Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 118, 28 March 1913 — Page 6
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PAGE SIX. THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AT5T STTX-TEIiEGRAM,TinJRSDAY,MA7RCH 27, 1013.
PREPARING TRACKS FOR M SEASQfl Rehabilitating the Sport of Kings in the State of New York.
NEW YORK, March. 27. Quietly and unostentatiously preparations have been made toward rehabilitating the Sport of Kings in the state of. New York. In the quiet little village of Saratoga, once known throughout the world as' the mecca of western racing men, the first warm days of Spring found a small army of laborers ready, assembled to repair the weed grown race course. At Bennings, Gravesend, Sheepshead Bay and Belmont Park, which once harbored the kings and queers of the equine world and the elite of society, 700 thoroughbreds are in active preparation for the opening of the metropolitan season about June 1. Here also repair and restitution has been in progress for some time.
At the Acqueduct and Empire City tracks black hostlers, Tar Heelers, West Virginians and Kentuckians, suh, are likewise engaged in putting their blanketted charges through their daily paces, while handlers loll about the paddock and swop yarns anent past successes and failures. Yet back of all these prima facie evidences of the resumption of the sport is silence silence and a vacant stare when definite news is sought from racing magnates regarding the program for the coming summer. On the other hand, from among the ranks f the anti-race track men rises a clamorous denial that the sport will again "ruin the young and breed bankruptcy among the old." It is the old story of the hawk and the squeaking parrot. "You pass your penny and take your choice" between the noisy denials of the clergy and the quiet effectiveness of the owners whose good money is not to be jeopardized by an untimely word, but whose millions are responsible for the unmistakable evidences of racing activities to be seen today.
August Belmont, who is regarded as
the head of horse racing in this coun
try; Phil Dwyer, owner of Gravesend and Acqueduct; James Butler, who
controls the Empire City Course, and William A. Engeman, who holds a heavy interest in the Brighton Beach circuit are the men said to be the
leaders, active in the movement to re
habilitate the sport in New York
Their provocation lies in the decision of the Appellate Division of the State
Supreme Court that oral betting is le gal.
Before this momentous decision was made in the .case of the state vs. Paul
Shane, the old Hart Agnew, Anti-race
track laws which passed the state legislature and was signed by the
Governor in 1908, made it possible to direct prosecution against the owners of the racetracks for any infringement of the anti-betting law. It was this phase, of the legislation which operated against the continuance of the sport. Under the Paul Shane ruling a form of betting will be possible without attendant prosecution. . As yet the utmost secrecy surrounds the plans of the racing magnates. They have made public no definite avowal of their intention to resume the sport, preferring to await legislative developments and proceed with caution till public sentiment has been sounded. Following this course It is Improbable that racing will .at once reach the magnitude enjoyed by It during the fullBome years preceeding 1907, when over a million and a half dollars annually accrued to the various state racing associations in fees, and over five millions changed hands in the betting ring. Rather a steady growth is looked for. Tiie monetary loss tc the state
through a four year lapse of interest
In equine gambols has never been esti
mated, and can never be, accurately.
In Saratoga alone it is said that mil
lions have been dissipated by the
Hart-Agnew anti-racing laws.
. The famous little watering place reaped a harvest from the animal
meets held within Its environs. Vast hotels were reared at enormous ex
pense along its elm shaded avenues,
the municipality expended vast sums in improving its natural beauties and the inhabitants erected great shops to care for the trade that once a year
flocked to Its streets.
With the stoppage of racing, realty
values fell to a panic figure, shopkeep
ers were bankrupt, the hotels fell Into
decline and the busy town became a
sleepy little village.
In the vicinity of other great tracks
similar devastation was -wrought on a smaller scale, w'aile the farmers, who had been the recipients of over $200,000 annually from the tax on racing, to say nothing of the blooded stock put at their disposal by the
breeders, found themselves pressed for funds with which to-carry on their
state fairs and robbed of their sales
to the owners and handlers of horses.
