Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 32, Number 282, 21 November 1907 — Page 1

CHMONB FAIXABIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. VOL. XXXII. NO. 282. RICHMOND, IXD., THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 21, 11)07. SINGLE COPY, 2 CENTS. IEW PYTHIAN TEMPLE IS DEDICATED AT HAGERSTOWN PEOPLE WITH USE OF It Proved An Auspicious Event in the History of That Place. The Rev. David C Huntington Makes Himself Clear On Coin Motto.

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Addresses Were Made By Messrs. Stahr, Gass, Shiveley, Campbell And Barnard Ladies Ably Assisted.

"With a spirit of gladness, happiness and triumph, llagerstown lodge, nights of Pythias, tntti tained more than five hundred visa jrs Wednesday, on occasion of the Pythian castle hall indication, the construct 'on of which has covered a period of more than two r.rs and has been marked by hards.hip and discouragement. It was really a triu niph for the Hagerstown lodge numbering but few more than a hundred men, when it threw the beautiful building open to the public for general in? taction. It stands as a landmark of the earnestness and zoai with which the loi!;;e tarried forward its eonstructib,.. ii) the face of most discouraging clmiriiitanees. and in the addresses delivered Wednesday afternoon, at the time of the regular deduct ory exercises, jptakers complimented the lodge on its pfffforts, as did the several hundred ether Pythian visiting brothers. Speakers at the dedicatory exerciseswere Wm. M. Stahr of llagerstown. ". ho vave the address of welcome Ftste Grand Chancellor Frc k Gass o? MuncicChnrles E. Shiv-:ley of Richmond, past supreme chancellor, the Kev. J. O. Campbell, of Richmond am! Judge W. O. Barnard of New Castle. We 'ncsday evening thivtv-one camli ritus were Initiated. It is the largcsi 6iiig.'e class ever initiated in the his tory of the Hagerstown lodge. Foi the ! crefit of the whe-s and daughter, cf ll.e members of the cvJer. as well as all others who might wish to witness it, the Knightstown iirst rank decree trcm gave drainat::ed work iu this i.v.Ai. New Castl- degree team gave :ho work in the other degrees. Mr. Stahr's Address. Wm. Stahr. in his welcoming address Wednesday afternoon, spoke of the vork the lodge had done lo bring to a realization the dreams which the members had held for years. He said the members had worked nobly, fought hard and after much discouragement, had won the fight. There was not a tingle person in the large and crowdt'4 hall who did not wish the llagerstown lodge of Knights of Pythias success. He thanked the visitors for the apparent interest they took in the organization as evidenced by their attendance ou the occasion of the dedication. Principles of the Order. Judge Frank Gass. grand chancellor delivered the dedicatory address. It was eloquent and he swayed the large audience as he depicted the teachings of Pythianisnv. as they are applicable 1o every day life. He maintained that the symmetry and proportions of the beautiful Pythian temple, were typical of the good for which the order as a whole stands. In all their triumph in the completion of the new Pythian home, the members of the body, he (aid, fdioti'd think beyond and not be content with the prestige the construction of the new home hud given them, but should look to higher things. While the building undoubtedly would give the members such a prestige in the community and give them a standing which probably they would not have had without it. there is another temple which will outlive in the hearts of men. and that constructed in tie soul of man by the teachings of F. C. and B. Truth is what will live Into eternity. He dedicated the new building to friendship, to charity and benevolence. He said of friendship: "Can ."t iitore enduring building be erected than that of friendship as ex-j eniphfied in the lives of Damon and Pythias. We are sometimes criticized for not following the teachings or these historic men in all their details. There are always some who do not. But my friends, are there not people in the churches who do not follow the teachings taught there? Should we condemn the church simply because of tbrse people? We dedicate the buildInn today to charity and benevolence. We should exemplify the teachings of b?revo!f nee in our lives: should extend a hand of help to those unfortunate Mho :to sdnndea on the shoals cf MtVs tempestuous sea. These are tbe ?hre principles lr which Pyth!:tns stand." Mr. ('ns civ li at length on the work t i the order and ct the close of his eddves; :-s heartily applauded. Influence cf Frsternalism. C":arks H. Snivel, y of Richmond t-poke of fraternaiisiii and its effect uncr. the orld loday. He traced history through the times when fr.iternalisni, as exemplified in secret orwas the subject of, condemnation the country over and of how at present it ii looked u to for it is the nia'.er end keeper of homes, and is an uplift to mankind in seneral. Many of tho great causes of today would Jose much of their significance were

