Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 122, 2 April 1914 — Page 2

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 1914

ASK BETTER RATES FORJLECTRICITY Manufacturers Appeal to the Commercial Club, Requesting Investigation Into New Scale.

CHARGE INJUSTICE

Very little Complaint From Small Domestic Consumers As Rates Really Prove Lower for Them.

Need of Tuberculosis

Hospital is

Discussed

Necessity of a tuberculosis hospital

under county supervision was dismissed at a meeting of the public health committee of the Commercial club at a meeting held at 4:30 o'clock

this afternoon. Members of the committee planned to take up the matter of petitioning the county commissioners for the erection of such a hospital. Among other things, the following program for the session had been arranged: Discussion of the new milk ordinance just completed by City Attorney Bond and requiring a tuberculin test of all cows owned by dairymen furnishing milk in Richmond. In con

nection with this the scoring of dair

ies and dairy cows was to have been

taken up. It was proposed to. make

Manufacturers are not pleased with

the new rate of electricity for power use and have complained to the Com

mercial club, asking an investigation. Statistics showing that the new rates, said to be cheaper, are ultimately higher and the scale Is not equitable. The committee on public service corporations will meet to consider data collected by Charles W. Jordan within a short time and probably wjjl propose a new scale of rates more equitable. Complaint has been made that a minimum charge of seventy-five cents per horse power for all electric motors is an injustice and the arrangement of charging for alternating and direct current motors is unfair. Alternating current motors are charged the meter reading and direct current motors are charged an additional twenty per cent over the meter reading. There has been little complaint from small domestic consumers as the new rates have proved lower for them. A fraction over seven cents with the discount was charged while the new rate Is a flat six cents for each kilowatt, where less than fifty are used. The rates have been effective a month and are the same for both the city and the Light, Heat and Power plants. Turtle soup all day Saturday. Ed Muey's, 20 S. 6th. 2" 2 1

snch scores public, thus tending to

raise the standard of the dairies. Furthering of plans for the fly cam

paign and the emphasis of the need of

killing the winter and early .spring fly before eggs are laid and hatched.

Additional discussion of the street

oiling petitions. As the board of works wants all petitions in by April 16th in order that they can be acted on

at once, persons will be secured to furnish petitions in communities

where none have been circulated.

Discussion of the plan of the city

health department for a sanitary expert and a city laboratory. The prac

ticability of the plan will be carefully investigated as well as the cost of the

laboratory, Jts necessity and the expense of securing an expert to handle

it and other city sanitary matters.

HOW TO LOWER FARE ON TRANSPORTATION

Many persons know schemes to lower their railroad fare bills. One of these to purchase tickets to several intermediate points when traveling lone distances is common. But it Is

also inconvenient.

So the committee on steam railroads of the Commercial club would save

Richmond this trouble in a trip to Chi

cago. The rate from here to Chicago is $5 on either railroad. However, by purchasing a $.55 ticket to New Castle and a $3.95 ticket to Chicago from there and vice versa returning, $1.00

a round trip can be saved. The committee will meet soon to ar

range with the railroad company a

system of rates preventing this incon

venience. If possible, a straight $4.50

one-way rate to Chicago will be se

cured. There are similar instances shown in travel in other directions from Richmond which will be adjusted if possible.

Nationals and Hoosier Drills

Win Indoor Baseball Contests

Commercial League. 1 Won. Lost. Pet.

A. S. M. Co. . . i 1 0 1,000

N. A. T. Co 1 0 1,000 Wayne Co 0 0 .000 Pilot Co 0 0 .000 Robinson Co 0 1 .000

Reliance Co 0 1 .000 Last Night's Results. Nationals, 21; Robinson, 12. A. S. M. Co., 34; Reliance, 13. The Commercial Indoor Baseball league opened last night at the "Y" gym, the National Automatics and the A. S. M. Co. nines having little trouble in annexing the firBt games of the new organization. The result of last night's games was no surprise as the winning teams have had experience in the game before, while it was the first game ever played by the losing nines. Both the Natcos and the Seeders have been playing the game for some time and their experience proved the undoing of the Robinson and the Reliance crews. , Both games were interesting and witnessed by a crowd of fans. The

PENNSYLVANIA RATE

TOO LOVUAYS REA

Railroad Head Pleads for 5

Per Cent Increase to Bring Dividends.

