Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 40, Number 33, 19 December 1914 — Page 1

ICHMONB PAIXABIUM VOL. XXXX., NO. 3ffr,a?tfcn-Ielw" RICHMOND IND., SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 19, 1914. SINGLE COPY, 2 CENTS NUSBAUM HEADS COUNTY COUNCIL

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JORDAN'S YEARLY REVIEW SHOWS CLUB'S PROGRESS " t Commercial Club Secretary Points to Many Methods Taken To "Make Richmond a Better Place to Live - In" by Public Improvements and Better Sanitary ConditionsUndertakes Big Advertising Proposition. DOCTORS PRAISE DEPOSED NURSE AT BIGJANQUET Physicians Unite in Commending Efficient Work of Miss Marsh and Her Capable Assistant. Aviator Slain by Germans in Flight With Lord Annesley j WITHOUT FIGHT New Body Makes Unanimous Choice on First Ballot Board Meets Final Expense of 1913 Flood.

GRAY POUNDED IN NAVY PROBE WITH GARDNER Sixth District Congressman Asked to Prove Efficiency of Naval Department, Remains Silent. REFUSES CHALLENGE

PETRO ASKS FOR $1,000

Superintendent Re-stocks the County Infirmary to Make Farm Practically Self-Sustaining Next Year. Lee B. Nusbaum for. chairman was the unanimous choice of the newly elected county council members who organized today at the court house. The councilmen met at 10 o'clock and took their seats according to districts. The councilmen moved that Mr. Nusbaum be made president and then took a unanimous vote to adopt the motion, thus electing him to the office permanently. The council now stands: Lee Nusbaum, chairman, L. S. Bowman, secretary, R. L. Davenport, Clayton Hunt, Park Glpe, Mark Stevens, Hugh Allen, John Faucett. The council started business Immediately in order to allow the members who are merchants to leave as soon as possible. A list of fourteen items for appropriation was read and discussed in approved style by the council members. Adopt Entire List. The entire list was adopted. The appropriations amounted to $9,567.53. The Items were previously approved by the county commissioners. Today's session is important because the last expense caused by the flood of 1913 has been cleared away. Of the whole appropriation $6,425 was caused by the damaging flood. The Items appropriated are: Per diem deputy county assessor, $43; coroner's per diem, $158.99; salary, secretary of board of health, $8.81; assistant for county attorney $60; Jail employes, $42.50; jail suppiles, $73.85; poor farm employes, $229.11; poor farm supplies, $1,058.68; care of orphans, $412.24; Veal bridge fill, $290; piling for Burroughs bridge, $776.18; piling for McGrew bridge, $1,687.56; piling for Grace bridge, $470.40; flood fund $4,226.23. Build on Sand. Bridge Engineer Mueller explained that the streams of the county are of such nature that the extra expense of piling is' necessary. He said that he knows of only one bridge which was built on a stone foundation while most of them are sand. The expense of $l,oo for poor farm supplies was asked for by Superintendent Petro. The commissioners and Mr. Petro agreed that a plan should be taken up to re stock the farm, some time ago and Mr. Petro has been doing this. The amount of stock on the farm was small compared with the numbers such a farm should keep. Much of it was sold before this year in order to make a better financial showing for the institution by the previous superintendent. The farm is now being placed on a paying basis and is expected to become one of the best stock farms in the county. MELTING SLUSH COVERS STREETS HALTINGTRAFFIC Rain and Snow Make Walking and Hauling Difficult Extra Engines Draw Passenger Trains. Freakish weather for the past eighteen hours turned Richmond into a mire of slushy snow, the most damaging day of the season, especially from ;i standpoint of health. At midnight last nipht. it was raining H cold driving rain with the temperature at 34. Shortly afler midnight a wet, heavy snow started to fall. The temperature stood at ru at the pumping station from the first reading today, midnight, until late this afternoon. The closely packed snow fell to a depth of slightly more than two inohen end wherever it was touched, turned to lush. The streets and sidewalks became dirty slush before the snow stopped falling. Walking was difficult and traffic was slackened by the drag of .the heavy snow. Physicians said that today's weather is more damaging than a long period of cold weather. The slush adhering to the shoes, makes it more penetrating than water from rainfall. Colds, tonsilitis and bronchitis probably will have hold of most citizens Who had to be on the streets. The railroads experienced difficulty nfter midnight until almost noon. The trains could hardly proceed on the idippery tracks and the slush. All the rxtra engines In Richmond wore mustered out and put into service to help Ihe regular enpines. The trains have jiot been running on schedule for a week. The street cir service was not organized for some time this morning, mly a few cars running until after 8 o'clock. FIRST ENGLISH BANK DECLARED FAILURE TBY LEASED WIRE.l ! LONDON'. Deo. 19. The first bank failure In Ixmdon as a result of the Vfir occurred today, when ihe doors of the Civil Service bank, it financial Institution of twenty-two years' standing, .were clorsd, t . ...

