Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 36, Number 152, 10 April 1911 — Page 2

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THE RICHMOND PA L.LAD I U 3 1 AND SUXTELEGRAM, 31 OX DAY, APRIL 1(, Wll. SECTION OF TOKYO BURNED ON SUNDAY Palaces of "Demi-monde" Swept by Fire and Many Are Killed. FRIENDS CHURCHES ARE NOHO UNITE Both E. Main and S. Eighth Congregations Voted Against the Merger. PROPOSITION RY ATWOOD JENKINS PIANO ROLES ARE NOW AT LIBRARY COMMENCEMENT OF TOWNSHIP SCHOOLS City Statistics Marriage Licenses. Earl D. Wiekershatn, Jacksonburg, I. '"farmer, and Dottte Kliasou. JackTo Be Made City Insurance Inspector Received by Board of Works. 650 for Player Pianos Can Be Drawn Upon by Library Patrons. Program for the Event Held lsoubui' housewolk April 22, Is Announced bv Howarth. Palladium Want Ads Pav.

POSTAL RECEIPTS SHOWED INCREASE Go Above $80,000 for Year Just Closed and Haas' Salary Is Raised. With an increase in tin- receipts or the Klchtnond oM office for the year indlliK Mjirrli :M. 1911. maklnK a total amount lr JSI.Ml'.t;:. the fcalary f Postmaster K. M. Haas is increased fl'iu per year. Tin- receipts are the laritt'ht for any year in the history of tho office, anil the anioiint taken in for the month of .March. 1911, was the largest for any ninKlo month finer the filfiee was established. The uul urU'A of K)fimahtcrs of firm. clans of fieen are based upon the amount of husincHM ilone per year. It was necessary for the loeal office to reach the $mi,ihio mark for a flnft to added on to the executive's salary. Tne next

Increase of n like amount w ill come j

when the busbies lor the year amounts to $ 1 1 o mmi. The receipt for the year endim; March 31, 1910, were $77,11S.n::, making the Kaln for tho past year. $U",49.M. Tho HaleH for the month of .March totaled $9.4lfi.19. which Is about $1.t0 more than that amount a year ao. The Richmond post office was established In isis with Robert .Monition as the first, postmaster. The business for the first year amounted to Krco delivery was established January 1. 171. In JV.M. six years lifter the office was established, the business for the year amounted to less than fl. Richmond henan making rapid strides forward about that time and In 1 Sot! the receipts amounted to $1.400.t5. The amount of pieces to pass through the office, both incoming and outgoing were computed in J s7 1. The amount was placed at 1.:!9.",0!H. The number of pieces being handled at. the otrice at the present time is estimated in round numbers ua one million a month.

PHOTO JFJENNETT Wanted hy Idaho for Its State House.

A Mter from Governor .James H. Haw ley of Idaho, wa.3 receiv ed by Postmaster K. iV. laas today asking for a photograph of the lute General Thomas Itennett, who was at one time territorial governor of Idaho, from which a portrait can be made to hung In the portals of the stale hall togeth

er with those of all other governors uf that state. Governor I law ley stated in the letter that the legislature li Its last session made provisions for portraits to'be made of all the governors of Idaho. He said mi photograph of General Itennett, from which n portrait could be taken, was obtainable in Idaho and asked that the postmaster lend assistance to the project by securing h photograph from one of the general's relatives or friends in this city. A lilcture which Is a very good likeness of the general has been secured and will be sent to the governor. General Dennett was made territorial governor of Idaho about thirty-five years ago, receiving the appointment while a resident of this city. He returned to this city at tho dose of his territorial executive term and again took up residence her'. Gov ernor Haw ley Is chairman of the committee which has in charge the securing of portrait of all governors of the tdate.

RICHMOND! WINNER Defeats Elwood Saturday Play Here Tuesday.

