Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 237, 4 July 1909 — Page 4

THE RICHMOND PA 1XADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, SUNDAY, JULY 4, 1909.

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KING WAS AHEAD Oil HIS SCHEDULE

Famous War Correspondent Nearin the End of His Long "Hike." IS WALKING ON A WAGER HE WILL VISIT PRACTICALLY EVERY COUNTRY ON THE GLOBEHAS HAD MANY INTERESTING EXPERIENCES.

St. Paul, Minn., July 3. Charles Addington King, a war correspondent who served through the Boer war, the Russian-Japanese war and during the Spanish-American war has been con veyed out of St. Paul by local sportsmen and will reach Chicago at noon on July 8, homeward bound on a wager with the publishers of the. Strand Magazine of London to complete a journey on foot from Port Arthur, Manchuria around the world and back to Port Arthur in seven years. He has already walked- 56,000 miles, and left St. Paul under a second wager to complete the St. Paul-New York section of his, world-circling trip in 70 days or forfeit $500. s Starts From London. King made his original start from Londontraveling on foot through Europe and making the long journey through Russia, Siberia and Manchuria to Port Arthur before starting on his world tour. His original wag

er specifics the course he is to take

and after crossing the United States

to New York, King will sail for Rio de . Janeiro, to cross South America on foot to Lima. Peru, thence sailing for Australia, crossing from Mel

bourne to Perth and back to Sydney on foot, from which point he will ship to Cape Town, working northward through Africa on foot to some Mediterranean port thence crossing to Europe and working back through Turkish territory to Russia and again across Siberia to Port Arthur. Seven Months Ahead. "I am now seven, months ahead of my schedule," King said on leaving St Paul, "or in other words I am 5,000 miles to the seod, I have full seven years to complete ray tour, this period being settled by agreement at the time I completed tbe wager with the rep

resentatives of t!io Newnes interests of London before leaving Port Arthur. Seven years is more time than is actually necessary, and makes allowance for accidents, sickness and other unavoidable delays, I have had some experience of that already. The preliminary trip across Siberia was heartbreaking. The country is rough and extremely dangerous to travelers on ' foot without armed guard. "While I speak four languages and can usually get along very well, I met many Chinese with whom I could not talk and was frequently entertained by hospitable functionaries who stared and jabbered at me while I did the best I could with signs and motions to carry on a conversation. Tbe languages of various tribes have bothered me more than hold-ups or robberies, although I waa held up once. It was not in Siberia though, but at Dilworth. N. D. and several hoboes accomplished the work with the aid of a section of rubber hose bound with wire. They took everything I had including $40 I made selling postcards along the route." King took off his hat and exposed a welt on the scalp which is a souvenir of bis North Dakota experiences. His Method, King's method of verifying his journey Is simple. In this country he ia following the railways, making the trip to Chicago over the Northwestern. Ho carries a leather bound memorandum book in which station sign him

In and out of their stations, endorsing

their signatures with the official sta

tion stamp. ; In foreign countries he

has 'the dates of his arrivals, and de

partures endorsed by local officials.

King reaches Janes ville on Sunday

leaving ; in the afternoon. He will spend Wednesday night In Clay born

Junction, walking Into Chicago the fol

lowing morning. Unless he decides to change his route he will leave Chicago

the following day. making the trip

et over the Pennsylvania lines.

Richmond: a Summing Up In previous Issues we have pointed out the great . revival In building. We have pointed out that over half a million dollars are being: spent this year on public buildingson business structures and on private- residences. We have shown that Richmond has to Us credit, above all other things, that It is "a good place to live," We have many times remarked that there has been a regeneration in business here. We have shown from time"- to time the effect of such things as the Pall Festival. We have commented on the great number of factories here, which are the largest of their kind in the world. We have businesses here which do many times the volume of commerce that is to be found In cities twice the size. In an intellectual, way the town has stood pre-eminent' in Indiana .for many years. Today the school systems, the moral atmosphere, the churches, the clubs the whole fibre of the people in a view that is not material everything is better than ever before. There is only one point that we are in any way weak in. But we are gradually getting over that that is in appreciation. We hardly realize that we have things here which can. not be found in towns which are twice and three times th size. Now this is a mistake It is a mistake not to set a true valuation on what we have. Not in the way of self satisfaction but because it is the back bone of this knocking habit. We have repeatedly said that Richmond is a growing town- and this Is true. But this is from a physical standpoint Richmond has other things to grow in, besides its business. But the surest way for it to grow in business is to grow in spirit. If Richmond wants to remain as it has been in the past the knocking habit Is the surest way for-it to stay there. And what are the knockers? They are the gloom dispensers. They are the ones who want to throw cold water on every proposition. They accumulated this tendency from a traceable source but that time is over.

