Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 298, 3 September 1909 — Page 1
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WMM Wll ASPHALT TMJST
Delaware County City Has Just Passed Through One of the Most Bitter Street Paving Wars Ever Waged in the State of Indiana, With the Result That There Is Scarcely Any Sentiment Now , in That City, Favorable to Asphalt as a Material for Pa ving Well Traveled Streets.
Muncie who has anything to do with the street department, who favors asDhalt under the present conditions In
which the construction and repair is carried on. I have interviewed all ot them and am well acquainted with
their views On the subject. Thes-s
same men do not regard the owner
ship of an asphalt plant by the city as
at all feasible.
ACTUAL LIFE OF ASPHALT STREET OHLYJIVE YEARS Repair Work Done by the Giant Trust This Summer After City Had Tried Years to Have It Done. BRICK PAVEMENT IS MUCH LESS EXPENSIVE
IMuncie Has Found That When Cost of Repair Is Considered, Asphalt Is Luxury to The Taxpayers.
Conditions, which should stop all controversy on the asphalt question, are clearly shown In , the city of Muncie, where they have been up against the asphalt trust. The attention of the Palladium has been called to the situation in Muncie by many citizens as being a typical "asphalt town." Earlier in the year two representatives of the Palladium were in Muncie and noticed the miserable condition of the streets and when the asphalt trouble ; -came up berewths Muncie streets was a decisive element In the. stand that this paper is malting against the introduction of this form of paving in Richmond. The Palladium, therefore, sent to the city editor of the Muncie Star for the exact situation in that city. He replied that he would be very happy to give us full information on the subject as he had been thoroughly in touch with the situation and the fight ot Muncie against the asphalt trust The Palladium feels that in view
of the actual conditions in Muncie
in which, expense, bad Btreets, and
a struggle against the asphalt trust
have been common place event?.
that the report of the Muncie news paper man is conclusive.
resurfacing, but no bids were received either time. Trust Breaks Promise. The Barber Asphalt company had promised when the paving was first done, that they would promptly repair the streets as soon as repairs were necessary. After the repeated failure of the city to get bids for the resurfacing the company made it plain that they would not move . a plant to the city to do the repair work until there were ten thousand yards of work to be done.
When they finally did agree to come, which was this summer, there were almost fifteen thousands of repair work. The city of Muncie has just succeeded in getting the repair work completed and in a few cases the oH asphalt streets resurfaced with the same material. In most cases, brick
was used instead of asphalt for resurfacing worn out asphalt In the first place, it has been clearly proven that asphalt is far more expensive than brick, when the cost of repair is taken into consideration. The original cost has been even greater. The average cost of original asphalt paving in Muncie has been $2.80 a yard, while the cost for brlcki has been bub $2.05 a yard. Eleven squares in Muncie were resurfaced with brick this summer where asphalt has been the original material used. The Asphalt Monopoly.
-.In the second place, the practical monopoly that prevails in the control of asphalt paving has prevented the city from getting the repair work done
when it was badly needed. For this reason, the repair has lapsed until, after all, the cartoon published in the
Star did not greatly exaggerate con
ditions. The streets were dotted with large holes where water stood for days after rain had fallen. The water
seeped into the cracks causing the decomposition of the asphalt and an unsanitary condition which greatly alarmed the cttxJxealth board- -Jn the.
spring, tne damage or ine irosi was
clearly evident forrwide cracks radi
ated from what, perhaps, the fall be
fore had been hut small holes, were quickly seen on the disappearance of
the slush of the winter.
In the third place, asphalt streets
have been found to be harder to clean than ' brick. Their proper care has
been regarded as an impossibility here because of the great cost To care for them as is done in foreign countries
Is an almost fatuous policy that would
be a serious drain on the treasury of any city, where the cost of common
labor is as great as it is in the United
States.
There is not a single city official in
OFFICIALS RETURNED Traction Men Silent Regarding Health of President McGowan.
MAGNATE RETURNS SUNDAY
Muncie Boys Like Asphalt Streets
GREAT RECEPTION
TO BE TENDERED THE DISCOVERER
Steamer on Which Dr. Cook
Is a Passenger Reaches Northern Denmark and Copenhagen Is En Fete.
