Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 111, 27 February 1909 — Page 2

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THE RICII3IOND PAL LADIUJI AND SUN-TELEGRA3I, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1909.

UIIFIT FOR MAILS IS HOME REPORT : TILLMAN STATES ' . .' ." 1 I. He Informs Senate That Committee Spoke too Plainly on The Subject, Thus Hitting at The President. HE SEES REAL PERIL TO ALL ITS READERS

Southern Senator Declares That the Pamphlet in Spots Borders , on the Limits of Common Decency. Washington, Feb. 27. Senator Tillman proposes for the senate committee on postoffices and post roads the task of determining whether the report of President Roosevelt's home life commission is fit for passage through the malls. The home life commission was appointed about a year ago at the suggestion of W. J. Boardman, a prominent resident of the District of Columbia, and several times of late the host of William H. Taft. A body of thirteen residents of the district, in eluding two women, was formed to report on the conditions of life in Washington and to suggest methods of general Improvement of and the means for the elimination of unsanitary tenements and alleys. In fact, to bring up for inspection every factor that tended to make the home unhappy. ( Contents Startle the Readers. Nearly everybody had forgotten all about the, commission, and when its report of 500 pages or more flashed up from the government printing office a few weeks ago, the astounding nature of the matter It contained caused a general inquiry as to "where it came from. Under the heading "social betterment" a mass of intimate questions of medicine and morality were discussed in a broad manner which caused the grave senators and members of the house to turn the volume over several times to see that they were not reading a "medical advice" book such as were ready sellers in the rural districts a decade or so ago. It remained for Senator Tillman to investigate the home commission's report carefully, and decide that, while Its -hints as to alley cleaning, tobacco using, alcoholism, usury, drug habits, exposure in bad weather, and other subjects, both diverse and kindred, were all useful, 1t grew too broad in dealing with the social evil. Thinks It Obscene in Spots. In spots, according to the senator's opinion, it approached the obscene, and he was positive it contained Information which was not at all conducive to the maintenance of the large family idea so fondly advocated by President Roosevelt. His " resolution; calling for a report from the postoffice committee was laid on the table. The document rooms of the house and senate were completely stripped of the home commission reports during the day. BROKE TEAM RECORD Richmonds of City Bowling League Last Evening Total 943 Pins. GOOD INDIVIDUAL SCORES Excellent bowling on the part of the Richmonds, in the contest at the City Bowling league alleys last evening with the Five B's featured the first two games. The third game was not so Interesting as only mediocre scores were made. Graham and Crump for the Richmonds simply rolled away from the other bowlers. Graham making two fine scores. In the first game he rolled 229 and in the second 225. In the second game Crump made 203. The Richmonds now hold the honor of having the largest team score for the season, as in the first contest last evening 943 pins were knocked down. The Richmond 8 are only a few games behind the Carman s who hold first place. The Five B's are hopelessly last with two games out of 21 won. The team scores made last evening are: ' 1 Richmonds. . ...... . . 943 879 727 Five B'S. .. .. .. .. ..601 Ui 6S4 Nougat Blancmange. Beat one quart of milk and one cupful of sugar to boiling point, dissolve four tablespoonfuls of cornstarch In a little milk (reserved from the quart) and ttlr la; also have ready two tablepoonfale of gmted chocolate melted over boiling water and stir this In. Cook Ave minutes. Juet before removing from stove atlr In one cupful or lees of chopped nuts. Pour Into individual cups and cool. Put whipped cream over the top. sprinkle finely cborped nuts over top and ptece two ralsaas in center of tup. Enough for two ssi lings. CTili Sjii Beoord-Herald. One -tXOSSO QUSS3.M tktft Is 2

