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Ttc Richmond Palladium and Sin-Telegram Published and owned by the PAUJADIUM PRINTING CO. Issued 1 days each wttk, evenings and Sunday morning. Office Corner North 9th and A. streets. Bom Phone 1131. RICHMOND, INDIANA. RaSalaa O. Leads . ... MauftaS B4Mw Charles M. Margaa. .... .. . ...MaBacer. W. R. Peaa4ataae........NeOTa Editor.

SUBSCRIPTION TERMS. In Richmond $5.00 per ' year (In adr vance) or 10c per week. MAIL, SUBSCRIPTIONS. One year. In advance 15.00 Six months, In advance 2.60 One month, in advance 45 RURAL ROUTES. One year, in advance .'..$2.50 Six months, in advance 1-50 One month, in advance 25 Address changed as often as desired; both new and old addresses must be riven. Subscribers will please remit with order, which should be given for a specified term; name will not be enter d until payment is received. Entered at Richmond, Indiana, post office as second class mail matter. IW Aassslstlssj ef AmsrtsM (Now York City) has Sad MltlflaflHttS OaJy ttoatevwol la Ms HARRIMAN. The death of Harriman Is not in any way wholly unexpected. This does not remove the influence of his actual passing, though a great part of It has been discounted in financial circles, like the political effect on business at the time of a presidential election. It bears a little different phase than if In robust health he had met with some accident and had left loose ends in his vast empire of railroads. Now there will be a few days of newspaper talksome months of magazine articles and then all that is permanent of Harriman will be the foundations for the operations of new ventures by the same group of capital which he represented when he Is merely a name. Already, as a sign of the way things Invariably go, his successor is being talked of with even more interest by the men who are affected by his death, than Harriman dead." Harriman represents the type of empire builder which has been since the beginning of things. Whether it ba Alexander, the Oreit prtlpoleon,":the master minds of the Roman church or the leaders of Tammany Hall; it is organization, and what almost inevitably follows a belief that the end is more Important than the means. Beside the vast fertility of his brain in maplng out new campaigns and the great resources of the man in organizationthere remains one quality without which he could have done nothing that is the confidence which he Inj - spired in other great men which allow ed him a free rein in the working out of his schemes. The question is heard on every side what has Harriman done for the country? If he has done harm, is it lasting? If he has done good, is it permanent? For the public has no definite Idea as to the man it almost blindly respects as a genius. No man can escape doing much good in this world, whether he intends to or not Harriman has done much to develop the western and southwestern portions of the country by organizing new arteries of trade. He is responsible for a hastening of the settling of the West. ' He has developed great fields in the world of trade. These are the things that Harriman has most to his credit. His most remarkable feat has been in the building up of the cred it of the Union Pacific and borrowing thereon great sums with which to pursue the building of his railroad em plre. And it is this which will remain for the foundation on which his sue cessor will build. This will remain when the story of his tilt with Roose velt and his coup in the acquiring of the Illinois Central are forgotten incidents. HENRY HUDSON. Henry Hudson's Celebration is on. When there j so much discussion of the exploits of Peary and Cook it seems almost an intrusion to bring forward the name of the other arctic explorer who operated before the Royal Geographical Society began to give out letters to be appended to the names of the wanderers in unknown parts. When Hudson did the world the service of making the Gay White Way possible, he was engaged In the highly comic opera task of looking for the sea of Verrxano -as mythical a the land of Prester John. It had however the entirely utilitarian motive of seeking a new trade route to India which would be shorter. He was a great traffic man and ho would have done well in that capacity today. As all the other editorial writers are t?S!ti3 on what Henry Hud-:"-pa be on beholding 1 vCV vir-wia only w-nsit it being V nch of a sea doc

