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PAGE SIX THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, SUNDAY, JANUARY 2, 1910. Y. M. C. A. POKES . CIGARETTE USER Walter T. Carpenter, the Quaker City's Grand Old Man, Was a New Year's Gift Yesterdav, the Venerable Friend, and One of the Founders o f Earlham College, Quietly Observed the Ninety-Ninth Anniversary of His B it th His Memory Goes Back to the First Steamboat, and He Has Seen an Airship in Operation Has Had a Remarkable Life, and Is Now in Fairly Good Health Talks Entertainingly to Palladium Reporter on His Experiences. Nothing Doing in Coffin Nail Line Inside of the Local Building.

GOODWIN IN AN EDITORIAL STATES THAT TOBACCO SMOKING IS NOT ENCOURAGED, BUT IN A WAY, PIPES AND CIGAR8 ARE NOT FROWNED ON.

In one of the editorials of the Satl relay's issue of the Monitor, the Young Men's Christian Association publication, reference is made to the use of tobacco by members of the association, in any of its departments. The article is by Secretary George L. Goodwin, and is as follows: The Smoker. "Our association does not encourage the use of tobacco in any form. We permit its use by those who have rooms in the dormitories on the third and fourth floors. The use of cigarettes is strictly forbidden within the building, and this means anywhere inside the outside door. A number of our members and young men who frequent our building have-lately formed the habit of "lighting up" in our lobby and vestibule before going out. In the case of a cigar or pipe this is not quite so objectionable, but in the case of cigarettes it is, for at least two reasons. First We do not care for the odor of cigarette smoke: in fact it is distasteful to nearly all those who do not use them. ' Respect the other fellow's rights. Second we do not care for the impression it gives a stranger or our own citizens on seeing a. young man leaving our building with a cigarette in his mouth. A word to the wise is sufficient." CRAZE HIT L London, Jan. 1. The roller skating craze shows no signs of abatement in London, but there are indications that the building of f inks in the provinces 1b already overdone, and there is likely to be a big scandal in the near future in regard to the flotation of some recent Rink companies. Last year a great many members of the "smart set" discovered that roller skating at Olympia was great fun, but as usual the names of the society beauties and their attendant swains were advertised and this led to all sorts of awkard predicaments and also to a tremendous rush on the part of surburbanltes, anxious to rub shoulders, or even collide with Peers end Peeresses. This winter the "particular set" met in secret conclave and evolved the Olympia Sunday Skating club, which was to be "frightfully exclusive" no more musical comedy ladies, no more pushful "naturalized British subjects," no vulgar tradesmen. TAFT TO II MIL REGULATION BY NEW STATUTES (Continued Prom Page Three.) days before becoming effective, and empowering the interstate commerce commission to prescribe the forms therefor. Power to prescribe reasonable rates and regulations. Prohibiting the use of free transportation of freight and passengers. Power to investigate complaints and issue orders respecting the same. Power to compel officers and agents to testify. Power to prescribe methods of keeping records and accounts. The experience of the last three years has demonstrated that powers granted by the Hepburn act remain insufficient Thus far the act has worked largely in the interests of the carriers by cutting off free transportation and rebates. It is estimated that the money gain to the railroads from this provision alone is $100,000,000 annually, and the shippers complain that the powers granted for the benefit of the railroads have not afforded them a corresponding relief. WILL PROBABLY DIE (American News Service) New York, Jan. 1. Little hope is held tonight for the recovery of Mrs. Charles E. Ellis, of 210 East 56th street who was burned when her gown took fire in the New Year's celebration in the Cafe Martin crly today. She was playing with a toy balloon when her gown was ignited frci it. A panic ensued among the hundred of guests. Mrs. Ellis was removed to the New York Hospital in an ambulance. Her right shoulder, arm and neck were badly burned. Mrs. Ellis is suffering great pain, tempered only by spells of unconsciousness. ' 8tung For 15 Years by Indigestion's pangs trying many doctors and $200.00 worth of medicine In vain, B. P. Ayscue, of Ingieslde. N. C, at last used Dr. King's New IJfe -his, ana writes tney wholly cured 1m. They cure Constlnatlon Bess. Sick Headache, Stomac Kianey and Bowel trouble a. fAktt Ca

