Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 255, 3 September 1913 — Page 2

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PAGE TWO THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 3, 1913. NEW HAVEN WRECK ;. VICTIMS IDENTIFIED Pastor Says These Styles Will Bar New York Women From Heaven APPROPRIATION FOR MACHINES A RESULT OF SECRET CAMPAIGN (Continued from Page 1 ) THAW LOSES MOVE TO M IN JAIL Matteawan Fugitive Handsd Over to Immigration Officers. Federal Authorities Will Personally Probe Cause of Fatal Smash.

(National News Association) NEW IL..VEN, Conn.. Sept. 3 Only one body was left unidentified of the victims of the New Haven wreck when investigators completed their work late this afternoon. The unidentified person was a woman, who before she died in the hospital gave her name as "Mary Jane ," the last name being inaudible to the hospital attendants. Her home is Hartford, Conn. The fifteen seriously Injured in the local hospitals are reported as improving late today. Interest today is centering in the various investigations of the cause of the wreck, in which twenty-one persons lost their lives. Arrangements have been completed to ship all the identified bodies to their former homes. Encouraged Fast Speed. The fact that nine months have elapsed since the public utilities commission of Connecticut ordered the "banjo" style of signals be replaced by the semiphore system will be one of the points of interest to be developed by the investigation of Chief Engineer El well and others. The railroad will be asked to give details of its plans for carrying out these orders. Facts were brought out today to show that the New Haven road in order to accommodate the rush of returning vacationists, had encouraged high speed In spite of the fact that the Bar Harbor express and the White Mountain express were running over a division whose system of signals had been twice condemned. Interstate Commerce Commission.er McCord, who personally will probe the accident, will be on the ground before the inquest begins tomorrow. The federal government has demanded that the Pullman company furnish a list of parlor and sleeping cars in service, showing the exact proportion of wooden and steel coaches.

COMMISSION ORDERS HALT. WASHINGTON, Sept. 3 In reply to a telegram, sent by the Interstate Commerce Commission, to the officers of the New Haven Railroad company at Boston, demanding that all equipment Involved In the accident at WalHngford be preserved for inspection without repairs or changes, the following reply addressed to Commissioner McCord has been received: "Your message to preserve all equipment Involved In New Haven accident received and will have attention." WANTED Salesladies; experienced person preferred, at Knollenberg's Store. T IT A FIRE But Just Motorcycles That Were "Tuning Up." When Andrew Hamilton, 17 South Fourth street, arose this morning, he discovered that clouds of smoke were coming from a shed in the rear of a grocery at Fourth and Main streets. Hamilton telephoned to the fire department that there was a large fire and a special alarm was rung in from the No. 2 hose house. Drowning the noise made by the fire companies in arriving on the scene, the firemen heard tne unmuffled chugging of a number of engines. They ran into the shed and discovered through the dense cloud of smoke several motorcycle riders "tuning up" their machines, too much oil having been applied in the engines. The motor demons were ordered to work out their machines in a more conspicuous place in order that the smoke would not deceive people. ENTERS COMPLAINT; PROMPTLY ARRESTED With a complaint that two suit cases had been .stolen from him while he was drinking in a saloon, William O'Conner came into police headquarters yesterday afternoon and demanded that, his property be recovered and the saloon keeper arrested. The police made the investigation, but first locked up the complainant on a charge of public intoxication. O'Conner's suit cases were found in a second hand store, where he himself had left them. They contained more than 100 paint brushes which the man claims he secured from the Dayton flood. It Is believed he stole them, but as the police have no proof, he cannot be held on the larceny charge. He was fined $1 and costs for public intoxication and committed to the county jail for eleven days in default of the honey. PRESIDENT FEARED MEXICAN OUTBREAK (National News Association) WASHINGTON, Sept. 3. The real reason for President Wilson's recent message to congress in which he strongly recommended that all Americans leave Mexico at once, was fear of an anti-foreign outbreak, which might cost the lives of huudreds of Americafts before the United States could provide protection. This was acknowledged by state department officials today who said the President had reason to fear an outbreak of this nature and that his recommendation was made at the instance of Envoy Lind, William Bayard Hale and other Americans who had an opportunity personally to investigate conditions in Mexico.

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Left to right: The Slit Skirt, the Pantaloon Skirt, the Transparent Skirt, the Kneelet Gown. According to the Rev. Dr. Len G. Broughton, pastor of Christ Church, Westminster, London, who delivered a sermon recently in New York on the subject, "Shall we meet our beloved ones in Heaven?" the styles worn by New York women today bar them from Heaven. He told his audience that women are wearing these extreme fashions so that they will be the subjects of gossip. "I am sure that the Devil is having a carnival with these styles worn by women on the streets of New York," he declared. "The women appear to be no longer interested in clothing, but in the lack of it."

