Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 33, Number 157, 21 July 1908 — Page 1

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t: H AND SUN-TELEGRAM "VOL. XXXIII. 157. RICHMOND, IND., TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 21, 1908. SINGLE COPY, 2 CENTS,

BOARD Of WORKS REFUSES TO SIGN

D.1W.F Council Was Unable to Act Favorably on Document Although It Was Willing to Do , This. TICKET CLAUSE STANDS IN WAY OF SETTLEMENT. fcoard of Works Thinks That Traction Company Should Be Forced to Accept City Tickets. BUSINESS MEN ARE ACTIVE. PRESENT PETITION ASKING THAT A FRANCHISE BE ADOPTED NOTWITHSTANDING ITS OBJECTIONABLE FEATURES. ORATORY TURNED LOOSE. W. P. O'Neal and T. J. Study Were The Men Who Furnished the Amusement of Council Session Last Night. The following resolution, signed by over fifty Richmond business men, was presented to council last evening and was unanimously approved of by that body: "We the undersigned citizens of Richmond believe that the city authorities have acted wisely in securing for the citizens the right to use the Dayton & Western interurban cars for lqcal city business and inasmuch as the price for passage is limited to five cents, we do not believe it will work a hardship on anyone if the right to use tickets of the City Street Car company is denied by the interurban company. If all other conditions are satisfactory we recommend that the franchise be ratified. Upon investigation we And that it is the universal practice not to accept city tickets on Interurban cars. To express it in slang phrase, council last evening "put it up to" the board of public works in the Dayton & Western traction franchise matter by unanimously adopting a motion made by Mr. Bartel approving of the franchise that company submitted a few days ago and favored the board signing It. This franchise does not contain the provlsiion requiring the D. & W. accepting city car line tickets on its interurban cars. By a resolu tion over fifty business men placed themselves on record as regarding such a provision unfair' and the coun ell members were of the same opin Jon as shown by the fact that besides unanimously passing the Bartel mo tion, each councilman signed a resolution similar to the one signed by the business men. The board of public works is now pouting because of the council's action. There is no doubt but that its members will sign the D. & W. franchise, but they may, to further embarrass the local shippers, postpone this action until the last minute. After learning the opinion of council and the business men last evening the board members did not place their signatures to the .measure and it was impossible for council to suspend for ninety days the Main street freight ordinance. It will also be Impossible, as a result of the stubborn tactics of the board, to again bring the traction matter before council until its next meeting, two weeks hence, unless a special council meeting Js called. In the event the board signs the franchise within the next few days It Is probable that a special council meeting will be called to ratify the franchise, but no surprise would be felt if the board postponed signing the measure until a day or two before the egular council meeting. Call Council Foolish. After Mr. Bartel introduced his motion last evening, City Attorney Study look the floor and made quite a lengthy address. lie told council It would be very foolish if it passed puch a motion. After reviewing the traction question at length he stated that the D. & W. should be compelled to accept city car line tickets. He paid that the excuse the company of fered for objecting to such a provision was the complications that would result between that company and the T. H. I. & E. Mr. Study laughed at this. He said that the D. & W. made regular settlements with the other company on local business and it would not be any more difficult or complicating for the D. & W. to make a settlement on city car line tickets than it would for cash fares. Mr. Btudy also urged council not to sus pend the Main street freight ordin ance until all traction Questions had Jjeen settled. This advice was unnesfessary as council had no intention of Continued on Paj e Four.)

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HIBERNIANS BEGIN SESSIONS WITH MASS

