Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 40, Number 59, 19 January 1915 — Page 1

MOKB PALLADIUM VOL. XL., No. 59. Palladium and Sun-Telegram Consolidated. 107 RICHMOND, IND., TUESDAY EVENING JANUARY 19, 1915. SINGLE COPY, 2 CENTS RIDING OVER MAYOR'S OPPOSITION COUNCIL PROMISES TO AUTHORIZE BONDS FOR IMPROVEMENT POLICY MAXIM SAYS U. S. '.. MUST FIGHT SOON fill. RUB1ELY COMPANY PETITIONS FOR RECEIVER IN COURT ACTION INSTITUTED AT INDIANAPOLIS

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City Attorney Bond, Speaking for Robbins, Pleads for Delay Until City Pays Bonded Debts and Until New Valuations Increase Income Mentions Change in Sewer System to Prevent Stream's Pollution as Obstacle.

O'NEAL ACCUSES ADMINISTRATION OF BAD FAITH

Councilman Howells Demands to Know If Works Board Will Try to Balk Program Executive Replies Hotly, Denying Any Intention of Interfering With Plans for Work Made Possible by $10,000 Issue Approved.

Although Mayor Robbins once more offered strenuous opposition to the proposed $150,000 bond issue for permanent improvements, using City Attorney Bond as his heavy artillery in an effort to swing council's support back of him, the report, recommending the floating of bonds, the purchase of a fire truck and remodeling of the city building, submitted by the public improvements committee, was adopted by council without a dissenting vote at its meeting last night. The report adopted by council does not authorize a bond issue. It merely places council on record as being prepared to authorize the floating of bonds whenever the board of public works is prepared to proceed with the permanent improvement plan. It also reads that council is prepared to float any part of the proposed $150,000 issue "from time to time." The city attorney is authorized to

proceed with the drafting of the neces sary ordinances for the bond issue and improvements at the city buildings. These improvements consist of transfering the engineer's office to the rear of the council chamber and the use of his present office as additional sleeping quarters for the city hall firemen, who, Councilman White said, "are now herded in like Italians in a camp car." O'Neal Charges Bad Faith. Councilman O'Neal of the Sixth ward during the discussion of the report frankly charged the Robbins administration with "bad faith," asserting it was "not playing fair with council" on the question of adopting a policy of permanent improvements, to be Inaugurated this year. "The board at our first meeting this year presented a statement to council outlining public improvements the city stood badly in need of. Whether this was a bluff, an effort to place the responsibility onto coun cil for any. further delay In providing was a sincere- appeal to council to cooperate with the beard in applying some remedy for' tftpse conditions, I do not know," shouted Mr. O'Neal. "I do know, however, that in this statement council was told to 'put up or shut up' and wo are ready to put up. We hnven't been able in the past to provide nooded improvements with nva'lable Cu-'d and I think it is high tiire to prov'do money to make the necessary Improvements. There is rorm to fuspect that the board in bringing this matter to the attention o? council and then two of its members attempting to crawl out of the responsibility for doing so is not actuated by any sincere purpose. I don't believe the administration is playing fair with council." Council Refuses to Delay. To the suggestions of the mayor, city controller and city attorney that if a public improvement policy was postponed for two years, the necessity of floating bonds might be obviated, council emphatically announced that it no longer favored . a "delay, linger and wait" policy, and wanted work on the most needed improve ments begun this. year. . Council .was told that within two years the city would have no general bonded debt, which now amounts to , abqut, $20,00P; that the city would have a larger income because of a prospective large increase in taxing valuations, and by that time the city would undoubtedly have the authority to -place the surplus of the municipal plant In the general municipal fund. These argu- ( Continued on Page Ten.) THREE MEN CHRISTEN HALL WITH BIG JAGS The well-known trio, Mont Bailey, Alpheus Bailey and William Hayward, dedicated the new town hall in Greensfork yesterday, preceeding the. dedication by emptying the whiskey bottle into their persons instead of breaking a bottle of wine on the corner stone. They started Sunday afternoon and had the town in commotion. Several of the citizens asked them to desist until Monday morning but Mont Bailey informed them his trio was having a "delightful time." This continued until Monday morning when the marsh al of the town afforded them the honor of being the first prisoners in the new Greensfork Jail. Justice of judge of the town court fined Alpheus t,..iT... ti...-j j Peace Jonn r. ciawson, acting as Bailey and William Hayward $1 and costs each and Mont Bailey, the leader, $5 and costs. MUELLER DISCUSSES CONCRETE HIGHWAYS City and county officials nave been invited to attend the American concrete institute in Chicago -February 9 to 12. John W. Mueller , county bridge engineer, who has moved his oices to Richmond, is on the program. The subject given to Mr. Mueller is "Reinforcing Narrow Concrete Roads." This subject will be of interest to the county commissioners because of the complaint of property owners against putting money in wide concrete roads outside the city limits.

