Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 239, 12 August 1912 — Page 2

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AGREEMENT !S TO GO INTO DISCARD New Pole Contract to Be Drawn Up City Cabinet Holds Meeting.

COMMITTEE MAKES ITS EXPLANATION Denies Inference Drawn from Report on the Water Works Question. The interpretation of the recent report on the Richmond City Water Works company, compiled by the com

mittee on public service corporations of the Richmond Commercial club, that the value of the plant as it stands today, should be determined from the cost of a new plant if built at this time, is emphatically denied by the committee in a letter to the city officials. In recent public letters section two of the report was criticized on this point. The committee state that an examination of the report will show that there is no statement as to the present value of the plant, but that it should be arrived at in some manner. In the letter to the mayor and council, the committee says: "This committee expressly repudiates the inference drawn from its previous report that the value of the water works plant at this time. The committee never said this and examination of its previous report will snow. It was this report which suggested that the contract made with the water works company should provide for the city to share in the profits after the gross receipts of the company amount to $90,000. The section criticized was as follows: "We desire to recommend that in case the 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."

SEVEN EXECUTIONS AT 0LDSING SING Wholesale Electrocution Record Established in the New York Prison.

The meeting of the board of works and the mayor's cabinet this morning was productive of much business. Reports from various members of the cabinet were received, followed by the regular business of the board of works. The joint pole agreement is to be repealed by the city. City Attorney Gardner is now- working on an agreement for the various wire companies, which shall make the company whose wires are defective: or broken, responsible for the damage- done. Attorney Jessup represented Mr. Gardner at the meeting this morning. The present agreement makes the company whose wires are lowest on the pole responsi1 le for damage done by wires above, t -en though the wires above are the defective ones and cause the damage. rj ht city has had several damages to lay in the last year, when the city wires were in excellent condition. Mayor Zimmerman instructed Light Plant Superintendent Johnson to notify the Central Union company to take

down their wires not in use now. Failure of this company to comply with the order will mean the wires will be cut by the city employes. They are said to be dangerous. Ox Roast Refused. A representative of the Westcott hotel waiters was refused permission to hold an ox roast in the Glen. The waiters will go elsewhere. The board, also refused to allow a hospital tent advertising a make of tents, to be placed in the Glen during the Chautauqua. Contractor Hipskind appeared before the board and explained the construction of West Fifth street. The board is trying to force Hipskind to resurface portions of the street. It was charged that Contractor Cronin ruined the street with his heavily laden stone wagons. The city has no claim on Cronin, but Mayor Zimmerman is determined Hipskind shall repair the 6treet. The reserve, held to be used in case a street improvement is found defectice in the first year after it has been accepted, is to be held up on Hip

skind until the repair or the street is pearl Guyer, 25, colored, of South made in some manner. In several Fifth street, was severely injured this

places on west ratn street tne sur-; mornlng at 11:20 when he fell from a.

face is worn oir. Kuts in one square Ecaffold in the new St. Andrew's where Cronin's men hauled thousands I scnool to the noor below. He dropped cf leads of crushed stone, caused op-; thlrtv feeti breaking several ribs, and position to the city accepting that suffering a deep cut in the head. He stjuare. ! was wea from loss of blood when takThe board is investigating the ex- en to tQe nospital. tensions of some gas mains on West J Guyer wag nelping bricklayers when Ninth street. One woman told an at- the wheeibarrow he was pushing, tomcy. fcr the city she had been ap- turned and he lost nis balance. He preached by a representative of thejalighted Qn h,g head hlg chegt gtrfk. Light I. cat and Power company, who f somp scaffoldlng on tne down said the gas would be placed in her Hp WRg unoonsclous wnen plcked home upon certain conditions one of rughed the ta, ,n them being that she take electric cur- ftmbulance. Th,s afternoon hls condi. rent from the Light. Heat and Power jtUm was regarded as improved. company. ! Attorney Jessup asked for informa- j

tipn and gave it as his opinion that In the absence of laws regulating such a practice the city light plant would extend its lines outside of the city to supply patrons. He also said that this move was optional with the plant officials. They cannot be compelled to make the extension. Mayor Zimmerman, when asked about street lights for next year, said: "We'll pay for 'em next year all right." ; At the cabinet meeting the following cabinet officers' reports for July were read : Sanitary Inspector Scherb, three cases of diphtheria and thirteen cases of scarlet fever. Superintendent Hollarn reported over $1,300 expended for parks for July. . . Marketmaster Taylor reported the city's weights correct, and new wet and dry measures ordered.