it not for fraternalism. These would lose half their force and success. Fraternalism is a barrier to the rapidly increasing evils, which are affecting the people of this country. Gets a Hearty Reception. Rev. J. O. Campbell of Richmond met a very hearty reception. He spoke of character and its development and said that one of the greatest works of the Knights of Pythias is to build character. Fnle.-;s this is true the lodge fails to work for and accomplish the thing that is the greatest and grandest. Pythianism will stand as long as the old earth stands for the good and the development of life and character. Rev. Campbell's remarks were applauded loudly at the close. Barnard Called Upon. Judge W. O. Barnard of New Castle was attending the meering of the dedication and was called on for a speech. Ho spoke of the wo' k that could be accomplished by the Knights of Pythias, and the fundamental principles which should be followed by them in their future labors. Music was furnished by Burt's band of Frankton. Ind., and the Teeter family 'orchestra of llagerstown. Two members of the Geisler family rendered a cornet duet that was very pleasing. A. quartet composed of Mahlen 'iebhart, Frank Geisler, .Mrs. Ed Ma--oi' and Mrs. Will Porter, sang several very beautiful selections. List of the Candidates. The class of thirty-one candidates which was initiated into the mysteries of the order Wednesday nilit, was composed of Walter Simpson, Milton Adams, Charles Walters. Clyde Reynolds, Ben.j. Hindman, Frank Daugherty, Edward Imal, Ramond Deeter. Edward Allen. A. W. Walker. Frank Nicholson, 1 1. W. Allen. Kdward Hugins, Fred Smith. Harry Thalia. Ray Bagford. Harry Kopp. C. L. Macon. Oliver Pollard, Herbert Hlatt. William Thomas, Porter Thorbn.vg. Martin, Abbott, Lee Reynolds. Hollis Hoover, 1 1. C. Teetor, Harley Ren how. Jacob Wissler, George Smith and Frew W. Kienzle. Officers of the Lodge. The officers of the Haererstown lode. who have been actively identified with building operations, rind on whom much credit reflects for the completion of the new Pythian home are: C. C John Geisler. V. C. Jesse Replogle. Prelate Henry Itaush. M. of W. Bert Wycliff. M. at A. Dr. Lamar. Inner Guard Paul Frits. Outer Guard Sol Castor. K. of R. S. M. I j. Cephart. M. of F. Harry Stoltz. M. of E. Edward Mason. Building i-? Commodious. The building; itself is a very commodious one, being 4."x!H feet, and two and one half stories in heighth. It is constructed of cement blocks numbering 10,000, many of which were built by members of the lodge. On the first floor them are two large business rooms, with basements. On the second floor is tho large assembly room, two ante-rooms, two property rooms and a kitchen. Above the assembly room and f-f-ming a balcony, is the Uniform Rank room and banquet hall. The buildine is one of the most beautiful in llagerstown. Visitors Well Entertained. Visitors were royally entertained by the Pythian Sisters. During the day they served meals to 660 people. There efforts too, were very much appreciated by the visiting Pythians. Wednesday night a lunch was served to all persons in the city who were making preparations to leave for their respective homes. Nothing but compliments were heard for the women's efforts. There were probably one hundred and fifty Richmond Pythians in attendance. The special which left" the city at one o'clock Wednesday afternoon carried about one hundred while later In the evening about fifty made the trip to Hagerstown. The special train was met at the depot by the llagerstown company Uniform Rank and Burt's baud of Frankton. All visitors were royally entertained. Visitors were in Hagerstown from Knightstown. New Castle, Fountain City, Winchester. Muncie, Cambridge City and many other surounding towns. The event will long stand as an important one iu Hagerstown and Pythian history.

