Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 29, 13 December 1912 — Page 1

THE RICHMOM) PAIXAJDIUM

AND SUN-TELEGRAM VOL. XXXVIII. NO. 29. RICHMOND, IXD., FRIDAY EVENING, DECE3IRER 13. 1912. SINGLE COPY 2 CENTS. GREAT NAVAL FIGHT RAGES REPORT SAYS OLD LANDMARK IS GUTTED BY FIRE Brick House on Leslie Cook Farm Totally Destroyed This Afternoon. T SALES Diplomat Egan is Grandpa Ndv SOOTH SIDE ON EXCHANGE E SITE E NOT SETTLED

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First Sea Combat of the Balkan War on Between the Greek and Turk Fleets in Aegian.

GREEK ARMY ROUTS LARGE TURK FORCE Parliamentary Conferences as a Prelude to the Peace Parley Were Begun in London Today. (National News Association) CONSTANTINOPLE, Dec. 13. A naval engagement and the first big sea fight of the Balkan war is raging between the Turkish and Greek fleets in the Aegean sea today, according to a wireless telegram received by the Turkish minister of marine According to this dispatch the Turk - ish fleet, which has been underpreparaticn for hostilities in the Dardenelles moved out against the concentrated Greek fleet and gave battle to the enemy. The commander of the Turkish fleet was under orders to annihilate if possible, the marine forces of Greece. A terrific battle was expected. A GREEK VICTORY. ATHENS, Dec. 13. A Greek army under Gen. Sapoujakis won a victory from the Turks at Pentpigadia today. driving the Ottoman forces from their camp and captured a great quantity of arms, ammunition, tents and nmvisinn PefitATiiirarila iB in Pnin,a ahm,t 50 miles southwest of Janina. The Greek forces made a concen trated attack, advancing along the line. The Turks drew off leaving three quick-firing guns behild which the j Greeks captured and turned against i the enemy. j As the Turkish forces retreated the j 'Greeks kept up a hot fire. PEACE PARLEY ON. .conferences were held today by the delegates to the Turko-Balkan peace conference which will begin here Monday. The Bulgarians who arrived this morning gathered With the Servians and Montengrins at the Ritz hotel j where the Bulgarians are quartered, j while the Turks met at the Carlton. ; The Turkish ambassador to England ( attended the meeting of the Turkish conference and after it was over aj long cipher message was sent to Con-i Btantinople. Following the meeting it was announced that a series of conferences

would be held tomorrow when the plans for the official opening of the peace conference will be made. j (National News Association) News that the Greek and Turkish ! P1TTSBURG) Pa.t Dec. 13-At east forces were engaged in battle on both : land and sea was received by the ten Persons were injured, some seridelegates with eager interest but none ously today, when fire gutted a large would commend upon it. In spite of apartment house known as Liberty the advices telling of the hostilities it Place in Allegheny today. Three hun'ls still expected that the Greeks will ""red persons lived in the building and take part in the peace conference. many thrilling rescues were made by It was reported that the Turks had police and firemen, prepared two drafts for submission to If there were any fatalities it will the Balkan plenipotentiaries, one of not he known until after the ruins cool which rejected the peace proposals of and a thorough search can be made, the allies while the other advised a The fire started near the base of the counter proposition. This report caus-! elevator shaft which is surrounded by

ed pessimism in official circles, especially after it was learned that the allies would insist upon Turkish surrender of Adrianople, Scutari and Janina. the three Turkish cities in Europe cannot be held by the Balkan allies. SUES DOCTORS FOR MALPRACTICE ; The case of Earl B. Savage versus ' Dr. Richard Schillinger and Dr. Chas. Marvel, suit for malpractice will be held by a jury in the Wayne circuit court. Monday morning. It is likely that the case will require two or three days.

Savage alleges that as the result of j w ere unable to unlock the doors of treatment given him by the two phy- their rooms which their rescuers batsicians he has become crippled for ; tered down. life, in asmuch as he is unable to walk A number of others jumped from without a cane. The plaintiff demands the lower floors and were caught by $5,000 damages. j foremen and policemen.