Richmond won the first of the series of polo game with Klwood Saturdaynight, 9-6. Thompson starred for the Quaker with 5 goal. Lewi for Elwood played In good old Western League style, making three goals, and driving the ball In from the spot, once. The team will play here Tuesday evening. Southerland w ill be at goal for Klwood, in place of Rogers, an Anderson boy. Lineup and summary: Richmond UM Klwood (6) Thompson , , Lewi First rush QuiRlcy Farncr Second rush Cunningham Harrold Center MunefleM v Lyons Half Tense Rogers Goal. Stops, l'cnae til;. Rogers 3.". CO-EDS WILL HOLD SPIRITED DEBATE (AmcrU-au News Service) Pullman, Wuu., April 10. Much interest is manifested in the debate ta take place tomorrow' evening between representative of Whitman college and Washington State eollepe for the reason that it will be the first intercollegiate delate In tbjs part of the country in which the teams are composed of young women students. The question selected tor debute is: "Resolved, That men and women should receive tho .mi wage tor the same work performed.' Fminin Egotism. Husband . tduring the spat)- I must have been a fool when I married you. : Wife Undoubtedly, But tho old dace still holds pkhI. , Husband What' that? Wife A fool far luck. Chicago Js'ew. - "- -

Tokyo, April in. Flames, swept by a (if rce gale Sunday night destroyed all the build uks covesing an urea in this t i 1 y approximately four squaremiles. l'art of the district laid in ruins Is known as the "Voshlwari," the most notorious part of the Japanese capital inhabited by the licensed "hetaerae," or courtesans. In the Yoshiwari proper liOO houses wore destroyed, many of them palatial in appearance and gorgeous in interior oriental furnishings. It la estimated that the razed buildings represented a value of $1(i,0mi,wni, while the loss in interior equipments can not be estimated, as is is known that some of the "hetaerao" were the custodians of priceless works

of art, jewels, paintings and antique

furniture of their rich patrons. 6,000 Females Homeless. The fire has rendered C.000 females homeless. Many of the women were injured, somewore fatally burned and are being cared for at hospitals in the foreign quarters. It is believed that at least a hundred Inmates of the houses lost their lives since many of them are addicted to opium smoking and some of them must have perished while under the influence of the drug. The sceneB during the conflagration beggars description. Half clad women carrying their jewels and some of their belongings fled from burning

houses to seek refuge in the homes of their unfortunate sisters. As the flame swept onward the army of fugitives increased from scores to hundreds and from hundreds to thousands till the entire homeless host was driven out of the "Yoshiwari." In Pitiful Plight. The throng of miserable are in a pitiful plight. Against them the doors of the pharisees in the aristocratic quarter are locked. A lew have been given shelter In the foreign quarter, but the majority of the women will be forced to squat on mats and grass plot in the open of the suburbs until the government provides temporary tents and abodes for them. The Yoshiwari is conducted under government licenses, which provides for the establishment of hospitals, and several of these institutions also were burned. The tire which began at 11:30 a. m. spread with astonishing rapidity. It was fanned by a strong southern

wind, and the flames were swept to surrounding structures to the .north. Altogether it is estimated 5,i0 houses are in ruins. Troops Guard District. Five hundred troops are guarding

the- territory. When the wind died down on the clear night the entire northern skies of Tokyo were ablaze from the glowing embers. The Yoshiwari lies about one mile to the north of A Ha kti.su park. The district presented a spectacle probably unparalleled in any other country but reproduced on a smaller scale in the provincial Japanese cities, with its gorgeous structures, guarded by iron bars, directly on the street line and its thousands of gayly bedecked residents. This whole quarter is under special municipal surveillance with the result, that at all times perfect order prevails enabling strangers to observe, while walking through the streets the manner in which the Japanese have solved, in t heir owti manner, one of the vexed questions of all ages. Flimsy Dwellings. The district to the north was occupied largely by small and flimsy dwellings and many tea houses. During recent years several very serious Mrcs have occurred in Julian. In August lf(7. a conflagration at Hakodate destroyed 1,300 houses, with un estimated loss of about $13,00n,000. In March of the following year tire at N'oda Soy, near Tokyo destroyed 4tM houses, the damage being $2,500,OOO and a few days later 4,000 houses were burned at Niigata. In August. 11H!, a Hre reduced to ashes a large part of the city of Osaka. The official report placed the number of dwellings destroyed at more than 11,000.