Figure in Big Street Parade This Afternoon. Indianapolis, Ind., July 21. The An cient Order of Hibernians national convention opened with high mass this morning, followed by a business session. There was a parade this af ternoon. Four thousand people are in the city. CUPID ACTIVE AMONG TEACHERS Many Wayne County Peda gogues Fall Under Wiles Of Little God. TEACHING CORPS SELECTED COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT JORDAN THINKS IT EXCEEDINGLY STRONG ASSIGNMENTS ARE MADE. "I think it is unusually strong", re marked Charles Jordan, county super intendent of nublic instruction today. . c t icai,iic:i o iliac ..ao "n '"' the township grade and high schools of the county. The selections have been completed and reported to the superintendent by the trustees. The trustees hold the same opinion as the superintendent. The list shows the customary num ber of changes. Not the fewest changes have been due to matrimony. Cupid was active among the school teachers of the county. during the past year and the little god counted the pedagogues as special victims. . Sev eral resignations were presented and others of last years force have been promoted to positions in town or city schools. Not a few have given up teaching temporarily, so as to enable them to attend college or other insti tutions of more advanced instruction The trustees have not completed the assignment of all the teachers in their township's. It is expected that some teachers that have been assigned will ho cMftorl in. ntyar oV,l TV,. I "V "v """""- ber of first year teachers is not as large this year as it has been for other years. There have been but few transfers. The list is as follows Abington Ellen Wright, Cora Cook, Lola Oler, Lyman Lyboult. Boston Beulah Eliason, Carrie Wei demer. Rose Rinehart, Bessie Mead ows, J. C. Starr, Center Fannie Silver, Ada Morgan, Martha Bond, Forest Kempton, Rosa Shank, Callie Tremps Clay Nellie Lamb, Mrs. Ethel Moore, Isabell Kienzle, Ethel Gifford, Millard Markle Dalton Daisy Leavell, Minnie Long, Pierre Helms. Franklin Joe C. Burgess, Ollis Shafer, Mary Smith, Erma Curtis, Chessie Joy, Myrtle Addleman, Edna Blose. Greene Aime Tschaen. Ida Packer Maude Norris, Effie Helms Earnest Borton, Stella Colvin. Harrison Esther Jones, Mamie Lott, Ivy Chamness. Jackson C. C. Hyde, F. E. Addleman, Louise Klieber. MareueritA wil. son. Jennie Grace, Mabel Straughn Jefferson Clarence Foutz, Alonzo Daugherty, Leona Halderman. New Garden O. L. Voris, W. W. Cottingham, Myrtle Skinner, Grace Pitts, Daisy Petty. Laura Hedges. Perry J. A. Moore, E. D. Steven son, B. C. Taylor. E. M. Wilson. Washington L. R. C. Johnson. Pearl Moore, Clinton Bertsch, Lorena McLane, Rae Wagner. wayne Mary Wilson, Clara Pickett, Mattie Jackson, Nellie Morrow, Cora Nolder, Ora M. White, Ida Ward, ivate btanton, j. o. Edgerton, Edna .-.cm iimigiii, Elenita Simmons, Evangeline Baldwin, raia vvuenKer, James Sweeney. Webster A. L. Baldwin, Lona Arbogast, Lizzie Rotbermel, Ethel King. TWO SCORE PEOPLE HURT IN BAD WRECK Trains on Aurora, Elgin and Chicago Road Crash. Chicago, 111., July 21. Nearly two score passengers on me Aurora, .igm Ac cnicago railroad were injured at eight o'clock this morning in a headon colision between two trains running at the rate of forty miles an hour near Aurora. Several may die. The I allure or the motorman to obey orders is said to be the cause. Failing to stop at a switch the Elgin train was run into by. a train from Aurora which was turning a curve.

