Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 49, 7 January 1913 — Page 1

MIC. MOMD FAIXAJDIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM VOL. XXXVIII. NO. 49. RICII3IOXD, IXD., TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 7. 1913. SINGLE COPY 2 CENTS

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John Taylor, Marketmaster, Said to Have Informed a Coal Dealer that He Intended to Weigh Wagon. "IF TRUE HE MUST RESIGN" BARTEL Mayor Delivers His Annual Address. Two Bills for Ordinances Regulating Automobile Traffic. Serious charges were made against Marketmaster John Taylor at the meeting of the city council last night. Taylor was reported to have weighed a load of coal being delivered to a consumer and found the load to be forty pounds over weight. Taylor made the examination at the suggestion of the council. One of the councilmen last night said that Taylor had informed the coal dealer of his intention to weigh the coal and the dealer threw on an addition of forty pounds. "If Taylor is doing that kind of work he will have to resign his position" said Councilman Bartel. "I move that a committee be appointed to investigate the charges which have been brought against Taylor. If he is innocent he can prove it." Councilmen Bartel, Kauffman and King were appointed to act as the committee. The new laundry installed at the Reid Memorial hospital was highly praised by the councilmen who have Inspected it. The council will visit the hospital in a body sometime within the near future. The cost of installation was paid for by D. G. Reid. A letter of thanks was ordered to be sent Mr. Reid by the council. The cost of the laundry was $5,646.98. Mayor's "Address." Mayor Zimmerman delivered his annual address to the council last night. "I wish Jhe council a Happy New Year Uri $ ma'y?7scessful as the one which has just passed. The year which has just passed was the best year, for the city of Richmond that I can remember. Through the action of this council and" the mayor we have prevented any bonded indebtedness and still have made some fine improvements. "We have not been compelled to borrow any money. I consider the fact that we have not had to borrow any money an excellent showing. Future years such as the one we have just passed will enable us to own more municipal corporations, tiaci , we bonded the city further we would have had to give up the idea of owning the water works. We already own our own light plant and I believe we should have a city ice plant. If the city's bonded indebtedness is paid off in future years as during the past year we will be able to do all these things. If you plan to make more improvements next year than we have had during the past year make the tax rate higher, so we can accomplish what is desired. "The city should share in all profits made by large corporations which provide necessities for the people of the city. I want you to support me during the coming year as you have before." Following the mayor's address Councilman King said he was glad to hear the city's executive talk as he did. "A prominent citizen of this city told me yesterday that the council did not amount to a dern. I am glad some one thinks it does." Naughty Nora. The nuesHon of lironspa was then ' discussed. One of the officials an-1 nounced that Nora Britton. a young j fortune teller, was telling fortunes ! and did not have a license. "She has even separated families through these fortunes" continued another member of the body. Mayor Zimmerman said if this was true she would be brought up j and would be compelled to pay a license for doing so. Councilman King reported that horses had chewed his young trees and they had died as the result. He asked that the horses be hitched, as thev are along Main street. Mayor Zimmer- i man said it was because of the lack of hitching posts that the horses were not hitched. "It takes me longer to hitch my horse than it does to make a professional call "said the mayor. Councilman Weishaupt asked that an ordinance be drawn up prohibiUng automobiles from stopping on Main street between Seventh and Tenth street. "This is the cause for several accidents," said Weishaupt. I saw a milk wagon, an express wagon and an automobile collide and one of the horses was almost killed. Besides my ! boss run over a woman and I be- i lieve it should be stopped. A Live Ordinance. Councilman King asked if the report that vehicles be compelled to keep to the right and left was a "dead letter," was true. Mayor Zimmerman said it was the "liveliest" ordinance enforced in the city today. Councilman Bartel asked that the ordinance prohibiting people from spitting on the sidewalk be more rigidly enforced. The matter was referred to the board of health. Councilman Kauffman asked that a City ordinance be drafted compelling (Continued on Pace EifihtJ

