Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 290, 14 October 1913 — Page 2

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, TUESDAY, OCT. 14, 1913

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tate Official Criticises Bot- , tie Washing Apparatui At Dairy. TRACE TYPHOID ROUTE Sanitary Conditions At Dairy Not Good, Says Official Report. That Richmond's typhoid epidemic was caused by dairyman Hartman's failure to sterilize bottles ia the gist Df an exhaustive report made by State Inspector Dr. John Owens to the state board of health, and forwarded today to the Palladium. The text of the report follows: As will be observed the first case except that accounted for by local conditions developed on September 1st. The patient here was a little girl, four years of age who had been visiting with her parents in St. Louis, Mo. She returned with the family on the above date, was feeling badly, and a few days later her case was diagnosed as typhoid fever. During the time of her illness, before a definite diagnosis was made, the family received daily a bottle of milk from the Hartman dairy. After using the milk the empty bottle was washed in with the family dishes including the dishes used by the little girl, the same dish pan and dish cloths being used. It is a well known fact that ordinary dish-washing is not a process of sterilization. After the bottle was washed it was sent back to the dairy, and after being refilled with milk- was sent out to somebody else along the dairyman's route. Within . a very short time after the beginning of this case twenty-one cases of typhoid developed among this dairyman's patrons. At the time of the investigation there were thirty-one cases of typhoid fever within or near the City of Richmond. Eight of these cases could be accounted for by purely local conditions. Six of them occurred in two families and two other cases within a radius of a half block of these two. All were located within a part of the town that had had a great deal of typhoid in the past and in all probability this section is infected. Attacks Milk Supply. The fact that twenty-one out of twenty-three of the remaining cases occurred along the Hartman milk route suggested a very strong probability of an infected milk supply. Investigation was made at the dairy, and also all premises within the neighborhood from which the dairyman was receiving a milk supply, and no ap parent cause of the epidemic existed at any of these places. There had been no typhoid in the dairyman's family nor in the family of the farmer supplying the dairyman with milk. Sanitary t conditions at the dairy were not good, but were very much above the average at the tributary dairy. There had been no visits of persons from the outside of either of these homes, and no one from either family had been visiting within two weeks prior to the start of the epidemic. The water supply for the dairy was a spring at the base of the hill, and surface contamination was possible there, since the drainage from part of the barnyard, the backyard and the house was in that direction. There was a possibility of contaminated premises through some typhoid carrier, from the fact that there had been parties of threshers and corn-shredders there during the summer. The most significant fact, however, revealed by the investigation at the dairy was that no adequate method of sterilizing bottles or other milk containers was provided. An old wash boiler was used as a ldceptacle In which this washing was done. This boiler was regularly filled with water from a spring, heated upon a stove, carried to an adjoining room, and there used as a receptacle in which the -, bottles were washed by hand. Taking it all in all, however, it seems quite likely that the contamination did not exist primarily at the dairy farm. Criticises Method. The most probable way of account ing for the epidemic lies In the fact that the dairyman regularly received bottles from the home of the first case, and later on from homes in which subsequent cases developed after such bottles had been washed In the homes with the family dishes; including in almost every case the dishes from a sick room. It seems quite probable that had the law been obeyed with reference to the sale of milk within home where infectuous disease sxists, j that this epidemic would have been prevented. The proper method of supplying such families with milk .is to require the family to furnish its own receptacle. The dairyman should not allow any container of his own to be taken into a home of this kind, but should fill a receptacle provided by the family with milk and take his container away. Since there is always a possibility that he may know in every instance of the presence of any disease among his customers it would seem only a very wise safeguard to require that dairymen sterilize all containers from whatever source they might come. Defends Position. The suggestion was made that if this dairyman's milk was infected with typhoid germs, it was strange that none of his own family had been stricken with the disease, and this argument was used ry some to discredit the results of the Investigation. It was developed, however, that only about 3 per cent of the people actual--ly using his milk had been made sick, and upon this ratio it was not strange that among the population of eleven at the dairy no one became infected. Another significant thing revealed by the investigation was that in a large number of the homes where the d3ease existed, no proper method was used for sterilizing the stops from the sick room. In many Instances this material was thrown into the privy vault or buried in the back yard, and in one instance ordinary lime was being used to sterilize the sick room excreta. Keeping all of these racts In mind, the wonder is not that Richmond was visited by serious epidemics of typhoid, but rather that bo few people were stricken when the opportunities for the spread of the Infection were m juiBttftrnwi suoA ajuaatont.

