Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 287, 23 August 1909 — Page 2

Tins ICH31UO PAJUliAUHTM ASD Srx-TELEGRA M, TUESDAY, ACGUST 23, 1909. ANOTHER COMPANY BOARD PLANS FOR PERIOD OF QUIET FOLLOWS 11 RIOT HE SPENDS $50,000 FOR A GROUSE MOOR

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His Death Causes Sensation THE CHILDWORKERS What Has Been Done In Their Behalf the Past Year.

A DARING HOLDUP RIGHTJII JERSEY Complacent East Startled Today by Wild and Woolly West Stunt.

Additional Hose Wagon Will Be Placed at WestRichmond House. NO TRANSFER IS PLANNED

'LANS FOR BUILDING ARE BEING PREPARED AND WORK ON THE 8TRUCTURE WILL START A8 800N A3 POSSIBLE. The west side hose house proposi tion is considerably agitating the minds of residents in that section of the city at present.- -That the hose bouse is assured Is now a fertainty by the appropriation of tmQ by council, at its last meettflg, for that purpose. But just what equipment' will be placed In the new house is another question. It has been rumored on numerous occasions that the engine at No. 2 hose house will be moved to West Richmond and the city building simply used as a place for the hook and ladder wagon. , However, Fire Chief Ed Miller stated emphatically when asked in regard to this point that such action would not take place. He stated that the present No. 2 fire house would remain just exactly as it is at present. He explained that it would not be safe to remove the hose wagon from this house as a large section of the city was dependent upon It for protection, j A Modern Wagon. According to Chief Miller a new hose wagon will be bought for the west side house, which will be modern and up-to-date in every particular. A regulation crew of four men will be installed and the residents of West Richmond, who have been clamoring for better fire protection for some time, will be given the very best. The house will be centrally located at the corner of Lincoln and West Fifth streets. Plans for the new house will be drawn up immediately and submitted to the board of works for its approval. Bids will then be advertised for and work on the structure started as soon as possible, it is said. GRAB NAUGHTY BOYS Police Ordered to Arrest Any Night Prowling Lads ; They Find. TWO ARRETTED SATURDAY That the police are determined to put a stop to the practice which has become so common recently among me rising generation of the city of running aimlessly around the streets late at night, is evidenced by the strenuous campaign that is being waged. Late Saturday night two youngsters, Alley Earls and Otto Peters, were Jerked up by the stern arm of the law while preambulating around in the vicinity of Tenth and Main streets and taken to headquarters where an account of their conduct was demanded. Upon their promise to follow the suggestion that they go to bed early in the future and cut out their "monkey business" the boys were released. Chief of Police Staubach states that he is becoming extremely tired of gathering in a bunch of youngsters nearly every night during the "wee small hours" and states that unless the practice is stopped immediately, the reform school at Plain field will be materially increased by a delegation of "kids" from this city. SPEKEIB Oil JOB Got Indiana Represented on Postmasters' Executive Committee. HE RETURNS FROM TOLEDO Through the efforts of Postmaster J. A. Spekenhier of this city, the Indiana delegation of first class postmasters at the twelfth annual convention of postmasters of that class at Toledo last week succeeded in getting Robert II Bryson, postmaster of Indianapolis ou the executive committee. In order to accomplish this, Mr. Spekenhier had to bull a resolution through the ronxtLtion which changed the bylaws of the organization and made the executive board consist of 11 members instead of ft, as heretofore. Postmaster and Mrs. Spekenhier returned from Toledo last evening. In conversation with Fourth Assistant Postmaster General P. V. DeGraw, Mr. Spekenhier was instructed to notify all the rural route patrons of the Richmond office to paint their rural route boxes white in order to make the color scheme uniform. The order is made in the form of a request Mid is not authoritative. Mr. Spekenhier was well pleased rsth the convention and declared It to be the best he ever attended. Thar Is DO medicine jo ms and at O umi Mm o pteaaaat to take aa Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepata, the poalttve cure far all diaeaaea arising from stomach trouble. Tbe price is vor raaa unable SOc and 11.

