Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 3, 13 November 1913 — Page 1

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'WOMEN TO PROTEST HOUSING CONDITIONS Owners of Riverdale Houses Flayed By Members of D.A.R. CLEANUP NECESSARY Jordan Wants Names of Negligent Property Holders Widely Advertised. Property owners, who live on the rental of dilapidated houses, surrounded by Insanitary conditions in Riverdale were declared responsible for the ore spot of the city by the representatives of the D. A. R., Commercial club and other organizations who met in the auditorium of the high school yesterday afternoon to consider the housing question. Speakers were unanimous In saying tnat the people must be awakened to the conditions which exist and the property owners must be made to rem-1 edy them. The tenants, in most casesj It was pointed out wanted to be clean and live with some degree of comfort, but could not do so. Property owners refused to drain the cellers, plaster the walls, supply city water and make other improvements Tor the comfort of their renters, it was pointed out. Yet they boast, said Mrs. Harry Dalby, that a higher per cent of interest accrues from investments in Riverdale than In any other part of the city. Publicity as a Remedy. Publicity was decided upon as the most effective method of informing the citizens of conditions. Representatives of the D. A. R. were instructed by Mrs. James Judson, who presided, to tabulate data which had been gathered, for presentation before another meeting later In the year. In the meantime, each person pledged to do as much personal work as possible in calling the attention of the health authorities and the property holders to the filth of Riverdale. Mrs. Judson said the D. A. R. was a patriotic organization, devoted to developing a better citizenship, in explaining the society's reason for taking up the conditions. Attention had been called to Riverdale during the garden contests conducted last summer with the purpose or putting more Hags in the -neighborhood. . Housing conditions were so deplorable that they were driven to action. "It is wrong to have any part of the city "we can not be proud of," said Secretary Jordan of the Commercial club. "City officials are not often called on to make improvements in Riverdale, because many of the citizens do not know the conditions." "Morton Lake and Park has called attention to that sore spot which has been allowed to fester in our city." Clean-Up is Necessary. Mr. Jordan said he believed Morton Lake and Pane was the remedy, and one of the steps was tcVadvertise the names of property owners who had repeateuly refused to do thmgs for their tenants. He said Riverdale must be cleaned up. i Mrs. Elizabeth Candler, city missionary, outlined cases which she had noticed. She said the majority of girls who go wrong live rn such homes as are found in Riverdale. She told of taking a girl from the streets, dressing her respectably and of the change that had been made in her life. Three women had been hired to cut cord wood, because they would work cheaper than men. Their father stayed at home and did the housework. In another family the husband said he was not able to work. The wife also said so. She did washings for a living, carrying water from Glen Miller park, three blocks away. At night she did her own housework and washing. Bond Describes Houses. Dr. Bond described a home harboring a case of tuberculosis, in which washings from the best homes of the city are hung up to dry. Other speakers told of basements in which filthy water stood the year , round, of sewers leaking In cellars ! and cisterns withont adequate coverings, houses without water and conditions which made health and comfort impossible. The work ot the health department j was explained by Dr. T. Henry Davis, j and H. L. Haywood cited the provisions of the building code. Others who told of conditions In Riverdale were Miss Nina Moorman, Mrs. Middleton, Mrs. Jennie Yaryan. Miss Mary Stubbs, Mrs. Addington, Mrs. Frank J Land, Mrs. Paul Comstock. The meeting endorsed the efforts of the Domestic Science association to bring a visiting nurse to the city as one of the effective means of educating the tenants. OFFICIALS TO WORK OH Mm ORDINANCE Councilmanie Committee to Meet Tonight With Health Officer. The ordinance committee of the council will meet tonight with City Attorney Bond and City Health Officer Davis to discuss provisions to be embodied in the new ordinance to govern the sale of milk in Richmond. Nothing definite will be decided on, but a meeting will be called soon to hear the side of the case as the dairymen and veterinarians wish to present it. Later the ordinance will be drafted. THE BRICK HURT. NEW YORK. Nov. 13. When advised by the court to make up and shake hands with Daniel Wallace whom he charged with assault, Jacob Steuben said: "111 never shake hands with a jmq bits me wim a brick,

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200 BABIES WANT MEDICAL ATTENTION Blizzard Prevents Physicians From Answering Calls of Mothers.

