Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 33, Number 175, 8 August 1908 — Page 1

RICHMOND P.41XAB1UM H AND SUN-TELEGRAM. VOL. XXXIII. NO. 175. RICHMOND, IND., SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 8, 1DOS. SINGLE COPY, 2 CENTS.

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GOOD ROADS DAY A GREAT SUCCESS IN EVERY PHASE lireat Crowd of Country Folks Thronged the City to Learn How to Improve the Roads Of the County.

GOVERNMENT EXPERT TOLD OF BEST METHODS City Was Dressed in Bunting And Flags and All Honor Was Paid to Visitors From Rural Sections. THE EVENT MARKED EPOCH IMPETUS IS EXPECTED TO BE GIVEN TO CONSTRUCTION OF ROADS THAT WILL NOT SUBSIDE FOR MANY YEARS. COUNTY HAS OPPORTUNITY. Plenty of Good Gravel and Knowledge Of Construction Alone Is Needed, Declared Expert Eldridge in an Address. "This county has good material and plenty of money to go about the construction of roads In a systematic and business like manner. There is no reason why Its roads should not be as good or better than those In any county in the United States." Such was the assertion of Maurice O. Eldridge, chief of records, bureau of public roads, United States department of agriculture, in an address before a crowd that taxed the capacity of Wayne circuit court rooom at the court house this afternoon. It was said in an emphatic manner and left no doubt in the minds of the hearers of the sincerity of the speaker. Mr. Eldridge had made a personal inspection of the roads of the county in aw auiouiobue titiiii;A ua, ,w.u was acquainted thoroughly with the facts he presented. He held out hcpe for better roads in the cotitny and it is believed that township trustees, road supervisors and others concerned in the construction of hignways will try to adopt the suggestion and inculcate the principles delineated, when roads are made under their supervision. Day a Success. "Good Roads Day" was a great success. There was not a hitch nor flaw to mar the occasion. The ominous clouds that had darKened the skies with their evil portent, refused to deliver the rain and there was nothing to mar the pleasure of the visitors. Never before had this city worn such gala apparel In honor of a purpose of such character. The only times the decorations were more profuse probably were on the occasions of the G. A. R. encampment and the Knights Templar conclave. But these events were different in their nature. The city then decorated in honor of guests from throughout the slate and today lit took tp its- brilliant hue to show re spect to visitors from the country towns and rural districts. Invitations had been sent to all the road officials in the Sixth Congressional district and "Western Ohio. A register was kept at the court house and every official who signed was appointed a delegate and provided with B, badge. They were taken automobiles rides about the city and shown the streets and parks. The factories were open to public inspection and Snany home folks took advantage of this seldom offered opportxinity. Decorations Beautiful. Main street merchants responded to cne call for assistance. Their places Cf business were decorated resplendently and the street was a blaze of glory from the bridge as the western limit to Glen Miller park. Private residences were decorated and flags and bunting were displayed on every hand. Public buildings were beautified in various ways. During the morning hours Interest centered in the dozens pf paper balloons that were sent up. Many of them carried tags which were redeemable for cash value to the finder, upon presentation to the sender. Automobiles, wagons and all kinds of conveyances were decorated. The exterior appearance of the city building probably surpassed that of any other Structure. It was festooned with Streamers and small pennants from toot to foundation. The work was done by the members of the fire department The courthouse was resplendent, also. The county commissioners appropriated money for the purpose of decoration and 500 yards pf bunting were used In the draperiea Paper flags and shields were displayed In all windows. The chandeliers In the various offices were adorned With, flags. The corridors and lobbies terere festooned with bunting. Three ttreamers of bunting were suspended he entire length of the court room. Continued on Page Seven.)

FRIDAY, THE SEVENTH BEATS LAWSON'S YARN.

