Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 183, 12 June 1914 — Page 1

MONB PAIXATBI AND SUN-TELEGRAM Vol. xxxix. no. 183 RICHMOND, IND., FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 12, 1914 SINGLE COPY 2 CENTS

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DEMOCRATS EAT AND LOOK AHEAD TO FALL VICTORY i pudge Gray and Lawrence j Bertsch Declare No Feud j Exists Between Fayette ; and Wayne.

Lungmotor on HOLLER'S UNCLE CLAIMS RELATIVE VICTIM OF PLOT

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BAILEY ADVOCATES ANDERSON SYSTEM OF STREET LIGHTS Electric Expert Suggests Installation of Boulevard Plan With Nitrogen Lamps on Ornamental Posts.

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Am Going to Make it Hot One" Says Study of Race Speaking at Cambridge City Banquet. i ' Broad backs of Democratic candidates for county offices received vigorous and enthusiastic slaps of approval last night at the hands of party workers who assured them of election kiext fall. Including the office seekers &32 adherents of the party sat at the Elaborate banquet which the Democratic club of western Wayne county teerved in the Pythian temple at CamBridge City. Talks by Judge George Gray and Lawrence Bertsch disposed of any lingering fear that workers of Wayne fcounty were disgruntled by the defeat handed Lawrence Bertsch when he Bought the nomination for joint representative of Wayne and Fayette counties. President Wilson was heralded as .the greatest president the country has ever had, not excepting Thomas Jefferson, founder of the Democratic party. Despite the continued onslaught of Bryan's enemies, speakers lauded the work he and President "Wilson have done in averting a Mexican war. Extol Congress. The Democratic congress was extolled as having placed more progressive legislation for the people on the statute books in two years of the present administration than had been enacted during half a century of Republican power. Judge Gray, David iIcKee, T. J. Study and Charles Shank saw victory this fall because the party no longer has to go before the people with promises of what will be done if power is given it, but can show the record of the Wilson administration. Candidates for state offices, who were on the program failed to arrive, although letters were read by Lawrence Bertsch, who presided, either explaining their absence or giving their promise to attend. Letters were read from George A. Qittler, Judge Felt, W. L. Cook, and Dale Crittenberger. Richmond sent a delegation of about thirty, while Connersville was represented by several automobile parties. Not. until long after 9 o'clock did the diners adjourn from the dining

(Continued on Page Three.) ENGINEERS TO MEET IN CITYJXT YEAR State Association Surprises Local Members by Choice of Richmond. INDIANAPOLIS, June 12. The Indiana Association of the National Stationary Engineers Association today voted to hold its 1915 convention at Richmond. The engineers elected lewis Mienke, of Evansville, state president, Albert Franke, of Terre Haute, was promoted from the position of secretary to that of vice president. O. V. Baldus, of Indianapolis, was elected secretary; Albert Arens, of South Bend, treasurer; II. K. Stone, Kokomo, conductor; Hall Anderson, doorkeeper, and C. S. Heyer, Evansville, state deputy. The state association in the next year will make efforts to secure the enactment of a state law compelling stationary engineers to take out a state license. DECISION IS SURPRISE. Local members were surprised today to learn that the convention had been given to this city for next year. They were represented by William Mutchner, of the interurban power plant, who was the official delegate to the convention. That he had so much as extended the invitation was unknown to the men who attended yesterday's sessions. Under the circumstances delegates are instructed to net as they think best. Howard Ciluys, engineer at the city light plant, Baid the convention would bring between sixty and one hundred stationary engineers to the city next summer. Those who attended the sessions yesterday were: Howard Gluys, William Mutchner, William Jeffry, John Graham and Lee Davis. AGREE ON WILL CASE Attorneys Compromise Morris Will Contest. The Morris will case was compromised yesterday by attorneys for the plaintiff and defendant in the Randolph circuit court, and John B. Morris was paid the amount of a judgment agreed upon. Judge Engle sustained the will, but agreed that a certain fi mount should be paid to the plaintiff. Mrs. Isabelle Haner, sister of B. F. Morris, over whose estate of $35,000 the case resulted, had about fifty witness to prove that Morris was sane when he made his will. Although local attorneys refused to give the amount of the compromise, it is said the sum Morris received is very small. The settlement was made on the same terms i us muse ui me original iOier ucium pueacase came to trial.'

