Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 36, Number 90, 7 February 1911 — Page 1

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COUNCIL MEETING A GREAT SUCCESS; REALLY HUMOROUS As Advertised, First Class Vaudeville Is Put on Before a Large and Interested Audience. TRAFFIC ORDINANCE CAUSE OF THE FUN Mayor Threatened with Arrest for Speeding and He .Warns a Councilman Not to Call Him Liar. Unmoved and undismayed mem' brra of the city council sat through a dissertation on tho benefits of the right and left traffic ordinance given by Mayor Zimmerman, last night and when he had finished, by determined "ayca," unanimously adopted a resolution ordering an appropriation to repay fines collected by the city court lor violations of the right and left ordanlnce.' The "galleries" of the council chamber were filled by a large crowd, which on several occasions burst into applause. Heated arguments between the Mayor and various council men proceeded the vote on the reso'utlon, which was introduced by Councllniau Will Bartel. ' AH sorts of charges were made in the debate, which followed the introduction 'of Cartel's resolution. Discrimination in enforcement was laid 'to the police department. The Mayor was openly charged with violating the motor speed law. and tho right and left ordinance. Ho was threatened with arrest. Mayor Zimmerman was also accused of ordering a much more severe enforcement of tho traffic ordinance than alleged necessary. Mayer "ftaesea" Back. In his turn. Mayor Zimmerman, ably JNPded by I. A. Oormon, supcrln tendonT"ofiKlice. Implied lhat "th council was "mighty weak," being fraid to stand behind an ordinance which it had passed.- The Major, defending his action In "occasional violation" of tho speed law. Bald that being a physician ho has this privilege. City Attorney, Gunlnor, however, says that a doctor la bound to obey the law, the sumo as any citizen. Councilman 1 tart el's resolution, an it was finally adopted, follows: "Gentlemen: I offer tho following 'resolution:' Resolved, by tho Common Council, in notion that the City Attorney la hereby authorized to prepare au ordinance appropriating sufficient money to refund all fines Hnd costs that have lnen collected from parties who were fined by His Honor, tho Mayor, for violating the "drlva tothe right" ordinance, on the grounds that sufficient time has not been given tho general public to know the ordinance. "He It further rcaolved. that tho Board of Works and the City Control ler recommend such, an appropriation and when made the City Controller Issue warrants to each individual reimbursing tbem to the amount paid in fines and costs in said cases. Respectfully, William H. Partel Amusing to the Crowd. To the delight of the big crowd, the argument between Zimmerman and the council, was little more than a burlesque. Mayor Zimmerman had the leading part. President Hammond was an understudy to the Mayor, while Chief Gormon. City Attorney Gardner, and Engineer Charles had character parts. Immediately after the curtain went up "My Lord," Bartel brought in the fatal message, the resolution. Mayor Zimmerman looked daggers at everybody, but the couuciltnen did not flinch. "You Just said ycu'd give them a jacking up the first time." said Kngclbert. "It was not right that they should have been fined. Weishaupt was referring to tho spit, sinoko and bumper ordinance, when he said some ordinances were not being enforced." "Just at tho close of tho meeting," snapped His Honor, "after Weishaupt said I was not enforcing ordinances, 1 said I'd fine every ono that came up before me. The money shouldn't be refunded. I'll stop It If I can." Von Peln Is Gagged. Three times was Von Peln prevented from speaking by the Mayor, who claimed tho South Knder was "off the aubject." Finally Von Peln peevishly sat down and pouted, "well I won't aay anything." However, a resolution was passed to !et Mr. Von Peln talk. He merely stated that the police handled the ordinance "too roughly" at first. Weishaupt. the next teaker. said sarcastically, that the Mayor might have said in a whisper, he would flue (Continued on rage Eight) THE WEATHER TATE AND LOCAL Unsettled with rain or soow tonight or Wednesday.

