Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 137, 19 April 1913 — Page 1

PA ABIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM VOL. XXXVIII. NO. 137 Richmond, ind., Saturday evening, april 19, 1913 SINGLE COPY 2 CENTS New Collector at Port of New York BOND OFFERS SUGGESTIONS ON PROBLEM CHANGE COMES OVER J. HAMILTON LEWIS A COME-BACK LET OFF BY RUMELY CO NOT TREMBLE AT WAR TALK 4' ", W3

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Vice President Says in Indiana He Was Called NonProgressive, in the East Is Called Anarchist.

HE PLEADS TO END UNJUST PRIVILEGE Saye He Has Not Been Re fleeting His Own Opinions! But the Views Held By thej American Masses. (National News Association) WASHINGTON, April 19. "In Indiana I was charged with not being progressive enough, while now I am nominated as an anarchist," was the comment of Vice President Marshall today in further explaining his views of concentrated wealth, expressed In his New York speech recently, which has aroused a storm of discussion. e "I myself have not made any charges against the rich men of America. I have merely voiced what I thought to be public opinion. I do not desire to limit the accumulation of wealth. I desire onjy to call attention to those charged with wrong doing and to give them an opportunity to disprove it," the vice president stated today. "I cannot give my personal assent to a system of government which is either paternalistic or socialistic in Its character, and I have felt that if those who have obtained special privileges through legislative enactments really could understand the feelings of the American people they would in a Bpirit of loyalty to our institutions eee that special privilege be safely done away with and that the old fashioned Jeffersonian theory of equal and exact justice to all men become the economic policy of the United States. Wipe out special privilege and the strained relations between the' enormously rich and the great masses of people will disappear." 1A MONSTER PAINTING IS SOLD FOR JUNK (National News Association) CHICAGO, April 19. -The monster painting of the Chicago fire which cost $150,000 today lav in trie shop of a Junk dealer, who paid $2 for the masterpiece. The Cyclorama of the big fire was viewed by thousands of visitors to the World's Fair in Chicago. For several years it had lain in a wastebox in a vacant lot near the home of II. H. Cross who paid for the painting. Eight artists spent nearly a year painting the gigantic picture. The canvas weighed eight tons. It was 47 feet high and 378 feet long. An effort was being made today to tedeem the picture and preserve it. TONG WARJS . FATAL Columbus Chinaman Is Killed and Another is Dying. (National News Association) COLUMBUS, O., April 19. F. W. Lang, aged 25, a Chinese Interpreter from Baltimore, was shot to death and Woo Gew, a laundryman, chopped with a hatchet as a result of a tong war early today. The latter is in a hospital where it was announced that he had little chance of recovery. Since Lang's arrival in Columbus it had been whispered in Chinese circles that he had violated a rule of his tong and Mas a marked man. Yee Jack, a former Chinese merchant is under arrest and is being held pending an investigation. He Is believed to know something concerning the affair and the police are seeking the hatchet man who carried out the orders of his tong. FIVE AREJjONVICTED Of Using the United States Mails to Attempt Fraud. (National News Association) PHILADELPHIA, April 19. Five promoters and former officers of the International Lumber and Development company were today found guilty of using the mails In an attempt to defraud. Those convicted were: John R. Markley of Chicago, chief promoter of the company; I. V. Miller, his partner; C. M. McMahon, former secretary and treasurer; William Armstrong, Jr former general manager, and Col. Alfred Stewart, a director and commissioner. Ball was entered by the convicted men In the sum of $15,000 each pending an appeal. THE WEATHER STATE AND LOCAL Fair tonight and Sunday. Colder in north portion. Frost tonight.

Frank L. Polk, who has been appointed by President Wilson to succeed Wm. B. Loeb as Collector at the Port of New York. Mr. Polk was formerly chairman of the New York Civil Service Commission. He was the personal choice of Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo for the Collectorship.

