Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 305, 10 September 1909 — Page 8

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"The Judge" Has Been the Right Hand Man of Deceased Financier. BEGAN AS MERE PLOW BOY

WENT FROM TEXAS WITH HI8 , ROUGH EDGES AND BEAT THE EASTERN CAPITALISTS i AT THEIR OWN GAME.

New York, Sept 10. There seems to be little doubt among the associates of Edward H. Harrlman that one of two men will be chosen to fill the place of the dead magnate at the helm of the great railroad Interests. These two men are Robert Scott Lovett and Leonor Fresnell Loree, and of the two, Lovett, seems more likely to possess the shoulders upon which the magnate's mantle will fall. It is Mr. Lovett, or "Judge" Lovett, as he is called, who has been the only one outside the Harriman family to be near the magnate since he returned from Europe. Mr. Lovett has been at Arden almost dally, and It is believed that points which he had not before been given were impressed upon him by Mr. Harrlman when the latter felt his end approaching. Thirty-five years ago Robert S. Lovett leaned over the handle of a plow as he rounded the hill in the topmost furrow on his father's farm near Shephard, Texas, and saw something new. It was a work train on a narrow guage railroad. The Houston East and West was being pushed toward Shreveport from the city of its name through the densest part of the piney WOOdS. Fascinated With Locomotive. Young Lovett was fascinated. The next day he went down to inspect the locomotive. He saw the men throwing up the grade and watched them laying ties and forty pound rails. Immediately he secured employment. Driving a team when the mud was deep he was the sole , proprietor of a wagon that hauled timbers to the builders. He had Quit the farm where he spent his boyhood In poverty. His father had managed to eke out but a poor existence from the Impoverished soil of east Texas and there, during the war, Robert was born. "Some day,' he exclaimed to his boy , friends who laughed at him because he was hauling ties for the work, "I'll own that railroad." - When Robert Scott Lovett was brought to New York from Houston, Texas, three years ago by Harriman, with the title of vice president and general counsel of the Harriman lines, those of New York who came in contact with him remarked, 7 "Pretty shrewd chap that, but we will have to polish off some of his rough edges. They might be all right down in Texas, where lawyers and railroad magnates have to deal with cattle punchers, but they won't go In New York." Is Still a Texan. Judge Lovett has been In New York now three years and he Is still in every essential a Texan. If any polishing has been done he was the polisher. Just who the pollshees are can best be guessed after taking a cursory glance at the roads' that have fallen into Harriman hands since Judge Lovett came here in an executive and advisory capacity. With a reputation established in Texas as one of the shrewdest men In the state, it Is but natural that he should have attracted the attention of Harriman, especially when the Judge was a big man In the legal department of the Gould Interests. Harriman was qulok to recognize his worth, and he became counsel for the Southern Pa

cific, with offices in Houston, and so

well did he serve his new master that he was soon rewarded and brought to New York, and made .the "whole thing" In the legal department of the Harriman lines.

243 IN NEW GARDEN. County Superintendent C. W. Jordan visited the Fountain Oity and New Garden township schools yesterday and was much pleased with the opening of the schools In this township The high school of Fountain City with 57 students has the largest enrollment in its history this year. The total enrollment of the New Garden township schools is 243.

No cooking, no bother. No worry Post Toasties

Are always ready To serve from the pkg. With cream and sugar, And sometimes f rait. A dish which delights Company and home folks. Made of white corn, naked end toasted. "The Memory lingers' PkC3. 10 & IS cts. At Grocers.

CITY IN BRIEF

'Price's Ice Cream is certainly first class and then you have nine flavors to select from. Mrs. Rov Stratton who was operated

on successfully at Reid Memorial hos

pital recently has been removed to her home. Peach Cobler Ice Cream, Walnut Bisque Sundaes, Marshmallow Sundaes and other popular refreshments at Price's. Herbert Cotton and a companion left yesterday on a bicycle trip through southern Indiana. They will visit Wyandotte Cave, Ky., and then return home. Fresh Oysters at Price's by the pint or quart. Fresh 'Oysters served at Price's as you like them best. Whitman's, Mender's and Prices own fine chocolates. ,

PARCHMENT.

