Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 36, Number 170, 28 April 1911 — Page 1

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Miss Martha Gruening, a Celebrated Suffragette, Lectures to Students on Welfare of Women.

SHE STATES WOMEN MUST BE ORGANIZED 'As Long as They Have No Voice in Government Affairs, Their Condition Will Not Be Improved. Thli morning In the Earlham chap el the secretary of the National College Kqual Suffrage league. Miss Martha Gruening of New York, delivered ahort address to the student body of the college and a few Richmond pco- ' pie who were in attendance. Miss .Qruenlng'i talk waa ahort and concise but to the point. . She started out by aaytng that woman'a suffrage was not the result of sudden change In the attitude ot the nation, but waa the result of a long process of evolution, which waa now making it possible for women to control some of the outside V machinery so Inimical to Sre and the welfare of their T Miss Gruening stated that

. -any an cities wnero pur f t J: fc...nances had been passed, it .' been done as a result of the manIputatlon of politics by women, but ' that In the majority of our cltlea at-

, talnments of this kind, which are ot glue' ta the women In the care ot their ccildrn and their general home duty, were Impossible because ot the Intense antagonism of men holding' pov UUcal offices. . 'if' , I, Terrible Gotham Fire. In speaking or the effort of working Women to affect an organization Miss : Gruening cited the fact that one-fifth of the adult women in the . United States were dependent upon their own efforts for their sustenance. ' She . .made, the charge that if the working! WVIHWQ in new lUIH VHJ uu mvi permitted to form labor organisations of their own. the heavy loss of life In th the recent shirt-waist factory fire would have been avoided. She stated that the manufacturers had combined and forced , their employes to work Saturday afternoons, which would not have been the case it the protests of the girls had been heeded. The lec4: 30. p. m. on a Saturday afternoon when the bulldlng should have been closed. Another charge the lecturer made was that the doors of the build ing were locked because the employ.

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girls searched each night before they allowed them to depart, and that the placea of exit were kept locked until auch searches had been completed. When' the fire had abated sufflciently for the firemen to enter the room, she stated, they found bodies plied to a. height of five feet In front of these Socked dors. Philadelphia Strike. These facts, the secretary said, only went to prove that until the women of the country were given equal auf-

frage their conditions could not be bettered. Miss Gruening also referred . to the Philadelphia shirt-waist strike

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,3 I or we street car men, saying 4 lag. the former strike five hundred girls and women were arrested for what she c5ed "peaceful picketing" - while only-; two hundred men were taken Into rstody for far more aer lous crimes perpetrated against the life and welfare ot the citizens of the community. . In referring to her personal work, Miss Gruening stated she had often been refused audiences by her own state legislators at Albany, X. Y., ton . bills which she waa rightfully entitled to a voice. She stated the legislature ea, both state and national, were so completely dominated by the organiz ed business , Interests that there was no possible chance for the unorganis ed working woman -to secure recognl tlon. Miss Gruening 4wiK remain at the local college for aeveral days, holding Informal meetings with the girls in an attempt to Interest them In the development of the suffrage movement Her address today waa well received by the student body. THE WEATHER STATE Showers tonight and Satur tiav. LOCAL Showers tonight and Satur day. Moderate temperature. HIGH SCHOOL OBSERVATORY. Highest temperature Thursday, 70 degrees at 4 i. m. Lowest tempera tore Friday. 57 degrees at 6 a. ra.Tem perature at 11:30 today. 56 degrees and about stationary. Barometer Is falling slowly. Rainfall within the last J 4 hours .58 Inch. Continued cloudy and rainy weather for the next throe or four days. High barometric pressure Indicates fair weather, but colter; low barometric pressure Indi cates warm weather, but rain.

