Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 40, Number 55, 14 January 1915 — Page 1

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t: RICHMOND F AUL AMIJM VOL. XL., NO. 55. Palladium and Sun-Telegram Consolidated, 1907 RICHMOND, IND., THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 14, 1915. SINGLE COPY, 2 CENTS. ITALY Officials Say Disaster Greater Than Messina Horror

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BOBBINS ORDERS PLANS PREPARED Engineer Charles Drafts Specifications for Perma nent Street Work and Sewer System Changes. WIDEN THIRD STREET Proposed Subway at Twelfth Street Railroad Crossing Holds up Plans for North End Sewers. Anticipating tli:it ci ir.i ;1 villin ths? i near tuture authorize : I ml issue in ' excess of $100,000, iK.ib!'- ?130,()00, ' which President Bavin of it;o board advises, Mayor Robbins today advised the hoard tit instrnet lli i-ifv ensrineer til Ill'nPflrtfl with nlund mi1 ii nol f I f'd - tlons so everything would be in readi ness to launcn ine Dig puo.ic improve innttt ra 1 . . -. ,,-Ukj,,l rtAnr net ertrtTI i i( iil v (l ill mi i 1 1 n i nil I in- la a. a buum is council takes such action. The, toard acted on the mayor.- suggestion. "it y Engineer Charles, as a result,1 vill be up to his head in work for some lnie to mmp. 1" wiii estimated today that the i o;t"r.ipk:fotl permanent street itn- ' .,, ,,i .... ,u ,.. 1 (. It i t iK. IV. 1 .J.U H . Draws Sewer Plans. rii:-.i:H i r will also draft plans or ::i:;n' er of sewer improvements, ar.uiiif; from $500 to $50,000. "In advising the board to have the ntineer prepare plans and speclfieaions for proposed permanent improvements! do not want to give out the mprossion that I have been converted o the advisability of floating a. bond ssne." Mayor Robbins said. "I make iiis suggestion because I believe counil will authorize a bond i.isue, and I icrely want to take time Ly the foreoek and have all the preliminary work rmpleted when council acts, so there ill be no delay in starting the inirovr inputs." The widening of North Third street i its junction with North I) street is nr nn r improvement contemplated t'li.', year. An automobile ladder riM-K 'or the tire riepanment is also he purchased, so 1!15 gives promise lrtaki'ia all previous records for ivic tiett( rtnents. City Warts Subway. Nil p!:n - for the proposed sewer vr in ' ii N' :th 10 street from Twen- : r!j Twelfth, and thence 'i c n N Twelfth street to the Iver. ;t mi ! dratted by the enginf r itiV! s-i:-" decision has been eached re.sa rdinu the oroposed subay under tin- Pennsylvania railroad racks at th' Twelfth street crossing. he board of works is r hold a conTfiicp wnii ine ranroan omciais in ejJJM II in lilt M SUHWtt), Ll T.i unri i '.in "j r- , t n.juitinnr rr-ni,n no iaff or nf! niaK c or 11 is mnrovem 1 1 1 . ii tut" Miud was I (J K WIlrii' ted th proposed North E and system mild be installed cheaper. It is estimated that the city's share i ...... i... :.:.. . i . . ....l. .. 1 !"' l.-l l llllllllllln LUIS MlllWitJ oiild be approximately $40,000, and if h, nr.rth f-tut vrvfr mtptii wu rnnrrni M'u h 1 i lie aine iniir us i osi oiild be approximately $J0 000. The board today instructed the city nanu'er to iirnin work on drafting llill ., 11I 111, lllll lll II .-.1)111 IIIIIII trcrf, Main ro p; North Fifth. Main ; Norlii Sixth. .Main to A; North llinii 'Mun ,, own i ii r uui ill, .Maui A: South Fifth, Main to A; South A, South Ninth. Main to A; North Seventh to Sixteenth; Sheridan, : : h iiioml .ivt iiue to School street, The board has also been informed i) a t propel ty owners on North Kishenth iind North Twentieth streets re coim-miKaiinir peimoning ior me mprnvement of those streets. T1 7 a1 T7 . v eauiurrorecasu nw nu mpih rd r Lunirr ion am. Friday fair. Colder in southwest portion. Temperature ...... ' V OIll Yesterday laximum 37 iinlmum 27 LOCAL Some cloudiness but mosty fair tonight and triday. -Colder toigiu. r.KNKRAL ( OA Di i io.ns i nree reat storm areas extend over North ..1 I"-....-. l,ti.. '.if..!, rn me Ilia IllMll I lir Hi Ul I in IC. V'lic: rcntial over Ontario. Canada, the ecoiui over the Atlantic coast and the hird over the far Northwest. The irst a dry storm, while the two later are accompanied by heavy rains nd gales. Fair weather still prevails ihn Mississinni valley. Although t will be some colder there is no prosf mm tomnerntnres en i i " w. K. MOOUK, Forecaster.

