Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 35, Number 243, 10 July 1910 — Page 1

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t: E MC. B P AUL ABHJM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. VOl XXXV. NO. 243. RICHMOND. INIX, SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 10, 1910. SINGLE COPY, 3 CENTS,

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OFFICIALS ARE CONFRONTED WITH SERIOUS PROBLEM UltHlj , , , , ' . Leber Saving Devices Recently Installed In Treasury Department Throw Many Out of Employment. MACHINE LABOR IS MUCH MORE SATISFACTORY ihe Resulting Savings by Elimination of Employes Is Estimated at Approximately $138,000 per annum. 'i BY JONATHAN WIN FIELD.

Washington, July 0. Labor saving devices recently Installed la tbe trees ury department, resulting In throwing out of wrk about 600 employes, have been tbe subject of conslderabla study by officials of that department Tbe great question that has confronted Secretary MacVeagh during the last few months, has been the proposition of taking care of the employes who have lost their positions. Through conferences with bis subordinates and officials of other departments he has been able to secure positions for these persons. Some of them have been forced to accept positions that were not as remunerative as those they for merly had, but announcements have been made that nearly all of them have been provided for. A number oT the employes who were slated to go were In the offices of the treasurer of the United States where perhaps more labor saving devices have been Installed than in any oth r branch of the treasury department. These machines are principally used in affixing the numeral and the seal to United States notes. Announcement is now made that after July 1 the trans fer of the work of Imprinting the num erals, sealing and separating notes and certificates from the treasury to the bureau of engraving and printing will be completed. Heretofore In prepar ing United States notes and gold and silver certificates the work of the bu reau of engraving and printing has not Included the final processes of Im printing the numeral, sealing the the notes and separating the sheets into Individual notes, but the sheets have been carried over to the Treasury department, where they have been separated and marked with the seal and numeral In the division of issue. This means that the notes will heroafter be entirely finished at the bureau of engraving and printing and delivered to the treasury ready for use thereby effecting large economies. Suggestion was recently made to the Secretary of the Treasury MacVeagh that both the seals' and the numerals could be printed on tbe notes simultaneously on the same press. Experiments were conducted by Director Ralph of the bureau of engraving and printing with the result that It was deemed practical to seal and number the notes at one operation, and also to trim them. It was found thst tho machine could be further Improved by the attachment of a device which separated and counted the notes and turned them out In packages. Other experiments have proved that the machine will separate, count and collate the notes. In thts way a number or machines have been substituted for manual work. , ' A Great Saving. At the present time there are in operation twelve presses of this kind at the bureau, and contracts have been let for the Installation of seversl more. Through the installation of theee machines, a reduction In the personnel of the treasury force was necessary. Under the old method of trimming, collating and separating theee notes, a force of clerks were required both at the treasury department and at the bureau, the various processes through which the notes went requiring six female operatives and two pressmen. Under the new "way those operations are performed on two new style machines by three female operatives and one pressman. The resulting savings by the elimination of 135 employes who operated the eighteen printing presses and twenty-six separating machines used In the division of issue of the treasury will be approximately $135,000 per annum. Secretary MacVeagh states that the estimated saving from the elimination of the work In the treasury Is but a part of the total that will eventually result from the change, for the reason that the speed of the presses csn be made much greater than originally anticipated and that consequently a greater number of notes may be produced with the present equipment A number' of other changes are also contemplated by tbe treasury department after the beginning of the fiscal year. Br rearrangements Introduced In the office of the auditor of the postoffice department seventy-seven possltloos have been vacated. This means that this force can be housed In a federal building Instead of In rented quarters, thereby effecting a saving of about $7,500 annually, in this dlvle(Continued on Page Eight)