INJURED JU FALL Negro Hod Carrier Drops From High Scaffold.

(National News Association) OSSINING, N. Y., Aug. 12. Seven human lives were legally taken today in the death chair at Sing Sing, establishing a new record for wholesale electrocutions in America. Of the seven victims six were Italians and the other man was a negro. All were murderers. The following five men were executed for participation in the brutal murder of Mrs. Mary Hall in a farm house at Griffins Corners, Westchester county, last November: Lorenzo Cali, Aneglo Guista, Lorenzo Leboiricali. Fillpo Demarco and

Salvatore Demarco. Joseph Ferrone, also an Italian, was electrocuted for murdering his wife in New York, October 24, last, by cutting her throat. The negro executed was John W. Collins, who shot and killed Policeman Thomas Lynch in New York city, July 1, 1911, while crazed with drink. The execution of the five Italians condemned for the murder of Mrs. Hall took place while hundreds of telegrams sent by Italian organizations in all parts of the country begging clemency lay unopened at Albany on the desk of Governor Dix, who is attending the military maneuvers in Connecticut. Extraordinary efforts have been made to save Cali, who maintained stoutly to the last that he was innocent. Cali tried to prove an alibi by declaring he was working for a gas company in Brooklyn, but as the employes of the company are designated only by numbers instead of by name the doomed man could not establish his claim. The entire seven executions took place in one hour and 15 minutes. There was not a hitch during the grewsome ceremony. Experts who were present designated them the

most successful electrocutions they had ever seen. Sheriff Julius Harburger, of New York, who has been waging a campaign against death by electricity and who was present today, said that the executions were entirely humane.

CRUEL YOUTH FINED

For Beating His Mule with Barbed Wire Strand.

Andrew Hamilton, the Virginia youth who beat his mule with a doubled three-foot length of barbed wire, Saturday, was given a fine of $25 and costs and thirty days in jail, in police court this morning. His case of cruelty to animals was perhaps the mo9t aggravated ever to come before the local court. Hamilton, aged 18, beat the mule with the barbed wire until it had welts all over its back, and the blood ran down its flanks. He was still working the mule, which was covered with blood, when arrested. The lad went to jail.

HOSPITAL ROAD IS TO BE MACADAMIZED

The contract for the macadamizing of the Richmond and Newport road,

better known at the Hospital road, was let to John C. Potter for $29,200, by the county commissioners last Saturday afternoon. The last supplemental report of the viewers of the Olive Scanlon road was approved and the improvement ordered. Bids will be received until September 7th at eleven o'clock. The following improvements were ordered to be published for bids: Swaine bridge, near Economy; Wasson's Ford, northeast of the city, Thornburg bridge, north of Hagerstown; Cramer culvert near Abington; repairs tp bridge near Middleborough; repairs to Purviance bridge; repairs to Gates bridge, and new bridge on the Scanlon road.

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GILBERT CROSLEY DIED LAST NIGHT

Gathering the Remain. A good woman's husband was dismembered and eaten by an African tribe. She, desirous of giving him Christian burial,' was left no other alternative but that of exterminating, with the assistance of certain accommodating friends armed with the destructive weapons - of our advanced civilization, the tribe in question, which had shown such a recepUTe attitude toward her husband.- The bodies of the savages were brought back to civilization by the avenging- expedition and were placed in one grave, surmounted by a modest slab placed there by the widow and bearing the following Inscription: "The remains of the Rev. , beloved husband of

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TO GIVE OX ROAST

Permission was today given to Rev. W. H. Tandy of the South Ninth Street Baptist church, to hold an ox roast on the grounds of the Richmond Park and Lake association by the directors. It will be given under the auspices of the waiters of the Westcott hotel. All surplus funds will be used for charity work.

THE PERSIANS.

Deaths and Funerals. ROSS. Margaret Ross, aged twenty-four years, seven months and twenty-three days, died Monday morning at two o'clock at her home, 1620 North G street. She is survived by her mother and stepfather, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Wilson and five brothers. The funeral will be held Wednesday afternoon at two o'clock from the Second Baptist church. Burial in Earlham cemetery. YOUNGFLESH Julius Youngflesh, aged about sixty years, died at the Reid Memorial Hospital Saturday. The funeral will be Monday afternoon at two o'clock. Burial in Earlham cemetery.

HELL IS DEFINED "Eternal Torment" was the subject of a very Interesting lecture by the Rev. Joseph Cooch of Dayton. Ohio, yesterday afternoon at the Pythian Temple. According to the interpretation of the Bible, Mr. Cooch said that it was true that all the dead of the ages have gone to hell, and everyone is destined to go there, but, he maintained, hell is not a place of torment.

