Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 24, 8 December 1913 — Page 1

ADTOM LdJLia. AND SUN-TELEGRAM VOL. XXXIX. NO. 24 RICHMOND, IND., MONDAY EVENING, DEC. 8, 1913. SINGLE COPY 2 CENTS

RICHMONl

MORE THAN 3,000 ATTEND SEVENTEEN CHURCHES IN CITY ''Everybody at Church Sunday" Proves Success, Pastors Report.

WEATHER INTERFERES Another Sunday May Be Set Aside For a Similar Purpose. Despite the fact that a snow storm truck the city shortly after dawn Bunday morning, fully 66 per rent of the membership of the Richmond Protestant churches affiliated with the Ministerial association, were present it the combined morning and evening services. Yesterday was named "Everybody to Church Sunday." The count, made by the ministers association and those interested In the success of the day shows that the combined attendance of morning nd evening in seventeen churches Pas 3,058, which is about two-thirds Df the membership, which is 4,721. At the morning service the attendRiiee was 2,291, while at the evening Worship hour only 767 were present. Tabulations from each church are herewith shown. The first column of figures to the left represents the numIer of resident members; the middle column the number of persons present at the morning service, and the third column Ihe number in attendunceat the evening meeting: lleid Memorial First Eng. Luth ... ::7" A. M. E. Church 240 Second. Eng. Lnth... &9 First M. K r.ss West '-Rich. Friends 190 R Main St. Friends ;!25 Ft. Paul s Luth r.ii Tirst Baptist 2 4." Central Christian... is.1 First Presbyterian.. Grace M. E :!70 Fifth St. M. E lid I'm'ted Brethren.... 17". Second Presbyterian !:',() First Christian 12.". The best showing made

101 45 1.".2 49 75 ."0 S5 47 ::47 77 230 i:.r 70 ::oo 70 IT.O 45 1 49 92 I 4 I 55 MO 25 SO 50 :;.". 22 92 45 by the

churches wns by the Second English Juthernn, which has a membership of cught-njne, and -eighty-five present at the morning servise and forty-seven t. the evening hour. The First Methodist Episcopal church had more than one-half of H membership at the lOjISO o'clock .service. , The showing made by the churches !s regarded as above the average by the churchmen. The contest, although hampered by weather conditions was carried through successfully. It is quite probable that a similar day will be set aside at a latter date in anticiation that a larger percentage of the membership will respond to the call. TELLS OF "BUDD MEANS.' Rev. B .E. Parker Directs Sermon to Children. The sermon preached at. the First Methodist church yesterday morning was mainly directed to the children of the congregation. The minister told the story of Bud Mason's conversion, narrated in the Hoosier School Master and said that when this rough buy v.ho had never had a chance resolved to put In his "best licks lor Jesus Christ" he got right down to the real meaning of Christianity. It is a life o! best endeavor in the service of Christ, i The child belongs to Christ by virtu of the atonement and it is wrong Ui force an adult type of experience on a young child. He plead with the children to recognize the rightful claim of Jesus Christ on their lives by giving themselves unreservedly to ilis services. STARTS ON TENTH YEAR. Rev. T. J. Graham Completes Nine Years as Presbyterian Pastor. The tenth year of the pastorate of rtev. Thomas J. Graham at the First Presbyterian church was begun yesterday, when the pastor preached a sermon on "The Secret of Sustained Strength." using as his text. Isaiah SO: 15, "In returning and rest shail be saved: in quietness and in confidence shall be your .-strength." Th.i anniversary of the pastorate was obFerved by the sending of flowers by the congregation of the church. "Strength lies not in the alliances that are formed witn the world but with the reliances that are formed with God," was the keyword of the ser mon which Rev. Graham delivered yesterday morning. "The first requirements for strength is to know truth and carry it out," said Rev. Mr. Graham. "Cali things by their right names and don't try to hide what is wrong, behind a nask. The reverence which is loyalty to the supreme is truth. "1 have found that three elements of strength go to make up character. The first is theology with a backbone. A strong knowledge of God, goes to (Continued on Page Three.) WEATHER FORECAST 9 FOR INDIANA Fair onight and Tuesday. Rising temperature Tuesday. TEMPERATURE. Neon 26 YESTERDAY. Maximum 51 Minimum . 21 ! RICHMOND BY W. E. MOORE. Mostly fair and continued cold to- , night Probablv "fair Tuesdav. SUMMARY. The lo wof Saturday's report is now rapidly passing over the Atlantic ocean, and the high is moving southeastward toward the South Atlantic states. Two more lows are developing in the far west, and should cause temperature to moderate before fortyight hours ia this vicinity.

