Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 36, Number 136, 25 March 1911 — Page 4

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM ASD SUX-TELEGRAM, SATURDAY. MARCIT 25, 1911.

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Iladalph . Iee Edllur i. K. Illaskarr Mwalajaaa Maaacrr Carl Barakardt Aaaoriata Kdltor W. N. aaadaa Nawa Klltr BUB5CHIPTION TRR11S In Mchmond fi.OS .lar ymr (In advanca) or lOo par wee.: MAIL SUBSCrUPTJON. na rr. In advance '5 22 ill ntl.a In Bfl l'H nrn 2 60 bua month, in adt-ance ... IIURAL ItOUTKs One yaar. tn advance Ma rriontha. In advance ... fin. MAik tri Mil VM Nl'li ... is.no . 1.5$ .ii Add.-a changed often Ha dslrea; r.oth new und old addretaea rauat oa Klvan. fubarrlbera wilt rlea remit with order, which anouid ha alven for a rH.-ifid tarm: nam will not ba enterTntered at IUchmond. Indiana, poat afflea ai vni1 claaa mall matter. t ' . - : ' '" - - New York It preeentatlvee rayne & Tin fir, VI JSrd atraet. and 29Se Weet JtlnU atreet. New York. N. T. rhlrart irenrA'ntatlves Payne Tunr, 747-741 Iaruuetta UulldlnaT. Chlcam. 111. ,a a.a.a i -w. iraU ' Taa Association of Americas . AJawtiaam (Now Yo,rk City) baa; tiiuUH and certified to etrulaUan , j tola aasUcatiea. Oaly tit He-urea ot aimlatUa MBtalMd la 1U Ttport ua ; RICHMOND, INDIANA "PANIC PROOF CITY" llaa a population of 23.000 and 1 crowing. It l tha county eat of Wayno Cournty. and tha trading center of a rich attrlrultural i omiiiuiilly. Jt is lrated dua euet from IndlanapoM O in I lea and 4 inllea trom tha atata line. KU'limond la a city of homee and of Intluetry. PrlmaWly manufacturliiir (lit. It la ala tha jobblnn center of Kantern Jntllana and enjoya the retail tradof tha populoua community lo inllea around. Itlchmond la proud of It aplen did t roots, well kept yarda. Ita cement aldewalka and heautuul ahada tree. Jt haa 3 national bankx. 3 truat companies and 4 building aMMorlallona with comhlned rraoiircea of over I S.000.000. Number of factorlea 12fi; capital Invented f7.vo0,ooo, with an annual output nf f:7.000.000, and a. pay roil of $.1. 700.000. Th toteJ pay roll for the city amounta td approalmalely f,300,000 annually. There ara flva rallroao rompanlea radlatlnr In eltrht different direct Ion a from tha city. Incoming freight handled dally. 1,7&0.000 1 !.; OiitKoiuS frelaht handled dally. 760.400 Ih. Yard facilities, per day 1.700 car a. Number of paaaenurr train dally a. Number of freight tralna dally 77. The annual aOHt office receipt amount to f 80.000. Total aeaeeeed valuation of t'.ia city. flS, 000,000. Klchnioi.il nn twn Interurhan railwaa. 'i'lir'c n"iiiip'r with n romhlnnl c'i i'.i I .u .. i;.o)0. IMrliiuomt i- i ware ,l.!li r nnd ct'lv , titn Inn factor? ; Slam i'Vi . ' KillT I' i ' if trm ll i . ii t liariti in- mate I Jolii i plitno ; fi . . i trra1o ' i . 1 1 In the i ' if i '.n ture of ii -: - ii . rrolucea ii hinuH, lawn id-r -!;! , vrnln drills r.i't.M tluiu any otbi the world more m.tv' aril ' u The citV'H area I l 2.40 aerea: ha h court houaa roatlnfr tS00,POO; 10 public aclioo'a and haa tha flneet and moat complete hlR-h echoed In the middle weat under construction; S parochial eclioole: Karl ham college and the Indiana , ualneaw Collena; five aplendid fire com pun le In fine hosa liouxet; C5len Miller park, tha large! and moat heautlful park mond'a annual chnutauqua; aeven In Indiana, the home of Itlchhotel; municipal electrlo llirht plant, under aucceeeful operation and a private electrlo Unlit plant Ineurlnr competition; tha oldeitt public library In the atate. except one and the aecond Urgent. 40 000 volume; pure, refreshing water tinaurpaaned: 63 mllea of Improved atreeta: 40 mllea of newer a- 35 mllea of cement curb and gutter combined: 40 mllea of cement watka, a nil many mllea of brick walka. Thlrtv o hum he. Including tlie Held Memorial, hunt at a e.iat of 1250.000; Held Memorial Tloapltal, ona of the moat modern In the atate; Y. M. C. A. building erected at a coat of $100,000. ona of the flneat In the atate. The amuaement center of Kaatern Indiana and Weetern Ohio. No cltv of tha aixe of Richmond holda a fine an annual art exhibit. The nichmond Fall Festival held each October la unique, no other city holda a almtlar af. fair. It la given In the Interest nf the cltv and financed by tha b'.ilnea men. Kucceea awaiting anyone with entvrprlae In tha Panto Proof City. Ihis Is My S4lh Birthday REAR ADMIRAL LUCE. Hear Admiral Stt'i'rton H. Luo I". S. N., itMlrfd. who had rlty-nliH yoara of ncttial wrvU-o la tin navy, u rtn-ord thnt lias never Ik -en i(tiaKil, was horn in Alhauy. X. V.. Mann 2:.. and waa npoplntcd aa a ini(lhl)iiian in 1MI. IU aorvt'd on the Pacific coast ilurins the Moxican v.ar. In the civil war ho aorvod with dltinction ami wa Hdvanct'il one comi'lote urade for "efficient aiul faithful tservlce." After his retirement for a:e in lssi he founded the Xaval War eolloKO at NewiHrt. and for tweuty-ono ears, until laet IJecembcr, he remained ou uctlve tluty at the eollese as a lecturer and instructor. in addition to founding the Xavall War college Admiral Luce was mainly Instrumental in the eatablishment of the naval tralulug ayateni. Setting Her Right. A little child was seen walking around near "the bearded lady" at one of the iddrabows At a county fair. The child belos evidently on good terms with the barker Indicated to tb onlooker that it was probably related to the bewbUkered female, bo be asked the child. Ts the bearded lady your mother?" "No," answered the child; "she Is my father."