JUDGE EUJOTT DEAD Former Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana. (National News Association) INDIANAPOLIS, April 19 Former Judge Byron K. Elliott, aged 77, died early today from a stroke of apoplexy. He had been a victim of partial paralysis for nine years. Judge Elliott sat on the state supreme bench continuously from 1888 until 1900. He was a thirty-third degree Mason, the author of several books of great value to the legal profession and was born at Hamilton, O. RELEASED TOMORROW Kidwell Has Served Months in Jail. Five "Jim" Kidwell. an inmate of the county jail for the last five months will be given his freedom tomorrow. Kidwell is an old man and being in destitute circumstances stole automobile tires from the McKee Auto Service company last October. He was sentenced to the county jail by Judge Fox who extended leniency towards him' because of his age. There are at present fourteen Inmates of the county jail of which number three will be . dismissed tomorrow, having completed their term. The number of jail inmates at this time is unusually small as compared with the cold weather of December when an average of from eighteen to twenty-live prisoners were conined there. CO-EDS WANT THEIR FRISKY TANGO DANCE (National News Association) CHICAGO, April 19. Strenuous opposition to the plan of the Evanston Woman's club to forbid the Tango and like dances at student affairs developed today among the co-eds of Northwestern University. Miss Irene Blanchard, dean of Willard Hall, today requested all the girls of the school to abandon the "rag dance numbers in sorority and other social events, and to be prepared to cast a referendum vote on the question at a mass meeting on Monday. W. A. WOODARD HURT Fell From Lumber Pile Breaking Two Ribs. (Palladium Special) CAMBRIDGE CITY, Ind., April 19. W. A. Woodard met with a painful accident Friday morning when in handling lumber at Dublin, he fell from a pile fifteen feet high, breaking two ribs, and spraining his ankle and wrist.

DESIRE EMPLOYMENT Bureau of Garfield School Sends Out Blanks.

Blanks have been issued by the employment of Garfield school to the patrons and friends of the faculty and students requesting employment during the summer months for boys and girls. This plan was promoted because of many students desiring employment after the closing of school. The employment bureau was established last year and met with success In many particulars. BEGIN LITIGATION FOR VAST ESTATE (National News Association) SAN BERNARDINO, Cal., April 19. Plans were made today by heirs of Henry Garner, who died many years ago in St. Louis, to begin litigation in an effort to obtain a share of hisestate which was appraised by the St. Louis courts in 1900 at $76,000,000. T. F.. Garner, a cattleman of Dodge City, Kas., arrived here today to interest in the proposed litigation San (Bernardino relatives of the St. Louis Pioneer. Garner explained that a 99-year lease on the estate had recently expired and that about fifty relatives were interested in a property division. SCREAMS Of WOMAN FRIGHTENEDBURGLARS Two Men Entered House But Beat a Hasty Retreat Nothing Missing. Mrs. Tucker's boarding house, 27 South Tenth street, was entered last night by two unknown men. Mrs. Tucker, whose room is near the top of the stairs, was awakened in the night by a noise in a room below. Suspecting that something was wrong, she arose and went to the head of the stairway. She heard footsteps below and later saw two lantern lights. Her screams for help were heard by a roomer and the would-be burglars made their get-away. Nothing was found missing. The window was open and partially up. Mud prints were found on the window sill and walk this morning. It Is thought by the police that this was the work of amateurs. ECONOMY STUDENTS GRADUATE ON MAY 7 . (Palladium Special) ECONOMY, Ind., April 19. High School commencement will be May 7. Rev. Thos. Kuhn will deliver the address. The baccalaureate sermon will be on Sunday, May 4th at 10:30 a. m. in the Methodist church. Rev. Virgil P. Brock, of Earlham, officiating.

Amendment Passed By Last Legislature Gives City the Power to Sprinkle Streets on Assessment Plan.

