Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 312, 11 November 1914 — Page 1

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HOSPITAL BOARD ASKS MISS MARSH TO QOIT; SAYS SYSTEM COSTLY

Head Nurse Asserts Institution's Treasurer Informed Her Three Weeks Ago She Would Be Needed No Longer But Failed to Give Reason After Her Failure to Resign Board Requested Resignation, Charging Large Staff of Nurses Proved Too Great a Financial Burden.

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Miss Marsh Answers Charges by Outlining Conditions When She Assumed Control and Efforts to Give Hospital Efficient Administration Describes Efforts to Collect Accounts Which She Alleges Were Previously Neglected Officials Deny Engaging New Head.

At the monthly meeting of the hospital board of trustees last night the resignation of Miss Frances Marsh as superintendent of the institution was requested. Some time ago Miss Marsh announced that Miss Minna Sands, the assistant superintendent and herself Intended to leave the institution and take a course of studies in the Columbia university school for nurses. Miss Marsh frankly stated yesterday that she did not think she had been fairly treated by the board; that her resignation had been asked for three I "weeks ago but no explanation had : been offered her as to why the board i wanted her to resign. She said that ! she intended to request the board for ; permission to appear before it at its meeting last night so that a personal j explanation could be made to her by the members as to the cause of their notion. Board Dedies Request. That a request for the resignation of Miss Marsh was made three weeks ago is denied by board members. The statement is made by them that at that time it was intimated to Miss Marsh that Jier services were no longer desired, end that she was given ample opportunity to resign, but failed to do so. "Miss Marsh has rendered excellent (service at the hospital," said one of the trustees today, "and both the : board members and the physicians j willingly testify to this fact, but her . administrative system has entailed expenditures which are in excess of ' the Institution's income. i "It was impossible to get Miss Harsh to curtail the institution's expenses, and inasmuch as it was the decision of the hospital directors and he members of the physicians' advis-! ory board to change management. "The hospital has grown wonderfully the past two years during which time "Iiss Marsha has been superintendent but the expenses have increased correspondingly. Miss Marsh is to be credited with creating a spirit of harmony among the physicians by her fair treatment of all of them and the patients have received the very best treatment at her hands, but she failed to keep the expenses of the hospital within its income and someone who Will do so must now be secured. Keeps Large Staff. "We believe that if Miss Marsh had fcot maintained such a large staff of employes and assistants, and had been more economical in her purchasing the hospital could have been operated, with the aid of the city's annual subsidy, on practically a self-sustaining basis." Several physicians informed newspaper men that they had realized for pome time that the hospital was being operated in excess of its income. Directors say they had hoped Miss Marsh would sever her connection rwlth the hospital without the incident being brought to public attention and only discussed the affair today because of the attitude assumed by Miss Marsh. One prominent physician said today that he thought the hospital trustees were not justified In the action they bad taken and that he believed there was a "nigger in the woodpile." He Also denied that, the advisory board had unanimously favored the retirement of Miss Marsh. Four Assistants to Leave. Tt was learned today that with the retirement of Miss Marsh, four of' her assistants are also to leave, Miss Minna Sands, the assistant superintendent and Instructor of the nurses' j raining school ; Miss Elizabeth Spring-: meyer, surgical nurse; Miss Kate Van Dusen, bookkeeper, and Miss Mary Vans, dietician. Although hospital directors say no successor to Miss Marsh has been secured, Miss Marsh has been informed by physicians that two women con nected with a Detroit hospital have j been secured to take the places of the i Ave women who are to retire. Miss Marsh in discussing the situation today said that it was furthest from her desire to give publicity to incidents connected with the request for her resignation but that inasmuch as no explanation had been made to her as to the cause for the directors action she felt justified in offering a defense of her administration, particularly as she occupied a position of public trust, the hospital being a semipublic institution, financially supported by the city. "I have done my best to give the hospital a satisfactory administration nd until three weeks ago I thought I was accomplishing my purposes," she aid today. "Then Mr. Hiatt, the treasurer, came to me and informed me that my services were to be dispensed with. He gave no reason why such action had been taken and up to the present time I have received no explanation from the board. That the board charges that my administration has been extravagant I know only through Information given me by a newspaper man. "I can best answer charges that I jpiave operated the hospital at a finan