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Victor Speer, the young Buffalo politician, secretary to Mayor Adam, whose mysterious death has given the Queen City of the Lakes a sensation akin to the celebrated Burdick case.

Booze and Lazy Worm Are the Real Problems of the South

Washington, Aug. 23. Government experts have at last discovered why there are so many lazy people in the southern states. The widely recognized predilection of the average southerner for fishing and other pleasureable pastimes is not the result of fondness for those things into which an element of real work does not enter. They are .simply compelled to do it, and a little parasite known to government medical science as the "hook worm" is the motive power. Dr. Chrales Werdell Stiles, chief of the government hygienic laboratory is the discoverer of the hook worm. He has several specimens of him safely preserved in alcohol, and it may be stated here that the parasite has no particular objection to being put in alcohol. He likes it. And by this very token the warfare that Uncle Sam is planning to bring about the extinction of his hookship is fraught with many far reaching and seemingly insurmountable difficulties. In his investigations of the habits of the parasite covering a period of seven years Dr. Stiles has found that it thrives on liquor that is to say that it cannot exist in the stomach of any one who is a total abstainer. Thus the difficulty in the way of its total extermination in the Southland has become painfully manifest. To get rid of the parasite the patient must needs deprive himself of any and all substances containing even the slightest percentage of alcohol. This of course includes the "red liquor" so dear to the palate of the victim. What the doctor fears is a dialogue something like this when the government physician goes forth in the south to ex terminate the worm and comes up with the first victim. Doctor In order to effect a cure you NEW YORK GIANTS GET NEW IRON MAN I This is Albert Klawitter. the 'Iron man" of the Texas League, who has been sold to the New York Giants for 13,700.

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must abstain from liquor. Victim Abstain! Do you mean It, sah? Doctor Can't cure if you don't abstain. Victim How long did you say it will take, sah? Doctor Four days, Saturday and Sunday and The doctor quits the premises in a hurry. In summing up his investigations Dr. Stiles holds out one hope. He intimates that "real good red liquor" is not as sustaining to the parasite as i3 the cheaper grade, for he says that it thrives most among the poorer classes who drink the latter kind which probably is imported from the north. On the whole, however the doctor believes that the best way to exterminate the lazy disease is to confine the patient for several days, giving him nothing but water to drink and plain soda biscuits, the latter very sparingly. Dr. Stiles' report on his investigation was printed today in the bulletin of the United States bureau of zoology.

WOMEN ARE INJURED Three Illinois Women Hurt Last Night, Two Indiana Women Today. AUTOMOBILE HITS POLE (American News Service) Chicago, Aug. 23. Three women, Mrs. Edward Triggs, Miss Teresa Triggs and Miss Stella Mason, were seriously injured in an automobile accident near Libertyville. 111., late last night. Their buggy was run into by an automobile driven by William Laycock of Libertyville. OTHER WOMEN HURT. (American News Service) Indianapolis, Aug. 23. Mrs. Lillie Sherer and Miss Lizzie Grubb, were seriously injured this forenoon when their automobile collided with a telegraph pole on Sixteenth street, throwing them out and demolishing the machine. Their chauffeur was not hurt. TIPS BY TELEGRAPH (American News Service) Nairobi, Africa, Aug. 23. Col. Roosevelt, hunting alone, added a big bull elephant to his trophies Satur day. CREW PERISHED. (American News Service) Cherbourg, Aug. 23. The Spanish steamer Seirak has been wrecked near Ushant. The crew of twenty are believed to have perished. BELIEVE SHIP LOST. t (American News Service) Capetown, Aug. 23. The French steamer Monarandra with two hundred and fifty aboard, is now 25 days overdue. It is reported to have foundered off the southern coast of Africa. DROPPED III RIVER (American Jfews Service) Paris, Aug. 23. Clement Bayards big dirigible balloon with which he was planning to sail from Paris to London, fell into the river Seine today during a night.

More State Police Are Sent Today to Scene of Pittsburg Trouble.

