Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 272, 8 August 1909 — Page 2

THE BICHMOro'PAXiLAIMUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, SUNDAY, AUGUST 8, 190&.

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ABE BIG FACTORS ALL POLITICS Influence Growing Rapidly and Results Are Seen Following Each Election ; in Every County. ; - ARE NOT SEEKING FOR ; RIGHT TO CAST BALLOT Willing to Talk or Work in Home Circles to Bring About What They Believe Should Be Accomplished. Indianapolis, Aug. 7..Indiana wotoen are a greater power in the politics of the state especially of the cities, than they have ever Tjefore Deen, and their influence is being felt every time a nomination Is made or an election held. They do not do this by getting out with brass bands and parading up and down the streets like their hus bands and brothers. Neither do they get up on the street corners and make stump speeches in favor of this or that candidate. Nor do they get out among the voters and shake hands with them and call them by their first name. They have not learned the game of "practical " politics, as it is rommonlv railed, and they are not trying tt learn it because they know that practical politics are not the kind that women can play with any degree rof- success. They work' on a higher level than that but their work is pro ducing results that can not be over looked or ignored. Neither is the political work that is being done by the women the result of any agitation in favor of woman suf frage, for Indiana women have never given very serious consideration to this subject. They are not asking the right to vote at the elections. If they could vote and if they were to go to the elections and cast their ballots they would then be placing themselves on a level with the ward politicians of the masculine sex and the result might be disastrous to womanhood. Who knows? Work in Quiet Manner. But just the same Indiana women are doing the work in their own quiet way, and they are showing the state and the country they can do. things when they take a notion. In this state each woman is her own politician although a vast majority of them do not realize that they are politicians. They would not admit it if you were to ask them. The strength of the political work of the women in this state just at this time lies in the fact that they are tak ing a greater and deeper interest in public affairs now than they ever did before. They read the papers more than ever. They keep closer track of current events and have come to fuller realization of the importance o clean administrations of public affairs, especially of municipal affairs. This is the real secret of the influence that is being exerted by the women. They discuss these matters more than ever before. They do not hesitate to comment on them. They talk to their husbands about crookedness in office and about tho lax enforcement of laws. The finer sense of a woman rebels at these things. When the time comes for a party to make nominations for public office in Indiana cites this year the wives discuss the candidates with their husbands and express their opinions of them, something that they did not do years ago. In the old days politics was regarded as a field exclusively for men. The men paid the tax and made the living for the family and it was thought to be their exclusive natural born right to do all of the political thinking for the entire family. Think for Themselves. But this has changed and the women are doing some thinking of their own. Where is the husband who can turn a deaf ear to the request of his wife that he vote for this man or for that man for a nomination? The husband can easily listen to talk of a politician who asks him to do this or that and then go out and do as he pleases, disregarding the plea of the ward heeler. The man understands that the politician is after votes and nothing else. He knows that it is a business a profession with the politician and he lets it go at that. But when his wife says to him that it is about time that this evil or that evil in municipal affairs was corrected and she asks him to cast his vote to correct it he can not ignore her plea. Generally. he does what she asks him to do and votes the way she sug gests. This is what is happening this 'year in Indiana. The women may not know they are exerting this influence but lust the same they are doing It. And the husband may not realize the Influence his wife has over him in this direction, but if he stops to think a mnment he will probably remember that he voted aa his wife suggested. Show Diverse Tendencies. This is the story that comes from Fort Wayne. South Bend, Logansport, t nfvfttp. Muncle. Anderson, men mond, Crawfordsvllle. Frankfort and many other cities In wnich the women have nad their say. In most of these cities movement have been iaugu.--ated among the women looking to the cleaning up of their cities. And they are cleaning up in more ways than one. They induce the ' men to clean the streets and alleys and beautify the - cities. They cause the men to Insist on the enforcement of the laws. They demand cleaner men in office. They protest to their husbands against the crookedness that marks too many ad- . ministrations. They protest against