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cial loss by figures from the hospital books. I came to the hospital January 1, 1913, and inherited 1912 bills, including cost for street paving and a gateway, amounting to $2, 104.05 and I found that uncollected bills contracted by patients as far back as 1909 amounted to $5,000. I made a systematic effort to collect these bills and established a card index system and the policy of requiring patients to pay their hospital bills every week. I also began to give the patients enough to eat. "At the end of my, first year, December 31, 1913, the books show the total receipts were $25,487.93 and the disbursements, $26,104.16, a deficit of $716.23, but remember that during that year debts contracted in 1912 amounting to $2,104 were paid off, so in reality, there was a surplus at the close of 1913 and a deficit at the close of 1912, instead of a surplus of $711.40 as shown by the hospital books. "In 1911 the hospital closed its year with a deficit of $2,088.24, the books show. That was a year before I assumed the superintendency. "This year, up to the first of November, the hospital has a deficit totaling $220 but it would show a surplus at the present time if $340 had not been paid out for a six months supply of canned fruit. The last quarterly city payment and the hospital earnings will leave a surplus in the hospital treasury at the close of the year. Another thing is the fact that I do no purchasing except the daily needs, food, drugs, surgical and laundry supplies. The first year of my administration we had 774 patients. In 1912 there were 522 patients. This year there have been more patients than last year, yet we have operated the hospital within its income. The board may believe I have too many assistants but to do the work properly the staff I have is necessary." Miss Marsh says she has not yet received the formal request for her resignation the board adopted last night. GERMANS TAKE MACHINE GUNS AND 3,500 MEN Berlin Reports Capture of Dixmude and Gains West of Laugemarck and Vear La Bassee. BY LEASED WIRE. BERLIN, Nov. 11. The capture of 3,500 soldiers of the allies and nine machine guns in the fighting in France is announced in an official statement issued today: The statement reported the capture Dixmude and gains west of Langemarck in Belgium, and successes in the vicinity of La Bassess, France. The official statement follows: "Headquarters report that the Germans have taken Dixmude. Five hundred prisoners and nine machine guns were captured. The first line of the enemy's position has been stormed, west of Langemarck. Two thousand infantry and six machine guns were captured. One thousand prisoners and six machine guns were captured in the neighborhood of La Bassee. Counter attacks have been severely repulsed." DISCUSS FIRE RATES Twenty local representatives of insurance companies held a meeting in the Commercial club rooms this afternoon. They were addressed from their numbers on the proposed new rating for the city, and other problems of the insurance field. The Weather For Indiana Fair tonight and tomorrow. TEMPERATURE. Noon . Maximum Minimum 51 55 33 Yesterday. W. E. MOORE'S FORECAST. Local conditions Fair and continued Local Conditions Fair and continued cold tonight. Temperature below freezing. Thursday fair. General Conditions Clear weather prevails over the United States, except for a storm in the North Pacific coast and the New England states. The center of the cool wave is moving this way and will pass this section toniaht.

DIXMUDE FALLS INTO HANDS OF GERMAN ARMIES French Admit Fall of Belgian City in Fierce Teuton Drive to Reach Cities on French Coast.

ALLIES DRIVEN BACK Anglo-French Occupy Towns North of Nieuport and Claim Front Maintained at Other Points. By FRANKLIN P. MERRICK Staff Correspondent of the International News Service. PARIS, Nov. 11. Dixmude, the Belgian town around which was centered fhe hardest fighting in Flanders, has been captured by the Germans. This was admitted in an official statement issued here this afternoon. The statement showed that the Germans have renewed their drive to the French coast, which was temporarily halted by the cutting of dykes in the lower valley of the Yser river. It stated that the battle had been resumed with great ferocity between Nieuport and the river Lys. This is the first time since the Yser valley was flooded that Nieuport has been mentioned in an official report. This town is on the coast at the extreme left end of the allies line. Success of Allies. Off-setting the admission that Dixmude had been captured it is announced that Lembertzyde north of Neiui port, has been reoccupied by the al lies. The official statement follows: "On our left wing, the battle was resumed yesterday morning with great fury, particularly between Nieuport and the Lys. In a general way, our front has been maintained. Despite the violence and the strength of the German attacks directed against certain of our points of support to the north of Nieuport, we have succeeded in reoccupylng Lombartzyde and advancing beyond that locality, but toward the end the Germans succeeded in taking Dixmude. "We continue to hold the outlying district around this village. "On the canal from Nieuport to Ypres, which has been firmly held, the battle was very hot. The British troops, themselves attacked, at numerous points checked the enemy. "Oft the- rest "of the "front, the situation remains unchanged except that there has been some progress by our forces to the north of Soissons and in the region to the west of Vailly on the right bank of the Aisne." COUNCIL INSTALLS The new officers of Gonzaga Council, No. 612, of the Young Men's Institute, will be installed at the regular meeting of the council this evening. The officers who will serve the next twelve months are: Chaplain, Rev. Duffy; president, F. Waidele; first vice president, C. Schepman; second vice president, B. Kluessener; recording secretary, R. Gausepohl, corresponding secretary, J. Heidelman; treasurer, F. Kahle; inside sentinel, WV Dixon; outside sentinel, J. Vogelsong; marshall, E. Schwegman. The executive committee will consist of E. Geier, H. Knauber, C. Ceyen, R. Gatzek and H. Thesing. WISCONSIN SUFFERS. BY LEASED WIRE. WAUKESHA. Wis., Nov. 11. Another case of foot and mouth disease was discovered near here today. The disease is now prevalent in four Wisconsin counties.

