Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 36, Number 83, 31 January 1911 — Page 1

o a MOOT) FA3LJLAIDIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, VOL. XXXVI. NO. 83. RICHMOND, IXD.t TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 31, 1911. SINGLE COPY 2 CENTS.

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era, nsczo HE mi FORuiED id HllZATi Richmond Matinee Driving Association Enters the Field and It Has Leased Driving Park.

To Fight For Commission Bill TARIFF BILL HOW PUT SQUARELY UP TO, THE SEIIATORS FAMOUS POULTRY EXPERT WILL BE AT SHORT COURSE TWO OF THE USHERS FOR GOULD WEDDING EFFORT TO WRECK REFERENDUM DILL 0 1 Wf!3&'? 't'frsf' . JUS N.' V 3 4 ' - V ' ,-? 4V'

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MANY HORSES WILL BE TRAINED THERE

As Soon as Possible, It Is Planned, Richmond Will Be Entered in Circuit , Track Is Fast. Backed by prominent business men and city officials the Richmond Matinee Driving association has been organized; has leased the old driving park track and will immediately open a campaign to aecure over one bundred members. If a success, as is anticipated by members, the association will virtually prove a revival of the old Richmond fair association that was popular years ago. Since tho demise of the Wayne county fair, held at 1 lagerstown, there have been no fairs held In Wayne county. Up to the present time there are sixty members of the new, organization, composed of business men, horse men and city officials. Hedge President. The officers and members of the board of directors of the new organisation have been elected as follows: Charles Hodge, president: Edgar Hawekotte, secretary; J. II. Menko, treasurer; Henry Iredell, Dr. W. W. Zimmerman, Dr. J. H. Klnsey and O. C. Krone, directors. The organisation la the result of a popular demand for such a club made -by many pronUaant horsemen in Richmond, and Wayne county. Already many horsemen of Indiana have signified their Intention of making the Richmond track, one of the best mile circuits in the state, -their training camp. The driving park track is said to be the first one of Its kind ever constructed, a patent on construction being held by Robert Howard, deceased, and John F. Miller, the originators. Instead of being banked at the ends only, the track is built up at every point making the fastest style possible, excepting the straight away track. . Local horsemen are now dreaming of the renewal of the good old days when Nancy Hanks trotted a mile here In 2:06 flat; when "Lucky" Baldwin drove Direct, the famous pacer, a mile In 1:05 In a high wheel sulky, breaking the track record, and when Nelson. J: 09. a well known trotter, , and Lord Clinton, another trotter, thrilled the crowds. Events This Summer. At first the organisation will be an amateur association, providing training quarters for professional and local drivers. - Several matinee racing meets will be held during the spring and summer, open to amateur drivers and to local horses. Probably at first no large purses will be offered. After the new club gets a Arm financial . footing, it will probably join the Indiana racing circuit, and will aim to attract the best horses In the country. Richmond. It Is believed, would support such an attempt, for there are aald to be more persons here Interested In horses and racing than In any other city of equal sise in Indiana. Besides horse racing there will be contests arranged for motorcyclists and automobllists. This kind of racing would prove very popular, -It Is anticipated. 8ome of the prominent horsemen of Richmond and Wayne county, who are expected to enter the new club are George Dougan. Lawrence Commons, Henry Menke. John Dougan. John Hammond. Homer Hammond. William Rhodes. Prank Lackey. H. J. Haines,, Omer Whelan. Harry Thornburgh. 8amuel Gaar. Charles Ronan. Abtjah Pyle. Edward Norris. Dr. Rife of Boston. Joseph Mills, Tom Butler. Charles Chrlstman. Jerome Shurley, James Bee son and Sam Morgan. Good Racing Stock. John and Homer Hammond will probably buy a "string of horses to be trained on the local track. Horse racing stock In Wayne county, it Is (Continued on Page Six.) ft Tc!d tidily (txeept Saturday) lacradtag Complimentary Lists, tor Week Ending Jan. 2$. 1911. showtaj set pal J, news stands and regular complimentary list does not Include sample copies. SfC04

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' Senator Cummins. of Iowa, leading insurgent in the United States, will make campaign to pass Tariff Commission . bill in the. senate, which was passed in the house yesterday by a safe majority, after a long night session.