MOT PLAYING DEEP GAME AS ALLEGED

Traction Company Will Start Twenty-third Street Line This Week. A BIG RISK IS TAKEN. JUDGE FOX'S DECISION AGAINST PROPERTY OWNERS MAY BE OVERRULED BY HIGHER COURT ON APPEAL. President Todd of the Terre Haute, Indianapolis &Eastern traction com pany today notified Secretary E. M. Haas of the Commercial club that work on the construction of a freight would start either Wednesday or Thursday. On Thursday the company will open bids on the contract for mak ing "special construction," which means curved rails. Various foundries have made measurements for this work and the concern which receives the contract will require five or six weeks to turn out the work. While these are being made, the grade along the street will be finished and the straight rails placed. At the council meeting last even ing City Atorney T. J. Study stated that in his opinion the traction com pany was playing a deep game with the city because it had not yet begun the construction of the North Twen-ty-third street line. Mr. Todd assured Mr. Haas that Mr. Study had no grounds for drawing sucn conclusions, Mr. Todd stated that the company was taking some risk in constructing this line because the supreme court might overrule Judge Fox's decision in the event those parties who made an effort to prevent the line being placed through the park took an ap peal. WANT RECOGNITION Desire PlaCeS on Board of Trustees of Soldiers' Orphans' Home. IO TTr 11111-11- r 1 I- I-1 1 T Id OIHIC WIUL lUUVCMtnil. AS VETERANS OF CIVIL WAR ARE GETTING OLD IT IS THOUGHT BEST THAT YOUNGER MEN BE GIN TO TAKE REINS. Local Spanish-American war veterans are greatly interested in the movement to have representatives of their organization represented on the board or. trustees or tne Knigntstown boldiers' and Sailors' orphan home. The following Indianapolis dispatch has tnis to say of tae movement: lt has become known that an act lve movement is on foot among the United Spanish war veterans of the state to get through the next legislature an amendment to that Bection of the law which regulates the management of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' home at Knightstown. The plan is to have the Spanish-American war veterans represented on the board of trustees of the home through a state law. At present the board is composed entirely of veterans of the civil war. All of the Spanish American camps of the state have been instructed to do what they can to get such a bill through the legislature. The G. A. R. men are opposed to this plan. It is realized that the veterans are getting old and that soon it will be impossible to get civil war veterans who are young and active enough to act as officers of the home Therefore it is believed by some of 1 we civil war tciciduo auu ujf the Spanish-American that the SpanishAmerican veterans should take up the work. THREATENS MOTHER; NOW UNDER ARREST JOnn A. Van nenSSeiaer At- . . . n ma I ... . . .. Attempts Extortion. New York. July 21. John A. Van Rennselaer, son of Mrs. John King van Rennselaer. and a member of one 0f xew York's oldest families, was taken into custody last night on a charge of attempted extortion. The arrest - was made on advices from Chief of Police Crowley of Newport, R I, who received a complaint from Mrs. Van Rennselaer that her son had written a letter threatening her bodily harm unless he was provided with funds. The man im 41. raaxa oil.

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NOT YET DEAD Report of Demise of Roj'estvensky Is Incorrect. Berlin, Germany, July 21. It was re ported last evening that the man named Rojestvensky who died at Badnauheim, Germany, was the famous Russian admiral who was defeated in the great battle fought in the Sea of Japan by the Japanese and Russian fleets. It was learned today this re port was incorrect. Admiral Rojest vensky is still alive and enjoying good health. FALLS TO DEATH. Waiter Steps Off Elevator in Manhat tan Hotel. New York, July 21. David Dalifontane, a waiter, stepped off the elevator in motion at the Manhattan hotel today, struck his head against the landing and fell headlong down ten stories into the engine room, dead when found. He was IS UNDER HEARST WING Elkhart Man to Be Named for Governor on Independence Party Ticket. COMES AS A BOMBSHELL, A PART OF A SCHEME FOR RE VENGE ON TAGGART AND BRYAN ACTION CREATES CONSTERNATION. Indianapolis, July 21. WTilliam R. Hearst's leading lieutenants In the In dependence party, acting, no doubt with his knowledge and consent, have planned a coup that will create genu ine surprise and that is likely to prove a veritable bombshell in the ranks of the democratic party in In diana, The secret which has been nursed by the independence party leaders for several weeks, came out when Charles P. S. Neal, of Lebanon, one of Hearst's right hand men and the probable nominee for vice president on the inde pendence ticket authorizes the an nouncement that the independence party, when it meets in state conveni J i T.,,i;.r,llr. r-n A limit- -u'ill Llul1 mumua.io .nu6uo.. -j, nominate as its candidate for governor Charles G. Conn, of Elkhart. Colonel Conn, who is a multi-mil lionaire, in ex-mayor of Elkhart, an ex-congressman and a manufacturer of band Instruments, was a candidate for the democratic nomination for govern or before the state convention which met in Indianapolis last March. He spent a goodly sum for page adver tisements in many newspapers throughout the state in which he asBalled the democratic machine in Inrtinnn. nn naid his reanerts in scatn- , in Thnm9S Tl(rrapt thpi J puted head of the machine. The determination of the independence party to make him Jts standard bearer In In diana is Interpreted to mean that I Hearst is still after Taggart with a red hot poker. It has leaked out simultaneosly with Mr. Neal's announcement that the independence party leaders have had their eyes on Mr. Conn ever since the Taggart road roller ran over him and mashed him flat in state convention The advisability or draiting him as the Independence party's candidate has been discussed in the highest circles of the independence party, and it is 6aid to meet with the warm approval of Mr. Hearst, who is at outs with both Mr. Bryan and Taggart, GREAT I M. C. A. RACE FINISHED TODAY flair Darte I orl Pnrrine Mac sage Into Chicago. Chiasm. 111.. Julv 21 At !A o'clock this morning the last relay runner in the Y. M. C. A. New York to Chicago race reached the city hall and delivered the message from McClellan to the city officials assembled. This clipped nearly two hours off the schedule. The last section of the dash was made by John Martin, aged IS, of Oak Park, through Jackson boulevard anil TjiKallf street, which had been cleared of tramc A huge crowd cheer1 the runners. The total time consumed was 119 hours and thirty seconds. an average or eignx. ana. a nail mnes an hour. Heavy atmosphere and inse - cure footing hindered the runners from making even better time htrough northern Indiana. THE WEA I Htn rKUrnET. INDIANA Shower Tuesday n la ht, Wednesday fair, wind shifting to fresh northwest. OHIO Showers Tuesday night; Wed-