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An active life that spans ninty-nine years of the most eventful ones in the history of the world, is the unusual distinction of Walter Tatton Carpenter who quietly celebrated his nintyninth anniversary Saturday. Mr. Carpenter is the oldest living resident of Wayne county, a pioneer Friend, and has been a member of the republican party since its organiza tion. He recalls with the greatest interest the battle of Waterloo; the promulgation of the Monroe Doctrine; the inauguration of Andrew Jackson, the fifth president of the United States, and the meteorlogical shower of 1833. He also remembers his first visit to Richmond in 1837, when he attended the Indiana Yearly Meeting of Friends. Has Seen an Airship. When the representative of the Palladium saw him at his home this week, Richmond's grand old man re called the Invention of the telegraph and telephone and the experiments of Fulton with his steam boat on the Hudson, where he was born. But Mr. Carpenter has not only lived in the past but lives in the present. He has ridden in automobiles, manufactured by his grandsons, conversed over the telephone and witnessed the flight of airships. , Few lives if any span such an eventful career. Mr. Carpenter, although confined to his home on the National road a road that was built when he was a boy is in good health. He has suffered for many years with bronchitis but his present condition is the best that could be expected for a man of his advanced years. Although grey haired and hard of hearing, he talks fluently of past history and present events. When Walter T. Carpenter was born at Schenectady, N. Y., January 1, 1811, Richmond was not on the map. The court house was just being built at Salisbury, Ind., and at that time the Wayne county court was held in the woods, south of the city, on the farm of Richard Rue. At that time the fourth president of the United States had been in office but two years. The residence of Mr. Carpenter in New York state lasted but two and one half years, for in 1813 his father and his small family moved to Clinton county, Ohio. When Napoleon Fought. While he was growing up on his fathers farm in Clinton county, Napoleon was fighting the English in France. While in Clinton county he received his first education, but it was very meager. Three months during the winter he attended the little log school house, the other nine months of each year he spent on the farm. After a short stay in Clinton county his father died, when but forty-five years of age. In speaking of this event Mr. Carpenter's son, Charles G. Carpenter, said that his mother had frequently told him, that the doctors at that time did not know how to treat bronchitis THE OLD ME This cut was made from a photograph everywhere as the Horse Omnibus

To the People of London, Its Disappearance Is Like the Loss Of an Old Friend Gossip by Everett.

(Zy Phillip E -rett.) London, Jan. 1. Lfko the loss of an old friend, the people of London regard the disappearance of the slow moving horse-omnibus. On the famous routes of these horse vehicles, where they have been running for the last fifty years, you see the speedy motor steadasing in numbers and the sure horse-omnibus just as pear ing.

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and, as a result his grandfather, Isaac Carpenter, died. "But father has suffered for forty years with this disease," he added, "and is still in comparatively good health." For several years Mr. Carpenter attended the common school is Ohio. One year he attended the Friends Boarding School at Mt. Pleasant, O. Later he was sent to New York City where he attended the high school of Joseph John Griscom. This was the extent of his education. Goes to Wilmington. After spending some years in Clinton county, he removed to a farm near Wilmington. At that time he married Susan Mabie, and engaged in the mercantile business with Jerimiah Hadley. In 1836 he went to Clarksville and became a partner with John Hadley, as a pork packer. In a recent letter Mr. Carpenter comments on the meteorlogical showers of 1833, when he was a resident of Cincinnati. In November of that year, for five hours one day, it rained stars. The ignorant people of the South thought the world was coming to an end and he says, "to many people it was a hard thing to explain." In Milk Business. Mr. Carpenter was in the milk business at that time and one of his customers was the Hon. Nicholas Longworth, father of Congressman Longworth of Cincinnati. At that time ETING HOUSE. of a canvass by Alden Mote, known "Quaker Artist." Fade From View The other day I happened to be passing an aged woman who was waiting patiently in the Strand for a white Putney horse-omnibus. She turned and asked me why one was so long in coming? She did not know that on this famous route, which was one of the first routes a horse-omnibus ever traveled over, scarcely more than a dozen horse vehicles are now running, and that even thsy are doomed to n