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THE BUMBAUGH AIR SHIP. All doubt of the success of the Fall Festival Is removed. The action of the Executive Committee In securing: Bumbaugh and his very, successful dirigible balloon for the Richmond Fall Festival scarcely needs comment. Bumbaugh has been operating at the State Fair in Indianapolis, attracting great attention. Beside this, he has a more than, national reputation among aeronauts. He will be remembered as Carl Fisher's pilot in the various great balloon races which have been held in recent years. "But while all the balloon races have been of great general interest, his present-dirigible balloon, built along the lines of the Zeppelin dirigible, which has been throwing England into spasms of terror and newspaper controversy, Is a great step In advance. It is true that it is a lighter-than-air machine, but it is controlled and directed by steering gear and propelled by fans. The leading technical journals are now occupied with the discussion of the two new types of airships the Zeppelin dirigible a& the Wright aeroplane. Each have their advantages and their uses. .While the Wright aeroplane is a very wonderful machine and presents a higher type in a technical way by overcoming the heavier-than-air problem, still the Zeppelin type has its obvious advantage up to this time in being the most practical and most useful. It seems fair to suppose that for a great many years to come the dirigible airship will hold its place as the most useful method of going long distances at a higher altitude than the aeroplane does.

It should be easy to see then that the Fall Festival committee has shown great enterprise in securing this Bumbaugh dirigible. To mention the fact that it will cost over $1,200 to bring Bumbaugh here is, however, only to be regarded typical of the whole Fall Festival. It places the event in even a higher class than last year's Fall Festival. As a drawing card the airship will be a better one than even the soldiers which were the most attractive single feature of the entertainment of last year. When it is considered that the Bumbaugh dirigible is the greatest feature of the Indiana State Fair, it becomes apparent that the Fall Festival is traveling in pretty good company. It is by this very method of , taking the best from all the fairs, expositions, celebrations and the like, and assembling them in the component parts of the Fall Festival for the purpose of cultivating new friendships and showing the appreciation of Richmond that the Fall Festival stands out as pre-eminently unique and successful. It is the more successful in that it can truthfully advertise this year as it did last that every feature is free.

and a good sport he would not be hanging out his own celebration if he could escape, but would would hunt up some musical show on a roof garden and look off up the river which bears his name when his eyes were not otherwise occupied. It is not to be thought for a moment that he would be taking sides in the CookPeary controversy in the Arctic Club. TWINKLES (BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.) Ceremony. ."Have you given up your idea of communicating with Mars?" "No," answered the punctilious pro fessor. "But owing to the scientific importance we have given this planet, it seems proper that Earth should stand on its dignity and let Mars speak first." - r Not Much Difference. "Don't you wish you were a boy "No," answered Senator Sorghum; I can't say that 1 find conditions much changed since my youthful days. used to be told that children should be seen and not heard. I now find that a ; rtplatician should keep in the spotlight and yet try to avoid being interviewed.'' Change. wise whose The statesman work is done Both earnestly and cleverly. Will soon say "On to Washington," Instead of "Back to Beverly!" Difference of Opinion. "Do you and your wife ever have any differences of opinion?" asked the impertinent acquaintance. "Only once in awhile," answered Mr. Meekton, "when Henrietta changes her mind about something and neglects to notify me." "De man dat loves to make a disturbance," said Uncle Eben, "is a good deal like de honk horn on an automobile. He kin make folks get outn' de way, but leave him to hisse'f an' he won't git nowheres A Mystery. Belinda has a gentle face And spiritual style, She moves about with languid grace And wears a plantlve smile. And yet she'll eat a box or two Of candy ere each day Is through. And sections vast of pie and cake And everything they broil or bake. And All the while her glance will gleam With delicate disdain As if her life were but a dream, Beyond this earthly plane. Our rugged ways we all lament With genuine distress. She seems a chiding vision sent Of fleeting loveliness. But half the salad she devours Would keep a man awake for hours. And frozen sweets, confections rare Are her persistent bill of fare. And still she fades until we fear Belinda will take flight And only leave behind her here A haunting appetite. $33 PACIFIC COAST Via the Chicago, Union Pacific and North Western Line from Chicago daily, September 15 to October 15. Correspondingly low rates are in effect from your town. These low rate tickets are available for passage on personally conducted excursions in Pullman Tourist Sleeping Cars, Chicago to the coast without change.'.?;-? : The train service includes no less than four splendidly equipped transcontinental trains daily from Chicago connecting with all lines from the East . Write for particulars to S. A. Hutchison, Manager Tour Department 212 Clark St. Chicago, 111. sept 5-10-15 octl-8 masonic m: Friday, Sept 10-r"" Chapter No. 4.,R r turn's !,meehag.

