Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 36, Number 10, 19 November 1910 — Page 5

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Mitt PILTZ FLAYKD. 111m Ruth Pelts, who is a student t the Cincinnati College of Music, played at a recital siren recently by the pupils Mme. Louise Dottl and Slg. Romeo Oorno at the Odeon. The program was as follows: riano Souvenir d'ltalle .. ..Saint Saens Miss Ruth E. Pelts Voicefa) In a Garden Hawley (b) Mr Cavalier ... Nathan Miss Viols E. Foote riano Gavotte and Musette, from Suite for Piano and Orchestra ...... Raff (Orchestral part on second piano) Mrs. Clsra Salle Relnhardt Voice 1 (a) Ah, Love But a Day; (b) The Years at the Spring Beach Miss Margaret Slewers Miss Pelts, with two friends will return home Wednesday to spend the Thanksgiving holidays here. j$ J J . ; 18 IN TOWN. Mr. George Hughe, of New Haven. Connecticut, and who Is a student at Indiana University, Is In the city for the week end. having come to attend the DePauw-Earlhara game at Reld field this afternoon. Mr. Hughes was president of the Freshman class at Karlham , college last year when be was a student there. dt jS ' ENTERTAINED FRIENDS. : Miss Bertha Boppart delightfully entertained In honor of Miss Drolllnger. of Covington, Ohio. Cards were a feature of the evening's amusements and favors were presented to Mrs. Will Torbeck. A delicious lunch was served. Those present were Miss Eva Llcntenfels, Miss Flora Llchtenfels, Miss Margaret Conroy, Miss Nellie Conroy, Miss Emma Connell, Mrs. II. Walterman, Mrs. Will Torbeck, and Mrs. Charles Krlmeler. 4" jt TO ARRIVE HOME. Miss Mabel Hasemeler will spend her Thanksgiving vacation In this city the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Hasemeler, of South Seventh street. . Sl JS Jl A NUMBER ATTENDED. A number of the younger set attended the Friday evening assembly last evening In the I. O. O. F. hall. The Friday evening class received Its instructions Hinder the direction of Mrs. Kolp until nine o'clock after which dancing followed, ' J js" . A BEAUTIFUL PARTY. Honoring Miss Caroline Hollingsworth who Is, to be married Saturday November twenty-sixth to Mr. Louis B. Quinn of Chicago, Mrs. A. D. Gayle one of the city's most popular hoseesses entertained with a bridge party Friday afternoon at her pretty home la South Sixteenth street The game was played at four tables. Mrs. James Carr, Mrs. Omar Hollingsworth and

Mrs. Tnomas m. itaurman were given

the favors. After the game a lunch was served. The guests were seated at one long table which was placed In the dining room. The color for the decorations was pink. In the center of the table a mound of pink chrysan-

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holders added to the beauty of the decorations. Suspended above the table were pink,cuplds. The place cards were also ornamented In the same manner. The guests were Mrs. Rudolph O. Leeds, Mrs. Wilbur Illbberd, Mrs. W. W. Gaar. Mrs. Thomas M. Kaufman, Miss Margaret Starr. Mrs. James Carr, Mrs. Fred Carr. Mrs. Omar Hollingsworth. Miss Edith Nicholson, Mrs. Dudley Elmer, Miss Elizabeth Comstock, Miss Marie Campbell. Miss Milton Craighead and Miss Rose Oennett This afternoon Miss Edith Nicholson entertained in honor of Miss Hollingsworth. , ji ji ji " OF INTERE8T HERE. Miss Lillie Price delightfully entertained the members of the Beau-Not club at her home on North Jefferson street Three tables of euchre were -brought into play, and pretty favors were awarded the Misses Helen Cleveland and Mary Thomas. A delicious luncheon was served later in the evening to the Misses Martha Terhune, Mary Guffigan, Mary Thomas, Helen Cleveland, Hazel McCrillus, Maud Clark, Besst Gregory, Edna Colvin, Jesse Freeman, Harriett Lyons, and LUlle Price. Guests were Mrs. Peter Terhune, Mrs.. Prince and Miss Cleo Price. J OS J CHRISTMAS BAZAAR. At the meeting of the Ladies' Aid society of the First PreBbyterian

