Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 132, 8 April 1912 — Page 1

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BIG STEAMER WHILE AFIRE WAS REACHED

Liner Ontario, Off Long Island Coast, Smoke Belching From Hold, Wins in Its Race for Safety. (PANIC WAS CAUSED AMONG PASSENGERS bireless Operator in Pajam- ; as Sends Out Calls for Help Until He Is Scorched All Rescued. (National News Association) s MONTAUK, Point, April 8 Ninety 'persons, making up the passengers jand crew of, the steamship Ontario, of the Merchants and Miners line, 'bound from Norfolk, Ya., to Boston, had a narrow escape from death early today In a fire which burned the ship to the water's edge. Th vessel was finally beached on Long Island, a mile and a half west on Montauk Point, and all on board were saved by life pavers. The hero of the disaster was the wireless operator on the ship, who kept pounding away at his wireless key until the flames drove him from his post. Aroused from sleep, the daring operator worked in his pajamas until the flames were scorching his night clothes and was compelled to flee his station. Fire was discovered in the hold of the ship about 3 o'clock when she was about half, way between Montauk roint and Block . Island. Instantly wireless ; "SOS" calls were ' sent out while the crew was formed into a fireflghtlng brigade. The Sea Was High. t The sea was high at the time and a -JSsa IjL,'83 blowing which added to the Je n 4raTTTa ed from their berths by the tumult on board and the smoke which poured up through the hatchways, ran on deck in terror. The vessel was turned in shore and rushed toward the beach under a full head of steam. She had landed a mile and a half west of Montauk and was beached there, the life savers 'taking off passengers and crew in lifeboats and in the breeches buoy. The first wireless call for help was picked up by the Point Judith wireless station. The help call was immediately followed by another message from the operator on the Ontario, who said that, In spite of the efforts which , the fighters were making the fire was gaining rapidly. It had started, he Baid in the forward hold, but rapidly consumed its way toward the stern, bursting through the bulkheads" form-,-jing the partition of the afterhold. Soon after this the, wireless operator was j driven from his sending house by the flames. When the blaze had eaten its way through the deck, the high wind drove Jits way into the seething hold, fanning the fire afresh. Before the wireless operator had - been driven from his post, however, I calls had been sent out indiscriminatejiy, summoning all the ships in the i vicinity to the scene Word was also I flashed along the' Long Island and Lower New England coasts to all the ! life-saving stations. A FEW MINES ARE UIIDERJPERATIOfl (No Violence Resulted When Work Was Started with Non Union Men. (National News Association' WILKESBARRE, Pa.. April 8. Sevral mines started operations today in the district without serious disturbances resulting. The miners leaders called all union men from the work but the companies had enough Imported workers to ran the washeries. This action of the operators came tat a rather inopportune time for the union leaders. The district leaders and their secretaries will leave tomorrow for the Philadelphia conference and during their absence the local union ( heads are in charge of the situation. - . The district presidents, John T. fDerupsey, John Fahy and Thomas Keni ijTruj nui w uii-umpituif u oniy Dy .their secretaries when they leave for Philadelphia. President While has decided that there will be enough men to present the case of the miners. Pres. "White has the right to call in the national board members from each district. : The miners claim they will accept kno compromise on union recognition.

