Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 89, 23 February 1914 — Page 1

FAIXABIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM lrOL. XXXIX. NO. 89 RICHMOND, IND., MONDAY EVENING, FEB. 23, 1914 SINGLE COPY 2 CENTS Feeding Famished Derelicts of Cold in Municipal Lodging in New York

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CUTTING CITY FOR 17 Break Occurs in Line When 100-Pound Fire Pressure Is Turned on to Cope With Blaze in Ramler Flats. SIMILAR ACCIDENT FEW MONTHS AGO Hundreds of Persons With Jugs Invade Glen Miller . Park to Obtain Drinking Water From Springs. That great American sanitary invention, the Saturday night bath, was denied hundreds of persons in Richmond Saturday, while an equal number accustomed to immerse themselves Sunday morning were also compelled to suspend temporarily their scrubbing because a furnace in the basement of R. O. Allen's flat, in the Ramler apartments. South Sixth street, misbehaved Itself, shortly after 6 o'clock Saturday evening. As the firemen were combating a somewhat stubborn blaze in the apartment house basement a pressure of 3 00 pounds was turned on at the water works pumping station, with the result that the big main burst. The break occurred near the pumping station, where the new engine house is being constructed. It was nearly 11 o'clock Sunday morning before the water was turned on and it was noon before the pressure was great enough to provide the normal water supply of the city. It is believed that a plow used in making the excavation for the newengine house must have struck the V shaped main at that place and cracked it so that when the fire pressure was turned on the strain was too great for ihe weakened pipe. There ' was no duplicate for this pipe at hand j and it. was necessary to send to In- j dianapolis to secure a new one. j Firemen Uneasy. One fire preceded the breaking of j the main and tho accident occurred j as the firemen had about subdued the j blaze at the Ramler apartments. When it became known that the water supply of the city had been shut off and (Continued on Page Seven.) WEATHER FORECAST j FOR INDIANA Snow and colder. Tuesday fair. Cold wave. TEMPERATURE. Noon 10 Yesterday. Maximum 36 Minimum 10 W. E. MOORE'S FORECAST FOR RICHMOND. Continued stormy tonight with snow. Falling temperature, 'probably poing below zero during the next "6 hours. SUMMARY. The great Pacific coast storm, central Sunday over Oklahoma, is now headed for the Atlantic coast. Since the center of the storm . is moving south of Indiana it is drawing a severe cold wave down from Canada which is expected to lower the temperature to zero or below during the .next 86 hour.

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Mrs. S. W. Traum Presents Statistics to Show Why Saloons Should Be Voted Out of City. PICKELL ALSO TALKS Says He Objects to Fact That Students Must Pass Saloons on Way to School Buildings. More than 250 women heard speakers at the special women's meeting yesterday afternoon at the Friends church. - The1 wuuien who arranged the t meeting were much pleased with the attendance, as it is significant of the fact that women are to be a factor in the local option fight, they said. Mrs. Harlow Lindley acted as chairman and Mrs. S. W. Traum was the leading speaker. Prof. Pickell, principal of the high school, and Miss Mary A. Stubbs also gave short talks. There was special music to open and close the meeting. Mrs. Traum declared that every days a number equal to that lost in the Titanic disaster in April, 1912, were ruined by alcohol, and that one of every five boys were fed into saloons to keep them running. She called attention to the fact that every monthly police report shows more than half the arrests in Richmond to be for intoxication. "The women of the city are going (Continued on Page Six) MRS, GOODWIN DIES AT REID HOSPITAL Police Chiefs Wife Succumbs Following Long Illness. Mrs. Jessie F. Goodwin, 26 South West Third street, wife of Harry D. Goodwin, chief of police, died early Saturday evening of pneumonia at reeia Memorial nospiiai. one uau been the victim df a serious stomach ailment for more than a year and her physical condition was such she could not withstand the ravages of the disease from which she died. Miss Alice Goodwin, 13, a daughter, is quite ill with pneumonia at tne home, and for that reason it was thought best not to take the body of her motner home. The body will be kept at the Jordan, McManus & Hunt morgue until tomorrow morning, when it will be removed to the home of her sister, Mrs. George Guyer, South West Eleventh street and. National road, opposite Earlham cemetery. Burial will be at that cemetery tomorrow afternoon after services at the Guyer home at 2 o'clock. The pallbearers at the funeral will be Mayor Robbins, John McMinn, of the board of public works: Frank Carter, assistant fire chief; Sergeant ! McNally, Building Inspector Hodgin and Harry Scott, assistant superintendent of Robinson & Co., where Mr. Goodwin was formely employed. The casket will be covered with a beautiful floral blanket, a tribute from the employes of the city. Mrs. Good,win was well known, and her death proved a shock to her large number of friends. Mrs. Winter Buried Today. Mrs. Eliza Winter, mother of Second Sergeant Scott Winter, was buried at Earlham cemetery this afternoon. Funeral services were held at the Second Presbyterian church. A beautiful floral tribute was sent by the police department. Mrs. Strothaus Dead. The mother of another city employe, Mrs. Henrietta Strothaus, died suddenly at her home, 627 South C street, of apoplexy Sunday evening. She was 74 years of age and the mother of E. F. Strothaus, driver for the No. 3 hose company. Mrs. Strothaus had just finished assisting in washing the supper dishes and was. preparing to retire, when she collapsed and died within a short time. Funeral arrangements are announced elflWhertk