Water Works Contract

The contract pending between the city and the Richmond City Water Works is a matter of public business. It Is not a matter which is new on the contrary it Is carried over from a former administration at which time it was the people of the city of Richmond who raised such a protest that it has been delayed until the present time for consideration in a form which is supposed to embrace modern forms of franchises.

This preliminary explanation seems necessary because of certain events which have happened in the handling of the water works question by the administration or to be more exact, the mayor of this city and the president or his board of works. We think they would be the last to deny this and ihe facts are such that it would be unimportant if they did deny it. N The facia briefly are: That Ihe water works contract has been submitted lo the board of public works or rather to Mr. Hammond and his ruperior. Dr. Zimmerman. Kven Ihe other members of the mayor's official cabinet know little about this. This contract has been considered in a private, not to say secret meeting or meetings. They have been considering this not for one day or two days, but for many days. Yet this Information does not come from them in any public statement, but at the most by a grudging admission. The water works officials themselves are far more open about it and more frank in their dealincs than the mayor and his board president. Krotn these facts which have been completely carried, as far as this paper can llnd out. In the news columns, the public has derived its knowledge of this business transaction. And yet the contract (tending before Ihe board and council is a matter of public business, involving at least a half million dollars and the right to practically levy taxation through rates as every private public ncrvice corporation does.