PLUCKY AVIATOR WILLTRY AGAIN Cubans Arc Urging McCurdy to Attempt a Flight to , Key West, Fla. (American Nawi Service) . Havana, Jan. 31. J. A. D. McCurdy, the plucky ttenadlan -ataor, who failed In his attempt to fly here. from Key West after completing 100 miles of the 110 mile, trip was the feature of the arlation tournament here today. The Interest In the young birdman was intensified when the report be came current that McCurdy might make an attempt to fly back to the United States, starting from Camp Columbia and landing at Keywest. Negotiations were commenced' today to try to persuade Mr. McCurdy to con sent to the trip although he did not give a definite answer. "The accident yesterday was entire ly unavoidable," declared the aviator today, "and It only increases my desire to effect a successful contest of the Floridan straits. Flying over a wide expanse of water is much more exhilarating than flying over land. It gives a great sensation of the vastness of spnee. At first I did not like it, but a desire for it has grown. . Indeed I am afraid it may become a habit 'V - CIIAHGE OF VENUE WAS ASKED TODAY Petition Filed by South Side Assoc'n in South N Street Matter. . Confident that it could obtain a fairj ... er trial in some other, circuit court In the state, the South Side Improvement association has,, asked ';- for a change of venue ' in . Its , case against the C. , & O. of Indiana railroad. In which the association asks 'an order for the construction of a crossing over the railroad tracks at South N street. Judge Fox being out of the city when the petition was filed, no action could be taken Tuesday. - The petition coming, on the eve of the trial as It does, undoubtedly - will serve to postpone the hearing which waa yet for trial in the Wayne circuit court on February 8. - It -is probable the case will not be tried until May or June In the circuit court to which It Is sent. Because the petitioners believed that Judge Fox of the court might have been biased In favor of the railroad company Is the direct charge set forth In the petition for the change of venue. Semi-official statements by employes of. the railroad, company were to the effect that If the crossing was ordered constructed by the court that the company would look .else where for a place to construct Its rail-, road yards. As this Is a big thing to any city the statements had the effect to create prejudice against the Improvement association,, the association members felt. Cash Beall, an officer In the association, and also a petitioner for the conistruction of the street, signed the I plea fdr a change of venue, as the representative of the association.

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! J OHIO RIVER AGAIN Oil WILDJAMPAGE Residents of Lowlands About Pittsburg Were Taken Away byT Boats. . ; (American News Service) : Pittsburg, Pa., Jan. 31. Hundreds tl -residents- of the? lowlands about Pittsburg were taken from .their homes to higher . ground today on rafts or in rowboats to escape the ravages of the flood that has inundated the valley towns. Immense damage has been done by the waters along the Allegheny, Monongahela and- Ohio rivers but the weather bureau officials stated that the crest had been reached shortly after 3 o'clock this morning, when the water reached a height of 26 feet, or four feet above the danger line. The cold wave '- that ' arrived yesterday averted one of the most disastrous floods on record. Many of the smaller streams are frozen over. All points above Charleroi on the Monongahela stated that' the river was slowly falling. Traffic Is Hindered. On the north side in Pittsburg, the usual flood precautions were taken by the police and families living in the flood district moved into the second stories of their homes. Exposition Park was flooded and at the same time the water reached the Pittsburg e Western tracks of the B. & O. railroad, necessitating the diversion of traffic: Policemen in boats today are patrolling the flooded section and the officers will take care of those who are marooned in the upper floors of their homes,"- seeing that they are supplied with provisions and other necessities. " Along the Monongahela wharf and on the opposite bank of the river, towboats with a full head of steam up lay, close to the shore ready to render any assistance should' any of the barges or coal boats be torn loose from their moorings. Wharfboats were being held secure' by a network of lines leading in every direction. ORDER REPAIRS OF STREETS OF CITY .- ... The general condition- of the city streets occupied most of the time in the Monday's meeting of the Board of Works. .There are so many holes In the streets that they have been reported dangerous to traffic. Street Commissioner Genn was ordered to repair the damage. OUT OF NORTHWEST COLD WAVE SWEEPS (American News Service) Washington, Jan. 3l7 Another cold wave is sweeping from the North-west over the middle west and the 'Atlantic states today according 'to the 17. S. weather bureau. The head of the wave reached Washington this morning and the temperature is rapidly falling. The prediction was that the mercury would chase down the tube more than 10 degrees below freering in the" Atlantic states today. LANTZ LOCATED After being missing from his home for nearly a week. Otto Lantx. of North Twelfth street, was located last night In a Main street cigar store playing pooL

Bi-partisan Machine in Sen . ate Is Now Lining Up Against Measure, Passed by Lower House.