100 DEAD ON LAKES Ghouls Strip Bodies of Drowned Sailors Preventing Identification. CLEVELAND, O., Nov. 13.--Cleve-land's fear of a flood seemed to be nearer to a reality today when a steady downpour of rain added its influence to the drifted snows and crippled facilities of transportation and communication which have been but partly restored since Sunday's unprecedented blizzard. Rain began to fall last night and continued this forenoon. Streets, already deep with snow, became canals and more impassable than before. The warmer temperature melted the accumulated snow rapidly and torrents rushed into cellars and sewers, raged through streets and along sidewalks, threatening to add to the other heavy damage of the storm. Disease still lurks and danger of typhoid and pneumonia grows. It is estimated that 200 babies have been born since Sunday without medical aid, due to the tied-up transportation facilities. More scores of dead remain unburied. Trains and street cars were operating more regularly today and the food famine was less noticeable. FLOOD THREATENS AKRON. Little Cuyahoga Ready the City. to Inundate AKRON', O., Nov. 13.--With a heavy rain falling over the Little Cuyahoga river valley today Akron is threatened with another flood such as that of last spring that wrought so many thousands of dollars' damage. The snow which lay I8 inches deep on the level Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, is rapidly disappearing. ONE HUNDRED DEAD. Toll of Death on Lakes Hourly. Increases CHICAGO. Nov. 13.--On a more quiet sea, relief expeditions set out today from several Great Lakes ports in the hope of finding some of the overdue vessels that may have escaped the four days storm which killed possibly 100 persons and wrecked millions of dollars worth of property. On Lake Huron latest reports contain lists of 121 men who are dead or missing on the Charles S. Price, Jas. Carruthers, Regina, Wexford, E. A. S. Clark and the Barge Halstead. On Lake Superior thirty men were missing "today. GHOULS ROB THE DEAD. Identification of Lost Sailors Made Impossible. THEDFORD, Ont Nov. 13.--Five big ships on the bottom within a radius of fifty miles. A hundred or more sailors drowned. A property loss of many millions of dollars. Such is the story of wreckage and bodies floating to the Canadian shore from Goderich, on the north to Point Edward on the south seem to tell of the great storm. Nine bodies recovered at Goderich were from the steamer Wexford. Identification of but four of the bodies has been made. Ghouls have torn from them their possessions. In their greed for gold they have not only taken tne paltry sums from the pockets of the sailors, but have stripped away from them that which would have made certain their identity; these vultures of the shores have robbed some of these men of their names. The pockets of one of the men in the lifeboat Regina were turned wrong side out. THIRTY-ONE SHIPS LOST. Monetary Damage to Shipping Estimated at $3,000,000. DETROIT, Nov. 13.--With thirtyone lake ships, large and small, know to be either total or partial wrecks and with 145 members of their crews dead or missing, news of fresh disasters began to filter in today indicating that still other ships may be numbered among the lost, sending the total list of dead near 250 and carrying the monetary damage on boats and cargoes up to $3,000,000. ARREST MACEDONIAN ON THEFT CHARGE Caught with an overcoat and two pairs of trousers in his possession, which he is alleged to have stolen from a boarding house in Dayton, Don Petro. a Macedonian, was arrested in the East Pennsylvania yards yesterday by Patrolman Lawler. Chief of Police Gormon notified the Dayton authorities of the foreigner's arrest, and is awaiting word from them, relative to returning him to that city for trial. WEATHER FORECAST STATE--Partly cloudy and colder tonight; Friday fair and colder in the south portion. TEMPERATURE. Noon ............................... 62 YESTERDAY. Maximum ........................ 62 Minimum ......................... 55 W. E. MOORE'S FORECAST. Continued unsettled this afternoon. Partly cloudy and colder weather is expected tonight and Friday. The "low" mentioned yesterday produced showers early this morning in this vicinity. A "high" is following it and colder weather Is expected during the next 36 hours.

