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WEST SIDE PARK REQUEST TO GO BEF0REC0UNCIL Board of Works Assures Committee of Willingness ' to Convert Dump Into ; Park Site. Residents Present Memorial Asking Works Board to Co-operate in Furthering Scheme for Park. A committee composed of John Fosler, T.C. Hubbard, John W. Rethmeyer, Mrs. Emory Evans and Mrs. Reuben D. Rich met with the board of works yesterday afternoon to take up the dumpVid park question. The object Is to clean up the unsightly conditions atV end of Doran bridge and converrS property along the river and cle2?Up to West First street into a park. The movement is a very popular one all over the city, for a vast imount of pleasure driving goes over the bridge and out Richmond avenue. Assurance was given the committee that a resolution would be introduced In council looking toward the accomplishment of the West Richmond advV cates. The following report was filed before the board by the chairman, Edgar lliff: "To Mr. .Alfred Bavis, President of Board of Public Works: "Mr. President This committee, the

outgrowth of a recent mass meeting of the residents of West Richmond, and appointed at the suggestion of yourself, comes before the board of works seeking relief from the intolerable nui sance, called the 'dump. Dump an Eye-sore. It is not necessary to tell your honorable board of the miseries of the westsiders arising from this 'running sore,' as President Bavis happily named It at our mass meeting. It is not at all necessary to dwell upon President Bavis' remark that the sins of the father are visited upon the children, even to the third and fourth generation. We know that. We know that this nuisance has been maintain ed through many city administrations, Democratic and Republican, and that it is still with us. "But, Mr. President, we are not living under the old order of, things. We have changed our social And civic en vironment. Our public point of view is not at all the same as it was twen ty-flve years ago. Cows and hogs roamed up and down Main street in Richmond. Hogs wallowed in front of the postofflce and public buildings. Cows came up to the store doors and threatened to come in. Pig pens sent up such stench on warm nights that the city council had to resign, have a summer recess, or take poison. Citizens had to hold their noses when they ate breakfast. "Now when politics became infested with these nuisances, and the reformer appeared to worry the candidates, people began to howl about 'personal liberty,' 'the right to keep hogs' and the 'freedom of the cow,' and they appealed to the Declaration of Independence and the inherent right to 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.' But the roaming cow, the wallowing hog and the smelling pigpen had to go before the march of the progressive citizen. Beauty an Asset. "The best asset of a city is its beauty. Nothing is beautiful that is unclean, unsanitary, unwholesome and offensive to the ear, the nose or the eye. It has taken ages to evolve that fine sense we call aesthetic, that love of the harmonious and the beautiful in the human mind and soul. "We want to lay it down here, as a general proposition, that if we have developed to a place where we condemn tilings offensive to the smell as unlawful, we shall yet arrive at the place where things offensive to the eye, offensive to the sense of the orderly and the beautiful in the human mind, will also be condemned and removed as a public nuisance. "So we are here demanding that all of the unsightly things near and around the 'dump' shall be removed and that the city take over the ground near and around the 'dump' and convert it into a park or playground. To do this will be the first step toward a long line of riverside parks and the finest boulevard any city in the west can boast of. "EDGAR ILIFF, Chairman." QUAKERS APPOINT WlillAJEEGATES Fifteen Young Friends to Represent Local Churches at Annual Meeting. i A large number of local Friends will Attend the annual convention of the Young Friends of America, which is to be held at Winona Lake, July 22 to 28. At the present time fifteen persons have signified their intention of going this year and it is expected that within the next week or two, several other young people will decide to attend the sessions. The Richmond delegation is alws ) one of the largest delegations at convention. Only one of the two delegates from the East Main Street Friends' chureh has ben appointed. Miss Mildred EdwardWill be the delegate from that church. There will be no regular delegate appointed from the South Eighth Street Friends' church. The following persons have expressed their Intention of going to Winona: Prof, and Mrs. J. Herschel Coffin, Professor Mendenhall, Vincent Nicholson, Mrs. Harvey Wilson, Miss Sarah Brown, Mrs. Arthur Charles, Mary and Helen Kenworthy, Edgar Mote, Anna mod Lillian Eves.

