Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 295, 20 October 1913 — Page 1

RICHMOND PAIXABIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM VOL. XXXVIII. NO. 295. RICHMOND, IND., MONDAY EVENING, OCT. 20. 1913. SINGLE COPY 2 CENTS ANGRY MOB OF 200 THREATENS TO KILL ASSAILANITOF NEGRO The Timely Arrival of Police Saves Robert Eaton From Assault. MORE HELP NEEDED BY INDIGENT FAMILY Bilderbacks Make Heroic Effort to Meet Their Bills. Deplorable Condition of Principal SUFFRAGIST MAY POLICY OF PAVING STREETS RECEIVES . . 7 rx wtJjm ENTER AMERICA l nor oug mares or ruciimunu uuuvi -r-r Zimmerman's Last Administration E I Mrs. Pankhurst Could Not Be Deported On Account of Turpitude. Through Spirit of False Econ omy Macadam Streets ' Poorly Built. GRANDSON WILL DIE SHE MUST BE GOOD

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Eaton Forced to Seek Refuge After Slashing Bert. Warner. Armed with axes, clubs and stones, a mob of 200 persons surrounded the house in which Robert Eaton, colored, took refuge after cutting Bert Warner across the temple and stabbing him in the back, in a quarrel over a colored girl, Mildred Clay, yesterday afternoon. The angry crowd, which completely surrounded the house, threatened Eaton's life, and begged the officers to turn him loose so they could have a chance at him. As Patrolmen Wenger, Lawler and Voglesong led Eaton from the house, he turned on the crowd and brandishing his knife, said: "I'll kill every one of you." Only the presence of the officers prevented the mob from jumping on him. Several burly fellows called to the officers to turn him loose, saying he would never get away. Warner Very Weak. Warner, weak from loss of blood, is confined at his home, 740 North Fourteenth street. He has a deep gash extending from the left ear to his right rye, where Eaton slashed him with a knife. The point of the knife also penetrated his back when Eaton stabbed him in a clinch. The attending physician says Warner will recover unless blood poisoning follows. Leslie Miller, who attempted to separate them had his left hand slit open from the thumb to the wrist. The fight started at the corner of North J and Fourteenth streets, when Eaton came upon a party of seven or eight persons. Warner was talking to Mildred Clay with whom Eaton has been keeping company. Would Attack Mob. "I'll stick you with a knife," witnesses report that Eaton said, coming up to Warner and drawing his pocket knife. "I don't see what you all goin' to stick me for," replied Warner. Witnesses say Eaton did not wait to explain, but made a pass with the open blade. The men clinched and Eaton threw his arm around Warner and began cutting his coat. Portions ..of -the back. .of the garment were cut : iHito;tihreds, with a six-inch cut In the center where the blade penetrated and reached Warner's back. As they broke Eaton slashed Wai ner across the temple laying open the flesh from his left ear to his eye. Warner started to run, Eaton throwing rocks at him. Crowd Pursues Pair. The Clay woman then turned to Eaton and said, "Let's go home." They started up the street together toward her home, TOG North Seventeenth. By this time a crowd had gathered and started in pursuit. Warner was carried into a nearby house, and police headquarters notified. When Patrolmen Wenger, Lawler and Voglesong arrived a few minutes later the house where Eaton was hiding was surrounded. The officers broke in the door and found Eaton in the attic. He was placed under arrest. The case will come up for hearing Tuesday morning. Persons living in the neighborhood pay this is the third time he has threatened to kill Warner. Colliers Points to Player Records in Local Library'. Under the heading of "Change," Collier's tells editorially of an old tombstone in Wayne county, which records the accomplishments of one of the early residents. "All but obliterated, on a fallen tombstone in the old Elkhorn cemetary, Wayne county, Indiana, is the inscription: 'She could play seven tunes on a dulcimer." It was the final tribute to the wife of an early settler, "who fought with George Rogers Clark. A cejitry has gone by since the gifted woman was buried. Today the public library at Richmond, five miles distant, contains hundreds of player-piano records for the use of any citizen of the town." Few of the younger persons of today so much as know what a dulcimer Is, upon which this accomplished women performed. It is one of the instruments from which the piano evolved. The dulcimer had wires stretched across it, similar to the arrangement pf a piano. The player used two padded hammers to produce the music. WEATHER FORECAST f STATE Cloudy tonight with freezing temperature; Tuesday fair. Moon 41 YESTERDAY. Maximum 43 Minimum 34 W. E. MOORE'S FORECAST. Unsettled tonight. Probably fair Tuesday. Temperature is expected to go below freezing early Tuesday jnorning. A "low" of great energy, over 1,500 miles in diameter, developed Sunday A. M. over the southern states, and at fl P. M. last night was central over (western North Carolina, moving northast. It has produced general rains pud snows and is being followed by a fhigh" from the northwest. A reaction to milder weather is probable pbout the middle of the week.