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SELECT END Songs For the First Part of Affair Were Made Public Today. A caste of 43 is rehearsing for the Moose minstrel which will be given at the Gennett theatre, October 23 and 24 under the direction of the RummelStevens syndicate. The program for the minstrel has been completed and is varied and interesting. In the first part of the minstrel there will be a Chorus of 25 men to support the end men and soloists. The interlocutor will be O. D. Henderson. The minstrel will open with "In The Land of Cotton," by R. L. Shinn, John Hafner and Paul Fisher. Well interspersed with original and new jokes i and stories by the end men, the fol lowing songs will be given in the first half: "Roses, Like Dreams, Fade Away," Harry Muhl. "I Don't Want To," Oran Etter. "You Were All I Had," R. L. Shinn. "O You Lovable Child," Paul Fisher. "If I Forget," O. D. Henderson. "That Ragtime Goblin Man," John Hafner. Second Half. In the second half the vaudeville acts will be: Sketch, Ray and Boswell. Stump oratory, "The Uncertainty of Life," Walter Sowers. Monologue, "Women," Gage Rife. Sketch, "Hinkle and Winkle at a Ball Game," Clark and Beeson. Acrobatic Ace, Frank Taggart. Finale, "Jack and Claire," Mr. Mrs. Harry Sutton, assisted by chorus and orchestra. End men Bones, Oran Etter, and the Eugene Harris and Robert Ashby. Tambourines, John Hafner, Paul Fisher and H. Rush. Minstrel director J. Willard Rummel. Musical director Ernest Renk. THREE AFFIDAVITS AGAINST RICHESON Two affidavits, charging forgery have been filed against Ralph Richeson at Dayton. Richeson is confined in the county jail here pending trial on a similar charge. Prosecutor Reller said today the time for Richeson's trial had not been set. The telephone message from Dayton, which was received by Chief of Police Gormon, gave no details regarding the charges filed in that city. Giving his name as James Hagar, Richeson tried to cash a check at the First National Bank here, and failing wired to the bank at Xenia, Ohio, ask ing the institution to forward its "O. K." on the check. While waiting in the telegraph office for his reply Richeson was arrested. DOESN'T WANT TO LOSE FAITH IN SEX "Will you please let me have some definite information regarding the standing of Nora Phillips in your city?" anxiously inquires a female resident of Omaha in a letter received today by Postmaster Haas. The writer of the letter, in her haste to dispatch the missive of inquiry forgot to affix her name to the document giving the postmaster no clue to her identity save her street address. The wily Nora, who by the way, Is not listed in the Richmond postoffice directory, met a brother of the postmaster's correspondent in St. Louis and explained to him that through an oversight, she had purchased a ticket to New Richmond, Ind., when she wanted to get to this city. Through a somewhat similar oversight she did not have enough money to pay the additional car fare. According to the writer of the letter, her brother fell for the wiles of the creature and gave her two silver dollars which she was to repay by sending a bill of like denomination to the loaner's sister in Omaha. The St. Louis incident happened August 26th. Nora has not yet repaid the loan. "My brother said that she seemed like a very nice woman and I hope that she does send me the money as she promised as I would so hate to lose faith in my sex," the letter concludes. Postmaster Haas notified the writer today that Nora is not known in this city. ENROLLMENT LARGE Principal Pickell, head of the Richmond night school, has found that the mathematics department of the night classes is too large to be handled w ith the present force so he appointed Roy Whisnand to assist in the department. The third session of the school will be held tonight in the high school building. Already the enrollment is more than 550 and additional students are expected to enter in the various classes. The industrial and vocational training classes are especially large. BIBLE CLASS OPENS The adults Bible class in charge of Prof. Elbert Russell which held Its opening meeting at the Y. M. C. A. last evening was well attended and started with marked enthusiasm. He talked on the subject, "The Spy." A series of lectures pertaining to Bible subjects will be given by Prof. Russell throughout the winter. ACT AS EXAMINERS Rev. B. E. Parker, of the First M. E. church, and Rev. W. B. Freeland, district superintendent, went to Red Key today to act as examiners in the examination of undergraduates who wish to enter the Methodist ministry. The county institute is being held there. WANTED A girl, 217 N. 9th. H-lt

