Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 36, Number 41, 20 December 1910 — Page 1

THE raCHMONB PAJLLADIUM

AND SUN-TELEGRAM. VOL. XXXVI. NO.41. RICHMOND. 1D.. TUESDAY, EVEXINCJ, DECE3IBEK 20, 1910. SINGLE COPY 2 CENTS. A FRENCH AVIATOR IN RECORD FLIGHT To Raise Half Million Poor Fund DRASTIC ACTION AGAINST THE CAR STREET WORK FOR INMATES OF JAIL MAY BE PROVIDED COUIITy HAS MANY BAD DEBTS WHICH ROLE DESIRED BY INDIANA SENATOR T BE SETTLED

WHITEWASHING

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Council Favors, if Possible, Annulment of Franchise Unless Needed Improvements Are Made.

OFFICIALS IGNORED THE CITY'S DEMAND 'And Now Mayor and Board Will Probably Journey to Indianapolis and Present an Ultimatum. Annulment of the city franchise of the Terre Haute, Indianapolis and Kastern traction company, or Immcdi ate Improvement of the city service, la demanded by the city council, heartily seconded by Mayor Zimmerman and the rent of the corps of city officials. During the last five or six meet'infta the matter ha been dlsouwd and "cussed." The street car company has been requested, pleaded with, warned and threatened, but there's "nothing doing-" The board of works has visited the high officials of the company at Indlanapolla on two occasions and are now promising another visit for the purpose of demanding action. The company bas been promising faithfully to repair the cars, and tracks and to take the freight car tracks out of Glen Miller. However, whenever action la demanded by the city there is nlways some excuse brought forth by the T. II. I. St E. people. What the Mayor 8a id. "If It was within ray power to revoke the franchise I'd do it In a minute," declared Mayor Zimmerman. "If we could get the company on the hip we'd put them out in a mlriute, but the trouble la to get them. We'll do the best we can, though, and as soon as there is enough Information at band It will be taken to court. The company la certainly giving rotten service." Practically fill the councilmen had some "pet names" to call the street cars, of Richmond. Frarfk Waidele introduced his "culvert complaint," as old as ( Richard Carle's story in "Mary's Lamb," and then stated that some of .the cars were In such bad condition that it was necessary for the crews to stop and repair them several times during a trip. Waidele declared himself in favor of annullng the franchise In order to bring the street car people to terms. He said "there is no sense In delaying this matter any longer." Two collisions between cars and one with a farm wagon which almost resulted In the death of an aged farm rr. Is one day's record for the street cars at Seventh and Main streets, ac cording to Councilman Harry Weasel. These collisions were due. not to the carelessness of the motormen. but to the poor brakes on the cars. When the farm wagon was hit, throwing the aged man to the pavement, the car waa not stopped tor half a square. according to the councilman. Don't Mind the Spted. "We wouldn't mind the speed so much." was said, when there was a suggestion of a speed limit for cars, "but If there was only some way to top the cars." It Is the general opinion that about half the cars on the city lines could be condemned from a point of safety and also from a sanitary standpoint. Waidele said on a rainy day a person had to take an umbrella into the car to keep from getting wet and then to stand up because the rain kep the seats soaked. In winter, according to Mr.. Waidele, either the cars were freezing cold or the heaters are so hot that clothes are scorched. He said the vestibules of the cars where the motormen stand, are very cold. "Richmond Is big enough to at least have decent street cars," he cried. "The time has. come when we've got tov do something. It's a disgrace to the city." The board of works will probably make another visit to the officials in Indianapolis and following that, if deemed wise by City Attorney Gardner, the matter will be taken to court. CONVOCATION HELD AT CHICAGO UNIV. (American Xt-wa Service) Chicago. Dec. 20. Many degrees were conferred upon students at the university cf Chicago at the seventyieventh convocation of that institution at Jlandel hall in the university grounds this afternoon. Dr. Albert Ross Hill, president of the university of Missouri, delivered the convocation address. COTTON MILLS ASK FOR LOWER RATES (American Xewa Service .Columbia. S. C. Dec. 20. The state railroad commissioners today heard arguments on the petition of 124 cotton mills of South Carolina for reduced Intrastate freight rates on cotton piece Rood to Charleston from interior textile centers.

