Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 213, 16 July 1913 — Page 3

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AlfD SUN-TELEGRAM. WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 1913

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GAS COMPANY HAS SLIDING SCALE AT MANSFIELD. OHIO

Rate of 2V2 Cents With Discount Charged Domestic Consumers.SUPPLY IS PLENTIFUL Newspaper Man Says There Would Be Protest If Gas Were Taken Out. ' The Palladium publishes today the fourth article on the gas question in cities in Ohio where the Logan Natural Gas & Fuel company hsve been supplying natural gas. The article is from Mansfield, Ohio and was written by William W. Carter, city editor of the Mansfield News. Mansfield is a city of 21,000 population. BY WILLIAM W. CARTER MANSFIELD, O., July 16 The Logan Natural Gas & Fuel company was granted a franchise by the Mansfield city council on October 1, 1911. The franchise is for a period of 25 years and fixed the rate to be charged by I the company at 27 cents per thousand cubic feet with a reduction of 2 , cents per thousand provided the gas bill is paid on or before the tenth day ! of the month. There is nothing in the franchise of ) the Logan company providing for ; standards of pressure or heat units or quality. There are provisions in the franchise, however, to the effect that the company, when making excava(tlons for laying pipe, shall keep the city free from damage in case of an ; accident through falling into a ditch or depression. It Is also provided that t the company shall replace all streets : and street paving. , Service is Satisfactory. The company has been furnishing , gas continuously in Mansfield for the last eleven years or more and, in the main, things have been satisfactory. ; This company's franchise contained I a provision empowering the concern to charge a meter rental and for a time a meter rental of 10 cents per month was charged but when the supreme court declared this unconstitutional It was discontinued. Six Different Rates. There are six different rates charged to consuiriers of natural gas in Mansfield of which two rates are for domestic purposes and already enum-! erated. The other four rates are special rates for large consumers such as factories and bakeries. The four rates are on a sliding scale from 24 cents per thousand down to 10 cents per thousand, according to the j amount consumed. Class No. 6 has a j 10 cent rate but In order to be in that ' class and secure the 10 cent rate 500,000 cubic feet of gas must be consumed per month. This sliding scale is prescribed by the state utility statute. 4,972 Domestic Users. There are more than 5,100 consumers of the Logan company's natural gas in Mansfield and of these 4,972 are domestic users and about 180 special consumers, as factories, bakeries or manufacturing enterprises. The average bill for domestic use per annum is $40 in this city. This means for cooking, lighting and heating purposes. The Logan Natural Gas company has had one or two breaks in its gas mains since it has been furnishing natural gas to the city of Mansfield but they were not of any consequence for the reason that the Logan people Jiot only get gas from the West Virglnia field and from the Sugar Grove field but draw from the big field in Ashland, county, Ohio, which adjoins this county,1- and there are also several wells in this Vicinity which they Dwn. Probably two or three times In the last ten years the city has been without gas for a couple of hours but Ho serious distress occurred on account of the trouble, especially since several wells of good capacity in this Vicinity have been available. Artificial Company Out. For many years the Mansfield Gas Company furnished the city with artificial gas but on February 24. 1911. the artificial gas company went out Df business and received at the hands ! Df the city council the second fran- i thise to furnish natural gas to con- i sumers. While the Mansfield Gas Company, which is a corporation comfiosed partially of home people, was urnishing artificial gas it charged a fate of $1.25 per thousand cubic feet with a discount of 25 cents per thousfnd for payment of bills on or before he tenth of each month. This made Ihe net cost of artificial gas $1 per thousand. Provisions Different. Within six months after the Manslield Gas company began furnishing as this company had also established good business. The franchise, of Ihe last mentioned company, containrd one or two features which the franchise of the Logan company did sot have. It provides that the company furnish gas of not less than 800 British Thermal units. This company Is empowered to charge the same rate Is the Logan Natural Gas & Fuel company I e, 27 b cents per thousand Mth a discount of 2 cents per thousand if paid on or before the tenth of fcach month. The heating power of the natural as furnished by the Logan company eems to be slightly reduced in very old weather but it is claimed that is is the case with all natural gas. the natural gas were to be taken ut of Mansfield there would undoubtdly be a mighty protest against It