News Nuggets

fNatlonal News Association) BOSTON, April 8. "Women talk too much," said Dr. Charles M. Greene in a lecture on the hygiene of women, at the Harvard Medical School. "They ought to use their energies in other ways and they would be happier." NEW YORK, April 8. Mary Fuhren, a cook, fell from a fourth story window' at 1157 Third avenue, but sustained no further hurts than" a few scratches. LAFERGE, Mo., April 8 Voters waded through the flooded streets of New Madrid, Mo., in water to their waists to vote whether the town should go "wet" or "dry." WASHINGTON, April 8. In. an address at the Y. W. C. A. here, Gov. Marshall, of Indiana, said that he had forsaken the law or politics because the law compelled a man to be bad. ATLANTIC CITY, April 8. Roscoe Turner, of 2010 Caspian avenue, is rejoicing over the birth of the first girl born in this branch of the family for 90 years. PLANS TO PROTECT BIG TIMBER TRACT Sixteen Million Acres in the Northwest to Be Patrolled This Season. (National News Association) SPOKANE, Wash., April 8. Sixteen million acres of land in California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana, containing more than 400,000,000,000 feet of standing timber will be patrolled and otherwise protected against fire this season under the direction of the Western Forestry and Conservation association, which, with its allied organizations, expended $970,000 for this work In 1910 and 1911. At the annual meeting of the association in Spokane it was also decided to enlist five states in forest protection, urging each to take steps to secure a portion of the federal appropria tion made possible by the Weeks law, whVch'"g1-rs the government $200,000 to distribute over a period of three years in the work of timber conservai tion. The maximum amount for each state is $10,000 a year, provided the state itself expends an equal or larger amount of its own funds for fire fighting purposes. Chief Forester, Allen drew1 attention to the benefits the states couid derive from the fund, the primary purpose of which is to provide protection for the forest slopes at the head of navigable rivers showing also that only $30,000 of the appropriation was used by the states last year, when Oregon received $5,000. It is estimated that fully $70,000 will- be available for this district this year.' Albert L. Flewelling, of Spokane, who was re-elected president of the association, said among other things in his annual address that 50 per cent of the merchantable ' things in the United States is included in the five intermountain and Pacific states; that 75 per cent of all the shipping by water from the Pacific coast states is timber and that 75 per cent ofall rail shipments eastward is timber and that 75 percent of the business east of the Cascade mountains is timber and lumber. FLOODS IN VERMONT DOING BIG DAMAGE (National News Association) '-"' MONTPELIER, Vt., April 8 Damage estimated at not less than $100,000 has already been caused in this city by flood and the waters are still rising. Today Main street in the heart of the business district, was a river of racing waters several feet deep. State street also is flooded. The Montpelier and Memphis river tracks for a half mile above the station are under water and the train Service was cancelled. Barre is believed to be no better off as the floods struck that city first. As the cellar of the Western Union Tellegraph office here is flooded, wire communication with the neighforing city is difficult. The loss at Barre" is estimated today at $25,000. BOYS' BIBLE STUDY WORK PROGRESSES The total attendance of the Boys Bible classes for the month of March was 860, according to the report prepared by Herbert Pettijohn, boys' secretary. This attendance establishes a record, it being the highest for any month in the history of the Y. M. C. A. The average weekly attendance for March was 200. Since the opening of the Bible classes last Fall the total attendance has reached 4,153. This is a large Increase over last year. Secretary Pettijohn expects the local institution to obtain first place in the examinations. Last year the Richmond association was among the first ten. The regular Boys Bible classes will meet tomorrow evening at 7 o'clock. Supper at 6: SO o'clock.

DATE NOT SET FOR "CLEAIiUP1 DAY It Is Probable, However, Annual Event Will Be Held About May First.