EARLY REPORTS ABOUT FLOOD
BY STAFF CORRESPONDENT DAYTON, O., (10:30 a. m.) Two telephone wires into Dayton have been opened and the first real news of the horrors in that city will soon be made public. There is now on an average of two feet of water in the streets and the river is falling rapidly, and it
is possible for wagons and automobiles to enter the city to distribute food and clothing to the sufferers. Terrible sights are to be seen on every hand. The fire yesterday started at St. Claire and Third streets and wiped out several blocks in the business district. The flames spread west on the north side of Third street to Jefferson street, where they leaped across to the Beckel hotel, destroying that structure, then spreading north to Second street, where the blaze crossed the street and ate its way down to First street. The flames destroyed a number of buildings on all sides of Steele high school, but spared that structure. From that locality the flames devastated a territory stretching back to Third street before they were extinguished.
IIOTRE DAME GETS A GflMrWITH ARMY Catholics Have Very Hard Chart For Gridiron Next Fall.
STAFF CORRESPONDENT DAYTON VIEW, Dayton, O., 6 A. M., via telephone Dayton
has been flooded since early Tuesday morning, caused by the levees giving away and the constant downpour of rain that has been falling for the last four days. Early this morning word was re
ceived here from Celina that it was expected that the Celina reservoir would break within a very short time. In case this body of water is released in all probability Dayton will be struck again.
Attempts have been made to get communication to other cities
to shut off gas mains. It is impossible to shut off gas in the sub
merged part of town and a few explosions have occurred.
Several men in this section place the estimate of those dead
between twenty and twenty-five thousand. It is a physical impos
sibility to verify this statement or any statements regarding the
number drowned or killed by explosions.
The whole west side of the city is under water, reaching to the
second stories of the buildings, while nothing can be reached in
the uptown section of the city or east and south end of town.
It is apparent from the top of Summit Avenue Hill that the
whole uptown section is burning and numerous smaller fires on the west side can be seen. It is believed that the fires were caused
by explosions.
The water at the present is slowly receding at the rate of
about four inches an hour. Thousands of people are on hills in the
west side and are entirely destitute of food and clothing and gro
cery stores are low in supply.
People on the higher parts of the city have plenty to eat with the exception of bread, but those people imprisoned in hotels and
big buildings are said to be suffering. Persons in the larger hotels in the city are suffering from ex posure. The water has flooded the boiler rooms and it is impossi ble to secure heat.
Although it has Deen impossiDie to verity tne report, it is
stated that the Beckel Hotel, Calahan Bank building, the city
building and the great Rike Kumler people's store have all been
burned.
INDIANAPOLIS, March 27. The following dispatch has
been received here from Washington, D. C. :
In a message to the nation, President Wilson stated that the
lood disasters in Indiana and Ohio had assumed the proportions
of a national calamity. The American Red Cross has taken hold
of the relief work and money and supplies are asked to be given to
the members of the Red Cross all over the country to be sent to the stricken district. "The people of the United States should make
this a common cause," said the president.
Fishing d Lux.
Captain George Walker, an amateur yachtsman of Savannah, says he used to have a darky hand on his Georgia
plantation who loved ease and fishing.
When be wasn't fishing he was loafing.
One night there was a rain almost heavy enough to be called a cloudburst, and the next morning all the low places on the plantation were flooded two feet
deep. Passing the negro's cabin. Captain Walker found him seated in an easy chair a't the kitchen door, fishing
In a small puddle of muddy water that
had been formed there.
"Henry, you old fool," said Captain
Walker, "what are you doing there?"
-Boss." said Henry, "I's Jest fishin'
a little."
- Well, don't you know there are no
flsh there T demanded Captain Walker. "Yes. tub," said Heury; "I knows
lat. But dis here place is so handy!"
WILSON'S MESSAGE TO NATION
BECKEL HOTEL DESTROYED
TEACHERS TO HEAR ARRAY JFJRATORS Gov. Hadley, Gov. Ralston And Others On Convention Program.
NOTRE DAME. Ind.. March 27.
Ample opportunity for the settlement of intersections! football rivalry -will
be offered next fall when West Point and Penn State representing the east
will clash with Notre Dame. Negotiations by which West Point will be the opponents of Notre Dame In football on the Indiana gridiron were conclud
ed by Director Jesse Harper today. The closing of the army date completes the Catholics' schedule of nine games.