It Was Invented for the Greek. When I'apyra. AV Scarce. There is no evidence that papyrus was grown for commercial purposes outside of Egypt during the whole Roman period, and the Industry of Its growth and manufacture must have been a large and profitable one. In the time of Tiberius a sedition was nearly caused by a scarcity of paper, and a rebellious paper maker, in the days of Aurelian, boasted that he could equip au army from the profits of bis business and did it too. Parchment was Invented - by the Greeks when papyrus was scarce, and the middle ages reinvented it. There Is evidence that linen rags were used in paper making as early as the eighth and ninth centuries. In paper of that period the fiber was chiefly linen, with traces of cotton, hemp and other fibers. The known specimens are of oriental origin and appear to have been clayed, like modern papers, the material used being a starch paste manufactured from wheat. The oldest manuscript written on cotton paper in England is in the British museum and dates from 1049 A. D.. and the oldest on the same material in the Paris National library is dated 1050. In 1085 the Christian successors of the Spanish Saracens made paper of rags Instead of raw cotton, which had been formerly employed.

A Little Mixed. After a meeting of the parish council in a New England town the chairman rose to sum up. "You keep us here," he said, "till 10 o'clock at night, and then you cast the town drains in our teeth. You keep us here plowing the sands, and then when all decent people are asleep you go Into the public drains, causing unnecessary friction. It won't do it's too barefaced to hold water." Harper's Weekly. A Sharp Seat. Tommy's Pop (explaining the mysteries of country life) Yes, a hen will sit on an egg and hatch It. Tommy Gracious! 1 should think it would hurt to sit on a hatchet. Philadelphia Record. Improving Times, "Darling, it seems to me that you are more beautiful every time I see you." "You must come and see me oftener. Jack." Brooklyn Life.

Are Ton Hungary t J "Are you Hungary?" "Yes, Siam." "Well, come along, I'll Fiji." National Geographic Magazine.

A tree with a lofty head has lew shade at its foot.

GOOD ASSIGNMENTS Three Changes in City Schools Announced by Superintendent Mott Today.

ARE TWO NEW PRINCIPALS

Announcement of the appointment of teachers to three important places in the city schools was made today, by superintendent T. A. Mott. The list of teachers and their assignments for the ensuing year will be announced next Monday by Mr. Mott. There will be several changes but most of which have been published. Miss Margaret Black of Columbus, Ohio, will succeed Miss Curtis, who resigned as instructor of the commercial department of the high school. Miss Black comes well recommended having had five years experience in the work. She is a graduate of the Ohio State university at Athens, Ohio. Prof. Conrad, who has been Instructor of mathematics in the Garfield school for two years, succeeds Mrs. Graves as principal of Baxter school. Mrs. Graves is a substitute teacher and served last year only because the authorities could not secure a permanent principal. Prof. Aima Tschaen, the new principal of the Flnley school, succeeds Prof. Will Wissler who goes to Madison, Ind., to accept the prlncipalship of the high school there. Mir. Tschaen has had a large amount of experience having taught in the district school for a number of years. Mr. Tschaen is at the present time at the home of his mother, north of Middleborough. GRIFFITH AFTER BOSTON. Boston, Mass., Sept. 10. It is reported here that when ' Manager Griffith and the Reds were here on their last visit, Grif wanted to buy the local National league team. It is also "v reported that Griffith would come here as manager if hi could have secured an Interest or half Interest in the club.

CITY'S TAX RATE RAISED 12 COIIS

Increased Expenditures Runs The Rate Up to $2.82 on The Hundred Dollars.

