Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 92, 26 February 1914 — Page 1

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BAVIS BELIEVES CITY WILL GAIN POINT IN WATER

E President of Board of Works Optimistic on Advantageous Outcome of Rate Adjustment. ALVORD APPRAISES PLANT AT $700,000 Company's Engineer Admits Appraisement Made in 1909 and Tries to Explain Present Increase. "Unless I am greatly mistaken, the state public utilities commission will fix a Taluation on the Richmond City Water Works plant which will be the hasia for a rate readjustment greatly to the benefit of patrons of the company." This was the optimistic statement made today by President Bavis, of the board of public works, who has just returned from Indianapolis, where the hearing of the water works case was completed yesterday. "I think the Water Works company itself convinced the commission members that the valuation it had placed on its plant was excessive," continued Mr. Bavis. Not Certain of Basis. The board president says he does not know whether the commission will use the cost of the plant reproduction or 'present value" as the basis for rate making. The city argued in favor of using "present value" as the basi3, but the company desires the rates to be figured on the cost of reproducing the plant, for it Is presumed if such a valuation is accepted "going concern" valuation will be included. Engineer Watts, representing tb.9 city, opposed the consideration of "going concern" valuation in the case of the local Water Works company, because, he said, the dividends made by the company every year since the organization of the company had more than made up the losses incurred by the establishment of the concern. Claims $12,000 Increase , , ,w Notwithstanding this fact, the company now claims that the going concern valuation has increased $12,000 since 1909, or ten per cent, two and one-half per cent per annum. Mr. Bavis also stated the company had virtually admitted to the commission that $307,250 of stock was destitute of tangible assets. "One of the interesting facts brought out in the case was when Engineer Alvord, representing the company, was on the witness stand," said Mr. Bavis. "I sent a note to Mr. Bond requesting him to ask Alvord if he did not appraise the plant in 1909. Bond put the Continued on page seven BALLARD TO SPEAK BEFOREDRY FORCES Crawfordsville Lawyer Engaged by Citizens' Committee to Speak, Friday. Emerson E. Ballard, of Crawfordsville, has been selected to speak at the Friday night, tabernacle prohibition mass meeting. This announcement was made by S. Edgar Nicholson, chairman of the citizens' committee today. Mr. Ballard is a lawyer of national reputation, being the author of a work entitled "Ballard's Lav,' of Real Property," which is used as a legal textbook throughout the United States. For the past decade the Crawfordsville lawyer has been stumping the country in the interests of the prohibition cause: The Honeywell choir and the double male quartet will be special attractions at tomorrow night's meeting. Clifford F. Hutchins will sing a campaign song appropriate to the occasion. The dry forces will distribute a number of temperance pamphlets at the meeting. The Citizens' committee will collect the outstanding local option election petitions before tomorrow night as they must be filed with the auditor pome time Saturday. Chairman Nicholson asks that all holders of the petitions return the same to the dry headquarters in the Second National Bank bulla in p. T WEATHER FORECAST o For Indiana Fair tonight and Friday; slowly rising temperature. TEMPERATURE. Neon 36 Yesterday. Maximum 31 Minimum 1 below W. E. MOORE'S FORECAST Mostly fair weather tonight and Friday. Summary. ligh barometer pressure controls the weather at present, over the Central States. H'he western storm is moving slowly, "hich shows a continuation of fair weather for thirty-six Jiours.

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SOCIETY DICTATOR BARS MODERN FADS