THE WEATHER PROPHET. INDIANA -Friday fair. OHIO Friday colder and fair except possibly snow flurries in northwest portion.

MRS. BRADLEYSAYS 010 HOT THREATEN TO KILL PARAMOUR She Remembered Sticking Him With an Umbrella and Knocking Out Four Teeth Because He Was Abusive. jID not visit capital intending to murder. She Couldn't Even Remember Shooting Brown Attorney Tries to Show Attempt to Break Up Brown's Home. Washington, Nov. 21. When Mrs. Bradley resumed the stand this morning. Mr. Baker resumed the cross-examination. He drew from her the story of Max Brown's visit, to the Brown ranch while she was there. From motives of delicacy she. went to a hotel. She acknowledged she was arrested several times for her association with Brown, told of a meeting with Mrs. Brown in which a divorce was discussed and said she didn't remember that Brown made charges against her on that occasion about other men, but that he had done so thousands of times. The witness remembered sticking Brown with an umbrella and knocking out four teeth. He was very abusive. His teeth were shells. She denied that she had threatened to kill : him. This closed the cross- examination. That Mrs. Bradley did not come to i Washington with any intention of i killing Brown, and that she did not 'even remember shooting him. she told the jury in her trial Wednesday. The statement was not reached until the afternoon session of the court, the first half of the day being given largely to the identification of letters from Mr. Brown to Mrs. Bradley and from her to him, very few of which were read. The real tragedy formed the subject of the afternoon sitting. At that time Judge Powers brought out the full statement in his examination in chief. This consumed only a few minutes of time and as soon as he concluded District Attorney Baker entered upon his ! cross-examination. j He devoted compart ively little attention to the shooting itself, but, going back to the early days of the relationship between Senator Brown and Mrs. i Bradley sought to show by reading let ters and questioning the witness tint she had deliberately undertaken to break up Senator Brown's home and that she was at enmity with Mrs. Brown as early as lOol. He also brought out the fact that Mrs. Bradley and Mrs. Brown had originally been strong friends and that this ; friendship even extended beyond the time of the birth of Mrs. Bradley's first 'child by Brown.

DR. JAMES E. TAYLOR.

HOOSIEHS ARE REINSURED No Loss From Liquidation of New Jersey Company. Cyrus W. Neal. deputy state insurance commissioner, has been notified by the New Jersey Fire Inruranee company, which recently withdrew from Indiana, that the company's Indiana I policy holders have been reinsured br the Globe and Rutger's Fire Insurance company of New York and the Shawnee Fire insurance company of Topeka. Kan., both of which Mr. Neal considers strong companies. The New Jersey company had .sros,w of insurance iu Indiana when it went into liquidation. PHOHIS CLASH III CHICAGO SESSION Intense Rivalry Shown at the Meeting of the National Committee. COLUMBUS, 0., IS CHOSEN. CONVENTION WILL BE HELD THERE THE FIRST WEEK IN JUNE CHARLES R. JONES WAS CHOSEN NATIONAL CHAIRMAN. Chicago. Nov. 21. Intense rivalry that threatens to result in a break in the ranks of the prohibition party characterized the meeting of the members of the national committee, which finally selected Columbus, O., as the convention city. During the first week of June. P.HKS a candidate for the presidency will be chosen. Fifteen hundred and eighty delegates and alternates will attend, the ratio being one delegate and one alternate for each 10O votes cast for Jacob Swallow for president in 1004. Charles R. Jones of Chicago was e.ected chairman of the national committee, W. C. Calderwood of Minneapolis, secretary, and Felix T. McWhirter of Indianapolis, treasurer. The National Prohibitionist was indorsed as the official organ of the party. The proceedings during the twelve hours' session were enlivened by intense rivalry between the Stewart and anti-Stewart factions for control of the conference. The Stewart wing was routed at every point losing the selection of its candidate for chairman, W. C. Calderwood. and failing to secure the convention for Kansas Citv. NEW SCHOOUS BURNED It Had Been Completed But Two Weeks. Plain City, Ohio, Nov. 21 Early this morning fire originating from an 1 nroihpatpd furnace destroved thf new school building at California. It has just been completed two weeks; loss 17,000.