Captain IJcllangcr of the French aviation corps, who recently broke tha world's speed record by flying from Vincennes to Mourmclen. 10" miles In seventy minutes. The former record was held by Claude Grahame-Whlte. the Knglish aviator, vhih he made in the International speed ccntcrt held in New York not long ago. A RICHMOND NEGRO KILLED AT DAYTON Had Been Released from Jail on Bond, Now Bondsman May Be Held Liable. ( Palladium Special) Dayton, O., Dec. 20. While out of custody on a $25 bond to appear in the Dayton police court on Wednes day morning, Clayburn Williams of Richmond, Ind., aged about twentyfive years, received Injuries Tuesday morning from which he died a few hours afterward when struck by a C. . !. switch engine at North Main and Sixth street' crossings JNow . his bondsmen may ' have to forfeit the $25. Either despondency, as a result of trouble with his wife and his arrest on Sunday night in a questionable resort, led the man to purposely throw himself in the path of the engine, or be became confused, is the way eye witnesses view the cause of bis death. He had ampler warning both from witnesses and the engineer but failed to heed the danger warnings. The coroner will determine whether it was a case of suicide. It Is probable the court will order Williams' bond forfeited, although no action was taken on Tuesday. The negro's bondsmen have taken steps to fight any such decision of the court. Williams injuries were on the right side. Ills skull was fractured; right arm broken in two places; right side caved in and lungs punctured and his right shoulder crushed.. He was picked up unconscious and removed to St. Elizabeth's hospital, where he died within two hours after the accident without recovering consciousness. The man lived with his mother. Hester Williams, in Richmond, until a short time ago. Before then he lived in Eaton He has a wife and child in Mlddletown. Ohio, with whom he has not been living, however. It is probable .the mother will claim the body, she being notified of his death in a telegram from the police. In a raid In the West Side Sunday night the police arrested Williams with about ten others. They were released on Mbnday each under $25 bail. Their rases were set for trial Wednesday morning. FATALLY RESENTED DROPPING OF THE "W" (American Xw Servlce Lebanon, Ind., Dec. 20. r William Bechtell was killed at the Shumaker tarn in this city by Earl Swope. Bechtell and Swope had been drinking. Bechtell asked Swope how he spelled his name, and insisted that he should drop the "w" when Swope picked up a chair and struck him with it. crushing In three ribes and fracturing the breast bone. Bechtell made an effort to rise and fell back dead. Swope fled, but was captured an hour later in a corn field southwest of the city. He is in jail. Bechtell was forty years old and unmarried. He made his home with his widowed mother, Mrs. Evaline Bechtell a wealthy resident of Lebanon. Swope is a son of the late ' Jesse Swope who lived near Elizaville, and has a wife and several children. . Palladium's Total Daily Average Circulation (Except Saturday) Including Complimentary Lists, for Week Ending Dec. 17, 1910. 6.5SO C!5y Circulation showing net paid, news stands and regular complimentary list does not include sample copies. 3,615

Standing for Clean Politics, Beveridge, as a Committee Member, Refuses to Sign Lorimer Report.