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Palladium Aid Fund Swelled to $19.50 At Noon Today.

Contributions for the relief of the Bilderback family are coming in steadily. With the grandfather totally exhausted by his month's almost continuous work day and night, and now unable to do anything toward meeting the grocery, rent or fuel bills, financial assistance is necessary. Although the grandfather lias lived a life of hard luck, he never before has been compelled to caii upon any one to assist him in providing for his family. It will be only a short time I before he will be able to resume his ! work, the doctor thinks, and he will then be able to manage without furthere assistance. Family Worthy. "The family always has been able to pay rent and the grocery bills when they were due, and the rent has been kept paid even when the family was compelled to go without needed articles during its present sicltness. Now that the bread winner is unable to work there is no money to buy the needed food and fuel and the clothing that will be necessary when the members of the family are able to be about. There is absolutely no hope for the recovery of Roy Moneybrafce, the grandson. The attending physician has discovered that in addition to the fever and resulting brain trouble, his lungs have become affected. His father died of tuberculosis. The Palladium has supplied the family with ice out of its special fund, since the case was called to its attention, and the Penny club has furnishi ed the milk that is used in feeding the sick. The family does not lack absolute necessities that are used in the treatment of the disease, but it does need ready cash to pay rent, grocery bills and to purchase fuel to warm the house during the cold weather that has arrived. Following was the status of the fund at noon today: ' Previously acknowledged $13.50 ! Cash 1.00 ! Cash 1.00 i Cash 3.00 i Cash 1.00 ! Total .$19.50 POLICE INTERRUPT ROLUNGJF DICE I T,l., "1 1 i V Hfl. iwcivc vuiuicu iTieu iTiatve Mad Scramble When Bluecoats Appear. While "rollin' de bones," twelve colored men were squatting in a ring on the sidewalk at the corner of Fourteenth and North H streets yesterday i afternoon at 3:30 o'clocrc, when Pa- ; trolmen Lawler and Vogersong appeared. They were rolling for $1.70, i which was in the pot, when Vogelsong ! jumped in the ring, picking up the ' money and the dice. The alleged gam blers ran in all directions, while Law- ' ler attempted to get the names of the I men. In the mad scramble they forgot about the pot and the dice. "They scattered like a hunch of : quail," was the way Patrolman Vogel- ' song described the raid. Only one ar- ; rest has been made, although the po- : lice expect to have most of the gamblers in police codrt for hearing tornorrom morning. Lacy McConnell is the only man under arrest. TAKES 11 PATIENTS TO HOSPITAL FARM .. .. ; . ... . SUPT. S. E. SMITH. Eleven patients have been removed from the Eastern Indiana Hospital for the Insane to the farm, belonging to the institution, within the last two weeks. These are the first of the inmates of the asylum to be taken from the institution to the farm. This is a new idea in the treatment of the mentally defective and is the direct result of the work of S. E. Smith, superintendent of the institution, who sdvocated the purchase of a farm for some time before the idea was carried out. Cedar House, located on Wayne farm, in Center township, has been fitted up for the men who will be sent there to work the farm. With the opening of fair weather next spring a large number of additional patients will be zit out to care for next year's crops.