MRS. STUYVESTANT FISH. Mrs. Stuyvestant Fish, undisputed leader of New York society, has officially banned the tango by informing guests to all her functions that she does not wish them to dance any version of the modern dance in her home. Mrs. Fish has also expressed herself as being opposed to the new European fad of vari-colored wigs for women. JUDGE WRIGHT TAKING FAVORS Bank President Accuses the Washington Justice, Who Sentenced Gompers, o f Violating Law. DEPARTMENT WILL INVESTIGATE CASE Financier Asserts Congressmen Stand Ready to Order Impeachment of Accused Man. WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 Sensational charges against Daniel Thew Wright of the supreme court of the District of Columbia were filed today with President Wilson by Wade H. Cooper, president of the Union Savings Bank and the United Savings Bank of this city. Justice Wright who is nationally known because he sentenced President Gompers, of the American Federation of Labor to a term in prison for contempt of court, is accused of frequenting resorts of bad character in Washington; that he accepts favors from various attorneys practicing before him and is notoriously partial to them. Violates Federal Law. It is also alleged that the general council of Washington Railway and Electric Company endorsed notes of his, and many notes given him by attorneys h'ave been allowed to go to banks for discount; that he practices law in Washington in violation of a statute of the United States; that he is a member of the board of directors of a New York corporation and has received money for work on this board. In addressing his letter to the president, Mr. Cooper says: "I do not hesitate to say that Justice Wright's conduct is a disgrace to the judiciary of the nation and that he should be impeached." Cooper says he knows of several representatives in congress who are willing to introduce resolutions impeaching Justice Wright with support of his evidence.' The charges will be referred to the department' of Justice for investigation. King Witnesses A merican Game Exercises Extreme Care in Order Not to Lower His Dignity. LONDON, Feb. 26. In the presence of King George, his family and many members of English royalty, the Giants and White Sox, played a ball game here today before a crowd that taxed the capacity of the stand at the Chelsea football ground. Before the game was called. Jimmy Callahan and John McGraw, the riv- j al managers, were presented to his j majesty. ! King was asked to throw the first j ball and about decided to do so when j he figured that such an act would bring him too much notoriety, so he i compromised by having the ball j handed to him and he then handed it I in tiim r TT CI A mKncoalAK TXT M ' Page, who tossed it onto the field. Throughout the jfeme His Highness frequently expressed delight to those in the box. Whenever a play took place that he did not understand he consulted newspaper clippings brought with him or turned to Ambassador Page for enlightenment. The score was 6 to 4 in favor of the White Sox.

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Villa Opposes Removal Of Benton's Body From Mexico

"Must I Let Assassin Kill Me?" Asks Rebel Leader When American Consul Demands that He Await Foreign Investigation of Case Before He Acts.

CHIHUAHUA CITY, Feb. 26. While he was making active preparations for his advance on Torreon to attack the Federals, General Villa, the Constitutionalist leader, today again reiterated his determination not to allow the body of William S. Benton, the British subject executed by his orders, to be taken from Mexico. In a statement issued today Villa said : "The body of William S. Benton was brought to Chihuahua in a caboose of the special train which brought me from Juarez last Friday morning. I will not permit the body to leave Chihuahua under any circumstances. I am perfectly willing, however, to allow authorized representatives of the United States, Great Britain and the Benton family to come to Chihuahua and view the body. "Mr. Letcher, the American consul at Chihuahua, has made representation to me that hereafter in all cases of foreigners in trouble, action by me be held until he can make a personal investigation. Of course I agreed, but I asked the consul whether in case an assassin held a gun to my head, I should say: 'Oh, don't kill me yet. I must see Mr. Letcher first.' "

In Scant Attire, to City Hall Barefooted and hatless, clad in only a thin shirt and jeans, Alvie Harter sprinted three squares at 4:30 o'clock this morning, with the mercury hovering near the zero mark, to notify the Are department that his home, 227 North Fifth street, was on fire. The department made a run to the home where the kitchen and dining room was found gutted by the flames. The blaze was extinguished with a loss of probably $200. Harter arose before daylight and built a fire in the kitchen range, and SELLS WAR D E N - WE ST C QTT Frank G. Warden Buys Hostelry and Announces No Changes in Name, Policy or Employes. OLD OWNER LEAVES Second Change in Ownership Since January 1, Property, Remains in A. H. Brown's Name. After being In possession of the Warden-Westcott hotel for about two months, W. C. Cunningham today resold the lease on the hostelry to Frank G. Warden. The consideration paid for the lease was not made public. Mr. Cunningham left immediately after the consummation of the deal for Cincinnati, but will return to this city either late tonight or tomorrow. The hotel, when it changed hands January 1, retained the name of Warden-Westcott and no change in name, management or its employes will be made now. Harry Barrows, who has been manger of the hostelry for several months, will continue in that capacity. The policy of the hotel will continue the same. The hotel has been sold back and forth several times during the last two years. Mr. Cunningham who owns the Hotel Rand in Cincinnati, and who is part owned of the Willard hotel at Louisville, Ky., formerly possessed the lease on the Westcott, disposing of his interests a few years ago to W. E. Bayfield, who sold his holdings to the Warden-Westcott company. On December 30, Mr. Warden transferred the lease to Mr. Cunningham, the latter taking charge January 1The change in the ownership of the lease does not affect the ownership of the building, which is the property of Albert H. Brown, of French Lick, Ind. WHAT NEXT? KOKOMO. Ind., Feb. 26. This is the last week that Kokomo people may have their ice cream for the good old price of 25 cents a quart. Beginning March 1 the price will be 35 cents. By a peculiar coincidence all of the dealers in Kokomo announced the raise in price on the same day. Soda fountain men will in the future pay 70 cents a gallon instead of 60 cents as at present The manufacturers say that the high cost of living has them by the hair, and that the price of milk has increased 50 per cent. The soda fountain men are raising a cry. and it is broadly hinted that their delicious dishes will soon sell for ten cents instead of five. The ultimate consumer has not yet raised his salary.