DECLARES DUST IS MENACE TO HEALTH Board of Works May Pass Resolutions Engineer Charles Says Sprinkling Damages Streets. Through an amendment made dur-1 ing the last session of the state legislature, it is possible, according to City Attorney Bond, for the board of works to order all streets in the city, sprinkled at such intervals during the summer as may be necessary to allay the dust, the cost of the sprinkling to be assessed to the property owners ! and the assessments for the work due November 1. State laws passed in 1905 made possible this plan only for paved streets but recent amendments makes the law apply to all streets. According to the law of 1905 regarding the sprinkling, oiling and cleaning or sweeping of streets permanently improved, the board of works has power to order this done at the cost of property owners. The ordering of sprinkling or oiling of streets by this law is done in the same manner in which a street improve is done. The necessary specifications for the work roust, be pre-' pared and filed and the resolution ordering the work done must be published. Remonstrances can be filed against the work and the original resolution may be modified, confirmed or rescinded. The bids for the work are received in the usual manner and the contract let to the most favorable bidder. "Another method of paying for the work is provided in the law. The common council may appropriate by ordinance, any amount necessary for the work for one ear. The money would constitute a special fund which would be drawn from the taxes. Menace to Health. By taking advantage of the present law as it has been amended, the board of. works may pass a resolution, ordering any streets or all streets, taken by sections or by system, sprinkled for certain months during which .the dust is so. heavy that .it is a . menace to public health. Whether or not a majority ' of the property owners may cause a resolution to be rescinded through a remonstrance 1b not, as yet, known, but it is believed by City Attorney Bond that this could not be done as the question of the allaying of dust is regarded as a matter of public health and therefore could be ordered by the board of works. As an entire copy of the law as it has been amended, has not been obtained up to the present, it is impossible to decide this matter now. Methods of Sprinkling. Mr. Bond believes that the city streets may be divided in sections for the purpose of letting the contracts, as it would not be possible to let the contract for sprinkling all of the streets of the city by one bid. No definite plan for the method of letting the contracts has been decided. Another plan suggested is the letting of the contract for one street at a time. The question of providing for means of allaying the dust has been interesting city officials for several weeks as the warm weather has made it neces sary to sprinkle the paved streets. It is the opinion of health author! - ties and city officials that the flying dust is a menace to health. Oiling the streets in the past has proved unsatisfactory and another method has been sought, but until the law was amended by the legislature, nothing else! could be done. According to Fred Charles, city engineer, the streets are damaged by being sprinkled with water. He says that the water washes ruts in the Btreets and where puddles are formed the streets remain muddy and are then torn up by automobiles and other vehicles. In his opinion if some good oil or other preparation could be found it should be applied to the streets rather than sprinkling with water. Not Properly Oiled. "A large part of the criticism of oiled streets in Richmond has been due to the fact that the streets have not been properly cleaned before the oil was applied or it is because the streets were not constructed right in the first place." "There is no complete solution for the dust question that we know of at the present time but I believe that some oil preparation properly applied will come nearer solving the question than any other process" Mr. Charles said. On the new macadam road which was constructed west of the city part of it was biled with. Tarvia and worked into the construction but this was not a complete success. Mr. Charles is making an investigation of experiments that have been made in other cities in road construction and how other cities, have handled the dust question. He will make a report to the board of public works at its next meeting.

Wholesale Reduction of Working Force Followed Receipt of Orders From Company's Main Offices.