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Forty-eight Hours After Palladium Issues Appeal for Device, Firemen and Patrolmen Receive Instructions in Its Operation Instrument at City Building Waiting to Be Rushed To Rescue of Persons Overcome by Smoke, Electrical Shocks or with Lungs Filled with Water.

Wednesday afternoon The Palladium issued an appeal for contributions to a fund to purchase a lungmotor for the city, to be used in cases of drowning, smoke prostration, electrical shocks, and to produce respiration in certain cases of new-born infants. NEWBORN 5 YEARS - ( YhAHS 15 YEARS - OR SMALL ADULT ADULT AVERAGE ADULT LARGE PRESSURE INSTRUMENT READY TO inder with air or oxygen or a mixture of both, according to the setting of the air and oxygen valve (B). At the same time the "suction" cylinder fills wth expired air very gently drawn from the lungs of the subject. Conversely, the following downward movement of the handle and piston forces the air and oxygen now contained in the "pressure" cylinder into the lungs of the subject and discharges the expired air of the suction cylinder into the open. To make the lungmotor available for persons of all ages and correspondingly varying capacities the lungometer is provided with adjustments for different air volumes suitable for new-born, iive-year-old, ten-year-old, fiiteen-year-old, adult average and adult large. This range provides for all sizes of subject. Now note volume notches on the

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CUT SHOW PARTS (A) Moving pin which turns by gently pulling and adjusts the lungmotor from the new-born to the largest adult. (B) Mixing valve, whereby all air, all oxygen or any per centage of either may be given. Always under instant control of operator by a twist of the thumbscrew. tC Oxygen inlet. (D) Screened air inlet valve. Oxygen generator which connects by tube and gas bag with the lungmotor and makes fresh, pure oxygen alongside

Eighteen hours later the fund had been over-subscribed, and forty-two hours later the invaluable machine had been received and presented to the city government. The lungmotor has been turned over to the police department and will be kept at headquarters all the time, always available on demand of responsible persons. Upon call it will be delivered either in the police automobile or in the fire chief's automobile. Whenever the lungmotor is wanted, police headquarters, telephone 2211, should be notified. Instruct Police. This afternoon several police officers and members of the fire companies at the city hall were instructed in the use of the lung motor, which is a very simple device, easily regulated. "I want to congratulate The Palladium on the public enterprise it showed in purchasing this lungmotor. It was very necessary that the city should possess this device, and The Palladium is deserving of the thanks of Richmond citizeiiE," said President Bavis of the board of public works today. "The Palladium showed the right kind of public spirit by raising a fund to purchase a lungmotor," said Chief of Police Goodwin today. "If only one life is saved with it, it will have more than repaid its cost." How the Lungmotor Works. An upward movement of the handle of the lungmotor fills "pressure" cylSUCTIOIM TUBE

TUBE SAVE HUMAN LIVES. "pressure" piston rod opposite to each of the sizes of subject, viz: New-born, five-year-old, ten-year-old, fifteen-year-old, adult average and adult large. These volume notches are engaged by the slide pin (A) on top of the "pressure" cylinder cover. This slide pin can be swung around the circle over the graduated dial, volume, size and stroke regulating dial, tne graduation with plain marks for corresponding ages registering with, the notches in the piston rod. As a subject average adult: Set volume indicator to "average adult" instantly done. No danger of giving subject more air or greater pressure than he should have. Draw out tongue, insert throat, gullet tube (to prevent air going into stomach), press bulb, snap catch, adjust face mask; pump. Subject will be supplied with 570 c. c, or 35.43 cubic iuches with each stroke. OF LUNGMOTOR away with troublesome, cumbersome and expensive charged tanks of oxygen. (E) Needle valve which regulates the making of oxygen. (F) Outlet for oxygen gas. (G) Pressure gauge. (H) Safety valve. (P) Pointer on the movable adjusting pin (A) and tells when lungmotor set to righ size patient. (R) Metal face mask with soft rjubi a . a f per .coverta w&Lujfuisi; .utuirima waazk

Thomas Lamb Tells Prosecutor Lad Heir to $20,000 Estate if Sanity Remains Undoubted.