Baroness Sues

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BARONESS VON KLAINOWSKI. Baroness Ursula Barbnra von Kalinowski, of vViesbaden. Germany, has filed suit against. Michael J. Hurley, of St. Louis, tor $2,500,000 damages, alleging breach of promise to marry. The baroness, according to the petition, met Hurley in I'aris in July, 1912. The baroness alleges that two days after their first meeting Hurley gave a dinner to a party of friends in Paris for the purpose of announcing his engagement to her. When she came, to this country several months ago to become the bride of her American lover, no trace of Hurley could be found. He is now believed to be in Europe.

Winter's Chilly Blast Disturbs Sunday's Quiet

Temperature Falls Below the Freezing Point, and Citizens Bring Out Furs and Blankets-The Government Thermometer Stands at 16 Degrees This Morning. Seasonable weather. for which half the citizens of Richmond have been longing, came all too suddenly when winter gave old Indian summer the count and took the center of the ring, puffing and blowing from exertion. The deep breaths of winter almost put a stop even to the deadness of a Richmond Sunday and most of the population spent its morning with the covers up to its chin. The first temperature observation taken by Walter Vossler at the pumping station was Sunday morning when the thermometer stood at 50. It was warm until S o'clock when a warm rain was falling. After S o'clock. winter made entrance upon the city and by noon had the temperature down to the freezing point, 32 degrees. The warm rain and blustery gusts of wind. At times the winu blew at thirty or forty miles an hour. Mercury Falls to 21. By ."iron last night, the temperature had fallen to 21. but the driving wind and snow storm made it feel much colder and drove everybody inside their homes. The wind storm contin ued with flurries of snow, until late last night. The coldest observation was 16 at 6:30 o'clock this morning. The wind was not so strong as yesterday, but the cold was biting. PHILIP RAPPAPORT IS CALLED BY DEAD Philip Pappaport, orator, editor and Socialist writer of note, who died at his home in Indianapolis last night, was well known in Richmond, especially among the German residents. Mr. Rappaport had been in failing health for several months. He was identified with the German-American society in Indianapolis for more than forty years, was editor of the German Daily, which at one time was known at the Indiana Tribune, and which now is the German Telegraph. He also was enditor ot the Indianapolis Dispatch.

St Louis Man

, There was little encouragement offered for warmer weather and by jlO o'clock the temperature had risen jonly eight degrees, and It remained around that point most of the day. The fickleness of nature or of its elements is better illustrated by last week's temperature record. The average maximum temperature for the week ending Saturday was 56, while the minimum was only 42 for the first week in December. There was an average of only ten degrees difference between the high and low temperatures of each day last week. Half an inch of rain fell Sunday, November 30, and there was a trace of rain on Wednesday and Saturday. The table of temperatures for the ween toiiows: Uieh Low 56 51 45 51 39 36 38 1 Sunday 58 I V T .1 .IIMIIUUJ 01 Tuesday . : '. 60 Wednesday 58 Thursday 52 Friday 55 Saturday " 54 COLD WAVE OVER WHOLE STATE Midwinter Weather Finds Unprepared. Indiana INDIANAPOLIS. Dec. 8. Long delayed winter weather was full upon the north and central western states today. The cold came suddenly sending the mercury downward to 26 degrees in a few hours. Indiana was plunged from mild autumn weather to midwinter. A wind that reached a j velocity of 40 miles an hour swept I parts of the state, driving a fine snowin excellent imitation of a blizzard. The cold wave was distributed over a wide area, the lowest temperature being 4 above at Bismark. ATHENEA SOCIETY PLANS IMPROVEMENT At a meeting of the Athanaea Literary society the members went on record as favoring some plan which would make the use of city water and the installation of sewerage connections compulsory in every residence in the city. They believe that the city officials have the power by ordinance to make it possible that "these plans may be carried to completion. They would have it so that the citv j would be compelled to extend its I sewer and water connections so that ) water may be piped into houses and that sinks and proper fittings may be I made a part of each home in the I city.