Palladium Keeps Office Open In order to co-operate with the Associated Charities and other charitable organizations, The Palladium will keep its offices open all night tonight in the hope that it may be of some assistance in getting persons in touch with charity workers and relieving anyone in distress. Predictions say that the blizzard will continue tonight and tomorrow and it is likely that many more calls will be made for assistance tonight of the charitable organization. Anyone desiring to secure information of any nature which The Palladium may give, may call phones No. 1121 or 2566.

JURYMEN UNABLE TO GET INTO CITY Hearing of Suit to Break Will Postponed On Account of Weather. Only seven of the men summoned to court today to sit on the jury hearing the Chitwood suit to break the will of the late Daniel M. Hankins, of J Connersvllle, appeared in the court room at the time set for the jury se- j lection, and the case 'was indefinitely j postponed. One of the men left the j court room as soon as he had responded, saying he would return home while it was still possible. Ten of the twelve men summoned are farm-; ers and several of them are situated , so that they must drive to Richmond j in buggies. Judge Pox ordered the men to be , ready to respond to a call at any time, j as the case will be heard as soon as possible. All of the men are on the regular January term venire. The attorneys who will be engaged ! in the suit for the re-division of the j Hankins estate of $40,000 appeared ! in court and agreed to delay the trial i a few days. It is said there are fifty j witnesses subpoenaed in the case, most of them being from Connersville. j The witnesses summoned for today did not appear. The duration of the trial is expected to be not less than j eight days. 48 NEW MEMBERS TAKEN IICHURCHES Pastors Continue to Accept Professed Converts of the Honeywell Campaign. Despite the fact that the Honeywell revival services closed more than three weeks ago ' professed converts are still being taken in the various churchs of the seventeen which united in the evangelistic campaign. In twelve of the seventeen congregations there was an addition of forty-eight members. The Rev. R. C. Leonard, of the Central Christian church, extended the hand of fellowship to fifteen. This makes a total of 212 new members to the congregation. The Baptist church accepted two persons yesterday, now making a total of 55 members. The Rev. C. Raymond Isley, Second Lutneran church, received three members, making a total of thirty-two accessions. The First Methodist Episcopal church accepted six additional members. The Rev. B. Earle Parker has accepted 121 members since the close of the revival. The South Eighth Street FriendB church received seven new members, the West Richmond Friends church seven, the United Brethren church four and the Reid Memorial church four. BENNETT RELEASED Bruce Bennett, the young colored man who was arrested a month ago on the charge of residents of the southern part of the township that he criminally assaulted an eight year old girl, was released today on orders from Prosecuting Attorney Reller who says there is no tvidenoe to show that a was guilty.

OPIUM FIEND LEAVES - FRIENDLESS HOME Nancy Green Ordered Out of the City Upon Her Release by Police.

