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DEATH'S SUMMONS CLOSES LONG LIFE OF MARK HAYNES Aged Richmond Man Helped Slaves Escape During Civil War and Visited in Lincoln's Home.

One more of the little coterie of aged men who used to gather in the lobby of a downtown hotel each day

has gone, leaving his chair vacant. Mark Haynes, 91, died late yesterday afternoon. The dapper little man was a familiar figure on the streets of the city and to guests at the Westcott hotel until about a week ago, when he was taken ill. Always immaculate in appearance, he walked daintily along, often being mistaken for a much younger man. Only the silk hat, the long coat and the cane have the impression that he was of another generation. During the later years of his life, hardly a day or evening passed that he did not sit in his accustomed place in the hotel lobby conversing with friends, of whom he had many. Traveling salesmen from all over the state learned to know and look for him when they visited the city. These added their presence to the little group in the evening and listened to stories of a half-century ago, which Mr. Haynes told so brightly. Mourns for Surface.

The first of the coterie to go was Daniel Surface, an intimate friend of Mr Haynes. After his comrade's

death Mr. Haynes never quite recover

ed from the shock, but continued to iiim until Yih own death.

.... Mark Haynes was alone in the world

with the exception or one granadaughter, Mrs. C. M. Malott, of Indianapolis, who is in the city to attend the funeral. . Almost a century ago he was born on a farm near Oakland, O., July 19, 1823. For a number of years he lived on the farm with his father. But the routine of country life proved irksome. Always he looked toward Indiana, saying that he wished to go west and grow up with this state, which he believed was the most promising commonwealth in the west. His first move was to Harveysburg, O., where he started a general store, pn rapid succession he moved to Cincinnati, to Peru. Ind., to Richmond for a few years, to Indianapolis, then back to Richmond, more than thirty years ago. Here he passed the rest of his life, never satisfied to stay away from the Quaker city for, more than a week at a time, even onhis visits to bis granddaughter in Indianapolis. ;

BECK UNDERTAKES PARCELjXTEIISIOII Postmaster Believes Farmers Neglect Chance to Reach Good Market. On his tenth day in his new office, Postmaster Beck is more than pleased with the way the office is conducted. He said today he is planning some extension. "Every man here is working up to

top notch, and the office couldn't be running better." Mr. Beck said. "I am

more than pleased. I can already see where I can make some little Improvements or extensions, which I will take up later." Mr. Beck is especially concerned with the parcel post business and the fact that farmers are not taking ad

vantage of it. "I expect to take steps soon to

encourage trading with farmers by par

cel post. Farmers all over the coun

try are neglecting an excellent opportunity when they pass up parcel post. In a few localities city people and farmers trade with each other through parcel post, but there is none of that here."

FARMERS HARVEST GOOD GRADE WHEAT BUT SMALL YIELD Local Miller Estimates Yield of 18 Bushels Per Acre From Farms in Wayne County.

WOMAN

IN LETTER

CONFESSESMORDER Asserts Shot Intended for Dr. Carman and Begs Liberation of Wife.

NEW YORK, July 10. Sheriff Pet-

tit, of Nassau county, today received a letter written by a woman and mail

ed in Brooklyn, in which the writer confesses that she killed Mrs. Louise

Bailey in the office of Dr. Edwin Carman at Freeport, L. I.

"For God sake, . free Mrs. Carman." said the letter. "She is a good, honest

woman. She did not commit this act. I fired the shot, and I am glad of it. "I tried to get Dr. Carman. I didn't mean to hit Mrs. Bailey. I am sorry for her family, and I intend to get Dr. Carman yet. He knows the reason why, and he knows who I am. Let him tell the authorities." The missive was signed N. A. B. It was mailed at Station L in Brooklyn, and detectives are trying to trail the Bender from that point. Though Sheriff Pettit said that the letter might have been written by a crank, he would make every possible

effort to find the sender,

A. D. COBB. New wheat is coming to the Richmond mills at the rate of a load every twenty mihues. according to Charles

Carpenter, manager of the Richmond Roller Mills. The quality of the grain is very good, but the yield will not run as high as many have been led to believe. Mr. Carpenter this morning stated that the estimate of 18 bushels per acre for Wayne county, as published in the agricultural section of the Palladium last week, was correct, if

returns up to the present time could I

be taken as an indication. The lowest yield so far reported was a hill-side field that made only five bushels to the acre. William Barton this morning reported a yield of 27 bushels on the farm of a neighbor. He estimates his own crop at from 20 to 24 bushels. The average wheat production of Wayne county for the last ten years has been only about 13.7 bushels per acre.

