Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 167, 22 May 1913 — Page 1

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Those in Charge Have No oubt But That $7,000 Will V3e Raised For 1913 Fall Festival. SUPPLIES ARE SENT TO WORKERS TODAY Finance Committee Emphasizing Fact Event Will Not Be Held If Amount Set Is Not Contributed. Members of the finance committee of the 1913 Fall Festival are optlmistlc as to the results of the whirlwind campaign tomorrow morning to raise money with which to hold the big event this year. That $7,000, the amount believed to be necessary to carry on the proper kind of a festival, will be raised is the statement of every member of the committee. In the event that this amount is not contributed the festival will not be held. "It will not be a difficult matter to raise $7,000 for the festival this year," declared a member of the committee today. "More than $4,000 was contributed for the holding of- the G. A. R. encampment in this city two years ago and I believe that we can raise $7,000 tomorrow morning. "We must have this amount, because It requires money to bring the right kind of attractions to the city and we jmust have the right kind of attractions ito bring the people. Those in charge of the matter of soliciting are emphasizing the fact that tall attractions will be held in the city and that none will be held in the suburbs, as was done three years ago. Today , supplies were sent to each Committee, with .instructions as to what the sub-committeemen are to do end the list of merchants and others upon whom they are to solicit funds lor the festival. ;; It Is expected that those business nen who will be directly benefited by the festival will at least double their contributions of three years ago, at the time the last fall festival was held. In case there is a surplus after the 1913 festival is held, this amount will be placed into a permanent fund and be used In giving a similar event next year. .,' All committees are expected to report at noon tomorrow at the Commercial club rooms, wtiere Demas S. Coe will be in charge. A lunch will be served to the committeemen when all reports have been submitted and the question as to whether Richmond will have a festival this year is definitely determined. The luncheon will be served on the fourth floor of the Masonic Temple. WANTS GOVERNMENT ARMOR PLATE PLANT (National News Association) WASHINGTON, - May 22. Senator Ashurst announced that he would introduce a bill at today's session of the senate appropriating $1,600,000 to build an armor plate factory to be run in opposition to the armor plate trust. "This bill, if enacted into law will cnce for all put at rest the nefarious activities of the armor plate trust," said Ashurst. "Furthermore I believe it will prove my charge that the trust has grossly overtaxed the government for the manufacture of armorplate.' June, the Month of Weddings. The pleasure of giving as well as the joy of receiving depends greatly upon the amount of thought and personality used j in selecting a gift. In presenting an appropriate, well-chosen gift the idea of dollars and cents , value is secondary, as it properly should be. Now that June, the season of many weddings, is approaching, i It Is well for those contemplath ing the purchase of gifts to bestir themselves and decide upon what they will give. The Palladium advertising columns offer many suggestions that are timely and valuable. A careful reading will doubtless solve the perplexing question of . what to give." Using the Palladium adver- ; tisements as a guide, one can not only make sure of covering a wide variety of possible gifts, but also greatly simplifies the .actual purchasing' and sending : of presents. 1 Circulation More Than 7,900