SHOOT TO KILL ORDERS STRIKE BREAKERS IN THE PLANT ARE CRAZED WITH FEAR HEROIC DEATHS OF TWO OF THE OFFICERS. (American News Service) Pittsburg. Aug. 23. With additional state constabulary, with orders to "shoot to kill," on guard at Schoenville everything is comparatively quiet today. No congregating on street corners is allowed and the sheriff believes trouble is at an end. Trooper John C. Smith, aged 24, of Mt. Carmel, Pa., died at Mercy Hospital today. This makes six dead, five in critical condition, in hospital and scores of injured and wounded, being taken care of by friends, who are keeping their whereabouts secret. The report of an unknown strike breaker being among the dead has not been confirmed and is believed to be a mistake. Every person seen in the strike district is stopped and searched for weapons. Wild With Fear. The strike breakers in the plant are wild with fear and anxious to get out but it is said the bosses are keeping them inside for fear of further infuriating the crowds of foreigners. During the battle at the bridge Sunday they shattered and cringed in abject terror and begged frantically to be taken back across the river to Bellevue by the armed guards. The deaths of O'Donnell and Williams, the two dead troopers were heroic in the extreme. Forced to fight they died fighting to their last breath against fearful odds. HARSH WANTS QUIT The resignation of the Rev. G. E. Harsh, pastor of the Second English Lutheran church. West Richmond, was tendered to the congregation by him last evening. This evening the council of the church meets to determine whether to accept the resignation of the pastor. Rev. Harsh has received a call from a Lutheran church at Columbus, Ind., which is larger than his present charge and he desires to accept it. The Rev. Harsh has been pastor of the Second English Lutheran church for a number of years and has been very successful in his management of the same. His leaving will mean a great blow to the church members among whom he was held in the highest and fondest regard. EIRE COMKEY CASES On the motion of Prosecutor Charles Ladd in the city court this afternoon the cases against John Conkey, the druggist at the corner of Ninth and Main streets, who w-as arrested On July 4 charged with operating a blind tiger, were dismissed. Three separate affidavits were filed against Conkey. One of the cases was tried in the city court soon after the arrest and Judge Converse found the defendant no guilty. A jury was secured for the next case but could reach no verdict and disagreed. Prosecutor Ladd stated in the city court this afternoon that inasmuch as Conkey had been found not guilty in one case and the jury disagreed in another, he moved that the two cases be dismissed as he believed that everything possible had been done by the state to bring about a conviction. The motion was sustained by Judge Converse. FAVOR INSANE WARD The county commissioners were in session for a short time today, the meeting being called for the purpose of granting a license to the Barnum and Bailey shows to give two performances in this city. While in session the commissioners talked over the proposition of building an insane ward to the jail. The Question was talked over informally and no action taken. However it is practically assured that the commissioners will ask for the appropriation of $10,000 to meet the cost of erecting and equiping such an Institution. AGED WOMAN DEAD Mrs. T. W. O. Braffett has returned home from Oxford, O.. where she was called on account of the death of her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Wallace. Mrs. Wallace was over fti years of age. She was buried fast week. ASKS FOR DIVORCE Suit for divorce was filed in the circuit court on Saturday by Mlrka A. Griffith, vs. Charles E. Griffith. Negligence and failure to provide are alleged in the complaint.

Harry Payne Whitney, the wealthy American horse owner, polo player and all round sportsman, who has just paid $50,000 for an English grouse moor. FAMILY ROW AIRED City Court Dismissed Charge Brought Against a Young Man. WAS ACCUSED BY FATHER Will family affairs ever be settled out of court? This is the question that City Judge Converse is asking himself at present. Another family matter occupied the attention of the court this afternoon. Clester Devers who was arrested on Saturday night for beating his father Tom Devers out of a board bill was arraigned in the city court this afternoon, when it developed that he had not beat his board bill at all. but his arrest was simply the result of a quarrel at the home on Sixteenth and North H street, during which young Devers had refused to pay his bill". A peculiar instance in connection with the affair was Devers absolute ignorance as to his own age. His mother finally had to come to her son's rescue and explain that he was eighteen years old. The case was dismissed as Judge Converse said the boy was not of age and not compelle.l to pay his own board. "It's a family affair altogether," explained his honor, "and out of the Jurisdiction of this court." A FENDERS REUNION The reunion of the Fender family will be held September 1 at Glen Miller park. The family is a rather large one and each year at the annual gathering, 100 or more relatives attend. A SAILOR WHO WAS SAVED FROM SEAS Mans Perrson. one of the crew of the Schooner Arlington, wrecked off Long Beach, L L a few days a 53, who was carried to sea, while try in 3 to reach shore on a plank, and floated thirty-six hours before' picked up by a fishing smack.