NO ADVERTISEMENT MADE OF RECALL OF IMPROVEMENT BONDS Oversight May Entitle Holders of Issue to Specified Interest.

ZIMMERMAN WARNED INTEREST WOULD STOP Mayor Insists on Step Despite Warning of Bank President. The calling in of certain street '.improvement bonds bearing 5 per ct-ut interest, $19,000 of whicii were purchased by the municipal light plant and the city sinking funds, was never advertised. City Controll ?r Mc.Mahau stated today. If this fact makes the calling in of the bonds illegal, as i.generally believed, they will continue to bear the specified rate ot interest. If advertising the call was not required by statute all bonds called are null and void, so far as th.?ir interest bearing feature is concerned, and ihe city sinking funds, various individuals and organizations are the possessors of collections of most unprofitable paper, non-interest bearing amce last July. Individuals and organizations st?ll solding these called bonds, the seir.iannual interest coupons on which ore now maturing, can turn them in to the specified banks and receive the priiici-

pal and one month's interest, but Uie Opening and widening of West interest for the other five months is 'Sixth street from Main to the Knollenbeing refused and will not be paid on' i berg lane was authorized according to unless it is ascertained positively that! the specifications prepared by the city

the calling in of the bonds was illegal. Gets No Interest. Monies of the two sinking funds arc in the banks for the purpose of takin:; ovpt the called bonds still cntstandirg but these monies at the present time are being used only to pay the face value of the bonds and one month s interest. This was learned Saturday when Al-1 fred Bavis. who is to be president of the board of public works, called at the First National bank with several called street improvemtnt bonds, which he held as trustee for the Hokendauqua Tribe of Red Men. The full six months interest on these bonds was refused and Mr. Bavis declined to turn them in for their face value and one month's interest. He says he is going to make a thorough inyejtig&Mon jof he whole transaction Rrra" complimented The Palladium for bringing to light the pecuPar situation, jthe rponsiblf'ty for yhlch is traced directly to Mayor Zimmerman. The mayor refused to permit the floating of a new bond issue to take over "and retire the street improvement bonds which were called, and re quired the purchase of these bonds YMia ine monies or tne two sinking funds. He insisted on this action ia face of the fact that A. D. Gayle, president of the First National bank, had informed city officials that if the sinking funds were used to purchase the bonds they would derive no interest from them because interest on the bonds would cease after t!te first interest paying date following the filing of notice of calling in the bonds with the banks and interested contractors. Zimmerman Obdurate. Formerly the monies of tic two city sinking funds were deposiud in local banks drawing 3 per cent interest, and Mayor Zimmerman could not be convinced otherwise than that it was bet ter to invest these funds in 5 per ccr. bonds, refusing to heed information that these bonds were to cease payin i

any interest because they had been i A stove, a stone, and a knife were called. the cause of a scene in police court Mr. Gayle is of the opinion that the today in which Edward Barnett, colaction of city in investing the monies ored, charged John Poston, colored, of the two sinking funds so that they with assault and battery. Poston derive no interest in itself constitutes pleaded guilty and was fined $25 and

an irregularity. Failure to advertise the calling in of ( the bonds has been an injustice to many parties holding such bonds as did not mature last July, ihe Hokendaunua tribe as an instance, for they had no information that the bonds were called and were holdi.ie them rn-' til date of maturity, only to learn now that they have not been drawing iu.'e,est tor five months. The banks and contractors did not know who held many of the called bonds, consequently had no way of informing such parties of the city's action. WOMEN VOLUNTEER TO CANVASS TOWN To Make Organized Effort to Sell Red Cross Seals. One hundred women, carrying packages of Red Cross seal, will begin a canvass of the entire city Wednes day to last one or two days, according i to the progress which is made. The ', city nas been divided into nine district over appointed. 1 which captains have been 1 I The Red cross seals win be sold in packages. The largest packages are sold at $5. Packages to be sold at one dollar, fifty, twenty-five, ten. anrl firp rontc o ten xrill Ya wivon