Despite the fact that the government crop reports indicate that there will be record breaking yields of corn and wheat this year, it is not believed by local grain dealers that the prices of grain will be lower. There is a scarcity of corn at the present time, and the price of corn at the wagon is two cents higher than wheat. The fact that last year's crop of corn is sold out, and foreign grain yields are reported short, should mean good

prices the coming season. With corn high and wheat relatively low, many farmers will store wheat and feed it, or wait for a rise in price.

SENATE WILL FIGHT WILS0I1JPP0IIITEES Jones and Warburg Opposed as Members of New Federal Reserve Board. WASHINGTON, July 10. A revolt in the Senate against President Wilson is on. Members of the upper house have reached a deadlock with the white house on a demand that Paul M. Warburg and Thomas B. Jones

be confirmed as members of the federal reserve board.

The senate committee on banking and currency .stood pat today, and its unfavorable report on the nomination

of Jones and the indefinite postpone

ment of action on Warburg's case will be the same determination that characterized the white house statement that the president will insist that his appointments are approved. On the other- hand, assertions have come to the white house from admin

istration senators that the president will be able to muster enough strength in the senate to override the action of the banking and currency committee.

POLICE HUNT MAN GONE FROM HOME FOR JHREE DAYS Disappearance of Howard L. Meyers Causes Wide But Fruitless Search in Every Part of City.

Dog Fasts For Three Weeks

Recalls city as v mge.. ,.i"Z" " -

went DaCK lO I xn . .m him. ii saiu no cuuw imuw uw

MrrHavnes memory

1837, when the name Richmond included a grocery store, postoffice and a few widely scattered houses, surrounded by dense forests, broken only bv winding trails. The National road

was being built when he came to the

town

The aged man played a prominent

tart in the operation of the under

sxound railroad, helping many colored

persons to escape from their southern masters. He helped to relay more

than a hundred slaves from Ohio stations of the road to the Fountain City station, traveling with them during the Bight. Once he was almost caught. In the covered wagon which he was driving cowered four frightened refugees. When challenged and asked what he had in the wagon, Mr. Haynes replied without hesitation, "Furniture." He was allowed to pass on. Besides helping build the first railroad through the city, he was present when the first locomotive came wheezing, creeping into the little burg, at which people had gathered for miles around. Most of them died years Bnd years ago, thinking they had seen ponders. Lived to See Wonders. But Mark Haynes lived to see the day of twentieth century limited, flying machines, automobiles, telephones and wireless telegraphy. During his younger days Mr. Haynes

numbered among his friends Abraham Lincoln, having visited at his home in Springfield several times. Always in response to questions asking how he had managed to live so long,' Mr. Haynes would laugh and reply that he had never worried about anything and had always been able to aee the funny side of affairs and 3augh. Funeral services will be held at the Doan & Klute parlors at 10 o'clock Saturday morning. Interment will be In Earlham cemetery. Friends may call at the parlors this evening.

light upon the communication.

CITY LOSES PLANT MAKINGJRACTORS

Terre Haute Gets Baker Company Considered by Industries Committee.

FAILURE OF CHICAGO BANK BANKRUPTS SCHOOL AT MUNCIE Normal Institute Passes Into Hands of Receiver But Will Continue School Sessions.