By the addition to copper of chromium, aluminum, nickel and line at certain temperatures, which are maintained for specified lengths of time, a French metallurgist has brought out an alloy with the hardness of steel and great tensile strength. ,

Net Ruled by Caste, but Are Great Sticklers For Etiquette. The pleasures of the Persians are in the main refined. They have not many kinds of recreation. Conversation is one of their chief enjoyments. Although a large proporUon of them can neither read nor write, 1 think we must call them an Intellectual people. They are natural linguists, and since their country is inhabited by many different races they are obliged to speak several different languages. It is not uncommon to find a man who scarcely knows bis right hand from bis left who can Sprite two or three languages fluently. To this number a man of any education whatever would add two or three more. There Is no caste among any of the races found in Persia. A son of Nasir-i-Din Shah's butler became his prime minister; a peasant girl once became the first favorite of this same king's anderun because she lifted ber veil as the king was passing through her native village and her beauty appealed

to the royal fancy. But while there Is no caste the Persians are in some ways great sticklers for etiquette. The Zl-i-Sultan. the oldest and most capable son of Naslr-l-Din. could not succeed his father on the throne because bis mother was hot of royal birth. All social functions, moreover, are attended with the most rigid ceremonies, and woe to the person who attempts to overstep the bounds which custom has prescribed for his rank. Mary A. Colquboun in Los Angeles Times.

(Palladium Special) CAMBRIDGE CITY, Ind., Aug. 12. Gilbert Crosley, 93 years old, one of the oldest and most respected residents of Cambridge City and Wayne county, died last night at his home here. He was born in Brown county, Ohio. Later he went to Dayton and then came to Cambridge City, which he had since made his home.

NAPOLEON CARICATURES. The First V.s Drawn by a Fellow 8tu

dent at Brienne. Napoleon in caricature is one of the most prolific of subjects. Indeed, European political caricature from 1798 until 1815 may be said to have been Napoleon. Although in France this form of pictorial art was rigidly suppressed. Gilray and Rowlandson In England and a score of artists in Germany and Austria were depicting the great emperor as the most Infamous of monsters. The first known caricature of Bonaparte was drawn years before the first consulate, when the Bourbons still sat upon the throne of France. It is reproduced in Norwood Young's "The Growth of Napoleon." Young Bonaparte's years at the military academy at Brienne were not bappy ones. He was a Corsican, and at that time Corsica was a recently conquered province. The cartoon, which was drawn by a schoolmate, represents the future emperor standing, a severe and determined look upon his face, with both hands on the top of a musket, resting the butt on the ground. A smaller figure behind him, an old man whose nose nearly reaches his chla. is pulling him back by his wig. Napoleon's feet face in two directionsone forward, the other backward. Underneath is written, "Bonaparte rushes to the aid of Paoll to rescue him from the hand of his enemies." These words have been struck through with a pen, which has also been drawn across the face of Na Doleon.

(National Newi Association) SEAGIRT, N. J., Aug. 12. Governor Wilson announced today that he desires to avoid any possible taint that an enormous campaign fund might impart to his candidacy for president, and gave notice that his campaign would be conducted with the smallest possible expenditure of funds. Stories have been printed recently to the effect that the governor hoped for a campaign fund of $2,000,000. As a result he has been receiving numerous letters from Democrats in various parts of the country, commenting adversely on the propriety of such a tremendous fund.

"I never said I was anxious to ob

tain $2,000,000 for my campaign," said the governor today. "It vexes me very much that any such figures have been stated. I have not the slightest notion how much is necessary to run a presidential campaign, but my desire is to confine the expenditures to a reasonable degree of economy and absolutely legitimate objects." Contributions received here up to date aggregate $22,000, and Glvernor Wilson thinks this is a most gratifying amount.

TRACTION DELAYS STREE1JRICKING Main Street Work Halted Until the Turn Out Rails Reach the City. Those tracks in the Glen are still bothering the city authorities, and despite the assurance given by the traction people, that "everything is all right," the city dads are watching the Glen with both eyes wide open. The

unloading of some heavy rails started the trouble. Some one telephoned the mayor that the traction company was trying to put in heavy rails in the Glen. Mayor Zimmerman grabbed his hat, got hold of City Engineer Charles, and sped out to the scene as fast as he could. Nothing was being done, however, but placing heavy rails on Main street. The turn-out rails for Twentieth and Main streets and Twentieth and North E streets, although ordered two months ago, have not arrived. The bricking of Main Btreet at the junction of

Twentieth street is being held up be

cause of this delay.

