Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 35, Number 285, 21 August 1910 — Page 4

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, SUNDAY, AUGUST 21, 101O.

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Issued I days aach weak, avenlngs and Munaar morntnc. Offlca Corner North tb and A atreata Horn Phona It XI. RICHMOND. INDIANA. Ra)4lh G. Ids , ISdltar LaflM Jeaea laiiiMi Maaaitr rarl Bernhardt Aaaaelata Rdltar W. R. Foaadetaaa Nawa Edltar HUBscmrio.v term. In Richmond $5.00 per year (In ad vant-a) or 10c per week. MAIL Hl-BHCKlPTIONa One Tear. In advance fS.OA HI montliu. in advance ......... 2. CO One month. In advance .40 RURAL ROUTKH. Ono year, In advance $2.00 Six month. In advance 1.25 una month, in advance .'li Addraaa rhanad aa often aa dealred: both new and old addreaaea mast oe Biven. - , . , Bubscrtbere will tlia ' remit with order, which should he alven (or a aperlfled term; name will not be enter J until payment ia received. Kntered at Richmond, Indiana, poat omee a second c-iaaa man matter. mmm m riMiM TaM un l ui and eartlttsd V tba elreulatloa aitkia Oaly taa uswrw ot aiiMiatiM sestalaea ta Us iepen an i ha tke AiaocUUom. I tf it CArT RICHMOND, INDIANA "PANIC PROOF CITY" Ilea a population of J3.000 and la arowlna. It la the county Meat of Wayne County, and the tradlna rentrr of a rich agrlcultural community. It la locnted due east from Indlanupnlla 9 miles and 4 miles from the etat lln. Itlrhmond Is a city of homos and of Industry. Primarily a manufac-turtnsr city. It la also the Jobbing center of Kaatern 1 ndlana and enjoys the retail trade of the populous community tor mllea around. Richmond la proud of Its aplen- ' did streets, well kept yards. Its rement sldewalka and beautiful shade trees. It has S national banks, t trust companies and 4 building- associations with combined resources of over f 9,000,000. Number of factories 125; capital Inveated $7,000,000, with an annual output of $27,000,000. and a . pay roll of $.1,700,000. The total pay roll for the city amounta to approximately $0,300,000 annually. There are five railroad companies radiating- In eight different directions from the city. Incoming freight handled dally. . 710.000 lbs.; outgoing freight handled dally. 750.000 lbs. - Yard facilities, per day, 1.700 cara. Number of paaaenger tralna dally, DO. Number of freight tralna dally, 7T. The annual post office recolpte amount to 1(0.000. Total - assessed valuation of the city. $15,000,000. Richmond hae two Inter urban railways. Three newspapers with a combined circulation of 13.000. Richmond la the greatest hardware Jobbing center In the atate and only second In general Jobbing Interests. It has a pfano factry producing a high grada, f ilano every IS minutes. It la the -eader In the manufacture of traction englnea, and producea more , threshing machines, lawn tnowera, roller akatea. grain drill and burial casketa than any other elty In the world. The city's area la 3,040 acrea; baa a court house coating $500.000; 10 public achoola and haa the flneat and most complete high 1 school In the middle weat under construction: s parochial schools; Karl ham college and the Indiana Business College; five splendid fire companies In . fine hose houses; Glen Miller park, th largeat and moat beautiful par In Indiana, the home of Richmond's annual Chautauqua; seven hotela; municipal electric light plant, under auccessful operation, and a private electric light plant. Insuring competition: the oldest public libra uv In the state, except one and the second largest. 40,000 volumes; pure, refreahlng water, unsurpassed; OS mllea of Improved streets; 40 mllea vof sewers: 25 miles of cement curb and gutter combined; 40 mllea of cement walks, and many mllea of brick walka, Thlrtv churches. Including the R!d Memorial, built at a cost of $250,000: Reld Memorial Hospital, one of the most modern In the state- Y. M. C. A. building, erected at a cost of $100,000. one of the flneat In the state. The amuaement center of Eastern Indiana and Western Ohio. . No city of the slae of Richmond holds as fine an annual art exhibit. The Richmond Kall.Kotlval held each October la unique, no other city holda a similar affair. It la given In the Interest of the city and financed by the bualneaa men. Huccesa awaiting anvnne with enterprise In the - Panic Proof City. , This Is My 88th Birthday JOHN FRITZ. John Frits, the Nestor of the iron trade In America, was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, August 21. 1S22, and received a common school education. At the age of sixteen he waa 'apprenticed to the blacksmith trade and was given his first regular employment In the Iron works at Norrlstown. Pa, of which he soon became mill foreman. In 1854 he became general superintendent of the Columbia Irion Works In Johnstown, and alx years later he entered the service of the Bethlehem company. Ho remained in the employ of the Bethlehem company over thirty years during which time he made a number of Important inventions in connection with the manufacture of steel. Mr. frits retired from active service In lttt. The following year the British Iron and 8teel Institute presented him with the Bessemer gold medal in recognition of his services In the advancement of ateel manufacture. THE HAPPIEST. In happiness there are far more lejiaas unknown than there are in iniafnrtinir The voice of misfortone is over die same: happintm becomes anore s3ent as it penebatas deeper. He it happiest who beat la&tiiaads bis happnest, for rat is of ail men moot f ully aware that it $ only the lofty idea, the a-ii couraseous human idea, xt separates gjadness from sorrow. f.Uetefjnck '

