Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 36, Number 312, 17 September 1911 — Page 1

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r VOL. XXXVL HO. 313. RICHMOND, IND., SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTE3IBER 17, 1911. SINGLE COPY 3 CENTS. I i ill OFFERS COMPROMISE; STUDY DESERTS PALLADIUM YOUNG FORGER WAS CAUGHT BY POLICE SATURDAY EVENING AMERICAN CITIES PROBLEMS ARE TO BE INVESTIGATED NINE PERSONS WERE KILLED AND FOURTEEN WERE INJURED IN AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT

SUPT, DILL MAKES COMPROMISE OFFER SATURDAY EVENING IfTells Y. M. B. C. Committee He Is Willing to Offer Lower Water Rates to Pre- ; vent Book Probe. jr. ays examination of books not fair

Committee Members Disagree with Him and Vote to Recommend Council to Pursue Such Policy. ; At a meeting of the water works fcommittee of the Young Men's Busi- , fcess Club last evening, H. A. Dill, superintendent of the Richmond City Water Works, appeared and asked a hearing before the committee. He charged It would be unfair to compel the company to present its books and make public certain items, as the city has demanded. In presenting the matter to the corataittee Mr. Dill stated that he was api pearing before the company on his own responsibility, and that the directors of his company knew nothing of the request he' had made to the .committee; that they had not had a meeting since council had voted to compel the company to bring in its books, and that anything he might ay was his own personal opinion. Mr. Will also said that he had come before the committee to see if it was possible to have a better understanding of the company's side of the water .Works question, and,. If . agreeable to allow the company to present a modified proposition on a new contract. " Admits Unpopularity. He said that he believed the proposition which the company had presented, had met with' general disfavor, , mostly, he thought, on account of the Increased rates. These rates. Mr. Dill aid were decided on so the city might share in the earnings of the company, and as they had, been requested or rather given to understand that the city wanted that sort of a proposition. It was gotten up to meet the condition. But, Mr. Dill said, since presenting ithe proposed contract he had found out that the people did not want such a contract, so the company was ready to make another proposal with lower rates and eliminating certain objectionable clauses." ' The committee explained to Mr. Dill that they did not think the city was in a position to reject or accept any proposition or even entertain another one without first making an examination Into the affairs of the company 'to determine what amount of money had actually been Invested and what the 'earnings of the company had been , under the present rates. Mr. Dill objected to. this privilege on the ground , that It would be unfair to the company to make public its secrets and earnings as "competitors could take the figures and use them to the company's detriment." The committee then explained to Mr. Dill, that as his company was a monoply, and as a public service corporation it was the right of the people to know what amount of dividends had been paid out of the money collected from the people on the present rates. Mr. Dill contended that the valuation should be based on the cost or reproduction according to 'the Maury and Albert report. Proposal Turned Down. The committee has taken the ground that the valuation of the plant should be determined before any further action, and that the company ! should present its books and make public the actual amount of money Invested, and that a reasonable amount of depreciation be deducted from that amount as the actual valuation. On this valuation the committee contends that the rates should be made so as to give a fair return on that valuation. It was with this In view that the committee made Its recommendation to council last month. After Mr. Dill's statement the committee voted unanimously to not deviate from Its original proposition, and to go on record to urge the city to continue with its plans to make a thorough examination Into the affairs of the company. iBANDITS ROB, AND MURDER PAYMASTER (National News Association) PITTSBURG. Sept. 16. Paymaster Steen of the Pittsburg Coal company was held up and murdered near Woou- ' Tills. Pa., this morning. The bandits secured a large sum of money which Bteen was carrying to the mines to pay off the employes. v A posse has atarted la pursuit of the robbers.

T, J, STUDY JOINS LEGAL STAFF THAT R,CMEMPLOYS Local Attorney Ignores Retainer Contract with Palladium and Unites with the Corporation.

