Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 138, 21 April 1913 — Page 2
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REVISED CONTRACT PRESENTED TODAY Police Telephone System to Be Installed Within a Short Time.
At the meeting of the- board of works this morning, a revised contract for the police telephone system was presented by William Bailey, manager of the Richmond Home Telephone company. The system Includes standard telephone stations such as are used In larger cities. The system will be on six circuits, all controlled at the desk of the sergeant at police headquarters. The entire cost will be about 9400 annually to the department. The contract will be signed at the next meeting of the board. The system will be in working order within sixty days after the signing of the contract, Mr. Bailey said. Arrangements have been made by Nlmrod Johnson, superintendent of the city light plant with Mr. Bailey for placing tve concrete poles at the light plant to carry the wires over the building and across the river. The poles will be made by the telephone company and will be furnished to the light plant at cost price. All poles except concrete poles were washed from the river bottom during the flood.
NEWS NUGGETS
T
TO HAVEL0VE JURY A New Experiment . Under
taken By a Cleveland Church.
(National Newa Association) CLEVELAND. April 21. Cleveland
has "a church that has established a love jury. The departure was inaugurated at the fashionable boulevard Pres
byterian church where Rev. Dr. R. J. McAIpine is pastor. He proposes to continue it through the summer. The idea, given Its first tryout last night, is to permit young women and young men to send their heart problems to the pastor who will present them to the congregation and designate twelve members to serve as jur
ors upon the question, the verdict being sent by the minister to the lovelorn lass or laddie. The test last night came in the case of a young woman troubled because in love with a man several years her Junior. Her query was "Shall I marry him?" The pastor selected six men and six women for the Jury, all married. They voted In favor of the love match, 10 to 2. Five women and five men voted aye, and one woman and a man voted no. In oharging the jury, McAIpine said: "Answer yes or no. Remember you are helping a woman to make a life decision. Pray as - you consider the question." McAIpine has been preaching sermons designed to help solve problems of domestic life and his love jury he
expects will further aid this plan.
BARS SICK PERSONS FROM THE SERVICE New Rule Makes Examination of Dining Car Employes Necessary. The Pennsylvania railroad has established a rule which ' shall debar from employment in its dining car and
MEET ATWASRIIIGTOII Midbiennial Council Opens Session Tonight.
WASHINGTON, April 21. The work, play and all other activities of women's clubs of the United States will be discussed by the five hundred women who constitute the Midbiennial council of the General Federation of Women Clubs when that body
restaurant department any person opens its session at the New NaUonal
with even a tendency toward a communicable disease. There is to be a quarterly physical examination of every employe who has anything whatsoever to do with the
WAYNE COUNTY IS TO MAINTAIN ROAD (Palladium Special) FOUNTAIN CITY. Ind April 21. The Wayne county commissioners have recenUy taken over the Fountain City and Williamsburg pike and hereafter it will be maintained as a county free gravel turnpike. This road is much travelled and forms a convenient circuit out of Richmond. The road will be improved and main-
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The sessions
SETTLEMENT MADE
Money has been demanded of the county treasurer by the state department for the cost of clothing and one-
half of the coat of maintenance oft
ROUTINE OF THE i BOARD OF WORKS !
Petition for vacation of alley -east
Wayne county residents now in East-! , , . hnl board in.
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Revised
haven or penal Institutions of the!
state. The amount asked for settlement was $977.79. The settlement was made.
Nothing of worth or weight can be achieved with half a mind, with a faint heart and with a lame endeavor. Isaac Barrow.
petition for Improvements
of streets in Reeveston place approved, original petition rescinded. Improvements to be at expense of property owners.
New York's J 25.000.000 aqueduct is more than half completed.
Museum here tonight
continue tomorrow. The meeting is the first the Federation ever held in Washington and is
preparation or serving of food. Dish-1 raciea 10 mis cuy Dy reason oi me ,
washers, kitchen helpers, cooks and waiters, both white and colored, must undergo a rigid examination every three months, and only a 100 per cent, report on their physlcial condition will
permit their remaining in the service.
ATLANTIC CITY, April 21. A 4 pound dog valued at $250 a pound, ' which was killed when it fell down an elevator shaft was placed In a silver trimmed rosewood coffin, covered with a silken shroud and burled beneath a tree on the property of Mahlon W. Newton here.
NEW YORK, April 21. Love for baseball was responsible for the capture of Charles Stlckel, aged 17, who escaped from jail in Stapleton, Staten Island, more than a year ago. The boy had visited Chicago and San Francisco and recently returned here. When the Stapleton baseball team opened Its season he could not resist the temptation to attend.
BOSTON, Mass., April 21. A man with a toothache is fit for any crime, said Sheriff John Qulnn of Suffold county. As a deterrent to future crime ' the sheriff has set up a denial chair in the Charles street Jail and a dentist has been employed to treat all sufferers.
CHICAGO, April 21. A young man with a large scar on his forehead is wanted by the Chicago police for swindling at least a dozen prominent lawyers by accepting loans on the prospect of collecting large damages from a city traction.