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then returned to bed. A few minutes later he and his wife were awakened by the smell of smoke and the crackling of the flames. Not waiting to put on his shoes, Harter ran to the fire station and gave the alarm. The kitchen and dining room were badly damaged, and the carpets, floors and several pieces of furniture were destroyed. Despite the exposure Harter is none the worse for his early morning run in scant attire. NEW PLAN OF CLUB M e m b e rs of Commercial Body Investigate Need of Organized Building and Loan Association. EXTEND LOAN TIME Spring Home Builders to Be Aided if Plans of Backers Result in Formation of Concern. A thorough investigation is being made by the Commercial club committee on homes for workmen with the idea in view to ascertain whether or not a new building and loan association operated by Richmond men would be of any relief or stimulate building among factory men and store clerks," said Charles W. Jordan, secretary of the club. "The idea is to establish a loan company on a more liberal basis than any in Richmond,' continued the secretary, "and this will aid the prospective home owner in fully realizing his purpose. "If established, the new company would grant longer extention of time for the borrowers, and in many other ways make it jpossible for alro-jany family to awa its town" home.'t I Prepare Plans. -'.U It is understood that t&tixpt jpject will be operated merely frcbii'fe.the standpoint of a home promoter for the city. At this time plans are merely tentative, but it is thought that within a few weeks the enterprise will be worked into shape so that spring home builders will be aided by the plan. Several large cities in the country have attempted and 6till are operating similar institutions merely as n speculative project and a town booster. The investigation by the Commercial club committee is far reaching, and a number of communications have been received telling of the success of the plant in other communities. As to who will back the new association the secretary or committee members will not Bay. Asked if the proposed company was to be organized to fight loan sharks or men of that type of businesss. Secretary Jordan replied in the negative. BLACKSMITHS NOT TO WORK SUNDAY MARION, Ind., Feb. 26. Mayor Batchelor has decorated the lid clam lied on this city with a horse shoe. This means bad luck for the blacksmiths. It means that they must keep their shops closed Sundays unless the Saturday preceeding was such as to make the streets slippery. Some of the blacksmiths wlio; didn't want to work on . Sunday made complaint that their competitors were breaking the law. Other complaints were made, by church people. Then the mayor's order earn.

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Stipulations of $10,000 Proffer