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A section of North F street. Although it leads through an important in certain seasons is almost impassable for the heavy traffic which uses it.

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This shows East Main street from the bridge to Fourth street. Its condition Is very bad and will remain so until paved. If the mayor could be induced to purchase property on this street it might be paved. -

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A view of North Third street. There is as much heavy traffic on thia street as any in Richmond. However, it is made cf macadam and repaired as shown in the cut, by putting shallow surfaces of crushed rocks in its worse depressions.

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the $100,000 variety, is a possibility j According to information from those for Richmond, a tentative proposition j in position to know wnat is contemcoming from the Snider Packing com-1 plated by the Snider comjany, the pany, one of the largest concerns of ! proposed plant would give employits kind in the country, to establishment to several hundred persons

and operate branches here If certain requirements can ue mei.. : The company has had a representa-1 tive in Richmond during the past week , who has been busy inspecting prospective sites for the plant, and w-ho has j been investigating general farming; conditions in this immediate vicinity. ! with the idea of ascertaining whether :

packing products required may be ob- i of pork and beans, though tomato , him by Mayor Zimmerman, because he ! tained. packing, also would be carried on, de-;, progressive. The mayor was unMay Ask Tract. pending in a great measure on the ... . It is said to be definitely deter- j availability of this crop, j The com- r tbe impression that Beselman was mined that the Snider company will 'pany enters into contracts with farm-: a Republican when he offered him the establish a new branch in some part j ers for such products as it may use, appointment. of Eastern Indiana, but it has not been and agrees to take certain quantities j "You have always been a staunch settled, as yet, just where. Nothing at prices to be governed by market ; Repub!ican ami t would like to have in the way "bf stock subscribing is i conditions at the time, though a guar-: tok cbarge ot crematory at asked, it is asserted, though in re- j anty that the price to be paid will not : Dr Zimmerman informed Bes-. turn for the locating of an establish-, fall below a minimum figure is made, j gellnaI1 ed business, with an investment of ati No formal proposition has thus far ..I d ratjjer have a negro or a Demoleast $100,000, the company is under-(been made, but it is said that the!crat take the job than a d d stood to require a free site of a cer-; Richmond Commercial club will short-. gresive added the mayor , tain size tract, with avauable options ly be acquainted with the project and Zimmerman then learned that

on aaaiuonai grounc aujoimug would give tne company opportunity COLLEGE WILLING TO GIVE ASSISTANCE ! All traces of the aeroplane disaster, which occurred at Reid Field have , been removed according to a letter received from President Kelly today by the Commercial club. The machine on leaving the earth for its first flight

smashed the fence of the athletic field. ' D" sPiai me"n,f ol wv l? k lQeeason w colorea : i board tonight at the city halL pie have not received more recogni- ; President Kelly, in his letter to C. President Iliff of the board, favors j tion from Dr. Zimmerman in the past. W. Jordan, secretary of the club, ex- the idea. He said the speeding is a ; Local politicians are wondering pressed his appreciation of the Fall j problem which all cities of the coua-!how Dr. Zimmerman could have been Festival as produced under the aus- j try have to solve, and while Richmond s laboring under the impression that pices of the club and added that the, is no worse than many others, he -Besselman was a Republican for he ; college would always be glad to lend J favors taking measures to insure safe- has been an active worker in the Proi assistance in similar projects. ty to the citizens on the streets. j gressive ranks for some time.

