Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 40, Number 49, 7 January 1915 — Page 1

THE EICHMOM) PAIXAMUM

ini YI Mfl AQ Palladium and Sun-Telegram VUL. Ab., lJ. Consoltdated. 1907 RICHMOND, IND., THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 7, 1915. SINGLE COPY, 2 CENTS

COUNTY CLAIMS POLICE IMPOSE POOR ON HOME Commissioners Assert Indiscriminate Unloading of Cases at Institution Causes Unnecessary Expense.

EXPLAIN METHODS Melpolders Methods Meet Unqualified Approval of Board Which Praises Transportation Agreement. An explanation yesterday of the freaaon for not making the appointment of the matron of the Home for Friendless Women involves the Richmond police department. It developed that the county comInissioners in whose hnnds the appointment rests are making an inTestigation of the amount of money spent for poor and pauper relief by the county. They declared last night that Wayne fcounty is made a dumping ground for Bll kinds of people who are public charges or who become so at intervals of their lives. The police force s blamed for this condition. Report Blames Police. Their explanation is summed up as follows: The police are arrxious to get homeJess and financially distressed women end children off thier hands. When they meet them on the street or are approached at police headquarters they load them into the patrol or any other vehicle convenient and take thera to the home. Some of them would never leave if they were not (Ordered away. This has been going ton for a year and the result has been annual growth in the institution's transient population of about 150 or a monthly growth of ten to fifteen Komeii and children. The commissioners have looked into fhree or four of these cases and probably will be ready soon to remonstrate Against the actions of the police if they decide to take such action. They did not complain of the methods of the matron, Mrs. Aurella Thomas but blamed the police entirely. "This gives them time to establish residence and then we are forced to take care of them until they die," one commissioner explained. "If these people can stay in Richmond some "way for thirty days to become residents, It is easy enough for them to f,ct Into the home." Contrast Charity Bureau. The methods of the Central Charity bureau " were 'landed "wod two eases handled by the bureau are placed beside those handled by the police. These cases are where one family was (Continued on Page Eight.) TOWNSHIPS GIVE $700 INCREASE POOR EXPENSE Clay Alone Shows Decrease of $6.85 Boston Shows Greatest Percent of Raise From Nothing. Thirteen of fifteen townships filing trustees poor accounts for the last three months in 1914 show an increase of more than $700 over the same quarter a year before. In Wayne township alone, the increase was almost $300. The total amount spent in this township, almost kll in Richmond was $1,467 given out St the maximum rate of $1 a week to a family. The approximate number cf families helped was 170 although fill of them did not get the full amount allowed by law. In thirteen townships $2,549.69 was Spent this year. In the same townships for the same period last year 11,823.19 was spent. In all townships year ago $1,SS9.G9 was spent. The fwmships omitted are Jefferson and Greene. The following tables show the increase for the last quarter of 1914 and J913: 1914 1913 Increase Wayne $1,467. 6S $1,178.34 $289.34 I'lnv 29 50 j New Garden Washington . Tenter Boston .... Jackson .... Abington .. Palton Webster . . . Franklin ... Harrison .. Perry Jefferson . . I.Vot filed) Greene (Not filed) 36.35 33.45 91.30 62.45 0.00 367.55 10.00 24.00 2.00 i n ' J . . I 4.00 5.00 5S.50 3.00 6.85 51.75 49.90 30.90 72.12 157.86 5.20 0.00 S.00 42.78 0.00 20.50 85.20 Ml. 20 !:;...- 72.12 P2.1.41 ITi.20 24.n0 lo.oo r i .:.? 4.00 Totals .. .$2.549. fi9 fl.SSO.f.9 $728.35 Decrease. Clay township being the only township showing a decrease, the net increase is $721.50. The greatest per cvnt of increase is in Boston township which jumped from nothing to $72. SAVE 20 PERSONS FROM BURNING HOUSE BY LEASED WIRE.l ll.K IN Sis ('!(, Jan 7. Daring fescues marked thW morning's $100,000 tire in which two apartment housps and Ihe First O'mirli of Christ. Scientist, were des.tr .1. Of the twenty persons in tho appumcnt houses when the lire broke out on'y two were abl.' to save themselves. 1'ighteen had to 6e carried clown ladders in their night plothlng by firem-ni.