Alleged Poisoner of Abington Water Supply Far From Town When Vitriol Pollutes Spring. "William Holler, my nephew, is the victim of a plot, the parties to which are interested in having him sent to the state insane hospital in Richmond; he is not Insane, but a sober and industrious young man, and if the spring which supplies Abington with water was poisoned, and I have reliable information that it was not, Holler was not responsible for the outrage; and, furthermore, he has not been going about the country armed as ha6 been reported since the spring was said to have been poisoned. Until Sunday he has been at his home. I do not know where he is now, but it is possible he has gone some place to avoid further persecution. He talked to me last Saturday and expressed great fear that he would be returned without an examination or hearing to Easthaven. It is an outrage the way this young man has been hounded." This statement was made today by Holler's uncle, Thomas Lamb, a farmer residing near Abington, who came to the city to consult with Sheriff Bayer and Prosecutor Reller. He does not blame these officials for the action they took, saying that they have been deceived and misled. "My nephew was at his country home in Union county the night the spring on the Rodenberg property was alleged to have been poisoned, and his mother will swear to this, and neither Will nor his mother learned of the incident until Sheriff Bayer called at I their farm and told them," said Mr. Lamb. Denies Water Poisoning. Mr. Lamb asserts that, a prominent resident of Abington told him that though he constantly uses the fountain at Abington, where the alleged poisoning of the water was first detected, he knows nothing of the Incident. Mr. Lamb says this man told him he had no proof that the water had been discolored with blue vitriol, as was reported to authorities. Mr. Lamb said he was not at liberty to go into details concerning the plot against William Holler, but stated (Continued on Last Page) E COMMITTEES FOR SALE OF FLAGS The complete list of women who will have charge of the flag sale of the W. R. C. tomorrow named by Mrs. R. W. Strattan, chairman of the committee is as follows: Sixteenth and Main, Mrs. Minnie I Hall and Mrs. Lizzie Ireton; Hussons grocery, Mrs. Arnold; Porter's Millinery store, Mrs. Etters; Palais Royal, Mrs. Pearl McMinn and Mrs. Emma Arrowsmith; Knollenbergs, Mrs. Ruby Smith and Mrs. Austin; Cunningham's Shoe store, Mrs. Hannah Cox and Mrs. Ella Stevens; Boston Store. Mrs. Mary Mitchell and Mrs. Nettie Wilson; Ackerman's, Mrs. Thener; Nusbaum's, Mrs. Maud Vogelsong and Mrs. Kate Scott; Woolworth Ten Cent store, Mrs. Mary White and Mrs. Thompson; Neff and Nusbaum's, Mrs. Delia Coggeehell: Nicholson's, Mrs. Delia Ranks and Mrs. Mary Early; Dickinson Trust, Airs. Mary Swaine; Union National bank, Mrs. Dowell and Mrs. Jennie Bradtield; First National bank, Mrs. Matthews; Second National bank, Mrs. Ogborn and Mrs. Gordon; Druits, Mrs. Fannie Davis; Hoosier store. Mrs. Lizzie Bescber; Crawford's, Mrs. Minnie Jenks; Quigley Drug company, Mrs. Pauline Jones and Mrs. Crawford; Market House, Mrs. Fannie Smith and Mrs. Emma Long; postoffice, Mrs. Hanning and Mrs. Anna Fetta; Glen Miller park, Mrs. Kessler and Mrs. Keelor; Pennsylvania station, Mrs. Minnie Hall and Mrs. Mary Bon. ANNOUNCES SERVICE First Christian Church to Meet Sunday Evenings. Sunday evening services at the First Christian church will not be discontinued because of hot weather, according to announcement made today by the pastor. A series of sermons on changing social conditions is outlined for the summer. The general theme will be "The Kingdom of God." A study of its characteristics, the manner and time of its establishments and its relation to existing social conditions will be given. The province and opportunity of tire church and its relation to other social agencies will be considered. HOLD CELEBRATION. ELKHORN, June 12. Children's Day will be observed in the Elkhorn church, Sunday, June 14, at 2 o'clock. Besides recitations and songs of the Sunday school classes the young ladies of the school will present the emblematic piece, "The Mother of Light."

