Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 36, Number 261, 28 July 1911 — Page 1

3D FiyEJLABI BUSINESS OFFICE PHONE 2566 AND SUN-TEMGRAM. VOL. XXXVI. K0.2CH. RICHMOND, IND., FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 28, 1911. SINGLE COPY 2 CENTS NEW YORKER FIGHTS A CHOLERA EPIDEMIC CITIZENS WANT

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Investiture of the King's Son PERKINS ALLEGES M'llAMARA PAPERS ARE HOW MISSING WATER WORKS CONTRACT BIDS

CHOSE COMMITTEE FOR STOCK SALES - in ran line Definite Action for Financing Proposed North and South Road Through Richmond Is Undertaken.

THREE ROUTES ARE

BEING CUINSliJfcKfcU And trie Route to Be Select ed Will Be the One on Which the Most Stock Is Sold by Promoters. Today's appointment of a committee to promote a stock raising campaign for the Richmond and Eastern traction company, a project being backed by prominent business men of Richmond, marks the beginning of the realization of. the dream of the Commercial club for a north and south lnternrban line through Richmond. The committee Is composed of A. H. Bartel, S. E. Jones. W. F. Starr, D. W. Comstock and C. W. Jordan. This committee will go to all the towns on the - proposed routes of the traction line, confer with business men and obtain information as to the probability of stock sale. Local committee will be appointed by the general committee. Three routes have been considered by (he committee. One route passes through towns having a total population of 11,704. The total town population of each the other two routes Is 10,271. East Route Y-l .1 I c 1 ... AI1. ruruauu, oaiuiuuiua, oaieiu, nucuVille, Castle, New Lisbon, Union City, Bartonla, Spartansburg, Glen Kara, Bethel. White Water, Cox's Mills. Richmond. - West Route Portland, Collet, Summit., Ridgeville, Clark Stone Station, Winchester, Wood Station, Snow Hill. Lynn, Fountain City, Chester, Richmond. r - : Central Route'"'"-"'" w. l . . i l a ft til yi tie, New -Lisbon, Union City, Salem, Bartonla. Spartensburg, Crete, , Arba, Bethel, White " Water, Cox's Milts, Richmond. - The route selected by the stockhold ers of the company will be the route along which the moat stock can be sold. The eastern and central routes as is show above, are similar, until the line reaches Spartansburg. These routes touch Union City, where business men want the line. The other line does not pass through Union City but touches largert towns. The line will extend, in general, from Portland to Harrison, Ohio. City Engineer Fred Charles has mapped out the route which the line will take below Richmond. The stockholders are: Adam ti. cartel. Dr. II. C. Burcham, E. H. Cates, D. W. Comstock. S. W. Gaar, A. D. Gayle, A. W. Gregg, John J, Harrington, H. C. Hasemeier, Edgar F. Hiatt, John R. Howard, Sharon E. Jones, Chas. W. Jordan, Geo. H. Knollcnberg, George W. Wilier, Lee B. Nusbaum, Wm. H. Quigg and Wm. F. Starr. The capital stock of the company is fixed at $50,000, but it will be necessary to raise nearly $2,000,000 to build the road. From present prospects there seems to be little doubt as to the success of the venture. EXPERT TO SPEAK (National Xews Association) Grand Rapids. Mich.. July 28. Dr. Charles Pranard of Faris, director of the Bureau of Assurance and Social Providence of the French Government heads the list of speakers at the nineteenth annual meeting to be held here next week by the United States League of Local Building and Loan Associations. Others who will address the convention are F. N. Penniston of Hancock. Mich., Arthur H. Murdock of Omaha. Clay W. Holmes of Elmira, Charles Werno of Chicago. E. L. Kessler of Charlotte, C. A. Royse of Terre Haute. John C. Butterfield of Jersey City and R. L. Prophit of Monroe. La.

YOUR. WATER BILLS.

Address k Is your house metered?.. .- If so, what is average water bill for six montns? How many rooms t Do you have the following. Water Closet? ...... City water In bath? , City water in wash stand? Do you sprinkle lawn or street? . Approximate width of lot (Pleas fill out and mail to the Palladium)

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Investiture of King's Son as Prince of Wales. This shows the scene at Carnarvon Castle on July 13. wnen tne ancient ceremony of investing the King's son as Prince of Wales took place. King George is here shown presenting the Prince to the people of the principality on the steps of the King's gate of the castle.