e dairymen did not take the milk to the doors of the customers, but the customer came to the wagon. At Cincinnati Mr. Carpenter built the first five story building on the Grand Central canal. This building was erected where the Grand Central station now stands. His residence in Cincinnati was soon terminated when he was advised by his physician to move to the country for his health. At that time he bought a farm west of Clarksville, Ohio. Here he became active as a raiser of short horn cattle, and sheep. He remained there ten or twelve years. While a resident of Clarksville he attended the Indiana Yearly Meeting of Friends in this city and met Joseph John Gurney, one of the active Friends in the founding of Earlham college. Mr. Carpenter remembers his meeting with Mr. Gurney in this city. Joseph John Gurney was a very wealthy English Friend and spent some time, between 1837-1839, in this country visiting Friends. At that time there was no Friends educational institution and the Friends were interested in giving their children a "guarded religious education.'' Story on "Uncle Joe." Mr. Carpenter met Mr. Gurney several times but the meeting In this city was the most important and the one he recalls the best. While Mr. Gurney was in the United States he met Henry Clay, Daniel Webster and Dr. Horace Cannon, the father of "Uncle Joe." When traveling in North Carolina with Dr. Cannon the latter was so impressed with the old English Quaker that he determined to name his son, whom he called John, Joseph Gurney Cannon, and "Uncle Joe" is know by that name today. When Mr. Carpenter met Mr. Gurney they talked of the religious education of the Friends and, as a result, the funds were first collected for the establishment of a college, later called the Friends Boarding School, and finally" named Earlham college. Earlham was the name of the home of Joseph John Gurney in England. In the year 1S.S4 Mr. Carpenter end his famllv rr.cred to Richmond. "At that time," lis said, 'Richmond was a little tow:.. The larspst builaiiu; about the town was the Earlh.v.n liali at Earlham. ' The city oirectory of 1S57 says, boastingly, ' we have two laree brick houses, sever? 1 dories high, devoted to boarding scr.onir. The larger one is owned by the Orthodox Friend.v and the other is private property." Farm on Boston Pike. In the winter of !S53 he bought a farm south of Richmond on the Boston pike. One year later he was soon. Between Putney and Liverpool street, nearly one hundred of these well known omnibusses used to run, but within the last few days most of them have been taken off the road. Everywhere now the old-time omnibus is giving place to the motor. It will not be long before, with a few exceptions, all the horse-omnibusses in London will have disappeared. A truly melancholy sight for lovers of the slow and sure comforts of the

horse-omnibus, with Rs genial, loquacious driver and persuasive, beckoning conductor, may now be se?n at one or two of the omnibus depots. In long deserted rows, cast aside and neglected, stand the old omnibusses. The prladpal comsaaiss have accum- - i

elected on the board of manaeis of the Friends Boarding School, an.l his active connection with what is no Earlham college began. For thirtyfive years he was actively connected with the Institution. Owing to the illness of Charles Atherton, Mr. Carpenter became acil:ic; superintendent of Earlham college. This was in the year 1S58. This position he held until 1873. His wife. Susan Carpenter, worked with him all these years. At that time the institution had no president and the superintendent was the head of the college. When he came to Earlham it v.as in debt, but after a few years he maintained the college on a self support'rg basis. He Helps Freed Slaves. Mr. Carpenter was very active during the Civil war period and in vacation seasons he was sent to Nashville, Tenn., as the agent of the Indiana Yearly Meeting of Friends, to look after the education of the "destitute freedmen." Soon after the announcement by President Lincoln that he would free the slaves, the Friends became active and during that year. $30,000 was spent on the education of the negroes of the South. Mr. Carpenter was a member of the committee having these funds in charge. At the time Mr. Carpenter came to Earlham the Friends were giving their children a "guarded education." No student was admitted whose parent was not a member of a Friends Meeting. Later other students were admitted, but only on certain conditions. Mr. Carpenter as superintendent issued the following orders to