HAAS SAYS MACHINES PRACTICAL (Continued from Page One) day and recommended by them to the county council for favorable action, tomorrow. The plan of purchase being the same as that submitted in 1909, in substance, that payments on the machines shall not exceed the amount of saving made over the old system of voting, which would consequently not require any additional appropriation above the usual amount expended for the biennial elections. We therefore recommend that a copy of this report, together with the data accumulated by the secretary be sub-1 mitted to the county council for their inspection and also that the attention ! of th council he aeain called to the resolutions submitted in 1909, as reflecting the sentiment of this board. Respectfully submitted, "E. M. HAAS." Club's Letter to Council. The Commercial club directors' communication, submitted to the Wayne county council, follows: The Richmond Commercial club has I for several years interested itself in j the matter of voting machines, and j knowing that the subject will again I be considered at your regular August session, have secured additional data relative thereta. A special committee appointed to keep in touch with this matter, made . a report at the regular session of the ; board of directors last evening, and j brought in certain recommendations which were adopted by the board. The committee was instructed by the board to present the entire collection of reports on the subject to your body for examination, and we take pleasure in submitting the same, and request that all these papers be returned for the files of the club when you have passed on the subject. Respectfully, E. M. HAAS. RICHARD SEDGWICK, W. H. QUIGG. DEATH RATE AMONG BABES IS HEAVIER According to Henry J. Pohlmeyer, of the firm of Wilson, Pohlmeyer & j Downing, undertakers, the death rate (among infants is much greater this ! summer than this time last year. Dur ing the past week and the three days of this week, out of eleven deaths re- ; ported, six were infants. Mr. PohlI meyer said: "We always expect a

ing the summer months, but since the!3 held thi3 afteon the Episco-jsame

.pure food laws have been enforced, ! this rate has diminished greatly. This ! year is unusually hard on the babies. however." Dr. J. E. King, county health officer, stated that he had met the r'ort Wayne health officer last week at Buffalo and the latter had stated the death rate among infants was alarmting in his city. "The cause for the ! unusual amount of deaths." said Dr. i King, "is said to be a brand of con- ' densed milk, which is used extensively in feeding babies." GILES WILL SPEAK ON SEX EDUCATION "Sex Education" will be the subject of a talk to be delivered by Superintendent J. T. Giles before the memi bers of the men's class of the Sunday school of the First M. E. church Sunday morning at 9:30. During this talk Mr. Giles will explain to the fathers the necessity of the introduction of the study of sex hygiene in the public schools of the city.

BIG ASSESSMENTS ON COUNTY ROADS Greene Township People to Pay 37 Cents Tax on New Road There.

As the result of the compiling of the report of roads being built in Wayne county in preparing the macadam road levy, residents of Greene and Wayne townships will keenly realize the existence of the three mile gravel road law when they pay their taxes. The assessment In Greene township per $100 for thia fund w,u be thlrtv.8even cents- while in Wayne township, Richniona ana opnng Urrove, me assess-

ment per $100 will be twenty-four j The corporation tax in Richmond is cents. j $1.10 per $100, the state tax forty and The construction of the Scantlon j one-tenth cents per $100; township road in Greene township resulted in an,'road tax twenty-four cents per $100; assessment of twenty-five cents per I school tax ninety-one cents per $100; 1100 to that townRhin. The R R fimr ' the county tax levy, forty-six and

road cost Greene township eight cents more per $100, and another levy of three cents per $100 resulted from the construction of the Morrison road. The roads in Wayne township, Richmond and Spring Grove which resulted in the levy of twenty-four cents per $100 are: South L street road, one cent per $100, National Road West, four cents; Easthaven avenue, two I cents; Liberty pike, four cents; North Tenth street, Spring Grove road, three cents; Charles Minor road, four cents; and the National road East, six cents, making a total of twenty-four cents per $100. All the roads being built in Wayne county were petitioned for under the three-mile road law, which law provides that the taxpayers of the cities in the townships where the roads are being constructed shall pay a certain per cent of the cost of building the roads. Most of the roads which are built in Wayne township have been paid for largely by the residents of this city. The Washington township road recently constructed resulted in he levy of thirteen cents per $100 in that township. This was the only road con structed there this vear. The corporation of Whitewater pays a tax of eleven cents per $100 on the C. L. Wright road. PHYSICIANS HOLD MONTHLY MEETING The regular monthly meeting of the Wayne County Medical association palian parish house on North A street. No business of importance was trans acted, the meeting being given over 10 reacting or various papers on sub jects of interest to physicians followed by general discussions. The following papers were read: "Female Diseases," Dr. F. R. Charl ton, Indianapolis; "Careenoma of the' Stomach," Dr. O. N. Deardoff, Hagerstown; "Typhoid Fever," Dr. W. T. Fisher, Centerville; "Neurasthenia," Dr. Mary Wickens, Easthaven. COMMITTEE GOES TO SEE CARNIVAL Charles Jordan, Will Romey and Fred J. Bartel. representing the executive committee of the Fall Festival went to Mishawaka to see the McGrail shows, a Carnival company with whom the committee has a provisional contract for the Festival. The provision in the contract is that it will be binding if the shows meet the approval of the committee, otherwise it will be cancelled.