FARMER A VICTIM
OF A VERY CLEVER
SWINDLING GAME
Indianapolis, Sept. 3. Robert I. Todd, vice president of the Terre Haute, Indianapolis & Eastern, and B. B. Peck, vice president of the Indianapolis Traction and Terminal company, returned yesterday from New York city, where they went to meet Hugh J. McGowan upon his return from Europe. Both Mr. Peck and Mr. Todd declined to say anything as to the condition of Mr. McGowan's health, or to name a date for his return. Mr. Todd, when he learned that he was to be questioned about
Mir. McGowan, sent word that he was not "In.M Mr. Peck was "in" and heard the inquiry, but stated that when Mr. McGowan arrived he would
flnnnJc for himself. He refused to
state even that he had seen Mr. Mc
Gowan in New York; city, or to make
any statements as to his health, or a
date for his return.
Sunday, however, Is the date that is
eenerallv understood will mark the
return of Mr. McGowan. This infor
mation was current yesterday, ana
wan in a. measure verified at the Mc
Gowan home, where it was stated that RARE GEM IS FOUND
the arrival would hardly be later tnan
Sunday. Joseph McGowan, cousin to
to. J. McGowan, is still in the East, where he went in company with Mr. Peck and Mr. Todd, to meet the re
turning president of Indiana's traction
merger....,.-.
The above cartoon appeared some time ago In the Muncie Star. It bears out the statement made by sev
eral prominent Muncie citizens that the holes in the asphalt streets of that dty were so deep that the boya
were using them for swimming holes. It took several years or nara eiroix on tne part or tne cuy omciais ot
Muncie to get the Asphalt Trust to repair these holes. On page one ol this issue mere appears an article on tne
asphalt streets of Muncie, written by a Muncie newspaper man, who is well versed with deplorable conditions
resultlne from Muncie's unfortunate alliance wltn tne Barc-er Aspnait Trust, iwo oiner articles Dy we same
writer will appear in the Palladium, one Saturday afternoon and one Sunday morning.
STEAMER FITTED OUT
TO MEET THE YANKEE
While in Danish Capital Brook
lyn Man Will Be Guest of the Geographical SocietyComplete Plans.
"Dith Antnmnhi ict" Tolle rtff
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Losing Valuable Diamond And Offers a Reward to Finder of $100.
BY A WEARY WILLIE
PLAN WAS FAILURE
Farmer Immediately Pays $50
For the Stone anrj Later Finds That - if" Is -Paste
Worth Just $2.
CHASE HAPPY JACK
Cincinnati Man Pursued by
One of His Fifty-four Affinities.
CHICAGO MUCH EXCITED
Owing to an imperfect arrangement of the concrete feed pipe from the high tower on the site on the nev high school building. Ninth and North B streets, the pipe broke yesterday at
the weakest point. There was slack
in the wire to which the pipe is at
tached and resulted in the pipe being'
curved also. When the concrete was
run down the pipe it stopped it up at the lowest point of the curve. No one was underneath to receive a concrete
shower bath when the pipe broke.
(By Carl H. Mots, The Muncie Star)
Muncie, Ind., Sept 3. This city has just passed through one of the most bitter street paving wars ever known In Indiana. Here the question has not been that of the kind of material
Bo much as that of the source of the
payment for the Improvements. The controversy has been one between the city and the property owners. In certain cases where the contest was most bitterly waged, the property owners fought the proposition of assessing the cost of improvements against the Abutting property. The property owners insisted that according to the state law all improvements should be assessed against the city. The controversy finds its origin in the necessity to repair the streets, that were paved with asphalt a few years ago. The first paving done in the city was. with asphalt and the streets where this material has been used have long been in a miserable
condition. A short time ago the Muncie Star ran a cartoon, showing in a somewhat exaggerated representation
the conditions of the asphalt thorough
fares, that was not any too compli
mentary to the city. , Muncie Tired of Asphalt
ISuncie has had her experience with
asphalt and there is scarcely any sen
timent here in favor ot that material. , Were it possible to maintain asphalt' streets satisfactorily, they probably would be preferred to brick or blthullthlc or macadam. But this has not been the case in Muncie. There is just one thing to be said in favor of asphalt and when that Is said all is said. That argument is to be found in the fact that they are less noisy than are streets on which almost any other . material except macadam is used. The actual life of an asphalt street has been found to be about five years. The first asphalt used in Muncie was in 1894. These streets were resurfaced in 1906, but they had been patched in a great many places long before this. In 1907 there was a move to resurface and after advertising three
times in 1907, and receiving no bids
the city gave up in despair. , Again,
In 100S, the city advertised twioe for
MAS. PEARY IS SARCASTIC: V .