Why?

We know of no reason why this thing cannot be conducted in a publie manner. There is not or ought not to be any thing In the contract which an every day citizen of average intelligence can not understand. Or. Zimmerman and .Mr. Hammond, although the representatives of the citizens In this matter, are for that very reason directly responsible to the people for their conduct of this affair. And it is not a private affair.

Kven the defense that it is a matter which ought to be decided by Ihe representatives of the people will not hold water in defense for one good reason. That reason is that the other representatives of the people have been kept as much in the dark as have the people themselves. It. therefore appears that there is some reason which must be private and personal to these men. And again we submit that this is public and not private business. We have our own idea about this which we express as being the most honorable motive that these men could have. They conceive that Richmond is still languishing under the throes of party administration and that they are entitled to subordinate public business to a pea-nut political manipulation in the consideration of the contract which will set them forth in the public eye as the real guiding force of, and all wise wisdom. Perhaps Mr. Hammond or Dr. Zimmerman have other political ambitious.

We disagree with these gentlemen that such a course will make either of them overly popular with the people of Richmond. The statesmanship which shines out as illuminating because it has given none else an opportunity to know what is going on is not the sort that such men as Folk of Missouri. Heney, I'inehot. Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Meverldge, lafollctte and other plainly spoken and frank men have won for themselves. It Is flavored with the characteristics of say a Shank of Indianapolis.

It is pea-nut politics. It is a poor business management on the part of the company If it wishes to have this matter please the people. Wo shall await with bated breath the Olympian, or shall we say Delphic, wisdom of such mature deliberation, which only last evening in another private meeting was so bold as for the first time to allow the council couimiltee on franchises to see the precious document, which is too complex in their eyes to be understood by the common run of mortals.

As for the contract itself, we imagine that the citizens of this town will ake just as long a time through their council in the discussion of the contract as they please and that perhaps they may show some capacity for judgment which the action of Mr. Hammond and his superior has, by implication, not, been supposed to exist in them. After the pea-nut delays and shallow evasions of the administration we hope there will be a full, unhurried and nnexcited discussion of the franchise contract in council which will be well attended by citizens and well discussed. We hope this will be a better contract than the other one which was submitted a year or so ago. We hope that it will be treated as a matter of public business as soon as It is brought to light from the star chamber.

JACK JOHNSON TO BE AN AVIATOR San Francisco. March 23. Jack Johnson, the heavyweight champion now aspires to become an aviator. Johnson declared that the automobile had lost some of its charm and that he woul leave shortly for San Diego to begin taking lessons in flying "1 hope to become the champion of 'THIS DATE

MARCH 25TH. 1711 lotteries were authorized by law in Massachusetts. 1774 British Parliament passed the Boston Port bill. 1S07 Parliament passed an act abolishing the slave-trade in the British umpire. 1S20 Jesuits banished from Russia by decree of Czar Alexander. 1S23 The University of Virginia was opened for students. 1S41 Michael Davitt. Irish political leader, born. Died May 31. 1306. l!oi Charlotte M. Yonge. English author, died. Born in 1S23. IMS Irish Land bill introduced in the British hours of commons. 1VO0 Nicaraguan government seiged two American-owned steamers.

You're Bilious!

You know the symptoms a splitting headache, sallow complexion, coated tongue, dizziness and constipated bowels. Never mind what brought on this condition, go to your druggist and get a box of Schenck's Mandrake Pills Take a dose to-night. Tomorrow you will feel like another person. We will mail you a FREE SAIIPLE If you send us the name of this paper. DR. J. H. SCHENCK & SON, Philadelphia. Pa.

the air," said the black belt holder. "I'm not too heavy to go up in a machine. Why, 1 just read that twelve men were up in an aeroplane in France." Johnson said that if the flying game proves as alluring as he believes it will, he w ill commission Glenn H. Curtis to build him a racer.

