Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 36, Number 239, 6 July 1911 — Page 1

t: RICHMOND FAIA UM BUSINESS OFFICE PHONE 2566 AND SUN-TELEGRAM. VOL. XXXVI. NO. 239. RICHMOND, IXD., THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 6, 1911. SINGLE COPY 3 CENTS A SURVEYING GANG HERE WORKING OUT HEW C. k 0, LINE Here is World's Biggest Baby BIXBY OF OPirilOIl INSIDE EXPLOSION DESTROYED MAINE A MADE THEM JEALOUS ; AN APPROPRIATION FORCED TO RESIGN HAS BEEN ASSURED BY WEATHER CHIEF OF IS MADE FOR WARD

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Report Current that the Railroad Is Considering Changing Its Route to the West of the River.

DOUBLE TRACK ROAD IS NOT CONSIDERED lit Will Be Some Time Before This Improvement Is Made New Through Service Is to Start Sunday. That there will be some change in the route of the C. & O., of Indiana railroad through this city, as has been reported on several occasions, was indicated Wednesday when an engineering corps from the main offices at Richmond, Va., deposited their supplies and materials here and began making surveys. Whatever changes are made in the route, it now seems more than probable that West Richmond will be tho part of the city most affected. In fact, by the survey made Wednesday, the company officials will consider the suggestion to have the route run diagonally across that section of the city, starting at a point on the west bank of the river, near the south corporation line and extend through to a point east of the Eastern Indiana Insane hospital grounds. Such a route would Tun' directly through one of the most thickly settled residence districts of the city. However, there is no positive assurance that this proposed route will be the one selected. In case this route is adopted, there will be a great deal of opposition, for not only will those whose property would be condemned make a fight, but those who own property adjacent to the route would also object strenuously and undoubtedly demand heavy damages. ; Some Affected Property. Some of the. residence properties through which the road will run," If this route Is adopted, will be the David Dougan residence at Third and National road, and either through or near Judge Fox's property and also the home of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Husson on the National road, and from thero In a northwesterly direction. The object In suggesting a chance In the route is to make possible the elimination of curves, grades' and fills as such as possible. By cutting diagonally across West Richmond, rather than running through the heart of the city, expensive treBsle work, which soon will have to be repaired, and the grading from the south end station to a point beyond Thistlethwalte's falls, would be eliminated. Of course there will be many other surveys made In all probability, before the company officials determine on any one. However, since the corps has started to survey West Richmond, residents In that Bectlon credit the report that company officials believe some route through that part of the city would be better than the one it now is operating over. It Is understood that in event of a change the present route through the city will not be abandoned altogether, but more than likely used for switching and as a factory spur. Since the compromise settlement between Governor Marshall and the C. & O., of Indiana, announced Wednesday, It has been stated the company has abandoned for the present all intent to double track the line, but will construct an excellent single track line. Double tracking likely will come later snd the route selected for the single track road will be such that there will be as few fills and grades to make as possible when the double track plan Is carried out. All bridges are being constructed with the double track plan In view. New Fast Service. That the C & O. system proper and Its subsidary Indiana line is making 'a great bid for passenger business, is attested by the new Chicago to Washington to New York service, which will be put on, beginning next Sunday. So far as the Indiana road Is concerned. It will be a great Improvement. The trains, which probably will be the finest t any running between Cincinnati and Chicago, will consist of seven steel coaches, two of which are to be sleepers, a dining car, and observation car, electric lighted throughout. The company Is making an advertlsinfeature out of the dining car accommodations and it is said a good meal will be procurable on the train as cheapjH ... v. t-uv.utr as it could be at a moderate priced hotel. The running time between Cincinnati and Chicago will be less than on any other road between these two (Continued on Fago Eight) v LI AVE the Palladium go with you on your vacation. Ten cents per week. Telephone your order before starting. Phone 2566.