A Timely Investigation ' In another column of the' Palladium ia a story to the effect that the 1 Bureau of Municipal Research haa been asked by C. C. Commons, of the Commons Dairy Co., to Investigate the milk situation here and the pirces charged for milk. v r The Bureau of Municipal Research, composed of representatives from the South Side Improvement Association West Side Improvement Association, Young Men's Business Club and Commercial Club, had Its Inception about one year ago. Its object, aa Its name implies is to do research work, to find out the facts about those things of vital importance to, the citizens of this city. Its" most important work so far has been its complete investigation into the question of delinquent taxes in this county. Surely, if there is one thing of vital importance to the citizens of Richmond It is the queation of our milk supply. Whether we are or are not oppressed by a milk trust that, on account of its unjust power as a combination, fixes the price of milk at a figure that is exorbitant. Recognizing the importance of our milk question, therefore, it aeema to this paper that it is well worth the time and attention of the Bureaeu of Municipal Research to thoroughly investigate this semi-public utility and, make public its findings.

The Chautauqua

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diana situation the middle western type he will have to alter his stock Institutions from the circus, the political campaign and the county fair 'and change his scene to the Chautauqua. The reason is plain the Chautauqua has combined the three; tha spellbinders, the wild animal trainers and the lemonade stand have left their old haunts and have come w the Chautauqua. The people have Indorsed the Chautauqua as a national and popular Institution there are those who see the dying out of the circus and the other two institutions and wish them back again to "keep things separate" as Disco Troop said in Kipllug's "Captains Courageous." When this Chautauqua movement started up at Lake Chautauqua until the time that Col. Bryan set the fashion for politicians to make money while making their campaigns this movement was in its infancy. Now It Is at its senith. Consider the most powerful man In the United States government making a speech at a little town Jn Kansas Speaker Cannon at Winfieli and that Is a thing to think about. Just as there haa been a tendency In the magazine world to let the big men tell their own stories to the people so in the Chautauqua busi- - ness we have the real thing, our Judge Lindseys, our standpatters and our Insurgents. It we are not mistaken this is the life of the Chautauqua movement the putting of the real thing before the American people. And that Is the sort of thing that makes the Institution a valuable one to the American people. Some men there have been who have been successful, who are simply Chautauqua products men who have worked up in it and these mei are those who furnish the part of the Chautauqua that tells men that there la something else In life than pessimism- and the Insurgent movementsomething else than muck raking It's bard to say but possibly they do as much or more good In bringing actual sunshine into hungry hearts the singers, the monologlsts. j The Country Life commission of Roosevelt's "regime went out into the country and found what a lot of us knew before that country people need to get something new to think of. That this has been the chief reason for the success of the Chautauqua movement no one can doubt.

