Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 36, Number 214, 11 June 1911 — Page 4

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM A3D SUXELEGRAM, SUNDAY .TTJXE 11, 1911.

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Sss-Teltcrca fBBllah4 mS ft.f AUULOIVM PRZNTINO OCX 4 I da ire each wMk, evening IhhAkv ruins. Offtee Corner North ttn end A streets. Palladium aad gun-Telea-ram Phone PeotaeM Office, list; editorial Koonaa, tu. RICHMOND. IKCIAHA. e4e)ewlpw. Q lowa f .aTadlteje . P. Rlagmon Beetaeea JHaaaof Carl raaaro't Imriitt staUtaa Mow TCoUfre SUBSCRIPTION TERMS ta Richmond t.M jar year (la advane) or 1O0 par week. KAIL SUBSCRIPT IONrV One roar, la advance ..... ....J Is snontba. In advance Oaa nonth. la advaaoo RURAL ROUTE One year, la advance ........... .9. Ofl 8 ix aaaini, in tartnc .......... -; AO asewth, In advanoa Add.ee changed aa of tan aa dealreds fcotb sow and old addroaaoa uuit ao Slvoa. Sutecrlbars will please romlt with ardor, which should be given for pacified torm: noma will not bo enter ad aatU parmoi.t la received. Eatorod at Richmond. Indiana. ?oat affloa aa aaoond clut ma.II mattor. Now Tork nepreaentatlvce Payne A Tom. 10-14 Waat llrd at roe t. and Jill Woat SSnd atroot. Now Tork. N. T. . Chicago Roproaontatlvoa Pay no m Young. T4T-T4I Marquette Building. Chicago. X1L JLO-0 MDM M M' Aaiorlatlon of (New York CM?) laid - MM .U a - - 4 at fNlflUVfi Only tat fJgnre af i ta Ita rtport an -J tbe 'Hlf'"""""'"" RICHMOND, INDIANA "PANIC PROOF CITY" Has a population of 23,324 and It growing. It la tho county at of Wayne County, and tho trading center of a rich agricultural community. It la located du eaat from Indianapolis 0 mllti and 4 mllea from tho tat Una. Richmond la a city of homea and of Induatry. primarily a manufacturing city, it la alao tho Jobbing confer of Eactcrn Indlana and on Joy a tho rotail trada of tho populouo community for mlloo around. Richmond la proud of Ita aplendld atreeta, well kept yarde. Ita cement aldawalka and beautiful had treea. It haa three national banks, one trust company and four building- aaaoclatlona with a combined reaourco of over $.- 000,000. Number of factorleo 121; capital Invented $1,000,000. with an annual output of $27.000.000. and a pay roll of 13,700,000. Tho total pay roll for the city amounta to approximately S, 400.000 annual. There are five railroad companlea radiating In etsht differont dlrertlona from the city. Incoming; freight handled dally, 1.760.004 lha., outgoing freight handled dally, 710.000 lha. Yard facilities, per day 1,700 cars. Number of passenger trains daily II. Numbet of freight trains dally 77. The annual poat office recelpta amount to 180,000. Total aaaeaaed valuation of tho city. III, 000,000. Richmond haa two Interurban railways. Three nowapapera with a combined circulation of 12,000. Richmond ta the greateat hardwar Jobbing center In tho state and only aecond In general Jobbing Intereata. It baa a piano factory producing a high grade flanO evviry It minutes. It la the eader In the manufacture of Traction engines, and producea more threshing machines, lawn mowers, roller skates, grain drilla anil burUl caskets than any other city In tho world. Tho city's area Is 1,640 acres; has a court house costing 1600,000; 19 publlo achoola and haa tho flneat and most complete high ochool In the middle west; three parochial schools; Karlbam college and the Indiana Business College: five splendid fire companies in fine none houses; Glen miller park, the largest and moat beautiful park in Indiana, tho home of Richmond's annual Chautauqua; seven hotula; municipal electric light plant, under ' succeaaful operation and a private el ec trio light plant. Insuring competition; the oldeat publlo library In the state, except one and the aecond largest. 40.000 volumes; pure refreshing water, unaurpassed: 61 mllea of improved atreeta; 40 milea of aewers; 2S miles of cement curb and gutter combined; 40 mllea of cement walka, and many milea of brick walka. Thirty churches. Including the Reld Memorial, built at a coat of 1250,000; Held Memorial Hospital, one of the moat modern In the atate; Y. M. C. A. building, erected at a coat of 6100.000, one of the flneat In the atate. The amuaement center of Eastern Indiana and Western Ohio. No city of the alie of Richmond nilda a fine an annual art exhibit. The Richmond Fall Festival held each October la unique, no other city holda a almllar affair. It la given in the Interest of the city and financed by the business men. Succeas awaiting anyone with enterprise In the Panto Proof City. This Is My 47th Birthday RICHARD STRAUSS. Richard 8trausa who Is perhaps the most eminent living composer, was bora la Munich, June 11, 1864. He received hia first piano lessons from his mother when he was four years old It Is said he composed at 6 years of age, while at 16 he conducted an orchestra and at 21 he succeeded the famous Hans von Buelow at the head of th Meinlngen . orchestra. In 1894 Herr Strauss married Fraulein Paul in ae Anna, wno nas since made a great name as an interpreter of her husband's songs. For several years the composer conducted , the Berlin royal orchestra. His most serious or iginal works are "Don Quixote." "Don Juan." "Salome" and "Elektra. though he has been a most prolific writer of high class music. A large part of his fame rests upon hli inter pretations of Morart and Wagner. The Seventh Son. Tea,' said the despondent man. "1 was a seventh son." -And didn't It bring you luckr asked the superstitious one. WeU, If being obliged to wear the ctstoff clothes of six other brothers Is lock It did." replied the despondent manwPbUadelpbla Record. .The average number of -Alpine fatalities during the last ten years has hsea one hundred a, year.