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REFUSES TO GRANT CLAIM OF CHARTERS

Tax Adjuster Desired Pay for Omitted Taxes Collected For the City. HE HELD NO CONTRACT. FOR THIS REASON THE WAYNE CIRCUIT COURT REFUSED TO RECOGNIZE CLAIM AND COUNCIL ACTED IN LIKE MANNER. Last evening on a report submitted by the committee on accounts and claims, the city council refused the claim of W. F. Charters, formerly tax adjustor, for JS69.52 alleged by Char ters to be due him for collecting omit ted taxes. On December 31, 1907. Charters entered suit against the city and county to recover this amount. Recently the Wayne circuit court ruled that Charters was not entitled to recover this amount. Charters then filed his claim wKh the city council. Under his contract with Wayne county Mr. Charters collected a con siderable amount of omitted taxes. Some of the taxes he collected be longed to the city. "When County Treasurer B. B. Myrick. Jr.. made a settlement with Charters he "refused to pay him fees on the city's share of omitted taxes, claiming that the contract Charters held with the coun ty made no provision that he should receive any fees on omitted taxes the county collected for the city. After the court sustained Mr. Myrick in his position Charters then asked the city to pay him under a contract he had held with the city but which expired September 6, 1907. This contract provided that Charters should receive 20 Der cent of all omitted taxrK "ho mlected. The council committee on accounts and claims failed to see how Charters could expect to recover any tor wuecung onmiea xaxes on an expired contract. I LARGE AMOUNT OF MONEY OWED CITY Many People Are Delinquent For Personal Taxes It Is Claimed. MYRICK TO COLLECT IT. COUNTY TREASURER AUTHOR IZED TO TAKE IMMEDIATE STEPS TO GET MONEY FOR WHICH HE WILL GET PER CENT. The city council last evening autnorized County Treasurer B. B My: rick, Jr., to collect delinquent taxes as shown on the city tax duplicate for 1904 and payable in 1905. For this service Mr. Myrick will receive six per cent, on all taxes he collects. City Attorney T. J. Study informed council that this tax duplicate showed there was considerable amount of delinquent taxes due the city and stated that Mr. Myrick had offered to collect the same for a 6 per cent. fee. He said that the treasurer did the same for the county. The city treasurer un der the towns and cities code has no authority to collect such taxes unless they are voluntarily paid to him and under the new law the county treasurer is the only person who can perform this duty, so Mr. Study recommended that council authorize Mr. Myrick to nt r, tho attr Ho t,ot law provided that the county treasurer should receive six per cent on all deinquent taxes he collected for the city. City Treasurer Nimrod Johnson also favored council taking this action. Afr Tnhn cnn KtntAH that h a rxrtf know the exact amount of delinouent tn-r Hue tho Htv hnt that it was mnst. " ' Ir rannal tax nnrt amnnntert to a UnnlflmHd sum. Mr. Jnhnsmi thought that the tax duplicates should be turned over to Mr. Myrick at once. GRAND MASTER OF RECORDS DISAPPEARS Hioh Official of K. of G. E. I p . . 1 UannOt Be rOUnfl. The local castle. Knights of the Golden Eagle, have been informed of the I 4liMnnrLiriTia nf Walter Havm-nrtli of IMuncle, grand master of records of the state organization Knights of the I Golden Eagle, and financial secretary ! of the Muncie trades connciL It is understood that he was short in his accounts with both organizations but wnat tne amount oi nis snonage is is