SAYS WIFE WOULDN'T! ADVEHTISTS HOLD

victory of the Nats was largely due

to the work of Steinkamp, pitcher of

that team. He shot them over in real style and had the opposing batsmen fanning vacant space most of the time. Good support was another big factor In the win. Yedding did the backstop work in a creditable manner. Lineup of teams: Natcos Yedding, Steinkamp, Fessler, Seattle, Lavenstine, McGurk, Hockett, Reynolds and Alexander. Robinson Eadler, Ritter, Creager, Rush, Via, Fisher, Gilmore, Stover and G. Eadler. The Seeders had no trouble in winning their game with the Reliance Founders. Diggs and Davis proved a battery that was too much for the Founders, with the result that the Americans held the heavy end of a 34-13 score at the end of the affair. The entire lineup of the Seeders played good ball. The Founders, on the other hand, could not work together with any telling effect. The teams lined up as follows: Seeders Johnston, Clements, Davis, Black, Taggart, Sanderson, Bosworth, H. Davis and Dlggs. Reliance Parker, Bert, Gray, Craycraft. Clapper, Jones, Firth, O. Firth and Rigler.

WASHINGTON. April 2. "Present

rates on the Pennsylvania railroad system do not yield a fair return on the amount Invested, and are not an ade

quate return for the service rendered, declared President Rea in advocating a rate Increase of 5 per cent before the interstate commerce commission today. J. S. Rogers, general superintendent of the road, also argued for higher rates. "Despite the utmost efforts to offset increasing costs by the application of the most modern methods," said Rea, "the return on its investment has been continually falling, and unless this decline is arrested, it will undermine the company's resources and cripple its power to satisfactorily serve the public. "The Investing public upon whom we deepnd for securing capital, seeing the decline in profit, regards the situation

with the same concern, and, needs to be assured that not only will our comnanv. but also the other railroad com

panies secure compensation to offset the increase in expense and enable

them to maintain the current rates ol

dividends."

President Rea pointed out that the

Pennsylvania is not excessively capitalized, the average ration of capital

to earnings being about five to one, while on English systems it is ten to one. In ten years, he said, from June, 1903, to June, 1913, the Pennsylvania property investments had increased $530,000,000, operating revenue $149,000,000, operating expenses $129,000,000, and net Income $12,000,-000.

HUGHART

CHOSEN

IS

PRESIDENTjmU W B. Wood, Superintendent of Eastern Division Becomes General Manager.

REPORTSJ0 VISITS Miss Florence Benner Tells .of Work.

In her report covering work performed from January 20 to April 1, Miss Florence Benner, visiting nurse, showed that a total of 370 visits had been made. The number of home visits was 283 and for social service 87. Other features of the report were: j new cases 58, dismissed cases 22, j deaths 5, and transfers 3, received for I services during period $2, provisions furnished to three families, clothes to one family and coal to four families, five complete outfits furnished for infants, four baby blankets given.

John H. Hughart of Grand Rapids, was elected president of the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railway company at the meeting of the board of directors following the annual meeting of the stock holders at Grand Rapids yesterday. Mr. Hughart has been vice president and general manager. Willam B. Wood, superintendent, of the Eastern division of the Pennsylvania, was

DISMISSES CHARGE

T 0, STORER

AGAINS

GET HISjREAKFAST Harry Minor Asks Legal Separation from Cleo Minor in Suit Piled Today.

