Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 36, Number 74, 22 January 1911 — Page 1

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. VOL. XXXVI. NO. 74. RICMOND, IND., SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 22, 1911. SINGLE COPY 3 CENTS.

CULINARY COURSE WILL BE FEATURE OF SHORT COURSE Domestic Science Course at the Sixth District Corn School Will Interest All of the Women.

EXCELLENT PROGRAM HAS BEEN PREPARED Miss Grace Woodard and Miss Gertrude. M'Cheyne, both of Purdue, Will Have Charge of Program. Everyone Interested t In things cultnary will be Riven a' rare opportunity to Improve tbeir knowledge In this particular by attending the domestic science course which will be held In the high school auditorium February 6 to 11 Inclusive. There will be lee tures and practical demonstrations of ali kinds by experts, from the plain ordinary way of frying bacon, to the more modern and Improved method of using the flreless cooker. The public la cordially Invited to attend. Nothing of Its kind of so elaborato a nature has ever been attempted before In Rlbcmond, but the Interest being manifested on all sides assures Its unbounded success. In securing the preaenco here of MIbs Grace II. Woodard and Miss Oertrudo McCheyne, both cf Purdue, the committee In charge of the program feels that It Is to be congratulated. Both -are experts In their lino and need no Introduction. Their lectures and demonstrations, besides being Intensely Interesting, will Iks of Instructive value that should bo producticvo of good results. Their Idea is to elevate the plane of cooking and make It an art, not simply a drudgery through sheer necessity. Ttis Crans Brothers , ,P. II. Crass sad Otis Crsne, also of Purdue, (who by the way are brothers) art also on the program for lectures and demonstrations. Otis Crane Is one of the foremost poultry men In the United State and probably knows as much about this business, It Is said. as any other man In the country today. Ills talks on "Hatching and Raising of Chickens." "How to House Poultry." and "Feeding the Hen and Marketing Her Produce." are lectures that will be heard with a great deal of Interest, especially by the wives or the farmers In the sixth district. Dur ing the course of his remarks Mr Crane will reveal the farm secrets so extensively advertised In all the poul try magazines, and which, lncidently, ell everywhere from fl to $5 a "se cret." He presents sll his own mod els snd bis demonstrations with bis leeturcs will be of grest value. P. H. Crane Is the well known dairyman and will lecture on "The Farm gen erator." "Production of Clean Milk.' and "Farm Butter Making." M. W. Richards, the famous fruit expert, is on the program for two lectures which will prove their worth. In fact the corps of Instructors to be sent by Purdue university could not be Improved upon and recognised everywhere as authorities upon the particular subject with which they deal. , Origin of Movement The growth of the Domestic Science association In Richmond Is Interesting. It was "the outcome of a series of lectures and demonstrations given at tho local Chautauqua six years ago by Miss Margaret Mather. Because of the Interest manifested at that time, the association was formed with a membership of fifteen. Mrs. Frank Land was chosen president and 'has continued to act In that official capacity since, being the present head of the organisation. The society now has a membership of eighty-five and Is constantly growing. It meets once each month and it was largely through the club's Influence that a domestic science department was established In the public schools. A study club in connection with the association, has since been organised and a correspondence course Is being taken by the members. The program of the Domestic Science Course follows: February 6th (Monday) 9 a. ni. to 11:20 a. m. Registration of students. 1 to 2:30 p. m. "Food and Food Frlnclpals" by Miss Grace Woodard. 2:3" to 3:3ft p. m. "White Sauce and Vegetables" by Miss Gertrudo Mc Cheyne. (Continued on Page Eight) Perm's Tclsl Daily Avercce Qrccha (Except Saturday) Including Complimentary lists, tor ' Week Ending Jan. 21, 1911. ahowtag set paid, news aUnds and regular complimentary list doss sot laciude sampls copies.

Aviator Ely

At San Francisco last week Ely alighted upon and flew from the deck of the cruiser Pennsylvania. The above cut shows Ely's historic feat of soaring from the deck of the cruiser Birmingham in Hampton Roads, last year.