EUREKA, Kas.. April 21. Mrs. Charles Preston Is dead here as the result of being kicked in the abdomen by a cow she was milking.
TRENTON, N. J., April 21. A crusade against vandyke beards has been started by the master barbers' association and 25c an increase of 10c will be charged here for trimming Vandykes. The barbers say it 1b difficult and that many who wear them are "cranks" besides.
JOHN A. BROWN IS
GIVEN A DIVORCE
John A. Brown was granted a decree from Augusta E. Brown by Judge Fox this morning. Brown asked for a divorce on the grounds of desertion. He was married in Pittsburg and shortly after his marriage was arrested on a charge filed by his wife for mistreatment. The case against him was dismissed. He told the court he never saw his wife after that time which was Jan. 4, 1908. She was addicted to the use of alcoholic liquor he said. The plaintiff further alleged that he had offered to take his wife back to his home but was unable to locate her.
While those suffering from tubercu
losis, diseases of the eye or skin, and any other communicable disease, may not be employed In any capacity where they might come in contact with food, the further precaution is taken in debarring them from employment In
places where linens and table-ware are.
If a Pennsylvania railroad dining
car or restaurant employe becomes disabled through any cause, he shall not be permitted to return to work
until he receives a "Certificate
Ability" from one of the company's doctors.
In order to surround the service
with every possible precaution, there
are provided at "lay-over points" for dining car stewards, waiters and cooks, special lodgings with clean linens, clean beds and every sanitary protection. These lodgings are in
spected personally by the superintend
ent of dining cars and restaurants, by
service inspectors and by medical
examiners of the company.
ART NOTES
GALLERY OPEN. The guests at the Art Exhibit yes
terday enjoyed the exhibit now hang
ing in the galleries. The Richmond ar
tists are delighted with the favorable comment which has been heard on all
sides. The gallery will open every
afternoon and Wednesday evening.
BEAUTIFUL PICTURE.
Girardin's "Hues of Winter," and Nordyke's "The Old Homestead," are striking examples of the Individuality
of these two . artists' conception of
winter landscape.
TRENTON. N. J., April 21. Speial Master in Chancery Edward W. Duffitld has advised in favor of a decree of divorce for J. Barca, whose wife refuses to return from Germany to live with him.
; .. MANY LANDSCAPES. There Is probably not another col
lection of pictures today In any art gallery in America where so many canvasses are on display showing "winter" In her varying moods as now displayed in the collection at the high
school galleries.
SAYS BRIDGE IS IN
MANY PICTURES.
Never before have the people of
Richmond had the opportunity to see
so many of Mr. Bundy's canvasses in one collection. Every one represents Mr.'Bundy at his best and all show his wonderful skill in interpreting nature's changing moods. Here is seen "Last Day of Winter" (Mary T. R. Foulke prize 1911), "Adieu to Autumn," and
I "Path of Light," each showing most
forcefully Mr. Bundy's poetic expres
sion tf these ideals.
UNSAFE
CONDITION
Report Made to Auditor on Cambridge City Structure.
Frank C. Mosbaugh reported to the county auditor that the engineer should be advised to examine the East Main street bridge of Cambridge City. It is believed by the citizens of Cambridge that the bridge was weakened by the high waters and is unsafe. The commissioners examined the bridge several days ago though it was not condemned. Another examination will be made.
A diver in the employ of the P., C.,1
C. & St. L. railroad was sent to Cam bridge City to examine the foundation of the railroad bridge located there. The apparatus which supplied, air to the diver as well as the paraphernalia worn by him was a source of great interest to the crowd which saw him. It was the first time a diver has ever been seen in action near Cambridge City.
CHARGES MADE TODAY
Against President of New Haven Road.
MISS NEWMAN'S ART. Among the several professional ar
tists or exceptional talent, who are Richmond products, Miss Newman
ranks high in the opinion of critics. Her work has been most favorably re
ognized by ' having been awarded
prizes and honorable mention in col
lections of high class. Miss Newman's ability is equally evident In both oil
and water color and in figure and land
scape subjects. Her portrait of Mr.
Bundy in oil and landscape "Brook
ville," the latter now In the collection, are striking examples of her ability
and thorough training. A conscientl
ous attention to true art values Is manifest in all the productions of Miss
Newman's brush.
DONT GIVE UP. People are apt to "give up a great deal too easily. After all, if you fail b one thing you soil have
life and health for something eke.
Never sit down under misfortune. Go to work at something at once. Above all, keep up your spirits, determine to succeed and work hard, and you will be up in the world again.