HENRY U. JOHNSON STILL STANDS PAT Observes His Contract with Palladium and Views It in a Different Light Than Study Does. $200. Richmond, Ind., Dec. 3, 1909. Received of Rudolph Leeds, Two Hundred Dollars, retainer for legal services to be hereafter rendered in the matter of purchase by the City of Richmond of Water Works, character of franchise to be granted Water Works company, etc. (Signed) Henry U. Johnson. (Signed) Thos. J. Study. Thomas J. Study former city attorney through a misunderstanding or a misinterpretation of a contract binding him to the Palladium for his advice and counsel in the water works matter has accepted a contract with the Richmond City Water Works company and has become one of the now already large army of legal advisors of that company. On December 3d, 1909, R. G. Leeds, editor of the. Palladium, foreseeing the"probableactlon of the Richmond City Water Works in the present fight with the city for a new contract, retained T. J. Study and H. U. Johnson as attorneys for the Pallaium to assist the city administration in its fight for an equitable contract with the Richmond City Water Works company. Mr. Leeds through his representatives made a contract with Mr. Study which was supposed to be binding on both parties in the water works matter. It was supposed at that time that the company would try to hire all available legal talent and for that reason the Palladium retained the attorneys above mentioned to head off any move by the company to cornef the entire local legal fraternity. The city was not in a position at that time to take the matter up so the Palladium made the contract with the idea that If the city did not employ sufficient counsel to fight the matter it would be in a position to offer the assistance of its two attorneys. Johnson Stands Pat. The Palladium was of the opinion that the retainer of $200.00 which had been paid to the two attorneys would, according to its interpretation of the contract, bind them until released, but such it seems, was not the case, except with Mr. Johnson, who sticks by the agreement as understood by him and the representative of the Palladium. Mr. Study today when confronted with the proposition that he had been decidedly unfair in accepting a contract with the water works company, after having been retained by the Palladium stated that he "did not understand that he should act as attorney in all matters pertaining to the water works matter but merely in regard to the purchase of the plant," which he claimed was the question up at that time. Mr. Study made the claim in justification of his act that he had no Intention of violating any agreement which he had entered into , but that he was of the opinion that the retainer fee contract did not cover the matter now up. When shown the receipt he claimed never to have seen it except to sign it and then he did not read it over. He said he now had only a verbal contract with the Water Works company and if he decided not to act for the R. C. W. W. Co.. he I could not represent either side. Opinion of Mr. Study. He said that the Palladium had consulted him about other matters and he presumed the advice he gave at those times covered the amount paid him, Mr. Study admitted that he had been retained by the company only in certain matters and that he had no idea of being retained by the other side when he agreed to serve the Water Works company. In justice, to Mr. Johnson it must be stated that he understood the contract as -drawn; that he was retained until released in the water works matter. He said that he could not speak for Mr. Study but the matter was clear to him as the case he had been retained on and he would carry out the agreement. Mr. Dill last night confirmed the statement of Mr. Study that the com(Continued on Page Eight). Jj

John Bailey Fraudulently Endorses Check He Stole with $18 and Tries to Pass It at Two Places.

