Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 109, 18 March 1913 — Page 1

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City Council Acts Favorably Upon Recommendation of Its Committee on Police Flashlights and 'Phones.

MAINTENANCE COST NOT TO EXCEED $350 Von Pein Discusses Minimum Rate in the Proposed Water Contract King Wants Canines Protected. At the meeting of the city council last night, the recommendation that the telephone and light system suggested for the police department by Chief of Police Gormon, will be installed was unanimously passed and sent to the board of works. After passing on it, the board of works will return it to council and au ordinance will be introduced providing an appropriation for the expense of renting the instruments and paying for the electricity used by the lights. Work of installation will probably begin within a month. The committee reported to council that the proposition offered the city by the Richmond Home Telephone company had been carefully, gone over in detail and was found satisfactory. The system is not only practical, the committee reported, but its installation will save the city the expense of two patrolmen. The members of the council believe the cost very small in comparison with the efficiency which the syBtem promises towards establishing proper, police regulations. The committee, in the report, stated that the annual expense of the' system to the police department would not exceed $350. Twenty-Two Lights. The committee also presented a map of the city with the proposed locations of the twenty new lights and telephones marked, as suggested by the chief of police. With the lights at Eighth and" Fifth" streets on "Main, there will be twenty-two flash lights in the city, all being controlled at police headquarters. The larger beats and outlying districts are furnished with more lights than the business districts. The system was heartily endorsed by every member of the council and all city officials. Members of the board of works are very much in favor of its installation and will recommend that an appropriation be made at the next council meeting. Councilman Von Pein attacked the minimum rate offered by the Richmond City Water Works in the bid which the city will soon act upon. Von Pein stated that the defense of E. M. Campfleld and Howard Dill on the minimum rate was very weak as they had attacked the city light plant for charging a minimum rate of 50 cents per month for electricity and complaining about a 45 cent minimum rate for water. Von Pein does not believe that any comparison can be shown between the city light plant and the water works s the costs of installation, of making or furnishing the product or service and of operating the plants are entiret x (Continued on Page Seven) HOW ADVERTISING REDUCES YOUR COST OF LIVING BY JOHN P. FALLON. Advertising is the means by which merchants or manufacturers may tell a great number of people about the superior quality of their goods, the desirability of their merchandise and the reason it will be to your advantage to patronize them. Advertising enables the merchants to bring hundreds and thousands of customers to their stores. It enables them to do a large volume of business at minimum expense. Advertising establishes the confidence of the community, makes new friends, keeps old customers interested and brings the news of the store right into the customer's home. The merchant who advertises continuously appeals to all the .people in town, while the merchant who does not advertise sits within his door and waits for the people to find him out or accidentally drop in as they are passing by. Advertising is such a powerful selling force and business builder that merchants who use it are enabled to sell better goods at the lowest prices. Read the advertisements in THE PALLADIUM closely and constantly every day for proof. The Palladium's Circulation March 17, was 7,595

This Is Legal Interpretation Handed Down At Meeting of School Board Yesterday Afternoon.

