Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 126, 1 April 1912 — Page 6

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(National News Association) MEMPHIS, Tenn., April 1. The city levee Auction street, broke at 10 o'clock this morning and the entire northern, part of Memphis was Boon flooded. Thousands of persons were rescued by the police and firemen Dozens of families were compelled to seek safety on the hose tops. Great quantities of household furniture were swept away by the teriffic current Street car service on all north Mem phis lines was suspended. Forces were rushed to other parts of the city to check the overflow. HICKMAN IN PERIL. HICKMAN, Ky., April 1. With the water a foot above the levee here and nearly every able bodied man in town working with might and main piling sandbags on top of the embankment to keep out the water the flood situa tion was critical here today. BENTON HEIGHTS SEEKS ANNEXATION Several residents of Benton Heights, desiring the benefit of the city instiitutions which are now denied them, fare circulating a petition for the annexation of this suburb to the city. 'The city officials are enthusiastically in favor of such a move. This step was advocated some time ago, and such a storm of protest arose from the property holders living In the Iproposed addition that the matter (stopped at once. Since then several attempts have been made to get the ieuburb into the city proper, but all have failed. This will make the fifth time the attempt has been made to annex Benton Heights. , A COMMENCEMENT Commencement exercises will be jheld at the Economy schools Friday j night. The program for the annual (.graduation exercises has not been announced as yet. CALENDAR OF SPORTS MONDAY. Packey McFarland vs. Eddie Mur'.phy, 10 rounds, at Kenosha, Wis. Clarence English vs. Ray Bronson, 1 15 rounds at St. Joseph, Mo,. Phil. Brock vs. Joe Phillips, 10 rounds at Cleveland, O. TUESDAY International amateur speed roller ; skating champoinship begins in Beitroit. - Annual United North and South am(ateur golf championship tournament ;at Plnehurst, S. C. Opening of annual bench show of West Tennessee Kennel club at Jack'Bon, Tenn. Opening of first annual bench show of Eastern Dog club, at Boston, Mass. Young Togo vs. Johnny Coulon, 15 rounds, at Fort Smith, Ark. Pacific Coast Baseball league opens Its season, with Oakland at San Francisco, Vernon at Sacramento and Portland at Los Angeles. WEDNESDAY. Annual amateur championship of America at ' clay pigeons begins at Travers Island, N. Y. Opening of the annual bench show of the Portland Kennel club, Portland, Ore. Southern championship speed boat traces begin on the Matanzas course. fSt. Augustine. Jack Britton vs. Ray Temple, 20 I-rounds, at Oakand. Cal. L.. ... ... THURSDAY Annual meeting and tournament of the Canadian Whist league open in Toronto. I Opening of a three-day bench show in Hamilton, Ont. I FRIDAY. j Annual tournament of Michigan State Bowling association opens at Jackson. Canadian Indoor swimming chain pionships begin at Montreal A .A. A. Mike Gibbons vs. Ernie Sanders, 10 rounds, at South Bend, Ind. SATURDAY. Annual tournament of Indiana State Bowling association opens at South Bend. Indoor athletic meet of the Kansas City, Mo., Athletic club. Opening of first annual automobile show at Ottowa, Ont. Annual schedule meeting of the Dopminion Lacrosse association at Tor onto. City Statistics Death and Funerals. LEPH ART George Lephart, aged two months, died Sunday night at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Lephart, 1124 Harris street. Funeral services will be held Tuesday morning at ten o'clock' from the home. Burial will be in Earlham cemetery. Friends may call any time. . GAULT The funeral of Mrs. George W. Gault, 212 North West Third street, will be held Tuesday morning at ten thirty o'clock conducted by S. R. Lyons. Burial will be in Earlham cemetery. Friends may call at the home any time this evening or before the funeral Tuesday morning. BENDFELDT Theodore Bendfeldt aged two years, three months and fourteen days, died Monday morning at six o'clock at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bendfeldt, South avenue and Thirteenth streets. Besides the parents, an infant brother and many relatives survive Mm. The funeral will be held Wednesday afternoon at two o'clock from the residence. Rev. Conrad Huber will have charge of th cervices. B-iaj in Luth-riana.