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The above illustration . is one type of the kind made by the National Automatic Tool Works of Dayton, Ohio which wilfbe located in this city by December 1, providing p,lansarecarned out anc the factory building in Beallview addition U comvleted by that time. fThe machine is listed in the catalogue as "Type M.i Adjustable Multiple Spindle Drilling Machine." The machine is built in different sizes, the s-jjiare head style carrying upward of twelve spindles whiletSie rectangultff style which is shown her carries upward to twenty spindfcs. It is thfs most improved drilling machine on the market today. This one rolachine of the company is in great demand and hundreds are made each year. A twenty spindle machine can drill 40 to 45 holes at one operatio tt. The machine has many other manufacturers whlchmake them.in grat demand by the manufacturers such as workmanship, simplicity and durability Besides this machine the company manufacturers all kmdsiandistyleswfdrilllng presses. Some very complex. The South Side Improvement Association oficiials whey were instrumental in securing the location-of the factory intrthel Beallview addition

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will be sold in order to meetvthe. expenses in securing -thef factory. Many business men who are interested in the advancement of the city have investigated the proposition and Jound it O. K. Theyare intending to purchase lots for speculative purposes. It is understood that a number of the working class have visited the addition recently and looked over the

ground with the ida of purchasing the open violations of the law by the saloons. They argue for Sabbath observance. In fact they urge better con ditions all around and their work is bearing fruit. No better illustration of the power of women exerted in public affairs can be pointed out than their activity in the local option elections held in some of the counties. The women could not vote but it is admitted by everybody that if the women had not taken a hand in the local option campaigns some of the counties that ousted saloons would probably still be wet. Take Madison county, for instance. The local option fight in that county was one of the bitterest and most hotly contested of all that have been held, and yet. from the very start, when it was found that the women of the country were taking an active part in the fight it was plain that the drys were going to win. Are Long on Talk. The Madison county wdmen did not get out and march or hold public meetings. But they talked. They talked at home where the wife and motehr is home where the wife and mother is felt. The wife pleaded with her husband to drive out the saloon. The mother whose son was in danger from drink asked that son to vote the saloon out of the county. That husband listened to his wife and that son listened to his mother and they voted as they had been urged to vote. A woman did not go out and try to influence some other woman's husband to vote for a dry county, for to do so would have been to subject herself to tho charge that she was a politician. The wife remained at home and sought to influence Jutt one vote. The result was that Madison county went dry by a large majority. The same was true in Delaware county where the women were largely responsible for ridding the county of saloons. In Delaware, as in Madison county, the women heia little neighborhood and precinct meetings and planned just the kind of a campaign that has been described and each woman understood that she was expected to control the vote of her husband or her brother or her father. The plan was well laid and superbly carried out and the result showed the power of women in public affairs when they are once aroused. Result Is Admirable. One admirable result is noticed from this situation and that is that better men are being nominated for office than have been nominated for years. This means, probably, that municipal affairs will be better handled and that there will be less criticism after the next election than there has been here tofore. All of this is good for the anti-saloon league, as well as for every other reform movement in the state. The anti-saloon league could not do half as well in its campaign for a dry stats if it were not for the help of 'the good women of the state who rally to its support. It is no wonder that the league appeals to the women; the wives and mothers to help in its work of ridding the state of saloons. The women are the real sufferers from the evils of drink and they are the ones who are going to bring about the riddance of the saloon if it is ever done. The anti-saloon league leads and the women do the real" work and produce the real results. Together they form an almost Irresistible force for good.

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'Won Lost Pet. Pittsburg , r. 68 27 .716 Chicago 65 30 .684 New York 4.... ;..... 53 " 37 .590 Cincinnati ; 48 47 .505 Philadelphia . ., 42 53 .442 St. Louis 40 52 .435 Brooklyn 35 '60 .368 , Boston 28 70 .286

AMERICAN LEAGUE.