Items Gathered In From Far and Near Where Language Falls. New York World. An excitable New York man, gasollning through his native Virginia, offered $1,000 for a new cussword to express his emotions when his machine balked. He was disappointed. He must so remain. For one dowered with Saxon speech to crave aid in expletive Is like seeking coals in Newcastle. What surcease of his muted sorrow can Germany offer, where "Thunderweather!" and "Potsthousand!" are blasphemy supreme; or France, with its "sacred Blue!" and "Name of a Pipe!" or Turkey, where you murmur "Destiny!" when a wheel breaks; or Italy, where a too-deliberate donkey is invited to "put one foot before the other;" or Spain, where one may bid a persistent beggar "Go in peace, little brother?" Eloquence of expression Northern races may indeed study in warmer climes. When a Latin says "Caramba!" or "Dlavolo!" It "ain't so much wot e says as the nawsty way 'e says it," aa, the British sailor explained, when charged with assault. But for extensive and intensive "cussing out a Colorado mule conductor, a Pennsylvania section boss or a New York stevedore can face the world un shamed. Such experts would tell Mr. Newman that language is at best inade quate. It always has been. It must always be so. He who seeks to wreak his full thought upon expression pursues a fevered vision. It will never be done. Could Not Land Office Business. New Orleans Times-Democrat If he has actually established a canning factory at Beverly, as has been reported, President Taft need not shut down the plant after the Speaker and Secretary Hal linger are disposed of. There seems to be plenty of other raw material in his party. No Noise In Murray's Make-Up. Springfield Union. ' If It is more noise that the critics of Senator Crane admire, they can turn to Senator Jeff Davis aa a magnificent example of their approved brand of statesmanship. Makes Mim an Object of Pity. Galveston News. If it is true, as declared by Colonel Watterson. that no true democrat can be a prohibitionist, does that make Mr. Bryan a Whig or a Federalist? Wedded to His Job for Life. Springfield Republican. Mr. Hitchcock denies with equal firmness that he is to marry a wife and that he is to be divorced from his Job. Mere Man ia a Back Number. Louisville Courier-Journal. But why does Mrs. Belmont care if chivalry Is dead? Is not suffragettlsn a greater boon to humanity: Thought He Held the Record. Los Angeles Times. Italy boasts of the larcast ha mm Ar In the world. How unhappy Senator Cummins must be I

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TWINKLES A Stop Qrder. (Puck) Maud Tom had me talk into a phonograph so he can hear my voice while I'm away. Clara How lovely! And he can ctop the machine! A Later Make. (Houston Post) "Your baby isn't as pretty as ours "Maybe not, but it is a this year's model!" Conservation. (New York Sun) ' Soon we shall see these signs Posted on Government soil: "Don't pick the flowers or coal." . "Keep off the grass and oil." A Question of Value. (Metropolitan Magazine) Hogan was playing nurse to the twins on the front porch. The twins were annoyed because each wanted exclusive possession of a solitary "kitten and they were yelling. A neighbor passed at the gate, "Well Hogan," he asked, "what would you take, for them children of yourn?" Hogan shifted In his chair. "All the money In the wurruld ' couldn't buy thim," he declared. "But," he added, "I wouldn't give tin clnts apiece for any more like thim." 3UNFLOWER PHILOSOPHY. (Atchison (Kan.) Globe.) If you can't be ideal in any other way, be an ideal poor kin. What has become of the barber who spent his time playing the mandolin? Those who are In love, and a boy who la eating watermelon, shouldn't be criticised. v Women have a funny way of refer ring to the bright spots in their lives as if they were aa large as moons. Considering the practice they have, barbers do a mighty unsatisfactory job at combing their customers' hair. A man with a large family hasn't a great deal to be proud of, unless he also takes good care of the children. We confess a curiosity to know whether society women bore each oth er as much as they do outsiders who meet them in the magazines and newspapers. After a woman begins to wear class es she quits crying so readily. She cant cry with them on and taking them off every time the tears begin to flow is such a nuisance that she has decided to cry less. Women who don't wear glasses may still be seen dissolved in their own tears, but we claim a woman weeper with specs over her nose is a rare sight Needs a Maxim Silencer. Chicago PostBeing an old-fashioned piece of ordinance. Mr. 'Cannon Is always loaded at the muxala. . ...

