Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 35, Number 256, 23 July 1910 — Page 1

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AMERICMI BOARD TO ARBITRATE IS THE DEMAND MADE Grand Trunk Strikers Refuse to Heed the Canadian Government's Suggestion on Any Other Terms. COMPANY OFFICIALS . AGAINST THIS BOARD ssne"Bsenusi Wabasji Company Officials Announce Today That Their Line Has Been Eliminated From the Strike.

, (American News Service) Toronto, July 23. The first freight on the Grand Trunk left this morning for London. Grand Trunk conductor have backed up the trainmen in rejecting tne suggestion of arbitration (proposed by the minister of labor, except that such arbitration be by the am board that arbitrated fourteen strikes in the United States. Grand Trunk officials decline to accept this board. WABASH OUT OF IT. New York, July 23. Announcement was made here today- at Wabash realroad office that their line had been eliminated from the Grand Trunk strike trouble by an agreement being reached. A DEADLOCK EXISTS. Montreal, July 23. With all the forces of government and trade in terests working for peace in the Grand Trunk strike, the situation on this, the fifth day of the struggle Is a deadlock. Nevertheless, out of the In. creasing demand for an end of the strike, this developed a belief that the contest 4. soon would be terminated, pending arbitration of the employes' demands. . were not restored the struggle would spread, threatening to take on sympa thetic all members of tho Brotherhood of Railroad Firemen and Englnemen and of the Brotherhood of Railroad Engineers. The railroad officials have made, a strong fight in the past two days, and although thousands of dollars worth of perishable goods have been lost and the Interests of manufacturers along the lines have been severely crippled by the sudden sus pension of freight traffic, the company has been able to show . an improved service with each day. The strikers who were confident that the inability of the company to move freight would bring them to terms, but the road seems to have developed ' unknown strength and freight Is being moved to such an extent that the strikers are discussing new moves. Complete developments re expected within a few hours. Nothing would be so effective at this stage of the game as the sudden withdrawal from the company's ranks of the engineers, the firemen and the nglnemen, which latter body include the roundhouse employes and handlers of locomotives. 8hould this move still prove ineffective the switchmen might be called out SUCCEEDS GRANDFATHER. Howard Horton, grandson of the late Robert A. Howard, county surveyor, it is rumored, will be appoint ed to fill the unexpired term of his grandfather. Horton has had several years' experience In the county work.

DO YOU GET YOUR PAPER? How often does the carrier boy miss you? It is unpleasant when he does not bring it Any time be misses just call up 1121. We'll send the paper by messenger boy. The people who dont get their Palladium tell us they want It badly. That is one of the best ways we have of knowing that the Palladium Is in demand. That. Is the reason for its effectiveness as an advertising medium. 5,852

HEED STOUE PILLAR Old Covered Bridge, a Local Relic, Must Soon Have a New Support.

REPAIRS CONTEMPLATED ' It will soon be necesisary to build a stone pillar under the old North Twelfth street covered bridge. This is one of the oldest bridges in the city or county and is a relic of many years ago. There are three such bridges in Richmond, the other two in Happy Hollow. All of them are in bad condition and will have to be replaced with modern bridges in a few years. , Richmond Is said to be more unfortunate in regard to bridges than any othe city in the state. Both the Main street and Doran brides are In need of repairs. A new floor will probably be put in the Doran bridge next spring and a coat of paint applied .to the Main street structure. The bricks on this bridge have worn down about a half inch since it was built. SHE. BALKS ON DUTY Woman Threatened to Throw Away Necklace Before Making Payment. PREVENTED BY APPRAISER New York, July 23. "I'll throw this necklace overboard before I will pay duty that is not due," said Mrs. Stephen H. P. Pell, on the White Star pier. She started toward the end of the pier, angrily swinging a pearl necklace, set with four flashing diamonds. In her hand. Behind her trailed Appraiser Murray Mathlas, pouring out argument and entreaty upon an air that promised to be as desert as the vicinity of Reno, Nev. . Would Have to Pay, Anyway "Don't throw that necklace away," said Mr. Mathlas. "That's a good necklace. Beside some small boy might dive and get it" "I don't care," said Mrs. Pell, with determination. "I feel that I am being: robbed. I bad rather throw It away than pay a penny of duty that is not due." Mrs. Pell and the attendant, Mr. Mathlas, almost reached the end of the pier before he finally succeeded in Inducing ber to permit the necklace to be sent to the appraiser's stores for valuation. One of the most potent arguments be used was his assurance that she would be forced to pay the duty even if she threw the necklace away. la Wife of a Banker. Mrs. PelLis the wife of Stephen H. P. Pell, the .banker, and the daughter of Colonel Robert M. Thompson, with whom she has been on a tour of the world. Mrs. Pell contended the necklace was not dutiable because she had bought the diamonds here and had them set in the necklace on the other side. DOGS NOW OUE Dogs are baggage this season on the summer resort trains and a 100-pound baggage rate has been allowed on them. Many Richmond owners going north are protesting against the assessment. Formerly dogs were carried free but now the cost comes almost to $2 at times.

