Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 35, Number 18, 25 November 1909 — Page 1

EICHMONB PAIXABIXJM 4ND otlST-TELEGRAM. M VOL. XXXV. NO. 18. RICH3IOND, im, THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 23, 1909. SINGLE COPY, 2 CENTS. A FORTUNE SPENT FOR HOME FEASTS THANKSGIVING DAY EFFECTS OF THE LIOUOR DECISION BEING DISCUSSED GOVERNOR MOVED OY THE APPEALS: PAROLES GRANTED His Royal Turkeyship, Price 25 Cents Per Pound

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It Is Estimated That 2,000 Birds" Were Centerpieces In the Tables of Richmond Families. BIG HARVEST REAPED BY LOCAL DEALERS

Many Visitors Come to Spend The Day With Relatives and Friends Observance in Most of the Churches. Tt is estimated that a large juicy turkey was the center of attraction on approximately 2,000 tables In the city today. At least that number of families consumed the big gobblers and considering the average weight of a turkey to be twelve pounds and at a cost of 23 cents a pound, the total amount of money spent on turkeys alone in Richmond aggregated $5,520. Notwithstanding the fact that the price of the birds is high, the usual number was sold, practically everyone realizing that Thanksgiving wouldn't be Thanksgiving without the presence of a big gobbler on the dinner table. Although the cost put an awful "crimp" in the purse of the willing producer, the turkey was bought even if the family was forced to go hungry for the remainder of the week. Day of Big Feasting. Perhaps on no other one day in the year are such good dinners provided in almost every home in the city as on Thanksgiving day. Hundreds of bushels of potatoes floating in perfect seas of gravy, thousands and thousands of cranberries, without which all Thanksgiving dinners would be dismal failures, tons of dressing, and in fact everything possible in the line of edibles adorned the tables of thousands of families in Richmond today. Can't you just picture the hundreds of small boys in the city today who after gorging themselves to what appears to be the limit of human endurance, passing the plates again to Pater Familias for the 'steenth time, and between mouthfuls, asking for more stuffin 'and a few more chunks of the white meat? , The doctors are preparing for a busy time tomorrow, and there no doubt will be many cases of acute indigestion resulting from this great feast day. But who cares for a little Indigestion? In this case the means seem to justify the end, to quote an old saying backwards. It would be hard to imagine a small boy following tbe advice of his physician on this day to "Fletcherize" his food. Many Visitors Here. The interurbans were crowded all through the day, carrying people out of the city and bringing others in. The railroads also did a great business, and a number of Richmond people spent their Thanksgiving in Cincinnati and Indianapolis, these, two cities being favorites with local persons. v Thanksgiving services were held in practically all of the churches and were largely attended. Special musical programs were rendered. J Ical nimrods took advantage of the day to flock into the fields and surrounding woods of Wayne county where they might engage in their fa-j vorite sport. Hundreds of rabbits and quail were killed today by the hunt ers. Richmond has cause for great rejoicing on this day. There are many things to be thankful for. Throughout the day baskets of provisions were sent out to brighten the home of many poor families of the city and the Asso ciated Charities did a great amount of .good. PracJJcally every poor family in Richmond was aided by this worthy organization and many sad hearts were made glad. INSTALL NEW GONG Modern Fire Apparatus Placed at Waterworks Pumping Station. Is IT SHOWS FIRE LOCATION A new fire gong has been installed at the water works pumping station east of the city. The gong is of the latest and most up to date style, and makes an open circuit from the city to the pump house. When an alarm of fire sounds now the new gong, registers the number and location of the fire Just the same as do the gongs in the different hose houses over the city. The old gong at the pumping station was very erratic. By the installation of the new apparatus the officials at the pump house know instantly where the fire is located and In case extra water pressure is needed are able to supply the demand much quicker than heretofore by the old system.