Oxford, Pa., Aug. 8. Smith Whiteside, of Lower Oxford, is endeavoring to convince his friends that Friday, the 7th, is the unluckiest day on the calendar. He attempts to prove it by the fact that within an hour yesterday morning he fell 10 feet into a creek, was nearly killed by a scythe that fell on him, stepped into a yellow jacket's nest, was stung a dozen times and then had a close encounter with a polecat. These misfortunes were sufficient to convince him that if he remained in that neighborhood all day something really serious would happen to him.- so he quit work and came into Oxford. LEAVE FOR BOSTON. Catholic Priests to Attend Church Society Meeting. Rev. Gather Roell and Prof. Richter, both of St. Andrew's church, left yesterday for Boston where they will act as delegates to the National Federation of Catholic Societies which is being held there. THAW DECLARES HIMSELF BANKBUP T Through His Counsel He Files Petition in the United States Court. CREDITORS PRESS HIM. THAW SAYS THAT HE IS UNABLE TO PAY HIS TWO FIGHTS FOR LIFE COST HIM $600,000, FRIEND SAYS. Pittsburg, Aug. 8. Alleging that his creditors aro pressing unfair claims against him and that, he is unable to pay, Harry Kendall Thaw, slayer of Stanford White, last evening through his attorney, Charles Morschauser, filed a petition in bankruptcy in the United States court here. Detective Roger O'Mara. of Pittsburg, was named as receiver of Thaw's estate and pave bond in $200,000. In his bankruptcy papers which were signed by Thaw yesterday afternoon while outside the Poughkeepsie jail, he shows some startling"n5guresT"Tle places his assets at .ft'28,022 and his liabilities at $-ir3,l-H). Thaw through his attorney sets forth plainly that he dtes not believe that he owes the $453,140. He names 1.3 creditors and gives the amount which they claim he owes. Of this number only two claims are undisputed. He admits to owing Mrs. Mary C. Thaw, his mother $191,500 and he also approves the claim of Roger O'Mara for $400 fees as a detective. There tiien follows in his paper a list of creditors and their amounts. It is understood that Thaw disputes every one of the others and will insist that O'Mara as his receiver sift the claims to the bottom. In his bill of assets Thaw sets forth that he has $40,000 worth of real estate. $."0.0O0 In stocss and bonds, about $10,000 worth of books. &c. He calls attention to the fact that he has an income Of $33,300 per year from the various? trusts created for him. but this, it is averred can not be touched by his creditors. Receiver O'Mara. who was bonded by John Newell and James Piatt of Pittsburg, in $100,000 each, declines to discuss the matter. It is understood, however, that O'Mara has been working for months getting data against some of Thaw's creditors. From one close to Harry Thaw here It is learned that he has already spent $6i0,000 in his two trials, which he thinks Is enough, and every bill paid from this time on must be bona fide.

"Bring me Money and I Will Kiss You," Says American Wife of Today

New York, Aug. 8. "Come bring me money and I will kiss you. Make me a name in the world and I will noise It abroad. Build me a house more splendid than other houses, set me above my sisters, and I will reflect honor on you among men for the clothes I wear and the excellent shape of my figure." This Is the attitude of American wives, according to Robert Herrick, professor of English in the university of Chicago. This is his representation of American women In his new novel, "Together" published today. Thus he generalizes: Prime Function Is Lost. "They have lost their prime function; they will not or they can not get children. They are free! As never women were before. And these wives are the custodians of men not merely of their purses but of their souls." In this condition of American womanhood the author discerns not the progress, but the retrogression of womannot her rise, but her fall, her sinking back to the condition of a mere female creature. He writes: "And thus unwittingly, woman be