SINKING FUIID 10 PAY DEBT OF THE

, PLANT SUGGESTED E. G. McMahan and M. J. O'Brien Have Plan Whereby Municipal Plant Couid Meet Bond Indebtedness. PRESENT SYSTEM NOT A SATISFACTORY ONE Surplus Earnings of the Plant Can Now Be Used Entirely for Any Improvements cr Upkeep. A plan by which the Municipal Electric Light Plant may pay its bonds of indebtedness from surplus earnings of the plant is being advanced by E. G. McMahan, city controller, and M. J. O'Brien, president of the sinking fund commission. The plan is to Bet aside a certain per cent of the surplus earnings of the plant each month, forming and electric light sinking fund. The fund would be placed at interest compounding monthly, and a sufficient amount per month set aside to meet the debt of the plant when it falls due. Controller McMahan says this plan is to guard against an administration spending all the money in the municipal light fund for repairs on the plant which might be unnecessary. An ordinance by Mr. McMahan's plan, would be passed requiring the amount to -be placed in the sinking fund for the special purpose of paying the indebtedness of the plant and, of course, no money could be appropriated from this fund. Council may at any time appropriate money from the municipal light fund to .make repairs or additions to the plant and thus the fund is not protected. Debt of the Plant. The debt of the light plant is $144,OOO. due in 1D27. Mr. McMahan has not "calculated the exact amount necessary per month to meet this debt, but he believes it would be approximately $500. The surplus of the plant is usually over $3,000 a month, so that $500 could easily be set aside. The regular municipal fund brings 2 per cent interest In a local bank. In case this plan is not adopted the bonds will have to be paid, off from the municipal light fund, if there is enough money or by temporary loans by the city. The bonds can be renewed, but Controller McMahan declares himself in favor of receiving 2 per cent instead of paying out 4, which the bonds bear. The chief objection to the new plan has been that the plant will have to be improyed with the addition of a new unit, which will costs between $75,000 and $90,000, within the next year. Nlmrod Johnron, superintendent of the plant, wanted the improvement this year, but it was not made on account' of the financial condition of the city. However Mr. McMahan states the fund could easily be established and the unit added. $20,000 Is in Fund. Twenty thousand dollars is now in the municipal light plant fund, most of this having been placed there since January, 1010. The plant's debt to the city, $33,000, was paid last year and the new year started with $1,050 in the fund. At the present increase of the fund no financial trouble would be encountered in building the new unit and establishing a fund, according to the controller. Temporary loans could be made as the city is practically $00,000 under the bonded, limit of indebtedness. The plan was at first brought up at a meeting of the sinking fund commission some time ago and spoken of with favor. City Attorney A. M. Gardner indorses the plan as a good and safe one. Other city officials are pleased with it DANK WINS A POINT The Board of Works has found it cannot legally force the directors of the Second National Bank to move certain stone corner posts and decorative front stones back on the building line of the new bank. A meeting of the board and directors of the bank was held today when this decision was reached. It was found by the board that many buildings have steps or bases extending onto the sidewalk and to require them to move back would be almost a reorganisation of the business section of Richmond. It would cost the bank directors a large sum of money to change their plans. Although the stone will extend eighteen inches on the sidewalk It will not do much harm. THE WEATHER. ' ' eSBMBIBBBBBBB) ' STATE Unsettled weather; thunder, storms tonight or Sunday. LOCAL Unsettled weather; thunder storms tonight or Sunday; continued warm.