How Germany Carries Its Submarines

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This picture shows a "submarine transport," which is nothing more nor less than a sailing dry dock that carries its deadly cargo of undersea fighters locked in its bosom.. This one is now employed as a "mother" to the submarines operating against the British fleet in the North Sea. The submarine transports, as this photograph shows, are submersible to. an extent sufficient to allow a submarine to. enter through a bowopsning. When the submarine is inside, the hull can be closed again precisely as one would close the door of a motor boat house, completely, hiding the smaller craft. The transport can be converted into a dry dock In very short order and will lit$le difficulty.

Contradict Report AboutVonKluk

GENERAL VON KLUK. Varied reports are being received from different sources in France and Beligium regarding the fate of General Von Kluk, who has recently been in command of what is known as the German right center. One of the reports said that he had been killed by a bomb dropped from a British aeroplane. Another said that he died more than a week ago from a wound in the head, while a third report states that he has been deprived of his command.

ALLIES LEAVE LILLE UNDERJ5ERMAW FIRE Fighting on Arras Line Becomes Fierce as Both Sides Rush Fresh Troops Into Northern Zone English and Indian Troops Lose Many Officers and Show Heavy Casualty Lists

BY FAIKLIN P. MERRIC, Staff Correspondent of the International News Service. PARIS, Nov. 11. With each side alternately assuming the offensive, the fighting between the Germans and the allies on the Dixmude-Arras line, has daily become fiercer and fiercer. Thousands of wounded soldiers are lying where they fell during the past ten days. Hundreds have died of hunger, thirst and unattended wounds. Aremntires, north of Lille, is under military fire for the fifth time. This town in times of peace is the center of a thriving linen industry. The tin factories are now in ruins along with the town hall, the railway station and practically all the dwellings. The town's people have fled to the coast. The artillery duel in that region is proceeding night and day. Fight in Streets. Furious street fighting has occurred in Comines, eight miles from Lille. The opposing soldiers fought in the streets with fixed bayonets, whilp sharp-shooters kept up a murderous fire from the roofs of the houses. Each side is giving the other no rest. Assaults by the Germans are met with counter assaults by the allies, and the sound of artillery is never stilled. From the unusual losses inflicted upon the English and their Indian troops it is evident that the Germans have concentrated their attacks against these contingents. The British are running short of officers, and calls are being received from the front for sergeants, captains, colonels and lieutenants to fill the gaps. Allies Retreat. The allies are reported to have fallen back from Lille, which city is in

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1 ruins. It is estimated that 1,200 houses have been razed by the shell fire. The town was captured by the British forces on October 20, but was re-captured by the Germans three days later, after which it was repeatedly taken lost, and retaken. Despite "the' officiaT claims" of " the war office that all German assaults around Ypres have been repulsed, unofficial dispatches from behind the front now say that the battle line lies west of that Belgian town. - Ypres is now a pile of smoking ruins, a sacrifice to the vengeance of modern warfare. Another vigorous offensive movement by the Germans all along the line from Verdun to the North Sea may be expected now in another great effort to make a breach in the allies' line at some point, so that the Germans can send troops to relieve the Prussian pressure in the eastern theatre of war. BLAZE AT DAYTON CAUSES HEAVY LOSS BY LEASED WIRE. DAYTON, O., Nov. 11 Fire believed to have started from a defective furnace in Lowe Bros. Paint store, gutted the place early today, causing a loss of $100,000 and damaged adjacent business houses from $65,000 to $75,000. A number of firemen were hurt, none fatally. Assistant Fire Chief Madgan was seriously burned. 7

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END MAN'S SUSPICION OF WIFE'S FIDELITY

Mrs. Estelle Neely, Temporary Resident of Richmond, 125 South Twelfth Street, Killed by Husband in St Louis Hotel Following Finding of Letters From Cushing (Oklahoma) Man Couple Leaves City for St Louis Tuesday Morning.

LETTERS SHOW WOMAN

Brother Pleads With Mrs. Neely Not to Accompany Husband to St Louis Mrs. Neely Shot Nine Times, While Husband Shoots Bullet Through Brain Endearing Letters From Cushing Co-respondent Warn Wife Not to Be Seen With Husbandi Gets Mail at Postoffice Box.

BULLETIN. CUSHING, Okla., Nov. 11. George Neely, superintendent of the Petroleum Iron Works here, which concern of contractors is building some of the immense oil tanks in the Cushing oil fields, has been with that concern about fifteen years. His people live in South Carolina. There was some trouble here about two weeks ago in his offices. None of the office force was in any way connected with the trouble, which was supposed to have been over relations with Mrs. Neely and another man. Mrs. Neely left shortly afterwards for Richmond, Ind. Mr. Neely was well liked here and had many friends. "Bill's" identity has not yet been fully established. Neely had been in Cushing only about six months.

