Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 297, 22 October 1913 — Page 1
HMONB PAIXABIU H H AND SUN-TELEGRAM VOL. XXXVIII. NO. 297. RICHMOND, IND., WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCT. 22, 1913 SINGLE COPY 2 CENTS TWO PAVED ROADS FOR MORTON PARK ORDEREDBY BOARD Haas and Barton Thoroughfares to Be Permanently Constructed. DECLINES TO ENTER SPEAKING CONTEST CHAUTAUQUA MEN UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE FEDERATION KEYNOTE FREIGHTS COLLIDE', CREWS ESCAPE BY JUMPING OFF TRAINS Four Cars Derailed and One Engine Badly Damaged in Crash. NEW MINISTER GENfJ HARD WORKER BUT A LAX SYSTEM TO UNITED STATES WANT SULZER PR0GRAM IN 1914 Richmond Persons May Hear Impeached Governor Tell of Tammany Clashes. PROVES A State President Says Mothers Should Have Choice in Government. Method of Keeping Time So Loose That it is Far From Being Practical. NICHOLSON SPEAKS
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Company's Directors to Proceed With Plans For Opening of Place. C The series of boulavards for Rich mond was started yesterday when the j county commissioners ordered the ' Haas and Barton roads constructed of concrete and brick under the three toile road law. The two roads together are about four miles in length. The Haas road, which will be 9.98 Jniles long, will be made to furn'sh I a convenient entrance for motor ve- j hides especially, to Morton lake and j park
It was petitioned for by E. M.;.ween himself and Mr. Hobson a mud-
Haas and others. The road begins at Twelfth and North J streets and runs through an unimproved tract east to Nineteenth street where it turns south to G street and the Hawkins road. The improvement will then continue along the Hawkins road northeast to Twentyf i ill rt h ctra&t- otifl Vi nnrth rvor t Vw ,, , . , , , ., !,,,, Gaar bridge to the New Pans Pike. Use Brick and Concrete. : The section of the improvement in the city will be of brick and the county road will be concrete as will be the case In the Barton road. The Improvement petitioned for by William D. Barton and others will be started at Tenth and North J street, joining the brick street there. It will run east on J street to where the Haas brick street starts, turning north from there and running to the corporation limits where the New Paris pike starts; there the road will be of concrete to the Smyrna road, joining the j Haas road again and completing a cir-; cuit of paved roads around the property owned by the Morton Lake and Park company. The county commissioners are interested in what bids will come in on November 15. the day set to receive proposals, for the construction for future improvements, and the contract price is one feature into which the i commissioners will delve to ascertain If concrete should displace macadam for the future coutry road surface. 1 wi Under New Law. j The construction of these roads will take until late next summer, and by that time the commissioners expect to have other roads of concrete under s way under the three-mile-road law. Wilfred Jessup also has plans for a ; system of improved roads surrounding the city, which with the Haas and Barton improvements will make an 1 aggregate of about twelve miles of improved roads directly accessible from 1. i the city streets. Other boulevards which were proposed by Attorney Jessup are the Whitewater boulevard along the west bank of the river; South Twenty-third street; South E street and east to the Elkhorn road, thence north across the .National roaa, ana inrougn me rear of Glen Miller park, circling around to meet Twenty-fourth street north of the park; Twenty-third street north and through the park to meet the pro ceeding improvement, and a of smaller improvements. Shows Gefc-3 Concessions. Directors of th" lake and park company at their meeting last night sold the concessions for the remainder of the present season to James Thomas, who expects to do a thriving business as long as the weather remains open, as large numbers of persons visit the new park every Sunday The company has opened a grav ,-el
pit on the site which will be used in vv"' he Hying in the iace of public sen- j Dy tlle Hagerstown officials. Hinethe construction of streets in the park timent if he closer the Gennett, the i raan js Dcing held on charges of shoot-