BY J. F. THOMPSON. I am often asked about the kind of tree to plant in a street. The answer will depend upon the width of the street. The rule is to plant wide streets with trees that become tall,

and narrow streets, with trees that never become large. The reason for this rule is obvious. If large trees are planted in narrow streets there will come a time when they will shade the street too much and this will necessitate cutting them back, which in time will destroy them. No street should be so shaded that the sun cannot shine in it, there should be a sky line. A street is more sanitary if the sun can shine In upon it a part of the day. Suppose we take for example a street like North C. This street is forty feet wide from one property line to the other. It is a well known rule that in most residence streets from forty to sixty feet in width that three fifths are given to the roadways and two-fifths to the walk. This would give North C eight feet .on each side for the walk and parking strip; if four feet are given to the walk, this will leave four feet for the parking strip and curb. No large tree will do well in such a narrow park strip if there Is a cement walk on one side and a curb and gutter on the other. A large tree could not get water enough to supply such a top as it should develop and remain a healthy tree, and even if it could the diameter of the trunk near the ground and the large roots, would break up the walks. Many of our narrowest streets have been planted with trees that are now so large that it is almost impossible to make any street improvements without in juring the trees. Streets like North B and North C, South A, South B, and South C should have small trees. A four foot walk is wide enough for these streets and that will give a parking strip of four feet and trees like the Norway maple will do very well in such a parking. This is one of the smallest trees, but a good shade tree. Some cities have tried placing the walk clear out to the curb and thus placing the park strip on the inside of the walk, continuous with the property. This is a good plan for narrow streets providing the house's are set back far enough from the street. From the standpoint of the trees this is the best place for them, but we remember that the tree is for the street and not the street for the tree. This situation insures them safety on one side and a supply of water from the property side that can not be cut off by street improvement. In narrow streets, the trees thus placed would give the street a wider appearance, but if the houses are close to the walk the objection to such placing oi trees is apparent. But our north and south streets are wider and have plenty of room for almost any tree that would be desirable for streets. North Fourteenth street is sixty-six feet wide. The road way is thirty-eight feet, the walk is six feet and the park strip is eight feet. Suppose the trees are standing in the center of the park; this will make the distance from one tree line to the other forty-six feet. It is plain that it will tage pretty large trees to shade that wide a space properly; but if the trees were placed on the inside of the walk, from tree line to tree line would be fifty-eight feet and this would insure a hot dusty and blank looking street. In some cities where the streets are very wide, there is a parking strip in the middle and a road way on each side. This breaks the monotony of a blank space, with nothing in it but brick or cement or macadam. Some of our north and south streets are more than sixty-six feet wide. South Sixteenth street is seventy-seven feet. When streets are wider than sixty feet the width of the roadway is determined by the possible amount of traffic it will have. There is no use in making the roadway wider than necessary and if it can be reduced to the minimum, it will be less expensive to keep up. The park strip may be much wider and this will put the houses farther away from the dust and heat of the roadway, and in these days of automobiles the street should be as far away from the houses as possible. People who live on streets with a parking strip eight feet wide may seselect almost any , tree that is fit at all for street purposes. I would like to recommend a tree for' such streets, vis., thhe American Red Oak. I do not know why this tree has been slighted in American cities. There is only one in Richmond streets that I know of. People who have visited European cities will tell you that no native tree is prized as highly as our Red Oak. The beauty of the English parks in Autumn is in a very large degree due to the American Red Oak. It grows faster than any other oak and will thrive in a great variety of soils. It has large dark green tough leaves which have practically no insect enePertect vision is secured through Toric Lenses because they are shaped like the cornea, give a wide anble of vision, stop, all eye tiring reflection and don't touch the lashes. KRYPTOK The invisible double focusing lenses made in Toric form are the finest lenses made. We sell lots of them. They fit. They give relief. People like them. MISS C. M. SWEITZER Optometrist. 927J2 Main St. Phone 1099

mies and for the beauty of its autumn foliage it Is without a rival. I fancy that because it is so common in the woods, .It is bo uncommon in our streets. It is like the prophet, not without honor save in its own counts-There are three oaks that are splendid for street planting, vis:' the Pin Oak (Quercus palustrus), Red Oak, (Quercus Rubra), and Scarlet Oak, (Quercus coccinea). People who have park strips eight feet wide to plant in will make no mistake in planting any of these. I have given the botanical names, for in ordering, these should be given with the common names; The time is not ' far distant when North Tenth street will have to have new trees, and if the gas leaks aren't stopped and kept stopped, that time may. be nearer than we think. When that time comes I would like to see

that street planted from Main to the depot with Red Oaks. In twenty-five years the beauty of the street would not only be restored but would be increased many times. No city in this country has such beautiful trees as Washington, D. C. This city has many attractions, and among it chief ones are its splendid avenues of well kept trees and probably the most beautiful double row of trees in the city is on Twelfth street between North and South B. The trees are twenty year old Red Oaks. The only way I can think of by which some of our older streets may ever get trees that will be uniform in kind and size is to make a clean sweep of some of the stumps that are doing duty as trees. A good place to begin would be North Eleventh from Main to A. The trouble is, we do not like to make a clean sweep and Wait. We would rather bear the trees we have than fly to others that we know not of. BLOODHOUNDS AND MEN AFTER ALLEN (National News Association) MT. AIRYTNTcr'April 1. Accompanied by the bloodhounds owned by the state of Virginia, an armed nosse of fifteen determined men, headed by Detective T. L. Felts, left here today to round up Sidna Allen and Wesley Edwards,; the two remaining outlawed members of the Allen gang, who are believed to be hiding in a cave near Buzzard's Roost, on the Virginia border. The dogs were the same used in the investigation of the Beattie murder case at Richmond.

