Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 155, 4 May 1912 — Page 1

1 AND SUN-TELEGRAM VOL. XXXVII. NO. 155. RICHMOND, IXDM SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 4, 1912. SINGLE COPY 2 CENTS.

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Federal Inspection of Stock Slaughtered at City Butchering House Is Suddenly Removed. fTWO REASONS WERE GIVEN FOR ACTION Some Say U. S. Not Pleased With City RestrictionsOthers that Interstate Work Is Too Small. Federal inspection baa been withdrawn from the Holzapfel butchering plant generally known as the "city butchering place." Dr. T. Henry Davis, local health officer, states that the action taken by the federal government renults from the fact that too small a percentage of the stock butchered at the Holzapfel plant is shipped outside the state. In some quarters it is reported that the bureau of animal industry' of the department of agriculture withdrew government inspection from the city plant because the city authorities did not give the government inspectors full authority. Beginning Monday Federal Meat Inspector, C. O. Wagner and his assistant, Emory Putman, will confine their work solely to the Anthony Stolle packing house on Liberty Ave., which concern does a large interstate business. Temporary Inspector. There is a city ordinance which requires inspection of all meat butchered and sold in this city and Mayor Zimmerman this morning appointed Clarence Ferling, a veterinarian, temporary city meat inspector. The mayor states he has received no applications, to date, for the permanent position of . city meat inspectb: " j The city meat inspectionWdTnanQeT which was modeled after the federal meat inspection law, provides ,that meat sold and butchered in Richmond shall be inspected under the regulations provided by the federal government, which means that the inspector must be a competent veterinarian. When the ordinance became effective, under the Schillinger administration the department of agriculture consented to have the -local federal -"inspector act as city meat inspector without any expense to the city, hence it was not necessary for the city to employ an inspector. However, it is charged, with the advent of the Zimmerman administration the local federal inspector was given to understand that he would only be expected to supervise the actual inspection of animals slaughtered in the Holzapfel plant. This meant, it is stated, the federal inspector would have no authority to require the meats to be removed from the butchering place In wagons which' complied with sanitary requirements, etc. It is charged that this did not meet with the approval of the agricultural department. Mayor Zimmerman this morning stated that he 'believed the former administration secured the services . of a federal inspector to act as city inspector through misrepresentations as to the amount of interstate business done at the city slaughtering house. He says that now federal inspection at the city slaughtering house has been withdrawn, an attempt will be made to establish regular hours for slaughtering at the city plant so the city inspector will not be required to devote all his time to this work. THREE BADLY HURT . BY AN EXPLOSION (National News Association) NEW YORK, May 4. Three men were injured in an explosion during a fire in the four-story apartment at 702-707-706 Eighth avenue today. Two of the victims were Capt. Coleman and Fireman Kinnechan of Truck 24, who were on the third floor when the explosion occurred and were badly burned. The third man, John Koenig, was passing along Eighth avenue in an automobile. A flying piece of glass severed an artery in his right arm. One hundred and fifty persons, fled from the building in Are-escapes when the flames were discovered an da crowd of proportions so immense gathered in the street that police reserves had to be hurried to the scene. The fire started in the basement and made rapid headway. The dumb waiter shafts afforded a draught which caused the blaze to spread quickly. When the explosion occurred residents of nearby apartment houses were frightened from their homes. OLLIE STAUB WAS GRANTED DIVORCE Ollie Staub, engineer of the steam roller of the city, was granted a divorce from Fannie Staub by Judge Fox In the Wayne circuit court this morning. The plaintiff charged desertion, alleging in his complaint that the defendant deserted him thirteen years ago. It was also alleged in the complaint that the defendant had violated .her marriage vows in other ways.