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PROF. CHRISTIE, OF PURDUE CAMBRIDGE "DRY" AFTER MIDNIGHT License of Last Saloon in the Town Expires Today One in Township. (Palladium Special) Cambridge City, Ind., Feb. 7. This place "drys up" at midnight tonight when Simeon Crockett will close the doors of his place of business and the residents of Cambridge City, who for years have been accustomed to stepping out of their back doors for an "eye oiencr," whenever they were a mind to, will have to depend on mail order business, the lonesome East Germantown saloon, or a long trip to some other oasis, for the next seventeen months at least, for Cambridge City is legally "dry" after today, by a blanket remonstrance, which does not expire until June 1912. Tho township will be In the desert class on and after April 6, when the only licensed saloon now In operation, tho one at Germantown, will ceaso business. For the last seven days Mr. Crockett has had the monopoly on the Cambridge City business as the license of Robert Wharton expired on February

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only saloonlsts in this place for ser eral months, other licenses expiring shortly after the .blanket remonstrance went into effect. The Cambridge City of today and the Cambridge City of two years ago. when tho sorting fraternity made the place a headquarters, is quite a diffrent place. Formerly this place supported In the neighborhood of thirty saloons, sonic of which were only annexes to gambling joints, which were exterminated some time ago. What effect the change will have on business Is viewed at different angles. Since Connersvllle, New Castle. Knlghtstown and a number of other nearby towns and cities have been dry the local merchants secured a large amount of the "wet" business of tlioso places. Whether the Iohs of this trade Is Injurious to the town is a matter of varied opinions. DAY TICKETS FOR THE SHORT COURSE For the benefit of those who can attend only ono day, a special day ticket for the Farmers Short Course and Domestic Science Course, now in progress, has been offered for sale. The price of the day ticket is twenty-five cents, admitting the holder to every feature of the school during the one day for which the ticket is issued. The tickets are to be had at the various buildings where the instruction is going on.

We Don't Make You Guess our circulation, but tell you candidly the number of subscribers we reach each day. For the benefit of those who care to know, we are showing the gains made the past two weeks by-the Palladium.- In the week ending January 28th, the Palladium made a gain of 35 subscribers, and in the week ending Feb. 4, the Palladium made a ,gain of 45 subscribers, showing conclusively that we are selling our paper strictly on its merits. Below we submit a detailed statement of our circulation for the past three weeks. If you don't believe our statement, come in and count them. Circulation books always open.

JANUARY 21, .1911 CITY PAID .S.4S7 . 118 . 3.1 i CITY UNPAID ., NEWS STANDS TOTAL 3.66S RURAL. ROUTES 1.777 AGENTS 776 MAIL 203 TOTAL ADV. AND EX. 6.426 1S9

TOTAL .6,615 TOTAL .6,650 TOTAL ? ...... . .6,695 I, J. F. Ringhoff, business manager of the Palladium, do solemnly swear that the above statement of the circulation of the Palladium is true. J. F. Ringhoff, Business Manager. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 7th. day of February, 1911. Seal ' Katherine L. Gift, Notary Public. My commission expires April 4, 1911. "