You cannot have real prosperity here by knocking. Knocking means growling without having a better substitute. Every thing in this town points to a real live town now. There Is building. There is money in circulation. The mercantile business is good. The factories have as much as they can take care of. Men have not been out of work as they have in other places. The farmers around Richmond have had good crops in comparison "with other localities. The prices have been exceptionally good. The prospect for the crops this year is most encouraging. In fact we have much to be thankful for. What is there to knock about here any way? And yet there was a Main street merchant the other day who complained bitterly that the citizens of the town were going to places of amusement instead of coming to his store. He complained that some of the people of Richmond had gone to Dayton to advertise the town and the coming Fall Festival. Still his store was comfortably full and it was an awfully hot afternoon. . There was nothing the matter. a Business was good. , Other merchants were smiling over the sales of the week. Don't you know what was the matter? ' The man was a knocker,

And so in summing up Richmond, the only thing which stands in the way of its gathering in the sweepstakes and getting into the class of the really big cities is the knocking habit. We do not necessarily mean in population though that is coming too. But you know it is possible for small towns to rake in the trade from the larger ones. Mere population does not mean anything. But one thing is certain, the kind of population certainly means every thing. , And of the two a knocking man is not as apt to do as much as your optimist. . '..! : It is because we are losing and converting the knockers that the

town is really growing. That is the 'reason of so much building.

That is the reason for the good business. ' That is the reason we are going to have a bigger Fall Festival this year. And that is the reason why every department of Richmond is becoming more efficient and successful. That is appreciation and optimism.

Harry Starr's Chauffeur Richmond does not object to welcoming Harry Starr back In its hospitable confines for the summer. It does not even object to his owning a fine, now automobile and having it driven over it3 streets. But Richmond does object to the way in which Harry Starr's chauffeur runs the machine. Complaint Is general that the man is absolutely reckless and dashes about the city with an utter disregard for the safety and rights of pedestrians and users of other vehicles. We suggest publicly, inasmuch as the rash actions of this chauffeur are rendering him a public nuisance, that Harry Starr either muzzle his speed propensities or else get another man. and one who is not a speed maniac. It might be well to remind Mr. Starr, fresh from his two years sojourn in Chicago, that Richmond now has some enforceable laws and men who will enforce them. ; And one of these laws relates to automobiles. 5 Publicity is generally believed to be a cure for public evils. Mad automobiling Is one form of public evil. We trust that other automobilists will take a tip from the Palladium and cease their reckless driving. Otherwise, from time to time, the Palladium will admonish them personally through this column.

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The Best Slogan For Richmond? That is what the Young Men's Business Club . ' wants for advertising Richmond. The Club offers a . prize of FIVE DOLLARS for the phrase or slogan selected as the most suitable for the fight for a bigger and better town. The Contest will be open from - now until 6 p. m. on the evening of July the 6th. Slogans and phrases should be sent to the Slogan Contest Editor .of either the Palladium or the Item. Slogans arriving before noon will be published in both papers the same day. Every one is eligible. Send in as many ideas as you have. The judges are to be announced later. "hat the Club wants is something new. crisp and effective. It wants something that won't wear out

because It Is to be used permanently in the future campaign for Richmond enterprise. Address The Slogan Contest Editor At Either The Item or The palladium Office

Slogans Received

1916 Richmond 50,000. Richmond Watch us grow. Richmond It's Quality that Counts Richmond. The Coming City Richmond. The City of Quality. The Intellectual Center of the West Progress Enlightenment Beauty. The Athens of Indiana. The connecting-link of Indiana and Ohio. U Auto Be a Honker! Honk for Richmond! Uauto Honk for Richmond! Richmond does things! Richmond uses young blood. " Not a boom town but watch us grow! We've gotten together! Push and Progress! Richmond on the map! Up and Growing! You are Welcome here! You'll find it in Richmond! Industry Enterprise! At your service Richmond! Richmond's coming there's a reason! Richmond the city of homes and happiness! 36 Richmonds in the field we lead all! Richmond Business Is Good. Richmond for me and for you. Richmond. Make a Booster Out of Me That's the Spirit Let's Run Richmond on the High Speed Gear. Put on Your Glad' Rags for Richmond's a Comin'. All Together, Guddup Richmond! Richmond Says, More Yet. Are You With Richmond? Be an Engineer, Not a Brakeman. Here's a Tip Back Richmond. We'll Win With Richmond. Be a True Blue Richmondite. Get the Booster's Habit. Everybody Ready! Aim, Fire, Boom Richmond! Nockin' Never Got Richmond Nuthln.

