Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 36, Number 179, 7 May 1911 — Page 4
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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AUD SUN-TELEGRAM, SUNDAY, MAY 7, 1911
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s. r. ntakri.. Mnaaae carl ; Editor Mews BdJter UBSCRIPTION TERMS, la Kfchasond jer year la ad vaoee r iM per week. MAIL 0UBBCIUPTIONS. Ona rear, la advance '5 J! la montlie. la advance Oaa aaoath. la advanee RURAL. ROUT EM Ona year,' In advance ..........-! His von t ha. In advance -J; Oaa aionth. In advaaoa Add.-eee changed aa often aa daalrad; both bow and aid addraaaaa stoat be Ivan. uooertbero will alaaaa remit with order, which should ba tfven far a apoclfled Urm; nam wilt not ba onterad aatll aarmabt to received. Bntarad at Richmond. Indiana. ?ost office aa aocond claaa mall mattar. Naw Tarlt WooreeontntWoe Payne A Yatnff. a-84 Woat llrd at root, and loll Waat ttnd atreel Now York. N. T. m Chicago Ronraaon tail voa pay na Tonne 141 -fit Marquette Bulldlctf. Chicago, UL La.ajLfcjui.i.a.a mm ' a o . - (Maw Yark City) has Only to flgww to us man m tf II RICHMOND, INDIANA "PANIC PROOF CITY" Haa a population of 23.000 and fa growlne;. It la tha county Boat of Wayne County, and tha tradlna- cantor of a rich agrl cultural community. It la located duo aaat from Indlanapolia 0 mlloa and tnllaa from taw tato Una. Richmond la a city of homoa and of Induatry. Primarily a manufacturing city. It la a la tha Jobbing cantor of Kaatern Indian and enjoys tha ratall trade at tha populous community for mllaa around. Richmond la proud of tta apian- . did atresia, wall kept yard. it cement aldawalka aad boa itlful ahado treea. It hao S national Lanka, X truat companloa and building aaaoclatlona with combined raaourcoa cf over f 1.000.000. Number of factorlaa lit; capital Invaatad 17.000.000. with an annual output of $27,000,000. and a pay roll wf $3,700,000. Tha total pay roll for tbo oitv amaunta to upproalmately $0,300,000 annual''There aro five railroad com- . paaloa radlatlna- la eight differant dlroctlona from tha city. lacoming; freight handled dally. 1.-, 710.000 lba; outfolnf? freight handled dally. 710.000 lbs. Tard facilities, par day 1.700 care. . Number of passenger tralna daliv ', It. Number of freight tralu dally 77. Tha annual post office receipts amount to $80,000. Total aaaossed valuation of tUe city, , $11,000,000. Richmond ' haa two " Interurban railways. Three newapapera with . a combined circulation of 12,000. Richmond la tha greatest hardware Jobbing center In tha state and only aocond In aeneral Jobblna; interests. It haa a plana factory producing a high rrrade Rlano every IK minute. It la tha tador la tha manufacture of traction engines, and producea more threonine machine, lawn mower, roller akatee, grain drills and burial caakota than any other city In tha world. - The eltye area la t.040 arrest 00: 10 puhllo achoola andltaa the flneat and moat complete hivK achool In the middle weat under ronM ruction: $ parochial school.! Karl ham college and the Indi.i,. Rualnee. College?" fire apUndid flra companlea In - fine bola houaea: dlon Ulll.r park, tha lara-eat and moat beautiful nark In Indiana, the homo of mond'e annual ehautauqua: ooven hotolat municipal oloctrlo llaht plant, under auccoanfui operation and a private oloctrlo lfht nUn? Inanrlna competition: the oldeat puhllo library In tha iutZ eept ana and tha aocond laraeat. 40 1 000 volumea: para refreahln water nnaurpaaaed: 01 mlloa of ImpToVod I atraota: 40 mllaa of eewTraVli mlloa of cement curb and autter orohlned: 40 mlloa of cement w,!5"- a5J . Tn,,L "" f brlcfc walk. Thlrtr churehea. Includfna tha Rold Memorial, built at a j.at of $20.00: R.M' MimoVia VfoenlUl. one of the moat modern In the eta to: T. M. C A. buildlna;. areoted at a coat of $100,000. one of the flneat In the otate. Tha omueement oontor of Kaatera In--dlana and Weatern Ohio. No city of tha alio of Richmond hnlds a" fine an annual art exhibit. The Richmond Fall Peattval held each October la unique, no other city holda a similar affair. It la frlven In the Interest of the eltv and financed by tha attain oaa men. ftucceas awaltlns? anyone with enterprise In the Panto Proof City. This Is My 75th Birthday Joseph O. Cannon. Joseph O. Cannon, representative of the l$th Illinois district and former sneaker ot the national house of representatives, was born in Guilford, N. C, May ?. 