DROPS PLANS FOR

COMMERCE COLLEGE MORTIMER L. SCHIFF. . wi ,to the,fff that KNew J city officials and the members of the !.., j of the Chamber of Commerce have been unable to come to any definite agreement, Mortimer L. Schiff has urged that the offerers of $700,000 for the foundation of a college of commerce and administration and a museum of commerce and civics be released from their pledges. The situation is a distinct surprise to the members of the Chamber of Commerce, who had listened to the propoasl of the plan by Mr. Schiff more than a year ago and had supposed that matters were progressing smooth. ly. CARR BANQUETS STATE OFFICERS OF Y. M, C. A. Business Men as Guests See Slides Showing World-wide Activities of Christian Association. The Methods employed to spread the influence of the Y. M. C. A. and a report of the results that have been obtained, were brought out by state workers at the reception by James A. Carr last night at which members of the State Board and about eighty-five men of Richmond were guests. Dr. William A. Millis of Hanover College, was introduced by Mr. Carr as the chairman of the meeting. A stereopt.icon lerture was given by State Secretary Stacy showing the work of the Y. M. C. A. throughout the world. The views were taken from photographs taken by Mr. Stacy on a trip around the world and showed the ' Y. M. C. A. building and activities in many cities. Interesting talks were given by Dr. Brown of Brightwood, who is surgeon of the Railroad Y. M. C. A. of the Big Four system, explaining the activities ' of the railroad associations, and by Secretary Dickson of the Dayton association. The history of the local Y. M. C. A. was told by George H. Knollenberg and Timothy Nicholson. 1 This gathering was one of a series of parlor conferences which are being held under the auspices of the State Committee. Refreshments were served at the close of the program, and some time was spent in a social discussion of the features brought out in the lectures. BROWN DRAWS PLAT Hotel Proprietor Opens Residential Section. Al H. Brown, well known hotel owner of French Lick, Ind and owrner of the Westcott hotel building, this city, is to open up a new residential district in Richmond this spring. The ground purchased by him from the Fihe estate, on the south side of South K street, from Sixteenth to the alley between Thirteenth and Fourteenth street, and south a distance of three blocks, has been platted into I'M) lots. The plat provides for the opening of South Fourteenth, Fifteenth and Sixteenth streets, to a point where South H street can be opened. The plans also provide for the opening of South F and G streets through the Brown addition.

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LUKEN OBTAINS RAMLER'S PART OF DRUG STORE

Purchase Dissolves Partnership of Oldest Pharmacy in City, Established Early Last Century. DEAL INCLUDES ROOM Retirement of Former Partner Involves About $40,000 as Price of Drug Stock and Firm's Building. . The A. G. Luken Drug company passed into the hands of A. G. Luken yesterday when he bought the interest of Edward Ramler, his partner. The deal included Mr. Ramler's interest in the wholesale drug trade and in the Luken building, which includes the drug store and two store rooms occupied by the Fox Clothing company. It is said the consideration was about $40,000. The reason given for the exchange is that Mr. Ramler desired to retire from the wholesale drug trade, which he has followed for many years. Oldest Firm in City. The firm is the oldest wholesale drug firm in the city. The store was purchased in 1872 by the father of Edward and Charles Ramler, who was also the step-father of A. G. Luken, who came to Richmond from Cincinnati. He took a part interest in the store and as he was the only druggist connected with the establishment it was known as the A. G. Luken Drug company. The store was purchased from Charles E. Potts more than forty years ago. Mr. Potts had owned it for some time. He had purchased it from Irvin Reed, father of the owned of the Reed Hardware store. The date of the opening of the drug store on that site probably can be traced to the time Richmond was a small village. Edward Ramler inherited his interest in the store from his father, of whom he was the only heir after the death of Charles Ramler. Mr. Luken and Mr. Ramler built up the business and erected the A. G. Luken building. Hodgin Orders New Wall. The east wall of the Luken building will be torn out in a few days in accordance with the order of Building Inspector Hodgin. The wall was owned jointly by the Luken company and the First National bank. Today the building inspector ordered a separate wall in the rear, which runs parallel with the First National bank wall, to be torn out. This wall is forty feet in length and after its re-building the building will have entirely new east wall. i The First National bank company 'announced that all sub-contracts for the erection of its building have gone to local contractors, except the contract for marble and granite, for which there were no local bidders. The masonry and concrete flooring went to Hipskind, who also received the contract for razing the old building. Harsh & Co. got the contract ior the brick and Miller-Kemper for the woodwork. Local contractors are also bidding on plastering, plumbing and other work. NEW SHELL HURLS SOFT MOLTEN STEEL IXWS JOHN HAYS HAMMOND, JR. Military experts are discussing the new type of projectile, which can scatter molten metal over the object of attack and at the same time permeate the air with a deadly hydrocyanic acid which would make it impossible for fire fighters to approach, the perfection of which has just been anI nounced bv John Havs Hammond. Jr.. its inventor. The new missile may soon appear in the European war, as some of the belligerent nations are 'negotiating for its purchase.