and for revenue producing purposes. The directors decided that the company, in selling lots fronting directly on the lake, will in all cases retain control of the water front which will give every one the privilege of walking about the lake near the water line without trespassing on private property. The following permanent committee was appointed to have charge of the park concessions: Charles W. Jordan, chairman; George Seidel and Richard Sedgwick. A committee composed of A. M. Gardner. E. M. Haas and II. R Robinson was instructed to draft a suitable deed to be used in transferring building lots to purchasers. PUPILS VIEW ART ! AT HIGH SCHOOL ! . The art exhibit in the gallery at the high school is attracting the attention j of many students. Permission has been given them to visit the display instead of going to the study rooms and many pupils are taking this advantage. The interest shown by them i -.a. 1rta n fr r 1 ra AT XT TKnctAti rVnVTnr m : t . " t .. UlSUmi OWIU "VI IV. l-ttlC u ,ivai 1VCW about art displays. WEATHEK lUKECAST a STATE Cloudy tonight and Thura-i dav. Probably rain in south. andU - ram or .now in north portions. . Warmer in north and central Dortion ! t iaht W. E. MOORE'S FORCAST. Continued rain tonight and Thursday. Thursday somewhat warmer. Colder late Thursday night and Friday. High shifting wind. Intense blow, rapidly moving southeast from southeast from Montana, central and middlewesu
Majority leader of the house, O. W. Underwood, of Alabama, who was attacked by Congressman Hobson and called "the tool of Wall street," derlfiifri tn rrmkp thp Kpnntnri;il i-itfp hislinging contest. When Hobson charged that Thomas F. Ryan contributed heavily to the Underwood campaign for the presidential nomination, Mr. Underwood replied that he knew nothing of the contributions, and that his campaign managers had handled those affairs. Mr. Underwood has the backing of the most i prominent administration officials in he ra(;e fw the Alabama senatorship. UNION WILL WIN, SECRETARY AVERS j ! ! Stage Workers Have Never ! Lest btrike, Declares Ellsworth Bass. j j TRADE COUNCIL MEETS i ! , . T . . j Central rJody (xives Lndorsement to Action of Musicians and Stage Men. "The International union has been in exlstence for twent Qas had ' J any number of strikes, and has' never lost one. It is not going to lose the one it is starting now against Mr. Mu either," said Ellsworth Bass, secretary of the local union, today. Mr. Bass asserted that Murray has theatrical interests in Newark and I , r.nton n ia nnt nAvaraa t ym ' .canton, U., and is not adverse to emiJiuuiB uiuun men mere, ana inai ine i - , , , I house which he at one time operated in Marion gave recognition to the stage workers' union. He said the employment of union men in the local theatre would result in more satisfactory performances, and cited an instance which ncrnrrert last Monday evening at the Murray j theatre, where, he said, the audience, was compelled to sit through two long ; waits, one of thirty and the other of 1 twenty-seven minutes, while the scen ery was being shifted. Replying to the charge that the union was afraid to call out the road crew at the Gennett Monday night, ! Bass said it would have been done, only the union did not want to incon-! venience the theatre going public, who j would have been unaware of the cause j of the delay behind the curtain. Say No Offffer Was Made. The union men believe Mr. Murray ; only house in the city that plays road attractions. Bass declares that Mr. Murray in the many conferences the representatives of the union had with him never offered to unionize the Gennett. Mrs. Eva Morey. pianist at the Murray theatre, declares that the musicians are not leaving of their own free will but are being forced out by the stage workers. There is an iron clad agreement between the national organization of musicians and the inter national alliance of stage workers, wherebv either body may call upon the other for support at any time, if assistance i needed in the settlement of labor difficulties. Should the musicians need assistance they would have the same right to call out the stage workers, according to members of that union. Charles Pullen. formerly stage manager of the Sayles Stock compnv. fearing that he would be thrown out ! of work by the union quit his position to go on the road with another stock company some time ago Leave No Stone Unturned. The members of the union intend to leave no stone unturned in conducting a successful strike. The matter was up for discussion last night at the regular meeting of the Central Trade:
XnT-t.or Council and that body gave
heartiest endorsement to the acunion. Untion of the stage workers' . til the strike is settled no union man ! may patronize any theater controlled j by Mr. Murray without violating his 'Obligation to his union, it is said. ! "The public need not become alarm . , . ulauon saiQ.-ur- MUTJ- , --- -- . meaner:-. mv men wno nave worked for me for a , t,m are ; .v..- '.Ii... suiup muut lueu aiiairs uuoui paythe stage workers' organization. No Reason For Concern. "So far as the delay at the Murray last Monday evening was concerned, it was the first production of the play which has a lot of complicated scenery and I will wager the men did it just as quickly as the Uueu could have done." organization
