. FIVE DIEDJHJ WRECK Passenger and Freight Trains Collided. Little Rock. Ark., Nov. 4. As result of a head on collision between passenger and freight trains today five were killed and twenty-seven injured.
JOSEPH W. KENNEY OH THE LECTURE PLATFORM He Will Speak on Subjects of Interest to the Irish.
HAS MADE A GOOD RECORD. Joseph W. Kenney, a young attorney of this city, who won a wide reputation for himself as a college orator a few years ago, is going to use his talents in championing the c.iusc of the Irish people during the coming winter. He has been engaged to lecture in different parts of the country ou subjects that will be of particular interest to Irish people. Mr. Kenney first came into public notice as an orator in 1901 when he carried off the oratorical honors of Notre Dame University. Later, as the i representative of Earlham college he won the state oratorical contest. His ; last victory was at Indiana university, where he carried off the honors j in oratory while attending that institution. ! Since finishing his collegiate training. Mr. Kenney has made a careful study of problems that confront the Irish people. Being of Irish extraction, his heart has been in his work. As an orator he has dash and vim and : an unusual fluency. ' Mr. Kenney also found time to ; spend a year in the south, studying the negro problem and he will also be j heard discussing that subject this winter. One of his lectures on lreland is entitled "The Sons of Erin ' and Their Achievements." ! During the past summer Mr. Kenney addressed a number of chautauj quas and Irish societies. MOST REMARKABLE CONFERENCE ENDS Bankers Hold Seventeen-hour Session at the Home Of J. P. Morgan. NEW INFLUENCES COMING. KNICKERBOCKER AND LINCOLN TRUST COMPANIES WILL PASS TO MORGAN AND ROCKEFELLER INTERESTS. New York. Nov. 4. The most remarkable series of conferences ever indulged in by bankers in New York came to a close at five o'clock this morning after seventeen hours continuous session at the home of J. P. Morgan. No statement was issued, but it is understood that new influences will dominate the Knickerbocker and Lincoln trust companies. Morgan ami Rockefeller interests will dominate these institutions. A statement is expected later today. It. is reported that Morgan & Co., insist on the resignation of President Thorne of the trust company of America and the board of directors before coming to the company's assistance. Thorne has declined to make a statement. THIRD TRIAL OF KEPLER CASE CO MESWED N ESD AY Many Men Summoned to Appear for Jury Duty. TWO JURIES DISAGREED. Chief Bailey of the police department has spent nearly the entire day summoning various men in the township to report at. police headquarters Wednesday of this week for jury service in the case of the State against Alonzo Kepler, charged with assault and battery, which will be tried for a third time on that date. The juries in the first two trials disagreed. SUICIDE OE A CASRIER AT HUNTSVILLE, ALA. James R. Boyd, Bank and Trust Official, Dead. Huntsville. Ala.. Nov. J. James R. Boyd, cashier of the Huntsville Bank and Trust company, committed suicide this morning. NOT THE BICYCLE REPAIRER. The Elmer Smith fined in police court the past week was not Elmer Smith, the bicycle repairer, at 426 Slain stret.
SPLENDiD REPORTS GIVEN Of WORK AT ST. PAUL'S HCURCK
The Rev. C. Huber Has Concluded Fourteen Years' Services as Pastor of This Flourishing Congregation. FINANCIAL SHOWING A VERY REMARKABLE ONE. In the Fourteen Years Nearly $100,000 Has Been Raised , For the Various CausesLast Ye4ar $9,782.05. At St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran church Sunday morning, the services
were of special interest owing to the!that aI1 the Htigating parties could do
fact that it was the fourteenth anni-twas versary of the pastorate of the Rev.