MAYOR WITH AUTO SHOWS UP STREET Plowing Through N. D St. Mud, illustrates to Council Its Condition. Mud from an inch to two feet deep, little rivulets, running merriely down between the street car tracks, and sundry mud holes and pig pen effects, was what the city council members and corps of city officials found when tbey investigated the condition of North D street yesterday afternoon, in the midst of a blinding snow storm. Mayor Zimmerman first assembled the officails at the corner of North Third and D streets and said: "Now you just watch." Then the Mayor, always a fast mover, drove his automobile from Fifth street at full speed past the astonished city fathers. A whir, swish and a shower of mud and the Mayor had passed. The tires and hubs were completely covered with mud as was much of the body of the car when be returned, saying, "What do you think of that?" Then the street was carefully examined and the council came to the unanimous conclusion that it must be paved. On the consideration as to whether the street shall be widened six feet the council still remained divided. The improvement, as formerly intended will cost Richmond practically $2000, thus paying for one-third of the improvement. By widening the cost will be increased about $1500, as Attorney Gardner states the city will have to pay the increased cost of sich improvement. The advisability of paving North Third street from North D to the C. & O. station is also being considered by the council. Resident property holders on North Third street were interviewed by councilmen and officials this afternoon, and it is believed the improvement could be put through without muhc trouble from these persons. There is much heavy hauling on North Third street, according to the officials. Following the examination of North D street, the council and officials went to Gaar, Scott & Company. Next the officials examined the condition of North E street, from Tenth to Sixteenth street. This street was found to be in almost as poor a condition as North D street and several councilmen expressed approval of pavement there. It is not proposed to put sidewalks on the north side of the street, where there are no residences. The plan is to build the street up to the buildings, most of which are used for factory purposes. This would be of great advantage to the factory people, it is claimed. Monday night, council will meet in a special session, to determine what disposition to make of the North D street improvement, which was postponed from the last meeting. Council is expected to send the ordinance back to the City Engineer for some changes. SUIT TO PARTITION Suit to partition about two hundred and fifty acres of land was filed in the circuit court on Saturday afternoon by attorneys for Effie E. Evans against John Hudson. The land is located in the western part of this county.

Performs Very

MYSTERIOUS CRIME IS TOLD TO COURT Attorney for Mrs. Martin Tells How She Killed Her Daughter. (American News Service) New York, Jan. 21.—For the first time the shroud of mystery surrounding the death of Mrs. Ocey Snead, the beautiful young woman whose body was found in the bath tub of the House of Mystery, in East Orange, in November, 1909, was explained today, when Samuel Kalish, counsel for Mrs. Caroline E. Martin, the mother of Ocey, who is in the Newark jail awaiting sentence after pleading guilty to involuntary manslaughter, appeared

before Judge Ten Eyck in the court of

Oyer and Terminer and pleaded that the old woman be given a minimum sentence. That Ocey Snead's death was due to an overdose of morphine given her by her mother to alleviate pain was the contention of the lawyer. In the beginning of his dramatic recital the lawyer said that early on the morning of the day that Ocey died, she had pleaded to her mother that she was suffering from severe abdominal pains. To Alleviate Pains "In an attempt to alleviate the pains," declared the attorney for the aged mother, "Mrs. Martin administered to her daughter a quantity of morphine as she had on many previous occasions. The morphine prov ed too much, however, and almost instantly Ocey sank off into a stupor. Panic stricken, Mrs. Martin carried the unconscious form of her daughter to the bathroom, in an attempt to revive her by administering cold water. "To her horror, she discovered too late that Ocey was dead. She had died in her mother's arms while the latter was carrying her up stairs. Overcome by the horror of the situation and the thought that she, in a way, was responsible for her daughter's death, the mother, on whom you are to pass sentence, did only what any other person in her frame of mind would have done, attempted to cover the deed and give it appearance of suicide. Kalish then told of how Mrs. Martin fearing that she would be arrested as soon as her daughter's death was discovered, wrote the suicide notes found in the bathroom and which at first were believed to have been written by Ocey. "Then," declared Kalish, "this old woman almost on the verge of collapse through fear and grief at the death of her daughter, gathered together her few personal belongings, among them the bottle of morphine, and spent the night in the house with the body of her daughter. Early in the morning she notified the authorities by telephone and then disappeared." Judge Ten Eyck took the papers in the case and said that he would give them careful consideration.