B. B johnsoh States Project to Permit Fretljtt Cars on . Principal Streets Is an Un

wise Move. EXISTING PLAN IS SATISFACTORY ONE Johnson Says Project Fos tered by the Mayor Would Turn .the City Over, to the Traction Company. B. B. Johnson, former member of the board of public works, today fired the first broadside against the project promoted by Mayor Zimmerman to give the Terre Haute, Indianapolis & Kastern traction company a new franchise which requires the company to remove its tracks from Glen Miller and permits it to operate freight cars on Main street. North Twentieth street. North E street and Ft. Wayne avc. Mr. Johnson, probably reflecting the opinion of many Main street property owners, especially In the residential district, objects to having the freigh cars operated on Main street. When this project was up a few years ago, when Mr. Johnson was a board member, property owners on Main street and other east end streets where It was proposed to allow freight cars to be operated, so bitterly con tested the plan that, as a compromise. the traction company was given a franchise which permitted the. operation of freight cars through Glen Miller. Now that the same question is again up it is quite probable that hostilities will be renewed. Mr. Johnson has sent the following communication to the Palladium. . ... Johnson's Statement -It-- ( V. ' Editor Palladium:-' ' " - I notice a statement in the city papera that the Board of Works has finally .decided, to permit , the lnterurbn freight cars ' to again run on Main street. . It seems to be that this is a step backward. Other cities are seekin any , and every , possible way to prevent the running of freight trains through their principal streets. Most of these cities had, before they realized the magnitude of tho evil, given the interurbans wide open, unrestricted franchises: but after they saw, by experience, what a detriment the. in. terurban freight cars were to property, to local traffic, and to public safety, they have sought in every way, by hook or crook, to get them off the principal streets. By piece of good fortune the oversight of those prepared the Interurban franhclse Richmond did not surrender the control of all the city streets to the traction company. By express provision In that franchise the latter acquired no lnterurban rights on North Tenth street, North "A" street, or on any street on which the rails of the city street railway company's tracks were then laid. Thus, Main street, except west of West Third, was exempt from traction control and remained absolutely under control of the city; giving the people of Richmond full power In regulating both the lnterurban passenger and freight traffic on Main street. Power Was Exercised. That power was exercised by permitting traction passenger cars to run on Main street under proper regulations, and providing another, route for tho freight trains. In pursuance of this arrangement, the traction company has,' erected it' freight ..depot , In the north part of the city, near the wholesale and manufacturing district, and the change baa worked well for both the traction company and the shippers, and the people at large; and the city has been much congratulated over the happy solution of the vexed question by persona from other cities where they had through ignorance or over-eagerness, surrendered control ot the freight traffic to the traction companies, and were suffering greatly as a consequence. Would it not be folly in view of the rapid growth ot the lnterurban frieght business, In view ot the Inevitable congestion of cars and vehicles on Main street, and In view of the satisfactory existing conditions, which cost many thousands of dollars to establish to give up all these advantages, and voluntarily, with our eyes open, put ourselves , in the hands of the traction company, and permit the freight traffice to again use Main street? Is It Good Plan? Is it a sensible proposition from any point of view for Richmond to hold up her crossed hands to the traction officials, and beg them to tie us good and tight, like most other cities, merely to keep the latter company lu their misery? Would not such course be about the height of folly? If such a course be taken by our' Board of works and approved by our city council, the day win not be far- distant when every man who; favored it 'will bitterly regret his action. The lnterurban freight business is yet In its Infancy. It will not be many (Continued on Page Eighty

In the Past Few Weeks Richmond Has 'Undergone; an Epidemic of the "Free Photograph" Graft., :