FIGHTS WARBURG

FOR FEDERAL JOB SENATOR JAMES A. REED. Senator James A. Reed, of Missouri, who with Senator Hitchcock, of Nebraska, Democrat and five Republican members of the committee on Banking and Currency, who are believ ed to be opposed to making a favor able report on the nomination of Paul M. Warburg, unless the banker makes a concession to the committee. Bitter feeling has been engendered and if President Wilson carries out his present intention of trying to force the nomination through the Senate regardless of the committee on Banking and Currency there is a fight ahead that is likely to become historical. SCHOOLS JOIfl WORK OF SOCIAL SERVICE WITH INSTRUCTIONS Wilbur A. Fiske, Former High School Teacher, Heads New Idea in Ontario, Cal., Schools. Wilbur A. Fiske, formerly head of the physics department of the Richmondjtiigh school, returned to the city last, week from Ontario, Cal., with a message of how school work can successfully be linked with social center work. He is director of the Chaffey Library Foundation of $85,000, which directs the library work of Ontario. The library is a project in which the high school and community share equal rights. Mr. Fiske has charge of the expenditure of $200 a month for the purchase of new books. The Chaffey Library Foundation is unique. It is in a class by itself. No where in the world, is there a high school library with an endowment of $85,000, and a director whose only work is to manage the institution and devote his time to social center work in the community. Teaches Social Service. Mr. Fiske was hired by the school authorities to represent the cities at public functions and to speak on its schools. He instructs the teachers in social center work, and devotes much time to developing the new idea of social service among the men of the city. Organizer of an improvement assoc iation, Mr. Fiske recently saw the club vote $10,000 for the improvement of one of the main thoroughfares, so that Ontario would present a beautiful boulevard to tourists who visit the city in 1915. Ontario is thirty miles east of Los Angeles. The high school work of California is carried on in a broader scale than in Indiana, Mr. Fiske explained today. Several districts unite to form a school center. Instead of housing all departments in one building, they are placed in various structures, much as a college distributes Its work. The Ontario high school lists four buildings, one of them an administration hall in which is placed the library and an auditorium seating 1,500 persons. The buildings are on a campus of twenty acres. Mr. Fiske is touring the east to acquaint himself with methods in the large libraries and to come into contact with bookmen from whom he purchases for the library. He will lecture at Piqua, O., Tuesday before the Federation of clubs. D. R. Ellabarger, former principal of the high school, is head of the Piqua schools. CHARGE TWO MEN WITH Ml THEFTS Officials Arraign Curl and Ashby Before Commissioner Perry Freeman. United States Marshal Hankins and Postofflce Inspector Ela arrived this morning from Muncie with Fred Curl and Dan Ashby, . who are accused of robbing the postofflce at Springport, Ind. Curl was taken to the Wayne conty jail and is awaiting trial, which has been set for next Friday before Perry Freeman, United States commissioner. It is alleged that Curl and Ashby secured $85 in money orders from the postofflce at Springport last week. They .were apprehended by United States' postofflce .-. detectives. They were given a preliminary hearing this afternoon before Commissioner Freeman and both pleaded not guilty. Eight witnesses will be called to testify in the case next Friday.

WILLIAMS IJAMES 3 SPEAKERS FOR COUIITHISTITUTE Prof. J. T. Giles and Dr. C. C. Ellis to Deliver Main Lectures, While Dr. W. F. Book Assists. The program for the county teachers' institute to be held at the Chautauqua, August 24-28, with Prof. J. T. Giles and Dr. Charles C. Ellis as the speakers, has been announced by County Superintendent Williams. With the exception of an address by Dr. W. F. Book, deputy state superintendent, all the institute work will be by Prof. Giles and Dr. Ellis. The program follows Monday, August 24. 10:00 Prof. J. T. Giles, "Socializing the School." 11:00 Dr. W. F. Book, deputy state