That the Kast Main Street and South .Eighth Street Friends churches will not be united into one congregation was practically determined when the majority of member in both c hurches voted against the project at the services Sunday morning. The vote at the Kast Maiu street church was t'.fl for the merger and Jr..' against it; while the ballot at the South Kighth street church showed M members opposed to the consolidation and G'J favoring it. As the membership of both churches is considerably larger than the total vote, it is evident that there were many who refrained from expressing an opinion. There action is said by leaders in the movement to have been due to an inability to reach a decision one. way or the other. The decision was reac hed in a most friendly manner by both congregations, and no hard feeling or resentment was aroused by the adverse vote on the union. According to prominent members of the churches the vote expresses the belief of the majority of the membership that the religious needs of the city and the Friends' denomination can best be served by two churches instead of one, at least for the present, and that no chajige should be made until other conditions arise which demand it. It was argued by supporters of the merger project that

a consolidated church would be more advantageous.

BASEBALL MAGNATE DIESFROM RABIES (American News Service) New York. April 10 Abraham Xapon, secretary of the American league baseball club, died today of rabies in the Neurological Institute. 140 Kast Sixty-seventh street, the result of a pet dog licking his hands several months ago. Napon had been attending to his pet dog which was ill when the animal licked his chapped hand. Several days later the animal developed symptoms of hydrophobia and was killed.

When Dead WhaU Sinks. It ha p ens on rare Occasions that a dying xv hale, sounding" deeply, fails to rise again to the surface and remains in the sea depths after death. The "fish" is not lost however. From some unexplained eauo the gases set frer by decomposition inside the careass find their Tvay to the whale's tongue This organ becomes Inflated, resem bling a huge Iwlloou, and by its buoyancy brir-s the body of the dead whale to the surface, w hen it is picked up bj the crews. The process of inflation and flotation commences within a few hours er death, and the I pse ol two or three days will generally suf floe to brity; the lody f a "lost" whale up from be sm floor. Wide World Magazine.

Grim Consolation. "John, old boy," said the sick man to the attendant. "I want you to go out and fetch me another minister." "Why, you've had a preacher with you all the morning." "That's just It." gasped the man. "He thought he was cheering rue up. and he told me I'd meet my three wives in heaven!" Atlanta Constitution.

The board of works received an insurance proposition from At wood L. Jenkins this morning, providing that if the city would appoint him insurance inspector, he would examine all city property and suggest where improvements could be made to lower the rate of insurance. Mr. Jenkins asks that the board pay to him one half the saving that his work will be to the city, based on the present rate of insurance. He wants a contract for five years. It was taken under advisement and will be investigated by the city attorney. The question was made by Gardner whether the city could make contracts longer than the remainder of the present term of office of the Republican administration. He said there had been rulings in the supreme court oiposed to this. I'pon hearing this statement. Mayor Zimmerman said he would then be in favor of revoking

all contract. made by former administrations.

Among the most important contracts that might be revoked under this ruling is that of the pavilion privileges at the Glen Miller park, now held by Charles Fetzer. The mayor said that several persons had asked to have the privilege of bidding for the stand rights. Fetzer's contract was mada in the Schillinger administration and hdlds good for two years yet. It is considered a very valuable contract. W. H. Campbell, Harry Gennett and Frank Land have been appointed appraisers for the old engine to be sold at the municipal light plant. The aipraisement will be made tomorrow morning.

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Temperature In tn& Sickroom. The temperature in the child's sickroom should never be below GO degrees nor above Go. Hang the thermometer behind the child's bed and out of the draft.

Cataloguing and arrangement of the p'ayer piano tolls to the number of about t'."iO. which were presented to the Morrisson-Recvcs library by the Starr I'k'uo company, has been completed by Mrs. Ada L. Bernhardt, librarian, and the rolls were ready for circulation today. They are all of the eighty-eight note variety, which has been accepted by all manufacturers of player pianos, with one exception, as the standard, and can be used

on ail eighty-eight note playing pianos. The rolls have been catalogued lit the same manner as the books and are to be drawn from the library by the same method. Four rolls may bo taken out at oue time, and are returnable within three weeks, the same amount of time prescribed for the books. It is expected that Richmond residents, who have player-pinups will find this a most convenient and economic method of securing music and will gladly take advantage of the opportunity afforded them. An artistic selection of music has been made. The assortment includes a large number of classical compositions by famous masters, dances, familiar songs, patriotic airs, music played in the schools, and a little rag-time for those liking for music of a lighter vein. The Starr Piano company iias also donated to the library a player piano so that the roles may be tested at intervals to determine if they are in good condition, and also to provide for the proper rolling of the music. The piano-player has been placed in the basement in the lecture room.