Nancy Green, colored, the first of the trio of opium fiends to be released left the Home of the Friendless this morning, her sentence having expired. She told the officers that she wanted to return to Louisville, Ky., but did not have enough money to make the trip. She Is expecting aid from relatives. The woman insisted that she be permitted to stay in Richmond for at least two or three days but Sergeant McNally Informed her that if she were in the city tonight she would be rearrested and placed in the woman's ward at the Home for the Friendless. Patrolman Yogelsong took the colored woman to the traction station where she boarded an Indianapolis car. The car started but was unable to go father than the car barns. The passengers were then transferred to a city car and brought back to the city. When the car arrived at the corner I of Eighth and Main streets Nancy Green stepped from in right in front of Patrolman Vogelsong. The patrolman demanded an explanation but the woman told him the car was stuck and she had to return to Richmond. He then escorted her to the Chesapeake & Ohio railroal station and waited until she boarded a train for Cincinnati. As she was leaving the Home for the Friendless she was heard to remark 'T wish some one. would take a long knife and cut out old Vogelsong's heart." Julia Keating and Charles Miller, both colored, are still serving a police court sentence. Since the announcement of Miller that he would confess if he were shown Henency, the police and Prosecntor Reller have been investigating evidence which points heavily toward a Richmond man as one engaged in the transportation of opium. NTERURBAN KILLS 2 Wrecks Buggy in Which Couple Is Riding. WINCHESTER, Ind., Feb. 23. Miss Blanche Burke, 25 years old, a school teacher was instantly killed Sunday afternoon and Calvin Bollinger, her companion died today from Injuries sustained when an lnterurban car wrecked a buggy in which they were riding. Ivan Bollinger, aged 6, sustained a scalp wound but may survive. The party drove onto the track in front of the lnterurban apparently without hearing the warning whistle of the motorman. STEALS CAR RIDE Did you ever ride in a gondola? Ted Conley rode for two minutes In one, but on the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad, instead of the canals of Venice, until Patrolman William Lawler spied the free-rider. He was arrested Sunday and pleaded bullty in police court today to a charge of riding on a moving train without a ticket. He was given a fine of $1 and costs and chose the Jail tor eleven, days,

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IILLHUL lUULHILUJ ROADS IMPASSABLE Reports From Towns Say Business Is At Standstill and Snow Drifts Are Ten Feet High in Places. NOT TO ATTEMPT RURAL DELIVERIES Many School Hacks Forced to Turn Back Live Stock Not Driven to Shelter Suffers From Blizzard. Every town and village in Wayne county is practically isolated. Reports received from each today 6ay that business is at a stand still and the roads are impassable. On account of this fact rural route carriers will not attempt to make deliveries tomorrow. POSTPONE FAIR. CAMBRIDGE CITY, Feb. 23. Committees in charge of the indoor fair which was to have opened here tonight, decided this afternoon to postpone the affair for one week, because of the blizzard. The purpose of holding the fair is to raise funds for the installation of cluster lights in the business part of town. The fair will start next Monday night, March 2, and will close Saturday, March 1. Business today Is at a standstill. TRAFFIC ABANDONED. BOSTON, Feb. 23. Traffic over the country roads here was abandoned at an early hour today. Drifts ten feet high cover the thoroughfares In many places. Little suffering to live stock has been reported. FEW ATTEND SCHOOL. EAST GERMANTOWN, Feb. 3. Not in twenty years, say old resident, has a blizzard of the proportions which struck this place last night and raged today, been known. Attendance in the country schools, according to reports which drifted in over badly demoralized party lines, is email. Business Is practically suspended. Interurban and train service is delayed. SNOW DRIFTS DEEP. MILTON, Feb. 23. Snow which drifted into piles ten feed deep at places, demoralized traffic here, and the town had the appearance of a deserted village. Few pedestrians ventured out, and anxious mothers kept their children from attending school. Farmers report roads impassable. They have housed all their live stock. TEAMS ARE STALLED. WHITEWATER, Ind., Feb. 28. With country roads blocked by the drifting snow of last night and today, business was at a standstill here today. Two miles south of here, the pike leading to Richmond Is reported covered with a five foot drift of snow that has blocked it for half a mile. Several farmers who tried to reach the town in buggies were stalled and had (Continued on Page Two.) NO HEARING TODAY IN R. C,0, CASE Richmond Persons Unable to Reach Indianapolis and Case Is Postponed. "Palladium Special. INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 23. Owing to the fact that Richmond persons were unable to get here today on account of weather conditions, no hearing in the water works case was held today. At the hearing Saturday afternoon H. A. Dill, superintendent, testified that the stockholders of the company at the time of the issuing of the preferred stock had been offered the stock at 97 cents on the dollar, and the Dickinson Trust Company, which by the stockholders was taken up by the Dickinson Trust company, which company sold the stock at $1.10. Mr. Dill testified that he considered the stock to be worth $1.15 at the pres-. ent. Engineer Watts made an excellent witness for the city under a rapid Are cross-examination by John F. Robbins. Mr. Robbins failed to break down any of Mr. Watts' testimony In showing how he arrived at his figures and why he thought the company Ehould not be entitled to any "going concern" value in this case. John W. Alvord, of Chicago, the engineer who made the examination of the plant for the company at the same time the city employed Mr. Maury, was called to testify as to how he arrived at the valuation of $1,200,000, which the company is now claiming as its valuation. Mr. Alvord had made an allowance of $120,000 for "going concern" value instead of $110,000, which was included in the Maury report. Mr. Alvord had just begun his testimony when Jthe oommlBtloa adjovraed ..