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PRESS STRIKE IS STILL SPREADING Chicago Stereotypers J Pressmen, Newsboys an Wagon-Drivers. (National News Association) CHICAGO, May 4. The strike on the Chicago newspapers was further complicated early today by the action of the stereotypers who joined the wagon-drivers and newsboys in a sympathetic strike to help the pressmen. Morning papers today were issued in 4-page form, but distribution was greatly handicapped. No morning papers were on sale in the downtown sections except in the newspaper offlces and very few were sent to the suburban stations. Plans were made today to resume street selling. Extra ' guards ' will be fuBlsT&tneewsbo h-ir rLZ. handle the papers, following attacks yesterday on newsboys in many parts of the downtown districts by thugs and sympathizers with the strikers. At least half a doen boys today are in hospitals as a result of the injuries they received. In some cases the police found, it difficult to cope with the , situation and extra patrolmen were rushed to the corners where the attacks occurred. ' May Spread Farther. Possibility that the strike may spread to other mechanical departments of the newspaper was faced by the publishers today. Some of the leaders of the compositors have objected to the setting of type for non-union pressmen and sympathetic strikes have been discussed. Most of the printers, however, have urged the men to stay at the work declaring that their contract ought not to be violated. , A spread of the strike to the coal wagon drivers preventing delivery of coal to the newspaper plants has also been discussed. No strike has been called. A riot in which three arrests were made and shots were fired, occurred, today in the alley back of the Tribune building. Mnx Annenberg, circulation manager for the Tribune, was attacked as he stepped into the alley. After he had been struck a number of blows he managed to draw his revolver and fire several shots. His attackers fled but three of them were captured by policemen attracted to the scene by the shooting. The men arrested gave the names of George Bell, former driver of the Tribune; C. M. Strickler, former driver ofr the Examiner, and George Reader, a laborer. Asks For Protection. One pressman who refused to go out ha 8 asked the -police for ' protection. He has received a letter from the strikers, he says, which threatened him with physical harm and asserted his home would be dynamited unless he stopped work. The threat against his home sent him panic stricken to headquarters. Police today are guarding his house. The men themselves are not thoroughly in sympathy with ; the strike, according to the publishers, who say that many of them have gone to the publishers and told them that they did not want to strike but they were forced to leave their work by threats of violence. . , The publishers themselves have determined to carry the fight to the end. They will not yield to the Union, they assert, and will continue to operate with other pressmen unless the pressmen themselves make the first advances and the concessions. The strike of the stereotypers followed the refusal of the publishers to negotiate further with the pressmen. MILLER BROTHERS SUE P. JOHNSON CO. The Miller Brothers Hardware company this morning filed suit in the Wayne circuit court against the Peter Johnson company, demanding $425.32 on account. The complaint alleges that the defendant purchased goods from the plaintiff to the amount of $423.42 and interest to the amount of $11.90 has accrued.

Camera Man Takes Sky Trip

Frank Coffyn, the noted aviator, celebrated his return to the flying game', after having been confined to his home for several weeks, as the result of injuries received in an auto accident in which he narrowly es- ' caped death, by making a. new experiment in aviation. As the Italian steamship Ancona steamed out of New York Bay on its way to European ports, Coffyn took A. E. Wallace, an International News Service photographer, and flew with him after the departing liner. After circling the vessel several times Coffyn glided to the surface beside the Ancona, and Wallace was taken aboard, illustrating a new way by which belated passengers may overtake a steamer, they have missed at the pier. While in

the air Wallace took several photographs of New York Bay and Gover-

-Coffyn, before starting. The .upper as they were gliding toward the side FATE OF THE CAR ' COMPACT STAKE Council Will Decide Monday Night on Franchise Revocation Question. Council Monday night will have the all-important street car franchise revocation ordinance up for final action. At the last meeting this ordinance was passed for second reading under a suspension of the rules, and was read the third time. Two votep prevented its passage at this tIme,'The settle council displayed at that time caused street car officials to visit this city yesterday and promise to make the improvements demanded. The resolution giving the city, council's consent to the improvement of North Tenth street from Spring street in Spring Grove to North H street will be up for action. The ordinance making it necessary for the street car-company to place lighted signs on its cars will be up for the third and final reading. ' ' The ordinance which is to check the; dog evil in Richmond will be up for third reading also. -This ordinance provides that' all dogs shall have checks. This and other provisions .in .the ordinance will, It is believed eliminate the increase in the number of stray canines. The water works proposition will not be brought up Monday as the city attorney, with his legal aides, have not finished theiri .work ! on "the contract proposal, which they , will submit to council and; the board of works before tentative bids for the water works franchise ' and contract are asked for. The committee investigating - the marketmaster will ask for an extension of time, as it has not completed its investigations, states Chairman Evans.: ARE REMINDED OF REGISTRATION LAW Instructions to young men who have never voted before at an election are being given out by officials who have the authority to do this. Republicans and Democrats, prominent in their parties, are urging young men to register and" are instructing those who have never voted before in the method of proper registration. Lewis S.r Bowman, county auditor, made the following statement today. In answer' to a number of questions that have been put to him on this matter: "Any young man who will be twenty-one years of age before the November election has the right to register next Thursday or on any other dates set for registration. All .first voters should bear in tnind that it is necessary for them to comply with the registration laws before, they can enjoy the privilege of voting."