John Lind, Wilson's I

America s Ultimatum With Mexico s Dictator, tiuerta

JOHN LIND READY TO DROP

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IMPERIAL PALACE WHERE HUERTA RULES. VERA CRUZ, Nov. 13. John Lind, personal envoy of President Wilson to Mexico, arrived here from Mexico City shortly after 8 o'clock this morning. He went directly to the United States consulate whither all his goods were removed last night from the Terminal hotel by order of Consul Canda. No excitement was caused here by the removal of Mr. Lind although there has been a feeling for twenty four hours that the relations were at the breaking point. The attention of diplomatic circles the world over is now centered in Mexico City where Huerta is playing his last card against the representatives of the United States. President 'Wilson has issued a note to the Mexican dictator which is interpreted to be an ultimatum. Foreign nations have assured the United States of their support of the American policy. Throughout the negotiations, Mr. Lind has been in the background, letting Nelson O'Shaughnessy confer with Huerta. Mr. Lind, however, has been in constant touch with the situation and has advised President Wilson of the true status of affairs. He has received delegations of American citizens and foreign residents of sections of Mexico distant from the capital, who described conditions as they exist in their respective territories.

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N JAIL FOR YEAR Nature of Charge Against Donald Nestor Not Determined. That Donald Xestor, 19, may wait for a year in the county jail before charges are placed against him for the assault ne made on Richard Cook, 21, on October 0. was the statement of Prosecuting Attorney Reller today. Cook is still in a Piqua hospital and his condition is said to be improving, despite the fact that a pair of six-inch scissors blades were rammed into his head, lodging at the gase of the brain. May Charge Murder. If Cook dies within a year and a day after the assault. Nestor will be : ,1 (charged with murder. If Cook lives beyond that time the charge will be ; assault and battery with intent to kill, j

snouia cook snow sucn marked im-; the control of public affairs and to se- ' 11 w,u De "laae ciear 10 au nations provement that there is little danger j cure this end will spare no effort and tRat nothing will induce the United of his dying ef the wound, charges . invade Mexico if necessary. tto acquire territory as the result of lnmay be filed before the time limit set j 2. Every endeavor will be made to j tervention. bv lav.-. Tn that case, the charee will ! offot roinatiann nf unort it mnv ho nrtrt&H that m-fcn Prosi.

be assault and battery with intent to; kill. j Nestor is still in the county jail and : does not seem to worry about his pre- j dicament. He admits stabbing Cook, ; and says when the actual assault oc- j curred. Cook did not attack him. Cook Now Conscious. J The stabbing was done in front of the Grand saloon on Main street shortly after 8:30 o'clock in the evening. Ccok did not know the blades were in his head. He returned to his home and his condition finally became so bad that he was operated on and the blades removed. He was tinconscious for some time but recently regained consciousness. It is expected that his brain will be affected as he can remember none of the Incidents of the evening on which he was stabbed. GOVERNMENT YIELDS TO PARTY'S DEMANDS DUBLIN. Nov. 13. Yielding to demands of the labor party, the government today released James Larkin, the strike leader who has been serving a seven months' sentence for sedition. All shipping in the harbor is at a standstill as a result of the general telephone strike which was declared yesterday in the campaign to effect the Liberation of. Larkia.

RICHMOND, IND THURSDAY EVENING, NOV,

Special Representative, Leaves . - w .... el ST v t M Ft a?

NEGOTIATIONS WITH MEXICO.

