Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 36, Number 169, 27 April 1911 — Page 1

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MD OF.WIS . DECEIVE PROTEST o;i IIOUSE no Corporations Using Wires Say They Are Heavy Losers by Damage Done to Their Services.

T, II, & i, cniY ORDERED TO MOVE HAT. ROAD TRACKS PRES. STEVEHS OF C, & 0, COIISULTED BY RICHMOND MEII Three Alleged Dynamiters Held at Los A ngeles J A CHEERFUL illfffi ; OF A STEEL CAGE - f5

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CITY MAY PUT BAN ON MOVING HOUSES

, 4IA Restrictive Amendment to a City, Ordinance Will Be Prepared and Given to the City Council. . will practically mean it will be cheaper to tear down old bouses rather than ..move them, were recommended at the meeting of the board of worts this morning by Mayor Zimmerman. City Attorney Gardner was ordered to draft an amendment to the house moving ordinance If the fcew building code ordinance, presented to council at Its last meeting, does not contain such provision. It will probably amend the present bill as follows: First: In applying for permit to move a house, the mover must file with the controller the route over which the building Is to be taken. This route will be Investigated by the board of works, and la subject to change by that body. Second: No house shall be moved which will disturb any telephone, telegraph, electric light, or power, or fire department wires. No house shall be moved that Is more than 22 feet high, this being the regulation distance of wires from the street. Appear Before Board. ' The board decided to take this action after P. J. Freeman and William II. Bailey, representing the Richmond Home Telephone company, told the board of the great damage done to wlrea when houses are moved. N. H. Jtonaon, superintendent of th..Mntclpal Lighting and Power plant, favored the .action, making, a few remarks along the same line as Mr. Freeman. , it was anown 10 me Doara mat in many cases corporations controlling wires could buy a house to be moved . and aave money on the deal. It is claimed that in raising and lowering wires, the service of the light, telegraph and. especially, telephone companies is Injured. Mr. Johnson said In cutting out a primary on the south side, when It was necessary because of a house being moved, three large factories which depended on his power were shut off an hour, cauaing a big loss. He said the factories objected to this treat- . ratnt ana inreaienea 10 give up me municipal aervlce. Phones Art Delicate: Also the telephone company has Bad considerable trouble, when wires are moved. On account of the delicate mechanism of the automatic telephone service the system is much more susceptible to damage, according to Mr. Freeman. . " He said It was a matter, of importance to the Municipal Light . plant, the Light. Heat and Power company, the Central Union and Richmond Home Telephone companies, the West m Union and the Postal Telegraph companies. Mr. Freeman, City Attorney Gardner, Superintendent Johnson of the city light plant, and some other telephone and electric light men. will hold a meeting soon to discuss this important matter. It Is said that thousands of dollars worth of damage la done every year to the wire companies by house moving. The damage to consumers of electricity and telephone patrons is also very heavy, according to Johnson. A New City Office. George Knollenberg, former coun-cllman-at-large. waa appointed assistant street commissioner by the board this morning, an office which has just been created. The salary was fixed at $2.50 a day. Mr. Knollenberg has not yet accepted the position. - It was at first decided to appoint him trench Inspector, a position which .would Include the examination of all excavations In the streets by public service corporations. It Is an important work which the city haa just taken up. After finding that Mr. Knollenberg could not be used all the time at this work, the new office referred to was created. THE WEATHER NJQH SCHOOL OBSERVATORY. Highest temperature Wednesday. 71 decrees at 2 p. m. Lowest temperature Thursday. (7 degrees at 5:30 a. m. Temperature at 11:30 a. m. today, 68 decrees and rising. Barometer has been about stationary since 4 p. in. Wednesday with a slight rise this BSrelng Indicating local storms; will probably continue to fall High baroer bat cooler; low barometric pressure Indicates warm weather but rain. jCTATB AND LOCALUnsettled with showers tonight and Friday.

County Commissioners Get . . Their "Dander Up" Over Queer Proposition Made By the Company. '