MADISON NOW ALLY OF THE PRESIDENT Ar A rrrnft r r r I ti rlir I t r',r ! Reorganization Bill Will Be No Tariff War with the Germans. I Within ft on. 1V. -JO. Standing fcr decent politics S:u-l-r K-cridsc x.-jts the oaly member :!' p'.the; polities! party a tho s.'Ka'c c-jr.in.iUC3 0:1 priv-. liege and clecticrs to,; r-- t : refine to! Sisa a ic.t i t o'.:::atiiif. I.tni!-r. j i Hevc: if'."e !. f .s-d ; i ' plans lv;' it U, h -I evvl here, that ' backed by his lut-irseut olu .asaos. he J will mal e tho fight f I. is official and j political career against the form of thej report in U;e Lorimer case. Tho In-i Burgents had many conferences last night. Senator Iafollette urges strenuous opposition. Senator Beveridge is the only Insurgent on tbe committee i and it L therefore up to him t.i'le.idj the fight, but lie will n-Jt lacl.ins la ' Insurgent support. Senator lievcridgs was busy today reading a record of the case. Burrow will draft. Cement Alliance. The alliance of the Insurgents aud President Taft was further cemented toiy, when Rep. Madison, Insurgent Republican leader from Kansas, held a long conference with the President over the measure to reorganize the judiciary. "The bill win pass." said Madison, when he left the Whito House. The measure is new before the House and is one of the President's favorites. Avoid Tariff War. The potash dispute with Germany is to be amicably settled, without a tariff war. The cabinet at today's session considered means of bringing this about. M. A. Knapp Confirmed. The senate judiciary committee today recommended the confirmation of Martin A. Knapp, chirman of the Interstate Commerce commission, as chief justice of the new commerce court. A Lincoln Memorial. The senate committee on libraries today reported favorably the measure recently introduced by Senator Cullom, of Illinois, providing for the erection of a $2,000,000 Lincoln memorial In Washington. A Battle Ship Contract. A contract for the construction of a battleship was today awarded by the Navy Department to the Newport News Ship Building company, the price being $3,830,000. A SISTERSJUBILEE St. Francis Organization Is Celebrating. (American News Service) Lafayette, Ind., Dec. 20. A notable three days' celebration of the golden Jubilee of the Sisters of St. Francis began today at St. Elizabeth hospital in this city, which is tbe mother of the order in America. The ceremonies opened this morning with pontiflcial high mass, at which Bishop Alerding of Fort Wayne officiated. Noted priests and prelates of the Roman Catholic church and many members of tbe order from various parts of the country were in attendance. The Sisters of St. Francis were Vganized in Westphalia, Germany, December 20, 1S60. During the FrancePrussian war the sisters were of great service to the wounded soldiers and received gold medals for bravery froit the German government Later they were persecuted on account of religious differences In Germany, and the late Bishop Joseph Dwenger, of Ft. Wayne, who was passing through Germany on his way home from Rome, called at Olpe, Westphalia, and invited the mother superior to 'send sisters to America. Six young women arrived in Lafayette in 1873 and founded the St. Elizabeth hospital, wbicb became the headquarters of the order in America. Since then the order bas grown to a membership of about one thousand and has about thirty-five schools and twenty hospitals scattered over the United States and Canada. THE WEATHER

STATE AND LOCAL Fair tonight. Wednesday increasing cloudiness. Rising temperature. t

Council Passes Resolution Favoring This and Asks Sheriff to Meet with Street Commissioner.

ATTORNEY GARDNER CALLS PLAN LEGAL City Would Have to Pay the Sheriff Fee of AO Cents per Day for Each Man Worked a Statute Says. I !:( :. ; i.c:.; i;j the Wayne county cw v.i.; I;.- i:t;t to ..ik on the ne3ts nul al!os ot nk.i::'..t!, r..:d probably ju the county to ids, if a reoaan of V.'iil II . id. n.. '!(- at council tr.eeti'.g -t v.iz'r.t, n.ccr.s t!.c favor cf .er:'.f .Vortf:th ;.;i'J u lo in,! to t legal. Th' niotica adapted inv.t.s tin-. :;o:lff a, id street cma'.isido.itr to con'er in otder to find employment on the streets for the prisoner's. Acrcoidiiig to quotations from the state statute read by City Attorney A. M. Gardner, the use of prisoaeis for street and road work is according to law. Mr. Gardner said the statute provided that the city should i ay 40 f.cnts a day to t!.e fchciiff for the use cf the prisoners, that being his fee received from the county if the prisoners tiie confined. The move is a popular one with the councilmen, who believp it will be popular with the Citizens at large. A Popular Feature. Councilman Williams said h? noticed the jail was going to give a "blow out" on Christmas day and he supposed all the "bar Cies in town wculd break their necks to get in for the feed" The statute .covering the case says that all able-bodied male prisoners may be put "to "hard work on city streets or alleys, working from six to ten hours. It provides that the prisoners shall be allowed $1 per day on their fines. Gardner said ho had investigated the matter and found that the use of county prisoners would be pei feet! y legal. The Board of Works will investigate the feasibility of t!;e action and confer with Sheriff Meredith at once. The prisoners may be ued for cleaning up the alleys, which are in bad condition, and for cleaning snow from the streets in case there is a heavy fall. It would be a saving to the city and probably to the county, as it is believed the jail would not be so attractive to a certain class of people. Salaries of Firemen. Salaries of the city firemen will probably be increased, following a suggestion by Councilman H. H. Engelvarious reasons no appropriation had ously in the budget meeting but for various reasons no 'apropriation had been made. He said the position of firemen was a lazy old job," but the "boys were always on the job," when anything happened. Ha Was Not Bluffing. "You all thought I was bluffing when I suggested it in the budget meeting," declared Mr. Engelbert, "but I was not. I think that crematory appropriation of $8,000 is much too large and if the firemen's salaries were raised $3 per man per month, as I planned the increase in the appropriation would onlyneed to be $1,400 per year. I believe- we could take that much off of the crematory appropriation." The Mayor kicked on the increase of firemen's salaries saying It should have been provided for in the budget. He advised against it but, on a motion of Councilman Alphonse Weishaupt, the ordinance committee was ordered to draft a bilf increasing the salaries of the fire laddies. It is said ia the first six months of service the pay will be $60 per month, the second six' months ?65 and the end of a year's service a fire-fighter's salary will be $70. At present the first year's salary is $60 and the second year's salary $63. The payroll of the department is something over $19,000. JAPANESE DIET IN OPENING SESSION (American News Service) Tokio, Dec. 20. The Japanese imperial diet convened today and was opened with the customary formalities. Discussion and action on matters pertaining to the tariff, finances and questions of colonial policy combine to give promise of a session of extraordinary interest and importance. A U. S. DESTROYER LAUNCHED AT BATH (American News Service) Bath, Me, Dec. 20. The torpedo boat destroyer Trippe was successfully launched today at the yards of the Bath Iron works. .The Trippe fs one of the latest types of destroyers built for the United States nary and is a sister ship to the Paulding and Drayton.