EDUCATION SOCIETY ENDORSJSJUFFRAGE Women Delegates Pleased at Resolution Urging Equal Pay for Teachers. ST. PAUL, July 10. Women delegates to the annual convention of the

National Education Association were jubilant today over their victories at the present session. The convention not only went on record as endorsing

woman suffrage but also all resolu

tions urging equal pay for teachers,

regardless of sex, and five of the ten vice presidents were allotted to women. Among the resolutions confirmed to day by the general council were those providing for pensions for teachers; simplified spelling; vacations to allow teachers to travel; international peace,

physical inspection of children; co operation between parents and teach

ers with regard to the teaching of sex

hygiene and uniform wording of na

tional songs. The next convention will be held in

Oakland, Cal.

The Baker Tractor company, which the Richmond Commercial club committee on new industries had hoped to bring to this city, has been moved to Terre Haute. The owners of the concern gave no excuse for the sudden termination of negotiations with the local commercial organization. Tentative plans to interest local capital in case the company located in Richmond were already under way. Many of the members were greatly in favor of inviting, the owners to locate immediately, but an investigation was first made of the machine and the standing of the company, which is yet in its infancy. The factory, which was located in

! Detroit, was of small capacity, had

little room for expansion, with small market, no opportunity of expanding the selling department and without money for advertising. The machine is a one-man tractor, Which is supposed to do the work of several teams of hoses with one man operating it.

PARK INSPIRES BEST OF ABBOTT'S POETRY

Judge Abbott's reputation as a poet Is well known in Richmond and Wayne county. The judge has written reams of poems and has used hundreds of pencils and weeks of time writing them. But in his sixty-five vears of writing, Judge Abbott counts his best efforts a little verse of four lines. The verse was written twelve years bgo. One beautiful morning, the judge relates, he was sitting in Glen Miller park when a scrap of paper was blown to his feet. Feeling in a poetic mood, be picked up the paper and wrote. In the twelve years, no other copy was made by Judge Abbott and he long ago gave away the original copy. (t is one of his few poems which have ever been published. It follows: Tyfcjcf never a valley without a hill, ''Oloosy without a sorrow; "Nor a night so dark with human ill, "Thero comes no bright tomorrow."

LAFOLLETTE BETTER

WASHINGTON. July ; 10. Senator Robert L. Lafollette, of Wisconsin, who has been suffering from f.tomach Jtrouble was reported much better today, although he still is confined to

ils room.

LOSERS GIVE TREAT

Club Campaigners to Serve

Fish.

The losing team of the membership

campaigners will not serve supper to

night at the Commercial club rooms, as the terms of the contract said. However, every man who took part in the membership campaign has been invited to attend a fish bake which the Commercial club will give to its hardest workers. The fish bake will be under the direction of John Zwissler. White fish will be served. The men who attend will be the guests of the Commercial club. A smoker will follow the fish bake. About 100 men will attend.

MUNCIE. July .10 Muncle .Normal institute, with a faculty of fifty, and an enrollment of twelve hundred, this morning passed into the hands, of Henry M. Gentry of Indianapolis, a receiver, .on petition of Julian R. Steward, dean of the college of agriculture. The school became embarrassed by the failure of the La Salle Street Trust and Savings bank in Chicago, which was financing it. The assets of the school are a half-million dollars, and the liabilities are $275,000. The school will be continued under the receivership. The teachers this morning unanimousy agreed to accept the bond of the school in lieu of salaries until the institute's financial affairs are straightened out. The school obtained a loan of $300,000 from the La Salle bank, of which $183,000 had been advanced at the time of the bank's failure. The receiver for the bank turned over to the

institute the remaining $127,000 in

bonds, which have not yet been marketed.

Bacchus Interested. President Kelly of the Normal institute says that suit for a receiver is a friendly one and that the action was taken merely to protect all creditors equally. For the present no receiver's certificates will be issued. In chapel this morning the students and teachers gave a rising vote of confidence in the management. While intricacies of financing the school were not made public, it is regarded as significant that E. L. Bacchus, former vice president of the La Salle Street bank and former chief accountant in the Illinois state auditor's office at Springfield, was business manager of the school. It is admitted that difficulty has been experienced in marketing the bonds recently turned back to the institution and that its affairs are in a precarious shape. The institution was prospering and on a self-supporting basis at the time of the crash. It is now regarded as doubtful whether the International Stewards' association will establish its half-million-dollar training school for chefs in connection with the institution, unless the Institution is able to better its financial condition.

