Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 135, 17 April 1913 — Page 1

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VOL. XXXVIII. NO. 135

LARGE STOCK SSUE TO BE MADE By CO. Stockholders of the Richmond Water Works Company Authorize $400,000 Issue of Preferred Stock. BONDS OF COMPANY WILL BE TAKEN UP And Funds Will Be Raised to Pay For Improvements Local Case Given to Utilities Commission. , f a meeting of the stockholders of j ithe Richmond City Water Works com- j ipany this afternoon the directors of I Jthe company were authorized to issue j !f 400,000.00 in preferred stock for the; purpose of paying on the present bond- j Jed Indebtedness of $250,000.00; pro-j jvlding $100,000.00 for the contemplat-; ed Improvements, and $50,000 treasury j ffftock. The new stock issue bears ' )6 per :ent interest and is accumula-; itive. The stockholders hare the Srst option on the purchase of the stock at ;997.00 per share, the par value of iwhich is $100.00. An official of the company stated Ithls morning that the matter of refinancing the obligations of the comIpany had been contemplated for over ;a year and that the new public utility commission law passed by the last legislature had nothing to do with the motion of the company today. He said that at the present time it was impossible to sell a bond issue without . great nnanciai sacrifice m under writing the bonds. The company Wiould not sell bonds at this time for Imore than 76 cents on the dollar, he paid, and it is doubtful if they could ibe floated at all because the company fhas no contract with the city. The company believes that by issuing the preferred stock to the local ietockholders at the price named It will be able to dispose of all the new leecurltles to local people at a better iprice than if sold to outside parties "who are not familiar with local conditions. The bonds of the company come Wue in October of this year and therefore the company had to provide some iway of meeting the payment of these foonds before that time. In some of the testimony that was jgiven during the course of the neigotiations for the new contract with the city, an official of the company admitted that the company had from time to time purchased some of its "own bonds, which are now property of the company. What disposition is to be made of the money derived from (the purchase of the bonds the company owns has not yet been made Jtnown. RICHMOND IS FIRSTINDIANAPOLIS. April 17. Members of the new Public Service Comftnlssion held a preliminary meeting Yesterday preparatory to beginning their duties May 1. The conference yesterday gave the members an opportunity of getting acquainted with one another and discussing various features of the law under which the commission will operate. Thomas Duncan, who is to be chairman, and Charles J. Murphy and James L. Clark, who were recently appointed by the Governor to serve with John P. McClure and Frank E. Payne, members of the Railroad Commission, whose terms have not expired, qualified for office yesterday by being sworn in by J. Fred France, clerk of the Supreme Court. Richmond Seeks Advice. The Richmond Commercial club has naked that the water works situation at Richmond be among the first subjects to be considered by the commission. The contract of the Richmond City Water Works, a private corporation, with the city of Richmond expired last fall and efforts to reach an agreement on a new contract have failed. The petition .of the Richmond Commercial club, asking the assistance and advice of the commission in Tenewing the contract, was turned over to the commission yesterday when the members called on Governor Ralston for a brief conference. - It had been filed with the Governor some time ago with a request that it be given to the commission as soon hs it had ben organized. The commission has two fat jobs to pass out,-and while the subject" wasr not considered during yesterday's conference, It is expected that the appointments will be announced before May 1. Joseph L. Reiley, who is secretary of the Railroad Commission at a salary of $2,500, . is considered as having the best chance of landing the Eecretryship, though there are several other candidates for. the appointment. The secretary to the commission will receive a yearly salary of $3,600. The second appointment to be made is that of chief clerk at a salary of $3,000. THE WEATHER STATE AND LOCAL Fair toniflht and Friday. Warmer in northeast portion tonight. ' Cooler in north portion Friday.