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LOCALS MEMMERS R. H. S. Basketball Team Takes Connersville Team By Score 19 to 14. A WELL PLAYED CONTEST Richmond, 19; Connersville, 14. The Richmond high school basketball team was victorious over the Connersville high school team at the Y. M. C. A. gymnasium last evening in a well played contest, but still somewhat uninteresting. Spangler forward for the locals played the star game and his work was the only feature of the contest. Line up and summary: Richmond. Connersville. Left Forward. Thornburg .Bullard Right Forward. Spangler . .Wallaca Center. Brown . . .... Huston Left Guard. Hiatt Henry Right Guard. Ackerman '. Sample Field Goals Spangler, 7; Thornburg, Hiatt, Sample 2; Wallace. Foul Goals Thornburg, Wallace, Sample, 5. Referee Bullard. Umpire Hamilton. Scorer Marlatt. Time keeper Ferlin. Time of halves 20 mlnutet SECOND SERIES . PLAYED TONIGHT Y. M. C. A. Basketball League Contests Scheduled. The second games of the Y. M. C. A. basketball game will be played this evening. Number "ones" meet number "threes" and the fives play the sixes. The last two teams have not played. Ones and threes will engage in a hard tussle. If ones win it will mean an even break on the two games played and if the three are the victors it will put them at the head of the percentage table. Fives and sixes will play the opening game. There is no admission to these contests. RICHMOND POLO TEAMIS ELATED Have Their Eyes on League Pennant. Members of the local polo team feel quite elated over their recent victories. The boys believe they have as good a chance as any to win the pennant. Public interest is being aroused by tfie class of sport offered and it is not improbable that next season will see a first-class team representing this city in what will be a major league. EIGHTEEN GIVEN THE JST DEGREE Whitewater Lodge, I. 0. 0. F. Has a Big Class. Eighteen candidates were given the first degree last evening by Whitewater lodge, I, O. O. F. A very interesting meeting was held, followed by a social time. .

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appointed pages, messengers, stenographers, a postmaster, etc. ToHold Big Rally. The committee also decided to give a grand Lutheran rally on the opening night of the convention, if possible. This will probably be held in the coliseum, with a special program of music and addresses, including the president's biannual sermon. This general Synod is one of the important ecclesiastical bodies of the United States. It embraces twentythree synods, all of which will be represented by delegations at this convention. Their names will indicate how widely they are scattered. They are as follows: The Various Synods. '4 ' K i kit Churches Members Maryland 150 30,360 West Penna 155 34,148 East Ohio 75 10,503 Alleghany 151 20,699 East Penna 144 34,222 Miami 52 8,894 Pittsburg 125 20,654 Wittenberg 77 12,123 Olive Branch 48 6,362 Nor. Illinois 54 7,790 Cen. Penna 92 11,608 Nor. Indiana 74 7.030 Iowa 29 3,892 Susquehanna .... . 81 15,991 Kansas 49 4,367 Nebraska 45 4,273 Ger. Wartburg 38 6,434 California 20 3,027 Rocky Mountain .. . 11 1.049 Ger. Nebraska .... 100 6,938 Cen. Illinois 29 3,948 So. Illinois 16 1,701 New York 129 25,034 Total 1,744 280,978 List of Officers. The beneral officers are: S. W. Owen, D. D., Hagerstown, Md., president; H. K. Fenner, D. D., Louisville, Ky., secretary and Geo. H. Knollenberg of this city, treasurer. It Meets Biennially. The general Synod meets every two years; legislates, directs and maintains five orphan's homes, located at Frederick, Md.. Nachusa, 111., Springfield, O., Lincoln, Neb., and Loysville, Pa.; two homes for the aged, at Washington, D. C. and Lincoln, Neb.; one deaconess mother house, at Baltimore, Md.; two hospitals; six theological seminaries; "two academies and the following colleges: Pennsylvania, Wittenberg, Carthage, Watts Memorial, Midland and Susquehanna University, with a total enrollment of 2.357 students. Besides these organizations are the various missionary boards and publication houses. All of these institutions will be represented at the convention. The synod lays a. per capita apportionment on the membership, and makes the appropriations for the maintainance of all these organizations. There will be present about three hundred delegates and visitors, representing all portions of the United States, also India and East Africa. The local Lutherans will do everything possible to make the visitors stay pleasant and comfortable. TBWSCWIT MADE III CASE Thousand Pages of the Proceedings. The transcript in the Martin-Chit-wood case has been completed by Arthur Crume. court stenographer. There are more than 1000 pages of typewritten matter. All the evidence, court rulings and exceptions that were made in the case are Included in the transcript. The bound Tolume is six inrfis

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HEAVY DRY VOTE III CARROLL AIID GIBSON COUNTIES In the Latter County, Election Was Held Without Council Making an Appropriation For Expense.