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Committeemen to Hold Meeting Soon With Lyceum Bureau Representatives Ex-Governor Sulzer will be given an opportunity to tell of his clash i with Tammany, and the powers that i were instrumental in having him re- ' moved from office, at next year's i Chautauqua. The program committee i of the Chautauqua board of directors j at its meeting last night decided to bring the impeached New York executive to Richmond for a lecture if satj isfactory arrangements can be made. Propose Headliners. At its meeting last night the committee talked over several headliners who cannot be procured through lyceurn bureaus. Among the other celebrities who will be extended an invitation to come to Richmond during the Chautauqua are E. E. Steiner of Grinell college, who made such a pronounced mpression upon teachers at their last county institute; Russell Con well of "Acres of Diamonds" fame; Judge Lindsey of the Denver Juvenile Court, Clara Young, superintendent of the Chicago schools and Booker T. Washington. While the committee does not hope to secure all these attractions, it intends to get into the field early enough to secure several of them. Gillilan Wanted. Strick Gillilan, who is well known in this city and is a headliner anywhere probably will be on the program. The Richmond orchestra which has received high commendation from musical artists will appear. Representatves of the lyceum bureaus will meet with the committee November 1, at which time the minor attractions for the program will be selected. FIRES AT OPPONENT Hineman Shoots At Knapp Following Opening of Feud. HAGERSTOWN, Ind., Oct. 22. An old feud- between Hen Hineman ?S and Raymond Knaun was reonen " "amna Knapp, .o, was reopenph tnd.iv uhn th fovmo ir,t ' ' . . . . - - v ' ' - i vi iiiv 1 lull lutu Knapp with a carriage and later when the two met at the scene of the Pennsylvania wreck, a quarrel ensued in which Knapp floored Hineman. Upon gaining his feet Hineman pulled a gun from his pocket and fired wildly at Knapp, who fled after dealinK tne blow, could be fired Before another shot the crowd of wreck spectators grabbed Hineman, tearing the gun from his hand. The bullet lodged in a telephone pole near the scene of the wreck and narrowly grazed a crowd of bystanders. It is said that about two years ago Hineman accused Knapp of poisoning a valuable dog belonging to him. Law suits followed but the question was never settled. When the two met this morning the feud was reopened. A warrant for the arrest of Knapp on charges of assault and batterv is held ing with intent and carrying concealed weapons. DIAZ ATJERA CRUZ Delays Disembarkation At Huerta's Request. VERA CRUZ, Oct. 22. Exactly a year after his revolt against the Madero government Felix Diaz arrived here todefy on the liner Corcovado, to become a presidential candidate. A vast throng gathered to cheer Diaz, but he delayed his disembarkation in compliance with a request from Gen eral Huerta, who asked Diaz not to land until troops had been placed to prevent disorder. FRANCE SENDS CRUISER. PARIS. Oct. 22. It was officially announced today by the ministry of marine that France is sending a cruiser to Mexican waters because of the critical situation existing in Mexico. Diaz had waited on the steamer several hours before sending word ashore that he was going to land. The private secretary to Secretary of War RlsnmiPt wpnt nuf to th& shin anrl ureed Diaz nol to lan(, telling him that y.- n,aran -m,iri r-u Aanorn rioting. It was reported that a warrant for the arrest of Diaz had been issued, to De Usea m case ne msistea on lanaing here. DENY REPORT. EAGLE PASS. Tex.. Oct. 22. Constitutionalists here today denied that General Villa was holding 43 Germans as prisoners in Torreon. Mexico. Thev branded the report as a political move on the part of President Huerta. Dispatches today Vaid that the rebels were concentrating for en attack upon Chihuahua,
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upens w un rress iuu Luncheon. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.. Oct. 22. A step forward in the fight for universal suffrage is the keynote of the Indiana Federation of clubs, as sounded by Mrs. Felix --T. McWhirter, the president, opening the seventh Indiana convention at the Claypool hotel. "Paramount of ill interests of woman," she said, "is that of the child. The mother cherishes the child, tryiing to Keep a wholesome environment j jor it during childhood days but when the child enters the hfe of the community, the mother has no voice in !m?"1'lmKJthetenvlr,onent- ; The educated, intelligent women recognize this condition they realize that they have no voice concerning the conditions in the community no voice in the plans for the schools, no j voice in municipal affairs regardless i of how they affect them and their J property interests. ( Ballot Will Come. ! She said the men of Indiana had j faith in the unselfish devotion of wornen and would give them the ballot as soon as possible. In the absence of Governor Ralston, Meridith Nicholson delivered th e ad-! state, dress of welcome in behalf of the Other addresses were made by Mrs.