London Times Prints Wilson's Mexican Note

Blockade of Mexican Ports Threatened if Huerta Refuses to Accede to America's Demands Huerta Must Go. LONDON, Nov. 13. Interest in the American policy with regard to Mexico was intensified here today by a London Times article written by the newspaper's Washington correspond-1

ent and forwarded by cable. The cor- ble to botn factions to assume the prorespondent represented the following ; visional presidency under the protec1 js t - . a 1 t : 1

as navrag oeen wrmuiaieu oj "wition Of the United States.

The United States insist u pon the elimination of Gen. Huerta and all those closely associated with him from administration by financial pressure, or, in other words, no step will be taken to aid that administration to avoid what seems to be inevitable bank-) ruptcy. It will be made clear to for-1 BOLINGERISINJURED Former Richmond Man Hurt in Wreck. John Bolinger, 60, formerly of Richmond, but now a mail clerk on the Pierre Marquette railroad, was injured in a wreck on that road yesterday. The extent of his injuries could not be learned, but his sister, Mrs. J. E. Foley, wife of a Pennsylvania train dispatcher, left immediately for his home in Allegan, Mich. Mr. Bollinger for a long time was mail clerk on the G. R. & I. out of Richmond and later was mall agent at the Richmond depot, going to Michigan about a year ago. He is well known In this city, having lived teie a the greater portion oi his life,

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3V 'yv, i i GENERAL BLANQUET. Blanquet is the tool of Huerta and

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JS)4 li in fighting fires by j'roviding fir'e ar current here this afternoon that

y tiHlri t " 1 idrUi . . general Muerta. reai.xina tho futility S&ViS'r'l? 4 ?! X bellvo il would be a very good ) 0f further defying the United State nrlx t i&hi Vliet MilK,r- "if flrneh - y i jf.'i-' - 1 at each hose house were required each ! 7 " ' vi. llv'- - i day to go through a brisk period of ernment is drawing up netic of hla

has been his intimate adviser in thejthjg building is now used by one or

diplomatic negotiations which have brouaht about a ruDture between Mexico and the United States. It is he who has been outspoken in his denunciation of the American policy. Blanquet is seeking a high position in the Mexican government. eign investors that the obligations incurred by the present regime will not be recognized and must become wortbr less. 3.. If financial pressure should not prove sufficient to accomplish the end desired, the United States will resort to a blockade of the Mexican ports, thus destroying the customs revenues and preventing the importations of munitions of war. In the meantime the possibility that thd United States navy should collect tnfe Mexican customs is being seriously'1 considered. 4. When the elimination of Huerta , faag feeen obtained effortg wju be di. reetert tr, inrturinir snme nni arrcnta. j o PeaJent W ilson ruires that a j eral f1 lt h conSrs and president be elected. j dent w'ilson is determined in this j course, he is equally determined to j avoid any appearance of precipitation and for this reason is not marking time. j 1 H FARM" MOUSTACHES U. of C. Seniors in Annual Competition. CHICAGO, Nov. 13. Male members of the senior class of the University of Chicago will specialize in scientific moustache culture. The annual competition for the prize hirsute adorn - ment of the upper lip will begin one week from today. Heretofore the rules of the competition provided that only natural means be used to encourage two long silken hairs to grow where

only one short stubby one had grown , out error. i his residence nor at any of the cafes before. This year the bars were let The cost of the case Is the highest i he frequently visits. The dictator was down and the extensive "farming" of of any since 1898. Fifteen years ago, j at a cabinet meeting between tha moustaches is the thing. The old cat- j the jury records show, a jury was kept 1 hours of 3 and 5 Wednesday afternoon, and-cream method this year will give for eleven days, the same length of j but sight of him was lost immediately way to scientific engineering. Nelson time for which the Circle jurors re-! after the meeting. His followers say Nergren, captain of the football team ; ceive pay. The costs of the case will ! that congress will be convened Saturand Rudy Mathews, president of the b about $400 including jurors' fees, j day despite any threat which might senior class, are favorites in the com-1 transportation and meals. This will be j come from Washington la the raeas-j petition., paid by Randolph county. jtimr -

CHIEF WANTS DRILL FOR FIREFIGHTERS Miller Approves Training School of Mayor-Elect Robbins.