Unique Feat

JACKSON BOOMERS ARE COMING HOME Invasion of Washington Ends —Farmers Want the Parcels Post. (Palladium Special) Washington, Jan. 21.—W. F. Moore and John D. Shea left today for Indianapolis, having remained over several days longer, than the other members of the delegation which came to Washington to urge Stokes Jackson for the position of sergeant-at-arms of the house. The canvass of the house in the interest of Jackson continues and the members are hopeful af success. Representatives Barnard, Dixon and Cullop and Korbly, have received a large number of letters from farmers and country merchants bearing upon the proposed parcels post legislation. The farmers are a unit in favor of the government inaugurating a parcels post as an extension of the rural free delivery system, but the country merchants oppose it fearing it will result in injury to their business. The prospects seem to be against the measure being considered this session. The meeting of the new ways and means committee to consider the framing of a new tariff bill will be held next Friday night. The members will imediately begin work looking to the revision of the schedules of the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill. Representative Underwood, the new chairman of the committee whose name the new bill will bear, in discussing the work to be performed by the committee, between now and December, said: "We will organise the committee and get to work on the tariff as soon as congress adjourns. Personally I favor revision by schedules, but the policy to be pursued must be settled by the fourteen members of the committee, and my idea is that we shall be able next December to offer a revised schedule, or revision of all schedules if that is desired. We have a great deal of information on hand that is less than eighteen months old, and it will not be necessary to hold any further hearings for the present. This volume of material will give us material to work on for the present. Any further evidence may be presented to the committee in the form of a brief." Mr. Underwood would not say which tariff schedule he thought should be revised first, if revision by schedules should be approved by the Democratic majority. THE WEATHER STATE AND LOCAL—Snow and colder.

RICHMOND SCHOOL

SYSTEM ENTHUSES CHICAGO TEACHER John F. Bobbitt of Chicago University Says Spirit of Co-operation Here Most Desirable. PROGRESSIVE WORK SHOWN BY SCHOOLS Art Movement and Musical Studies, Directed by Prof. Earhart, Are Given Highest praises. That the spirit of co-operation between the community and the public school system is more pronounced in Richmond perhaps, than in any other city of approximate size in the country is the opinion of John F. Bobbitt, graduate student of the university of Chicago, who has been in th city several days inspecting the schools. "The school system of : Richmond," says Mr. Bobbitt, "is as well developed and progressive as any to be found in any city near its size in the country and in some respects is very much in advance of the systems of our larger cities. The most commendable feature about the system is that it is growing and changing to adopt itself o the changing social needs." , "One of the forms of co-operation is that between the schools and the Richmond Art association," says Mr. Bobbitt. "The placing of the art gallery -in the schools is a feature very unique, and peculiar to Richmond. It is very valuable to the school and In the long run will be for the benefit of the association, as it tends to develop the art conscience in the community and to sustain the appreciation of art as represented , by heassoclatlQn i , " " Is Not Boom Toyn "When one comes into this community he does not feel It to be a boom town, as one feels when entering many other cities of the same size. It is different in the general atmosphere. There is much more culture manifested than In other; places. "In addition to the art movement a similar sort of co-operation is seen in musical affairs. Richmond undoubtedly has one of the best men in the country at the head of its school musical department. In orchestral and class work Prof. Earhart is doing a very superior sort of work for schools and also in the organization of a city orchestra and chorus. He is making the schools of Richmond leader in the : community in the development of mu sical knowledge and appreciation. In the development of instrumental work I have never seen a school system Leyen attempted anything so complete. Indianapolis does not. Chicago does not, and none of the smaller cities do. And so far as my reading g(es I have never read of anything so finished. In fact I think Richmond is to be congratulated on having Prof. Earhart, and on the co-operation of its residents. , It is a movement which is to be very much more general In other cities in the future. Richmond is the first city to develop it so thoroughly. Another Feature. "Another form of community co operation I noticed was the meeting of parents regarding , the choice of courses for their children. That is another aspect of the work , not developed much anywhere else. It is beginning here and likely to spread to other cities, developing as In Germany, where the parents decide as to the general future of their children ' by the time they are ten or eleven years old. "Unless we know to some extent what the future of the child is to be we cannot choose a course of study intelligently. That, I should say, is one feature of particular value of the grammar grade school. It brings about a differentiation of course several years prior to the time a final choice must be made and provides for corrections and changes. That is the function performed by the Garfield school here and is of utmost Importance." Relative to the plan of maintaining a proportion of one half men and one half women teachers in the Garfield and high school faculties, Mr. Bobbitt was particularly high In his praise. "The tendencies of school systems," says Mr. Bobbitt. "has been toward the eliminatfoTTof men teachers, chief-ly-becausc women Heachers can be secured more cheaply. But the Introduction of vocational courses is demanding that there be men to teach the boys from at least the seventh grade up. - . A TRAIN COLLIDES WITH -SNOW. PLOW (American News Servic) "Winnipeg. Man, Jan. 21. A Minneapolis, St. Paul and -Saul t ste Marie train from Minneapolis was wrecked today near Macoun by colliding with a rotary snow plow. T. J Hunt and R. A. Chapman were killed and 2 mail clerks were injured. The train was many hours late. . being delayed by bliuards aid was running at a high rate of speed.

