Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 36, Number 142, 31 March 1911 — Page 1

Tfoo Palladium Mas 1,OQO iUJore Circulation Than nil the Other Papers In Richmond Combined

RIG MOM) PAJXAMITM AND SDK-TELEGIIAM. VOL. XXXVI. NO. 1 -12. . RICII3IOXD, IXD., FKlDAY. EVENING, 31 ARCH 31, 1911. SIXGLK COPY 3 CENTS. RENEWED EFFORTS TO BE PUT FORTH TO HELP EARLHAM Identifying Victims of the -Eire THAT AflTI-SMOKE ORDINANCE STILL 1(1 A PIGEON HOLE TO MAKE CANVASS FOR. G. A, R, FUNDS IN SPEEDY STYLE HITCHCOCK MUCH AGAINST BOURNE; HE WANTS CRANE A FIERCE BATTLE ENDS IN VICTORY TO REBEL FORCES

Campaign Will Be Made in This City to Raise $70,000 Debt of College by First of the Year.

COLLEGE BENEFITS RICHMOND GREATLY Estimated that Institution Brings to the Business Men of the City at Least $175,000 a Year. Renewed effort win bo .nt forth by tho Karlluiin college official. tli Com incrcial club. Young Men's Business club and other kind rod commercial or KHtil.atloiiH of tho city to ralne the lent on tin educational ItiHtittit Ion by January 1, 1911. Tho debt, approxi mating 170.000 u year uko, the exact amount not at this tltno being defi nltely known, not having been com puted recently, but about the name as a year ago, has accumulated from ex penditures on permanent improve nienl to the Institution and Interest on the unpaid Indebtedness on the in minion. i-resiueni u. id. Kelly ap proximated the detit as follows. $."iO. 000 original loana for improvements to tho healing system, oil which 1h duo about IO.OOO and Miiallcr Hum on liundy hall and other Mrmanent im provements; and fCO.Ooo adrnlnistra tmn debt, making tho total about $70.000. A Benefit to City. That tho Institution has been of vast benefit to Richmond and community la attcHtod by the strong re- ' commendations which have been given by the commercial organizations. , Its vai.t benefit to the young men and women of the city, and three-fourths of thono who attend higher educational Institution enroll at Karl utm. In not no canity computed aa the financial benefit or the institution la to Richmond. It la figured that the Inatltutlon brings and keep in the city u total of nearly $173,000 annually. Were the - Institution elsewhere, or nhould Richmond students attend "coTT Jego elsewhere. It would mean an annual Ions of no lens than $.'0,000 to the city. Thohe who aie actively taking part In raising the debt believe that it will be accomplished within the next eight or nine months and expect liberal support from Richmond's business and professional men. Timothy Nicholson, a member of the board of trustees, submitted the following, including the Commercial club's recommendation and indorsement, to the Palladium and Sun-Telegram Friday: Nicholson's Statement. Soon after the death of Allen Jay. the financial agent of the college the Commercial club Issued the following circular a copy of its recorded minutes, and Its committee on education, George II. Knollenberg, Supt.; T. A. Mott and President Robert 1 Kelly, requested the cooeration of the Young Men's Business club, w hich was cheerfully granted, and the following members of that club: Prof. V. U Torrenee, Fred I-emon and F. M. Taylor, were appointed to assist In the canvas for subscriptions. Owlrg to the Illness of one member of the committee and tho absence from tie city of two outers uuring mucn or tne summer And fall, only a few subscriptions mounting to about $3,500 were ob tained. The Joint committee met a few days ago and resolved to rer,w the effort. Preliminary to this movement the following Important farts nrc submitted for the careful consideration of our rlt liens: The number of students enrolled from Richmond last fall. Had those gone to some other college they would have taken from Richmond at least $50,000. The annual budget of tho college Is about $100,000. Nonresident students spend annually in Richmond $23,000. Thun there Is annually expended In Richmond by the college and its professors and students $173,000. While the college Is managed by Friends, It Is Non-Sectarian. Some of the profeesors and other officers are of other Cenom I nations. Only about one-third of the students are Friends. last ear there were 86 Methodist. 39 Presbyterian. ..".3 Christian. 15 Lutheran. 11 Kpiscopal. and S1 Catholic; 7 each Baptist and Congrega-I tional. R I'nlted Brethren, and 13 from lx other denomination, while there were 112 non-mcmlters of churches, and all alike, having the same prlvl(Continued on Page Eight.) INDIANA Unsettled weather tonight; Saturday fair. MICH 8CH00L OBSERVATORY Highest .temperature yesterday, 34 degrees at. 1:0 o'clock m. Lowest temperature today, 27 degrees at 6:00 o'clock a. in. Temper ture at lt:30 o'clock a. m. today. .H degrees and rising, llarometer higt- and rising since Thursday a. m. High barometric pressure indicates fair weather but cooler; low barometric pressure indicate worm, but raiu.