CITES DAYTON PLAN Old South E Street Hose House Probable Instruction Place. Fire Chief Miller expressed approvtoday of Mayor-elt-ot Robbins' plan to Improve the physical fitness of the i members of the fire department by requiring prescribed daily exercises, and 'setting up' exercises These exercises i would keep the nun in excellent physicai cor.aition ana in a snori umoi good plan to utilize the old fire engine house on South E street as a fire drill trnininer nl.ifp Thp socnnii floor nf two organizations as a meeting place and could continue to b used for such purposes even if the building was used as a "school" for firemen. Cites Dayton Example. "In Dayton the fire department has; a large frame tower located near one of the engine houses which Is used for ladder practice. Tiose carrying practice, etc., and the efficiency of the Dayton firemen has been greatly increased by this devise," Miller said. He said 1 it would not be necessary ! for Richmond to go to the expense of erecting such a tower if the old south end engine house could be used for fire drill purposes. 'Inside the building a sliding pole could be erected, extending from the roof to the ground floor with a hole a little larger than a man's body cut in the second floor so the men could slide through it." said the chief. "A winding stairway could be constructed in the building so the firemen could be taught the proper way of carrying rying a ladder up to the top floor. From the windows of the top floor

they would be able to stand up under n,i .h .V imV Vk a T . X ithe hardest kind of work they might "T. " tV Jd . . ' ,Am,.; r-J ' be called upon to perform " can pressure. Thed.ctator I. still Ie'VIJ?J J r.m. k Jm.ss.ng. but it is denied he has fled

ropes could be thrown out to teach the! Huerta to 8hif for himself. O Shaugta-, men how to haul up hose from the out- j tke8 he 8t?d that Prudent, side. On the outer walls of the build-! Huerta has shown himself unalterably( ing ladders could be placed to teach I fPP06 to the Lulled States and that the men how to run up them in a rapid j ,nisw government hfU havex nothing but safe manner; how to carry people I father to do mlth him. In the event! down them and how to take up ehemi-'" the withdrawal of the American.

cal tanks. If the fire department could secure the use of the old South E street engine house as a training school he would have each fire company take training in fire drill at a certain time each week. If for instance the No. 3 company' was at drill and an alarm

came in from Its district the No. 4!lBai " wou.'a oe raaa Vuc mis arj company could respond to the call. It J ternoon The statement revlewt th would never be the practice to have negotiations of th past few yeeks, all the fire companies at drill at the!aml defines the policy of the United;

same time. 1 FIND CIRCLE GUILTY OF SECOND DEGREE Jurors Return Verdict This Morning, After Balloting Fourteen Hours. SHOWS NO EMOTION Without flinching, William Circle heard the jury's verdict of guilty of second degree murder and recommendation that he be sent to the state penitentiary to serve a life sentence for the murder of Iva May Brown. The jury received the case shortly after 5:30 last night and elected J. C. Fulghum foreman. Fourteen hours were required in reaching the decision. The verdict was reached at 8:45 this morning. The jury was unanimous for conviction from the first ballot, which stood even, for first and second degree mur-

der. The jurymen could not reach aj" " "l m rJi1""1' verdict as to what degree Circle ! ?ufe. bul fn expression of the most

should be charged and it was finally compromised on second degree. A number of the jurymen are said to have held cut for second degree be - cause Circle will have a chance to be . . , , . . i,n piiiuuueu. f.iSiffu iejiij u-uuio ! w.eFe taken before the unanimous decision was reached. Circle said nothing until he was asked by a reporter whether or not the case will be appealed. His voice was husky and he cotild hardly speak but said he did not know what his attorneys would advise. "It is Awful," Says Circle. Circle did not speak to the sheriff when he was being returned to his cell In the county jail. However, he stopped as he entered the jail and said. 'O God, it is awful." Wilbert Circle, the eighteen-year-old son of the convicted man. asked the court stenoerapner, J. r . nolliday, what the jury had decided. He was told and w ithout remark, went to his mother and told her the outcome of the case. Both then left the court ' house. j Trial Costs $400. I Judge Fox and Prosecuting Attorney Reller believe that the case cannot be appealed and both say the rec- ; ords of the court proceedings are with-