STATE OFFICERS TO MAKE TALKS BEFORE IC. OF P. Roy Fry Completes Program for Entertainment of Several Hundred Lodge Members From District.

Completion of the program for the annual meeting of the eleventh Pythian district of Indiana was announced today by Deputy Grand Chancellor Roy Fry who has charge of the arrangements Coeur Djndfff?.-1 will entertain several 'hundred delegates at the meeting which will be held Friday, January 22 in the Pythian temple on South Eighth street. The meeting will be preceeded by a reception to the visiting t delegates shortly after noon. . At 2:30 o'clock a delegates meeting will be opened in regular lodge form. Roll call, appointment of committees and other routine of annual meetings will follow. At this meeting all the business of the district will be taken up. Mrs. Igelman to Sing. The big meeting wUl open at 7:30 in the K. of P. temple with a number by the Weisbrod Saxophone orchestra. The program follows: Vocal Solo Mrs. Charles Igelman. Address of Welcome G. H. Hoel6cher. Response Harry Wade, Grand Keeper of Record and Seal. Address Robert A. Brown, Grand Chancellor of .the Pythian Indiana Do main. French Horn Solo Philip Gates. Short addresses by visiting officers. The meeting will be conducted by a corps of officers whose names and titles follow: Roy C. Fry, Coeur De Lion lodge No. 8, Richmond, D. S. C; Arle M. Brown, Winchester lodge No. 91, Winchester V. C; Charles F. Price, Winchester lodge. P.; Frank Priest, Ivy lodge No. 27, Rushville, M. of A.; Lewis Harrell, Liberty lodge No. 114, Liberty, I. G. ; Harry Wade, Curzan lodge No. Ill, LaFayette, K. R and S.

HOSPITAL TO ASK $5,000 FUND FROM CITY FOR CHARITY CASES

Report of Board Says "We Cannot Maintain Institution on Present Financial Basis" Trustees Change Administration and Devise Methods for Cutting Expenses.

Asserting that the expense of carln SLrfv mortal hospital was greatly in excess of the $3,000 appropriated by the city last year for such purpose, Councilman O'Neal, one of the city's representatives on the board of hospital trustees, said that the city would be asked to appropriate $5,000 for the hospital next year.. This year the hospital will receive the same amount from the city as it did last year. "It is perfectly manifest that we cannot maintain the institution upon its present financial basis, and do the amount of charity work which we are called upon to do," is one of the striking statements contained in the annual report of the hospital, submitted to council last night. Fails to Make Report. 'About two years ago an investiga tion was ordered to ascertain if people,

BELATED STORM BLANKETS TOWN WITH DEEP SNOW Richmond Suffers Little Inconvenience Although the Drifts Delay Traffic in Many Parts of State. The snow storm which visited Richmond last night was a tardy traveler, buffeted about from place to place, and two duys behind its schedule. This is shown by the following story of Its history by W. E. Moore, local weather forecaster:

"A big snow storm is a slow trav eler. "Last night's unusually heavy enow was due to an area of barometric pres sure which originated Friday over the southern Rocky Mountain plateau, and was due here Sunday, but was checked by an area of high barometric pressure on the Atlantic coast. Storm Travels Far. "The storm was central over Mis souri on Saturday night, having travel ed some 800 miles and extended from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. Mon day night its center had moved to the Ohio valley where it suddenly increased to enormous proportions, affecting the entire United States east of the ninetieth meridian and south of the forty second parallel. It is now passing to the Atlantic Ocean." As the fall of snow was not heavy enough to seriously interfere with traffic, little inconvenience has followed it. The high wind which almost reached the velocity of a gale and the driving snow made walking almost impossible late yesterday evening. Few persons were on the streets, stores and picture shows being almost deserted. Heads of households were forced to tear themselves from their slumbers earlier than usual this morning that their fellow citizens might not be inconvenienced by the snow on the sidewalks. By the time children were on their way to school te 6now had been removed from all the walks in the business section and from most of the pavements in the residential STORM CAUSES DEATH. INDIANAPOLIS, Jan, 19. The entire state of Indiana today was held In the grasp of the heaviest snow of the present winter season. In Indianapolis the fall averaged a depth of about 8 inches. Tn the rural districts of the state it was drifted to a depth of several feet in many places. Railroad, and interurban traffic was seriously interferred with, and schedules were abandoned on many lines running into this city. One fatality was reported today as the result of the snow storm. At Peru, Ind., Everett Morris a newspaper carrier, blinded by the storm, walked Into the path of an interurban car and was killed. ENGLAND REFUSES TO WAIVE RIGHTS ON STEAMER DAGIA tBY LEASED WIRE. WASHINGTON, Jan. 19. The Brit ish government today notified the state department that it would not waive the right of seizure in the case of the former Hamburg American steamer Dacia. England also refused this govern ment's request that the vessel be per mitted to make one voyage with cot ton from the United States to Ger many without the voyage being con sidered a establishing the right of German ships to be transferred to the American flag. Ambassador Page at London stated that the British foreign (Continued on Page Seven) not residents of the city were being admitted to the hospital as charity cases," remarked Mr. Waidele after the report had been read, "and, if such was found to be the case, to try and arrange for the township and county to meet the expenses of their charity cases. I have never heard the report of that committee. Controller McMahan, also a hospital trustee, promptly stated that for over a year no person not a resident of the city had been admitted to the hospital as a municipal charity case. In the report it is stated that . the cost per patient a day last year was $2.40, or 35 cents more than for the two preceeding years and that the present year was begun with a deficit of $605.54. "The board of trustees has been enContinued on Page Seven..)

Hudson Maxim, the inventer,. declares that we must fight the winner of the European war. Should an invading army reach these shores, continued Mr. Maxim, they could easily capture all hte sources of war munitions and use them for their own advantage. He called attention to the fact' that most of -the arm and powder manufacturing concerns are within a short radius of New York. He mentioned the Winchester and U. M. C. Cartridge Works at New Haven and Bridgeport, Conn.; the "Winchester Repeating Arms works, the armory where our army rifles are made at Springfield, Mass., another arms factory at Ilion, N. Y., still another at Troy, N. Y., and the Brooklyn navy yards. The Frankford arsenal is near Philadelphia and any number of powder works are to be found in New Jersey. With these in the hands of an

enemy we would have no means of arming ourselves, declared Mr. Max im. EARLY QUAKERS FOUGHT SALOON AS MEN DRANK Mrs. Eliza Hiatt Tells How Women Spent Hours Watching Inside Shops Where Liquor Flowed. DAY RECALLS START South Eighth Street Friends Hear How Prayer Service Lead by Syble Jones Started Meeting. The congregation of South Eighth Street Friends church assembled last night to do honor to those who assisted in the foundation of the church, which celebrates its fiftieth anniversary today. Only' a few of the little band of Friends who gathered in the meeting house at the corper of what was then known as Marion and Market streets, on January 19, 1865, , to "set up" the meeting, have been spared to see the fiftieth anniversary of the church. The records of the church do not show clearly just who were the charter members, but of those who are living who were either charter members or who were identified with the church during its Jirst year there were present last night, Benjam Johnson, William B. Hadley, Edward Bellis, Wil liam J. Hiatt and Eliza W. Hiatt. Oldest Member Is Ninety-four. 'In point . of age, the oldest member is Mrs. Charity Allen, who, despite her, ninety-four years, retains a vivid recollection of the events of a. halfcentury ago,, and came from Winches ter yesterday, to attend the jubilee celebration. . In the receiving line at the recep-. tlon for the older members, which preceded the banquet, were Benjamin Johnson, Edward Bellis. William J (Continued on Page Seven.) WILLIAMS ENDS LIFE German Comedian Belonged to Local G. A. R. NEW YORK, Jan. 19. Gus Williams, who established the German comedian type on the American stage, shot himself recently in the New York Central Suburban, station at Yonkers, dying a short time later, in A hospital. The suicide cannot, it- is said, be ex plained by his many friends as he was apparently in good financial clrcum stances. Gus Williams was well known to many Richmond G. A. R. veterans as he was a member of F company, Eighty-fourth Indiana regiment, which was recruited in eastern Indiana and trained at old Camp Wayne, this city. He was a New, Castle man ' but .enlisted for the war at Knlghtstown. He was member o Sol Meredith Post