FIND MISSIONARY DEAD III HER BED Miss Lydia : Piker Fountain City, Died Today Father Died Wednesday. '.(Palladium 8peclai v'J 1 .J Fountain City, Ind . July 28 Wednesday, ElamTIkeT 84," a prominent New Garden township farmer, died here from a complication of diseases. This morning his daughter, Miss Lydia Ellen Pike, 51, superintendent of the Friends' Missionary school. Matamoras, Mexico, who has been here caring for her father, was found dead in bed, a heart disease victim. Saturday morning the funeral services of both father and daughter will be held at the New Garden Friends' church at 10 o'clock, and they will be laid to rest in the local cemetery in adjoining graves. The deaths of Mr. Pike and Miss Pike within two days time has been a great shock to their many friends in this part of the cotfnty. Miss Pike when she retired last night was apparently in good health. Miss Pike was born near Fountain City in 1860 and attended the grade school here. Then she graduated from Earlham college and the Indiana Nor mal school. She taught school for sev eral years in this state after graduaw ing from the latter institution, then became actively engaged In church work and was sent as a missionary to Mexico by the Friends church. For a year she was connected with the Friends Mission at Victoria, Mexico, but for the past five and a half years has been connected with the mission school at Matomoras, Mexico, of late in the capacity of superintendent. She returned to Fountain City six months ago to care for her father, having obtained leave of absence." Misa Pike was one of the 'best known Friends in. Indiana and members of that church from various parts of. the. state will probably attend the funeral ' of herself and father. One brother, Llley Pike, this place, survives. DISCUSS, RECIPROCITY (National News Association) ; Chatham, Ont., July 28. Arrangements have been concluded for a. big Liberal Conservative meeting here tomorrow, when prominent speakers will be present to address the farmers and other residents of this section on the proposed reciprocity agreement with the United States.

DESIRES NEW PARK NAMED FOR MORTON

Judge Fox's Suggestion- Is Meeting with f Approval of Many Citizens. .- "The city's new. park on the Hawkins property should be. named, by all means, 'Morton Park. w ; 'j. - This was the suggestion made by Judge Henry C. Fox to Secretary Jordon of the Commercial Club, the efforts of which organization has made the new park possible. ' " " The park company is desirous of receiving suggestions for the name of the new park and Judge Fox was the first citizen to make one, and there are hundreds of people in Richmond and Wayne county who agree with him. "In nearly every city parks are named after their honored citizens, or citizens of the state in which the city is located for instance, Lincoln Park in Chicago, said Judge Fox. "Indiana's war governor was not a resident of Richmond, but he was a citizen of Wayne county, and can you show me a citizen of this county, living or dead, who was more distinguished or more deserving of a memorial, such as a park named in his honor, than Oliver P. Morton a fearless, honest, patriotic and brilliant American; the man who saved Indiana to the union and stood shoulder to shoulder with Abraham Lincoln in the dark days of the Civil War." . Judge Fox stated he had told twenty or thirty people that he thought the new park should be named after Morton and that every one was enthusiastic over .his suggestion. It is probable that 'there will be a united effort to have the park So named. , "It has been suggested that the park be named 'Fleecydale, " Judge Fox remarked with a smile. "That's a dude name. Too frivolous, by far." SENATE IS GIVEN LECTUREJBY KERN Solons Are Told They Are : Too Extravagant with . the Public Money.' - - i (Palladium Special) Washington; July "28. Sena tor. Kern lectured the senate on economy when a resolution .was reported, from .the committee on contingent funds,' authorizing the t appointment of messengers to committee. Kern said many members on the Democratic side were elected on an economy 'platform and he proposed and was endeavoring to enforce strict economy. He declared many senate committees were useless and existed only to afford chairmanships for senators. -Referring to the committee on the Five Civilized tribes of Indians, Kern said the senate might just as well have a committee on the Lost Tribes of Israel or the prehistoric man. Bristow said the resolution was in the' interest of reform. Kern declared that the "spoils system in the senate would be worty of a city council or a state legislature." The acrimonious coliquy waxed hot. Reed Dixon. Kern and Bristow participating.

