Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 47, 5 January 1914 — Page 2

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, MONDAY, JAN. 5, 1914 METHODS OF WORK I WILL GIVE BANQUET CITY ENTITLED TO

THIRTY LIVES LOST, WIRELESS REPORT Dispatches Say Oil Tank Ship, Battered By High Sea, Was Sunk.

Scene of Calumet Disaster PETRO GETS PLUM ON COUNTY FARM DISGUSTS WAHLBERG 3 MORE SALOONS Church Workers to Entertain Business Women.

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Fleet Picks Up Captain and Eight Members of Crew. XEW YOIIK, Jan. 5. Wireless dispatches -which filtered in today through a snow storm sweeping the New Jersey coast, brought word of another sea disaster in which thirty j lives are believed to have been lost. The oil tank ship, Oklahoma, owned by the Gulf Refining company and carrying a crew of thirty-eight men, was sunk after being battered helpless by the terrific wind and high seas, according to the wireless flashes. Thirty of the Oklahoma's crew were swept to their death, the remaining ?ight. including the captain being picked up by the steamship Bavaria bound from Hamburg to Philadelphia. For hour after hour a fleet of steamships and revenue cutters searched the Atlantic and the wireless stations rombed the seaboard, but it was not until noon that the identity of the wrecked ship was obtained and her fate definitely ascertained. NEW JERSEY LOSS 3 MILLION. N'KW YORK. Jan. 5. The great Jtorm which for .two days has been raging along the New Jersey and hong island coasts continued today but with abated fury, after piling up a property loss of $3,000,000 and proving a serious menace to shipping. Captain '. T. Matthews and crew of the oyster sloop Ruperta, who were off Ocean City when the storm broke Saturday, have not been heard from. Seabright, X. J. was again the center of the greatest damage. The damage by the two days' storm there alone was estimated at $1 000,000. TWENTY-FOUR DEAD. PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 5. A wireless message received here today confirmed the sinking of the tank steamer Oklahoma sixty miles south of Sandy Hook. This message said that the Oklahoma crew numbered thirtytwo of whom eight had been saved and twenty-four were drowned. TO E HOTEL w. C. Cunningham Takes Over Westcott From F. G. Warden. OWNER WELL KNOWN Changes in the Westcot hotel, which Manager Harry Barrows has had in mind for some time, will be made since the transfer of the lease from Frank G. Warden, of Chicago, to W. C. Cunningham, of Cincinnati. The nature of the changes will be announced in a few days. Mr. Barrows will continue as manager, and will have full liberty to carry out his ideas for the betterment of the hotel and service. He, hopes to give the patrons of the Westcott hotel facilities equal to those of the larger cities. The change in ownership, which resulted after a conference of Mr. Warden and Mr. Cunningham at Chicago, December So, was announced late Saturday evening. The new owner did l ot make public the consideration paid lor the holdings of Mr. Warden, the fixtures and supplies on hand. Mr. Cunningham said the hotel company would continue to be known as th Warden-Westcott company. Tiie new owner is a well-known hot"l man. having formerly controlled the Westcott. which he disposed of to W. E. Bayfield, the predecessor of the Warden-Westcott company. He also owns the Hotel Rand in Cincinnati and the Hotel Willard of Louisville. Mr. Warden disposed of the property so that he might move his headquarters in order to manage directly a strinK of hotels he controls in Iowa, Illinois and western Indiana. Mr. Cunningham is a Wayne county man, having been born and reared at. Hagerstown. CAR STRIKES AUTO Running at a hiRh rate of speed. Street car No. 33:?. in charge of Motorman Luker and Conductor Wood, struck a Davis five-passenger touring car, driven by George E. Kemper. 1220 South A street, at the corner of South Eighth and A streets, at 9 o'clock, Sunday morning, and pushed the automobile up the street for a hundred feet, breaking six spokes in the rear wheel, bending the rear axle, and entirely destroying the top and guards of the machine. Mr. Kemper had just taken his machine out of the garage when the accident occurred. According to a statement made by Mr. Kemper today, no warning was given by the motorman as the car approached, and ne did not ring the bell until he saw that the car would strike Mr. Kemper's machine. APPOINTS J.ALLEN PAUPER ATTORNEY The appointment of Joshua Allen as pauper attorney to succeed Denver Harlan, was announced by Judge Fox today. Allen will serve during the January term of court. Harlan was appointed at the opening of the October term, it being the policy of Judge Fox to appoint a new pauper attorney for each term of court.

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The Italian Hall at Calumet, the scene of the disaster on Christmas eve in which seventy-five, mostly children, lost their lives. It was in the doorway to the left that the men, women and children became packed and in which the entire loss of life ensued. No one escaped by this door, the first person to reach the bottom of the stairway falling and the rest falling, over him. This hall has had a very eventful history, having been once blown down and once destroyed by fire. The disaster, the greatest in the history of the state which happened here on Christmas eve came during a Christmas celebration of the Western Federation of Miners.