ARE TO CIRCULATE COUNTRY REPORT Spokane Wants People to Know Contents of Report Of Commission. DISCUSS FARM PROBLEMS AGRICULTURISTS IN THE WESTERN STATES ARE GREATLY INTERESTED IN THE BETTERMENT OF CONDITIONS. Spokane, Wash., Nov. 25 Arrangements have been completed by the Spokane chamber of commerce to print for free distribution the report of the Country Life Commission, appointed by President Roosevelt in 1908 to make a tour of the farming states for the purpose of investigating conditions and calling the farmers attention to the opportunities for modern business methods and better living on the farm. The request to publish the findings of the commission and the president's special message, transmitting the report, came from a meeting of 500 men and women, representing various parts of the western and Pacific states, gathered in Spokane to discuss country life problems and rural school betterment under the joint chairmanship of David Brown and Edwin A. Smith. The convention also endorsed a plan to secure from the governors of the Pacific Northwest a joint commission on country life without expense to the respective states. Supported by Dolliver. The commission's report was read in the United States senate on Febru

Turkey DinnerforSixCost$8.40 New York, Nov. 25. That the American public in the last forty years has swung back almost to the prices of the days immediately following the civil war, so far, at least, as its Thanksgiving dinners are concerned, is shown by the calculations of hotel men and restaurant keepers in this city. A full Thanksgiving dinner for six persons, which shall include all the things mother used to make, from turkey and cranberry sauce down to coffee, will cost in this year of grace just $S.40, plus any amount one cares to name if one will look upon the wino when it is red or on the champagne when it fizzeth. The $8.40, however, holds good for those who stick to hot coffee and cold water. In 1869, at the close of the great war, when war time prices obtained, the cost of the very same dinner was $9.10, giving a difference of only seventy cents in favor of the present generation. In 1879 the dinner cost $6.70, in 1889, $5.80, in 1889 $4.80 and in 1909, as thousands of woeful bill payers know, $8.40. The only article on the menu of thirteen items which has not fluctuated in price is coffee. The time honored, abiding, henceforth and forever cost of this standby is one dime. But grouped around this one rock is a mass of fluctuating figures. Turkey costs $4.20, a return to the war time price, after striking low water in 1S39, when it could be had for $2.10. The rest of the list varies in a similar manner, and nine dishes on the list have returned to the original higbwater mark. A detailed list which follows will speak for itself: 1909. 1899. ' 1889. 1879. 1S69. Celery $ .60 $ .30 $ .40 $ .50 $ .60 Olives and radishes 25 .15 .20 .20 .25 Oysters 35 .20 .30 .30 .35 Soup 25 .15 .20 .20 .25 Turkey 4.20 2.10 2.40 2.70 4.20 Dressing 25 .15 .20 .20 .25 Cranberries .25 .25 .30 .40 .50 Sweet Potatoes .30 .20 .35 .45 .60 Potatoes 20 .10 .15 .15 .20 Mince Pie 1.00 .60 .70 .85 1.00 Cheese .25 .15 .20 . .25 .30 Coffee ; 10 .10 .10 .10 .10 Bread, Butter, Rolls 40 .25 .30 " .40 .50 Totals $S.40 $4.80 $5.80 $6.70 S9.lt

ary 9 and ordered to lie on the table, as the result of the opposition by Senator Tillman, who objected to its publication as a public document for the reason that the commission was appointed by President Roosevelt without authority from Congress; that it is not provided for by law, and that it has no legal function. Senator Dolliver spoke at length in its favor. The commission, which was headed by Dr. Liberty Hyde Bailey of Cornell, and included Henry Wallace, Kenyon L. Butterfield, Walter H. Page, Gifford Pinchot, C. S. Barrett and W. A. Beard, held 30 hearings between November 9 and December 22, 1908, when the sessions were attended by farmers and farmers wives from 40 states and territories. The hearings took place in the following cities: College Park, Md.; Richmond, Va.; Raleigh, N. C; Athens, Ga.; Spartanburg, S. C; Knoxville, Tenn.; Lexington, Ky.; Washington, D. C; Dallas, El Paso, Tuscon, Ariz.; Los Angeles, Fresno, San Francisco, Sacramento, Reno, Nev.; Portland, Ore.; Salt Lake City, Spokane, Opportunity, Wash.; Cheyenne, Bozeman, Mont.; Denver, Council Bluffs, Minneapolis (St. Anthony's Park), Madison, Wis.; Champaign, 111.; Ithaca, N. Y.; Springfield, Mass.; Boston.