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FEARED TWO NAVAL VESSELSJRE LOST Supply Ship and a Tug Have Been Missing Since Frday Last Week. l!y.V Wft-U"7 f;.e:w Association j v -WASHINGTON, Jan. Increased anxiety was felt by the navy department today for the safety of the supply ship Panther and the naval tug Sonoma as the hours passed and the wireless was unable to locate the missing vessels, which left the Brooklyn navy yard last Thursday for Guantanamo, Cuba. Secretary of Navy Meyers said today that if the two vessels do not report 011 time tomorrow at j Guantanamo he will send every vessel ' (on the Atlantic coast to search for tnem. 1 ne f anther and Sonoma, car rying 120 and 130 men respectively, were last heard of by wireless last Friday, when they passed Cape Hatteras. The Panther was considered to be seaworthy, but was heavily laden with iron machinery. THIS CITY CENTER OF FRIENDSCHORCH Says Prof. Harlow Lindley in a Chapel Talk This Morning. ( "Philadelphia is no longer the center of the Friends' church in America," said Prof. Harlow Lindley, Librarian and professor of history of Earlham conege, wuay m cnapei. ut me un 000 Quakers in the United States, 30-000 or "y a fourth live in Indiana and m 0ni0 there are 14,000, mainly in the western part of the state. There are but 12,000 Friends In ; Pennsylvania. Thus Richmond becomes easilyi the center of the denomination.'; V Prof. Lindley traced the migrations of the Quakers from England to Pennsylvania, then to Virginia and the Carolinas. He said that the cause of the immigration to Indiana and Ohio were caused by their objection to the slavery in the Southern states. JDaniel j Boone, who was a Quaker, started the immigration from the Eastern states which joined with those from the Eouth to build up the backbone of the state later to become Indiana. The influence of the Quakers on questions of slavery and peace was clearly shown. BOARD OF FINANCE APPROVES BONDS The Wayne county board of finance in session yesterday at the court house approved of the bonds of the county banks where the county taxes and funds will be placed in proportion to the capitalization of their stock. There are thirteen banks in all. Interest will be paid at the rate of two per cent per annum in accordance with the state law. The sum of $40,000 will be deposited in the city banks by City Comptroller McMahan. This is the total of the general fund finances. The city's finances will be distributed according to the surplus fund of the banks as well as the capitalization of stock. The Second National bank will receive more than the ether loeai banks.

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Caused by Breaking Off of Negotiations Between Allies and Turks. WILL FORCE TURKEY War Between Bulgaria and Roumania Is Now New Threat in Balkans. (National News Association) LONDON, Jan. 7. Official announcement that the powers had stepped into the breach caused by the collapse of the Turko-Balkan peace negotiations and are considering means to renew the conference was made in the house of commons today by Sir Edward Grey, the British foreign minister, after a conference with King George. A meeting of the ambassadors was held in the foreign office earlier in the day at which the most available method of appeasing the plenipotentiaries was discussed. King George has become greatly interested in the situation because of its possibilities of harm to European peace. The belief persisted today that Turkey would not desire to stand out against the concentrated demands of the three of the greatest powers in Europe and after further delays the Porte would signify its willingness to make the concessions demanded by the alllg regarding Adrianople and , the Aegean islands. The Balkan allies i also held a long conference today. The fact that the armistice is still in force leaves an open door for further negotiations if Turkey signifies a willingness to yield. NEW WAR THREAT. SOFIA, Jan. 2. War is threatened between Bulgaria and Roumania over Roumania's territorial reward for remaining neutral in the Balkan war. A hitch has occurred in the negotiations between the two governments and the conferences have been ttmporarily broken off while the conferees get further instructions from their respective governments. Czar Ferdinand and his cabinet regard as exhorbitant the amount of territory demanded by the Roumanians. The Roumania government is making veiled threats that unless her demands are met sfie will take a hand in positive fnture hostilities. Roumania has nearly 100,000 troops under arms. THE WEATHER STATE AND LOCAL Snow and colder tonight; Wednesday cloudy.

(Key to layout: Nella Bergen Hopper, De Wolf Hopper's fourth wife, at top. Lower, right, Edna Wallace Hopper, one of his former wives, and below, DcWolf Hopper, himself.) NEW YORK, Jan. 7 Nat Goodwin may look to his laurels, for he has a bitter rival for the title of "America's Most Married Man." De Wolf Hopper's fourth wife, Mrs. Ellen Bergen Hopper, has brought suit for absolute divorce. That there is to be a fifty, Mrs. Hopper is the confident prediction along the RIalto, for the comedian is making no contest to his fourth wife's suit.