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Thousands of Dollars Saved The Government by Telephone

BY SIDNEY ESPY. Washington, Aug. 20. In protecting forest reserves of the United States from fire the telephone has become an instrument of salvation, and there are many cases on record in forestry bureau where this modern appliance has saved innumerable lives any many hundred thousand dollars worth of timber. The Installation of the telephone service in the national forests, where there is naturally much isolation, is counted on, not only to prove of great convenience to the men engaged in the administration of these vast tracts, but also to save property and lives. Former Chief Forester Pinthe patrol system of the forests and during the four or five years they have been in use, the system has been extended until today there are more than 600 miles of telephone wires strung through the various reserves. Those In charge of the reserves consider the prevention and control of forest fires the most Important and the most difficult of the work that since fires annually cause more loss than all other destructive agencies combined. The records show that the destruction of timber by fire amounts to about $50,000,000 each year, and that at least fifty deaths occur annually from forest fires. Statistics Bhow too that more than 2,000 persons have perished In forest fires in the United States during the nineteenth century. Experience has taught the officials In charge of the forestry bureau that It is almost out of the question to cope with forest fires after they have been fully started. When they get a good start and. have favorable condition, such as a brisk breeze and dry weather, the flames sweep through the forest and over surrounding country without meeting any great resistance. Therefore, the officials of the bureau have determined that the only possible way to control these fires is to prevent them that Is, attack the fire at its inception. It is at this point where the telephone gets in its work and has demonstrated itself as an important factor as a machine of salvation. As a means of preventing fires and to discover those which - have not gained any amount of headway, thousands of men have been employed annually by the government as rangers and patrolmen. They are assigned to districts which they are called on to patrol, but the work of this patrol system did not really become effective until the telephone was introduced. As the condition presents itself today, a forest ranger leaves his'cabin in some secluded valley to patrol the territory alloted to btm. His trails are well kept, his telephone is in order, with call boxes arranged every few miles along the path and fire lanes, and at observation towers. . He reaches a spot where a party of prospectors or others have been camping and have left their camp Are without extinguishing it. Since their depart ure and prior to ' the appearance' of the ranger the fire has extended along the ground In the dry forest carpet and assumed proportions too great for him to handle alone, though his efforts may be sufficient to check the flames for a short period. The ranger can remain and fight the fire alone and wait for the arrival of other rang

"THIS DATE IN HISTORY" ....

AUGUST 21. nSS--Oliver Hazard Perry, American 1 naval hero, born. Died August 23. 1819. . ... :, ' .. . 1810 Marshal Bernadotte of France chosen Prince Royal of Sweden. 1831-The Turner Insurrection in Virginia began. 1856 The historic Charter Oak. in Hartford. Conn, fell during a storm. 1 862 Confederates under General Bragg invaded Kentucky. 1864 Federals surprised at Memphis. Tenn. - 1865 Execution of Captain Win, the jailer of Andersonville prison. 1866 Convention of workingmen at Baltimore made the first demand for v an eight hour working day. ' . 1893 Statue of Lincoln unveiled in Edinburgh. ----- 1903 Russian squadron withdrawn from Turkish waters. -

