Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 40, 27 December 1912 — Page 2

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THE xtiCUJiOMJ PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEUUA31. FRIDAY. DITK-MnKU 27.

COMMERCIAL CLUB EXTENDS ITS WORK

Has Made Its Influence Felt in Measures that Affect the Whole State.

ITS SCOPE IS BROAD

Has Espoused Many New Measures that Benefit the

Citizens of Richmond.

In the latst year the activities of the Richmond Commercial club have extended far beyond the narrow confines of the city. It has made its influence felt in originating and advancing legislative measures that have a statewide significance. It faces the now year -with a confidence that several bills which had their inception here will be enacted into state laws. Chief among the problems in which the club has been interested is the state nenal farm project. The com

mission appointed by Governor Marshall to investigate the question has acted on the suggestions of the local club, and it is now accepted with finality that a bill authorizing the establishment of the farm will be pass ed by the 1913 session of the General Assembly; Deeply interested In the relation of

public service corporations in Richmond to the welfare of citizens, the club has taken an active part in promoting the establishment of a public utility commission. is expected that the club will assist the members of the state legislature who will try to secure the enactment of a law creating this commission Good Roads. ,The need of good public highways In the country districts has appealed to the members of the club In the last month it has shown great interest In the good roads movement. It will support remedial state legislation in this respect. Its representatives are allied with the county orgpnizations that are promoting the movement. It is working in conjunction with the Ocean to Ocean Highway association. The need of state supervision of the sale of stock in Indiana is championed by the club. The laxity in the collection of taxes lias prompted the club to espouse a betlerment in this particular. Local Work. localizing its endeavors to the city, it will be found that the club has been in the vanguard of almost all efforts that sought for the betterment of the city. It has endeavored to bring to the

city new industries, to encourage j those that are here, to bring more,: trade to the business houses, to secure municial legislation that will pro-' feet the interests of the laborer and j the man of small means, to co-operate with the city administration in every-1 "thing that is for the city's welfare. j

It recognizes the crying need of j more homes to house the laborers and j clerks attracted to Richmond by the j many factories and business houses. - To safeguard against devastating ires and to protect the laboring man who Is erecting a modest home, it has advocated for years the passage of a building eode.This measure is still pending in the city council and it is believed that the code will be adopted soon. Believing that the present garbage plan calls for some changes, a committee of the club Is now inspecting the disposal of refuse and garbage in the cities of Indiana that are ot the size of Richmond. This committee will Boon present a detailed plan, showing among other things what other Indiana cities are doing to provide a disposal of garbage. The club has taken an interest in tmaeducatlonal work of the city, and believes that vocational training should be extended so that the sons and daughters of the laborers may secure training that will enable them to go into the factories and earn a wge that will support them adequately It has also organized the agricultural interests of the county. The value of transportation facilities as they affect the shipper and traveler has not been overlooked. Recent changes in the C. & O. schedule attest to the work of the club in this instance. The club has also actively

pushed the promotion of the north and south traction line. j In the last year it has brought a j

number of state conventions to this city. Among them were the State Federation of Labor, the State Commissioners' association, and several state lodge gatherings. f The club is interested in the establishment of the Guest House project that will provide a home for working women and girls. It has been instrumental in putting the May Festival on a sound financial basis.

LABOR TOPICS ABE UNDER DISCUSSION Staunton Residents Honor President-elect Wilson in His Home Town.

EXTEND GREETINGSTO THEIR NATIVE SON Factory Inspection and Legislation Treated by Prominent Students.

i the military convoy which will escort

the President-elect to the manse. To Honor Wilson. Prominent in this delegation will be

j an aged colored man, Frank T. Ware, who was intrusted with the care of ! the future president when he was a

baby. Ware, now grown to wealth and influence, in the community has been entrusted with an important role in the welcoming ceremonies and will be one of the first of the old inhabitants who will call on Mr. Wilson. The whole town has been strung with garlands of laurel, holly and bunting and the line of march from

(Xatioiial News Association) STAUNTOX, Va., Dec. 27. Huge

piles of resinous pine have been built j the depot to the manse has been lined upon the Virginia hills from Alexan- ; with thousands of electric lights.