TRACTION COMPANY MAY GO TO COURTS Allege County Board Has No Authority to Order Change in Right of Way, Once It Is Given. - With their "dander up" over the proposition made by officers .of the Terre Haute, Indianapolis and Eastern Traction company which virtually was that the taxpayers of Wayne township construct a S55.000 improvement and give the company a right of way over it, the company to be put to only a small expense, county commissioners Beeson, Linderman and Farlow Wednesday afternoon took their first decisive action as a board and 'handed out an ultimatum to the traction officials which was, in effect that the board was not as easy as the traction company evidently believed it was. The board's decision was that the traction company would have to move Its tracks south' of the south curbing on the National Road from the west city limits to the Wayne-Center township boundary line. Will Contest Order. Such a decision means the company will refuse to abide by the board's ruling, it being understood the company has been advised that the commissioners bave no authority by law to change the location of a right of way over a highway, once this right of way has been established. , j In case the company is dilatory the county commissioners will proceed by their attorneys- to tt the-- board's power to compel the company to obey its order. No statement has been made by the company as to what will be done but it Is the concensus of opinion that the; company will not go to the expense of moving its tracks about ten to twelve , feet south of where-they now are without first having a court ruling. Not only were the company officials displeased with the board's stand but also the residents and property owners on the south side of the r.oad, who had petitioned to have the tracks laid In. the center of the highway. However the breat majority of taxpayers interested in the improvement, support the stand the board has taken. , A Change of Heart. A year ago when the viewers found the Improvement would be a public utility, the officials of the traction company thought it would be best if the company'a line was outside of the improvement proper. Less than six weeks ago, and several weeks after the company had been notified that it would have to move Its tracks to about ten feet or more south of the south curb in compliance with the specifications for the improvement it experienced a change of heart. It. then asked that it .be allowed to place Its tracks in the center of the forty-six foot highway, as. far west as Easthaven avenue, and from there to the township line, to keep its tracks within the south curb line of the Improvement It modified this reuest on Wednesday by asking eight feet on the south side of the road from the city limits to the township boundary line. All it promised to do was to tamp and ballast its roadbed with stone purchased at the township's expense. All it wanted to pay waa its pro rata of the improvement as a tax payer of the township, according to its proposition. FIRST CROW CLAIM Entered With County Today by a Farmer Boy. A barrel of oil of cedar and other preparations will be ordered in all probability by the county commissioners when they fix a bounty on crows heads and eggs. Benjamin Moore of Webster, aged 16 years, on Thursday morning deposited ten dead, crows, nicely done up in newspaper, on the counter of County Auditor Demas Coe. Simpson Oxendine. colored, janitor at the court house haa been deputized as crow undertaker. The remains are well cremated before the last sad rites are bestowed. The office of the auditor was permeated for the remainder of the morning with the odor of dead crow. Windows were raised but the odor seemed determined to remain in the building. Young Moore filed a bill for $1 with the auditor and the amount will be paid to him on order of the commissioners as soon as they have passed an appropriation. Each crow's head is worth 10 cents. Moore shot the scavengers with a JZ2 rifl

Big Local Delegation Greets Railroad Executive and His Big Staff on Arrival Wednesday.

HE GIVES HOPE FOR YARDS IN RICHMOND Supt. McDonald of Indiana Division Chides Richmond People for Alleged Hostility to Road. Declarations by Scott McDonald, superintendent of the C. & O. of Indiana, that there is no doubt but that freight terminal yards, round house. and repair shops will be located in Richmond, and a statement by Presi dent George W. Stevens, president of the C. & O. that nothing will be taken away from this city by the road, deep ly gratified a delegation of about twen ty representatives of the Young Men's Business club and Commercial club who conferred with the C. & O. officials at the north end station yesterday. While President Stevens would not commit himself as to whether the yards and repair shops would be located here, his statement that nothing would be transferred from Richmond is believed to have virtually the same meaning, as the company now has small yards here, which, according to the original plans, were to have been made larger to meet the growing demands of the road. Upto Superintendent. President Stevens also declared that it would be for the 'superinten dent of the Indiana branch of the C A O. to make 'recommendations as to the location .-of ; the yards" and shops. upon -which he and other officials of the road would pass. ' Hence Mr. MoDonald's statement that there need be no doubt about Richmond being selected as the place, seems to clinch the matter for this city. Representatives of , the Commercial club and Y. M. B. C. were highly pleased with the results of the conference and the announcement of President Stevens that he would return, to the , city again in the near future to look into the matter more thoroughly, spending probably, half a day. The statements of the local men that there were a number of sites in and around Richmond, both north and Crtllttl Cliff a hi A tVvi Vflfita i Aimlna1 purposes, interested the officials. Fight Useless One. . Superintendent McDonald told the Richmond business men that a later Investigation had shown ' the 5 site which the company sought to preserve for yard purposes, by preventing the opening of South N N street through It, was not large enough for the road's use, and consequently' the fight with the South Side Improvement association had all been for nothing. He said it was just as well the jury decided against the company. ; It was explained to the local men that the shops being considered for location here or elsewhere are not the main shops of the company, now located at Peru,' but small repair shops which the establishment 01 a freight terminal and yards would necessitate. There is no intention on the part of the company, the officials stated,: to remove the large shops from Peru.' In a friendly spirit, which characterized the entire' conference. Superintendent McDonald and other officials pointed out a contrast in the treatment given the company by' Richmond and other large cities along the route, and then asked the men if they could blame them for not feeding as kindly toward Richmond as the might. - McDonald Chides City. ' Mr. McDonald declared that whenever officials of the road stopped at Marion and other places they were met by large delegations and everything was being done on the part of the citizens to assist in the building up of the road.' ' Marion and Muncie, be said, had offered subsidies for the location of yards and shops, while at Richmond the company was made defendant in a law-suit when it attempted to secure a sight. Mr. McDonald ' then 'said : that ' the city through Its engineer. Fred Char-, les, had recently notified the company that it mnst raise its bridge over Main street, which would necessitate a complete change In the grade of the roadbed and cause the company an enormous expense. As the height of the bridge hadtaen fixed by a former city engineer, Charles Weber. Mr. McDonald said he did not believe .that the company could-be' made to make the change and beput to the . enormous expenditure it would entail. Mr. McDonald pointed this out as an illustration of the troulbe the road has encountered in Rihcmond. v All ' the railroad men declared, however, that (Continued on Page Eight.)