Detective, on Trial for Black- , hand Threats, Says His Proof of McNamara's Innocence Was Stolen.

AGENCY RAIDED BY POSTAL OFFICIALS Says Charge Against Him Was Made by Burns to Prevent Him Aiding1 McNamara. (National News Association) Erie, Pa., July 28. Startling charg es of "planting evidence" and stealing other evidence was made today by Gilbert B. Perkins, head of the Per kins Detective agency, which until recently maintained bureaus in Indianapolis, Pittsburg. Philadelphia and elsewhere. Perkins and his superintendent, Charles Franklin, are' on trial here charged with sending blackhand letters to millionaire Strong of Erie. Perkins declared his agency had been engaged to determine whether J. J. McNamara had any knowledge of the explosions which partly wrecked the Caldwell and Drake Jbuilding at Co lumbus, Indiana, the Omaha court house and the Times building at Los Angeles. Perkins asserted that re ports of his investigations, proving McNamara was not connected with these outrages were locked up at his agency in Indianapolis when the raid on the Perkins agency was made. He said that after the paper ha been confiscated and were finally returned by the postal inspectors the explosion investigation report had been abstracted. , Perkins declared - the blackhand charges now being tried were trumped mg McNamara to prove his innocence. Perkins declared he Is satisfied that the pieces of paper ; alleged to have been found on his person when arrested were "planted" by the "same" people who planted the dynamite in the building where McNama's headquarters were, and in other places." The Perkins-Franklin case will probably go to the jury late today. DOCTOR DAVIS HAS SEWER JASjEMEDY Should Be 2 or 3 Standpipes Tapping Sewer in Every Square, He Says. City health officer, Dr. T. Henry Davis, declares that to regulate sewer gas there is but one method which has been found of value. He probably will make his recommendations to the board of works, which body has heard many complaints this summer about the obnoxious odor arising from the manholes located in nearly every square in the city. - ' Dr. Davis says that if the city will arrange with three or four property owners in each square to place stand pipes outside their homes, these pipes to tap the sewers, the obnoxious gases will pass out through pipes above the level of the roofs. As the ga&is lighter than air it will continue to rise. He says that in cities where this is done the arrangement has worked satisfactorily. It requires no great expense. In some places, the health officer says, the property owner who permits these stand pipes, usually of galvanized iron, is given a rebate on his proportion of the cost of the sewer. TO BE EXPLAINED To the Palladium: In your issue of the 27th you compare Section III of ear new proposal and Section IX of the present ordinance, stating that an omission or change has been made. This is true the words , "at the pressure maintained on other parts thereof have been omitted. You have also asked that Mr. Cates or Mr. Dill give a reason for this and' other changes from the present ordinance, and have further - stated that if no explanation or answer was given it would be assumed that the changes were made for reasons best known to this company. If the Palladium and the public will permit us to wait until the meeting arranged for next week, we will be pleased to explain why such changes were made. We wish to discuss these matters thoroughly, and believe that the public will better understand our position and proposal if it is taken up as a whole. Howard A. DilL