HOPE IS HELD 00T FOR IMPROVEMENT OF POTTO FIELD Legal Status of This Neglected Spot Has Been Determined Through Efforts of the Ministerial Association.

OWNERSHIP HELD JOINTLY BY CITY AND TOWNSHIP. Cemetery Association Has Agreed to Assist in Work of Betterment Matter Will Come Before the Council. The Rev. O. S. Harrison, who was appointed by the Ministerial association to discover the legal status of the potter's field, about the condition of which there has been so much discussion of late, after considerable effort has found that the Earlham Cemetery association made a deed of that plat and furnished a description, cornerstones being placed at each corner, in 1ST.".. He also found on the city records a resolution passed to purchase the .eround and deed made jointly to the city and Wayne township. The field is in a very unsightly condition and has been so for years. The ministers for two years have been trying to get something done, but have failed up to date, but it now appears that it may be possible to get action taken by the proper officials. The cemetery association has agreed to furnish dirt and labor to grade the ground if the city and township will haul the dirt. This can be procured across to the north and there would be only a short distance to haul it so that the expense would not be great. Mr. Harrison appeared before the board of public works Wednesday aftt ernoon and presented the matter. The j members told him that if he would isuomit a written report they would present it to the council and ask for an appropriation to cover the cost of , the work. The written statement will ! be submitted so that the matter can come before the council at the first i meeting in December and it appears ' that the prospects are good for improvement of the ground. FELL NINE STORIES TO INSTANT HEATH Elevator Man and Clerk Met Horrible Fates. New York. Nov. 21. John O. O'Rourke. elevator man. and Joseph Garry, clerk, fell nine stories down an elevator shaft at the Metropolitan Insurance building and Tere instantly killed.

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If He Were Nominated For President He Would Receive the Largest Popular Majority Given Any Man.

The Kev. David C. Huntington rector of St. Paul's Kpiscopal church, has addressed the following communication to the Palladium: My. Dear Mr. Editor: If you had heard my sermon lat Sunday (I sincerely hope you heard some sermon een if no' mine) ou would not have put me into the position of seeming: to be wholly out of sympathy with our noble president. It is nor that "I love Roo?evelt less, but my country more," nen if I am not Brutus. No doubt the resident's motives were good In seeking to protect Gods holy name from profanation. But after all. if God's people cannot be trusted with His nam1 I do not know who can. Perhaps trie only reminder I which some men have of God now-a-! days is the emblem on our coins. "In j God we trust. The church belTs re-1 mind them, but for some reason or! other they are prejudiced against the) church and will not corne near it. And the country is fast going over into the company of "those nations which forget God" (a biblical student knows ' what the rest of the verse is.) There- j fore ought not the few vestiges of a ; belief in supernatural religion, which have been handed down by our forefathers, be jealously guarded and ; cherished? I certainly have a irreat reverence for God, but I am perfectly j willing to trust His holy name with ' men, lest they forget Him altogether. The Political Aspects. Now as to the political , aspects of the situation. If Roosevelt were nominated tomorrow, or consent to accept a nomination. I would vote for him, and so would 73 per cent of the voters of the country. If a less forceful char

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Created a Great Sensation in An Address Before the American Federation of Labor at Norfolk Counter Charge Issued By Broughton Brandenburg.