FINANCE COMMITTEE MAY HOLD UP BILL Insurgents Threaten, J f This Is Done, to Delay Appropriation Acts, Meaning an Extra Session. v (American News Service) Washington, Jan: 31. Now that the house has - passed a bill for a tariff commission by a vote of 186 to 93, the question is squarely put to the senate. The probabilities are that the bill will not be allowed to pass the senate this session. An clement in the senate is determined to block it if possible. Senator Bailey leads the Democratic faction that is opposing any tariff commission legislation. Heyburn, Hale and other uncompromising senators are against it on the Republican side. On the other hand there is a powerful and aggressive support for the tariff commission legislation from insurgent senators, who say they do not intend to allow the tariff commission, bill to be -put to sleep if they can prevent it. They fear the finance committee will take the bill and refuse to report it out or will refuse to report it until bo late in the session that it. will be too late to pass it. For this reason the Insurgents will bring pressure to have the finance committee report the bill early. . ..' . Some of the insurgents are even, declaring that it may be. neeeesary to go to the . JengthoJ . hodfg xback appropriation "bills in order"to compeIa vote on the 'tariff commission. To hold back those bills would mean that the threat of an extra session would be held over congress. - - . .HELD NIGHT SESSION. Washington, Jan. 31. After considering the matter for more than seven hours under a special rule, the house at 11:40 o'clock last night, by a vote of 1S6 to 93, passed the bill providing for a permanent tariff board of five members. This is- the first of the legislation recommended by President Taft to be adopted in the house this session. The Democrats split on the passage of the bill, and although Champ Clark the minority leader, voted for the measure, ninety of his followers were recorded against it. The others who voted in the negative were scattering Republicans. The Democrats voted together on various amendments to the bill, but in each' instance they were defeated and the bill was put through in exactly the shape it came from the committee. The insurgent Republicans voted with the regulars of the party fn opposition to the amendments and final passage of the bill. , Much time given to the consideration of the bill was taken up by the Democrats In their efforts to amend the measure. Several roll calls were demanded and for a time it seemed that a filibuster might be inaugurated but an agreement to end the debate at 11 o'clock was finally adopted. BARIIARD MAY. LEAVE State Chemist Wants a Larger Salary: (Palladium Special) Indianapolis, Jan. 31. Indiana may lose the -services of the msn who hs placed this state in the front rank in the matter of pure food legislation ) and enforcement unless the legislature sees fit to give him an advance fn salary. H. K. Barnard, ; ieaa or tne food and drug department told the members of the house ways and means and senate finance committee Monday afternoon that unless his pay is raised he will feel it his duty to himself and his family to leave the service of the state. Governor Marshall, he said. ."suggested that it be placed at 13.600 a year." . . , . " Chairman Cravens of the ways and means committee read a letter from If. W. Wylie. head of the national food department complimenting Mr. Barnard on his unusual services for the state of Indiana, and suggesting that he be allowed more funds for his work and Increased pay, for himself. He said Mr. Barnard came to Indiana at. a salary of $1,500 a year when he was offered a $3,000 position by the government. His salary Is now $2,500 and he has numerous offers to go Into business at larger pay. Mr. Barnard also asked the . committees for an appropriation of $2i.000 to carry on the work of his department, an 'increase of $5,000 over the recommendation of the house visiting coenmfttee.

Otis Crane, with National Reputation, Will Tell Mysteries of Chicken Raising to Students.

