Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 109, 18 March 1914 — Page 1

MOll) PAJL1LABIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM SINGLE COPY 2 CENTS VOL. XXXIX. NO. 109 RICHMOND, IND., WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 18, 1914

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IN RATES SAY OFFICIALS OF WATER WORKS President Bavis, of Works Board, Also Says Bond's Figures Will Tend to Increase Present Rates. FAIL TO PROVIDE MEANS OF REVENUE One Officer of the Company Says City or Consumers Must Pay for Public Building Service. "There Is no way to reduce the tates of the Richmond City Water "Works company to the best of my knowledge," said Superintendent Howard Dill. "In the abstract I believe The Palladium's statement that Mr. Bond's basis for rate reduction will, in reality, increase the rates, is a correct one, but I believe there is a way to ireduce the rates," said President iBavis, of the board of public works. City Attorney Bond was in Chicago Hoday, so it was impossible to secure ie statement from him. To say that Richmond citizens, who Iliad been confidently expecting a substantial water rate reduction, read 'with astonishment last evening The Palladium's article showing a rate increase to be threatened, is putting it Jul Idly. No Additional Revenue. A water works official stated today that while Mr. Bond and Engineer "Watts had figured out a method providing for a big decrease in rates, they had provided no means of additional revenue for the company so that the stockholders would receive a fair return on their investments, "which return has been variously estimated from six to eight per cent. This official pointed out that within the past year the city had required the company to provide additional improvements at an expenditure of approximately $150,000, but this big expenditure provided no additional revenue for the company. This official thought 7 per cent would be a fair return on this investment Now it is proposed to deprive the company of its revenue from meter rentals, amounting to about $9,000 annually," he continued. "Under the proposed rate changes the company will receive $6,000 a year more from the city and, we will say. the proposed minimum charge feature will net the company an additional $3,000 si year revenue, so the company would te compensated for its loss of meter rental revenue. "But how about the returns on that S1"'0,000 investment on additional improvements? Surely the company is entitled to at least H per cent on that investment, which would be $9,000 a year. " What additional revenue is provided under the Bond-Watts plan to total that sum? Tells Company's Attitude. "Mr. Bond has furnished the public service commission with a schedule of rates, hut the company has never lone so: it has only furnished them with data on this subject. "Now T will tell you why the company did not submit a new rate schedule to the commission; the commission has not determined on our plant valuation and that must be established before rates can be fixed; we must know what our revenue based . on an established valuation is to be. "Summing it all up. if the reduced rate schedule of the city attorney was to be established our revenue would be reduced proportionately, but our operating expenses would remain the same and our stockholders would not receive what the state commission considers a fair return on the capitalization of the company. "Tf the citizens are to receive the benefit of lower rates then the revenue the comnany loses from that source must he made up by the city; jf the city is to pay less for its water, then the revenue the company loses in that manner must be'made up in the way of higher rates to consumers." ORDERS STONE TEST Xo more stone for street making purposes will be purchased sight unseen by the city if Alfred Bavis, president of the board of works, has anything to do with it. "I find that little attention in the past has been paid to the various qualities of stone," he said today, "but hereafter we shall demand that each concern bidding for contracts to supply us with stone for mi1 Cti dam streets furnish us with a statement of the analysis of its material. "A dealer gave us an analysis of crushed stone yesterday. We found it deficient in hardness but having better adhesive qualities than usual. It niiikes a great deal of difference -whether a stone is hard or soft, adhesive or not, and if it contains such acids as cause it soon to pulverize. "1 am writing to the engineering department of Purdue university to ask for data concerning the various stone quarries from which we receive bids. Hereafter the city will purhase no ptonp until it has measured Wj to the standard,"

SPEAKER FOR DRYS CHARGES WETS WITH BUYIWG0F VOTERS Principal Ramsey Promises to Fight if Voters Molest Children He Will Have Around Polls.