1S36, but at an early age moved with his parents to Indiana. lie began life as clerk In a grocery store. He studied law at Cincinnati and was admitted to the bar in 1858 He settled at, Tuscola. III., soon after and was elected State's atorncy there la 1861. serving till 1S68. In 1S75 he moved to Danvlle and about the same time was elected to Congress on the Republican ticket. With the excep tion ot one term he has served in Con gress continuously since 1873. Mr, Cannon was elected speaker in 1903 and occupied that position until tne beginning of tho present Congress, es tablishing a new record for length of servle In the Speaker's chair. MASONIC CALENDAR Tuesday. May 9. Richmond lodge. No. 19C V. A. M. Called meeting. Work In Enured Apprentice Degree. Wednesday. May 10. Webb lodge No. 34. F. A. M. Called meeting. Work In Master Mason degree. Re freshments. . Friday May 12. King Solomon's Chanter, No. 4, R. A. H. Stated meet-
Town Topics
It la not very many months since a well known minister of this town came Into this office in the search for information regarding the number of girls on the street. Me asked the opinion of those who were in a position to know from the close watch that every successful newspaper must keep to be In touch- with local conditions. The approximate f gures that he was given astounded him. "Is it possible? I should never have guessed It." The minister was referred to the police and to another authority. The other authority was his own observation. "Walk down Main street any night particularly Saturday night and see what you think?" What he thought we do not knew. It has always seemed to many o us who are In touch with conditions that the province of the pastor of a church was not to worry so much about creed and dogma, but to be In friendly touch with the life of the people. Sermons on this subject are probably of no more avail than editorial articles indeed the newspaper has a greater audience than any one minister of the gospel has In any community because it goes into the families of all churches and on all days. We doubt whether this does more than transient good. But if it does the slightest possible good it Is a thing that ought to be talked about not In an excited way as if it were some plague and some epidemic but in a quiet, forceful and simple way.
There Is one church organization in the country which seeks little publicity as far as we can judge in regard to its activities, but it has always been noticeable that this church has been particularly successful in the case of the morals of the young. How this has come about Is easy to guess. The simple and direct methods with which this church has always dealt with the family life of its members is well known.
When the Y. M. C. A. was built a few years ago It was built with the idea that it would help solve the problem which faces every small town. It has helped to solve the problem but over half the problem and perhaps more remains. There are as places of amusement in this town, moving pictures, two theaters, saloons, the Y. M. C. A. the library, the art gallery of the new high school and other less public and more Intimate forms of diversion.
There was a time when no man left his home except to go to lodge. A well Informed man who now lives elsewhere but who was in the closest touch with the situation in Richmond said a day or two ago: "As far as I can make out the whole town is thirsty to get away from home." To what extent this is true would be hard to tell, but it seems more or less true. ' The hurry of Americans today the nervous tension that seems to make old age come at forty-five and fifty men and women burnt out before their time is not all imagination. Richmond strives hard to be "metropolitan. If it only knew it its chief charm Is that it is a place fit to live In. There are no subways here and yet better ride on the dinky yellow street cars of the T. H. I. & E. than be glad to fnd a post by a side door in the subway trains to lean on.
If we are not entirely mistaken it is some such spirit as this which explains the great number of girls in their 'teens who are out gadding about, plying the streets with as much abandon and sang-froid as ever
shown on Broadway or Fifth avenue
the parade called, by a name which cannot be printed.
