Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 229, 4 August 1913 — Page 3

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, MONDAY, AUGUST 4, 1913

PAGE THREE

ORDERS

REDUCTIO

IN EXPRESS RATES

Twenty-five Per Cent Cut Provided By Commission's Ruling. (National News Association) WASHINGTON, Aug. 4. Completing an investigation covering a year In which the relations existing between . express companies and railroads were thoroughly inquired into, the interstate commerce commission today announced its findings. It figures rates on express matters which cut express revenues approximately 25 per cent. The report is a reiteration of an earlier report, but is more complete. It giveB a table of 650,000 rates as a basis for rate charges to every place in the United States and Its possessions. The order becomes effective on October 15 for a period of two years. The United States commission's plan is divided Into a block system, rates being fixed upon a determined basis for mileage and weight. Rates and charges are classified and the rules governing the delivery and pickup service have been revised and modified as has. been the requirement that each package shall have a label. In case of the shipment of perishable property, consisting of two or more packages, the commission decided that the label need be attached to only one package. , Lower Than Parcels Post. On the report comparison is made between express rates and parcel post rates on packages over four pounds when carried for distances of more than two hundred miles and less than 3,000. "Express rates," the , report states, "are generally lower than the parcel post rates." The report is largely devoted to a discussion of the showing made by express companies in opposition to the commission's plan of fixing rates. The commission, however, reiterates Its views expressed in a former report that the rates established by it are just and reasonable. The basis of the classification prescribed is that all articles of merchandise of ordinary value are to be carried at first class or ordinary merchandise rates. All articles of food and drink are second class and are to be carried at 75 per cent of the first class rate. Articles of extra ordinary value must be so declared at time of shipment.

I .NEWS OF THE RAILROADS ! i : . i

but after he obtained salve and liquid of some kind, he was able to return to his duttes.

RETURNS TO WORK

HAS APPENDICITIS

John Eaton, clerk In the office of Chief Dispatcher J. E. Foley, has returned tfi hid Hiltiaa afsi- n HlnAiia

. . I the Reid Memorial hospital suffering

ui MuUUi iwo aays. Air. Laton was taK-with appendicitis. An operation may en ill while working Saturday. 'be deemed necessary after an exami-

i nation by the physician.

PAY CAR COMES

The pay car will make its regular visit to Richmond today arriving here this afternoon. Early Tuesday morning it will leave and trainmen on the Richmond division between Richmond and Logansport will be paid.

I THISTLETH WAITE HERE

ARE CALLED AWAY

Fred Mann, representing the Broth- j erhood of Firemen; Roy Bryson, rep- j resenting the Brotherhood of Trainmen, and H. Hadley, representing the Brotherhood of conductors, were called to Pittsburg Sunday, and thefirst two left at 9 o'clock Sunday night. The purpose of their sudden call is not known even to members of the orders in Richmond.

ON RAILROAD ROW. E, Bartlett, engineer in the Ander-

I son yards has come down to inch- ! mood, bringing his engine which is in

Harry Thomas, Pennsylvania brake- need of repairs, man, who was taken ill at Kokomo has ; F E- Root and E- E- Toney. Pennsy returned to Richmond and is now in ' Bremen will leave soon on a trip to

Michigan where tney win camp ior a week or two. ; C. K. Alexander, Frank Weisgerber : and Charles F. Benner, all employed by the Pennsylvania railroad went to

Dayton Sunday In Alexander s automobile. Mr. Benner made the trip

; to purchase a Stoddard-Dayton car. Mark Thistlethvaito. private secre-j jame8 Gibson. Pennsylvania engitary to Vice President Thomas M. I np(r ha(, nurehased a Ford auto

in Richmond over ! tnhn Mnrean. vard brakeman i

back on duty after visiting in Cincinnati. Carl Houts, freight engineer of the Pennsy who was taken ill from the

J ' ' heat while cutting grass in his yard, JOHNNY RYMASTER !has returned to his duties.

Fritz Helstein, road brakeman of the Pennsylvania has learned of the death

. . . i. ... . i of his sister in Birmingham. Ala. BeAnd the hornets still pursued him! i . At , u , .,, . . I cause of the distance he will not be Johnny Bymaster , Pennsylvania abl to attend the funeral.

A LAPORTE MEETING

utJ- om,e lie switch j HOLADAY TO ATTEND

oaii lew on uis iuui dui ne uas recovered now. A. B. King who sustained a mashed toe some days ago will resume his work Tuesday morning it is expected.

I J. F. Holiday

i cirv:!f court, will attend the annual

i meetiuir of th? Indiana Shorthand re-;

The statement has been made that porters hich will b held at I-apcrt. j i August 23 and 26. Mr. Holiday is pre-1 life would be prolonged if persons I ident of t!le association. and ! would acquire the habit of stoomug ; Wjil deliver an address upon ! by the hips instead of bending the i civil service as it is re- j backbone. lated to shorthand writers. Others j

who will talk are- Judge Gallagher of Michigan City and Charles E, Weller of St. IxuU. As no definite program

i has hn arranged the metinK will be

reporter of the Wayne . terxnwl an -unconventional eonren-

tlon." The national association will hold its convention at Chicago on Akgust 18. 1. 20 and 21.

It is estimated that there are at least two million gasoline or oil engines at work on the farms of the United States.

Marshall, arrived

the Pennsylvania railroad at 9 o'clock this morning to attend the wedding of his sister. He leaves for Washington tonight.