Finding love notes from an office associate in the belongings of bis wife, Mr. George Neely, who left here yesterday with Mrs. Neely, shot his wife nine times through the body in a St. Louis hotel room and then shot himself through the brain. Mrs. Neely had been visiting Wilmer Brown, her brother, and his wife "at 126 South Twelfth street, having left her home at Cushing, Okla., two weeks ago today, when her husband made public denunciation of her relations with William Tippets, whose offices were across the hall from the Neely apartments. The first letter Mrs. Neely received indicated that the couple had had no close relations before Mrs. Neely left Cushing. but the nature of subsequent letters Indicated that Mrs. Neely and Tippets had deolared their love and in answer to his offer, Mrs. Neely had promised to divorce her husband and marry Tippets. Tippets Advises Woman. In the last letter Mrs. Neely received, she was advised by Tippets to refuse to return to her husband and to confide her intentions to her brother, Wilraer-Brown. Mr. Brown, his sister, Estelle, and a brother were orphans, and never indulged in close confidences, Mr. Brown said, although he had reproved her for even the close friendship with Tippets at Cushing which led up to the public accusations by Mr. Neely. Mr. Neely reached here Friday night after Mrs. Neely had refused to return to Cushing. He was drinking Saturday and Sunday afternoon went to the Elks' club rooms, where he met many Richmond men. He is well known here and was a close friend of officials of the First and Second National banks. He held a responsible position it is said, and had 800 field agents of the Petroleum Iron Works company under him. Keeps Letter Hidden. Mr. and Mrs. Brown did not know that the correspondence of Mrs. Neely and Mr. Tippets had been kept up after the first letter. Mrs. Neely rented Lock Box 87 at the postoffice and received her mail there. She did rot show any letters to her brother but

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PLANNED DIVORCE ACTION left the telegrams she received In Richmond. One was from Tliets and the others were from George Fox, stenographer for Mr. Neely, in which Mrs. Neely is advised to return home, that her husband needed her. Mr. Brown says his brother-in-law-was insanely jealous when he was drinking heavily. Periodically he went out on sprees and after the last one, which ended in the tragedy, his wife said she would never return to Cushing as he had publicly disgraced her there. They had been married five years and similar trouble had arisen before, Mr. Brown said, but np to the present he had never placed any blame on her. Well Known Here. Mrs. Jieely lived in Richmond, for eleven months. She is well knows to the neighbors of the Browns. Mr. Brown is grief-stricken because it was through his influence that Mrs. Neely left with her husband. She said she would never return to Cushing after he had publicly disgraced her, Mr. Brown said. "I told her her place was with George," Mr. Brown said. "I did not suspect the nature of the trouble which had come up between them." Mrs. Neely wanted to take one of Mr. Brown's children with her to Cushing when she left yesterdaymorning, but as the other little girl was going to school, Mrs. Brown wanted to keep her younger daughter with her. Visits Here Often. Mrs. Neely had visited Richmond many times in the past five years. At one time she remained here for eleven months when her husband moved from New York and had no settled headquarters. They had been in Oklahoma for less than a year. In the first letter written bv Mr. i Tippets to Mrs. Neely. he addressed her. "Dear Mrs. Neely." and referred to the telephone conversation they had had 'before she left as being very unsatisfactory. He said: "Since I have been partially to blame. I think I have the right to inquire as to your future course in life." He offered his assistance in any trouble Mrs. Neely should have. This letter is the only one which Mrs. Neely showed her Richmond reW atives. FIND LOVE LETTERS. Police Believe Woman Sought Divorca to Marry Another Man. ST. LOUIS. Mo.. Nov. 11. George H. Neely. a wealthy contractor of Cushing. Okla., and his wife. Estelle Neely, who registered at a local hotel yesterday were found shot to death in their room at 6:30 o'clock this morning by hotel attaches. Mrs. Neely had been shot nine times and Neely was shot through the brain, the bullet entering the right temple. Neely's right hand still grasped an automatic revolver, indicating he had killed his wife and then committed suicide. Mrs. Neely was about "3 years of age. and Neely about 42. Letters found in the couple's effects indicated they had separated, and that Mrs. Neely intended divorcing her husband to marry another man. The police theory is that Neely attempted a reconciliation with bis wife and then, finding she had received letters from another man, decided to kill her and end his own life. Writes of Divorce. Two letters found in Mr6. Neely's grasp signed "Bill" and written from Cushing. Okla.. were addressed to ber at Richmond, Ind. The gist of them (Continued on Page Two) FRIDAY the 13th It will be a lucky day for Richmond. Read tomorrow's issue of the Palladium.