superintendent, "What is Expected From the Public Schools in Subjects of Agriculture and Domestic Science During the Coming School Year." 1:30 Dr. Charles C. Ellis, "The Business of the Punblic School." Tuesday, August 25. 10:00 Dr. Charles C. Ellis, "The Meaning of Education." 11:00 Prof. J. T. Giles, "The Vocational Movement." 1:30 Dr. Charles C. Ellis, "The School and Society." Wednesday, August 26. 10:00 Dr. Charles C. Ellis, "Words." 11:00 Prof. J. T. Giles, "Measuring Results in Education." 1:30 Dr. Charles C. Ellis, School and the State." Thursday, August 27. The 10:00 Dr. Charles C. Ellis, "Language." 11:00 Prof. J. T. Giles, "Classroom Criticism." 1:30 Dr. Charles C. Ellis, "Being a Boy." Friday, August 28. 10:00 Dr. Charles C. Ellis, "Literature." 11:00 Prof. J. T. Giles, "Spelling." 1:30 Dr. Charles C. Ellis, "Arnold of Rugby." Of the two main speakers the follow ing statements have been issued by the county superintendent: "Dr. ChaTles Calvert Ellis has rare common sense, broad and accurate scholarship, an exceptionally fine command of English, a large fund of illustrative illustrations, an impressive delivery and a streak of humor and a strain of wit that he uses to excellent effect. "In the educational world and upon the institute lecture platform he is looked upon as the 'rising man To tell the truth of the matter, he has already risen. "After having heard almost all of the institute instructors of any note, we take great pleasure of presenting to you Dr. Ellis, president of Juanita college, as one of the good ones and who will remain with us Ave days. Opinion of Giles. "It is with pleasure we present to the teachers of Wayne county and to those interested in the practical educational problems of the day Superintendent J. T. Giles as one of the institute lecturers this year. Superintendent Giles holds a master's degree from Indiana university, and later completing a course at Columbia, together with his years of experience as superintendent of large city schools well equip him for this line of work. County superintendents in this state who have had him in institute work speak in highest terms of him. He will give a line of work that every teacher needs now. We welcome him." ARRANGES TO SEND BOY TOPLAINFIELD Keller Binds "Johnny Jones," Confessed Robber, Over to Juvenile Court. Yesterday Prosecuting Attorney Reller visited the Indiana Reformatory for Boys at Plainfield, and saw the nine Wayne county lads who are confined there. Today he was making arrangements to send another youngster to that institution, James Crafton, Jr., colored, commonly known as "Johnny Jones." Crafton, arrested last night at Glen Miller park, confessed today to breaking into the Seaney & Brown hardware store and stealing a bicycle and bicycle lamp. A few weeks ago he confessed to stealing chickens. The lad appears to be incorrigible. He said he was induced to rob the hardware store by a young white boy. "Johnny" has been bound over to juvenile court. The Wayne county boys now at Plainfield are William McKinley Smith, Richard and Lloyd Irwin, Albert Dadisman, David Freeman, Harry McDonald, Frank Payne, Harold Karch and Donald Leighton. All the boys have been making good records, with the exception of Payne and Freeman. Payne, despite his tender years, has tramped nearly all over the country, and has been a hard problem for the officials of the institution. He has received one thousand demerits to date, which means ten months additional confinement. Freeman drew five hundred demerits not long ago for trying to escape. Reller accompanied young Leighton to Plainfield. . - The Weather FOR INDIANA Fair tonight and Wednesday. TEMPERATURE. . Noon 70 YesterdayMaximum Minimum, 90 66