Shops aud Grow More

At holiday luncheons the talk turns on toys and Toyland, Christmas trees and stockings. Everybody is buying and encouraging everybody else to buy. Everywhere the talk is of Christmas from the prattle of the baby to the wisdom of the centenarian holiday enthusiasm is at high pitch. "What shall I give?" is the perplexing question. Yet it is one of the easiest questions to solve if you go at it right. One of the best ways is to read the advertisements in THE PALLADIUM closely and constancly every day. Pick and choose and make out your gift lists with t'ae aid of THE PALLADIUM. THE PALLADIUM'S advertisements abound with Christmas buying opportunities for men, women and children. They tell of Merry Christmas stores brimful of gifts and assure you of the best service and the most satisfactory Christmas presents.

CALLED FIRE TRUCK

Roof Was Ablaze When a Neighbor Notified Occupant of the House. Fire whose origin is attributed to a defective flue totally destroyed a twostory brick house on the Leslie Cook farm, nine miles south of this city on the Btraightline pike, early this afternoon. The house was tenanted by Fisher Scott, a negro. The blaze was not discovered until the entire roof was a mass of flames. John Albertzaart, a tenant on the farm, saw the blazing roof, and ran to the house to give the alarm to Fisher Scott, who with his family, lived in the house. They were at the dinner table. The alarm was quickly sounded and about fifty neighbors gathered, suc ceeding in carrying out the furniture ' and belongings of the family. The j fire gutted the building, destroying ; everything but the bare walls. The loss is estimated at $2,500. j The timely arrival of the fire truck from Richmond, which covered the distance in record time, prevented the spread of the flames to the corn cribs, standing near the house and to the barn filled with tons of hay and grain. The firemen kept the fire Confined to the house. The building was one of the landmarks on the Straightline pike. It was erected about forty years ago by Joseph Iloleman, and at the 1 "e ol 118 Bds.llKa u 1 as one of tne most Pretentious farm ! homes south pf Richmond. When the farm was acquired by Cook the building was remodeled. Scott and his family took possession of the house last year. He was a tenant 011 the farm--DARING DISPLAYED DURING BIG BLAZE Thrilling Rescues of People in a Burning Pittsburg Flat Building. SOME MAY HAVE DIED One Man Known tO Be MiSSing and Two People Were Badly Injured. a stairway. The flames shot upward, cutting off the main escape of hundreds in the building. Some managed to leave by rear stairways, but a majority were carried down ladders by firemen. j Louis Ulerich and Charles Simon j were injured by falling cornices and j were taken to a hospital. I Joseph McKee. 65. who lived in the apartment, is missing and firemen believe he lost his life. In a thrilling rescue, policemen crept up rear stairways and removed ten women from locked rooms in the rear of the fourth floor. The women were carried down ladders and several were in a serious condition. The women ; had been overcome by smoke and Shoppers Fascinating

Ocean to Ocean Thoroughfare Planned Government Asked to Construct the Great Highway.

ORGANIZER HERE TO AID THE PLAN National Old Trails' Road Association Is Backing the Movement for the Great Thoroughfare. L. B. Bevier, of Kansas City, national organizer of the National Old Trails' Road association, outlined the purpose of the organization to persons interested in the project last night in the high school auditorium. Organizers of the association are working in every state of the union through which the so called middle route runs, creating sentiment that will influence congressmen to vote for a bill which will provide funds for the construction of an ocean to ocean nighway to follow the route of the old National road. A large committee was appointed to secure members for the organization in Richmond. It is pointed out that Richmond will be benefited if the middle route is chosen. The establishment of this national highway will bring Richmond to the attention of thousands of tourists who will use the road on their way from the Atlantic to the Pacific in automobiles. Mr. Bevier' last evening said that Congressman Borland will present a bill in the March session of congress asking for funds to create the highway from the Atlantic through Richmond to Los Angeles. Strong Sentiment. The national organizer said in part: "The sentiment for an ocean to ocean highway is strong, especially along the overland and transcontinental route, commonly called, the ..northern route. In the 'states through which this route passes many cities are in contention with one another. Cities along this route are not organized on any one definite line from coast to coast. Buffalo, Chicago, Detroit, Omaha and Denver are pulling every wire to get the route. This contention favors the middle route. The middle route follows the old national trail from Washington, through Columbus, O., Richmond, Indianapolis, Terre Haute, St. Louis, Kansas City to Sante Fe, and thence to Los Angeles over the old western trial. This route passes through the geographical center of the United States touches the center of population, has the lowest altitudes, best climatic features, finest scenery and leads through sections and cities rich in historical sentiment and association. "The middle route is the logical route and will serve the most persons in the United States. It will cost the least money and will be used the whole year around. To Draft Bill. "The National Old Trails' Roads association, with headquarters in Kansas City, whose president is Judge J. M. Lowe, of that city, now has vice presidents in every state through which the route passes, and is now collecting sentiment and forming a large congressional committee. A bill favoring the project, drafted by Judge Lowe will be presented to the March session of Congress by Congressman Barland. "The association has received pledges of support when it routed cars over the road last year. Practically every city and town along the route has a club in the association. The member ship costs $2.50 a year, but this includes also a subscription to the Better Roads magazine, edited by Jesse H. Taylor and a copy of the guidebook of the old national roads through Indiana. These guidebooks received wide circulation in the hands of automobile clubs and hotels. "The establishment of the national highway will have a tendency to bring thousands of tourists through Richmond on their way to the Western and coast states. "Clubs have been organized in the following Indiana cities: Terre Haute, Brazil, Stilesville, Plainfield, Charlottesville, Knightstown, Lewisburg, Dublin. Cambridge City, Indianapolis and Richmond. The Indiana organizations will be a power in influencing favorable legislation for the middleroute. "The national association is now organized in New Mexico, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio.' SUFFRAGE LECTURE BY W. E. JENKINS W. E. Jenkins, of the faculty of Indiana University, will deliver an ad dress this evening in high school hall under the auspices of the Franchise League, of this city, whose subject will be "Ibsen and the Emancipation jOf Women." The lecture is free and i the public is cordially invited tn at-