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of the Ancona. SPEAKERS SECURED FOR CLUBJAIIOUET Geo. PucKta, Dr. J, M. Craw ford, Cincinnati, George Early, Pittsburg. V Speakers for the annual banquet of the Commercial club, which is to be held May 25 in the Y. M. C. A. gymnasium, have been securedvwith the exception of the local talent. George Puchta and Dr. J. M. Crawford, of Cincinnati, and George Early of Pittsburg Will be the talent imported for the exening. E. M. Haas and Charles W. Jordan of the Commercial club committee on speakers made a visit to Cincinnati yesterday to secure speakers for the occasion. Mayor Hunt said he could not come, because of important city business. Mr. Puchta. assistant treasurer of Cincinnati, a leader in the commercial enterprises, of the Queen City, and also a member of the Cincinnati Park board, will deliver an address on civic affairs. ' He is an .excellent speaker and the committee if pleased he has been secured. ' a Dr. J. M. Crawford, who was for six years consul general to Russia, will speak on "Russia."' He is probably one of the best "Informed men in the country on the intimate social and politi cal life of .this most Interesting country and his remarks will be very interesting. r ;,- " George Eary of Pittsburg, formerly of Richmond, cannot be excelled for his after dinner speeches. Fill George up with prime food and his fund of good stories and inimitable anecdotes will never run low until the wee sma' hours. Mr. Early is too well known to Richmond audiences to need any other introduction than to .say 'It's Early." Before he has finished it will be late. The date for the banquet has been changed from May 15 to May 28 to give the committees time to make all arrangements. No other details have been perfected. WESSEL WILL ASK NEW WIRE SYSTEM Councilman Weasel, chairman of the committee recently . appointed to investigate the wiring systems used by the various companies in this .city, will probably make a short report to council Monday night. He will ask that an expert be brought to this city to devise plans for placing all wires in the business section of the city underground. The committee will probably ask for an extension of time to complete its investigations. The committee was appointed following the death of Frank Ralston, who was thought to have been killed by touching a live guy wire bnt who was killed by falling from jhia buggy, the coroner decided,

TWO RIVALS

BOTH INVADE SAME STATE Maryland Today Witnesses President and Ex-president Fighting to Secure Primary Ballots. TAFT IS SATIRICAL; . T. R. IS COMBATIVE President Fears Fate of Nation if It Loses Cofonel The Latter Urges War Upon All Bosses. (National News Association) WESTMINSTER, Md.. . May V Standing beneath the picture of Abraham Lincoln, Col. Theodore Roosevelt today opened the second day of his campaign in Maryland. This state presented a strange spectacle of the president of the United States and an expresident both battling for votes, for President Taft is also in Maryland today. The Colonel spoke from a platform near the railroad station and said, in part: "The fight we are making is a straight line between the bosses and those whom they seek to control. You want to put the bosses down. Maryland ought to vote for us Monday, not alone because of your own state, but for the good of every state in the na tion. The bosses are -all against us It is a curious alignment of the boss es and privileged interests the silk stocking aristocracy. We saw it at its heighth in Massachusetts." Looks to Plain People.. Continuing his plea the Colonel caid. "In Maryland the bulk of the strength of the. Republican party rests with the plain people. I want to get the support of these people to get delegates Monday. I was told not to odme here as we were going to win. We must roll up a majority, of at. least three to two everywhere. The other side knows how to manipulate the vote, so you must have a safe margin. Tou must watch the polls and if you see any trickery, you must see that the man who resorts to it is sent to jail. Brib ery must be put down if our opponents try it and if caught they must go to the penitentiary." Col. Roosevelt answered the charge of his antagonist, that he is preaching anarchy, by saying, "I am preaching fair citizenship and a square deal. Is that anarchy? I don't preach class hat red. I don't even hate the bosses. I just want them to get out of politics. If the boss stops trying to rule us and goes into private life my blessing will go with him." Col. Roosevelt left Baltimore at 8 o'clock, half an hour after Mr. Taft reached that city. The president in Baltimore tonight will speak from the same stage which the Colonel occupied last night! The Colonel winds up his Maryland campaign at Cumberland tonight. TAFT RAPS ROOSEVELT. ' BALTIMORE, Md., May 4. President Taft launched his Maryland campaign at Hyattsville today. He attacked Col. Roosevelt in a satiracle manner. In his speech at Laurel, his second stop, the president said: ."I tremble as to what would happen to this nation if Theodore Roosevelt should die while so much is depending upon him." 'Ck. The president at Hyattsville.' apoke of the bitterness of the struggle -in the Republican party. "Even a rat in the corner will fight," he' said in explaining his turn to the aggressive. The president again charged the Colonel with misrepresentation and with being a stranger to the square deaL A large crowd gathered wherever the president stopped. The flying' trip today included in addition to the town mentioned. Bayview, Elkton, Aberdeen. Bellaire and Havre de Grace. Mr. Taft will speak at the Lyric theater tonight. . "I don't want to fight," said the president at Hyattsville, "but when I do fight I want to hit hara." TO RESUME BODKINS CASE NEXT MONDAY Following . the hearing of testimony of the majority of the state's witnesses in its case against Mrs. Reba Bodkins, charged with receiving stolen goods, yesterday afternoon in -the circuit court, adjournment was taken until Monday morning at 10 o'clock. The state will conclude its case . Monday morning. It is expected the defendant's attorney win examine a number of witnesses In his attempt to prove the Innocence of his client and that It will be late Monday afternoon or Tuesday morning before the jury receives the case. Mrs. Bodkin is charged with having received a number of stolen articles from Herbert Ascbenfelder, a boarder, at her home on North Twenty-first street, which, it is alleged, she knew