Aviator Curfiss is After Prize for Sect-Flight

WAIITED-IIAME FOR NEW HIGH SCHOOL School Board Is Up Against It in Selecting Desirable Title for Structure. HAVE YOU A SUGGESTION DR. J. E. CATHELL HAS ASKED THAT THE BUILDING BE NAMED FOR ABRAHAM LINCOLN, BUT BOARD IS RETICENT. Wanted, a name for the finest high school building In the state. Richmond's new blah school build Ing, designed by Architect Ittner of 8t Louis and built at a cost of $170,000 Is still without a name. Propositions have been made to call it the Rich mond high school, Garfield high school and Lincoln high school but no official action has been taken bv the board. The suggestion to can the new building the Garfield high school has met with decided opposition on the part of Professor K. C. Heironlmus, principal of the grade departmental building now known as Garfield. Professor' Heironlmus says that the name as now used applies to an Institution, not a building. The Garfield school is known throughout the United States as a pioneer in grade departmental work. Eminent school men have visited the institution and written about it in school journals. Prof. Heironlmus points out that because of its wide reputation the school should retain its present name. Dr. J. E. Cathell, an enthusiastic student of the life of Abraham Lincoln, has asked the school board to name one of the buildings the Lincoln school. Other names have been proposed but the members of the school board have given the enthusiasts no answer. The present Garfield school was built in 1S54 and has been remodeled several times. Shortly after the assassination of James K. Garfield it was christened the "Garfield School." It has several historic features, among them a battle scene drawn on a blackboard by General Lew Wallace, author of "Ben Hur." WAIITSUJ. TO ACT Rep. Hughes Would Put a Stop to Persecution of the Jews in Russia. ASKS AID 0FPRES. TAFT (American New. Service! Passaic. N. J., July 9. The United. C... I. V.V.I. v.. i ovlvo uiiwb lucuciv lu UCUBU Ui UUmanlty In the persecution of Jews in Russia. It is this nation's duty." Representative Hughes of the Sixth congressional district today, at his country home at Greenwood . Lake, made this statement He has sent the following telegram to President Tatt at Beverly, Mass.: "The Jewish constituents of my district through the medium of the Independent Order Free Sons of Joseph, desire me to call your attention to the atrocities which have Involved in Russia affecting the Jewish population, an account of which was detailed in newspapers of July 7 and respectfully request that you as president of the! United States, on behalf of the Jewish eitisens of this country, enter a protest to the Russian government In the name of humanity against the continuance of the horrible cotdltkms prevalent" The protest was aroused by a description of the expulsion of Jews from the cities outside the Pale. In which many have been killed, according to the secret advices received by Semitic leaders in Vienna,

(At top). Glenn H. Curuss flying

over the ocean at Atlantic City. (Below) Curtiss running into the surf at Atlantic City where the sand splintered his-propeller in the first trial. Curtiss recently In his preparation flight for the $5,000 prise to the first aviator who makes a twenty-five mile flight to sea and return, flew twelve miles In twelve minutes over the ocean. The Immense throng went wild with enthusiasm over his flight MA flBEMEII TO ATTEND The Funeral of Walter Paulus in a Body With Other City Officials. HOSE HOUSES IN MOURNING Chief Edgar Miller of tbe fire department has arranged for the firemen of the city to attend the funeral of Walter Paulus, assistant chief, Monday afternoon. The wagons of the department with the firemen at their posts will lead the funeral procession. All the hose houses have been draped in mourning by order of President Hammond of the board of works. Mourning for the deal fireman is universal in every department of the city's government He was popular both because of his genial disposition and his efficiency. City officials and members of the police department will attend the funeral. Pnllcdium's Daily Avercge Circulation For Week Ending July 9, 1910 (Excepting Saturday) This Includes our regular complimentary lists. IN THE CITY OF RICHMOND 3,35G TOTAL DAILY AVERAGE For the Same Week. Excepting Saturday C Dayr 5,883 Oct Cc2lH;rs?