Won Lost PetDetroit , 62 38 .620 Philadelphia 60 40 .600 Boston ...59 44 .573 Chicago 48 51 .485 New York 48 52 .480 St. Louis 43 55 .439 Washington 30 72 .294

s, RESULTS YESTERDAY. National League. R. H. E. Boston 4 4 Pittsburg 6 11 Mattern, Graham; Leifield, Gibson. R. H. E Brooklyn 2 5 1 Chicago 3 2 1 Rucker, Berger; Ruelbach, Archer. R. H. E. New York 7 11 1 St. Louis 1 6 1 Mathewson, Meyers; Beebe, Bliss R. H. E. Philadelphia 2 6 Cincinnati 1 7 3 Moren, Dooin; Rowan, McLean. R. H. E. Boston 1 9 1 Pittsburg 3 7 0 More, Graham; Willis, Gibson. American League. R. H. E. Cleveland 2. 6 3 New York 5. .10 1 Young, Beinis; Maning, Kleinow. R.H. E. Detroit 3 6 2 Philadelphia 5 7 2 Mullen, Stanage; Plank, Livingston. R. H. E. Chicago 0 3 Boston 5 7 Smith, Sullivan; Wood, Carrigan. R. H St. Louis 1 6 Washington 6 11 Waddell, Stephens; Hughes, Blankenship. BREWER'S HEALTH REPORTED BETTER Condition Not as Serious as First Announced. Mayence, Germany, August 7- -Adolphus Busch, of St. Louis, returned from Carlsbad a few days ago to his villa in Lange Schwalbach. He has a severe cold and has been ordered to stay in bed. but this condition does not give occasion for serious anxiety, despite the alarming reports sent oat from Berlin. - Regularly prepared manuscript sheets were circulated ss newspapers la China. Rasas and Vesica lame before the inventtoa at priatlng.

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Good Transportation Facilities Becomes Economic Necessity in the Land. IS FAR BEHIND EUROPE MACADAM WILL NOT WITHSTAND WEARING OF AUTOMOBILE TIRES AND DUST BECOMES A SOURCE OF ANNOYANCE. The last few years have seen a verv radical change in the general attitude toward the building of good roads. The advent of the automobile, the rapid increase in its popularity, the campaign by the National Grange as sociation, the efforts of various automobile associations and other bodies have brought the matter of good roads to the general attention and the ef fect has been to cause an extended effort to provide good roads in many states with appropriations from state and counties for this purpose. There is little need to reiterate the economic necessity for good roads, as the reasons for this have been stated many times very fully. It is sufficient to know that the cost per mile of haulage alone for the roads in the United States is vastly greater than irn France. This is the tax which the people of this country pay for bad roads. Only , a very small proportion of the roads are at the present im proved, and a very large proportion of the improved roads are not built in such a manner as to properly withstand the traffic. The building of good roads in such a manner as to resist the wear ana tear in the proper fashion has become complicated by the increasing use of the automobile as a means of travel. Roads which withstood the older traffic for years, and even for centuries, with little expense as to maintenance have rapidly gone to pieces under the deteriorating effect of the high speed heavy automobile traffic. The shearing effect of this traffic upon the surface of the road, throwing the small particles of stone out of the road to be blown away as dust and leaving the larger stone loose and easily displaced, has made it impossible to construct a macadam road which will stand for more than one or two years without requiring an entire resurfacing. As this is the case it is obvious that the building of macadam roads, dirt roads or roads similarly constructed, which have no continued resistance against the high speed automobile traffic, will have to be discontinued or changed to a sufficient extent to form a surface which will withstand the shearing and suction effect without giving way in such a short time under the strain. The dust evil which arises from the throwing up of the small particles forming the binder on a macadam road is naturally most prominent in the mind of the general public, but to the road engineer this evil is overshadowed by the loss of the small stone. SELF CONTROL IS GIVEHIG TEST Look at Color of Bedbug's Eyes Instead of Running For Your Baseball Bat: WARNING OF CONDITIONS DR. FLETCHER BELIEVES IT SIN FUL TO LOSE ONE'S TEMPER EVEN IN KILLING LITTLE BROWN PEST ON SHEET. Chautauqua, X. Y., Aug. 7. As a test of your self-control, the next time you see a bedbug approaching you acros3 the counterpane, don't get excited. Instead of thinking how re pulsive it is, notice the color of its eyes, and consider its attractiveness. Dr. Horace Fletcher the famous founder of Fletcherism, gives this advice here to these who want to de velop the mental strength. "It is not difficult to rid oneself cf repulsions if the point of view is changed," said the traveler, author, lecturer. "I presume that the most generally detested creature .that is not altogether deadly in its venom is the bedbug. "I am sure that none of his enemies have such, if any acquaintance with him. as to the color of his eye-, his habits of thrift, his amiability and oth er qualities that serve to make a crea ture attractive and respectable within his sphere. "The truth about this much-despis ed creature is that he Is useful as warning against unclean ' conditions, and his odor and his bite are his notes of warning. Instaead of a feling of re pulsion or anger or any other emotion tiat affects the free circulation of the blood and relaxes and disorders the tissues of the body at sight or men tion of a bedbug, the discovery should elicit the expression, thank you for tho information. People who lose their tempers are really not Christians, Fletcher be lieves. "When a person is angry, he cannot be. at the moment. Chris tian, he says, "for being angry is un-Cnristlaa as profanity.-