M. P. Ault, of Indianapolis; Dr. Ame-; nere. lia R. Keller president of the Indiana ! The local which was standing on Woman's Franchise league; Mrs. John!tne roain track taking water, was drivF. Barnhill, president of Local Coun-len ack more than a hundred yards cil of Women, and Mrs. Alonzo D. ' y the force of the impact. Engineer Moffett, of Elwood, president of the ! w- c- Walling, of No. 78, set his
Woman's Press club of Indihna. Miss White Present.
The social side of the convention i lr a lew nunarea reel aneaa. was opened with a luncheon to the I The crews of the two trains who guests bv the Woman's Press club of j faped uninjured by jumping when Indiana at the Claypool hotel. Among :th?y saw that the collision was inevitthe guests was Miss Esther Griffin !b,e- were ?n N; Fran NewWhite, of Richmond I comer' nd"ctr' T' C" allm- en" The race for the presidency of thei nee:: ' E Billheimer fireman; on Federation of Clubs narrowed down ,Ray ilhams' "TLF' u, ... .,Manford engineer, and D. B. Wilkin-
K.t CI J 1 . i 1T1V 11 HIV U HI tllCl , WrtlrTrtf onl TVtro r1oflr TTo irhonlra of Fort Wayne. Nominations were made from the floor of the convention this afternoon, and the election will be held tomorrow. Both Dr. Baumgartner and Mrs. Fairbanks are suffragists not the militant kind. In fact, it is impossible to find a militant suffragist in the convention. Thero la rm rnhL Riir-PaaBlnn. ir .
the State Federation of WomaiTsTV16 & 7 !,nhe, clubs, and whoever is elected vlce I yards, which almost proved fatal. For
president this year has no more chance of being elected president next year than some one who has never held office in the federation. There is no denying the part suffrage is playing in the convention. I Dr. Baumgartner is an ardent suffra.Hc't nnH whil Afro Palrhanlru is Iprr , ardent, she is known to be a sincere I advocate of suffrage. j MRS. MACKAY FIGHTS C?T VIM7D r"TJ ADPPO oLiAIN UHiiv xlAlvljiJCiO 1 Mrs. Clarence Mackay, the beautifl . -;. i j -; r .v.-
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head of the Postal Telegraph and Ca-1 carrying on of their campaign of milible company, who has decided to fight tan r take a backward course, ac-
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herself of the charges aimed at her by shw-. President of the National AsMrs. Katherine Ketcham Blake, who i sociation for Suffrage. In her opinion named Mrs. Mackav in her suit for di-jthe militants would be glad to take vorce and alimonv, instituted against! the back track if they could find a way Dr. Joseph Blake, the noted surgeon. and at the same time save their faces.
It is believed that the suit will lead ! to a permanent break between Mr. j and ilrs. Mackay,
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Wreck Is Third For Engineer Walling, of Eastbound Train. HAGERSTOWN, Ind., Oct. Sweeping around a curve near the Pennsylvania station, east bound freight No. 78, running forty miles an hour crashed head on into west j bound local No. 71. which was taking water at the tank a 9 . , k hJg morning. The crewg f botn tran8 jumped and escaped uninjured. I Four cars were derailed, and the : pn?ino nf vn 7i Hm,i Th0 pnot and front of the bolier were smashed, and the cag telescoped j against the tender. The sixty-ton I steam wrecker from the Richmond shops was rushed to the scene. It i took about four hours tn Hpar th i - - - - tracks. South bound passenger train No. 43 due in Richmond af 9:48, was j Castle to Cambridge City, ; It was reported at the scene of the wreck that the orders of the two crews were responsible for the crash. The report that No. 71 had orders to pass j o- 78 at Milville while No. 78 was ; running under orders to pass the local I oraKes just as soon as lie rounded ! the curve and saw the local and the ' i own, hi ciunu. Officials at the local Pennsylvania shops said the trains were both running under orders to pass at Hagerstown, but the local was taking water before going into the siding, which accounted for the collision. Third for Walling. Today's wreck was the third for "&'"eei amiig. auoui iwo years T" . I T 1 ' Ill . A 1 1 a a number of months he was in the hospital suffering from internal injuries. Two years ago he was in a wreck at Hagerstown, but that time he escaped injuries. At this wreck he was In charge of the second mogul in a double-header. when the hill just OUtSide Of Ha Bfratown was reached the two enur"e l"5'r ui'"bcompletely wrecking the engineer's seat. Walling, however, jumped to the coal pile and escaped injury. The 'in email jumpeu uuui me nam, suat taining a broken leg. RUSH HAS 3 DAYS TO-FILE STATEMENT Democratic Candidate Must Give Expense Account By Saturday. Three more days are left in which the expense account of Ben Rush, Democratic candidate for council from the Third ward may be filed, before the law requires the city clerk to notify the prosecutor of failure to file the statement. The law provides for the filing of such accounts thirty days after nomination, with