Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 32, Number 329, 10 January 1908 — Page 1

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM

AISTD SUN-TELEGRAM UKIIMOND. IM).. TKIDAV KVKMXCi. .J A M AK V UK V.MS. si.(;li: copy. i cknts. Voiv. xxxii. (.:!).

HOSPITAL TO SEEK CITY'S

AID MONDAY

Understood Trustees of Reid Memorial Institution Will Admit to Special Council It Is Private Institution. WILL PROMISE APPRO PRIATION ACCOUNTING. (n This Way, a Local Physi cian Asserts That Mayor Schillinger's Aversion to Appropriation May Be Offset. INTERESTED IN BREACH. TRUSTEES AND PHYSICIANS ARE AT SWORDS' POINTS AND DOC TORS WILL SAY MAYOR WAS RIGHT TO OPPOSE. Want public hospital. Medical Staff Says That This Is What Daniel G. Reid Had Intended the Institution to Be When He Built It. Owing to the continued opposition ttf Mayor Schillingor's administration to the appropriation of the city's Jnoney tor "'the support of the Heid jMemorial hospital, it is understood 1hat the trustees ot" the hospital have teeided to change tactics in securing the municipal appropriation for next j ear. It was learned today from some of the members of the city council lha-t. there will probably be a special meeting of council next Monday night, Bt which meeting the hospital trustees will, notwithstanding the fact. that in the past, they have always maintained the hospital was a public Institution, make a proposition to have the hospital, as a. private corporation, filter into a contract with the city for the purpose of securing anapprorialion for next year. It is understool that the terms of the proposed contract call for an appropriation by the city of $t;,noO. On the part of tie; hospital the trustees guarantee to render an accounting:; at the end of the year for every cent, ispent. of the appropriation, which accounting it is claimed iias never been rendered in the past. Ever since Mayor Sehillingor has been iu office, he has constantly opposed the policy of the city in assisting in the maintainence of the Reid Memorial hospital. He has argued lhat. the hospital is a private institution, the title be ins vested in the board of trustees. and that the city i Had no right to appropriate money for nny institution unless it was a imblic one. To secure the appropriation the i rt is tees represented to the citv conn-1 O.il -1...J- .1.,. u- :. .1 ... . ... I -n iii.ii i in- im&pnai vas a puone msti-; tution. i If the trustees seek to enter into a. i contract with the citv, representing i the hospital to be a private eorpor-1 suion. members of the hospital modi-1 cai statt. whose relations with th board of trustees is reported to be severely strained, will arrive at the conclusion that the mayor has in the past been justified in his opposition to any impropriations. "The reported action of the trustees in seeking to enter into a contract with the city seoms to be a move to appease Mayor Schil linger," said a physician today." It looks as though the trustees in promising to render an accounting for any appropriation made by the city for the benefit of the hospital next year is a concession offered Mayor Schillinser so that he will withdraw his opposition to an appropriation." The medical staff of ihe hospital is tif the opinion that the hospital should be made a public institution in every sense of the word. This, in the opiiilou of the physicians, is what I). O. Jleid intended it to be. The medical staff advocates the transfer of the title of the property from the present arbitrary board and that the management, of the institution be placed in tiv uaiiur. iu larger ami more tentative board of trustees. rep reRAILROADS DO LITTLE BUSINESS Both Steam and Interurban Roads Suffer. Travel in and out, of thp ciiv over

the various rail and traction roads is tne local temple, which will be celevery light, and the stations apparently j brated January 2''. The celebration tuight as well be closed for all the j w ill be a Id gaft'air. The lodge has Signs of life that, could be found! made arrangements for the proper obiround them. ieervauceof the anniversary.