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Chairman of the N. Y. Organization Said This Could Be Prevented if It Was So Desired.

REFORM NOT URGED STURGIS ADMITTED He Also Said He Did Not Think It Wrong to Sell Stock Short While a Big Panic Is Raging. (N'ationat Xews Association) WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 Frank K. Sturgis, chairman of the New York stock exchange, admitted to the house money trust investigating committee today he could prevent both short selling and manipulation if it saw fit to do so. The witness said that he personally did not approve of short selling and when cornered by Samuel Untermeyer, counsel for the committee, as to wrhy he had never urged this i reform in his thirty odd years of experience on the stock exchange he said he was not reading moral lectures to the other people of the community. Untermeyer asked him if he knew of the average daily transactions and he said he did not. "Did your committee supply the Hughes commission with data on these transactions?" asked Untemeyer. The witness said he did not remember. Untemeyer pointed out that figures showed about an average of 896,000 shares were dealt in during recent years. Sturgis was not sure this was right. "On all these transactions 25 cents a share commission was paid to brokers, was it not?" asked Untemeyer. "Not all of it. Some of the brokers may have been acting for themselves. Somewhere between one-quarter and one-half the dealings were for brokers." Commissions Are Varied. Sturgis said there were about 400 active members on the exchange on busy days. He admitted that aboutone -third of . the active business ,was from brokers. He said the amount of commissions varied a great deal, only two dollars for one share being paid In commissions for floor business. The varying schedule of commission rates was regulated by the exchange. Where the outside public was on both sides of the transactions a tax of 25 cents a share had to be paid to brokers. "Is it not a fact that the price of se curities has no effect on the size of the commission?" inquired Untemeyer. Excepting mining stock below $10 per value, that is true," answered Sturgis. Untemeyer then took up short selling. "In the main short selling is speculative," said Sturglg. "Short selling is practically selling something you haven't got asked Untermeyer. "Yes," sa the witness. "Is it legitimate?" asked Untermeyer. "I think so." "If a panic is raging do you think it is right to sell stock short to depress the market?" "I do not think It is wrorg. It is pro tection for men who have been caught J with a lot of long securities and they are able to repair their credits under such conditions." Sturgis said his idea of the defensibility of short selling was based on the financial necessity of the person engaged in such transactions. He said that short selling in a normal market was a question of morals. He did not personally approve of it under certain conditions, and said he had never sold a share of stock short in his life. Ultimately Sturgis admitted brokers' books in New York would reveal all short sales. The exchange by periodic examination of the books could find out the extent of short sales and manipulations, he said. "If the exchange wanted to forbid short selling or manipulation could it do so?" asked Nntermeyer. "The exchange has never met that issue," was the reply. "Have you urged this reform?" "It is not my duty to give moral lessons to the other people of the community," answered Sturgis. IS DECLARED INSANE Albert M. Unthank Ordered Confined in Asylum. A sanity commission composed of Drs. C. P. Colburn, Richard Schillinger and Charles S. Bond held an inquest over Albert M. Unthank, 18 North Twentieth street at Justice Abbott's court yesterday afternoon, and declared Unthank hopelessly insane. He is now confined in the insane ward at the county jail, awaiting admission into the Eastern Indiana Hospital for the Insane. Unthank has been in a sanitarium at Oxford, O. He was brought here yesterday. He has hallucinations that he is the president of the United States. Charles Unthank. his father, who formerly was sheriff of Wayne county, is now living in Idaho,