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Mount Airy, Ga., July 6. This town claims the biggest baby for Its age in the world, in James Adolph Cody, 2 years and 3 months old. He weighs 122 pounds and has a waist line of 36 inches. x With the first indication, of the abnormal growth, his parents consulted a physician, and James Adolph was put under his care. All efforts to keep the baby on a diet suitable for one of his age proved unsuccessful to. keep his abnormal. The boy's measurements are: Height 39 Inches barefoot. Around head 24 inches. Neck 14 inches. Bust 33 inches. Around arm, above elbow 12 inches. Wrist 8 inches. Across hand, above thumb 64 inches. Around first finger, near hand 2Yz inches. CITY REFUSES TO REMOVE THE DIRT After Streets Have Been Scraped by Contractor for Oil Applications. The board of works, this morning, ruled against tho claim of Contractor Davis, who contended the city should haul away the dirt that is removed from the streets previous to the application of oil. Davis, who is under bond to oil any streets in the city on which oil is petitioned for by property owners, declares that there was a verbal agreement between himself and the board, when the contract was entered into, that the city should haul away dirt, but that he should cause the streets to be cleaned. He affirms that removing the dirt nearly eats up his profits. , Davis' application was refused as the city by the time all oiling is done, will have paid out about $700 for street and alley intersections. Mayor Zimmerman claims that Davis should be satisfied with this. He suggested raising the price but Davis claimed he could not get tho business. On Mayor Zimmerman's motion the city council will be recommended to permit North F street, east of Nineteenth street, to remain North F street Instead of Park Place, as suggested by one of the councilmen. If council passes an ordinance to change the street name the Mayor will veto it. The matter of rebuilding th Vnrth - D street steps, into the river valley, which have, it Is said, previously been maintained by the city, was referred io(fhe city attorney and engineer for investigation. Mayor Zimmerman beflieves that the steps are the property Ipjt. the Star Piano company instead of The C. & O. railroad was granted permission to erect a stand-pipe on North Third street. Some time ago similar permission was refused the company, but as the plans were alter ed so that no part of the pipe stands

on the street and so that the crossing iaL state and clearing-house examiners will not be blocked the board granted! is one of the important subjects that the company the desired right. jwiU receive attention.

Around thigh 25 inches. Above knee 16 inches. Below knee 13 inches. Ankle 9 inches. Around foot 8 inches. Length of foot 6 incheas. Across shoulders 15 inches. Baby sleeps well and is perfectly

healthy and very strong. His appetite is like that of a grown person. For breakfast he eats three and four large biscuits, with bacon gravy, butter and sirup, two glasses of buttermilk and two cups of coffee. Between breakfast and dinner he eats two more biscuits with butter and sirup. For dinner he eats a large plate of greens or any kind of vegetables with boiled bacon, cornbread, biscuit and a whol

hole pie, if he can get it, with twoj "There is no doubt in my mind," deasses of buttermilk. clared General Bixby today, "that the

gl Baby eats again between dinner and 1 supper and his supper is in keeping with breakfast and dinner. NINE BIRDMEN FLY OVER THE CHANNEL Great Circuit of Europe Air Race Was Shifted Back to France Today. , (National News Association) Calais, France, July 6. The great circuit of Europe air race for $94,000 in prizes, shifted back to French air today, when nine of the birdmen winged their way in their second flight across the English channel. Pierre Vedrine, who has been leading at all stages of the contest, was the first to leage Dover and the first to arrive here. He negotiated the trans-channel course in thirty minutes and 14 seconds. , Perfect weather greeted the aviators when they made ready to resume their flight this mornhig. There was scarcely breeze enough to ripple the surface of the' channel and, while a slight mist hung over the water, it was not sufficiently heavy to hinder the air racers. Following Vedrine, the other contestants arrived in this order: Beaumont (Ensign Conneau). Vidart, Gibert, Garros, Kimmerling, Tabuteau, Reneaux, (carrying a passenger with him); and Barra. The airmen got an early start, Vedrine arriving here at 5:03. A great crowd gathered to watch the approach of the birdmen and . ringing cheers greeted the contestants as they gracefully winged their . way landward. Some of them circled about in the air before landing in the aerodrome. MEETING OF BANK EXAMINERS IS ON (National News Association; Chicago, 111., July 6. National bank examiners from North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota, Wisconsin. Iowa. Michigan, Northern Indiana and northern Illinois rounded up in Chicago today for their annual conference. The examiners will spend two days in the discussion of methods with a view to arriving at the highest grade of efficiency in the examination of banks. Co-operation among nation-

Chief of United States Army Engineers Says the Ship's Three Powder Magazines Wrecked It.

