Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 35, Number 75, 22 January 1910 — Page 1

RICHMOND PAIXABITTTM lNJj 3UN-TEL.EGR A M. VOL. XXXV. NO. 15. RICH3IOXD, IXD., SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 22, 1010. SINGLE COPY. 2 CENTS.

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A HEW TRUST CO. WILL BE LOCATED HERE QUITE SOON Providing the Plans of Mr. Leeds and Number of German Citizens Are Successfully Put Through.

DOCUMENTS ARE BIG Traction Records Just Filed Here Made Recorder Open His Eyes. PRESIDENT TAFT SUGGESTED THAT SENATE GET BUSY SHOP MEN TALKING Roosevelt Found Them Very' Easy Prey OF ORGANIZING A BOYCOTT IN CITV

A STRONG FINANCIAL BACKING IS ASSURED

As There Is Now Only One Trust Company in the City, The Promoters Think the Project Feasible. ; Announcement was made this morning by R. G. Leeds, that plans were being formulated for the establishment of a German-American Trust company in this city and in case the organization is effected, the new banking institution will be located at 821 Main street. The matter has been under consideration by Mr. Leeds and a number of influential German citizens for some time, but as yet all plans have not been completed. However, those Interested in the project will have completed arrangements within a phort time and the more complete details of the new banking institution -will be announced then. Considered Good Field. Richmond is considered by many us sufficiently large and wealthy for another trust company. At the present time the Dickinson Trust company is the only other institution of this nature in the city. There are three financial institutions operating under the national banking laws. In the event the organization of the proposed German-American Trust company is effected, it will mean that it will be backed by some of the strongest financial interests of Richmond. Its capital stock will be very large and will compare favorably with that of the strongest trust companies of the state. In addition to its financial backing, the proposed company will include in Its organization men well and favorably known in this city and county. As yet, however, the proposed organization in this respect has not been announced. Have Good Location. The probable home for the institution, 824 Main street, is considered as & very favorable location. Being located in the middle of a square between Eighth and Ninth streets on Alain street, it will be unusual in this city, as corner sites have always been selected heretofore by similar organisations. However, in other cities it is usual for financial institutions to select locations in the center of a block, ns the location of a bank on a corner Jias a tendency to deaden the business life of such corners after banking hours. Mr. Leeds stated this morning that In the event the organization was carried through his building would be remodeled. As yet he did not care to Ftate how. except that the institution would be equipped with one of the largest and finest banking rooms in Indiana. The work on the remodeling of the building will be started in the not far distant future. The name of German-American Trust company has been selected by a large number of the most influential German citizens of the city, who are associated with Mr. Leeds in the project. JUMPS INTO DITCH Several Passengers and Members of Train Crew Were Badly Hurt. TEN REPORTED MISSING (American News Service) Cincinnati, Jau. 22. The Big Four express from St. Louis, due here at eight-thirty this morning, was ditched at Sedanisville, a suburb of this city. Conductor Starlander and Baggagemaster John Steckel, were probably mortally injured. Engineman Murphy, Urakemar. Lewis, and unidentified fireman and one unidentified passenger, were also seriously hurt. The train was passing a roundhouse curve at nearly a mile a minute, according to witnesses when something went wrong with the engine. It jumped the track and carried the entire train with it. All the coaches over turned. The passengers were entrapped in the coaches, but many crawled out. Others had to be chopped out. Ten persons are reported missing, but may be accountfa tot later. -