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MEETS WITH FAVOR

Farmers Appreciate Richmond's Action in Placing Hitchracks.

IS LIVE WIDE HOW

North End of Richmond Blessed by Bunch of Hustling Merchants.

AL GREGG AIRS OPINIONS

BUSINESS IS VERY GOOD

"In all this building that is going

on in Richmond there is a new feature

from the builders point of view, which Is going to be more and more frequent in the future, but which is just now a comparative novelty, said Mr. Craighead, of the Craighead Plumbing and

Electrical company. "That is conduit

work. We, in our work, have had much experience. Just now we are putting in the conduit system in the new Murray, theater." "Although In all the large cities ia the fire district there Is a conduit requirement, it is a comparatively new thing ia Richmond. The underwriters still accept knob and tube work, subject to certain restrictions on the number of lights on each circuit' What Conduit Work Is. Mr. Craic&ead then went on to say

that conduit work is simply the build

ing Into the "-'I'-fturc cf iron pipes

which is thdtughly iutulatod on each side with a non-conducting tape. This makes the danger from the lighting system almost nothing. "But, Mr. Craighead, how do you get the wires into the pipes?" he was asked. "The answer to that isn't the same one as how the apple gets inside the dumpling," he said. "We take a strong steel wire and introduce it into the pipe at one of the 'pull boxes," which are located throughout the construction. The wire Is stiff and follows the pipes to the next pull box. Ia that way, by hitching the wires on the original steel wire, the whole conduit system can be filled In a short time and all the attachments made. This is a decided advantage when there is repairing to do, inasmuch as all the wiring can be pulled out ,Of courso this is a little more expensive, but it pays, and in case of trouble the plas

tering never has to be disturbed. It can be used in buildings which were not designed for conduits, but in that case the conduits lie on the outside and not the Inside of the plastering. 1 am looking for more of this work to be done here," said Mr. Craighead.

In the Middle Ages. Cleanliness was not a fad in the middle ages. King Edward IY. of England was supplied with a barber to shave him 6nce a week and, "If so be necessary, to wash his head and feet One mediaeval laundress was given so little to wash that the washing bill of a ducal establishment came to 40 shilling ($9.00) a year. Four shirts was considered a large allowance of linen for Lord Howard, and a point is made of, the fact that Master Howard was actually given a shirt to go to college Wit. v

Al. Gregg, of the Hoosier Store, was bidding farewell to a country customer the other afternoon with one of his customary smiles. Gregg always smiles. "Business f Business is always good but it is better than ever this year. There has been a decided change in

the town in the last year. The coun

try people feel friendly now.'" "One of the curious little things about county business and Richmond." said Mr. Gregg, "is the fact that hitch racks on the side streets make a difference. For a long time, you know, we didn't have them, and the farmers who came to town on Saturday to trade had to put, up at the livery stables. It wasn't so much the money as the idea that the town was inhospitable. Now that we have hitch racks on some of the side streets.

the men who kicked at having to put up their horses at the livery stables, feel that Richmond appreciates their coming, and they feel at home. "And while we are speaking of the country trade," continued Mr. Gregg. "I notice some things in my business that are significant The department store is gaining ground here. The people from out of town like to do their trading together. We always have a crowd of that sort in here, and they buy twice as much when they come together as when they come by themselves, and buy things for the whole family."

"The North End?"

"Well we are doing better than we

ever did before up in this part of the country there is a real sure enough

live wire colony started up here."

' It was B. D. Game of the Railroad Store talking. "Business is surely

getting better all over town. I can

notice a great change. Take my own business. We have been going along here as smoothly as possible that is a steadily increasing trade. We have constantly had to add to the store and we are going to make an extension

soon again. "Why, look down here!"

With that he went down into the

Bargain Basement where all sorts of

things are sold at popular prices." We had to take this old cellar and fix it up with cement floor and electric

lights and now It -keeps us busy to

keep our stock up.

"There is a demand in this town

for department stores. Richmond has

been moving along toward the depart

ment store idea right along and just now it is coming straight out as a de

partment store town.

"Say. paw." said little Sammy Short,

"Mr. Sllverton told me today that was a second edition of you.

That was nice of him, rejoined Old

Man Short "How did he come to say

It?"

I struck mm for a quarter," an

swered Short Jnnlor. Chicago News.