MEN OF

HAAS WILL HAVE LITTLE OPPOSITION The Richmond Man Is Favorite for the Position of Sixth District Republican Chairman. BALLOTING IS BEING CARRIED ON TODAY. Precinct Committeemen, Representatives on Central Committee, Delegates and Alternates Being Chosen. This afternoon in every voting precinct outside of Richmond, republican voters are balloting for precinct committeemen, representatives on Ihe Wayne county republican central committee and delegates and alternants to the district convention which will be held at Cambridge Citv next Tuesday. I ! This cveuiug elections will be held in ever" ward in tin city. At the district ioue,',tun u is a cer tainty that K. luc.s of tlih city witi be unanimously cnosi n as disuic. caainriiUJ I'p to the pi. ;i.-ni. time there has been selection. no opposition to hie j ("hi Februarv I. a district convention will be held at Cambridge City to se- ! lect two delegates to represent the (iistrict at the national convention. On February 1. election will be held iu every precinct in the county and in every ward in this city to select delegates to the district convention to be held on Feb. 4. It is almost an assured fact that U. V,. Tweeds of this city will be one of the two delegates chosen to represent the sixth district at the national convention. When the newly elected Wayne county republican central committee meets Monday for organization and elect ion of officers, n will avo deeid on the date for holding the county primary to select the congressional candidate this county will support at the district congressional convention. It is understood that hi convention will not be held until after the slate convention in April. The delay is ran satisfactory to the local congressional candidates, who " iil be obliged by this action to make a long campaign. OF SISTERS Local Temple Organized Nineteen Years Ago. Pythian Sisters of this city haw inivited sisters in neighboring towns to attend the nineteenth anniversary of

FO CHAIRMANSHIP

AFFAIRS IN RICHMOND

R. W. HALL. Clothing Merchant. ELEVEN MEN WILL REPRESENT CITY State Rivers and Harbors Meeting in Indianapolis Will Be of Interest to the City's Manufacturing Concerns. PLAN TO DEEPEN OHIO RIVER THOUGHT FEASIBLE. By So Doing Water Transportation Could Be Installed Making Local Freight Rates Less Than the Railroads. TClevcn representative business and professional men have been appointed to represent this city at the state rivers and harbors convention, which will be held at Indianapolis January - and The Commercial Club lias named Wilfred Jessup, Xettletou NetT. U. K. Shiveley. 1$. B. Johnson and E. Y'. Craighead as its representatives at ibis convent ion. Mayor lias ap; Oi .teii K. G. I-eeds-Schillinger S. S. Strat - tai:. Jr.. J. M. I-ontz. Pettis Reid and C. W. -rrill to represent, the city. Mayor .Schillinger will also attend the convent ion. The results of this convention will be the most vital importance to this eny ami as a result uie local misiuess men. especially the manufacturers, are taking the keenest interest in the event. "The proposed plan to deepen the ! Ohio river channel ten feet and the Mississippi River fourtcui feet means more to this community than is generally supposed." said Wilfred Jessup, who was one of the state delegates to the recent national rivers and harbors congress held at Washington. 1). C. "The deepening of the Mississippi river would mean that ocean going freighters could conic as far north as Cairo. Hi. "Water 1 1 aiisportat ion is much cheaper than railroad transportation, aad if Cairo was made a seaport it can be readily seen what an advantage this would be to local manufacturers who lip their goods all over the

CONVENTION

world. The deepening of the Missis-; to 1 for acquittal. The vote stood . sippi river wuuld be of more benefit to this way until the last ballot was tai local manufacturers than if a coast ken at an early hour this morning. ;t toast trunk line was built through After the jury was discharged tl;i. (Richmond." ; morning. Prosecutor Jessup made a

BIBLE READINGS.

Col. Robert Cowden. secretary 0fer the case went to the jury yesterday j ern and Wilmington Yearly meetings, the Sunday School board of the Unit- afternoon the bonds of Wieland and , The course for this ytar includes first ed Brethren church, will give bible Snow expired and they were placed in ! a study in Friends history, using Harreadtners at both the morning and ,tne ci-' jaiI- II w""s not until nearly ! vey's "The Rise of the Quakers." In evening services Sunday at the U. B. ; midnight that Attorney B. C. Robbins'the second. Ira Price reviews the work church. beard of their predicament and. with of the Oriental explorers and discusses

THE WEATHER PROPHET INDIANA Colder Friday night and much colder Saturday. fair OHIO Warmer with rain or Friday night; clearing and eelder Saturday. snow much