EGG PRODUCTION TO BE EXPLAINED ALSO Egg and Poultry Business Is Most Profitable to Farmer Plans for Campaign on Weeds. Officials of the Short Course and Corn school, to be held in Richmond February 6 to 11, believe that in the course on chicken raising, which will bo in charge, of Otis Crane! conceded to be the foremost poultry expert in the country, they will meet the desire of every rural housewife in this vicinity. It is predicted that this course will prove one of the most popular, entertaining and valuable of any that will be given. In theso days when egg production and chicken raising arc being made more and more a basis for scientific study and investigation, because of the value which is attached to them and the resulting profits, the farmers' j wives, who generally have this feature of the farm under their superi vision, hae become anxious to learn of the most recent developments that their work may be made as profitable R3 possible. It is to afford them an opportunity for gaining such knowledge that the poultry course in connection with the domestic , science classes has been undertaken. To Unfold Secrets. From his work" at the Purdue experiment station Mr. Crane has come to be recognized as the most successful raiser of poultry in the United States." "Probably Ihe'princlpar feature of Mr. Crane's talks will be his disclosure of many of the poultry secrets advertised in farm journals to be had "for considerations , ranging from $1 to $5: In particular he will tell of the Philo system, the Corning system, and of methods by which it can bo learned whether all the hens in the flock are ' laying. Mr. Crane will discuss the treatment of chicken diseases such as "gaps" and "roup" and tell . how a certain famous cure, selling for $1 a vial, can be made at a cost of about five cents, for the same amount. Contrary to what may be expected, Mr. Crane's lectures are not of a cut and dried variety dealing with' mere facts regarding chicken raising, but be injects a lot of good humor and stories into his discourses that make them highly entertaining: throughout. He will be assisted in, the work by A. G. Phillips, also-of the Purdue experiment station. An illustrated night lecture will probably be the most attractive feature of the course. . Dairy Course Feature. The Dairy Course under the direction of P. H. Crane, a brother of the unusual , gVs.COsngaJi ta. . . . poultry expert promises to be of an unusual nature and one which will be of immense value to farmers. The feature . of this course probably will be the exposition of the methods of testing dairy herds for the amount of milk production and the contained butter fat. This is the most recent development in dairy work and has proved a great saving to many farmers. The plan has been put in more general practice in the Northwestern states than anywhere else and has met with great success. The object is to determine what cows in the herd are producing a large enough amount of milk containing a sufficient percentage of butter fat in comparison with the amount of food consumed, justifying their, upkeep by the profits which result- from their product. In many instances it has been proven by the test that one half of the cows in the herd are below standard and are pulling down the quality of milk of the other half. It is declared by Mr. Crane that in cases of this kind, the farmers could make more money by only keeping the better half of the herd. '.; ; . -. . ..- Mr. Crane will also tell the farmers how farm butter making can be made profitable; will discuss the production of clean milk, the feeding and care of calves, and the methods of treating disease and troubles of dairy cows, dealing In this connection with the tuberculine test. How to Fight' Weeds. . matter of increasing importance to farmers is the eradication of weeds and weed seeds &nU the indenitifi cation of weed seeds to this end. This subject will be dealt with by G. M. Fryer, of the Purdue experiment station, and F. H. HClman. connected with the government agricultural department at Washington, D. C They will hare exhibits of the various kinds of weed seeds and will show how they can' be' detected from " among 'other seeds.'.- ... - As shown by the title of the school, the corn course will be one xtt the (Continued on Fag Eight.)

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; Two of the ushers for the wedding of Miss Vivien Gould, the American heiress to Lord Occies, the English peer, which is to take place Feb. 7, in New York. Above is Lord Conoys, an intimate friend of Lord Decles and below Captain Edward Lumb, a retired English army officer and t brother-in-law of Lord Decies. Both men recently arrived in New York and are helping make preparations for the International match. rri"l E lottos FR0M: SAME VB1 Eaton Man Files Second Petition After 3 Months of Second Trial. (Palladium .'Special) Eaton, O., Jan. 31. Seeking to bo granted a second divorce from the same woman in the brief period of three months. Orville Curtis has filed suit against Emaline Curtis, charging abandonment and infidelity. In the latter charge he names Earl Donnihoo co-respondent, and alleges that his wife lived in-Hamilton in an adulterous state. -' On a similar petition Curtis was given a divorce in common pleas court Nqvember 21, 1910,' by Judge Klam Fisher. After a separation of but nine days Curtis and his wife smoothed the matter over and went to Newport, Ky.. where they were married November 30, 1910. Wlieii they returned to Eaton Curtis alleges his w'.fe abandoned him in just four days, leaving with him their three children, two of whom bad been given into his custody. She is alleged to have left' with Donnihoo. . In his last petition Curtis 'seeks tha custody of two of their three sons, Oscar li, and George' V., aged 11 and S, respectively. The third j son is Franklin, aged two years. RHODES CANDIDATES WILL BE BANQUETED s ;.. .' . . - . .-V' A ' banquet in honor of the ' candij dates eligible to Rhodes scholarships at - Oxford college, , England, will be held by the state committee, including college presidents.' at Indianapolis on Friday evening. .Those eligible Include Harmon , Maier. of Earlham . college; Claude Whitney of Indiana university and Imley Osborne of Wabash college. The committee . which determines which one of the three young mtn will attend the English institution is as follows r President John Vavanaugh of Notre Dame; President R. L. Kelly of Earlham ' college; President F. W McConnell of DePauw university; President; O. L.' Mackintosh of Wabash college and President W. L. Bryan of Indiana university. WIDENING OF WEST , MAIN JS APPROVED . Plans and resolutions for the widening of West Main street, from Fifth to the corporation line were submitted at a meeting of the Board of Works yesterday and approved. A petition for the construction of a cement alley, the first north of North A street, between Seventh and Eighth streets, was entered and referred to the city engineer for - plans and resolutions. - - The resolution for the ' widening of North D street was approved. - - THE WEATHER STATE AND LOCAL Unsettled, with local rains tonight or Wednesday; warmer tonight. y,

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Grube's Measure to Refer all h Franchises to Voters Mads Public 1 - Service People i .Wrathy.