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News Nuggets

Nttonal News Association) SPARTANSBURG. S. C, May 4. Although broken in health. Senator Benjamin Tillman has appealed to his state to retain him in office, saying he desires to die In harness for sentimental reasons. TOPEKA. Kan., May 4. The widow of Joy Simpson, who is a spiritualist, says that her late husband has prophesied to her that Champ Clark will be the next president of the United States. ROCHESTER. N. Y.. May 4 William Twiman, a negro who is in jail charged with murder, played a winning game of craps here, thereby proving the contention of an alienist that the negro is sane. Twiman has been posing as insane. WASHINGTON. May 4. To the great indignation of the woman suffrage contingent here, the senate has ordered the closing of the womans resting room. PLAINFIELD. N. J--May 4 Because he did not have the nerve to ask his customers, the advanced prices of meat, August Moore has closed up his shop until the price omes down. NEW YORK. May 4. A romance which began fifty years ago in Buffalo, has culminated in the wedding of Charles Stillman, 69 years old, of Tyhdall. S. D., and Mrs. Katie Marie Noble. 63. of Hunt's Point road, the Bronx. POTTED PLANTS TO CHILDREN OF CITY Two Thousand Youngsters Rewarded for "Cleaning "Day" Work. . Two thousand potted plants, roses, geraniums and other varieties of flow ers, were given the school children of the city this morning at the high school for the work they did ''Clean ing Day." yesterday. Each child who proved he or she had worked for ZM hours in cleaning up the city in any capacity., was given one plant.. One lad said he worked over twenty hours. The plan of rewarding the children in this manner was evolved by the la dies of the Aftermath club. The generosity of the Richmond florists enabled the children to be 're warded for their efforts. The E. G. Hill company donated 1,000 potted roses, the Lemon floral company gave 500 potted geraniums, and the F. Cause company gave several hundred plants. One of the small boys, who had no yard of his own to help clean, worked picking dandelions out of the court house yard. Others cut grass, picked paper ' from the streets, and helped clean alleys and other places. This - morning a howling mob of 1800 children filled the alley south of the High school. They were rapidly given their plants and in a short time the city was filled with small boys and girls proudly carrying potted plants. " . The officers of the Aftermath club are delighted with the success of their venture and say that the 'inspection they have made of the city shows it to be as clean . as a most exacting housewife would demand her home to be. TO ATTEND MEETING Of Federation -of Women's Clubs at New Castle. (a large delegation, representing the five women's clubs in. this city which are members of the State Federation of Women's clubs, will go to New Castle, May 28, to attend the district convention . of the f ederationThe local organizations which belong to the federation, are the Teachers' club, the Aftermath society, the Art association, the Athenaea society and the Domestic Science club. While the right to vote on any business matters which may arise at the convention is given to the members of these five clubs only, still the invitation to attend the convention is extended to members of every Women's club in Richmond. 'Prominent among the speakers at the convention will be Mrs. M. F. Johnston, of this" city, who is chairman of the art committee of the federation Mrs. Johnston is well versed upon maters pertaining to art throughout the state. She is president of the Richmond Art association. - Under the chairmanship of ' Mrs. Johnson the art committee has afforded the people of ten different cities in the state the opportunity to witness the exhibition of the work of Indiana artists. The exhibit was seen here several months ago. It is at Logansport this week and will be shown at Gary next week. Mrs. Johnston was present on the opening night of the exhibit at Logansport.... Others who will appear on the program at the district .convention will be Mrs. Felix T. McWhirter. of Indianapolis.president, of the association; Mrs. A. H. McFarian. ' of Conner ville. recording secretary of the State Federation; and 'Mrs. Carl H. Milam, secretary of the Public Lib-