In addition to the eastern games
Harper has listed contests with South
Dakota and Wabash in the west and
University of Texas in the south, making the schedule one of the hardest as well as the best ever listed for Notre Dame. Two year contracts have
been entered into with most of the
schools providing for return games In 1914 and insuring a well balanced schedule for that season.
Penn State has been on the base
ball schedule for several seasons, and
the Army is included in the 1912 baseball chart arranged by Manager Cotter. The announcement of the football
games with the eastern schools gives ground to the report that Notre Dame hereafter intends to look to the east for its most important gridiron battles.
The adoption of the freshman rule,
by which first year men will be ineligible for varsity competition, and
the abolition of the present system of
student control in the management of
teams; are some of the Innovations
which will be Introduced next season
when Harper assumes the position of director of athletics at Notre Dame.
The former Maroon star, who Is
coach at Wabash, will be head coach in all branches as well as director of athletics, and will be aided by assistant coaches and student managers
when necessary.
The inauguration of the freshman
rule at Notre Dame next fall will not
handicap the eleven irreatly. Crowley,
end, is the only member of last
season's team who will graduate in Jne, and the probable return of the other members of the team Insures an eleven as strong as that which played in Chicago against Marquette last
Thanksgiving day. Following is the schedule:
Oct. 4 Ohio Northern at Notre
Dame.
Oct. 11 Freshmen vs. varsity. Oct. 18 South Dakota at Notre
Dame.
Oct. 25 Alma college at Notre Dame. Nov. 1 Army at Notre Dame. Nov. 8 Penn State at State College, Pa. Nov. 15 Wabash at Crawfordsville. Nov. 22 Christian Brothers' college at St. Louis. Nov. 27 University of Texas at Austin.
(Palladium Special) INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., March 27. In the thirty-four years that the Northern Indiana Teachers Association has been holding annual meetings, it has
never, it is said, offered a greater array of oratorical talent than will be heard at its general and sectional
sessions which will be held in Indiana
polis, April 3, 4 5.
INDIANAPOLIS HAS ONE RAILWAY LIIIE Greatest Inland Rail Center; Has Only Access to Richmond.
OHIO TOWN v IS IN NEED
(Palladium Special) INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.. March 27. Indianapolis, the greatest Inland railroad center In the United States, has but one line of railroad in operation from Indianapolis to Richmond over the Pennsylvania. Oae train each way was run yesterday and' other trains will be sent to Richmond today. The telegraph and telephone companies
I are badly handicapped as the raU-
The manager of the Western Unioa Telegraph company's office at Indianapolis, wired the Richmond office this morning to the effect that the operator in the office at Brookrille. Ohio,, had wired Indianapolis at 10 o'clock! stating that Brookrille. Ohio, is in sore need of supplies, many people being
The general sessions are to be heldroad8 and at one tlme this forenoon uy m wnjer or siarwng. in
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at Tomlinson Hall, and will open : with the inaugural address of H. G. Brown, of Lebanon, president of the association, and at this first session Governor Herbert S. Hadley, of Missouri, one of the foremost men now in American public life, will be a speaker. The second day of the convention will be marked by "Indiana Day" when Gov. S. M. Ralston will be the presiding officer and a speaker, an address will be given by Charles W. Fairbanks, former vice-president of the U. S., Wilbur D. Nesbitt, author and journalist and James E. Watson. One of the chief features of the convention will be held on Friday night, April 4, when an elaborate musical program will be given, and at the closing session on April 5th and the chief address will be by Dr. Philander P. Claxton, U. S. commissioner of education. In making up the program for the convention, the executive committee has especially provided exercises and addresses that will be educative in the
broadest sense, and which will give the teachers who attend inspirational
incentive in their work, as well as re
lief from the routine of their school rooms. The speakers at both general and sectional sessions will be men and women of large affairs both in publio and educational activities. Dr. Claxton is an educator of national reputation, as a student he gained his school experience both in public schools and colleges and has spent much time studying the school sys
tems of Germany. France. England.