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MAY OPPOSE THE INCREASED RATES Interstate Commerce Commission to Pass on Freight Schedules This Week. ARE SWEEPING IN EFFECT

A QUESTION INVOLVED IS WHETHER COMMISSION HAS POWER TO SUSPEND TARIFFS OF THE RAILROADS. Washington, July 9. The Interstate Commerce Commission will decide at next week's meeting to order the suspension pending examination of the general Increase of freight rates which have been filed with the commission recently. ' These increases of rates cover the most important territory of the United States from a railroad and commercial standpoint They cover the east, the region north of the Ohio and east of the Mississippi and the middle west. Most of them go into effect on August 1 or thereabouts. A question has arisen whether the commission would exercise its authority under the new law in such a way as to make sweeping suspensions of the general freight rate increases. This question has-been accentuated partly by a statement given out from Beverly following the recent confer ence between President Taft and chairman Knapp. Following that con ference it was given out and widely published that the commission was go ing to administer the law in fashion and was going to send proposed in creases of rates only in exceptional cases. This was said In many quar ters meaning that many of the present increases the road had decided on would be suspended and that part of them would be allowed to go into ef fect It is stated now on the best of au thority that the comir ission expects to suspend the general rate increases and that whatever was given out at Beverly was not to be construed as meaning otherwise so far as the pro posed general increases are made. So far as rates go, the commission next week is expected to announce whether It considers it had the author ity to deal with them. SETS SAIL Europe Holds Strange Fasci nation for Son of the Ex-president WHAT IS HIS MISSION? New York, July 9. Kennlt Roosevelt, who arrived in New York on June 18th after a year and a quarter abroad with his father, sailed today on the Hamburg liner America, for Europe. He took with him six trunks. The son of the ex-president was reti cent at the pierr. where he attracted more attention than all other notabilities combined. He refused flatly to discuss the report that Miss Margaret Rutherford, eldest daughter of Mrs. Wm. K. VanderbilL. Sr, had any thing to do with his quick return. He was reported to have paid much at tention to the heiress while in Paris with his father. It was declared by some friends of the RoccerelU that Kermit was going abroad to study, brushing np for the grind at Harvard after losing 15 months through the African and Euro pean tour of Theodore Roosevelt The Eaton Band, which was to have given a concert last evening in the North End business section, did not

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come to the city because of tho rain.