MAYBE TORPEDO SET OFF THE MAGAZINES Maybe Spontaneous Combustion Was the Cause, but Bixby Cannot Assign Real Reason Now or Ever. (National News Association) Washington, July 6. That the destruction of the battleship Maine in ft Havana harbor on February 15, 1S9S, killing nearly 300 men and precipitating the Spanish-American war, was due to the explosion of the ship's three powder magazines, the cause of which never has been determined, is the opinion of General Bixby, chief of the United States army engineers, who has just returned from a personal in spection of the work of reclaiming the wreck. After carefully examining every por tion of the wreck which can now be seen. General Bixby arrived at the con elusion that there is no doubt that the wreck das due to an interior explosion. Whether this explosion was the cause of spontaneous combustion or other causes on the ship itself, or from a torpedo from without, it is impossible to tell, he says. The wreck is in Euch a condition that the primary cause will ever remain a mystery, he declares. Is An Authority. When General Bixby examined the wreck, 15 feet of the hull was above water. For ten days he carefully viewed every portion of the hull exposed to view and with' oars and long poles probed into the hidden depths below. He was able to determine the exact condition of the wreck, and how extensive the destruction had been. His knowledge of explosives and their action renders his opinion virtually conclusive. The wreck is in a much worse condition than was expected by army and navy officials, General Bixby declares. explosion was from the inside. "I am sure the destruction was caused by the explosion of the magazines. There are various proofs. A pornon of the deck over the magazines was blown upward and laid backward. After polling wiis oars over the place where the sTaes of the battleship next to the magazines ought to be, I could not find them. This means they were blown outward and are at the bottom of the harbor. No explosion from the outside could have caused the same results. The primary cause of the explosion will never be learned. It might have been spontaneous combustion, caused by the coal. If it was caused by a torpedo or mine from without, the fact looms large, and that is the principal havoc was done by the interior explosion. There is no doubt that it was this explosion which hurled up the decks and with them the mass of the crew. "The Maine wreck is now turned outward, but whether it was first turned inward, and then, by a second explosion, turned outward, cannot be determined." General Bixby said it is probably that the rear portion of the wreck can be pumped out and floated. The great part, however, will have to be taken to pieces and jiauled away. NO PENAL OFFENSES Are Charged Against the Indicted Packers. (National News Association) Chicago, July 6.-vThat the ten millionaire packers, under indictment for alleged restraining of trade in the formation of the beef trust, are facing punishment for misdemeanors and not for penal offenses, was revealed today by an attorney for the federal government. According to this attorney, a conviction means., that a fine may be imposed and provision started in the civil courts to dissolve the alleged trust under the anti-trust act. This was the reason the packers failed to appear in person when their pleas of not guilty were entered before Judge Carpenter. Had the charges been penal, they would have r been compelled to present the pleas In person. A PATENTED FUEL PLANT IS BURNED (National News Association) Indianapolis, July 6. Fire today destroyed the Indiana Pressed Fuel Company plant. The loss was $40,000. The product was a patented fuel compounded from slack, peet and flax. It made a fierce blaze. "

Is Certain to Be Cooler by Tomorrow and Many Communities Have Reported Lower Mercury Today.