RICHMOND FACTORY NOW OVERSTOCKED Local Officials Do Not Know Whether Existing Conditions At the Factory Are Temporary or Permanent. Two hundred and fifty men, half of l the number employed at the Richmond factory of the M. Rumely company, were discharged today, although of this number 150 were offered positions with the company either at Its Laporte or Battle Creek plants. This wholesale reduction in the working force followed the receipt of orders from the main offices of the company at Laporte and was entirely unexpected and the big factory was a very gloomy place this forenoon. Many of the men discharged have worked at the plant from ten to twenty and thirty years and the blow fell upon them partlcu-1 larly hard. The reason assigned for the reduc- j tion in the working force was the fact : that the factory was overstocked and that the company did not intend to increase its stock until the condition ' of crops in various sections of the country and the demand for machinery were better known. It is not known whether existing conditions at the factory are only temporary or permanent. Eight of the men let off this morning were employed in the office and, it is understood, only five men will now compose the office force. Finance Board Controls. Recently a partial reorganization of the Rumely company was affected and the finances placed in the control of a finance board, the majority members , representing . banking houses which financed the gigantic Rumely merger. This was followed by the Clark, Childs & company of New York, members of the stock exchange, filing compaint with the governors of the exchange against William Solomon & company, one of the banking concerns which financed the Rumely merger. The complaint was based on the headlong tumble in the price of Rumely & company stocks. Stock Has Dropped. Since last November Rumely preferred has dropped from near par to 70 and common has dropped from 95 to 32. It is estimated that $1,000,009 of both common and preferred Rumely stock is now held in Richmond. Campbell's Statement. Supt. Wm. Campbell gave out the following statement today: "The men were laid off because we have been building too fast. During the first of the season we worked more men than was really necessary and have over stocked our plant The streets about the plant and stock rooms of the com pany are full of machines. There were not more than 250 men laid off, ot which number eight were office men. The departments of gasoline engines and clover hullers will be transferred to La Porte next week. The two departments employ approximately 150 men. They have been given instructions to either go to La Porte or Bat-; tie Creek if they desire to remain in the employ of the company. Only one man of the gasoline engine department stated that he would leave 1 Richmond. Most of them wish to remain and it is probable they will obtain employment in this city. At La Porte, where the main factories of the company are located, a similar condition exists. Men are being laid off there because of the large output which was made during the first of the season. Since last October the plan i has been working full force. A representative from Dayton shops was in the city last week in an attempt to hire some of the shop men of the Gaar, Scott plant. None of the men would leave the factory, believing they were sure of steady work. An offer of steady work at 45 cents per hour was made to them. TEN CENT DINNERS FOR GIRLS POPULAR (National News Association) CHICAGO. April 19. Officers of an organization of young women known as the Benthany Girls, today announced that a profit had been made on the ten cent dinners served last night to girl employes of downtown stores. The girls who ate the dinner said the food was good and there as plenty of it "Mother Carrie Stewart Besserer, of the organization announced today that the ten-cent dinners may be made a permanent thing for shop girls in the loop district. ASKS DIVORCE A divorce suit was filed today by Nettie Robbins against William I. Bobbins. The suit was filed by Judge Abbott, and will be beard during this term of court. Robbins is an emp.'e of the Starr Pinano Co.

Act 1 i f r senator j. Hamilton lewis. . "When I first came to Washington as a member of the house of represent tatlves, said J. Hamilton Lewis, recently elected senator from Illinois, "I thought I new everything. I come to the senate now realizing that I know nothing." WILL PROCEED WITH PLANS 1 FESTIVAL Committee At Meeting This Noon Makes Report on Canvass. At a meeting of the advertising committee of the Commercial club which was held at noon today at the Y. M. C. A. it was unanimously decided to proceed with the organization and plans for the 1913 Fall Festival. This decision was made by the committee after a careful canvass of the merchants to ascertain how they stood cn the question of a festival for this year and whether or not they would be willing -to,' contribute their share toward the expense of the work. The canvass showed that more than 95 per cent of the merchants are willing to co-operate and pay" their share of the cost for a festival this year. ; A num ber of the merchants who gave a negative reply qualified their answer by saying that if the majority wanted a festival they would do their share. The report of the committee shows that on Ft. Wayne avenue and North E street where the merchants only receive a small direct return from the events, there was not a dissenting voice. A number of suggesUons on the organization and plans for the festival have been m?.de to the committee during the canvass some of which will probably be adopted by the committee. The committee in charge will be urged to make its plans so that there will not be a deficit this year. The committee will meet one day next week to complete the organization. CAUCUS WORKS FAST And Will Finish With Tariff Bill Late Today. (National News Association) WASHINGTON. April 19. When the bouse Democratic caucus resumed work today it was with the expectation that consideration of the tariff bill, including the Income tax. . would be completed late today. The ways and means committee will report the bill to the house next week, when actual debate will be begun In open session. The committee had a number of minor amendments prepared as to changes in the phraseology of the income tax bill but. none of these altered the practical operation of the tax as framed by Rep. Hall of Tennessee. No signs-of a contest over the administrative features of the tariff bill appear.