POPE PLEASED AT GIBBONS' RECOVERY

The Cardinal Is Improving Rapidly. Rome, Aug. 8. Cardinal Gibbons Is very much better and the symptoms of intestinal indisposition have disap peared. The Cardinal was taken ill Wednesday at Castle Qandolfo, and was brought the next day into Rome. He slept quietly last night and this morning his temperature is normal. The powiUllty 4 nj oompttcatton is over. The Pop has been Informed of the satisfactory condition of the Cardinal, at which he expressed his great pleasure. Many persons have called to inquire regarding the Cardinal's health. RECEIVER APPOINTED. Chicago, 111., Aug. 8. A receiver has been appointed for the PillsburyWasirtmrn Milling Co. of Minneapolis, the largest manufacturer of flour outside the trust. WH1TECAPPERS ARE Attorney General With Assistance of Rush County Officials Working. INVESTIGATION IS MADE. SEVERAL SUSPECTS EXAMINED, BUT THEY SWEAR THEY DO NOT KNOW ANYTHING OF TRIBBEY ASSAULT OF WEDNESDAY. Rushville, Ind., Aug. 8. Attorney General Bingham, Prosecutor Charles Hack and Deputy Prosecutor Will L. Newbold spent yesterday in trying to find a clew to the identity of the members of the whitecapping band that brutally beat John Tribbey, a wealthy farmer, Wednesday night and terrorized Dessie Smith, with whom Tribbey was alleged to have been intimate. The officers went to the scene in an auto and spent the entire day interviewing several suspects who swore ignorance of the deed. The investigation is continuing today and a court of inquiry is likely to result. Not a single person living near the Tribbey home will give out any information to assist the officers. The officers visited the Tribbey home and found the victim in a precarious condition. Mr. Bingham said there were bits of tar and a few feathers still clinging to Tribbey 's form. Tribbey may die of his injuries, as his body was lacerated with nails driven in boards. Some of the wounds are deep and blood poisoning may develop. ivtruiirBunj nigui a ueea was tne first whitecapping in this county since the days of the Golden Circle, during the civil war. The community in which Tribbey lives Is largely made up of Quaker farmers, but it is thought that they did not have a hand in the work. A number of them are highly incensed over the action of the masked men. Dessie Smith, who with her father was instructed by the whitecaps. who called at their home and virtually wrecked it, to leave the community within twenty-four hours under penalty of being hanged, has evidently left as there were no signs of activity around their home since an early hour yesterday. comes again in the revolution of the ages what she was at first the female creature, the possession, the thing for lust and amusement, the cherished slave. For the death of woman's soul follows when she pays with her body a simple. Immutable law. Professor Herrick draws a sordid picture of what the American woman has made of the American man. He says: "And the poor creature man, who fights for his queen? A trained energy a vessel of careless passion, a blind doer, dreaming great truths and seeing little ends. "There are moments when his sleep Is troubled with feverish dreams. But roused from these idle fancies he sallies from his cabin palace, or his hotel apartment, or his steam heated and childless flat into the old fray, to kill his meat and bring It home. "We chatter of the curse of Castle Garden, unmindful that in the dumb animal hordes who labor and breed children lies the future. For theirs will be the land when the blond hunter of the market and his pampered female are swept into tha dost hsaajt1.

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Farman's aeroplane is shown at the top in full flight. This picture is from a snapshot taken by an H. N. S. staff photographer. Below at the left is shown Farman at the wheel of his airship, just as he lands. On the right is shown a crowd escorting Farman and his aeroplane to his quarters after his recent flight.