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BREAK WITH MEXICO OVER UN PLAN EXPECTED SATURDAY Lind Leaves Mexico City, Ills Mission of Peace Declared Futile. IIUERTA STILL SULKS O'Shaughnessy Recommends That U. S. Diplomatic Agents Be Called Home. conditional abdication. High members ef the government denied thla, but In"7" H ,n re,reme'lWASHINGTON-. Nov. 13 Diplomatic relations between tbe I'nlted States and Mexico will tt severed I Y"1?. fortJr'elght llOUI"8 unieSS 1 rMU ?vat "uerta agrees to the more press ing points oi me Amencan demands. The severence of diplomatic relations. 1 It was learned, will not necessarily mean war unless Huerta takes the in itiativn against the I'nited States. Secretary Bryan today received advices from Charge 0"Shaughnessy. John Lind and William Bayard Hale, which indicate the Mexican situation has ,ne mor,f eaM.a ris!- Hndi I reported he had left Mexico City for ! eracr"z wre he will remain until" Mission a Failure. 1 His mission to Mexico City is admittedly a failure. He probably Willi leave Vera Crur for the I'nited States within a few days. Mr. O'Shaughnessy informed the state department today that President Huerta shows no intention of aoeeeding to the demands' of the United States. The charge recommencs that alii United States diplomatic agents b. withdrawn from Mexico and leav can affairs will be placed in the hands of one of the foreign diplomats at th 1 Mexican capital. President Wilson today completed his statement relating; to Mexican af-. fairs ,and announcement was madej oiaies. f It is understood that dispatched from William Bayard Hale, who con ferred yesterday with Gen. Carranra.' had a marked influence on the statement. J Rear Admiral Bousch on the Louis-, iana off Tuxpam, Mexico, reported ti the navy department today that 15j American refugees. Including tW daughter of Consul .Payne with twoj other women and four children ar now aboard his flngshlp. Comrut Payne and other Americans have d4 clined to leave the city. Foreign prop-' erty is not in immediate danger. i MOHENE CRITICISES LINO. i Mexican Minister Declares Relation With U. S. Are Unchanged. J MEXICO CITY. Nor. 13 Senator Mohene, minister of foreign affairs, to day issued an official statement to thaj International News Service, declaring that relations with th United State were unchanged. It was the only official statement given out following the departure of Envoy John Lrnd.1 Mohene said: "Mr. Lind was In Mexico City witbJ out coming In contact with official dr cles and he has gone away without having had a single conference wit! an Mexican official. Our relation with the United States have not been chaneed in the slightest degree an4 therefore the public may rest absolute 1 . : 1 Tkl. t . -1 1 t . absolute truth." Huerta's Home Guarded. When this statement was issueet ' .""f'.l" I.V , Z w rZ ' J a n t Mignt debauch. AH entrances were . - rarnrt th, C.ri al Blanquet had ordered the dicta tor's arrest, but this was officially de nied. J The return of John Lind to Yer Cruz is looked upon here as one of th final steps which will lead to an opeaf break between the United States an! Mexico. This may come wtthin twenty-four hours. - - There appeared to be grounds fo the belief that President Wilson dej sired to hare Mr. Lind out of this city when he makes public to the worll the new policy of the United States in the Mexican situation. Nelson , o Shausfhnessy, acting ambassador.' 1 gpent the entire night in his office at i the embassy sending dispatches to i Washington and arranging etato papers. O'Shaughnessy's work was frequently interrupted by the visits of Americans who desired his opinion as to whether It would be safe to remain in the city. Huerta could not be located during the night. He was not at the palace.

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