church yesterday ofternoon it was decided to hold the Christmas sale on December seventh. The affair will begin at eleven, o'clock In the morning and continue all day and evening. The affair promises to be a most notable event preceding the holiday season as the booths erected for the occasion will be most attractive. Tnere will be a pure food booth, candy booth, apron booth, and fancy work booth. The public is cordially Invited to attend. j j J TO ENTERTAIN, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Polk, of Greenwood have Issued Invitations for Tuesday evening, for Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Hackney, of Cincinnati, to hear Miss Vera Verbarg, violinist in a program. The party is to be a house warming for the new Polk assembly room, at Fifteenth and Lewis streets, In this city. Indianapolis News. - Mrs.' Polk was formerly Miss Grace Porterfield of this city and ofter visits here. ' jg jf BANQUET AND 80CIAL. , Featuring Friday's social schedule was the banquet and social given last evening at the First Christian church by the members of the Sunday school class taught by Mr. F. F. Haisley. The class is called the "Loyal Daugh

ters." The banquet was served at

seven o'clock to one hundred guests. The table was arranged to form a Maltese cross. The menu Included everything . that usually makes a Thanksgiving dinner table groan beneath its weight of good things to eat.

After dinner an auction was held Mr. Haisley being the auctioneer. The

articles sold had been brought by the

guests and were done up in attractive packages. . The class has a membership of one hundred and thirty-eight ' WEDDING CELEBRATED. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Pettljohn, who were recently married in Crawfordsvllle, ' the bride's home, have arrived in the city and are at home, to their friends at 110 North Fifteenth street. The wedding was celebrated at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Bishop. -The weddings colors white and green were carried out In the floral decorations, . palms, ferns . and . chrysantemums. being usesd . throughout the house, the wedding party standing before an altar of greenery, the full ring; ceremony of . the .. Presbyterian church was used. The bride who was unattended wore a charming costume of white chiffon fashioned over white silk and carried a cluster of white chrysanthemums. A reception and supper followed the ceremony, the guests numbering twenty and including Mr. Pettijohn's parents and brother. Dr. and Mrs. O. B. Pettljohn and Mr. Lewis Pettijohn of Noblesville. Mr. Pettljohn is the boy's secretary at the Y. M. C A. Although he has

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been here but a short time he has made a number of friends who are glad to extend congratulations, jt . j j TO ATTEND GAME, i Mr. Rupert Stanley and Mr. Payne Comstock of Pittsburg are in the city having come to attend the DepauwEarlham football game. Jl Sl

CLUB NOTES

MET YESTERDAY. A meeting of the Helen Taft Sewing Circle was held yesterday afternoon with Mrs. Harry Dennis, at her home In Richmond avenue. The hours were spent socially and with needlework. Refreshments were served. The club will meet fortnightly from this on, until after tbe holidays. The next meeting will be held with Mrs. Anna Jameson at her home in Richmond avenue. jl jl jl MET LAST EVENING. A meeting of the Y. P. C. U. of the Unlversalist church was held last evening at the home of Miss Alsie Beeson in North Fifteenth street. Miss Beeson was assisted in entertaining by Miss Anna Fritz. Before the social hour a business session was held, officers as follows being elected: President, Miss Anna Fits. Vice president, Mrs. Lee Brown. Secretary, Miss Alsie Beeson. . Treasurer, Mrs. Albert Ullum. A number of persons enjoyed the social hour which followed. Games and music were the main diversions, and refreshments were served. The next meeting will be held the third Friday evening In December. J J FIRTNIGHTLY MEETING. The Tourist club held its fortnightly meeting last evening at the home of Dr. and Mrs. Harry Holmes in Kinsey street. The program according to the year book was given in its entirety.' "The Comic Supplement" was tbe subject for the conversation as led by Mrs. James M. Judson. She had a number of illustrations on exhibition. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Lemon will entertain the club In two weeks. J t SOCIAL NUMBER NINE. A meeting of Social Number Nine was held yesterday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Charles Wright on the West Side. A large number of the members were present and enjoyed a social afternoon. A part of the afternoon was also devoted to needlework. A lunch was served late in the afternoon. In two weeks Mrs. A. O. Kofskl will entertain the social. J t ATH EN AE A SOCIETY. A pleasant and profitable meeting of the Athenaea Literary society was held Friday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Finly Newlin In East Main street The study of "Italy" was continued at this time. A paper on "United Italy" was read by Miss Almeda Hockett. A paper concerning the life of the great Italian patriot. Garibaldi, was read by Mrs. L. Wood. An Interesting talk on Naples presented by Miss Mary A. Stubbs concluded the afternoon program. J J J FRANCE8 WILLARD UNION. A meeting of the Frances Willard W. C. T. U. was held yesterday afternoon with Mrs. Eves at her home in South Sixteenth street. A number of reports concerning the Fort Wayne convention were read by delegates. Five dollars was given the Salvation Army for its Christmas work.