the students: No "Gaudy Clothing." "Cards, chequers, chess and other similar games, all improper or dangerous games, fire arms and the use of tobacco in all forms, are forbidden." "Students are desired to bring with them no gaudy clothing and they are desired to avoid articles of vanity and display. Ear rings and finger rings not to be worn." In the year 1873 he resigned his position as superintendent of Earlham college and the board of managers appointed him a member of the Earlham committee. In 1877. when the Indiana and Western Yearly Meetings were united, he was named a trustee of the college, which position he held until 1893, w'hen he refused reappointment because of his advanced age. Starts Lindley Hall. In 1887 Mr. Carpenter laid the corner stone of Lindley hall. He was a member of the Earlham building committee at that time. Mr. Carpenter cast his first vote for William Henry Harrison and has voted at every election since. Every vote has been for the republican candidate. "Who is the first president you re-; member?" he was asked. "I remember Jackson very well and the one before him. I think that was Monroe. I remember the Monroe doetrine well. Also the inauguration of Andrew Jackson." Has Long Memory. "How far back do you remember," and the aged Friend after a Jittle thought said, "1815." "Then you remember the battle of Waterloo," it was suggested. "Yea, I remember that distinctly," he hastened to add. In the course of the conversation Mr. Carpenter said that he could recall the building of the first railroad. He was in Ohio then and remembers the construction of the B. & O., from Baltimore to Washington. "During the war and at the time Mr. Carpenter was superintendent," said Mr. Jay, "the school was overcrowded." The first newspaper Mr. Carpenter saw was a weekly publication called the "Friend." This he says was published when he was but a boy and recalls that many times his parents read to him from the small paper. In this way he was kept informed of the workings of the society. Has Old Register. "When I came to Earlham," he said, "there were only fifty-seven students and myself and I still have that register." "What do you think of the growth of Earlham since you have been here?" he was asked. With a smile of satisfaction on his face he said that "Earlham was growing into what we anticipated and hoped for. It is growing faster than we expected. It is a good legitimate growth," he concluded. Some of the most prominent men in the citv and nation were students at Earlham college when Mr. Carpenter was superintendent and head of ulated close upon 300 of them. Down the Strand, before the motoromnibusses found their way. Now there are not more than three the remnant of the Putney omnibusses, the old "Favorites," and a service .between West-bourne-grove and London Bridge. Eighty and more of the old "Green" omnibusses used to run down the Bays-water-road. Every one of them has now gone. Forty horsed vehicles until recently maintained a service between Clapham Junction and Piccadilly-circus. They are gone from the streets. Only in cases where the routes are especially congested or hilly will the horse-omnibus be pe ratted to remain oa the streets of London. .

the institution. Two Earlharn profes-1 sors. WMUm X. Trueblood and David ! W. Dennis were students at that time. Isham Sedgwick. Thomas R. Jesstm j ami Samuel Dickinson were students at Earlham when he had jurisdictioa

over the institution. "Two of His "Boys." Four years before he retired as superintendent, Robert Underwood John son, the associate editor of the Cen-j tury Magazine, was a jar. tor Dr. I Beni. F. Trueblood. secretary of the American Peace society as also a : student. Dr. Trueblood is considered j the greatest livins exponent of peace j in the United States. Two of Richmond's oldest residents, j Timothy Nicholson and Ell Jay were j closely associated with Mr. carpenter j at Earlham. The former was a mem-; ber of the board of trustees and the latter a professor. These tvo men tell many interesting incident which Mr. Carpenter has related t them, probably the most interestlnssre the events at the college during pe war. Many people in this section thought their children were safer, duing the war, at Earlham than any (lace in the United States. Two jouthful democrats came to the iiiBtkaion at that time, but they didn't str long. The other students made it "hot" for them they had to leave, i Irish Girts Celebrate. It was about this time that Walter Carpenter employed severaj Irish maids to assist In the kitchen, They too, upheld the democratic cace. but it was not known until Presidmt Lincoln was assassinated. The every student and member of the college was stunned with sorrow, lit the maids had a grand celebratlos They looked upon it as a great eaent for freedom in this country. j When Earlham college was at first opened to students, who vere not niembers of the Friends neetings, some of them came to the colfcge with liquor. One boy came to ths college with a big supply of booze aid made use of it. Sir. Carpenter and Eli Jay who was a professor, learned if it and asked him if he used liquor. This he denied, but the superintendent dismissed him. He left the colfcge and went West In a few month! he returned to the college and th asked Mr. Carpenter for his discipline, f Walter Carpenter had a way of reproving stu dents that always had its effect and never angered them," said Mr. Jay, Carpenter Discipline. At one time a student came to Mr. Carpenter and said he wanted to go home. He said he had asked the gov ernor for permission but he had refused it. Walter Carpenter could not give his consent after the governor refused and he denied the request. The boy left the college and stayed at his home for a few weeks and finally returned. When he came in Earlham hall he was met by Mr. Carpenter, who asked him if he had had a good vacation. "A fine time," he was told. "All right," said the superinten