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Identifying the charred remains of the victims of New York's terrible fire where 130 girls lost their lives. Hundreds of people hourly crowded about the doors of the morgue awaiting their turn to pass in mournful procession before the rough white pine boxes and search for the remains of friends and relatives, missing since the fateful blaze.

BOMB FOR LANOIS PROVES HARMLESS One Placed at Door of Judge Contained Mucilage and Lead Chips. f American News Service) Chicago, March 31. A police ex amination today revealed the fact that ihrv.juiipnscil .JbotnU'. found ooUtdw the door of Judge landis' office, con tained mucilage and chips of lead. It was absolutely harmless. It is believ ed it was placed there to demonstrate the possibility of a real infernal machine being deK)slted without detection. A cylindrical object in tho form of an Infernal machine was found Just outside the door of Judge Landis chambers late yesterday evening and detectives declared that It had been placed there by agents of the Chicago Mafia. Judge Landis was "marked for death" by the Mafia, according to an anonymous letter received by him two days ago. Although government agents were Inclined to laugh at the supposed bomb, there is an undercurrent of apprehension and rumors were renewed that William J. Burns the detective who uncovered the wholesale graft plots In San Francisco, would be called into the case here. The fears were augmented today by the receipt of a threatening letter from the Black Hand of Dannenberg. Although his nrospnrp in rhii..r ... supposed to fre a secret, the detective I was warned to cease his investigation if he wanted to live. Several supposed members of the Mafia have been arrested by the Chicago police but. they have not been connected with any of the operations of tho society. ELKS' PROFITS BIG Cleared Nearly $4,600 from the "Ding Battis" At the first roll call meeting of the' r.iKs loose on i nursday evening reports or the success of the "Diug Bat-' tls." held at the Coliseum the week of' Match lj were announced. Il was the third affair of the kind given by the lodge and proved much more successful financially than eith er of those previously held. The net profits of the fair were $t.5N6.74. including 200 which was advanced to tiie executive committee from the tiHlge treasury. In order to promote the affair. This sum has been replaced in the treasury. The expenses of the fair, itseir. including rent of tho hall, purchases, entertainment features. lHxths and the like was $;;.S3".7t. The reports are printed in pamphlet form, being complete in every detail. These booklets were distributed among the mem tiers. K. E. Eggemeyer. chairman of the executive committee, received the congratulations f the lodge on the completeness of tho reimrt. The roll call served to attract more than 200 of the members. An informal program of considerable interest, including remarks by many of the members and the reading of letter from absentees who are out of the city and could not for this reason attend, was given, following the short business session. A banquet was also served. . . i

WILL BE THE II, V, SENATOR Indications Are that Warring Democratic Factions Will Unite on Him. (American News Service) Albany, N. Y., March 31. Indications this afternoon pointed to the jeWkm of James O'Gorman. Democratic justice of the state supreme court of the First district, as United States senator from New York to succeed Depew. Today's developments in the senatorial deadlock were the most exciting that have marked the situation. Charles F. Murphy, leader of Tammany, was the center of the storm that broke as soon as he arrived from New York. He presented the name of Justice O'Gorman. Some insurgents balked and for a time it looked as though the whole situation was again in a chaos. The Democratic caucus met in se cret and adjourned until 3 this afternoon. In the meantime Senator Roosevelt, insurgent leader, telephon ed to New York for the record of O'Gorman. Indications were that if this is found to be favorable, the Justice would be accepted by insurgents as their candidate. Prediction was made by regular Democratic leaders that O'Gorman would be chosen and that his resignation from the bench "way in AiDany in custody or Lleut" Gov. Conway, who was acting as intermediary between the two fac tions. Joint sessions on the sixty-third ballot was without result. RAILWAY TUG BOAT IS WASHED ASHORE (American News Service) New London. Conn.. March 31. The big railroad tug boat Shawnese, owned by the Iehigh Valley is ashore upon the rocks at the East end of Fisher's Island, deserted by her crew and in imminent danger of being pounded to pieces by the heavy seas. The tug went ashore last night and the crew put Off in small hnats Tho 3snt wrecking company is trving tq float the Shawnese. ' PRIESTS LEADING ALBANIAN REVOLT (American News Service) Constantinople, March 31. Ordained priests of the Greek Catholic church are leading the Albanian revolutionists in their battles against the Turks. The situation has become so serious that two additional battalions or Turkish troops were ordered from the Salonika barracks today to Albania. GREAT TUNNEL IS COMPLETED TODAY (America., News Service) Geneva. Switzerland. March 31. The bore of the Lotschberg tunnel through the Alps was completed today. This famous tunnel will cost $10,400.000 and will be open for traffic in 1913. The bore is nine and a quarter miles long and w 111 shorten the journey from London to Italy by three hours. The final stages of subterranean excavation by which the two ends of the bore meet, showed that the engineers had been absolutely accurate in their reckoning-

