Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 279, 15 August 1909 — Page 1
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VOI. XXXIV. NO. 279.
AND SUN-TELEGRAM.
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The More the Proposition Submitted Yesterday by the Richmond Water Works Company Is Considered, the More Glaring Does the Audacity of the Corporation Seem, Through Its Incorporation of "Jokers" Into the ProposalPublic Sentiment Not Appeased.
H BIG ItlCREASE 111 WATER RATES WOULD 8E RESULT
Provisions of the Proposed Contract Would Actually Increase the Burden of the Small Consumer.
COST OF WATER TO CITY WOULD ALSO ASCEND It Will Be Noted by Consumsumers That Company in Its Proposal Has Ignored Important Things.
OUTCOME OF THE
SUTTOH CASE IS
HOW 111 BALANCE
the cost of water to the city govern
ment. That is to Bay that in the para
graph concerning the water charges to
the city it says "all consumption in excess of ten million gallons annually to be paid for at the rate of six cents per one thousand gallons." But this is in direct violation of their
existing contract with the city which reads: Section 31. And all rights and privileges herein granted to the city of
water for the use of the city, citizens and the public free of cost, shall continue free and without cost during all the time said company, its successors or assigns, shall hold or exercise any rights or privileges within said city now granted by this ordinance. The joker becomes apparent when it Is known that the city used last year
on the admission or me company something over fifty million gallons of water. By a simple siim in
subtraction it will be seen that thlst
will mount up to forty million gallons that the city would have to pay at 6 cents per thousand, costing $2,400 every year. No Mention of Water Quality. In view of the fact that the quality of the water and its quantity has been the subject of most of the talk which
Members of the Court Martial Yesterday Began to Wrestle With the Great Mass of Testimony.
FIERCE ELECTRIC
STORM HITS THE CITY LAST HOT
in Short space of Time nearly
Inch and Half Rain Fell
While the Lightning Was
On Rampage.
ONE BARN IS BURNED
BY A LIGHTNING BOLT
CASE TO BE CARRIED TO HIGHER TRIBUNAL
No Matter What Outcome Is,
This Is Certain to Result-
Lieut. Adams Wants His
Honor Cleared.
River Was Swollen Considera
bly and Residents of Happy Hollow Were on the Anx
ious Seat.
(American News Service) Annapolis, Aug. 14. With the opposing parties to the inquiry declaring that unless the verdict is in line with their contentions the fight will be renewed, three men with 1,400 typewrit
ten pages of evidence before them be-
U1 u " , tn onnaltW tnrlav whpthpr nr Tint
the water works representatives haves" . varM tt
carried on when the subject of the water works has come up, it is most amu3-
Regarding Rates Minimum ratauteuJd be $9.00 per annum, for' domestic consumers. Minimum on a 22xz cent rate would be $9.00. Minimum on a 20 cent rate would be $36.50. Minimum on a 15 'cent rate would be $54.75. Minimum on a 12J4 cent rate would be $101.56. Minimum on a ten cent rate would be $182.60. Minimum on a 9 cent rate would be $328.50. Minimum on a 7 cent rate would be 81 .277.50.
