Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 3, 13 November 1912 — Page 4

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Raolax O. Uii. .aMifco SUBSCRIPTION TXRMS uwnd . or yes la XMoomond vuum nr 10b oar EUKAL KOOTM On year, in advaaov ..,.;; 8U mtvatba. In tdruM Ono month. In adTanea .... Addreaa chan-ed a aftaa 'P both new and eld aearsnses amost bo Subscriber will ploaoo remit ,Wttb order, which should be ive ' peolfted term; name wUl not M ed UAtU payment la reeetred. iuu. suBacwrnaws I One year. In advene ........... I BUt months,. In advaaos aOne month. In advanoa ...... avtered at Richmond. Indiana. post lofflee aa second claoa sattal Now York Ropr ITeaosr. Jfl-14 Wee tatlreo Payne eat 1M etreac. and St it oat S2nd street. Now Toafc, X. T. n ur.ongam t w as mmt T4X-IM - mauom xu. The Aaaociatio f Amorloan Advertise has mined and cortlftoa to tho oircnlationotf thfa pnbTMiBgwree of carcalataooj I in tko Aeaocsatfon's ronnlmreemeranteod. Jss3tf Astrioa tfver&ers , WblUhaH . i. T. Otj FOBUMOFTHE PEOPLE tofe or 7Tfcis Column Moti Mot Be in Excess of 400 Watfe. The Identity of AIT Contrtimtors. Must Be Known to the Editor, Articles Will Be-Printed in y theOrder Received. KCh SsOadlamt HfcvlVM. Campfield In his supplemomtary letter giving his reasons as Pl whpe on behalf of his company, MNrfoaed to bid on the .water contract, ra&dertakes to speak on behalf of the consumers of water, and In so doing, criticises tho specifications because of their limitation to the privileges Fwhlch private service corporations consider they should have. , Mr. Campfield seems to lose sight f the fact that the city is binding itself to a contract for 25 years, and a contract minus specific stipulations, essential to the safe guarding its interest, becomes too often overbearing and oppressive, which is discovered when too late to remedy. One of the strongest points that could be used against a hasty conclusion is found in the statement Mr. Campfield makea as to the inadequacy of pressure at the Colonial building fire, supplemented by the further statement that the mains are Inadequate also. . You see Mr. Campfield, those are some of the things the city was powerless to demand, and the public Is no more inclined to believe that you would have had the plant in better (working order than did the Richmond IClty Water Works, had It been under 'your control. ' Private corporations are not built that way. What is to be got from them, is only possible under a compulsory clause in the contract. I The only trouble with this specification is, it is drawn up in the interest jof the city and people, and it circumi scribes the power of the company in its dealings with the cljty and patrons. The contract, by virtue of the 5 year j limitation, la not a tentative one, as Mr. Campfield would have us believe, on the contrary, it is a 25 year contract, with a 5 year limitation, and an option made assignable, the limit to be used and option assigned when you fall to comply with the conditions set forth In the contract. . What can be more reasonable? The best thought of the city's legal department has been given to this proposal, and under no circumstances should it j be swept aside to conform to a contemplating bidder's wish. ! The complain raised by Mr. CampI field regarding the delay is not without Just reason, but the people can 'better afford to pay the present rate 'for a little while longer and be sure of getting an acceptable contract, than to rush pell mell into the acceptance of another which have a tendency to aggravate present conditions. Mr. Campfield says: "If you are unable to agree on a franchise we suggest that you let the bidders prepare one and submit it for your approval." Did you not have that opportunity once? Did that franchise bear evidence of the kind consideration you now profess to have for the long suffering publiof The protest against the profit sharing scheme, assignment clauses, unfair control of bond issues and an unfair Inventory of the company's property and other unfair clauses, etc, etc. Mr. Campfield should show where the city means to be unfair. It is unfair to say: If you fail to comply with ; the conditions set forth, the option held by us will be assigned, and the plant bought at its valuation without . bonus or per cent. No value for the unexpired term of the franchise to be added to the valuation? Is it unfair for the city to limit the bond isBue beyond a certain axed maximum? Is it unfair for the city to safeguard itself as a contemplated put chaser, against the issue of watered stock to keep pace with the increased valuation, made possible by unearned increments, such as advances in land values, prices, etc., etc.? Has the city no rights in return for the free use of its streets? The limitations were not in the contracts previously prepared by you and the Richmond City Water Works, ' (perhaps jointly) yet these contracts stand out as the most conspicuous attempt to rob the city, if not in rates

The Extra Session.