CITY ESCAPES SERIOUS LOSS IN VJNDSTORM Lightning Plays Havoc With Trees, Strikes John Lontz's Home, Shattering Sun Parlor. Streets Turned Into Minature Lakes and Sewers Unable to Carry Off Heavy Downpour. Two heavy rain storms yesterday and inadequate sewers left portions of Richmond last night wallowing mud holes, in which disgruntled citizens dipped from cellars JM.V'. with

water. The terrific velocity of the wind was not felt as heavily here as in the surrounding country. Reports of houses moved, barns blown over, crops pounded into the earth by the heavy beat of hail and rain are coming in from every direction. Some of the streets of Richmond yesterday and last night made the Whitewater river at its ordinary stage look small by comparison. South C street between Ninth and Thirteenth with its small sewer draining an area of about three times its capacity, was a flood. At North C and Seventeenth street, small boys wading on the side walks stepped from the curbs into water to their waists. From Sixteenth to Seventeenth streets, the street was entirely covered with a lake of water, much of which drained into the cellar of the Bullerdick grocery store. Bolt Injures Wicker. Lightning also played havoc. A bolt which struck in trees on South Second street between B and C streets played around the street, touching Cy Wicker, a driver for the Crystal Ice company. Wicker's muscles became cramped and twisted into knots, but he did not become unconscious. He was in a painful condition for some time, but today has almost recovered. The same bolt injured others. One woman in the same neighborhood was preparing coffee when lightning struck near her and knocked a coffee pot from her hand across the room. The lightning split trees and struck within plain sight of many persons in various parts of the city. It was more terrifying in its results than damaging however.. Horse Runs Away. On South Fourth street, a horse hitched by a weight, bolted at a heavy crash of thunder. After running a block, the animal stopped, extricated itself from the strap and backed to the place where it had been hitched. The sun parlor of the residence of John Lontz on South Fifteenth .street was struck by lightning and the glass shattered. The rain flooded the par lor. At the livery barn of Chalk Taylor on North Eighth street water washing from the higher ground to the south (Continued on Last Page) MASHMEYER NEEDS INTERPRETER'S HELP IN LATIN QUARTER If the garbage ordinance is to be properly enforced throughout the northeastern section of the city north of the railroad tracks, Sanitary Offi cer Oscar Mashmeyer told Mayor Robbins and members of his cabinet at their regular monthly meeting last night that he would have to have an Italian interpreter for two or three days. "I can talk English and German," said the sanitary officer, "but noth ing doing with the Italian language. There are a number of Italian women who don't know that there is such a thing as a garbage ordinance, and if I am ever going to get them to under stand its provisions I will have, to get an interpreter. The other day I thought I made one of these women understand that all garbage was to be placed in a covered receptacle in the alley back of her house, but learned later that she thought I meant for her to dump all the slops in front of the house, which she took particular pains to do." Mayor Robbins told Mashmeyer If he needed an interpreter for a few days to secure one. The sanitary officer also complained that in nearly every section of the city people were becoming quite lax in observing the garbage ordinance and he was told that if it was necessary to impress the public with the fact that this law was to be enforced to the letter to make a few arrests. Park Superintendent Charles Ford reported last night that in response to numerous complaints he had appointed a man whose sole duty would be to keep the west side park and the three downtown parks in spic and span condition. He also reported the removal of 51 dead trees from the Glen and said there were quite a few more which had not been removed. PRICE OF CATTLE SOARS SKYWARD CHICAGO, .July 14. Armour and Company today paid ten dollars per one hundred pounds for corn fed cattle, the highest July price ever reached here. Bets were made on a large scale at the stock yards today that twelve dollars per hundred would be reached before Christmas. . GETS SJX MONTHS. GARY, Ind., July 14. Milan Glinach, who attempted to assassinate Dmitri Economoff , Lake county chairman of the Socialist party, was today sen tenced to . six months In jail,

RICHMOND'S CRITIC WRITES OF SCHOOL AS CENTEHF ART Mrs. M. F. Johnston Contributes Chapter to Text Book : on High Schools Published . by Scribner's.

