Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 36, Number 267, 3 August 1911 — Page 1

7) THE BICHMON PAIXABIXJM AND STJN-TEIiEGRAM. VOL. XXXVI. HO. 267. RICHMOND, IND., THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUSTS, 1911. SINGLE COPY 3 CENTS.

GOVERNMENT WILL GIVE GREETING TO TOGA III NEW YORK

Famous Japanese Sea Fighter 1 Will Arrive Late Today or Early Friday to Be Guest of Uncle Sam. LHIGH HONORS WILL BE EXTENDED HIM Order Affecting Foreigners' Inspection of Navy Yards or War Vessels Will Not Affect Togo.

NEW YORK, Aug. 3. A government cutter will meet the Cunarder Lusltanla when she steams up the bay late this afternoon or early tomorrow morning, and when the great ship lays i to at Quarantine, Captain Templin Potts, U. S. N. will spring aboard to i extend the greeting of President Taft 'to Admiral Count Helhachire Togo, chief of the naval staff of the Japanese Empire and victor of the battle i of the Sea of Japan, who will spend seventeen busy days in "doing" America. A series of receptions and entertainments have been arranged for the doughty Admiral and his staff by the most prominent people in the official life of the country, and but few royal , princes who have visited this country have been accorded such a welcome as will be extended to the Japanese i patriot. For weeks official Washington has been astir in anticipation of his coming. Dinners, luncheons, sight-seeing tours, visits to the military and naval stations in the vicinity of New York, and entertainments by prominent bodies of Japanese will claim his time. Wherever he may elect to go a cour- . teous Washington official will be at his 1 elbow to see that his every want Is 'satisfied. i A Round of Calls. Immediately after he is comfortably . ilocatfidLJn.a hotel aia1nr;,fienerI grant. J.-, 'in command at Governor's Island, will ' wait upon him and on his return visit will salute him with nineteen guns, i Admiral Togo will receive a like salute when he calls upon Rear Admiral E. C. C. Leutz, the commandant of the i New York navy yard, as well as from the warships that may happen to be in , port at the time and "are visited by 'the Japanese delegation. The program - for Admiral Togo's entertainment while in America has not as yet been made fully public, but It is known that he will be the guest of honor at many notable functions, among them a dinner at the White House and a luncheon given by Secretary of State Knox. The Nippon club

of New York and the Japanese Society of America will ulso be his hosts. The official announcement that Adtnlral Togo will not be affected by the order restricting the privileges of inspection of navy yards and shops by distinguished foreign visitors, is regarded as a criterion for judging the efforts that will be made to entertain .amuse and Instruct the representative of Japan. Toga an Exception. Three restriction orders were put Into effect to prevent any foreign visitor from gaining too much knowledge i of American navy yards and their i equipment and for a time it was feared that the rule would be applied to i&he admiral. This rule also applies to jour armored war vessels. Togo, howver, will have every opportunity to ( see all that is interesting in our naiVy yards and he will be welcomed taboard any battleships armored cruisers that happen to be in the vicinity. One of the most Interesting of his visfits of inspection will be paid to the iNew York Navy Yard where the new battleship Florida lies nearly completed. Japan has no battleship in commission or building that compares with khis giant fighter. Other points of interest in the Admiral's itinerary will be the navy and .army schools at Annapolis and West i Point respecUvely. Here the summer icadet camps will be paraded before ,him in review and displays of skill and prowess arranged for his entertainment. When he leaves New York Admiral (Togo will go to Washington where he (Will be entertained by President Taft, i Secretary of the Navy Meyer, and Secretary of State Knox, among others. He will also go to Mount Vernon ito place a wreath on the tomb of Washington and board one of the navy yachts for a tour of the great Indian Head proving grounds. He will be in Washington about four days. Returns to New York. From Washington Admiral Togo will return to New York and after a few days spent in receiving distinguished visitors, attending banquets and sightseeing, he will leave for Canada, via Niagara Falls. After seeing the Falls he will proceed to Vancouver, B. C, where he will board a trans-Pacitfc liner on his return to Japan. Commander Hiraga, the naval atatche of the Japanese Embassy In Washington will attach himself to the Admiral's staff Immediately upon his arrival and confer with Captain Potts iContiuued on Page Five.)