What is a Compromise ? Whenever a public service corporation wants to do anything, it goes ahead and does it despite the wishes of the people. Whenever a public service corporation is ordered to do anything the public can sweat for it.

The "board of county commissioners have virtually come to the point where they are ready to hand over to the T. H., I. & EL all the points of contention and call It a "compromise. I" Six feet of highway is to be handed over to the company. They will make the roadway 40 feet instead of 46. The company is to b saved i harmless from all expense. The contractor is to be paJd 11,500 for providing the T. H., I. as E. a ; road-bed out of township funds. , They call this a compromise.

Bared of all the legal verbiage, the Question simply Is whether the county has the right to designate where the company shall put its tracks. It is a question whether the county shall regulate the traction company or - the traction company regulate the county on its own highways. ' There is no doubt in the mind of Mr. Todd or Mr. Ferdinand Winter, as to whether the county can regulate the placing of tracks they are sure that it can't. Other legal talent holds that the county commissioners under the

statute have sufficient police power company.

It is a sad and disheartening thing to read the franchise most franchises are disheartening reading. But if the sixty years the company has to run is marked by the high handed attitude that has marked the ftrst ten, it seems to us that it is about time the county is finding out precisely what its status is. Nobody is denying the value of the interurban line any more than it is denying the value of water. But the public which pays its fare and patronizes the company also furnishes (does it not?) the real thing of value about the interurban line. , The T. H. I. & E. is not so benevolent in the matter of fares does the public know that in Ohio traction lines are run at a profit at onehalf the fare which this company charges. Treat this thing then as a matter in which the county has something else to do beside getting down on its knees and thanking Hugh McGowan and other impoverishers of traction lines and defiera of the public for the supreme blessing of the T. H. I. & E.