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OLYMPIC RECORDS ShepparcJ and Porter Are Today's Winners.

London. Eng.. July 21 The final 800 meter race was won today by Sheppard. the American, at the unusual time of 1:53 4-5 seconds, breaking all previous Olympic records by two seconds. Porter, the American, won the running high jump at six feet and three inches, breaking the Olympic record. ITAFT STILL LOVES LABORS OF JURIST Allows His Feelings to Crop Out in Dedicatory Address. APPEALS TO THE PEOPLE. SAYS ALL SHOULD HAVE A FEEL ING OF RESPONSIBILITY AS TO WHAT IS NOT DONE BY THE GOVERNMENT. Hot Springs, Va.. July 21. On the verge or a not political campaign which is expected to end by giving him the highest office in the land. Wil liam Howard Taft still has, deep In his Upart. a warm nlace for the honors and labors of the jurist. Yesterday, speaking at the dedtcation of the new Bath county courthouse arGermantown, he allowed this feellng to crop out in the course of an , , aaaress mai oen.ii principally wuu iuo Judiciary and its relation to the peo ple. Still Longs for Bench. I can never go Into a court room. said the republican candidate for the presidency, "without a deep feeling of regret that I left the bench. Its at mosphere seems to have something about lt that calls to me at all times. Criticism of the courts by the peo ple was justified by Mr, Taft during his address. "Those who administer Justice shall feel that they are under the criti cal eye of men and women, entitled to have justice of the people adminis tered without fear or favor," he said Judge Taft was presented to the as semblage by J. A. Rivercomb, a mem ber of the board of supervisors of the county, Judge George K. Anderson the presiding judge, being present. In presenting the visitor, Mr. Rivercomb referred to him as the "most distinguished gentleman in the United States." I don't know about the judicial salaries in Virginia, but if this be salaries salaries in the mafwypmfwyp hint that shall lead in any way to the raising of the compensation of hard working judges. I shall have done something worthy of the day, "This scene today, to any one who 100,19 a It 'n a comparison with other countries, suggests the blessing of a free government Those who have had any experience with other countries will realize that in many of them a government means to the people an entity different from themselves. something in a sense antagonistic to them. It has a different personality and the feeling with respeat to it gen erally among the people Is that the government has the power and must ,ook &er itself. Should Share Responsibility. 'In 8uch countries among the peoDle 18 HI1 absence of a sense of LrrPOnSib,lity ? What ! done ,by Ruiciumcui, auneuce ui a desire to help the government because they are a part of it such we have here today. Such sense of responsibility, such desire to help government is Il lustrated in every meeting of this kind the cutT ever. A8 ,ODS 88 "e People feel that I . .. . ... -ueBe Bre COUriS, mat tniS 18 lue,r JU8(lre- ai wnen it goes wrong, "when U results In injustice, they ought to be ashamed for it, and they are re sponsible for it. we can count on a continuance of a free government "But when the people lose Interest in the administration of justice and do not have that sense of responsibility that ought to prompt every man on a jury to feel that in deciding equally between the prisoner at the bar and the state, the rights of the people are represented by the state and will be seriously injured by injustice to the state as long as that continues, then we may count on the perpetuation of our system. Will Not Cut Speech. Mr. Taft has abandoned his effort J to keep his speech of acceptance withI in 2 50ft vnrH TTa coM n A..iln n n tion that there are more subjects for I discussion of a novel character this I year than In recent campaigns. I Frank B. Kellogg who has arrived. was In Mr. Taft's office today helping in the revision of the speech. His i principal wont wui De on the tmfiTj