There are in Chicago not fewer than til, 784 owners of dogs who pay the annual license tax.

Thjre Is no medicine to safe anrfat the same mo so pliasant to take as Dr. Caldwell's Syn jpsin, the positive cure (or all diseases arish. am stomach trouble. The price is very rea . iab.'e- 50a and Si.

The program for tho Wayne town- F

ship school commencement exerc-ksos. , . . . .1. ....... ... f

in if niMU iii i tie liiiiii isciioin amnion-; l urn. April '"J. was announced Mcwnhiv i ' i by Township Trustee James Howarth. There will be sixteen graduates, in-; eluding Yorke Little and Alta Wil-i Hams, of District school No. l; L;nua' Neff, of District school No. Z; David j

Hoover, fcrnest btout. George Stiuham 1 B

and Lawrence Schutte, of District school No. Raymond Jackson, of District school No. 6; Uoscoo Davis.! of Disctict school No. 11; Jesse Dav-j

en port, of District school No. 12; Frank Benner, of District school No, 13: Harry Goodwin, Casper Parker

and Annie Armbruster, of District! school No. 14. j The program is as follows: j M

Will Earhart. Director "Away to the Woods" .... Vincent Children's Chorus Invocation .... Rev. Arthur S. Cates Music High School Orchestra Address Chat,. Y. Jordan Secretary of Commercial Club "In the Woodland'' H. W. lxomis Children's Chorus Presentation of Diplomas Chas. O. Williams County Superintendent Music High School Orchestra "Anvil Chorus" Verdi Children's Chorus ami Orchestra Benediction .... Rev. Arthur S. Cates The Webster ownship joint common and high school commencement was held Saturday evening at Webster. The program was in charge of the graduates, each having some .part. The graduates of the high school include Ruby Alexander, Esther Brown, Mary Williams, and Paul Hunt; in the common school, Marie Elizabeth Bond, Edith Duke. Gladys M. Harris, Paul D. McMahan. William C. Williams, Gracu R. Gibson, Horatio M. King, IjeVeru Schepman and Lessie J. Williams.

If von are troubled with itk ueaaacue, con rttpation. indigestion, offensive breata or nr ihtease arisinc; from stomncji trouble, grrt 5ts tr SI bo'lle of Dr. Caldwell's f-yruv. Pepsiok It vs postt-vety fUAraatee J to cure you.

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The woman of taste cannot afford to purchase her Spring Suit, Coat or Dress until she has seen the extraordinary collection of distinctive new models shown here. These smart, made-up garments have nothing in common with the ordinary tailor-mades; in their graceful lines they betray the master hand of the Paris Couterier, the deft skill of the best CUSTOM TAILORS they are, in short the very embodiment of perfect taste. At $12.50, $16.50, $18 and $20 one may select a Mannish Tailored Suit of exceptional quality; from that price the variety ranges through the plain and semi-tailored Suit of Paris origin at $30, $35 and $40. ' Then there are Fashionable Dresses of Imported Foulard for as little as $9.50, $12.50, $16.50 and $20.00, of Marquisette, Voiles and Challies, daintily embroidered, at $15, $18 and $20; of Chiffon in new small figured and striped effects at $16.50 and upward.

Fashionable Coats of Rich Satin and and $40.00.

Pongee

at $16.50

New Spring Waists in all imported models, $5.00 to $20. Separate Skirts in the new shades at $3.75 to $20. Don't fail to see our Special Silk Petticoat for $5.00 with a guarantee for 5 months. Ours is the only exclusive ready-to-wear store in the city, of correct dress for women.

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The Jeweler 810 MAIN STREET