MRS. COOK IS TRIUMPHANT
Mrs. Cook States She Always
Had Faith in Husband's Success.
ACHIEVES HIS AMBITION
(American News Service) South Harpswell, Me., Sept 13. "I
have never given up hope that my husband would come out all right that he would return Safe after achieving his
ambition," declared Mrs. Frederick A.
Cook, wife of the American North Pole
discoverer here today.
Mrs. Cook, since news of her hus
band's feat reached the United States,
has been besieged by reporters until she was compelled to flee from her cottage, taking along her children.
Ruth and Helen and seeking refuge of the cottage of H. A. Teague at Lewis-
ton.
"I wish to thank all my friends for
the great interest they are taking in
my husband, and will say to the pub
lic that I fully appreciate the grati
tude felt by all ot them that the pole
has been discovered by a citizen of this
country. .:
"I did not expect to hear from my husband quite so soon, but I thought I would get some word before the be
ginning of October. I first learned
of my husband's success by reading the bulletin board of a newspaper in Portland. ; "What more can I say; there is nothing to add that the newspapers don't already know. I feel the strain of the long wait and the intense anxiety over the safety of my husband and shall wait until I get back to New York before receiving another newspaper man. I want quietness. I have been excited over his wonderful achievement"
THE WEATHER PROPHET. INDIANA Continued cloudy and pro- . bable thunderstorms. . - .- -
Richmond may be panic proof, but
the fact that it is not bunco proof can be testified to by A. M. Kringer, a farmer residing northwest of the city, who is the most recent victim of a gang of swindlers who have been op
erating in this city and vicinity with such success, recently. Mr. Kringer was "stung" to the extent of $50 and
Is now deploring the fact that he should have been such easy "fruit," especially on such an old game. But he admitted that it was a new one on
him, although he paid rather dearly
for the experience.
Last Monday a well dressed and
neatly attired Btranger drove up to the
Kringer home in an automobile and
seeking Mr. Kringer told him that he had lost a valuable diamond stick pin
in the road around that place some
where and that he thought it dropped
Mrs. Peary Says Cook's Dash t of ws tie while he was examining
house.
ina Joke I A "Va,uab,e' p,n-
valuable one and that he especially
valued it for its associations, as it had
LAUGHS AT THE REPORT been given to him by a very dear
friend who had died recently. He
asked Mr. Kringer if he would kindly
assist him in finding it and to Instruct
the children to search, also. The
stranger stated that he had to return to Indianapolis that evening but that he would leave his name and address and if the pin was found to send it to his address at Indianapolis and he
would reward the finder with $100.
The next afternoon a tramp called
at the Kringer home and begged for
something to eat When just about to depart he casually remarked to Mr.
Kringer that he had "found a pretty nice pin down the road" and wanted
to know If he had lost it Mr. Kringer at once became interested and ask
ed to see the pin. It was produced
and the description tallied exactly with that given by the stranger who
had called the day before.
Remembering the $100 reward Mr.
Kringer thought he saw a chance for a good investment so he volunteered to
buy the pin of the tramp. The tramp
seemed to know that it was a diamond and a valuable pin but a bargain was
finally reached between the two, whereby Mr. Kringer paid the tramp $50 and received in. return the covet
ed pin. The tramp then disappeared.
' Worth About $24)0. That evening Mr. Kringer wrote to
the stranger at Indianapolis and notified him that the pin had been found
and to come forth with the $100 if he wanted it returned. But there was no answer. Several days passed and still
no answer was xortncomlng, so yesterday Mr. Kringer brought the pin to this city and had it examined with the view of selling it and getting back
bis money. The diamond proved to be nothing more than paste, but a very clever imitation and its deception would not be discovered except
(American News Service) Chicago, Sept 3. "Happy Jack" Martin of Cincinnati passed a large part of the day yesterday racing about Chicago, pursued by one of the fifty-
four affinities jotted down in his notebook. Mrs. Anna L. Wagner, the pursuing Nemesis, caught up with him
last night Just as ne was about to board a train for other parts, taking
with him, she avers, jewels to the val
ue of $3,500 belonging to her. There
was no arrest but there will be weddiner soon.