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ONE BIRDMAN EQUAL TO AN ARMY CORPS

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M. Pegoud, famous French aviator who is covering himself with glory by! his sensational exploits in the air as ! a member of the aviation division of the French army. One French gen-j eral has described Pegoud's work as ; being as effective against the Ger- i mans as that of an entire army corps. Pegoud has dropped bombs from his aeroplane that destroyed German supply bases, ammunition and supply trains and disorganized regiments of the German advance guard. REQUEST BIDS ON FIRE TRUCK WITH LADDERS Board Determines to Provide Aerial Apparatus as Preventative of Serious Downtown Fires. BORROW LIGHT FUND Commercial Club Believes Additional Equipment Will Mean Lower Insurance Rate. Board of works members today instructed City Clerk Bescher to advertise for bids for an automobile ladder truck for the fire department. The board was unanimously in favor of providing an adequate ladder equipment for the department. The plan was indorsed by Mayor Robbins and its adoption urged by E. M. Campfield, representing the Commercial club. It was decided that the money required to purchase the truck, the cost of which will be in the neighborhood of $10,000, should be raised by a temporary loan, being borrowed from the sinking fund of the municipal light plant. City Attorney Bond, however, declared that no loan could be negotiated unless it was paid off before the close of the year, a task which would be difficult for the city to accomplish, otherwise bonds would have to be issued. Campfield Gives Plan. "No they won't," interrupted Campfield. "It can be arranged to turn over the money from the municipal plant's sinking fund to some bank and then have the bank loan the money to the city. At the close of the year, pay off the loan with money taken from other funds then the first of next year secure another loan from the city plant and distribute the monies into the various funds from which money had been taken at the close of this year. You won't have any trouble about this loan. I'll guarantee that it will be cared for." City officials have reached no definite conclusion as to what method will be pursued in raising money to pay for the truck. Mr. Campfield declared that the purchase of a fire truck would have the additional advantage of bringing about a substantial reduction in fire insurance rates in this city. Richmond, which is now in class three, fire insurance rating, would be advanced to class two and a half, Mr. Campfield asserted, although the state underwriters bureau insisted that the fire department be incraesed one man before taking such action. He thought, however, that the bureau would not be arbitrary in this respect and would be satisfied with the addition of a modern aerial truck. Truck Means Saving. According to Mr. Campfield if Richmond was advanced to class two and Continued on Page Three.