RAMSEY SAYS MEETING WILL BE HELD Jordan and Johnston State Opinions on Law Teachers Determined to See Local Application. As a result of a meeting of the city board cf education yesterday afternoon, at which time legal interpretation was secured on divers clauses in the teacher3 pension law, the question as to whether the teachers or the school board will have the authority to state whether the law shall be placed in operation here, must be answer ed by city council. The school board maintains that the law has such a large number of "jokers" in it that it should not be applied to this city. The teachers declare that this law is no more than fair and are determined to see that it is pfaced in practical operation in Richmond. A. M. Gardner, former city attorney, was consulted about this matter yesterday afternoon and he advised the board to attempt to force the city council to settle the difficulty. Up to Council. "The city council is the aoverning body in the municipality and with that body the power shall rest," said Mr. Gardner. The Jaw must be accepted or discarded by next Saturday according to a provision in the act. Unless a- special session of council is called before that time the law will be ruled out. , One of the most prominent teachers in the city who was active at Indianapolis lobbying for the bill asked Charles Jordan, treasurer of the school board to act favorabiv toward the law. Mr. Jordan was frank with the representative of the pedagogues and told him that "a big husky man ought to be ashamed of himself for asking a pension when at the time he would start receiving the pension he would be in the prime of life and capable of rendering his most valuable services to the community, as an instructor." Endowment Policy? "I am favorable to a disability pension law," said Mr. Jordan, "and when the Commercial Club went on record as favoring the pension bill that is what we believed v.e were to get. This law Is merely a paid up endowment life insurance policy which the teachers may collect after they have taught for a certain period of years." Dr. M. F. Johnston president of the school board, refused to openly say he would vote against the law if the board was given the power of accepting it. Dr. Johnston did, however, say that the bill was all wrong and does not agree with the teachers that they should be given the power of accepting it. "The teachers already have the power of saying who shall receive a pension and I do not believe it would be fair that they should have the power to distribute the pension or say whether it shall be accepted here as the tax payers pay five-sevenths of the fund," Dr. Johnston said. Complain In Time. The board members say that there are many people who are not opposing it at this time who would oppose it jand criticise it when they are assess ed two and one half tents per hundred dollars for maintaining the fund. Dr. Johnston does not believe the school teacher is more deserving a pension than other poeple who do public service work and believes the time will come when an old age pen sion law will be passed giving a pension to every person unable to work because of their advanced age. "As near as I can make out, the law is merely a plan to give an annuity to persons who are able to perform ac tive duties of life," said the president of the board. Teachers to Meet. Prof. D. D. Ramsey of the White water school, stated that the teachers would probably hold a meeting next Saturday at which time the law has to be accepted here. The teachers are all favorable toward the law and if it is refused here serious remonstrances will be made. OBSERVEJOLY WEEK Sackcloth and Ashes At the White House. (National News Association) WASHINGTON, March 18. Holy week will be observed at the white house. President Wilson informed friends today that neither he nor his family would attend theaters or other social functions this week. Next week, however the white house will be gay with a number of social events, among them several theater parties.

'Pitchfork Ben" Says That Wilson Approved of Him As Chairman of Appropriations Committee.

PRODUCES LETTER WILSON SENT HIM White House, However, Says That No Specific Indorsement Is Contained in Wilson Letter. (National News Association) WASHINGTON, March 18. Evidence of a clash between President Wilscn and Senator Tillman of South Carolina appeared today when the senator gave out the speech which he made before the Democratic caucus that decided against him in the chairmanship of the committee on appropriations. Tillman claimed he made the suggestion for this chairmanship because President Wilson wanted him to accept that post in the interests of Democratic economy and progressive principles. In his speech is a copy of a letter he wrote to Wilson January 1, outlining the necessity for economy and declaring that he should like to have charge of appropriations "30 they might be trimmed." On January 30 Mr. Wilson replied as follows: "Confidentially the appro-: priations committee is the committee on which you have the hardest work, but your letter convinced me that It is also the committee in which your interests chiefly lies and where you can be of the greatest and most constant services." Before the Tillman speech was given out today the white house gave out the letter Wilson wrote to Tillman. The purpose of this evidently was a desire on the part of the president to let the country know the substance of the letter. Jn no place does Mr. Wilson specifically .indorse TiU man ior mis cnairmansnip, aitnougn Tillman declared that he interpreted the letter as such an indorsement BRYAN GIVES ORDERS. SPRINGFIELD, 111., March 18. William Jennings Bryan, although asserting that he did not represent President Wilson or himself in any official capacity, in an address before the legislature today pleaded for the election of two Democratic United States senators. He virtually read out of the party those who did not support the party nominees. TO SUPFW TURKEY Powers to Prevent Payment of Indemnity. (National News Association) VIENNA. March 18. Turkey will be supported by the European powers in her fight against paying $300,000,000 indemnity to the Balkan allies. According to the Neue Freie Presse today the ambassadors of the powers have already agreed among themselves upon the big principles at issue be tween the Balkan states and Turkey. The powers have . concluded that Scutari shall remain an Albanian city and that Turkey shall not be compelled to pay an "exorbitant indemnity." The powers are now conferring upon the status of the Aegean Islands. SEDGWICK MAY EAT ALL ROTTEN EGGS Bureau of Chemistry Officials Ridicule Professor's Idea.. (National News Association) WASHINGTON, March 18 In answer to the statement of Prof. Sedgwick of the Massachusetts institute of Technology that rotten eggs are. It food, officials of the bureau of chemistry department of agriculture, merely laughed today and said, "We refuse to advise the American public to use rotten eggs as breakfast food." They will be contented to allow Prof. Sedgwick to eat all the visible supply himself. Contrary to Sedgwick's views a rotten egg does ' contain harmful substances, according to Chief Clerk Smith, which will have a deleterious affect on the human system if the practice of eating defunct eggs is continued for any length of time. THE WEATHER STATE AND LOCAL Fair tonight and Wednesday with rising tern pe ratu re.

Former Political Boss of Cincinnati and His Associates Must Account For Looting of Bank.