Norfolk, Va., Nov. 21. A great sensation was created in the American Federation of Iabor by President Samuel Gompers in his speech replying to the attacks upon him and other officers of the federation by the Manufacturers association when he told of an al.leKed attempt to bribe him at the Victoria hotel. New York in October, by a young newspaper man giving his name as Charles Brandenberg. This man. President Gompers aid. declared that he represented the National Manufacturers' association and was prepared to offer him immunity from all exposure and make him financially scure for the remainder of his life if he would sign a certain paper and otherwise aid in the "exposure" of the other leaders In the American Federation of Labor with the view to virtually destroying the influence of" organized labor." The paper. President Gompers said, was purported to have been signed when he (Gompersi was ill iu lS'i't. This paper. Mr. Gompers said, he had preserved, and while deathlike stillness prevailed in the convention. President Gompers drew forth the original document and read it. Delegates Confirm Story. Mr. Gompers, during his recital of the alleged attempt at bribery called upon different delegates present who were with him air times In interviews with Brandenberg to verify his statements. This the delegates, rising in their seats, did. The speech covered forty-two pages of typewritten copy and was an "expose"', from the viewpoint of President Gompers "of the National association of Manufacturers and its ramifications." President Gompers took up and answered in detail the charges brought against him and closed an impassioned speech with these words: "All that I now have to add is that there is not a scintilla of truth in anything published or which can be published by the National Association of Manufacturers or their hireling? which in any way can reflect upon the integrity, the morality or the hones'y of myself, and I have the abiding faith there can not be of any member of the executive council of the American Fed

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acter were nominated, with Bryan as an antagonist, the Prohibition candidate would be elected president, if one wt-ro nut into tho field. (We could thank Collier's for thi-O But if that "Albany Iceburc" Hushes, were nominated, hi. boom would roll from the Atlantic to the Pacific faMer than it took the Pommern to sail from St. Louis to Asbury Park. Hughes is the people's man. He has no friends and no foes who could harm 'Mm. If be should die tomorrow, nobody would ro to the funeral. If he were nominated for president of the United States, he would be elected by the largest popular majority ever Riven to any man. He is as unique a man as Roosevelt, only more so. He would not even rive his mother-in-law the job of dusting out. the capital. He is a phenomenen. As cold as nn icicle, heartless, daring, bold, true and honest. No politician would ever care to say a word in his favor because Hughes, if elected, would not remember the favor. And that is the reason the "Albany Iceburg" is the people's man. The people will be sure to -want him either In the next presidential election, or else the one after it. The only reason why the Albany legislature did his bidding was because the people bid them do it. with telegrams and letters and newspaper pronuneiamentos. And the politician knows that when the people demand a thing they must have it. or el.,e the politician will be retired to private life. We do not wish to see Hughes nominated for president just yet. He must be left in New York, until the house, cleaning is over at the executive mansion in Albany.' and then a Southern trip will do him and the country good. In the meantime, Roosevelt's the man. TO E eration of Labor. 1 defy our enemies to do their worst.' CHARGES COUNTER PLOT. Magazine Writer Says Gompers Seeks To Forestall Article. New York. Nov. 21 Brouehton uinnuruuuib. rniurjiv Ul CIl national Institution of Immigration and a magazine writer, said that he was the man referred to by President Gompers of the American Federation of Iabor. In a statement dictated. Mr. Brandenburg emphatically denied that he had attempted to bribe Gompers. He himself, he said, had been tho intended victim of a plot that failed. He ; declared that Gompers's statement j was an effort to forestall the effect at what he knew was about to be published. TWO ARRESTS MADE IN CASE OE BANK Maxwell and Campbell Are Taken Into Custody. INDICTMENTS ARE FOUND. New York. Nov. 21 Win. Maxwell, president, and Arthur D. Campbell, cashier of the Borough bank of Brooklyn, was arrested today as the result of the grand jury's investigation Into the affairs of the suspended bank. It was learned that five indictments will be found. SITUATION GROWS BETTER No Fear of Diphtheria Spreading at Williamsburg. Dr. Charles Marvel, county health officer, has given the assurance that the diphtheria situation at Williamsburs is growintr better. All danger of further' spread has almost passed.

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