TWO GIRLS WERE THE WINNERS OF SPELLING CONTEST

Forty Contestants Were "Spelled Down" Saturday in the Wayne County Championship "Bee." EXAMINATION GIVEN WAS DIFFICULT ONE Elineda Linderman, Clay, Edith Stevenson, Green, and Gladys Harris, Webster, Were Winners. Unaffected by the presence of a large and somewhat noisy crowd, Elineda Linderman, of Clay township, Edith Stevenson, of Green township, and Gladys Harris, of Webster township, spelled down forty other contestants in the Wayne county spelling match, in the circuit court room on Saturday afternoon, and were declared the champion spellers in the schools of the county. Over three hundred words, the majority of which were difficult, were spelled correctly by these three con testants. They will represent Wayne county In the contest for district honors at Connersville In thn third week of February. iJttle Miss Flora Parks, of Wayne township, who is not over three and a half feet tall will be the substitute entered in the district match If any of the above contestants are unable to go. -Remarkable Contest. . The Contest in may ways was a most remarkable one and satisfied completely county superintendent, C. Q. Williams, and the district school teachers and parents who attended. It is generally believed that the coun ty stands better than an equal chance 5Xh the. candidate' of other-counties in the district contest and to , win hon ars at the state contest in March. Un usual familiarity, even with the hard est words lit the spellers used in the state, was shown by the contestants. . "Existence", was the stumbling block of Flora Parks, the last speller spelled down. Spelling "occasion' with double "s" was the cause of the first speller's dismissal. Other words incorrectly spelled, which relieved the contestants of further participation were: patience, appearance, re ceipt,"' 2; "Mohammed" "Cairo "pyramid," "Canterbury," rfalsely,' "patriotic," "automatic," "achieve ment," "criticised," "La Crosse, "Philadelphia," "surveyor," "relieve,' "inspire." "Doric," "dialogue," "be lieve," "dispel," and "Mediterranean There were forty-three originally in the contest of whom twenty-eight were girls. The contest begun at 2 o'clock and at 4:30 o'clock, after more than a thousand words had been given out by county superintendent C O. Williams, who acted as conductor, Miss Parks "fell down." thus settling the championship. After twenty-two had been spelled down orally, a writ ten test of fifty words was given. Twelve passed, of " whom four were boys. Three of these boys were quickly spelled down but one hung on to the very last, failing on Mediterra nean. The ages of the champion spel lers are as follows: Gladys Harris, of Webster township, 13; Elineda Linderman, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Barney Linderman, of Clay .township, 12; and Edith Stevenson, Green township, 16. PREVENT ESPIONAGE Is Order Given by the Kaiser. (American News Service) Berlin, Jan. 21.—The Kaiser has ordered elaborate precautions to be taken against espionage in Germany in consequence of the revelations which were rcade at the recent trial at Lcfpsig of the British officers. Captain Trench and Lieutenant Brandon. He has also, issued instructions' to the nanal and military authorities to draw up for him a minute report showing exactly in what particulars the existing precautions failed and enabled the two British officers to accomplish what they did. The report will also suggest measures which can bo taken tn every way including such details as the construction of fences, the use of searchlights, and the illumination of crucial points of defense to prevent the acquisition cf any knowledge in the future by the agents of a foreign power. POWDER MILL WAS BLO WN INTO ATOMS (American News Servile) Cairo, I1U Jan. 21. A powder mill at Fayville, Ills., was blown up today and three men were blown to atoms. The mill was located 20 miles north of Cairo and the explosion was felt here. Windows were broken In the ' farm houses for miles around Fayville. A' number of Heeing employes were knocked down and had thrilling escapes from death. .