WILSON WILL PREVENT SALE OF DUM DOM BULLETS TO FIGHTING EUROPEAN NATIONS

U. S. Takes Step Regardless of Legal or Conventional Grounds Secretary Bryan Issues Comprehensive Reply to Charge of Count Von Bernstorff Claiming Objectionable Ammunition Purchased of American Concerns by Allies Asks German Ambassador to Cite Proof for Allegation.

BY LEASED WIRE. WASHINGTON, Jan. 7. President Wilson today Informed the German government that he will use hiB influence to prevent so far as possible the sale of dumdum bullets and other objectionable ammunitions to belligerent European powers in cases where an American company is shown to be engaged in such traffic. The president will take this step without regard to whether it is the duty of this government to do so upon legal or conventional grounds. President Wilson's assurances on this point were communicated to the German ambassador, Count von Bernstorff, today in the state departments formal reply to German's protest against the manufacture and sale of dumdum bullets to the Allies by American concerns. Text of Note. The full text of Secretary of State Bryan's note reads: "I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of December 5, calling attention to fresh violations of the Geneva convention as well as of Section 2, Article 230 of The Hague convention of July 29, 1899, by the British government in the use of dumdum bullets. "I can assure your excellency that I am not unmindful of the spirit in which you bring to the attention of this government the improper practices which are alleged to have occurred in the conduct of the present war, but while this government may take these statements and charges under consideration, it is, in its efforts to maintain a strict neutrality JOFFRE THROWS 3 BIG COLUMNS INTO LORRAINE 100,000 Men March Against Muelhausen in Drive of Allies to Break German Lines. TAKE MORE TRENCHES French Batteries Put to Flight by Teuton Aviators Flying. Over Dunkirk, Allies' Base on Coast. BY FRANKLIN P. MERRICK, Staff Correspondent The International News Srvice. PARIS, Jan. 7. General Joseph Joffre, the French commander-in-chief, has thrown an army of one hundred thousand men in upper Alsace and Lorraine in a vigorous drive against the German defenders. Three French columns are marching against Muelhausen from three directions. The first from Col (Mount) Bon Homme, west of Colmar; the second by way of Steinbach and the third from Altkirch. Driving forward in Alsace, the French troops, though operating under weather conditions highly unfavorable, are now only two and a half miles from Altkirch. They have taken up a position in a small forest near that town, and it is believed here that they will soon capture Altkirch. With Altkirch and Thann in the possession of the French, the Germans will have lost control of the railroads running northwest and southwest from Muelhausen, lines that will prove of vast importance to the French. The German attempt to lay siege to Belfort, the strong French fortress near the Alsation frontier, has ended (Continued on Last Page.) BOWMAN TO TRAIN COUNTY ASSESSORS Auditor Tries to Arrange Session of Tax Commissioners in City. Auditor L. S. Bowman announced today that the Wayne county assessors, most of whom are new will be well coached in assessing this year before they start to work. Mr. Bowman is trying to secure a session of the state board of tax commissioners for the Sixth district which will be held in Richmond if the commissioners consent to hold any meeting in this district. Whether this meeting is held or not, a meeting for Wayne county assessors will be held. Both meetings probably will be in February. They will be in the nature of a school for assessors. Tuesday Mr. Bowman made a short speech before the session of the tax commissioners and Indiana assessors in Indianapolis. The best methods of assessing real estate, intangible personal property and money deductions were discussed. William Mathews, county assessor, and James Howarth, Wayne township assessor, returned to Richmond today well pleased with the state meeting. Both say the results of the school were most satisfactory and beneficial to assessor