ILLINOIS TESMrWUGAWST CITY

PRIMARY STATUTE New Direct Primary Law Of That State Given Initial Trial Today. HAS PECULIAR WORKINGS. VOTERS ASKED TO WHAT PARTY THEY BELONG AND ARE GIVEN BALLOTS OF THEIR OWN AND NO OTHER PARTY. Chicago, Aug. 8. The new direct primary law of Illinois, declared by its friends to be the most effective instrument on any statute book providing for the expression of political preferences, is receiving its first test today. The initial trial of the new law precedes an election In which is to be chosen a governor and all other general officers of the state, a legislature which in turn will choose a United States senator and 25 congressmen. The vote today is the first actual test of the direct method of choosing candidates in a city so large as Chicago. There was four ballots placed before the voters today. These were from the democratic, the republican, the prohibitionist and the socialist parties. The Independence party and the People's party are not taking part In the primaries. Every voter as he appears at the polls is being asked to what party he belongs, and is allowed to vote for the candidates of that party only. He is being given the ticket of the party he mentions and no other. The men of each party receiving the largest vote for any position for which they are candidates will be declared the nominee of that party for that office. There will be no conventions held later to ratify the selections of the primary election, nor to nominate candidates. An exception to this application of the law is in the case of the United States senatorship. The legislature is to name the successor to Senator Albert J. Hopkins and the vote at today's primary will, for this one office, be merely of an advisory character. Although the senatorship will not be determined at the present primary election, the contest for that office has been as sharp as though its result depended upon the advisory vote which is being cast today. The canCCoctlmi4 ob Page Sevens

Much Toward Solving The Question of Aerial Navigation

Richmond Brick Company Objects to West Side Sewer Assessment. AMOUNT IS TOO LARGE. Alleging that the assessments of benefits Is far in excess of the value of the property, the Richmond Brick company has entered suit in the Wayne circuit court against the city of Richmond and the members of the board of public works, individually, asking the appointment of appraisers. The brick company owns about three acres of land located west of West Fifth street. For the construction of the north section of the West Side sewer the company is assessed $335 and it is estimated the assessment for the south section will be $400. The company claims the assessment Is for more money than the land- is worth. The ground is not used for agricultural purposes. The soil is clay and has proved excellent for brick making purposes. A large amount of excavating has been done. The statutes provide that parties against whom assessment are levied have the right to appeal from the assessment to the courts and ask the appointment of a board of three to make an appraisment of the land to determine Its value. This step is what the brick company needs to do. WORK HAS FEW TERRORS FOR HIM Man in Easthaven Never Knows When to Stop. One evening seven years ago James Kent returned to his home in Anderson and remembered nothing of current events, although not forgetting events preceding. Yesterday he was brought to this city and placed In the Eastern Indiana hospital for the insane. One day he left .home to go to a neighbor and borrow a saw. He disappeared, but at the end of six years he went to the neighbor, borrowed the saw and returned home and began sawing wood. He can give no account of what traspired in the meantime. When told to do a task he undertakes Ihe work and will continue at it until told to stop. He seems to have no control over his mental faculties. Friends hope treatment at the hoitai may effect a cure.,

STEPS TO PROTECT COONTY PROPERTY

Probable Special Officer Will Be Placed on Duty at the Court House. DEPREDATIONS NUMEROUS. PROPERTY IS MISTREATED BY GANG WHICH USUALLY LOAFS ABOUT THE PLACE COMMISSIONERS HAVE IRE AROUSED. The subject of police protection for the court house yard was discussed by the board of commissioners this morning and it is probable a special guard and custodian of the lawn will be appointed. The selection of a guard endowed with police powers Is made necessary by the constant depredations that are committed by the gang of boys, who loiter about at all hours of day and night. The antics of small children have been almost as destructive as those of older persons. Children smear paint and chalk marks about on the stone pavements, the windows and every other place they may see fit to select. They play polo on roller skates on the broad walks and last summer a number of them constructed a minature golf links about the building. Flower beds were converted into bunkers and the youngsters had great sport out of their Imitation contests. It was when the doors at the main entrance were scribbled oer with obscene words written In chalk that the ire of the commissioners was aroused. The older boys hold base ball or football practice on the lawn, according to the season. They "pass" a base ball around and passersby have been struck numerous times as the result of wild throws. Some time ago a window leading to the basement was broken and entrance to the building secured. Depredations of all sorts were committed within the building. The commissioners found it necessary to change the locks on the doors as keys had come into the possession of persons, who had no right to them. The most potent cause for the contemplated action of the commissioners Is the insulting attitude recently assumed by the "court house gang." Obscene and suggestive remarks hare been directed at women and a few days aso a white woman was called "Bigger." The police department has

PUBLIC STATEMENT WILL BE ISSUED BY CITUFFICIALS The Board of Public Works Will Explain Its Stand on Glen Miller Freight Route, Soon.