CAMBRIDGE PLEDGES 56 -TICKETS FOR '15

Citizens Contract for Chan

tauqua at Close of Assem

bly This Year.

FORMER RESIDENT DIES IN TEXAS

Word was received here today of the death of Mrs. Edwin R. Smith, of Austin, Tex. She had many friends in this city, as she was a resident of Richmond for many years. Mr. Edwin Smith is a cousin of Arthur L. Smith, of the Second National bank.

HOUSE PASSESBILL WASHINGTON, July 10. The house appropriation committee today reported the general deficiency appropriation bill, carrying a total of $4,585,464.42. This is the last of the general appropriation bills and contains these appropriations: For Indiana buildings and sits at Kendallville, $8,000; Plymouth, $10,000; Salem, $5,000; Warsaw, $10,000.

CAMBRIDGE CITY, Ind., July 10.

So successful was the Chautauqua

this year that 675 tickets have been pledged for next year's assembly. The contract has been signed by forty local people, leaving only the date to be fixed definitely. The total receipts for the assembly amounted to $1,325. This leaves Cambridge City $370. After all expenses have been paid the city will have a net profit of about $100. At the closing sessions Congressman Fred S. Jackson, of Kansas, discussed the relation of the individual to the government, touching on the unrest in the country because of recent legislation. In his evening address on "What Makes Kansas" Congressman Jackson prophesied a time not far distant when a prohibition law would be written on the statute books of the nation.

He praised Kansas as the state without a saloon, declaring that it was the center of the nation, so far as civic reform is concerned.

Police are searching for Howard S.

Meyers, who has been missing since Tuesday. After kissing his wife and three year old child goodbye and saying that he was going to the doctor's office, Howard L. Meyers, 30, a baker, 2131 North D street, disappeared and has

not been seen or heard of since, although a secret search was instituted for him immediately.

His wife. Mrs. Blanche Meyers, is

almost frantic with grief and is at a loss to know the cause of his sudden disappearance. He left his home at

o'clock Tuesday afternoon ana tne

last seen of him was at the Dickinson Trust company at about 3 o'clock, when he cashed a check for $18. Police believe he has gone insane and has left the city.

A search has been made or mm in

the city by the police but no clue has been found. He was well known in

the city, having been employed for several years at John Bayer's bakery. On July 2, he and his wife, purchased the bakery at the corner of Nineteenth

and North E streets. He bad Deen working there in the employ of the previous owner for several months.

Suffers From Wound. Ten weeks ago he was operated on

at the Reid Memorial hospital for ap

pendicitis and according to the state

ment of his wife this morning, ne bas never fully recovered. She said for

the last few weeks he has been com

plaining of pains in his head and at

one time intimated he believed he was going insane. According to members of his family and persons connected with him in his business, none of his actions suggested that he was losing

his mind. On the afternoon of his disappear

ance, r. neighbor was riding with him on a street car as he was going to the physician but did not notice anything

unusual.

According to the statement of Dr.

Bulla, whom he visited Tuesday afternoon. Meyers seemed to be in good

health with no evidences of a failing

mind. He merely came to the physi

cian's office to have an examination of the wound made in the operation ten weeks ago. said Dr. Bulla this

morning. Tall And Dark.

Meyers is about five feet six inches tall, has light brown eyes and dark hair. He has lived in this city all his

life and is well-known, . especially 4

among the German residents of the

city.

According to members and friends

of the family, Meyers has had no mari

tal troubles wnich would cause him to leave his home. His wife said this morning that he had been working

night and day since the time they pur-

chased the bakery on North . Nineteenth streets and that he might have

broken down under the strain.

ECONOMY, Ind., July. .10. Imprisoned for twenty-one days .in a hollow tree, a fox terrier belonging to C. B. Segraves, near Modoc, was rescued Wednesday by David . Mettert.. The animal was so weak that it could not walk, but soon recovered. . While plowing. Segraves saw bis

dog chase a squirrel around - an old

maple tree in the field. The squirrel

ran up a hollow place in the tree. Segraves missed his dog that evening, but believed he would return. Search

for the dog later proved futile.