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Railroad News A SAFETUOMMITTEE Of Pennsylvania Met This Morning. Superintendent McCulIough, as chairman, and members of the safety committee of the Pennsylvania lines held the regular monthly meeting in the Superintendent's office this morning. The number of accidents during the past month were discussed and suggestions as remedies were made. .. m ON RAILROAD ROW. C. E. Northup, special agent of the Pennsy West of Pittsburg, was a business visitor in the city today. Frank Kiser has returned to his duties as stenographer in the superintendent's office of the Pennsylvania after spending his vacation. BURNING 400 CARS. Four hundred freight cars no longer fit for usage and owned by the Pennsylvania railroad company are being destroyed by fire at Warsaw under the. direction of Master Car Builder I. A. Graham. The company owns several acres of land including a gravel pit the cars are being sent there where they can be burned without danger to property. The cars are burned because it is cheaper to burn up the woodwork and then sell the iron for junk than to dismantle the cars and sell the wood and iron separately. I RAILROAD NOTES ! Clarence D. Boyd, traveling passenger agent of the Missouri-Pacific-Iron Mountain railroad, has resigned to become field secretary of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce. His railroad duties will be assumed by Jack Frost, of Cincinnati. Official circulars announcing the appointment of W. J. Leahy as general passenger agent of the St. Paul & Kansas City Short line have been received by Richmond railroad officials. Mr. Leahy's headquarters will be in Chicago. The new book of rules and instructions governing the transportation of freight traffic which has been received heiv contains. paragraphs showing the relationship which should exist between the employes and the public and the carriers. Employes of American railways received 44.17 per cent of the gross earnings of the railways for 1912, according to statistics just compiled. Material, supplies and miscellaneous expenses called for 14.06 per cent; fuel and oil, 8.93 per cent; taxes, 4.21 per cent; loss and damage, 2.20 per cent, making a total of 73.57 per cent of the gross earnings the railroads paid out for operating expenses. Dividends took 4.84 per cent; interest on funded debt, 13.43 per cent; betterments, deficits and deductions, 3.75 per cent, and rents for leased roads, 4.41 per cent. The social in St., Mary's Church yard is postponed until tomorrow evening. All donations will be received one. Finger Prints. Francis Galton. finger print expert and authority, estimates that the chances of finding the fingers of two persons giving exactly the same impression are not greater than one in 640,000,000,000. Police experts regard finger prints, which cannot be disguised, as far the most conclusive mean? of Identification.

Mrs. Evora Drummond and her three years old daughter, Virginia Drummond, and John N. Drummond. SAN FRANCISCO, July 16. "I tried in every possible way to make our married life one of happiness, but failed. In my wife's suit for divorce she asks for the custody of our daughter, Virginia, who is now three. I will spend every dollar at my command to obtain my child. Mrs. Drummond Is prompted by only pecuniary motives in suing me and her accusai tions against Mrs. Eastland are grossI ly unjust." The foregoing statement I was made by John N. Drummond, son of the late tobacco king, whose great fortune he inherited, in talking of the suit for divorce brought by his wife, Mrs. Evora Drummond, who names Mrs. Joseph Eastland as co-respondent. Mrs. Eastland in turn is being sued by her husband, Joseph I. Eastland, who is said to own three counties in the State of Tennessee. Mr. Eastland is reported to have promised his wife that he will give her $500,000 in lieu of alimony. 54 YEARS LAWYER, HEC0RD0F ABBOTT Veteran Justice Observes An- " niversary of Admission to Bar. Luther C. Abbott, justice of the peace, has just celebrated the fiftyfourth anniversary of his admission to the bar. During this time he has alI so served in other capacities, as mayi or of Eaton, prosecuting attorney of Preble county, Ohio and special judge j in the Wayne County circuit court. Justice Abbott was admitted to the bar in 1S59 and began his practice at Eaton, where he was later elected to the office of prosecuting attorney for two terms and served as mayor for three terms. This was during the war and Mr. Abbott says, "Those were strenuous and turbulent times. Several men were killed in Preble county because of the feelings aroused by the war." During the war Justice Abbott served as a recruiting officer. In 1879 Mr. Abbott came to this city to practice law and since that time has been busily engaged in that occupation. He is also completing his eleventh year as justice of the peace. Has Unique Record. In that time of the two or three thousand cases which he has tried, SPECIAL FOR TOBACCO HUMIDORS Just the thing to keep your cigars in good condition. Price $2.00 ED. A. FELTMAN

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RALSTON MAY BE AT SETTLERS' REUNION