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ARRANGE PAINTINGS OF ANNUAL EXHIBIT

Officials of Art Association Prepare For 1913 Exhibition. CIRCUITS 4TH YEAR Under the direction of Mrs. M. F Johnston, paintings are being ar- j ranged in the art gallery of the high school building for the seventeenth annual exhibition of

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Art association. The collection consists of sixty-nine paintings in oil and water colors by the best-known artists in all parts of the country. The pictures were selected by Mrs. Johnston some time ago, while in New York. The paintings, which are to b3 exhibited in this city from October 15 to .November 6. were shinned her from Indiana university, where they ; were displayed last May. I I he arst exhibitions were held here. under the auspices of the Richmond Art association, of which Mrs. John ston is president, at great expense. The collection then contained only a few canvasses. About nine years ago the local association combined with the Muncie organization to share the expense and thus secure a greater number and variety of paintings. Evolves Circuit. From this Mrs. Johnston evolved - tne mea or tne circuit or cities in which to exhibit the works of Ameri- j can artists. This is the fourth year I of the circuit, which includes the fol-! lowing places: Muncie, Terre Haute, Lafayette, Charleston, III., Bloomington, South Bend, Richmond, Louisville, Ky., and Anderson. Each year, Mrs. Johnston says, the associations of these cities ask for the return of the collection, and each year more people show an interest in the works. Many outside cities have been sending requests for exhibitions. "Woodland," by John Elwood Bundy, cf this city, occupies a prominent place in the exhibition. Other Indiana artists are represented. "The Last Gleam," by William Forsvth of Irvington; "The Story," by Robert W. Grafton, Michigan City, and "Peonies," by T. C. Steele, Indianapolis, are canvasses by Indiana painters. Personnel of Committee. The officers of the Richmond association are: President, Mrs. M. F. Johnston; first vice president. J. T. Giles; second vice president, William Dudley Foulke; secretary, Miss Carrie C. Lesh; treasurer Demas S. Coe. The following are chairmen of the committees: Art, Mrs. M. F. Johnston; finance, Demas S. Coe; hanging, George Herbert Baker"; educational, Miss Alice G. Locke; press, Mrs. Jennie M. Yaryan; music, Prof. Ralph Sloane; refreshments, Miss Carrie Lesh; art study, Mrs. James M. Judson; social, Mrs. Paul Comstock. In addition to the pictures for exhi bition which are obtained from studios and galleries in New York, the local association has purchased a number of canvasses as the basis of a permanent collection. Tin, Slate and Iron Roofing, Guttering, Spouting and Job work. Furnaces and all kinds of furnace work. HARRY E. IRETON 937 Sheridan St. Phone 3193 13-2t WORK DELAYED Work on the reconstruction and replacing the gas line around the city is being delayed by the failure of the pipe and other material to arrive. Manager Wharton, of the Light, Heat and Power company, said today that whether or not the company would be able to supply gas by November 1, as has been promised, would depend on the arrival of the material. He said gas might not be turned into the mains before the middle of November, if there were any more delays. TOBACCO CAUSES NO TUBERCULOSIS Tobacco users are no more susceptible to tuberculosis than non-users, according to Dr. Severance Burrage, president of the Indiana Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis, who spoke last night at the meeting of the Commercial club. Dr. Burrange says cigarette smoking in a growing boy may weaken his powers of resistance; that he will fall an easy victim to the disease, but that is the only case where there is any relation between the use of tobacco and the spread of tuberculosis. Dr. Burrage smokes cigars. WEEK'S WEATHER Clear, warm days with cold nights prevailed last week, the range of temperature averaging more than 30 degrees each day. There was a trace of rainfall on Sunday, Monday and Wednesday. The temperature for the week was as follows: Sunday Monday S4 Tuesday 86 Wednesday 84 Thursday 85 Friday 88 Saturday .... "7 45 60 HO SI 57 53 57 "MOT WAKTF.n TIRRE Under impression , that the local -a. A aV-a. a m-m pouce uepa.uneut lin, on the charge of stealing a b!ccle. the chief of police of Hamilton. O notified Chief of Police Gormon of his arrest in that city. Although wellknown here as a police character, the local department has no affidavit against him. RATE REDUCTION WASHINGTON. Oct. 14. The Interstate Commerce Commission extended the effective date of its order reducing express rates from October 15 to December 1. The commission, however, declined to revise the scale of rates.