Canadian farmland is highest in British Columbia, where it is largely occupied for fruit growing. IN HISTORY"

MANY FUR FRAUDS Counterfeits Listed for Benefit of Trade.

Washington, March 23. London is the world's fur mart. If you go abroad this summer and if , you have money enough left it might be well to furnish yourgelf for the winter. But while you are buying fox skins or ermines, sables or teavers, it would be just a well if you keep your eyes open, for you might pay for something that you did not get. Protect London Buyers. With a view to protecting their American friends from fur swindlers, the London Chamber of Commerce has issued a list of the furs that are counterfeited and what the counterfeits really are. he common frauds: White rabbit, sold for ermine. Dyed fitch, sold for sable. Dyed hare, sold for fox or sable. Opossum, sheared and dyed, sold for beaver. Marmot, dyed sold for mink. Musquash, dyed, sold for seal or electric- seal. Rabbit, dyed, sold for chinchilla. Goat, dyed, sold for bear. Wallaby, dyed, sold for skunk. American sable, sold for Russian sable. White hare, sold for mock fox. Three great fur auctions are held in London every year tn March, June and October. The June sale is the most important and this year on account of the coronation, will be unusually well attended. At the March sale, when hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of furs were auctioned off, the prices ranged all the way from six cents apiece, for raccoon and fitch skins, to $2,624 for a single silver fox pelt. Many Attend Sales. The prices at the June and October sales were not quite as high. Dealers and individual buyers from all over the world attend the fur sales in London, and the number of skins disposed of usually run up into millions. For example, last year there were sold 1,737,048 musquosh skins, 1,351, 738 Australian opossum 477,711 mole skins, 159,550 ermines, half a million skunk pelts, 600,000 squirrels and fifty other varieties of furs in proportion. Of this vast number, however, there were only about five hundred silver foxes. The pelt of the pure black fox is one of the highest priced furs on the market. The sum of $2,300 was paid to a breeder of black foxes in Prince Edward island for one medium sized, flawless skin of exceptional beauty and luster. SLEEP TIGHT. There's nothing more refreshing than a good night's sleep in white, sweet-smelling sheets washed with Hewitt's Easy Task soap. It cleans and sterilizes bed linen, and how those little night marauders do detest it: Pure, white and sweet. Not a strong, greasy soap, full of rosin that makes clothes rot out before they wear out. Any grocer can tell you about Easy Task a nickel everywhere. HIGH SCHOOL NEWS The state board of control of hich school athletics will meet next Friday at Indianapolis. Prof. Isaac Neff, will attend. At the state championship series of high school basket ball teams at Indiana university on March 10, Rochester was chosen by the university to represent their district in which is also South Bend. The latter place claims that is had more right to be the representative and that there was unfairness used in chosing Rochester. They also claim the Rochester played an ineligible man, a man who had graduated from the high school and was a student at Notre Dame. It happens that this same player is a brother to the captain of the university basket ball team. South Bend has been granted leave to bring the matter up at the board meeting and they hope the board will take action in their favor. Prof. Neff upon communication with several other northern Indiana cities finds that they all seem to be against South Bend. He does not know just what action the board will take. The pedestrian club is taking advantage of the fine weather and the memmers are taking several long hikes. Tuesday they went to Tests Mills and cooked their supper. Each member of the club has to walk five miles outside of the city's limit or pay a fine of five cents. A record is kept and after a member walks a hundred miles she is presented with the club's pin. A Meridean club has been organized whose members are students, who bring their dinners. The club will meet every Wednesday and hold a literary and musical program. Prof. Earhart was called home on account of the illness of his father who resides a few miles north of Hamilton, Ohio. On account of his absence the chorus and musical classes did not recite either Thursday or Friday. The work on the annual, which will be published in May, is going along very nicely. The first for has gone to press and the second Saturday. There will be nine forms and sixteen pages to each form, making a publication of one hundred and forty four pages. The Wabash College Glee club will hold a concert in the auditorium next Monday evening. The members will arrive here Sunday and will be entertained by the students of the school. They will also probably be visiting the school Monday. Japan seems to be the only country in the world that has never been really conquered, so no wonder the Japanese carry a stiff upper lip. Some centuries ago a great Chinese expedition under Emperor Kubla Khan set out to take in the Japanese island. Ten only of the 100,000 were sent back to tell the talc New York Press. '

WOULD BUR CHILDREN Flats Not the Place to Bring Them Up Say Agents.