NEAR RECORD BREAKERS

Three documents, two in the nature of mortgages and the other in the nature of a lease, have been filed with the county recorder. The documents are the most voluminous of any filed in that office for many months and consist of about 11,000 words. The parties concerned are the corporations of the Ohio Electric Railway company, The Indiana, Columbus and Eastern Traction company, the Columbus, Newark and Zanesville Electric Railway company, and the Girard Trust company, a corporation with headquarters a Philadelphia. The trust company has taken over $i;27i0,:.ix worth of bonds of the electric companies at five per cent securiy. Similar documents are filed in all counties in which any of these lines operate. The Dayton and Western Traction company is a branch of the above mentioned systems and for this reason the notices were filed in this county. TRYING TO SAVE THE MEN BURIED BIG CAVE-IN Rescuers Are Spurred on by Belief that Some of Six Entombed in Fishkill Tunnel Are Still Alive. DYNAMITE TORE AWAY SUPPORTS OF TUNNEL Of the Seven Men Who Were Hurt, But Who Burrowed Out of Hole, Two Are Now in A Dying Condition. (American News Service) Pishkill Landing, N. Y., Jan. 22. Spurred by a faint hope that some of the six men who were buried in the Ashekin tunnel under Great Neck mountain last evening are still alive, workingmen with shovel and pick worked desperately all through the night and today. The five bodies recovered soon after the explosion of dynamite, tore away the tunnel's suports and allowed the earth and supports to tumble in on the heads of the men are iu a little shack near the scene of the accident. There is hardly any doubt but that the six men still missing are dead, which will run the death list upto eleven. One Body Identified. Of the seven men who were hurt, but who managed to burrow through the earth and rock, two are dying today. Of the five bodies recovered one has been identified as M. M. Lewis of New York, superintendent of the tunnel and residing on East 107th street. The others are foreigners who have been employed on the tunnel less than a week. Just what caused the explosion has nol been ascertained. The report was terrific. A few minutes after the explosion, seven men, burned, blackened and bleeding, staggered out through the smoke which curled around the entrance and collapsed on the ground. Four were revived. They had relatives in the tunnel and in spite of their injuries, tried to return and attempt rescue. They were restrained with difficulty until conditions permitted, when they led a rescue force in command of Sergt. Patterson of the Aqueduct police. The tunnel is on the east bank of the Hudson river, a mile and a half southeast of Cold Spring, a village of $1,500 inhabitants. Fishkill Landing is eight miles south of the scene. R. K. Everett & Co., of Brewsters, N. Y.. have the contract for building the tunnel, which is being bored through solid rock. It is thirteen feet in width. EDITOR OP CENTURY Robert Underwood Johnson, formerly of this city, and a brother of attorney Henry U. Johnson, has been elected editor of the Century magazine, succeeding the late Richard Watson Gilder. Mr. Johnson has been associate edntor of the magazine since 1SS1 and is well qualified to take the greater responsibility. THE WEATHER. INDIANA AND LOCAL Fair tonight and Sunday; warmer Sunday.

He Called a Conference at the White House and Insists on Postal Savings Bank Bill Coming Up.

EXECUTIVE IS VERY CONFIDENT OF HOUSE Taft Believes That the Commerce and Conservation Bills Should Be Pushed Without Delay. Washington, D. C, Jan. 22.- President Taft read in the papers yesterday that the senate was markins time while the house struggled with the appropriation bills. He sent for Senators Penrose of Pennsylvania, Crane of Massachusetts and Carter of Montana and asked why it would not be a good thing for the senate to "get busy" on some of the measures he has recommended. Mr. Aldricb, being absent from the city, was not included in the summons. The president, broached the subject of the postal savings bank bill. All three of the senators thus summoned to the white house are members of tht committee on post offices and post roads. Mr. Penrose is chairman. Senator Carter is sponsor for the measure. Some of the senators, it was suggested in reply to the president, are not warm advocates of postal banks. In fact, it was said such states as Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, great strongholds of savings institutions, are not at all in favor of the scheme. The president argued, however, that the republican platform called for postal savings banks and surely the senators were going to redeem the party pledges. But what about the house?. This was propounded as a poser. Reassured As To House. President Taft is said to have assured the senators that they need not worry about the house. It was asserted there was every reason to believe the house would come around all right; that its members were coming to the president for the good reason that they had no other place to go. "It is a case of water running down hill," said one of the president's callers. "He doesn't have to go to the regulars or the insurgents either; they have got to come to him. Every man on Capitol hill is looking for another term and has sot to have- something on which to go before the people. Congress must do something, and all the republicans, regardless of the fight against Cannon or the rules committee, will vote for Mr. Taft's measures." So it happened when Senators Penrose, Crane and Carter left the white house, the latter, acting as spokesman for the trio, declared: "The postal savings bank proposition will become a law at this session." Taft Urges Commerce Law Action. The postal banks, however, will not be the first of the Taft measures considered. The president ranks his recommendations for changes in the Interstate commerce law as of first importance and he so indicated his position to the senators. The president told his callers also that he regarded at least one of the conservation bills he has recommended to congress as of prime importance. This is the measure to validate the withdrawal of lands containing water power sites, coal, and phosphates. The laws as to the disposition of these lands can be worked out and thrashed over at the convenience of congress. The important thing, the president believes, is to validate the withdrawals which Mere made under the former administration and, during the ten months of the present administration, under the shadowy power of the discretion of the secretary of the interior. The president wants this power to be made unquestionable. The valuable Alaska coal lands are included in the withdrawals which Mr. Taft is anxious to have validated. Senators Penrose, Carter and Crane took back this word to the capitol late today and passed it along the line. Mr. Taft believes the senate should go ahead with these three measures at once and then, he says, the house can get them in some sort of shape, can have the benefit of the senate discussion, and can put the measures through in short time once the supply bills are disposed of. Feels Confidence in Aldrich. The president is confident Senator Aldrich will do all he can to further the passage of the postal savings bank bill. This measure, it is argued, will give the leader of the senate an opportunity to show to the people of the country that they are to get their share of the benefits of forthcoming financial legislation. Mr. Aldrich is anxious to secure the support of the country for the new currency laws and the central bank of issue, or whatever form the legisla-

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(Copyrighted by The Star Company) One of the big rhinoceri hunted by former President Roosevelt recently tn Africa. It is reported that Col. Roosevelt has killed such a number of these big beasts that their hunt has lost ns zes or hun. He is content now, according to reports, to let the photographic nature lovers steal up on the rhmoceri and instead of shooting the beasts simply "snap" them.