ITALIANS BELIEVE EARTHQUAKE KILLING 25,000 IS HOLY WARNING

3 MORE SHOCKS ADD TERROR TO FRIGHT IN ROME T i I QUAKE RECORD. Dead (estimated), 25,000. Injured (estimated) 35,000. Towns destroyed or damaged 31. Homeless 100,000. ROME, Jan. 14. Three more shocks I occurred this morning, one of them ' very severe. These, said the refugee,! college at Avezzano. completed the work of destruction begun by the shock of yesterday. The tremors were also felt in Rome, the heaviest! coming about 3 a. m fLfhinf I lUtll BBUS thousands of persons from their beds in terror. The Avezzano refugee brought the first story of the disaster to Rome, j eJVzaxlZ is a m'tss hof ,ruins,"illn said. "In the normal school were 140 girl students. The college was destroyed in the same manner. j "Houses standing upon the shore of! Fucino Lake w ere thrown into its bed. Other houses were smashed into heaps of dust that buried their occupants. "I believe that not a single student at the normal school escaped I was caught among the debris near ho nr c n.kl. l . v- VV11V5C dun , , i uuauid lis v 'ii i ' for spvpral hnnrc I "Several survivors fought to reach the imprisoned girts even after their voices had been stilled, but they had to abnadon the task." The man fainted three times while he was telling this brief story. The heavy loss of life in the earthquake zone is attributed to the methods of construction used in buildpeasants in the surrounding' country lived in stone houses and huts. PROHI LINE FOR WORKERS UP VOTES NEXT YEAR Raymond Schmidt, State Chairman, Hopes to Persuade Stronger Party to Incorporate Plank. J. Raymond Schmidt of Indianapolis, chairman of the state Prohibition committee will complete the work of organizing the anti-saloon forces of Wayne county tonight with an address in Hagerstown at the Methodist church. At the conference held this morning in the court house, a committee consisting of Rev. Bilheimer, Mr. French and Mr. Hiatt was appointed to select a chairman for each township to build up a township organization. The committee will report late today. Mr. Schmidt spoke this afternoon to a small audience in the superior court room on the purpose of the Prohibition campaign. The party is working for votes, Mr. Schmidt said, which will be the argument after 1916 elections to have one of the stronger parties up the prohibition principles. work Appeal to Strong Parties "We have considered our e i ii tt ol ijj. , ,.iqh -vvo i,Q, vr.-.-oH of - t : n..i it t- : , must take un the fight in order in win

These parties being controlled more engineers to the city to appraise both or less by politicians, we must deal! Plants preparatory to the formulation with them. I of joint lighting and power rate sched - "There is only one argument to give jules them. That is to get the votes. Wei The board today acted favorably up - want 200,000 Prohibition votes in In- j on a number of petitions fur improve - diana in 1916 and then we will be I ments. A petition for cement walks. ready to let the other parties take up curbs and gutters on North Twentythe fight on the condition they take j first street, from Main to E, was given

our principles and Incorporate them fully into their platforms. We will submit to no vote getting schemes but we will insist on unqualified acceptance of our demands or we will continue to fight. If we get what we want a promise to bring about nation wide and state wide 'prohibition we will join with that party." The county was organized for work under a committee of which Martin P. Davis of Fountain City, is chairman and Miss Bertha Hogan of Richmond, is secretary-treasurer.- Other memhers of the committee will be the; township chairmen. Mr. Schmidt, spoke at the Wesleyan

ju. r.. cnurcn in rounuau vny last me past, uuce eer two weoKS. city : ed Dut lne dispatches thus far renight before a good house and he re-1 employes have been doing this work. cejved indicate that fifteen thousand is ceived good response to his call fori taking a half-day's time of two r workers. three men. (Continued on Page Three.) . I

TO STAY OUT OF EUROPEAN WAR

More Than Twenty Towns and Villages Wrecked 25,000 Peasants and Laborers Injured and 100,000 Homeless i Heart of Stricken Area in Valley of Central Appenines Tremors Felt in Zone 280 Miles Long and 100 Miles Wide.;

57 BUILDINGS IN ROME WERE SERIOUSLY DAMAGED

No Fatalities in Capital 160 Windows Shattered in Dome of St. Peter's Marble Cross at Entrance of St. Peter's i Broken 46 Windows in Michael Angelo Cupola of Vati-1 can Cracked Italian King Hurries Into Affected District

BULLETIN.

ROME, Jan. 14. Signor Sitari, a member of the Italian par-

lament, notified Premier Salandra today that the earthquake in

vtrnirai iiaiy was worse man inai oi iiessina. ceived the following disnatch from the denutv:

"The catastronhe is annaHinc Wp need immpdiafplv 2n.n0ft

men to cear the ruins as well as , umi . ! a

I inc oisasier is even superior 10 mat or Messina ior its vio-

lence and the percentage of dead and wounded, Judging from stories of refugees and from fragmentary disPatches from the fringe of the quake zone, comparatively few perj ... ,V r . , r . K . sons escaped from Avezzano. Many of those who were able to get away returned to dig among the debris for relatives or friends.

I V AT A T .ITIFS ?ITV I VTn THHIT-S A TVJ CAVC RPDADT

ROME, Jan. 14. Official

quake of eleven more towns and villages having a total population of more than 35,000 persons, was received by Premier Salandra late this afternoon. These are CaDistrello. Carmello. f!olarmpl

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ah 01 tne 4,uuu innaDitants 01 (Japistrello are said to .have perished. These towns are in the region of Lake Fucino and it is believed that all the other villages of that region were wrecked.