'women canvassers Dr. S. Edgar Bond, president of the i Wayne County Society for the Pre-!4?11 ivention of Tuberculosis, expects that

at least one package will be disposed of at every house in the city. HANGS IN A CELL NEW YORK. Dec. 8. With the aid j of his suspenders. Joseph Grant. 46, hanged himself early today in a cell t in the Raymond Street jail. Brook- i lyn. He had been committed on a ! chaxsa of vimxa ncg. 1

MAYOR

DEMANDS

REPORT ON MONEY Controller Says he Can Give Nothing But Approximate Estimates. AGREEMENT IS SIGNED City to Share One-half Expense of Repairing S. L Street. Although saying he could give no accurate report of the conditions of the city treasury at the expiration of the Zimmerman administration, Jan. 5, City Controller McMahan reported to the board of works this morning that he would prepare a statement as best he could and present it Thursday morning. Because he has no idea what sums of money may be expended between now and the end of Zimmerman's term, McMahan said he could only arrive at an approximate estimate. He might come within $100 or he ! might miss it $10,000. he said The mayor insisted that the statement be given He said there were improvements which he wished to suggest and would do so. If it could be done without draining the treasury. City Pays One-Half. An agreement was signed between the city and the county commissioners, by which the county and the city are to share equally the expense of repairing South L street from Liberty avenue to the Boston pike. The roadI way was made under the three-mile ' gravel road law engineer. The water works company notified the city that a hydrant had been set 500 feet from the beginning of the six inch main extension on Center street and water turned into the mains. The hydrant was set below the present street at the grade line which will be established when imProvements are made. The street dei P-irtment was instructed to make u safe. Granted More Time. Cronin and Meredith were granted an extension of time on the completion of the Reeveston sewer. They were given until the first of the year. Charles Flook. dairy inspector, reported that cattle In the Hoover herd had been given the tuberculin test. He also said tuberculin had been received from the government and j tests ,wonld be made on the herd of Baxter Cooper next. Payment of rental on the police flashlight system was deferred until Police Chief' Gormon and the" commissioners were perfectly satisfied with the working of it. Superintendent of Parks Hollarn submitted a written report accounting for expenditures of $703.19 during ; November Fifty-three loads of grav el were placed on the roads in Glen Miller park. He Inspected all parks December 1 and found them in good condition COAL STOVE CAUSES HEGROESJO FIGHT John Poston Attempts to Cut Edward Barnett in Altercation. costs. Barnett had purchased a stove which Poston had agreed to buy of him. making payments each week. After the first payment, he failed to live UP l his Part of the agreement barnett took the stove away. When they met at Fourteenth and N'orth H streets at 10:30 o'clock yes terday morning, Poston started an argument. Barnett testified that Pos ton kept advancing on him with an open knife in his hand. Picking up a stone he threw at Poston, who dodged it. Poston then attacked Barnett, cutting long slits in his coat. The blade did not go through the clothing to the skin. CORRECT DIETING NEEDED FOR HEALTH "Health day" was observed at the high school this morning, when Dr. D. W. Stevenson spoke on healthful living. The speaker impressed upon his hearers the necessity of plenty of exercise, out-of-door living and the right kind of a diet. He laid especial stress upon out-of-door exercise as one of the prime requisites for building a vigorous constitution. ILIFF ISSUES CALL Republicans to Meet in Citv .. Hall TomOITOW. Edgar Ihff. chairman of the Repub- ! Ilcn, Clty,1 f ommittee. has issued a f?r all members of the party in ! lte city rro;d?1j,g terrltorr to night. What would come before the ' jen Mr. Iliff did not know. The pur-i ,pose of the gathering, be said, was to ! outline the future policy of the party : in the city and county. That the Republican organization will live and have a countr ticket in: the field next fall is the firm belief of : Mr Iliff, wfco also sees bright hopes: at a victory at that time- 1

