Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 265, 15 September 1913 — Page 4

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, MONDAY, SEPT. 15, 1913

The Richmond Palladium AND SUN-TELEGRAM.

Published Every Evening Except Sunday, by Palladium Printing Co. Masonic Building. Ninth and North A Streets. R. G. Leeds, Editor. E. H. Harris, Mgr.

In Richmond, 10 cents a week. Br Mall, In advance one year, $5.00; six months, J8.60; one month. 45 cents. Rural Routes, In advance one year, 12.00; six months, Jt.25; one month 25 cents. Entered at th Post Off Ice at Richmond. Indiana, as Sc end Class Mall Matter.

Voting Machines and Depreciation Everything wears out. There comes a time in the life of every necessary thing; when it must be replaced by new. At some inevitable time, clothing1, houses, furniture, machinery, horses and streets will cease to be usable. How shall the new be purchased? This is the question which every user of a necessary thing must face. At this time there are two general ways in use among people everywhere. Of these two the commoner seems to be the method of borrowing money when the old is worn out in order to buy a new to take its place. This money may be borrowed from a friend, a bank, a loan company, or some similar institution. After the new article is purchased in this way and during the use of it the user of it pays interest on his loan and

finally the loan itself. Cities have very largely used this method in the past for replacing outworn public utilities. If the city waterworks equipment has worn out, the city has bonded itself to secure the money to pay for a new plant. We are now beginning to see that this, though it may have some minor conveniences, is really a most unbusiness-like way of doing business. Business authorities and industrial experts and accountants are universally condemning it. They are pointing out that it is poor policy for one thing because it doesn't make it sure that a city will be. in a position where it is able to purchase a new plant or even to borrow the money. If the Richmond municipal light plant wore out next year, we might find not enough money in our treasury to build a new one and we might already be so heavily bonded that the state would not permit us to issue new bonds. It would therefore be necessary either to let some private corporation erect the plant and run it or to tolerate the imperfect service which the old might still be able to give. These business experts also show that the city loses money by this old method of bonding itself to build new plants. Interest must be paid cn the loans and thus the city loses that amount. If we borrow $2,000 at 6 per cent to buy an automobile and have to pay 6 per cent for four years on it, we have paid out at the end of that time not only the original $2,000, but also the accumulated interest wThich amounts in this case

to no less than $524.84. Thus by borrowing the money we have made our machine cost us $524.84 more than it would had we paid cash for it. When a city borrows money to build a waterworks plant it pays out for it more than it is actually worth the amount of interest paid on the loan. The new and more business-like method of purchasing a new equipment when the old is worn out, is to establish a depreciation fund. A depreciation fund is a fund in which money is placed at regular intervals in order to save up against the time when the new plant must be built. In order to raise this money the rates are so adjusted on the electricity, water, or whatever service may be sold by the publicly owned plant that a surplus will be found to place to the credit of the depreciation account. In other words every citizen using the service pays a small sum each year toward the new plant which will be bought in the future.

This fund is quite different from maintenance: that includes cost of operation, repairs, and similar expenses. The maintenance cost is charged up against the annual general expenses of running the plant: the depreciation fund has nothing to do with the cost of operation. It is simply a savings fund being accumulated against the time of purchase of a new equipment. The method most in vogue for calculating the amount of money necessary for depreciation is to determine the life of the plant and its cost for installation when new and to divide the value when new by the number of years of life. That gives the average amount per year which must be set aside for replacing the plant when worn

out. Using this method, if we wish to buy an automobile when our present machine is scrapped, we determine how long we may expect our present machine to last, how much a new one will cost and will then divide the cost of the new by the number of years our present machine will wear out, and will then set aside that amount each year in our depreciation account. If, in instance, our present machine will last four years, and a new one will cost $2,000, we will lay aside each year $500. At the end of four years we will be able to buy a new machine for cash and so save interest on a loan. Not only will this make it possible for us to buy a new car just when we need it, and also save us the interest, it will make the car cost even less because for the fouryears we will be draw