FORTY-SIX DIED IN BIG SUUP Diner and First Class Passenger Coach Fall Through A Bridge. NINETY-TWO ARE INJURED COACHES DROP THIRTY-FIVE FEET ONTO THE FROZEN RIVER AND PLUNGE THROUGH THE ICE CAKES. BULLETIN. Ottawa, Ont., Jan. 22. Seventyfive persons were killed and a like number injured in the Canadian Pacific wreck at Webbwood, near Sudbury, Ontario, according to reports received here. (American News Service) Montreal, Jan. 22. The Canadian Pacific gave out an official statement at noon, declaring the known dead in the Webbwood wreck numbered eight, including four unknown Italians. The ! Americans killed and identified were: Mrs. Iloude of Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan; George Mc Henry, William Lavery, and John Keasbeck, a fireman from Northbay. One of the unidentified is supposed to be a priest. A full result of the accident will not be known until the divers work progresses. HOW ACCIDENT OCCURRED. Sault Ste Marie, Mich., Jan. 22. Forty-six persons are dead today and ninety-two injured, according to latest reports from the wreck near Webbwood. Ontario, on the Sunbury branch of the Canadian Pacific railroad. Two cars, the diner and the first class passenger coach, plunged from the steel bridge over the Spanish River, and tore through the ice thirty-five feet below. The passenger coach was completely submerged and its twentysix occupants are believed to have been drowned in the icy water. In the diner there were 14 passengers, eight of whom were rescued through the heroism of Conductor Thomas Reynolds. The second-class passenger coach and the tourist cars rolled down the embankment, caught fire and were entirely destroyed. How many passengers these cars carried is not known definitely, but eight bodies burned beyond recognition have been found in the debris. GIVEN SECOND DEGREE. Second rank, work was conferred on Roy Peck, John Seickman and Charles Muth at the meeting of Triumph lodge Knights of .Pythias, last i evening.

FIND HOME FOR HIM

Little Crippled Boy Sent to the Julia Works Institution Today. WAS INJURED BY A HORSE Crippled when very small by being kicked by a horse, both legs being broken, and never healing properly, Lawrence Jackson, who has been living with Mr. and Mrs. Frank Taylor, west of Richmond, was this morning taken from their charge by Judge Fox and placed in the Julia Works Training School at Plymouth, Indiana, on motion of Prosecuting Attorney Charles I.at!d. The child was placed in the care of the Hoard of Children's Guardians of this county several months ago. His mother is dead and the father could not provide for him. The board had considerable difficulty in finding a home for the child since he is so crippled that he can not work. The placing of the child in the industrial school at Plymouth will be the first

Progress of Meat Boycott Salt Iake City, Utah. Blame for the increased cost of living is placed on the middle men, by an investigating committee apiointed at a citizens' mass meeting on Jan. 15. It was ascertained that farmers received oTi cents a bushel for potatoes, retailed at To cents and VI cents a pound for chickens retailed at -" cents. The remedy advised is the direet sale of produce to householders by farmers, and, possibly, a co-operative store. Richmond, Va Secretary Hugh1; of the Richmond Typographical union and Treasurer M. R. Pace of the American Federation of Labor say meetings of those bodies will be held soon at which the question of abstaining from meat will be discussed. A. J. Warren, meat dealer, says his business is falling off and that the same condition obtains among other dealers. Atlanta, Ga. Joining with labor organizations over the country in a fight against the high prices of meat, local labor leaders held a conference to decide on calling a mass meeting of all labor unions. The circulation of pledges to abstain from meat for a month was urged. Minneapolis. Minn. Opposition among union men to calling a meat strike is believed to make it unlikely that the Cleveland plan will find favor here. Union men fear it is a two edged cleaver and would cut both ways. Des Moines. Ia. Petitions circulated In Dcs Moines were signed by scores who agreed to eat no meat for thirty days. Tacoma. Wafh.-Tacoma clergymen are planning to take up in a union me:ting next week a proposed sixty-day boycott on meat. A petition signed bv persons who pledged themselves not to eat meat for sixty days was presented to the Pioneer Improvement club. The Central Labor council will take the matter up next Wednesday. St. Joseph. Mo. An anti-meat union, with more than members, has been formed here. The members will abstain from eating meat for thirty days. On Monday night the affiliated unions expect to announce that all will join in the boycott The conference of Seventh Day Adventists, in session here, has established for members a restaurant at which only vegetables and fruits are served. Memphis. Tenn. The Workmen's Civic League on Sunday will take action in regard to pledging its members from meat eating in an effort to force down the price of meat. Over 20O Memphis union men and citizens have signed the pledge. Springfield, Mass. Springfield has fallen Into line In the "meat strike" as a protest against the high prices of beef products. The employes of a large manufacturing company have agreed to abstain from meat eating for thirty days from Jan. 25. A similar movement is underdiscussion at other shops. Asbury Park. N. J. Petitions are being circulated urging the legislature to call on the people of the state to abstain from eating meat for sixty days.