CROPS IN INDIANA ARE NOT HURT YET Chicago Gets Rain and Heat Wave Is Partly Broken Dozen People Die in Gotham by Noon Today. (National News Association) Washington, July 6. Genuine relief from the hot wave is promised tomorrow. Many localities reported lower temperature today but the in creased humidity caused continued suffering. CROPS NOT HURT. Indianapolis, July 6. Damage to crops throughout Indiana by the pre sent dry, hot wave has not yet proved serious, according to reports received here. Wheat shows an average yield and corn promises a bumper crop, but oats are below the average. A LITTLE RELIEF. Chicago, July 6. Rain early today, partly broke the heat wave. The tem perature here today averaged six de grees lower than yesterday. Reports from various points attribute nearly 700 deaths to the intense heat, since July 2. Tempering breezes were reported general throughout the Middle West. Sections of the country east of Cleveland are still sweltering. ON COAST STATES. New York, July 6. A dozen deaths occurred here before noon today. Buffalo reported five deaths. At Baltimore seven suicides are attributed to the heat. E SMITH AHEAD In the Senatorial Race Held in Georgia. (National News Association) Atlanta, Ga., July 6. The senatorial situation is attracting much attention with the near approach of the date when the Georgia legislature will choose a successor to Senator Terrell in the United States senate. The balloting will begin next Tuesday and all signs point to a spirited contest. Senator Terrell, who was appointed to fill the seat of the late Senator Clay until the legislature could choose his successor, is a candidate for election to the full term of sx years. The leading candidate, however, appears to be Hoke Smith, wlfb was Secretary of the Interior under under President Cleveland and who has just been inaugurated for the second time as Governor of Georgia. Governor Smith, it is understood, has long aspired to a seat in the United States senate and his supporters are now preparing to make a strong fight for his election. On the other hand, the anti-Smith element, which includes many prominent politicians in all sections of the State, will leave no stone unturned to prevent his election. A number of other candidates for the toga are receiving more or less attention. One of those whom it is believed could make a formidable showing should be decided to make an active fight is Pleasant A. Stovall, the Savannah editor. "Tom" Watson, the former Populist leader; W. A. Covington, one of the authors of the state prohibition law, and several others have announced their candidacies. ELKS' CONVENTION AT ATLANTIC CITY (National News Association) Atlantic City. N. J., July 6. Headquarters for the national convention of the Elks were established at the Hotel Strand today by Grand Exalted Ruler Herrmann and other grand lodge officers of the order. The advance guard of delegates and visitors is putting in an appearance and an attendance of fully 100,000 is expected when the convention is opened Saturday. AMERICAN GIRL TO WED AN ENGLISHMAN (National News Association) London, July 6 Of interest to Americans in London was the wedding here todays of Miss Norah Davis of Philadelphia and the Rev. Percival F. Farrar. The bride is a sister of Richard Harding, the novelist, while Mr. Farrar is a son of the late Dean Farrar, and is rector of the church at Sandringham, which is attended by the King and Queen. THE WEATHER STATE Showers tonight or Friday; cooler tonight and also cooler in south portion. LOCAL Showers and cooler, Friday.

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Miss Alberta M. Hill, prominent young suffragist of New York, who has caused much discussion in "votes for women" circles by resigning the position of secretary to Mrs. Harriet Stan ton Blatch and to the Women's Po'.iti cal Union. Coming f rem Australia with the ideas she had learned in active campaigning there, she became the first secretary of the Political Union. Jealousy on the part of older women in the organization Miss Hill is only twenty-two made Miss Hill's position unpleasant. A SOCIAL OUTCAST Mrs. Bertha Manson, Victim of Dread Disease, Is Not Wanted Anywhere. What is termed by Dr. T. H. Davis to be an "outrageous condition" is the pathetic case of Mrs. Bertha Manson a victim of a serious blood disease Mrs. Manson,' who claims to be of Richmond, was taken to the Home for the Friendless last Monday night in a cab. On finding the nature of the dis ease officials of the home notified the home physician, Dr. J. E. Weller, who secured money from the township trustee so that a 606 treatment could be i given the woman at the Reid Memorial hospital. An operation was performed on the Fourth of July, and because of the great objection of inmates at the hospital, where the woman was quartered in the general ward, it was necessary to remove her back to the Home for the Friendless. is Too III to Work. Late Tuesday evening the woman was taken to the Home for the Friendless again in the city ambulance. There was nothing for the matron to do but to take her in, although the Home has no way to properly care for the woman. The township trustee says he cannot take her to the poor farm. The Reid Reid Memorial hospital superintendent refuses to take the woman back. She is not wanted at the Home for the Friendless, nor at the city pest house. The question confronting the i authorities is what to do with her, for she has no home, nor can she work. ' "It is what I call a outrage," declared Dr. Davis, today. "No one is particularly to blame, however, but it shows 'that there is no provision made for the care of dangerous blood and contagious" diseases in the city. It is a matter that ought to be looked Into. It seems:to me when the city pays considerable money each year, to support the hospital there should be a contagious disease ward there, or the hospital board should buy a small tent or two, so there would be no objection from other patients. Tou cannot blame the people at the hospital for kicking nor the matron at the home, for they can't take care of the disease. The only way I can see out of the trouble is for the Home or some charity workers of the city to donate a tent for the woman. It could be placed in the yard at the Home for the Friendless." Would Aid a Dog. "Now," said Dr. Davis,' "if a horse or dog would be injured in the street, there soon would be a sympathetic crowd gathered around. But here is a poor woman, bundled from the hospital to the home, back and forth, from pillar to post. Now where's your defunct humane society? Why can't somebody stir up the remains of that dead organization and make it do something? I hope its work doesn't apply only to animals. Human beings are infinitely more Important. Mrs. Elizabeth Candler, who Is on the board of trustees of the Home for the Friendless, said that the home Is always willing to take in homeless people. Whether they have money or cot makes no difference. - But, she declares, the home cannot care for such a disease as Mrs. Manson is afflicted with. She suggests that the patient be taken to the city pest house or the