ing interest on the $500 we place in our depreciation account. If we place $500 per year to that account, we will save in interest for four years, calculating at 4 per cent., no less than $131.21. Our car, therefore, will actually cost us, then, only $1,868.69. If it would have cost us $2,584.84 by borrowing the money, and if by using a depreciation fund we get it for $1,868.69, it is plain to see that we have saved the difference between these two figures which is $656.15. By using the new method we get our automohilA RfiZfiAa rhpaner than bv usincr the old. And

what is true of the auto is equally true of a city gas plant or electric plant or water-works, or any other public utility. State legislatures have seen the superiority of doing business this way so clearly that in many instances they have compelled cities to use the depreciation fund method. Our own state, we are glad to say, has done so. We hold that what is true of a city electric light plant would also be true of a county's voting machine outfit if it purchased one. At the end of twenty years a new equipment would have to be bought. We hold that the one businesslike and economical method of purchasing the new is to establish a depreciation fund. But where will this money come from. There are no rates paid for the use of the voting machine: therefore it can only come from taxes. And that means that when we are calculating the average yearly cost of the device to this

county we must include the depreciation fund. If we buy $21,000 worth of machinery and if it will last twenty years, we must set aside a yearly sum of $1,050, minus the interest it would draw which any one with more time than we have may compute at his leisure.

CHICAGO ROUSED BY MACHINE CONTRACT

Newspapers and Public Protest Against Purchase of Device.

COSTS THE CITY $942,500

Commissioners Rush Closing

of Big Deal One Opposes Move.

smaller concerns; Bonds required were! love Interest is distinctly human and I players at th Murray theatre all next

is beautifully blended with the more i hb tne usual matinees ana to dominant note of religious faith. The i any one who previously witnessed this play is gorgeously staged and cos-! clever company's performance of "The turned each of the five stage set-; Ucn c -Mouse" by the same autings surpassing anything of the kind . lhor th 7 ,heIr . . . . i meut it will be needless to assure

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NO PLACE LIKE HOME.

Indianapolis News. With out rapidly changing life the question of housing becomes increasingly difficult. The ideal, whether it be a cottage or a mansion or a flat, is a complete apartment wherein the whole of a family life can be preserved to itself. But behind all this is the desire for an independent privacy that shall make a real home in the good old sense of our institutions that a man's house is his castle. It is having striking proof in New York, where that attainment even for the rich is growing more difficult. Some time ago an elaborate scheme called the "Home Club" was organized there. The house in East Fortysecond street cost a million dollars. It was in fact a cooperative home, and an attempt to revolutionize home life or home itself along those lines. The building, of course, included every convenience and luxury that modern devices could offer. The seven upper floors were laid out in individual apartments, in each of which the original owner had full scope to gratify his idiosyncrasies. That is every such apartment was precisely as its owner wanted it. None had to take another's designs. The two lower floors of the building were used for the club features, which included different drawing rooms, smoking rooms, library, dining room and kitchen. The institution was to offer "all the comforts of home" with none of its annoy

ances. There were only seven partners in this co-operative home. But the idea did not work out. Somehow one after another became dissatisfied. The home idea had been left out. The families were not in homes. They were in a club. They dined and diverted themselves in the

common or club parts of the building, being able only to go apart and be in the semblance of a home when they withdrew to the "pigeon holes," however large and luxurious these might be. The end came. All agreed to sell out and turn their club or co-operative home into a business office building. It is a most striking proof that with us, our race, the "home" still lives unconquerable. We cling tenaciously to a place that we call home, where the family may withdraw itself in all its life and relations. The New York experiment has attracted much attention. And it is well that it has. Our race will have its home. The family is our foundation. There are four walls within which it is sufficient unto itself. And this it will have whether poor and meager or full and rich paying the price at whatever self-sacrifice.