Mrs. William Dudley Foulke addressed the appended letter to Miss Margaret Starr, president of the Guest House Auxiliary, in which she sets forth her willingness to pay the $10,000 purchase money for the old Business college property, which the backers of the movement intend to convert Into a home for working girls: Margaret Starr, President of the Guest House Auxiliary. My . Dear Mist -Starr I am willing to co-operate in your plan to establish a social center for the working girls of Richmond and a comfortable home for such of them as most need it, and I am wilting, on or beforo January 1 next, to pay the $10,000 purchase money for the property now contracted for by the Richmond Guest House, to be used for the above named purpose (providing the title thereto be perfect), upon the following conditions: First. A fund of not less than $20,000 to be raised from -other sources, a part to be used to make the necessary Improvements on said property to adapt it to the above purpose; and a part to be securely invested and the interest devoted to the support of said Richmond Guest House. Second. I am to have the right to appoint during my life one member of the board of trustees, and as it does not seem to me wise nor fair, that the board of trustees should be a close corporation and self-perpetuating, while the auxiliary is doing so much ot the work without any representation on said board, therefore, I think that your auxiliary should have the right to elect at least three of the board of trustees, and I ask that the necessary organization therefore be perfected prior to the payment of the purchase money by me. If desirable the number of members of the board might be Increased for that purpose. Third. The Richmond Guest House to be for the benefit of working girls without any distinction as to religious belief (being equally free to Protestants, Catholics, Unitarians, Jews or persons of any other faith whatever), and while the spontaneous devotions of the inmates are to be entirely free, yet the house is never to be used for any political or religious propaganda of any kind whatever, nor to be underthe control of any political or religious organization, and that innocent amuse- j ments, including private theatricals and dancing, if decorously conducted, J ana at reasoname Times are noi io uc prohibited therein. Fourth. If any of theso conditions are not fulfilled or if the property shall cease to be successfully conducted aV such soelaTcenter and comfortable home, It shall revert to me and to my heirs, to be devoted to such benevolent uses as I may desire, if living, or my heirs may determine after my death. Very sincerely yours, Signed MARY T. R. FOULKE. February 23, 1913. WILD RjVER CEASES TO ROVE THE WILDS Captain Rogers Says He Will Pick Up Steam and Ice Boats and Hie Himself Hence. AGREES TO DISAGREE Says Morton Lake People Will Regret Not Giving Him Sole Rights on Passenger Crafts. Farewell Wild Rover. Goodbye Captain Rogers. Again the fickle old sea dog has decided to take up his steam boat and ice boat and hie himself to more sociable climes than can be found in the neighborhood of Morton lake. A few weeks ago' Captain Rogers rebelled against a ruling of the lake and park company and assuming a truculent mood, appeared before the company's officers demanding his rights. Not receiving an answer in the affirmative, Jie advertised his entire property, consisting of a shanty, a steam boat knownHas the "Wild Rover" and an ice boat for sale. However, he reversed his decision and decided to build his promised addition to his excursion boat and make other improvements he . had agreed to in his contract with the company. A few days ago the company decided to let a contract to several parties for the operation of a motor boat line on the lake. The wrathy captain then handed the lake and park company an ultimatum, declaring that "Wild Rover" and motor boats for public hire could not exist simultaneously on so small a body of water and that all diplomatic relations would be severed unless the company made him sole possessor of motor driven excursion boat rights on Morton lake. He was- refused. Hence his decision to leave Richmond's obnoxious environs. The captain has not sold bis boat, as ret,vbnt says he will dispose of it to. the first person offering to pay him for his work and the materials he used in the construction of the craft. The Wild Rover at present is frozen In almost two feet of Ice In a small core near Morton dam.

Mrs. William Dudley Foulke Makes Gift; Stipulates Raising of $20,000 Balance WORKERS SUBSCRIBE $3,000 Captains of Fifteen Teams Begin Financial Campaign to Raise Balance of Money in Whirlwind Canvas of City Beginning Next Monday Promoters Believe Project Assured of Success, While Working Girls Await Anxiously the Consummation of a Plan Giving Them the. Comforts of Home at a Minimum Expense and Permitting Innocent Amusements.

"Ten thousand dollars has been subscribed toward the Guest House fund by Mrs. Mary T. R. Foulke." When Mrs. Frank Land made this announcement to the Guest House open meeting at the Commercial Club room last night, the large audience cheered enthusiastically. And when she added that almost $3,000 besides already had been promised, the audience again applauded vigorously. Spurred on by the generous offer of Mrs. Foulke, the fifteen captains of as many teams, pledged to raise the remaining $20,000 will begin work next Monday. There is little doubt that responses to the 1,500 personal letters sent out yesterday, and subscriptions obtained by the financial committee, will make possible the acceptance of Mrs. Foulke's offer. The stipulations of Mrs. Foulke's offer are that $20,000 be raised by January 1, 1915, part of which to be applied for the repairs of the old business college building which is to be the guest house, and the rest to be invested in securities ; the donor reserves the right of appointing one trustee on the board during her life and asks that the auxiliary be represented by three members; working girls to be accepted without distinction as to creed or politics, and amusement such as dancing not to be tabooed; if the property is not conducted along the lines of the social center idea, the gift is to revert to the donor or her heirs. Speakers Urge Necessity of Home. Last night's meeting was the most enthusiastic gathering which has yet assembled to discuss the plans for a Richmond Guest House. A large number of business men attended and two speakers, Mrs. Carrie Stewart Besserer of Chicago and Miss Marian Spencer of Laporte, Ind., gave the principal addresses of the evening. Mrs. Besserer has devoted most of her life to work among women and girls and speaks from a very wide range of experience. She brought home to the consciousness of her hearers the situation in which a majority of working women are compelled to live. "These employed girls," she said, "do not work for the fun of it, but because it is necessary- - Most of them are from the ruraTT districts, coming from poor families which in many cases are depending on the girl's income for help. They come to you and give you their labor. What kind of protection and social life are you giving them in return? "You have 500 women and girls in this town working for wages up to $10 a week. The $3.50 to $5.00 per week board gives them nothing but a place to sleep and enough to eat. "Where are these girls being entertained in the evening? Where are they spending their leisure hours and their Sundays? To what can these girls go as a relief from their dreary, cold bedrooms and their tiresome daily, toil ? One of your largest employers here told me with his own mouth that they have no other place than the streets and the moving pictures. They are compelled to meet their gentlemen friends on the corner or most anywhere.