DR. WAKEFIELD DEAD

Former Pastor of St. Paul's Episcopal Church Was 86 Years of Age. THE BURIAL WILL BE HERE Telegrams announcing the death of the Rev. J. H. Wakefield at San Jose, Cal., former pastor of the St. Paul's Episcopal church in this city, were received last evening by S. E. Swayne and the Rev. D. C. Huntington. . The Rev. Dr. Wakefield was 86 years of age and has been ill for some time. Only for the past few weeks however did his illness take a serious turn and no hope has been entertain ed for his recovery from that time. Dr. Wakefield was rector of the St. Paul's Episcopal church in Richmond for twenty-eight years. At the time of his rectory here, he was one of the most prominent and well known Episcopal clergymen in Indiana. The funeral will take place in San Jose next Monday and the body will be brought t6 Richmond in about three weeks for interment. Dr. Wakefield is survived by a daughter. Miss Hannah and a son, George who were with him at the time of his death. AN ITCHING PALM. No Cure for it.; Other Forms of Itching Preferable. There is no cure for an itching palm the money kind. Even poslam. the new skin discovery, cannot help it. But when it comes to eczema,, the most annoying of itching skin trou bles, poslam will stop the itching at once and cure the worst cases in a few days. So with hives, rash, scab ies, split toes, piles, and scaly scalp, all of which are different forms of eczema, accompanied by severe itching and caused by imperfect digestion and careless diet. Poslam comes in two-dollar jars, but fifty cents' worth will answer In curing any of the diseases mentioned. It can be had of any druggist. W. H. Sudhoff makes of specialty of it That results are Immediate will be amply demonstrated overnight by the use of the experimental sample which the Emergency Laboratories, 32 West Twenty-fifth Street, New York City, will send free by mail, in plain wrapper, to any one who will write for it "If he lives he will some day be known from one end of the country to the other.- ' "Why do you say that?" "He can make more kinds of a fool of himself, always with an air of subrime egotism, than any other man I ever knew." Chicago Post. NOW MAGAZINE WRITER. Bob .Evans since his retirement ,e navy has devoted much of Vto writing, at which he has 'Successful as at lighting. "

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i ' Harriman's life at a Glance 1

Born February 25, 1848. One of six children of a country clergyman, whose salary was $200 a year. After two years spent in a church school, poverty cut short his education. At the age of fourteen he became an errand boy in a Wall Street broker's office. Four years later he was appointed a clerk, sharing in the firm's profits. At twenty-two he bought a seat on the New York Stock Exchange with money he made in speculation. At forty he became vice-president of the Illinois Central. At fifty he undertook the reorganization of the Union Pacific. Before his death he realized his dream of an ocean-to-ocean railroad system under his absolute control.