Who are mothers and fathers of
more pleasant If we could assure every reader of this paper that they
are not their girls. ".Suppose you take up your station
cigar store and listen to the Town Topics. Very likey some if it is exag
gerated but a good deal of It has the There Is only one real remedy for know what business Us girls have out what they do. There are girls of the high school that do not belong there.
This is no wholesale charge. It is a warning. There Is a curfew law in this town. The bell rings every night. It is
becoming a perfunctory sound by which wearied fathers from a late night
the evening before set their watches
sitting around and nothing to do but go to bed. But Mayme or Mary or Helen or whatever her name is, has Just stuck a fresh wad of chewing gum In her cheek and has called "hello" to some fellow that has just got a new spring suit. This ordinance can be enforced. We will be glad to back up the police department publicly if they want any backing up, If they follow the statutes in bringing home young Mayme and wake papa up.
Some of the people who expect it least might be considerably surprised if this would happen to them. They might be angry. But those are not the people who evidently expect the police to take care of their children because they don't.
wants Mcquillan ; WOULD GIVE McINTIRE Chicago, May 6. Already the trad ing bug is at work on the McQuillan ! incident. How does this look to Cincinnati fans? Mclntlre for McQuillan. Reulbach for McQuillan. It was tipped oft yesterday that Frank Chance, manager of the Cubs, will offer Mclntlre for McQuillan. It Is also tipped off that just at present Griffith has the "nothing doing" sign hung out, but that later on, when he fools off a bit, he might listen to the siren song of Husk. An offer ot Reulbach, who Is greatly esteemed personally by the Red management, might then be entertained. But at present Griffith wants to soak the sinner. Before the rumors of trades or offers ot trades began the manager of the Reds said that under no circumstances would he consider any proposition; that McQuillan would pitch ball for Cincinnati or he would be Idle all summer. Chance Is confident that he can control McQuillan. And Chance is some controller, too. "THIS DATE
MAY 7. 1639 A great military muster was held on the Boston Common. 1778 Gen. Howe was superseded by Sir Henry Clinton in command of tho British army in America. 1S12 Robert Browning, English poet, born. Died Dec. 12. 1SS9. " 1830 First treaty concluded beween the United States and the Ottoman Porte. 1846 Gen. Taylor, In command of the army of occupation in Texas, marched to the relief of Fort Brown. 1847 Earl of Rose be ry, former premier of Great Britain, born. , 1864 Gen. Grant made his flank movement from the Wilderness battlefield to Spottsylvania. 1891 The Chilean steamer Itata escaped from the harbor of San Diego, Cal. ,.. 1910 George V. was proclaimed King of Great jBrltaia mad Ireland.. ;
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these girls who are out? It would be around the Westcott or in some ring of truth. this. That Is for each family to at night who they are with and age who have looks in their faces because there really isn't much use GAIN MADE IN WAYNE TWP. ENUMERATION The township school enumeration figures compiled by Township Trus tee James Howarth and made public by him today show that there are at present 909 residents between the ages of six and twenty-one in Wayne township. This is an increase of six over last year. The enumeration was made by Clinton Shurley and Ross N Lamott. Eager For Double Duty. A manufacturer in the west of El land, anxions that his hands shoe keep Christmas In a proper spirit, to them that if they went to church that day they should receive the wages just the same as if they h. been at work. Shortly after the a dress a deputation of solemn face employees waited upon their chiel "We're willin to attend church,- salt the spokesman, "and if ye can see yer way to payin ns overtime we're willin' to attend the Methodist chapel In the renin. IN HISTORY'
U. S. DISAPPROVES OF POSTAL UIIIOIIS High Officials Not Permitted