BY BRIXTON D'ALLAIRE. Staff Correspondent of the International News Service. ROME. Jan. 14. Italy's latest earthquake horror mav be tha

i worst that the country has ever

with the center of the district shaken by yesterday's quake had not been restored this afternoon, advices received by Premier Salandra indicated that the dead might number 25,000 and the injured 35,000, a total of 60,000 casualties. Early in the afternoon a dispatch from Naples raised hope that the loss of life would not be over 2.000, but later reports made it apparent that the estimate made by the Naples officials was much too low. a. rri - m . . - -

NEW STORE OPENS IN PALLADIUM BUILDING

Edmund Hirsch to Onen arnved here this afternoon said that r.umunu nirstn lO upen,the first reports underestimate rather Credit Outfitting: Store inltnan exaggerate the horror at Avezt -u- !zanoUlIding. I More than twenty towns and vil- ; lages were wrecked or destroyed byEdmund Hirsch, manager of the! the earthquake. It is believed that Union Store announced today that he more than 25.000 were injured. At had leased the two store rooms at 15 leht 100,000 are homeless, and 17 North Ninth and would open' Some of the more imaginative exthe first week in February a first class Pressed belief that the earthquake was

Men s and Womens' Credit outfitting store. No statement was made as to who would take charge of the Union store. ENGINEER TO PLAGE ESTIMATE ON PLANT The board of public works today en tered into an agreement v ith E. D. Watts, a consulting engineer, to prepare an inventory of the municipal light plant to be submitted to the In- ; d'ana public utilities commission. An I mvontnrv lii t h 0 T.lfht H(t A- l-nV--r comnanv's electrical plant must be c ii Vn- if t A ft or liotll U VO in tllA ! hands of the commission it will send 1 10 tne engineer ior pians cna specin - cations. A resolution for a cement sidewalk on the north side of North J street, j

irom iwemn 10 oevemeenin. was . and stayed in Rome to superintend readopted. ( iief measures. Tne cabinet appropriat-

urou.uw.o "J,1"" iirmeu: curl 1 Main to A.; cement walks, both sides, North Fifteenth. Main to B; cement j walks, both sides, curbs and gutters. North Sixteenth. Main to F. j The board today decided that in the 1 future the 1. v. t.i.i iiae have to ! arrange to have ashes carried out of the building at its own -xpense. In i

... . "C: , ea oo,uou ior reiier. At the consumed: Cement walks, both sides, ! sion of tne oabinet meeting the prerbs and gutters. South Nineteenth, i mier. said to the Internaticnal Xewa

The premier rebread, water, medicine and timber. .,!. b m ..... news of the destruction by earth-AToi-c? Smi1q lnti.,nA ,n,t " w-, w.-lA.lvj Clivi suffered. Though communication i ne -apies estimate was Dasea on a message from Solmona. a town twenty-two miles east of Avezzano. which had been reported destroyed with a loss of ll.ooo lives. The Solmona message stated that there were few casj ualties at Avezzano, but a refugee who rt "'me warning to Italy not to take me war ana tins conclusion was uui conrinen 10 tne masses. It was heard even in official and palace circles throughout the day. The superstitious looked upon the disaster as an omen which the Italian nation should heed. The greater part of the territory in Eastern Italy affected by the disturbance is mountainous country. In some places railway tunnels were destroyed and it will be months before rail traf- ; fic can resume its normal sway. Quake Zone 280 Miles. The region most deeply affected extends about 2S0 miles from north to south and about 100 miles from the Mediterranean east toward the Adriatic sea, with the heart of the most terribly stricken area being in the valley of the Central Appenines. These mountains are not volt T'1? mountains are not volcanic and the earthquake was of no volcanie "G'n; ! "i0"?'1..'" ,NaPles 11 '? re" u "00 W dX n pt twe lDS ; Rome appea-rs to have"escaped fa- ' talities. although some persons here , were injured j King visits Scene Announcement was made at noon that King Victor Emmanuel had left . R0me for the interior to visit the ; points where the earthquake was mot j severe. pmior ci,, v.. had intended to make to Naples today ea $o0,000 for relief. At the conchij Service staff rnrrPBtmndpnt ; -Ve tear tnat tnis djsaster js se(.. J onjv onjy to nat of feSgjna j which j more than seventv-seven thousand mrsons perished. We are hoping, of ; oonrKP. that thf rPKtnratinn nT mm. ; m,,ni.,tion .,, Kho... thflt ,h disaster j was not as great as was at first feat