Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 32, Number 304, 16 December 1907 — Page 4

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Senator McDermott of West Virginia Investigated and Cleared Owners.

LIVE WIRES TORN DOWN.

SHALL THE LIGHT PLANT BE SOLD?

Editor Palladium: In response to the Palladium's reQuest, for opinions on the sale of the light plant, I wish to ask the business Wen of Richmond to reflect back to Ihe time when we had no Municipal light plant, when electric light wns Dne of the extreme luxuries, the price ras more than double what it is now, fend there were very lew private consumers. Now we find nearly every business house in the city using electric light. Not only business houses, tmt the majbrity of homes throughout the city are illuminated by electric light, thus eliminating the cause of a great many fires, namely by the trust Iproducts, oil, candles, gas. matches, etc. Had it not been for the Municieal light plant,, we. common people ould never have had the luxury of electric light, for as long as it was profluced by a trust the price would never have come down within reach of the ?oor people. If used now with economy is is as cheap as John D.'s oil. By 11 means, let us keep the plant. It eems strange that the Light, Heat and Power company want to buy and are so overly anxious to buy our plant, if t isn't making any money. And yet, they say they will agree to furnish light for the same price indefinitely. Jlet us go back the short period of ten rears and see the wonderful advancement that has been made in the electric world. We find all the large manufacturing establishments throughout the world using electricity. Using motor driven machinery which does away with the overhead shaft'Ing, which has been so disastrous to life and limb; also doing away with ail belts and dangerous appliances. This has been brought about by the wonderful Inventions and progress that bas been made fn lessening the cost Df electricity. It is reasonable to believe that there will still be advancement, and that in the near future we will be cooking and heating our homes with electricity. Let us by all means keep the matter In our own hands and tiot rely on the honesty and fairness of & great trust which has always been found wanting as far as fairness to the people is concerned. Take the franchises the country over, that have

been granted the various monopolies and trusts, and they all have their loop holes, whereby they can crawl

through and gull the people, to their heart's content. They all have the most skilled attorneys that money can procure, thus they are able to pull the wool over the eyes of our common councils and like bodies. Think of the franchises that have been granted by the city of Richmond In the past. The franchise granted to the Richmond street railway, (if there ever was one) looked no farther into the future than the day it was granted, and today we are at its mercy, because we have no franchise that covers the conditions of today. And the idea of having to pay rent for the meters that measures the pas and water we use. The grocer way as well charge us for the use of his scales that he weighs our bacon rlth. They charge us whatever they please for the franchise they have Is 3oo.se enough to allow them to do so. go it is with all other franchises. They look not to the future of advancement, but to the past. Again I say, by all neans keep the Municipal light plant fend Keep out of the clutches of a greedy combination. We are told to spend our dollar at home. Would paying it to the Light,. Heat and Power company be spending it at home? It is a combination of many plants, with headquarters in the east. I have but one rote and that one will be for he retention of the Municipal plant. G. W. M. i Learing Richmond 11:15 p. m. via C. C. ft I lands you in Chicago at 7:00 a. m. Through sleepers and coaches. Tou will like it. apr6-tt

THIS FIRED THE MINE DUST AND

STRONG SUCTION GATHERED

MINERS WERE ALSO CLEARED

OF RESPONSIBILITY.

Charleston, W. Va., Dec. 1(5. Gover

nor Dawson has received the report of Mr. Joseph H. McDermott, president

of the West Virginia senate, who was sent to Monongah by the executive to make an investigation of the recent

mine horror there. In his report Senator McDermott endeavors to relieve the Fairmont Coal company of any re-

sponsibility for the explosion which snuffed out the lives of approximately

500 men and boys. Neither does he

attribute it to any carelessness on the

part of the miners. This is the finst

official statement made relative to the

causes of the disaster. Senator McDermott says in part: "My conclusion is that the accident was not due to any negligence or improper management on the part of the

company or carelessness on the part of the miners.