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William M. Bailey, manager of the Home Telephone company, today suggested to Manager Kleinknecht of the Municipal plant that the Anderson, Ind., plan for installing a new street lighting system be adopted in Richmond. This plan calls for the installation of the boulevard lighting system in the business district of Main street and possibly on a part of North E street and a few other important business thoroughfares. In the residential districts the old corner pole lighting plan could be continued for the time being. "In Anderson they have just passed an ordinance requiring the installation of boulevard ornamental posts, about ten to a block, five on each side of the Street, on several of the principal streets. This boulevard system in Anderson is to be established as a public improvement and the property owners assessed to meet the expense, which is very reasonable," Mr. Bailey said today. Against Slipshod Work. Mr. Bailey is of the opinion that now Richmond is to have a new street lighting system it should not be installed in a slipshod manner but constructed with an idea of permanency. He objects to the contemplated plan of placing Main street arc lamps on brackets attached to trolley poles, asserting this would be only a makeshift arrangement and, at the same time, would mean the restringing of wires along Main street. "My plan would be ten nitrogen arc lamps to each block at least on Main street, possibly from Fourth street to Twelfth street," explained Mr. Bailey. "Each lamp would be on an ornamental post and, as in Anderson, the cost of their installation would be assessed against the benefited property owners as a public improvement. This would relieve the city of considerable expense in the installation of the new lighting system. Each nitrogen lamp and post would cost about $75, making the assessment for them approximately $1 a front foot, a small expense for such an improvement. Underground wires would connect each post. To Reduce Opposition. "Possibly if the city decided to inaugurate the boulevard system on Main street alone at this time it would be a good plan, for opposition would then be reduced to a minimum. When the benefits of such a lighting system were recognized I am certain that it would not be long before property owners on other streets would begin petitioning the board for the installation of a similar system." Mr. Bailey, who is a recognized electrical expert, champions the adoption of nitrogen lamps for street lighting purposes. He says they are vastly superior to the flaming lights, which are being considered by the board of public works as well as the nitrogen lamps. "The size nitrogen lamps which should be placed on the ornamental poles I have suggested for Main street and other principal streets, are capped by semi-direct reflectors which throw out a splendid illumination. One of these lamps Is a vast improvement over the cluster lights, which for a time were desired for Main street. The cluster lights on one pole average 340 k. w. with a 300 candle power. A 250 k. w. nitrogen lamp is about 4:10 candle power, so they are both cheaper and better than the cluster lights." Mr. Bailey called attention to the fact that in Chicago the sanitary dis

trict has been equipped with nitrogen lamps in preference to the flaming arc lamps after elaborate tests. CONTRACTORS ORDER BRICK FOR SEVENTH Action Follows Bond's Opinion Making Invalid Petition for Use of Cement. At last the controversy over paving North Seventh street, from A street to Fort Wayne avenue, is ended. The street is to be paved with brick. Meredith and Cronin, the contractors, have ordered the material. City Attorney Bond has handed down the decision that the petition to have the street paved with cement was invalid, although it represented the wishes of the majority of property j owners, because two women had signed themselves as the "heirs of the Savage estate." Because they had incorrectly signed the petition they be- j came petitioners for brick, under the ! terms of the street improvement law, thereby giving the brick advocates the majority. For a time there was talk of taking! this case to the courts, but it is believed now that the resident property owners of North Seventh street who favored a cement paving are reconciled to having a brick paving put down. A coolness, however, marks the relations of many neighbors who were formerly fast friends. WEATHER FORECAST FOR INDIANA Local showers tonight. Saturday generally fair. TEMPERATURE Noon 75 -Yesterday Maximum 94

