Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 32, Number 306, 18 December 1907 — Page 1

RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. VOL. XXXII. NO. 30G. RICHMOND, IXD., WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECE3II5EK 18, 190?. SINGLE COP 2 CENTS.

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LITTLE MOUTHS ARE CRYING FOR FOOO, LITTLE HANDS ARE COLD AND BARE,

WITH HEARTS GRIEVING, STURDY, STRONG AND BRAVE MEN DAILY HEAR THE CALL OF THEIR LOVED ONES, BUT ARE HELPLESS TO PROVIDE SMALLEST NECESSITIES OF LIFE IN FACE OF COLD CIRCUMSTANCE.

UNEMPLOYED

MEN

HOW ON KNEES TO 1 SWEET CHARITY Unmerciful Wolf Seeks Entrance Into Many Richmond Homes Where Sunshine Formerly Ruled. PALLADIUM STARTS FUND FOR ASSOCIATED CHARITIES Coffers Are Low and the Demand for Aid From Worthy Men and Women Unprecedented in City's History. MONEY IS MUCH NEEDED. DONATIONS WILL BE RECEIVED DAILY AT THE PALLADIUM OFFICE AND AMOUNTS DONATED WILL BE PUBLISHED DAILY. In response to the appeals being daily made by tho worthy poor of this city who are unable to secure employment and as a result are suffering from lack of food and fuel, and in many cases, suufficient clothing and medical attention, the Palladium has undertaken to raise a fund for the re lief of those actually in need of aseislance. The citizens of Richmond who are In a position to render financial assistance to this worthy cause are solicited to contribute to this fund any amount that they feel they are able to Rive. The money will be received at the Palladium office aud each day the amount received will be published in the paper. If you are only able to oontrobute five cents, reader, bring it a nickel will buy a loaf of bread for some family which has nothing to eat In the house. It Is not an advertising scheme, the pole purpose the Palladium has In mind In soliciting money is to relieve the Bufferings of the worthy poor. You, reader, who have a honfb of jour own, with a good position of business which yields you enough money each week to supply yourself or your family with food, fuel clothing and little luxuries of life, must bear in mind that some of your brothers are not so fortunate. Perhaps you do not realize that there fre many men out of employment in Richmond at the present time. Some ot these men have been able to save their money for a "rainy day," but there are others, just as worthy, honest men. who are out of jobs and with no money laid away to meet the milooked for condition. It is this class cf people that the readers of the Palladium are appealed to, to render all the financial assistance that they have in their power to give. In a nice appearing little cottage in the north end of the city there Is an honest, industrious shop employee who lias a wife and two small children. For six weeks he has been out of employment. He has sought work of all ldnds. but has met with the same story everywhere he has gone: "Sorry, my friend, but we are employing no one until the business situation clears up a little move." This shop employee has expended all his scanty savings and the wolf has now gained entrance to Ms pretty little cottage, which ;s mortgaged. The first of the week, one of the veek one of the shop employees little children went to Mrs. Candler and said that her papa had sent for assistance. The child then told how there had been no fire in the house for three days and that not one member of the family had had one bit to eat in twenty-four hours. Absolute need had brought this brave, Industrious specimen of American manhood to his Knees, begging charity. This case of worthy charity is not an Isolated case. There are many other like it In this city and with your help the Associated Charities will do everything in their power to relieve this suffering, which Is greater this winter than for fifteen years past. Many are the little niouUis that are