J FIND YOUNG WOMAN BOUND JPI)LLWI11H

Was Unconscious in BerthRobbery Not the Motive of the Crime. (National News Association) CINCINNATI, O., Jan. 7 A young woman, whose home is thought to be in Jacksonville, Fla., was found unconscious and suffering from chloroform poisoning in a Pullman berth on a Big Four train, Chicago to Cincinnati near Sunman, Indiana, early today. Her hands were bound behind her with a corset string. When a physician succeeded in arousing her she refused to give her name or address. She said she had been on a shopping tour to Chicago. Her purse, containing $46 was untouched. HEADED FOR WESTs HELDJI CHARGE Henry Sitloh Arrested and Fined. Companion Was Robbed. To start to California on $1 50 was the plan of Henry Sitloh laot night until he met a friend and the two imbibed too freely of intoxicating liquors. Sitloh became intoxicated and was arrested before he was able to get a train for the west and was confined in the city jail. At his hearing this morning, Sitloh rehearsed plans of a friend in which the two were to go to Los Angeles and there open a motion picture show. Sitloh claims that all expenses of the trip were to have been paid by the friend whose name he was unable to remember. An attempt to hold up Sitloh's companion, Lee Turner, of Boston, Ind., last night, was also reported to the police. That Sitloh was either very badly intoxicated last night or he did not teU the court the truth in the testimony he gave this morning, is the opinion of the police. He was given a fine of $1 and costs for public intoxication. W. VA. LEGISLATURE STILL IN DEADLOCK (National Xews Association) CHARLESTON, W. Va., Jan. 7. The deadlock in the West Virginia legislature remained unbroken today and if the Democratic members adhere to a stand it was freely stated they had taken the organization of that body and the election of a U. S. senator may be prolonged indefinitely. Today was the final day of the special session, the regular session being scheduled to begin tomorrow. The deadlock was caused by the refusal of the Progressives and Republicans totaling 15 to give the Democrats the presidency of the senate. The Democrats number 15 aim.

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THE NATION Monumental Task Was Begun by the Sub Committee of the House Committee on Banking Today. AN ARGUMENT MADE . FOR CENTRAL BANK A. B. Hepburn of Chase National Bank, New York, Savs There Should Be a Market for Credit. (National New Association! WASHINGTON, Jan. 7. Facing the important task of currency reform the sub committee of the house committee on banking and currency began its hearing today. It is understood that following a recent conference between Chairman Glass and President-elect Wilson no currency bill will be formu lated until Mr. Wilson has given his approval of the proposed legislation. A. B. Hepburn, chairman of the board of directors of the Chase Na tional bank. New York, in his testimony before the committee today favored the general plan of the Aldrich currency bill. "There should be a market for credit in this country," said Mr. Hepburn, "just as there exists in France and Germany. There should be an Institution under federal control, where a bank can go and discount its commercial paper and receive the proceeds in currency." Mr. Hepburn declared there should be reserve centers in important parts of the country which should be under government control. He emphasized the need of an elastic currency, predicated on commercial assets of the banks and suggested that the committee, if It adopted a central plan ought to consider the necessity - for " government- control of such an institution. Mr. Hepburn described the United States treasury as, in effect, a central bank, saying "as a matter of fact we have in the treasury a great central bank today. AIL it needs is modernizing, liberalizing and humanizing. Why not be honest and admit that we now have in operation what amounts to a central bank? A central banking power is inevitable in every nation." HE DEFIES CONGRESS N. Y. Broker Refuses to Answer Questions. (National News Association) WASHINGTON, Jan. 7. A threat of punishment for contempt was held out by the house money truet investigating committee tomay to George J. Henry, a New York stock broker, who persistently refused to reveal what banks and bank officials had participated in the $7,000,000 petroleum syndicate. Henry was notified that he must answer the questions but he stubbornly refused. The committee will ask the house of representatives to declare him in contempt. SLEET STORM FATAL TO A CHICAGO MAN (National News Association) CHICAGO, Jan. 7. One man was killed and a score were hurt and traffic seriously impeded by a sleet storm that has held Chicago in its grasp for twenty-four hours. A 25mile wind drove the freezing rain before it and coated sidewalks and pavements with ice. Street cars were seriously delayd, automobiles impeded and traffic on the elevated lines handicapped. Andrew Mauzhunsky fell down a flight of ice covered stairs and died of a fractured skull. The sleet storm was largely local. In surrounding sections snow felL flEW HEATING SYSTEM For the Home for Friendless Women. The cells at the Home for Friendless Women will no longer be uncomfortable for future inmates. The county commissioners yesterday afternoon let a contract to remedy the heating apparatus of the Home. The cells at present cannot be heated properly. The heating pipes are too high, the Home authorities reported. They will be lower, according to the contract. The appointments made of thirty horse thief detectives by the Webster Horse Thief association were approved of by the county commissioners. The detectives will be grren the power of constables according to the stat utes of the societj.