FIRST DAY CROWD INSURES SUCCESS OF PARK VENTURE

10,000 Persons Hold Picnic at Morton Grounds and Watch Light Effects on Water as Canoes Pass. Open day at Mortan park, taking the place of a three days' festival in the fall, was even more successful than the Fall Festivals have been with their $7,000 expense accounts, according to members of tho Park company. Yesterday's celebration is believed to be the assurance of the success of the park project. The official estimate of the crowd, made by Charles Jordan, was ten thousand persons, about one-third of whom were from other places. By 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon the ground swarmed with pleasure seekers who strolled over the fields and woodB and through the picnic grounds or watched the acquatic contests. One of the features of the opening was the canoe carnival, wituessed by about four thousand persons. A row of canoes, decorated with Japanese lanterns, started at 8:30 o'clock from the Gaar bridge and wound its way down the lake. Red lights added to the effect, and as the carnival appeared opposite the crowd, there was the only applause of the day. The carnival will be repeated soon, probably July 4, with added light effects and more decorations. The band concert, during the afternoon, led by Lee B. Nusbaum, was a parties ate their noon lunches in fi sand persons surrounded the bandstand in the shady grove near Hawkins springs. Taggart brothers presented acrobatic acts between concerts. The day was thoroughly enjoyed ex- ; cept for a littla while following the death of Aeronaut J. O. Gill. The ! merry-making crowd was hushed for a j short time, but soon forgot the horri-1 fying incident and went on with the festival. It is apparent that there will be a big sale of lots as the result of the opening day celebration. Dozens of j inquiries were made at headquarters ! w hich were temporarily established in . the Sedgwick cottage. E. M. Haas, superintendent, can be reached there at telephone 3441. Many Picnickers Present. About fifty or sixty groups or picnic parties ate their noon lunches in the park, and at nightfall there were about two hundred picnic parties, ranging in (Continued on Page Two) irTlLisr ST, MARY'S SENIORS Assistant Rector Impresses Need of Religious Conviction Upon Eight Graduates Eight girls, who completed the work in the St. Mary's high school were awarded diplomas last night at the commencement exercises held at the church. Father Duffy delivered the class address and the presentation of diplomas was made by Father Cronin. Certificates wi re given boys who completed their work in the eight grades. Before the exercises members of the graduating class were oscorted to the church by members of the alumnae association. The church was beautiful with its decorations of green and white. Speaking to the members of the class Father Duffy asked them to consider that all great personages of the world's history were in most cases men with religious convictions. He cited the cases of eminent artists, soldiers, musicians, statesmen that had been men of religious mind. Reviews Year's Work. He reviewed the work done by the church and school during the year, emphasizing the fact that it had been of the highest possible standard. Members of the class were complimented on the work they had done throughout their four years of high school work. Father V. J. Cronin then presented diplomas to the following: Margaret Carrol. Margaret Abley, Mary Schwiiart. Rhea Fitzgibbons, Margaret Clingenpeel, Maria Dwane, Rhea Turner, Marie Gordan and Thelma Zuttermeister. Boys receiving certificates admitting them to the high school were Bartley Gordon, Harry Frame, P:iul Lamb. William Gaa. Alphonsus Hipskind and Francis McManus. During the program the St. Mary's choir of young girls assisted by Lucile Carney, organist, gave the following numbers: Sacred Heart Hymn, O. Ralutares, Tantium Ergo, Te Deum. Father Donald Manning, formerly assistant at St. Mary's attended. ATTENDS MEETING. N. C. Heironemus, left today for Toledo where he will represent the local order of Woodmen, at the annual clerks' convention of that order to be held tomorrow. Before returning Mr. Heironimus will visit several of the larger cities of the northern states. Hewill return About ,

PARACHUTE JUMP HURLS AERONAUT TO QUICK DEATH 2,000 See Faulty Safety Device Throw Balloonist From 300-foot Altitude to Hillside.