a period of ten days intervening after the expiration before the case shall be given to the prosecutor. Fifteen days later, the latter is required to bring suit against the candidate. Certificate of Mr. Rush's nomination was filed with City Clerk Bescher, who has ordered his name placed on the ballots. Members of the Democratic city committee have officially notified Mr. Bescher that Rush, being out of the city when nominated, had declined to make the race. Clerk Bescher said today thot to comply with the law he must have Rush's name placed on the ballot as long as his nomination had been certified, and the certification was still in his office. He said he had no authority to leave Rush's name off the ballot, and would notify the prosecutor of the failure to file a statement of expenses, if action was not taken by Rush or the Democratic committee by Saturday. MILITANTS "IN BAD II Dr. Shaw Says They Must Take Backward Course. BALTIMORE, Oct. 22. Mrs. Pankhurst and other militants of England l v. ; t .l :ii "f" I " m?'u . " . ' V ' ciixufi uater iu mar- uuiuau me tu uie - . v" . . ' . "u"'u Dr. Shaw was opposed to the coming of Mrs. Pankhurst to this country at this time.
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Senior Ixn Francisco A. Deunas. the new minister from Salvador to this country, is a millionaire and was at one time president of his country. He is a lawyer, speaks English fluently, and has lived in this country several times before. He succeeds Frederico Mejia, who has for many years represented Salvador at Washington, and resigned recently because of ill health. MISS M, W000ARD GOES TOJW YORK W. C. T. U. Member to Attend World's Congress of Workers. 20 STATE DELEGATES Thirty Foreign Countries Send Women to Big Temperance Rally. Miss Mary Woodard, of Fountain City, well known worker of the Women's Christian Temperance Union of Wayne county and of the state, will attend the world's convention of the organization which opens at Brooklyn, Friday morning. The official delegate to the world gathering of temperance workers from this district is Miss Elsie McCray, of College Corner. The national meeting of the workers of the United States follows immediately after the international meeting and will be held at Asbury Park, N. J. Since the state meeting at South Bend a few weeks ago, at which a number of Richmond and Wayne county delegates attracted attention by the efficient manner in which they had forwarded the work here, great interest has been aroused in their work. Holds State Office. Miss Woodard is state secretary of the W. C. T. U. and superintendent of the franchise department of Wayne county. She has been active in the movement. Indiana will be represented by twenty delegates at both the international and national meetings. The delegates to the. world's convention represent thirty foreign countries and every state in the United States. Three conferences will be held Thursday morning; the young women's conference at the Brooklyn; the Ixiyal Temperance Legion conference at the Hanson Place M. E. church, and the woman's suffrage conference at the Kings county W. C. T. U. Following these conferences all delegates will gamer at the historic Plymouth church, famed as the church of which Henry Ward Beecher was pastor for many years, for a devotional meeting. Miss Elizabeth Greenwood, of Brooklyn, one of the national evangelists of the W. C. T. U., will lead this meeting. Held Reception. Following the afternoon's session, the delegation will go to Manhattan. A reception to the delegates and world's officer will be held in the Hotel Astor. When the convention is called to order on Friday morning at Brooklyn Academy of Music, addresses of greeting will be made by Mayor Adolph L. Kline, Borough President Lewis H. Pounds and President William A. Marble, of the Merchants' association of New York. The remainder of the morning session will be taken up by the reports from the world's officers and the white ribbon missionaries. CASE IS DISMISSED Veregge Suit Settled Outside of Court. The demand for judgment of $1,040 from the estate of Eliza Veregge for providing for the deceased, was dismissed in circuit court today by the plaintiff, Mrs. Esther Veregge, daughter-in-law of Mrs. Eliza Veregge. The plaintiff paid the costs of court, a settlement being effected outside of court. Mrs. Veregge asserted that the amount was due her because she kept Mrs. Veregge for four years prior to her death and received only $2 a week for it. Her demand was for the balance due at the rate of $7 a week. The jury had been called and the subpoenas issued but these were dismissed when Mrs. Veregge signified her intention of dropping the suit. POLICE TO ENFORCE WALKS ORDINANCE Grocers who have been using the sidewalks for display purposes were notified by the police department to keep their baskets and stands inside the three feet allowed by city ordinance. Complaint against obstructing i the walks was made at council, by h.. j E. King. Monday evening.
