Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 228, 30 July 1912 — Page 4

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THE RICHMOND PAlLiAlJlUM AND 8 UN -TELEG RAM, TUESDAY, JULY 30, 1912.

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Better Streets and Roads. ? The day of the horse has past This is the motor age, and when the motorist makes a protest on conditions of streets and roads it should be given careful consideration, because the motorist is heavily taxed for the upkeep of city thoroughfares and country highways. Right now owners of automobiles and motorcycles, also the owners of bicycles, are sending in a deluge of complaints on the condition of the streets in Richmond and the principal roads throughout the county. Despite the three-mile gravel road law which is steadily pushing the county tax rate to its limit, the principally traveled roads of the county are today apparently in worse condition than they were three or four years ago. Take the National road west of the city, for instance; from Richmond to Cambridge City there is not more than one mile of level roadway, the remainder of the highway Is a menace to the traveler's life and limb and to his machine. On this famous highway there still remains two or three wooden bridges, relics of the Civil war period, which are a disgrace to the county. Many modern concrete and steel bridges are found on obscure roads In this county, but for some unknown reason the county commissioners have denied necessary bridge Improvements on the National road. In the city most of the gravel and macadam streets are a disgrace. To ride over them is like taking a trip on a "bump-the-bumps" at a cummer amusement park. . A correspondent calls attention to the fcact that the municipal vehicle tax was imposed for the purpose of providing better streets, but that this extra street improvement fund has been of little or no benefit to those who have contributed to it. He also protests against street oiling. His communication follows: 1 "In order that a larger fund might be available for the maintenance and Improvement of the city streets, a vehicle license has been collected. The receipts last year from this source totaled $4,395, of which amount bicycle, motorcycle and automobile owners contributed $2,383, or more than one-half. The appropriations for the Street Department last year exceeded the disbursements $2,353, an amount almost equal to that paid for licenses by the bicycle, motorcycle and automobile owners. It would 'seem that their license fees were not used at all and therefore, they received little benefit for the money they thus paid in. "A very generous and emphatic howl is being made on account of the added expense of "improving" the streets by oiling. As is well known oil is injurious to rubber. A very conservative estimate of the decreased mileage from an automobile tire, due to the oiled roadways, is twentyfive per cent. This on all four tires equals one new tire, the average cost of which is not less than $35.00. "In other words, the automobile owner in addition to his license fee, which averages $4.00, is obliged to pay $35.00 for deterioration to tires. Rather expensive street "improvement" for them. The expense to the motorcyclist and bicyclist is even proportionately greater. A united effort by the owners of rubber-tired vehicles to discourage the oiling of the streets another year will doubtless be made. "The street commissioner stateB that oiling rots the surface of the street. During the past winter it was quite noticeable that the surface of those streets that were oiled last year was more susceptible to wear than those streets not oiled. Taking the same street, one block of which had been oiled and the other not, the oiled block was more slushy, muddy and deeply rutted than the block that had not been oiled. "REMEDY: Some other dust allayer, the first cost of which might be greater, but which in the long run would be cheaper. An excellent road preparation has been used on the roads in Olen Miller park. "Of the sixty-seven miles of city streets, only about forty miles are fit for autos or motorcycles."

The Handwriting Seen?

Dispatches from Washington today bear again the mournful tidings that the friends of a certain corpulant gentleman are urging him to withdraw from the presidential race. Some of his political advisers have even gone so far as to set an example for him. They are Senators Crane and Guggenheim, who have announced that they will not be candidates for re-election. But this corpulent gentleman has never been able to see further than the borders of the White House lawn and will undoubtedly remain in the contest until the bitter end and the finish, for him, really promises to be exceptionally bitter. Even the loud crash which rent the heavens when the Republican party in Ohio was toppled over by the withdrawal of Judge Dillon as gubernatorial nominee, has not reached his ears, we will wager, and if it ever does, it is quite probable it will make no impression on him. Whether the president remains in the race or withdraws from it is a matter of concern to only a few bi-partisan political leaders, who are fighting desperately to retain the power which is being wrested from them by the people. Already, and the campaign has not been formally launched, the presidential race has narrowed down to a contest between Roosevelt and WilBon.

lhis Is My 58th Birthday JULIUS KRUTTSCHN1TT. Julius Kruttschnitt, who was one of the chief lieutenants of the late Edward H. Har-iman and who has been director of maintenance and operation of the Union Pacific, Southern Pacific system since Mr. Harriman's death, was born in New Orleans, July 30, 1854. He taught school in Baltimore five years before engaging in railway work in 1878 as civil engineer. For seven years he was connected in various capacities with the Louisiana and Texas railroad. In 1885 he became assistant general manager of the eastern lines of the Southern Pacific system, and ten years later found him general manager of the entire system, with headquarters In San Francisco. Subsequently he was promoted to the office of fourth vice president of the Southern Pacific and in 1901 Mr. Harriman made him one of bis principal assistants in the direction of the great system of transportation lifies, embracing the Oregon Railroad and Navigation company and numerous other lines in addition to the Union Pacific and the Southern, Pacific lines. CONGRATULATIONS TO: Robert J. Burdette, the noted humorist, 68 years old today. William Hodges Mann, governor of Virginia, 69 years old today. John Sharp Williams, United States 'THIS DATE

