Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 35, Number 252, 19 July 1910 — Page 1

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A HARROW ESCAPE 8Y PRESIDENT OF BOARD OF WORKS City Nearly Violated Law by Letting Contract Without Funds for Which Hammond .Could Be Jailed. HOWLING DOGS MUST CUT OUT THE NOISE

If They Don't They Will Violate Ordinance Passed Last Evening Municipal Plant Makes Report. Appropriations amounting to $2,550 were made at city council last night. $1,000 was transferred from the account of sundry material of sewers, streets and alleys to miscellaneous expenses of sewers streets and alleys. The various appropriations were: For miscellaneous expenses of parks, $1,500; miscellaneous expenses of board of health, $500; miscellaneous ex pen ses of publlo buildings and grounds, $400; miscellaneous expenses ot fire department. $150. There was no opposition to the ordinance making an appropriation to let the coal contract. The. city administration narrowly, escaped a violation of the law after the coal contract had been drawn up without funds being; on hand. It scaped by not letting the contract A state statute provides that no contracts shall be made without a sufficient sum of money being In the fund from which the money is appropriated. The president of the board of works Is liable to a Jail sentence for violation of the statute. Because of numerous reports of dogs bitting people an ordinance was Introduced to meet this situation. It provides that all owners of dogs shall pay a city license fee of $1 and that dogs must be' furnished collars on which Is the license tag. During a prevalence of hydrophobia, on the order of the mayor, dogs must be either mussled or kept off the streets. Dogs habitually howling or barking at night so as to disturb the neighborhood violate the ordinance. By the new ordinance It is unlawful to poison dogs. A fine not to exceed $25 and coBts is provided. Municipal Light Report. Nlmrod Johnson, superintendent of the municipal lighting plant submitted the following report for the month of June which was approved by council: Amount due from city for lighting streets and public buildings $ 2,048.70 Receipts from light and power .: 5,189.54 From other sources ........ 28.11 Total receipts ....$ 7,266.35 Disbursements. Operating expenses $ 2,473.95 Building and equipment .... 683.54 Total disbursements ....$ S.157.49 Receipts $ 7,266.35 Operating expenses 2,473.95 Excess of receipts over per(Continued on Page Nine.)

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KING OF BULGARIA IN

AN AEROPLANE FLIGHT King Ferdinand of Bulgaria to whom belongs the honor of being the first king to make an ascent in aeroplane. He was a passenger of Chevalier de Laminne recently at Harselle, near Liege, and enjoyed the experience very much. Aftetr be descended the ruler remarked: "I never experienced anything that made me forget affairs of state bo completely. I shall do my best to Introduce aviation in Bulgaria." C. C. 4 L. IS SUED Violations of Safety Appliance Law Alleged by Attorney-General. COMPLAINTS AT MUNCIE Muncle, Ind., July 19. Five suits for alleged violation of the Indiana railroad laws, requiring equipment on cars to safeguard the lives of employes and passengers, were filed in the Delaware Circuit Court here yesterday by the Indiana Railroad Commission through Attorney General James Bingham. Three ot the cases are against James P. Goodrich, receiver for the Chicago, Cincinnati & Louisville Railroad Company; one against the Lake Erie & Western Railroad Company and the other against the Central Indiana Railroad Company. The complainants allege that the railroads are subject to fines of $100 for each alleged offense. Two of the suits against the C, C. & I, now owned by the C. & O., pertain to alleged defective grab irons on box cars, and the second relates to an alleged detective box car coupler. The suit against the L. E. & W. alleges that a defective automatic coupler on a box car was in use, and the C. I. road case alleges that a box car with a broken draw bar, which is said to have been supplanted by an emergency knuckle was used. 5,852

MURDER CASE IIOW POLITICAL ISSUE Member of Parliament Wants to Know Why Dr. Crippen Came to Escape.