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'throughout the year, flhere are sev - i i m u iuauiu rovawuouu.uio . . company now in operation, the ones j nearest to Richswind being at Marion, j and Fairmount intthis stafe, and atj Hamilton, O. y . Makes Contracts With Farmers. ! The proposed Richmond plant would , be devoted principally to the canning : m utr & io iiiesiiB.l.c u cine on wnai can oe none. WEST SIDERS TO PRESS REQUEST To ask the police commissioners to purchase two motorcycles to be used by the police department in prevent - r - mg speeding, ur. b. urosveuur, . president, and members of the West (Side Improvement Association will ap-

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ZIMMERMAN MAKES " LUDICROUS BLUNDER

Offer Crematory Job to Bessclman, Ardent Progressive. jTA r opt iyc SENTIMENT Harry Besselman, foreman of the Ricb.mond steam Laundry, has refus- ' . ed th appointment of superintendent of the municipal crematory, tendered , Besselman was not a "staunch Republican " hut an arrfen active Prorro. lican," sive. Causes Smiles. It is understood the mayor was greatly embarrassed over his blunder i in offering a Progressive a political appointment and when the story be- ; gan to circulate in political circles I there w ere many broad smiles. ! . Th ,orei T?t;l jer, ! taking the mayor s little blunder senj ously to heart It haa gjTen them an ; inkling of the mayor's real sentiments toward their race and has suggested

Commissioner Says She Can

Be Deported if She Violates Law. WASMINOTON. Oct. 20 The fed eral commissioner of immigration, tmin'tti. toi'..y revokod the ordor of the special board of inquiry, deporting Mrs. Kmmaline i'ankhurst. the famous) Britisli suffraget. and dircieU that she be allow: d to enter this i-mintrv ComnMBsioner faminetti deoidod that Mrs. Pankhurst should b admitted on ' her own recognizance on these' grounds: j First Because of a doubt on the1 question of moral turptitude. j Second Di cause she can he prose-1 cuted in the 1'nlted States court if ' ?he violutes the law. Third Because she can be deported if she violates the law. Result of Conference. Caniinetti's decision was made at the close of a conference held be tween high omrials touay to determines whether Mr. Pankhurst should ' be allowed to enter the United States, or whether she should be deported as an undesirable alien. Herbert R. Reeves, attorney engaged by Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, to defend Mrs. Pankhurst, opened the argument before the commissioner of immigration in behalf f the suffragist. Reeves declared that the contention of counsel for Mrs. Pankhurst w as that the acts of which she had been convicted in England were neither felonies nor misdemeanors, and therefore did not involve the question of moral turpitude. He said: Admits Convictions. "She has been convicted five times, three of which were in connection with her attempts to present to parliament petitions demanding woman's suffrage. The other two convictions were on a charge of conspiracy, of inciting to rebellion, and the others on conspiracy to destroy property. In neither of the last two named cases was she permitted to serve the sentence imposed on her." Reeves contended that all her acts were committed for the -sake of gaining the right of suffrage for women, and I as such were of a political nature. j "Even those who oppose the princi-j pie of woman suffrage," he continued. "can not claim that is a base or vile thing so as to involve more turpitude. Reeves then went Into a long discussion of the immigration laws in an tempt to 6how that the acts of Mrs. Pankhurst complained of were merely political. STREET CONDITION CAUSESJUHAWAY Forest Monger Files Claim Against City For Damages. City pay rolls for the first half of October were allowed by the board of I works today. They were as follows: Crematory, $289; municipal light plant. SS60.38; street worx, $957.90; special police during Fall Festival, ! $95.C0.

Forest Monger filed a claim against heaviest kind of traffic and no repairs the city for $26.57 for damages to ' have been made on It. The street was freight, which he was hauling. Mon- built by former commissioner Ed. Dye. ger said the condition of tne street atj South Fourteenth street, from Main the crossing of Fort Wayne avenue , to C. was built by Dye with a crushed and Main street caused the freight j rock surface of twelve inches. It is to tumble off the wagon, frightinlng Btill in excellent condition, although the team, which ran away. The board j it has been down four years sad has will consider the claim at the regular co8t nothing for repairs, time for hearing claims next month. South Fourteenth street below C An assessment roll w as ordered on I street w as macadamized by Oenn with the alley between Fifteenth and Six-ihi8 usual shallow surface of crushed teenth streets, which has been com-1 rock. Within a year that section of the pleted. street had to be repaired. The board voted to open the alley; Qn September 25 the board of pubsouth of South B. between Second ! jjC WOrke discussed the poor condition and Third and B and C streets. The of many macadam streets constructed alley has been open and in use for ; durin(r lhe present administration, twenty years, but no record of the j m,k p-h e(r.. r opening has been made, so the board tl iitv decided to open it officially and have he Poorest streets in the city are a record to be found in that section north of Street Commissioner Genn was in- Ith Pennsylvania railroad .which tss structed to clean South A street from (on', on thoroughfare which la not la Eighth to Eleventh streets. disgraceful condition. North Tenth street, which has been paved most of