MINTON SAYS GORDON BREWERY "HIRELING' P. Kenworthy Says First Ward Is So Wet That He Feels Like Wearing a Diving Suit. Alleged buying of votes by wets was charged by speakers at the men's mass meeting at the tabernacle last night. No specific cases were cited, but several men said they had heard rumors that the saloon forces were distributing bills of various denomination. John Duke, a contractor residing at 411 Lincoln street, said: "One of my best friends told me yesterday that a certain saloon keeper attempted to buy his vote, and I am afraid the man will take up the proposition, but there ought to be some way to stop it, Mr. Nicholson." Mr. Nicholson, chairman of the meeting, asked Duke the names of the saloon keeper and Duke's friend. "Why, really, Mr. Nicholson, I promised that I wouldn't tell their names, for my friend said he would vote dry. if I didn't tell, so I don't believe I can tell." Explains His Meaning. Somewhat bewildered by the sudden turn of affairs. Chairman Nicholson explained that the dry workers and legal men would have to know names before they could do anything in the matter. The meeting was first addressed by Chairman Nicholson, who recounted the events of the campaign up to this point, saying: "From these meetings it is indicative that there is an increased enthusiasm displayed. I believe that if we adopt the slogan. 'Richmond is Going Dry,' that we may win. Of course, it means work to pull through a campaign of this nature, but with the earnestness shown, I believe from the depths of my heart, that the fight will be won. "The Twenty-fifth precinct, that ter. ritory north of the railroad, is going to have a larger dry vote than the two saloon keepers who are doing .i Continued on Page Three.) OFFERS SOLUTIONS ON LOCAL PROBLEM County Superintendent Says More Attention Must Be Devoted to Teaching of Agriculture. STATE BOARD MEETS Only fifty-one per cent of the pupils entering Wayne county schools go beyond the grade schools. Only twenty per cent complete high school courses in the nine commissioned high schools of the country. In Wayne township, outside of Richmond, only thirty of every hundred pupils entering the common schools go to high school. Of the original hundred, only twelve or fourteen graduate from high school. The foregoing statistics are under consideration today by the state board of education, together with County Superintendent Williams's solution for such conditions in country schools. ' The report of Mr. Williams was sent to the board. In his report to the state board he named two alternatives, with the second as his choice: "First Equip each one of these schools with a complete laboratory, rent or buy ground for demonstration purposes, employ a teacher who is qualified to do this agricultural work. "Second Provide one or more joint county high schools where all pupils can attend who wish to take an agricultural high school course. Must Correct System. "To lose eighty out of every one hundred pupils between the time they enter common school and the end of the twelve years' course, which would finish hish school, shows that there is something wrong about our system," said Mr. Williams. "For the amount of money we are expending on country schools they can hardly be counted a success when results are compared. This is an agricultural county, and we must give the country pupils agriculture, because that is what they will need in their life after they leave school. Agriculture and domestic science as taught in the schools today, according to the outline of the state board, gives a foundation for a higher education in those lines. Rut that will do lor only a tew, and going to solve the problem many." Mr. Williams believes the tural high school which he we are for the agricnlhas in mind could be well situated between Richmond and Cent.erville at the old Morton homestead, which several Richmond men spoke of purchasing as a memorial to the war governor, and converting it into headquarters for the county agricultural agent. Such a school would have other lines of vocational work, but the main purpose Continued on page seven