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NEW ORLEANS NOW FACING GREAT f L000

Conditions in Louisiana Today Are the Most Serious in Years. The River Still Going Up. CAPITAL OF STATE IS FACING CRISIS' It Is Expected that the Lev-" ees Guarding Baton Rouge Will Be Swept Away Before Tonight. (National Nws Anoctatloa) NEW ORLEANS, La., llay 4. With , New Orleans itself threatened with an i overflow of the Mississippi levees that ' will flood part of the downtown sec tion, with the dikes at Baton Rouge In danger of going out and causing enor--mous damage, and with the water rising hour by hour. Louisiana today faces the most serious flood situation It has eTer known. Water here has reached a stage six inches above anything ever known before. Sand bags piled on the levees are turning the wa ter back, but fear that they may not' be able to hold and that the levees will be overflowed was expressed by those in charge of the work. Levee Vary Wsak. At Baton Rouge the situation is far more serious. The levees there are no ticeably weak after the strain of the last few weeks and it was expected this morning that they would go out some time today. The lower parts of the city would be Inundated at one and It was expected that the ctty water pumping station . and the sewage pumping stations would be among the first put out of commission. The water was expected to break through the dikes in front of the state house and heavy damage to the state property was feared. .-" '.;.. Xh town of Bayou Sara 1s In some places fifteen feet under water,. Fran-, cisrille is covered with three feet of water. The crevasse at Bayou Sara Is growing hosrly and engineers there hare" given up hope of stopping it. The situation at Torras continues grave, the water flowing in torrents through the west levee that has been broken down by the floods. The break is one thousand feet Ions and the floods are still pouring out over the sugar plantation country. A PLAN TO RETIRE ALL AGED BISHOPS Dropped Like a Bombshell in the Methodist General , ". Conference. , - (National News Association) MINNEAPOLIS. May 4. forcing . the issue presented yesterday by the bishops in the addreea of the episcopacy, the Methodist general conference today called upon the episcopacy committee of the conference to sub-, mlt a report as to whether the para-. graph of the discipline, placing the ban on dancing, games of chance, theater-going and horse racing, should be . eliminated from the discipline: A reso , liition calling, for the striking out of this paragraph . from t the discipline ' was presented to the conference and referred to the episcopaey committee. The amusement question is to be fought out on the floor, of the conference and for the. trst, time in the history of the 'church the factions favoring going back, to' John Wesley's original declaration, barring the taking of inch amusements as cannot be used . in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and favoring the elimination from the discipline . of the paragraph naming' banned amusements, will be backed by the bishops of . the church. Dean Henry Rogers of the Yale law school threw a bomb shell into the conference today when he Introduced a resolution calling for the enforcement of an age limit for Methodist blshae. His resolution . provides that the board of bishops can retire any one of their number at the age of seventy, and that retirement at seventy-fire is compulsory. 'At present the general conference ha the only authority to retire bishops, and there are active bishops In the church today more than SO years old. This resolution was referred to the episcopacy committee. - Another re solution introduced today provides for a report on the committee on episcopacy on the section of the lepiscopacy address which declared the opposition of the bishops to any change looking to the geographical assignments of bishops. There Is a sentiment in the conference in favor of adopting the diocesan system. THE WEATHER STATE AND LOCAL Showsrs tonight and Sunday; not much Chang In temperature,'

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