The cut shows Dr. Maurice Egan, U. S. minister to Denmark, and his daughter Carmen Egan O'Reilly, who married Gabriel Ambrose O'Reilly when the latter was secretary of legation to her father. A boy was recently born to the couple in Manila, where Mr. O'Reilly is now in the government service.

ROAD LEGISLATION TO BE DISCOSSED Meeting at Cambridge City Will Be Attended Largely by Farmers. V-"' A larfee number of local persons interested in the good roads will attend the meeting tomorrow which will be held at Cambridge City in the Hurst opera house, f Earl H. Crawford, joint representative-elect from Wayne and Fayette counties, was called the meeting, the purpose of which is to secure expressions from people in both counties on the kind of road laws they desire him to support in. the coming sessions of the general assembly. John W. Judkins, county representative, and Walter Commons, state senator, will also attend the meeting. Among the speakers will be E. J. Christie, of Purdue university; C. W. Bloom, of New Paris, president of the Preble County, Ohio Good Roads' association, and Thomas Coleman, of Fayette county, representative of the Indiana Agricultural association. The morning session will be opened at 10 o'clock and the afternoon session at 1 o'clock. Several matters will be discussed among which will be the attitude of the people of the two counties in the matter of assisting in the national movement to improve the National Road. The National Old Trail's Road association is promoting this movement. NHAM IS DEAD Former Lumber Merchant Expired Thursday. Charles S. Farnham, aged 71, former lumber dealer, died at his residence, 225 North Twelfth street, from the effect of paralysis which incapicitated hiin about a year ago. Mr. Farnham was one of the best known lumber dealers in this city and continued his business on South First street until illness compelled him to retire. He has been confined to his home for the last year. Born in Freedonia, N. J., August 10, 1841, be came to this city in 1866. He was one of the vice presidents of the Y. M. C. A. from 1S67 to 18G8. He was a member of the First Baptist church of this city. ) He is survived by a widow and two daughters, Mrs. Harriett Rowand, of Fcrt Collins. Colorado, and Mrs. Lois Horn, of Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. The funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the First Baptist church. Friends may call Saturday afternoon from 3 to 5 o'clock and 7 to 9 o'clock. Burial in Earlham. CITY LACKS CASH Cannot Make All Improvements Passed by Board. The city will not have enough money to pay all its share of the public improvements passed yesterday by the board of public works, is the belief of one of the city officials. The $20,H0 bonds which are to be paid Jnne 1, together with the $10,000 improvement of Eighth street and the $5,000 improvement at Reeveston, will preclude the making of all improvements unless money, is borrowed,

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A BOBSTED PIPE FLQODSTHEKlTCHEfi Frantic Call for Aid Sent in to the Police Station This Morning. "Send some one to turn off the water." was the appeal made at 7:30 o'clock this morning to Sergeant McNally over the telephone at the police headquarters. The complaint was referred to Chief Miller of the fire department. Chief Miller went to 809 North O street and found a woman holding her hand over the water tap in the kitchen of her home vainly trying to check the flow, which had flooded the kitchen and was running into the cellar. Miller stopped the flow by turni ing off the water. The woman told him that her Uusband had taken the tap off this morning and carried it to work with his, intending to put on a new one. The water had frozen and bursted the pipe and when a fire in the kitchen stove was started the ice melted. CURRY inBBESTED , State Agent Hart Takes Ne gro into Custody Here. Frank Curry, colored, was taken in custody last night by Assistant State Agent Hart, of the Jeffersonville penitentiary. Curry was sent to Jeffersonville from Lafayette, Indiana for petit larceny and was paroled last month. He obtained employment in this city at a local hotel. Recently Curry wrote to a former inmate of the institution about some jewelry which was supposed to have 1 been stolen by another inmate of the institution. Curry's letter intimated where the stolen property was bidden, though he made no attempt to get it. The authorities got possession of the latter and Hart was sent here to locate Curry. It is not known what the authorities will do with Curry. MILK IS SCARCE Not in Years Has the Supply Been So Low as Now. If your milk man forgets to leave your milk it is not always because his memory needs refreshing, according to Dairy Inspector Flook. Milk has not been so scarce for years es it is now, though the supply contains a high per cent of butter fat and is unusually good the Inspector reports. One of the local dairies has been receiving 42 cents per pound for butter fat. The tame dairy ha3 been receiving 49 cents per pound for Elgin creamery butter wholesale. Dairy Inspector Flook also stated that the ravages from hog cholera were not nearly as heavy as last year. The porkers in the Ticinity of Greensfork were the only ones in the county to suffer extensively. The price of porTr will not fall as a result of these conditions. THE WEATHER STATE AND LOCAI Fair and warm- ' er tonight. Saturday warmer.