15 CENTS FOR HIGH SCHOOL

TAX RATE FOR COMING YEAR IS ONE OF THE HIGHEST EVER

FIXED ON CITY PROPERTY

TABLE SHOWING DEPARTMENTS

Property owners of Richmond will pay a tax rate of ?2.82 per hundred dollars assessed valuation, next year. The rate has been increased twelve cents, due to the action of the officials of th school, city and the township advisory board. The rate for next year is one

of the highest rates ever fixed on city property.

No doubt the citizens of Richmond

will disapprove of the Increase in the tax rate. This year's rate of $2.70

cents was considered very high. How ever, ,the increase in the rate was nec

essary in order that improvements

might be made.

Officials of the school city who ordered the sale of $175,000 worth of

bonds to pay for the construction and equipment of the new high school,

Ninth and North B street, have to

guarantee payment on the bonds in ten years' time. In order to do this,

It was necessary to fix a levy of fifteen cents, known as the school house bond tax. The officials lowered other levies five cents, making the total in

crease for the school, city only ten

cents. Township Tax 11 Cents. The township tax as it affects Rich

mond property owners, is eleven cents, an increase of one cent for MorrissonReeves library and one cent raise for the poor account. The expenses of the library were greater than the receipts

and necessitated the Increase.

A table showing the tax rate of the state, county, city, school city, and township, as it affects Richmond prop

erty holders Is as follows: Department. Tax Rate.

State $0,33 7-20 County 45 13-20

City .... 1.10 Township as effects Richm'd .11 South L street improvement .02 School city .80

Total $2.82

A QUAINT OLD CITY.

Bragn, the Chief Industry of Vhit-: Is Lace Makioe. Bruges lace has been made in fu convents of Bruges by old worne: whose hands have grown still clickin; the bobbins back and forth, who lonrn ed when they were children from othc. old women, who in turn had learned i from other old women, aud so ou bac! for hundreds of years. Lace making i: the chief industry of this city of Bel gium, the capital of the province o.' West Flanders, but that it has no: made for the prosperity of the plac is attested by the fact that in a popu lation of something like 50,000 then are 15,000 paupers. It Is a very qua in: old city, the corporation of weavers o! Bruges having been celebrated in tht time of Charlemagne. It reached th height of its prosperity In the fifteentl. century, when it was one of the great commercial emporiums of the world and was famed far and wide for itstapestries. The great prosperity, how ever, led to such extravagant habits in dress and social life that Charles V. was obliged to pass stringent sumptuary laws. Complications between sub

sequent rulers and the people led to the removal of all trade to Antwerp and the ruin of Bruges as a commercial center, but the name and fame of Its lace have been imperishable. New

York Herald.

A Whale' Jawbones.

The jawbones of a whale are. sometimes twenty feet in length, and the mouth, when wide open, is 12 by 18 feet. The throat, however, is so small as scarcely to admit a hen's egg. The whale gets his living by straining the

animalculae and small fish out of the water he takes into his capacious

mouth. It must be slow work, but

then he has plenty of time and nothing

else to do, so he attends to his eating

so regularly that he often accumulates a ton of oil in his bulky system.

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The mines have already advanced the price, and the dealer must follow. You can save in buying now, as the price will soon ABVAMCE 75c PER TON

Pocahontas Coal vary in quality. It pays to know the grade you are getting. We handle it from two mines that produce the highest quality. If you buy C. C. IB. or flaitt Top you have the best We have lust finished supplying the City Schools, City Building and Postoffice with this coal. They buy it because it is the best

Betttteir Pay

Than Walt and Pay $5.00 LATE IS When You Must

The U. S. Government is the largest user of Pocahontas Coal, because by testing It proved to be unequaled for the generation of steam and domestic purposes. It is the standard by which the Government grades all other coal and therefore POCAHONTAS IS TO THE COAL WORLD WHAT THE STERLING MARK IS TO SILVER. --- - ... 25 Cars, Wile Tfiiey Last!, all 84L25' 1 We have 25 cars of this coal bought and will all be here In the next ten days, which we will sell at $4.25 while they last.