in the present conflict, obliged to refrain from investigating their truthfulness or making any comment in regard to them. The time will come, however, when the truth may be impartially determined, and when the judgment of the world will be passed upon the charges made by the various belligerents of the rules of civilized warfare. "Your excellency also Etates that the British government has ordered from the Winchester Repeating Arms company 20,000 riot guns,' model 1897 and 50,000,000 buckshot cartridges for use in such guns. This department saw a published statement of the Winchester company, the correctness of which the company has confirmed to the department by telegraph. In this statement the company categorically denies that it has rciclvtd an order for such guns and cartridges from, or made any such sales of such material to the British government, or to any other government engaged in the present war. Answers Other Charge. "Your excellency further states that information, the accuracy of which is not to be doubted, that 8,000,000 cartridges fitted with mushroom bullets have been delivered since October by the Union Metallic Cartridge company for the armament of the British army. "In reply I have the honor to refer to the letter of Dec. 10, 1914, of the Remington Arms-Union Metallic Cartridge company of New York to your excellency, called forth by Canadian newspaper reports of statements al-

(ContinueC on Page Eight.) BOARD REVOLTS AGAINST BAVIS BOND PROGRAM McMinn and Marlatt Express Disapproval of Proposal to Float $15H00O Issuer for City Improvements. MAYOR OPPOSES PLAN Members of Works Body Fear Increase in Tax Rate and Impoverishment Property Holders. It was learned today that members of the board of public works are divided on the question of the advisability of a city bond issue, amounting to approximately $150,000, all to be paid in eighteen years, for the purpose of permanently improving a number of the principal streets and improving the sewer system. This plan has been openly s-.dvocated by President Bavis of the board, and was submitted to council last Monday night, , being favorably received by several members of that body. But today John McMinn and Charles E. Marlatt, the other two members of the board, announced that they were opposed to it. Mr. Marlatt said that Mayor Robbins also opposed the plan, as did several members of council. Call Joint Meeting. The question will be brought up for discussion at a joint meeting of the board, council and mayor next Monday night, and there promises to be a lively debate. The statement submitted to council last Monday night was written by Mr. Bavis and he did not expect it would be signed by Mr. McMinn and Mr. Marlatt but both did so shortly before it was presented to council. Mr. Bavis had intended to submit the statement even if his signature was the only one attached to it, as he said it reflected his personal viewrs and he regarded it his duty to advise council to take such action be(Continued on Page Two.) HODGIN CONDEMNS WEST BANK WALL Inspector Finds Party Wall of First National in Unsafe Condition. Plans of the First National bank for the construction of its new building on the site of the old structure, now being razed, were upset today when Building Inspector Hodgin served notice on the bank and the Luken Drug company that the party wall of the bank and drug company building had been condemned by him. "It had been planned to leave this wall standing because if it had been removed the whole east side of the Luken building would have been left open until a new wall had been erected," Hodgin said, "but after inspecting this wall yesterday I realized that it would be entirely too dangerous to allow it to remain standing. This wall is cracked through in several places and it really is risky work razing the old bank building with the wall in .the condition it is in.'

CLERK OF SENATE FOR 1915 SESSION

r G WADE H. FREE. Courtesy The Times. The miming of Wade H. Free as clerk of the Indiana senate, was a defeat of the administration, which opposed him because he was indicted by the Marion county grand jury in connection with a probe of legislative methods in the 1913 general assembly. CITIZENS AWAIT WILSON'S SHORT STOP AT DEPOT Throng From AH Parties Will Cheer Nation's Chief Executive on Way to Indianapolis Rally. AGENTS HOLD TRAIN President Honors Richmond First Time Since Campaign State Committee May Escort Party to Capital. A great throng of voters of Wayne county will flock the Pennsylvania de pot since it has been definitely an nojunced , to Postmaster 'to$k..4h.at. President Wilson will stop here, say a few words and shake hands with some of the citizens. Several dozen Richmond Democrats will go to Indianapolis on the same train the president takes. There is a possibility that the Indiana Democratic committee wi.l come here as the closest point to the state line and accompany the chief executive to the state capital. Reaches City at Noon. The Democrats hailed with delight the announcement that the president would pass through on Pennsylvania train No. 7. This train is due in at 12:10 tomorrow noon and due out at the same time. It usually stops three or four minutes for orders, but the Pennsylvania ticket agent stated that if the president wanted to say a few words, the train would be held. The fact that the train stops at noon instead of at some other time in the day assures a throng of voters, the Democrats declare. It will not be a question of party affiliations when it comes to greeting President Wilson, ! but members of every political faith will be on hand. The honor to Richmond is deely felt. The closeness of Richmond to Indianapolis made even the most hopeful Democrats feel that the president would refuse to appear here. The fact that he has consented to do so is considered as a tribute. Makes Second Visit. There will be no definite form of reception as the time will be too short. The president will be enroute to the legislative halls in Indianapolis where he is to make the speech which will be the keynote of the Democratic platform for 1916. If he has time to allude to or give any hint of the facts he will bring forth at Indianapolis, the rejoicing will be doubled. The president passed through Richmond only once that is known of. He was enroute to . Indianapolis at that time to make a campaign speech. This was in September. 1912, two and one-half years ago and the president being exhausted from his strenuous campaigning, refused to speak. He shook hands with a few of the prominent Democrats. Weather Forecast FOR INDIANA Fair tonight and Friday. Temperature.