LITTLE FEET ARE WITHOUT SHOES

HAIL WITH GLADNESS SYSTEM TO AID POOR. The work that is being done by the Associated Charities of Richmond, must commend itself to every candid and fair minded citizen. There is perhaps not another city of its size in which as much is done as in this place to help the poor, and relieve their distress, whether in summer or in winter. A small number of people in the various organizations, give a great deal of their time and energy gratuitously to this line of work, receiving only, very frequently, censure and harsh criticism for their wages. The means to be used, must, to be sure! come from the charitably inclined people of the city. As fpiite recently published, the amount on hand in the treasury of the associated charities is exceedingly small, taking into consideration the time of the year. Think of it, friends, 407 appeals were sent out with a stamped envelope enclosed, and we had heard, up to the last meeting from 128 persons with a contribution, and from six parties with regrets, us being unable to do anything. The amount received was $514. 71. Our expenses are often over $200 per month, this time in the y.-ar. It takes but little figuring to see what the condition will be in the course of a month. This association will do what it said, it will close its doors, when the treasury is exhausted. No one would be more loathe to do this, than those who have the work in hand. For a number of years we have had other resources to supplement our treasury, but there Is nothing on hand this year and the board feels that, this is the work of the city, and ought to be supported by the citizens. "We therefore hail with gladness the plan which the Palladium has devised to arouse an interest in this work and bespeak for it great success. Rev. Conrad lluber, President Council Associated Charities. crying for food; many are the little hands that are cold and bare and little feet naked. Strong, brave fathers are helpless and cannot heed the cries of their loved ones. The unmerciful wolf is knocking at the doors of homes wherein nothing but sunshine and happiness ruled before. LECTURE COURSES AREJOW MISSED First Season in Several That There Has Been None. WERE MANY PATRONS. This is the first season in several years that Richmond has been without a lecture course and the series of entertainments is missed by many people who have been faithful patrons.

SWELL THE FXJINJD FOR WORTHY POOR

Over a year ago. when the terrible San Francisco earthquake occurred and the heart strings of the entire nation were touched, the Palladium started a fund to be forwarded to our far western city for the relief of the sufferers. The total of this fund was over SJ.l, and was made up from small contributions received from the citizens of Richmond and the surrounding country. Today a situation exists that calls for similar generosity on the part of our citizens. Owing to the recent financial troubles which have unsettled the business affairs of the entire nation. Richmond has hundreds of men out of work. If there was work for them they would seek it. Many of them are fairly well prepared for the period of enforced idleness they are undergoing. Others are not and, with cold whiter staring them in the face, realize that their familieswives and little childrenmust have outside aid if they Are not to freeze aud starv". Therefore, in order that these deserving brothers who are unable to find work may at least rind some one in Richmond to aid them in their hour of extremity, the Palladium today starts a fund for the Associated Charities. In choosing the Associated Charities we have done so because it is the recipient of the majority of appeals for deserved help. The Palladium is simply acting as the agent of the citizens of Richmond in being the depository for these funds it is not seeking advertisement. If the citizens of Richmond will respond as liberally In this cause of helping their brother and sister citizens, as they did for the San Francisco sufferers, the Sl.lOO we raised last year will be exceeded. Some of our subscribers may have contributed already to the Associated Charities. What of it send in some more, for the first contribution is evidence that more can be afforded. EDITOR PALLADIUM. CONTRIBUTIONS.

Palladium

MAY HAVE TO CLOSE ITS DOORS. "The effort of the Palladium, to raise a fund for the relief of the worthy poor who are in need of prompt assistance, meets with my most hearty commendation. All the money the Palladium can raise by popular subscription will be greatfully accepted by the Associated Charities, as our treasury is smaller than it has been for several years. If there are as many appeals for help from the worthy unemployed during January, as there has been so far this month, the Associated Charities will have to close its doors the first of February, perhaps sooner, as our limited fund will be expended." Mrs. Elizabeth Candler, city missionary of the Associated Charities.