SELLS HER

Mrs. T. Henry Mason (at top) and her daughter the Princess Charles von Isenburg. Mrs. Mason has practically concluded negotiations for the sale of her beautiful mansion In New York and.it will become the first club house iri America for woman suffragists. Mrs. Clarence H. Mackay and the wealthy members of her Equal Franchise Society are said to be back of the project. Mrs. Mason, it is said, will go abroad and reside with her daughter, the Princess von Isenburg, who is known in Paris as the "friend of kings," owing to the lavishness with which she entertained King Carlos and the King of Greece. Mrs. Mason is the widow of the millionaire copper speculator. RICHMOND COLORED GIRL IS ARRESTED Held in Dayton to Answer the Charge of ."Tapping" a Roll of $70. DAYTON NEGRO ACCUSER HE ALLEGES THAT HE MISSED HIS COIN AFTR HE HAD BEEN HITTING THE HIGH SPOTS WITH ROSIE. (Palladium Special) Dayton, July 23. Wine, women and song as embellishments along the primrose path of dalliance, cost Peter j Banks, colored, 14 Simpson street,' $70 and incidentally landed Rosle Calloway, also colored, of Richmond, Ind. in the toils on the specific charge of grand larceny. Ro6ie, accompanied by Irene Hicks, another Hoosler amazon, came to Dayton Tuesday with other girls and the Richmond Giants, ball players. After . several hours at Dahomey Park the girls wound np at Harry Gardner's place, 14 Market street Banks came In, displayed a wad and splashed the winsome suds in promiscuous profusion, all hands enjoying the . witching prose of "one more round." Peter and Rosle had luncheon and were alone for more than an hour. When they again joined the crowd in the parlor Banks complained of his loss, and becoming dissatisfied with the arguments of those about called the police. Miss Calloway pleaded not guilty in police court, hut after a preliminary hearing was bound over to await the action of the grand, jury, in $300 bond. Closely Questioned. . The Calloway woman gave her address as 733 South Tenth street and that of the Hicks woman as 812 South Ninth street, both of Richmond, Ind. She was minutely questioned by detectives at police headquarters, and her picture . and meaihres taken by Bertillion Superintendent Joe Wilcox. : When arrested the woman had but $1.3, but detectives believe the wad alleged .to have been taken j- from Banks was transferred to another of the Richmond; girls. It is possible that the Hicks woman will be taken in custody by Richmond police and brought to. Dayton for a quizzing.

MANSION TO SUFFRAGETTES

n&j o OPPOSED TO RULING North A Street Friends' Con gregation Object to Paying Taxes. HAVE LONG BEEN EXEMPT With the opinion of County Attorney John F. Bobbins that property owned by a religious society and leased for educational purposes is open to taxation, war has been declared between the authorities and the Hicksite colony of the Friends church.. Forty years ago the building now occupied by the Business College in North Eleventh street, was used as an academy by the church. Later is was leased to the city for a public school. Fifteen years ago the property was leased to the business college. At no time since its erection has tax been levied or paid on the property. The church authorities believed and still hold the Idea that as the building was used for church purposes and that the money derived from its lease is still used for church purposes it is eligible for exemption.' An amount in the neighborhood of $10,000 is involved by the decision and it is stated the church is not in condition to stand a bulk drain of such an amount. Palkdiuin's Dcily Average Circulation For Week Ending July 16, 1910. (Except Saturday) This Includes all our Regular Complimentary Lists AVERAGE CITY CIRCULATION 3,373 TOTAL DAILY AVERAGE For the Same Week Except Saturday Six Days 5,852 Our books are always, open for inspection. We nave the most complete and - accurate circulation accounting system in this part of the country. We Invite Investigation.

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J A IIEGBO SOSPECT III RAWII MURDER PROVES All ALIRI Alleged Bullet Found in the Fire Place Only an Ornament and the "Blood" Stains . Merely Paint. MURDER THEORY HAS NOW BEEN GIVEN UP "e Chicago Police Are Almost Certain That the President of the Monon Railroad Killed Himself. (American News , Service) ' Chicago, July 23. The police today released Stevens, the negro arrested on suspicion of killing President Rawn of the Monon railroad. He proved a satisfactory alibi. The so-called second bullet found in the fire place of the Rawn summer home was pronounced to be a piece of lead ornament. Red stains in the neighborhood of the crime are pronounced simply red paint after an analysis.' The theory of murder is now 'almost entirely ex ploded. STORY OF MRS. RAWN. Chicago, July .. 23. Mrs. Ira G. Rawn's story of the shooting of the Monon president in his Winnetka home today added to the mystery Jn the death of her husband, in the opin ion of the police, the coroner's investigators and the scores of detectives working on the case. The widow's uncertainty as to Whether one or two shots were fired strengthened the sui cide theory. Meanwhile the police and the coron er's men were checking up the alibi given by Ernest Stevens, 3412 State street, a negro chauffeur formerly em ployed by the Rawn family and ar rested upon the accusation of H. P. Cullen, a bill collector, who said Stev ens said last May that he would "get that white man" meaning Rawn, Cullen said he believed. . The suspect's denial of having made any threats gainst Rawn and of hav ing killed the. railroad executive was unshaken by a fourteen hour question ing by Coroner Hoffman, Deputy Police Chief Schuettler and . six detectives. He called Cullen a liar to CulIen's face, and said the accusations were the result of Cullen's failure to collect a bilL The officers early to day placed much credence in. Stevens' story but were holding him until they investigate his alibL THEORY OP SUICIDE. The theory of suicide to explain the shooting was strengthened during the day by the declaration of Coroner Hoffman that the so-called "second bullet' found in the fireplace by C. Furness Htely, foreman of the coron er's jury, was not to be a bullet at all. but a piece of the metal ornament of the fireplace which bad fallen into the fire and melted into a misshapen