LAND MARINES III HAYTI TO PREVENT LOOTING THE CITY

German and British War ships Throw Men Ashore, but American Bluejackets Remain on Their Ships. FORTY WERE KILLED IN FIGHTING TODAY Fugitive President on His Loyal Gunboat Was Guarded Through Night by Foreign Ships of War. (National News Association) PORT-AU-PRINCE, Aug. 3. Marines from the German warship and the British warship were landed today as a result of looting begun by the revolutionists, who have captured the city. There has been several clashes between the rebels and the troops com manded by the committee of safety at various points throughout the city and more than forty have been killed. The worst lighting was in the outlying su burbs. WARSHIPS GUARD HIM. PORT-AU-PRINCE, Aug. 3. Despite the fact that one British and two American warships had their guns trained on the city, several attempts were made during the night to sink the boat "17 December" on which Pres ident Simon has taken refuge with his family. The revolutionists fired at the vessel with long range guns placed In the suburbs but their markmanship was poor. The revolutionists under General Firmin took over the city today while a "committee of safety" was in session attempting to find a way to reconcile the different rebels and trying to get the leaders to agree to an election. The success of the revolution is complete but what the outcome will be none can fortell. Foreigners are timid despite the warships in the harbor and an, appeal wasse nt .. to the command ers at dawn to land marines. Three Candidates. There are three avowed candidates for the presidency to succeed M. Simon. They are Gen. Filmin, Gen. Leconte.'and Gen. Fouchard, all of the revolutionist party, although Filmin is mainly responsible for the operations which brought about Simon's downfall. Although General Firmin, whose forces occupied the strongest position in the suburbs of the capital has promised not to invest the city, the greatest excitement prevailed during the night and there were frequent firing. The committee of safety is nominally In control of this city, directing affairs although the revolutionary leaders are the real dictators. Promises were given to French, German and American representatives that foreign interests and lives should not suffer and the rebel generals pledged that there should be no looting here. General suffering is experienced here on account of lack of water, general Peralte, a revolutionary leader, having cut all the mains. , Feeling against the Simon regime still runs high. Simon's high-handed methods of authority and his wholesale executions of political enemies are resulting in demonstrations that! show the depth of the peoples resentment. One Instance of this was the attack of Haytien women upon Mile. Celestina Simon, daughter of the president, as she fled with her father from the presidential palace. , Gen. Leconte, with 10,000 soldiers, spent the night at Gonaives. It was reported that Gen. Zamor and St. Juste, who have an army of about 10,000 men would join forces with Leconte. This was looked upon as a political as well as a military strategic move, as Zamor and St. Juste are reported to have broken with Firmin politically, on account of certain actions of the latter. CONCERNED OVER A THREAT TO CENSURE (National News Association) LONDON, Aug. 3. The government showed deep concern today over the threats of A. J. Balfour and Lord Lansdowne, leaders of the opposition in the house of commons and the House of Lords respectively, to move a vote of ceusure for the government on Monday because of abuse of constitutional privileges. As a result the cabinet held a meeting this morning when the matter was discussed at length and plans were made to meet the unionists' latest campaign against the veto bill. There was marked difference on the question of sending the veto bill into the upper chamber , without the creation of new liberal peers to pass it. fjA VE the Palladium go H with you on your vacation. Ten cents per week. r Telephone your order before starting. Phone 2566.

MAYOR AND WOMAN HAD VERBAL CLASH AT BOARDMETING His Honor Became Peeved When Mrs. Martha Harris Insinuated Saloon Keepers Were Being Favored.