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FLOOR'S ICE CREAM CASE ISJSMISSED Justice Abbott Supports Motion of State's Attorney Reller.

The case against Charles J. Easley, charged with selling food below the standard to Inspector Flook on July 2, was dismissed by Justice Abbott! this morning on motion of Prosecutor Reller. The affidavit charged that Easley sold ice cream containing only 5.6 per cent butter fat, when the law x u ilia BLaitruirm. iu Lut l'uui i m-nr-i gave the reasons for moving the dismissal. He stated that a compromise had been effected with Shiveley & Shiveley, attorneys for Easley and rertig, the manufacturer of the ice cream. He said Easley, who was employed at the Thistlethwaite drug store, sold the cream which was purv,.., i i aa ! not meet the requirements of the law. Fertlg wag arrested and fined $10 .. Bt v.t anr.9ii the The attorneys agreed to withdraw the appeal and let him pay the fine, provid ing the case against Easley was dismissed. Reller said the two cases were practically one case, and that the health officers were satisfied with thj settlement, their object being to sho the manufacturers and dealers that the law was not a dead letter. Ho snirl rh annual had been withdrawn and Fertig had paid the fine. SHERIFF CATCHES MAN Returning to Union City with the man who drove away with a seven passenger touring car after binding i the demonstrator. Victor Thornburg, i to a tree, Sheriff Henning of Union City stopped at local police headquarters late yesterday afternoon. The man, who gave the name of Wilson, was arrested by Chief of Police Hensley, of Bloomington Sunday afternoon. The authorities do not believe that Wilson is the man's name, although the suitcase which he had with him bore the initials "C. E. W." When questioned yesterday afternoon Wilson professed to have forgotten his name, and everything that has happened since his disappearance with the machine Satnrdav afternoon. He wore a large broad-rimmed hat, blue overalls and jacket. Under this disguise was a good business suit. MAY TAKE ON MEN "When we open up again, all of old men will be given jobs," was the statement of Will Campbell, manager of the Gaar-Scott branch of the M. Rumely company, today, after he had refused to express himself on the report that five hundred men xvill be taken on at the plant December 1. "I have nothing to say regarding the report. The only way you can find out about it is directly from headquarters at Laporte. If any official orderi come to us of public interest, I will let you know about it," Mr. Campbell said. "All the men who have worked for us before know that they will be taken back if we open up again," he added. It was reported that after January 1, 1914, the force at the Gaar-Scott factory will be larger than it ever was before and that it possibly might reach one thousand. The factory is running slack at present. WIDOW CONFIDENT I0F BEING ACQUITTED PLYMOUTH, Mass., Oct. 14. Confident that she will be acquitted Jennie May Eaton, widow of Admiral Joseph Eaton, U. S. N., was today placed on trial In the Plymouth county court on the charge of poisoning her husband laBt spring at his home in AssinIppi. Mrs. Eaton rode from the jail to the court house this morning in a covered prison van. In order to escape the gaze of the curious the accused widow entered the court house from the rear and passed through private rooms to the court room. The jurors will be quartered in a hotel, where they will be guarded by deputy sheriffs. TWO SMITH STREETS The dedication of Smith street to the public by the Minck Brewing company has been accepted and signed by the board of works. To comply with the law which requires brewing companies to haul their products from the brewery to the bottling works over a public highway, the alley, south of Main street was opened and widened by the company and given the name of Smith street. The new highway, a half block south of Main street, extends from South Second street to the I; - - - dedicatTon i , - , of the new street, the city has two streets called Th? .t . ctroof! , ' between Fifth and Sixth streets, also bears that name. IS Wilbur Hibberd yesterday won the j club championship in the finals of the j last golf tournament of the season at j the Country club, defeating Frank ' Braffett one up and fwo to play. Sick-headache, bilious headache, dizzy headache, throb