AMAZING STROY OF HIGH FINANCE TOLD Allegation Made That Cox and Friends Raided Bank's Funds to Support Big Furniture Company. (National News Association) CINCINNATI, March 18. George B. Cox, former president of the defunct Cincinnati Trust company, two former officers of the company and eight members of the board of directors were named in the sealed indictments returned by the Hamilton county grand Jury yesterday. The envelope containing the indictments was opened today. The indictments were two in number. Those indicted with Cox for abstraction of a 1350,000 note from the trust company were: J. M. Crawford, C. S. Davis, David G. Edwards, James F. Heady, James M. Hutton, N. F. Keith, Fletcher F. Williams and O. V. Parrish. Those indicted with. Cox for misapplication of funds of the trust company are Norman G. Keenan, Hutton, Keith, Williams, Davis and Heady. Keith and Arthur D. Martin, second vice president of the Ford, Johnson Furniture company, were indicted for making an alleged false statement of the assets of the company. The indictments are based upon the facts that enormous sums of the bank's money were used in a vain endeavor to successfully operate the Ford, Johnson company, a $3,000,000 concern, of which Cox is president and the indicted bank officials are either directors ortofficers. Baek of the indictments 4s an amaz ing story of high finance and reckless use of the bank's money In financing the furniture company, which suffered losses every year of its existence. The creditors, it is believed, will only receive from 7 to 10 per cent on each dollar. To meet t'ae losses of the furniture company large sums were borrowed from the trust company on practically worthless securities. Cox and his associates . formed the furniture company in 1905, by combining plants at Frankfort, Ky., Rockford, 111., Helena, Mcnt., and New York, and plants owned by Ford and Johnson of Michigan City at Chicago. SCHOOL BUILDING TO COST $25,000 Board Awards Contract For Plans on Building in Southwest Section. J FAVOR COTTAGE PLAN Construction Will Me Made So That Other Rooms May Be Added. fThe school board met last evening and awarded the contract for the drawing of plans for the new school building-to be constructed at the corner of Southwest Second and E streets. The new building will cost from $20,000 to $25,000 nd will be the most modern building of its kind in the city. It is planned to spend approximately $f.000 to each room. There will be four school rooms, an aaditorlum, a library and a rest roomj The plans of the building will be submitted to the board as soon as possible. They will then be submitted to the teachers for suggestions as to the most favorable additions which might not he included in the plans or the teachers will be asked to suggest any plans which might improve those drawn by the architect, The building will be different from any in this city used for educational purposes being on the cottage plan with the rooms separated from the main buildings in such a manner that additions can be made with little trouble. The building will be adapted to the best sanitary conditions possible. JOHN XIEMES DIES AT CINCINNATI Word was received here this morning of the death of John Niemes at Cincinnati. Mr. Xiemes had many friends here. He had been very ill for about a fortnight, but his death was unexpected.

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NEW YORK, March 18. When Health Officer Coons -wa3 sent to investigate a family, the head of which was said to be forcing his children to live under most inhuman conditions in a tent on the Nepperhan speedway near Yonkers, ho was overwhelmed when Sampson Palmer, head of the family, laughed at him and told him that his six children, were the healthiest in the world. Palmer then called to those inside the tent, and the mother led out six bubbling, chattering, rollicking youngsters, all of them the pictures of health and very lively proofs of their daddy's boast. Palmer said he and his wife bad lived in tents for more than sixteen years and neither of them or their children had ever experienced even the slightest cold. Mr. and Mrs. Palmer recommended tent life to all classes, young and old, strong and invalid.

DISPATCH SAYS GREECE, WAS

BULLETIN LONDON, March 18. A dispatch was received here this afternoon which states that King George of "Greece was assassinated at Salonika. No details were given. King George had been called to Salonika, the headquarters of the Greek forces in Albania, for a council of war. His eldest son and successor to the throne, Crown Prince Constantine, commander-in-chief of the Greek army, was at once notified. King George was born in 1845 and was a son of King Christian of Denmark. He was married in 1867 to the Grand Duchess Olga, of Russia, in St. Petersburg.

LONDON, March 18. An unofficial message was received at the Greek legation this afternoon to the effect that King George had been assassinated in Salonika, but up to 7:40 o'clock, no official confirmation was obtainable at the foreign office.