WOMEN OFFER PRAYERS WHILE THE MEN VOTE No Disorder or Demonstrations Reported at Any of the Polls Sixteen Saloons Affected. Two more counties have given their verdict on licensed saloons. Gibson and Carroll, and sixteen saloons in these counties are added to the steadily growing list of Indiana barrooms that have been voted out by overwhelming expressions of the people at the polls. Twenty-four counties have given this sort of expression and the total list of the saloons thus affected numbers 3SO. To this may be added Rush county's sixteen saloons as a finale for the week's voting, for in the election scheduled to be held In that county to day it is conceded by the "wet" faction that they have lost. The elections In Gibson and Carroll yesterday were quiet affairs, but there was a deep undercurrent of interest and 'much natural excitement, although there was no trouble at the polls and no demonstration by either side except in the ringing of church bells at the outset of the voting day. In Princeton an all-day prayer service was held and the women's prayers went up as the ballots of the men were deposited. Gibson Votes Without Appropriation Gibson county's election of yesterday was held without the financial sanction of the Gibson county council, which had refused to make an appropriation to cover the expense of the election. In this respect the county stands alone, but the temperance forces raillied to pledged that every Item of expense the support of the cause and virtually pledged that every item of expense would be met. It was the intention to bring legal action agalnstthe county council, but since the verdict of the people has been recorded it is probable the council will grant the appropriations necessary at its next session and prevent litigation. A similar situation has arisen In Miami county, where at Peru yesterday the council refused to make an appropriation for the option election sched uled for March 16. One of the members owns property now occupied by a saloon and he based his refusal partly on that basis. The temperance forces have begun mandate proceedings to compel the council to act under the law. GIBSON 1,067 FOR "DRY3." Princeton, Ind., Feb. 27. Great joy is felt by temperance forces in Gibson county- over the sweeping victory won by them at the polls yesterday. The "drys" won the victory by 1.0G7 majority, which was close to the estimate placed on the county at the close of the campaign. Almost 80 per cent of the total vote of the county was polled, which was in the nature of a surprise to both sides. Following the news of the victory of the "drys" the church bells of the city rang out the tidings. All but three townships gave "dry' majorities, those voting "wet" being Barton, Patoka and Johnson townships. The "wets" carried Patoka township, in which Princeton is situated, by thirty-three majority. Nine saloons in the county will be affected, eight going out In ninety days. With one of the saloons the license will not expire until next fall. CARROLL IS "DRY" 2,000. Delphi, Ind., Feb. 27. Carroll county has added its disapproval to licensed saloons by an overwhelming majority piled up in yesteday's election. From Incomplete returns it is estimated the total will be in the neighborhood of 2,000 in favor of the "dry" forces. On the basis of twenty-three precincts reported out of the thirty in the county the "drys" have a majority of nearly 1.700 and there is little doubt the score will reach approximately 2,000, Reports from various polling places throughout the county how that the total vote closely approached that polled at the last general election, interest being great in the crusade against the saloons. Nothing in the way of disorder is reported from any of the precincts and no reports have been made of attempts at fraud on the part of either faction, and the day passed quietly. PUN A LITERARY CAMPAIGN IK CITY Anti-tuberculosis Society Gets Busy. - The Anti-tuberculosis society in this city is not dead, although, its inactivity would seem to suggest that it was. The society has several plans before it which will be followed in the future. It is probable that a literary campaign will be instituted by the members . during the coming spring and summer. , Funny faces and costumes,