Chicago, March 25. Bar children from flats? Yes. by enactment of law if necessary! Not for the sake of neighbors or for the perservation of property, but to save the babies! "A flat is not a proper place to raise a dog in babies die in them." W.K. Young, head of a real estate firm, was the speaker. "I would be thoroughly ashamed of myself if any one caught me taking five children into a flat to live. A dog can't live in a flat. Five babies have no more chance of becoming normal men and women if they are forced to spend growing years in a cooped up flat than I have of living to be two hundred years old. "Humanity by law should keep children from flats. "The flat has come to stay in city life, but its uses are limited. A child can not thrive when it is forced to climb up and down stairs or to play on a cement floor in the rear of a flat building. "What lo do?" Move into a house. Every real estate man in Chieago has on his siring of frame houses to rent. People do not realize that these houses are only a short distance from the business center and in good locations. "People in Chicago have the flat fever. It amounts almost to a frenzy. A few devices for comfort and convenience make a stronger appeal than half an acre of yard around a frame cottage. "There are standing vacant in Chicago today hundreds of small cottages and frome houses of seven and eight. rooms, all with a little yard around them, which rent for an average of $35 a month. This is where children should live. "It is not true that babies generally are barred from flats in the good neighborhoods. There is not a sin gle community in Chicago where flats can not be rented by fathers with five children." "To say that babies are prohibited from flat buildings in Chicago has no foundation in fact," said the manager of the renting department of another firm. "The fact of the matter is that the fathers of good sized families make the best tenants in the world. If a man with five children signs a lease and moves into a flat, you morally are certain he is going to stay. "There may be buildings where the landlords do not desire babies or children, but there are no colonies of such buildings. I should like to see the neighborhood where I can't rent a flat for $35 or $40 and send there a father and mother with five children." The Werld'e Southernmost City. The capital of the territory of Magellan, belonging to Chile, is Punta Arenas, the southernmost city in the world, with a population of about 12,000, good wharfs and stores, paved streets and extensive trafflc. All vessels goin through the strait stop at Punta Arenas, and much weel is shipped from there. It is a free port, has a wireless telegraph station, is a station for the Chilean navy and does a large bueinees in the coaling of steamers. It is, in fact, a crossroad station between the east and the west. REST AND HEALTH TO MOTHER AND CHILD. Mrs. Wisslow's Soothisg Sviup lias been used for over SIXTY YEARS by MILLIONS of MOTHEKS for their CHILDREN WH1I.K TEKTHING, with PERFECT SUCCESS. It SOOTHES the CHILD. SOFTENS the GUMS, ALLAYS all PAIN ; CURES WIND COLIC, and is the best remedy for DIARRHCKA. It is absolutely harmless. Be sure and ask for " Mrs. W'inslow's Soothing Syrup," and take no other kind. Twenty-five cents a bottle. GREAT DIFFERENCE. ! GUARANTEE MINE THE BEST C. S. FARNHAM

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News Forecast For Coming Week