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PENNY IS AN ASSET A HOTEL FOR BUMS NOSE FROM HIS RIBS A CANADIAN NICKEL, A PENNY, a desk and a safe containing some bonds of small value, were found to be the total asset6 of the American Banking association, when John W. Worthington, its president, was brought before a referee in bankruptcy in Chicago. ORGANIZED LABOR LEADERS IN Chicago are backing the teachers of the city in their efforts to obtain an increase of nearly 20 per cent in wages. CHARLES G. DAWES,' PRE8Ident of the Chicago Central Trust company, who built the Rufus F. Dawes hotel for unfortunates in memory of his son, issued a statement showing that the hotel housed 27,651 down and outs in the last two months. CONEY ISLAND (NEW YORK) taxpayers do not want bathers to walk around in bathing suits and ask that they wear coats when not in the water. ROSS ALLEN, OF BALTIMORE, has a new nose made from one of his ribs. He lost the original organ in a sawmill accident. PARKER TO ERECT Work to Start At Morton Lake As Soon As the Weather Permits. Plans for the bathing pavilion at Morton lake have been completed by Charles Parker, who holds the contract for these privileges with the I Lake and Park company. The pavilion will be 255 feet long. Mr. Parker, who has operated the j Hawkins bathing pool for several i years, expects to start the building 'in a few weeks. The lockers will be located on the north side of the lake, a hundred yards east of the Gaar bridge. Other buildings which will be erected soon on the shore of the lake, are the refreshment stands and dancing pavilion. The dancing pavilion privilege will be let soon, and the structure probably will be erected on the north Bide of the lake, about fifty feet east xf..the,dam. extending partly over the water. Piers for boats will be built as soon as the company lowers the water level to start the work of leveling the bottom of the upper basin. Many lot owners have secured plans and contracted for material to build cottages, and are awaiting open weather to start work. Richard Sedgwick, one of the officers of the company, has had material on the ground for several months. GIRLS IN "STRIKES" DEMANDREFUSED Kresge Employes Tell One Story and Assistant Manager Another. Demanding an increase in wages and the release of the assistant manager. R. N. Miller, a dozen girls employed at the Kresge's five and ten cent, store, walked out yesterday afternoon. The trouble is said to have been brewing since the arrival of the assistant manager not more than two months ago, and culminated in the general strike yesterday. It is said that the manager refused both demands. When interviewed one of the striking girls said that they had objected to the new man because of the fact that he was a "smartaleck" and bossed thera around half the time. Although the striking girls made no efforts to interfere with the business they will attempt to dissuade any more girls from gaining employment at the store. Although there are seventeen girls employed at the store, only five of them remained in employment after the other girls had walked out. Immediately after the girls left the store an advertisement asking for 25 sales women was posted in the store window. This morning about that number responded to the call and out of that number eight were employed. When asked regarding the trouble, R. N. Miller, assistant manager, said: "Two of the girls demanded higher wages. We could not give more money to them and so they quit. It is a mistake, that there is a strike in the store, for all the girls have been at their posts for the entire day except the two who were let go." On being asked why they wanted twenty-five girls, Miller replied:. "We always advertise for a larger number than we want, so that we may get a number to select from. It is getting rear Rpster time and we were going to put on some new girls anyway." HONEYMOON OVER; MAN ASKS DIVORCE Thirty-three days of living with a woman who drinks intoxicating liquor in excessive quantities was more than Harvey Turner could stand, he avers in a complaint filed in circuit court today asking divorce from Kate Turner of Wabash. He charges that she is a habitual drunkard and that he was forced to leave her." The couple wai married November 25 and separated December 2S of last year.

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IN QUAKER CITY Another "Hop Joint" Raided By Authorities and Three More Alleged Drug Fiends Arrested. DINGY DEN FOUND ON NEWMAN'S HILL Woman Threatens to Knock Patrolman Down With a Club and One Man Attempts to Escape. Suspicions of the police that the opium traffic is firmly established in Richmond were again confirmed lale yesterday afternoon by the discovery of a "hop joint" on Newman's Hill. West Richmond. A raid was made on the place after considerable difficulty in securing entrance to the house, and three negroes, Ed Anderson, Clarence Washington and Ella Washington, were arrested, Washington after a chase to the C. & O. railroad bridge. Nearly one hundred empty halfpound tins of the drug were found, also a small quantity of the "cooked" opium, which had been removed from the cans and prepared for smokingNo pipes have yet been discovered, but two or three pipe stems were found. Chief Goodwin and Officers Wenger and Vogeisong, who made the raid, say the Newman's Hill opium resort was the worst dive ever raided in this city. Another interesting discovery made by the police at the opium joint was a trunk partially filled with women's new shirt waists and other garments, some with the price marks still on thera. and several pairs of men's shoes which had never been used. Eight Fiends Arrested. Within i he past two months eight colored opium fiends have been arrested in Richmond. Two were ordered out of the city, one escaped from the county jail, another paid her fine, after serving a month, and four are now in custody. A careful investigation is to be made to ascertain the extent of the opium habit in this city, with the end in view of making a determined effort to stamp out the evil. Ella Washington, when Office Wenger burst into one of the first floor rooms, showed fight, but the sight of a revolver had a soothing effect on her and Anderson. Washington almost fell down the basement steps, and emerged through a secret door opening on the steep river bank. Boys saw him trying to make his escape, and their cries brought Officer Vogeisong in pursuit. He captured the fugitive after a sharp chase. Has Bad Reputation. Ella Washington has a very unsavory reputation. She has hitherto been known to the police as an "alley worker," holding up men after night fall and picking their pockets. She was arrested once for holding up an Italian. She has also been in other trouble. Last year she was ordered to leave the city, but apparently failed to do so. When Chief Goodwin learned she was living in a house on Newman's Hill, he determined to raid the place. Arriving at the hill late yesterday afternoon, the officers ascertained from neighbors that two nien and a woman lived in the suspected den, and only left it after nightfall. The police then went, to the house and knocked on various doors demanding admission. No one responded to their demands. Then Wenger took a screwdriver and removed some screws from a door hasp, only to discover that the door was bolted within. Chief Goodwin then found that the glass of a second story window had ben partially broken out. Goodwin and Vogeisong shoved Wenger up to the window, and he soon removed enough of the shattered pane for him to get into the building. Goodwin and Vogeisong stationed themselves in front of the two first floor doors. Wenger descended the stairs, but found the stair door latched. He put a. knife blade through the crack, lifted the latch arid walked into a room reeking with opium fumes, and so filthy as to be indescribable. On a stand near a bed was an ugly looking revolver. Wenger is Cursed. A volley of curses greeted Wenger, and the Washington woman seized a baseball bat, remarking that if there was going to be any fighting she intended to take a hand in it. She also toldthe officer he would be shot, and as precautionary measure Wenger drew his revolver, pointing it to the floor, and ordered the woman and the two men to seat themselves. He was obeyed, except by Washington, who dived head foremost down a basement stairway. Wenger yelled to the other officers to take him, but they did not know of the embankment exit from the house, and the man probably would have madf his escape except for the warning cries of some small boys. When Washington ran out of the house he was barefooted and v'al only in a remarkably filthy pair of pajamas. The woman, who says she is Washington's wife, was wearing a nightgown, and Anderson was attired only in an undershirt and his trousers when the raid was made. Prosecutor Reller is making a thorough investigation of the case today,