BURGLAR KILLS RIM (American News Service) New Orleans, Nov. 2 !. Burglars murdered George Eichorn, a wealthy German at his home today and escaped with eight thousand dollars. The body was thrown down a well. Tbe six members of his family in the house heard no struggle. Thirteen grams of radium chloride have been produced at the -imperial Austrian radium factory, located at St. Joachimsthal. It Is estimated that this mineral has a value of $4.VM to ifoO.COO a gram, or more than ?K),o(K) for the entire amount. Pure metallic radium is never seen.

DURB1N DIEEERS WITH LOCAL MAN

He Don't Agree With' Foulke Regarding Conditions In This State. HE SALVES UP PRESIDENT AND THEN TAFT READ TO HIM THE SPICY CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN HIM AND EX-CIVIL SERVICE CHIEF. Washington, Nov. 25. There is one Indiana man who can tell, if he will, what William Dudley Foulke recently wrote to President Taft and what the President wrote in reply. That man is former Governor Durbin. Col. Durbin has listened to every word of the spicy correspondence and it was read to him by no less distinguished a person than the President himself. When Col. Durbin went to the White House the other day to pat the President on the back, figuratively speaking, praise his Winona speech and tell him that the substantial, thinking people of Indiana are for him, the President could not forego reading to him the letter of Mr. Foulke in which the Richmond publicist broke the news to him that he has precious few friends in Indiana. Smiles Over Own Answer. The story told him by Durbin was so different from the plain and unvarnished epistle from Foulke, that the President smiled as he pushed a button and directed an attendant to bring in the Foulke-Taft correspondence. It seemed to Col. Durbin that there was a gleam of exultation in his eye when he was reading the plain and unvarnished answer which he sent to Mr. Foulke's plain and unvarnished communication. The White House adhered to its determination not to give out the correspondence for publication, so it is altogether likely that the honor of being the only man to know the exact language of'this verbal set-to will be enjoyed by Col. Durbin. IDENTITY OE MEN SEEMS Ml SURE Two Alleged "Hold-ups" Now In Preble County Jail At Eaton. TRIED TO LOOT A BANK SIMPSON, ONE OF THE PAIR UNDER ARREST, CONFESSED HE TOOK PART IN WEST MANCHESTER AFFAIR LAST MONTH. George Chandler, alias Graves, who with Claude Simpson attempted to hold up J. Warren Leas the cashier of the bank at West Manchester, Ohio, sev eral weeks ago was placed1 in the Preble county jail at Eaton yesterday