"Richmond a. Mecca for con men and petty grafters.' ' i ' " It is a hard and, sudden blow to have such criticism hurled at the city which has long been heralded for its high minded and intelligent people and as a center of art and culture," but from the record of occurrences that have happened ' here intermittently, but with 'great regularity, during the last year or' so Richmond is evidently a favorite place for all kinds of petty grafters. . . " . Into Richmond seem to float every now and then, a few persons, not always men, who have an article or articles,' of "good quality and great value" which they "present" to the cit izens, but, despite this extreme generosity, they always leave Richmond for other less profitable fields with -bulg ing wallets and pockets overflowing, while many local residents gaze woefully at flattened purses and wonder why they were "so easy!" ' ' ' A Successful Graft. " Perhaps the most successful graft certain people here have fallen for is that of "free pictures or enlargement of photos ' purely as an advertising scheme."- This ancient- but, - locally, ever new game has been aided- to a large extent by the practice of the city in issuing licenses without thoroughly Investigating the purposes of the applicants. "fK?5encenses are conspic uously displayed by the petty graft ers evidently with a view to impressing the victims with the Idea that the stamp of approval has been placed upon their schemes by the city. Occurrences something on this or der have been quite frequent of late: A gentle ring of the door bell Is heard by the lady of "the house of a morning. She steps to the door and confronts a smiling gentleman (?) who, in a suave and ultra-polite man ner, begins, to explain, "I am a reprepresentative of the Greatest-Fake-on Earth company and purely as a meth od of ' advertising we are doing some work of enlarging photographs in or der to more thoroughly acquaint the public with ' our priceless product. Now, if you have a picture of yourself or some member of the family you would like to have enlarged we would be delighted to do it for you. Expense? Oh, nothing at all, absolutely free. We will be glad to do it just for the advertising it brings us. Very well we will return this photo and the enlarged picture in a few days." And he courteously doffs his hat and is gone. All "Free' But Frame. A few days pass by and the housewife again meets the stranger at the door. When shown an enlarged picture enclosed in a frame she comments upon the good work and then asks concerning the frame. She is told that it is always the custom to frame the pictures and ask the person for whom the work is done to pay for it Just $4 or $5 for a 50 cent frame; that's all. The housewife expostulates; she refuses to pay for the frame, and the stranger announces that he will hold the original picture, sometimes an only photo of a dead member of the family, until the price of the frame is - forthcoming. The housewife grows furious; she - denounces such tactics; she threatens; she demands the photo; she will start trouble; she . grows violently indignant. But when the stranger tauntingly says it woiild probably be better to avoid trouble she seems to see the wisdom of his statement and the frame is paid for. The stranger passes on to another victim. That Is one game; many others of a similar nature have been worked here.'- There is the practice of picking up children on a street, placing them on a pony, taken along for the purpose, photographing them and selling the picture to the parents of the. children on the grounds that they were ordered. The Quack Doctor. Then there is the quack doctor. One stood on a Main street corner recently and sold a thimble-full of common vaseline for 25 cents on a guarantee that Jt was a cure-all for every. all(Continued on Page Eight) PHONE 2566 a. .CALL THIS NUMBER IF YOU MISS TOUR PAPER OR WANT . THE i ADVERTISING OR BUSINESS DEPARTMENT. 2566

COUNTY FARMERS B p KILL CORII CLUB Jf , fe ?

"Book Farming" for Their Sons Is Declared to Be Undesirable. On the ground that no benefit can be derived by their sons in studying farming from theoretical treatises on the subject, farmers of Wayne county, to whom an appeal was made by the fifteen township trustees for funds to finance the Wayne County Boy's Corn club , in 1911, turned ,the proposition down and, accordingly; the committee of .the trustees, including" Df. Fred Keinzie of Clay township, James Harris of Center township and James Taylor of Dalton township have reported adversely to the trustees mak ing any further effort to raise the needed funds approximately $500. The majority of those with whom the trustees discussed the proposition called it "book farming" and were unwilling to even contribute as much as ten cents to the organization. This attitude on the part of the farmers was a distinct surprise to the school authorities and others who, in 1910, had promoted the school through a most successful year. , Organized in 1909. The school ' was organized in the fall of 1909 and more than 150 boys in the county' were enrolled and contested for the prizes, which included a week's free tuition to Purdue university, last January, at which corn culture was practically the sole subject discussed. There were fifty awards of this character and the boys who in competition had not made average grades sufficient to entitle them to attend the university were given a full set of works on agricultural subjects. The entire expense was met by a Richmond man whose name has not been divulged, t the time all who were in any way connected with the school, werewell pleased with its success and promised the support of the farmers of the county and looked forward to a most successful year in 1911. The failure to be able to ' raise . the funds required shows that the farming Interests do not regard the technical study of farming as essential or conructive of any benefit , This apparent lack of intereest on the part of the farmers no doubt also accounts for the failure of the farmer's, short course, held here in February. The attendance was not what the promoters of the project bad hoped for, although the courses offered at the school were the best of any in the state. TRIBUTE TO GRANT, BY ILLINOIS TOWN (American News Service) " Galena. III., April 28. In accordance with a custom established many years ago, this city Thursday paid tribute to the memory of its most illustrious son, Gen. U. S- Grant on the occasion of the eighty-ninth anniversary of his birth. Large delegations of visitors from surrounding towns attended the exercises in Grant Park,-where stands the fine monument to the warrior, presented by- H. H. Kohlsaat of Chicago twenty years ago. The oration of the day was delivered by Bishop J. H. Vincent of New York. ADDITION OPENED William Griffin haa bpeaed an addition on West Fifth atreet and Center street in Fairview, consisting of about forty lota. The plat was recorded in the officer of. County Recorder' WiB Bobbins on Friday. .