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REPAIR BIC. EXPENSE

Less Than Four Miles of Total Sixty-eight Miles Are Paved. "Citiiena judi;e the efficiency of their governments, and are Judged in turn by Grangers, to a very considerable deptree by the manner In which streets are built and maintained Indeed, for citizens, streets are the most available and most easily read index of official efficiency" Henry Hruere. director of New York Bureau of Municipal Research. Richmond has the poorest street system of any city of its pile In Indiana. A few of its macadam streets ar models and what brick streets it ha measure well up to standard, but tha policy of paving street has never received enthusiastic encouragement, principally because the city" financial condition has forbidden such encouragement. Records at the street commissioner's office also show that during tha years 1910. 1911 and 1912 only J18.241 was expended out of the funds of the street department for the rebuildinjc and repairing of macadam streets, and one-fourth ftf the streets of the city are macadam. Over one-half of the street mileage consists of graveled roads, unimproved roads and pikes. Less than four miles of the total 6S miles of streets in Richmond are pared. Macadam Streets Not Standard. These records show that In Richmond, under the present and former administrations, the policy of building macadam streets has met with the greatest popularity. In certain districts these streets are as serviceable and as desirable as paved streets, providing they are well made. But. un fortunately, some of the principal ....... . m V. Vi. tiAttpU.I . ulin im , done macadanit and durtng tne past four years. throuih a spirit of false economy. Richmond's macadam streets have not been made properly. As a result of this inefficient and shortsighted policy of building macadam streets which do not have the required surface of crushed rock, the frequent necessity of repairing them has been one of the principal items in the expense account of the street department. Competent street construction men in Richmond state that while the initial cost of constructing macadam streets with a surface of from four to six inches of crushed rock, which has been Commissioner Genn's policy, comes close to the minimum expenae of constructing such streets, they are in the long run much more costly than standard macadam streets. with crushed rock surfaces varying from ten to fourteen inches. The reason for this is that streets which have too shallow a crushed rock surface mast be frequently repaired. How a Good Street Wears. Over four years ago North Tenth street from Main to A was re mads with a crushed rock surface of fourteen Inches. That square today is a model thoroughfare of its kind, al though it has been subjected to the its distance, for the most part under ' the three mile road law. A large nuns- ' the traffic is very heavy, but the fac tory owners nave appuea in vain tor as heavy traffic as any street in Richmond, but no plan for paring it bss ever been formulated and to keep its relief. North F street is subjected to macadam in repair is a useless wast of public funds. In many places the ruts are cut down to the surface and in wet weather it is a quagmire. Another street which needs to be paved very badly is North Third street. The C. A. O. passenger and freight stations are located on this street and the traffic over it is very heavy. A few days ago it was patched ; up with crushed rock wherever the de ; pressions and ruts were the worst. , Within six months it will again be in need of repairs. Incidentally it has been estimated that the money ex- ; pended by the city to keep North i Third street in repair would have al most equalled the cost of paving it. Main Street Hill's Condition. Bad as North F and North Third streets are. their condition Is quite good in comparison with East Main street, from the bridge to Fourth street. This section of Main is made of macadam and is almost constantly in need of repairs. In wet weather the water pours down this street and that part between the car tracks, sunk several inches below the grade of the street, serves as a channel for torrents of water during unusually heavy rains. Why this section of Main street haa (Continued From Page TeoJ