THE GATHERING

Time rolls his ceaseless course The race of yore, Who danced our infancy upon their knee, And told our marveling boyhood legends store, Of their strange ventures happen b land or sea How are they blotted from the things that be! How few, all weak and withered of their force, Wait on the verge of dark eternity, Like stranded wrecks, the tide returning hoarse. To sweep them from our sight! Time rolls his ceaseless course.

When Judge Cooper gave instruc

tions to the grand jury investigating

the Chicago voting frauds, he recom

mended that they appoint a special

committee to examine the deal wherein Chicago made a contract with the

Empire Voting Machine company of

Jamestown. New York. For two

months this committee has been in

vestigating the deal from beginning to end. With former governor Deneen

as legal advisor and with three of the best mechanical experts in Illinois to

give testimony, the committee has

made exhaustive researches in the his

tory of the entire case.

In January, 1911, County Judge Owens, urged the election commissioners to purchase voting machines for Cook county. It was this which led the commissioners to give a contract to the "Empire" company for one thousand machines to be delivered in lots of two or three hundred, and to cost the city $r42,:00. After the election frauds of last fall, inquiry began as to the manner in which the deal had been put through. All the Chicago papers with the exception of W. R. Hearst's Examiner, demanded that a plain statement be made to the people or that an investigation be conducted. In response to this demand, the Butts committee was appointed. Begins Negotiations. It seems that in the latter part of 1910, W. H. Barr, a representative of the Empire concern called on T. H. Pickler, formerly mayor of Ottumwa, Iowa, and it is said he told him he was trying to arrange to make an opening for his machine in Chicago. But the voting machine had been turned down

in Chicago he said, by every previous election board and it would be necessary to "get around" the present board, composed of Messrs. Taylor, Kellerman and Czarnecki. He told Pickler, so it was brought out, if he could find two other "friends" to assist him and would "pave the way" into the confidence of the Chicago commissioners, the Empire company would pay them $1,500, as a 'brokerage' fee. A contract was made and signed by the three Ottumwa men and Agent Barr. This was produced before the Butts committee and the whole story given to a sub-committee which examined the men at Ottumwa, and by Pickler himself. In January, 1911, Judge Owens began to work on the election commissioners. Taylor and Kellerman took kindly to the deal from the beginning but the Republican member, Czarnecki, fought it stubbornly at every step. Representatives of the 'Empire' concern

often called upon the commissioners, upon Andy Iawrence, manager of Hearst's Examiner, and upon a number of the managers of Hearst's Democratic machine. Oppose Machines. When it was learned that the voting machine question was again up, every paper in Chicago except the Examiner began to fight it. Citizens held protest meetings, filed protests and made it known in every possible way that they objected to the use of voting machines. The Chicago. Bureau of Pub

lic Efficiency vigorously joined in the fight. But in spite of all protest the election commissioners, by a vote of two to one decided to call for bids.

Specitications were drawn up and

bids were advertised for. Some thirty

or more concerns went after the big job. But the board allowed only twen

ty-five days in which the competing

concerns could make their investigations, draw up their plans and submit i

their estimates. Several filed com

plaints against the election board for

the too brief time permitted but to no avail.

When the bids began to come in it

began to appear that the specifications had automatically eliminated all but two companies, one of which was the

Empire. ' Good faith" checks, it seems, were made altogether too steep for the

too high and the limited time made it

next to impossible for any except the very biggest to attempt to meet the specifications.

Mr. Czarnecki. it seems, opposed the proceedings at every step, but the other two members stood firm against

him. And all the Chicago papers, except the Examiner, tried to block the

movements of the board. Contract Signed.