Dr.' Ernest J. Lederle, Health Commissioner of New York, who is one of the most active in conducting the fight against a threatened epidemic of cholera in the metropolis. CITY TO PURCHASE A STREET FLUSHER 1 , Local Officials Impressed with the Machine They Saw at New Castle. i The board of . works, accompanied by Councilman H. H. Engelbert, went to New Castle yesterday afternoon to witness a demonstration of a street flushing machine, recently purchased As a result council will probably be advised to appropriate $600 remaining in a fund set apart ' to buy street sprinklers and sweepers, and to transfer a sufficient amount from the street department appropriations to purchase the flusher. The Studebaker, the ed, costs $1100, while the St. Louis machine, of which the Indianapolis street department has bought eight, costs '$900. President Hammond, of the board ' of wbrks,' suggested the purchase of a flusher after visiting Indianapolis, last week, where he saw several of the machines in action. Although more expensive it is probable that council will be recommended to buy a Studebaker. This machine is operated by a gasoline engine,-which forces the water through the , flusher at a high pressure, absolutely cleansing the paved streets, for which it is used. The machine has practically the same dimensions of an ordinary sprinkling wagon. The tank Is Bteel of 750 gallons capacity. The driver controls the pressure by a lever, managing the horses at the same time. It is said that by use of the pump water may be thrown to a height of 75 feet with a fire hose. In some cities in cases of emergency, the flusher has been made to do duty as a Are fighter. It Works Quickly. Mr. Hammond says that in eight hours 24 squares of paved streets may be cleaned thoroughly. One, of, the chief reasons for the prospective purchase is the fact that merchants have objected strenuosuly to the dust raised by the dry street sweeping devices, which have been used by the city for several years. Both hand and horse sweepers are used by the city. Besides creating such a nuisance through dust, the dry sweepers are not thorough, according to Hammond, as they merely remove the top layer, of. dirt from the street. The flusher ; washes all dirt, and germs into the sewers. It combined the duty of flushing Jthe streets and sewers, for, a large amount of water is sent-through the -sewers. It requires a little over a minute to fill the task of the sprinkler. The Studebaker machine is superior to the St: Louis style in that a uniform pressure is maintained by. the former, as the latter works on the gravity plan the pressure decrease in proportion to the decrease of the height of water in the tank.. .Hammond says a machine will probably be brought to Richmond, for, a demonstration. within a few days. In this case there will be a number of representatives of other cities in the state present to witness the demonstration. 1 DOCTOR ARRESTED FOR A VIOLATION Dr. S. C. Markley was. arrested last night for viola tins the-right and left traffice ordinance at Sixth and Main street, by Patrolman Menke. Dr. Markley was running a Westcott touring car. Through, an attorney Markley entered a plea of -not guilty and the case was set for tomorrow morning. On a plea of guilty to grand larceny, Harry Duewson, a negro, charged with stealing $49 worth of clothes from Mark Roberts, also colored was bound over to the circuit court by Mayor Zimmerman this morning. Thomas Price was fined for drunk. He aws arrested by Patrolman Vo-gelsong.

At Open Meeting Last Evening, M. J. O'Brien and Henry

Gennett State Their Opinions that the City Should Work on Basis It Has a Commodity to Sell to Bidders for the Desirable Contract.

RICHMOND WATER WORKS CO. NOT HEARD

Too Much Time Taken for Discussion of Campfield Prop

osition to Hear Statements of. Other Company Good Rates First, Municipal Ownership, Second, Was Statement Made by Mayor.

INCIDENTS OF THE MEETING. Business men become interested In city affairs. Demand for business methods on part of city in disposing of lta commodity the water works contract. Proposals of Richmond City Water Works company and E. M. Campfield Co., declared impracticable by citizens who ask rejection of both bids. Administration shows its hand, Zimmerman daclaring for what Is best for consumers first, and municipal ownership afterwards. City Attorney Gardner points out jokers in option clause of purchase in the E. M. Campfield proposal, declaring the city would hardly agree to such a proposition. R. C. W. W. Co. proposal hearing postponed one week.

Climax produced climax last evening in the council chamber at the open hearing of the K. M. Campfield Company's proposal for the city water works contract, before the board of works, council and seventy-five or more interested citizens. The debate was general, several business men advising the administration and council to closely apply business methods in disposing of its commodity the water works contract. A most hopeful sign was the presence of several, showing the citizens are taking enough interest in what the city is considering to attend meetings. The addresses of M. J. O'Brien, a prominent manufacturer and member of the city finance commission, and Henry Gennett, president of the StanPiano company, were full of advice, they putting the proposition squarely p to the"city and" tne 6nSumem Intimation , by administration officials leads to the belief that in due time, after full consideration of both propositions the city, will reject both proposals and readvertise for bids. Spoke For an Hour. ' Attorney A. C. Lindemuth for the E. M. Campfield company' spoke for nearly an hour on his company's proposal, explaining the ortion clause of purchase, the reduced rates and other advantages offered by his company in comparison to what the R. C. W. W. Co. offers. He was interrupted several times by the city attorney who pointed out what he considered the imprac tical features of the Campield company's optional purchase clause, name ly the amount the city would pay for the plant by this method, and the pos sibility of the city loosing what it had invested, by the company selling out and its assigns reorganizing. The city attorney also called the attention to what he deemed illegal features of purchase by such a method. Henry Gennett, a member of the Water Works investigating committee of the Commercial CluJ. referred to his committee's recommendations. In the first place, he said, the committee thinks both propositions are Impractical. He said that to him personally the argument last evening appeared to be as to which proposition was the best. He felt that it was the city's duty to find out what was best for the city and contract along such lines. The committee thinks, he said, that if the city has anything to sell it should fix the price of its commodity thus doing as manufacturers do. He said the committee believed that since the R. C. W. W. Co., had its investment here and already was established In the business, that it could contract with the city to the best advantage. He said the committee advocated this and found no need of going further into the matter. He referred to the complaint of the people that the price of living was continually growing higher and higher and he believed the city would do best to contract for, good water, plenty of it and at the cheapest possible rate. As to the Purchase. In regard to the purchase of the plant, he touched on this subject very lightly but said the committee believed the city should not regard the investment from the standpoint of what it would be guaranteed it would receive in profits, but from the standpoint that if the city does become a co-partner it should be prepared to invest in the venture the same as a private individual inasmuch as investors always assume a certain amount of risks. Attorney Lindemuth was quickly to his feet and in answer to the conclusion of the Commercial Club commit tee said that because the present com pany was already in the field it could offer the best rates, declared such a proposition bumped against a stone wall. If the city rejects the bids, the E. M. Campfield company will : demand Its rights and it will submit another bid upon readvertlsement for proposals for furnishing the city with water. The law regulates such things, not the desires of the city officials, he said.