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MORflG HEWS SOLO Paper Is to Resume Publication. The Richmond Morning News will continue publication within the next week or ten days according to an announcement made this morning by J. W. Marksbury, night manager of the Associated Press at Columbus, O., who rurchased the defunct News plant at the receiver's sale conducted Saturday afternoon by Receiver Philip H. Robbins. Mr. Marksbury states that it will be impossible to start publication until next week at least, owing to the fact that his successor at Columbus has not been appointed as yet. The publication will be Democratic in politics, as it was under its previous management. It will continue as a morning paper. It is not known whether the paper will be published on Monday morning or not. Mr. Marksfiury's bid on the plant was $1,400.

"POPCORN" RETURNS Charles Hammond, popularly known in this city as "Popcorn Charlie," who recently sold his stand at Tenth and Main streets to Philip Zuttermeister, was in this city today. Hammond has been in Muncie and was employed in a cigar store. He stated that he might open up a small store of some kind In this city. MAKE PURDUE FRATS Two local young men have been pledged to Greek letter fraternities at Purdue university. Howard Ashley has been "spiked" by the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity and Robert N. Land is a pledge of the Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity. ENGINEER SIEWEKE GETS A PROMOTION Faithfulness and efficiency on the part of E. O. Sieweke, 414 South Thirteenth street, as an engineer on the Richmond division of the Pennsylvania railroad, has brought him the appointment to the position of assistant road foreman of engines on this division. The appointment was made March 25, but was announced today. A bequest of 2,500,000 rubles has been made by a wealthy St. Petersburg widow for the benefit of bank rupts.

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"Earlham has the largest enrollment she has ever had during a spring term," was the statement given out by President Kelly this morning. To meet the new teachers' requirements, special arrangements were made for A. B. Heath '08 to have charge of the courses in observation. By this arrangement, it Is possible for a student to prepare, in one term, for teaching in class "A." During the fall and winter terms observation courses were conducted in history, English and mathematics. The spring work will emphasize the other branches, but will have some work in the courses which have already been given. Mr. Park B. Miller, assistant superintendent of the Pennsylvania railroad at Cambridge, O., was visiting Earlham this morning on the lookout for some of this year's graduates to take up civil engineering on his division. The civil engineering department at Earlham is recognized as being one of the best in this part of the country.

SAILS FOR HAYTT (National News Association) SAN JUAN, P. R., April 1. Secre tary Knox again left American soil to day. The cruiser Washington with the American statesmen, and his party on board sailed for Port-au-Prince, Hayti. Before sailing, Secretary Knox expressed satisfaction with the success of his peace mission so far. Laurel Wreaths For Athletes. In France and other parts of the continent of Europe the sportsmen have a curious custom which is a survival of the classic days of Greece and Rome namely, the presenting of laurel wreaths to victorious athletes In great sporting events. If a man wins some long distance running or cycling race he is loaded up with these tangible tokens of appreciation, and for the time looks like a bereaved relation hastening to a funeral in a running or cycling suit. Dangerous Rights. The Theorist A man has a right" to Insist upon being the head of his own household. The Pessimist Te-es, and a man also has a right to slap a tiger on the nose, but - Satire.

AWARD STEEII CLAIM County Board Pays Sheriff for Arresting W. Holler. Although aware of the fact that he could not be compelled to pay the bill, yet rather than have Sheriff Steen delayed in securing legitimate expense, S. E. Smith, medical superintendent of the Eastern Indiana Hospital for the insane, has sent the former a check for expenses incurred in the arrest and return of William Holler, an insane man, to the hospital. The board

of county commissioners had previous iy rerused to allow the claim. However, at the meetinc .of th board of commissioners this morning tne matter was broached by County Attorney Robbins and after he had given his interpretation of the law on this matter and had suggested that the commissioners award the claim, they did so. The check sent the sheriff to cover the expense in arresting Holler win De returned to Dr. Smith. The commissioners decided to meet the Preble county commissioners Wednesday afternoon at 1 o'clock on the State Line pike, three miles south of Richmond for the purpose of deciding just what should be done towards imuroving the Richmond-Eaton pike. Plans on the Miner Fox bridge north of Hagerstown were submitted to the commissioners by Jack Mueler, of New Castle. However, nothing was done, as there is a dispute between two land owners as to Jhe location of the proposed bridge. The approximate cost of the bridge as planned Is $3,500. On petition of Levi Spickler. the commissioners abandoned a road running through the petitioner's farm in Dalton township on the condition that Spickler would construct an equally good highway along the edge of his farm. A number of claims were allowed by the board. Try a Laugh. - A frown has never been very effective as a bait for fortune's smile. Chicago Record-Herald.

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