A PISTOL BATTLE ENSUED

AS RESULT OF THE FIGHT A WATCHMAN IS SHOT TWICE, BUT THE THIEVES SUCCEEDED IN GETTING AWAY. (American News Service) New York, Aug. 33. In a battle with train robbers who halted a Delaware Lackawanna & Western special freight near the Hackensark Meadows this morning Mason Galliland. a watchman, was shot twice. One robber Lid himself on the train, another knocked off the air brake cap, and a third flagged the train with a lantern. The etgineer and fireman were held up and others of the robber gang started to loot one of the cars. The robbery was evidently planned in advance, but after several shots fired by Galliland and robbers, they fled. Thirty armed men are searching for them. CASE IS DISMISSED Theodore Kellar, the young boy who was arrested Saturday morning for maliciously pulling up tomatoes and potato vfnes in the garden of Richard Hodson on Newman's Hill, was released in tbe city court this after noon. The boy's father and mother both insisted that their son was out in the country fishing all day on the day he was alleged1 to have trespassed on the property of Hodson. A DOURLE TRAGEDY (American News Service) Brighton, Colo., Aug. 23. Samuel Girvin, aged forty, superintendent of the Celery Vale Farm, near here, shot his handsome" young wife dead this morning and then committed suicide. The tragedy occurred in Raves general store. The couple bad separated and Girvin attempted to effect a reconcil iation. ON A CAPITAL OF $1.25. Wholesale Business Built Up In Tea Years by Two Women. Two Philadelphia women of German descent bave built up to less than ten years an extensive wholesale business as the result of an original investment in stocks that took a capital of exactly 11.23. The stocks are not of tbe kind that are listed on exchanges or dealt In on the curb, but of tbe kind that women wear about their necks. One of tbe women was somewhat listlessly making a stock for ber own adornment one day when she suddenly exclaimed: "I wish 1 could make some money." "Why not do for pay what you arc now doing for amusement? said a friend who sat by. The idea took. Tbe young women and a cousin bought $125 worth of material, made several stocks and had no difficulty in selling them. That was the beginning of business that has since occupied tbe whole time of both partners. For awhile one of them who drew pretty well was the designer of tbe firm. As business grew it was more economical to employ a well paid designer who could give bis whole time to that part of tbe work. By this time tbe partners had begun to employ girls to do the actual making of tbe stocks. At first tbe work was done by a few girls in Iliiiadelphia. The number of employees Increased, and it became good business to establish branch bouses, for by this time the trade of tbe partners was wholesale instead of retail. Houses were established in Baltimore. New York. Chicago. St. Louis, and the business went on growing. By this time the two partners gave themselves wholly to tbe management of the business and tbe purchase of materials. They now go twice a year to Europe to study modes and buy materials, they bave several well paid designers, and tbe persistence of the fasblon of wearing stocks has kept tbe business constantly active and profitable. Success also has given the partners confidence, and they feel that tbey are not at tbe mercy of tbe capricious Parisian milliners who set tbe modes of tbe world. If women quit wearing stocks the partners will take up something else. - Meanwhile the partners bave had busy and happy life, with an almost constantly increasing Income and a broadening horizon. They hare built for themselves a comfortable home In tbe upper part of Philadelphia, and they see almost every year a good deal of tbe European world. Tbey bad no more expectation of a business career ten years a fro than a hundred thou sand other jrirl in their native city. A Maan Revenge. mean revenge was that taken by a man whose wife had Just eloped. He discovered where the missing coupU were nvlng and sent this polite note to tbe man who bad robbed him of his partner: "Dear Or Please find under sepa rate cover one full double set of false teeth, which kindly hand to my late wife, requesting? ber to return my fa' tbcrs she bavtea; taken sao by