case of this nature in Wayne county.

The cost is greater thin at orphan's homes. lloecr. crinpled children an not be placed in White's institute and the Julia Works home is about the only one in t'.ie btato where little sufferers are received. GET ROLLING STOCK The rolling stock of the new undertaling firm of Jordan. Mc.Manus and HktiM h:.rd. H'il Main street, has been received. The company exacted to open up its business quarters January 1. but was delayed by reason of the failure of the rolling stock lo arrive. The firm of which it w?s purchased stated t'aat the transportation facilities out of Chicago were hindered by reason of the railroad companies utilizing all freight cars for carrying coal. FBACTURES AN ARM While alighting from a street car at the corner of Kleventh and Main street. Harry Miller, an Karlham student slipped on a small piece of ice and broke his arm. The injury, although not serious, is a very painful one. Miller resides on South Eleventh street.

Articles of Agreement Will

Probably Be Drawn Up and Circulated About the City in Short Time. THINK THIRTY DAYS TOO SHORT A TIME Doubt If a Strike for That Short Period Would Have Much Effect on the Great Packing Houses. Among the shopmen of the citv the question of joining In the mammoth strike of meat consumers against th meat trust, to comiel lower prices Is Wing agitated and the prooeition is meeting with much favor. It would not be surprising If some of the more forward in the movement would draw up articles of agreement to abstain from the use of meat for thirty days and circulate the pledges over the city for signatures. Those most In sympathy with the movement Kay there would be enough signers to tho agreement to assist materially in the st rike. More Than Thirty Days. It is believed by a large number of the sympathizers in the movement that a longer period than thirty days will be necessary to effectively organize tha strike in this country. In sonie cities where the movement has been instituted the strike has hurt the dealers as much as the trust, which apparently seems to be resKnsibIe for the high prices. Here, however, the matter Is "ferent and many of the dealers arc in sympathy with the movement, providing It becomes general enough over the United States to effect the big corporations instead of! only the dealers. They say that if the strike is confined to only a few localities they will be the ones to suffer, and not the big concerns, which are responsible. At a recent meeting In Iajton in one of the large assembly halls, resolutions to the effect that the signers would starve before they would eat mejit at the present high prices were drain up. Several copies were made and the petitions are being distiibuted among the different shops. BANK EMBEZZLER IS BEING SOOGHT Massachusetts State Detectives Are" on Trail of John A. Hall. HIS SUICIDE IS FEARED THIS BELIEF CURRENT BECAUSE THE MISSING MAN HAD EXPRESSED BELIEF THAT HE WAS GOING INSANE. (American Xcwi Service) South Bridge, Mass.. Jan. 22. State detectives this morning began a search for John A. Hall, the missing treasurer of the South Bridge Savings bank for whose arrest they hold a warrant, charging the embezzlement of $21,000 of the bank's funds. A report current today that Hall had expressed the, fear that he wax going insane gave rise to the belief by the police that he may have ended . bis life and that iis body may be found in the St ur bridge woods. The bank shortage, it is said today, win exceed $100,000. An expert accountant will be put at work on the bank's books Monday morning. Was V. M. C A. Treasurer. The missing treasurer, who. In addition to his position at the savings bank, was town treasurer and treasurer of the Y. M. C. A, director of the National bank here, and of the South Bridge Oas company. The Barings bank has been considered a financial Gibraltar. Excitement over the closing of the bank reached its height when the mills here closed and hundreds of millhands learned that their savings were In the danger. Of the 6.000 depositors of the bank, a large share comprises these workmen. Much of the $2,308,799.99 deposits are owned by them. HER REPORT FILED Mary A. Kordell. guardian of Lucy E. Doddridge, minor heir of the late Benjamin R, Rauck. has filed final settlement report In the probate court as the heir has become of age. The report shows that Mrs. Doddridge has given receipt for $1,285.60 due her. It will be reviewed by Judge Fox later.