Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 35, Number 49, 27 December 1909 — Page 1

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. VOL. XXXV. NO. 49. RICHMOND, IND., MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 27, 1909. SINGLE COPY, 2 CENTS.

Governor Calls Out The Militia To Help Victims of Hurricane

As Result of the Great Storm in Vicinity of Boston, Three Persons Are Dead, Thirty-one Are Reported Missing, and The Property Loss Is Extremely Heavy Hundreds of People Are Homeless and Are Being Quartered in Theaters, Public Halls, Churches and Other Places.

DYKE AT CHELSEA WAS BROKEN DOWN BY FIERCE WAVES And the Panic Stricken Population Hurriedly Left the Town and Sought Refuge From the Sea. COMMUNICATION WITH CAPE COD DESTROYED Two Days' Storm in New York Has Done Great Damage And Armies of Men Are at Work to Repair Damages. (Bulletin.) (American News Service) Boston, Dec. 27. The loss In Boston alone from the storm Is five million dollars. The latest details indicate several vessels have been sunk and many lives lost at sea. Wreckage consisting of the pilot houses, cabins and portions of a cargo have been -washed ashore at several points. Among the wreckagejs furniture from the schooner "Davis1 Palmer." She .carried a crew of twenty. Dozens of other vessels have been washed ashore where their condition Is perilous. Another tlda? wave struck Chelsea this morning, and fifteen hundred persons who had returned to their homes, were again driven out by the floods. Armory and churches are filled with refugees. (American News Service) Boston, Dec. 27. Three persons dead, thirty-one reported missing and 2,500 homeless Is today's summary of the havoc wrought by the breaking of a dyke of Chelsea by the tide during yesterday's storm. The property loss Is estimated at $10,000,000. The home less are being cared for In public feel Ings and Governor Draper has order ed the state militia to assist. Cornelius Hawkins and his wife wprn drowned when the tide broke through the dyke. Could Have Been Saved. Hawkins might have been saved but stayed by the side of his wife, who Is an Invalid. It was estimated that the storm caused a half million dollars loss in this city. At the height of the storm Captain John W. Small, of Boston and his entire crew of nine nen from the three-masted schooner Nantasket, which had come ashore at Bands Hills Beach, were rescued by the volunteer crew of the Massachusetts Human society. The vessel in 11 probability will be a total loss. Cape Cod is entirely cut off from the rest 'of the world today. Telephone and telegraph wires are all down and not for more than half a century has such widespread havoc been reported. When communication with the Cape was lost several vessels were known to be in dangerous locations and it is feared that some of them failed to weather the storm. . Steamer in Distress. At Buzzards Bay a big steamer was reported in distress. Her identity was unknown. The tide was the highest since 1851 and went completely over the streets in Provincetown. The shore on all sides of the peninsula was lashed by the heavy sea and it is believed several vessels went down during the frightful gale and that many lives must have been lost. NEW YORK IS BUSY. New York, Dec. 27. The work of repairing the damage wrought by the storm of the last two days was taken tip today in halt a dozen states. Millions of dollars' damage has been dons by the blizzard and tidal waves that have buffeted the East and the Atlantic coast. Seventeen persons today are known to be dead in New York alone as the result of this the wo.st storm of two decades. Thousands of miles of railroads have been tied up and 'wire communication throughout the affected region crippled. Gigantic efforts ere being .put forth bv every railroad and telegraph company to bring ordet out of chaos. Conditions are being slowly remedied, , It