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DR. GREEN LECTURES

Spoke Last Evening for Two Hours Before Only a Fair Sized Audience. LEAVES MONDAY FOR JAPAN For more than two hours Thomas E. Green lectured on the subject "Key to the Twentieth Century" at the Coliseum last evening, to only a fair-iszed audience. To some Mr. Green did not appeal, owing to the length of his subject and also because he digressed from the subject matter. Dr. Green announced that he would leave Monday for Japan where he would secure subject matter for his lectures before the Chautauqua assemblies next summer. He declared that he would tell the people the truth about Japan and implied that the public was being made a victim by unscrupulous lectureres, relative to the subject. He did not appeal to the peopel in last night's lecture as he did when at the Chautauqua two years ago. NORTH END PEOPLE EUTEHPROTEST Want Either Subway or Viaduct for the Dangerous Twelfth St. Crossing. RESOLUTIONS ARE ADOPTED BIG MEETING WAS HELD LAST EVENING BY THE RIVEROALE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION, AND ACTION TAKEN. Residents of Riverdale and especially those who are members of the Riverdale Civic league are insistent that the city and Pennsylvania railroad company jointly construct a viaduct or tunnel, at either the Eighth or Twelfth street Pennsylvania crossings. At the meeting of the league at the Whitewater school building last evening resolutions to this effect were unanimously adopted by the organization. The accident of Pearl Edsall, at the Twelfth street Pennsylvania crossing Wednesday evening, which proved fatal, and the numerous other accidents which have happened at this crossing, furnished stimulus for the organization in demanding in its resolution that something be done to protect the public. .It was pointed out that the Twelfth street crossing was especially dangerous as no methods, other than a watchman, are used to prevent accidents. At the Eighth street crossing gates are provided. Would Benefit Riverdale. . The organization also believes that the construction of a viaduct or tunnel at either one of these crossings would result in the upbuilding of Riverdale. It would then be possible to secure a street car line in the north part of the city, which the residents have long been demanding, but which they canpot secure until an overhead crossing or a subway is constructed. A oemmittee last night was appointed to investigate the conditions in Riverdale and report on the number of new houses erected and the amount of improvement done during the past year. The school board will be presented with a resolution, adopted unanimously last evening, to make improvements on the play grounds at the Whitewater building and also to enlarge them. AUDIENCE AROSE WHEN NATIONAL AIR WAS PLAYEO (Continued from Page One) smallest to be favored with a concert. The city failed to appreciate the honor and the patronage was small. There were many other attractions last evening and to a certain extent that may account for the small attendance. Those, who did attend, were glad they were present. It was an educational study as vell as a musclal treat The members of the organization are almost absolutely uniform in height, slight in statue and intelligent appearing. But few in the audience ever had seen a native of the Philinnines before except at the St. Louis fair. The band ; win tend greatly to alter the general impression of the Filippino during its! tdur of the country. There was nothing that in the least seemed to certain to the "head hunter" of the savage tribes of the islands. There were many encores to the poplar program. Before Spoons Were. Tne domestic spoon probably owe its origin to the shell rather than to the human hand. Shells of the mussel, scallop and oyster, it Is believed, were used In prehistoric times as spoons sod ladles, the handle being formed of a piece of weed split at one end to hold the shell firmly. Some savage nations make similar spoons p to the present day. and the old highland custom of offering wtdsky In a shell has been probably banded down from to goBeratioB for untold bb Graphic-

WOMAN CLERK WAS CAUSE 0F DIVORCE Mrs. Cora Brehm Blames Her Rival for Desertion of Her Husband.

PLAINTIFF IS WELL KN0NW STATES IN COURT THAT WHEN THE FAIR CLERK WAS DISCHARGED, FREDERICK PACKED HIS CLOTHES AND WENT. All because of a woman clerk in the grocery store and the husband's refusal to discharge her after his wife had reason to suspect she was receiving too little of his affection, Frederick Brehm left Cora Brehm. That was seven years ago when the Brehms operated a grocery on School street Mrs. Brehm was granted a divorce in circuit court this morning on the ground of abandonment and failure to provide. Lost His Affection. Mrs. Brehm testified that after the advent of the clerk, her husband seemed to lose his affection for her and bestow It on the clerk. She said she talked to him about it. but he laughed or put her aside with an evasive reply. Finally the wife said the clerk had to go and if Brehm did not discharge her, she would. Brehm didn't, and Mrs. Brehm was told that if she discharged the clerk, her husband would leave. But she didn't believe it at the time and Saturday night the clerk got her discharge. The next day Fred left and went to Cincinnati. Plaintiff Well Known. Now Mrs. Brehm Is a well known milliner in the city. Her store is on North Eighth street and she Is recognized as one of the most progressive business women. After her husband abandoned her she closed up the business of the grocery by paying the debts as far as possible. Her husband came back to the city about three years ago and remained with his wife a short time. He was taken ill and she cared for him. paying all his bills except that due the physician. Upon his recovery he left again. He has been back since to visit a daughter, Arubia Marie. Testimony was Introduced to show that the defendant now is at Ashevllle, N. C. An attorney representing Brehm had a telegram stating the sender had no defense to make to the charge of abandonment. DANGEROUS BLAZES Heavy Losses Sustained in Philadelphia and Chicago By Fire Deon. STOCK YARDS THREATENED Philadelphia, Feb. 27. Fire this morning gutted the six story undertakers' supply factory of Jackson and Coffer, Cheney street. The looss was two hundred thousand dollars. Three firemen are in the hospital, overcome by smoke or fumes. Fire in Stock Yard. Chicago, Feb. 27. Fire at the Swift & Co. butterlne plant today caused a spectacular blaze resulting in a loss aggregating $225,000. The butter renovating plant was also damaged. The destroyed plant was located in the stock yards district and for a time a widespread conflagration seemed imminent. Vertical Earthquakes. An ancient scientist declares that no region of the earth Is known to be exempt from earthquake and that New York city is just a liable to a great earthquake disaster as was Charleston in 1836. It seems that what New York has most to fear, on account of its high buildings, is a vertical earthquake. Of all terrestrial disturbances the vertical proved the most destructive so far. . As to skyscrapers, at Fort Ban Carlos, Chile, In 1937 a vertical shock catapulted from a hole In the- ground forty feet deep, where was secured by iron clamps and big bowlders a flagstaff, throwing It vertically into the air for more than a mile, it Is claimed. The Calabria earthquake of 17S3 was likewise a vertical one. It caused whole buildings to rise high up In the air. the catastrophe resembling a succession of dynamite explosions.