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When the company thought it was going to get tne best of the bargain, did it howl about it? 'Not at all it told the viewers that it was willing for the road to be widened and that it was quite to their liking to have its tracks on one side of the road. They even went to far as to say tthey did not want to go in the middle of the road in the very section of the National road which will be a street. The viewers all agree to this. Mr. Todd thought it was all right then! Further proof that the company understood this is that it made no kick when the bids were advertised. It made no kick when the work started. It allowed the county to get to the point where it waa Indebted to its contractors; it allowed the county to get the road torn up. And then It protested.' ? - . This Is the sort of thing that the county Is supposed to appreciate

from the traction company.

- Thla is the style of company that we are dealing with. We indorse the action of the county commissioners ordering the company to live up to the terms and obligations of ita franchise. We hope they will push this to the point of making it so uncomfort- , able for the T. H. I. & E. that they will be good and willing to come to terms and to recognize . that Wayne county" Is willing to give battle and not be run over.

Furthermore if it Is possible to forfeit the franchise of this aggregation of stock waterers, promotion-fee grabbers and defiant bloaters of securities we wish that were done and a new franchise prepared. Everyone knows that the T. H. I. & E. has not lived up to the terms of its franchise. It has gone where it listed and is prepared ' to stay there, and to hold up the community by the throat It Is prepared to hold the county up In the hope of wearing it out.

Instead pt meekly lying down, being . kicked over the lot why not stand up and avoid supinely making a precedent in Wayne county that the T. H. I. & E. shall do anything that it wishes? It was not altogether an outrage that the T. H. I. & E. was given a public right-of-way. But it Is an outrage that the commissioners shall think of giving up everything they have stood for and announce "we have compromised."

The highways of this county are valuable. Forty feet Is not much for a roadway. But the county might get along with that. The thing of It Is that the police power of the county even when in controversy Is worth everything in a day and generation when regulation of public utilities is hard. Does the county, think that the way to save itself from loss Is to hand over every point in controversy and call it a "compromise?" What is a compromise? Do the commissioners propose to leave anything for the cdunty or not?

HUSBAND WAS TOO ROUGH; DIVORCED Unable to stand the alleged threats of her husband to cut out her tongue and also being unwilling to be a. mar tyr to her husband's insane jealousy, Jeannette McConnell, a negress, who, on first glance, would be taken for a Caucasian, was Saturday morning divorced from John McConnell, now in parts unknown. Testimony showed that she had been thrown down stairs, cursed many times, whipped often and her life threatened on a few occasions, also that her husband had grabbed her tongue and had threatened to cut it out Germany sold $46,500,000 worth of potash in 1010, against $13,600,000 worth in 1890, and $4,300,000 worth in 1880. "THIS DATE

JUNE 11. r1647 Peter the Great of Russia born. Died Feb. 8, 1725. 1741 Gen. Joseph Warren born in Roxbury, Mass. Killed at the battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775. 1825 Daniel D. Tompkins of New York, sixth vice president of the TJn-

lted statea, died. Born in

1847 Sir John Franklin, famous explorer, died in the Arctic region. Born in England in 1786. . , 1870 Destruction of the Korean forts by Admiral Rogers. 1888 Lord Stanley took the oath as governor general of Canada. 1903 King and queen of Servia assassinated at Belgrade. 1307 John T. Morgan. United States senator from Aima & Washington. Born In Athens. Teniw June 20. 1824.

delegated to them to regulate the

SLANDER TRIAL IS TO BE SENSATIONAL That the slander case of Dr. Arthur Joones of Whitewater against Manford B. Wallingford, a farmer, and resident of the same town, will be one of the most sensational cases ever heard in the circuit court is promised by the charges made in making up the issues in the case. On Friday, Wallingford had his examination before trial and admitted to Attorney Johnson that he had 6aid Dr. Jonea was a saloon keeper and had committed criminal acts in his practice as a physician. The physician asks $5,000 balm for alleged injury to reputation. It is anticipated that "the American invasion of Scotland during the present summer will be greater than ever. Matches have not yet displaced the tinderbox in certain rural districts of Spain and Italy. IN HISTORY' 1774.