Committees in Charge of Affair Expect 10,000 to Attend. WAS ORGANIZED IN 1859 Annual Meeting to Be Held in Park At Centerville August 16. The executive committee of the Wayne County Old Settlers' association which holds its annual meeting at Centerville on August, 16, the third Saturday in the month, is busy preparing the program for the event. It is reported that Governor Ralston will be among the list of speakers but this fact is not assured. Walter Ratliff, secretary of the association, said today that the only reason which prevented the "Old Settlers" holding their annual meeting in Glen Miller park in Richmond was the fact that all members of the association desire the meeting held in or as near the center of Wayne county as possible. Approximately ten thousand people are expected to attend the meeting and arrangements are gradually being perfected by Joseph A. Commons, president, and various committees of the association having the affair in charge. The Old Settlers association was organized in a grove north of Center- , ville on June 5, 1859. Many were interested in the plan and the asociation had a large membership. Each ; year it has held a reunion. only one appeal has been taken. "It j has been a busy life" said he, "and 'many things have happened in the course of it." In speaking of the importance of the justice of peace , courts, Justice Abbott said, "The cases tried are limited to two hundred dollars in the amount of damages askj ed, but it is important that the decision be correct, because a small amount means much to the poor man. These courts are the courts of the masses. There they can get the justice that is due them, without the expense and delays of higher courts." Everybody who is acquainted with Judge Abbott is very fond of him and he has a large circle of friends. He was very popular in Eaton before he came here and has letters of recommendation of his administration from the leading citizens, regardless of party. Mr. Abbott is getting old enough to retire, he believes, but does not anticipate doing so for some time to come. THE SAME OLD SEASONS. They Are Just About as They Were a Couple of Centuries Ago. The belief of many people that the seasons are undergoing some kind of change has led Professor Ignazio Galll to examine the weather records of the entire eighteenth century. The investigations of Professor Galll show fifty-one winters that lasted well into spring, thirty-one warm winters, thirteen unusually early winters, twelve mild winters followed by cold springs, eleven mild winters followed by mild springs, eleven cold autumns, eight very warm springs, eight sura mers with frosts and five very warm autumns. There was one instance of six consecutive warm seasons. More than three-quarters of the periods of unusual weather occurred between the middle of autumn and the end of spring. Many times during the Jghteenth century the same apparent anom a lies recurred at the same seasons in several successive years. In every case the seasons regained their normal char acteristics. There have always been persons who imagined that the seasons were becoming warmer or colder than before. There is, however, small foundation for such beliefs. The world has indeed experienced many cold summers and many warm winters, but such seasons are not the rule, but the exception. Youth's Companion. THIS WEEK CIGARETTE CASES They come in gnnmetal and sterling silver; good selection. 75c to $2.00. 609 MAIN ST.

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Gets Under Bryan's Hide

fTCational News Aoclt!on WASHINGTON. July 16 The confessed inability of C olonel William J. Bryan to live on $12,000 a year, his salary as Secretary of State, led Senator Bristow of Kansas, a Progressive, to introduce in the Senate a resolution calling upon the president to state what stipend would be sufficient to insure the continuous and earnest devotion of the Secretary to his duties at the State Department. Bristow's resolution, together with criticism and caustic comment by numerous public men. Democrats and Republicans alike, led Mr. Bryan to issue a statement defending his purpose to leave Washington for five or six weeks in order to trot the ChauI tauqua circuit, while problems of vital importance affecting our foreign relations were pending at the department. The Bristow resolution started a lively discussion in the Senate as soon as it was introduced. Senator John Sharp Williams, Democrat, of Mississippi, calling it a sample of sarcastic writing, which he had not believed the Kansan capable of. Bristow, however, declared it had been evolved out of his own consciousness and intellect. Before the debate got a good start. Senator Smoot, Republican, of I'tah. suddenly put an end to it, by moving that the resolution lay on the table until today in order that the regular business of the Senate should go on. In his resolution Bristow called attention to the fact that the salary of the secretary of state at the beginning of the government was only I AUTO NEWS ! The local office of the Pilot Motor Car company received a telegram this morning from Fred Smith, who Is drlv - ing their entry in the Indiana tour to the Pacific coast, stating that the Pilot-six had covered 1,685 miles of the distance without a mechanical adjustment on the road, and with only four punctures. Smith is much pleased over th car's performance and sends word that it is doing as much and more than the other entries. He soys that the Pilot was the only car that did not boil the water in the radiator on the long climb over the backbone of the Rockies. Another telegram was received from Dr. Frazer of Idaho Springs, stating that he had ridden in the Pilot from that place to Hot Sulphur Springs. According to Frazer the car made the long pull, carrying eight passengers, some from other cars that could not pull the grade with their load. An Actress at Two. Mrs. Kendal, the famous actress, once said that "to succeed on the stage a woman must have the epidermis of a rhinoceros, the strength of a man and the feelings of a graven Image." Her very first appearance on the stage was ! the mature age of two. "The legend is," she confessed, "that I appeared as a blind child, but when I got on the stage I forgot all about my blindness when I caught sight of my nurse and called out to her " 'Mary, do you see my new shoes?' " f cr" .-as For You