E POWERS FOR DEPARTMENT HEADS Authority For City Officials to Hire and Fire Underlings Proposed. The new board of public works, composed of Alfred Bavis, John McMinn and Charles Marlatt, held its first meeting this afternoon and after electing Mr. Bavis president took up the question of increasing the authority of the various department heads. Mayor Robbins suggested to the board that in his opinion each department chief should be vested with the authority of employing and discharging all of his subordinates. This suggestion was favorably received by the board but it was decided that before any action on the matter was taken each department chief should be consulted. "In all large businesses department chiefs lave the authority to employ and discharge the men working under them," said Mr. Bavis. "This promotes efficiency and discipline and 1 think the plan could be very well introduced into the city government." Because of conflict in laws the ordinance passed by council last September increasing the salaries of several of the city officials because of the fact that Richmond became a third class city after the first of the year will be ! reintroduced tonight. THIEF ROBS CHORCH Enters Building and Takes j Savings Bank. Entering the reading room of the Church of Christ Scientist through a rear window last Friday night, a thief carried away a small savings hank containing fifty cents. All the drawi ers and tables in tne reading room were ransacked, but nothing else missed. Police and members of the church have clews but no arrests have been made. CITY STATISTICS ! i Births. j Mr. and Mrs. William Howard Win-I ters, ?j .North Third street, boy. I Mr. and Mrs. Otto C. Keith, 653 ! j South H street, boy. Deaths and Funerals. GILMORE Robert A. Gilmore. f, died at the home of his parents, 22'J South Second street early this morning. He is survived by his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gilmoro, a brother and a sister. Services will be private, scarlet fever being the cause of the death. The funeral party will leave the house at 1 o'clock Tuesday morning. Interment will be in the Sugar Grove cemetery, northwest of Greensfork. Real Estate Transfers. Earlham cemetery to Margaret Cole, lot. $36. NEW OFFICERS TAKE CHARGE OF W. R. C. The Woman's Relief Corps has elected offices as follows: President, Mary Christopher; vice president, Mary Bond; junior vice president, Minnie Weed; chaplain. Mary Mitchell; treasurer, Pauline Jones; secretary, Minnie Ball; conductor. Ruby Smith; guard, Emma Red. Appointed officers are: Assistant conductor, Mary Austin; correspondent, Lucy Arnold; press correspondent; Anne Fetta; assistant guard, Mrs. Scener; colorbearers, Clara McMinn. Emma Arrowsmith, Mary Rodgers and Laura Paxpan. Heavy weight Sterling Silver Teaspoons the kind that last $1 and $1.25 The Jeweler 810 MAIN STREET

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SHELTER IS GIVEN VICTIMJFCOCAINE Emma Dill Rendered Helpless By Effects of Drug Habit.

Unable to overcome the effects of I cocaine, Emma Dill, an employe of the Westcott hotel kitchen for about i a year, was taken to the Home for Friendless Women today. After long ' use of the drug the woman tried to ! overcome the habit, fighting it with i medicine. The affects of the drug and j the medicine combined rendered her ! almost helpless. Last night she fell ! from her bed, cutting a gash in her ' scalp. Having no friends in the city, I and unable to tell where friends or I relatives might live, she was taken to i the home. SETS Nffl RECORD Herbert Cotton Wins Cross Country Run. Herbert Cotton, a graduate of the Richmond high school, and formerly an Earlham student, won the threemile cross country run at Oxford university, breaking the school record. He made the course in 15:30, taking two minutes off the school record. THREE DEMOCRATS PLAN TO ATTEND Henry Farwig, George Bayer and Frank Geisler, of Hagerstown, are planning to attend the Democratic Love Feast of Indiana Democrats January X. Governor Ralston, Senator Kern, and the thirteen congressmen are expected t respond with enthusiasm in the way of after dinner speeches. M . C. A. TEAM WINS FRO MCENTERVILLE. Before a good sized crowd the team representing the Young Mens Christian association defeated the Centerville basketball team cm the association gymnasium Saturday night by the scor of 4: to 21. Parker, Roach and Laning played the best game for the locals while Dunbar and Stephens, forwards, played good for Centerville. PIERCE RETURNS FROM VACATION i P. 1 the Paul Pierce, physical director at Y. M. C. A., returned yesterday from his vacation, which he has been spending in the east. Mr. Pierce has been gone since the first of December, and since that time the gymnasiumclasses have been conducted by different officials of the local association. YOUR If vou smoke a pipe smoke a good one. The "B is known the world over. Imported from London, Eng. ED. A. Retail Department

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Hagerstown Man Succeeds Brumfiel As Infirmary Su perintendent .