by Sheriff Bonner who went to St. Louis to effect the arrest. Simpson

already is reposing in the Preble coun ty jail. Graves was arrested several days ago by Pinkerton detectives. Cashier Leas will visit Eaton in an attempt to identify the two men. The description which he furnishes of the two who attempted the hold up, tallies very minutely with that of the two men. It will be recalled that on the afternoon of October 19, two men entered the bank at West Manchester and at the point of guns ordered Leas to hold up his hands. The cashier fired and scared away the would-be robbers. Simpson, was a Big Four train dispatcher, and confessed to being one of the two 'teen who attempted to rob the West Manchester bank. He declared that they had avoided the bloodhounds by walking on the metal rail, to which scent does not adhere. Letters from George Chandler, found in Simpson's room, shows that the two had planned to rob a bank near Indianapolis. MEDIUM DEATH RATE In Richmond It Is Not Very High, Nor Is It Very Low Right Now. STATISTICS OF THE CITIES (Palladium Special) Indianapolis, Nov. 25. East Chicago had the heaviest death rate of anv city in Indiana during the month of beptember, according to the report of the state board of health, and Peru had the smallest. The death statistics for the cities are given as follows: , Total population, 1,050,310. report 1,195 deaths; rate, 13.8. In the same month last year, 1,192 deaths; rate, 13.8. The city death rate is 2.0 higher than the rate for the whole state, and 3.2 higher than the country rate. The death rates of cities having over 10,000 population are as follows: Indianapolis, 13.8; Evansville, 11.5; Ft. Wayne. 13.4; Terre Haute, 15.5; South tiend, 14.2; Anderson, 14.6; Columbus, 12.2; East Chicago, 27.7; Elkhart, 13.5; Elwood, 8.8; Hammond. 13.4; Jeffersonville, 16.2; Kokomo, 11.4; Lafayette, 19.4; La port e, 20.7; Logansport, 16.7; Marion, 9.0; Michigan City, 18.0; Muncie. 10.5; New Albany, 10.6; Peru, 6.9; Richmond, 14.3; Vincennes, 9.6. SUCCEEDS WARRIIIER (American News Service) New Ydfk, Nov. 21. Directors of the Big Four railroad at the meeting today appointed Rush N. Harry, treasurer at Cincinnati to succeed Vice Warriner. They also adopted the pension system for employes the same as the New York Central. HANLY STILL ACTIVE. Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 25. Former Governor J. Frank Hanly has filed an appeal to the Supreme Court in his case to prevent the payment of tbe 1120,000 worth of Vincennes University bonds by the state. He was defeated In the Superior Court of this county. Judge Vinson Carter holding that the Legislature had the right to provide for the bond issue. THE WEATHER. INDIANA Partly cloudy and colder Friday.

Supreme Court's Ruling Far Reaching and Regarded the Most Important Ever Rendered on Liquor Laws.

COUNTY OPTION MAY BE AFFECTED SOME Temperance People Believe Decision Will Cause Many Supporters to Change Opinions and Vote Wet. (Palladium Special) Indianapolis, Nov. 25. There is widespread discussion of the probable effects of the decision of the supreme court, handed down Tuesday, in which it was held that brewers and wholesale liquor dealers cannot sell liquor to private consumers. It ts regarded as the most important decision of the liquor laws that has ever been made in the state, for its effects will be far reaching. Just what effect the decision will have on the county local option law is a serious question with many persons who have been discussing it. There are many who profess to see in the decision a lot of trouble for the local optionists, for they believe it will cause many men to vote wet who formerly voted dry at local option elections in the various counties. The Dry Liberals. "There are thousands of liberal men in Indiana who voted dry at local option elections because they wanted to drive out the objectionable saloons. said one man, who is a close observer. "They are men who are not opposed to liquor as a general proposition. They want to take a drink when they please, but they do not want the open saloon in their midst where their boys can get drunk. Many of them kept beer in their homes or In their ice box so they could take a drink when they wanted to. ButMuider-this de cision how are they going to get it? When they find they cannot get it at all in a dry county I believe many of them will vote to restore the saloons. The people are not ready for prohibition." There is also a belief that the liquor question is now almost sure to get back into politics, even in spite of the strenuous efforts of many of the leaders to keep it out. The republicans do not want the questions injected into the next campaign, and the majority of the democrats are of the same belief. But one democrat, who is a leader of his party, said yesterday afternoon that he was very much afraid the recent decision by the supreme court will so arouse and encourage the brewers and the liquor people that they will jump in and take absolute charge of the democratic organization next year and slip into the platform a plank on the liquor question. If they do this it will drag the whole question into the campaign again. Max Resent Attempt. "I am afraid tbe liberal people of the state will resent the attempt to control their appetites by law," said one man. "They will feel that it is going pretty far when the law undertakes to prevent men from taking a drink when they want to, and this !s likely to' react against the temperance movement," The Anti-Saloon league people, however, are elated over the decision of the supreme court, and they declare that it will work much good, especially in dry territory. J. Frank Hanly was at the state house soon after the decision was handed down, and as he read it over he wore a broad smile. 'S FIRST NIGHT The Coliseum Opened With a Jolly Crowd of Roller Skaters. NEW MUSIC IS PROMISED The Coliseum opened last night and the skating fiends are happy. While the crowd at the opening was not large as last year, and was not entirely up to the expectations of the management, it was a very enthusiastic and fairsized bunch and the skating was enJoyed to Its fullest extent. There were more than the usual number of falls, due perhaps to the large number of beginners, and the slippery condition of the skating surface. The floor has been scraped and is in excellent condition. There was only one disappointing feature to the opening and that was the music If It Is the intention of the management to bore the crowds again this winter with the same old pieces which are beginning to grate very much on one's nerves, it is doubtful if the skating season in Richmond will