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wnicn ine r-mpire company was to ueliver to the city of Chicago 1.000 machines for a lump sum of $$42,500. Many citizens endeavored to ascertain why Ohicaeo paid $i42 "0 for the same machines which are sold everywhere else for $7fi, but their efforts were fruitless. And others, according to the records, attempted to learn why the contract was at such wide variance with the specifications, but again their e! forts were wasted. The specifications called for the delivery of 200 machines within four months after the signing of the contract; the contract itself called for the delivery of maChines in eight months; the specifications called for 300 in the second delivery nine months alter the first, while the contract called for 300 in fifteen months after first delivery. When questioned about it, before the Butts committee. Mr. Taylor said that they

had considered the specifications

Officer 666." Officer 666." the rday that

just as pretentious a production and

has ! tails as all the previous efforts of this

been written and talked about more company have exerted

than any other theatrical production

the amusement field in will be presented at the

Gennett theatre tonight. The piece, by Augustln Macllugh. is full of extraordinary surprises and clean fun that keeps its audience in a constantly expectant attitude and almost continuous laughter. It Is. in fact, a melodramatic farce quite out of the ordinary, and furnishes more

Paltcs. For today's feature the Palace present a Irving Cummins in the- Reliance f.lm. "Between Home and Country."" a tense. thrtUing civil way story, with strong dramatic situations artistically presented by a splendid cast of Rl:anc stars. With this is. shown the Thanhouser film. "Taming T"Jir Grand

delightful bit Vjcoraedy.

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thrills and tense moments man one f04turins: the "Thanhvuser Kid ' On ; can realize as emanating from a sin- the same bUl is the Majestic drama. ' gle evening's entertainment. j -The Frame-up " Wednesday will he : offered the three-ret Thanhous r ! Wildfire Tonight. ' thriller. "The Message to Headquari "Wildfire" is what might be termed ters." a sort of armor-plated, double-rivet el .

comedy. It is more or less actor-proof A large part of the humor of the play and some of the situations are so good that a phonograph mounted on a clothes poles could make a success of it. providing the proper rec

ords were furnished

The Francis Sayles players will ot-

som'ewhat as a matter of form and not fer this excellent comedy at the Mur-

at all binding, either on themselves or ray theatre all this week, starting with on the company. It was shown that the performance tonight, the election .commissioners returned The production will be one of the the blue-prints, prepared at consider- best of the season and each member able cost, to several of the competing of the company will be seen to good companies unopened. When asked to advantage. explain this Mr. Taylor said they , Three new members will be seen for hadn't nut much stock in blue-prints, the first time in Richmond tonight.

Hal Worth, the new Juvenile man. hU Clarke Lilley. and Miss Bernice Cooper. The first matinee of the week will be given tomorrow.

"is far

"A man on the field," he said.

better than a blue-print." In the course of the investigation it was brought out that no definite agreement had been made with the Empire company as to the terms of payment, for the machines. Mr. Taylor said the commissioners believed the city council would fix up an agreeable method of payment after the machines had been delivered.In all the testimony given before the committee the most startling was that by E. E. Marriot who testified that Mr. Barr, representative of the Empire company had told him. "It cost us something like $200,000 to place the machines in Chicago. Of this, Mr. Marriott asserted $115,000 went to Andy Lawrence, manager of Hearst's Examine r.

At the Murray. Week of September 15 "Wildfire."

At the Gennett Tonight 'Officer 666." September 18 'The Light Eternal.'

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Yet live there still who can remember well. How, when a mountain chief his bugle blew, Both field and forest, dingle, cliff, and dell,

And solitary heath, the signal newAnd fast the faithful clan around him drew, What time the warning note was keenly wound. What time aloft their kindred banner flew, While clamorous war-pipes yelled the gathering sound, And while the fiery cross glanced, like a meteor, round. Sir Walter Scott.

POINTED PARAGRAPHS

Philadelphia Inquirer. No man ever knows what a woman is going to do until she does it, and even then he doesn't know why.

BILL OUGHT TO FEEL RIGHT AT HOME. New York Telegram. Secretary of State Bryan will appear In a tent with jugglers and xylophone players all tricks and noise.

i jn, i pin i iuunia run ii.

Cleveland Plain Dealer. Secretary Daniels is writing a life of President Wil

son. There's more than one way to make oneself solid

with the chief.

POLITICAL SACRIFICES Chicago Record-Herald.