JULY 30. 1711 A British and Colonial fleet sailed from Boston for the conquest of Canada. 1718 William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania, died at his home in Berkshire, England. Born in London, Oct 16, 1644. 1818 The Duke of Richmond became Governor of Canada. 1864 Federals repulsed with heavy loss in their assault on Petersburg. Va. . 1875 Gen. George E. Pickett, a noted Confederate commander, died in Norfolk, Va. Born In Richmond, Jan. 25, 1825. 1887 Great railroad bridge over the St Lawrence River at Lacnine completed. 1888 Bartley Campbell, author of "The White Slave," "Siberia" and other well known plays, died in Mlddletown, N. Y. Born in Allegheny City, Pa.. Aug. 12, 1843. 1898 Prince von Bismarck, the famous German statesman, died. Born April 1, 1815. ,1911--The deposed Shah of Persia, marched on Teheran, but was defeated

senator from Missouri, 58 years old today. Henry A. Du Pont, United States senator from Delaware , 74 years old today. Thomas J. O'Brien, United States ambassador to Italy, 70 years old today. Henry Louis Smith, president of Washington and Lee University, 53 years old today. William E. Huntington, former president of Boston University, 68 years old today.

The Masonic Calendar L Tuesday, July 30, 112, Richmond Lodge No. 196., F. & A. M. Called meeting. Work in fellow craft degree. Wednesday, July 31, 1912, Wrebb Lodge No. 24, F. & A. M. Called meeting. Work in master mason degree. Thursday, August 1, Wayne Council No. 10, R. & S. stated assembly. Barks. The class in natural history being asked the difference between a dog and a tree, the head boy answered. A tree Is covered with bark, while a dog seems to be lined with it." IN HISTORY"

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Politics and Politicians Governor Foss of Massachusetts is out for a third term. Arkansas will pass on the Statewide prohibition question at the fall election. Indiana Progressives have decided to hold their State convention in Indianapolis on August 1. The National Progressive party in Louisiana will hold a convention in New Orleans August 2, to name delegates to the Chicago convention. The new primary law in Colorado provides that none but women may serve as precinct vice-chairmen of the various political parties in that State. Governor Johnson of California, and former Senator Beveridge of Indiana, are prominently mentioned for second place on the Roosevelt national ticket. The Democratic, Republican, Socialist, Socialist Labor and Prohibition parties have put up tickets to be voted for in the Missouri State primaries next week. Arthur Capper, the Topeka editor, and Frank J. Ryan of Leavenworth, are contesting for the Republican gubernatorial nomination in Kansas. The nomination will be made in the general primary next week. Federal Judge George Gray, once prominently mentioned for the Derci ocratic presidential nomination, has j just declined to become a candidate for the Democratic nomination for governor of Delaware. The next Colorado legislature will be called upon to select two United 'States senators, one to succeed Senator Guggenheim, and the other to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Senator Hughes. Eugene V. Debs of Indiana, and Emil Seidel of Wisconsin, the Socialist candidates, respectively, for president and vice president of the United States, have entered upon a stumping tour of the country. Friends of William Fllnn of Pittsburgs, who defeated Boies Penrose for the leadership of the Republican ori ganlzation In Pittsburgh, expect that he will have the most influential hand in the direction of the Roosevelt national campaign In the East. Congressman Samuel W. McCall, who has served in the national house of representatives continuously for a score of years, from the Eighth Massachusetts district, has announced that he will not again be a candidate. It is expected that he will try for the seat in the United States senate soon to be vacated by W. Murray Crane. The Republican members of the United States senate whose terms will expire next March and whose seats the Democrats believe they have an excellent chance of capturing are Briggs of New Jersey, Brown of Nebraska, Guggenheim of Colorado, Richardson of Delaware, Crane of Massachusetts, Dixon of Montana, Gamble of South Dakota, Curtis of Kansas and possibly Cullom of Illinois and Nelson of Minnesota. More than two hundred cities have now adopted the commission form of government, of which about one-half began the experiment since the beginning of 1911. Despite their disaribution over thirty-five states, more than one-fourth of them are in the two states of Texas and Kansas, and over half of them in the states of Illinois, California, Oklahoma and North Dakota. The cities of the East as a rule have taken up the idea less readily than the municipalities in the South and West. That which comes after ever conforms to that which has gone before. (Marcus Aurelius. Iff Your Head Aches You Can't Think Fast To be alert, vigorous and think the right thing at the right time, you muet not let headache become chronic, whether from heat, cold, stomach or nervousness. Hicks9 Capudine Stops Headache It's liquid pleasant to take and quick ly effective. Capudine removes cause of headache. Capudine helps you to think clearly 10c, 25c, 50c at drug stores.