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American Rancher Fights Off Yaqui Indians Attacking Home

WASHINGTON, March 18. The death of two Americans who have been fighting with the Constitutional 1st forces, was reported to the state department today in a dispatch from the consular agent at Monclova, Mex. There names were not given. Another dispatch reported a raid on the ranch of an American named Dingfelder, fifteen miles from Cajeme, in the state of Nogales, by Yaqui Indians, who were beaten off. Two of I the Indians were killed. Federal proI tection for the ranch has been demanded by Consul Simpich at No- : gales. M. RUMELYCO. SAVED Noteholders' Chairman Issues Statement. Anent the declaration by the M. Rumely company yesterday that the concern's bankers and the noteholders' committee had agreed to the plan for the extension of its notes to March 1. 1018. John W. Platten. chairman of, the noteholders' committee, today issued the following statement: "A sufficient amount of notes having been deposited and the estimate of 1014 cash requirements, including interest, having been provided, the committee has declared operative to March 1, 1!H8. the M. Rumely company convertible notes represented by the committee." The company will receive $4,000,000 for replenishing its working capital, which would have been exhausted at the end of this month. CLAWSON ESTATE VALUED AT $17,500 An estate of $17,500 was left by Abner Clawson, who died March 7 at his Centerville home, and today the will 01 the old pioneer was introduced in circuit court lor probate. John M. Fouts and Eliza A. Cushman were named executors of the will. After providing a bequest of $1.0ig to his daughter, Esther M. Weir. Mr. Clawson provided that the remainder he divided equally between Joseph Clawson and Charles Clawson, sons, and Esther M. Weir, a daughter, and Edwin Hampton, his nephew. i T WEATHER FORECAST : : j FOR INDIANA Increasing cloudiness tonight. Thursday unsettled. Probably snow. TEMPERATURE. Noon 24 Yesterday. Maximum 48 Minimum 26 W. E. MOORE'S FOHECAST FOR RICHMOND. Continued unsettled this afternoon and tonight. 'Occasional snow flurries. Thursday unsettled and probably sn ow. SUMMARY. The Canadian storm moved southeast and joined another from the South Atlantic coast, which caused the snow flurries of last night and today. Another storm is developing in the southeast and will cause continued unsettled weather for the next forty-eight hours.