The date for the annual "Cleaning Up" day in this city has not been set as yet, but it la likely the date will be some time next month. Plans for the event are already being made by the Aftermath society and the Civic Improvement League. At the meeting of the Commercial club this evening the matter of appropriating a small sum of money to assist In this' work will be broached. Last year the Commercial club contributed $25 towards the expense of the owrk. Mrs. Phariba Stephens, head of the Civic Improvement League, stated today" that following the action of "the Commercial club the committee which has charge of the work will request the board of public works to assist. The board of health will also be asked to give its aid. It is probable the board of works will order the street commissioner to place on extra wagons and men in order to remove rubbish piled in the rear of back yards and alleys. The streets will be given a general "scrubbing" on "Cleaning Up" day, if the plans being made now are carried out. Last year some of the shops were shut down on cleaning up day in order that the mployes could clean up their yards. However, this is not believed to be a good plan, inasmuch as the shop men are therefore obliged to lose a day's work The children in every school in the city will be requested to assist in the work again this year. Committees of students in the various schools will be named within a short time, whose duty it will be to supervise a portion of the work. Health authorities in the city declare that the custom of many persons to empty cuspidors into the alleys should be prohibited. They say that the contents are left there for some time to rot and that this spreads germs. It is said that the kitchens and back rooms of hotels and restaurants will be examined, cleaned and screens placed where they are needed. KNIFES HIS WIFE AFTER A QUARREL Russell Edgar, Colored, , in Jail and Mrs. Edgar Is at the Hospital. Attacked and stabbed in the back by her husband, Russell Edgar, because she would not return to Dayton, O., with him, JMrs. Marie Edgar, aged 20, colored, lies at the Reid Memorial hospital in a dangerous condition. The cutting occurred Saturday night at eight o'clock at 817 North E street. The cut was made with, a small pen knife, the blade penetrating the back, six inches below the left shoulder, and puncturing the left lung. The cut is narrow and about two inches deep. Mrs. Edgar was reported this noon as resting comfortably. Blood poisoning, And pneumonia, due to the weakened condition of the lung are the two complications most feared by. the attending physician. . Edgar, who is employed at Dayton, came to this city Saturday night, and went to the rooms of his wife on North .E street where the attempted murder took place. His wife was not in. He waited at the door. She came, and the two went into her bedroom. Soon an angry, argument started, according to the stories told the police by witnesses. A scream was heard. Roomers rushed in, and the man was standing watching his wife as she lay on the floor with blood flowing from a wound in her back. She was in a semi-conscious condition. The ambulance and police were called. Officer Menke rushed to the scene, and arrested Edgar, who made no attempt to escape. The knife was not found. Sunday afternoon Mrs. Edgar was removed to the Reid Memorial hospital. From stories told the police, it appears Edgar asked his wife to come back and live with him at Dayton. She refused, and he, angered by her refusal, and hinting at infidelity, seized her and stabbed her in the back. She has an even chance for recovery is complications do not result from the wound. Edgar was slated at police headquarters with cutting with intent to kill. He will probably be bound over to the circuit court. A close search of the man, and the room failed to disclose the weapon with frhich the assault was made. PASTORS RECEIVE TWO MEMBERS At a meeting of - the Ministerial association held this morning in the Y. M. C. A. building, two new members. Rev. Stovall of the First Baptist church, and Rev. McFarland of the Fifth and Third Street M. E. churches, were taken into the organization. Rev. Stovall, who was connected with, the Anti-Saloon League work in Michigan, gave an interesting and instructive talk on 'Temperance." No Important business was transacted at this time.