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KING PETER (National News Association') FLORENCE, May 22. According to dispatches that have been received in many of the large cities in Southern Europe, the real cause of the postponement of the marriage of Mrs. Huger Prat, the wealthy American widow, and Prince Arsene Karageorgevitch. brother of King Peter of Servia, is that King Peter has . expressed his pronounced displeasure at the match. The king is said to consider such a marriage a mesalliance. Prince Arsene is fifty-four years of age and hs3 a rattling skeleton in his hidden closet. His first wife divorced him. ALLEGED TO HAVE CURSEDJCHILDREN Mrs. Kate Keller Pleads Guilty to Charge and Is Fined. For cursing the children of Mrs. Bessie Mann, Mrs. Kate Keller, 216 North Fifth street, was fined $1 and costs in police court this morning. -MrsvKeiier alleges that she did not curse the children but that rather Hhan be tried in court she would plead guilty and pay the fine. Mrs. Mann charged that Mrs. Keller insulted her and her children by remarks she made and that at times she was very profane. Elmer Cross, arrested yesterday by Patrolman Ijawler for public intoxication was fined $1 and costs in police court this morning. SHIP STRIKES MINE Vessel Destroyed and People Killed. Five (National News Association) SMYRNA, Asia Minor, May 22. The French steamer Senegal was sunk at the mouth of the Gulf of Smyrna today by striking a floating mine. A large hole was torn in the bottom of the vessel. The first wireless report from the scene stated that all the crew and passengers as well as the mail cargo were saved. A second report, however, stated that five persons on the Senegal were killed and six Injured. The accident occurred off the Turkish fortress which guards the mouth of. the gulf. Other ships were in hailing distance at the" time and stood by. The gulf entrance' was filled with floating mines at the outbreak of the Balkan war and all shipping companies were warned, f but the Senegal in f-ome manner got off her course. The Senegal was owned by the Compagnle des Messageries of France. She sailed from Marseilles last Thursday with sixty passengers and a crew of sixty. - COURT TODAY ENDS A THEATRICAL WAR -.(National News Association) LONDON, May! 22 The appeal of J. Salter Hansen,- a' Chicago theater man, against the order enjoining him from the use of the Garrick theater, was dismissed today by the court. This means that" Dr. Henri de Rothschild's play, "Croesus," will be produced by Arthur 'Bourchier at the. Garrick tonight. For over a week theatrical circles have been jarred by the legal warfare between Hansen and Bourchier. The dispute grew but of claims of both managers to the right to produce the play. Hansen got first option on the play, but the playwright afterward repudiated it. claiming it had been secured by misrepresentation.. Then the rights were sold to Bourchier. Hansen entered suit against Bourcnier and attempted to seize all the scenery. Bourchier retaliated by securing an injunction. In the meantime Hansen was arrested for making threats, and is at liberty now on a peace bod of $10,000. THE WEATHER STATE AND LOCAL Fair tonight and Friday. .

HEAVY VOTE WAS CAST

THE PRIMARY Bookwalter Will Head G. O. P. Indianapolis. Ticket, Bell the Democratic, and Bull Moose in Doubt. JOHNSON LEADING FOR PROGRESSIVES Many Progressives Voted For Bell to Assure Both the Old Parties Having Machine Candidates. (National News Association) INDIANAPOLIS, May 22 That the Progressives' comparatively slight vote in yesterday's primaries was in reality a piece of shrewd politics was declared in certain quarters today. Charles A. 'Bookwalter, Republican, and Joseph E. Bell, Democrat, both reputed party machine candidates, were nominated by overwhelming pluralities. Dr. W. H. Johnson. Progressive, is strongly indicated as the nominee of his party by returns available at noon today. Mr. Bell's plurality equalled the entire Progressive vote and wise politicians say that many Progressive votes were cast for Bell so that both old parties would be represented by so-called machine candidates in the election next fall. The Democratic vote cast greatly exceeded the vote of the Republicans and Progressives combined. Speculation was rife today as to what candidate the Indianapolis News, with Its powerful influence, would support in the election after having opposed the nomination of both. Bell and Bookwaiter in the primary. Rumors of an entirely independent ticket to be placed in the field by petition were in circulation today. V, A Heavy Vote Cast. .tojw9 today abouttwoM of the precincts had reported. So fa the Republicans have polled about 4,500 votes and the Progressives about 3,300. A tabulation of the vote follows: . DEMOCRAT. One hundred and sixteen precincts out of 133 give Bell 8,912, Holtzman 5,305, Keegan 3,013 and Meeker 1,378. REPUBLICAN. Seventy-six precincts out of 133 give Bookwalter 3,515, Uhl 596, Woods 138. PROGRESSIVE. Eighty-two out of 133 precincts give Johnson 1,565, Stewart, 1,217, Headrick 575. Hendrickson Satisfied. City Chairman Harry C. Hendrickson, of the Progressive party, expressed the keenest satisfaction over the election before he closed up his headquarters this morning and went home. "The Progressive nominations," he said, "are the expression of thoughtful citizens of this city. They are the more gratifying In that they, were made by the voters who were not Influenced by the iniquitous means used by the' old parties. These nominations were obtained without the use of money. This alone should commend our ticket to the voters of the city when It Is considered what the nominations by the old parties have cost the successful candidates. COLLINS RECALLED TO WITNESS STAND Denies That Breen Threatened to Get Even After -Being Convicted. (National News Association) BOSTON, May 22. Dennis J. Collins was recalled to the witness stand at the trial of "William W. Wood, president of the American Woolon company, Frederick Atteaux, president of the Atteaux Mills Appliance company, and Dennis Collins, a Cambridge dog fancier, on charges of conspiracy to plant dynamite In Lawrence during the textile strike there a year ago. Collins was recalled as the request of Attorney Coakley, who represents Atteaux. Coakley asked, "after Breen's' conviction did you have a talk with him and did he say to you that he intended to get back at some one, that he had had a raw deal?" 1'No, I do not think he did, Collins replied. ...... John J. Breen then took the stand. He had charged that Atteaux "had" paid him $700 for his part in the dynamite plant and that he was offered f 7.000 by Attorney Coakley to settle suits brought against Breen by persons In whose houses the dynamite was planted. Attorney -Coakley, continued" his cross examination of Breen. He warned Breen against answering, "I do not remember" to questions put to him. There were a number of lively tilts between Breen and the attorney,