Rich Girl Gave

MISS ZELIE EMERSON. If you were a young girl with an income of $10,000 a year, would you spend years in doing the most menial work and getting in jail in order to uplift the cause of woman suffrage? That is the life story of Miss Zelie Passavent Emerson..Her father-was Rufus H. Emerson, who made millions in the oil refining business. She was reared in a life of luxury in a handsome home at Jackson, Mich. Ever since her father died, when she was twelve, Miss Emerson has written her own checks for any desired amount. But society life soon bored, and when she was twenty-three, in 1910, she went to Chicago and engaged in settlement work. In order to get more intimately acquainted with the working classes she worked in all kinds of menial positions for small wages under an assumed name. Naturally, she became interested in woman suffrage and eventually was elected president of the Michigan State organization. When Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst began organizing her militant suffrage party in England, Miss Emerson concluded that that sort of campaigning was more to her liking. She immediately set sail for England, where she has been a prominent figure in all of the militant demonstrations. She has been imprisoned for activities several times, and was only recently released from jail before her term had expired because she was critically ill as a result of a self-imposed fast, or "hunger strike." It is now rumored that she will be deported from England as an "undesirable."

TRAIN SIDESW1PED AT Results in the Death of One Man and the Injuring of Two Others. (National News Association INDIANAPOLIS, April 17. One man was killed and two others injured, when a passenger train on the Louisville division of the Pennsylvania system, sideswiped a freight train which was waiting for it to pass at the Southern avenue crossing, this city, at midnight. Dead: John Yunker, passenger train engineman, Jeff ersonville ; crushed to death. Injured: William Ehringer, fireman on passenger train; Speeds, Ind.; back, legs and ankles injured. John T. Wilson, Louisville; mail ClerK;.left.s;de.htirt not serious. The collision ditched both locomotives, throwing the passenger locomotive to the west of the track and the freight engine to the east. The-tender and one box car followed the freight locomotive into the ditch while, a mail car which was coupled to the tender of the passenger train was hurled far over both locomotives and Engineman Yunker's body, crushed almost beyond identification, was found 'still further in advance of the wreckage. All the passenger coaches, remained on the track and the passengers although thrown violently, from their seats, did not suffer serious injuries. The collision was caused by the freight train, which was waiting ' on the siding, being drawn up too close to the switch. It had been left in charge of the fireman. MOTHER'S MEETING AT CHURCH FRIDAY A Mother's Meeting will be held Friday afternoon at the First English Lutheran church. Dr. A. L. Bramkamp will give a talk. Mrs. F. W. Krueger and Mrs. Fred Bartel will sing. All the mothers of the city are Invited to attend.

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A U For Suffrage CAUCUS OPERATES AS STEAM-ROLLER Representatives Who Are Trying to Boost Rates Having a Hard Time. (National News Association) WASHINGTON, April 17. After being flattened out repeatedly by the steam toller of the ways" and means committee house Democrats who are opposed to the tariff rates in the Underwood bill today practically abandoned all hope of achieving any changes in the bill in the Democratic caucus. Consideration of the wool schedule was the program today. With wool remaining on the free list the committee was well fortified in the position it had taken in regard to compensating duties. The old fight to obtain reductions on woolen yarns was not expected to make much headway. After the woolen schedule the silk schedule will be considered. Silk manufacturers oJaim that the Underwood rates on the better grades of manufactured silks are entirely too low. Representatives who have failed to obtain increases on manufactured products made in their districts are preparing to go to the senate for higher duties. It became- known today that tremendous pressure is to be exerted on senators for changes in the tariff bill A MEASURE AIMED AT CABARET SHOWS (National News Association) SPRINGFIELD, Ills., April 17. A cabaret show will be impossible in Illinois if a bill introduced in the legislature by Representative Sherman, progressive, is adopted. The measure makes it unlawful to have music, dants Ing or recitations in cafes where liquor is sold. Rep. Sherman said he introduced the bill on account of the facts brought to light by the Illinois senate white slave committee tn a recent raid upon cafes where cabaret shows were given

THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 17, 1913

MOORE PLANS

II EIGHT FOR Deposed Chief of the Weather Bureau Opens Up Headquarters to Direct His Publicity Campaign. HOUSECLEANING OF BUREAU WILL COME Rep. Fowler Says There Have Been Many Questionable Practices That Should Be Shown Public. (National News Association) WASHINGTON, April 17 That President Wilson will appoint Charles W. Dabney, president of the University of Cincinnati, to be chief of the weather bureau in place of Willis L. Moore, dismissed, was stated today. The president is willing to have a public investigation of the alleged irregularities in the weather bureau which resulted in Prof. Moore's dismissal if Secretary of Agriculture Houson requests It. Prof. Moore today removed his effects from the bureau and established headquarters at the Cosmos club, from where he expects to conduct a campaign of vindication. A general housecleaning of the weather bureau was in progress today. Any political machine that Prof. Moore may have constructed in that department is to be shattered. Rep. Fowler of Illinois announced today that he will demand an investigation of the weather bureau by the rules of the committee of the house and opposed an investigation by the committee on agriculture. Fowler declares there have been many questionable practices in the weather bureau and that they should be given publicity. Fowler has been active in the campaign which resulted in Moore's removal. According to information obtained tQ4ay the, removal. of. Moore also was due in a large" measure to charges made by James Berry, former chief of the climatological division. Berry charges that Moore coerced his subordinates into booming their chief for secretary of agriculture and also that $20,000 of the bureau's funds were spent for a conference and banquet to further Moore's candidacy. PLUM FOR SULLIVAN. WASHINGTON, April 17 President Wilson today appointed Jerry Sullivan of Des Moines, la., to be a member of the board of general appraisers of New York city. Sullivan had much to do with lining up the state of Iowa for Wilson during the recent campaign. Another important nomination made today was that of Henry S. Breckenridge of Kentucky, to be assistant secretary of war. WOMAN IS ROBBED BY A "POLITE" MAN (National Neis Association) ALTOONA, Pa., April 17. Pennsylvania Railroad detectives all over the system have been detailed on a robbery involving $8,000 in jewels and money that occurred last night on a passenger train between Baltimore and this city. A chamois bag containing pearls, diagrams and currency was taken from the waist of Mrs. Catherine Gaddis of Dayton, Ohio. While Mrs. Gaddis was in. Union Station, Baltimore, to board a train for the West, a stranger called her attention to a fragment hanging from her skirt. She invited him to cut it off and he did so. Mrs. Gaddis discovered the disappearance of her valuables when she arrived here. Search failed to reveal any trace of the bag or its contents. M'MANUS TALKED TOO MUCH FINED "You're drunk," said Mayor Zimmerman to John McManus in police court this morning, where McManus had strolled in for the purpose of watching the trials. "If you were not drunk, you would'nt talk so much. Your fine is $1 and costs." McManus was taken back to the city jail where he will remain long enough for him to "sober up" when he will be given the privilege of paying his fine, which he claims he can do. McManus insisted on talking to the mapor in court this morning and admitted that he was intoxicated. PRIEST DENOUNCES COURT PROCEDURE (National New? Association) CHICAGO, April 17. "You are traitors to your country if you do not do something to change the rotten procedure in our courts. In the name of God, do something to bring about the administration of- justice." This statement was made to 200 members of the Chicago Bar Association by Father Maurice J. Dorney, of St. Gabriel's church.

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GRADUATION

TO BE HELD ON JUNE 13 Larger Class to Receive Diplomas From High School This Year Than Ever Before. V UNIFORM DRESS MAY BY WORN BY GIRLS Each Graduate Will Be Given Number of Invitations to Present to Relatives and Friends. The class of 1913 of the Richmond high school will receive their diplomas presented by City Supt. T. A. Mott on the evening of Friday the thirteenth of June at the Coliseum. There are 94 members of the class who will receive diplomas. The class this year will be addressed by President Robert L. Kelly of Earlham. college. President Kelly is well known for his ability as a speaker. The graduates this year will form a larger class than has ever graduated from high school in this city. Last year the size of the class was thought to be unusual though the number this year is considerably larger. To Use Coliseum. The exercises will be held in the Coliseum as this building is the only one in the city large enough to accommodate the large number of persons who are expected to attend. The invitation necessary for admission will be issued by the members of the class, the faculty and the board of education. Most of them will be given out by the class as the board believes the privilege of extending the invitations should be restricted to the class. "The audience of an affair of this kind is one of the most democratic audiences which is ever gathered together in this city," says Supt. Mott. "Neighborhoods of every section of the city are represented." - - - Principal John F." Thompson will make a presentation speech preceding the address of Prof. Kelly. A program has been arranged and members of the class will take part in the exercises. The high school orchestra as usual will be on the program. As this is the last year in Richmond of Supt. T. A. Mott the honor of presenting the diplomas will be conferred upon him. Average Age is 19. The number of invitations . issued will be somewhat smaller this year than in former years. Last year the students of the class were allowed twenty invitations though because of the size of the class a smaller number will be issued this year. The average age of the class is little more than 19 years. There has been some contention among the girls of the school whether or not a uniform dress should be decided upon for the ceremony. Most of the girls are favorable toward the proposition. The school authorities uphold the members of the class who are advocating this. The school officials realize that the girls who buy elaborate dresses for graduation have only a few chances to wear them and for the benefit of girls in the school who are unable to afford an expensive dress the school board believes it would be commendable if the matter was accepted. SAYS MOTORCYCLE CAUSE OF ARREST Patrolman Vogelsong was dutifully patrolling his beat yesterday afternoon when he noticed C. J. Miller, colored, attempting to start a motorcycle near Sixth and Main. The limb of the law was attracted to the scene by the muffled curses of the would-be motorcyclist. Vogelsong noticed that Miller was under the influence of intoxicating liquor and forthwith arrested him. The motorcycle was pushed and dragged to police headquarters and placed in the same cell with its owned. This morning in police court he pleaded not guilty to the charge of public intoxication, but upon testimony of witnesses he was fined 51 and costs. Miller admitted that be had taken three glasses of beer but said that he "would never have been arrested if the motorcycle hadn't failed to work." EVEflGJTEM SOLD F. S. Dodd, of Decatur, Buys Newspaper. The Richmond Evening Item was purchased today from the Item Publishing company by F. S. Dodd. of Decatur Illinois. The consideration was not made public. Mr. Dodd took charge of the paper today. According to the new owner and editor the editorial policy of the paper will be independent. Few changes will be made in the reportorial or editorial forces, he stated. Mr. Dodd was a principal stockholder and manager of the Decatur Herald, far eight veaxs.