Chance To Win Prize The Board of Directorsof the Young Men's Business Club, has offered a prize of ten dollars ($10) for the best and most appropriate design for a poster for the Richmond Fall Festival, October 6-7-8, 1909. The Industrial and Agricultural interests must be suggested In the drawings. ' - -T . Designs should be forwarded to the chairman of the advertising committee, without the name of maker, and all work will be judged by number only, inserted in the order of receipt the name being supplied after the prize is awarded. The matter of judges will be left to a committee selected from the Art Association. Contestants are not eligible on this committee. J. A. SPEKENHIEB, - Chairman Advertising Committee.

In the past seventeen years, I have spent as many months In tht timber districts of Washington and Oreron. and am therefore, very familiar with the values of both timber and land. In this time, I have made many purchases and sales of timber land In that country, and ' never have I made one that has not netted me SEVEN DOLLARS FOR EVERY ONE INVESTED. I buy direct from the actual setUer. who haa taken up this timber land from the government at practically no cost whatever to himself and, for spot cash laid down to htm, ! buy as low as any living man can. There is absolutely na question about the title. It is from the government to the settler and from the setUer to me. "Oh," you may say, "they will steal your Umber. Impossible. They undoubtedly would If they could, but they cannot The timber runa anywhere from 3 feet to 8 feet in diameter, and up to 200 feet In height and. In order to log this big timber, it is necessary to expend from $5,000 to $10,000 for donkey engines, etc. Hence the timber Is safe as against thieves. The only risk is from fire and that is not any special risk, especially in Oregon, as there is but little underbrush. But even though It does burn over, your timber by no means burns up, and is good to be logged for two or three years. Besides. I buy nothing but that situated on river banks, and, of the timber burned oft (which is not likely, as it has stood there hundreds of years), the land is worth every dollar that I pay for both the timber and land. I do not think that I am saying too much when I say that timber land, purchased at the right price from the -actual settler, who wants money and is tired of the woods, is THE SAFEST AND MOST PROFITABLE INVESTMENT TO BE FOUND ANYWHERE. When I say that it is as safe as a government bond, I am not putting It too strong. On the 6th day of June, 1909, I left with my family for the timbered districts of Washington and Oregon. As stated before, I have spent in the woods, about seventeen months in all. I know where the good buys are to be found and have options on some of the best purchases to be had in these two states, every stick of which timber I will see before I buy, who have made arrangements with me to make Investments for them. I will do the same for you. If you so desire. My charges to you will be 10 per cent on the purchase price. LISTEN TO MY GUARANTEE. Anything that I buy for you, I will place my bond In the Union National Bank, of Richmond, Ind., to pay you back, at the end of two or three years, every dollar of the purchase price you have paid If for any reason you would rather have your money than your investment, providing the timber remains on the land at that time. In addition, if there is any question abouftny bond, to insure its full and faithful performance to you, I will place, with my bond, first mortgage notes on farm lands that you know, to an amount equal to that of your purchase money. ' Does this seem absolutely safe to you? Then come in and I will give you any further information you desire. , The price of timber land varies, according to the accessability to ' the market, etc. An 80 acre tract with, say, one and one-half million feet of timber convention to the river bank, bought right (and this Is the way I would of necessity have to buy, with my bond up to take back, at the - full purchase price, this land and timber, after two or three years, - If from any reason the investor wanted me to), should be bought for In the neighborhood of $1,000. The cruising of the Umber would cost me about 5 per cent I would then have 5 per cent left me for my trouble, and at absolutely no risk to me, as I would buy this timber at a price that I would rather you would ask me to take it back than otherwise. Yon will have .two years to know what you have got If you find it a good thing and one which will make you money (which you will), keep It if you think you would rather have back all the cash you have paid for It you can get it ' , 'Phone 1341 day. or 4156 evenings, or call at the office of the Indiana Loan Co., 40-41 Colonial Bids., this city, for any information, or your contract and bond. If you desire, write me direct, at Eugene, Oregon, in care of the First National Bank.

JIM

Theft of tlie Uaiosboroash Picture. Adam Worth was one of tbe few men who ever eluded the PInkertons. Worth stole millions on both sides of the Atlantic, eluded the police for years and died In poverty In London. One of bis famous exploits was the stealing of the famous picture of the Duchess of Devonshire, by Gainsborough, valued at $50,000. He carried the picture in a false bottom of a trunk for years and finally gave it up after some negotiations with the owners. Leslie's Monthly.

Whn Lotc TVaa Tamag. She (with emotion) Do you really care for me just as much as when we were first engaged? He (with conviction) Yes, lovey, every single bit as much. And at the time this conversation took place they had been engaged Just fourteen hours, eight minutes and twenty-five seconds.

Very Green. "He certainly seems likely to live t a green old age. "Why, he has already attained it He's Just married a girl twenty-five years his junior, and be thinks she loves him for himself alone." Philadelphia Press.

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