ADELE RICHIE SAYS - DRESS IS AN ART . . - Baltimore, Nov. 19. Adele Ritchie, who is known as one of the best dressed women on the American stage, gives some dress hints to Baltimore women, whom she considers, by the way, among the best dressed women in this country. She studies dressing much as Lillian Russell studies beauty, or as Mrs. Flske studies acting: .. Here is what the Dresden china prima donna says about dressing: - "Don't wear so many clothes. Isn't a swan prettier than a goose? The moral is, 'Follow the swan.' "Don't be a slave to style. Just because, for Instance, hobble skirts are the rage, don't be foolish and, wear one. The ridiculous Is never becoming, even to beauty, and on a plain woman is ludicrous. "Good dressing is good art. Good art is never garish. Therefore, don't try to look like a poor quality rainbow. "You'll only get the laugh for your pains. f "People dont turn around and stare rudely at a well dressed woman. But they will study her In the street car or elsewhere Just to get hints. There's a vast difference between being studied and started at. "Blonds must never wear 'shiny things... : "Finally, cultivate long, flowing lines. Wear one-piece dresses. Wear the same color skirts and waists. For anything but business wear the shirtwaist is condemned as a bad art."

MANY MISFORTUNES HAPPEN TO FARMER Petersburg, InL, Nov. 19. James Fair, living east of Petersburg, met with a series of misfortunes. One of his children, a twin a few days old, died and he came to Petersburg to get a coffin for the body, and when he returned home he found the other twin had died in his absence. He returned to Petersburg ttf get a double coffin for the little ones and when be reached the corporate limits of the town bis

.horse became frightened and ran

away. The coffin was thrown out and the horse ran Into Joseph McBay's yard, striking the pump and demolishing the wagon as -well as the pomp and knocking down 24 feet of picket fence. The animal wjs uninjured . and Mr. Fair escaped without injury.

DISTRIBUTION OF PENSIONS IIICREASE

William Bayard Hale Says There Is Much Graft in This Department.

DEAD ONES ON LIST

System Now Has Reached Proportions of a Dangerous Burden He Says.

William Bayard Hale, formerly of this. city, in World's Work (November), continues his review of the pension situation, showing that at the time of the beginning of the Civil war, April 12, 1861, there were 10,709 names on the national pension roll. This was 85 years after the Declaration of Independence. , During these 85 years three foreign wars and countless Indian battle had been fought and the government had disbursed in pensions tS9.886.359. General Lee surrendered April 9, 1865, and on June 30. following, the pension list contained 85,986 names. A year later the list had Increased to 126.722 names, while In that one year $15,450,550 was distributed to pensioners. On June 30, 1909, 44 years after. the surrender at Appomattox, the names of 946,194 persons were on the roll, among whom was distributed in one year the sum of $161,973,703. So it is, that Mr. Hale contends: "The people of the United States are today paying out in pensions annually, to men and women presumed to have suffered through a war fought out and finished 45 years ago, a sum 10 times as great as that paid out In the year immediately following the war." . . ' Over Three Billion Paid. Recently, the article says, a revolutionary pensioner was added to the roll There are still four hundred pensions being paid on account of the war of 1812, and 4,500 on account of the Indian wars, but already $3,686,461,840 has been paid to pensioners of the civil war 40 times as much, says Mr. Hale, as has been paid to pensioners of all the previous wars combined. Mr. Hale contends that the pension list has reached proportions not dreamed of at Irst, and has gathered elements totally different from those which first entered into it elements which threatened to roll on, a growing burden and danger. And, he says, while no one denies or wishes to deny to the military- veteran the comforts which a grateful nation can give him in his disability or old age, yet it is obvious that "the pension system has gone far beyond tbe true limits of a military pension system," and that "it is impossible that the vast' number of persons carried on the roll at this date so remote from the great war can all have suffered In that conflict." He says further: "It is against nature that there should be, half a century after the close of the war, a just and honest pension bill five times as great as that paid five and ten years after that war." Pension Acts of 1862. Under the pension act of July, 1862, covering all grades and branches of

service, the article shows soldiers were entitled to receive $S a month if totally disabled, while lesser disabilities were compensated in proportion. In July, 1864, congress made special ratings for specific disabilities, under which a soldier losing both hands or his sight received $25 a month. Since then this act has been greatly extended and developed, so that now almost every physical disability brings the veteran some particular amount; for instance, the loss of sight brings $100 a month.