to Attend, Is Reason Stewart Gives. Washington, May 6. "A labor union that will not admit officers and super visors of the department, that holds its meetings behind closed doors, that has a secret password, and that does not permit the heads of departments to take part in its deliberations Mill always be disapproved by our department." This is 'the reply made by Second Assistant Postmaster General Stewart before the house committee on reforms in the civil service to a question asked by Repressentative Gillett, of Massachusetts, as to what objection the department had to the clerks organizing a union. The committee is investigating the recent troubles in the post office department, arising from the controversy between the railway mail clerks, who arganlzed to affiliate with the American Federation of Labor, and those in authority.. Reference was made by Mr. Stewart to the executive order of 1902, iesued originally by President Roosevelt and later approved by President Taft, forbidding employes of the government to petition congress for salary increases or for the redress of grievances. He also included in the record the order issued by the postoffice de partment forbidding railway mail clerks to organize. Representative Wilson of Pennsylvania, chairman of the committee on labor, was present at the hearing. He asked Mr. Stewart if he denied the right of civil service employes to strike. Mr. Stewart did not answer the question directly, but instead inquired if Mr. Wilson did not think the oath taken by government employes in assuming their positions should be placed above everything else. "We now have organizations among employes of the postoffice departmnt" the second assistant declared, "but in these organizations supervisory officers have a part. They do not want to permit these officials to join the un ion under discussion. An organization of the character proposed would be a peril to the government. This might even call for a walkout." Mr. Stewart's attention was called to the fact that there is one organization of postal clerks, the National Fed eration of Postal Clerks, which is affil iated with the American Federation of Labor. He said he knew this, but that the membership of this national federation is scattered all over the country and that therefore there could be no comparison between it and the con templated organization of railway mail clerks who gathered at the division headquarters. 1 '' " ' ' Last year the Canadian Pacific rail road laid out and started forty new towns on its recently built lines, and this year it will lay out and start fifty more towns along the same lines.
Some Gossip Gathered From The Gay American Metropolis
STRAY GOSSIP GATH .. .. New York. May 6. The path of reformers is seldom smooth and, no matter how serious and well meaning they may be, their efforts are rarely appreciated even by those who would be most benfited by the reforms. The moment a reformer leaves the field of speculation and theory and attempts to put his reform ideas to a practical test, his troubles begin and, with every step he takes, they increase at a rate so tremendous that he begins to wish he had never taken the first step. Reforming is a thankless undertaking, as many wellmeaning reformers, like Collector Loeb, Mayor Gaynor and a few others have found to their chagrin and disappointment. By their efforts they lost many friends, drew severe criticism and vituperation upon their heads and. even if the succeeded in ov ercoming the active and passive resistance of their opponents, the know ledge of having conscientiously done what they considered their duty, was their only reward. Some time ago Leonard McGee, at-toruey-ln-chief of the Legal Aid society, concluded he would become a reformer, but It is dollars to doughnuts that he has changed his mind about it He thought,, in his modest way, that ne naa lounci tne solution or tne servant problem and was confident that his little reform plan would end all difficulties offered by the servant problem. Now, however, he is not quite so sure about it. His plan was to refuse legal aid to all servants who quit without due notice to their employers, and to read ail such applicants a lecture on playing fair. As about sixty per cent of all persons applying for legal aid were servants,' and as fully sixty per cent of these had quit ther employers while in a state of 'nerves," or in a huff over some incident of a day's routine, the lecture course at first seemed promising. But the applicants dwindled to an astonishing degree, but Mr. McGee's mail increased in porportion. The letters were from servants who had been lectured and the messages were not only extremely impolite but, in some cases abusive and threatening. The war against merchants who cheat their customers by giving them short weight or measure, is vigorously continued by the commissioner ot weights and measures. Many of the "honest" farmers, whose baskets were confiscated some time ago during a market raid by the commissioner and his deputies, actually had the cheek to demand the return of the confiscated baskets, saying that they "needed them in their business." They insinuated that the baskets were of full measure, but the commissioner offered to pay $100 for every one of the seized baskets that should prove fua measure, provided the "honest" farmers would pay 8X00 for every basket under standard, not one of the farmers had the courage to take the offer. There were no services at the Second Reformed church in Somerville,
Invites the turgor onoa.