i V. V 44 4 14 4 4 t-4 V. I UUM 4 V 4 V J .4 44 4 4 4. y ! with the work of the past year and of 'the fourteen years were given. The I sermon at that time was in English and was heard by a large audience. In part, the Rev. Huber said: There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacle of the most high. God is in the midst of her, sheshall not bemoved. God shall help her, and that right, early. We have been together now fourteen years. Great have been the changes, both in us and among us. It lias been a time of conflict, of joys and sorrows; of battles fought aud victories won. To be in the church of God, and enjoy the blessings of the church, is a most precious blessing and privilege. I want to call your attention to this briefly. This psalm is called the Luther psalm. Why? We have here a description of the church and of God in the church. 1. God is the founder of it. 2. God dwells in the midst of her. He gives all the privileges. 4. He is the chief ruler. .". He owns the church. It is His property. -v !. He has the right to draw the ren l. . Rut there is a river. Who is this river and what does it accomplish V 1. God is the river. He speaks of Himself. For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me. the fountain of living waters, and have hewed (hem out cisterns, broken cisterns that hold no water. What refreshing there is found in Him! 2. Christ the son of God is the river. In that day there shall be a fountain. What a life giving cleansing stream has been flowing from Calvary! :i. God. the Holy Ghost is that riv er. Jesus spoke of this when he said:j Whosoever drinketh. He that bo- J lieveth on me. as the Scripture halh ! said. This is the stream that Ezra i saw coining from under the altar, j This is the river John saw. And he ; shewed From this stream we have been drinking. How glad I am
to know that there are many among',, , . . . , . T. , . , ..... England as early at ISnl. in trance
ii iiu ueuHui 10 uiuu 01 ini siit'Hm Would there were many more. To what should this move" us? Y"hat ought we to do? We dare not stop this river with us. When Jordan ceases to flow it becomes the Dead sea. The church must die when she con-! sumes all upon herself. There is yet so much desert land at : home and abroad. The streams whereof shall make glad t lie citv of , T1 . . ., . ' , God. It is our privilege in God s . , , . name and bv Goa s help and blessing i 4 , p., , 4 4to send out streams of blessing to tne ends of the arth. ! I am glad to be able to render this report. It is the best that was rendered at the synod. j In this report I give first what was done during the past year, and then a summary of the fourteen years. j The church has educated two young i men for the gospel ministry. j We lost members by death. 11; in the 14 years. l.y. We dismissed to other congregations last year. 2: in the 14 years. !. Baptized children last year, is; in the 11 years. 2s.". Bap-' tized adults last year. 4; in the i t years. 12. Confirmed last ead. 2."c m the 14 years. 2M. Received by cer- j tifieatf, in the 14 years. w. The! (.Continued on Page Eight.) FOOTBALL GAME AOOS TO LIST0F VICTIMS Half-back of Wooster University Fatally Hurt. SPINAL COLUMN INJURED. Cleveland, O., Nov. 4. Richar-J Evj ans, half back on the Wooster Univer1 sity football eleven, died at the hosIpital today as the result of injuries received in a game with Western Reserve a month j?go. Hi? spinal column iu lnjar
T MAKE TRIP
TO FEDERAL COURT Study and Jessup Not Notified To Appear. DELAY IS NOT EXPLAINED. City Attorney T. J. Study and Attorney Wilfred Jessup did not go to Indianapolis this morning to file briefs and make their arguments in the case of the Terre Haute, Indianapolis & Eastern traction company against the city of Richmond, which case was set for a healing in the Indianapolis federal court. "Judge Gavin at Indianapolis, whom the city has retained to assist in the case now pending in the federal court. did not notify Mr. Jessup and myself j to aupear in the federal court, so we di,d"ot -f Judge s imctcalled for a hearing," stated Mr. Study. He said that he did not know why i he case had again been continued, but he supposed Judge Anderson was not yet ready to hear it. Mr. Study stated thai federal judges had a little habit of taking their own time fn heariug cases filed in their courts and to sit patiently and wait, WIFE GRANTED DIVORCE She Was Also Given Custody Of the Children. Tabitha Wetherly was granted a divorce in the circuit court from Waldo Wetherly on the grounds of abandonment and failure! to provide. Mrs. Wetherly was also given custody of the children. VON MEYER RAS A PLAN FOR SAVING Postmaster General Would Make Postal Department Answer Purpose. SPEKENHIER APPROVES IT. IT IS DESIRE TO ENCOURAGE ECONOMY AND THRIFT AMONG THE PEOPLE BY GIVING