J. H. PATTERSON SENDS A LETTER OF THANKS HERE

A letter thanking the citiiens of Richmond for the help extended the citzens of Dayton during the flood was received by Mayor Zimmerman this morning from John H. Patterson, j chairman of the Citizens' Relief Committee of Dayton. Mr. Patterson stated in the letter that the citizens of Day ton would never forget the manner in which the people of Richmond responed to the calls for assistance during the time when they were in distress and calls the action of the sister cities in giving aid to Dayton, as a tribute to the American people. The letter will be read to council Monday night. The letter is appended: April 16, 1913. ,To The Honorable Mayor, Richmond, Ind. Dear Sir: As chairman of the Dayton Citlzens Relief Committee, 1 desire to extend to you and, through you. to the people of Richmond, our sincere thanks and deep appreciation of the material assistance you have afforded us. Please accept this grateful recognition of your practical sympathy, not only on behalf of this committee, but in the name of every citizen of Dayton. It is a beautiful tribute to the American people when one city will come to the relief of another sorely afflicted, with the promptness and whole-heartedness with which the city of Richmond answered the call of Dayton's distress. Our city is passing through a dark period in her history, yet we are not dismayed; the words of cheer, encouragement and kindly sympathy we have received from our sister cities throughout the lyength and breadth of the land, large and small alike, have lightened the gloom that surrounded us and given us strength to enter confidently on our work of building a bigger, better and grander Dayton. We shall never forget your kindness to us and Richmond will ever be held in fond and grateful remembrance by every man, woman and child who calls Dayton "Home." Very sincerely. JOHN H. PATTERSON. Chairman Dayton Citizens' Relief Committee. ATTEMPT AT FLIGHT OVER OCEAN HALTED Big Balloon At Las Palmas Was Deflated on Eve of Attempted Flight. (National News Association) LAS PALMAS, Canary Islands, April 17. A mysterious mishap to the dirigible balloon Richard II has caused a temporary postponement of the start of Joseph Bruecker and his two companions on their long flight across the Atlantic ocean. When Breucker reached the aero drome today he found that the gigantic gas bag had become deflated during the night Investigation showed the main valve had been opened. Bruecker's departure had been fixed for 4 o'clock this afternoon and enormous crowds had gathered to see the final preparations and were chargrined at the accident and some of them shouted criticisms at the aeronaut. Bruecker was heatbroken at the accident. He declared that it would be impossible to say when he would be able to cross. Thirteen fresh cylinders of compressed oxygen are being rushed from Germany but by the time tbey arrive the weather may have become stormy. MBS, D1ETZ WATCHED May Be Arrested in Connection With Husband's Death. (National Nws Association) CHICAGO, April 17. Mrs. George Deitz, whose husband, a wealthy tailor, was murdered In his sleep by a blow from a hammer, was under constant surveillance of city detectives today. The police refused to say whether she would be arrested although it was hinted that a charge would be made against her. George Nurnberg who was seen in Mrs. Dietz's company several times was being held although no formal charge had been placed against him. When Robert E. Crowe, former assistant states attorney appeared at police headquarters and announced that he had been retained by Mrs. Ditz. Lieut. Benson asked him if Mrs. Dietz was expecting to be arrested and whether Crowe would defend her is she was charged with murder. Crowe refused to answer the questions. A BALKAN ROMANCE . ENDED AT CHICAGO (National News Association) CHICAGO. April 18. -Dr. Frank J. Peter, of Omaha, and his bride who was Miss Anna A. Lassie, of Prague, Bohemia, left on a wedding Journey today. The couple met in Bulgaria where Dt. Petr was a hospital surgeon and Miss Laseig was a Red Cross nurse, administering to wounded soldiers during the Balkan waxj