TAX ON PROPERTY TO BE INCREASED Seventeen Cents Added to the Richmond Rate to Meet This Tax.

The tax on each assessable $100 worth of property in Richmond in 1913 will be $3.lV, an increase of seventeen cents over 1912. The reason for the increase is that a raise of seven and one-quarter cents per hundred dollars was made in the state levy, one and three-quarters cents in the county levy and a seven cent increase was made in the township macadam road levy.

! nine-tenths cents per $100; township ' ingg and fences on the farm and we : 1,1brary tax three centB Per 100 andtook charge of the farm too late in Poor assessment, two cents per the season to put out crops this year

$100, making an aggregate tax for 1913 of $3.17 on each assessable $100 in Wayne county. DRAY CRUSHES ARM OF BOY IN FALL John Sullivan, Jr., 11 years old, son of John Sullivan, residing on North A street, sustained a fracture of the left elbow Tuesday morning, when he fell off a dray. Loosing his hold on the vehicle, young Sullivan fell directly in front of another dray which passed over his arm. SANCTUARY LAMP A VALUABLE ONE The sanctuary lamp which was hung last week in the new St. Mary's thurch is one of the finest of its kind in the state. The lamp burns with oil and is always placed before the "Blessed Sacrament." It Is kept con . tinually burning throughout the year, The work of placing the pews has almost been finished. The church will approximately 1.000 people and 111 De Pnea ln ucioDer. GOLF TOURNAMENT Play for the president's cup, which will be a handicap event, will start th tinka nf tho RifhmnnH rir,ti-i-club Saturday. Play for the woman's ; club championship will also start the day. A runners up cup will be ; offered in the men's event. j TRAIN ROBBER DIES? NEVER TOLD A LIE (National Xews Association) MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga Sept. 3. Bill Minor. 76, notorious train robber, dfed at the state prison farm early today. Minor was one of the most notorious train robbers in the country, having been a member of the Jesse James band. He boasted of many train robberies, but said he had never taken a human life or told a lie. TEAMS WILL CLASH (National News Association) WASHINGTON. Sept. 3 Acting j Secretary of War Brechenridge, after a conference with the directors of the West Point and Annapolis Athletic associations, announced that the annual football game between the army and the navy would be played at the Polo grounds. New York, November.

IS HIGHEST LUCAS FARM BIDDER Offers $29 an Acre for 110 Acres, and Court Must Sanction Sale Now. A large crowd attended the sale of the Seth Lucas "murder" farm which took place yesterday afternoon at two o'clock. The farm is in a neglected condition, no crops having been raised on it for two years, the house burned down completely, and the barn only partly standing. The entire 110 acres were sold at $29 an acre to Mr. Hoover, of Greensfork. This price is below two-thirds the value of the farm and the fcourt must approve of the sale before it becomes effective. Whether the court will approve is not known. "The farm should bring a greater price than $29 an acre, I think," said Sanford Henning, trustee for the es tate. "There are practically no build-1 but the land itself should bring more than the Hoover bid. Superstition and the association of the land with Lucas' crime may be responsible for the low bids, but no evidence of such feelings among the bidders was apparent during the sale." WILSON RETURNS Katlonal News Association) WASHINGTON, Sept. 3. After spending three days' vacation at his summer home in New Hampshire, President Wilson returned to Washington at 11:30 o'clock today and was soon at his desk in the White House. CHARLETON HOPEFUL (National News Association) COMO, Italy, Sept. 3. Judge Charleton, father of Porter Charleton, the ; young American wife slayer, said today he believed his son would be acquitted. Judge Charleton held another conference with Signer Mellini and afterwards stated that from an im- ; P"ai P". 1 cnarieion s GIFTS TO EMPLOYES (National News Association) SOUTH BEND, Ind.. Sept. 3. Gifts of approximately $150,000 were allWyman Dry Goods store and friends of George Wyman, pioneer merchant who died recently. Twenty employes of the store received checks for a thousand dollars each. Cash girls got checks for $50. FIRE THREATENS TO WIPE OUT LYNN (Palladium Special)