Because he says his wife made him get his own breakfast and after a day's work at bard labor refused to get supper until 9 o'clock at night, telling him to "let the other woman

get it." Harry Minor asks divorce

from Cleo Minor. He also asks the custody of two children, Pauline, 3, and Ivon, 1. Complaint for divorce was filed by Rosa Kidwell against William C. Kidwell, charging desertion and drunkenness. She alleges he has been an habitual drunkard eight years.

CONFERENCE SOON Believers in Richmond Interested in Coming Battle Creek Meeting.

Water bills due April 1st.

1-lOt!

The Indiana conference of Seventhday Adventlsts will be represented at the biennial session of the Lake Union conference of that denomination, to be held at Battle Creek, Mich., April

14 to 26. Elder E. A. Bristol, of Indianapolis, president, will head the delegation from this conference, which will be composed of practically all of the clergymen and Bible teachers In its employ. . Among others who will attend are W. A. Young and C. N. Sanders of Indianapolis, T. F. Hubbard of Anderson. E. R. Lauda of Hartford City, J. H. N. Tindall of Farmersburg,

G. W. Rader of Anderson, and E. A.

Clergymen and Bible teachers from the conferences In Michigan, Wisconsin and Illinois, which with Indiana compose the Lake Union conference, will also attend the session. The visiting clergymen will include Elders A. G. Daniels, president of the general conference; I. H. Evans, president of the North American Division conference; O. B. Thompson, secretary of the North American Division conference: W. W. Eastman, head of the publishing work In North America and C. L. Benson, field secretary of the Young People's Missionary Volunteer department. All of these are from the world's headquarters of the denomination In Washington. D.

C. "Elder Allen Moon ot soutn ueno. president of the Lake Union Conference, will have charge of the meetlnThls mill be the tenth of twelve similar meetings which have been held in different parts of the United Sta'eB and Canada, and which will continue until next month.

The eggs of the ostrich are now incubated successfully.

Reller Says Muncie Loan Man Acted Within the Law

Investigation conducted by Prosecutor Reller on the alleged "loan shark" business of Oliver W. Storer, president of the Muncie Banking company, proved that the Muncie man was operating within the law. The charges which were filed by Charles Smith, an aged man, were dismissed a few days ago. At the time the case was brought to the open it was claimed that Storer

had charged Smith $20.20 interest for a $35 loan for one year. The matter

( Ura O t Q tron tin tiritVi Attn tv r nartArol

elected general manager, and

make Grand Rapids his headquarters, j company, received a letter saying that

Minck's Celebrated Bock on tap and in bottles. Phone 1214 and 2710. 2 "2t INDIANAPOLIS NEAR SECONDJAR STRIKE Railway Employes Appeal to Commission for Arbitration of Difference.

INDIANAPOLIS, April 2. That Indianapolis is dangerously near another street car strike became known today when a representative of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employes appealed to the labor commission of Indiana for arbitration of differences between the local car men and the Traction company that have been hanging Are ever fljnce the November tie-up. At a meeting of the car men last uight resolutions were adopted favoring a strike unless satisfactory arbitration can be secured. The executive oard of the car men's union was givn full power to order a walkout at ny time they may decide upon. The existing difficulty is in regard 5t the cases of union men who have leen discharged by the company without Just cause, it is alleged by the tnion officers. Negotiations have been n progress almost continuously for several weeks, but no method of arbi:jation satisfactory to both sides has resulted.

G. L. Peck of Pittsburg, was eletced j vice president in charge of transportation, and D. F. McCabe, vice president -in charge of traffic. The other officers re-elected include T. H. B. McKnight of Pittsburg, as treasurer. The old directors were re-elected. The earnings of the road, according to reports read, were the greatest in its history. The gross earnings for the year were $5,580,231, an increase of $144,961 over 1912. The income from other than operating sources wai $51,833. Following the appointment of W. D. Wood to the position of general manager of the Grand Rapids and Indiana, a series of promotions was announced

here today. F. J. Kron, superintendent of the Logansport division of the Pittsburg. Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis, will succeed Mr. Wood as superintendent of the Eastern division of the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago. R. K. Rochester, superintendent of the Peoria division of the Van dalia line is to succeed Mr., Kron; J. F. Patterson, trainmaster of the Western division of the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago railroad, to succeed Mr. Rochester. The promotions are effective at once.