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According to information .en to the -Countess of Annesley today by the London war office, her husband, the Earl of Annesley, and Lieutenant Beevor met death on November 5. They were making a reconnoissance over Ostend.

PUPILS READ BIBLE IN GARFIELD GHAPEL Christmas Program Closes School for Holidays Sing German Songs. Garfield school pupils enjoyed Christmas exercises yesterday before adjournment for the holidays. Chapel exercises in the morning were dispensed with and the pupils gathered in the chapel yesterday afternoon. The following program was given: Orchestra number; Scripture readings by Helen Hill and Mary Louise Norris; "Stille Nacht," by school: violin solo by Walter Anderson; Latin song by Latin class; piano selection by Miss Marguerite Doan; "Why the Chimes Rang," reading by William Haberkern; violin solo by Professor Sloan; "Tannenbaum," by 7-A and 7-C pupils; orchestra. A new feature in chapel exercises in the school is the reading of Scripture by the pupils. The two girls alternately read the passages selected. The German song, "Stille Nacht," has been repeated so frequently by the German classes that the school is now able to join them. GIRL, BORN DEC. 13, GETS NAME BY LOT NEW PARIS, O., Dec. 19. Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Setzer are the proud parents of a baby daughter Beatrice, born the 13th. A novel way of naming the little girl was used by her parents to ward off the bad luck which might be her lot judging from her natal day. Thirteen names were written on as many slips of paper and deposited in a box and all were separately and solemnly withdrawn but the thirteenth which was agreed on for the charm and it happened to be Beatrice. BURSALL OBJECTS TO CAR HEATING John Burdsall, one of the members of the city council, said today that at next council meeting he intended to enter a camplaint that the street car company was operating a car on its Fail-view line which was not heated. He said that th heating system on the car was so defective it could not be oj prated,

BAZAAR ADDS 116 TO SCHOOL FUNDS Ehree Hundred Persons See Senior Cast Present Amusing Comedy Skit. A profit of $llfi."6 was turned into the treasury of the student board of j control after the high school bazaar ! Tuesday. The senior play and the : candy booth proved to be the most profitable. The itemized report is as follows: i Receipts Fancy work and arts and j crafts booth, $21.32; play, $30.91; po- ! lice, 72 cents; pantomime play, $5.11; door receipts, $11.20; donations, $12.145: candy booth, $3(5.72; parcel post, !$0.13; telegraph office, $2.39; overchange, 70 cents; total, $127.44. i Expenses $10.79. Total net proceeds, $116.76. Adds to Fund. ! The money will be added to the i general student fund for the purpose of carrying on student activities and to help defray the expenses of the publication of the Pyerian, the annual yearbook. About three hundred persons saw the play, "Miss Dalton's Orchids," given in the auditorium by members of the senior class. The sketch was well handled and provoked much merriment. An attempt on the part of the police force to arrest Mr. Hehnan, faculty manager of the bazaar, created a great deal of excitement. The activity of the prisoner, combined with his avoirdupois, required all the members of the force to hale him into court, where he was arraigned before "Judge" Mays and let off with a light fine. SHOES AT $10 PAIR WITHIN TWO YEARS BY LEASED WIRS. CHICAGO, Dec. 19. "Beef will sell at fifty cents a pound and shoes at $10 a pair, perhaps within two years.'' This startling prediction was made by Henry J. Williamson, statistician in the department of agriculture at Washington, who is stopping here on his way back to the capital from a five weeks' tour of the cattle range country. "Unless the slaughter of calves is stopped and scientific breeding for increase becomes general among stock men, the United States will soon have to imjjert beeL" said Williamson.