CITIZENS TO PROTEST AGAINST BUILDING LINE TUESDAY EVENING. MEETING WILL BE HELD AT THE EAST MAIN STREET FRIENDS' CHURCH FOR THIS PURPOSE.

The board of public works will issue a statement to the public in the near future defining its position in the matter relating to the use of North Twenty-third street for the purpose of the freight line of the Terre Haute. Indianapolis & Eastern traction company. It is expected the board will state it does not see its way to reopen negotiations with the traction company tending toward the alteration of the franchise. This attitude may be expected from the statements of the city attorney made yesterday, that he ' feels and the board feels it acted carefully in the matter and did not select the route through Glen Miller park until by petition and otherwise a large number of citizens had expressed their approval of the plan. In delving through the papers on file in the city clerk's office this morning a petition was found which asked the board to close negotiations with the Dayton & Western Traction company and accept the franchise agreement proposed. This petition Is dated July 20, 1908 and bears the signatures of men, who appeared before the board yesterdar to protest The D. & W. franchise provides for the use of the T. H. I. & E. Company's freight line through the Glen. With the board refusing to renew matters and the assertion of prominent citizens, who oppose the use of the park that nothing is done until it Is done right, the next move may be expected from the opposition. The remonstrators, who have appeared before the board have Intimated a number of times thejr will appeal to the courts and attempt to procure an injunction. There is a question of doubt as to whether or not It will be possible to enjoin the company, owing to the technicalities of the law. Local attorneys differ in this matter, some r, holding an injunction cold be held valid and others that it could not. owing to the fact the park is owned in fee simple by the city.

MASS MEETING CALLED. Prominent Citizens to Discuss Traction Matter Tuesday. "Mass meeting of Richmond citizens called for Tuesday evening. Aug. 11 at East Main Street Friends' church to protest against the desecration of Glen Miller by the Interorban railway company. Committee rep-' resenting the citizens of Richmond who are deeply interested in preserring the beauty and utility of GlenMlller park have, twice within the past week, met with the board of public works to protest against the desecration of Glen Miller by the proposed car line through it The city council Is. we understand unanimously opposed to a car line through the Glen and has so gone on record. The board of works has so far declined to reconsider the matter, therefore we, the undesigned will call a mass meeting of citizens to urge the board or works to save the Glen. Go out and see what Is being done to Glen Miller, then com to this meeting Tuesday. Signed. Timothy Nicholson, Rer. S. R. Ly. ons. John B. Dougan, Benjamin Johnson. Paul Ross. R. L. Kelly. M. P. Johnston. A. M. Gardner. Richard Sedgwick. C. B. Hunt. Caleb King. John F. Miller. Dr. Chas. MarreU W. K. Bradbury. Frank Glass. George Hill. Henry Gennett. Frank Clark. Mrs. James Morrisson. Miss M. A. Stubbs, Mrs. Frank Clark, Mrs. Esther Wallace, Mrs. Frank Land. Mrs. Gertrude Hill. Mrs. M. F. Johnston." The above call, which is self explanatory was Issued today. Opportunity will be given all those, who desire to express their opinion on the matter. been unable to control the place, when the boys were assembled unless an officer were stationed there all the time. This is not possible. If the same officer is expected to patrol a beaL THE WEATHER PROPHET. INDIANA Fair in the northern portion and showers in the southern portion Saturday night; Sunday,' fair and warmer, with light to fresh northeast winds. OHIO Fair in the north, with probably local showers in the southern portion Saturday night; Sunday fair, with light to fresh north to northwest winds.