STORM OF PROTEST SWEEPS

CITY ABOUT

RY MAYOR-ELECT ROBBINS

Progressives Charge Executive with Violation ol Pledge to Name Efficient Men Citizens Incensed Over New Light Plant Head and Chief of Police.

CHAIRMAN BROOKS NOT CONSULTED IN SELECTION OF CITY APPOINTEES

Goodwin Held Incompetent to Act as Chief of the Police Department. Progressive Candidates for Offices Are Alarmed Over Popular Indignation.

A storm of popular protest broVe Saturday night over soni- of the appointments of Mayor-elect W. J. Robblns, Progressives being especially bitter in what they termed h "betrayal cf their confidence." It is understood, however, that the mayor e'ect will ignore public opinion and stand pat on all his appointments. Howard Brooks, Progressive city chairman, who had charge of the Robbins campaign, emphatically denied today that he had any hand in making the appointments. "I knew no more than the arengs citizen about the men Mr. ilobbins hd decided on for his cabinet until he announced his slate." said "dr. Brooks. "He consulted me regarding the ap pointment of Mr. Knoilcuberg for street commissioner and Mr. Ford for park superintendent, out thit was all." Mr. Brooks said that several daya ago he heard that Dr. Smelser was to be appointed health officer and ha questioned Mr. Robbins concerning this appointment, but vas led to lelieve that Dr. Smelser w&3 aot the selection. Protest Against Dr, Smelser. No charges of Incompetency have been preferred against Dr. Smelser, who has a large practice and Is a popular young physician, but the oppos'.tion against his appointment is due to two facts; he is in the bad graces cf the Wayne County Medical society, consequently it is feared Mat the necessary co-operation b?twceu the health department and the .ihyslcians during the next administration will be lacking; that Mr. Robbins before and afttr election positively EtateJ that Dr. Smelser would not le appointed health officer. But the opposition to tha Smelser appointment fades Into significance in comparison -wtth the general criticism of the appointments of Clarence Klelnknecht as superintendent of the municipal lighting plant and Harry Goodwin as chief of police. Over two hundred men Questioned as to their views on ta3e appoint ments expressed the opinion that they were merely rewards for political services, consequently Maeraut violations of Mr. Robbins' preelection promises of appointing only efficient men as the heads of the various city departments. Support Nimrod Johnson. "Mr. Kleinknecht nay make a successful light plant superintendent, but it is a poor time to make such an experiment," declared a well known professional man today. "Mr. Johnson, in my estimation, and. I believe, in that of the majority of citizens, gave an excellent administration of the lignt plant's affairs. So why was it necessary to remove him?" "Mr. Robbins. judging from his appointments, especially that of superintendent of the municipal plant, naa certainly misinterpreted the causes entering into his overwhelming election as mayor of Richmond," stited a Main street business man. "I voUd for him. as did hundreds of other citizens, not because he was the Progressive candl date but because he had i-romised to devote all his time and attention to his official duties and to appoint to his cabinet only efficient men. I now rv gard his efficiency promise broken. He has turned out to be only a politician who masqueraded in the rjuise of a civic reformer. "Does not Mr. Robbins tealize that at the present time the supplanting of Superintendent Johnson cf the lighr plant with a man of less experience is as unwise a move as it vrould be for the management of any one of our large factories to remove Its puperm tendent and put in his phce an apprentice machinist? At 'he present time the municipal plant z installing a most complex bookeping system: it is engaged in a campaign to increase its business, made possible by the addition of a new unit: plans are being worked out for the reduction of the lighting rates so that th plant can still show an annual pro5t of six per cent, as required by the state public utilities commission: a complete inventory of the plant must 'e made for presentation to th state commission, and the new superintendent must take up the work, begun by Mr. Johnson, of installing a new street lighting system. Perhaps Mr Kleinknefht can do all this, but why take th- needles? risk that he will be unable o?" Adds To Political Pie. Criticism of many other ritizens. in all walks of life and for th most part members of the Progressive party, was along the same Mnes a the two men quoted, with the ad I d protest of Mayor-elect Robbins' acti-n in placing two more municipal offices Into politics, which had hitherto been under tne civil service. These office are. chief engineer of the light plant and chief clerk of the light plant. It baa always been the rule for the stroerintendent to fill these offices because he has hal the authority to employ end discharge all the employes of the rlant. A newspaper man -vho heard a citizen remark on election day that if Mr. Robbins was elected raaycr the next light plant superintendent would be Mr. Kleinknecht. asked him today th source of his information and was told that a close friend of Kleinknecht had volunteered the information shortly batora mlmntim -tvoxt tStnm Jr