Unable to Contradict Charge of Unpreparedness of Sea Fighters to Meet Hostile Fleet.

BY LEASED WIRE. WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 The bombardment of the house naval affairs committee yesterday by Representative Augustus Gardner of Massachusetts, with his sixteen-inch guns, loaded with what Gardner says are facts showing the unpreparedness of the nation's defenses, brought the hearings on the naval appropriation bill to an end amid much confusion. The array of figures submitted by the author of the resolution to create ! a commission to investigate the condi- i tion of the national defense irritated I the "little navy" members to such an extent that one of them left the room in a huff, and another endeavored to press a motion that the hearings close. This was done in the midst of Gardner's denunciation of naval methods under the administration of Secretary Daniels. Muzzier Gets Busy. After Gardner submitted the information he says he had obtained at the navy department "before the muzzle was applied and that impenetrable wall of silence was raised," as he expressed it. Gray Starts Trouble. Congressman Gray of Indiana, start- j ed a series of questions to bring out the activities of Gardner in support of an investigation. Gardner explained at length what he had done in the way of letter writing, etc., and admitted having used a publicity bureau to get his plan spread before the country. "What organization did yon employ?" asked Mr. Gray. "Do you mean to intimate," came back Mr. Gardner, leaning across the table and glaring at Gray, "that I am in an alliance with the manufacturers of war material? I wish you and the members of the committee to understand that I am paying every cent of the expense of this publicity campaign myself."' Explains His Work. He explained that he had sent circulars to- chambers of --'commerce throughout the country, and where he (Continued on Last Page.) FRENCH TROOPS MAKE GAIN IN YPRES REGION South of La Basse Allies Ad-; vance More Than Half! Mile Against German Resistance. BY FRANKLIN P. MERRICK, Staff Correspondent The International News Service. PARIS, Dec. 19. The French are continuing their advances in the region south of Ypres, it is officially announced in a statement, issued here this afternoon. The operations in that district are on swampy ground, which makes troop movements very difficult, and south of LaBassee the French have advanced more than half a mile and have made progress at other points. The repetition of announcements as to short gains made by French troops, shows that the Germans are making desperate resistence against the continued offensive of the allies. It is said that the fighting in Flanders and northern France is the fiercest that has taken place during the campaign. The official statement says: "In Belgium during. the day of December 18 we fortified the ground gained the day before to the south of ! Dixmude and pushed forward our front to the south of the Kortaker Inn. "Our advance to the south of Ypres ! is continued on marshy ground, and it j is very difficult for our troops. I "From the Lys to the Oise we have advanced in the region of Notre Dame i De Consolation, south of La Bassee, more than a kilometer. In the course of the last two days we have made equal progress in the direction of Car- ! ency, toward St. Laurant and Blangy. I "Despite very violent counter at tacks the positions captured December 17 have been held. "In the region of Albert during the night of December 17 and 18 a,nd during the day of December 18, we advanced under a very violent fire and reached the wire entanglements of the second line of the enemy's trenches. "Three violent counter attacks by the Germans have been repulsed. "In the region of the Aisne artillery duels continue. KING GEORGE WIRES SULTAN GOOD WISHES BY LEASED WIRE.l LONDON, Dec. 19. King George sent the following message to Sultan Hussein, the new ruler of Egypt, today : "I offer you my congratulations and assurances of support and confidence in securing the future well being and pxosesty of Egyut."