The city wants immediate action on

the removal of the Glen tracks and

the mayor may yet get a chance to "get f ve hundred men with picks and shovels and tear the tracks out of the park." He reiterated this morning his

former declaration that "the people can take them out any time they want to."

The Message In the Box. On a table In the waiting room of a specialist is an Inlaid box. When one opens it and most visitors to the specialist do a smaller box is found and one not so large inside that. This continues until finally the last Is reached, a tiny thing with a slip of paper inside 1L On the paper is a single word. "Curiosity." "I keep it there to amuse waiting patients." explained the specialist. "If there was only one who went through the scale of boxes be might feel sore about it, but he or she leaves the box closed for the next comer, and when there are quite a few in the waiting room It gets to be a pretty good joke, and I can bear laughter as the latest arrival gets stung. I picked the box up on a trip to India and happened to leave it in the waiting room one day. Now it stays there all the time." New York Sun.

Pag Tankards. The pegging or marking of drinking cups was introduced by St. Dunstan to check the Intemperate habits of the times by preventing one man from taking a larger draft than his com

panions. But the device proved the means of Increasing the evil it was

Intended to remedy, for, refining upon

St Dunstan's plan, the most abstemious were required to drink precisely to a peg or pin. whether tbey could

soberly take such a quantity of liquor or not

The Clock and the Man. When a clock is fast you can always turn it back, but it's different with a young man. New York Times.

Different Positions, "What does the man do over there at the desk who seems to be working o hard?" "He checks the cash." "And what does the man do who is leaning back In the easy chair smoking?" "Oh. he cashes the checks." Baltimore American.

An Exception. "Happiness," declaimed the philoso

pher, "is the pursuit of something, not

the catching of it"

"Have you ever," interrupted the plain citizen, "chased the last car on

a rainy night?" Toledo Blade.

Sensitiveness.

The smallest bird cannot light npon the greatest tree without sending a shock to its most distant fiber. Every

mind is at times no less sensitive to the most etri fling words. Lew Wallace

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ONE MORE FACTORY

The Fayette Manufacturing com

pany has accepted a lease on the corn mill buildings on North 12th street.

and will commence at once installing machinery for the manufacture of combination step ladders. The factory will open about the first of September. Richmond was chosen by the promoters over several other cities. One town offered to build a suitable building and on the day the factory opened deed the property to the company. Richmond was given the preference because "it Is a live town and has something doing."

PROSECUTOR LADD TYPHOID VICTIM?

Prosecuting Attorney Charles Ladd is confined to his home, afflicted, it is thought with typhoid fever in its incipient stage. Sunday he became violent, and Mrs. Ladd telephoned for police to help hold him in his bed. He was delirious for some time. He was slightly better today.

GOLF TOURNAMENT A golf tournament will be held at Springfield, Ohio. Wednesday. The local team with the Dayton and Springfield teams will compete for honors. All golfers of this city who expect to attend are asked to take the eight o'clock Dayton limited lnterurban.

Bicyclists In England have lost pa

tience over the dogs that attack them. Tbey are making a blacklist of the ani

mals which do this habitually. The

owners of the doxs are notified, and if

the nuisance' is not abated these own

ers are legaly held to pay damages.

For Hay Fever, Catarrh, Quick Consumption, Typhoid and contagious diseases, BRAZILIAN BALM never failed or lost a case, as it KILLS THE GERMS 23c, 50c and $1.

FOR SALE. By order of Court, the 7 room frame house at 214 South 13th street, must be sold at once. See: Will W. Reller, Atty, Colonial Bldg. Phone 2455. l0-3t

ROBBINS EXAMPLE TAKEH KELLER County G. O. P. Chairman at South Bend Announces His Resignation. (National News Association) SOUTH BEND. Ind., Aug. 12. Announcement that he would resign the chairmanship of the Republican coun

ty central committee at the meeting of the committee next Wednesday evening was made today by Fred Kel

ler. In assigning his reason for resigning Mr. Keller said he was not for

Mr. Taft, but on the contrary Intends

to support Roosevelt and Johnson and

Beverldge and Landis on the Progresa-

ive ticket

Mr. Keller vigorously denied that any Intimation had been made to him by regular Republicans that he should resign the chairmanship, but declared he did not think It consistent to retain the position and was resigning of his own free will with the highest regards for the other members of the committee.

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