Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 35, Number 57, 4 January 1910 — Page 3

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AXD SUX-TELEGRA3I, TUESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1910.

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Whereupon He Is Pleased and Then He Smiles and the New Council Illuminates Its Countenances. LEGISLATIVE BRANCH OF CITY TAKES HOLD Last Evening and Sails Into Routine Business, Carefully Dodging the Rocks of Big Propositions. Although it had been four years since he had occupied it, Mayor Zimmerman, last evening, when he climbed into the municipal throne in the council chambers, found that it stiU fitted him, whereupon he was pleased, ind returned a smile in reply to the broadside of facial illuminations fired at him by the brand new council, some old "war horses" and several "freshmen." Not much time was wasted in the getaway which included the swearing in of the city dads and the legislative branch of the city government, with the old master of ceremonies at the helm again, sailed right into a bunch of routine business. None of the important questions now confronting council were taken up last evening, the mayor stating that this could be clone two weeks hence, and in the meantime the new council members could get their bearings and he (the mayor) would have the opportunity of making more thorough investigations into the propositions up for consideration. Urges a Plant Fund. In connection with the financial report of the city, ty former City Controller Webster Pairy, the mayor referred to the fact that the Municipal Light plant was now out of debt, so far as borrowed money from the city was concerned, and that during the last month, ?UCO.:"9 had been placed in the general fund of the city this amount having been received from the net receipts of the plant after all debts had been paid. He suggested that there would have to be some special fund created whereby these monthly profits of the plant could be placed. He proposed a special light plant fund. There is some agitation among council members for the city borrowing this money, but as no one was familiar as to whether this could be done, the matter was referred to City Attorney A. M. Gardner, who will inspect the laws and report at the next council meeting. To Receive Guests. Arrangements for the reception of the Indiana Municipal League convention, June 21-23-23. in this city, were made last evening, by Mayor Zimmerman appointing a committee on reception, including Fred II. Lemon and Matt Von Pein, as citizens; H. H. Englebert, William H. Bartel and 03car Williams, representing the council. The program committee has selected a program, at least a tentative one, and this committee will visit Richmond in the next week or so, at that time completing the arrangements. Although no action was taken at last evening's meeting, the city street car system will be thoroughly dusted. The cause for the agitation for a better city street car system and service was a communication, presented by Councilman Bartel in behalf of A. J. Brk, a resident of South Eighth street. Mr. Erk complained of a flat wheeled car which was operating on the Eighth street lines and Oscar Williams, noun-, cilman, who has been a passenger on this car. concurred in the complaint. Mayor Zimmernam announced that this would be placed before the proper department and a probe made. New Snow Ordinance. Attention was directed towards the nuisance of property owners not cleaning off their sidewalks following heavy snows. There are a number of ordinances touching upon this matter, but they have not. been enforced. The police department will be notified of the complaint It is probable that a new snow ordinance will be drawn up. However, those on the books at the present are effective and will be enforced. The report of the city's financial condition for December by former Controller Webster Parry, was approved and placed on file. It is in part as follows. General Fund Cash on hand December 1, 1900, $23,350.01; receipts since then, S26.302.81; grand total, $49,652.82. Disbursements, $27,615.40; balance on hand, January 1, 1910, $22,037.42; total in sinking fund at date of report. $S,662.08; balance in special fund at time of report. $3,923.42; balance in street improvement fund, $9,470.88; balance in Chautauqua fund, $2,353.55. this fund having been increased by the receipts of $225 on account from the 1909 Chautauqua. In the items of disbursements for the general fund, are included several which are not usual. One is the quarterly payment of $1,000 to Reid Memorial Hospital; $1,472.39 for the payment of Daubney H. Maury for service rendered as expert hydraulic engineer; $250 to school board for rent of public grounds, which included the site for public buildings, $105.25. What Tommy Said, v Mamma (to a friend who is taking tea with her) I dont know why it is, but I always eat more when we hare company than when we're alone. Tommy (helping himself to a third piece of cake) It is 'cause we have asttsr things to eat. ,