EVERY OPPORTUNITY. Postmaster J. A. Spekenhier of this city is a great believer in the new ideas of Postmaster General Yon Meyer, who seems to have a happy faculty jot suggesting ways and means ot establishing the post office system of the country ou a better basis. Many of his ideas are good and congress should pay heed to these at its next session, says the local mail custodian. The latest of Yon Meyer's plans is a postal savings system. In many countries thrift and economy is encouraged by these postal savings banks, he says. In speaking of his plans Yon Meyer says: in 1882, and in Austria in IS.".. In New England,'' said Mr. Meyer recent - : ly. "we realize that the necessity for : postal savings banks is very much less 'than in many other parts of the country. and this is demons! rated by the ! fact that in New England the average distance of the savings bank from the postoffice Is about t."i miies; in th" Ttrt.1!i ijtiH Wputprn ctntt: it la ol.rnit 0 ., 2. miles; in the Soutnern states. 33 ., . . . -, i . miles; and m the Pacific slope states, - miles, i , . . nc ue3UB iu fucuuiae uiuuug our people economy and thrift, and by the use of the postal savings banks to give them every opportunity to husband their resources. The policy will not be to compete in any way with the savings banks, but rather to encourage the habit of depositing savings. The people that we shall want to reach are, first, those who have not the facilities at hand for depositing their money in a savings hank, and secondly, the foreign population which is entering the country in such enormous numbers and which is, to a great extent, hoarding its surplus earnings. The immigrants r ach the United States suspicious of any private banking institution, but with absolute faith in the Government. We have evidence of this in the tact that they are buying nnstiil monpv orders navable to them-
selves. Our object is to bring hidden fore the performance. Had it ocmonev to light, to instill life into itcurred later when the house was filled and to lead it again into the channels ; the results wouid probably have been of trade, for the mutual benefit of la-j much more disastrous, bor and capital, and thus add to the j "Some Eastern States that have had prosperity throughout the land. 'more experience with these traveling . machines have very stringent laws CUnPIcn QV CI CPTPIOITY ! regulating their use. Respectfully recbiiUUrLU PI ELtU 1 niUH I. ommend a Simiiar law in this State."
An employe of the Home Telephone j company, named Ellis, was badly; shocked by electricity while at wor' ! in the vicinity oi iue street car uaras, Sunday. He was taken to his home and is again able for duty. THE WEATHER PROPHET. INDIANA Fair Tuesday; west winds. OHIO Tuesday fair; fresh narttweit winds.
RAID MAD DOOMS
A Bar Was Found in Operation in Violation of the "Blind Tiier" Statute. ALSO HAD SOME gImBUI PARAPHERNALIA Liquor and Other Confiscated Property Was Loaded Into the Patrol Watson and Taken to Police HeadquartersAction of Grand Jury.
Sunday afternoon about 2:2 o'clock Chief Bailey, with Sergeant McManus and Officers Yogelsorig. Lawler. Wierhake, Yingling, Lambertson and Cully, marched quietly out of police heado.uarters, then east on Main street, until they reached the Yaughun block.
which is between Seventh and Eighth! penny machines. These were alo streets on Main. (placed in the chiefs office. Evan The police detachment then filed up' and Cook were released on their own
two flights of stairs in the Yaughan block and halted before the entrance of the Eagles' club rooms. There was an imperative knock on the door and in a minute the wicket flew open and a man peered out. The sight which confronted him was not a pleasing one, but he promptly opened the door and Chief Bailey and his officers filed in. Between forty and fifty members of the Eagles' aerie were in the club rooms at the time and the sight of the eight police officers caused the greatest excitement. Without any preliminaries the police swarmed down vi the "bar" and proceeded to confiscate all the booze found in the place. A big five cent slot machine, commonly called the "owl" machine, and two smaller gambling machines, which the members of the aerie used to play for the cigars, and several hundred poker chips, also became the loot of the officers. List of Members Taken. After a list of all the members found in the club rooms at the time of the raid had been secured, si call was sent in for th patrol wagon. When Patrolman Remmert pulled his horse up in front of the Yaughan block there was a large crowd assembled i::
the street, and in a very few minutes and gambling devices found there. Acthe word had generally spread about I cordingly. Sergeant McManus, in comthe city that the police had raided the , pliance with the "blind tiger" law, filEagles' club rooms. j ed information that "he had reason to After the arrival of the patrol wagon j believe" intoxicating liquors were bn-