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TAXATIOH SYSTEM RADICALLY WROIIG

COMMITTEE SAYS Reports to Municipal Research' Bureau That This Conclus ion Is Reached After an Investigation. TAX DODGER CALLED A SHIRKER OF DUTY Man Who Gives False Returns on His Property Not Only Cheats Fellows But Becomes a Perjurer. At a meeting of the Bureau of Mu nicipal Research held Wednesday ev ening, N, C. Helronimus and Timothy Nicholson, the committee on delinquent taxes, submitted their report. which after a few minor changes was approved by the bureau. The report . showed many taxes delinquent. This committee will now become active in learning remedies for delinquencies and will report to the bureau. : At the next meeting the committee on . account and inventory, of which W. D. Foulke is chairman, will make its report. The report of the committee on delinquent taxes as finally adopted is as follows: Report of Committee. "Your committee on' delinquent taxes submits the following report: Further work on the . delinquent, lists for the city of Richmond confirms, the belief that there is something radically wrong in our system of taxation, or. id the people who are taxed. And while it may be aside from the work assigned, the committee wishes to express an opinion that tho gravest mistakn lien hnr.lr nf that dMlinnnAnt. list in the assessment rolls. The man who neglects or refuses to pay,the tsae levied against him shirks a duty : he owes , the state, true enough, but he who gives false returns of hts property to the assessor, not only shirks this duty, but commits perjury. If tie . business and professional men of the city are so nearly destitute of cash on hand, money on the bank, or other resources, as is shown by the assessment rolls, it is surprising that there is not widespread destitution. "To your committee if is almost unbelieveable that the majority of our citizens who rank as wealthy, or at least well to do, have no ready money. no bank deposits, no accounts due them, in short absolutely no means of -present subsistence. And while there may be wide variations of opinions as to the value of household effects. It seems little if any short of Intent to defraud for citizens with well furnished homes in the best section of the , city, to put a total valuation of less than two hundred dollars, and often less than one hundred on their household goods many ' of them no doubt paying more than ' that for . single pieces of furniture. Will b Widely Read. "The publication of the financial status of sonie of our substantial citizens as shown by their. sworn statements to the assessor, would no doubt prove fully as interesting as the "list of those who refuse to pay taxes assessed. It might be well for the Bureau to appoint a committee to Investigate and make public glaring inequalities in assessments and to suggest remedies. If possible a comparison of valuation made to the assessor with the amount of insurance carried on the same property would h worth while. "Returning to the matter of delinquent taxes your committee finds but little change of conditions since Ui last report As was skown - In that report seventy-seven different persons or firms each owed more than $10 taxes for 1908. Up to July 16, 1910, but five of these had paid, seventy two accounts still standing. Of this latter number, nine had paid their 1909 taxes, evidently ignoring old accounts. The others excepting parties deceased or removed from the city, owed for both years. "The books for 1909 taxes show about the usual list of delinquents, and if we may judge from 'former years but few of these will ever grro attention to notices from the treasurer. Eighty-two accounts for 1909 taxes of more than $10 each are on this unpaid list. "In the opinion of your committee the most available remedy for this unsatisfactory condition would be a law disfranchising all men who owe taxes. "No representation without taxation?? BRIGANDS KILL TWO AraerfeM News Bmrwicm have attacked the Boudenfr insiL t ing two whites la a not figit, according to dispatches received hero tcy. A strong fores of troops fcas tsta up the chase of the rotbers, w&o toct ed the sacks. AnotiMr CX t car