THINKS SUFFRAGE WAR ABOUT ENDED Nearly All the Leaders of the Militants Are Confined in Hospitals. (National News Association) LONDON. May 22. With the two real leaders of the militant suffragettes sick in hospitals and under criminal charges. Home Secretary McKenna believes the government is in a fair way to break the backbone of the violence campaign of women. Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, commander-in-chief Of the militants, and her first lieutenant, Mrs. Flora "General - Drummond, are ill, and the chief adviser of the Woman's Social and Political union. Miss Sylvia Pankhurst, is a political exile in France, and it will be nearly three years before Mrs. Pankhurst will be at liberty again, having been sentenced that length of time for conspiracy and inciting riot. The trial of Mrs. Drummond was interrupted by sickness. However, while the government is hoping that the wave of suffrage violence is weakening, nevertheless the vigilance of Scotland Yard will not be relaxed. In fact, extra guards were today placed over the persons of officers of the government in consequence of the discovery at "Cardiff, Wales, of a suffrage conspiracy to hurt Mrs. McKenna. There were several Incendiary fires early today in and about London. At Fulham $15,000 damage was done to the plant of the Westminster Improved Paving company. The police believe the fires were started by persons in the employ of the Woman's Social and Political union. Suffrage literature was found at the scene of each blaze.

BIDS SUBMITTED Oil COIICERTSJT PARK However, Board of Public Works, Defers Action on Matter. - Bids for the band concerts in Glen park were received this( morning by the board of works. Action on awarding the bids was deferred until, a later meeting. Only two bands submitted hirio. PnoMr'a' band . offArad ' to .nlav four concerts at any time set by the board of works. The bid of the Richmond City Band was higher. In Coopers' bid, transportation to and from the park was asked for the players. This will.be taken up .with the street car company which pays part of the cost of securing the band. A part of the cost of the band for the summer is also paid by the lessee of the pavilion at the park. A committee from the Commercial Club, in a communication to the board, asked that North Fourth street be opened from North A street to Main street. The committee stated that the matter was of importance in opening that part of town. The matter has been before officials since 1890. In 1895 council voted on the opening of the street but those for it were in the minority by one vote. No action was taken on the communication at the meeting this morning. CARL STEFFY SAVED BY BOY COMPANION Youth Was Hurled From Bridge and Saved From " Drowning By Moore. (National New Association) SHELBYVILLE. Ind., May 22. Carl Stef ty, 17 years old, was saved from death by drowning last night after he had been hurled from a bridge by a traction car Into Flat Rock Creek, thirty feet below. His rescuer was Carl Moore, a - companion, who, by swinging out from a pole, escaped being 'struck by the passing, car. '. Steffy's right arm was badly mangled. Steffy and Moore had been picnicking near St. Paul with other members of the senior class of the Shelbyville high school. Vih&n the young men saw they could not reach the end of the- bridge they attempted. to get out of the path of the car. Moore clung to a pole at the side of the structure and escaped injury. There was no room. for Steffy so he lay down on the ties just outside of the railSome part of the car. caught . his right arm, breaking and lacerating it, and threw him thirty feet Into the creek. With difficulty Steffy kept himself afloat .by using one arm until Moore climbed down from" fhe bridge and went to the rescue. Moore, who is a good . swimmer, towed his injured companion to shore after a struggle and summoned a physician who removed the Injured boy to St Paul. - - - CHRISTIE TO BE HERE NEXT WEEK Prof. G I. Christie will probably be in Richmond the latter part of next week to confer with the' officials and farmers of Wayne county who subscribed for the fund of maintaining an agricultural expert in this county. Wayne county was the seventh county to raise the money for the purpose of securing an expert. . .

