Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 214, 17 July 1913 — Page 3

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1913

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GAS FURNISHED BY LOGAN COMPANY IN 2 CITIES IS G000

No Complaints Made Against Service At Findlay and Chillicothe. IS NO SLIDING SCALE No Clause in Contracts Statfc,ing Stand of Pressure Or Heat Units. The fifth and sixth articles on the gas question in other cities appear in the Palladium today. The Logan Natural Gas & Fuel company has supplied the city of Findlay, O., for the last 10 years and the city of Chillicothe for 20 years. Findlay has a population of 15,000 and Chillicothe of 14,500. (Palladium Special) FINDLAY, O., July 17 The Logan Natural Gas and Fuel Company has been serving this city with natural gas from the Ohio and West Virginia fields since August 1, 1903. The rates charged by the company to the consumer is 33 cents per thousand cubic feet, less three per cent for cash before the tenth of the month following. The ordinance under which the company was granted a franchise permits the company to charge 39 cents per thousand cubic feet, less three per cent for cash, but this rate has never been charged. There Is no sliding scale for the use of the gas, but there are seven different classes under which the company sells its product. Seven Different Classes. The first class is the 33 cent rate to the general consumer. Class No. 2 is for gas engines, the price for which service is the same as the first class. Class No. 3 is for bakeries and the like, and provides for the use of at least 50,000 cubic feet to be used within the month to secure the rate of 25 cents per thousand feet. If more than 50,000 cubic feet is used during the month, then the price is 22 cents, and for over 100,000 cubic feet each month, the price is 17 cents. Class No. 4 is for blacksmiths, etc. and provides for the use of 100,000 cubic feet in the month at the rate of 22 cents per thousand feet. For the next 200,000 feet the rate would be 17 cents. Class No. 5 has relation to power stations, laundries, wood working plants, etc., the rate for the first 200,000 feet being 16 cents per thousand cubic feet. All over that number of feet burned the rate would be 14 cents. Class No. 6 includes power boilers, glass factories, steel mills, etc., the contract requiring the use of 500,000 cubic feet per month at the price of 13 cents per thousand feet. Class No. 7 includes churches, school children's homes, employes, etc., the rate being the same as charged to users in class No. 1, but at the end of the year, the company gives its check for twenty-five per cent of the total amount of gas used by the various parties during the past year. This class puts the benevolent institutions throughout the districts in which the company furnished gas all on the same basis. None get a better rate than others. Since the gas was first turned into the lines here, there has been very few days the company has been unable to supply gas and on these occasions they have been caused by breaking in the lines at some point. Has Been No Trouble. There has been no trouble here whatever relative to the company living up to its franchise, and there does not seem to be any record wherein the company has been derelict. There is no clause in the franchise by which the company agrees to provide for a standard pressure, heat units and quality. It simply has a franchise for furnishing gas to the consumer. There has been no artificial gas plant in this city since the first discovery of natural gas here nearly thirty years ago. Although the company has been working for several years to arrive at an average gas bill, none has yet been reached. In the case of the writer, an unlimited number of gas jets, hot water heater and gas range, the average rate is probably $2.50 per month during the summer months. For heating his home in the winter time, during the coldest weather last winter, when the thermometer was below zero many days during the month, and with a ten room house, the highest bill was $21.70. That means that the temperature of the house was kept at or between 72 and SO degrees all the time. The gas here Is used mostly for heating, lighting and cooking. SERVICE SATISFACTORY. Chillicothe Citicens Have Made No Complaint. (Palladium Special) CHILLICOTHE. O., July 17. The Logan Natural Gas and Fuel company has been supplying natural gas to this city for the last 20 years and the service has been very satisfactory. There is no clause in the contract Hadlers Grocery Try Our Coffee t Roasted Today t It Will Please You t