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Co ers who have been attracted byUhe smoke, or be can ride to the nearest telephone box and send out and emergency call. Before the days of the telephone the ranger, after discovering the blaze, was compelled to ride to the nearest settlement, which might have been one or two days ride, to obtain assistance. During his absence the fire would get beyond human control and he and teh men at his command were practically helpless. The use of the telephone on the forest reserves is not a suppositional nor merely contingent matter. The officials of the forestry bureau contend that its trial has been practical and it has proven by time to be invaluable. The forest fire problem in this country is rendered exceedingly complex by the diversity of naturaf conditions on the one hand, and on the other by artificial differences of ownership and control. Variations in climate, In topography, and consequently in forest types, are 'nowhere so great except perhaps in India. Moreover the dual political authority places a federal administration alongside of a number of state administrations, yet leaves individual ownership without important restriction, which aggravates natural obstacles that stand in the ' way of thorough and unlfom management Severe fires are not of rare and spasmodic occurence.' They constitute a perennial event so regular that two fire seasons are recognized each year in the syring in the east and in the fall in the west The last fires severe enough to have historic interest occurred in the North Atlantic states in the spring of 1903, when the loss was about $5,000,000. In the autumn of 1902 a fire occurred in the states of Washington and Oregon with a loss of $12,000,000 and eighteen lives. In the fall of 1S94 Area in Minnesota caused a loss of 500 lives and $25,000,000 in Michigan, vin the autumn of 1881 not less than 250 persons perished; 1,800 square miles of forests were burned, while the property loss, exclusive of timber, was more than $3,000,000. A decade previous an autumn fire in Wisconsin swept over 2,000 square miles and caused the death of 1,200 persons. Wellington's Favorite HorW Copenhagen. Wellington's famous chestnut charger, bore his master through the Peninsular war and waa with him for eighteen hours on the day of Waterloo. When his fighting daya were over the little Danish horse waa sent to Strathfieldsaye. where be waa tenderly cared for. His last days were not. however, entirely free from annoyance, since thousands of people went to visit him. Indeed, these visits became so great a nuisance that the Iron Duke was compelled to place the horse in a sort of cage. When at last he succumbed to old age be was accorded an Impressive funeral and a tombstone was erected to commemorate his virtues nd M lovnl service. A Giant In Strength. -Howa the baby getting on?" asked a family friend. "Growing bigger and stronger every day, I suppose r "He's growing bigger every day," said the proud father, "and he's plenty strong enough now to suit me. Too remember what a tremendous voice be had when you saw him three months ago? Well. It's still more tremendous now. yet he lifts It a dozen times a day."

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I SPECIMEN IS SENT Specimens of the sewage which is emptied into Clear creek from the southwest sewer system were yesterday sent to the state chemist for examation by city health officer. Dr. T. Henry Davis. This has been done several times this summer and the practice will be continued as the health department intends to see that the city's sewage is purified before being emptied into streams. , The city went to a large expense to install the purifier. Whenever on examination by atate officials it is shown that the sewage which goes through the plant is not purified the city will repair it on discovery of the cause of the trouble. Bullets and Botany. A correspondent tells the London News that being at Palling, in Norfolk, he asked permission of a local marsh owner to walk over his1 meadows. "What for? be wanted to know "Ob. to do a little botanizing," waa the reply. There was a pause while the landowner scratched his bead. Then, alowly and suspiciously. "Not with a gun?" , . . ,

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By EDWIN A. NYE. Copyright, 1908. by Edwin A. ftye COMMON EEKOISM. Charles Driver, a street car motor man of Washington, died to save his passengers. More than 7.000 volt of electricity charged through his body . when be heroically dragged a lire wire away from passengers wbo were threatened. t It happened In this way: Driver's car had been stopped where overhead repairs on a bridge were in progress. The passengers had left the cars and were walking about. A cou pie of young women approached too near the sputtering wire. Driver saw tbe danger. lie leaped forward, brushed tbe girls aside and with a newspaper In hla handa seized the wire. - The current hurled him backward against bis car and bis clothing burst Into flames. The scores of people were horrified at tbe spectacle. Some one sprang forward and put out tbe flames with a coat. Driver was borne to tbe Potomac river near by. where water was thrown upon him. Beiug removed to a hospital, be died after a night of Intense agony. And tbe reporter says be left a wife and a three-weeka-old baby. He died to save others, v Which la the auliUmeat height of herolsm known to men or angels. What I ask you to note In connection with tbe heroism of this motorman and bli sacrificial death Is this: Such Incidents are happening daily. One might gather from similar stories recorded in the newspapers during single year material for a great volume. - Tbe heroism of everyday ltfe and of tbe average mnn la oufBclent to make one wbo contemplates it a lover of hla kind. Along with its meanness and Its cruelty there Is so much In onr com' mon life that ia Cbrlstllke. j The farther back you go In history the less heroism and self sacrifice you find. . ''" Tbe dying Sidney pushed the cop ot water from bis Hps and. pointing to a soldier, said: "Give It to btm. His need is greater than mine.' Bat the incident was rare in Sidney's day, and history makes much of It , But Today men and women are always doing deeds as heroic as tbat of Sidney. ' The railroads and the electric cars have not merely, ono Sidney, but thousand and one! In the Vlo Murdeek Class. New York Post On tbe mere ground of vitality, what a fine insurgent "Uncle Joe" would have made. , - ' Indi ana mmmm for Savings Depositors Cent