YOUTH IS SENTENCED
increased activity of clubwomen here j
during the last year. Beginning only two days after the adjournment of the
Daughters of the American Revolution j
Congress which for the past week has brought the interests of club women all over the nation to a focus on the city, the Federation hopes to achieve large results. Mrs. William E. Andrews, president of the District of Columbia branch of the organization, will deliver the address of welcome at the session tonight and Mrs. Percy V. Pennypacker, of Texas, president of the Federation will respond. Mrs. Thomax R. Marshall, wife of the vice-president, is also expected to speak. Although she Is not scheduled to address any of the meet-
Qf : mgs, Mrs. Wilson, the president s wire
will attend them. The real business of the council is to supervise the work of the Federation for the coming year. This task will be begun tomorrow morning. Enterprises to be undertaken by the Federation during the next two years will be considered and discussed and decided upon. After the business ofa the day has been completed tomorrow, the delegates will go to the White House where they will be received by Mrs. Wilson, and will later go to a reception by the Chamber of, Commerce of Washington. The following day Mount Vernon, Washington's home, and Arlington, the home of General Lee, will be visited.
To Ohio Penitentiary on a Murder Charge.
(National News Association) VAN WERT, O., April 21. Ralph
Hoover, 18, was today sentenced to life imprisonment' in the Ohio peniten
tiary after a motion for a new trial
had been denied. Hoover was convict-
ed of second degree murder for kill-
ing his young wife in January. A stay of execution pending an appeal to a higher court also was denied.
A POPULAR VERDICT
Based on
Evidence People.
of Richmond
A WHEELING WOMAN
SUICIDES IN HOTEL
(National News Association) CHICAGO, April 21. - Kennedy F.
Krew, of Wheeling, W. Va., arrived today to take the bodies of his sis
ter, Mrs. R. C. Davidson, and her son to Wheeling for burial. Mrs. David
son committed suicide in a hotel room here, holding her little boy in her arms until he was killed by gas fumes. Mrs. Davidson formerly was the wife of a young professor of a Pittsburgh
polytechnical school. Her parents were
wealthy. She was on her way to Seattle, Wash., to visit relatives when she ended her life.
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(National News Association) BOSTON, April 21. Charges that President Mellen of the New Haven railroad had realized personal profit by sales to himself of New Haven stock were made before Commissioner Prouty of the Interstate Commerce commission at a hearing here today. Examiner of Accounts Trown. of the commission testified that in a single transaction President Mellen received $102,000 profit and that records show no accounting from him for this profit.
WHAT MEN WILL WEAB THIS SPRING
Men's spring suits are in beautiful Scotches, tweeds and casimeres, London grays, Oxford blues and browns. All this wealth of new weaves and colorings are combined with the staple blues and grays in serges and tweeds, but decidedly pretty are certain English effects In which a distinctive pattern Is prpduced by two tones of the same color blending into the design. Over 00 styles in these new woolens at Emmons' Tailoring Company. Fine suits $15. $18, $24, and up. Corner Ninth and Mam. (AvertUMXBaO
45 South Fifth Street
Richmond, Indiana
GEO. BREHM & CO. Cheaper to See Us First 517 Main St. Phone 1747
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ISairgsuiiHis "to ESdiips Offerings of last week that have been closed out are replaced with even greater values. The entire store, both floors, is running over with bargain attractions. Visit us this week 'twill pay you.
SPECIAL SILK VALUES
$1.00 32-inch Tub Silks, heavy, striped, washable, fast colors, guaranteed all silk
fancy 85c
40-inch Silk Crepes, fancy silk striped and brocaded Marquisettes, beautiful line of colorings, $1.00 values, tCks
Uit
per yard
One lot of Fancy Brocaded and Striped Messalines and All Silk Foulards, selling
for 65c and 75c, Special price per yard
, 0 49c
66-inch Mercerized Table Damask OQ 50c values, per yard . . . OtC
10 pieces Bleached and Brown Crash, good values at 10c and 12Vc, per 7
IV,
yard, only
1214 c Heavy All Linen Crash, and Unbleached, very special, per yard
Bleached 9c
Spring patterns Cotton Challies, per yard . .
3k
22x40 inch Turkish Towels and Linen Huck
Towels, 20 and 25c values, a big bargain, only
15c
CORSET COVER SENSATION Six styles Ladies' 50c Fine Lace and Erabroidery trimmed Nainsook Corset O PT f Covers now selling at sdfJv
EXTRA SPECIAL NEW EMBROIDERED LINENS Heavily Embroidered $1.00 Hemstitched Linen Doilies, Scarfs and Squares, ?A scalloped edges, choice .......... OU C
30-in. Hemstitched Stamped Linen Squares
and Doilies, and 50-inch Scarfs, 50c values, now
29c
Lace Trimmed and Hemstitched Linen
Doilies and Table Covers, 50c values, to go at
25c
WE ARE SHOWING A MOST COMPLETE LINE OF BEAUTIFUL NEW SPRING HATS FOR CHILDREN Special Values, Priced at 29c, 59c, $1.00 and op to $2.50
For the Men Folks Men's New Spring Shirts, new patterns, new goods. We sell the best $1.00 Shirts on the market. This week you can 1JQ n buy all sizes, $1 and $1.25 values. I nJ C
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