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John J. McXamara, -secretary-treasurer of the International Association of Bridge. Structural and Ornamental Iron Workers, the central figure of the group. On his right, with a button in the lapel or his coat," is James D. McN'amara, also under arrest in connection with the dynamiting of the Los Angeles Times plant and numerous buildings and bridges throughout the country. On his left is Ortie McManigal.'

POLICE PROMISE T0AIDPR0JECT Chief Gormon - Says City Cleanliness Creates Good Citizenship. .Chief of Police Oormon today issued the following: ,- fRecognizing that disorder makes any city unattractive, Believing that beauty' and cleanliness are as clearly the resident's right as the safety of his property. Believing that success in keeping a city clean requires the co-operation of both its householders and the city officials, , t ?' Understanding that it Is the privllege of the policemen of Richmond to help make and keep it clean, beautiful and healthful, '.''.. We hereby , promise onr support to the Cleaning Day movement; We shall be vigilant for the observance of sanitary ordinanoes,,v, we snail witness against unsignuy surrounaiuH inspecting i of the citizens, and asking ior cleanliness 01 ine citj, inasmucq as this does not interfere with our; official duties. ; - ' - f I. A. Gormon, Supt' of Police. CLEANING DAY COUPON. , I hereby agree to bave my premises in the best possible" Order by May 5. - . ;-'-.- Name Street Street Number No. Ward RUPE FIRST TENANT OF THE NEW BANK - John L. Rupe, who for several years has had his law office over the First National bank, has vacated it and is now located in the new building of the Second National bank. He is the first tenant in the new building. The apartments of the banking- institution are being- placed in ' shape' as rapidly as possible and will be occupied by June 1 it is believed. LOCAL VETERANS TO MEET THIS EVENING At the : meeting of Sol Meredith Post, G. A. R, Thursday evening, assignmenttof members, to committees to have charge of the Memorial Day celebration here will be h made. The Sons' of Veterans iiave the arrangements ' for ' the celebration , in hand but' have asked the older organization to participate and name members to the committees on music, program, cemetery, hall and decorations, transportation and flowers. ' AN INSURANCE CASE ' TO ANOTHER COURT The case of the London Guarantee and Accident company. limited, with headquarters of the state agency at Indianapolis, against the Richmond Casket Company, has been sent to Henry county circuit court on motion for change of venue by the complainant. The insurance company demands approximately 1300. which it alleges is unpaid on an accident policy carried with the company by the local firm. . PHONE 2566 CALL THIS NUMBER IF YOU MISS TOUR PAPER OR WANT THE ADVERTISING OR BUSINESS DEPARTMENTS 1 25C3