JURYMEN WERE OUT JUST FOURTEEN LONG, WEARY HOURS

When This Period of Time Had Elapsed They Were Yet Unable to Reach. Agreement in Wieland-Snow Case. FOREMAN REPORTED BUT ONCE DURING THE NIGHT Rendered Amusing Verdict of "Agreed to Disagree," But Was Sent Back to Continue The Deliberations. After deliberating from 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon until t o'clock this morning, the city court jury which heard the ease of the State against Harmon Wieland and "Brick" Snow, reported that they had been unable to reach an agreement. This morning at S o'clock Special Judge P. .T. Free man assembled the jurymen and ciis- , charged them. Judge Freeman told ! them that he felt certain they had done everything in their power to reach an agreement and that their services were most satisfactory. The tired looking jurymen then tiled out of the court room. Wieland and Snow, resneetivelv tiroprietor aim nignt ctei'K at the new ' Windsor Hotel. were charged with keeping a house of ill fame. The first ballot taken by the jury, it is understood, resulted in a vote of 7 for conviction and five for acquittal. The next ballot resulted in the vote being reversed. About six o'clock last evening the jury filed into the court room and took their seats. "Gentlemen, have you reached a verdict?" asked the court. "We have." answered the foreman. Then the court asked what the verdict was. To the amusement of everyone present the foreman gravely answered. "We hae agreed to disagree." Judge Freeman then sent the jury back to the council chamber for further deliberation. At midnight the vote, according to the statement of one juryman. was 11

motion, which was sustained by the for home reading and study are conj court, to have the case given a second ! sidering the one offered by the Bible j hearing next Monday morning. Aft-1 Institute committee of Indiana. West-

Judge Freeman, he hastened to the po-: their discoveries in relation to the Helice headquarters where steps were; brew Scriptures in his work. "The Old taker; to have the bonds renewed. l" e-t ame:;; and the Monuments." These

The second hearing of the ease , promises to be more sensational than the first one. Prosecutor Jessup states that he will introduce more evidence to substantiate his claim That the Windsor Hotel was generally used for i re iiioral purposes.

DECLARES MEAT

E in i n R Hunt rwirps tn Tpst thp Provisions of the Law and Has Agreed to Pay Costs of Tl , n : I IIC I Cil OctSC. CITY ATTORNEY MAKES KNOWN CONTENTS OF LAW It Is Thought by Him Hunt in a Way Has Convinced That the nance Is Legal. That Been OrcliBARS COUNTRY BUTCHERS. IT IS TO THIS HUNT OBJECTSj SERIOUSLY ALL TOWNS IN) i WAYNE COUNTY HAVE RIGHT TO PASS SIMILAR ORDINANCE. "I have explained the meat inspection ordinance to C. B. Hunt and I think that 1 succeeded in convincing him that it was legal and showed no class discrimination," stated City Attorney T. J. Study this morning when asked for a statement in regard to the charges made by Mr. Hunt, a Main street grocer. In an article printed Thursday night, Mr. Hunt said that he wanted a test case made of the Richmond meat inspection ordinance ami that he would pay the costs of the trial of the first farmer arrested for selling his uninspected meat products in this city. Mr. Hunt in his statement maintained that, if the state permitted the farmers of this county to sell their uninspected meat to dealers in Cambridge City, Fountain City, Centerville and other towns, these farmers would have a perfect right to sell their meats in this city. " Mr. Hunt also stated that if milkmen, wagon dealers, etc., were perjmitted to sell their products to dealers in this city and from house to j house, it, would be class discrimina tion not to allow tanners to sell uninspected meat in the same manner. The city attorney said this morning, that he had explained to Mr. Hunt.; al ter reading the advertisement re- ' ferred to, that he had placed a wrong interpetation on "class discrimina-1 : tion" as provided by law. The nianj : who sells meat is not in the same! j class of trade as the man who sells j milk," said Mr. Study. "If the meat I inspection ordinance had discriniinat-j 1 ed between meat dealers, then it ' would have been unconstitutional. : "As for the statement made by Mr. j Hunt that farmers in this county had as much right to sell their uninspected meat in Richmond as had in the neighboring towns, there are no facts to substantiate this argument. I'ntier the laws of the State of Indiana. Cambridge City. Fountain City or any other town in the county has the authority to pass an ordinance providing' that nothing but inspected meat shall be sold in those towns. If these towns do not. care to pass such ordinances, that is their business. Under the state laws Richmond has a perfect right to pass a meat inspection ordinance and the city has seen fit to take : i advantage of this authority." j Mr. Study said that recently C. C. Pierson of Fountain City, who is engaged in the butchering business and who has had a large trade in Richmond, inquired of him as to whether be would have the riht to continue