Washington, D. C, March 25. ators and representatives, veterans and newcomers, will flock to Washington during the week in anticipation of the assembling of Congress in extra session to consider the act upon the

proposed reciprocity agreement with ed wUh drunkenness and other or- . . . -. , fenses against the law s of the state. Canada. President Taft. fresh from; Some new and lmportant develophis outing at Augusta, will put the fin-lnenls in the Mexican situation, with ishing touches to his message after5 particular reference to the conciliatory talking it over with his close politi-! lUcy already announced by the govcal advisers. The Democratic caucus ' foment. ' nieeting of . , , jthe Mexican congress at the end of the will be held Saturday to complete tlu;w. house organization and everything wi;i! w0,h,ine of widespread interest then be in readiness for the call to lako laco in Washington Monday order. wuM1 Countess Lutse-Alexandra von Former President Kooseveit plans to ; 1!ernstorff, daughter of the German spend the entire week in San Francis-; anlbas!Siulor U) ,he United States, w ill co and vicinity. -Monday evening he;bmm ,ho ,tr,Je ()f Clnnt rourtalejc.

is scheduled to deliver an address at a banquet to be given in his honor by the Commonwealth club of San Francisco. What purports to be the first insurgent boom for the Presidency will be launched in Poston Thursday night.

nidi iiun ot'iirfiui iHJiunv ui wn-Kon, t0 ()f thtA ,)roglvss of preparations will deliver a lecture at a Boston club fo,. hp co).ou;llioll, ,0 re8uU of the on delegated versus popular govern- j oxford-Cambridke boat race on th mem. and this lecture and the infor-j Tham(,s tho KI.rat co;ol,ration in Almal conferences to follow, it is under-, b t Umrtoil, on Wednesday of

Mood, win oe cue numemug oi neni - tor Iifolleite s candidacy for President. Attorney General Wickersham and former Congressman. J. Adam Medei of Minnesota, are to be the principal! speakers at the annual banquet of the New England Manufacturing Jewelers' and Silversmiths' association in Providence, Saturday night. The National Monetary commission has fixed Tuesday as the day for the hearing of the currency committee of the American Bankers' association. Other banking interests will be heard on the same day. The suit in the Southwestern Shippers' Traffic association against various railroads is to have its final hearing in New York on Monday. The suit seeks an equitable adjustment of rates from points on the Atlantic seaboard to common points in the Southwest. The application for a permanent injunction in the case of Godfrey Hyams of New York against the Calumet and Hecla Mining company will be heard in the United Sates district court at Grand Rapids Tuesday. The plaintiff Only One "Bkumw uhmu., tnat ia LaxaSve Bromo Quinine Cures Coldin One Day. Crip in 2 Days Low One-Way March 10 to to California via

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California Raisin We are the agents for the Indiana Brick Co. of Anderson, who have the largest factory in the country. There are millions of Anderson brick in Richmond buildings and there is no better brick in the market. Let us figure with you. IVI a t tier t

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Sen-(seeks to prevent the proposed merger

ct the Calumet and Hecla and Osceola mining companies. The North Dakota senate will meet Tuesday for the impeachment trial of - Judge John F. Cowan, of the second judicial district, who has been chargwho is attached to the German embassy. The biennial convention of the National kVdemiitm of Mnsieal elubs will u,,,ot i:ir l.ri,, .,r .mwieiana to Philadelphia during the week. The cable news of the week will ,tho tP1-,.onUMlarv of the completion of jthe ' Authorized Version" of the Engjlish Bible, and the inauguration at Rome of the big international exposition in celebration of the semicentennial of the establishment of the kingdom of Italy. PILES CURED IN 6 TO 14 DAYS your druggist will refund money if PAZO OINTMENT fails to cure any case of Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Tiles in 6 to 14 days. 50c. A Queer Funeral. One day some yearn ago a man pass, ing along a street in a central district of London dropped into a gulf that suddenly yawned for him. He had got into a coal mine shaft that had been bricked over 150 years before and forgotten. The djpth of the shaft and the accumulation! of foul gas in it precluded the recovery of his body, so the borough authorities had religious services held over the hole. The mayor dropped a handsome wreath into if. and it was once more covered up and arched with brick. Colonist Fares April lO, 191 1 to

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