V-'-'VI M, E. BISHOPS Prominent Members of the ; Church Are Gathering at r Winona, Minn. (American News Service) . Winona. Minn.. April 27. The in tellect and the power of the Methodist church are concentrated in Winona today. For the past twenty-four hours every train has brought its quota of the fathers of the church to this city to attend the nanual meeting of the college of bishops. The regular business of the conference was taken up in - earnest this morning and will continue with daily sessions until next Monday. Bishop Henry.VW. Warren, of Denver, the senior bishop of the church; is presiding over the business sessions, ' which will be interspersed during the four days with impressive religious - services and several functions of a social nature. 1 ' - Among the distinguished churchmen inattendance are Bishops Quayte of Oklahoma - City, Bashford of Chios, f - Nr f New-Oricair. LTarri vrf-Kor-ea Hartzell of Africa. WaHWn bf Cft. cinnatl, 'Mallalleu of Boston; Berry of Buffalo,' McDowell of Chicago, Burt of Switzerland, Anderson of Chattanooga Nuelsen of Omaha, Smith of Oregon, Hughes of San Francisco, McIntyre of St. Paul, Scott of Liberia. Robinson of Bombay, Oldham of Singapore, Bristoi of Buenos Ayres, and Cranston of Washington, D. C. . . The bishops will consider various proposed laws for, the government of the church to be recommended for adoption to the -next general conference. . Appeals from the decisions of ! presiding officials of the annual con ferences will be discussed . and " matters of doctrine, comity and federation will receive attention. The educational, missionary publishing and other Activiflese of ' the church will be reviewed and bishops will be assigned to preside over the district conferences of the next year. The most important matter to come up, however, is the question of unity of churches. Still another matter to receive the attention of the bishops . is. the question", whether . negro members, of the Methodist . Episcopal church. South, shall have a seperate church.' WANT CLOTHES FOR ; . AN INSANE WOMAN Mrs. Nancy Brown of Centerville who has been an inmate of the Home for Friendless since last October awaiting admission to Eastern Indiana hospital j for the Insane, is without sufficient clothing according to the matron of the institution. , Request was' made by the matron of Sheriff Steen that he have her husband provide the wearing apparel. If he does not the county will do so. The woman is said to be in a pitiable condition. WILL ORDER GENN ; BEFORE THE BOARD Some time ago Street Commissioner D. C. Genn was ordered to roll North D street from Seventh i to Eighth street On finishing this work Genn, without authority the board says, "picked up" Ft. Wayne avenne from C to D, and proceeded to resurface the street'. This morning there "was considerable criticism of Mr. Genn's action, and he will be ordered before the board and given' to understand that he shall work solely under the direction of the board.. ,;,. The' street department was ordered to grade North Thirteenth street-from E to the Pennsylvania railroad. GYPSY WOMEN WERE DRIVEN FROM CITY Two gypsy women were arrested yesterday afternoon by the police, and after an examination released, but ordered to leave town. They had received palmistry licenses in the morning from Controller McMahanT The police told them it was a license to tell fortunes and not to steal. It is said the women required that their, subjects give them a piece of coin to hold Then they refused to give it np until the police were called. , - - ,

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CITY PLANT WILL USE RIVErV GRAVEL It, Will Also Sell Its Surplus Supply to City City ; Hall Items. ' : The board" of works gave Superin tendent Johnson of the light plant per mission to buy. a second handed clam shell; bucket; of the Chicago Builders supply company, which is to be used for hoisting sand and gravel from the river bottom near the light . plant The price is $400. A new gravel hoist costs from $800 to $1,000. ', Johnson says that from 60 to 75 yardf of gravel can be taken from - the river every day, and that the supply there' will be permanent. All gravel that the city obtains from the light - plant will . be paid for, not be furnished free, as is the electrical current ..-, Mr.- Johnson also was given power to buy about 50 telephone poles from th ..LX!J?P; .-.Telpnone-- epwpahl??tTr . , . - The aboard . was notified by -a telegram that the'C. STO.' officials' would be unable to attend this morning's meeting relative to raising the bridge over Main street; near First They promised to meet with the board In a few days: It is understood the company will refuse to ; raise - the" bridge, in which case the city will be forced to make some excavations beneath it and pave the roadway.- The paving of Main street from First to Fourth stret will probably be done next year. - A sample cluster light pole will be placed at Eighth and Main streets soon by the Richmond Home - Telephone company which is interested in selling a number of these poles to the city for installation on -Main stree. CRIHG ;IIT DEFAULT Alleged Embezzler to Plead Not Guilty, Monday. v Thornton M. Cring, the : insurance agent arrested on Wednesday, on a charge of embezzlement, will on next Monday be given a preliminary hearing in all probability in the Wayne circuit court At this hearing he will plead not guilty as his attorneys. Robbins' and Robbins believe the charge against him will not be sustained by the evidence which will be given. He is still in the county jail in default of $500 bail. . , An insurance agent named Overbeck was in the city, on Wednesday evening in conference with prosecut ing attorney Ladd. It is' understood that an effort will be made by Cring or his friends to make good the alleged shortage and have the charge dismissed. " In February. Cring took application 'for insurance for James C. Smith and received as the first premium, it Is alleged," $23.24 which he Is alleged to bave failed to deliver to the company's state agent. Miles Furnas at Indianapolis,' although demand for the money was made of Cring, so the sate' s attorney-stated. The application of 'Smith was' rejected but the latter has, not received, the ,amonnt of the first premium 'which he paid. 'the authorities declare. COUNTY EDUCATION BOARD WILL MEET The county, board of education, including the fifteen township trustees and presidents of the school corpor ations of the county, will meet In the office of county superintendent C. O.f Williams on nei Monday morning at! 10:20 o'clock. The selection of a j truant officer, the only applicant for J which ' offcie is George BIshoo. the ! present Incumbent; the fixing of the! date for the opening of schools - in the fall, the receipt pf enumeration reports for the townships and school corporations of the county,' and other matters pertaining to - the school ' interests of the county, will be np.