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$3,500 a year and that it had been gradually increased to $12,000 in 1911 and that none of the men who had filled the office had complained of the insufficiency of their remuneration. Senators regard the Bristow resolution as the most perfect specimen of irony that has come before the senate in years. Democratic senators. ho in private have expressed their chagrin at the statement made by their secretary of state, were furious at the temerity of the senator from Kansas in thus parading in public view the alleged pov.ty of William Jennings Bryan and calling attention to his plea that the very meager salary of $1,000 a month did not give him a living. Secretary Bryan had difficulty in preserving his composure when he read and heard the criticisms of his plan to abandon his post for more than a month in order to take the lecture platform. Naturally he resented it. but he insists that he is perfectly justified in his course. The statement he issued in reply to the unfavorable comments of fellow democrats and republicans reveals the fact that he is of a saving disposition and has laid aside a snug fortune since he leaped into national prominence as a dark-horse candidate for president in 1896. He relates that since that year he has saved an average of $10,000 a year and that he now has a cash nest egg of $170,000 for his old age. He does not intend to break in on this accumulation, but prefers to add to it at least at the annual average thus far maintained. GIRL ARRAIGNED FOR THEFT OF $95 (Palladium Special) EATON. O.. Julv 16. Marv Mvers. ! ... . . j . ..- '15 years, will be arraigned in the Juvenile court tomorrow to answer to the charge of stealing $95 from the home of her grandmother. Mrs. Phoebe Gumn, a resident of New Westville. The girl will be brought up at the instigation of Probation Officer, L. T. Stephens. She is the daughter of Mrs. Nellie Myers, who lives at the Guinn home. Anna Mattix, of Richmond, a chum of the Myers girl, has been subpoenaed and will testify at the hearing Mrs. Guinn first missed $5 and accused the girl, who denied the theft. Soon after she missed another $5 and finally the entire sum. None In Sight. "Any interesting legends about here?" asked the tourist. "No,' returned the native slowly. "Ain't never seen any, though you may find 'em, I guess. If you hunt in the woods." SWAMP- Is not recommenled tor T?nAT everything: but if you ivUvJl. have kidney, liver or bladder trouble it may be found just the remedy you need. At druggists in fiifty cent and dollar sizes. You may have a sample bottle of this reliable .medicine by mail free, also pamphlet telling all about It. Address, Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y. t Aclverttsomentj to Try ffMiii

DESTRUCTIVE INSECT Rose Beetle Now Infesting the Grapes.

"Of the species of insects which ta fest grapes." says Prof. Troop of th Entomological department. Purdue university, "one of tne most destructive to the foliage is the Rose-beetla or Rose-chafer, but fortunately, this insect does not make its appearanca in large numbers only occasionally, but when it does come, it usually strips the vines of their leaves In short order. No ordinary insectisido has any effect upon them, consequently the only successful method of holding them in check is to spread ahet-ta or blankt-ts under the vines and jar them off. then pather them up and empty them into a dish of kerosene. The grape leaf-folder and the grapeberry moth, are the next most important species, the first feeding upon tho leaves and the second causing wormy grapes, often destroying the whole bunch. These species are easily managed, however, as both pass the winter in the rubbish around the vines, and may be gathered up and burned. The grape phyloxera hich is so destructive to the European vineyards does not injure our native varieties to any great extent, as they are more hardy and better able to overcome the attacks of these insects." I STREET STORIES I , The "queerest" complaint that has come to Chief of Police Gormon. vu telephoned In today from a resident ot the east end. This woman very in dignantly told the police that she vu "pestered to death" by cats whtck were kept by her neighbor, whom, the complainant says, has a hobby for stray cats. "Every bedraggled kitten or cat that comes into this neighborhood,' said the woman, "is taken by her and she now has twenty-two of the beasts. My nights are made miserable by the' howling. EMMONS' TAILORING CO; ( ENLARGE THIER BUSINESS. ! Emmons Tailoring Co, have enlarc 1 ed their business this spring. In addU tion to the large and fine line of suit- , ings they make at $15 and IIS. they, have added an extra fine line of Miltings that they w ill make at $20 and up. The connection of Emmons Tailoring company, ith one of the largest woolen houses in the country gives them unusual advantages in price. Emmons Tailoring company have also an Electric Pressing system. This system does the best of pressing work. Pressing suits, 35c; trousers, 15c Best work or no charge. (Advertisement) X Hartley's Grocery J t Try Our Coffee i X Roasted Today $ X It Will Please You Your Summer Needs Big assortment of the following: Shirts Negligee Soft col-y lars. Underwear B. V. D. and Balbrig-, gan. J Neckties All new patterns. Summer Suits The very newest Hats ' The Straws always. , Hoisery The Kind for Hot, Weather. Straw Hats at li Price Krone & Kennedy, 803 Main St.