Edward Henry Harriman, perhaps : the greatest figure In American rail-! roading and finance since the days of Jay Gould, was born February 25, 1848, in Hempstead, L. I. He was one of six children and his father was a country clergyman, with a salary of $200 a year. The poverty of his father cut short his school days and at the age of fourteen, after some home teaching an3 two years in a church school, he became an errand boy in a Wall street office. That was the business beginning of the man who died at the age of sixtyone, master of nearly 70,000 miles of American railroads. The boy's rise was rapid. He watched' the play of the stock market and the reeling ticker tape with those big, all-seeking eyes, and- never an op portunity got past him. At the age of eighteen h was a clerk In the broker's office, with a share in the prof its. He speculated boldly with his savings, and when he was twenty-two years old he bought a seat on the New York Stock Exchange and became one of its youngest, if not the youngest, member. Optimism Unshakable. His spirit was ever militant, his plans expansive, his optimism unshakable. Combined with absolute confidence in himself he held to the conviction of the great industrial future ! of the. United States, and he trained his growth along this line. He determined that what was good for the United States should be good for Harriman. He was a wiry young man, with and held an adversary, never wavering, a genius at figures, with a mind that grasped and sorted facts so quickly that it seemed almost wizardry. Even as a youngster on the Stock Exchange there was never a moment when he coukt be regarded as a cipher. Boldness was the keynote of his attacks, but never recklessness. He was quiet, unobtrusive. Where thought or action sufficed he used no words. His undertone of brevity was concise, emphatic, compelling. When a schoolboy, according to report young Harriman could fight with his fists as well as with his head, and his generalship made him the leader. The cruder method of fighting he threw aside when the gage of battle was the world's millions, and he used his brains. Aid From His Uncle. He had one wealthy relative, an uncle, Oliver H. Harriman. His uncle, after the bent of the boy's genius had been clearly established, gave him help. Young Harriman haJ a way of ingratiating himself with the old Knickerbocker families, and he scon had many of them among his customers. It was not all work and no play in those days, however and Harrlman's pastime was driving fast horses. At that time old Commodore Vanderbilt, the greatest railroad genius of his time, was living and driving his own fast teams along the Boston roavl and other thoroughfares. The youngster who, one day. was to own control of the old Commodore's New York Central, and many other roads beside, had many a brush with him and took delight in leaving his team behind. Reins In His Own Hands. When he was thirty-six years old Harriman got his first chance at railroading. He was made a director in the Illinois Central and became owner of a little railroad on Lake Ontario, called the Sodus Bay. It was barely an appendix of a railroad and made no money. Harriman whetted his genius oa this line. He reorganized it and ran it so well that the Pennsylvania Railroad found it more useful than its rivals and in a short time it had become a factor in Western transportation and was paying dividends. By the time he had been a director in the Illinois Central for fonr years Harriman owned sufficient stock to bring about the election of Stuyvesant Fish as President and himself as VicePresident Twenty years later he was to tear from that same office of President the man whom his power had placed there, but at that time he and Fish were friends and allies. . He sold oat his brokerage business and began to talk of intellectual pleasures. This consisted, however, cf developing the railroads of the United States, and he kept up this intellectual pleasure unflagingly for twenty years, starring his body, feeding his wonderful mind and changing the railroad map of America with each recurring year. Stuyvesant Fish went abroad soon after Harriman brought about his I election, and the little vice-president took the ret hands. Here was at his door and J opportunity f he threw li ".

the visitor. Here was a railroad, ready at his hand, to do with as he pleased, and he went to Chicago, where General Manager Jeffrey was in charge of the line. He began to plan changes and to execute them. General Manager Jeffrey, incensed at the idea of taking orders from this tyro in the work of practical railroading, resigned.- Harriman went