RICHMOND SUFFERS IN WORST BLIZZARD OF TWENTY YEARS

CHICAGO LISTS 4 DEAD; SUFFERING OF POOR INTENSE Indiana Steam and Electric Sen-ice Tied Up By Drifts Covering Systems in All Directions. NEWCASTLE STREETS BURIED UNDER DRIFTS Winds Prevail in Kansas and Missouri While Mercury Drops to 40 Degrees Below Zero. INDIANAPOLIS Feb. 23. A blinding blizzard swept central Indiana throughout the night and today, demoralizing steam railroad, electric, intern r ban and city car service. With the mercury rapidly near the rero mark, the heavy snow driven by a fierce wind, rendered futile all efforts to clear the snow drifts, and all train service Into and out of Indianapolis waa from three te sven hear late. No trains were reported stalled, but even with the efforts of light engines to keep the track cleared the trains were unable to do better than creep along. Several of the lnterurban lines were completely tied up while on others but one car had departed up to 9 o'clock with no promises as to when they might reach their destination. The direction of the blizzard was from east to west. NEW CA3TLE SNOWBOUND. NEW CASTLE, Ind- Feb. 23 Never before has New Castle suffered from such a blizzard. Pennsylvania through train No. 12, from Chicago to Cincinnati due here at 5:18 a. m. and train No. 34 from Logansport to Cincinnati are reported stalled in snow drifts between Frankton and Galveston. Children were unable to get to school this morning because of snow drifts which are 4 and a feet high in the business district. FOUR DEAD IN CHICAGO. Trains HeW Fast In Deep 8novdrifta Throughout Northwest. CHICAGO. Feb. 23w Four persons are dead and many others sustained injuries. Plate glass windows in downtown stores were broken and all railroad trains were from one to seven hours behind time, as a result of the worst stomi of the winter, which Bwept Chicago and surrounding country last night and today. Two persons died of exposure, their bodies being found in a room where there had been no fire for many hours and where nearly all windows had been broken. An unidentified man was struck by a train and another was blown to the curbing of a street and fatally injured. Many persons were Injured by the force of the wind in the streets lined by skyscrapers. Harbor Icebound. Chicago harbor is icebound for the first time this winter. The thermometer at 10:30 a. m. was 10 degrees above zero and a enow stoma raged with the wind blowing; a 36-mile-pale. Frank Kachelhoffer aged 75. and

his wife, aged about 70, were found than our hands full." dead in their poorly furnished home South bound train No. 12. from Qilabove a store in a frame shanty. The cago, due in Richmond at 5:50 a. ru . police reported the death of the aged . had not arrived up to 1 o'clock tills pair as due to cold and lack of nourish-; afternoon. It was caught tight In a ing food. i big drift between Logansport and KoIt is believed that the man died first' komo. but with relief finally came inand that his wife overcome by cold.; to Kokomo. Later it left that eliy