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John D. Rockefeller, reputed to be the world's richest man, and the head of the Standard Oil Trust, who has bought a flock o- sheep to graze on the extensive lawns of his estate at Pocantico Hills, N. Y. According to State News in South Bend After a little difficulty with his wife Martin Hornung planted a bushel of Canadian thistles in the garden, ripped his picture from the family group, felled his wife to the floor, and left the house. Mrs. Hornung is suing for a divorce. Petersburg The many car loads of cantaloupes being shipped from here have caused an ice famine. Ice is being hauled from Oakland City. Rochester The "wets" and "drys" will settle the degree of moisture of this city for the next two years August 2. Washington Following the example of President Wilson, Mayor McCarty read his message to the council, occupying over an hour. Columbus The Pennsylvania lines brought a fire to this city and requested the department to put it out. A car of lumber standing on a switch at the edge of town was towed in. Peru Millions of white flies have died each night this week swarming round the electric lights at the foot of the bridge which spans the Wabash at Broadway. Winamac While showing some neighbor boys how easy it would be for a person to kill himself, Claude Hickman placed the muzzle of a rifle against his right eye. The gun was accidentally discharged, the bullet penetrating his brain. Connersville Earl Crubb killed 950.000 flies in the swatting contest, and won a prize of $12.50. Newcastle Frank Pierce, a retired farmer, has been driving on every road out of this city, during the last few days and pre4icts the best corn crops in the history of the county. Connersville Discouraged by financial reverses George Brown shot himself three times while sitting at his desk. j Bloomington Four parties will be j in the field this fall from present indi- ; cations. A Citizen's party headed by j such men as President Bryan, of the ; state university, Prof. E. H. Lindley, i with the company stating the standard of quality, pressure or neat units but the city has at all times, even in very cold weather, a plentiful supply of natural gas. The present rate is 30 cents per 1,000 cubic feet with a sliding scale for larger consumers. As this rate was established several years ago it is very probable that there will be an increase in the price of gas. There is also an artificial gas plant here which sells its product at $1.00 per 1,000 cubic feet. The natural gas here is used for heating, lighting and cooking and there is no complaint from the citizens. Doctor's Boyish Face Reveals Skin Renewer I I heard the other day the story of j the physician with so admirable a skin that all his women patients asked the secret. He told one, who genjerously told others, that, knowing the j remarkable absorbent property of orjdinary mercolized wax, he concluded ithis substance would make an excellent complexion renewer and preservi er. Knowing the wax could not harm

the skin, he began using it after shaving. He soon observed that the old, withered, colorless cuticle was being gradually absorbed and replaced by younger, healthier skin. This was the simple secret of the silverhaired doctor with the boyish face. The secret became public property. Now women everywhere use mercolized wax, applying it nights like cold cream, washing it off mornings continuing until the complexion is entirely renovated. An ounce of this wax. procurable at any druggist's, will banish the worst complexion. Another valuable rejuvenator used by this doctor was a wrinkle-remover and preventive in the form of a face bath, made by dissolving an ounce of saxolite in a half-pint witch hazeL This also has become famous. Aurelia in Fashion Review. (avrtlseoaU , v

the head gardener he is of the opinion that the sheep will keep the grass cropped closer and in much better condition than any work that can be done by lawn mowers, and also a whole lot cheaper.

a Brief Form , and Prof. W. H. Beeler, was permanently organized the other night. Marion Heavy rains yesterday brought the Mississinewa up two and a half feet yesterday. This is the highest point reached since the flood in March. Greenfield Two Indianapolis fishermen who have been hunting the banks of Blue River, tell of landing a fish two feet long. Anderson The Woman's Franchise League of this city will write to Senators Kern and Shively, asking them to support a constitutional amendment for equal suffrage. Get your reserved seat tickets now for the Tuskegee Band and Glee Club Concert, which is to play here Wednesday, July 23rd. Seats on sale at Conkey's Drug Store, Quigley's Drug Stores, Thistlethwaite's South End Drug Store, Starr Piano Store, and Hiatt's Barber Shop. The Most Economical SHOPPING PLACE in Richmond.