Minimum on a 6 cent rate would be $1,642.50. '
' The more the propoeltion for a new .contract submitted by the Richmond City Water Works Is studied the more glaring does the audacity of the company seem In Its incorporation of jokers Into its contract. Even the few (clauses in which it appears to give in ito the public sentiment arroused by
ithe Palladium, jt becomes apparent
that It Is the poor man and the mer
chant who will bear the burden of the
new contract as submitted to the Board of Works yesterday morning. The magnanimous water works company throwing the veil of free meter rental over its scheme has gone a lit-
tle too far to entirely reassure the citizens of Richmond. ' POOR MAN PAYS. ' The ordinary citizen who buys wat-
Ur from the company even at the preslent rates which are regarded as high, !does not pay as a rule, very far either 'way from $5.40 per annum for his water. Under the plan submitted with a .minimum rate of 75 cents per month (for domestic purposes he cannot pay less than $9.00 a year to the water corporation no matter how little water he uses. There is no difference whether a man's meter shows he used only $4.00 it is $9.00 that the man has to pay. There will be joy In the poor man's
heart when he knows that no matter 'how much he tries to cut down his
meter statement he cannot get away from the $9.00. : j HITS MERCHANT HARD. The merchant will be pleased to learn that he will have to use $54.00 worth of water before he can get the present rat? cf 15 cents and this no matter what his meter shows. He is In the habit of paying from five to twenty dollars per year for the water that he uses under the present rates. It makes no difference now. Of
course the merchant will not use $54
worth of water in all probability when
he has been paying five or ten in pre-
vieut veara so that the rate will in
reality be advanced from fifteen cents to twenty-two and a half. Under these provisions for the Increase In rates it will be seen that it is a hardship on the small consumer the very man who does need the reductions and does not get them. This being the case it Is slightly ironical to read in the last contract: SECTION 31 AMENDED SEPTEM
BER 21ST, 1892: And if ' the City j
shall elect to further contract with aid company, said company, its successors or assigns, shall ' be held to contract with said city for the uses and privileges of water, with all rights connected therewith, upon as favorable terms as now herein fixed for the aald period of twenty years. City Water Contract. It Is found on examination of the contract submitted that the company feat In mind a Joker which will raise
ing to see that this has been left out entirely in their submission of contract. No one needs to be told that the entire health of the town depends on
the quality of the water nor that the quantity is also a matter of interest. 1 In the present contract the water has to be approved by council and the health authorities.
Tapping Charge Ignored. Ignoring the, restrictions for .tapping charge may not seem such an important item to the ordinary citizen. But the company could. with this omission charge the citizen twenty-five, flftr. or even a hundred dollars for a tap if it wanted to. So it is a matter worth pointing out. As to how the mains should be laid or how the city is to be protected from the constant tearing up of streets with no provision for repairs nothing is said at all. This Is
a most important item inasmucn as the company will use this very thing
as an argument as to why another
should not operate in Richmond. No Right.
No provision has been made for any number of things which were in the previous contract. Chief among these
is the right of the city to purchase.
In view of the general interest in this subject at the present time its omission
looks particularly curious. No Penalties.
Neither does the company make any provision as to when the franchise is
to be forfeited. The past provision is inefficient enough, but its omission
should certainly not be overlooked.
Neither is there any mention of fire; pressure to be maintained, nor is there of signal system and pressure guage, nor of the kind of hydrants to be used.
There is an omission of deductions when the pressure, hydrants, etc., do not come up to requirements. Nor Is the subject of repairs of hydranta treated at all. One Good Thing. There is however one thing that the water works company has proposed which is entirely beneficial. That is the elimination of "dead ends." In the
past the unconnected ends have made the water at those points stagnant and
sediment has accumulated there. It must be said on the other side, however, that the company ought to do
this because it pertains to efficient
service and good quality.
No Provision for Contract Sprinkling
It is generally admitted that there
should be provision made by the com
pany for contract sprinkling which
will surely some day come into effect
In Richmond and that this should be provided for in the contract is the opinion of all those who have exam
ined into the subject. ! Future Contracts.
Now that Richmond is having so much trouble in the renewing of its
water works contract it may be somewhat disheartening to notice that the company in this contract, as submitted does not even pause to consider the
Lieutenant James N. Sutton took his own life, should be reversed. "After our twenty months fight to obtain a reopening of this case," said
Mrs. Sutton, the mother, "we will not
let it drop now unless my son's name is thoroughly cleared of the suicide stigma.
"If the court of inquiry decides that
my boy committed suicide I will take the matter to a higher tribunal."
Adams Statement. I for one must , have. . absolute ex
oneration," said .Lieut. Robert , E.
Adams, one of the six defendant officers who were technically arraigned
during the inquiry because of their presence at the midnight campus fight
on October 13. 1007.
"If the verdict is veiled in any ways
I have the right to demand and I cer
tainly will demand that the case be
reopened in my behalf. I'll do this
if I have to forfeit my commission in
order to obtain a hearing for myself." Although not so emphatic, it is understood that the other officers want their record cleared of all possible suspicion. The board, composed of Commander Hood, Hajor Neville, and Captain Jenson held its first executive session today. From the mass of evidence before it, almost a week, it is thought, will be necessary for its deliberations, the precept requiring that the board shall not make its recommendations to
the navy department, but shall set forth the fact3 brought out in the investigation. Have Returned Home. All of the parties to the inquiry,
excepting the court, have returned to their homes, Mrs. Sutton and Mrs.
Parker are awaiting the verdict in Washington.