It is believed the dog chased the squirrel into the hollow tree and by scratching filled the aperture behind

him. Enclosed within the tree, the dog was without food or water until Mettert released him. He heard muffled barking as he passed the tree

Wednesday, and investigation showed

it came from the base of the maple. He carried the animal to the Segraves

home.

MISSOURI

BANDITS

ROB EXPRESS CAR

Force Engineer to Uncouple

Car Dynamited to Get Val

uable Loot.

ST. LOUIS, July 10. Heavily armed

posses today searched the vicinity of

Matson, Mo., for trace of four masked bandits who held up the "Katy Flyer"

on the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Ry..

DIRT III MATERIAL

CHECKED THE WORK . Oil THE BOULEVARD

Concrete Experts Discover

Inferior Sand and Gravel and Contractor Trippeer Has Suspended Work. Reports circulated the past several

days hinting at a scandal In connection with the construction of that part of the big . Morton boulevard system

which is to be made of concrete were refuted today by a careful investigation of the work being done on the first concrete road system in Wayne county. It has been reported that the material being used by the two men who have the contracts for constructing the boulevard, F. E. Slick and A. J. Trippeer, was of inferior quality and had only been discontinued after District Agent Franks of the Universal Portland Cement company, commonly called the "cement trust," had made such vigorous complaints that Levi Peacock, county surveyor, was compelled to condemn the sand and gravel both contractors were using. Follows Specifications. As a matter of fact the thousand feet of concrete roadway Slick .has placed down on the New Paris pike. Just north of Morton park, complies in every particular with the specifications, and Otto Scbwagler, of Philadelphia, supervisor representing the American Association of Concrete Manufacturers savs ta has nn rnm-

and dynamited the safe in the express Dlaint to make Df Slick's work. He

car. N. T. Brown, general agent or nnvs th.t aftr th hard rains iwpntlv

the American Express Co. said today J a considerable quantity of the sand that several packages of Jewelry were I and gravel Slick was to use became

in the safe, but he did not think their

value would exceed $1,000. The bandits climbed r board the train when it stopped at Matson for coal. At the point of revolvers they forced Engineer Schnably to uncouple the express and mail cars and drive south a mile where the safe was blown open. Passengers on the train were not aware of tbe hold-up until nearly 30 minutes after the locomotive and cars had been taken away. Members of the train crew telephoned to St. Louis and St. Charles for aid and posses were hastily organized.

DISMISSES CHARGES AGAINST WINTERS . - -- - New Castle Prosecutor Re

fuses to Disclose Evidence

to Hold Them.

STORM KILLS COWS

Lightning Causes $150 Loss.

Moran

An electrical storm which played around Richmond last night resulted in the loss of two valuable caws by T. J. Moran on the state line pike. About 10:30 last night a bolt struck near the Moran home and today the two cows were found dead, lying near a small walnut tree, which was uprooted. The two cows were valued at $75 each.

ABBOTT TO DEPART FOR SUMMER REST Poet-Judge Heeds Call of Sunape Mountains to Come and Rest.

PROGRAM OF BAND AT PARK COMPLETE

Richmond Concert band's program

for Glen Miller park Sunday afternoon follows: Part I. The Rose of the Mountain Trail... '. ... Caddington and Brennan Schauspiel Overture C. Bach Nokomis, Indian Intermezzo E. J. Leach Adele Selection Synopsis Introduction Adele, Like Swallow Flying, Is It Worth While, Close Your Eyes, Strawberries and Cream, When the Little Birds are Sleeping, Finale, Adele J. Bodewalt Lampe March The Good Ship Mary Ann and Willie Had a 'Motor Boat Le Boy and Marshall Part II. March The Midnight Girl ... Lampe Orpheus Overture J. Offenbach

Love's Melody Waltzes . . Leo Damduff J

American Sketch. .Wm. H. Middleton Spirit of Independence.. Abe Holzman

ALMA BENNETT DEAD Fractured Hip Hastens Death of Woman.