The pre-eminence of the Richmond high school and the Richmond public schools as social centers of the community is well shown in a book just published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, entitled "The Modern High School, Its Administration and Extension." The book is compiled by Prof. Charles Hughes Johnston, Ph. D. (Harvard), professor of ' secondary education in the University of Illinois. One chapter of this book has been written by Mrs. M. F. Johnston, of this city, on "The High School as the Art Center of the Community." The book contains chapters written by some of the foremost educators of the country. The book is not in the hands of the dealers, as it has just come from the press. The chapter written by Mrs. John ston, who is responsible to a large ex tent for the reputation of Richmond as an art center, is practically a history of the art situation in Richmond as it concerns the local public school sys tem. The activities of the Richmond Art association have been outlined by the writer, who comments upon the growth of the art movement in Rich mond and the place of importance it now holds in connection with the school system. The article is illus trated with photographs of the high school building, the decoration in the facade of the high school building, the interior of the art gallery and a dia gram of the art gallery on the third floor. Story of Conditions. In the introduction, the writer shows that the caption of the chapter, "The High School as the Art Center of the Community," - is not merely the out lining of a theory, but is the story of actual conditions in Richmond, which are unique in the history of school edu cation in the country. "It is, in truth," Mrs. Johnston nar rates, "a plain tale of sixteen years' work in establishing an art movement in connection with the public high school of Richmond, Ind., that has at tained the status indicated in the chapter heading. It does not advance a theory for making a high school an art center, but tells how one high school grew to be an art center in a commu nity. "Happily In. this small city there were no iron-clad, rock-ribbed tradi tions about art being too fine a thing for the dally life of the people," the story continues, after outlining the his tory of the art association Jn r Rich-J mond. ."There was, however, in this people a conscious human desire for beauty, for happiness, and for some' greater degree of satisfying perfection in their community life." The chapter also contains the schedule of exhibits in the high school art gallery for the season of 1912-13 and a list of the pictures owned by the art association, which at that time included twenty-five paintings. Art Gallery Essential. "This Richmond experience," Mrs. Johnston concludes, "seems to demonstrate that an art gallery for art exhibits fills a deficiency in our high school education and meets the natural human demand for beauty in life. It proves that an art gallery is as useful in a high school as is a laboratory or a gymnasium, a library or an auditorium, and that it is as interesting and educative for children to learn about art and artists as about war and warriors or any other of the subjects that make up the curriculum." "Henry Turner Bailey thus voices his appreciation of the art movement in the 'School Arts Book' for April, 1912," quotes Mrs. Johnston in conclusion, "when he says, 'The Richmond people have produced a model educational institution. Think of it. A kitchen, a gymnasium, and the oldest of the constructive arts on the ground floor, and a library and an art gallery on top. Verily the people who have turned the educational world right side up at last live in Richmond, Ind. They have put the solid living rooms of the manual worker beneath, &nd the chambers of imagery of the poet and the artist above; they have builded at last a sure house, fully equipped for every good work and word, a fit home in which to bring up children who shall be worthy citizens of a republic.' " FRED JOHNSON NAMED RECEIVER FOR SUN Former Richmond Man Is Named to Handle Litigation of Indianapolis Paper. Fred Bates Johnson, son of B. B. Johnson of this city, upon request of litigants interested in the Indianapolis Sun. was appointed receiver for that paper by Judge Remster. His appointment followed the request of the parties concerned. Mr. Johnson was one of the five men selected by Judge Remster and submitted to the litigants for their choice of one. The appointment is a signal honor for Mr. Johnson. Judge Remster said Mr. Johnson has more administrative ability than any other man of his age with whom he is acquainted. In four years, since ' Mrr Johnson opened a law office in Indianapolis, he has had remarkable success as an attorney, and is now called in on some of the biggest cases in the Marion county courts. He passes upon the bonds issued by a large real estate company, and is counselor for a num ber of big firms. Mr. Johnson was graduated " from the Richmond high school and from Indiana university. He was head of the school of journalism there. Mr. Johnson was active in school work for a number of years, and was also con nected with an Indianapolis newspanar.' 'v