It developed today that Sergeant
Dehart whom Attorney Davis in his
speech yesterday boldly accused of
perjury, became indignant at this attack upon his testimony and later con
sulted with some of his friends as to
the advisability of taking civil redress.
It is now understood that he has de
cided to let the matter drop.
The record for the greatest amount of rainfall in a short period of time was established last night when one
and thirty-four hundredths inches
fell. Lightning rta amuck and caused considerable oamase. Owing to
the poor phone service, the system
being damaged by the storm only in
complete returns of the damage of the storm can be given. It is probable
the damage will ,amount to hundreds of dollars and possibly run Into the
thousands.
As a result of the heavy rain, the river which was already slightly raised by the storm of the afternoon, became a regular torrent and, it is
expected, much damage will be report
ed this morning when an Investiga
tion is made. Residents of Happy Hollow, which is the only locality in
ZUGG WAS ARRESTED
Thomas Zugg, a resident of River-
dale, was arrested at Twelfth and
North E street last evening by Officer Edwards for safe keeping. A charge of
drunk: was placed against him also,
Edwards said that Zugg was running
around the north part of tie city act
ing like a crazy man. SUBMARINE EXPLODES.
(Continued on Page Four.)
St Petersburg, Aug. 14. Two per
sons killed and forty wounded in an
exnlosion on a Russian submarine
boat at Neva today.
night in order that a warning might
be sounded if it showed indications of getting out of its banks. Barn Was Burned. Lightning flashes were very frequent and for those who could watch and appreciate the display, it was one of the most spectacular of the season. It struck in several places but the fire - departmeRtwas Jot called out. The only fire resulting from the lightning, so far as could be learned last night, was that of the barn of
Eueene Anderson, on a farm south
east of the city, on which is located
the Elliott's Mills. His barn was com
pletely destroyed
The new St. John's Lutheran church
Seventh and South E streets was struck early in the evening. It was
impossible last evening to estimate
the damage. However, it IS believed'
only the steeple was seriously damaged. The bolt struck one of the windows, situated near the large bells. A large corner stone was knocked from its position and fell to the street. At the home of Mrs. Louisa Bailey, 1226 Ridge street, lightning struck the chimney on the house, completely demolishing it and tore off a number of shingles. The house was filled with soot. Mrs. Bailey, her daughter, Mrs.
Sarah Cchaefer, and Mrs. Schaefer s
daughter were seated in the sitting
room at the time the lightning struck
the house. They were all slightly shocked and greatly frightened.
Light Plants Affected. Unquestionably a number of other
places in the city were struck. The municipal and the Richmond Light, Heat and Power electric light plants
suffered from lightning. Two street lights were burned out on the munici
pal plant line while both plants reported a number of residences in which the lights had been burned out.
However the damage will not amount
to any considerable amount. Officials
of the Richmond Street and Interur-
ban Railway company reported no damage either to the city system or
to the lines east and west of the city,
However motormen on the interurban
cars entering the city reported heavy
rainfall all along the lines and pre
dicted that there would be a large number of wash outs.
Rains damaged the macadam
streets of the city considerably al
though it was a benefit in one particu
lar in that the streets were washed clean. Wherever the macadam was
thin the beating rain washed out large
sections and some of the streets were
made very uneven.
The farmers will suffer considerable damage to crops, it is believed. Just the extent of damage can not be told
until they have a chance to inspect
their crops this morning.
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MARTIN RANKIN
SINGLE COPY, 3 CEXTS.
11910 BUDGET FOR
WAYNE C0UI1TY IS PLACED Oil FILE SBBBBHBHBBBSB) Estimate by the Commissioners Does Not Include Items
For Voting Machines of Insane Ward.
THEY WILL PROBABLY
GET CONSIDERATION
It Is Thought That County
Council Will Discuss the Two Questions Action cf Commissioners.
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nrville Wright, famous aviator, and his sister, Miss Katherine, photo-
this city which fears the high waters, eranne(j a3 they were boarding a steamer bound for Europe, where Mr.
waicnea me nver uum law; m tuo Wright goes to establisa a scnooi 01 iviauuu iur mo ucimou fev
DISCOVERS GOLD
GLEIi MILLER
Veteran Miner and Resident of
This City Wears Scarf Pin Made of Yellow Metal From
Park.