"My opinion is that the loaded train

of cars which parted near the mouth

of mine No. , and the last half of

which ran back into the mine, jumped

the track, or in some way was wrecked at the bottom of the slope, and this accident broke the electric wires, causing a short circuit or other fire in the

cloud of dust which followed the runaway train, and the explosion started at that point, following the air current back into No. 6 and then on through No. 8 to the entry of the same. Everything indicates that the force of

the explosion was in the direction indicated.

"The effect was the same as that fol

lowing the firing of a cannon-ball."

The coroner's inquest was begun to

day, but Gov. Dawson was not in at

tendance, as there are several big railroad suits coming up in the courts next week which will require his presence.

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SOCIAL DUTIES BECKON.

MOICIE, TOO, RECEIVES WHISKEY THROUGH MAIL Schools of Instruction Run for The Thirsty.

MAKE "DRY" TOWNS "WET"

Muncle, Ind., Dec. 10 The mail order whiskey and wine houses are doing their best to relieve the drought In the rural districts of Delaware county, and with considerable success, as the express companies say that large boxes of "wet goods" are delivered dally in the smaller towns. The foreign liquor firms have begun schools of instruction as to how to order and not be found out. Among other things, letters to prospective customers In dry districts never are Bent la envelopes bearing any indication on the exterior of the concern's business. Either plain envelopes or nvelopes merely giving the liquor JUm's address are employed,

Washington, Dec. 1C Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, who underwent an operation for appendicitis at the White House last week will probably be well ami able to take her place in the social world within the next ten days or two weeks. Dr. Sophie Nordhoff-Jung, who assisted Dr. Finney of Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, In the operation, has been in almost constant attendance upon Mrs. Longworth. Dr. Jung said tonight: "Everything is just beautiful. She has been just as cheerful as if she had not been ill at all. She has had good sleep. We are all so encouraged, and if she continues to improve as she is doing now, Mrs. Ijongworth

will be able to receive her friends

within the next ten days."

Two trained nurses are on duty at

the White House.

BULLET INTO WINDOW OF BAGGAGE CAR

John Fletcher, Pennsylvania Baggageman, Escapes.

WAS NEAR DUGAN, OHIO.

John Fletcher, baggageman on a fast Pennsylvania train, running into Richmond, believes that an effort was made to assassinate him last night, near Dugan's Station, Ohio. A rifle ball crashed through a window at which he was sitting and he thinks that it came from some one sitting beside the track, but he has no idea what motive could have prompted such a deed. He escaped injury.

Frankfort, Ky., Dec. 16. Owing to

bad judgment on the part of some re

publican, the required appropriation to furnish the new capitol building is imperiled, and the democratic legislature may not make the appropriation at the next session. Post cards containing the picture of Governor Willson, the new capitol building and the words, "Fools build houses and wise men live in them," are being distributed through the state. The new capitol was built by the democrats, and they regard these cards as a direct insult to them.

HAVE ELOPED THREE TIMES SINCE MARRIED

Young New York Couple Fears Parental Wrath.

AWAY FROM HOME NOW.

New York, Dec. 16. However much their fond parents may split hairs on the fine points at law, appoint guardians ad litem and plead tender age for them, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Stevenson are so thoroughly convinced that they are made for each other and have a right to enjoy the blessings of the marriage tie, that they have eloped three times during the troublesome process of a divorce action begun by others in their behalf. They are away now. ' No one but themselves knows if they are together; their parents believe they are.

WOMAN "CUSSED" AND

DRANK LIKE A

MAN

Boys of Company D Thought Laura Was One.

WAS LATER DISCOVERED.

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Chattanooga, Tenn , Dec. 16. Dressed in the uniform of a Sergeant of the Twelfth Cavalry, stationed at Ft. Oglethorpe, and claiming to be enlisted in that regiment, Laura O. Donald, member of a well known family of East Lake, Tenn., was arrested late this afternoon by the police charged with masquerading in men's clothes. Laura in soldier clothes had rather an effeminate look. However, she made up for her looks by the masterly way in which she drank whisky and it was this failing which led to her indoing and discovery.

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