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CRUISED Oil DEATH BED BK OFFICIALS Carnegie Trust Company di rectors Were Dissatisfied With Administration of Its Executive. . DEATH OCCURRED 5 DAYS BEFORE RESIGNATION Coroner Says Cause of Death Was Due to Gas Poisoning While Watching Base Metals Change to Gold. (American News Service) New York, July 9. It became known today that on May IS, just six days before his death, Charles C. Dickinson, former president of the Carne gie Trust company, attended a meeting of the directors of the company and in spite of the fact that he was very ill at the time was severely tak en to task by some of his fellow directors for what they regarded as grave errors in administration , the bank's affairs. Although thevdirectors as a body did not censure Dickinson, various individuals on tbe board were not sparing in their criticisms and vhen Dickinson left the meeting it was with the understanding that his resignation as director and .member of the executive committee would go into effect June 1. It was said Dick inson, although, quite willing to relinquish the presidency of tbe institution be had built up, was very, anxious for sentmiental reasons, to remain on tbe directorate and that he was complete ly crushed by the refusal of his old associates to countenance this. There seems to be little doubt that Dickin son left the bank in bad physical and mental condition. He was very much depressed and believed himself the victim of a great. Injustice. That night he was taken to St. Lukes hospital and six days later he died.' Reason for Dickinson's death has been officially fixed br tnlTfcorOuer jury as gas poisoning. The story how Dickinson, in'" company with his brother and several friends went to Scranton about ten days before his death to witness experiments of a chemist who claimed to be able to extract silver from base metals has already been told. During the demonstration there was an explosion and Dickinson, who was closest to the vessel in which certain chemicals were cooking, is al leged to have inhaled a great volume of poisonous gas. After his return from Scranton he was quite ill but not so ill that he could not attend the meeting of the directors. The verdict of the coroner's jury was given in face of the evidence by the coroner's physician Schultz that Dickinson had not died of poisoalous gases but from natural causes." Dickinson's retirement from the Carnegie Trust company, had been arranged for before his visit to Scranton. Five months before he had surrendered the presidency to Joseph P. Relchmann. former president of the National Starch company. Dickinson owned some 1,500 shares, but most of it he had pledged for loans at the time of his retirement. The Reichmann administration started a house cleaning as soon as it got well entrenched and Dickinson's resignation as a director was one of the first things it effected. It was Dickinson's plan at the time he gave his resignation to start on a trip around the world as soon as his resignation became effective, which was to have been on June 1. Something happened to cause him to change his mind about retiring for it was stated today that when he got up from the sick bed on May 18 to attend the last meeting of the directors for the fiscal year, he proposed to fight for what he regarded as his rights. The directors, most hostile to Dickinson admitted the trust company had never lost any money through the loans made by him. They alleged, however, that his methods were not good ones, and had brought the Institution into bad repute with many people. The result of the meeting of the directors, who knew of the mental condition of Dickinson, just before his death and the action of the Casualty company of America in refusing to pay the accident policy for $65,000 have all combined to keep a persistent rumor afloat that Dickinson committed suicide. On this subject his brother, Stanley Dickinson, who Is a lawyer and has no connection with tbe bank said today, "Unless these ridiculous stories stop the family will take some legal action shortly to bring them to an end. We are getting tired of it all. . The reasons for Mr. Dickinson's death are plain t.j alL It was made the subject of a thorough investigation with results that are well known." Mr. Dickinson added bis brother's financial condition was excellent at the time of his death, his estate summing up at least 1500,000.

THE WEATHER. INDIANA AND LOCAL Probably fair ;: tonight and Monday; not much -' change In tempera tar. . . - , :

WEALTHY, YET SWEARS

SHE IS WORTH BUT $17 9 Mrs. Jessie Livingston Forbes, wife of the wealthy aviator, who recently solemnly swore before a justice of the peace in Fairfield. Conn, that she owned no more than $17 worth of personal property beside her clothing. She was allowed to take the poor debtor's oath, hoping thereby to avoid further liti gation in the alienation - suit - brought against her by - Ida Rowley of New York, wife of her former chauffeur, Ernest Rowley. MORE MONEYHEEOED nun; Detention Hospitals at Jail and . Infirmary to Cost More Than Fynpritpri V TO BE COMPLETED BY JAN. 1 THE PLANS WILL ' REMAIN THE SAMENEW BIDS WILL BE ADVERTISED for Immediately BY COMMISSIONERS. Additional appropriations will be asked by the county commissioners at the special meeting of the county council on Monday in order that improvements may be made at he county infirmary and at the county jail which wl'.l be used for the care of the county's Insane who can not be admitted immediately to state institutions. Although there will be several weeks delay in commencing the work owing to the requirements of the law, the county commissioners expect the improvements to be completed by January 1. Readvertisements for bids will recuire about six weeks alone. Tbe officials expect the improvements at tbe jail to cost about 15,000, an ad ditional $2,000 being . asked over the amount originally appropriated for thts purpose. At the poor farm the expenditure will amdunt to about $15, 000, whereas the county council only appropriated $10,000 several months ago. No new plans will be required. Both those for the detention hospital for male Insane at the jail and for the new dining room, heating system and remodeling of the women's quarters at the poor farm have been approved by Judge Fox and others who are In terested. The state " board of char ities and corrections have made objections to the plans but these practically have been overruled by public sentiment in the county. On Monday of last week the commissioners were to have let the contracts but all the bids submitted for Improvements . at both institutions were in excess of the appropriations. The commissioners had to reject the bids. BARONESS IS GAME Rhelms, Juluy 9. Til fly again as soon as I can grasp a steering wheel." These were the first words of Baroness de la Roche, the daring sportswoman who was yesterday hurt when her Toisin biplane fell 150 feet with her at the aviation meet. ' Her condition was reported today to be somewhat better, the patient having passed a fairly comfortable night, but the doctors today refused to commit themselves to a prediction of her recovery. . Though suffering intense pain, the baroness insists on following events of the aviation meet in detail constantly asking for news of the bird men.