Is feared that the deathlist will amount considerably higher as the details of

the storm's efforts arrive. Fresh reports of the havoc show that the storm is the wore that has been experienced since the great New York blizzard of 1888. Seven Thousand Working. In New York Cits alone today, 7.000 men were working witn mignc ana main to clear the streets of the close banked snow. Many of these have been laboring constantly for 35 hours. Trains, delayed from two to twelve hours, began arriving early today on the various lines. The Pennsylvania lines as far as Washington, the New Yorh Central, New York, New Haven and Hartford roads were the principal sufferers, and at plnces traffic on these lines was practically abandoned during the storm, while all energy was devoted to clearing the right of way. As a result the trains vere moving slowly. Boston. Mass.. Dec. 27 Two thous and men, women and children ar homeless and being cared for in theaters and public halls and two score are reported as missing, as the result of the inundation of a section of the city of Chelsea. Mass., half a mile square, in the district which was devastated by the great conflagration of not quite two years ago. The known drowned, whose bodies have been recovered, are an aged cou pie, Cornelius Hawkins and his wife, whose bodies police officers in a rowboat, took from their flooded home. The terrific hurricane which has rag ed along the New England coast during the past 20 hours, littering it with wrecks, was responsible for the second Chelsea, disaster of the decade. Last night Chelsea was in total darkness. Live Wires Abound. The gas plant is In the flooded dis trict, and owing to the great number of live wires in the streets the electric light company was ordered not to turn on the power. A cordon of police reserves guarded the flooded district trom thieves and to prevent any of the refugees from returning to their homes, as the return of the flood tide last night again cov ered the section. All day the police were rowing in boats through the streets, rescuing people from their homes. The Chelsea Board of Control appointed a Re lief committee, and Governor Draper of Massachusetts, caused a supply of mattresses, blankets and food to be sent to the State Armory in Chelsea, where about 1,000 refugees have been given shelter. At the Gordon theater, the Scenic theater Elks' hall and Knights of Columbus's hall fully anoth er thousand were quartered. Scores of Tragic Scenes. Although Sunday's flooding of a section of Chelsea did not result in as great financial loss as that which at tended the former catastrophe, fully as many pathetic and tragic scenes were furnished by the fleeing, panic-stricken thousands. An aged sea wall, unrepaired since it was built, 65 years ago, gave way before the gale, and high beating waves in three different sections, and through each breach tons of water poured and roared through streets flanked by newly erected dwelling huses. The police were quick in coming to the rescue and did great work in aiding women and children from their home3 to places of safety. One of the refugees, a young woman, evidently scarcely out of her teens, with a baby in her arms, started to walk to Boston through the snow and slush, in places knee deep. She Fell Exhausted. She was but partially clad and the infant in her arms had nothing on but a thin shirt. She eluded those who endeavored to stop her until she finally dropped exhausted. They were taken to the Charden Street Home, in Boston. At the Frost hospital and other institutions at Chelsea there are hun dreds of women and very young children who are suffering seriously from exposure. Women with infants in their arms slept last night on the stages and in the seats of the tve theaters in Chel sea. Chairman William McClintock, of the Chelsea Board of Control, appointed to govern the city after its recent staggering disaster said that work would be begun at once to repair the sea wall and that hereafter the city would assume the responsibility of keeping it in repair. Fire Follows the Flood. The dike was built by the owners of the property it immediately protects from the ocean, each of whom declined responsibility for not keeping it in repair. The wall was 30 feet wide at the bottom, 10 feet wide at the top and 10 feet high. Shortly after nightfall the refugees were thrown Into a second panic by three alarms of fire coming in one after the other. Many of them had pass ed through the great Chelsea conflagration, and with that in mind, were anxious to get out of the city altogeth