APPO NTMENTS

Robbins had publicly nnnonnced ha had made no promises of nfficf. Saturday afternoon Superintendent Ray Robinson of the Rooinson Machine company stated that Mr. Goodwin, who Is to be chief of police, had' been in the employ of the company aa a blacksmith for twenty yenrs and tho company regretted losing him services for he had been a faithful, energetic and competent workman. Mr. Robinson also spoke in the highest terms of John McMinn. foreman of the blacksmith department, who Is to be one of the members of the board of public works. Attack His Qualification. Mr. Robinson's opinion of both Goodwin and McMinn appears to reflect that of the majority of the people questioned about the Robbins' appointments, and there is little opposition to McMinn'a selection as a board member, but there Is wholesale criticism of the appointment of Goodwin as police chief. This criticism is based entirely on the fact that Mr. Goodwin is to assume an office, the duties of which he is entirely unfamiliar. "Personally I wanted to see. Chief Gormon retained and I think there are hundreds of other people of the same mind," said a local manufacturer. "However, if Mr. Robbins could not see his way clear to retain Mr. Gormon I think the only consistent thin he could have done was to have appointed to this very important office some man with experience in police work." The wave of Indignation which has resulted from some of the remarkable appointments of the new mayor today is . viewed with treat alarm , by - thos ... xun . who had announced their candidacies for nominations on th lTogressivi county ticket They fear Mr. Robbins has delivered a knockout blow to th party he is Indebted to for his selection and a number of them are upeaking of him in most unkind terms. One of the members of the executive board of the Progressive city committee announced today that in tho future the party could "whistle for his services." PARENTS DEAD, BOY L00KSJ0R UNCLE Homeless Youth Unable to Find Relatives in Richmond, j I M Without friends or relative. W1IHam Slgmon, 13. came to this city from Dayton Sunday morning searching for an uncle. Harry Smith, supposed to b living in or near Richmond. Sigmon's parents were drowned in the flood last spring leaving the boy alone in the world. At police headquarters he said he had been living with a Mrs. Marshal in Dayton, who had bought him ticket to Greenville and sent him that far on his way to Richmond. There a kindly disposed business man gav him money enough to complete th journey. Police Chief Gormon was unable to find a Harry Smith, related to the boy. He im given a ticket and aenl back to Greenville today, where tb man who had given him money te come to this city had promised him work and a home if he could not ind his relative. W0LC0TO SPEAK Ex-senator to Deliver an Address on Taxation. Ex-Senator K. H. Wolcott. now a member of the state board of tax commissioners will make an address on the subject of taxation in the Commercial club rooms tonight at I o'clock. The regular monthly business meeting of the club will be taken up before the address. Ex Senator Wolcott made an extensive study of the tax question while he was in Congress, and he is said to be well posted on every phase of the big problem. The meeting is an open one. CHARGES DESERTION Charging that his wife. Bertha Perkins, abandoned him after they bad lived together only a year, and has since refused to live with him. Lynthus Perkins, a farmer residing near Fountain City, has asked that he be tnuited a separation from her.