OBDUM'C

SHOWS

DISCRiMINATlCN

sellins his uninspected meat here. rnan of ,ne no'Jf:e I,k'U(i !P a ni5Ik Mr. Study informed him that the meat ''4?t anfl ave u TO rhe mi!k aentinspection ordinance had eliminated probably disposed of the ticket to him from the local market. Pierson s,lt' Jther customer before the close was informed that local people could 'of the day. In touching this tic'.et go to Fountain City and there pur-jthe woman, who had ben nursing the chase meat from him for their own in-j diphtheria case, conveyed germs to it. j dividual use but that local dealers! Members of the county medial soI could not buy meat from him in Foun- ciety insist on legislation which will ! lain City and offer it for sale here. improve the sanitary conditions of evI ery dairy in the county. a:.d improve

NEW COURSE OF BIBLE READING ! Friends Are Interested in One Now Offered. Friends interested in Bible course:- : books ; e highly commended on all ; sides, and the meeting on ministry and oversight of Western Yearly meeting adopted the course for this year in place of its own regular independent course. The secretary in charge is - .Murray S. Kenworthy of this city.

NO CHANCE IN FREIGHT SITUATION

Traction Lines Still Using Improvised Station. ectn.s t. be n. cii.mge iu the running traction lint's -ilualioii ;s it--..:-,!:. t iniit: freight car over the u ' busings is sun i carried n at t improvise office at the car barns. t'p there has lu t n but one car freight to date l'Ui'.Uilo: .iailv urivmg in Richmond ai 7: en o'clock in the mornim:. bat beginning Saturday inuriiiim the rations will be uiven the ln'iii tit if a round trip m'ivice each iiay to Indi;:uapolis. the car leaving the barns ai a o'clock ach morning and arriving in 'his city on the return trip at 7 o'clock in the evening- This will give local merchants much v'-icser and b iter ivice than her" ;o! i e. PROTECTION WILL - BE ASKED Of THE PITV I Ml bill Li Physicians Say Some Dairy Conditions Are Bad and Will Ask for Ordinance Protecting Residents of Richmond. DISEASE GERMS EASILY COMMUNICATED TO MILK. Many Ways in Which Milk Can Be Contaminated as Was Illustrated at a Meeting of The Physicians. TUBERCULOSIS IN CATTLE. ONE CASE WAS CITED WHERE AN ENTIRE HERD OF HOGS WAS INFECTED WITH THE DISEASE ORIGINATING IN DAIRY COW. It is probable that at the next council meeting steps will be taken to protect the citizens of Richmond from impure milk, which the local physicians state is as great if not greater menace to public health than diseased meat, which the local public is now protected from by an ordinance passed last year by council. Richmond physicians have banded together to secure legislation against impure milk. Back of the physij eians is Ihe general public, which in sists on protection from the milk evil. People of Richmond have but little idea of the condition of some dairies in the county. At the meeting of the Wayne County Medical society, one physician said that he knew of one instance where a cow suffering with intestinal tuberculosis was used by the dairy as a source of much milk sumed in Richmond. This tow

KM N H XLIIO

been allowed to mix with the other tneicfrom would be all gain with the stock and as a result nearly all the exception of the amount paid to posthogs on tie place were the victims of 'masters on account of cancellations' tuberculosis. , p has been estimated that if an averThe danger of the use of milk tickets aue of only three 11-pound packages was illustrated by a physician who were handled per trip on each rural stated that recently lie learned of a route in the United States, the in-