HER STATEMENT WAS CALLED UNLADYLIKE Poor Street in West Richmond Injures Indianapolis Man's Auto and HeThreatens Damage Action. Becoming indignant over a remark made at the meeting of the board of works by Martha J. Harris, 103 North Tenth street, inferring that the board of public works was seemingly unfair and accorded saloon keepers better treatment than other property holders in the matter of assessments, Mayor Zimmerman exclaimed that such was not the case and declared that the remark was "very unladylike." Mayor Zimmerman took exceptions to her statement that the small property holder was not protected by the city officials but that the board of works was very careful not to take any confiscatory action against a saloon keeper's property. Already, she said, the board had taken an acre of ground and $300 from her for public improvements. No sooner had she made the remark than the mayor jumped to his feet. "Look here, I voted 'wet' but I resent such a remark as that," he fairly yelled. "Any saloon keeper who violates the law in any respect will be punished if charges are filed against him. The small property owner receives just as much protection as a saloon .keeper. I consider that remark , very unladylike and will not have it made to me without answer ing it";'.: vr;.-"."'-' "4vvv' v., v. It is predicted by Mayor Zimmerman that damage suits will be instituted in the Wayne circuit court against the city during the coming winter because of the fact that when cement alleys are constructed they are slanted so as to allow water to run in the middle. The mayor believes that center gutters should have been provided. It is likely that cement alleys to be constructed in the future will be made according to the mayor's plan. Notice was given the board this morning by an Indianapolis attorney that the city will be sued by J. H. Furnas in case Mr. Furnas is not reimbursed for money expended in repairing his automobile damaged by the alleged deplorable condition of Richmond streets. Mr. Furnas asks $250. The . notice says that the machine broke down July 1, in West Richmond on account of the bad streets. Mr. Furnas is an Indianapo lis banker and furniture manufacturer. The city attorney was instructed to write Mr1. Furnas and to secure more information about the accident. The question as to whether the socalled sanitary drinking fountains were really sanitary was raised by the mayor in connection with a letter received from Bertha G. Robie, re gent of the local chapter of the Daugh ters of the American Revolution. It is the opinion of the mayor that the fountains are unsanitary. He says that there is danger of spreading infectuous diseases, drinking at the fountains. He says that inasmuch as only cold water runs through the fountain that germs are not kiled. " The D. A. R. members were greatly disappointed when they were informed that the board of works and city council refused to place the drinking fountain, which the chapter is to present to the city, at Eighth and Main streets and decided to place it in the South Tenth street park. The letter from the regent stated that it had been the intention of giving a very elaborate fountain in case it was placed at Eighth and Main streets. At the suggestion of City Attorney Gardner rigid enforcement of the or dinance requiring residents or property holders to cut weeds on their premises, will be resumed. In case the property owners refuse to cut weeds the city will have it done and charge it to them. The request of the Entre Nous club to stretch streamers advertising its coming carnival on Main street was not granted. The club based its contention that the St. Andrew's church, Earlham college and the Fall Fesetival were granted that permission. The board decided that a carnival was not in the same class as other institutions and organizations who have been permitted to advertise. on Main street. Final assessment rolls were approved on the following resolutions: Wid- ; ening the alley between Hunt and i Ridge streets, from the first alley j i north of Linden avenue to Maple j street; widening of the alley . first weset of Hunt street from the first al-i ley north of Linden avenue to Maple; street and the condemnation of land' for right-of-way to construct a sewer from Maple street to School street.

Jap Admiral to

Admiral Count Heihachiro Togo, chief of the naval staff of the Japanese Empire who will spend seventeen days as the guest of the American people. Togo is aboard the Lusitania which will dock sometime today or early tomorrow.,

BARREL SHORTAGE BLOW TO FARMERS Great t Apple JCrop Assures ch Vinegar, but Barrel ; Market Cornered. Owing to the enterprise of J. E. SuMivan in purchasing all of the available whisky and vinegar barrels in the city, the price of home made vinegar will soar skyward this winter, notwithstanding the fact that apples are more plentiful this season than for many years past. The price in barrels has raised from $ .75 and $1 to $2 and $2.25. Because of the fine apple crop the farmers in this county had been contemplating selling a great deal of vinegar but it is impossible to secure barrels' Mr. Sullivan, it is said has purchased about 400 barrels. The scarcity of barrels is said by local saloonists to be due to the fact that a large number of towns and cities have been voted dry during the past year. Whisky is shipped to the dry towns in bottles now instead of in barrels as here-to-fore. A number of saloonists said that within a few days the price of barrels will go still higher. Farmers are in a quandary. Their apple trees are heavily laden and they are attempting to buy barrels of any character, in former years the saloonists have experienced no trouble in selling barrels but there has never been such a demand for them as at this time. . , ? '