AGED MAN VICTIM OF MISFORTUNE Cold, Hungry and Almost Exhausted, He Asked Aid of Township Trustee. ON HIS WAY TO RELATIVES. HAD WALKED ALL THE WAY FROM INDIANAPOLIS AND WAS IN SEARCH OF WORK WHICH HE COULD NOT SECURE. Cold, hungry and almost exhausted from walking nearly all the way from Casey, 111., Patrick McElwee arrived in this city today and went at once to te office of Township Trustee Charles Potter to receive assistance. There McElwee. who Is fifty-nine years of age, told a story of privation and suffering which even touched the heart of Potter, who Is used to hearing daily hard luck stories. The old man said that he went from his home in Brookville, Pa., a few months ago to accept employment as a laborer on a pipe line. He lost his job there and all efforts to find other employment in Casey were fruitless. McElwee then started out in search of work elsewhere. Walking in an eastern direction he went from town to town, but everywhere his tired feet took him he met with the same story: "There is no work to be obtained here." McElwee soon ran out of his small supply of money and to keep from starving to death he had to beg food along the route. Now and then a township trustee would give him transportation for a short distance on the railroads or traction lines. McElwee said that he walked the entire distance from Indianapolis to Richmond. "I am so crippled and exhausted now that I could not work if some one would give me employment," said the unfortunate old man. McElwee hopes to reach his old home at Brookville. Pa., before he has entirely exhausted his strength. Trustee Potter gave the old man traction transportation to Eaton. 23 00

KNICKERBOCKER TRUST WILL OPEN AGAIN

Committee Agreed as to TermsJ For Resumption. DEPOSITS PAID IN FULL. New York, Dec. IS. The Parsons and Walker committee, representing the depositors, and the Bourne committee, representing the stockholders, agreed upon a plan today for the resumption of business by the Knickerbocker Trust company. It provides for the payment of all deposits preferred bvirnr"full and of 10 per cent of all other deposits on date of redemption, with the balance payable in small installments at stated periods, the whole to be paid within two years and four months. DEMAND FOR STATE SCHOOL FUNDS OF COUNTY AUDITOR Financial Flurry Has Tended To Raise Rates of Interest! And People Are Now Borrowing From the State. BUT LITTLE REMAINS IN COFFERS NOW. Owners of Real Estate Will Contribute the Balance of Interest Due the State From This Fund. Since the beginning of the present financial flurry, interest on loans at banking and loan Institutions has jumped and as a result there has been for the past few weeks a steady de-j mand at the county auditor's office" for loans from the state school fund. Of the state school fund, $220,000 is apportioned to Wayne county. Under the existing laws the county must pay six per cent interest on its apportionment of the state school fund. To save the county from paying out of its treasury this interest, which in the case of Wayne county amounts to $13, 200 per annum, the law provides that the county may loan moneys in the state school fund to owners of real estate on first mortgage securities. The law further provides that in loaning amounts from the state school fund six per cent interest must be charged. For several years past there has been but little call for loans from the state school fund, owing to the fact that money could be secured from banking and loan institutions at a smaller rate of Interest. At the present time six per cent interest is not a high rate and as a result there is at the present time only about $9,000 remaining in the school fund. Figuring that there will be about the same amount in the county's state school fund at the close of the present year Wayne county instead of paying out of its own treasury $13,200, as yearly interest on its state school fund apportionment will only have to pay $540. Various owners or real estate in this county will contribute the balance-of the interest the state has coming to it from this fund. In this particular case it will be seen that hard times are good times for Wayne county. FIVE DELEGATES TO REPRESENT CLDB $50,000,000 Appropriation to Be Asked. FOR RIVERS AND HARBORS. A communication has been received by Secretary Haas of the Commercial Club, from Vice President Henry Riesenberg, of the Indiana branch of the National Rivers and Harbors congress, announcing a call for a meeting to be held in Indianapolis January 21-22. The Commercial club is invited to send five delegates to this meeting and will in all probability comply with the request. Just what points will be discussed is not divulged, but this national organization has asked congress for an appropriation of $50,000,000 to be applied on the betterment of the waterways of the United States, and it is possible that at this meeting a plan will be suggested whereby a portion of this appropriation can. be used in this state.