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At the Murray. Sunny South, presented by ten colored players headed by Johnson and Wells will evidently be a popular number this week at the Murray theater. They know how to dance and sing and were well received in their initial performance in this city. The other acts were likewise very well rendered and consist of a dancing, singing and talking act by Brooks and Jeanette. a neat singing and dancing act by the favorites of the vaudeville DeFur and Estes. Major O'Laughlin presented an original act with muskets and baton and with the motion pictures close a big program which will be continued this entire week. "Mary's Lamb." "I have had many chauffeurs," declares Richard Carle, "but the best was one 1 engaged last spring when we were playing 'Mary's Lamb' in San Francisco. This one could cut a corner with more precision than any man that ever drove an auto, and he had absolutely no regard for the speed law. He had my heart in my mouth every minute I spent in his machine. "One day we were going through Golden Gate park at about an SO-mile an hour gait. The chauffeur had just been telling me about chickens he had killed and pigs he had run down on country roads, when directly ahead he spied a flock of half a dozen pigeons. He made for the birds, the machine swerving from side to side until I was sure my last moment had come. He managed by skilful maneuvering to get within two feet of one of the pigeons, but every one of the flyers was lucky enough to escape him. "Without even so much as looking at me the chauffeur, in the most matter-of-fact way, observed: 'You know, it's almost impossible to hit a pigeon. " Seats are now on sale for the performances of "Mary's Lamb" at the Gennett tomorrow afternoon and night. "The Chorus Lady." Frank V. Bruner of New York arrived in Richmond last evening to arrange with Manager Parks of the Gennett theater for the appearance at that playhouse of Rose Stahl in "The Chorus Iady," the remarkable play of life on the modern musical comedy stage that has been the sensation for the past two years in the east. Miss Stahl will appear at the Gennett on Wednesday, January 12. "The Chorus Lady" which is the work of James Forbes, is perhaps the only play to realistically reproduce the life of the real chorus girl and to show the creature of the Merry-merry in her haunts and as she really is. The play does not show the type of chorus girl that spends her leisure time in cafes and drinking places and spends her small salary on phoney diamonds, but rather the struggling, whole souled girl who i3 honestly trying to earn a living on the stage and at the same time help those dependent upon her. "Jolly Widow." Patrons of the Phillips theater this week are finding the "Jolly Widow" satisfying as a mirth provoke and a comedy full of good music. The entire show is well worth the price of admission. There is a little plot which serves to give it a continuity and a vehicle for introducing the comedy and several of the latest song hits. "The Girl From Rector's." Renuold Wolf, the well known dramatic authority of the New York Morning Telegraph, declared "The Girl from Rector's" the most entertaining production he had ever witnessed. Tn his review of the piece the morning following its premiere at Weber's Music Hall, in New York, he said: "I have seen it once only once naturally but I shall see it many times before it quits New York. It should have a itecord run. Mr. Wolf's prophecy came true for "The Girl from Rector's" remained at Weber's for exactly seven months. It is announced for production at the Gennett on next Monday, January 10. "The Clansman." One of the most sensational stories of the South at a time just following the Civil war is "The Clansman," which has been dramatized from the novel of the same name and the Leopard's Spots written by Thomas B. Dixon, Jr. The play which will be presented at the Gennett on Tuesday, January 11 is most thrilling in its scenes depicting the raids of the Klu Klux Klan. "Daniel Boone" A play rife with dramatic incidents In the life of one of our most famous hunters, is that of "Daniel Boone on the trail," which will be presented at the Gennett theater tonight. The company carries a pack of Siberian wolves and several real Indians, to help materially in making the scenes as realistic as possible. "Three Twins. "Three Twins' is the name of the musical farce which will appear at the Gennett on Thursday, Jan. 13. The book is a child of the brain of Mr. Charles Dickson, once the possessor of an urban reputation as a tar in "Incog." and the play is, in fact a revision of that successful enterprise, with lyrics by Otto Houerbach and tunes by Karl Hoschna. Among those who will bep resented in the cast are Miss Florin Sweetman who figured in the songs and dances of some of Broadway's best musical offerings. Mr. Thomaa Whiff en also an incident with