PARTY LINES BROKE ON IMPORTANT BILL Bi-partisan Machine, Howev-. er, Was in Splendid Working Order--A Very Signifi-! cant Sight. . 4 (Palladium Special) Indianapolis, Jan. SI. Public seH yico corporations - showed their teeth ; in the senate Monday in the fight against Senator Grube's bill for referendum vote In cities upon public franchises. The bill provided that when a city council reported favorably up-' on a ' franchise be matter was laid ' over for thirty days before final actioh. .if within that time twenty perf cent, of the legal voters sign a petltion to call an election upon the frasw chlse the election must be held and; council must bo bound by the result of ' the election. If there Is no protest. ' at the end of thirty days council takes final action and lets the franchise. The bill was set for special order ' of business Monday -, afternoon an& tne senate chamber was crowded with lobbyists and attorneys and officials of interurban companies, telephone , companies, light and gas companies, , and; other public service corporations rea and prospective. For. several days active work was In progress , -against the -bill by public, service cor - porations, who saw. In- the bill an ef-; fectual check to their manipulation of i city councils and their grabbing of franchises by dark lantern methods. . ; The discussion and votes upon the ,: varions amendments offered the first real lineup of the senate when. It comes to showdown between the leterseta and tho people. There was an entire breaking down' of party lines and the -' bi-partisan machine worked very nicely considering it was its first real test Democrats pledged by platform and pledges to the glorious doctrine of -home rule abandoned it when the In-, terests of corporations stood in danger of being subjected to the terrible test : of publicity and thirty days discussion before the people. Republicans who v fear the will of tho people Is not the . safe and sane thing when It comes to . dealing with corporations wanting franchises joined with the Democrats who refuted the Idea that the voice of the people Is the voice of God. Altogether It was an Interesting and . very significant sight to see the statesmen who were so willing to listen to the voice of the people last fall rush to the defense of the . down-trodden corporations from having to make f their case with the people, were Senators Gavit. Kane, Klstler. Wood, 8totsenberg. Hunt, Strange, Sexoo, Ratts and Trautmap. There were others, also. - - . ' Gavit Battled First. Senator Gavit came to the bat first -with an amendment making It necee ; sary -for the petition for ' an election upon a franchise to contain 51 - per ' cent, of the voters. He announced he was constitutionally opposed to any referendum bill which ' required less names on the petition than a number sufficient to constitute a majority In elections.- He ' thought one could get ,' fifteen or -twenty per cent, of the voters to sign a petition for an election upon any proposition, and he was certain that In Lake county the voters were so enamored with elections flat under those provisions they would " have one every morning with their coffee and rolls. He thought alsx that if : . a franchise was bad it would be easy : to get over half the voters to sign a petition calling for an election. Upon roll call his amendment lost by, 23 to 17, but the following senators agreed with him: Brady, Crumpacker, Far- ' reil. Gers, GreenwetL . Hauck, Hunt, , Kane, Kimmel, Klstler, Powers, Ratts, Bexon, Strange. Traatasn and Wood. Senator; Klstler, of LogansporL was ; among those who. shied at the - prospect of the people having anything to do with so Intricate a subject as pub He franchises by acting on them -direct- 4 ly. He said he did not --- think this measure was demanded by the people, and that furthermore .'the people can . get their city councils to act properly upon franchises if they will use their Influence. "Let's make the per cent. , high." he said. "It's a new thins; for Indiana. If t works out well It can be lowered next session.' - . Cites Marten's Case. ' Senator 8hively, of Marlon, support' ed the measure . aa originally drawn -and was agafnst Gavit's amendment. He cited the case of Marion, his own city, where the people had voted for a municipal, plant, but were thwarted by a secret meeting of . the council , which let a. franchise' ta a private plant against " the people's expressed desire. He said the bill was not tnly Democratic hut Jt was one in t terest of the people; and ccr"l x:t harm any square and welts.l- :;j : corporation- Senator Ctra3,,.C3 XContlaued on tizi

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