WATER BIOS REJECTED BY

BOARD TODAY

Water Works Company's Bid Has Too, High Rates Campfield Bid Is Technically Irregular. CITY WILL SUBMIT CONTRACT PROPOSAL This Proposition Will Contain Features of a Contract That the Board of Works Will Ask. ; f Both bids for the water works contract were rejected by the board of public works this morfling. Technical legal points in the Campfield proposition, and excessive rates provided in the Richmond -City- Water Works company's proposition , were responsible for the action taken by the board. Attorneys Johnson and Gardner appeared before the board and advised this action. ! Immediate steps will be taken to secure new bids. The two attorneys will draw up a new contract proposal to be placed before the board of works in about two weeks. This contract will not place a valuation on the plant. Three changes in the present contract are sure to be demanded. The city's contract proposal will ask for two main pipe lines, from the water works plant to this city. ThiB is regarded necessary because of the possibility of the present main breaking. A newarrangement for securing extensions of pipe lines is also to be included in the proposal of the city, also a more stringent provision for holding the company responsible for damages done to streets. The city attorneys state they believe the city should dictate the terms , of the contract. Following the recommendation made by the attorneys for the city Mayor Zimmerman moved the rejection of both bids. This was unanimously adopted by the'board.,...'! X To Advertise for Es. , As soon as this contract proposal has been drawn up, the city will again advertise for bids. City Attorney Gardner stated that in all probability it will be a month or more before the new bids will be received but be expects to have a new franchise signed before the expiration of the present contract with the Richmond City Water Works company. This contract expires October 1. City attorney Gardner, who with Henry U. Johnson, has been egaged in working on the water works question for some time, issued a statement this morning, giving the reasons for the rejection of the bids. It follows: "The question we first discussed was the rejection of all bids we had heretofore received, neither of the two being satisfactory and it not being deemed possible to make amendments that might be desired, we decided to advise that new b'ds be asked for. "Before asking for new bids, the city Is to prepare a contract covering all points except as to rates, and then serve a jnotice by publication as required by law. The attorneys were of the opinion that the city has the right to assign its option to purchase the present pant of the Richmond City Water Works to the successful bidder but that we would have to take the same steps to dispose of said option that , would be require in selling any personaf property or , real estate owned by the city. , To Ask Appraisers. "It is recommended that a resolution be presented to council at its next meeting asking the court to appoint appraisers to place a valuation upon the city's option to purchase with the view of selling and transferring said option to the successful bidder, but to no other person. The proposition to be prepared and submitted to bidders will contain a provision that the city 8hall have the right to purchase the water works " E. M. Campfield, who was one of the bidders for the contract, announced this morning that he would bid again. He said he was willing to and was sure he could-make a far better bid than the water works company. . "Howard Dill of the Richmond City Water Works company stated that he could promise nothing for his company; that the-advertisement with the specifications would have to be forthcoming before the company would be in any position to state whether it would make a bid for the contract. BIDS ON FURNACE Bids on the furnace to be installed at District School No. 1, at Middleboro were received by the township trustee, James Howarth at his office this afternoon. Trustee Howarth has not decided to whom the contract will be awarded. LEFT SMALL ESTATE According to the inventory of the estate of Caleb W. Price, filed today in the Wayne circuit court, there is 3M to be distributed among the heirs.

The Colonel is Stumping Illinois

USES SCISSORS TO KILL HER HUSBAND Death of Editor of a Sporting "Paper Is Charged to Former Wife.' (National News Association) NEW YORK, April 8 The coroner today held without ball Mrs. Mary F. Snyder, whose husband, Walter J. Snyder, editor of Sports of the Times, died yesterday from scissors wounds, sustained at the hands of the woman, who claims the stabbing was accidental. A strange case of mingled love and tragedy came to life at the coroner's court today when the police learned that many women had figured in Snyder's life before he had met the defendant and even after they had become acquainted, but besides the fact that Snyder had died from several thrusts of the scissors in his breast the police were at a loss to account for several strange features of the case. They had no information except to what the woman furnished and she clung steadfastly to a declaration that Snyder's death was accidental. The prisoner told the police that her maiden namewas Msr Karns and that her home is in Morristown, N. J., where she met Snyder in 1899. Six years later, she declares, they were married. The police learned from another source that the woman and Snyder had quarreled ana had separated in the meantime, and that in 1908 he married Bertha Yeager of Detroit. In the following year, the police say Snyder eloped with Helen Caufield, the daughter of a well-to-do contractor In New Britain, Conn. Miss Caufield was Snyder's stenegrapher at the time of the elopement. The Detroit woman is said to have secured a divorce in 1910, then Snyder married Miss Caufield. Snyder lived during 1911 in this city with another woman, the police said, but they did not reveal her name. The authorities learned that Snyder and the woman who is under arrest took up their abode in History Hall last January. Snyder was well known in sporting circles having been manager of Sports of the Times. His mother and brother, who live in Haleton, N. J., have claimed the body. ILLINOIS TO HOLD Campaign Which Has Its Climax Tuesday Has Been a Hard Fought One. (National News Association) CHICAGO. April 8. Illinois will hold its first presidential preferential primary, under the act passed by the state legislature on March 30, tomorrow, when the voters will select and advise the district delegates to the National conventions of the Republican :and Democratic parties in June. Under the new act the vote of each congressional district is advisory to the delegates from that district to the NationaPronvention, and the vote of the state .at large is advisor to the delegates-at-large. The campaign leading np to the balloting tomorrow has been fought with all the fervor of a national struggle for the presidency, both the Republican and Democratic factions scouring the state, first, for names to place on the petitions that give their men the right to head a ballot on primary day and second for support to the primary candidate. The act was signed by Governor Deneen ae 3:30 on March 30 and seventy minutes later the Taft forces fired the first gun of the campaign by filing a primary petition bearing 1,642 names with the Illinois Secretary of State. This action was promptly supplemented by similar petitions from the other political factions in the field. After the candidates had been certified to the County Clerks and Election Commissioners, the work of securing support to the ticket was begun. Clark and Wilson are the candidates of the Democratic ticket.