BREAKS EVERY BONE J. O. Gill Killed in First Accident of Ten Year's Experience as Skillful Navigator of Air. Morton park was dedicated in human blood yesterday. J. O. Gill, aeronaut, of Mt. Sterling, O., sacrificed his life for the seekers of amusement. Making a sensational leap from his balloon, which had floated high above, he fell four hundred feet to instant death when his parachute failed to unfold. When the crowd of two thousand persons who had remained to see the final number of the dedicatory program of the new amusement park, saw the helpless body shooting downward, hearts stopped beating and terror chilled the throng. Every Bone Broken. With neck broken and every bone in the upper part of the body crushed, the lifeless man was picked up southwest of the park. Realizing the fate awaiting him, Gill struggled vainly until close to the ground to unfold the second parachute. A few minutes before the ascension the pleasure-seeking crowd, watching for a new sensation, was laughing and chatting on the field from which Gill arose with his balloon. Almost every spectator realized the fate Gill would meet when they saw him dangling ic the air, his second and third para chutes still a bundle of goods. Th jollification stopped immediately and the crowd seeminglv was siupified. Tries New Fold. Gill was an old hand at the business, although still a young man. His balloon was new, and two of his parachutes were untried. Before he had even made preparations for the ascent, he announced to Charles Jordon, secretary of the Commercial club, with whom he made the contract, that he intended trying a new fold by which his parachutes would open more rapidly. He usually used three parachutes of twenty-eight-foot spread. His new parachutes were of twenty-foot spread. It is believed that GUI did not realize that the area of the twentyfoot spread was about half that of the twenty-eight-foot spread. His intentions were to rise to aheight of from four to six thousand feet, according to a letter he wrote accompanying his contract. His ascent was far under a thousand fe-t. however. He expected to descend rapidly in the first twenty-foot parachute, cut loose and descend again until the second parachute opened, and' shortly before striking the ground. t' cut loose in a twenty-eight-foot para-' chute. He believed his drop would be very sensational. Ropes Give Trouble. Gill had trouble with his ropes fromthe first, and when his balloon arose at fi:40 o'clock, he could be seen trying ' to hitc h the loops higher around his i legs. Even at his extreme altitude i before be cut loose, he could be seen. ' adjusting ropes in preparation for eut- ! ting the rope. As his balloon sailed j southeast, over the hom of S. E. Slick, j Gill could be seen to jerk the rope i which operated his cutting mechanism. His first parachute opened. He descended rapidly, and was working with the second. He then cut away from the first. Instead of opening, the two bundled up parachutes upon which he depended for his life, fell with evenv more rapidity than he did. The ropes which fastened him to the parachutes were loose, and the two bundles of flimsy canvas dropped like a shot. In spite of the fact that he was rapidly turning over on his head, he worked frantically with the ropes until he waa within fifty t"et of tho earth. He struck the bard ground with a thud which broke his neck and crushed every bone in the upper part of his body. No one saw him hit. as the field was partly obscured from th few persons on the road by a hede and billboard. The thud could be heard by all persons who were on the same level as the field. Within a few minutes his crushed body was surrounded by several hundred persons, who were kept back by the sheriff and police. The body was covered until an ambulanec removed it to the undertaking parlors of Jordan. McManus & Hunt. Home at Mt. Sterling. Secretary Jordan telephoned early in the evening to Mt. Sterling. The telephone operator there said she knew Gill and his family, and that she would summon a member to "the telephone. However, it was not until midnight that Mr. Jordan again received a message from Mt. Sterling, this time from an undertaker, who said he would be here at noon today and take charge of the body. Gill had just completed a letter in which he said: "If you want to know about my work, write to Charles W. Jordan at Richmond. Ind., for information. 1 am going to make an ascension there today." Gill received $75 for each oen'nq with three parachute drops. He had ft