Despite Gravity of, Charges'

Against Him He : Remains Calm and Smiling, Protesting Innocence. .'. '"..s PLANS OF DEFENSE ARE NOT YET MADE v Indiana Secretary of State o-Has Made a Demand for ""the Return of McNamara Warrant. ; (Amvrfran News Serviced ' Los Angeles. April 27.Desplle the gravity of the charges against : him, John J. McNamarii preserved .his ua. ual calmness today.' smiling at all persons appearing at his cell door, rulet ly asserting his innocence and telling them he was contdent of acquittal. The three prisoners are in steel cells on the top floor of the county jail, well separated from each' other, and each guarded by a deputy sheriff. No defln' ? ite arrangements have been completed ' , for their defense and until these preliminaries are completed no hearing will be asked for.' - it' is not decided exactly what lawyers will lead la the -' case. Considerable delay may result It. Is believed, that Jottn McNamaralr ' ignorant of the predicament of fcia,f brother James and McMahlgal. but the latter two know that John is In JaU. . DEMAND FOR WARRANTS. ' ' Indianapolis,, April 27. Secretary of -State Elllngham today notified Attorney Bey fried, special deputy pros scut- -or in. the alleged McNamara kidnapping cases that a demand bad been made , on Police Superintendent i, Hy ' land and Police Judge Collins for the return of the McNamara warrant as'required by law. Seyfried Jutd de-'",'. manded the return of the warrxxta as . required by sw.- It Is hSvcS "i. warrant" was taken to Cafr.k',r.. the . deteWlvv-alon, wWi arfSslaara; . The grand jwrjr Js lazing for the pur-";: pose of lhirnir up the evidence oa hand.' Prosecutor Baker announced a the Investigation ef the alleged prejudice of grand purors against retnrnins the- todictment on the kidnapping charges will be probed in a few; days. ' BURNS IN CHICAGO. , - Chicago, April 27. Detective WII 11am J. Burns, who arrested the McNamara brothers and Ortie Mclfanb gal, arrived in Chicago this morning - and -again reiterated his belief tht the. ' men who are now In Jail lav Los. Angeles will be convicted of blowing up the -Los Angeles Times building.'' Burns has with. him two suit cages full of evidence seised In Indianapolis. In the , suit cases are 42 pounds) of dynamite, a package of IS foot elec-t trie fuses, "L" shaped wire hooks to", attach the fuses to time clocks and fourteen of the clocks. . .' v . -' Clarence Darrow, the famous attorney who defended Moyer, Haywood and Pettlbone In their trials for the murder of Gov. Stunenberg in Idaho three years ago is not certain he will accept the defense of John and James McNamara' and, Ortie McManigal in Los Angeles. ' ' He said today that he had not decided whether to accept the management of the trial or not- . - ' ' ; "Labor trials are terrific for work." he said. "I put in a mighty hard time of it in the last one and I hesitate to take this trial because 'of tho tremendous amount of work it alii Involve.?, ' BILLY SUNDAV FdH . , mCHHOND ADVISED What Richmond needsaccording to the Rev. A. H- Miller, the evangelist, who is conducting services at the First Baptist church, is to have the Rev." Billy Sunday, the baseball evangelist -! turned loose here for three months, as." he claims that. Richmond is all wrap- , pod up in a cloak of immorality, declared to be rotten to the core. The Quaker City Is the hardest nut to crack, the Rev. Miller has undertak--en for some time,; he admitted in his Wednesday evening' sermon, v; On Thursday evening, his subject will be "UTxa.t will be said after the service." He is considering, holding a public meeting on next Sunday for men only, at'whlch he will deliver the same address, which it is admitted carried Bedford "dry by .a 200 majority at the last option election. - Averse Grcrila - (f asep SataMayl Including ConrplUnentary Usta. fsr. Week Ending: April 22, lflL - 3fDS showing set paid,, hews stands and regular complimentary list does not lncludd sample eoysee.

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