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Noon 36 'tion: Yesterday. j To the Directors and Members of the Maximum 45 j South Side Improvement AssociaMinimum 31; tion of Richmond, Ind.: Gentlemen I hereby present my LOCAL Fair tonight and Friday. yearly report for the year f nding DeColder Friday with temperatures f if- j cember 31 1914: teen to twenty degrees below freez- 1. We point with prid to the fact ing. High west winds are diminish-! that we have the extension of the car ing. ! line completed from South II to South GENERAL The great area of low j N street, with the assistance of the barometric pressure and storm center board of public works and the hard now covers the entire eastern portion i and untiring work covering a number

of the United States and Canada, High barometric pressure exists over the middle states with temperature of 12 degrees below at Havre, Mont. A great storm is approaching the United States from the Pacific ocean and is due here In a few davs. W. E. MOORE, Forecaster.

GOV. RALSTON PLEADS FOR ECONOMY IN EXPENDITURE QF STATE'S FUNDS IN MESSAGE TO 1915 LEGISLATURE

NAKED CHILDREN HUDDLE IN COLD DESERTED HOME P,iCir;.FI?tu.OUr.Uner w iigiiL ohm cring utiitaui Tattered Comfort on Bare Floor. MOTHER LEAVES CITY ni?u t

vniiaren itemain Hungry period of sixty-one days began at 10 o'clock this morning, when and Alone Two Days After Lieutenant Governor O'Neill in the state senate and Secretary of M! rimfin r; i j t , ! State Cook in the house, called to order the two branches of the Mrs. naries W leiand Joins j sixty.ninth general assembly. Husband at !)ayton. j The election of officers of both houses, which had already been uitiiHioii . , J arranged by caucus, and the reading by Governor Ralston of his Huddled under a tattered comfort . , , . ., , ... and lying on an uncarpeted floor try-! message to the legislature, were the only things on the program ing to sleep, but finding this difficult j for today's session. The text of the governor's message will be because it was bo cold, four abandoned : found on Page 6 of this issue. aCDoute? J3toE2 XhtatSS! U was Planned to adJurn this afrnoon until Monday. The Harris street, Fairview. Their parents ! legislators will remain in the city over tomorrow at least to hear are Charles wieiand and wife, both i the address of President Wilson in Tomlinson hall tomorrow afternow being in Dayton, O. The chil- i noon fhe6 Home ? tSrlffiSf j The president, who is making a special trip from Washington ry, 8; Floyd, 7; Jennie, 5, and Ha-! to this city, will arrive here early tomorrow afternoon. He will be zel 3- j the guest of the. Indiana Democratic club at a brief reception and some time ago the father went towiU return to Washington early tomorrow evening. Dayton in search of work. Tuesday