Heart to Heart Talks. By EDWIN A. NYE. -

Copyright. 1908, by Edwin A. Nye TO YOUNG NCR. Weston, the grand old man who at the age of seventy-one walked twice across the continent, say a In an address to young men: ; "I never In my life walked for money on Sunday Why? Other professionals made money by Sunday exhibitions or In contests running over Sunday. But Weston says he promised bis old mother years ago be would "never walk for pay on the blessed Sabbath." Once, be says, he was In Paris and needed money badly, but refused an offer of $5,000 which would require Sunday walking. In the long run, however, be say a bo has profited by bis vow. His mother was afraid he might become a drunkard or a gambler, as so many professional pedestrians have become. He says -the has enjoyed health and long life largely because of his promise. . - Surely. ;; Did you fancy, young man. that Sunday Is observed simply because It Is commanded In the Bible? Do you not, know that the commandment Is In the Bible because the observance of It is best for you? You need Sunday. Other things being equal, the person who works six days in the week and rests on the seventh will do more work with greater ease and live longer than the person who works se,ven daya In seven. That is scientifically proved. Tbe commandment is laid In the deep need of man physically, mentally and spiritually. And the Tegularity of Its recurrence Is Its greatest boon. Besides The man who works without Sunday rest and recuperation Is often driven to stimulants to brace up bis impaired vitality. Weston's mother was wise. She knew tbe dangers from overstrain, the temptations to which her son would be exposed and the tendency toward tbe letting down of morals once tbe barrier of Sunday observance was thrown down. Old fashioned? Yes; the observance of one day In seven is old fashioned as old as the experience of the race. And the fashIon of It cannot be changed by individuals or nations without great harm. History proves that Therefore Sacrediv hprv th rinv. A TWO EDGED JOKE ft Waa Aimed at Eugene Field, but It Hit Back. Eugene Field showed utter Indifference when it came to being a follower of tbe fashions. His clothes were always neat and tidy, but they were not made after tbe prevailing fashion; he had not consulted Worth, and this was agonizing to at least one of his most fashionable friends, named for convenience Mr. J. One day In an offhand manner, so as not to be offensive to tbe poet, Mr. J. Inquired of him if he would wear a suit of clothes If be would buy It for him. Contrary to expectations, Mr. Field replied that be would be only too glad to accept tbe suit and wear It In a few days Mr. J. bad occasion to be at Jefferson transacting some legal business, when he had a happy thought By some means bo procured a suit of clothes made by tbe state for one of ber citizens. And tbe state does not believe In changing fashions, man ifesting a decided predilection for those patterns that are characterized by broad stripes, black and gray. In a neat little speech before a crowd of his friends, called in to observe his triumph of tbe crestfallen Field, the suit was duly presented, when, lo, to tbe surprise of all. It was smilingly ac cepted In an extempore speech that made Mr. J.'a studied effort, with Its set phrases, seem like "tinkling brass and a sounding cymbal." It was nearly noon next day. Mr. J sat in his elaborately appointed office, busy with some financial matters. when one of bis friends rushed fran tlcally up tbe stairway, entered tbe room as if the house were on fire and asked him what he meant by allowing a convict to bang around about bis office, even if he was an old friend; It was a dead give away and was tbe talk of the whole town. He told him tbe convict would even accost persons inclined to pass In order to tell them that he was out on leave and bad come to pay his respects to his old friend; that be ought to get rid of him at once, and tbe sooner tbe better, if his reputation was not already ruined. Mr. J. made baste to Investigate. It was tbe genial Field wbo bad dressed up In tbe suit presented to him tbe day before. Nor would be leave till Mr. J. had made due and ample amends. Mack's Monthly. Taking Him Down. George Grossmith bad had remark able success with bis readings in America and on his return to England somewhat boastfully compared tbe art of entertaining with that of acting. "You fellows," he said to Charles Brookfleld, "have to take out scenery, properties, plays and a large company wben you want to perform, while I look at me. I landed In New York with just my piano and a dress suit, and I made 30.00a- . I dare say. snapped Brookfleld. "But we don't all look so funny in our dress suits aa you do In yours." ufaats sad ehfldrea are constantly n nil Ins a laxatiTe. It U import sat to know what to give "-. iiiMBnuiroiBawwi are aot strong mo, pars-save waters or eamarne or tipwi. gaiaaant. awada. luattn toene Uk Dr. Caldwell s 6 rn Poaain. which mmllm ni the. email snm of S ceart or SI at droc stores. It fat tbe ' - T nej euree. i ue Teat remedy for yoo to haye in tbe boose ta , IiLMmb - to