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Enacted Over Seven Months Ago, but Chimneys of the City Still Belch Forth Their Smoke.

ENFORCEMENT OF IT BOTHERS THEMAYOR City Is Testing a Smoke Consumer at Present-Would the Railroads Observe the City's Mandate? Exactly seven months and thirteen days ago, the city council passed the anti-smoke ordinance, to eliminate the smoke nuisance. Major Zimmerman immediately affixed his signature and after two weeks publication, the ordinance went into effect. From the roof or the city hall this morning, the northern horizon was al most indistinguishable for. W 0-w.rf floating from the stacks of the factories along the railroad and from the locomotives, came a dense cloud of black smoke. It extended as far to the east, carried by the northwestly wind, as the eye could reach. As the observer looked toward the river the various power plants sent up their share of the "black or gray" while the factories in that vicinity blended their smoke into the cloud that cast itself over the west end like a huge mushroom. What Hammond Says. "When will you enforce the antismoke ordinance?" President Hammond of the board of works was asked. "Well, pretty soon, now," replied Hammond. "The smoke consumer on the city hall furnace is working all right. You recollect that it was put on as a tester, to determine whether or not we can enforce the ordinance. There are a few changes to make in it yet," Hammond does not 'see how the ordinance can be enforced against the railroad companies, all of which are said to be violating the ordinance. Nor does Mr. Hammond believe the traction engines can be made to observe the ordinance. He does not know whether smoke consumers can be put on traction engines or loco motives, although the ordint nee definitely provides that locomotives shall not emit "gray or black smoke." 'A few minutes later some one said to Mayor Zimmerman "Say, when are you going to enforce the smoke ordinance?" "Well, how are you going to enforce an ordinance when there's no way to do so?" asked the mayor rather disgustedly. "It will not be enforced until we find some way to do so." Ordinance Provisions. Whether the president of the board or Mayor Zimmerman, is right, is a question The anti-smoke ordinance provides that no "black or gray smoke shall ic riiuuru nom any staca or chimney, used in connection with any stationary steam boiler, locomotive, furnace of any factory, apartment house, office building, hotel, theater. place of public amusement, school building, institution or on anv build ing, excepting a private residence." It is the duty of the chief of the fire department, according to the ordinance to inspect boilers and to see that the smoke ordinance is observed. The lessee, owner, agent or occu pant of a building from which smoke is emitted, or the superintendent of the railroad on which locomotives vio late the ordinance, are guilty of its violation, according to the ordinance. Also it is provided that when the boilers must be altered, in order to be smokeless, three months time shall be given; if stokers are to be placed, the time for improvement is provided at six months; for tubular boilers four months, and for water tube boilers, nine months. A fine of from $10 to $100 for each day of violation is provided. FAILS AT REFORM; TO ORGANIZE TOWN (American News Service) Chicago, March 31. Failing to re form West Hammond. 111., and drive out the grafters on whom she has made war for more than a vear. Miss ' Virginia Brooks today announced ! that she intended to form a town of her own. Five hundred families will join her when she moves out of West Hammond. The new town will be free from graft and its offices will be conducted without unnecessary expense, according to Miss Brooks. It will be conducted in sight of West Hammond and will be in the nature of an object f lesson. FINED FOR DRUNK. George Davis and Robert Smith, i were fined $1 and costs each, for drunk in police court today. Both went to -

Finance Committee of the State Encampment in 12 Hours on April 14th, Will Raise Fund.