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ECONOMY. Ind., July 14. Ray Daugherty, the new postmaster, own a baby bulldog that' possesses everything in his general make-up but beauty. Gpmbativeness 1b the largest bump developed. Monday he- showed his fighting qualities by tackling a big tramp dog that oame in town without invitation. The greeting between the dogs was short and bitter. The tramp dog came out second best. - NICE RAIN FALL8. A nice, much-needed, rain fell Mon day at 11 o'clock, accompanied by a heavy hail. Another rain at 4:30 o'clock cooled the. air and made life much more enjoyable FRAMES COMMISSION. Rav Dauehertv received his commis sion as postmaster Monday and had J. Sewan Beard frame it for him. HEW CASTLE PEOPLE BELIEVE CAN SOLVE MYSTERY Staff Writer for Indianapolis Paper Expresses Hope Former Police Chief Will Take Case. W. H. Blodgett, staff correspondent of the Indianapolis News, writing from New Castle on the Catherine Winters case, has the following to say about Isaac A. Gormon, formerly chief , of police in Richmond: "Suppose Isaac Alexander Gormon of Richmond should begin an investigation of the disappearance of Catherine Winters, would you put him in the same category with the tin-badge detectives?" was asked W. D. Barnard, former congressman. "That is a different proposition,' answered Mr. Barnard. "Alex Gormon is an honest, upright man, and there is no better citizen in Indiana. I would be greatly pleased to see him begin the investigation. We would have no brass band methods, no great headlines in the newspapers, no charges would be made against innocent people, and the very fact that he is making the investigation would give it standing in the minds of every one. I know Alex Gor mon well, and I would be glad to tell him everything I know and co-operate with him in every way. His connection with the case would inspire confidence that every one would be treated fairly, and any result attained by him would be accepted by our citizens as the right solution of this great mys(Continued on Page Five) ASSESSMENT SHOWS GAINJF$7Z0,B10 Review Board Gives Out Complete Abstract of Work in Table. The completed abstract of assessments, including additional assessments made by the board of review, shows a gain in assessments in the county this year of $720,810 but in some townships there are heavy losses which more than off set the gains made in all the other townships. The gain of assessment in the city of Richmond is more than in the entire township, $742,620 or slightly better than the normal gain. This is in face of the fact that a loss of some $90,000 was first reported. The loss first reported was made up of increases in corporation assessments principal of which were the Richmond Light, Heat and Power company and the Richmond City Water Works. The increases made in assessments in the various townships were hardly sufficient to offset the loss first reported. In Hagerstown the assessment after increased by the board of review, shows a loss over last year of $95,140. Dalton township lost $10,370 and Perry township lost more than $13,000. Ten Year Record. The total county assessments in the last ten years with the gains, follow: Total Assessment Gain

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1905 $27,259,760 $ 301,740 1906 27,746440 486,380 1907 28.647,650 901,510 1908 28.725,140 77.490 1909 28,973,530 248,390 1910 29,984,950 1,011,420 1911 31,243,020 731.070 1912 31,685,380 442.360 1913 32,372.460 687,080 1914 33,093,270 720,810

Increase in ten years. $5,833,510. Per cent of increase In ten years 21 per cent. Average annual Increase, $583,351. Average annual increase, 2 1-0 per cent. Increase in 1914, $720,810. Per cent of increase in 1914, 2 3-7 per cent. PRICE OF SUGAR TO REMAIN SAME The advance in tne price of refined sugar as quoted in New York markets, will not effect the local market, ac cording to local grocers. Reports from New York indicated that the prices would advance from 5 to 10 cents on the hundred pounds. ' The selling price of refined sugar at the present time is $1.25 per sack of 25 pounds. Local grocers state there is little probability that this price will vary this summer..!! BURNS KILL WOMAN LAPORTE, Ind, July 14. Mrs. Fred Demler, of Bremen, died today from burns received when she fell while carrying a lighted kerosene lamp.