AT LEAST SIX KILLED TODAY IN WRECK AT REX. INDIANA

BULLETIN. (National Nvs Asu iation) LAFAYETTC. Ind., Jan. 7. When northbound passenger train No. 1" on the P.ij: Four railroad was wrecked this afternoon at Rex, Ind.. six people are known to have been killed and the death list may grow to fifteen after a thorough search of the debris has been completed. It has been difficult to obtain details concerning the wreck and the number of injured is unknown, but it is thought the list will be a long one. The train left Indianapolis this morning at 11:45 and had a large number of passengers aboard. The train which was known as the Chicago Fly er, was running at the rate or sixty miles an hour when a truck on one of the coaches gave way. All the coaches were telescoped but the engine and mail car did not leave the rails. Twenty doctors accompanied the relief train. At S o'clock the number of known dead was placed at six. but the or.ly name given was that of W. P. Felt, a traveling salesman of Roches ter, X. Y. Union B. Hunt, of Indianapolis, was 011 the train and is reported to have been badly bruised, but not seriously injured. The scene of the wreck is twelve miles south of Lafayette. All the wires were knocked down, but an operator who climbed a pole and made connections sent ia an urgent appeal for ambulances, stating that the cars were piled In a heap beside the track. One farmer said it was remarkable that any of the passengers escaped alive. He did not tell how many were killed and injured. The operator at Clark's Hill said his best information was that fifteen had been killed outright, but this report was not credited here. EASTBOUND FRIGID WAVEJUITE HEAR Has Reached Illinois and Will Greet Indiana Folks by This Evening. CALIFORNIA STRUCK And Citrus Crop Is in Danger. 36 Below at Havre, Montana, Today. (National News Association) CHICAGO, Jan. 7. A cold wave traveling eastward from Nebraska and Colorado arrived in the vicinity of Chicago today and by tonight the coldest weather of 1913 is predicted for Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi and Alabama. In the states west of the Mississippi river below zero weather prevails, the cold extending as far south as Amarillo, Tex. where the thermometer registered 2 below. The coldest spot reported is Havre, Montana, where the mercury went to 36 below. Rapid City, Montana, reported 22 below; Devils Lake, N. D.. 24 below; Moorhead, Minn., 26 below, and North Platte, Neb., 10 below. The cold snap extended to the Pacific coast. In Salt Lake City water pipes burst with the coming zero weather while intense cold is reported through Nevada and the mountain country. In California cold records for 25 years have been broken. In Illinois snow fell most of the night. Chicago suffered from a heavy snowfall that impeded traffic today. In St. Lou is a heavy sleet did considerable damage and the Eastern half of the Mississippi Valley reported rain, sleet and a light snow. THREATENS CITRUS CROP. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 7. The fight of the citrus fruit growers to save their crops from damage from the unprecedented cold continued today. Smudge pots and electric heaters were kept going in orchards whose crops were threatened by the temperature that ranged two to four degrees under the freezing point. The cold extends throughout the fruit growing section, being unusually severe near Los Angeles and San Diego and west of the San Bernardino range. It extends through the San Joaquin and Sacramento Valleys. It is estimated that in the orange and lemon country about Riverside, heavy damage has already been done. B. B. Shepard, manager of the San Bernardo County Fruit Exchange, asserts that the loss has already reached $3,000,000. He places the value of the citrus crop at $50,000,000. ASKS INFORMATION City Engineer Fred Charles received a letter today from Charles E. Gordon of the War Department in which advice is asked about concrete work done in the past by Mr. Charles. The Information ia desired for government usa.