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Wife and children, Evelyn' and worker, whose alleged confession in the Los Angeles Times plant and

country. , Below, the McNamara brothers, James B. j (on the left) . and John: J., secretary-treasurer of the International , Association' of Bridge ; Structural and Ornamental Iron Workers, who ar,rmplicated by McMani-. ' gal's confession, i John: J. . McNamara. according to what McManigal is alleged to have said, was the leader of the plots arid James B. Was' the chief executor of them. , . ..-' i, . " .

MANY AMUSEMENTS FOR C0MII1G WEEK Attractions Galore Will Draw . Large Crowds . Here, if Weather Is Good. Next week will be a big one in Richmond from an amusement, standpoint and weather being favorable, should be most profitable to the promoters of the various amusement attractions and to the merchants as undoubtedly hundreds of .people will be attracted to the city. Besides the usual attractions at the Murray vaudeville house and the several picture shows' there : will be the Eagles' Carnival in Beallview, lasting the entire week, a three days production of "Ben-Hur" at the Gennett, the Gentry Brothers Circus, and the Passion Play at the Coliseum. ' Also on Wednesday evening Al G. Field's Minstrels will appear at the Gennett, for a one night engagement. Gentry Brothers show,- will "give a matinee and night performance the same day. . The Ben . Hur company will offer three night performances and one matinee, this being on Saturday. A sale of seats has been opened at New Castle and there will be an excursion from that city, probably on Saturday. The special train will, arrive in Richmond in the morning and leave for New Castle lateat night. Henry Ellsworth, the American traveler and lecturer on "Oberammergau, Its People and Their Passion Play of 1910," to be at the Coliseum next Friday ' will undoubtedly draw a large crowd. Of course the Gentry Circus will be a big attraction. Many Eagles from all over this part of the state will be in Richmond at different times during the week, to attend the carnival, which is advertised as one of the best on the road. WRECK SURVIVORS IN REUNION TODAY (American Ke Service) 1 Weston, O., April 28. A handful of civil war veterans who "were among the survivors of the Sultana disaster gathered here in annual reunion. ; It was forty-six years ago that the steamer Sultana, bound from New Orleans' for St. Louis loaded with Union soldiers returning home after having been paroled from Confederate prisons, was destroyed soon after leaving Memphis by the explosion of her boilers. Of the 200 persons; cat hoard only about 300 j were sedv:.' .I -. ? i .' " I

Walter, of Ortle E?McManigal, union

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IIIJUIICTIOII WAS MADE PERMANENT On Oiling South 1 3th Street ' Until ' the Dressing Us Tried Elsewhere. - By an agreement outside of court between Albert Reed and Charles IS. Davis, who has the contract for oiling streets of the city, the temporary restraining order by the former against the latter oiling South. Thirteenth street has been made permanent and in force until such a time as it shall be demonstrated whether or not oil gives complete satisfaction on other streets in the city on which it may be tried. - - - - , . Contractor i Davis , had .solicited business on South Thirteenth street and secured many of the property ownera to consent to oiling of the street, when Mr. Reed and other residents on the street, who were not satisfied tliat the oil dressing would be" beneficial, enjoined him from applying the dressing . , 1 , . - " Contractor Davis' is a representative of the Standard : Oil company. One of the agents of that corporation, now in the city,, says that when', the oil is . properly applied it 'penetrates into the 'surface of the street and in corporates with the road materials the vpetroleum asphalum. binding the road " particles together and produces a surface which catches all dust particles... It also produces a hard, smooth, water and " frost-proof road " surface. After r twenty four hours the street surface is dry and the oil v will not track, and after forty-eight hours the odor which is attendant at the time of the application is gone 'entirely.4!! The Standard Oil ' man also - declares- a street treated with oil is more sanitary than any other, as it is vermin proof and there is no dust. . Pclfcdca's Tctsl My (Except Saturday) Including Complimentary Usts. for Week Ending April 22. 1911. 30(IDS bowing net paid, news stands and regular complimentary list does not incrado sample copies. Sf07dD