When hostilities ceased in 1865.

with $5,986 names on the pension roll and new claims piling up, the claim j agent or pension attorney came to lifej and in time became a prominent fac- ( tor In the pension machinery. Many :

of the pension attorneys were men of character and Integrity, but abuses began creeping in. and there grew up in Washington and other centers great firms of these professional . claim agents, employing subagents in drum-

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have, and in some cases did have, influence at tbe national capital which they said insured the granting of almost any claim that could be filed. Mr. Hale says: "Even if these wholesale claim agents were disposed to be honest, the fact that the clients which they were drumming up were strangers to them, that an agent could have no personal knowledge of the merit of a claim or of the truth of the testimony, relieved him of any moral responsibility as to the good faith of the claimant" Were Part of System. Many acts were passed to' regulate the activities of the pension agents, yet they were always recognized as a part of the system. Mr. Hale says, and inasmuch as they were largely recruited, from employes of the pension bureau itself, they were from the start extremely influential in devising ingenious legislation for the expansion of the system and in preparing papers taking advantage of every technicality of existing laws. Further, Mr. Hale says, their ranks were soon Invaded by gentry to whom every device of the forger and procurer of false tesUmony was easy. So grave became the situation that in 1899 a courageous commissioner of pensions (Evans) investigated claim agencies and disqualified 24,662 of the - registered attorneys, leaving only 18,481 authorized to practice before the bureau. Their offenses ran the gamut from collecting Illegal fees from claimants, to forgery and blackmail. Fraud Discovered Early. Meanwhile, as early as 1867 the commissioner of pensions had begun dropping names from the pension roll because of fraud and had begun instituting prosecutions, and 11 years later Commissioner Bentley officially reported: : "I am convinced that a great number of persons' have been pensioned who had no just title." A year later he complained that, "besides being cumbersome and expensive, the present system'is an open door to the treasury for the perpetuation of fraud." This commissioner Investigated 609 cases of admitted pensions, finding 393 altogether fraudulent, while the allowances in 55 cases were reduced. His attention was attracted to these cases through accident or through some suspicious circumstances, or through the statement of a volunteer informer, hence he was convinced that but a very small percentage of the frauds committed came to the knowledge of the office.

SAILORS OF FLEET HAVE UGLY BATTLE

White and Blacks Mix It jn a French Port and One Negro Was Killed.

Cberbourgh, Nov. 19. A dispute between white and colored bluejackets of the American squadron, under admiral Vreeland last night, developed into an ugly tight, in which, it is said, revolvers and knives were used. The gendarmes arrested a sailor from the Kansas, who is charged with having stabbed a man from the Louisiana in the abdomen. The latter died later In a local hospital. One negro was sent to a hospital in a serious condition from several stab wounds in his back, while another was wounded on the head. The authorities are arranging for stronger police In order to prevent further disturbances. Two hundred alleged disorderly bluejackets were expelled from a cafe here yesterday. They Btoned the building and gendarmes who Interfered. H. Weidllch, a sailor from the Louisiana, fell into the harbor today and was drowned. His body was recovered. A group of bluejackets from the American fleet lighted a wood fire on the water front In Brest yesterday. The flames spread until they threatened to communicate to near-by barrels of nitrate a'nd alcohol. Tbe police saw the danger and extinguished tbe fire.

CONFERENCE BEING HELD BY STUDENTS

(American News Service) , Minneapolis, Minn., Nov. 19. More than a score of the leading educational institutions of the United States have sent delegates to the annual convention of the Catholic Students' association of America, which assembled at the university of Minnesota today

for a three days session. The con

vention will close Saturday night with

a banquet at which Archbishop Ire

land. President Northrop of the university of Minnesota and other speakers of wide prominence will be heard.

No trouble to prepare Mrs. Austins Famous Buckwheat Flour. AU grocers.

DEER FRIGHTENS THOSE TAKING CURE White Plains, N. Y Nov. 19. Inmates of the Keeley Institute here were seeing things when a large deer wandered up the gravel path toward the institution, nibbled at the grass on the lawn, snatched a few leaves from the ferns by the front plassa and after taking a sniff or two of the atmosphere in the vicinity dashed down the street. The deer first appeared at Tuckahoo where it ran alongside a trolley car tor some distance and then disappeared In the . woods. It reappeared on. Davis avenue, White Plains. It ran through gardens when chased by dog and at one place it leaped over a 10 foot board fence. It is believed that the deer escaped from some private range In Westchester county. When last seen it was headed for the woods near Bloomlns dale asylum. 'V , '

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Mr Sniffen, representing a reliable firm with whom we have done business for many years, will give an exhibition on the above dates, of Ladies Fur Coats, Scarfs, Fancy Neck Pieces and Muffs, to which we are pleased to invite our patrons. This will be an excellent opportunity to make selections of Furs for the holidays.. We are promised that a very choice line will be shown. Repair Orders will also be taken and estimates on work will be made. Bear in mind the dates and avail yourself of this opportunity if you are at all interested.

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