Undoubtedly President-elect Wilson Intends to call an extra session of congress as soon as he assumes office, but he refuses to place himself on record until he has done "listening." What is he "listening" for? A deaf mute could hear the demand for an immediate revision of the tariff downward, so that cannot be the reason we and our soon-to-be chief executive with his ear to the ground. Probably Mr. Wilson is trying to ascertain whether his first congress intends to take the bit in its mouth and make a dash in the direction of free trade, which policy Mr. Wilson is opposed to, notwithstanding his platform declares for it. If Mr. Wilson decides that the next congress is to be responsive to his will and will content itBelf with a moderate reduction of offending tariff rates, which if most probable, we may expect an extra session. If he decides that the next congress is dominated by free traders it is probable it will hold Its first session a year from next month, instead of next March.

Road Extravagance.

In the last two or three years thousands of dollars have been spent by Wayne county on improving roads. At first glance this appears to be a wise policy to pursue, but there are any number of people who now realize that under present conditions and because of the unsatisfactory laws governing the upkeep of highways it is the height of extravagance to construct gravel and macadam roads, the life of which is only two or three years. After the gravel and macadam roads have begun to "break" under the wear and tear of automobiles and small rim farm vehicles they are left to the mercy of the pople who live along them, or the road sut?rvisors will dump loads of gravel in the center of the road and allow traffic to spread It. After the road begins to "break" and the road supervisors and property owners start to give it "treatment" it takes just about a year to make It an uneven, rutty highway, a quagmire in winter and a Sahara desert in summer, and the $30,000 or $40,000 the taxpayers have spent to construct the road along modern lines has been wasted. It is absurd to construct good roads in this or any other county in tho state until the legislature provides for a state highway commission, responsible for all the roads in the state, and creates the office of county supervisor of roads, an official responsible to the highway commission and who will supervise not only the building of roads but their upkeep. The three mile gravel road law has been most unsatisfactory and it should be reconstructed without delay, when attention is given to other road legislation.

The Spectacles of the Sixteenth Century Were Called "Nose-Riders"

Apropos of the remark of a patient that spectacles were of comparatively recent origin, an eye specialist of the city threw some light on the earliest known pair of spectacles. "The facts that the Chinese have long known of spectacles and that snow spectacles have been employed by the Samoyed tribes near the artic circle have been frequently remarked on in books of travel, and Layard found a plano-convex lens of rockcrystal in the ruins of Nineveh. "All European references to the use of spectacles before the year 1270 are dubious. Pliny's description of Nero looking at the gladiatorial combats in an emerald means at best only a lorgnette, or most probably a reflecting mirror. Roger Bacon seems to have known of magnifying lenses in 1276, which soon became common enough, but the probable inventor of spectacles as such was a Florentine worthy on whose tombstone in the church o Santa Croce, Is the inscription: 'Here lies Salvino d'Armato degli Armati of Florence, the Inventor of spectacles. May God firgive his sins. He died Anno Domini 1317.' "Early in the fourteenth century, spectacles were mentioned In the writings of Bernard de Gordon, Arnold of Villanova and Guy de Chauliac, and they were afterward figured in the pictures and public documents of the period, such as Jan van Eyck's Madon on your part, it certainly was evident in your purchase clause. Mr. Campfield further urges haste on the plea that "We are anxiously waiting to hand you a proposition on a gas franchise We stand ready to bid, but we do not want two or three years delay, as has been done with the water works franchise." The gas franchise will be taken care of, Mr. Campfield, at the proper time, the city should not bind itself to a new gas franchise three years prior to the ending of the old. In my Judgment the city is lacking in backbone when it come to dealing with this water works proposition. If the city insisted on standing pat on the specification as prepared, and the Richmond City Water Works was given to understand there would be no deviation, they would bid, and bid in a hurry. If they did not, then a rent

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na at Bruges, Martin Schongauer's engraving of the Death of Mary, the decorations of the altar of St. Jacob's Church at Rothenburg an der Tauber or the drawings in a Ratisbon manuscript of 1600, now In the Germanic Museum at Uuremberg. All these indicate huge circular lenses mounted in rings of black horn or leather, united by a short leather band and fastened by another band passing around the head, the lorgnette and pince-nez patterns with metal mounts apearing later. "Frof. R. Greef of Berlin, after a long search in different museums and collections has at length found the earliest known specimens of the old leather-mounted type of the sixteenth century. These are now to be seen in the Pirkheimer room in the Wartburg (near Eisenach, Thuringia), and were discovered behind the wooden wainscoting of Wlllibald Pirkheimer's chamber at Nuremberg in 1867. Pirkheimer's spectacles consist of eight pairs, the lenses mostly sprung or broken, and clouded through some changes in the glass. The eyeglasses of this period were called "nose riders" because they straddled the nose and had to be supported by the hand from the side or above when used for reading.

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