Many of our largest depositors started with a small bank account. ONE DOLLAR will start a Savings Account. Deposits or withdrawals can be made at any time. Interest at the rate of 3 PER CENT, compounded every six months RIGHT MO VJ Is the time to start a Savings Account and watch it grow. Recourceo over Q290(S(S9Q(S(Sm(S))
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N. J., the other Sunday, because the minister failed to make his appear
ance. The case was rather puzzling to the congregation, as the pastor sent no word of explanation. Not until the following day was the case of his alv sence ascertained. Some tinw ago he had made an arrangement with a min ister in New York for an exchange of: pulpits on the last Sunday in April, Unaware of the fact that there were five Sundays in April, the pastor hurried to New York on the morning of the fourth Sunday, to preach in his colleague's churc'a. Wh'en he arrived at the church a trifle late he found his colleague conducting service as usual. Not until the service was ended did the New Jersey minister have an opportunity to learn from his colleague that there were five Sundays in April, at least this year. For more than twenty-eight years the good citizens of Yonkers have pointed with pride to the tall figures 1682-1882" on the roof of their historic manor house wouthout a suspicion that anything was wrong with them. It was known that the figures were placed upon the building by the late Dr. Samuel Swift, a former mayor of Yonkers and they naturally supposed i that the figures indicated that the ma n0r house had been built in 16S2. Re cent researches by the historical asso ciation, however, have established beyond doubt, that the manor house was not built until some time after 1720 and that Dr. Swift, although he knew this, had the misleading figures placed on the roof, for the sake of ar ranging a bicentennial celebration and thereby gaining prominence. The sense of humor of Mary Talbot, a girl of fourteen years who was arrested the other dayf seems to be developed in a peculiar direction. For several years it has been an inexhaustible source of pleasure and amusement to her to send in false alarms for the fire department, hospital am bulances, doctors and priests. When arraigned before the Children's court she confessed and said she could not tell why she did those things but it was "great fun" to see the doctor or the priest rush into a house when she knew that they were not needed there. It was decided to have the mental condition of the girl examined. There were Bome exciting scenes in a case before Judge McAvoy of the City Court the other day. A lawyer, named Charles H. Stoddard, had appeared before Judge McAvoy to argue a motion for the vacation of an order for his examination in supplementary proceedings. After hearing the long argument Judge ' McAvoy denied the When you feel vous, tired, worried or despondent it is a sure sign you need MOTTO NERVERINE PILLS. They renew the normal vigor and make life worth living. B sore and ask for MotV. Ncrvcrine Pffl lfsg WILLIAMS MFC, CO., Praps.. CloToUad. Okie For sale by Conkey Drug Co.
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motion and ordered Stoddard sworn. Stoddard became excited an refused to :
be sworn. When the judge insisted. Stoddard made a rush for the door and succeeded in reaching City Hall park. He had a good start toward Broadway before he was overtaken and overpowered. He fought like a tiger, but was dragged back to the court room. Judgo McAvoy severely lectured the rebellious lawyer and sentenced him to five days confinement in the Tombs and the payment of a fine of $230 for criminal contempt of court. Stoddard did not go to the Tombs willingly, but had to be dragged all the way. ; E HOT So Girls Add An Extra Player to Their Ball Team New York. May 6. Barnard college girls have branched out with something novel in the sport line a base ball team. Only this base ball team is not a nine. The Barnard aggregation is a ten, for the girls have added an extra player to the regulation number. Her position is designated as right stop, a sort of extra infield position. With the new position preperly filled ' ahe Barnard varsity team opened the season Thursday with a game against the Teacher's college team. Barnard rooters didn't have much opportunity to unload the rah-rah noise, but the girls are more than satisfied with their start. They scored twelve runs and they see plenty to enthuse over in that performance even though their opponents collected twenty-nine runs before the Barnard girls were entirely awake and Barnard finds consolation in the work for the remainder of the distance. Barnard made a strong rally In the ninth, but finished several runs short after collecting half a dozen tal lies. The girls plan to play several games during the present season. Interclass games and a game between the varsity and Ahe alumni are the principal dates on the schedule. During practice time the roof ot the Hall ot Mines at Columbia college, is a popular resting place for many students, as it affords a view of the girls at play in Milbank quadrangle. ' DUY A VAVmLY Electric toy tfetf AGENT:
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