IS KILLED WHILE House-Warming Party Ends Disastrously For Frank Burns. (Xatlonal Xewi Association) INDIANAPOLIS, March 18. A house-warming party at the home of Frank Burns in East Vermont street, at which dancing and sixteen gallons of beer played a prominent part ended disastrously early today when a shotgun, which Burns was removing from a closet in the kitchen, was discharged and he was instantly killed, half of bis head being blown off. Burns and his wife had a slight quarrel after the guests had departed and there was some talk to the effect that he had committed suicide. The wound and the position of the body, however, indicated that death was accidentaL PRINCE OF WALES GOES TO GERMANY (National Newi Association) BRUSSELS, Belgium, March 18. The Prince of Wales, who is going to Germany to study the German language at first hand arrived here today and left immediately for Cologne. The Prince is traveling incognito as the Earl of Chester. He is in company with Major Odagon of the British army, Dr. Freidmann, his private physician, and personal servants. Before his return to England the Prince of Wales will visit Coblents, Dusseldorf, Heidelberg and Stuttgart. Reports that the Prince -of Wales was the guest of the Kaiser were denied, 2 ------ - -

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A NAIL IS FOUND 111 HORSPS TOOTH Animal Suffers Great Pain As Doctors Refuse to Fill Cavity. As a result of a sail driven in a horse's tooth, John Underbill will be aided by the police to discover the perpetrator of the horrible abuse and if located will be dealt with in a rigorous manner. According to Underhill his horse has been exhibiting signs of Imperfect health, lately refusing to eat. Underhill 'investigated the trouble which led to the discovery of the nail. This was immediately extracted. The horse is now suffering great agony and no doctor will undertake the task of filing the cavity. The police believe they can locate the man who mistreated the animal and say an arrest will be made soon. Underhill offers $50 reward for the apprehension of the man. TO VACCIHaTE FORCE Smallpox Epidemic in Department. War National Nws Association) WASHINGTON. March 18. Smallpox which broke out In the war department several days ago has spread to the treasury department. Two Incipient cases in the clerical force were discovered today. Secretary of tbef Treasury -MeAdoo ordered the entire ijtreisurT fprce tq , jaxcSnated. 1

Will Advise Council to Pass Ordinance Establishing a Lower Rate Upon Artificial Gas Here.

PLANS A CONTRACT WITH WATER WORKS Says If Either Corporation Objects to Council's Action It Must Appeal to State Commission. City Attorney Wm. A. Bond announced today that he will make two important recommendations to council at its next meeting. In one he will advise council that under provisions of the new public utilities commission law and under court decisions in other states which have similar law it will be in the power of council to reduce the existing exhorbitant rate on artificial gas ($1.10 with ten per cent, off under certain conditions), to a figure that council believes fair to the Light. Heat & Power company and to the consumers. His other recommendation to council will be to prepare a contract ordinance for the Richmond City Water Works company, incorporating the rates and provisions desired by the city, and to pass it without further negotiations with the water works company. If both recommendations are favorably acted upon by council, Mr. Bond states, the city will have everything to gain and nothing to lose, for in both instances the city will be acting under the provisions of thfe utilities commission act and it will be up to the corporations affected to prove to the public service commission that they have been dealt with unfairly. If the commission sustains the action of i council, the corporations must' either abide by the rulings or appeal to the courts. Bond Ready For Fight. "If council will back me up In the two propositions I intend to submit to' that body I will fofht both through to the finish. The city would have nothing to lose by such procedure and if we carried our point it would be of general public beneflt," Bond stated. Mr. Bond has just completed a thorough Investigation of the new public utilities commission law and the decisions made upon similar laws and he finds that the city council has uncommodities of public service corporation, which rights city councils share with the public service commission. He also f nds that no rate for artificial gas is specified in the contract which the Light, Heat and Power company operates under, so te thinks council should not delay taking advantage of right delegated to it by the legislature at its last session and provide a rate on artificial gas. Mr. Bond thinks that TO cents would be a fair rate for this commodity. In the case of the water works company Mr. Bond points out that that corporation Is now operating without a contract so he sees no reason why . council, acting under the utilities law again, should not draw up a contract for that company and then let the public service commission, and the. courts if necessary, determine whether - the rates provided In the contract are fair or unfair. If the rates provision in the contract is rejected by the commission that . body would then take , charge of that feature of the proposition. ' IB PERSONS INJURED e When Limited Is Wrecked 3 May Die. (Xatlonal Xewa Association) MARSHALLTOWN. Ind Marchr 18. KIghteen persons were injured, three probably fatally, when the Twin Cities limited on the Minneapolis and St. Louis railroad was derailed six miles north of here early today. Two cars were " nurnea. i ne passengers wr moeir homeseekers. bound for J-poinU in the northwest.