Are You. Going? It is not more than once every quarter century tha a city is called upon to decide about a million dollar contract. . - The rest of the time is taken up in telling what ought to have. been done and in feeling the dissatisfaction with the way in which things were settled. We do not know of many people, net . investors in the companies which furnish the public utilities to the city of Richmond, that are satisfied with the way the contracts have been made in the past. . . . . . . Tonight a meeting will be held at the city building at which every citizen will have the right to satisfy his mind as to whether this is a good contract or not. Tonight it will be expected of the water works representatives to show conclusive evidence why this proposed contract should go through just as it is framed now and it will also be their chance to point out in what respect they have been done an injustice. The Palladium has done what it could to give its readers a fair idea . cf the contract. But it will be easier for the citizen, whether a tax- : payer or house renter, to get at the bottom of thi at a meeting in which the questions that arise in his mind can be brought up. . t There are a few citizens who merely rent their houses who do not pay the water bill directly, who do not realize that this is taken out of their rents. If the water bill of a landlord is raised, you , may depend on it that he will get the money out of his tenants. This water contract might easily raise all the house rents in Richmond.' It can raise the price of groceries and of many other commodities. . Even if it is a fraction of a dollar it will be more than a few dollars when this is all added up if the rates are raised and taxes are raised. Everyone knows that the rates of a private utility company axe in effect taxes collected by private individuals for a private profit. The only representation that the citizen ever gets is in the mak- ' ing of a contract. . There will be a meeting tonight in the council chamber of the city halL Are you going?

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IS TYPH0!D MONTH Health Authorities Issue List of "Don'ts." Health, authorities say that August is the month most dreaded by them, as it is known as "typhoid fever month." A number of precautions have been madex public and the authorities are urging everyone to follow them in order to prevent the contraction of the disease or the transmission of it. Among some of the "don'ts" are: Don't eat fruits or vegetables which are not clean or ripe. Don't drink water from dug wells in the country or city unless the water is boiled. Don't swim or bathe in streams where there is any danger of contracting the disease. Don't allow your premises to become unclean or unsanitary. During the month of July there were four cases of typhoid fever. ENGINEER FELL FROM CAB, BREAKING NECK , ... (National News Association) LAFAYETTE, Ind., Aug. 3. While getting ready to go out on his run. Samuel Marlow, an engineer - on the Monon, fell from , the cab of the locomotive at South Hammond early today and broke his neck. His home is in Lafayette. He leaves a wife and several children. WILLIAMS' ESTATE Inventory of the personal property left by the late Jesse M. Williams a former prominent business man was filed in the .Wayne probate court on Thursday. It consisted of a life insur ance policy of the value of $3,786.16

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COUNTY BUDGET IS BEING ESTIMATED New.: Registration Law May 'Make Increase in Appropriations. In making up the budget of the es timated expenses of the different departments of the county government for 1912. which will be submitted by the board of county commissioners to the county council at its September session, county officials are estimat ing that it will take no less to run the government next year than , was appropriated for this year. Before the end of the year, it is anticipated, Wayne county will have paid out in the' neighborhood of $160,000, but whether the expenses of 1912 will be more or less, it is yet too early for the county officials to forecast. Especially is this true because of the new voters' registration law, which promises to be a very heavy expense for Wayne county. In the state - at large it is expected the expense of enforcing this law will aggregate within a half million dollars. The commissioners may increase appropriations for some of the departments of the county, but as yet have not determined what their action in this regard will be. The commissioners are now on their annual inspection of the roads and bridges in the county. "Just what the board will recommend to the council to appropriate for roads and bridges will depend on their condition as found on this .trip. ' '" In regard , to the new .registration law,the -county auditor has estimated the expense .will be , i n 4the neighborhood' of $3000, but this is only a calculation' and may "be- way below the actual expense. The new "law was passed to prevent election frauds by peo ple voting twice. No man is eligible to vote unless he has been registered and he can only vote in the district in which he is registered. There are three members "on the ' board, which must hold May, September and October sessions. - Just how much time will "be required for each monthly session is yet to be determined, but each member of the board "will receive $4 per day which he . actually serves as a board mem ber. There are sixty live voting precincts in the county and necessarily there will be this number of registration boards, so it can be easily understood how exeensive the registration j law probably will prove to be, even '.though it may assure clean elections. MANY BREAKFASTS BURNED UP TODAY (National News Association) BUFFALO, N. Aug. 3 Thousands of breakfasts went up in smoke and flames when a fire early this morning did about $25,000 damage to the plant of the United Cereal Mills, limited, manufacturers of breakfast foods. The i fire started in an eight hundred bushel bin cf cornflakes and soon the bin was like a roaring furnace. THE WEATHER STATE AND warm. LOCALContinued