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WiTHOUT A BONUS FOR BIG FACTORY Concern, Now Located at Geneva, N. Y., Manufacturing Derailing Device, Is Pleased with City. LABOR CONDITIONS HERE SATISFACTORY That Is Principal Reason As signed for Locating Plant Here by President of the Company. Arrangements have been complet cd whereby the Hayes Track Appliance company of Geneva. New York, will locate in Richmond within a short time, erect a one-story steel re inforced concrete building on North Third street, just south of the C. &. O. station, and enter into the manufact ure of a derailing device for railway tars, preventing them from running off a siding onto the main track, for which the company has become famous. Labor conditions in Richmond which eliminate the necessity of dependence on any foreign element are assigned by S. W. Hayes, president of the concern, who has been in Richmond on a quiet investigation of conditions a number of times recently as a principal reason for the selection of this city as a site for the factory. The company comes to Richmond without any bonus offer or inducement of any kind. The only assistance lent Mr. Hayes was by officers of the Commercial club in the securing of options on property on North Third street where the building will be erected. The Commercial club fficials and others interested in the growth and development of the city consider it highly fortunate that the new company is to be added to the industries of the city. The concern Is given the most flattering rating in New York and is accredited with being one of the most substantial " in the empire state, although not exceedingly large Mr. Hayes states that he will bring about eight men. who are experienced in the business to Richmond with him. The remainder of a force of about fifty will be secured from this city or out of town places. It is said that Mr. Hayes will come to Richmond next week and begin active preparations for the erection of the factory building. The property secured comprises SO, 000 square feet and the building, according to tentative plans, will extend over the greater portion of it. The structure will be fireproof in every particular. The company has contracts with he Pennsylvania railroad, the Harriman lines, and with many other prominent railroads of the country for the supplying of the derailing devices. There, is a constant and steady demand for its output, placing the company on a firm and substantial basis. The removal from New York is made that the factory may be located in the central west, which Mr. Hayes declares is the principal trade market and central buying field for the concern. Malleable iron from which the devices are made will be secured from Dayton and Indianapolis. Mr. Hayes was offered enticing inducements from commercial organizations of Dayton and Muncie to locate j his factory in these cities. It is reigarded as very significant that he should turn down these offers and locate in Richmond with the cost falling entirely upon his own shoulders. Mr. Hayes declares that Richmond has the-appearance to him of being a very substantial city, and it was in view- of this fact that he selected Richmond. JANUARY 28, 1911 CITY PAID .... CITY UNPAID NEWS STANDS . ii . 14S TOTAL 3.691 RURAL ROUTES 1,77S AGENTS 776 MAIL 212 TOTAL 6,460 ADV. AND . EX. 190

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Principals In A STREETS ' DISCUSSED Council Says Some; Need Repairs Badly. "Always having something scraped off. but never having anything put on," is the way, Councilman Frank Waidele expresses the treatment of a number of city streets. At council, last night the streets, alleys and sewers committee, composed or Kngelbert, Evans and Williams reported that, many city thoroughfares hadn't been repaired for many years. The streets needing repairs are Ft. Wayne avenue from C to D street, repaired in 1901: North Ninth, from A to E. repaired in 1903; South Eighth, from A to E. repaired in' 1904; South Eleventh, from A to C. repaired in 1904, and South Tenth from Main to A, repaired in 1900. Chestnut, Randolph, and Lincoln, on the West Side are also in bad condition. Criticism of the board was made by Engelbert for not keeping the crematory In better condition but he was informed this was being done now. The crematory was repaired for $700, although 7,000 was appropriated for this work. Another criticism offered by Engelbert was that there was a "siniply filthy road," leading to the light plant. He claimed that this street should be made, because he said not two per cent of the people in Richmond knew what , the city had, "down in .the river bottom." v FEBRUARY 4, 1911 CITY PAID 3,563 CITY UNPAID 14S NEWS STANDS 33 . TOTAL 3,746 RURAL ROUTES ..1.7S0 AGENTS 761 MAIL 217 TOTAL ADV. AND EX.. ..6.504 "191

Horrible Tragedy Of Childhood

Three children, who are the principals in a mysterious and horrible tragedy of childhood, which occurred in Brooklyn. N. Y. recently. Above on the left, is Joseph Rritton aged five and on the right Thomas Kennedy. Below on the left is Marie Ridle. The facts known to the police are: , They found little Thomas Kennedy lying face down on, the sidewalk near his home at five o'clock in the afternoon, they had traced his fiveyear old playmate, Joseph Britton, to his home two blocks away, whither the hlld had almost miraculously made his ,'way. with .a fatal bullet wound In the' temple f they had. found art o!d Irustv revolver on the walk