morning Mrs. Wieiand, after taking her 18-months-old and 6-months-old ba-' bles to the homes of neighbors, left the city, going to Dayton to join her husband. She did not tel' her older children that she intended to leave them, and the neighbors did not know that she had abandoned them. When the two boys returned from school Tuesday noon they found little Jennie and Hazel in tears. They informed their brothers that "Mamma had gone away," and that there were only a few things left to eat. All Tuesday afternoon and night, and all day Wednesday the four children remained, in the house, having little or nothing to eat. . The boys used the last of the small supply of fuel WedContinued on Page Three. ASKS PUNISHMENT FOR CANADA'S MEN KILLING AMERICANS ; State Department Sends Note Requesting Aid for Afflict ed Families of Shot on Border. Persons i BY LEASED WIRE. WASHINGTON, Jan. 7. Strong representations to the British government, asking for the punishment of three Canadian trooners. who killed Walter Smith and wounded Charles Dorsch. American hunters, at Fort Erie, Ont., Canada, and requestion that adequate compensation be made to the j families of the men today were prepared by the state department and will be forwarded to the British Ambassador for reference to his government. Secretary of State Bryan directed that the communication be drafted immediately when informed by officials ' ?f the department that a review of the facts disclosed by the offical nquiry showed that the soldiers fired upon the Americans "with intent to kill." NOTD SINGER ILL 3Y LEASED WIRE. ST. LOUIS, Jan. 7. Madame Schu-mann-Heink. conaalto. who was to have sung at the Odeon here this evening, has been compelled to cancl i ri j ------------ -- .

S. S. I. A. ENDS FRUITFUL YEAR SAYS BLICKWEDEL

President Reports Payment of of Pavilion in Beallview and Street Car Line as Activities The following is the text of Presi - dent Adolph Blickwedel's address to the South Side Improvement associaof years of the South Side Improveincut association. We, therefore, in : order to give our satisfaction concretes expression and to further beautify our grounds, as well as give additional service to the public, whose interests arc nlavn nn onr Tninrts. xvr erect-eel I handsome cement waitins station on

A Policy of Rational Economy and Nothing More' Governor Advises Legislators as Sixty-ninth General Assembly Convenes Calls Attention to Charges of Extravagance in Matter of Printing Supplies for Legislature.

ADVOCATES $115,000 FOR Suggests Licensing of Lobbyists D.J...-I1 d :j n u

ucuwcu i rcsiucs uver uuuse ttuh jtnnur j. nomncH, Clerk Administration Defeats Niblack Employment Committee of House Recommends Limiting Employes.

BY LEASED WIRE. J TTCDTAKAPOT.TS TnH . Jan 7 Tho hi.vnarlv law molrins

' I : BRIDGE BORING MAY DISCOVER RIVER CHANNEL Engineers ExpH-t Drilling for South Side Bridge to Reveal Interesting Facts About Strea:n

Boring to determine the nature ofjhear Governor Ralston's message, the foundation base for various south j Biil Factory Closes, side bridge sites will begin within two ; The "bill factory- which has been a or three days, County Surveyor Pea-! feature of every ses-'on of the Indiana cock said today and some interesting general assembly for years, went out disclosures are expected to result. of existence so far as the state is conThe effect of the glac'al drift on cerned with the opening of the lesrislaRichmond's topography is well known ture today. At the instance of Senator to the geologists who have made a Fred Van Nuys of Anderson, the senstudy here. Mr. Peacock said he will ate adopted a resolution providing for not be surprised if the borings reveal the printing of bir 'mmediately upon a southern continuation of the under their submission 5rt- the senate.

j "resuU of the giaciai drm. Bluff Continues Back. 'ri i. : v, i . . . . v. n , . ,. . . bank of the river continue solidly back . 1 t,.. i ,.o h 1U f"" " . 'T .l point where Main street intersects, the. fci oi n f.., f... o tunc uiuil "ciivia aui u)li a. i v n v i west of West Second street. Between the bridge and that point the surface soil is only three or four feet deep in pJaces; I Tne h,d"en bluff along what was (Continued cn Page Two) MINE BLOWS UP TWO VESSELS. NEW CASTLE. On Tyne, Eng., Jan. 7. The steamer Affrieda, carrying a crew of 1?. was sunk in the North Sea by a mine two miles off Scarborough tola:.. A wireless message said that all the crew had escaped on the shij.s boats. TRAWLErt BLOWN UP. GRIMSBY, Erg., Jan. 7 The trawler Cygnus has b"on blown up by a mine in tin- North Sea with loss of nine lives. Th's is th thirtysecond Grimsby trawler captured or sunk since tiic wir began. $900 on Debt, Construction Extension of South Eighth for 1914. the public park of Beallview at a j cst of $250. 2. ine association is now at work putting up a suitable, modern, up-to-date and well appearing building to be used for meetings of all kinds. This building will give the association a home, to which it can point with pride and pleasure, inasmuch as it is Ihe only organization of its kind in Richmond, lnd., that, after working for the welfare of the city continuously for over fifteen year.-?, owns its own home. We are hoi:ie-lo ing people, ami I feel proud and thankful toward the association that we have reached that point. We will give you alli gentleman , a roval welcome at "the dedication 3 Qur Beallview addition is improving gradually, both as fur as residences and 'factories arc concerned 0ut of son lofR w(t have p3,d 450 anfj 1 (.Continued on sag