DEPOSITORY LAW HAS ELASTICITY OFFICIALS THINK

It Is Probable That Many of The Outside Banks Qualifying As Depositories Will Not Be Patronized. BANKS EASIER OF ACCESS TO RECEIVE THE FUNDS. Law Requires Depositories Shall Receive Equal Amount Of County's Money, But Will Not Be Strictly Followed. That the new Indiana depository law has considerable elasticity with respect to the manner in which county treasurers shall maintain balances in tTie various banks that may qualify as depositories, is the belief of Wayne county officers, who are just now preparing to carry out the provisions of the statute. It is pretty thoroughly understood that at least one and perhaps more Indianapolis banks will apply to Wayne county's board of finance at it s first meeting next week for a part of the county's funds. Six Wayne county banks outside of the city of Richmond will apply .and if all the outside institutions qualify and are apportioned funds it is evident that a considerable portion of Wayne county's wealth will be outside the county seat city and therefore not at the immediate beck and call of the treasurer. How the Law Is Interpreted. According to an interpretation of the law, which probably will applv here and in some other counties, the treasurer may not find it practical to maintain balances in these outside banks and in the end the bulk of the funds will be concentrated in banks easier of access. The la witself provides that the original balances in the respective depositories shall be maintained as nearly as "practical," and this is taken to Imply that if the treasurer can not conduct his business conveniently with banks outside the county seat where his office is located, he may shif the funds to suit his needs. It is pointed out that if an Indianapolis bank should be apportioned a part of Wayne county's funds and the treasurer of Wayne county in payment of any claim should stamp a warrant so as to make It payable at the Indianapolis bank, the holder might be compelled to pay the exchange fee if he cashed it at a local bank. WIT NATIONAL LAW TO DELIVER TAYLOR Kentucky Representatives in Congress Will Attempt to Get Refugees. THE BILL WILL BE PUSHED. ; BEFORE THE PRESENT SESSION I ENDS HE WILL "BURN UP" REF UGEES IN NATIONAL HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Washington, Dec. IX. A movement to force ex-Governor Taylor and exSecretary of State Charles Finley to return to Kentucky, to stand trial for the murder of the late Governor Goebel, has been started by the Kentucky delegation in congress. It is proposed to accomplish this end by a federal statute. Congressman Ollie M. James of the First Kentucky district, who was one of the attorneys for Governor Goebel in his celebrated contest for Governor of Kentucky, has just introduced a bill in the lower nouse, which, while couched in general terms, is intended to reach specifically the cases of Taylor and Finley. James says that he intends to push the bill vigorously. Before the session ends he will makeH speech in which he will "burn" up the refugees. IS BADLY INJURED Lineman Hangs on Live Wire Twenty Minutes. Newark, O., Dec. IS Charles Swigart, a telephone lineman, took hold of a live wire this morning and twentyfive hundred volts passed through his body. He hung onto the wire for twenty minutes but may recover. THE WEATHER PROPHET INDIANA Snow and colder Wednesday; Thursday fair. OHIO Snow Wednesday and probab--Thursday.