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A thorough search for the person responsible for the murder of Postmaster Johnston at Tecate, Cal has been ordered by the governor of the Mexican state of Lower California, according to state department advices. In respense to demands from the state department, Andrew Hamilton, an American, arrested on charges of furnishing aid to the rebels, has been released by Mexican Federals. Two other Americans arrested at the same time, will be transferred to Mexico City where Charge O'Shaughnessy will attenmpt to obtain their relaese. MRS, K1RKMAN ACTIVE Distributes Dry Literature to Women. "The work of canvassing every home in Richmond will be completed late this afternoon." said Mrs. Roscoe E. Kirkman. who is taking an active part in the dry campaign. Mrs. Kirkman is at the head of the canvassing committee, which undertook the distribution of literature and signature cards. The women started the work early yesterday morning, and from the noon reports every home in Richmond will have been visited. Posters, literature telling of the dry campaign, and small cards to which the signatures declaring intentions to influence husbands and fathers to vote dry were handed out by the workers, more than a hundred in number. One woman reported that unknowingly she had distributed cards and literature to the home of saloon keepers. Mrs. Kirkman will make her report to Chairman Nicholson tomorrow morning. TO INSTALL PASTOR Installation services of the Rev. E. E. Davis, the nfw pastor from Alexis, 111., will bf held tomorrow night at the Second Tresbyterian church. The Rev. Earl North, of Shelbyville. will act as moderator, and the installation sermon will be delivered by the Rev. John B. Meachum, of Rushville, The ' Rev. Herbert H. Peters, of Conners- ! ville will have charge of the pastor, i while the Rev. Thomas J. Graham of this city, will have charge of the members. Several other members of the Whitewater Presbytery will -be present. A reception for the Rev. Mr. Davis will-be held at the church on March 25, when a rally of the membership will be held. WAYNE DELEGATES LEAVE FOR MEET Several of the twenty-five Wayno county delegates to the Democratic j state con vent ion,- which opens at Iiii uiauapons tomorrow, ieu mis attei- ! noon for the capital city. The others will follow on early morning trains and interurbans tomorrow. The Wayne county delegation is not instructed frtr any of the candidate!!, consequently their votes will be earnestlv 1 solicited.

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E GIVES LEADERS OF DEMOCRATS Committee to Draft Plank Embodying Views of Conferees Who Consider the Problem All Night. DELEGATES ARRIVE FOR STATE MEETING Politicians Anxiously Await Attitude Senator Kern Will Take Toward an Overture of Tom Taggart. (BULLETIN.) INDIANAPOLIS, March IS. Members of the Wilson-Bryan league of Indiana held a conference at the Claypool hotel today and were to meet later in th afternoon. Leaders of the organization decided . to raakp the best fight possible for planks in the Democratic platform calling for statewide primary laws and the calling of a constitutional ronvention. They opposed submitting the primary question to a vote of the people. (BULLETIN.) INDIANAPOLIS. M;-rch 18. Interest in the arrival of Senator Kern tonay did noi interfere with the activity in progress at the Denison hotel, where twenty-nine candidates for the nine nominations are lining up. A full state ticket, excepting governor, will be nominated at tomorrow's convention. The biggest delegation of rooters is scheduled to arrive this afternoon from Ft. Wayne on a special train to boost George Bittler for state treasurer. INDIANAPOLIS. March IS Plans for the solution of the most perplexing problem confronting the Democratic party leaders that of a statewide primary law. which appeared likely to furnish some real fireworks when the delegates assemble in state convention Thursday, were tenj Assisejr ,v, ..- - t vtt ......

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SENATOR KERN. tatively agreed upon at a conference of the chief counsellors at the Denison hotel when adjournment was taken at 1' o'clock this morning. The entire state primary matter probably will be shifted to the shoulders of the voters of Indiana at the general election next fall. A committer consisting of Edward G. Hoffmann, of Ft. Wayne; John B. Stoll. of South Bend: Abe Simon, of Bluffton, and Dan W. Simms, or Lafayette, was named to draft a plank of the primary question embodying the views of the conferees, and to present it to the resolutions 00!tee tonight. Conference Called. The conference was tailed after word had reached Indianapolis thai Senator John W. Kern was en rout a with letters from the president and Secretary of State Bryan, expressing hope that the convention would adopt progressive planks relating to this subject. Those in attendance Included Governor Ralston. Thomas Taggart, Lieutenant Governor O Xeill. State Senator Fleming and Edward G. Hoffmann, of Ft. Wayne: John R. Brill, of Evansvllle; Judge Spencer, of the Indiana supreme court; B. B. Johnson, secretary to the governor; Senator B. F. Shlrely, Public Service Commissioner Charles J. .Murphy and members of the state committee. The conference lasted uearly all night. The discussion is said to ranged from a proposition to ignore the primary subject altogether in the pisiform, to the other extreme of giving ii a blauket endorsement. It is possible that the matter of endorsing the initiative, referendum and recall, as urged by Secretary Bryan, n'ay also be handled in the same manner. To emphasize his declaration that there is no ' brak" between Senator iCo&tinued on Faga Ten-J