According to Mrs.' Wagner, kfter she
had invested a large sum of money In
the business and loaned Martin her
jewelry she found the tell-tale note
book in his desk. With her name were
fifty-three others, twenty-two of whom
lived in Cincinnati.
While she was remonstrating with
him, she says, he ran away with No.
53, Mrs. Lulu Metz, the wife of a real estate dealer of Newport, Ky. , The woman soon tired of Martin and wrote Mrs. Wagner, saying that she would turn over her interest in his affections for $500. The latter did not answer, and soon received a letter saying that unless she paid the price she would be made to suffer. In the meantime Martin fled to Chicago.
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(American News Service) Copenhagen, Sept 3. The steamer
Hans Egedea with Dr. Frederick A. Cook, the American who discovered the
north pole, on board, passed Cape Skagan, at the northern extremity of
Denmark, at 2 o'clock this afternoon.
It will probably reach here some Urns
this evening. Copenhagen today Is
practically the capital of the world, all eyes wait the coming ot Cook.
Homage greater than that tenderel
potentates will be paid Dr. Cook, who is heralded as "the man who biased the
tralL" Dr. Maurice F. Egan. the
American minister, boarded a steamer
fitted out by the geological society.
which sailed from the harbor this aft-
Separation Is Now Making ernoon. distinguished asaem-
niage aooara, to greet uooic. itooms
at the hotel Phoenix are prepared for
his reception. London already has forwarded an invitation to visit Bnggland's metropolis. ; Tries to Break Records. The Hans Egedes. under full steam, is trying to break all records between Lerwick and Copenhagen. The torpedo boat Jutland, steaming under orders from the minister of marine, was
despatched but night from Aarbus to meet the incoming vessel and a flotll-
IS MIIITIIIG FOB
HER TWO SISTERS
Anna Ward, After Years of
An Effort to Find Where
They Are Located. CHILDREN SEPARATED
AT ORPHANS' HOME
Local Woman, Crazed With
Grief Over Other's Death, lu set out from the harbor today to
Forgot Name of Institution
At the Capital.
PURCHAS
E A BLOCK
Quigley Brothers, who own a drug store at the corner of Fourth and
Main streets, have purchased the Newkirk block adjoining their store and in a few days will enlarge their phar
macy and increase their stock.
(American News Service)
South Harpswell, Me., Sept 3. "I
have been expecting to hear this re
port ever since Dr. Cook started for the pole," said Mrs. Robert E. Peary,
wife of the explorer now in the Arctic,
today.
"It has been a standing joke at the
explorer's club and in our set in New
York. But please don't quote me as
being Incredulous over the report It would look too awfully coming at just
at this time.
"I cannot help recalling the story of Dr. Cook's ascent of Mount McKinley about which he wrote his book. In
that book he says be ascended the mountain looked at his aneroid, and
came down again. When the scien
tists wanted to know how high the
mountain was he said he was in such a hurry he couldn't stop to compute
the altitude.
Bought Alt Dogs.
"I heard that when Dr. Cook started
for the Pole he said he was going to
sneak in on the ground floor. . When
he went up there and bought all the dogs he knew Mr. Peary would need later it showed what manner of man
he was. -' ; - .
"Until I hear that he has these with him I shall be waiting to hear something confirmatory from Mr. Peary. I
expect to hear almost any day, but not
much, before the middle of the month.
"One reason I don't put much faith
in the story of the discovery is that
Dr. Cook is Quoted as writing be was
living on tallow. Now Eskimos dont live on tallow any more than we do.
and anybody that knows their habits
and the .arctic regions knows that is
true. As for confirmation of any re
ports from Eskimos, they oouldnt tell
the North Pole from a barber-pole.'