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E PHONE CHECKER BOARD IS MADE entral Union Company Announces That New System Of Rates Will Be Effective August 1. MAY HASTEN THREATENED : FEDERAL INVESTIGATION. Motive Behind Proposition Is Likely to Bring About a Recurrence of 'Phone Contro-. versy, 'Tis Said. The first fruits of the "worklnc agreement" between the Central Union and Richmond Home Telephone companies are about to be plucked. Announcement is being made by agents of the Central Union company that a different rate schedule will become effective August 1 and a canvass made of old subscribers to ascertain how many will retain their phones at the new rate. Noah Hutton. local manager of the Central Union, stated today the new schedule is not an increase of the one which has been in effect in this city for some years. To the majority of the patrons of the Central Union it will constitute an advance in the fee paid, however. Many patrons of the Central Union have been using this company's phones un-1 der spec.'al agreements or contracts, which range from no financial consideration at all. to the published schedule of charges. Mr. Hutton said the rate of the Central Union has been S3 for all metallic circuit phones. The rate for, two party lines has been $15 per year. Mr. Hutton asserted this class of phones has been in use by 300 or 400 subscribers. The Central Union has also offered the use of a Blake grounded circuit phone for SI monthly rental. Such service was withdrawn July lj According to Mr. Hutton this phon has lacked the advantage of long distance copper metallic connections. The company Is at the present time furnishing phones with the long distance connections to contract subscribers of long standing at 50 cents per month. Beginning August 1, the rate of the Central Union for Independent residence phones will be $1.75 per month. For two party phones the rate will be $1.25 per month. The business phone charge will be $3 per month. The old six party lines were abandoned several years ago and will not receive any consideration in the new schedule. The old subscribers on these lines have been retained up to the present at the contract rate. Some time ago, when competition, between the Central Union and Home companies was not as dead as at present, the Central Union placed a number of phones about the city, which were to provide free service until a prescribed number of subscribers was obtained. Some of these phones continue In use. To Operate Exchange. It was stated emphatically by Mr. Hutton that his company will continue to operate an exchange for local subscribers and not abandon the field to the Home company, the Intention as has been claimed. The comnanr's rateB for straight residence phones will be S1.75, two party line phones $1.25 and business phones $3. "We are taking this canvass to learn how many of our subscribers wish to re main at this rate," said Mr. Hutton. You see we have an agreement with the Home company as to the long distance service and by using our phones subscribers may reach any point in the United States that offers telephone connections. It will be only a matter of preference to them. You see some persons will say: 'We can reach any point by using the Central Union phone direct from our house, so why not use It for local service and secure this long distance advantage at the same time?" Choice to Patron. With the Central Union adopting a rate schedule practically the same as the Home company the choice will be left to the patron. The Home com pany now has a larger list of local subscribers and it is reasonable to pre sume that with the rates the same, the majority of local subscribers, who do not car so much for long distance service, will drop the Central Union for the Home phone. The only variance in the rates of the two companies will be on independent residence phones and in this class the Central Union will be 25 cents higher per month. The published monthly rates of the Home company at present are: Business phones $3, business phones two party line $2.50. residence phones $1.50; residence, two party lines $1.25. The 25 cent extra charge by the Central Union on its independent residence phones will tend further to lead present patrons of this company to abandon their phones for the Home company's. There is a strong probability the aonouncement of the change of rates by

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