CROOK WAS CAUGHT AT HARDWARE STORE Check for $102 Was Made Out to O. B. Moody and Crook, John Bailey, Stole It from Him Yesterday. John Bailey, who has been working at the Morel-Bricker garage for several days, was arrested last evening on a charge of attempting to pass a fraudulently endorsed check for $102.20. and for stealing $18. He secured the check from a pocketbook accidentally left at the garage yesterday by O. B. Moody, of Lynn. The pocketbook also contained $18, which he appropriated to his own use. Bailey tried to cash the check at the clothing store of Sam Fred early Saturday evening, after ordering a $15 suit. Failing there, he went to the Jones Hardware company and offered it in payment for $6 worth of tools. The police were notified by both concerns and he was arrested at the Jones hardware store shortly before 9 o'clock by Patrolman Roy Edwards. Check on Lynn Bank. The check was dated "Lynn, Ind., September 15," and was drawn upon the Citizens Banking company. It was payable to O. B. Moody or order, and was signed by Alva Moody. According to the story Bailey told Superintendent of Police I. A. Gormen, he picked up a pocketbook at the garage in the morning, which had been left there accidentally by O. B. Moody. He appropriated the contents, $18 in cash, and the-cheek,Vto his own use, and late'lft" the afternoon he went to the north end of the city and threw the empty pocketbook away. Bailey endorsed the check, signingthe name of O. B. Moody. Early in the evening he went to the store of Sam Fred, picked out a suit of clothes and offered the check in payment. The clerk refused to accept it and Bailey left the store, saying he would get it cashed elsewhere and return. The clerk then communicated with the police. Bailey then went to the Jones Hardware store and selected $6 worth of tools, offering the same check in rayment. It was again refused and the police notified. He was kept at the store until officer Edwards arrived. Bailey has been in this city for a short time. He first worked for the traction company, and recently secured employment at the Morel-Bricker garage. STILL SWING PIT County Board Won't Make a Traction Compromise. At a meeting of the county commissioners yesterday afternoon City Engineer Charles appeared and said that he wanted to correct a statement that had been made in regard to cost of the improvement suggested by the Commercial Club in its compromise proposition in the T. H., I. and E. traction matter. He said that Mr. Haas had asked him for an estimate on the work at a time when he was very busy and that if he had made such a statement it was not accurate. Mr. Charles said that the proposed work would cost at least $700.00 and that amount did not Include the cost of additional right-of-way necessary for the change. It was suggested by the commissioners that it was not surprising that the company was willing to accept such a compromise proposition as the county would have to make the repairs whatever the cost might be, and that the company would not have to pay over $500 to the county. Charles Jordan,' secretary of the Commercial Club was present and stated that he thought the commissioners should reconsider the compromise proposition of the Commercial Club, as the action in the Supreme Court would be slow and necessitate some delay in the construction of the roadway. He also thought that there was a very great chance of the higher courts sustaining the decision of Judge Fox, which would place the county in an embarrassing position. The commissioners .then read the franchise under which the company is now operating and found that they had violated the provisions of its franchise and that accordingly the franchise could be annuled. The commissionra were determined in their action in regard to the company and made the statement that if any compromise proposition was to be made it must come froja the company.

International Municipal Congress to Open in Chicago Monday Will Be of Greatest Importance. '

PRESIDENT TAFT TO GIVE ONE ADDRESS Another Speaker on Program Is James Bryce, Ambassador from Great Britain, Known as an Expert. (National News Association) CHICAGO, 111., Sept. 16 With the arrival of exhibits and delegations from all of the important cities of the United States and many European countries, those in charge of the International Municipal Congress and Exhibitions, which opens Monday and continues in session till September 30, claim for the convention not only a record attendance, but a deliberative importance that will be felt throughout the United States. The aims and object of this gathering of city heads is an exchange of ideas upon the administration of municipal affairs; the formation of model codes of municipal ordinances governing every department of city government; the promulgation and ratification of the model ordinances adopted; and the instruction of delegates. Some of Speakers. Among the many prominent men who are interested in the work of the International Congress, and who will address the delegates are: President Taft, James Bryce, ambassador of Great Britain, Governor John A. Dix, of New York, Senator La Follette, Dr. M. A. Evans, Mayor Gaynor, of New York City, Brand Whitlock, mayor of Toledo, Ohio, Dr. Le Grande Powers, head of the government statistical bureau, Bion J, Arnold, Chicago's traction, expertan.dmany,othes!pw, Delegates have been appointed Jto the Congress from all the important cities in the United States, and many are sending exhibitions of municipal administrations to be shown in the great exhibition hall of the Coliseum. Among the many delegations that will attend will be a party of Japanese, appointed by the Mikado, to study the administration of American cities, a delegation of municipal officials from New York and representatives from the International Association of Fire Engineers convention which will convene on September 19, at Milwaukee. The meetings of the International Municipal Congress and Exhibition will be divided and sub-divided so that each and every department of city government will be represented and may be attended by those interested in that particular branch. Four sessions will be held daily. Two of these will be sesions of the Congress as a whole in the great Congress Hall of the Coliseum. The other two sessions will each consist of a number of divisional meetings held in smaller apartments in the First Regiment Armory. Have Model Ordinances. Prominent m?n in the municipal government government of Chicago have been asked to serve as chairmen of these divisions of the congress. The speakers who appear before the smaller meetings will lead a general discussion rather than make addresses. And each speaker will prepare for each division of the congress a set of model city ordinances covering the subject considered by that division. At the end of the sessions the delegates will vote on each of the ordinances that have been adopted as "A Model Municipal Code Adopted and Recommended by the International Municipal Congress" applying to each of the several subjects. At the full meetings of the congress in the large hall, the formal addresses will be delivered, and these meetings in addition to being conducted by the delegates of the congress, will be open to the public. The closing days of the convention will be given over to the discussion of hygienic problems that confront the modern municipality, such as the methods of controlling a milk supply; control of contagion and school inspection; protection of water and disposal of sewage; yard sewage, stables and slaughter houses; the law in relation to health work, disposal of garbage, and the cost of the health department per capita. More than three hundred health commissioners will attend these discussions and help in forming model city ordinances governing public health and sanitation. VICTIM OF WIFE AND SON IS DYING (Xatlona' News Association : PRINCETON, Ind, Sept. 16. William Gnibb, the aged man assaulted by his wife and son with a skillet and a stick of stove wood is in a dying condition today. Don Grubb and his mother together with another son are now in jail after having held the officexg at bajr log several hoars -