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on the institution and the annual payments tor interest, ana tiuuis are such a drain upon the hospital resources and income that. the. council' v,- Kr fni-fori tn insa several xi-arfla in order to reduce" expenditures. '

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dollars. Lady Juliet's fathr was the late Ripon's first husband, r Her husband Guards.

Richmond Lodge of Elks to

Play Santa Richmond lodge of Elks, No. 649, will play the role of Santa Claus on Christmas morning. Members of the local lodge are raising a charitable fund, which will be used to gladden the hearts of all the worthy poor people in the city, especially the children. Money is being contributed to this fund with a free hand and the members are also do nating old, but serviceable, clothing, household goods, toys, etc. On Christmas morning several of the lodge-members who own . automobiles will call at the Elks Home and collect the supplies for distribution to the worthy poor on the lists supplied by .the Salvation Army and Associated Charities. The money raised By subscription will , be turned into the funds of the Salvation Army and Associated Charities. At lodge meeting last Thursday night the movement .was started and SCIENTISTS MEET AT MINNEAPOLIS (American Xews Service) Minneapolis, Dec. ' 20. Elaborate arrangements have been completed for the annual meeting of the American association for the advancement of science, which is to be held next week at the university of Minnesota. Twenty-sevea elementary scientific societies will be represented at the gathering and among the participants will be many of the. foremost scholars of the United States and Canada. The proceedings' will continue three days.

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. closed. There Is a large mortgage , for the alleviation of sickness and d in nrder that this record may go on has heroically embarked on the Earl of Lonsdale, who was Lady is Captain Robert Duff of the Life . Clans Chirstmas on that evening over $65 was subscribed. Since then" contributions have been coming in from members who are not ia attendance. By Christmas morning it is expected the fund will be quite a large one. Members of th lodge realize what hard work the Sal vation Army and Associated Charities wii! have this winter and are anxious to assist' these organizations in their good work.Members of the lodge who have not yet contributed to the charity fund, or who have not -notified the committee in charge of the charity work what supplies they can donate for Christmas distribution are requested to do so at once. The committee in charge of the, work consists of Wilfred Jessup, chairman ; B. G. 'Price, Fred Bartel. A J. Speienhier, F. L, Torrence. . Finan cial contributions should be sent to Mr j Torrence Christmas supplies shoui ! be sent to the Elks borne North Eighth street. . , CHAMP CLARK WILL ATTEND RECEPTION (American News Service) Washington. Dec 20. Champ Clark is going to Indianapolis after all to mingle with the members of the Indiana Democratic club on the evening of the 22nd inst. While It waa found necessary to caE off the dinner planned for that date, it was finally agreed to give a Reception to Mr. Clark, who consented today to go, and Representative Korbly will leave for Indianapolis at once to arrange the details.