WE TOLD YOU SO NOW, AND IF YOU PUT IT OFF TILL TOO LATE, DON'T BLAME US.

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RULES FOR CYCLISTS.

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Quaint Rearulations That Ar.

forced In ForelK Landa. In some foreign countries and cities there are rules aud regulations for women cyclists which are decidedly quaint, according to the American way of thinking. Russian women are not allowed to own cycles except by royal permission, and it is sparingly given. In fact, until comparatively lately, there have been but few Russian wheel women, and the majority of these belonged to the royal family. In France women cyclists are plentiful, but a curious law exists which prevents a married woman joining a touring club unless she can present a signed declaration from her husband that be is willing that she should do so. In Germany women cyclists are obliged to pass an examination before the city police showing that they have perfect control of their bicycles before they can obtain permission to ride In the streets, and they must carry with them their license on their cycles. In Vienna no wheelwoman Is allowed to take her bands from the handle bars while riding in the streets, and In Florence the fair cyclist is compelled to carry two bells on her machine to warn pedestrians of her vicinity. These rules are all for the special benefit of women and do not apply to men, who doubtless are considered more capable of controlling the vagaries of the giddy wheel. New York American.

Taft, Declares Humor Is An American Necessity

Buffalo, N. Y., Sept. Id President Taft has declared that humor is just as much a necessity to the American people as laws, food, clothing, musical comedies and patent medicines. According to the message conveyed to the American Press Humorists' association, holding its annual session tn Buffalo, the Chief Executive believes that the newspaper humorist is just as useful as a president andx decidedly more inexpensive. The following message received from the president pleased the humorists immensely. It caused the first hearty

AN OLD WELSH HOME.

Early Rising Royalty. According to the following entry in Pepys' diary of March 7, 1659, royalty rose somewhat earlier in the-day than is the custom now for the purposes of witnessing sport. Pepys says, "I hear that the king (Charles II.) and the Duke of York set out for Newmarket by 3 in the morning to see some foot and horse races."

Free Translation. - Mrs. Reeder I wonder what this paper means by this: "Mr. Kadley 'a method of entertaining his guests was Quite original and unconventional?" Mr. Reeder It means simply that be is boorish, but has plenty of money. Philadelphia Ledger.

The Pure Food and Drug Law has not only brought the foods and drugs of this country np to a higher standard of purity, but It has eliminated the harmful medicines with which this country was flooded. Such medicines, however, as Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, purely a roots and herbs product, will continue its beneficial work among women.

INDIANAPOLIS SUNDAY

SION. Pennsylvania Lines, September 19.

count National German Catholic Cele4

Description of aa Interior, With Its Sanded Slate Fin a. Robert Fowler in his book, "Beautiful Wales," makes this pretty description of an old Welsh home: "The floor was of sanded slate flags and on them a long, many legged table, an oak settle, a table piano and some Chippen

dale chairs. There were also two tall clocks, and they were the most human clocks I ever met, for they ticked with effort and uneasiness. They found the hours troublesome and did not twitter mechanically over them, and at midnight the twelve strokes always narly ruined them, so great was the effort. "On the wall were a large portrait of Spurgeon, several seta of verses, printed and framed, in memory of dead members of the family, an allegorical tree watered by the devil and photographs of a bard. There were about fifty well nsed books near the fire and two or three -men smoking and one man ; reading some serious book aloud by the only lamp, and a girl was carrying out the week's baking of large loaves, flat fruit tarts of blackberry, apple and whinberry, plain golden cakes, 'large, soft currant biscuits and curled oat cakes. "And, outside, the noises of a west wind and a flooded stream, the whimper of an otter and the long, slow laugh of an owl, and always silent, but never forgotten, the restless, towex-

EXCURs-ing outline of a mountain.