EAT "MUSHROOMS" FAMILY MADE ILL Bert Gordon, Wife, Daughter and Son Suffer from Ptomaine Poisoning.

The gift of a friend to Bert Wilson, a well-known barber of this city, had a very unfortunate result. Saturday mroning he was presented with a quantity of supposed mushrooms, and in the afternoon he and the members of his family were suffering from ptomaine poisoning. The gift was made in perfect good faith, and in the belief that the toadstools were mushrooms, but they were not. A friend walked into Gordon's barber shop on North Eighth street in the morning and said he had some mushrooms for him. He said he was tired of them and did not care ta eat them himself. Gordon took the supposed "mushrooms" to his home, 908 North H street, and his wife cooked them for dinner. Shortly after the meal was over Gordon, his wife, daughter Doris, aged 6, and son James, aged 9, became deathly sick. Dr. Kinsey was called and pronounced them suffering from ptomaine poisoning. Gordon, Mrs. Gordon and Miss Doris did not suffer as severely as the young son, James, who is in a serious condition. He is expected to live, however. HAD WILD JOY RIDE Police Hunt Two Couples Who Ran Amuck. A party, composed of two young men and two young women, who engaged in a wild drive about the city, were sought by the police last evening. They were riding in a two-seated rig to which was attached a black horse. ... v, ' In a wild dash on South Fifteenth a paty of boys playing on the street corner were run into. One of the boys was thrown from a bicycle, and a slight cut inflicted in his side by the horse's hoof. He barely escaped falling under the wheels of the rig. The ride was continued at breakneck speed. On North A street near Eighth, the party took after R. J. Winjum, asistant physical director of the Y. M. C. A., who was riding a bicycle and forced him to ride up on the sidewalk for safety. A sharp look-out was kept by the police, but at a late hour the party had not been located. SHACKS GOOD THING FOR CONSUMPTIVES That the shacks promised to this city for the treatment of persons afflicted with tuberculosis by the state anti-tuberculosis society will be a good thing for Richmond, is the belief of one of the prominent local physicians expressed yesterday evening. One death out of every ten in this district is the result of consumption, showing that this disease continues to lead all others in the mortality list. On account of this condition, the need for the shacks is unusually great, and their immediate erection would probably be taken advantage of by many sufferera. ''16 According to statistics, it Is estimated that over three hundred inhabitants of Richmond have tuberculosis, and one-tenth of these are doomed to death in the near future. The shacks are almost a necessity for effecting a cure for those afflicted, and Richmond is fortunate to get a chance to have four of them installed here, it is said. It is practically certain that many sufferers will make use of the buildings as soon as erected, and the doctors of the community are among the leaders of those advocating haste in establishing the shacks so as to decrease the city's death rale. CHICAGO'S TIE-UP ENDS; MEN RETURN (National News Association) CHICAGO, Sept 16. The tie up In Chicago's building operations ended today with the return of 20,000 men to work after a severe month's war between the plumbers and steam-fitters unions. The settlement resulted directly from a peace agreement reached between Simon O'Donnell and M. C. Madden, representing the two unions involved. The agreement will in all probability be ratified at a meeting of the steam-fitters" union Monday night. BUFFALO SALESMAN COMMITTED SUICIDE fXational News Association) DETROIT, Mich, Sept. 16.--J. Howard Pray, a well known traveling salesman of Buffalo, committed suicide today by jumping from- the steamer Eastern States into the Detroit river. No reason was known for his act. Mr. Pray was formerly a resident of Detroit and was high in the Masonic order.