Reported Warrant Is Out for

One of the Biggest Labor Leaders in . California and Two Others. : McMANIGAL CALLED A "HARRY ORCHARD' Self-confessed Dynamiter Will Probably Be So Regarded by the DefenseStory of McManigal. - (American Newa Service,. -Los Angeles, April 28. Persistent reports were circulated today that warrants had been secretly issued for one of the best known labor leader in . California and for two other men in connection with the Times dynamit ing. The labor leader is said to be a San Francisco man. District Attorney Fredericks refused to confirm or deny the report The McNamaras held conferences with their attorneys and labor leaders today. The McNamaras are not worrying and had no further statements to ; give out. McManigal, evidently will be regarded by the defense as a second -Harry Orchard." McManigal claims he got Into the game with the McNamaras by telling "them his fath er owned a quarry, and he waa an expert explosive man. He says J. J McNamara Invented the method of exploding dynamite by an alarm clock attachment. McManigal now claims he received as high as $500 and $1,000 for some big jobs. McManigal Confesses. The terror of death has driven Ortle McManigal, confessed member of the gang which blew up the building of the Los Angeles Times, to make a complete unbosoming of hia career as a dynamiter to District Attorney itedericir""'''rr;,rrrr - In a recital before Fredericks, &ef : in: tiemmei ana tour operatives of the Burns detective agency, he repeated all of the sensational admissions made to . Detective Burns in Chicago and told of dynamite plots extending over a period of three years and involving the destruction of property valued at $4,000,000.. He not , only supplied testimony to the material circumstances of the explosions but gave the terms of the conspiracy and the motive lying behind its vast and hidden workings. Accuses J. J. McNamara. : McManigal directly and specifically accused J. X McNamara now under arrest here, with being the originator, controlling genius and paymaster of the conspiracy, i ' - , . , : " He names James W. ICcNamara, brother of the secretary of the Iron Workers' Union as the man who placed : the dynamite . under the Times building and was Immediately responAUK LUC UCVll UCUVll Ui UIV fPMUl v and the murder of 21 men. -He charges J. J. McNamara with complicity in the the same crime. It was McNamara, he said, who conceived the crime and delegated his brother to carry It. out. McNamara, according, to McMani gal, placed the dynamite in the "Ink alley" of the Times, with itsf alarm clock attachment,.broke a gas pipe to make It appear It was an explosion of gas and fled on the "lark" train to San Francisco; where he bad been' known as James Bryce. JURY fROSC LAGS. ' . - Indianapolis, , April 28. Although several witnesses nave been examined by the grand jury in their joint investigation of the alleged dynamiting of buildings in this county and the kidnapping - cases against Detective Burns and his associates, growing out of the arrest and deportation of J. J. McNamara, Prosecuting Attorney. Baker has not taken charge of proceedings and declares nothing definite can come of it until he does. 'There has been much confusion ' amongst .those conducting the investigations resulting from a lack of understanding. Prosecutor Baker today held conferences with;' Special Prosecutor Seyfried relative to the kidnapping cases, and with Attorney C. C. Shirley, who was retained' by the Employers association. Mr. Baker ? later announced that Attorney, Shirley, will, gather the evidence to use in the dynamite investigation and Attorney Seyfried' will continue as prosecutor of the, alleged kidnapping cases. -. The ' jury today had before It Contractor Von Spreekelson, who experienced explosions : at -three building The real work of the grasd jury wta begin next week, when Prosecutor, Batt. takes , the reins. -Some of the botfts of the International i Association of Brtditand Structural Iron Workers -were returned . to the representatives of tbe riciation today" by Deputy Prosecctor Beery ' and ' Foreman Davis of the graxl Jury.. The books will, be again obtain!: if desired. . These books were requested by Attorney Rappaport for the union a few days ago so that the regular bust' ness affairs of the orgatrfsattr onm k continued.

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