WIS REPORT

MAURY MADE

PADDED ONE? To the Close Observer It Appears the Statement of the Water Works Expert Was Overloaded One. COMPANY CREDITED $55,000 FOR PIPES These Were Paid for by the Citizens Company Is Also Credited with $34,495 for "Pavements."

IS THIS PADDING? Present Worth Item 13 Service pipes. $ 55.78S.02 Item 5 Pavements ... 34,495.53 Item 15 Pavements over service pipes ...... 10,518.96 Item 39 Average interest on 1& years construction at 2Vi per cent Interest .... 31,898.74 Item 41 Operating capital 10.000.00 Total .. ............. $142,6985

Depreciation has been taken into consideration In the above figures. Has the Maury report on the valuation, of the Richmond City Water Works been padded over $100,000.00.' $55,785 has been added to the valuation in the Maury report under Item 13 for "service pipes. "Service pipes" be it known, are paid for by the citizens of Richmond, according to the contracts that are in force now. v-r' - So that the addition of this item of $55,000.00 means that after the citizens have paid for thetr service pipes they were taken by faury and added to his report as things that the citizens will have to pay for again, it the city buys the plant according to the Maury valuation. . Another item which Is in question in the Maury report is No. 5. $34,495.53 is charged as "pavements" , A Little Indefinite "Pavements' is a little indefinite-' the mains were laid before the city of Richmond ever macamized its streets or before Main street was laid. It is possible that this item may be construed as being the cost of the steet paving which it is the duty of the company to relay when a main has to be relald but even the depreciation fund is supposed to take care of the wear and tear." If the improvement of streets makes the ' value of the plant greater the improvement, say of North E street, will automatically add to the going concern value of the water works. A similar item for "pavements" over "service pipes" amounts in Item 15 to $10,518.96. As the cost of relaying the pavements is paid by the citizen the officials tonight may be asked to show why the Maury report should include this when ther is no apparent Justification in the present contract. Must Be Estimates As the books of the company up to a few years ago were not kept in such fashion as to show any such figures it is understood that Mr. Maury must have estimated these whether he estimated them at the suggestion of the company or whether he was familiar with the present contract .with the Richmond City Water Works is not known. But these items form another very queer part oL the Maury report on which Mr. Cates. speaking for the company has said the company would be very glad to settle. " . $31,898.74 is set aside in an unintelligible item in tho Maury report, "Av erage Interest on -1 years construc tion at 2V4 Per cent interest." Whaf this Is very few people have any-idea. V It is supposed that Maury, took the present value of ' the plant figurine it at $600.000 this j "interest" : does not go much over $20.000 nor does 4t equal the $31,898.74 even when the whole - valuation ..including the going concern value is added. $10,000 is stuck in for "operating capital.' - - ' r: 'V ! Therefore if the city buys on the basis of the Maury report it will be buying purely imaginary value along with what the citizens have already paid for. - ; ' ; A great many , people have the Idea that the Maury report is the actual physical valuation of the water works. As a matter of ' fact these estimates were arrived at by Maury s -working with the engineer retained by the war ter works company. s , ' ABSTRACT OF TAXABLES WAS CORRECT CoSinty Auditor Demas Coe, - on Thursday was notified by the state officials that the abstract of taxables in the county, furnished ' by the auditor some time ago, was found to be correct. , , - -