er. The fires, however, proved to be of no great consequence and the fears of the refugees were lessened. Heavy Damage in Boston. One woman, with three small children, sought refuge at the home of ex-Mayor Beck, in the Powder Hill section, high -above the flooded district. They were taken in, and when 'the police came to take them to one ' of the relief stations the terror-strick-enwoman refused to leave the hill and remained at Mayor Beck's house through the night. In Boston and the greater city the damage wrought by the hurricane, heavy snowfall and extraordinary high tide, it is estimated will run over a million. The street and steam railway service was badly crippled and in the outlying sections there was practical ly no street car service. While the city proper was lighted as usual last night the Dorchester and Roxburv sections were dark, as were 16 of the suburban cities. Dangerous Wires Down. So many phone and telegraph wires littered the streets that the lighting conmanies were ordered by the fire departments not to turn on power. At Revere, Beechmont and various northshore points and at Hull, on the south short, many people were taken from their homes in boats. At Hull the life saving crew sent out their lifeboat to take people from the houses there. In Boston proper the greatest dam age was along the water front. Old sailors declared they had not seen such, a storm or such a remarkably high tide since 1852, when Minots' Light was dashed from its support. Atlantic avenue, the street whien runs parallel wun me naroor, was flooded to a depth of 18 inches and the tide reached to the Chamber of Commerce building on India street. something unparalleled in the history of the city. The damage to the warehouses along the water front is estimated at about $300,000. The water was five feet deen in the Revere Beach and Boston Railway Station and the ser vice on this road was discontinued al together. At Long Wharf, where the govern ment maintains its immigrant station, the waves dashed up against the quarters of the immigrants in Niag ara fashion. Inside the immigrants were panic stricken. Some of them knelt down and prayed, and others beseeched the officers to take them from the water front. Thousands of dollars worth of freight at the piers of the various steamship, lines were flooded and ruined. Between tides last evening men were offered $1 to $2 an hour to work moving freight away from the reach of the tide. Wreckage Lines the Shores. Prom every point along the New England coast that could be reached by wire there have come reports of wreckage lining the beaches. At 11:30 the steamer Boston from Yarmouth, due at 8 o'clock yesterday morning, came to her pier and reported a fearful experience. The Boston had been reported as lost, but came in without injury. The Ontario from Norfolk also came in 15 hours overdue, and Cap tain Bond, of that vessel, declared that in all his seagoing experience he had never experienced so fearful a storm as the one weathered Sunday. All day long the officers here to both lines had been besieged by anxious relatives of people on board, but no word of vessels could be secured until they arrived last night. Beverly, the summer home of Pres ident Taft was cut off from communication with the outside world by tele phone and telegraph. A messenger from Beverly late last night said that the storm and tide caused great damage along the water front. STOCK JDMPS DP THEN RUMS DOWN And Wall Street Ran Around Biting at Itself for a Short Time. ROCK ISLAND SENSATION STOCK BOARDS AN AIRSHIP AND SOARS FROM FIFTY UP TO EIGHTY, THEN ITS AEROPLANE HAS BAD ACCIDENT. New York, Dec. 27. Wild excitement prevailed in Wall Street today when Rock Island stock, which closed Friday at $50 a share, advanced by leaps and bounds to $S0 a share on heavy transactions. The advance of $30 a share carried the stock to its highest point in its history. Fifteen minutes later it was back, near the fifty mark again. The general opin ion is that the market was cornered and a manipulation was arranged for the purpose of squeezing out holders of short contracts. THE WEATHER. INDIANA AND LOCAL Generally fair tonight and Tuesday.