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M. E. Conference Will Be Held At Greenfield, Ind., . Last of March. - WILL ASSIGN MINISTERS Programs for the Northern Indiana M. E. Conference meeting to bo held at Greenfield, commencing March 31. have not been received by the local ministers of the Methodist faith. Rev. T. M. Guild," superintendent of the Richmond district, was to have been cn the program. Sunday. April 4. but he will find it Impossible to be present. Much business will come before the conference, including the assignment of ministers to different chatgSA M the district. PREMIUMS Atl IMPROVED HAW In Message He Urges Mor Ships and Better Organization Efficiency. BROWNSVILLE MATTER UP HOUSE CONCURS WITH SENATE FOR COURT IN INQUIRY TO CONSIDER REINSTATEMENT OP COLORED TROOPERS. .Washington, Feb. 27. The . president today sent a special message to congress, accompanying the final report of the commission on naval reorganization, which outlines the new governmental system. He urges the -necessity of a sufficient number of the best ships and increased efficiency In naval organization and personnel. The House this morning disagreed to the senate amendment to the agriculture bill. It was sent to conference. The committee on appropriations reported Its last bill this morning, ,it being a general deficiency bill, carrying seventeen and a half millions. . . ', . .; The house passed the senate bill providing for the court of inquiry in , the matter of application of discharged Brownsville soldiers for reinstatement. The vote was 210 to 10L. - MEMORIAL SERVICES . - HssasssBaSV Memory of Frances E. Villard Will Be Honored Here Sunday Afternoon ARRANGE GOOD PROGRAM Memorial service for Frances E. Wlllard. the great W. C. T. U. worker and woman's suffrage advocate, will be held tomorrow afternoon at tho Christian church. South Tenth and A streets, by the local societies. An interesting program has been prepared and a large attendance is expected. Rev. S. A. Traum. pastor of the Christian church, will give a short address on "Richmond's present needa." The program will include other nuraoers appropriate to tne occasion, ine program is as follows: Program for Event. - . Invocation Rev. Conrad Huber. Scripture Reading Rev. R. J. Wade Prayer Rev. Harry Keates. Solo Roy Lacey. , . . . Frances Willard as a ChristianRev. George Hill. Earlbam Quartet Robert' Sanders, Dr. Coffin, Carl Weesner. Thurman Overman. Frances Willard the leader of a , Righteous Army Rev. S. R. Lyons. " ' Duet Mrs. Clarence Hadley, Mrs. Walter Garver. Richmond's Present Needs Rer. S. A. Traum. .- . Earl ham Quartet. Short Talk Mrs. S. A. Traum. . Mrs. Hoyle My husband declares that corsets are unhealthy. He Insists that they shorten life. Mrs. Doyle Is that so? - Mrs. Hoyle Yes; he says he knew of a man who lived to be over 100 years old who never once wore them New York Press. - it in the house. The approval 19

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