ARCHBISHOP FARLEY
RETURNS TO AMERICA
continued on Face Eight)
Miss Anna Ward of 900 Central av
enue, wants to know where her twin
sisters, Lena and Elizabeth are. who have been missing since 1892 and from whom no word has been heard for 17 years. The circumstances surrounding the case are unusually pathetic. The three children resided with their parents in Indianapolis and were happy and contented until the death of their mother in 1893, when the home was broken up and the children were cast out into the world. The 'father, apparently, took little interest in his children and suddenly disappeared one day without leaving any provision for his daughters, forcing them alone and
friendless, into a cold, heartless
world. She Became Unbalanced. The pHice authorities and associ
ated charities became interested in the
case and the children were placed in a Catholic school at Indianapolis. Here they remained together for about a
year, but at I'd 3 expiration of that time the death of her mother so preyed up
on the mind of Anna that she became mentally unbalanced, and was taken to the home for feeble minded girls at Terre Haute. In this way she became
separated from her sisters and, not being able to remember the name of the
! school from which she was taken at Indianapolis, she could not correspond , with her twin sisters and has seen or
heard nothing from them up to the
present time.
Miss Ward has recently been dismissed from the home at Terre Haute and has taken up her residence with
friends in this city. She states that
her sisters were about six years old
the last time she saw them. She is two years their senior. She Is mak-ina-an earnest -deavor to locate the
missing twins, having notified the au
thorities at Indianapolis and has ad
vertised in several of the newspapers
in that city.
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Mill lir RECEIPTS
According to the postal report of
finance clerk. Otto S prong, the post
office gained in business during the
past month over the corresponding
month of 1908. $752. The total re
ceipts for the past month were $5,645.
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HQ SUUDAY SERVICES
Owing to the absence ot Rev. A. J. Feeger from the city next 8unday there will be no services at St John's
Lutheran church on Sunday. Rev.
Feeger has three conventions to at
tend, one at Lawrence burg. IncL. another at -Reading. Ov and Duluth,
convey the- si aur In.
The banquet in Cook's honor will be a notable event Tourists, scientists and others Interested in Dr. Cook's marvelous feat poured Into Copenhagen today. All the newspapers print commendatory articles and call upon
the people of Denmark to - unite in welcoming the American.
King Frederick of Denmark will per
sonally receive Cook and extend the hospitality of his nation.
Hs Leaves the Report There has never been the slightest
doubt among Danish scientists of the truth of Cook's narrative. Commo
dore Hovgaard today declared: "I believe Dr. Cook's story is true because
he is entirely trustworthy and opposed
to all exaggeration.
C. A. Nlelson. of the Greenland ad
ministration department, said: "When Dr. Cook said he discovered the pole there can be no doubt of It
DOUBT NOT REMOVED. London, Sept. 3. Dr. Frederick A.
Cook's narrative of his thrilling Jour
ney to the North Pole, while It has not removed all the doubt raised as to
his . having really accomplished the feat he claims, has at least set to rest
the improbable suggestions advanced
in some quarters that he had attained not the North Pole, but the magnetlo
pole. However, the doubt be had sir talned not the North Pole, but appearing fast
Captain Borald Amundsen. In an In
terview at Christiana, on this point
says:
"Such a supposition is nonsense. "The magnetic pole Is situated on.
the American side, and it Is quite impossible that Dr. Cook could nave been driven so far from his planned-route.
"I feel quite certain that Dr. Cook
has expressed nothing definitely about
the result I know him to be absolutely discreet and taciturn.
'Other people have misunderstood
him. and it will be necessary to await
his arrival in Copenhagen for the real facta."
Mere Details Desired. The London newspapers are not
wholly convinced by the narrative, and persist that it will be necessary to await more details and reports.
They are unable to conceive how a
task, which has beaten the ablest polar explorers, provided with everything that money could purchase.
could have achieved in such a seem-
ingly offhand and unpremeditated . manner, and with such ease and quick-
ness.
At the same time they pay !
of admiration to Dr. Cook.
It is for the moment beside the
question." the Dally Telegram says.
"to discuss the accuracy or probability of Dr. Cook's statement It la neither just nor generous to question In any way the genuineness of suck " a claim before full details of the expedition are made public by the traveler himselt . "Indeed, we have muck sympathy because of the dlfflcultSes by which
Dr. Cook or any other sectary
er is hampered In attempttna to
Tine a skeptical worU of