the police officers began loading dif-: ferent varieties of booze into it. Ah soon as the wagon had been filled to . SUGGESTS LAW TO COVEBTHf MACHINES Former State Factory Inspector Points to the Danger In Motion Pictures. WANT STRINGENT MEASURE RECORD MADE BY THE INSPECTOR'S OFFICE IN INDIANA THE PAST YEAR FIGURES ARE INTERESTING. j In the report of the State factory in- ; spector for 1!06, copies of which have just been received at the office of j William E. Blakeley, now State in- ' spector, the topic of "new dangers" is discussed at some length. The report was compiled by D. IL McAbee, who until recently was State Inspector, j Along the line of "new dangers," the ! report says: I ' Quite recently the daily press has J given an account of panics in two the- ! atres of our State, one in Indianapolis land one in EvansvilL?. In both cases I they w ere caused by a cinematograph ! or moviug picture machine. Kortu- ! uately. there were no fatalities, although many were quite seriously injured. At Greenwood, a gas tank of a soinew.iat similar machine exploded, killing two persons and injuring a , third. The explosion occurred just beWork of the DepartmentSome interesting figures are given in relation to the amount of work done by the department. There have been 4,42$ inspections made, says the report, requiring the issuing of 2,548 orders for the better guarding of dangerous machines, elevators, repairing of defective boil?rs, improved sanitary conditions, fire-escapes on hotels and public buildings. We also have received and examined certificates of boiler inspections; received and referred for further in-
E ON EAGLES' CLUB BY POLICE, SUNDAY
capacity. Patrolman Kcmmert took his cargo of beer, whiskey, gin, wine, etc.. to the city building, where it was carefully stored away in the private offlr of the chief. He then returned to the Yaughan block aud removed the big "owl" machine and the two smaller recognizance. In the chief's office six bushel baskets of empty beer bottles, one bushel basket of filled bottles of beer, about a dozen quarts of whiskey and several bottles of wine, gin and other intoxicants were counted. Prosecutor Jeeup will bring the matter to the attention of the grand jury this week and it is certain that an indictment will be returned against Eagle aerie No. Ct.. of this city, for violating the "blind tiger" law, which was passed at the last session of the legislature. Eagles Ignored Warning. Chief Bailey, after the raid, stated that at. the time the "blind tiger" law went into effect, the Eagles ignored it and he finally warneil them that sale of intoxicants must cease in the club rooms. Mr. Bailey stat-s that the officers of the aerie assured him that th law would be observed. The chief then stated that of late it had been generally reported about town that the Eagles were selling booze in their club rooms and that Sunday bar was operated there. Inasmuch as the Eagle had been warned not to violate th "blind tiger" law and had failed to heed the warning. Chief Bailey stated that it was decided to raid the club rooms and confiscate all intoxicants iiig sold in the Eagles' club rooms. A search warrant was then secured and the raid made. vestigation or other disposition. 2.0S7 accident, reports; t-xecuted 736 affidavits, without charge; mailed to the manufacturers and others of the State 2,fHi reports of 1905. mid not lets than ! 4,000 parcels containing laws and .blanks as provided for in the law; compiled and have ready for the printer a report of 220 pages. Our letter book shows we have answered I,1C letters." MISSOURI PEOPLE SHOWN Two Earthquake Shows Visited Cape Giradeau. RECALL VISITATION OF 1811 Cape Girardeau. Nov. I. This city was wrecked by two earthquake shocks at ten o'clock last night and the populace was terrorized. Every building in the city shook. In a larg tract of ground sank during an earthquake, and is now a swamp. W.D. FOULKE AT EARLHAM Spoke at Chapel Exercises on "Good Ctizenship. if The chapel exercises at Earlham were of an interesting nature, ina--mueh as Hon. William Dudley Fou.ke spoke on "Good Citizenship." As is usual witli Mr. Foulk, his audience was highly entertain-! and instructed. PLEASED WITH GOODWIN High School Students Like Y. M. C. A. Secretary. Geo. Goodwin, secretary of Richmond's Y. M. C. A., made his first apmorning, and it is the desire of the morninig, and it is the desire of the entire student body that he make frequent visits. Mr. Goodwin spoke venr Interestingly on the future of the Y. M. C. A. in Richmond, and explaine! its purpose. acide from the amusement, to be jrot out of it. The oichcstrii gave a very pleasing selection.