ADVISORY BODY RAPS ECONOMY IN STREET WORK

Blickwedel and Guyer Lead Board's Attack on Condition of City Thoroughfares This Year. , Mrs. Stephens Deplores Failure of Clean-Up Campaign to Produce Cleanly Habits Among Citizens. Nine of the fourteen members of the mayor's advisory board attended the second meeting of the organization last . evening and discussed city affairs from chuck holes In the streets to the need of providing public toilets, . especially one at Eighth and Main, streets under the surface of the street. Motions were adopted for presentation to the board of public works that the advisory board recommend the placing of trash recepticles on street corners, "wherever deemed advisable." with the end in view of preventing the unsightly littering of streets with rubbish of all kinds; an investigation to determine what local application can be made of the state housing law, and the sprinkling of the roads In Glen park every Sunday morning and days when large crowds assemble at the park. Adolph Blickwedel. who presided as chairman after L. B. Nusbaum was called from the meeting, and George Guyer led an attack on the condition of the streets of the city. Mr. Blickwedel asserted that the majority of macadam and gravel streets were in the worst shape they have been for many years and he declared that one of the missions of the advisory board must be to preach the doctrine of permanently improved streets, preferably brick streets. Guyer Raps Economy. He said Richmond was way behind its sister cities in the matter of good streets and this defect would have to be remedied if Richmond was to keep in the procession. Mr. Guyer asserted that possibly the city in pursuing Its policy of economy was penny wise and pound foolish. Economy in the administration of several departments was admirable, but, in Mr. Guyer's opinion, this was no time to be economical in handling the funds of the street department Mrs. Stephens, for several years head of the cleaning day movement, said she was shocked at the filthy condition the streets were now in. which indicated that the frequent lessons in municipal cleanliness had not made a very deep impression on many citizens. "The way our streets are . littered up is a disgrace and makes Richmond look like a country town," she said. Her denunciation of the general practice of throwing paper and all kinds of rubbish on the streets was so strong that the board finally passed a resolution asking for the placing of trash recepticles through the city. Seven are now In use but citizens fail to take much advantage of them. Robbins Rescues Reporters. Miss Bertha Larsh, secretary of the board, provoked ca lively discussion near the close of the meeting on the question of whether newspaper men should attend the meetings. Questions would be discussed from time to time the solution of which might be handicapped by premature publication, she thought. Isaac Winburn suggested the presence of reporters might tend to prevent free discussions of questions. Mayor Robbins came to the rescue of the newspaper men by saying it had been his experience that if reporters were requested not to publish affairs of importance until the proper time they would not do so, while Mr. Blickwedel remarked that he appreciated having city hall reporters in attendance because of their familiarity with city affairs. The discussion was then closed, and the free and untrammeled press still reigns supreme. Miss Larsh also called attention to poor housing conditions in Richmond. She wanted to know if the state housing law could not be resorted to to remedy conditions, and the board at once adopted a resolution to have city officials investigate this matter. Miss Larsh called particular attention to a house on Main street between Fifteenth and Sixteenth street. It is in a most dilapidated condition and Inhabited by several families. Tenants, she said, had been accustomed to dump ashes in the halls. Winburn remarked that as bad as that house was there were many others In a much worse condition. Oil Issue Up. The oiling question, of course, had to come up for attention and it was the unanimous opinion that this work was done much too late this year and that street oiling would never be satisfactory until the city did the work Itself. It was the board's opinion that next year only such streets as would take oil well should receive applications and that the work should be done by the city street department. : The oiling would then be properly applied and would be a benefit rather than a detriment to the streets, therefore an economical policy for the city to pursue. Mr. Blickwedel expressed the opinion that there should be several public toilets in various parts of the city. He thought the city, should at least provide one for Eighth and Main streets. Mr. Hubbard brought up the question of tree planting." He said this work should be done next October and a committee composed of Folger Wilson. Mr. Hubbard and Mrs. Stephens was named to investigate the matter. Hubbard said Richmond now had between $4,000 and 15.000 shade trees each valued at S0 but there were many sections of the city where mora trees were needed. . PARKER CALLS BOARD Important business is given by Rev. ' B. E. Parker as the reason for a called meeting of the Sunday school board of the First Methodist church at 7:30 o'clock. Rev. Mr. Parker has requested all members of the "board to attend . the meeting, i - . r . - . ..