UANY LEGISLATIVE CHANGES,

National Secretary Owen R. Levejoy Sums Up the Progress Made In the Various States to Lighten the Tasks of Youthful Toilt By OWEP H. LOVEJOY. Secretary national child labor eommitto. A year's work in dealing with children who work for a livelihood has Just been rounded out by the spring meeting of the trustees of the national child labor committee. It has been a year of legislative changes, with Pennsylvania, aa usual, one of tbe centers of combat. Tear, after year, against Indifference of the -citizens, hostility of the factory Inspection department and opposition of powerful interests, tbe friends of the children hare sought to secure lawn to exclude them from mines and factories. For several years these efforts hare) met with failure, or when laws have been enacted tbey bave proved so defective In certain technical features aa to meet their death at tbe bands of the courts. This year tbe general child labor law and tbe mining law were radically changed, the most important gain being a provision requiring adequate proof of age of children seeking employment and tbe Issuance of certificates by tbe school author!-' ties. A vigorous effort was sand to eliminate night work among children, but this was again defeated through the Influence of tbe glass manufactnTera, who defeated bills to the same eGect In Indiana. West Virginia and New Jersey. In New York It was hoped that tbe revelations made two years ago of conditions In many canning factories and sheds would result In legislation protecting little children from each exploitation. It was found Impossible. , however, to combat sunsssftflly the' powerful Influence of tbe for another year children at der years wRl continue under tan In sanitary and excessively dlUons prevailing In many of ' tabllshments. But to New York two laws were enacted, one specified list of dangerous Uons forbidden to children teen years of ago, tbe enlng tbe hands of the of labor In prosecuting violators of the mercantile employers law. To the list of states forbidding euvpkryment at night of children under sixteen years of age tbe now laws add Delaware. Kansas, North Dakota and Oklahoma. Michigan extends protection night work to girls years of ago and limits tbe work to fifty-four In a week for all women and for males under eight, requires more rigid proof of ago of children seeking employment and abCSty to read and write English. Experience is teaching that Insisting on efficient factory inspection and patching up weak laws to make them enforceable Is quite as Important as sec tiring big ber ago limits and stricter limitation of hoars. It was upon the effort to correct fatal defects aa to proof of ago In the Pennsylvania law that general Interest centered. The same was true In Iowa, where experience has shown the Impossibility of enforcing the law In default of ago proof, and the new law has set op tbe standard provisions for proof of ago. In South Carolina the law. which has been practically a dead latter, gives promise of becoming effective through an ameadssent providing for the employment of two factory Inspectors. Already the rotnmlseintwr of agriculture and Industries has Issued a series of blank forms for tbe use of these Inspectors and announces his determination to see that the law la enforced. Be Interprets the law aa authorizing his Inspectors to report all children under the legal age found la factories during working hours as furnishing prima fads evidence of illegal employment. A number of changes have been made In the regulation of the hours of employment. Besides those already mentioned. Kansas, Oklahoma and North Dakota limit them to an eight hour day and forty-eight boor week, Maine to a ten hour day and a fiftyfour hour week for boys under six teen and girls under eighteen Rhode Island to a drty-elx boar for minors under six teen years and all women. Tbe new laws In North Dakota and Oklahoma are among the most complete yet enacted. - The bin which Governor Haskell vetoed a year ago la Oklahoma was passed again by large majorities and received bis approval. Important changes have been made also In Minnesota, and bills are pending In Connecticut, Florida. Illinois and Wisconsin. Tbe most disheartening defeat in North Carolina, where an ment bad been reached with the manufacturers on a compromise bin which was deliberately killed to the senate. State committees affiliated with the national committee bars been formed during tbe year In Minnesota. Kansas, North Dakota. West Virginia. Louisiana and Massachusetts. The finances of the committee are In excellent shape. tbe Increased budget of the year having been met by the ous support of the SjOQO or sons who now constitute the ship of the committee. PLANS EXPEDITION Rome. Aug. 23. It Is reported hero today that the duke of the Abruzzi Is planning a new expedition of exploration. It la his intention to make an ascent of Mount Everest in tin Himalayas. The trip may be made - next year and will require especial preparations on a large scale.

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