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Snobbish London, Where Poor Starve, Lavishes for the King

BY HERBERT TEMPLE. (Special CaMe from the International rews Service.)London, June 10. London is coronation mad.. Tbe world's greatest village has no thought for anything but the fact that a little less than two weeks .from now a little, bewhiskered, harmless man whom no one would ever notice in a crowd were be not of royal birth, is to go through a ceremony which cost the country millions of dollars. The little king will be seated in the center of an audience of scarlet and ermine clad noblemen and peeresses; the highest dignitary of the Episcopal church will anoint his sparse colorless hair with oil poured from a golden spoon, pressing uppn his head a crown heavy with gold and precious stones,- and placing in his weak hands a golden sceptre, symbol of a power that no longer exists. Afterwards, this - poor, powerless king will head a picturesque procession through the streets of his capital, in which statistics show that one hundred and nineteen people starved to death during the last twelve months. To provide a suitable frame for the ecclesiastical ceremony the interior of the noblest and grandest Christian church of England has been decorated at a cost of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Its exterior has been transformed into what looks like and immense grand stand at a horse race, and this on coronation day will be crowded with thousands of people who in the midst of the misery and poverty of London have not been able to find a better way of spending their money than to pay enormous prices for uncomfortable seats from which they, after hours of patient waiting may catch a glimpse of the royal procession. London is never beautiful to look upon, but now it is preparing to celebrate the coronation of its king it is uglier than ever.' Everywhere greedy money loving speculators have erected immense stands, which look like gigantic skeletons now that their lumber ribs and bones have not yet been hidden by flags and bunting. Like huge forests devastated by fire, thousands of flag poles raise their naked trunks towards the sky. All of the house fronts are bidden by tiers upon tiers of narrow, uncomfortable, ugly seats. Not even the churches have been spared. They too nave been pressed into the service of the speculators in the popular love of show,a love that is the same today as it was when the Roman plebes shouted for "panem et circenses." Bread the church cannot give the people, but a show they can provide, and the up to date apostles of Christ who have not hesitated to hide . the front of every church along the line of the procession with seats that will bring them a harvest of golden coin. Even the Cathedral of St. Paul has disappeared behind the rough unpalnted planks, and only the dome with Its golden cross is visible. Had it been possible to get people to risk their lives, surely even the arms of the cross would have been made into . seats for the curious. But among those who see in the coronation only an opportunity of making money, there is gloom. They have cast their nets, but the fish they have hoped to catch seems unwilling to be caught in the meshes, Americans especially. The 1 shoals that were expected to cross the Atlantic have failed to appear. Steamer after steamer has come in with scanty passenger lists, and there are no bidders for thousands of windows that have been expected to bring their possessors hundreds of guineas each. Mansions and houses whose owners have hoped that Americans would tumble over

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OF RICHMOND, INDIANA At Call of Comptroller. June 7th, 1011 RESOURCES UADIUTIES

Loans and Discounts $ 875,812.58 Overdrafts . 1,464.70 U. 8. Bonds 101,000.00 Other Bonds 80,700.62 Banking House and Safety Deposit Vaults . .. ...... ...... 19,500.00 Other Real Estate 1,200.00 Due from U. 8. Treasurer 5,000.00 Cash and Sight Exchange .... 356,915.54