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Attributes Good Health to Fact That He Looks on the, Bright Side of Life, Eats What He Wants and Pays No Attention to Fanatical Ideas. Erect and steady, Mark Haynes, 131 South Ninth street, gave the reporter's hand a hearty grip. "Yes, I shall be ninety years old, the nineteenth day of this month, and I don't know of a man in Richmond who is older than I; they are all gone. "It is fine to live such a long time, but 1 never did any thing to leiigthen my life. I never paid any attention to quack and fanatical ideas to make me live to a ripe old age." He Does Not Worry. "I just took things as they came and never worried about anything. I have always looked on the bright side of everything. I have always eaten whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted it. The use of tobacco has never hurt me." The speaker paused, looking up the street. The visitor waited. Mr. Haynes was silent, then gave a queer low chuckle, before continuing. Sees the Funny Things. "I would like to go back and grow up, live it all over again. I have had so much fun. I have always been able to see the funny side of things, and enjoy them. My brothers never could see the amusing things thai I saw. I think that must be the reason I have lived so long, because I got so much fun out of life. "I was born on a farm at Oakland, four miles from Wilmington, Ohio, in 1823. As a boy on the farm I always told my father that I -wanted to go west to Indiana. When Richmond Was Town. "When the government was building the National Road that was in '37 I came to Richmond to visit relatives. I don't remember exactly but I think that all there was of the town at that time was a postoffice and grocery store on the corner of Fifth and Main, with a few scattering houses to the west. The country all around was heavily wooded with underbrush so thick that only the roads could be traveled." Cut Wheat with Sickle. Again a short pause was broken by that peculiar chuckle, before he spoke. "Why, when I was a boy, we cut wheat with a sickle, and when the cradle was invented we thought harvesting had been revolutionized. We didn't have matches, or steel pens, or postage stamps. We wrote letters on fool's cap, folded them and sealed them with wax. One of the first stamps I ever saw was pinned on the letter, the sender writing under it, "paid, if the d d thing sticks." We didn't even have lamps, and I can remember when we used a cloth in a cup of oil, to give a light. Often Borrowed Fire. "Many a time I have seen my father start a fire with shavings, a piece of steel, and a flint rock. Sometimes we borrowed fire. That was a "THE STORE

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very common custom. We took a j shovel and went across the fields i to the neighbor's, bringing back some lighted coals if they had any fire to I spare." ! "We used to have an underground j railroad in Ohio. My father's house was one of the stations, and I was a conductor for several years. "When runaway slaves on their way to Canada crossed the Ohio, they were ! kept at Wilmington during the day. At night they brought them to my ' father's house. The following night j I drove them to the next station eigh-' teen miles away. I must have helped more than fifty of them get away, j "No, I was never caught, we had a fugitive slave law, but that was a i I dead letter, no one being arrested at j that time. j i Praises War Governor. j i "Yes. I saw all the great men of i those times, and knew many of them, j There was Lincoln, Grant, Wendell Phi'.lipps and Lloyd Garrison. But the peer of them all was Oliver P. Morton, the grandest man I ever I knew." "Did you know Lincoln personally?" the visitor asked. Visited Abraham Lincoln. "Yes, I was at his house in Springl field several times. He was very ! witty. One day a man told him a long j story, after which Lincoln said, 'I ! never heard anything of which that reminds me.' "I have voted in eighteen presiden- ; tial elections, and have never missed once since I voted for the Abolition , candidate, James G. Burney in 4. Lincoln was the first president I ever 'elected.' I Remembers First Train. ! "No, there ware no railroads in the 1 country when I was a boy. Do I remember the first time I ever saw a 1 train? I should say I do. I rode on the ! first one I ever saw. The earliest line I : in Ohio was from Cincinnati to Col- j umbus. I had heard lots about it, so another fellow and I walked from , Oakland to Marrowtown. a distance ! of eighteen miles to ride to Cincin- J nati. It took half a day to run the j forty miles. They didn't have T rails j then, just old hard riding flat rails. Fir6t Days at School. : "I never went to school but a few ; weeks. What education I have, I picked up myself from experience, and ) j watching how other people did things. ! When I was a boy, the teacher got $25 ! ja month, and boarded round among1 the families. When the teacher came i to our house, we fed him so well ' that he didn't want to leave. So he made arrangements with mother to : , board him for seventy-five cents a ' ', week." . j "He was a fine fellow and taught 1 me more at night round the open Are 1 ' place than he did during the day." : Mr. Haynes said that all his rela-! tives are dead except a grand-daugh-1 ter who lives in Indianapolis. He has ; made his home in Richmond since 1891 when he and his brother bought j the old Baxter farm which is now j j West Richmond. Able to Get Around. I j When the reporter left, Mr. Haynes , walked to the edge of the porch with 1 him, saying. "You see I'm still able ' to get around."

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