"'Oh, you are responsible for the character and the soul of that girl. Just because you have not given her opportunities for social enjoyment you compel her to go places that she does not want to go to but to which her hunger for social life drives her. "The ladies who are spending waking night and laborious days to build this Guest House are not working tor fame or profits but rather in the interest of the universal sisterhood. They want to build a home where the body, intellect and soul ot these girls may be cared for. My experience of many years has compelled me to believe that where such a home is not furnished in the beginning, a reformatory or some other similar institution has to be provided in the end. Need Meeting Place. 'These girls who have to go to the street in order to find or to meet their friends are continually saying in their hearts to themselves, 'Oh if somebody would care about me.' The majority of girls who go wrong are not bad at heart but they go wrong for lack of opportunity of social intercourse." j Mrs. Besserer described the work of Miss Louise of Chicago and told how the organization she has built in that city, similar to the Guest House proposed for Richmond, has prevented many thousands of girls from moral ruin. She said that Miss Louise had devoted a considerable fortune to this work and was looked upon as a kind of guardian angel by thousands of girls in Chicago., "If you ladies are thinking that you can build this Guest House with your money and time and then suppose you can leave it to run itself, you had better never build It. The most important thing you can do is after it is built to put yourself into it and seo that the heart life of these girls is cared for as well as the physical life. If you leave that spiritual basis out I of it, you wUl bave left out the heart j of it all." Spiritual Life Needed. The speaker then described a home in an Eastern city in which especial effort was made to rule out the spir-' Itiml aMo nt life "Ttio result nf this" i

she said, "was as it is everywhere, that the girls broke up into cliques and strata and would not associate with each other and that finally the institution was closed because it bad become so immoral." At the conclusion of Mrs. Besserer's address. Miss Margaret Starr, president of the Guest House Auxiliary, assured Mrs. Besserer and those present that the ladies behind the movement were expct.ing' to put thir souls Into the work, as well as their money and time and that the Richmond Guest House would be in every sense a home for the girls who come to it. Miss Spencer 8peaka. She then introduced Miss Marian

Spencer, resident director of the "Bay Tree Inn" of Laporte. Indiana. '1 am anxious," said this speaker, "to see the girl problem worked out. I really believe it is a more complex and difficult problem in the smaller city than in the large. "The 'Bay Tree Inn. of which I am director, began three years aco as aa "Association for Women.' For two years its activities were carried on In the old abandoned county JaiL A year or so ago we outgrew these quarters and we built our present home. Miss Spencer told of the work ot the "Bay Tree Inn" at some length and described its self-supporting

(Continued on Pac Three) VIRGINIAN CANNOT STAND COLD BLASTS Man Who Sold Stolen Seed in Richmond Would Rather Remain in Jail. EATON O.. Feb. 26. Rather than be subjected to the wintry blasts, even though he is at liberty to depart. O. T. Miller. 54. remains a prisoner in the county Jail. When arraigned in common pleas court Miller pleaded guilty to a charge of petit larceny, and was given a six months' sentence in the Dayton workhouse, and assessed the costs in the case. The sentence was suspended and the costs thrown off because the man is without funds. He is a Virginian and nolt eligible to admission to the county infirmary, and authorities are considering the advisability of furnishing transportation to his old home. Miller stole a quantity of cloverseed and sold it to a Richmond dealer. MAIL DELIVERED ON HORSEBACK WHITEWATER. Ind.. Feb. 26 For the first time in more than fifty years mail was delivered to the Whitewater postofBce on horseback. Owing to the drifted snow on the roads Tuesday. Goldie Knoll, carrier of route No. 4 out of Richmond, was nnable to reach Whitewater, being stranded a mile south of the office, so he phoned Thomas S. Pylo. the postmaster, who went out on horseback to meet him, and returned bringing the mail.'