SOME CHANGES MADE i Appointments agreed upon hy for the county jobs, county commissioners today, were announced, Frank j B. Petro of Hagerstown securing the ,

1 superintendency of the poor farm. The i -.s of the officers, that the organization I appointment of county attorney and i jrt ,10t. the organization it claims to be, ! county health officer will be announc- anfl tnat incompetent persons are ailed by the board tomorrow. 'lowed to hold high offices, Captain ! The legality of the appointment c.f Mr.H nttn Vnhlhpre- whn ucro

Mr. Petro as superintendent of the i poor farm, was established by the commissioners who conferred with attorneys before making the announcement. Because Mr. Petro is a relative to a member of the board, was thought by a few that he could not legally hold the office. However, it will not be legal to attach a salary to the office of matron of th nnnr farm The wife of

the superintendent has always taken ! 1W the public what has been done this position without extra salary. 'with money solicited. We found that The board has not decided upon the! the money taken in, went alone for salary it will pay the superintendent j the support of officers and that no of the poor farm but it will be from i charity had been done.

$800 to $1,100. Newton Brumfiel, who has held the superintendency received $800 a year. There were twelve appncations for the position, Brumfiel's name not appearing among them Other appointments announced are: Poor farm physician, W. F. Fisher, salary, $240 annually. Jail physician, S. C. Markley, reappointed. Salary, $75 annually. Bertsch is Engineer. Court house engineer, J. C. Darnell, who has held the office for the past, eight years, was not reappointed but Bart Bertsch will take his place. Darnell, Bertsch and C. E. Hale were ap plicants. The job pays $S00 a year. Court house janitor A. E. Brown.! first floor, re-oppointed, salary $52 j monthly; Lindley Swain, second floor,! re-appointed, salary $ti,r monthly; John J A. Markley, third floor, re-appointed, salary $36 monthly. Guard for insane at poor farm Irene Sourbeer, $1 a day. j Applicants which will be announced tomorrow are: Superintendent of highways, seven-j teen applicants, pays $4 a day. County health officer, six applicants, ! pays $825 a year. County attorney, two applicants, j pays $500 a year. j Physician for Home of the Friend-1 less, no applicants, pays $50 a year. 1 Thomas, matron of the Home for Friendless Women, the commission- : ers will meet with the trustees of the institution tomorrow and discuss placS ing the home on a basis by which the j city and county sections can be dividi ed and two matrons employed. Mrs. Thomas says the work is too . hard for one person. I The county is building an addition to ! the home, and at present is bearing about half the expense with the city. The matron has acted heretofore jointly for the county and city. The position pays $25 a month and laundry work to the extent of $C. CLARK CANDIDATE FOR REPRESENTATIVE Cecil L. Clark, has announced him- : self as an aspirant for nomination on ' the Progressive ticket for representattive from this district. Mr. Clark is a young attorney and insurance agent. ; He is interested in measures of espec- ; ial interest o business men. He is in favor of an increased appropriation for the state university and believes tiiat all insurance laws should be brought under the supervision of the i state auditor. There Glasses latest. are styles Our's are m the E. B. Grosvenor,M.D. OCCULIST, Over 713 Main Street.

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Rescue Workers Captain Resigns, Saying Organiza

tion Is Loose. LITTLE CHARITY DONE Alleging that money collected by former officers of the American Rescue workers for charitable purposes was used to defray the living exnenssent here to take charge of the local branch on Oct. lfith. today tendered their resignations. When the captain and his wife took charge he said the work had been opened here three months before. "But there was nothing to show for it," he charged. There were no corps books which each officer keeps to Against Humbugging. "As we do not believe in humbug ging the public in a Christian work and above all. after finding out that the Rescue Workers was not the organization the members claimed to be, we could not in justice stay with them." Captain Wahlberg continued. "Furthermore, Richmond lias enough EWCYCLO

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business women of the city will be i given on next Thursday evening at j six o'clock at the Beid Memorial parj lors by the women of the united i churches. As vet. net Droaram has bPP" ""l i.t special music ana speeches will tip the reatures oi the evening. Miss IaMonte, of the Honeywell party, is making arrangements for the affair, and is being assisted by a committee of church women. associations to take care of its poor.' After coming here Captain Wahl ' berg said lie kept books showing every cent of income and expenditure and accounting for everything spent for charity. Tin- captain and his wife have been in th work for nineteen ' years, only recently becoming connected however with the Rescue Worki ers. On leaving, they thank the business men and citizens for their co-operation and kindness. NEW MACHINERY NOT COMPLETED New machinery at the local light plant will not be started for at least three weeks. The new switch board has not been erected, and much piping is to he done before the new engine.; can be tried out. The new machinery will double the capacity of the plant. Work on these improvements has been going on since last spring. INCLUDING

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Three more saloons will l a; !-r to Richmond's list of fifty-two. th. board of county commissioners !- ;; i today. Licenses were accordii.ti. granted to Theodore W. Crane, to,-.,-ed. and to Asa P. Betldon. who v.i enter into the saloon business at i, The application for more th;ci more liquor license, will man ;i f; i' the commissioners say. if h' t; applicants push the matter. The decision was broimht alvi; "m using as a basis the voto cat i i .' but two precincts in th national ! tion of 1 1 2 The two contej-t. ! incts ar- the Twenty fifth and Tw.ty s-eventh. part of both of whih !. outside the city limits. There has beii no application ': the third remaining li--nse hi' li tV. commissioners will issi;e COLLECTIONS NOW AMOUNT TO S40f

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