Charles W. Jordan, secretary of the j his draft of the resume. "It Is not Richmond Commercial club, is prepar-! the credit for the work we want, but ing a resume of the work done by the i the result if it betters the city. We organization during the last year, and j have found that we are more successit will be shown that the activities i ful in taking up the idea of some inhave been numerous and varied, the ! dividual and by our strength, carryachievements in a general way satis- j ing it out, than in advancing our own factory, and the growth of the club plans." itself highly gratifying. ; Commercial club members have

While the club has not been suc - cessful in bringing new industries to the city in the past year, the biggest movement ever undertaken by the club was advanced for the purpose of permanently bringing new Industries to the city. This is the $250,000 industrial as-

sociation plan which the secretary in- j cleaning day and carried it out on a troduced about two months ago. It larger scale than other organizations is now under rigid investigation by ! would have found possible, the new industries committee and the ! Members have been engaged in the idea probably will bear fruit within I fight for cheaper gas and it was partthe next six months. I ly through the efforts of the club that Tries to Improve City. ! good results were obtained. The club started the year of 1914 j Better shipping regulations have with a new motto: "Make Richmond I been secured for the shippers and the a better place to live in," and began I business men and railroad officials carrying it out. The activities of the j have been brought into closer touch club are difficult to record as much j by the activities of the club, of the work was done through the j In the line of improvements, the concentrated efforts of the members ! club was most successful. One im-

with the club itself in the background. I This has been the policy of the club j for the past year, Secretary Jordan j said today. "We have worked for results, not j fame," Mr. Jordan said in going over OFFICIAL GERMAN WAR STATEMENT BERLIN, Dec. 19. (By wireless) Fierce fighting between the Germans and the allies is in progress near Nieuport, Bixschoote and La Bassee, where the Anglo-French forces have launched three separate attacks, it was officially announced here today. The statement, which was issued at 2 p. m. says: "Yesterday, a series of hostile attacks were made in the western theatre of war. Fighting continues near Nieupcrt, Bixschoote and La Bassee." The official statement continued: "We also repulsed the enemy's attacks west of Lens, east of Albert and west cf Noyon. "On the East Prussian frontier a Russian cavalry attack west of Pilakellen was repulsed. In Poland the pursuit of the Russians continues." ESGHBACH TO LEAD MINORITY IN HOUSE G. O. P. Legislators in CauCUS See Prospect Of Victorv r-n in 1916. ! j BY LEASED WIRE.l INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Dec. 19. Optimism marked the "get together" ;. . r v, o .1,1 i,-o meeting of the Republican members of the state legislature held here today. Thirty-five representatives and i -,.., t ...,i . v, i,n'nn.! dch u otiiuiui o tun micu i lie Aaiiiniuf, ,.., i, ,.-- n a i. a.ot hich was called by fatatc Chairman Will Hays for the purpose of organiz - ing the minority. All the members united in predicting a national and state Republican victory at the next election. All hough no formal action was taken today, it was understood that the legislators of the lower house would choose Jesse K. Eschbach as minority floor leader for the coming ... legislative session. RELATIVES OF DEAD OFFICER LIVE HERE Edward F. Knaul, the Cincinnati patrolman, who died Thursday from wounds received in a pistol duel with Vmnlr ll T-InVil l-.nnlr rnhhpr wlin n'iic i later killed by members of the police force, was a first cousin of Mrs. Jolm ACKerman, oi tnis city. Mrs. Ackerman said she had not seen Knaul for about, ten years when he last visited Richmond. His mother has been a frequent visitor at the Ackerman home, and spent a month here last wrinter. The Weather