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to move any trains. The storm had not entirely subsided today in Kansas, Missouri. Oklahoma and Arkansas where high wind and snow, trailed a fierce rain and hall storm. In the northwest, the country was caught in extreme cold and temperatures went as low as 40 degrees below zero in some sections of Montana. In Illinois four passenger trains were stalled today - behind drifts as high as 20 feet. A big Four train was caught in a tightly packed drift between Pekln and Tremont. The Lake Erie and Western has a train stalled between. Peoria and Bloomlngton; a Chicago and Alton fast train is held near Green Valley and a Chicago, Peoria and St Louis train Is held by drifts near Havana. Kansas City. Mo., and many cities and towns in Kansas and Missouri are isolated. An Inch of sleet on the tracks In St Louis Interrupted trmftio of all kinds.

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Five Relief Engines Buck Drift to Relieve Passenger Train Stalled Near Hagerstown by Drift. STREET CAR SERVICE SUSPENDS AT NOON Schools Report Light Attendance While Business Is Paralyzed Traffic en Streets Blocked by Snow. Wayne county is In the grip of the worst blizzard In twenty years. Indications are that the storm will continue for at least twenty-four hours longer, and will be more severe tonight than It was during the day. Business in Richmond was almost paralyzed today, delivery wagons of all kinds not venturing upon the streets, waist high In some places with snow drifts, many rural schools were closed, also St Mary's and St. Andrew's Catholic parocial schools, and farm houses were completely isolated,-snow drifting vp to tha,pecond stories of some of them. Attendance at the public schools was light. The railroads suffered the worst. Freight servico was completely suspended, and every effort concentrated in maintaining passenger service, but with Indifferent success. Train crews literally had to fight hand to hand with the storm. Three Trains Stalled. Three trains on the Indianapolis division were stalled In deep drifts near the city. one. No. 31. west bound, finally extricating itself from a ten-foot cover of snow and limping Into Richmond about noon, many hours late. Those trains which succeeded In getting into Richmond were all due here at early hours in the morning, and were from one to eight hours late. At noon the superintendent's office of the Richmond division was notified that train No. 21. due her at 9:05 a. m., was hard and fast in a twelvefoot drift near West Manchester. O. This train has a number of passengers on board, but includes a dining car. Bucks Through Snow. Train No. 31. due here at IP: 3S a. m., from Columbus. O, was for a couple of hours stalled in a deep drift near New Madison. O.. but with th assistance of a relief train sent out. from Bradford bucked its waythrough the blockade and reached here about noon. The engine and. cars were as white as though they had been dipped in a gigantic flourbin. J Most of its passengers, bound for" points further west, got off here, de ciding not to risk another blockade. West bound trains. Nos. 27 and 4T limped into the city In the forenoon, but at noon It was reported that No. 47 was In a deep drift west of Hagers town. Five Engines Blocked. O. V. Porter. Richmond divisioa trainmaster, sent a relief engine to No. 47. but it and two other reliT locomotives sent later were al stalled. "There are now five engines in that drift," Mr. Porter said at noon. "Probably all five will be able to clear a way through the bis drift. This is the worst storm were have ever had : to contend with, and we have mare i for Richmond, but its whereabouts at 1 o'clock was hot known to local officials. 'It is desperate work trying to keep lo,pfiro' Tm points, but this wa, J1, U81"s . bJn fifteen ?uI e drifted high again, fifteen minutes after the engines passed. Several engines narrowly escaped being caught in the drifts. Snowplow Called. "One of the largest drifts is near Sulphur Sprinss. Ind. Two engines and a snowplow are now bucking it A relief train has been sent to No. 21. stalled near West Manchester and aboard which is Superintendent l.e Boutellier. A snowplow and two engines are also bucking a deep drift between Logansport and Kokomo. and we are trying to cut through the deep drift west of Hagerstown." Although the railroad men have had a hard fight on their bands today they say it ia a picnio to the work cut out for them tonight Every available man Is being employed today to assist .tOottnmd oa. Fa TwoJ.