WEST SIDE WAIITS BRIDGEJT H SI", Opposes Proposed L Street Location in Resolution Presented Saturday. In accordance with a plan formulated at the meeting of the West Richmond Improvement association last Friday night, a special committee representing the association appeared before the county commissioners yesterday afternoon to present a resolution of the improvement organ i ration dealing with the proposed south side bridge. The resolution stated that the we6t side civic body was in favor of locating the new bridge at South H street, instead of at L street, as advocated by the South Side Improvement association. In the absence of Dr. E. B. Grosvenor, the head of the committee, Charles Moore presented the resolution to the county officials. Most of the resolution was taken up with a comparitive discussion of the advantages of H and L streets as sites for the bridge. In the belief of the west side body, the L street proposition presents many difficulties that

would be hard to overcome. The riv er at this point is the widest of any part of its course, and this fact alone is a serious objection to the L street cause, it is stated. The east bank of the stream is also soft there, and it would be hard to lay the foundations of the bridge on such ground, the resolution states. One- of the main points raised by the improvement organization in its resolution is that if the edifice is placed at L street, persons using it will have to go clear to the city corporation limits, and will have to cross the worst grade crossing in the city. Supporting the other side of the argument, the resolution asserted that the natural conditions at H street were almost ideal for the bridge. The stream is narrower there than at L street, and the banks are both of solid rock, affording good, foundations for the- ebutntents- The members of the west side association expressed their belief that H street would be much more convenient for the majority of people, as it is nearer the business section of the city, and can be reached from the heart of Richmond by direct and good roads. The West Richmond Improvement association claimed that these advantages were sufficient to determine the case in favor of the H street location. HE LAUDS STOLYPIIi Russian Priest in Chicago Praises Wounded Man. (National News Association) CHICAGO, Sept. 16. With tears streaming down his face, Archbishop Platon, titular head of the Orthodox Russian . (Greek. Catholic) church in the Western hemisphere, today bemoaned what he called the blindness of the Russian people in their hatred of Premier Stolypin, who was shot down by an assassin Thursday night. He declared the premier had given Russia more reforms than the country ever hoped for. The distinguished prelate had just arrived from his home in Philipsburg, Pa., to attend the jubilee celebration at the church of the Holy Trinity, in honor of the completion of the fifteenth year of the services of Father Vladimir Alexandrof, who is in charge of the church. "God will forgive them, for they know not what they do," said Archbishop Platon, after being told of the day's cablegrams showing the general hatred of the Russian public toward the wounded premier. "Stolypin ought to be known as 'Stolypin the Good." MRS. CORWIN WAS GRANTED DIVORCE Mrs. Frances Corwin, according to word received here, has been granted a1 divorce from Wickham Corwin, at Topeka, Kan., which she now claims as her home, on the ground of failure to provide. Mrs. Corwin is the daughter of Howard Campbell, president of the Gaar, Scott & company, and one of this city's most prominent business men. Mrs. Corwin, her mother and father recently returned from a trip through the Orient. ."While in Shanghai, China,- Mrs. Corwin was seriously burned by a gasoline curling-iron lamp falling in her lap. Mr. Corwin is an employe of the Gaar, Scott & company and until recently located in this city, but he is now with the company's agency at Fargo, N. D. It was announced when the suit for divorce was filed that Mr. Corwin intended to contest It. but it is understood no such action was taken. THE WEATHER STATE AND LOCAL Generally fair with possible -showers Sunday. .