HE PANNED GRAVEL
IN SMALL STREAM
The first airship annual, enjtitled "All the World's Airships," is to be
published in England in October.
An Announcement The Palladium has become . much interested In the past few months in better municipal government. In studying the new forces at work in municipal government all over the country no plan has 6eemed to give so much satisfaction as the commission form. The workings of this plan as it is in operation in Galveston and Des Moines and other places has attracted such general Interest and given such favorable results that the Palladium has decided to go into a more thorough study of it by personal investigation. For this reason the Palladium is particularly pleased to announce that Mr. R. G. Leeds, the managing editor jpf this paper, and Mr. Carl Bernhardt of the editorial department will Visit Des Moines, Iowa, in the near future and study the situation there thoroughly. If they find by actual investigation there that this will t a great benefit t6 the city, the Palladium will use its every effort tio secure this form of government for Richmond. " V
Mr. Rankin Decided Must Be
Gold in Park, Because
Bowlder, Native of North
west, Located There.
The estimate of probable expenditures for l'.MO which has been prepared by the Wayne county commissioners has been completed and has been on file in the county auditor's offlee since August 5. Under the law all estimates must be made by the Wednesday following the first Monday in August, and as filed must be presented to the county council at its regular annual meeting
which will be held this year on Tuesday and Wednesday, September 7 and R. The estimate of the commissioners does not Include a request for an appropriation for voting machines or for ' an appropriation for a ward for In
sane. This does not mean . that the county council will not have both of these matters before it for considera- ' tion, for it undoubtedly will have, but the commissioners preferred, it ap- . pears, to not include requests for expenditures for these purposes in the regularly prepared estimates. What Law Requires.
Under the law the commissioners may make requests for other appropriations than those which appear on tha formal estimate at the time the council is in session, and thus additional time will be given the board to consider all . phases of the . voting machine, question and to determine the sentiment with respect to the building an insane ward at the county jail or the county poor farm. There is no question that the commissioners and the county council will go over the situation with regard to both projects with great care, and the
Pure and Substantial Dairy decision reached OI be governed in
great uieuure uj tue cuuui; m uuanclal condition. The county is not at this time pressed for funds, nor has it been for some time past, but the next fiscal year. It is asserted, will carry a burden of expense fully as great as the present, and should the so-called emergency appropriations for such purposes as the purchase of voting machines and the building of an Insane
DairV Dealers Over the State ward be carried out, there is a chance . ... r- for the county's tax rate to be in-
WaiCniny niuiimuiiu creased.
periment in . Creating Milk Inspector's Office.
LOCAL
RANK VERY HIGH IIMIIDIAUA HOW
Have Made Rapid Strides in
Supplying the Public With
Products. MANY WILL ATTEND THE STATE MEETING
JEIIIHE IS MISSING
There are no new developments relative to the sudden disappearance of Jennie Gunn, the pretty young Miss
from Cincinnati who made a success
ful getaway the other day with about
$200 of Richmond money on a fake
' cook book scheme. She solicited advertising from the merchants of the city on the "pay in advance" system
jand then took to "the tall and uncut.'
The police have been working on the
case but no knowledge as to her
whereabouts has been secured thus
far.
THE WEATHER PROPHET.
INDIANA Continued cloudy and pro
bable thunderstorms.
"Undoubtedly there is gold in the
mtio hrnnk that runs through the
back part of Glen Miller, but there is
not enough there to cause a stampede in the direction of Richmond. In other words Richmond will never be a Klondike or a Cripple Creek." This was the ' statement made by
Martin Rankin, old time gold miner i and well known resident of this city, as he displayed a scarf pin, made entirely of "Glen Miller gold." The lit
tle trinket of late has been viewed by
many curious people and Richmond
will proudly exhibit it at her fall festival next October.
Mr. Rankin when only seventeen
years old heard the call of gold in far off Australia and with a company of
Indiana men left this city, then a mere
village, to make his fortune. He met
with indifferent success in the Austra
lian fields, then drifted to New Zeland
and eventually to South Africa and to
California. From the ground he gain
ed a modest . fortune ana now in m
old age lives comfortably in the nortn
end of the city. - .
Not lone aco. some time. In .the
spring, he was walking through Glen
Miller park when his attention was at
tracted to the huge granite bowlder on which is the Lincoln memorial tab
let. He realized at once that tms
great rock was not a native or this section of the county and on closer examination identified it as a native of the great northwest the magical gold
country.