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SHE DIED SUDDENLY Miss Nellie Markley Expires After Spending Xmas With a Sister. A TUBERCULOSIS VICTIM Miss Nellie Markley. aged 17 years daughter of Mrs. Alice Markley died suddenly at her home north of the city early Sunday morning. Miss Marfcley had been afflicted with tuberculosis of the lungs for some time but her condition had not been regaraea as critical ana sne was permitted to spend Christmas day with her sister Mrs. Edward Garthwaite in this city. She returned home and retired as usual Christmas night. About 1:30 o'clock Sunday morning Mrs. Markley was awakened by a slight noise in her daughter's room and reached her side just as she was expiring. Miss Markley's death occurred just two weeks after that of her grand mother. The funeral will take place Tuesday morning and the burial will be in Greenville. RAILROADERS TD Oil JANUARY 3RD. Employes of the Roads East of Mississippi, Some 125,000, Will Be Affected in Proposed Action. WAGE INCREASE WILL VARY 12 TO 23 PER CT. JUSt What the Attitude Of the . I RailrOadS Will Be Remains To Be Seen Enthusiasm Is Not Shown. (American News Service) New York, Dec. 27. Announcement was made today that the formal de mands of the 125,000 railroad employes working on all the lines east of the Mississippi, would be laid before the railroad companies on January 3. In these demands, the men including pas senger and freight train conductors and switchmen, will demand a wage increase of from 12 to 23 per cent, according to the position they hold with the companies and length of service When the demands are laid before the employers, adjustment committees, representing each of the railroads, will, according to plans that have not yet been completed, meet another commit tee from the employes and endeavor to make terms that will be satisfactory to both parties and thus stave off what would be the most gigantic railroad strike in the history of the railroads of the East. Attitude is Uncertain. Just what the attitude of the railroads will be cannot be foretold. It is believed, however, that the demands of the men, insofar as the wage increase is concerned will be bitterly fought. Should the demands of the employes be accepted It would mean the annual expenditure of millions of dollars for extra wages. Vice President and Gen. Manager J. C. Stewart of the Erie today, said to the American News Service: "So far as the Erie is concerned the application of the maximum increase requested by the trainmen would amount to $10,000,000 increase annually in the cost of operating our lines. "However, we can do nothing until the demands of the trainmen have reached us. Just what attitude the directors of the Erie will assume, I cannot say at this time." AVIATOR WIS HURT (American News Service) Washington, Dec 27. Aviator Harry Or me today cancelled several flight plans as a result of the injuries suffer ed by his aeroplane at Brightwood. a suburb of Washington, yesterday. The accident was similar to that which happened to Orville Wright at Fort Meyer a little more than a year ago. A wire which controls the udder of the Or me biplane, broke, just as the machine was starting down the track. The wire got tangled up in the propellers, resulting in the destruction of the propellers, rudder and many wires on the rear of the machine. MBS. TRIMBLE DEAD Word has been received in this city of the death of Mrs. Elizabeth Trimble, In Covington, Ky., on Friday of last week. The deceased is the mother of Mrs. C. D. Patterson of this city. Her husband was Major Trimble. The local relatives have gone to Covington to attend the funeral.

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DEMANDS

EXPERT WITNESS

LEFT THE STAND AS COURT SMILED Farmer Testifies He Couldn't Smell Fertilizing Plant; Then It Develops that He Has Not a "Smeller." CLENDENIN CASE IS A MERRY ROMP TODAY After Dismissal of the "Ex pert" His Wife Succeeded Him and Furnished Every body With Much Laughter. Although John K. Smith, a farmer living near the Clendenin fertilizing plant, north of the city, has been de void of the sense of smell since a child, yet he was introduced this morning as a witness by the defense, in the case of William Pickett against William Clendenin. for $3,000 dam ages to property. Attorney Jonn . Bobbins, attorney for the plaintiff. who sprung the sensation with its comic feature, characterized the wit ness as a man with a deaf and dumb nose. The witness was one of the first in troduced this morning upon resumption of the case, which was continued over from last Friday. On his direct examination. Smith said that he lived near the fertilizing plant and had oc casion to pass within a short distance of it, almost every day. Property Not Damaged. lie bad noticed the steam arising from the vats but never a smell did he smell. And he also said that he was Positive that his property had not been damaged oecause it was within close proximity of the fertiliz ing plant. During his direct examin ation the witness . did not state that he was devoid of one of his five senses. When he was given to the counsel for plaintiff on cross examination, it developed that he had never smelled anything since a child. Of course, the witness's "expertness" was disproved and he was discharged amid general laughter including attorneys for both sides. Judge Fox and the large sized gallery. Summoned with Mr. Smith was his wife, and she was next placed on the stand. Mrs. Smith's sense of smell was not disproved as the plaintiff: counsel excused her without cross-ex aminatiou, but in direct examination she said that she never smelled the odors of the plant because, as she testified, "she was too busy." Mrs. I Smith kept the court attaches and at torneys in laughter most of the time. while on the stand, as a result of her sharp replies to questions of Perry J. Freeman, who examined the witness. Horse Scared to Death. Oliver Hodgin, a farmer, living on the Chester pike, near the fertilizing plant, was also placed on the stand. In the course of his examination, it developed that during the fall, one of his horses was scared to death and that his hogs ate the carcass. Follow ing his dismissal as a witness he ex plained to a reporter that he had attempted to throw a robe over the ani mal and it became frightened, dying a 6hort time arterwaras, irom nean failure, he presumed. As it was late in the evening, Mr. Hodgin left the horse lying in the barnyard and during the night its carcass was attacked by the bogs. The swine picked the animal clean, leaving only the bones. A GOOD COLLECTION At the Christmas services of St. Andrew's church, $310 was collected to be given to the orphans' home of the Indianapolis diocese, of which the local church is a member. The home is located at Indianapolis. The money has not been sent to the officials of the home as yet, as it is anticipated that the sum will be increased by contributions of members of the church who were unable to attend the Christmas services. IS Garnishment proceedings have been instituted in Justice Beyerle's court by Antonio Rocco against Thomas Spinell and Louis Mobile, proprietors of commissary. No. Ill, in the "Austrian camp, on Pennsylvania railroad, near Hiser's station, to recover about $30. On an Investigation by a constable of the justice's court, it was found that Spinell had turned the business over to Mobile and that the latter skipped to Pittsburg or some other assembly point, in the east, for Austrians. However, enough goods were left behind to insure creditors at least a portion of their claims, providing they axe successfully prosecuted,