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Average Deposits for 1904 ................................... $347,824.C3 Average Deposits for 1905. $445,349.0 Average Deposits for 1906; ...... $ 576,87 LCO Average Deposits for 1907 $813,340.00 Average Deposits for 1908 . . ... $943,825.00

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each otner to rent them for sums that would pay interest and taxes for many years to come and establish a much needed balance in noble budgets, are still waiting for tenants. A few have been let months ago at the first exorbitant prices, but for every one of these there are a hundred which have been offered in vain at twenty-five, yes, fifty per cent of what their own

ers expected to get. Months ago the English newspapers wrote that the thousands of hotels in London were rapidly being filled up and that it would not be possible to get a bed in London for love or money during the coronation, but their prophecies failed, their tactics have gone wrong, the fish have refused to swallow the habit, and now we hear an other story. It is an atrocious lie. they say, that the honest hotel keepers of London were ever mean enough to speculate In a national event, they never for a moment thought of raising prices; there is still plenty of room in London; tbe despised foreigner has suddenly become dear to every English heart and if he will only come and look at the show, they will do all they possibly can' to make him feel at home. " A few days from now, when it will be too late to entice any more Americans over here in time for the coronation, the tune will change again Every newspaper correspondent will cable his papers across the Atlantic that London is full, that not a room is to be found, that thousands of people who are still arriving daily, will have to walk the streets, but that they do It cheerfully, happy at the thought of what they are to see. The papers here have indeed been worth studying these last weeks. Rome at the time of the Caesars had no press, but if one had then existed, it could not have been more snobbish, more sycophantic than our great London papers have been of late. Reporters have been racking their brains to Invent touching little stories about "good King George" and "our beloved Queen Mary," and editors have burned gallons of midnight oil to write U Ml IL

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suitable comments on these insipid tales. . It began weeks ago and culminated when the Kaiser was here, so that ev-, en that monarch, who Is ordinarily depicted as a man of iron and blood, a modren tyrants a heartless monster and an implacable foe of England, whose destruction he Is ever planning came in for his part of the sickening incense. He suddenly became an angel of light, a half-god before whom we all prostrated ourselves, so that it was no wonder that he felt driven to pay a visit to the xoological gardens, when he had been here three days, simply because he wanted to see a few creatures that had not lost their self respect, and whose heads had not been turned by the sight of his imperial person.

The coronation has called forth nothing but the most despicable trait in the English character greed and snobbishness. London in these days is cot a great city, it is like and obscure American village, whose inhabitants are excited at the news that Barnum and Bailey, or Sells and Forepaugh are to have a great circus parade through its main streets a few days hence. No Beggars In Copenhagen. Copenhageu is a city of 500,000 Inhabitants. During a week's, stay I have seen no seller of matches or boot laces, no gutter merchant, no bliud or other afflicted persona about the streets asking for alms not .one single sign of distress due to poverty. I have explored tbe artisans' quarters by day and late at night There la not a single spot In the whole of Copenhagen that could be compared even remotely to the slums in our largo towns. There are no unemployed hanging about the street corners, no unkempt women standing idly at tbe doors, no ragged and dirty children playing in the gutter. There are no dirty houses, with dirty or broken windows, mended with bits of paper, and a ragged a prod or a torn bedcloth doing duty for a curtain. Denmark Letter in London Express. The Woonday Of I.lfe. Married people should learn what to do for one another's litUeNUs. and lor the ills of the children that may come. They are sore sooner or later to have occasion '.o treat constipation or indigestion. When the opportunity comes remember that the quickest way to obtain relief, and finally a permanent euro, la with Dr. Cald. compound. A bottle shoo .a always bo in tnt bouse. :tceiMonly50cenUorllatdruf itorea, llllll II III f.l II I !! VLrUIVU ILIM CONDITION Stock .$ 100,000.00 and Profits Net..... 94,933.74 99,400.00 1,147,259.70 ....$1,441393.44

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