Mrs. Alma Bennett, 84, died this morning at the Reid Memorial hospital as the result of complications arising from a fractured hip, sustained in a fall 'last Sunday. She is survived by four sons, William Bennett, of Chicago, Al Bennett, of Mattoon, 111., and Alpheua and James Bennett, of this city. The funeral will be held at the home of Alpheus Bennett, 239 South West Third street, Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Rev. E. G. Howard will have charge of the funeral services. Friends may call this evening from 7 to 9 o'clock and tomorrow morning from 8 to 10 o'clock. Mrs. Bennett was a birthright member of the Friends' church at Harveysburg, O.

CLASS ENTERTAINS.

NEW PARIS The fourth depart;

ment of the M.". Epwortn League en

tertained the members of the league

Tuesday evening in the basement din

ing room. Refreshments were served

and a pleasant time spent, JJ

The Sunape mountains of New Hampshire, especially a little cottage about 100 miles inland from the Atlantic ocean and 10,000 feet above it, are calling Judge Abbott. So the oldest active judge in Indiana will leave Richmond July 18 or 20 for New Eng

land. Judge Abbott's vacation has become famous. Other men, judges, doctors, lawyers, merchants or financiers take a vacation every year and their circle of friends soon forget the details, but with Judge Abbott's vacation, all the citizens soon become acquainted. For years Judge Abbott has deserted Richmond some time , in July not to return for a month or six weeks. Stirred by the beautiful summer mornings well up the mountain side, where

a heavy wrap is needed before the sun has its hour to warm the air, Judge Abbott has written poems and poetic stories which he sends back home.

Judge Abbott's old home, where his

chindren, grandchildren and greatgrandchildren live, is located just

thirty miles from Woodrow Wilson's summer home. It is also in the heart

of a favorite summer resort district

for New York and Boston citizens. Hundreds of hotels are perched on the mountain sides, according to the judge, and 25,000 to 30,000 city people come there annually to recuperate from a winter's hard work.

Judge Abbott will leave a week from Saturday if possible and will not return until September 1. During his stay he will also visit Boston and other places where he has lived and where he has always spent his summers.

NEW CASTLE, Ind.. July 10. The

charges against Dr. and Mrs. Winters

land W. R. Cooper, suspected of being

implicated in the disappearance of Catherine Winters, were dismissed by Prosecutor Myers today. The other sensational developments in the case today was the arrest of David (Bat) Masterson on a conspiracy charge. When Dr. Winters, his wife and Cooper were arraigned, Prosecutor Myers was not ready for trial, he said. He refused to disclose what evidence her had in order to hold them, bo dismissed the charges, saying he would prefer to file others when the proper time came. Dr. Winters continues his threats to sue Detective Abel, who worked on the case a short time ago, and whose investigations led to the charges against the Winters couple and their roomer. A sensation was caused when Bat Masterson, a well-known strike break-

and detective, who, wltn eigHt

er

other detectives had begun to work

here for a week in an effort to discover additional evidence in the Win

ters case, was arrestee, on information from Indianapolis that he was wanted on a charge of conspiracy. He was taken at once to the capital by Sheriff Bouslog, where he will be arraigned on a charge of framing up an attack on a cafe where a waiters' strike has been in progress. Before leaving here Masterson declared that the Winters girl is still alive, that she had been seen and that she could be returned here within a short time. He also predicted that at least one arrest would be made and perhaps more, adding that startling disclosures would be made soon. Masterson said that he would return from Indianapolis as soon as arrangements had been made for a bond for himself.