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HOTEL BURNS IRE KILLED TWELVE HURT Although Only Nine Bodies in Malone, N. Y., Conflagration Found Others May Be Under Debris. FIRE OCCURRED AT EARLY HOUR TODAY Blaze Started From An Explosion of Unknown Origin and Flames Spread With Great Rapidity. (National Nw Association) MALONE, . Y, April 17. Nine persons were killed a dozen more injured and several are still missing as the result of fire which destroyed the Hotel De Wilson early today. The dead are: JOHN MOSS. Albany. GEORGE TIMMOXS Tiercefield. New York. ANTONIO NICOUNI. New York City. PHILIP CONNORS, Malone. ALBERT ROBIDEAU, Saloon Keeper, Malone. FRED TROUCHON. Bartender. Ma lone. Three unidentified bodies. Among the missing is M. W. Cooney, . retired horseman. Before the firemen had the flames under control the walls collapsed and it is feared several persons are dead in the ruins. The fire started from an explosion of unknown origin and spread with incredible swiftness. Between forty and fifty guests were asleep in the hotel. The hotel register was destroyed. The hotel was a three-story frame building and within 15 minutes after the explosion was a seething mass of flames. Guests rushed to the stairways and many succeeded in reaching the street. Others were overcome by smoke and flames. Those who, awakened later rushed to the windows of their rooms and as the flames swept their hot breath upon them they jumped to the pavement before the firemen arrived. Nicolinl reached the street In safety, but rushed back into the building to rescue his valuable harp. He was trapped and burned to death. The property loss, it is believed, will not exceed 150,000. VERBAL ARMISTICE TO BJIfVllJriMS. Fighting Between Turks and Bulgarians Has Been Halted Temporarily. National News Association) SOFIA. April 17. A verbal armistice has been arranged between the Bulgarian and Turkish generals along the Chatalja lines to enable both sides to bury their dead. This information was received here today from the Bulgarian frontier. The rivalry between the Bulgars and the Servians as to which gets the honor of carrying the last works at Adrianople has been settled by Shukari Pacha, the Turkish commander of Adrianople who is a prisoner here. He declared tie Bulgarians were the first to enter the inner lines. . It Is stated on the highest authority that Greece has provisionally accepted all the mediator offers of the powers and is advising other (countries in the Balkan league to do likewise. LAW IS JLBIG HELP New Act Will Greatly Assist Societies. The "Housing" law enacted by the recent legislature will be a great help to societies of this state which are active in the prevention of the spread of tuberculosis. The members of the Wayne ' County Anti-Tuberculosis society Indorsed the law and their work here may be benefited by it. The law provides that an official in the employe of the city shall condemn certain houses unless their sanitary condition is improved. If the law is enforced health conditions will be inproved. 5,000 SWITCHMEN PLANNING STRIKE (Katlonal Xwi Association) CHICAGO, April 17. Five thousand switchmen may strike tonight on the nineteen railroads entering Chicago. Failure of the attempt of United States Labor Commissioner Charles P. NU1 and Deputy CoznmJssoaer G. W. Hangar to brine about a settlement, was admitted by Representatives of the Switchmen's Union. The trainmes will meet this afternoon and. it was Jjredict4 fttl. would be declared.