$5,500 IS THE AIM OF THE COMMITTEE There Will Be No Deficit and Under No Circumstances Will a Second Canvass fee Undertaken. A whirlwind canvass for funds will be made of the business men and shop employes of the city April 14 by the finance committee of the G. A. R., Sons of Veterans and allied women's organizations encampments which will be held in Richmond May 16, 17, 18 and 19. But twelve hours, from 12 o'clock noon to 12 o'clock midnight, will be given over to the work of solicitation and within that time it is hoped to raise $5,000. When the hour of midnight arrives on the day selected, the canvass will be absolutely ended and whatever sum is raised will be all that will be attempted to secure. The committee has decided definitely ttiat there shall be no deficit and that a second canvass under no circumstances shall be made of the merchants and shop men. This means that if less than $5,500 which present plans and arrangements will require, is raised, the program will be cut to come within the mount donated. Yhey Feel Confident. The committeemen feel confident, however, that the desired amount will be netted by the whirlwind campaign of twelve hours. Their confidence is based upon the belief that the merchants and shop employes are public spirited enough not to let the G. A. R. encampment and the others which will be held in conjunction with it, fall below the standard maintained in the past by other cities because of an unwillingness to open their pursestrings to meet the expense. Decision to confine the canvass to one day was made by the committee at a meeting held yesterday afternoon. It is a new venture to attempt to raise so much money within so short a time, but the committee believes it will be successful and be more satisfactory than the old plan of campaigning several weeks. While the canvass will be short it bids fair to be the most thorough of any ever made in Richmond. The business section will be divided into districts and every person in the district will be visited and asked to donate to the fund before six o'clock 1 1 it tne evfiiiiiK. i,nmm tipps win np anpointed to visit all the shops in the city and this will be done before six o'clock. Headquarters will be maintained at a central point where volun;tary donations may be made during the day. Canvass in Evening. After six o'clock a report will be submitted at headquarters by all com mitteemen and a compilation of these reports will show the persons who have been missed. Such persons will be called upon during the evening by special committees and the proposition laid before them. The amount necessary to meet the plans and arrangements of the. executive committee has been carefully estimated at $5,500, which is the sum raised for the last Fall Festival. It was unanimously agreed by the committeemen that no deficit should be incurred which would necessitate a second canvass of funds, and in order to prevent this, in the event $5,500 is not raised, the program will be cut down so that the expense will come under the sum secured. The finance committee is composed of Edward Harris, chairman; Everett! Lemon. V. C. Seeker, Frank Taylor. H. J. Hanes, John Markley. A large number of sub-committeemen will be appointed by the committee to assist in the canvass. JOSEPH STARR DIES r - t - i j t Former Richmond Man Ex pires at Frisco Tex. .Joseph W. Starr, SO years old. died at FYisco, Texas, on Wednesday. He was the brother of the late James and Benjamin Starr. The deceased formerly lived in Richmond, and had for many years resided at Diller, Neb. He was visiting his son William Starr, at Frisco when he died. The late Mr. Starr was the Son of Charles W. Starr, one of Richmond's t.ioneer citizens. It is understood the body will be brought to Richmond, and that the burial will be in Earlham ixemetery Sunday.

Insists Massachusetts Standpatter Instead of Oregon Progressive Head Posts Committee.