near the Kennedy boy; they had learned that there had been many peo-

le in ine street at tne time cl tne efcooting; and yet there was nothing to point to a guilty person except the delerious cry of. the dying Britton boy: "Marie did it." Both boys are dying in the hospital. " . Marie Ridle, who lived with her parents, at No. 137 Steuben street, in which building the Kennedy's also live,' is the child under arrest. She was taken into custody after two dramatic episodes. The first was a scene in t'10 hospital at the bedside of the Britton child, who was still unconscious, and who turning his eyes, already vague with the approach of death upon the frightened little girl, who was led before him. murmured, according to the detectives: "Yes, that's Marie: she did it." The other scene that the child prisoner, who. may bo absolutely innocent, was compelled to face, was the partial reenactment of the tragedy at the place where the shooting happened. The police took her with eightyear old Josephine Kennedy, a sister cf the wounded boy, to the' vacant lot where the children had all been playing, and made the little girls go through all their movements before and after the shots were fired, A strange thing about it was that both girls said they had heard no shots, and the one grown witness, whom the police located, Naughton Richardson, said that he had heard only one . Moreover there are two bullet wounds in the throat' of the Kennedy boy and the doctor w ho took him to the hospital said he did not believe that both could have been made by one shot The whole affair is a baffling mystery.

BEVEFHDGE STANDS WITHPRESIDENT Is Administration's MouthPiece in Mooted Canadian Reciprocity Measure. (American News Servic Washington. Feb. 7. Senator Beveridge will address . the . senate on Thursday in support of the Canadian reciprocity agreement submitted to congress by the President. President Taft appreciates the stand Beveridge has taken in favor of Canadian reciprocity. The Senator was a pioneer in advocating reciprocal trade relations with Canada and is now standing up for the issue while his progressive colleagues in the Senate are opposed to it. The President has had a working arrangement also with the Senator from Indiana on the Lorimer case and the bill for a tariff board, in both of which matters ' the senate reactionaries have been balking the president's plans. Hearing Before Committee. Friends and-opponents of the Canadian reciprocity agreement . appeared before the Hpusev ways and means committee today. E. W. McCullough, of Chicago, secretary and general manager of the National vehicle company made a plea in favor of the passage of the measure. " A. L. Hall, of Boston, representing the American paper and pulp manufacturers, spoke in opposition to it. APRIL FOOLS JOKE PLAYED BY HUSBAND Fourteen days after hr marriage on i March IS, lM)7, Ada Adams avers in a divorce complaint, which her attorney ' filed in the circuit court .on Monday afternoon, Edward E. Adams abandonjed her for no cause whatsoever. The alleged desertion took place on April Foois, Day. Failure to make reasonable provision and neglect also are alleged. BqUi are residents of the cHr-

LORIMER FIGHT III THE SENATE TODAY Jones Denounces Illinois Solon and Fletcher Comes to His Rescue.

(American News Service) Washington, Feb. 7. The battle over the right of Senator Lorimer of Illinois to hold his seat again held the attention of the " senate this after noon. The conflict is. rapidly nearing an end. Two speeches' were made today. Senator Jones of Washington, attacked the report exonerating Lorimer in the bribery case and Senator Fletcher of Forlda defended the report. 'Senator : Jones' declared "I have wished to sustain the verdict of the committee because ' of my intimate association with Senator .Lorimer. I have wished to sustain it for the honor of the great state of Illinois, in which I was born and reared, but I am compelled by oath, under the facta j as I see them, and the law as I under - ttand it to vote to declare the election of Senator Lorimer as illegal and void." - Senator Fletcher said in summing up his appeal for Lorimer: "Are we justified in concluding that because Lorimer was elected by such a legislature-he was a beneficiary of this boodle; that these baodlers would not vote without the 'necessary'; therefore some one supplied it and the vote for senator was cast in consideration thereof. We must not forget that the presumption at the ontset is in favor of the regularity of the election. Prima facie, Lorimer has a valid title to bis seat. No act of his has been shown to cause its forfeiture. No conduct on his part contributed to procure it fraudulently . or corruptly."