HUERTA MOBILIZES TROOPS AT CAPITAL

MEXICO CITY, July 10. Federal troops are pouring into the capital today. President Huerta is preparing for a final stand, and it is expected that within a week fully forty thousand equipped soldiers will be quartered here. Many of the large siege guns that were at San Luis Potosi when the revolutionists began their southern campaign, have been brought here and placed in advantageous positions. General Rubio Navarrette arrived from Jalapa with two trainloads of troops, early today. It is expected that , he will act as second in command to Minister of War Blanquet in

ALLIANCE TO SEND MEN TO HAMMOND

The local branch of tbe Indiana Federation of the German-American National Alliance, has received an invitation to send delegates to the state convention, whfch will be held in Hammond, Ind., August 29 to September 1. The local delegates will not be appointed for several weeks but it is assured that a number of local men will attend the convention. Last year the state convention was held in Michigan City and a large delegation was sent from the local Alliance. The state and national organizations are non-political and nonsectarian, their only object being to advance and stimulate an interest in things German in so far as they aid American citizenship.

The Weather

FOR INDIANA-Generally night and Saturday. -

Noon

Maximum

Minimum

TEMPERATURE.

Yesterday-

fair to-

93

94 .62

dirty, making it unfit for use. and it was promptly condemned, to be rewashed. None of this material, however, was actually used in mixing with the cement, Mr. Schwagler asserted today. On the other hand the only concrete work Trippeer has done on his part of the project, a strip 82 feet in length on the Middleboro pike, at the junction of the Smyrna pike, the extreme north end of the boulevard, is not satisfactory and his sand and gravel was condemned by Schwagler ind Robert Abercrotnhie, assistant county surveyor, as soon as the discovery was made by them. Trippeer had experienced trouble with his washer and tbe material it was turning out was dirty. For a week he has attempted no concrete work pending the repairing of his washer, but will probably be able to resume this work the first of next week. insists On Good Work. Mr. Abercrombe said7 today that if the roadway constructed by Trippeer does not come up to every requirement he will be required to reconstruct it. It is admitted that Mr. Franks did make an inspection of the concrete work although his company, the Uni

versal, had not sold either contractor tbe cement being used, this being supplied by the Sandusky Portland Cement company. There are some who say it was fortunate he did so because of the lack of experience in concrete roadmakisg of the contractors and county officials. It is explained that concrete road building in the United States is in its infancy and that all concrete companies are personally interested in having every concrete road a success whether or not they sell the concrete. Not only the American Association of Concrete Manufacturers but the socalled "cement trust," the Universal company, keeps a daily record of ev

ery concrete road project In tne country so that it will be known whether the work on each project is being properly done. Roads constructed with cement net supplied by the trust are supervised by road agents sent by the Manufacturers association. The trust furnishes its own agents for projects where its cement is used. Notifies Cement Trust. It is understood that recently the Universal man on the North Tenth street project inspected the Morton boulevard work and then notified his company that inferior material had been used. Franks, the district representative, then appeared on the sceene and at once asserted that the material Trippeer had been using was dirty, and that some of the material Slick had prepared was damaged because it had gotten dirty during the hard rains. Abercrombie maintains that he de

tected the dirty sand and gravel Trippeer had been using before the arrival of Franks. James B. Howes, inspector on the projected, appointed by the county commissioners, apparently was not aware that Trippeer was constructing a roadway of unfit material, and he said .today that this was his first experience if a supervisor of such work, although he had had experience constructing cement sidewalks. He says the two contractors took the condemnation of their material in good part and promptly arranged to have all their gravel and sand comply with the specifications. Material Good. As stated, none of the roadway laid by Slick has been of inferior material, and the men who are supervising tbe work are perfectly satisfied with it. He expects to have his part of the boulevard paved before cold weather. - It comprises the New Paris pike' from Twelfth street east to the Gear road, sout hon the Gaar road to its junction with Nineteenth street, thence north on Nineteenth street to North J street, and west on that street to Twelfth

street. Trippeer has nricaea worm J street from Tenth street to Twelfth street. He will concrete North bridge (the eyesore of the improvement) and will concrete the Middleboro pike from the New Paris pike to the Smyrna road. He has already paved with brick the Twelfth street hill from the bridge to the New Paris pike. . Mr. Franks, district representative of the Universal company, is taking more than r Usual interest in having tbe Morton boulevard, one of the most extensive concrete projects in this section of the country, a success. It was be who Interested the county officials in having the improvement made of concrete, and arranged the trip' they

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