JOB GOES TO CRANE IF HE DESIRES IT At First Cranepidn't Want It but Hitchcock Gets Busy, and Now He Believes He Does Want It. (Palladium Special) Washington. March 31. Postmaster General Hitchcock has stirred up the senate again by taking a hand in the selection of a committee chairman. Hitchcock was very much disturbed over the prospect that Senator Jonathan Bourne, was to be chairman of the senate committee ou post offices and postroads. Crane, of Massachusetts, was in line for place as ranking Republican member but had expressed a preference for his present place at the head of the committee on rules. As soon as Hitchcock learned Bourne was next in line he hurried to the White House and had the President send for Crane aivl induce him to reconsider his determination not to head the post offices and post roads committee. Under the rule of seniority. Crane is entitled to the chairmanship if lie wants it and he now says ho does. Bourne would probably mean trouble for the Hitchcock regime if he were the head of the committee on post offices and post roads. He is a progressive and never approved of the methods employed by Hitchcock. In the chairmanship of the post office committee the senator from Oregon would probably see that the use of a great postal service to frame up delegations to the national conventions would cease and would put a stop to legislation framed in the post office department intended to enlarge the powers of the postmaster-general. Many congress leaders looked forward to a searching investigation by congress into the methods of the Hitchcock regime. With a Democratic house, and Bourne at the head of the senate committee there would be a house cleaning in Hitchcock's department. Hitchcock realized this when he sought the President to urge Crane to take the chairmanship. Bourne also stood for the magazines in their fight and Crane was against them and for an increased rate of postage. WIDOWSJSK MONEY Collected for Them When Husbands Were Killed. (American News Service) Chicago, March 31. Nineteen widows of the firemen who perished in the million-dollar fire which destroyed the Morris plant at the stock yards, today are banded together in an effort to force the committee which collected $210,000 for their benefit, to give some of the money to them. .. Although it has been nearly two months since the last of the money was collected, not a cent has been paid to those who suffered the loss of their bread-winners in the fire. The six months' salary voted to the widows by the city, also has been held up and the women declare they are In financial straits. Mayor Busse, Harlow Higginbotham and John C. Mitchell, leading mem bers of the collection committee, are out of the city. DROVE PATRONS 00T Drunken Man "Cleans" His Mother's Restaurant. Clyde Stewart. 32 years old, wlio last night while intoxicated drove the patrons of the Hamilton restaurant from the place, was fined $100 and costs and given 30 days in jail, by Mayor Zimmerman in police court this morning. Stewart went to jail for four and a half months. The restaurant is owned by Stewart's mother.1 The man. crazy from drink, entered the restaurant last night, when it was! filled with patrons. With a curse he' ordered them all to get into the street,! and a few that hesitated he drove out. Then he cursed his mother in the vilest language. Patrol Driver White and Sergeant Winters had difficulty in arresting the man. When they entered the restaurant he fled to the back room and turned out the lights. The officers dashed into the room and after grappling with Stewart a few minutes placed him under arrest. The man ha3 been conTicted of intoxicaUon at least six times. -

By Forced Marches Insurrectos Surprised the Garrison at Town of Ures, in State of Sonora.

OVER ONE HUNDRED ' KILLED IS REPORT.; Mexican Regulars Still Have Some Fight Left in Them and Both Sides Wait Reinforcements. (American News Service) BULLETIN. f Nogales, Rril. March 21 Couriers' bringing news of the battle at tres, ' place the casualties at two hundred. Honors were even. The battle is still -progressing. El Paso, Tex., March 31. A bloody battle, raging since Wednesday forenoon with hundreds of killed is re ported at tires, state of Sonora. between three hundred revolutionists and a like number of federals. Many' women and children are reported to have perished during the bombardment of tho town. The revolutionists are victorious. Both sides are now awaiting' reinforcements. One tory places the killed at a thousand. The insurrectos trapped twenty-five federals in the municipal building, then poured a galling fire into the structure killing all of them. The regulars fought gallant ly to their death. . The federal forces are commanded by Col. Arzamdei. There are 200 Vaqui Indians in the regulars. Later the reports from the front stated that the rebels were running short of ammunition and had made an attack in the night on an ammunition train of the federals. The rebel forces quietly concentrated about Ures. The estimates of the size of their combined force varies, but it is generally believed to be moro than 1,000 men. By forced marches the rebels surprised the garrison and a hand to hand battle in the streets ensued. On the march upon Ures the rebels attacked the town of San Rafael, burning a large portion of It, looting stores and public buildings and carried away a large quantity of foodstuffs and arms and ammunition. HUNTS FOR All HEIR Ge rman Consul Makes Inquiry of Countryman, Inquiry has been made to Judge H. C. Fox of the Wayne circuit court by D. Tettenbaum, German consul with headquarters in Cincinnati, regarding a German going under tho psuedonym of Goll or Golly, who has fallen heir to a large estate in Germany of the probable value of no Isss than $100,000. According to the consul the man has been traced to Boston, but nothing can be learned concerning him since he left that place several years ago. Some of the older workmen at Gaar, Scott and Company have a faint recollection of a man going by this name, but he has not been employed there for a number of years and they cannot now recall where he said he was going. Goll or Golly emigrated to this country when a young man, it is said, leaving Germany in order to avoid service in the army. Although of influential family and having received a good education, he. became a laborer and all trace of him was lost. Upon the death of his father, a search was instituted and the German consuls so far have been partially successful in tracing him. HUNTING DEMOCRAT TO BE A FIREMAN The board of works is looking for a Democrat for the fire department. Although there has been a vacancy for several days no one has applied for the position. Tne law says that the number of Democrats and Republicans on the department must be kept as nearly equal as possible. There is now a majority of Republican members. Palladium's Total Daily Average Circulation (Except Saturday) Including Complimentary Lists, for Week Ending March 25, 1311. 69&5D City Circulation showing net paid, news stands and regular complimentary list does not includo sample copies.