COUNTY IS AGAIN CONFRONTED WITH

INSANE QUESTION If State Fails to Authorize Improvements at Easthaven It Will Mean Expense to County. INFIRMARY MUST BE GREATLY ENLARGED If State Will Not Care for Its Insane, It Is Argued, Then Wayne County Will Be Obliged To. An ultimate outgrowth of the refusal of the legislature to make an appropriation for the purchase of additional ground and for the erection of more buildings at the Eastern Indiana hospital for the insane, will be then Wayne county and possible other counties in Eastern Indiana, whlch send their insane to that institution will have to solve the question of caring for their insane themselves. It is probable and seems positive that Wayne county will solve its part of the question within the next two years by the Construction of another building at the county infirmary that will be used exclusively for housing the insane of the county. If the erection of another building is not the plan, then probably additions will be constructed to both the men's and the women's wards for the men and women insane respectively. The fallure of the state to see the necessity of meeting this problem will cause a big expense to the county. New Building Needed. Already an agitation for the construction of a new building, or the erection of additions to the present buildings at the infirmary, is well under way and this will be the most important matter discussed at the Feb-

ruary meetings of the board of count ' commissioners. : Chairman Robert? Beeson of the board while In the citjh ' on Saturday, stated that several hafc spoken to him about the urgency of the matter, including. Judge Henry C -Fox of the circuit court. f':h Chairman Beeson IS In favor of con : structing the wards Immediately In -order that the county will be in a stats . of preparedness, providing ; he finds that the sentiment in the county Is tu . same as it was several -months ago. . .' Unless Wayne j county : takes this most positive step, dissimilar to any which any other county of Its slxe in . the state has taken, it will have tor care for Its male ldfene at the county , . jail and the women Insane at tho Home for the Friendless. The unpopularity of this system has been era

phasised repeatedly. The Jail and tho .

Home for the Friendless are not rev garded as the proper places to treatpeople mentally affected. Also those : who are authority on the subject of charities and corrections declare sucV procedure is manifestly unfair to -' those who are confined In these In ' stitutions for misdemeanors. Howev er, the fact that little Improvement is ' made by insane confined in such lav stitutions is the principal argument against the present plan. " Important Question. ' M Two years ago the question was uppermost in the minds of Wayne coun- v ty citizens.' Then the construction of; wards for the Insane was dispensed' with -because the county officials werja5 led to believe that the state would ' take steps this year to meet Its ob!la ations. - Superintendent S. E. Sraitb r had been practically been assured that ' an appropriation would he made by the legislature which would make possible the purchase of a farm adjacentto the hospital grounds and the eon-; . struction of several colony bouses for, the housing of the insane. However, politics played Its part In defeat of ': this assurance. Furthermore It was' hoped that the Eastern Indiana hos pital would be greatly relieved by the transfer of patients to the newly opened Southern , Indiana " hospit al at ". Madison. It did temporarily but tho demand on both institutions i mme- f diately became so great that the benefit to the local Institution was of brief? duration. ' Patients from the county cannot bo admitted to the state institution immediately upon being declared per- . sons of unsound mind. If they aro dangerous, and, many of them arc. " and unless their relatives can afford to send them to private sanitariums, . they are placed in one of the jails to await admittance, ' Sometimes this Is ' three months, often a year. Two or" ' three years ago, patients had to wait ' ' as long as two or three years beforo.: ) this could be accomplished.

INDIANA COUPLE ; WED IN GOTHAMS (American News Service) New York. Jan. 21. Accompanied by a large party of friends from Indiana. Miss Lillian Pampell. of Wabash and J. Hood Wilson,: of Marion, arrived' in New -York today on a special train ' and were married soon afterward at the Waldorf-Astoria. It was an "imported" wedding in every sense of tho word. Miss Pampell even brought her own minister, the Rev. Charles Little of. Marion. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson w0 go to Eorope on their honermooa, r