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lynn, ind.. sept. 3 a are thatjE. T. Bass, Secretary threatened to destroy a large part of i the town burned two w-oodshed3 and j

a barn on South Garfield street at midnight last night. Nearby houses caught several times, but the blaze was put out before doing serious damage. The property which was burned belonged to Ves Hill, John Martin and Luke Nichols. The fire is supposed to have started in a trash pile near the Hill woodshed. The scene of the Are is within 200 feet of the fire earlier in the summer which destroyed the residences of Ervln Daily and Adah Flerson. San Francisco's police force of 944 men costs $1,505,020 a year to main - tain.

the county council yenterday in support of the voting machines, was signed by the following officers and directors of the club : J. F. McCarthy, president; Walter H. Bates, chairman protein; numbers of the board present, J. F. McCarthy, John H. Nicholson (the local representative of the Empire Voting Ma

chine company. Pettis A. Reid. Henry Gennett. E. W. Craighead. Walter II Bates. Howard A. Dill. Nettleton Noff. and A. L. Jenkins; members of the board not prestnt but concurring, George E. Seidel, Sharon E. Jones. Hans N Koll. George U. Dilks. S. E Swayne and George H. Knollenberg. j The special committee of the Commercial club, which has been investi-

gating the voting machine qiif stion re- j readiness to eue Thaw the minute cently and on whose report the board ! he ta freed on the writ The case of of directors acted In urging the corn- ' "Educated" Roger Thompson, the ty commissioners and members of tne ; chauffeur who drove Thaw away from county council to purchase the ma- , Matteawan asylum was again adjournchines, were E. M. Haas, chairman, j ed for one week. Contrary to expeeRlchard Sedgwick and W. H. Quigg. j tations. Thompson was in court when A trick was attempted by the rep- his name was called.

resentatives of the company in the preparation of the resolution. In the original resolution no amount was named as interest on deferred pay - ments and hen it was presented to i the council for action the words "5 per cent" interest were Inserted. W. H. Cook, a member of the council objected strenuously to the 5 per cent ) clause stating that the county could borrow all the money it wanted at per cent. Mr. Cook stated that he had had an understanding with Mr. Davis last week that the interest rate should be 4V per cent. Messrs. Cook' and Robinson refused to vote on the j resolution until the rate of interest ! was changed. The resolution passed ! at the 4 per cent rate. At South Bend. Indiana, at the time i the question of voting machines was i under discussion, the makers of all j voting machines were invited to take

part in the demonstration. The repre-ance Convention of Indiana. William sentatives of each of the companies j II. Dunlng. Jr.. was a member of the demonstrated how the other makes of ! committee on schools, which appromachines could be manipulated. j priated. $250 to tx used In the main-

The Empire machine was shown by the representatives of the Internation al machines to be impracticable. South Bend Investigation. It was shown that the paper roll can. be moved without the manipulation of the levers, thus enabling one man to cast more than one vote wlth-

out the Judges knowledge. This, It j raise funds with which to erect a Gerwas claimed. Is done by lifting the man House on the campus of the Unlcover of the slots and pushing the pm- versity at Bloomlngton. This house per on with the fingers. As the ma-1 would be the home of Germans and all chine is surrounded by a curtain j students or the language who cared to which excludes the voter from Tiew it speak it exclusively while there. Repwas declared that plural voting in this resentatlves of the Alliance have almanner would be very simple. ready. Mr. Dunlng states, secured the The International representatives , promi8e cf the trustees of a suitable also showed how the candidate could ,ot upon whlch to erect th tuning.

be deprived of votes which were In tended for him. This was accomplished, it was claimed, by slipping a rubber band over the hub of one of the keys used to register an Irregular vote and over the knob of the adjoining one, the candidates whose names appeared behind those keyB could be I cut out without the voter's notice

when he draws his finger along thejthat no action of n kind hon,d b line of keys, according to the instruc- j uken to Influence the political or retions which go with the machine. UWous faith of its members, but that This method of defrauding the elec- thel should make an attempt to reach

tors of votes which they believe they are casting is said to have been used in recent elections at Buffalo on the United States Standard machines which are also manufactured by the Empire company. It is also claimed that the Empire machine Is in direct violation of the Indiana election laws as the machines may be opened at any time during the day of election, No Machines for Laporte. v-to,- , - ' . ., .. luuui; (.uuutii ric tuuug an . T ...