IMPERFECT MAPS AREBLACKLISTED Many Essential Details Found

Lacking. New York. Aug. ".Bad and defi cient maps of native make are attacked in a vigorous campaign which is being waged this summer by the American Geographical society of this city. It has been found that many of the charts which were issued in the form of geographies to the public schools as well as others, including atlases and works of reference, are lacking in many essential details. Rivers do npt follow the courses established for them by nature, and it has been frequently found that cities are on the wrong side of the streams. The committee which has undertaken this missionary work finds that there is a tendency in American maps to Ignore the natural features of a country and to make little distinction between mountain chains and plains. Objection is also made to the fantastic and unnecessary colorings of the states and the variation in hues that is bein I employed to denote the differences la elevations. TO STOP STRIKE IF CAN BE DONE Conference Was Held at Chicago Between Leaders Yesterday Afternoon. OFFICIALS ARE PLEASED NO ONE SEEMS TO WANT USUAL PRODUCTS OF STRIKE TO PLAY HAVOC WITH CITY UNDER CONDITIONS. Chicago, Aug. 7. Leaders of the North and South Side Street Car Company employes t5?S afternoon held a conference with John M. Rauch. of the Chicago Railroad Company. The south side leaders took measures for an immediate meeting with President Mitter of the Chicago City Railway Company. At the two metings it was believed that the preliminary work to peace agreement would be complet ed. Later this afternoon it was planned to bring all parties to the con troversy the presidents of both com panies and the leaders of both unions and arrive at a basis of settlement. President Rauch of the Chicago Railroad Company and President Quin and other oficers of the North and West Side Company employes met and it is believed paved the way for an agreement between the leaders on all sides. "Everything looks favorable." said President Quinlan.of the union, "and that is all I can say." President Rauch refused to make a statement but was In exceedingly good soirits SAVES LIVES WITH STRENGTH OF TEETH Swimmer Towed the Burning Launch to Shore. Manitowoc, Wis., Aug. 7. When his gasoline launch exploded, with seven women aboard, yesterday, Frederick Dicke. an attorney, of Two Rivers, jumped overboard, took the painter in his teeth and thus towed the craft to shallow water, where the women jump ed out and quenched the flames. The launch, with a party of Two Rivers women, was on a pleasure run up the East Twin River, when, with out warning, there was an explosion in the bow of the boat. The engine stopped and the women screamed and were about to jump overboard when Dicke thought of a way to save tho situation. All of the women were severely blistered, but before the flames reached them they were near enough to tho shore to leave the launch. MISS TAFT FOUND PLEASANT TIMES Was Popular Visitor at New port Residences. Newport, R. I., Aug. 7. Another President's daughter Miss Helen Taft has come and gone, and conquered. too. for she has more invitations to re turn than she could accept if the sea son were to be extended even to the new year. As the guest of Mr. and Mrs. William O. Roelker, Miss Taft met many of the young people of the cottage colony and between them and the president s daughter there was created within a very brief period a bca of friendship that is likely to con tinue. Miss Taft came especially to attend the coming out of Miss Eleanor Roel ker. her school friend, and she bad a delightful time during her visit. How ever, unlike some young women who have come here, she was more inter ested in the scenery than in lunching, dining and dancing, and so she spent more time rolling along the shore in a big touring car than she did indoors.