Denmark and Switzerland. He has also had extensive experience as a public school teacher, as a city superintendent and as a university professor. One of the chief speakers at the sectional meetings will be Dr. Charle3 H. Judd, one of the most eminent educators of the Middle West, who recently returned from an extended trip to Europe.
railroad, connected Richmond with the capital of Indiana.
There are hundreds of people home
less as a result of the inundation of
the territory lying close to White river
and Eagle creek and while the waters have been receding rapidly since last night, the suffering of the homeless is severe.
FIGHTS TONIGHT
Rudy Unholx vs. Jack Redmond, ten rounds, at Grand Rapids, Mich. Jack Dillon vs. Buck Crouse, six rounds, at Pittsburg, Pa.
RICHMOND DRUGGIST MAKES A STATEMENT We always advise people who have stomach or bowel trouble to see a doctor. But to those who do not wish to do this we will say: try the mixture of simple buclfthorn bark, glycerine, etc.. known as Adler-i-ka. This simple new remedy is so powerful that JUST ONK DOSE usually relieves sour stomach, gas on the stomach and constipation QUICKLY. People who try Adler-i k are surprised at its QUICK action. Thistlethwaitea. (Advertisement)
CATTLE KILLED BY A FALLING STACK
GREENFIELD, Ind., March 27. Floyd Hutchinson and son Dan, cf Route 4, lost two head of cattle Sunday night when a shed straw stack fell on them . The falling of the stack was caused by the wind and rain. The cattle were insured and the claim was adjusted Monday.
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DAYTON, O., 8:30 a. m. (via Pennsylvania wire to New Paris
and telephone to Richmond) The Beckel Hotel has been complete-
y destroyed by fire.
WOLF BUILDING COLLAPSED. GREENFIELD, Ind., 11 A. M. Communication was estabished with Indianapolis for a short time this morning over the
Terre Haute, Indianapolis and Eastern Traction company's private
telephone, and the report of the destruction of the Wolf building on Kentucky avenue, which collapsed when crowded with 200 refugees from the flood last evening, was confirmed;
But four cars are running in Indianapolis, and they are run
ning on East Washington street on power furnished from Richmond. Indianapolis has no power, gas, or water or fire Detec
tion. The terrible sleet and snow of last night and yesterday
added to the privation of those left homeless and nearly frozen on
the highlands, and the suffering is greater every hour. Relief crews are working to alleviate the sufferers from the flood.
Baseballdom Is Made Over The Race for the "One Big Dollar"
There's money in this old world of
ours if you only dig it up. And the
best way to stuff your pockets and
your safety vaults with $1,000 notes is to get into baseball. At least one gains that impression by reading the newspapers.
First, we find Mrs. Helen Britton,
owner of the St. Louis Cardinals, paying Roger Bresnahan, the manager she discharged, $20,000 to keep him from going to court. And Rajah was scarce
ly a free agent thereby losing Mrs. Britton at least $20,000 or more, for he Would have brought that much on
the open market before the Chicago club let it be known that it would pay Bresnahan $10,000 to sign and about $20,000 for three years, a salary of more than $6,000 per year. Then soon after that financial shock Frank Farrell, the owner of the New York Americans, sends to Los Angeles for Franch Chance, discharged boss of the Chicago club and entertains him in the Windy City. As a result of that entertainment Chance is to lead the Yankees next season and the two that follow. His yearly stipend is said to be the insignificant sum of $25,000, while a percentage of the receipts will bring him an income for the three seasons of $120,000 in alL In Philadelphia recently Will Locke, secretary of the Pittsburg club, closed a deal by which he became president n4 Mintwillinv stnokhnlHar nf ihm
Phillies. It cost Locke close to $400,000 to swing that deal. Ty Cobb, greatest player of the age, is afTlicted with "holdoutitis." While Tyrus refuses to mention the exact sum he demands for batting over .400, it is said to be $15,000 a year, or $45,000 for three seasons. And the Georgia Peach desires a three-year contract when he signs. The fever is upon them and Cobb is only one of many major and minor league baseball players who are demanding big salaries. Connie Mack and Will Locke showed evidence of wisdom which had been lacking in other baseball circles when they stated that less noise should be made about the immense sume of money paid to managers and players. For after all it is not quite possible that much of it is press agent stuff?
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