FRENCH CLEW A FAILURE CANAL IN LONDON DRAGGED IN HOPES OF 8ECURING BONES, BUT WITH NO SUCCESS FORMER MAID FOUND. (American News Service) London, July 19. The Crippen case today became a political issue when Will Thorne, M. P., announced that he would in the House of Commons, Interpellate the government, asking Home Secretary Winston Churchill, who was responsible for allowing Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen to slip through the fingers of the authorities, after he had been auestioned regarding the disappearance of his wife, Belle Elmore. At. the inquest yesterday Inspector Dew of Scotland Yard, testified that it was he who interrogated the doctor at his Hilldrop Crescent home. where the body was later found, an(f exacted a promise that he hold him self in readiness to answer the ques tions of the police. Will Thorne is a Laborite. general! secretary of the National Union of Gas Workers and General Laborers, and has represented Westham in Parliament since 1906. A new hope of success in the worldvide hunt for Dr. Crippen and his companion. Ethel Clare Le Neve, came today with the receipt at Scotland Yard of word from Canterbury saying that Dr. Crippen had been arrested there. Find Missing Maid. Information was received from the French police today of the locating of the missing maid, who worked in the Crippen home about the time of the murder. ' It was at first feared, after she disappeared, that she had been done away-with. 'Though frightened, according to the police reports, she could throw no light on tlie mys tery and te only important point in her story was the assertion that the police photograph of Miss Le Neve does not resemble the missing girl. The police have also changed their description of the stenographer who posed as a niece, to the extent of declaring that she may row have Imperfect teeth. After learning that the girl had false teeth though so perfectly made that they appeared natural the police reasoned that Crippen, being a dentist, might, to avert suspicion, prepare a different set and compel her to wear it. The difference is expression by Imperfect teeth those that protrude for instance is recognized by the police the world over. A fresh start was made today in the dragging of Regents canal, London, N. W., for the bones of the murder victim. It developed today that the police took this step on the -word of a friend of the Le Neve girl, who told the authorities that the steno grapher had seen Crippen make sever al trips to Regent's park carrying a heavy bag. Every bone was removed from the body before it was buried in quicklime in the Hilldrop Crescent cel lar, and the feet, hands and head were severed. The collapse of the Dieppe clew, which yesterday brought fresh hope to the police, has left them higher in the air than ever. The French police. however, today continued to work on the case. STRIKERS RETURNED (American News Service) Paris, July 19. The employes of the French railways will re-main at work, in spite of the authorization of a general strike until new plans for conciliation, now under way, have passed the crucial point. The meet ing called by the engineers and fire men for late in July is regarded as the important point in the threatened struggle. The railroads, however, con tinue their preparations to run their lines with non-union men in the event of a walkout. The employes who went out yesterday returned to work today. TAFT IS III MA11IE (Americas Kews Service) East Port, Maine, July ' 19. President Taft arrived here at noon today amid hurrahs ot welcome and bunting displays galore. Citizens traveled many miles In every vehicle, ranging from the hay-wagon to the automobile to see the Yacht Mayflower, Taft being the first president that ever visited Maine. THE WEATHER. - STATE AND LOCAL Pair tonight and Wednesday; not much change in temperature.

SUB ROSA SCRAP OVER WEE CUPID HAS LEAKED OUT

Thrilling Tale Involves Ministerial Association, Art Association and the Local School Board. DIVINES WANTED DAN TO DON A FEW DUDS If He Was to Be Exhibited in the New High School, But Wilted When Merry Chuckle Was Let Forth. A little Dan Cupid, carved from stone, the Richmond Ministerial association, the Richmond school board and the Richmond Art association play the leading parts In this little drama, which nearly was suppressed. In this little sketch intrigue and heaps of excitement were threatened and all because some artist with a pretty idea of the beautiful carved out of a bit of stone a bit of a cupid, and then beneath this bit of a love god's dimply feet carved a tortoise shell. Extraordinary as it may seem this bit of rock was sold to a man who in turn either recognizing his mistake or from purely edyfying motives pre sented it to the Richmond Art associa tion ; and thereby that bit of stone became an apple of discord. The Art association and the school board with one idea of the beautiful and the Ministerial association, with another idea of the beautiful, disagreed. Of course is wasn't the tortoise shell nor yet the stony cupid that caused the turmoil; it was Janet Scudder's perfect aversion of anachronisms; Janet chopped out cupid just as my thology pictured the little devil. In Cupid's day Hart, Schnaffner and Marx had not begun making ready- to wear clothing. Needless to write, Dan stands on the tortoise shell without even: a kimona draped over his sb.dutd: ' Give Battle to Art. Just at this point in the history of the threatened revolution the cloth enters and takes issue with the art loving R. A. A. Cupid, if he was to stand on the turtle back and be viewed by scores of high school pupils as they hurried either to "bluff" or "cut" a class in the new building, must be draped. Such shocking sights, no matter what degree of art they portrayed, must be draped. Such was the attitude of the ministerial association and proceeding In all their good intent to drive this idea into a number of brains they held a meeting,' assemblage or gathering. A resolution, motion or something of that sort was passed, so the school board heard, which branded the placing of Cupid and the tortoise shell in a niche of the new high school building as something outrageous to the morale of Richmond's youth. The action of the ministers was learned by the board of education and the Richmond Art Association. Breaths ceased to breathe; astonishment was visible on certain visages and then a chuckle, which rapidly developed into a giggle, a laugh and a howl of absolute enjoyment was attered. (Now for the 6hort story telling.) After a little argument the statue which Janet Scudder had carved, which .she sold . to Warner Leeds of New York City, and which Mr. Leeds in turn turned over to the Art i Asso ciation is to occupy the selected niche. 10 YEARS TOO LONG Ten years ot married life form the basis of cruel treatment and failure to provide charges in the divorce petition of Sylvia Custer against Paul E. Custer. U . Pdkto's Dcily Averse Circulation For Week Ending July 16, 1910. (Except Saturday) This Includes all our Regular Complimentary Lists AVERAGE CITY CIRCULATION 3,373 ' eaMBMMM ' TOTAL DAILY AVERAGE For the Same Week Except Satur4 day Six Days 5,052 Our books are always open for Inspection. We have the most complete and accurate circulation accounting system In this part of the country. - We Invite Investigation.