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Heart to Heart Talks. Vy EDWIN A. NYE.

GETTING HEADY. They were getting ready to "play house." The house was wonderfully made, with a clothesline for the framework and a bedspread for covering. The walls consisted of old shawls and odd garments. Inside four sticks driven Into the ground represented bedposts and a box the dresser. The kitchen held many utensils, while in the parlor there was a davenport almost big enough for oue girl to sit upon. It was Saturday afternoon. For hours the little girls had skirmished about the different homes, bringing a garment here and a box there. And finally when all was ready to begin bousekeeplug It was time to go borne. There was no chance to rock the dolls or receive company or hold an afternoon tea or prepare a meal. And, moreover, they must carry the stuff back to their homes. And the father of the girl on whose premises the "bouse" had been built scolded them because they had "Uttered up his back yard with trash." Well, of such la our life. We are all children a little large, grown, and we are forever getting ready to have a good time. Always we plan and fetch and carry, anticipating the day when we shall enjoy ourselves. And before we know it it Is almost time to go bome. We plan an education. Surely when our diplomas shall be earned it will be easy sailing. But commencement day. to which we looked forward as the end, was but the beginning of preparations. Now, when we shall have married and "settled down" But then comes the baby the real doll and to "get the rabbit skin to wrap the Baby Bunting In" Is the commencement of a long bunt Play day? To be sure When the children are educated and settled the work of carrying and building will be ended and we shall have a good long breathing spell, and. faith, we shall need it. But the westering sun is low. and we are not so keen to play as In the morning, and we must take care of the little we have, because we cannot earn as once we did. and And then we go home. Well, If the girls but realized, they got a lot of fun out of their planning and their building, and so must we. Therefore let us take what joy may come to us from the passing moment. And wben It Is all over may no one scold us for tiiviug littered up bis beck yard. CHAIN CABLES. 6evere Tasti to Which They Are Subjected Before Being Used. One weak link in a cable may mean the loss of a great ship worth a million pounds or more, so before being used every one of the great chain cables used in the navy or merchant service Is carefully tested. The apparatus employed is a most Ingenious one. The cable is laid In a sort of long trough, one end being fastened to an enormous steel hawser, which is passed round a revolving drum, the other attached to a hydraulic ram. The machinery is worked from an adjoining building, no one being allowed in the cable shed while the testing Is in progress. If a chain does break under the terrific strain to which it is subjected it simply smashes everything near it and may bring the whole roof down. The operator in the next room has before him an ordinary looking pair of scales, but tho small weights which he places upon it represent as many tons as tbey actually weigh pounds. While the weights go into the scales a loud creaking and groaning is heard through the thick partition as the seventy-eight foot length of cable, which is the amount tested at one time, stretches under the enormous pressure. A new cable stretches about two inches, an old one a good deal more. The ordinary cable of steel, two and one-eighth inches in diameter, is subjected to a pull of over eighty tons London Answers. BUY YOUR Farm Gates Of THE MILLER KEMPER CO., Phone 3247 NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS The Foster Construction Co, have opened a factory for the manufacture of Cement Blocks, Copings. Porch Columns. Caps Sills, etc.. at TLe Old Mill Works. They have a complete outfit of mod era machinery and are using nothing but washed and graded materials In all their work. If you are a contractor it will pay you to use the best materials obtainable. If you are going to build it will pay you to insist that your contractor use the Foster Construction Co.'s products. Would be pleased to have call at Factory and Inspect their Products or call phones: Res. 2529 or Factory 3404.