comic opera successes and the others, chosen for the cast, are Misses Ida Poetz, Helen Du Bois, Elizabeth Carmody, Messrs. Edward Wade, Hugh Fay, Russell Lennon, Neil Kelly, John Abbott and Henry Schumann-Heink, while Mr. Gus Sohlke has put his poetic imagination to the arrangement of the pictures and dancing. Howe's Pictures. The spice of variety is very evident in Lyman H. Howe's Travel Festival at the Gennett Theater on Thursday evening. Not only that the scenes are full of animation and bristle with originality. A travel feature such as the Gorge du Var, France, is followed by a novelty like dissolving portraits of English statemen. This again is followed by an industrial subject showing how big guns aie made and then views of the battleship when the big guns are fired. Still the scenes change and this time to a humorous lightning tour of Europe. There are others of the plittering ice pale, winter carnival and stirring skating races in Montreal and for scenes of ineffable beauty there are views of sunset and moonlight that will arouse the admiration of all. A CONVERT. He Is Now a Firm Believer In Psychic Phenomena. I "Do I believe in the occult? Sure. I do," said the suburbanite as he settled down into his seat in the smok ing car and filled his pipe. "1 was just as great a skeptic as you are until a week ago. I was firmly convinced that table manipulation was a fake, that mind reading was pure guesswork and that all alleged psychic phenomena could be attributed to natural causes. But now I'm willing to accept the entire propaganda. Nothing is too obscure for me to accept on blind faith. I've experienced a complete change of heart, as they used to say in the old camp meetings. "You see, it was this way. My friend Buggins. who is really a bug on the occult, induced me to go to a seance with blni the other afternoon and prevailed upon me to have a sitting. In spite of my nonbelief he said I was a good subject, and I guess I was. The lady who was delivering the soul fluid told me 1 should have trouble with a stout, dark woman. All the way out on the train that evening the idea haunted me. I couldn't get it out of my bead. "And. say. she was right. What happened? Why, when I got home I found myself up against the proposition of firing the colored cook. Sure, I believe in the occult. Got a light?" New York Times. Stevenson's Cup of Misery. R. L. Stevenson, writing in 1893 to ! George Meredith, in an epistle quoted ' in his "Letters." says, with heart touching pathos: "For fourteen years I have not had a day's real health. I have wakened sick and gone to bed weary, and I have done my work unflinchingly. I have written in bed and written out of it, written in hemorrhages, written in sickness, written torn by coughing, written when my head swam for weakness, and for so long, it seems to me, I have won my wager and recovered my glove. I am better now have , been, rightly speaking, since first I came to the Pacific and still few are the days when I am not in some physical distress. And the battle goes onill or well is a trifle so that it goes. I was made for a contest, and the powers have so willed that my battlefield should be this dingy, inglorious one of the bed and the physic bottle. At least I have not failed, but I would have preferred a place of trumpetings and the open air over my head." How to Know the Twins. The Beverly twins. Fred and Frank. I were such exact counterparts of each ; other that none of the neighbors could j tell them apart, and even their mother sometimes had her doubts. The resemblance is accentuated by the fact that they are dressed exactly alike. "How in the world can you yourself tell which is which, Mrs. Beverly?" asked a caller one day. "To tell the truth," she answered, "I can't always. But if I hear a noise in the pantry and I call out, 'Fred, is that your and he says, 'Yes, mamma,' I know it's Frank and that he's in aome kind of mischief." Exchange. Good old fashioned cakes are made from Mrs. Austin's Buckwheat flour. Now at your grocers.