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MRS. AUGUSTA FINISH FIGHT FOR GRAND TRUNK ROAD i - SoTh Officers of Company and Leaders of Strikers Declare This. HIGHER WAGES DEMANDED THIS MORNING SEVERAL CLASHES BY STRIKERS AND GUARDS WERE REPORTED "SCABS" ARE BEING USED. (American News Service) Montreal, July 19. "It's a fight to a finish," was the slogan sounded today both by the officials of the Grand Trunk Railway system and the lead ers of the 15,000 employes who struck last night for higher wages. The union leaders said today that every member of the organizations affected had obeyed the strike order and that by tonight scarcely a wljeel would be turning on the 5.250 miles of the rail way. "There will be - no interference in service," was , the declaration" of the company officials. The importation of strike breakers, 4oth on the Grand Trunk proper fend ; the Central - Vermont, the New England subsidiary, is being rushed today. Hundreds of men are already at the division points to take the strikers places and say more are on the way. , Try to Run Trains. After "the last train that began Its run before the walkout at 9:30 last night had been taken to the end of its run, the company began attempting, to run trains with employes unaffiliated with unions. This morning several clashes had already ben reported.' Vice President James Murdock of the Brotherhood of Trainmen said today: The men are firm, and we have plenty of funds for a long struggle. We are fighting for the wages set by the board of conciliation, and we mean to get them." . t . President Hays - ot the road said: "We have done all In our power to avert trouble, and now ; that a fight has been forced, we will maintain the position we believe to be right." - The company officers declared that they feared no walkout by the telegraphers, adding; that all the operators at small stations In the west had stuck to their keys.' NO VIOLENCE YET. Toronto, July 19. Aside from mail trains, the Grand Trunk railway system Is nearly at s standstill today. It is estimated forty-five hundred conductors, brakemen and other trainmen are out oa the - strike. All shops of the company are closed down with, a view to forcing these employes to become strike breakers in the train service.' The line between Detroit and Chicago Is at t standstill. No violence - was reported . today, except the .attempted mobbing of one strike breaker ' conductor at Detroit. Two hundred strike breakers wbick the

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Pennsylvania system had recruited are enroute to the Grand Trunk sys tem. . MAKE PEACE PACT. Philadelphia. July 19.The peace pact established . between the Pennsylvania railroad and its men, precluding likelihood of a strike, caused iiuch satisfaction in' railroad and shipping circles today. The crisis is past and only the adjustment of details remains to end completely the dispute which for a time threatened a more serious labor war. W. G. Lee, of the Trainmen, and the committee will remain here several days at least, until the most important adjustments have been made. WILLIAMS IS FINED Dawson Williams was fined $5 and costs in city court this morning for as sault and battery on Syrena Hendershot, 426 North Thirteenth street. She said Williams struck her several times In the face knocking her down. Williams plead guilty.

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REPORT BY LOWE Oil THE WESTCOTT

ESTATE IS Alleges Late Well Known Manufacturer Owned Valuable Foreign Stocks Which Were Never Listed. HE ALLEGES OMITTED TAXES IS $27,105.63 During 1907, It Is Alleged Omitted Taxables Totaled $245,830 and Only $50,000 of It Returned. Tax Adjuster W. E. Lowe In his ae -tion against the estate of the late J, M- Westcott. asking collection ot alleged omitted taxes to the amount ot $:!7,lfc.UH alleges that these taxes are due on bonds, notes, accounts ' and stock owned by the former vell known manufacturer during the years from 1SS tq 1S97. The alleged amounts omitted and4he alleged taxes due are shown in the following tables Year Amt. Omitted Taxes 1S98 S 28,741.00 f (KKI.S3 . 1890 29.000.00 638.00 1!XX 12,500.00 j 417.00 10O1 23,000.00 71&.0O 1902 27,500.00 63&.00 93,812.00 2.251.49 1904 100,700.00 4.017.50 1905 199,900.00 4,982.50 1 24M.400.00 filttOJa 1907 245,830.00 6,301.83 Total.. .. . .S27.105.ti3 Alleged Omissions, ' It is alleged by Tax Adjuster Xiowe that in 1907 Mr. Westcott omitted. taxes on the following taxables: 640 shares Diamond Match stock valued $78,080. , . 200 shares of National Biscuit, nfd valued 123.200. . 200 shares U. 6. Steel pfd, valued , $2000. , 200 shares U. & Steel, common, val ued $8,950. )' 200 shares Railway Steel Sprint Co., pfd., valued $19,400. ,200 shares American Car ana Foun dry, pfd., valued $20,200. , ? Accounts, note or other indebtedness owing from Westcott Carriage Co., valued $90,000. ... 352 shares American Seeding Machine Co., valued $35,200. Recapitulation for 1907. ' - Bonos, notes accounts, biockb, etc. $293,830. -Returned for taxation, $50,000. . Omitted from taxation, $245,830. ,. Y. M. B. C. MEETING Following a dinner at the Westcott Hotel tomorrow evening the called meeting of the directors of the Y. M. D. c. will hold a session In the Turk ish rooms to consider a new zaetorx proposition. -Ac mu-t '

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