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VEAL WAS STRICKEN

With Stroke of Paralysis While Driving to Home Near Greensfork. HE EXPIRED ON SUNDAY (Palladium Special) Greensfork, Ind., Dec. 27. David Veal is dead at his home, near Greens fork, as a result of a paralytic stroke. suffered last Friday. Mr. Veal was stricken with paralysis while he and John Roller. Sr.. were driving to their home. On arriving at their destination Mr. Veal was remov ed from the rig in an unconscious condition and a physician was hastily summoned, who gave little encourage ment at the time, stating that because of the man's age, 75 years, he did not believe he would survive the shock. Mr. Veal Is a veteran of the civil war and had been a resident of this community since childhood. There probably is not a nan In Wayne county who had a larger circle of friends. Prior to the attack Mr. Veal had been enjoying fairly good health. MERCHANTS VERY MUCH DELIGHTED OVER RIG TRADE It Is Thought That, Generally Speaking, Holiday Business Was 25 Per Cent Better Than Last Year. ALLJ1EC0RDS BROKEN AT THE POST OFFICE Business This Year at the Government Building Better Than Any Qther Two Christ mas Seasons. Merchants, who enjoyed such splendid holiday trade, characterized today as cleanup and exchange day and there was a generous amount of this kind of business at all of the stores in the city. At the post office, the wind up of the holiday business was completed Carriers delivered almost as many packages as they did on Friday and the postal cards were very conspic uous, the snow made it slow going for the carriers, as on uncleaned walks they would slide back one foot for every three of advancement made. Many Were Delayed. Many visitors who were unable to return to their homes last evening because trains and traction cars were late, thus causing connections in other cities to be missed, got an early start today. Some of the local people returning to the city had numerous adventures to relate, of how they were delayed by the snow storm. One man, who spent Christmas and Sunday in Middletown, said that he was over six hours in getting to Dayton, where he bad to spend last night, and be was three hours in getting to this city this morning on a Dayton and Western interurban car. Merchants were given an opportunity today to estimate their profits for the holidays, and although few could give an accurate estimate as to the result this season over that for the holidays of last year, yet it was estimated at not less than 25 per cent general in crease will be shown. Some felt that after a careful review of the books bad been made and comparisons complet ed, the result would be even greater. Did Great Business. Postmaster J. A. Spekenhier stated today that clerks who have been with the department for from 8 to 16 years, said that this year's business was double that of any two previous holiday seasons. The postal receipts of the office for December will be above the 10500 mark, it is believed. The number of pieces handled so far during the month can not be accurately esti mated, as no count is kept, but it is believed to be upward to one million. But one exception was made of the keeping of the records and this was on the part of rural route carriers. Each carrier counted the mail handled by him. The result of the count is a matter of private information for the postal officials at Washington. It is said that they had in view the gathering of statistics for use in proposed legislation, to come before the present session of congress. HOW CRUEL, HARRIS Turnkey Ray Harris worked seven of the prisoners at the county jail on cleaning off snow on the walks In the court house yard and around the square, this morning. He expected to vork a second shift of a like number this afternoon, la completing the .work.