MONUMENTS TO CARPENTER. This cut shows the beautiful shade trees along "Earlham Walk." These trees were planted by Mr. Carpenter.

A campaign has been inaugurated j under the auspices of the National ! Sea Fisheries Protection association to popularize the use of fish as food. Fish Is recommended very strongly, not only for its nutrition and digestibility, but its cheapness. It. is generally known that Englishmen as a majority are very conservative In the matter of their food. The kinds of fish they eat can be readily namd and numbered on the fingers of one hand. Of the many other varieties of cheap, nutritious, ind savory fishfood they know nothing, from the culinary point of view, and for that reason, venture nothing. J There are many, strong arguments given for the mor entensive use of fish as a food. M the preseat time.

dent, "you can go get your trunk and so hack to your home." And the former student nlieyed. At another time a boy had been expelled, who lived some distance from the colle.ee. He had no money to purchase a ticket to his home. Walter Carpenter took him to the depot, w'.ien much of Richmond was still wHderness. botipht his ticket and sent jim home. Football is almost as old at Earlham as the college. When Mr. Carpenter came to the institution they were playing it every evening. But everybody took part In the game, from the superintendent to the students in the "prep" department. The game was an open style one, and halt of the students and professors played on one side and half on the other. In this way the old Friends maintais. that every student received the desired benefit, while today only a few can take part. Mr. Carpenter had two brothers and three sisters, all of whom are now dead. Son a Business Man. His son. Charles G. Carpenter is manager of the Richmond Roller Mills on North Second street. His two daughters. Mrs. D. W. Marmon of Indianapolis, and Mrs. H. C. Wright of Kokomo. are still living. The sons of Mrs. Marmon are manufacturing the' Marmon automobile at Indianapolis. Mr. Carpenter's health is very good despite the Injury he received Tuesday morning. While walking In the house he fell and bruised his head but this is not looked upon as serious. The best monument erected to the memory of Walter Carpenter Is the number of large trees which were planted by him when superintendent of the college. All of the large beautiful shade trees on the National road from College avenue to the Earlham cemetery were placed by him and the people who now enjoy the ride or

walk in the summer months under these trees, are his debtors. He began the conservation of trees when many men were cutting them down by the thousands. He has always been interested In trees and some thirty species are thriving along the Earlham walk. A Noteworthy Life. The ninty-nine years of Mr. Carpenters life have been very notewor- " thy. When he was born the number -of people In the United States were a few millions. Today the population ' is counted at a hundred million. Sail boats were used on water at the time of his birth. There were no railroads. Men could not converse over the telephone nor could they send dispatches by telegraph. Newspapers were published weekly and they were nearly a week or a month old before dellv- . ered. Automobiles and aeroplanes were but dreams, at his nlnty-nlnth birthday they are a realty. His active life spans ninty-nine of the most eventful years in the history of the world. -1 meat is at enormous prices, so high in t fact that many have either to deprive themselves of it. or. if they buy it at, the present prices, deprive themselves of other necessary foods. The price of fish in England Is exceedingly low. and If there was a greater demand for the cheaper kinds among the working classes, the fishmonger might be able to reduce his charges all round. One of the great difficulties in the fish trade Is that a very perishable article is - dealt la: Much of it has to be destroyed, while in many country districts It ts often extremely difficult to get fresh fish at . alt A Cordkua: Geld M4al Flour to

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