County Council and Commissioners Inspected Three Sites, but Did Not Decide on Anv One.

COUNTY COUNCIL TO TAKE IT UP First Meeting After January 1st Will Again See Ques-, tion Before Council Regarding Funds. The finding ef a resolution passed at the second day's session of the Sep tember 1911 meeting of the county council, the reading of which was to the effect that the commissioners and eouncilmen should take up the matter of the South end bridge at the first meeting after January 1, adjourned yesterday afternoon's meeting of the two county bodies. Follow ing the visit of the county officials to the three proposed sites earlier in the afternoon a meeting warn held, at which Robert Beeson. president of the board of commissioners, asked representatives of the South Side Improvement association and the West Side Improvement association to voice their opinions regarding the construction of the bridge. The resolution which put an end to the discussion stated that an appropriation should be made at the first meeting of the council after January 1 1912. provided that the estimate which should be prepared and submitted indicates that the structure could be built at a cost consistent with the funds available. At that time a levy of at least three cents and possibly four cents was suggested. Eliminate H Street. South H street is practically eliminated as a proposed" site for the bridge. From the estimates given at yesterday afternoon's meeting by John Mueller, bridge engineer. It will be cheaper to construct the bridge at South L street Mueller asserted that the estimate based on two spans, each 150 feet in length at South L street, giving a roadway of 45 fet In width with the dirt for the earth fill furnished free, at this point was 100,000. If the bridge were constructed at South E street, Mueller said that the cost, based on practically the same proportions would be $126,000. The engineer asserted that it would requireabout 30.0C0 cubic feet of dirt to make the necessary fills. At South L streetthere is a distance of 48 feet from, bank to bank and 616 feet at South E. President Beeson suggested that thei Main street bridge be moved to a points south and that the new bridge beplaced at Main street.Opposcs Plan. This suggestion met with the dls approval of the South Side-representatives. Hardly had MY. Beeson takeaJ his seat until Adolph Blickwedel, preslH dent of the South Side association was on bis feet. "That wouldn't be fair to the sowth. side people, said Mr. BlicJcwedel. "Nine or ten years ago you appropriated some money for this bridge. TbV south side has worked for a bridge for' some years. Now, we don't ask that' it be built immediately. But we want the council to arrange to appropriatemoney next September. We want a. new bridge and we want K at South There is now $60,000 in the fund for' this bridge. Next year $13,000 will be added. However, the Interest on the money now in the fund is not being; placed to the bridge fund, but ia being added to the general fund. It is likely that this will be changed. R. L. Kelly, president of Earlham. college, also appeared before the commissioners and eouncilmen. Mr. Kelly urged that the bridge be built at South : E street. "At a meeting of the board of trust-, ees of the college Tuesday evening a resolution was passed to the effect that the council should be asked to place the bridge at South E. The col lege is one of Richmond's best institutions and Richmond secures practically all of the money appropriated in the annual budget, which la about $1S0,000. We also have quite a popuIaUoa at the college and I believe we axe ea titled to some consideration in this matter." Postpone Action. There was considerable discussion as to whether the site for the b rid re should be decided upon immediately. It was the consensus of opinion of the county officials that the bridge should not be located until enough money was in the fund to construct it, or at least until later. Several urged that the bridge site be chosen immediately. B. A. Kennepohl, president of the board of public works and member of the South Side Improvement association, stated that if the bridge were located at once the city could assist in making the fills by dumping dirt and trash where the approaches were to be built. Those representing the West Side , .(Continued on Pa Four)