COST OF LEGISLATURE

and Reviews State Finances xuut. i u J T In accepting the speakership Charles H. Bed well of Sullivan, said: "We cannot reduo the cost of porernment unless we discontinue th practice of making too many laws. With less legislation we will eventually be able to reach the fundamental wrong. I will do all in my power to prevent any bill being passed simply because it has been brought up bv thq majority. My motto will be: 'Fair play to all and fair consideration of any an 1 all measures. " i Th house adon'.ed temporarily the luia oi me ivis i.-jsiaiure. as dusiness was concluded ahead of the senate an adjournment was ordered and an informal reception was held on the floor of the houo before the joint session of the two houses convened to It has been customary during thi reading of bills upon their introduction lor individuals to have stenographers "planted" where they coulc copy each new bill, and copies were sold to an one who was inclined to buv It i J ,ne bill factory showed a good s said point at every session of tne assemblv imm'j:f,,. C .,. Immediately alter the pr-milm !rmuinary routine of orfrmitatim wa? complete! and before adjourning to the house chamber to hear Governor Ralston's message. Senator Ste.ihen B. Fleming, chairman of the senate legislative expense committee, called the commit tee into a meeting. Both the house and senate adjourned at the close of their meetings to meet aain tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock. Immediately after the swearing in of the members of the legislature, the house settled down to the routine business of electing its officers whe were chosen at last night's meeting of the Democratic members of the lower branch of the assembly. The choice of Charles II. Bedwell of Sullivan, for the speakership, was the first victory of the stale administration. Bedwell won over Mason J. M black of Vincennes, by a vote of 4? to 12. The administration's purposes were defeated in the"Senat in the election of Wade H. Free of Anderson as secretary of that body. The other officers elected in the house were: Clerk. Arthur J. Hamrick, Greencastle: assistant clerk. II. M. Gardner. Loga n sport : chief doorkeeper, Joseph A. Luther, South Bend; caucus chairman Representative John R. Jones. Plymouth, and caucus secretary. Representative Phillip Lutz. Jr., Boonville. The other officers elected In the senate were: Assistant secretary. Harry B. Skillman. Indianapolis: caucus chairman. Senator Will A. Yarling. ShelbyviUe: caucus secretary. Senator Chester A. McCormick. North Judson: principal doorkeeper, Ralph C. Thomas, Auburn, and president pro tein, Sena'or Fred Van Nuys, Anderson. In the house, the complimentary vote of the Republican members was cast for the following candidates: For speaker. Representative Jestse E. Eschbach. Warsaw; clerk. W. S. Ritchey. Muncie; assistant clerk, Robert Da vies, Kokomo; chief doorkeeper. hdear (Jiidersieeve. LaDorte: caucus chairman. Representative Robert H. Acre, Lawrence, and caucus seeretarv. Representative Frank E. Wright. Lynn. The Republican senators cast their votes for the following: Presl,iPnt pro tern. Senator Arthur Robin.n. Indianapolis; secretary. Henry H. Sibley. Gary; assistant secretary. Kalph Sollitt. Miami county, and chief doorkeeper David R. Scott, Linton. There are in the bouse sixty-one Democrats: thirty-eight Republicans, and one Progressive. In the senate there are forty-one Democrats; eight Republicans and one Progressive, Fifty-one votes are necessary in the house and 26 in the senate to pass a measure. Afu.r the first prciiminaries cf or1 Continued on Pag TwoJ

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