Mr. Honan was of the opinion that

the act passed by the last legislature, known as the "loan shark act," does not apply to banks, trust companies or building associations. A second letter from Secretary of State O'Brien says that banks are excluded from the "loan shark act." At the time the case was filed there was intense feeling against the operations of the Muncie banker am It was thought he was violatinghe law in making loans. . Prosecutor Reller, however, found

that the charges against Mr. Storer

were without grounds and the case was dismissed. At one time the prosecutor desired a thorough probe of the business of the Home Loan company, but when it was found that the Muncie banker was not violating the

laws he called off the investigation.

REPORTS CONFLICTING

WASHINGTON, April 2. Conflicting reports have been received here on the situation at Mexico. One dispatch from the city of Chihuahua gives Villa a complete victory of the Federal army at Torreon, and another report from Juarez says that Villa

has found it impossible to take Torreon and is negotiating terms of surrender with General Velasco. The following statement was given out by the Mexican embassy here today by Senor Algara, Mexican charge, after receiving several telegrams from the Mexican consulate at El Paso, Texas. "Torreon has not been captured by the rebels nor is it in any danger of being taken. "Federal reinforcements have reached the city and General Villa's position is rapidly growing un

tenable. . "Despite the fact that a number of official telegrams addressed to the embassy have been intercepted by the rebels," Charge Alagara said, "we are certain that Torreon has not fallen

and that the Federal garrison is not In any imminent danger. Reinforcements have reached Torreon and it is only a question of time before General Villa and his troops will be driven out of the suburbs." MANAOS, Brazil, April 2 Theodore Roosevelt and his exploring expedition are expected to reach here early next week. Latest advices from the party indicates that all are well except Kermit RooBevelt. The accident which he recently suffered, however, will have no serious effects.

HAUCK'S Famous Bock Beer on Tap at KELLEY'S

815 North E Street

DR. A. O. MARTIN DENTIST Colonial Building Suite 212-213

A

USE SPECAL CAR

A special car carried the fifty members of the Richmond high school orchestra to Indianapolis at noon today here they will play at the opening Session of the Northern Indiana Teachers association. Schools closed at S u'clock and many teachers went to Indianapolis at 3:40 o'clock, others makmg arrangements to go aj. 5:40. The delegation from Richmond, and Wayne county schools is expected to number

CHARGE OF MURDER FACED BY BREWER

FORT WAYNE. Ind., April 2. H. J. Bruce, colored, head waiter at the Anthony hotel, who was shot by A. C. Trentman, the Chicago man and Fort Wayne brewer, died this morning in a hospital from a bullet wound in the abdomen. Trentman will be arraigned before the city judge some time today, and the charge of assault and battery with intent to kill now standing against him rhansred to murder In the first de

cree.

An ante-mortem statement was secured from Bruce. Trentman's bond for $10,000 was withdrawn and a charge of first degree murder placed against him shortly before noon. He has been in jail ever since the shooting, although he himself or any one of his numerous relatives could have put up cash bond. He has been kept in confinement, however, as his relatives contend that he is insane and unfit to be at large. A large corps of doctors are already engaged in preparing an insanity defense. Trentman spends his time In jail playing cards and reading papers. He was deeply affected when informed of his victim's death. He declared that his recollection of the trouble is very hazy, and he attributes his crime to drink.

Senator Fleming, his brother-in-law, has been summoned from New York. Public sentiment is very strong against Trentman, as the shooting was unprovoked. Bruce- waa an educated en-

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