PRIMARY

TOMORROW

FOULKE TO SPEAK FOR THE COLONEL : S Richmond Man Enlists to Stump the New England States This Week.

(National News Asmclatlea) WASHINGTON. D. C. April S. William Dudley Foulke, of Richmond, Ind, former United States civil service com- : missioner, called at Roosevelt nation al headquarters and enlisted for the pre-conventlon war on the side of CoL Roosevelt. Four years ago Mr. Foulke supported President Taft for the nomination, against the allied candidates. Knox, Fairbanks and Cannon. Mr. Foulke will be sent at once into New England, where presidential politics is seething. On Saturday of next week Ool. Roosevelt will join him In New Hampshire. The following New Hampshire speaking dates were arranged today for Mr. FouIIa?: New Market. April 10; Llymouth, April 11; Wolfboro. April 12. Will Speak in Bay SUtt. Mr. Foulke is much in demand in that section of the country and several telegrams have been received at Roosevelt headquarters asking that be be billed to speak at New England points. He will go from New Hampshire into Massachusetts. The Roosevelt managers are making tremendous efforts to capture. New England. New Hampshire, Vermont and Massachusetts are storm, .renter. - - - -- "Roosevelt is a born leader. Bald Mr. Foulke today. "Wherever he sits is the head of the table. I have- known him well for many years and I have yet to find any human being who combines to such a degree all the essential qualities of leadership. "Taft, on the other hand, perfectly amiable and well meaning, an excellent administrator in a subordinate position, totally lacks the qualities necessary for political leadership. As a Cabinet officer under the invigorating influence and control of his predecessor, he did admirably. He is the type of wamn who makes an excellent lieutenant, but a poor captain. IT IIEEDSJEW ROOF Court House Improvement Would Be a Costly One. The problem of repairing the roof and painting the interior of the court house, which has come up before the board of county commissioners on many different occasions will probably be settled within the near future. Homer Farlow, commissioner from the eastern district, believes that an entire new room should be placed on the building. To do this would necessitate a great deal of work and large amount of money. The present board of commissioners has been . talking of the needed improvement of the court house for some time, but because of the enormous task, nothing has been done. With the coming of the warm weather the commissioners believe that now would be the time to Btart the mork. The commissioners have had estimates submitted to them on the cost of the improvement and It is believed it would abount to about $10,000. During rains . the water leaks through the tile roof, and -the walls have been damaged considerably on that account. Commissioner. Farlow stated today that the tile roof should j be removed and a slate roof put on. This probably will be done. The roof of the building is very j steep and local roof men have refused to "tackle" the job-of placing on a new one. - REV. PARKER GAVE -HIS FIRST SERMON The Rev. B. E. Parker, formerly of Hartford City, who was assigned to ! the First M. E. church of this city at the Northern Indiana M. E. conference, held at Wabash, last Monday, preached his first sermon at the local church yesterday. The Rev. Mr. Parker is a graduate of DePauw University. He has been in the ministry for the past ten years. H held the pastorate of the Grace church at Hartford City.