DEAL CLOSED FOR A BLOCK

ST. John Evans to Erect $35,000 Building At Tenth and Main Streets For HooverBond Company. TO BE COMPLETED BY NEXT FEBRUARY Ten Years' Lease on the New Structure Taken By Furniture Company Will Be Three Stories in Height. A deal was closed today between John Evans of this city and W. F. Hoover, Lima, O.. president of the Hoover-Bond Furniture company, for the erection of a $35,000 building on the lot owned by Mr. Evans, at the corner of Tenth and Main streets. The furniture company has taken a ten years lease on the building. Mr. Evans stated that the -structure will have three stories with a deep basement and will be used exclusively by the Hoover-Bond company, which now operates a store in the Aldine clock across the street from the site of the new building. Under the terms of the agreement the block is to be ready for occupancy by February 1, next year. The first and second story fronts of the new building will be of plate glasB, while the third story frontage- and most of the Tenth street side of the building will be of pressed brick. On the Tenth street side from the Main street corner north a distance of thirty feet there will be plate glass, two stories in height A Feature of Building. A feature of the Main street frontage will be an entrance arcade about twenty-five feet in width and extending back a considerable distance, providing large show windows. - , Mr. Evans says that he Intends to put up one of the ' handsomest:" and most modern business blocks in the city. The Hoover-Bond Furniture company was formerly known as the Allen Furniture company. It enjoya an excellent business and is one of the best of the numerous stores operated by the Hoover-Bond company. M. W. Penny is manager of the local store. C. C. Al len, former manager of the store, is now general manager of a group of six stores operated by the company and makes his headquarters at Kalamazoo, Mich. Plans for the new building have not yet been completed but will be finished soon and work of construction will then be started. "We have been too cramped In our present quarters," stated Mr. Hoover today, "and our new building will give us about twice as much space. In fact the floor space will total 21,600 square feet. Mr. Penny wants just as good a building as those we' have 'recently put up at Lima and Kalamazoo andf he will get It." Richmond citizens generally are pleased over the prospect of having a modern business block erected at the corner of Tenth and Main streets, the sign-enclosed site having long been a public eye-sore. SETH LUCAS BELD FOR SAFEKEEPING Mutters Incoherently to Police Says Daughter Is Safe. Rushing into police headquarters this afternoon, Seth Lucas, father of Maude DeCamp, who disappeared Friday, shouted, "It's come, it's come. You can shoot me now because I'm not afraid." Lucas talked incoherently to Chief of Police Gormon about being shot or haqged. The man is believed to have become insane as the result of the mental strain under which he has been for some time. He was helu for safe keeping and will be confined to the city, jail until he can be examined. Lucas repeatedly called for the police to bring guns and shoot him, and called them cowards. "They think I bunjd my wife and killed my daughter."- he declared, "but I didn't do it My daughter Is safe at the home of my sister-in-law, 164 Blackburn street Indianapolis." - A FAMOUS BARNUM FREAK DIES TODAY (National News . Association) -CHICAGO. May 22. Mrs. Mary Peters, who for twenty years made her living by being fat. was dead today at the county hospital, following an operation for the removal of a tumor. The tumor weighed 150 pounds. Mrs. Peters weighed nearly 600 lbs. She was one of. P. T. Barnum's leading attractions for many year -

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UNDERBILL ASKS A CHAM VENUE Dispute With City Over Gravel Bond in Embarrassing Position. Ignoring the advice of his attorneys, John M. Underhill. today asked that his suit against the city in which he demands $300, be venued from Wayne to Fayette or Henry county. The case is one of the oldest ou the docket and has been set down for trial several times. It waa to have been tried in the October term of court. When Dr.

Richard Schillinger was mayor Under hill hauled some gravel for the city. which he says belonged to him. The board of works decided that it was not the property of Underhill. Attorney Will Bbpd represented Un derhill when the suit was originally filed. As Mr. Bond Is now attorney for the city the city will be represented by a special attorney. Judge Fox set the trial for June 3, and the postponement will be at the expense of the city. It will probably be tried before a jury In the Wayne circuit court Judge Fox said If the case were venued It would not be heard before next fall. WALKER DIES TODAY Succumbs to Drug He Swallows By Mistake. (National News Association) MACON. Ga., May 22. R Sanders Walker, who on last Wednesday morning swallowed a bichloride of mercury tablet through mistake for a headache tablet died at 2 o'clock this morning. Mr. Walker became unconscious at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon and remained-so until -the-end. With him when he passed away were his wife and immediate relatives. The attending "physician predicted when Mr. Walker became unconscious that the end of his brave struggle against the poison was approaching. Up to his last moment of consciousness the young real estate man waa calm and cheerful, comforting his grief stricken wife and parents and; showing that the indomitable will f which characterized his college days and his business life since has stood the final great test unbroken.. His-physicians refused to give the slightest Inkling of the .sort of treatment they had given the 'dying man but it Is undent oood that ttey have been In close communication - with hospital doctorsat Johat Hopkins institute in Baltimore during the crisis. ... Art, WAY APPOINTED As Inspector of Streets to Be Oiled. As an inspector of streets which will be oiled in this city A. L. Way was appointed by the board of works this morning at a salary of $2 per day. Way will be. required . to pass judgment on every street before and after It is oiled. Contractor Davis agreed to pay half of the money required to Inspect the streets which he oiled.