WAS BADLY STUNG

Maud B. Booth "LITTLE MOTHER" Sunday. Aug. 17

The Greatest Yet

J' UDevys

Gov. Herbert S. Hadley Sun Jay, Aug. 31

BACK ON DUTY

B. Thomas, G. R. & I. brakeman, has returned to duty after attending the funeral of his mother.

OFF ON VACATION Operator C. E. Powers of Middletown is off on his vacation and visited the Pennsylvania offices today.

jaru Brahman, naa an experience re- j Vard Engineer Decker of the Pennsv cently which he never cares to have of Hamilton was a Sunday visitor repeated, and as a result his is nurs- here. ing a few wounds on his ears and ; Bert Ullom, switch tender of the back. ! Pennsylvania has resumed his duties The brakeman was working on a I after a few days illness. .

John A. Brown of the Pennsylvania freight deparjment with his sister, Mrs. Chrow and two children Grace and Albert have gone to Pittsburg to stay until September. M. W. Mungavin, dispatcher at the Pennsy offices has returned with his family from Cedar Point, Ohio where he spent his vacation. Mike Toohey, yard master is back

cut of cars on a hump near" the C. & O. railroad yards, and as he pulled a block from under a freight car wheel, he found he had struck a hornets' nest. He was not slow in making a get-away, but as he started to run he fell down, and by the time he regained his feet, he had been stung on ! the back and ears in several places. The pain was severe for some time,

Richmond Chautauqua

IS QUARANTINED George McKinney, stenographer .in the office of Superintendepts McCullough, is quarantined .in 1aff ji0in Oae of the members of his ,fmily?Ia 'ill

with a contagious di;

tSSB

C ED AR SPRINGS The prettiest place in Ohio for rest and recreation. Special at6: tentfon paid to auto parties and clubs. Dancing every Friday night. iSix miles from Richmond. CLDAR SPRINGS HOTEL CO., GEO. M. SMART, Manager.

Montraville Fowers READER Wednesday, Aug. 20.

SEASON TICKETS are now on Sale Price $2.00 A Limited Number from Guarantors, $1.50

Dr. Geo. R. Stewart LECTURER Monday, Aug. 25

PACKING GOLD LEAF.

r la "Handled," So to Speak, by the Aid of a Puff of Breath. . The gold reaches the "beaters" first In wide bars or nuggets. It must bo weighed, melted and made into inch wide ribbons before the "beating"' begins. The riblMu is then cut into inch squares and beaten with a hammer wielded - by a stalwarts workman. When each leaf has been beaten thin It is" transferred to a mold, where it is ben ten again for a period of four hours. The beating is accomplished by means of a woodeu hammer weighing from seven to eighteeu pounds on a sheepskin cushion resting on a granite block. The gold beaten is usually 22 or 23 carats fine. A little alloy of copper or silver is added to make it spread. It would be Impossible for the beaters to handle perfectly pure gold. Gold leaf is packed more by the aid of the breath than thnt of the hands. The operation of transferring a sheet of almost transparent gold leaf from one place to another is of such delicacy that it is possible to accomplish it only by a slight puff of the breath. The packers are for the most part girls, to whom." after beating, the gold leaf is handed. The girls lift the unshaped leaf from the mold with a pair of wooden pincers, flatten it out on a sheepskin cushion by gently blowing on it cut it Into a perfect square, replace it between the leaves of the book and flatten it out with the breath. A "book" consists of twenty-five leaves, and a skilled girl operator can pack seventy books in- day. Harper's Weekly.

LAYING A GHOST.

A Simple Solution to the Mystery of m "Haunted" House. The mystery of a "haunted" house was explained In a recent number of Science. It was a large, handsome structure in Boston's Back Bay district. The trouble centered in the third and fourth stories, where the slumbers of servants and children were disturbed by strange sensations. It was a common occurrence for them to awake in the night with a feeling of oppression, "as if some one were tapping upon me." Sounds also wer heard, as If some one were walking about or overhead. Once a child rushed screaming into the nurse's room, crying that a man was waking him up and asking why she let him frighten him so. In the morning the children were pale and sluggish, even cold wa ter lacking its usual power to enliven ' them. Investigation at length revealed a comparatively simple, mechanistic solution In the escape of a large amount of furnace gas. Often the sulphur in it was so strong as to make the eyes water and to hurt the throat, while the sensations of oppression were typical of carbon monoxide. The noises may hare been actual sounds coming from an adjoining house, although any noises at all would probably be exaggerated In the minds of persons awakened In the night while suffering from poisonous gas.

Every day Oynannax, France, prodaces fifteen thousand to eighteen thousand pounds of celluoid combs.

TRY COOPER'S BLEND COFFEE ft For Sal. at Cooper's Grocery

SIX MORE BARGAIN DAYS LOOM ENDS ALL WEEK

wm&WR&

TflMRE

Tlno Loom Eodl Store

ONE MORE CHANCE AT THE BIG LOOM END BARGAINS

ooinm EmcE bailee ComtlSinnuices A II II

uSs WeeIk:B IVffoipce OanpgjsiSini Days

iKSf I 1 OPPORTUNITY TO LJJ FOR"E. Sale Ends j lH 111 1H Hi Sale Ends

I Ml m W M kn l.J ."lEfSJ ... I I . TTJ MM I I

SATURDAY NIGHT August Sflft

SATURDAY NIGHT

August 9fh

TfflF

5 Aimimesil Leomni

Sane

OMMu jfflfflirwsu fl IRfflE

WW.

So familiar are the shoppers of this vicinity with ffie wonderful economy opportunities of this Big Bargain Event that the announcement of one of these events never fail to excite the highest interest and enthusiasm. The manufacturer's loss is the public's gain-why we can offer Loom Ends so cheap. Take advantage of this last opportunity to buy Calico, Ginghams, Muslins, Table Linen and in fact Loom Ends of all kind of Dry Gds.