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NEW COMMITTEES WERE APPOINTED Mayor Zimmerman Last Evening Organized Legislative Branch. MAKES WISE SELECTIONS ALL OF THE COMMITTEES WILL HAVE PLENTY OF WORK TO DO BUT IT HAS BEEN FAIRLY WELL DIVIDED. The appointment of committees of council to serve under the new administration was announced after the council meeting last evening, by Mayor Zimmerman. The announcement was not made at council meeting because in all cases, the committees had not been completed, the chief executive desiring to confer with certain of his appointees before making announcements. All of the committees are important and have at certain periods of the year a great deal of work to do. Some, indeed, have enough work to demand their attention the year round, and it was with the idea of dividing up the work, that Dr. Zimmerman conferred with certain of the councilmen. . List of Committees. The committees are as follows Accounts and Claims AJphons Weishaupt, J. J. Evans and Ed Thatcher. Contracts and Franchises Frank Waldele, Alphons Weishaupt and H. H. Englebert. Finance H. H. Englebert, Oscar Williams and John Burdsall. Printing and Stationery E. E. King, Harry C. Wessel and George J. Knollneberg. Public Property and Improvements William H. Bartel Ed Thatcher and Harry Kauffman. Railroads Ed Thatcher, George J. Knollenberg and E. E. King. Sewers, Streets and Alleys H. H. Englebert, Frank Waidele and J. J. Evans. Gas and Electricity Harry C. Wessel Harry Kauffman and John Burdsall. Public Health and Morals George J. Knollenberg, Oscar Williams and Alphons Weishaupt. Public Schools Oscar Williams, H.

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H. Englebert and William H. Bartel. As regards to the importance of the committees, the first three are considered as the ones to which the most responsibility is attached, although the sewers, streets and alleys committee has a large amount of work to do and possibly is as important as any of the above three, with the exception of that on contracts and franchises. The new councilmen have received as many of the choice plums as the older men have In the way of committee appointments. The apportionment of the committee work is regarded as entirely satisfactory. Ballet girls in European cities are taken at a tender age and held like apprentices for several years, under the severest dicipline. They are housed and fed by the master and mistress, their teachers. The wage is grovelingly pitiful, a matter of a dollar or so a week, and the girls usually are signed up so that the governments recognize the contracts. Their health and morals are scanned by the government when at home, and consuls look after them abroad. Hard work and severe discipline and professional family association similar to the ordeals of most circus girls place women of the ballet and circus in a class to themselves. New York Press. Cordkma: . ... Gold Medal Flour is cheapest It's beat, too more loaves to the sack. Euphsmia. Rexall Kidney Remedy Here is something to interest the sufferer from kidney trouble. You buy this medicine on our own guarantee. If it does not benefit you to your complete satisfaction, bring back the empty bottle and get your money back. This is a square deal. Price 50 and 75 cents. Adams' Drag Store 6th & Main. The Rexall Store No Lenses AJaead of THE KRYPTOK Therefore we will continue making them a specialty. Last year was a banner year for Kryptoks with us and we intend to sell more during 1910. Call and let us show you samples. Chas. H. Haner, The Jeweler. 810 Main St F. H. EDMUNDS, Optometrist.

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The Management of the MEW WBMY MEAML Announce the Opening of Rlchtaonds Palatial Playhouse as a FIRST CLASS THEATRE

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TONIGHT DANIEL DOOHE Oa C Trail Story of the Faaaa ic lat Ploaeer Days. Seal Inalaas, Waives Prices, 15, 25, 35 and 50c CEfJTJ ETT TOMORROW Here He Comes Aaala Richard Cirle (Ulnsdf) In His Greatest Success "MARY'S LAMB Special Matinee Prices, Matinee. 25. M. 7Sc and Sl.t Nlqht. 23. ft. 75c. 91 .M ana S1.M Scats Now GENNETT Thursday Eve'o. J 4Un Direct from the New York -Lycian Howes Travel Festival Dash to North Pole Exciting Aeroplane Daces Prices: 15. 35. 35 and Ste Seats Now. The Jolly Wiflon at the PHILLIPS Wook off Jan. 3 EVERY NIGHT Matinee on Wednesday and Saturday only. An attraction that will delight ladies and children. Admission, 10 cents to any part of the house. Matinees at 2:30. Evening performance at 8:15. PALLADIUM WANT ADS PAY. Tlesitee January 11

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