TO THE CITIZENS OF RICHMOND! The great feast of music served to the publicfannually in this city will begin tonight at the Coliseum withl a chorus of 200 voices and 60 instruments, all members of theJHigh School, directed by Mr. Sloane, and assisted by four off Rich mond's best voices in solo: Mrs. Krueger, Mrs. Longaecker, Mr. Krone and Mr. Friermood. Tomorrow afternoon i again, members of the High School, assisted, in solo by Mrs. F. J. Bartel, Miss Elizabeth Hasemeier, Miss Alice Knollenberg and Mr. Gaylord R. Humberger. Tomorrow evening' under the direction of Professor Lebo, the Richmond Symphony Orchestra will give its great concert, assisted in solo by Mrs. Igelman and Miss Kirkpatrick. The entire series of concerts will be given at the popular price of one dollar for the season. This large band of musicians has labored long and hard throughout the year, and for several months has been rehearsing for these concerts, all for the love of the art without thought of remuneration, other than the compensation that comes in having done his part in elevating the standard of culture in his community. The results of these series of concerts represent a tremendous amount of time, perseverance, and faithful effort. Our citizens can take just pride in their achievements. The concerts will represent the best the city has to offer in music, which statement is significant, when we take into account our attainment recognized abroad. ' These musical enterprises have attained such proportions that they have become a valuable asset to the city. The Commercial Club has recognized this value and has given them financial backing for several years. This year The Richmond Musical Association was organized which is made up of business men of the Commercial Club to take over and care for this important social and cultural phase of our city life. It has been deemed highly important to the city that this enterprise should be properly supported and permanently maintained. One of the best tests of appreciation will be the patronage our citizens are willing to give to this series of concerts which have cost. so. much, labor io bring to the very high standard that will be witnessed at these entertainments. '

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JAPAN IS TO PRESS CLAIM ON THE 0. S,

Ambassador Chinda Notifies the State Department That Discussion Will Be Resum- ' ed Next Week. AMERICAN NOTE IS NOT SATISFACTORY. Japan Still Insists That the United States Has Violated Treaty Note of U. S.Was Very Frank? " . w (Xttton&l Nw Association) WASHINGTON. Msy . -Miscount Chinda, Japanese ambassador to the United States, today served notice" on the state department that he i will resume the official discussion ofthe controversy arising from the California anti-alien land law next week.. It is understood that the ambassador fhas re ceived instructions from his i govern ment to lay particular stress? on the Japanese contention that the 'present situation is an infringement of treaty obligations. Government dispatches from Toklo today pointed out that the Japanese foreign office considers that'the American reply to the Japanese protest is unfavorable inasmuch as it denied the right of the orientals to hold -land In the United States, despite the-existing treaty. Officials here say that thy opinion arises from the fact that the Japansse do not understand the) form of govern, ment of this country and that the state rights doctrine is incomprehensible to the oriental. .- It. is here admitted that the American reply was quite frank as was the protest from Japan, but administration officials say, there was no clause in the note at which, the Japanese ought to take offense. ' Wj SLAVE PROBE Ordered By th? Northern Presbyterian Church. ATLANTA. Ga., May 22. The bills, and overtures committee of (the. northern Presbyterian assembly presented resolution' today on the white slave traffic The resolution provides for the appointment of a special committee of nine members' to tin restlgate thoroughly the social, evil and report back to the assembly. Members of 'the delegation from Chicago adhere the senatorial vice . probe has I uncovered much valuable lnf ormatlony in regard to the causes of white slavery were. responsible for the resolution. . Prominent in the delegation IsRnfus Simmons, who first suggested fto Theodore Roosevelt the desirability off enacting a federal law on the subject of traffic. In women. t , i MUSICAL ASSOCIATION.

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