"This bowlder was evidently depos
ited here during the glacier flow, ages
ago. If that is so, then gold must oe deposited in this little brook, mused Ran tin. then the old- lust of gold ting
led in his veins and he hurried to bis
home to secure his "pan. Every bunday Rankin "panned" the gravel and sand in the little brook, and a few curious people paused and wondered at his strange actions. Each Sunday his efforts were rewarded by securing small gold nuggets, the largest the size of a pin head. Finally, after panning nearly the entire length of the little streamlet he secured enough of the yellow metal to make small scarf pin. . v-
Plan for Economy. This is one thing that the county
council will most likely not consider and it also is a thing which the board of commissioners will not recommend.
If any of the Richmond, aairymen - - rT0f the cit
go to Indianapolis. . September itn to p-" " Z
attend the second annual convention
nf the State dairymen's association.
j will raise its part of the city tax rate
to some extent because of the bond ls-
c" " . ww.-Mw ihn la a desire on
they will hear some pointed remarKS - -
from H. E. Barnard. State food r -7- . nflt
Ilia , 1113 w iV " - even the fractional part of a penny
drug commissioner, concerning unsanitary methods in handling milk. Richmond dairymen are now regard
ed as among the foremost in the State
when it comes - to bringing aooui
changes for the good in the caring for dairy products, and the fact that
this city has a regularly employed In-
snfrtnr of dairies nrobably will do
much toward " giving the dealers In
on Its present rate. Standing alone the county's" rate of 45 3-30 cents on the S WO valuation, la not excessive, but here In Richmond where the city's rate, the state rate and the township rate bring the total to J2.70. with every prospect of an
increase to at least $2J the stanl
Is taken that It behooves the county
Commissioner
milk here a place of honor when the maintain its low rate, which can
next state repon is issuea- , done te asserted, by bow-
Barnard's Statements. ing the expenses at the same old figI ri . I n Aa n nrlniil nfllfrl
Barnard, however. " fc
will have some things to say with re- 1 1 u,u 7'
spect to dairies in general as they ex- wmpiuwu e 1st in Indiana and the proprietor, of tocre. Hirw will be told that the brewer. There have been no increase..
,, wt, TOnnin.r th rantJet nf consequence.
popular disfavor in . Indiana for sev
eral years. Is able to give them valua-1 .- t Mnitrv methods of produo-
ble advice as to how a food-producing ntI1 Jt Js now a fact that the
establishment ought , to be run. and cieanest and most sanitary food on to show them, in his own much-hated the maet, as food is defined by the establishment, what a food producer ndlana aw is beer. The trade m this can do when he once gets it into his artiCje hag been fraught with so much head that he must report to cleanli- opposition that the manufacturers ness or lose in the fight for trade. nare resorted to cleanliness aa an adUnder the definition of food as used Tertising feature, and they have made in the Indiana food and drug laws, lt Then. too. the product of the
beer and whisky are included, and the brewery la a perishable article of exstate food and drug commissioner has cefdingly short life unless It Is propthe same power over the brewery and erly prepared and cared for until t distillery as it has over a bakery or j8 con8nme
an ice cream manufactory. Mr. Barnard has inspected all the breweries and distilleries of the state, and is preparing to hold up to the market milk and butter men these establish
ments as object lessons and urge his ,0; AafrTrThe theft of dia-
, - w " T , . . naonds valued at 1 10.000 Irom Mrs. tlons of the creamery and adopt its winiam R. Harper, widow of the pres-
Bamutry mn.uous. uin.u a. iiui ident of tne University of Chicago was and as an economic measure. revealed today when the police arrestOught to Visit Breweries. Leonard Martin, colored, who stole The milk and butter men of In- a chatelaine bag from Mrs. Henrietta diana ought to go in a body and visit Oday of Chalmers Place. Martin eonthe breweries of this or other states, fessed to the theft and also confessed said Mr. Barnard. "la jorder . to see that he robbed Mrs. Harper a year ago bow clean a food-producing establish- while be was porter on a Chicago ment may be made. The brewers. In Northwestern tram ea which - Krsv order to protect their trade, have been Harper was a passeaser. Ia. Ilarpcompelled to resort to the cleanest er kept the matter a aacrat is9 am
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