Indiana, were dissuaded from making as on the one. were stolen. Paan appropriation of $30,000 to pur-jtroIman ogelsongs daughter Is one chase the machines for that county. iof the heaviest losers, pennants and President Arthur Taylor, of the coun-i fe,t blankets valued at $15 having ty election board was instrumental in ben Uken from her- The Patrolman having the appropriation stopped. The j has uncovered a clue, but as the peraction came as a result of public opln-, ons believed to have stolen the propion following the investigation of thejerty are not likely to leave the city, sale of the machines to the Cook coun-, he has made no arrests and believes ty, Illinois, election board and the St. : that many of the pennanU will be vol-

Joseph county, Indiana, board. The announcement in Chicago papers of the day before that the company that was trying to sell the machines to La

porte count,, cue empire voung The month,T settlment was mad chine company had sold out to a com-' of ,he neB w1lect durlBg the netitor was offered as an additional I momh of Augu According to 8erreason for stopping the purchase. geant McNayi p.rson9 paIi flDP,. ! which, with one $100 bond forfeiture, NOTICE TO ALL DELEGATES Amounted to $345. of which the pros-

TO RICHMOND CENTRAL LABOR COUNCIL.

iuu arc iirrcuj irqucsitru i" j and one dismissed. There were 73 arbe present at a special meeting 'rests during the mon.h. Three of at T. M. A. hall, 8182 Main! these were women, one a girl and the street, at eiRrtt o'clock this even-! rmindr mn by

ing. An emergency exists that I demands the serious considera tion of the labor interests of the city. Signed Otto Biessman, Vice Pres. City Statistics Deaths and Funerals. METZGER Wilbur William Mettger. aged three months, died Wednesday morning at the home of his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Metzger, 610 South C street. Besides the parent the child is survived by one slater. The funeral will be held Friday afternoon at two o'clock at St. AnI drews church. The burial will be in j St. Andrews cemetary. I call at any time. Friends may

BULLETIN. SHER BROOKE, S.pt 3 Judse Hutchinson nia'.ntainevt tho writ cf habeas corpus and ordered that Harry Thaw bo set free, taker, in charge ty the immigration authorities and ent

to Coaticook. K. Sept Thi! SUKK HKtH'K K, Sept .. lhl was the critical day of Harr Thaw's fUht j against deptrtation frim I'anada ; Judee Hutchinson w ho hoard the argu ments on the writ of habeas corpus sworn out by Constable Boudreau of Coaticook intimated that he would hand down a lUctsion this afteriuxMi either sustaining or quashing the writ. Officials of the Canadian immigration department, held themselves In , Judge Muldane announced that j Thompson could not be tried so long as Thaw's case was in abeyance, 1 There was a conference of Thaw's : lawyers today to discuss applying for ' an injunction to keep Thaw out of the ; hands of the immigration authorities. ; WANTED Maid to assist with upstairs work. Call telephone 2240. 4 ,f FOR GERMAN HOUSE On the Campus at Indiana University. As a delegate to the German A tenance of the German school for teachers and students, which has been organized and conducted at the State University during the last two summers. Only students of German lived in one of the dormitories, where German was spoken all the time. This is a part of a movement to The executive commtttee was authorized to organize finance committees in territories having branches of the Alliance, to raise the funds. Oscar Taur. the other delegate from the local societies, was placed on the committee on athletics. It was the sense of the convention each individual through culture. PENNANTS STOLEN FROM MANY TENTS It has been reported to the police that between 60 and 75 pennants were stolen from tents at the Chautauqua and an Investigation f'belng Wade to ' discover the thief.,-W value of the 'Pennants Is estimatetflt $150, some of them being expensive ones. Whoever the thief was, the police say, he prob'ably intends to sell the stolen banners i untarily returned. FINAL SETTLEMENT t.H r ftft)rnav pacI vaA 1 KK for thh month. There were 5 cases tried, out of which ther were 52 prosecuROAD BONDS SOLD The MoiTison road bonds for the road In Wayne county were sold yesterday afternoon to Robert Ashe. Ashe was the only bidder on the Wayne county bonds, which were twenty in number and brought six dollars more than the par value of tha i entire allotment. The par value is i$133 per bond. j The Morrison road extends along the northern boundary of Wayne and ! Randolph counties. The Randolph I county bonds were advertised bat Iwere not sold, no bids being submit ! ted. MEETS THURSDAY The Woman's Aid Society of Reid Memorial Hospital will meet Thursday afternoon ith Mrs. Gertrude Henley at her home, 41 Sooth Seven teenth street.