cheerily on, as if nothing had happen ed, with that optimism which marked his every utterance and action up to the day of his death. He remainied there for three years, taking what was for him a post-graduate course in rail roading, making a few mistakes and profiting by every one he made. All of this time, while Harriman had been recognized as a man of marked ability, he had not been taken up by any of the "big men" of Watt Street In those days, even as now, self-promotion was a factor. The man who talked big, gripped hands heartily, made himself heard and seen, got the first hearing. This was not the art of Harriman. He was a man of action, but not an actor. Begins His Reorganization. Perhaps it is for this reason that for some years after taking charge of the Illinois Central comparatively little was heard of him. He was not called upon to take part in any of the big reorganization schemes in Wall Street until 1898 when Kuhn, Loeb & Co. made him chairman of the new executive committee of the old, rundown, scandal-ridden Union Pacific. The Kuhn-Loeb syndicate paid the government $57,000,000 cash and $27,000,000 to settle with the holders of the first mortgage bonds. In return they got 1,800 miles of a run-down railroad, from Omaha to Ogden. But that road was the beginning of the great railroad system of 1909, controlled by E. H. Harriman and stretching over 67,759 miles of track. Harriman's development of Union Pacific is one of the virile romances of railroad. It came at a time when the country was about to plunge into war with Spain over the troublesome little Island of Cuba; "when Theodore Roosevelt, as the belligerent Assistant Secretary of the Navy, was clamorour for battle; when railroads were going to be overwhelmed with traffic as never before, since the crowded days of the civil war. Napoleon of Finance. Harriman saw all this coming, and while his board of directors denounced the middle-aged Napoleon of finance, he ordered equipment over their heads, consulting no one, and Kuhn, Loeb & Co., with growing faith in his genius, paid the cost Instantly Union Pacific began to prosper; Its stock rose in Wall Street; it was a vital railroad, through the heart of a rich country, pointing east toward the Atlantic, west toward the Pacific, and Harriman meant that some day those shining rails should bridge the land from the one ocean to the other. He lived to see his dream realized. For Harriman was a dreamer as i well as a toiler. It needs Imagination, this achievement of big things and the small bodied, big brained railroad builder could see so much farther ahead than his associates that they often thought him visionary. But he went right ahead with his visions, making them realities. He straightened curves and leveled grades and saved a mile, a half mile, a. hundred yards, wherever engineering skill made it possible. He spent $200,000,000 in six years improving Union Pacific He took his trains from Ogden directly across the Great Salt Lake, instead of by a long haul, over steep grades around the shore. A Solitary, Secretive Figure. And all this time all one could see or know of Harriman was his work. He was a solitary, secretive figure, coldly practical when he was not dreaming of wonderful developments. He took no one Into his confidence, not even his boards of directors. When he decided to raise the divi dend on Union Pacific to 10 per cent he casually omitted to mention It to anyone in advance. No one in Wall Street was "on" and no one had loaded up with the stock to make a coup. If there was to be any speculating In Union Pacific, Harriman was going to do it himself. When the Union Pacific dividend was raised, it was the Investors who got the benefit, not the traders in Wall Street. When Harriman found obstacles in his way he brushed them aside. One of these was Stuyvesant Fish, whom he brushed from the Presidency of the Illinois Central two years ago. putting Harrahan in his place. Wall Street denounced Harriman bitterly for his so-called disloyalty to Fish, his friend of more than twenty years standing. But the simple fact was that Fish got in the way of , Harriman's express train of concentrated action, on the main line, aad the result was the in-

Miss Harriman

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Edward II. Harriman Is not the only Harriman of note. H daughter, alias Cornelia, has won an enviable distinction In the eastern sogal set particularly among those who make a hobby of outdoor recreations. fUles Harriman is a very skillful horsewoman and is seen frequently drlriig her four ln-hand over the splendid boulevards and highways In the vicitlty of New York.