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Four Prisoners Favored by the

Chief Executive to Spend Thanksgiving With Members of Families. MOTHERS PLEAD FOR CLEMENCY FOR SONS Stork Hovering Above His Home Gains the Release of Ernest Wood From Bars of The Rockport Prison. Indianapolis, Nov. 2.".. Governor Marshall meted out cause for Thanks, giving yesterday to four prisoners anl their families. In two rases mothers were the solicitors who moved the official heart, in one It was the hovering stork, and In another it was the prisoner's devotion to a dying mother. In order to beat the stork hovering over the home of Mrs. Rosa Wood of Rockport. Governor Marshall found it necessary to telegraph the sheriff to release Ernest Wood. The arrival of the stork is timed for today and It vu the prayer of Mrs. Wood that her husband be by her side. Asked a Remission. Some time ago Governor Marshall was solicited by Mrs. Wood, but her petition called for a remission of ths fine against her husband, who was being held in the county Jail. In such cases the county treasurer and othr county officers connected with the col lection and disbursement of public funds are required to sign the petition. Mrs. Wood was told to secure these signatures, which she did. Wood was fined 10O and given six months for malicious trespass and had served the time. , A full and unconditional pardon was granted W. M. McCarty at Michigan City serving sentence for burglary. McCarty Is" dying' of consumption, -without a chance for life, according to the penitentiary officials. His case Is one which in other particulars is not deserving of clemency. Governor Marshall, however, was touched by the devotion of his gray-haired mother. She has been a most persistent solicitor, being one of tbe first to rail upon Governor Marshall when his term of office began. She has made frequent visits since, always on tbe same errand. When she despaired of release she moved to Michigan City, and since her son became hopelessly ill has visited him as regularly as prison officials would allow. Boy Leaves Workhouse. Robert Hill was paroled from the Marlon County workhouse and the order for bis release turned over to his mother, who proceeded at once to the work house and secured the boy's liberty. Hill was sentenced for the alleged theft of a bicycle. He told a story to the court of having turned the wheel over to his mother for return, which the court was unable to verify in the absence of the mother, who was out of the city. She told Governor Marshall that she had placed tbe wheel In a repair shop In order that It might be returned In proper condition. When she reached hlme she found the boy had been arrested and convicted, the court not believing his story. It was a first offense. William Pavey of Salem was released on thirty-day parole from Jeffersonville by Governor Marshall over a month ago to go to the bedside of bU dying mother. Tbe period of the parole passed without death's arrival. The parole was renewed for another thirty days. Before It expired the mother died, and ordinary circumstances tbe parole ends when cause for its continuance no longer exists. The neighbors and friends, officers of the court and influential citizens, however, signed a peUUon recommending that tbe parole be made permanent Instead of temporary, giving as cause the fact that Pavey had nursed his mother so faithfully, anticipating hr wants and wishes In such devoted manner that he had merited the faith which the state Is asked to place In him. Governor Marshall granted the parole. In all cases of parole a monthly report to prison officials Is required and a promise to abstain from the use of Intoxicating liquors. be a very successful one. There la great consolation In the fact that nev music has' been ordered, according to one of the managers, and the fiends are now hoping for Its speedy arrival. SHAW FUIIERAL HELD Hagerstown, Ind.. Nov. 25. William Shaw, age seventy-one years, was burled at Salem Baptist church, three miles from here. Mr. Shaw was bora and lived all his life on the Shaw homestead near here, on a tract of 130 acres, which he Inherited at the deaths of his parents, many years ago.

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