dria to Staunton to light President

elect Wilson's special on the last lap

Mr. Wilson will spend the night in the Fraser family circle limiting his

of its trip from the North to visit the appearance before the visitors to a

Wilson birthplace here this afternoon. As soon as the special crosses the Virginia line these campfires will fla.sh out their message to the waiting thousands who have prepared to welcome the now famous former resident bark to his own home.

brief speech and the usual handshak

ing at the station and on the porch of the rectory. For the Staunton visitors, however, there has been arranged -a ball and banquet which will be attended by the leading Democrats of the state and the

HEAD OF MOUNTED POLICE TO RETIRE Lieut. Col. White Leaves Famous Police Bureau After Long Service.

(National New A . -ia ? ion OTTAWA, Ont., Deo. 2S After more than forty years of faithful and efficient work in the service of the Dominion. Lieut. Col. Frederick White, C. M. G., will retire next Tuesday

dertaken in when he ns ap-j pointed special commissioner to ad-!

minister the government of the unorganized Xorthwt'st Territories. At the time of the coronation of King Kdward he was rewarded with the honor of C. M G For more than a year Lieut. Col White has been in failing health and since last spring he has been on leave of absence It is generally expected that his successor as Comptroller of the Koval Northwest Mounted Police will bo l-uirenee Fortescue. I. S. C. who is ;t presom assistant comptroller and accountant of the department. Mr Fortescue has been connected with the Mounted Police since the early days of the force, having be n appointed in 17"i He came to Ottawa from the West to assist in the administration of the force, and has held the position of assistant comptroller since l'.o.

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Phenis P. Filer Has Hemorrhage on His Train, West of Centerville.

BOSTON, Dec. 27. The sixth an-j nual convention of the American As-1 sociation for Labor Legislation conven-: ed here today. An interesting program has been pre-! pared for the present meeting, which includes addresses upon subjects vital i

to the progress of labor by many of those most prominent in advocating changes in the present laws effecting

the working man. j The presiding officer at the opening ! session was Professor Samuel McCuee Lindsay, of Columbia University. The ' principal topic of discussion during the early hours of the meeting was j factory inspection. Speaking on this ,

subject were John R. Commons, mem

ber of the Wisconsin industrial commission, who addressed the delegates on "The Way the Wisconsin Commission Works;" Henry Sterling of Boston, who spoke from the Laborer's view of factory inspection; Charles S. Bird, of East Walpole, Mass., who treated with factory inspection from

the standpoint of the employer and Edward F. Brown, special investigator of the National Child Labor Committee, who discussed the efficiency of factory inspection from the standpoint of child labor. Other addresses included "One Day of Rest in Seven," by John Fitch, author of Old Age at Forty and "Proposed I-egislation for Lead Workers," by

I Lillian Erskine, special investigator of

the A. A. L. L.

OLD PROGRAM

In Staunton itself interest has cen- j members of the Wilson Democratic tered around the room in the local j club which arrived here this afternoon

rectory where Mr. Wilson was born, i from Baltimore with 2o0 members.

The manse, a humble little cottage near the Presbyterian church over

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v lillli lilt? tr n J tr l libUIl pi tfSlUU a L the time of little Woodrow's birth, is ,, 7 , ,. .ii. , .. , . 1 (Palladium Special) now the home of the Reverend Doctor i A. M. Fraser, a college mate of the i CAMBRIDGE CITY, Ind., Dec. 27. president-elect's. j The dances of the holiday week have The Wilson room, as the chamber in caused older residents to search for which the Governor was born is ! . . . . . , . A, , . . , i dance invitations issued many years known, has been the object of loving i decoration by those old residents who j a&- J- Newt. Conklin has one that knew the Mr. Wilson when he was a was held Dec. 26, 1S78 in Carpenter's barefoot boy running about Staunton's hall. The directors were Harry Wil-

streets. these old residents, together with Dr. Fraser. Col. H. H. Wvate. the

mayor, and prominent Democrats from rank Lackey, C. M. Bailey, E. H. Meall over the state, will meet the Wil-. Caffrey, F. C. Mosbaugh, Frank

son special when it pulls into the sta-1 Drischel, Park Lackey, and S. 15. tion here at 7:50 tonight and will head Fisher.