GIFFORD PIIICHOT

MAKES A DEFENSE OF HIS METHODS He Denies the Charge That the Government Forest Bureau Has Exceeded Powers Giv en by Statute. TAKES A STRONG RAP AT PREDATORY WEALTH He Says That Is the Gravest Menace That Threatens the Prosperity and Morals of The Country. (American Ntwi Strvtrtff New Rochelle. N. Y.. Dec. 27. In an aidress on "Conservation and Equal Opportunity" delivered here this after noon before the People's Forum. Glfford Pinchot, chief of the United States Forest Service, defended his bureau against the charge that It has exceeded the powers granted it by law, and attacked predatory wealth as the gravest danger to the prosperity and morals of the nation. Mr. Pinchot said In part: "The American people have evident ly made up their minds that our nat ural resources must be conserved. That is good, but it settles only half the question. For whose benefits shall they be conserved -for the benefit of - the many, or for the use and profit of the few? The great conflict now be ing fought will decide. Nona So Important, "There are no other questions before us that begins to be so important, or that will be so difficult to straddle, as the great question between special interest and equal opportunity, between the privileges of the few and the rights of the many, between government by men for human welfare, and government by money for profit. This Is the heart of the conservation problem today. "The conservation is a moral Issue. When a few men get possession of one of the necessaries of life, either through ownership of a natural resource or through unfair business methods, and use that control to extort undue profits, as in the recentcases of the Sugar Trust and the beef packers, they Injure the average man without good reason, and they are guilty of a moral rong. The result is always the same -a toll levied on the cost or living through special privilege. An Unjust Increase. "To the special interest an unjust rise in the cost of living means simply higher profit, but to those who pay it, that profit is measured In schooling, warm clothing, a reserve to best emergencies, a fair chance to make the fight for comfort, decency and right living. "Right here the conservation question touches the daily life of the great body of our people, who pay the cost of special privilege. And the price Is heavy- The price may be the chance to save the boys from the saloons and the corner gang, and the girls from worse, and to make good citizens of them instead of bad; for an appalling proportion of the tragedies of life spring directly from the lack of a little money. "Thousands of daughters of the poor fall into the bands of the white slave traders because their poverty leaves them without protection. Thousands of families, as the Pittsburg survey J nas ghown us. lead Uvea of brutalizing overwork In return for the barest llving. "Is It fair that these thousands of families should have less than they need In order that a few families should bave swollen fortunes at their expense? Complacent Victims, The people of tbe United States have been the complacent victims of a system of grab, often perpetrated by men who would have been surprised beyond measure to be accused of a wrongdoing and many of whom in their private lives were model citizens. But they have suffered from a curious moral perversion, by which it becomes praiseworthy to do for a corporation things which they would refuse with the littlest scorn to do for themselves. Fortunately for us, all that delusion is passing rapidly away. I believe the American people are weary of politics for revenue only. It is time to take business out of polltics, and keep it out time for the political activity of this nation to be aimed squarely at the welfare of all of us, and squarely away from the excessive profits of a few of us. There Is no reason why the American people should not take Into their hands again the full political power which is theirs by right, and which they exercised before the special Interests began to nullify the will of the majority. Credit to Bureau. It Is the honorable distinction of the forest service that ft has been more constantly,, more violently and more bitterly attacked by tbe repre sentatives of the special Interests fa recent years than any other government bureau. These attacks hare lacreased in violence and Continued on Pag Seven.)