Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 35, Number 116, 3 March 1910 — Page 3

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUX-TELEGRAM, THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1910.

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HELP ASKED FOR; KEEP CARS CLEAN

T. H. & I. Official Appeals to State Board of Health Secretary. CAMPAIGN OF EDUCATION

PEOPLE WHO RIDE IN INTERURBAN CARS, IT IS POINTED OUT, ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR MOST OF THE DIRT.

The Borrowing of Forest Trees Enterprise of German Foreste rs Is Strikingly Shown in Reports Received from Montana and from Ontario.

Indianapolis, March 3. T. F. Grov-

er, of Terre Haute, manager of the

Terre Haute, Indianapolis & Eastern traction lines, has written to the state

board of health asking the board to co-operate with his company in keep

ing his interurban cars clean, and

offering anything in his power to help

the board along in this phase of its

sanitary undertakings. "I think the board understands.

wrote Mr. Grover. "that a large percentage of the cause of dirty cars is to be traced to the people themselves, and that the problem of keeping cars clean is largely a problem of educating the people in sanitation. Our company makes every effort it can to keep cur cars in a sanitary and cleanly condition, but we are unable to accomplish as much as we desire because of the heedlessness of the patrons. If the board can assist u in bringing our patrons to see the necessity of cleanly cars we will gladly accept any recommendations they may make." Dr. J. N. Hurty, secretary of the board, by whom the letter was received, said that Mr. Grover was entirely right in the statement that the patrons, rather than the interurban companies, are the ones who must be reached ; in the car cleanliness crusade. "Jn figures, I should estimate that the ratio of blame between the patrons and the companies is about three to one," said Dr. Hurty. "That is, the people are to blame for 75 per cent of the unsanitary condition of the cars, and the companies for the other 25 percent. An Employe Overwhelmed. The other day I boarded a Ft. . ..yne & Wabash Valley traction car at the station here to go to Anderson. The car was ten minutes late in arriving and about five minutes late in going out. When it pulled in there were fifty people, I should judge, waiting to board. No sooner had the last incoming passenger alighted than the outgoing ones began to pour in, and I was among the first. Half the dis

tance of the car floor I encountered an employe of the station hastily trying to make the car presentable, but he was soon overwhelmed with the passengers and compelled to give up the task. "I knew that when that car left Ft. Wayne it was clean, but when it arrived here the floor was covered with banana peels, orange skins, apple parings and apple cores, remains of lunches, torn newspapers, mud and expectorations. There was absolutely no opportunity for the company to clean it here and have the car maintain its schedule time, although it made an attempt to do so. "A condition like that can only be remedied by having the people come 10 a realization that it is up o them to. keep the cars clean if they wish to ride in clean cars. With Mr. Grover and other traction men of the state, the board is preparing to take up a number of suggestions as to how the patrons may be made to see their duty

in this respect. One plan receiving favorable consideration is the placard system, which has often proved its efficiency. It is probable that patrons

of interurban cars will soon become

as familiar with signs cautioning them not to litter the car floor as they have become with, the no-spltting cards

which have served to reduce spitting to a degree scarcely appreciated by

tiie average man.

The enterprise of German foresters and the importance of tree planting for forest purposes are strikingly shown by two items of news which come, the one from Montana, the other from Ontario. It is reported that a demand has developed for Montana larch seeds to be used by German nurserymen, while white pine seedlings are to be imported from Germany by the town of Gueph, Ont., for planting a 168-acre tract of land belonging to the municipality. The Germans recognize that the introduction into their forests of valuable trees native to other countries may be decidedly to their advantage. Although as a rule the forest trees best adapted to each region are those which naturally grow in it, there are many exceptions. Norway spruce and Austrian and Scotch pine have been carried from their native home to other parts of Europe and to America and have been found well worth the attention of the grower of timber. Several of our own species have met with favor in Europe and flourished there, such as the Douglas fir, black walnut,

and others. The Australian eucalyptus is proving a great find for Ameri

ca and South Africa.

Our own white pine long ago

crossed the Atlantic in response to the

needs of Europeans, whose forests are comparatively poor in tree species,

and is now grown commercially on

such a scale that when it is wanted

for planting in its own native habitat the German nurseryman is often ready to deliver young plants here for a

lower price than our own nurserymen will quote. Now the Germans are going to try the Western larch also. The request from the German nurseryman instructs the collectors to gather the

choicest seeds when ripe this falL One nurseryman on Flathead Lake has offered to exchange larch seeds for seeds of desirable German shrubs, which be intends to cultivate and sell in America. In the same region, four or five months ago, foresters of our own Department of Agriculture gathered seed for use in the neighboring Lolo Forest, where a new forest-planting nursery was begun last year. The objects of the Guelph planting are, according to local accounts, to protect the town's water source by a forest cover over its springs in the hills, to make a beautiful woods for a public park, and to provide for a future timber supply as a municipal asset. In foreign countries, forest tracts are often owned and managed by towns and cities as a paying invest

ment and to insure a permanent supply of wood for local consumption, but in America planting by municipalities other than for parks and for watershed protection has scarcely been thought of. The kinds of trees to be grown in the Guelph park have already been decided upon by the Ontario Agricultural College. The proposed reforestation promises to be of so great economic and sanitary value that the estimated cost of $8 per acre for importing and planting the seedlings and caring for the growing trees is regarded as well worth while.

All IRRIGATION DAM

Which Can Be Safely Removed in Case of High Water.