from the post of Comptroller-General of the Royal Northwest Mounted Po-

! lice. Few men in the Canadian serI vice are better known than Lieut. Col. White and fewer still have ren-

their country.

j Born in England sixty-five ears ago I '. Lieut. Col. White came to Canada as ' i . ... -T-l

a young man ana alter a snort time nice

spent in the service of the Grand ; Trunk Railway he was appointed to a j clerkship in the Ik-part men t of Jus-i tice. By 187t he had risen to the posi-

Uion of chief clerk. mnn.i Ala iw ?? William

On the organization of the North- , wheeler and John and Elsie Barnes, west Mounted Police Lieut. Col. White t (.hildren of prominent families in the was selected by the late Sir John A. ! winter colony near here, who disapMacdonald to take charge of the ad-' jaj from tntir homes last Friday ministration of the police bureau of were found ,mlav fioating in the Gulf Ottawa. Since that time he has devot- j nt taYi,.,. in nrwn hnt Thev wr

ARE FOUND IN BOAT

Children Were in

Serious Condition.

National Nw Association)

, son, Santford Rariden, Frank Rea,

'ed himself wholly to affairs in connec

tion with Western Canada, and no one ! has done more to advance the interests of that section of the country. I Since 1S7S he has been at the head of the Northwest Mounted Police, an or- j ganization famous the world over for' its efficiency and discipline. An im-j , portant extension of his work was un-j

nearly starved and in a Berious condition from drinking salt water. On Christmas day they landed on a barren island and caught a fish and some crabs, which they ate.

CAMBRIDGE CITY. IVc. 27. The body of Phenis P. Eller. aged 50. tor about twenty Ave or thirty years engineer on Pennsylvania passenger train No 21 who suffered a cerebral hemorrhage Wednesday night while running the enine est of Centerville. was taken to Columbus. O., by his brother. H IV Eller. of Bradford, Ohio. Engineer Eller suff red the attack immediately west of Centerville. The n re man noticed that Eller's hand hs not on the throttle and seeing that something was wrong, he took Eller's place on the engineer's side of the cab. When the train reached this place medical aid was summoned. Eller was placed in the baggage train but soon expired. The widow- and one daughter survive.

SPEEDWAY EMPLOYE RUN DOWN BY CAR

The greatest of fa alt. 1 should saj. to be conscious ot none. Car lyla.

(National News Association) PITTSBURG. Ind . IVc. 27 An em-

I ploye of the Indianapolis Speedwa. j named Guthrie, was run down and j killed by an east bound Ben llur trac

tion car east or here early toflty. Guthrie wanted to take a car and v ! standing en the track trying to ll.:g it when he misjudged its speed. A widow and two children survive him.

A DESPERATE FIGHT Between Night Watchman and Robbers.

(National News Association) "MIC AGO, Dec. 27 Charles Hines, a watchman, fought a battle with safeblowers in the office of the Morava Construction company early today. He probably was fatally wounded. The police believe he shot one of the safeblowers. As Hines entered the office a man stepped in front of him and thrust a rvolver in his face. Hines grappled with the man. Both rolled on the floor, the robber firing his revolver. Another man, endeavoring to fix a charge of dynamite to the safe, ran to join the fight. The robbers became frightened at the noise and fled. Hines followed them to a rear window of the office and fired until he fell unconscious.

MEXICAN RAILWAY

STRIKE IS BEGUN

(National News Association) LAREDO, Tex., Dec. 27. Shops all along the lines of the National Railway of Mexico are closed today because of a strike of Mechanics. Seven thousand men walked out when the management of the line refused to grant a wage increase and an eighthour day. The strike was called simultaneously in Mexico City, Agues, Callentes, Neuvo, Larsdo and San Luis Potosi. Because of the demoralized conditions along the railroad due to rebel activity, the stock has caused great concern. The rolling stock has been damaged by the rebels and the shops have been crowded with work. At many points bridges have been burned and stations destroyed, while in places the track has been torn up for miles.

Discontent is the want of self re'i mce. It is infirmity of will. Emerges

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