FOR INDIANA Partly cloudy and : The trip was made at night so as cold tonight, preceded by snow in ex- to minimize the risk of attacks from treme south portion; Sunday cloudy, j German submarines, but in spite of all precautions an attack was made. TEMPERATURE. I It was a comparatively clear, moonNoon 34 light night, and the French coast was YESTERDAY. I already in sight when a torpedo boat Maximum 34 destroyer accompanying the king's Minimum 34 ; vessel signalled that a hostile submarine was near. The lights on both Ixical Conditions Mostly cloudy to-! ships were extinguished while the denight and Sunday; colder tonight. ! stroyer, aided by other ships, began a General Conditions The storm that j chase of the submarine, wfcs central this morning over the Two bombs were fired by the GerGreat Lakes is moving down the St. j man craft, believed here to have been Lawrence valley and is being followed ! the U-9 which sank the British cruisby cold weather. Another storm is j ers Aboukir, Cressy, and Hogue. central over the southwest and will j Owing to the heavy seas, however, cause continued unsettled weather for and the harrassing tactics of the dethe next twenty-four hours. stroyers. the aim of the Germans was W. B. MOORRE, I bad and the submarine disappeared "Weather Forecaster, i without accomplishing its mission. '

i taken a part in most of the civic im-

provements. The club has worked in the interests of a better lighting system and circulated the petitions for the white way lighting by ornaj mental posts on Main street. Conducts Cleaning Day. The club took charge of the annual provement was for the south end street car extension. After hard work by minor organizations, the Commercial club took charge of the matter and (Continued on Page Seven.) RUSS BOLSTERS POLAND LINES WITHNEW MEN Czar Strengthens Line of Defense West of Warsaw to Check Advance of Germans. BY LEASED WIRE.l PETROGRAD, Dec. 19. Heavy re-1 inforcements rushed to the Poland j front have strengthened the Russian lines there and every attempt made by j the Germans to pierce the line of defense established west of Warsaw has

v. ii rx. x. , auenuon to ine iaci mat only a few ,been repulsed. The heavy losses suf- yea agQ physlcian8 experienced difi fered by the Germans have compelled ficulty in inducing their patients to i them to abandon the advance which j go to the hospital, but during the ad- ' they attempted along the 36 mile line ' ministration of Miss .Marsh, he said, ; , , , . . , . . . . i the public attitude toward the institui from Kazunpolski to Skierniewice. but,,, Vj . , , " tion had experienced a marked change they maintain their assaults at Tere- and the popularity of the hospital the sin on the Sochaczew-Warsaw railroad past two years was attested to by the line. j great number of patients who had

Fighting with the aid of searchlights the Germans made five attacks Thurs day night at Teresin. Fierce hand-to-hand conflicts developed there, but after they had lasted for seven hours the Germans were finally repulsed. It is estimated that in these five attacks the Germans lost six thousand men. Fighting Desperately. Details of the fighting about Lodz are beginning to trickle into here as the censorship relaxes. They show that the Germans fought with des- . . , . .. . f. . perate valor and that the temporarv advantage they gained in this region was secured only at enormous cost. The Prussian Hussars who 1p1 th , first German attacks at Lodz, were j almoBt destroved A regiment of 3t0OO j men was cut 0fj from the main German forces bv Russian lines, but failed. Of the whole regiment only fifty men succeeaea in escaping. j ne others were killed. Kmnorer Nicholas has sent the fol - lowing message to the Russian com - mander at Tiflis: "On leaving the Caucasus I carried ith mo tiio hod imr,i-oC.iirn ,f m v;tr o d nleasanf recollections of 1 the demonstrations of lovaltv and love on the part of everv class of the population. I thank vou and beg vou to express my gratitude to the valiant armv of the Caucasia, its chiefs and all the people." GERMAN SUBMARINE CHASES KING'S SHIP j English Ruler On Trip to France Narrowly Escapes Torpedo Attack. LONDON, Dec. 14. (By mail to escape British censor) Although the facts have not become public it is I known in certain official circles that King George narrowly escaped disaster from a German torpedo on his journey across the English channel to the front recently.