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Could Criminals Escape Through Channels of Sewers of Richmond Jean Valjean did in Paris but Troubles would be Encountered in attempt made in this city

Could a criminal escape through the sewers of Richmond, Jean aljean Hugo's hero in Les Miserables." es caped through the sewers of Paris. One fact would have to be ac cepted, and the other is fiction; but to the imaginative mind performance of such a feat here in the Quaker City may not mean such a far cry when the construction and size of the great "drains" are considered. Speculative interest in the possibility of such an escape becomes a bit more plausible when one reads the account below of an imaginative robbery and escape through the city's sewers. The great sewers, along the sides of which run footpaths well above the water when the flow is normal, may be reached through the manholes in the streets. The burglar "hero" or this underground fancy, is pursued by the police dodges them, raises a manhole, drops down and encounters further adventures while attempting to make his way under the sleeping city to the river. Difficult in Richmond. The difficulty of such an undertak ing will be seen at a glance In view of the fact that most of the sewers of the city are barely large enough to crawl through. However, It is believed that John Locke, who made two notorious escapes from the county . jail, would find no great difficulty in accomplish ing his mission succesfully if no other avenue of escape were open to him. The man who may best elude the detectives by taking to the tunnels be low the streets would probably be a man who had worked along the lines. Imagine the possibilities of a gang of Italian laborers, members of any of the so-called "Black Hand" orders, the Mafia or the Camorra, who might purposely get employment with pick and shovel digging In the streets and lay ing the pipes and bricks of the sewer system. The map of the city showing various sewer lines hangs on the wall of the Inner office of the engineers office. It shows the plat of the city with its squares of houses, its big parks and public buildings and marked along the streets are red lines, in appearance very much like the veins and arteries of an anatomical chart. Good Map for Criminals. Every man of them could acquire before long a vivid mental picture of the plan of the main sewers. They would know the streets which would contain the manholes by which any one can get into the dark vault below by means of a very easy and accessible ladder of iron bars. They would know Just where the sewer started and where it ended. And with much knowledge coupled with a little nerve, one of the desperate men could Inflict a death wound upon his victim in sight of a policeman, dart up an alley, gain a

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IF neighboring street, rush to the man-; hole and disappear to come to light : again perhaps far south of the city or -perhaps on the street not far from tha place where he disappeared. Down in South E street there is very large and long sewer. It runs parallel in a general way with tha . southern edge of the city. Rats scamper along the walking shelf, and per . haps human rats whose crimes have) ; bothered the bluecoata for a decade. : Through the very center of the town. . running almost north and south la ; another big line. . East and weat are) ; other tunnels, ranging from five to ; six feet in width. . The large sewers, ' some of them follow down hill slope. ; are larger at their mouth than at their source. Athug could spend many a dayf ngni unaer iu leet oi me ou.y pw, lice who are chasing hither and yon trying to find him. , .While the blue-k coats are looking for him in one street his friends might be lowering to him a package of food and drink: . through a manhole in another street. Dangers Brought by Rain. But there is one thing which every worker in the sewer department fears, and it would catch a hiding criminal so surely that be would scarcely have time to shriek for the help which would never reach him. It is the rain. As surely as the clean water from heaven washes the dirt and the duct from the face of the earth, so surely does the great sewer system catch almost every -drop of it through tha catch basins and empty It by the thousands of gallons Into the main channels, along which the criminal would hide. A ten minute poor converts the alow and sluggish stream running at two leei a second, ua pcruaja uw deep into a torrent madder than any mountain stream tearing along tha rocks and dashing itself Into spray. Not only does the Telocity lucre . i t 4Mk asx ft Via UUl I lie ur nan ih "kv " it almost fills the great vault. Chinee Villas Nan The Tillages of China rejoice la a choice assortment of names, soma of iimtiu wij iuuivrvu. iuwxu, uic nuMiber of these communities seems to bare been too much even for the Ingenuity of the Chinese. Wang, for example. Is so general a nam for a village that they are driven to apeak of the "Front Wang. the. "Rear Wang." the "Wang Under tho Bank.' the "Smaller Wang." and so on through every possible adjective or phraas to Kkli n t -M.ftrAw4 A HUM. some of tbe names of Tillages may b selected such gems as "Bitter Water -' Shop." -Liu With tbe Black Eye." "Dropped Tooth." -Horse Words," "Dock's Nest" and. oddest . of all, "Where They Wear Png Noses." mm to 1