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111 NUMBERS FOR THE CORN SCHOOL 'nrollment at District Short Course Increased to Great Extent by. Ones Arriving Today. . BIG ATTENDANCE AT ALL THE LECTURES Address on Hog Breeding Proved Exceptionally I nteresting Address on Domestic Science. Instead of conforming to their own notions as to what qualities should ' be developed in . the hog , breeders should conform to the wants of tho... packer, D. O. Thompson told hog men this morning when - he appeared before the Sixth District Short Courts at the Coliseum in a discussion on judging fat hogs. Thompson explained that the pack ers are the buyera and . know wnat they want. He said that ideal of the breeder and packer were aometimea not the same for various reasons. The "Champion Barrow" stock waa used in illustrating this morning. Thompson is being assisted by . J. P. Prigg of Daleville, president of the Indiana Breeders" association. Farmers from all over Wayne and neighboring Ohio and Indiana counties began to arrive In numbers today and the enrollment was greatly increased. , ,,,' Horticultural Work. In the horticultural section this morning a general discussion of plant propagation for the farmer was - dis- ; cussed by Mr. Richards. He stated that .while it is not advisable for the farmer to try and . propagate all of the plants that he wishes to grow, It is- often desirable to know how to graft and bud and. how to make cuttings of his various bush fruits. The ,. question of budded vs. grafted fruit was brought up as well as that of budded peaches vs. seedling trees... Mr. Richards maintained that it mattered very little whether a tree was budded or grafted. That is a question he said for . the nursery man to decide. ' , Th farmer fs interested in a healthy tree and if he gets that be does1 not care how it was propagated;' , Poultry, Work. ; In the poultry section Mr. Otis Crane took up the work of judging Fancy Poultry. ;' Score cards were passed around and the morning hours were spent in explaining the meaning of the different terms. The reasons for each cut on the ; score card was shown by Mr. Crane. In the afternoon chickens which had been fur-: nished by the local committee werejudged and scored by the students according to the morning's instruction. Mr. Crane then scored each chicken and the scores were compared and ta difference explained. , Corn Work. In the corn section the work consisted of explanation of ; the Indiana score card By means of large broml' -ides bung across the room a perfect ear and an imperfect ear were shown to the students. Each student waa asked to take an ear of corn and follow the instructions given and score the ear of corn, r Good and bad tlpa animals of no particular breeding. In large, and small butts, straight rowed kernels aa well as long and short ears were shown and their relative, ad vantages explained, i This work is under the direction of Prof. G. I. Christie and he is assisted by Prof. G. M. Frier, assistant-superintendent of agricultural extension, and F. C. Palin, who grew the world's best ear of corn; which took the Keogg trophy at the national corn exposition. r -r Dairy Work. The dairy work was conducted fn the -Coliseum -by -Prof. Berry Crane of the Purdue experiment .station. Dairy score cards for dairy cattle were passed .out nd .ejich .point explained. , Prof. Crane said in part: ; T In Judging dairy .cows, there is at least two standpoints that the subject may be taken up from. One where we deal with pure bred stock and the other" where we deal with grades, or this line of work we have two important points to hold in mind. First the dairy type and second the breed type. The breed type really Includes the ! dairy" type,' but "alat) means more In ; judging pure bred stock - as la the -fairs and other practice bbow compeUtions ; the animals are divided ; into classes according to. age and sex. All animals in each class are: then judged as they stand and not according to what might be the case were they of iMtrerenvage. In the Judging f proper, the Judge- does not score each animal by means of a score card and then place the animal first that scores the highest, as is sometimes practic-1 ed in poultry, shows, but the show ring judge places the animals first by comparison, lie must have bis ideal fixed in mind and this is arst established i by use of a fscorV card. . Each breed association has formulated score i cards for'the animals of that breed, and it is interesting to noje the variations in the values . given different (Continued os Pase SixJ