WESTERN MINERS MENACE TO NATION

Claimed That Federation Is Treasonable Body. IS RESTRAINT TO TRADE. Golrifield, Nev. Dec. IS. The Goldfield Mine Owners' association tody submitted a statement to the commission which President Roosevelt has sent to Goldfield which declares that the Western Federation of Miners is not a labor organization, but a combination in restraint of trade; that it is in fact a treasonable organization and in the statement are quotations from the preamble, constitution and by-laws of the Western Federation of Miners in support of the contention. This statement has been officially received by the commission. WEST SIDE SEWER WORK WILL BEGIN T Contractors in Charge of the West Second Street Improvement Have Notified the Board of Public Works. PENNSYLVANIA TO FULFIL ITS PART OF CONTRACT. It Is Now Thought That the Entire Improvement Can Be Completed Before Next September as It Will Be Rushed. Work on the first section of the big Northwest Second street sewer system will start the first of next month, according to Contractor Hipscomb, of Wabash, Ind., who secured the contract for building this part of the sewer. Hipscomb has until August 1 to complete this work, but he has informed ;the board of public works that it will ; be entirely completed by June 1.". i While the work of constructing this sewer system is in progress the Pennsylvania railroad will fulfill its part of the contract between the city and the railroad company. The work the railroad company has to do, is to build the viaduct at the Northwest Second street crossing. After the completion of the first section of the sewer, work will immediately start on the construction of the second section. Louis Hall of Delphi, Ind., has received the contract for building this part of the sewer. Hall states that on the completion of the first section it will take him only ninety days to complete ie work of building the second section. 1 Hall today filed a bond of ?11,(JOO, which is his guarantee to construct the part of the sewer he holds the contract to build. The bond was approved by the board of public works. At the present time it looks as though all the improvements at the Norwest Second street, including the viaduct, would oe completed by the latter part of next September. PITTSBURG AGOG OVER SCWAB DIVORCE It Hasn't Been Granted But Probably Will Be. SEPARATED FOR ONE YEAR. Pittsburg, Dec. 18 Pittsburg society is deeply interested in the report that Joseph Schwab. brother of Charles M. Schwab, has been separated from his beautiful young wife for about a year, and that he is now preparing to bring suit for divorce on the grounds of desertion. Even the separation was not known except to a few intimate friends, and the fact that a divorce is to be asked for came like a thunderbolt. It is strongly hinted that Mr. Schwab, when free, will emulate William E. Corey and marry an actress, although this is not confirmed. It is alleged by those who know the Schwabs intimately that there is an understanding between husband and wife, and that the suit will not be contested. Each will be glad to secure freedom, it is said. TOTAL IS 337 Monongah Mine Still Giving Up Dead. Fairmont, W. aV., Dec 18. Two more bodies were taken from the Mo nongah mine today, making a total recovered of 3G7-

ANUARY

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CORTELYOU IS A CANDIDATE FORTHE PUBLICCONFIDENCE In His Official Statement, Secretary of Treasury Nails Rumors of Political Activity in Departmental Affairs.

HOPES TO PUT AN END TO PRESIDENTIAL GOSSIP. Says That If He Is Ever a Candidate He Will Make Open Announcement Without Hesitation and Tell of Grounds. Washington, Dec. IS. Secretary Cortelyou, in a signed statement given out Tuesday night, pronounces unqualifiedly false the current rumors of undue political activity of his friends in forwarding a movement in his interest. .IV , i' " 1T . M 1 1 GEORGE B. CORTELYOU, Secretary of Treasury. The secretary declares that neither he nor his friends have used their lnflajence in behalf of any candidate for the presidency and that he has not been ! a candidate for anything but the conR. jdence of the people. He adds that 'If ne snouiu uerearter decide to be a candidate for any office he will say t frankly. The statement follows: ' Dec. 17, 11H)7. I do not know that I am called upon to make a statement at this time, but in view of the various rumors in circulation as to the alleged political activity of friends of mine in my interest, I will say that I have not been a candidate for any but the confidence of the people in discharge of my duties as secretary of tho treasury, I have not in person sought nor have the friends whose names have been mentioned In thia connection sought, to influence political movements in my Interest. I have not, nor have they, used any influence directly or indirectly, to secure palitlcal aid for or against any candidate for the presidency, and accusations thai such has been done are unqualifiedly false. "In no office. In no one of the three departments with which I have been connected, have I authorized or permitted oSlcials or employes to attempt to Influence any such movements, nor shall I do so. In common with many other citizens, I have decided viewa as to policies and as to candidates, but I til I believe it is proper to do so. Upon this statement I am entirely content to leave the people draw their conclusions regarding such rumors as these to which 1 have referred. "If in the future I shall decide to he a candidate for any office I shall be prepared to say so frankly and stare the grounds upon which I ask for such support. In the mean time I shall try as I have tried in the past, to conduct the treasury department for tho benefit of the people of the whole country, and absolutely without regard to whether any action I may take In the line of my duty may adversely affect my personal or political welfare. "GEORGE B. CORTELYOU." JEWELERS NATIONAL BANK CLOSES DOODS Sudden Death of Cashier Led To Investigation. DEPOSITS REACH A MILLION North Attleboro. Mass., Dec. 18 The Jewelers National bank vai closed this morning by a bank examiner. The sudden death of Cashier Sargent led to an Investigation. It was found that he loaned money without any authority. Deposits will reach one million.