WENT TO GREENSFORK. John M. Wampler, John C. Bayer, Michael Kelly, Mr. Moore, Claude Taylor and Will W. Reller formed a party which went to Greensfork last night, and assisted the K. of P. lodge in putting on the second degree. The Richmond Knights were guests at a supper following the work. The Greensfork lodge which was recently Instituted is meeting with much success.

REV. MR. CASE COMING. Rev. Clarence M. Case, who resigned as pastor of the South Eighth Street Friends church In order to accept a position at Providence, R- I., and also complete his education, accompanied by his wife, wiM arrive Monday and be the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Walter J. Doan.

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TRYING TO CATCH a bird with salt is a foolish Idea. It is do more foolish, however, to expect your horse to keep up on cheap and unwholesome grain and hay. We expect the arrival of a car of Northern Indiana OATS about , the 6th of September, and you can rest assured that they will be the best that the market offers. We also carry a large stock of choice Timothy and Clover Hay.

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laugh that the convention has heard. It read: Please convey to the American Press Humorists in convention in Buffalo my warmest greetings. Tell them for me that they can be engaged In no better vocation than making people laugh. Humor Is like the buffer between two heavy railroad cars. It relieves the jolts of life. It is a shock absorber. It makes the journey through the years easier and brightens the pathway all along the route. We Americana could not get along without humor. I hope the American Press Humorists convention will be a success from every standpoint They are doing a great work.

i.iMoicn oncrrfwu ucnu. Eaton, O., Sept. 10. John Robert, 6-months-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Sheppard, died Thursday at the home of bis parents. In Spice land, Ind. Mr. and Mrs. Sheppard former ly lived in Eaton. While her Mr. Sheppard held the position of ticket agent for the Pennsylvania lines. '

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No. 3413. Report of the Condition of the Union National Bank, at Richmond. In ths State of Indiana, at the close of business, Sept. 1, 190.

RESOURCES. Loans and Discounts 538,353.13 Overdrafts, secured and unsecured .. .. .. 3,656 M U. S. Bonds to secure circulation.. .. 140.000.00 U. S. Bonds to secure U. S. Deposits., .. .. . 1.000.00 U. S. Bonds on hand .. .. .. . .. 49.000.00 Premiums on U. S. Bonds .. .... 2,500.00 Bonds, securities, etc .. .. .. .. .. .. 135.735.00 Banking house, furniture, and fixtures.. .. .. 2,500.00 Due from National Banks (not reserve agents) .. ...t 4.43L42 Due from approved reserve agents .. 155,828.03 Checks and other cash Items .. .. .. .. 988.98 Notes of other National Banks . .. . . .. 8,600.00 Fractional paper currency, nickels and cents ...... 123.38 Lawful Money Reserve in Bank, viz: Specie 41.400.00 Legal-tender notes .. .. 73.000.00 284.3TL81 Redemption fund with TJ. S. Treasurer (S percent of circulation) .. 7,000.00

Total .. .. $1.164.11J2

LIABILITIES.

Capital stock paid in .. 150.0O0.to jSurplus fund .. .. .. 80.000.00 I Undivided profits, less expenses and taxes paid 35491.17 National Bank notes outstanding 140,000.00

Individual deposits subject to check.. .. 700.017.78

Demand certificates of deposit .. .. .. 17,907.97 United States deposits 1.000.00 718325.75 U. S. Bond Acct. .. .. .. .. .. 40.000.00

Total.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..$1,164,11192

State of Indiana. County of Wayne, ss: ' I, E. II. Cates. cashier of the above-named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. E. H. CATES, Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 10th day of September, 1909. BENJ. F. HARRIS, Notary Public. My Com. expires Oct. 2, 1911. . . j. Correct Attest: LM.RIDENOUR. W. D. LOEHR. B. Q. I2BBE3D,