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Reidston Stock Farm to Enter j Three Colts in 1914 Futurities

Three three-year-olds owned at the Reidston Stock Farm will be entered t in the 1914 futurities. I'robably the most promising of the three is Billy Betts. a brother of Baldy McGregor, who stepped a mile last year at Lexington. Ky.. in 2:06s4. the best three.-year-old mark of the year. Another young one that shows special promise is Billy Reller. This colt already has done a mile in 2:2V4 and bids fair to be traveling much faster i next spring. Billy Reller is sired bv San Francisco, owned by the Morgan Hill people at Lexington. His dame is Marguerite, Srlfi. a Reeveston Farm mare. The third colt, whose entrv monev GENN TO REPAIR SECTION OF Repairs are to be made on West Main street, between Second and Fourth, this fall to put th street in condition for the winter traffic. As soon as D. C. Genn. street commissioner, has completed the work on North Third street, he will begin making the repairs. Sine the board of works believes the street will be paved next year, only temporary work will be done. The board is also considering repairing North Sixteenth street, the macadam being cut through in many places. Whether the work on that street is done this fall or not will depend, said Commissioner Genn, on the weather conditions during the next few weeks. CITY STATISTICS Births. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Warfel. 3'14 Richmond avenue, boy, first child. Deaths and Funerals. WOOFTKR-Thf funeral of Charles L. Woofter, i:!0 North Seventh street, w ill be held at the home at 10 o'clock Wednesday morning. Burial will be iit New Paris, Ohio. The Rev. B. E. Parker will conduct the services. Building Permits. M. C. Price, Lot 6, Starr addition, frame house, $2,400. W. A. S. Dickson, 421 Main, garage, $iro. John A. Evans. 1225 Main, iron cor nered garage, $400. Margaret J. Hess, Lot 61, Leeds addition, frame adition. house, $200. Permits, four; estimated amount, $3,150. GETS RELEASE ON LACK OF EVIDENCE After languishing in the county jail for two weeks awaiting trial for stealing a bicycle, Frank Newton, of Cambridge City, was ordered released this morning by Judge Fox. Lack of evidence secured freedom for the young man, who -clsims that the blarrte for the theft was thrown on him by two high 6chool boys of Cambridge City, who really stole the bicycle. TO APPOINT GUARDIAN A guardian will be appointed tomorrow by Judge Fox for Mrs. Martha Huddleston, of Dublin. The proceedVisit the TWENTIETH CENTURY STUDIO, 9194 Main street for quality photos. POST CARDS 3 for 25c or $1.00 doz. PORTRAITS $1.00 to $3.00 Joz. We do Amateur Finishing.

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