La Follette says he voted for the Wilson-Underwood

tariff bill at a political sacrifice. He may find later that It was one of the most profitable sacrifices he ever made.

The Light Eternal. "The Light Eternal," a spectacular drama of the early Christian era, having much in common with plays of a more modern theme when viewed from a purely dramatic standpoint will be offered at the Gennett theatre on Thursday evening. September 18, for a return engagement. Its scenes are intense and its oil maxes thrilling In the extreme; its

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Murrette. "Fortune's Turn." a beautiful Vitagraph drama, is one of the pictures shown at the Murrette today. The story is one that will appeal to all classes, showing an unfortunate man mit nf n Inh 1'n-ihle In find work he

becomes desperate, seeing a house de-!

serted by its occupants for the evening, he decides to rob it, but is seen by two policemen, who give chase, trying to escape he runs into a burning building just in time to save a small child from death. In his efforts to save the child he is severely burned. He recovers and his heroic work wins a pardon for attempted robbery and also wins the widowed mother of the child he saved. Today is rathe weekly day.

The Third Degree. The best of all high finance and political graft dramas. Charles Kleln'B modern" play. "The Third Degree," w ill be the offering of the Francis Sayles

MURRAY ALL THIS WEEK Francis Sayles' Players In Lillian RuBsell'a Racing Comedy, "WILDFIRE" Prices: Matinees, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, 10c and 20c; nights at 8:15. prompt, 10c, 20c and 30c. Next Week: "The Third Degree.

PALACE

TODAY "Between Home and Country" Reliance Drama "THE FRAME-UP Majestic Drama "TAMING THEIR GRANDCHILDREN" Thanhouser Comedy Wednesday: "The Message to HEADQUARTERS

MURRETTE TODAY ! PATHE WEEKLY FORTUNE'S TURN Vitagraph

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COMING SOON: Motion Pictures of the Wreck on Pennsylvania Railroad.

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The Following Flattering Comments Were Maae In Reviews of "The Light Eternal" at Pr43d by the

Identical Company to Be Seen Here.

"A powerful drama, magnificently staged and convincingly acted."' New York World. "Of powerful-impulse and elevating nature." Chicago American. "A splendidly impressive play." St Louis Globe Democrat. "No offering of the season so well received." Cincinnati Times-Star. "A thrilling, moving and inspiring drama.

An Impressive, play and notable cast." De

troit JournaL "A masterpiece in stagecraft," Milwaukee News. "Brilliant and artistic," Pittsburg Leader. "Thrilling, appealing and devout." Philadelphia Press. "Masterful and masterfully handled." Doaton Globe. "Forteful, fervent and alncers." Toronto Globe.

Cleveland Plain Dealer.

" BETTER THAN BEN-HUR" REV. THOS. P. HUGHES, D. D L. L. D. World-Famous Commentator

Same Company Seen at the Gennett Last Xmas. PRICES 25c 35c, 50c, 75c and $1.00. Seat Sale Murray Theatre, Tuesday 10:00 a. m

on the Religious Drama.

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THREE 3000 MILS' TOURS

, TO

From Richmond to New York City, thence by ocean steamer to the Bermuda Island and return, including stateroom, berth, hotel accommodations, with meals, both on boat and on Islands, carriage drives around the Islands and steamer rides to Coral Reefs. All the places of interest will be visited, including banana plantations, grottos. Captain Kidd's Cave and Victoria Park ; also $20 in cash with each ticket. All this will be free with the tour, and you will go as a guest of X lues IVEoiPiPcBttttcB TntieaiHiPO The three ladies of Richmond who secure the three largest number of votes will each receive a trip. Five votes will be given with each admission, and all vou have to do is to collect them. WATCH THE NAMES ON THE CURTAIN EACH DAY Beginning Tuesday, the names of those who enter with the number of votes received will be thrown on the screen. Enter your name or that of a friend sot hat it will appear in the first list. Ask at the Murrette Theatre for particulars. Contest Closes October 11th, 1913