BOARD ROUSES IRE

Speakers Express Dissatisfaction at Arbitrary Action of Trustees Marvel Outlines Changes Made. It was following the last course of a banquet at the Arlington hotel last night, at which the physicians of Richmond, were hosts in honor of Miss Marsh, superintendent of Reid hospital, and Miss Sands, assistant superintendent, who retire the first of January, that the toastmaster. Dr. Louis F. Ross, arose and suggested that they follow the advice of Lewis Carroll and talk of "cabbages and kings and pigs with wings." This provided a wide latitude for discussion but the speakers called upon confined their remarks to ons topic; their regret of the action taken by the hospital trustees in dispensing with the services of the hospital superintendent and her assistant without consulting the physicians. Women Express Regret. Every physician who spoke praised the Misses Marsh and Sands for their highly satisfactory administration tha past two years and Mrs. E. G. Hill, president of the Woman's Aid society of the institution, declared that every member of that organization regretted exceedingly the termination of the present hospital administration. There was no open censure of the action taken by the trustees but there was no misconstruing the fact that the hosts of friends of Misses Marsh and Sands were greatly displeased with the impending change of administration. Miss Marsh spoke briefly, thanking the physicians, the members of the Woman's Aid society and the public for their kindly co-operation In her work. She said her two years at Reid hospital had been the happiest of her professional career and she concluded by inviting everyone present to attend a holiday celebration at the hos pital on Monday evening. Dec. 28. Notes Changed Attitude. Dr. R. J. Peirce in the first of 6eries of after-dinner speeches called ; been c?red for- He sa.id he regretted exceedingly the termination of the ; present administration. ! Dr. .1. M. Thurston, on of Richmond's veteran practioners. recalled amusing incidents of Richmond's first hospital. ; old St. Stephen's. He said every room : was an operating room and kitchen j tables were found useful for operating purposes. He then praised the excel- ' lent training the nurses had been receiving at Reid hospital under Miss Marsh's superintendency and the supervision of Miss Sands and he also expressed his regret that they were to leave. I Dr. W. L. Misener told several witty ' stories which, he said, his audience . . could interpret as they saw fit. Each applied to the unpopular action of the trustees in dismissing Miss Marsh and Miss Sands and caused the guests reat amusement. .-.,.. 1 The toastmaster. Dr. Ross, then !tk occasion to declare that in his ;seven 'cars as a Practitioner here he ' na never known the hospital to be ! so satisfactorily conducted as it nacl been the past two years. "The im- ' Pending change of administration is a ji I , source oi grrai. uissaubwniuii io me. he said- "and 1 d""'1 care who knows u- 11 seems to me that the men raoft interested in the success of the imnitution, the physicians, should have been consulted oeiore tnis action was taken." j Dr. Charles Marvel said that the ; first day Miss Marsh assumed her I office she told him frankly that she j understood he had been a troublemaker at the hospital and she wanted to j know what he was dissatisfied with. ! He said he told her that the three i great sources of dissatisfaction to him I had been lack of sympathy with the i patients on the part of the hospital staff, ill treatment of friends of the patients and lack of co-operation between the staff and physicians. "Miss Marsh said that there troubles would terminate at once and they did," he said. He said the physicians would like to know the cause of her dismissal. Dr. Roy Morrow paid a high tribute to Miss Marsh and Miss Sands. List of Guests. Those who attended the banquet W 616 Z Dr. and Mrs. W. L. Misener, George R. Hays, E. II. MendenbalL A. J. Whallon, Charles Marvel. Richard Schlllinger, D. W. Stevenson, R. J. Peirce, R, D. Morrow, William G. Huffman, Mora S. Bulla. S. C. Markley. James E. Weller, E. B. Grosvenor, V. W. Zimmerman. Drs. S. Edgar Rond. J. M. Thurston. J A. Walls. J. J. Grosvenor, Louis F. Ross. F. L. Harold, W. W. Anderson. Charles S. Bond, J. E. King, J. M. Wampler. Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Young, If. M. Kramer. Mesdames E.G. Hill. George - H. Eggemeyer. Misses Florence Bond. Frances Marsh. Halcey Harold, Mary Vaua, Minnie E. Sands. W. R. Poundston.