' case in this city where there was ' diphther ia in a certain home. One I day the milkman called and the wothe method for delivering milk. At each dairy, udders of t he cow-, should jbe washed before miikinK. The mill ing place snouKl tie clean awl i.o' exposed to dust or filth and the milk r an.-, and buckets should be thoroughly sterilized. Physicians also state that! the milk after being obtained from the cijws should be l epi at a temperature . of .". degrees until i is delivered. "The greatest dancer lies from milk being made impute by outside condi-; lions, in the delivery. A milkman : stops before a hou-e. lifts, the top o , the big mil., can then, holding the ladie. runs his hand into the can and j dips the milk into another open ve-s-1 sel. His hand is covered with germs and all the time the can is open the-; wind blows countless germs into the exposed milk. In carrying the milk into th house, it is a.so eiposed to germs. All phyi iuns in the city agree that milk shc.'.d be lnere! in sealed bottle-. ThH war- a r'at.-nv-i.-inacle by a ".veil known ph ;.. iun rocay.

Thomas F. Porter, the poet mayor of mayor talked frankly to his Tisitors Lynn. Mass.. has written a poem in ard toM thera that jje WOnld not enpraise of the muddv streets. The bur- . ,,,.. , . , . . . , . . , , force the Sunday closing law because den of his lay is that the mud gives the tailors, the bootblacks and the!te believes that a majority of the peolaundries work. pie of Chitago were against It

POSTAL DEFICIT CAN BE DECREASED By PARCEL POST

Postmaster General Von L. Meyer Says in Communication to Commercial Club That This Is Possible. TAKES EXCEPTION TO TWO OBJECTIONS REGISTERED. Receipts From Rural Patrons Would Go to Swell National Postal Revenues to an Immense Sum. NO CHANGE IN POSTAGE. MAIL ORDER HOUSES WOULD IN NO WISE RECEIVE THE BENEFIT IN MAILING THEIR MILLIONS OF CATALOGUES. Thai the postal department otild in time become self sustaining, if tht parcels post department were adcVed to the already extensive service, is th firm opinion of Postmaster General George von L. Meyer, as he has expressed it in a communication addressed to Secretary E. M. Haaa of the Commercial club, in rebuttal to one of the chief objections raised U the adoption of the idea by the local Commercial organization, and as forwarded to him some time ago. His statement in regard to this featura Is very interesting and seta forth facta which were probably not thought of when the resolutions were drawn and forwarded to Washington. The postmaster general also sa that the new law would In no wiso affect the rates of postage on mail order house catalogues, as the local resolution committee pointed out. The letter, which is of much interest, follows: Office of Postmaster General Washington, D. C. Jan. X. 1!K. B. M. Haas. Esq., Secretary Commercial club. Richmond. Ind. Dear Sir: Votir letter of recent date has been received, and I have noted carefully, the resolutions adopted by the Commercial club on the subject of the department's proposition to extend jthe parcel post and tt establish a spe cial local parcel pot,t on rural routes. There are two statements in these resolutions to which 1 think I ought to call your attention. It is. alleged. ; for instance, that the present postal ! deficit would be greatly increased if I the department's recommendation in .respect of the parcel post were adopt -j ed. In this connection I desire to express my conviction that if the proposed special local parcel post on rural routes were established it would result , in making the service, In time, Relfsustaining. There are at present ''ir rural routes in operation, so that the machinery for this service is already in existence, and as there would

con- i,e no railroad charges or other addikad tional expenses, the revenue derived

: c reased revenue thus derived would ,nore than wipe out tlie present postal deficit. The other statement in your resolutions to which I wish to invite your attention, is the one in which you say, in spea!ing of the proposed reduction from li to V! cents a pound, that "A certain mail order house will save ftO.Oi'O a year alone on mailing out their catalogues by this reduction. The proposed reduction would in no wise affect the rati? of ostage on catalogues. f(,r the reason that these are classed a- third class matter, and are tnerefore now mailable at the rate nf one rent for fach two ounces, or eight cents per pound. i Thanking you for your letter, believe : I'.ie, levpectfillly. O. v. L. MEYER, SUNDAY LID WILL CONTINUE OPEN Mayor of Chicago Refuses to Close Dives. Chicaro. January lO. Mayor Bu.ss today ;ej; :ed the Sunday closing plea of Arthur Burage Far well and other 3 -adiiii: stitits in the movement. The