On Fall Tax Settlement there Was Over $351,000, but About Seventeen Per Cent Will Not Be Paid.

TEN PCT. PERSONAL TAX REGARDED BAD County Auditor Finishes His Big Task and He Will Soon Make His Settlement with the State. Approximately seventeen percent of the total 1909 tax assessment, which should have been paid into the county .treasury, consists of "bad debts" for the county, the entire amount of these "bad debts," characterised by county officials as insolvent tax. Is on personal property and on polls. Only about ten per cent of the total amount of tax due on personal property and polls is ever paid. In compilation of the total amount of tax due in the second annual paynient of tbe 1909 assessment which fall due this fall county auditor Demas Coe states the records show that the total amount due on this settlement was, approximately, $351,000. Of this amount there was $20,680.82 delin quent tax on personal property and polis. and $8,188.09 oa real estate. While the delinquency on real estate is large, all of the tax Hens against real estate are collectable. It being within the power of the county to sell the property for at least the amount of the .unpaid tax lien. . - Only $322, 264 Paid. Out of the entire amount which the records of the county treasurer shew should have been paid in tbe second semi-annual settlement, only $322,264. 05 was paid; $8,188. 69, the delinquen cies on real estate, will be paid, but only a small percent of the $20,680.82. the amount of the Insolvent tax on per sonal property and polls, will be paid. Of the total amount which has been paid into the treasury, $59,094JB1 tsv payable to the state and when It Is turned over by the county treasurer Albert Albert son, sometime In January, will . be distributed proportionate ly among tbe different state funds by tbe state treasurer and auditor. Otthe amount due the state from Wayne county. $8,000 already has been ad vanced. . . " The work connected with the semi annual settlement of taxes has been completed by county auditor Demas Coe, the books of tbe treasurer having been gone over and the distribution of funds collected made to the various state, cdunty, township and corpora tion accounts. The distribution or taxes collected among the various funds follows: Tax Distributions.' State Tax .$U.121.S Benevolent Institutions .... 7,417.61 State School Tax .......... 21,242.09 State Debt Sinking Fund .- 4.450.52 Educational Inst. Fund 4,079.83 County Tax ...... 47.091.5S Bond Sinking Fund 12.609.7 Bond Interest ............. 3,004.70 Free Turnpike Repair Fund. 4,450.52 Township Assessor Tax 4,179.08 Road ' Ta x ................ m 343.57 Library Tax .............. 4.056.50 Township Tax ............. 8,202.57 Township Poor Tax ........ 4,770.94 Special School Tar Tuition Tax .......... .... 44,428.00 .... 41,538.60 73,370.20 Corporation Tax ...... School House Bond 12.689.72 Corporation Bond Tax .... 6,815.36 1,483.59 .... 1,320.12 .... 1.597.94 Bridge Sinking Fund . . Washington Turnpike . South L Street ....... ' Total .....$322,264.05 EPIDEMICJF FIRES In New York Today Did Considerable Damage. : : .. 71 : (American News Service) New York, Dec. 20. An eight year old child was killed, a score or more of persons were Injured, several hundreds had narrow escapes and property estimated at $310,000 was destroyed, as a result of seven fires that followed almost one upon the other in various sections of the city today, Ethel, the 8 year old daughter of Magistrate O'Connor, bad just completed a new dress for her jdoll and had call ed her sister up to her bedroom to see it when she met with the accident that caused her death at the Sydenham hospital. The doll, with its new dress, was in a doll trunk under the bed and " to get It Ethel struck 1 wo matches. The second match ignited her dress and In a moment she was enveloped in flames. Henry Lazarus, a' city marshal who was passing, heard the child's . screams and beat out the flames with his coat, but not until she had been severely burned.' Except for the young sister, Josephine, and the servant, there was no one else in the house when the accident happened. ' Mrs. O'Connor, the mother, is ill at' Stevenville, Sullivan county, and the other three children were with her.