evitable collision, in which the master mind survived. Other officials cf merged companies resigned or were deposed, "because they wouldn't be office boys," and Harriman kept serenely on. At his death he was in control of Union Pacific, Southern Pacific, Illinois Central, New York Central, Atchison, St Paul, Northwestern. Balti more and Ohio, Delaware and Hudson, Georgia Central and Erie, m-ita many other roads building and planned. Hand in Politics. With such vast interests at stake. It was a natural corrollary that Harriman should tamper with politics. He took an important part in the Roosevelt Presidential campaign, and out of this grew his bitter and acrimonious controversy with the man whom he had helped to elect His Sidney Webster letter must even now be fresh In the public mind, so great was the sensation it created at the time. This controversy brought on the details of the campaign contributions made by the Equitable Life Assurance society, of which James Hazen Hyde was then vice president; of the New York Life, of which George W. Perk. ins J. Pierpont Morgan's partner was the dominant factor, and others touched upon in the state investiga tion of the life insurance scandals. Harriman himself waa an important witness in that investigation, but the public got a great deal more Informs tion from the publication of his letter. which was stolen from his office by a clerk, and the subsequent controversy. than from his testimony, Sidney Webster Letter. Harriman. in his letter to Sidney Webster, charged that President Roosevelt knew of the contributions handed to his campaign manager, Mr. Cortelyou, by Treasurer Bliss, of the campaign committee, and knew where they came from. He said that at the solicitation of the president he had raised a fund of $200,000 to be applied to New York state, and had succeeded with that money in turning 50,000 votes- for the president In reply to this President Roosevelt applied his favorable epithet to Harriman and declared that he was "as undesirable a citizen as Debs, or Mover, or Haywood." When he was congratulated on his sixtieth birthday. Harriman said: "As I grow older I am beginning to think more about my fellow men." Perhaps this was an admission, Nervous Collapse . "I have traveled for thirty years continually. I lost a great deal of sleep, which together with constant worry left me in such a nervous state that finally, after having two collapses of nervous prostration, I was obliged to give up traveling altogether. I doctored continually but with no relief. Dr. Miles' Nervine came to my rescue I cannot : describe the suffering which this Nervine saved me. Whenever I am particularly nervous a few doses relieve me." A. G. C. LIB BY, Wells, Me. There are many nervous wrecks. There is nervous prostration of the stomach, of the bowels, and other organs. The brain, the kidneys, the liver, the nerve centers are all exhausted. There is but one thing to dobuild up the nervous system by the use of Dr. .Miles' Restorative Nervine. Its strengthening influence upon the nervous system restores . normal action to the organs, and when they all work in harmony, health is assured. Get a bottle from your druggist. Take it all according to directions, and if it does not benefit he will return your money.

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Hi HIS DAUGHTER CtRNELIA. 1 made in the gathering gleam, when Ill ness hung threatening! over him. that he bad not after jl. found the durable satisfactions of ".ife. He had found power, wealth tnd all that money could buy. but hi had thought of his fellow men onlrn their relation to his own vast enterprises. He began late, according U his own admission, to think of othjrs. not as his pawns, but as his fel!ojmen. Harriman as a Leaelr of Men. Nevertheless, there its always, to the personal side of Earriman. that which drew men to him and made for him followers as loyal Cid devoted as ever gathered under fey Industrial standard. He was ocoslonally Irritable but always reasmable. There was never what is confnonly termed a "shake-up" in the Htrrlmaa offices. His secretary,' Alexander Millar, was with him for twelve yiars. 8ome of tne oldest employes og the roads he controls were there wbjn he died, and others are there stllLAnd the men believed In him and wced for him as hard as he worked hlsselt Harriman believed the development of boys, and at Et Tenth street overlooking Stuyvesai Square, he built and equipped a splendid boys clubhouse, in which te always took great Interest He eve liberally to many charities and ms interested in work of all kinds amotr the poor. He also was interested Insdence, partlouj.i i j mi scnsrapuic ajMura.uaau n equipped the famous tarriman Alaskan expedition of 18ft at a cost . of more than $100,000. sdlng forty-seven noted scientists aid explorers to Alaska. j His serious illness began a little more than a year agoand he took vacations and long res without much benefit On the flrstDf June last he went abroad, to the fcths at Bad Gastein. where, under tl care of noted physicians, he took the treatment But he was very rftless there and returned on Tuesday August 24, having lost ten pounds h weight and so feeble that he could iot walk alone. TO AMPUUTE LEG I Milton. Ind.. Senf JO. -Lewis Harmier, whose leg wi broken by the kick of a horse, hs to have the leg amputated six inch! above the kaeo. Mr. Harmeier was ufng the road scraper, and was In t art of adjusting some part of the arhlnery when th horse kicked bimfn the right leg. The bones were to sully mangled and broken up that thdimb could not be saved. 1 t . . PALLADIUM 'MlT ADS. PAY. CS-fflAM Sella Cssl Cenneimfl And G2fln Coall i nesUsisnd

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