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AT THE FIRST Lecture on "The Spirit of xMethodism" Was Very Interesting. To Hold Picnic Supper at 6:30 O'clock. SOMERVILLE LIGHT TO SPEAK TONIGHT Nightly Meetings Are Being Held in Other Churches. Program for Training Institute Arranged. A highly interesting and instructive lecture on "The Spirit of Methodism" was given by the Rev. W. W. Martin, pastor of the High Street M. VL church at Muncie. at the opening service of the week's reopening program at the First M. E. church last evening. A large number of the members of the congregation and others attended the service, despite the inclement weather. At this evening's service Dr. Sonierville Light, of Elkhart, considered one of the ablest Methodist ministers in the state, will deliver the principal address. Prior to the meeting a picnic supper will be served In the basement of the church at 6:30 o'clock. Dr. U. B. G. Ewing will act as toastmaster and five-minute toasts will be given by Dr. D. W. Stevenson on "The Sociable Church": E. E. Brown, on "Our Neighbors"; Mrs. D. S. Brown will give an original poem: W. E. Russell ou "The Ixyal Church"; W. B. Freeland on "The Democratic Church": and the Rev. B. Earle Parker on "The Winning Church." Tonight's Program. The program for the evening follows: Inspirational Service Auditorium 7: SO O'clock. Organ Prelude Fummagalli. Saint Saens. "Praise Ye the Father" Gounoud Choir Hymn. Prayer. "Hear Us We Pray Thee" .".Gounoud Mixed Quartet Offertory Intermezzo Bizet Mr. Clements "There Were Ninety and Nine" Wheeler Miss Mote" and Choir Address Dr. Somervillc Light "Thy Will Be Done" Mrs. Raymond Longnecker Benediction. Organ Posttude Gounoud Martin Lecture. In part the Rev. Mr. Martin eaid. in his address on "The Spirit of Mathodiam" last evening: John Wesley, in 1742. preaching from his father's tomb on the text or "The Kingdom of Heaven is not meat and drink but righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost." set forts four leading doctrines of Methodism. "All may be saved." The choice lies with the individual. Each believes he may have assurance and may also be made perfect in love in this life. In his sermon on "The Characters of a Methodist" is not known by bis clothes or bis peculiar language but is one in whom the love of God is shed abroad by the Holy Ghost and be loves his fellow man also. Chalmers defined Methodism as Christianity In earnest and Wesley's motto was "At it and always at it." We therefore define Methodism as spiritual life at work. Now life manifests itself In various ways. Methodism is tolerent. "I desire a league offensive and defensive with Jesus Christ was the declaration of Wesley. Methodism's great success in pagan lands is due somewhat to the tolerant spitit. Methodism is philanthropic. She has systematic forms of benevolence that Include missionary, hospital, orphanage and other movements. Methodism is educational. Born in a college, it has ever stood for culture. It has 360 institutions of learning, with more than $50,000,000 of property and 75.000 students. Methodism has also the spirit of loyalty. Loyalty to the country's Interest First to recognize the independence of America it has always stood loyally for the country's interests. But loyalty to the moral Interests of the rising generation is necessary now to the country's welfare. We have the machinery and adaptability to meet the needs of the people and we need the touch of the spirit of God to quicken and empower that our work may be more effective. NIGHTLY MEETINGS. XighUy meetings are being held this week, which is known as prayer week, in many of the churches of the city. At the First Presbyterian church the Rev. Dr. Scott Hershey, a lecturer and minister of New Castle, Pa, is preaching this week. Tomorrow morning he will speak at the high school chapeL Some of the churches will continue the nightly meetings through the month of January, closing with the beginning of the Laymen's MiasioBj,Contlnued on Pace Six)

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