INVENTION OF A MEXICAN

novel of the same title. The production is complete in every detail including the stage furniture and draperies requiring a specially constructed sixty-foot baggage car for its transportation and will be seen at the Gennett Friday, March 11th. Whitney Musical Company. Song, dance and laugh-provoking sayings and situations, with a company of picked colored performers guaranteed the best of their color and class, are the salient features of the Whitney Musical Comedy company performances announced for Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of next week at the Gennett theater. Salem Tutt Whitney in the title role of the new musical comedy entitled "The Ruler of the Town," will introduce many new and original musical numbers written exclusively for this company. Whitney and Trevor L. Corwell, in conjunction with Homer Tutt and Henry Watterson, have been collaborating on the book and lyrics, resulting in a string of original . musical gems that are destined to create a sensation in the singing world. Those

who have heard the lyrics are most enthusiastic in their praise of "Smile on Sue," "Strutting Sam" and "I'm

the Man That Rules the Town," feature songs by Salem Tutt Whitney

and Homer Tutt, the composers. Other compositions of note are "Come Out Dear Louise," "Chicken Song,"

'My Spanish Maid," "Way Back in

Dixieland Where I Long To Be," and

You'se my All in All." Vaudeville This Week. Amy Butler, heralded as vaude

ville's youngest star, is the special

feature at the Murray this week. She is assisted by a quartette. Reiff, Clayton and Reiff, the smart singers and dancers, is another big number on the program. Roy Lynn as the Royal Rube is entertaining all. Legerts, the acrobats, interest the big audiences at Richmond's popular playhouse by their marvelous feats of strength and

dexterity. With the motion pictures a big bill is assured.

DEATH WAS SUDDEII

Charles H. Smith, a former resident of Richmond, died yesterday at his home in Indianapolis. Death, which, was sudden, was due to apoplexy. For more than thirty years Mr. Smith was credit man for the wholesale dry goods firm of Hibben, Holloweg and company at Indianapolis. The deceased resided in Richmond in the early fifties. He was widely known throughout the middle western states. He is survived by his wife and four children, two boys and two girls, all married.

San Antonio, Texas, March 3. An irrigatior. dam that will prove of great benefit in rivers subject to sudden floods has been invented by Frederico

Wulff, a Mexican engineer of Torreon, and will be used in a dam he is con

structing for the firm of William Pur

cell & Co., on the Nazas river. The

dam consists of a solid foundation of

concrete and two tteel cylinders, in this case, KJO feet long and eight feet

in diameter. Behind these the water will b backed ud to a level where it

will enter the irrigation ditches. The ' steel cylinders are anchored on the ) banks and in the middle of the river !

bed, and by means of jack-chains and a winch, can be rolled out of the way in case of high water. The same arrangement will govern the size of the orifice the stel cylinders rovide for a spill way as their ends converge on each other. The opinion of experts who have seen a similar dam in operation is that

it is an unqualified success in rivers where sudden floods have to be taken

into consideration. Instead of inundating the fields which the river under normal conditions irrigates, the surplus of water will de disposed of by rolling the steel cylinders out of the way entirely.

The cam now in the course of con

struction is on the Nazas river in the

San Pedro cotton district. It will cost about $200,000 and when ready will store up water enough to take care of 13,000 acres of the richest cotton land

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At Local Theaters

"The Traveling Salesman."

"The Traveling Salesman," by James

Forbes, the author of "The Chorus Lady," will be seen in this city at the Gennett on Saturday, matinee and night, and the lasting Qualities of the Forbes comedy. Its consistent strength as a popular magnet, are only more surprising than the true-to-life types

and humor that delight every auditor of this play, and not since the days of

Charles Hoyt has a comedy enjoyed

greater success than this James Forbes offering. New York, Boston and Chi

cago grew very fond of Bob Blake and

Ted Watts, the "knights of the road

as they are characterized by Austin

Webb and Dan Baker, and it is rarely

indeed that a stage type is given the widespread vogue, that Mr. Forbes has brought before us of that well known

Americain product, with graphic touch

es of human nature, breezy dialogue

and energetic, wholesome humor. Fol

lowing the well-known policy of Henry B. Hauls, whose productions of "The

Third Degree," "The Lion and the

Mouse," and other famous plays that

have been' seen in this city, "The Trav

eling Salesman" leaves nothing to be

desired and it is marked with the same careful attention to details and stag

ing as was manifest during the long run of this play in New York, Boston

and Chicago. GraustarK.

Castle & Harvey, the well known Pcenic artists of the 14th Street theater, New York, have completed the most elaborate scenic production ever constructed in their studio, which is carried on tour by the company presenting "Graustark," a dramatization of Geo. Barr McCutch eon's successful

Official statistics in Germany, gathered in connection with compulsory insurance, show a constantly increasing rate of wages among the working classes. Divided into five categories, out of every thousand workers in 1900, 189 were in the first (lowest), 342 in the second, 238 in the third, 158 in the fourth, 73 in the fifth (highest). In 1908 the divisions had changed as follows: First (lowest), 114; second, 263; third, 243; fourth, 179; fifth (highest)

201. The average weekly wage of

$4.95, in 1900 had become $6 in 1908

As their condition improves German wage earners are emigrating in fewer

numbers.

Miss Mary Hayden, of Dublin, re

cently appointed professor of history in the Dublin college of the new Catholic

University of Ireland, is one of the leaders in the Gaelic revival. Her ap

pointment was obtained by a compet

itive examination. The Catholic Uni

versity of Ireland is to be co-education

al in all its branches, and among Miss Hayden's pupils will be men in holy

orders.

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The reproach that England is not a musical nation will be no longer heard after the "Army Pageant" is produced next June. Christopher Wilson will shatter the illusion. He is going to reproduce the music of the stone age by means of 'marrowbones struck with flints, the holow bone giving out a curiously resonant note." The same instruments struck with knives will produce a "melodious concorn" representative of the iron age. Westminster Gazette.

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