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President Calmly Ignores Agitation of Jingoes At Home and Abroad But Is Acting Vigorously.

SENDS APPEAL TO GOVERNOR JOHNSON Urges California Executive to Use His Influence to Prevent Passage of Unjust Land Bills. (National Nwi Association) WASHINGTON. pril 19. Agitation either at home or abroad will not move President Wilson into admission that there exists any reason for a war scare in the Japanese situation. The president emphasised this today when he declined to meet a delegation of Californians who favor anti-alien land legislation. Through Secretary of State Bryan, the president today requested Governor Johnson of California to use all his Influence to prevent the passage of any anti-alien land law without due deliberation and consideration of the consequences. The text of the message to Johnson was not divulged, but it Is known that it was an emphatic appeal to prevent any hair-trigger acUon on the part of the California legislature, not because the United States fears a war but to prevent any possible diplomatic complications. WAR TALK IN JAPAN. TOKYO. Japan. April 19. The low. er classes of Japan are aflame with war talk. The sitnaUon brought about by the alien land bill in California Is becoming increasingly serious. At a great mass meeting of protest here there was a hysterical anti-American outburst. Deputy Matsumure urged the dispatch of a Japanese fleet to California as a first step toward tabHshing -Japan on an absolutely equal footing In the United States. l M. Milake, an editor of the Japan Times, depreciated the constant visits of the "peace apostles when their own country is in need of the principles of justice and humanity.' Other fiery orators Insinuated that the question between Japan and America had better be settled now once for all. Firebrands Inflame Public Twenty thousand persons listened to the remarks of the firebrands who apparently are engineering a campaign to mold public opinion to Japan. Irresponsible people demanded the most extreme measures of retaliation by Japan. During the gathering the singing of war songs aroused the feeling of many of the lower classes who were present. Anonymous writers in the newspapers give an outline of plans for the seizure of the Philippines and Hawaii, and at the same time denounce the Japanese Government's submissive attitude. It is said that the changed conditions In Japan make it impossible for the Government to restrain the newspapers and the lower classes. On the other hand. Government circles are showing a friendly spiriL Hamilton Wright Mabie. of New York; j Dr. Peabody and John L. Mott, SecreJtary of the International Committee of the Young Men's Christian Association, were the guests at a luncheon by Baron Noboakl Makino. Foreign Minister, at which some of the most prominent Japanese and Americans were present A cordial feeling prevailed. CHICAGO SECURES A VICE CRUSADER (National News Association) CHICAGO. April 19. Samuel P. Thrasher, of Hartford. Conn., was expected to arrive in Chicago tomorrow to begin work for the city's committee of fifteen, investigating the white slave traffic and kindred traffic. Mr. Thrasher, who was head of the Law and Order League of Connecticut for fifteen years, has a wide reputation as an exposer of vice conditions. SAYS HE HAS "SPELLS Veteran Is Sent to Soldiers Home. Edward S. Shea, an inmate of the Marion Soldiers' Home, who was arrested yesterday for public intoxication claims that lie was struck bj lightning while serving in Cuba In the Spanish-American war. causing him to be mentally deranged at times and that be bad one of the "spells" when arrested for intoxication. He was fa a very nervous condition in police court this morning and was ordered sent back to the soldiers' home by Major Zimmerman. - Hiram S. Blake of Greenfield, Indiana, was lined $1 and costs In police court this morning for public lntoxlcsv- ' tion. Blake claims to be representing a nursery firm at Greenfield.