THIRTY WERE

WASHED

TO

GREAT FLOOD This Is the Official Estimate Today of the Number Drowned Recently in the Mississippi. 30,000 PEOPLE ARE WITHOUT HOMES NOW Water Pouring Into Arkansas Today and Six 'Hundred Acres Will Be Inundated Before Night. (National News Association) MEMPHIS, Tenn.. April f Thirty persons have been washed Into the floods sweeping the Mississippi Valley and drowned, according to official estimates made by the government experts who have been in charge of the work strengthening the levees here. , According to their figures thirty thousand people have been made homeless while the water now rashlng over 2.000 -square miles of farm lands has caused a money loss of 1 10,000.000. . Water is pouring into Arkansas throttgh three great gaps In the dikes and it is estimated that before night six hundred square miles will have been. inundated. Part of this section is thickly settled by foreigners who refused to leave their homes when warned of the approaching danger .and it , is feared a number have been drowned. Indiana Is Affsctsd. The flood Is rushing over the lowlands from the Mississippi and Ohio rivers through breaks in the levee at SL Clair. Arkansas where 1,000 feet -of the bank has given way; at Holly bush, Kentucky, where the levee was broken to save the dikes at Hulburt, Indiana; at Evansville. Indiana, where the Ohio Is flooding the Indiana side and causing great damage; at Hickman. Kentucky, where the w aters have . swept away 1,200 fei-t of the embankment and are rushing over the Reelfoot, country; at New Madrid. Mo, where the town Is under water; at Cairo, III., where the drainage district Is an inland seaisnd at tbre paints oH the Arkansas side near here. Searching parties were sent out today all along the flood section. Reports received late last night said that hundreds of persons had been caught in the floods caused by the new breaks . and that many were surrounded In the upper stories of their homes, and is the branches of trees. Rescue parties in boats were sent out to find them. Many houses, some of them large ones, have washed down the river past here during the past 24 hours, while the debris carried by the flood has increased in volume. Indicating that many of the farms through which the waters are plowing have been devastated. HOPE FOR RELIEF." HICKMAN. Ky., April 8. With the Mississippi river at a standstill, here and in its upper waters and with the crest of the great flood gradually moving southward the people of the desolated regions are hoping for relief. With the chief rash of the river over one of the most serious conditions Is the plight of people who are marooned in the vast expanse of waters, some in the upper story of houses without food, some In tree tops and others In small islets formed from bits of high ground. Steamers and boats are cruising through the flood regions, rescuing many of the unfortunates. The steamer May Stewart brought in 150 people from the vicinity of Slough Landing. The situation In Hickman Is more encouraging. The great effort now is to prevent any outbreak of disease. Dr. Richmond ef the state board of health, is here In full charge. In the tented city on the hill 2,f00 refugees are quartered. RICHESON MAKING A FIGHT FOR LIFE (XattTsl News Association) BOSTON", April 8. Clarence V. T. Richeson. under sentence of death for the murder of Avis Unnell, will this week begin consultations with bis attorneys on plans to save him from the death chair. The condemned man wilt himself outline the plea for his life. Attorney Morse will ask for a commutation of the sentence to life Imprisonment. THE WEATHER STATE AND LOCAI Fair taeioht ar.d Tuncsday. Rising Temjerature. HIGH SCHOOL OBSERVATORY. Forecast for Richmond and vicinity: Fair tonight and Tuesday, slowly rising temperature. Maximum temperature. 52 at noon Monday. Minimum temperature, 29 at 6 a. m. Monday. Temperature at 11:30, 52. Barometer. 30.35. Direction and velocity of wind, N. W.. 30 miles an hour. Rainfall since Saturday soon, Ji

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