M. J. O'Brien, the watch dog of the city treasury, was called upon by Mayor Zimmerman. He arose and tartly stated, "I don't believe the Campfield company has anything to sell. It simply wants a commodity to sell to some one else. It wants that commodity donated by you." . , Called It Absurdity. He then pointed out the absurdity of the city giving away so valuable an asset His point was that in the town

ship the company had to purchase its right of way. In Richmond it uses the city streets and pays nothing for this privilege excepting in taxes on Us property. I believe the city should ascertain the total,, number of . square feet occupied by mains in this city and that the city should be paid, for this space, just the same as the company najraJEox.A private rtghtot way. . - It is time to call a halt -on the city borrowing money, he said,' His illustration of this was that in three years the city will pay off $15,000 on -which it has paid $11,000 In interest. On every dollar taken In la taxes the city pays 6 per cent out in Interest on if 8 borrowed money, or $9,000 a year. To borrow money to acquire a co-partnership in a water works company, Mr, O'Brien said would mean the taxes of Richmond would jump beyond the legal tax rate, $1.25 per $100. , He called the administration's attention to its pledge to be an economic administration and to pay the city's debt, not to involve it in more Indebtedness. ; ', V ' i Mayor Zimmerman declared that both Mr. Gennett and Mr. O'Brien had voiced sentiments of the administra tion and he said that while the admin istration had not before made known its intentions, it had been the idea all along to hear both proposals and then get together on the propect. He said the price of the water was the first consideration, . the ownership of the plant second. He says that the city wants to own the water works plant and in time it will own the plant without involving iself In any great Increase in tax or the borrowing of money. r - , Rejection is Expected. In view of the fact that the administration does not favor the optional clause of purchase of the Campfield company and finds great objection to the rates proposed by the ft. C. C. W. W. Co.,' it is taken to mean that eventually the city will reject both proposals and readvertise for bids. The time consumed in the arguments on the Campfield proposal was nearly two hours and Howard Dill, superintendent, and C. EL Shiveley. attorney for the Richmond City Water Works company, asked their hearing be postponed until next week. Wednesday evening likely will be the time set for this hearing. . While Attorney Lindemuth held the floor, he had occasion to refer to Secretary Jordan's estimate of what the city would pay for the plant by the Campfield plan. The secretary of the Commercial Club figured it would be in the neighborhood of $1,600,000 and Mr. Lindemuth commented, "such figures are always interesting." - . Shortly afterwardsn city attorney Gardner interrupted with the statement that under the Campfield proposal the city's investment would proportionately be larger than the company's and its profits proportionately much smaller. He dismissed the question by saying the city would hardly take stock on such terms. He said there is a possiblity that the city would lose all by stock joggling and manipulation. The fact that the city would become a co-partner by the Campfield plan does not preclude the possibility of the sale of the plant within twenty five years by the company. In such, a case the city stood to loose what it had invested each year. THE WEATHER STATE Showers tonight and Sata. day, probably followed by cooler. .