TERRIBLE TRAGEDY ENACTED SATURDAY

AT E, II, Y. Lee Oldfield, Driving in a Race, Plunges into Crowd, of Spectators After Tire on Car Bursted. FOUR OF FOURTEEN INJURED WILL DIE At Buffalo, New York, Motorboat Competing in Race Jumps on Wall Injuring Three, One Fatally. (National News Association) SYRACUSE, N. Y., Sept. 16. Nine persons are now dead and fourteen' injured as a result of an accident at the automobile races : at the fair grounds late this afternoon, when Lee Oldfield, the driver of a Knox car, lost control of his machine and it plunged through a fence into the crowd of spectators. The dead are: Clyde Hammil, Hammonds, N. Y. Fred J. Arnold, city. Charles Valentine, City. James Coin, Alexandria Bay, N. Y Cleo Halpin, City. Unidentified man, aged 60. Unidentified man, aged 2S Unidentified boy, aged 10. Hardy Blagley of Franklin, N. Y., 1 dying. The other injured are Lee Oldfield, driver of the car, fractured rib and internal injuries; Peter Levardus, city; Charles Dooley, city; Wiliam Minor, city; Lawrence Dattemyer and Glen Ross, both ot this city, William Sharkey and Miss Anna Nor , welLcity. Others unidentified. Four Cannot Live. The fair grounds are two miles from the city and the excitement follow. Ing the accident was so great that it was 8 o'clock before the dead and Injured could be brought to the city. The doctors said that it was practically certain that the list of dead would be swelled as four of the Injured have no chance to survive. Of the others 'who were hurt six sustained serious injuries. ' : : When the tire exploded Oldfield' car was going about 70 miles an hour and the big motor careened and plunged like a locomotive leaving the rails at full speed. It struck the fance with a terrific crash, going through it as if it were made of paper. The whole accident occurred fn a fractional part of a second and the victims had not the slightest chance of escape. . , Calls were sent to Syracuse and all the ambulances were sent to the scene. Doctors were summoned by the score and. several nurses gathered to attend the injured. '- . ;' Vehicles on the grounds were pressed into service as ambulances and the victims were taken to the emergency hospitals : within the grounds. . Oldfield himself was badly hurt and his mechanician William Sharkey waav probably fatally Injured. President Taft had left the race track less than an hour before the accident, after wiu nessing the f irBt event of the fifty mile race. After the 25th mile spectators noticed that a good part of the tire that burst was flapping on Oldfield's car. Suddenly . there was a sharp report. Oldfield's car was seen to leap into the air and crash through the fence. Shrieks filled the air as it plunged into the crowd. One man was hurled 25 feet high. , The track was not in good condition and Drivers de Palma and Burman refused to, enter in the race. Burman finally started but withdrew after a few miles had been completed. ... MOTORBOAT ACCIDENT. . BUFFALO. Sept. 16.Dashing at av rate of 40 miles an hour for the cham-" pionship of the Great Lakes in the presence of 30,000 people on Niagara River, the motorboat Dixie IV. owned by Fred Burnam. swerved from its course, late today, mounted the breaker wall that separates the river from the canal and injured three persons, one of them fatally. Before the mist caused by the boat had cleared up the Dixie was high and dry and the victims lay groaning on the jagged rock.' In the boat with Mr. Burnham were three persons. All escaped by jumping into the river. Mr. Burnham could not be found later, ;' The injured are Harold Bell, 13, skull fractured, cannot recover; Mrs. Elmer Bell, mother of Harold, 43, scalp wounds ; . Alden Danield, 16, right leg cut off... 1 f" It was ' necessary s to jack up the boat, which weighs six tons, before Harold Bell could be ' removed. . The accident was due to defective steering gear. When the boat left the river and mounted high on the brick wall it passed over the right' leg of young Danield, cutting it entirely off, while the boy's father stood but a few feet a?ay.

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