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County Council Meets This

Morning and Takes Favorable Action Without Discussing the Bill. IS TO BE LOCATED IN THE JAIL YARD An Appropriation of $360 for Deputy for County School Superintendent Defeated by Council. Without dissent .the appropriation of $6,000 for the construction of a county insane ward and for its plumbing and heating appliances was passed by the county council on Thursday on first reading of the ordinance, but a $360 appropriation which pertained to a school office was turned down, as in the opinion of the councilmen it was not warranted. The insane ward will be an addition to the county jail. . Under a law enacted by the 1911 : legislature the board of commissioners authorized the expenditure of $360 a year for the employment of a deputy in the office of county superintendent, C. O. Williams. The deputy may be employed for a hundred and twenty days, no more, at $3 per day. Although the statute authorizes this expenditure there is an older one with which it conflicts, and which says that no money can be spent for such purposes without an appropriation by the council. When County Auditor, Demas Coe presented the appropriation as a means of protection. Councilman Harvey Cook, raised a protest and was supported by other members, except Councilman Worl, who, while he voted "no" did so under protest, Mr. Cook said that the council had no right to spend the people's money in this way. He thought County Superintendent Williams, who he said was anxious to have a deputy, should do like his predecessors and pay his office help out of his own pocket. His opinion was concurred In by the others. ; Went Through Easy. The appropriation for the insane ward at the county jail which was once disallowed, slipped through at Thursday's session as though It had been "cut and dried" beforehand. Judge Fox, of the circuit court addressed the councilmen. urging the appropriation and evidently they had been addressed personally in private by many others, as they did not even discuss the matter. The architect was" not there to explain and so the council inserted the clause that the appropriation must cover the construction and plumbing and heating systems in the building. The building will be constructed on the back end of the jail lot on South Second street. It will be a one story brick building with a basement under the entire building. Four ordinary patient's cells, one padded cell, a large bathroom, corridor and vestibules are provided for t the accommodation of the insane, who may be confined In this custodial ward while awaiting admittance to Easthaven. Only dangerously insane will be accommodated. The site was selected before the meeting. Advertisements for bids will be made at once and in case the bids are below the appropriation, the lowest bidder will be given the contract to start tt work mi the hnildinsr late this summer. ; OIn speaking of the present arrangement for caring for the insane Judge Fox referred to it as "barbarism refined." He referred to the number who had died at the county jail and how impossible it was to give the insane proper treatment when confined promiscuously with the other inmate in for misdemeanors and felonies. Soldiers' Burial Fund. , Councilmen complained against appropriating $300 to bolster up the soldiers' burial fund for which $1500 was appropriated last September. All bat $250 has been expended In paying out $50 upon the death of each Union soldier who could not be buried without distressing the family finances. The councilmen said they understood that often township trustees, who make (Continued on Page 8ix) - PALLADIUM OFFERS 1 PRIZE TO READERS The Palladium wishes to announce that it will offer a ten dollar cash prize for the best articls on "How to Spend a Week's Vaca Uon on $25." For those who wish to take part in the contest there are only a few requirements. . The article must not be over 250 words; write It plainly (typewritten if possible) and on one side of a sheet only. Mafl ft to the "Vacation Editor," Palladium, Richmond. Ind. The author of the best article submitted will be given the prize on Tuesday, July eleventh. Contest, closes July 6. ' f;