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System of Reports in Street Department Should .be V Provided by the City J D. C. Genn, street commissioner." Is one of the hardest working men on Mayor Zimmerman's official staff. He takes a keen interest in his ork. but his efforts are robbed of their effectiveness by an inefficient system which has prevailed in the street department for many years. From thirty to fifty men are on the payroll of the street department throughout the year. The laborers are paid 20 cents per hour and when the payroll of the department is made Out semi-monthly it lists the names of the employes, the pay rate they receive and the total number of hours thev have worked. This payroll system would be satisfactory providing the method of ascertaining the number of hours each man actually works was accurate. How the Time is Kept. Under the Genn system the laborers in his department are, for the most part, split up into small squads and assigned to various kinds of work, street cleaning, alley cleaning, street repairing, hauling of trash and dirt, sewer work, etc. The time these men work is kept by Commissioner Genn. by his son. Frank Genn (who has been on the city's payroll, at the rate of $1.25 per day, during a period of several months he has also been in the employ of a tailoring establishment), and by Assistant Commissioner Knoller.berg. Genn has frankly admitted that he has almost "worn off the hoofs" of his horse, getting about the city keeping track of the two or three gangs whose time he keeps. But when he is not with them he has no knowledge whether they are actually working or whether they are loafing on the job. Knollenberg, a very hard working and efficient city official, is with one gang practically the entire time it works each day and can keep an accurate tally on the number of hours his men work. Frank Genn has been assigned to the work as time keeper for the wagon drivers who haul to the "dump." It has been charged by men in that branch of the street work that young Genn has made a practice' of seeing that the men begin their work each morning, then calling at the "'dump" late in the afternoon to ascertain the number of hours they have worked during the day. System Furnishes a Leak. The system of time keeping now in vogue undoubtedly furnishes a serious leakage in public funds. Last year the payroll of the street department, including the salary of the commissioner, $1,000, amounted to $30,431.13. At the same time the payroll of the street department of Dayton, a city almost five times as large as Richmond, amounted to a little over $21.oe0. Dayton's streets are not the best kept In the world, but are at least on a par with the streets of Richmond. If the Richmond street department had had some efficient method of keeping time and recording other valuable data pertaining to the work of that department it is reasonable to believw that the city would not have been charged with so many hours of labor by street workers, and there undoubtedly would have been enough information at hand to form a basis for a rorganization of the work of the dfpartment. if the administration so desired, probably resulting in the reduction of the number of employ of the department, and certainly increasing the standard of efficiency. An Example of Time Keeping. While on th subjfct of time keeping a common incident in the street commissioner's office Is recalled that of Commissioner Genn inquiring of an employe, prior to the making out of a payroll. th number of hours he has worked on a certain day. This is typical of the l-oe methods which obtain in the conduct of the affairs of tha fctret-t department. Genn states that it I impractical to employ a time keeper fcr every one of the small gangs of m-ii emploed by his department. But the suggestion la made that if each gang had a foreman that official could be intruate-i with the work of keeping tim. This method would also permit the commission to spend more time in his office, receiving complaints and supervising the general work of his department. Another Serious Fault. But the lax system of time keeping is not the only serious fault to find with the conduct of the affairs of tha street department. The very inefficient method of making reports on the work of the department is deplorable. Until this ha3 been remedied it will hr impossible to administer this most important branch of the city government on a business basis. An investigator, to offer an example of the lax system of keeping data on street work, sought to find in the annual reports of the street commissioner the amount of money expended out of the department's funds for the years 1S10, 1S11 and 1&12. for the making and repairing of macadam streets. Such statistics were not to be found in the reports and item by item they had to be "dug out" of the commissioner's books then an adding machine employed to ascertain the totals. No Daily Reports Filed. Accurate data is kept for the most part on the repairing and making of streets, but there has never been a system of filing daily reports on the 'oads of crushed rock. dirt, ashes and trash hauled, amount of filling and the streets where fillings are made, cubic (Continued on Page Eight.)