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RADICAL CHANGES THROUGH- COUNTY

Many of the C, C. and U "Kinks" Are to Be Eliminated by New Survey Which Is Now Being Made. SEVERAL TOWNS WILL HAVE KICK COMING Williamsburg, Economy and Webster Will Be Missed by the Road as Now Planned by New Owners. . 1 Almost an entire new right of way and the shortest possible routs through the county are the plant for the reconstruction of the Chesapeake & Ohio of Indiana, formerly the C CL , & L. railroad. Surveying parties are working rapidly and it la expected that within a short time announcement will be made by the company officials as to changes which will be made. . Several hundred : thousand dollars will be spent in this county alone by the company in making the changes in the right of way it the plana which have been proposed are followed. Curves will be eliminated and those portions of the old right of way that are used will be regraded. Every town In the county which 111 touched by the road, with the posslbls exception of Richmond, and even here some changes in the line will be madsy ' is looking forward with much Interest to the official announcement. 8ur veys In Boston, Wayne. Webster, Green and Perry townships call far such radical reconstruction changes that the eitisens of the towns " are again wonderingwhether their - towns will be left on the railroad map, A Straight Line. i According to reports from other counties through .which the v road , passes, just as many changes will be '. mad lis the" right of wmy as -srv planned for the line In Wayne eountj As in this county the plan Is to makw the road straight In reality and not in name alone. A surveying, party which commenoed its review of the line even before , the road was sold by the receiver to representatives of the C & O. railroad, has completed its work In this county. .' In the eliminating the numerous and extensive curves between here and Boston and also around Williamsburg the surveying parties have shortened the route. The line from Boston to this city will be as straight as possible. Only a few points on the pres. ent right of way will be touched. At the point where the road enters Webster, township the first change In the line' north of the city is planned. From there until. Losantvllle Is reached the line will be practically new socording to the survey. v Some of the Changes. The depot at Webster is now about a quarter of a mile south of the town proper. The new arrangement will place the depot a quarter of a mile to the east. At Williamsburg sad Boon omy the station, elevators, stock parts and water tanks will have to be moved about a hair mile to tne east or north of their present location. Citizens of Webster tear they will be forgotten entirely. They have no elevator or other shipping facilities now, chiefly because the township refused the road a subsidy when it " was built originally. However at Williamsburg end Be onomy no such fears are entertained,, although the announcement that the depots would be a half mile further away from the towns has not atet with any signs of pleasure from the eitisens. The station at Williamsburg will be near Cranor'a woods, east of that place. Economy eitisens will petition the company to locate .the station either at Osborne's lake or on the road which runs north from Economy. Whether the company will have any difficulty in obtaining any part of the proposed new right of way from the farmers Is not known. However many are objecting. They say that the road is cutting up the farms too much. Undoubtedly there will be sv number of Instances where legal proceedings will Involve the transfer et the land to the company. HIT WITH A BOTTLE . Larry - Loftus, North Fourth street thought he was drinking his beer ; quietly enough. He was standing' at the bar of the Grand saloon last evening garglisg the suds when ' whack! -some one struck him with a bottle.' He was badly cut above the right eye oil an AsmjI that - he could feartlv walk to police headquarters where J made complaint. Ha said that fc Cl not know the identity of his ss&3Us. at the time. The bartender in " T'W ca m,Mimiii wmm. w usv ' In tie treat end and did not see tl

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