Harris Makes Objection to . The C. C. Water Works Report

A few days ago there was published in the Richmond newspapers a report of a Commercial club committee which has been investigating the water works contract question. This report was adopted by the club and the names of the various members of the committee were attached to It. It appears, however, that E. H. Harris, one member of the committee, did not place his signature to the report, being out of the city at the time, but his name was attached under the impression that it met with his approval. Mr. Harris does not approve of the report, because of the section referring to "plant valuation." but realizes that the committee believed it was acting with his approval In attaching his name to it. In objecting to the section of the report on "plant valuation," Mr. Harris has addressed the following communication to Charles W. Jordan, secretary of the Commercial club: Mr. Charles W. Jordan. Secretary, Richmond Commercial Club. My dear Mr. Jordan: Relative to our conversation yesterday, regarding the Interpretation of Section 2 of the report which the Commercial Club forwarded to all of the city officials, as the recommendations of the Club, on the matter of a new water supply for Richmond, I beg to enter a protest against the wording of part of the report, as I believe It has been misinterpreted by a large majority of the people of Richmond. And if the wording of the report is allowed to stand I must insist that my name be removed from the report as the report was adopted by the Club and my name subscribed without my knowledge. The Section in question reads as follows: 2. We desire to recommend that In the event bids received are unsatisfactory that the valuation of the present plant shall be determined; also what the cost of installing a similar plant would be, so that these values might be used in determining what rates would be necessary in order to yield a fair and Just per cent of profit on the Investment I wish to ask the question, "How are the members of the Club or the citizens of Richmond to know whether or not the bids are satisfactory until some basis is established for the fixing of rates for the city of Richmond?" You agree with me that the Richmond City Water Works company is selling service and that the cost of pumping the water Into the city, the pressure Is maintained in Richmond, and the cost of getting the present water supply, is not the same as in any other city, therefore, it would be unfair to take any other city as a criterion for rates. Then, there is but one course open for the city to determine when the bids are satisfactory, and that would be to arrive at a valuation of the present plant, and then see whether or not the rate bids would yield more than a fair and just return on the valuation. Then and only then can we say whether or not the bids received are satisfactory. On the matter of the valuation, there are several means of determining that item. One is on the physical valuation less a reasonable amount for depreciation. Second, on the cost of reproducing the plant new today, and third on the actual amount of money invested in the plant to date. Why the board of public works ordered Mr. Maury to prepare his report on the second plan, no reason can be given, but it Is manifestly unfair to the city. The cost of reproducing the plant new today, would be far above what the actual valuation of the present plant Is. But the city ordered Mr. Maury to prepare his report on the cost of reproducing the plant and these Instructions he followed. Because this method of valuation has been forced on the people In the Maury report Is no reason why that re port or method involved should be taken as a basis for valuation. You WILLIAMS' KIDNEY PILLS Have you overworked your nervous system and caused trouble with your kidneys and bladder? Have you palna In loins, aide, back and bladder? Have you a flabby appearance of the face, and under he eyes? A frequent desire to pass urine? If so. Williams- Kidney PUla will cure you Drurslst. Price 50c WILLIAMS MFC CO.. Prop... CWv.Iund.Oaie For sale by T. F. McDonnelL

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have informed me. that in drafting the report, the committee did not intend to convey the meaning that the coat of reproducing the plant should be taken as a basts for fixing rates in the coming contract, but you will find that a large proportion of the people who read the report placed that interpretation on it. The recommendation In Section 2 of the report is the most important factor of the whole controversy and the item of valuation must be determined before we can proceed further with the discussion. I am raising the question publically, as I was a member of the committee, and the report appeared while I was out of the city, and believe that I have a just reason to enter a protest against that portion of the report of the committee. Very respectfully. E. II. HARRIS. July 30. 1912.

FIRE DANGER AT SEA. How Flames Can 8 weep the Inside ef Even a Metal Ship, The danger from fire on a transatlantic liner is more serious than is generally believed. It la much greater than the danger iron collision and is becoming more and more dangerous with the increased outlay upon luxury and display. The main structure of the ship and most of its essential parts are of metal, but many of the fitting, nearly every feature of ornament and every trapping of luxury, are highly inflammable. No one who has not been aboard the Spanish wrecks at Santiago can conceive how fire can sweep the Inside of even a metal ship. Admiral Cervcra described to me the experience on board the Teresa In these words: "The second shot that came on board set us on fire. The fire main was damaged. Soon we were unable to cope with the fire. It swept through her from bow to stern. There was not a space as big as the palm of your band where life could have been sustained. An Insect could not hare lived on board. We had to get overboard or be burned." It Is true the Spaniards had not cut out their woodwork and thrown overboard all unnecessary inflammables, as we had In the American fleet but the Inflammability of one of their- warships was much leas than that of a luxurious ocean liner. Captain Richmond Pearson Ilobeon in nglneerinf Mags sine. They Make Good who keep themselves in fine physical condition. Regular bowels, active kidneys and liver, good digestion, and a greater natural vigor follow the timely use of the reliable BEECHES a 4 t Hadley's Grocery X X for Baked Ham (cooked $ t done), and Fresh Potato t t Chips. I BRAZILIAN BALM "The Old Reliable' is maale for coughs, grip, cioup, asthma, catarrh and quick consumption to the last stage. KILLS THE CERMSI CYCLONES and WINDSTORMS WILL COME but Dougan, Jenkins & Co. Will Protect You Against Loss From Them. PHONE 1330. Room 1, I. O. O. F. Building This Range connected free In your home for on payments of $2.00 per month, f 1.00 discount for cash. TeL 1287 and our representative will calL v

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