IN 3 BATTLES CZAR'S FORCE LOSES GROUND Germans Repulse Attacks in

Northern Poland With Loses at Radzonow, Cjeshun and Sierpez. BY FREDERICK WERNER, Staff Correspondent of the International News Service. BERLIN. Jan. 19. By Wireless A triple repulse of the Russian forces in Northern Poland is announced in an official report from the German general staff, issued here this afternoon. It says that the fighting in the western theatre of war yesterday was of no great importance. The general staff's report follows: "In the western theatre of war, except for a few unimportant skirmishes, only artillery duels occurred along the entire front yesterday. "In the eastern theatre of war, the weather is very unfavorable. "At Radzonow, Cjeshun and Sierpez (all in Northern Poland) we repulsed the Russians with heavy losses. We took several hundred prisoners. West of the Vistula and east of the Pilica the situation is unchanged." Take Rail Centers. Kielce and Opoczno, two important towns of Russian Poland, have been captured by the Germans, according to dispatches received by Berlin news papers from Breslau. Though these messages were passed by the German censor, no official announcement of the taking of these towns had been Issued by the war office up to the time this dispatch was sent. Of Opoczno and Kielce, the posses sion of the latter is of great importance to the Germans, as it controls the railroad running from Ivangorod into Southwestern Poland, which is neces sary for the transportation of Russian troops into that district for the cam. pafgn" against Cracow. The Breslau dispatches also state that following the capture of Kielce and Opoczno the Russians retreated to Radom and that the Germans are pressing on toward Skurzysko, which is the junction point of the railroads in the government of Kielce. DOOMS FREE LUNCH IN HOUSE MEASURE Representative Believes Dis eases Spread by Eating Off Same Fork. BY LEASED WIRE.J INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 19 When the Indiana house meets tomorrow morning, it will be asked to consider the question of abolishing the saloon free lunch. Representative Davis of Crown Point, will introduce the bill and he will have the support of the majority side of the house It is reported Davis contends free lunch should be abolished purely for sanitary reasons. "I do not pretend to be a prohibition advocate," said Davis today, "but I am for cleanliness and health. Free lunch stands with the worst places in the world to catch disease. Men follow one another to the counter, eat with the same fork until they have spoiled their regular meals, fail to go home at meal time, and cause their wives unhappiness. The saloon free lunch is injurious to the stomach too."

ROCK ISLAND AND PACIFIC ROAD GOES INTO RECEIVER'S HANDS

Walter C Noyes Named Receiver Central Trust Company Brings Action Deficiency Judgment of $68,239,252.88 Entered in New York Court on January 1 5.

NEW YORK, Jan. 19. Federal Judge Mayer today appointed Walter C. Noyes receiver for the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railroad company. His bond was fixed at $75,000. The court's action was taken in an equity suit instituted by the Central Trust company of New York. The Rock Island and Pacific Railroad company, incorporated in Iowa, is the holding concern, and the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad company is the operating company. Asks Jurisdiction. In its suit the Central Trust company asked the court to adjudicate, enforce and adjust the claims, equities, reports, lien or priorities of all the creditors of the railroad company and appealed to Judge Mayer to authorjize Receiver, Noyes to take possession

Big Implement Concern, Unable to Meet Notes Amounting ti $10,000,000, With Common Stock Quoted at Little Ore: One Cent a Share, Hits Breakers When Note-Holders Re fuse to Renew Loans.

UNABLE TO REDEEM TREMENDOUS INDEBTEDNESS

Receivership Has No Effect on Industrial Situation in Rich mond, as Local Branch Has Been Closed for Months Lo cal Stockholders Hard Hit Combine of Old Gaar-Scot Concern Benefited Persons Selling Out Rumely Stock.

BY LEASED WIRE. 1 INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 19. A petition for a receiver for thl M. Rumely company was presented to Federal Judge Anderson to day. Clarence H. Funk of Chicago, and attorneys for the corpora tion, came to Indianapolis this morning to present the papers it the case to the court. On account of Judge Anderson's illness tin attorneys, accompanied by a court official, took the papers to th Anderson home where an order was expected to be issued thii afternoon naming a receiver. The Rumely company has outstanding $21,658,000 in capita stock, of which $9,750,000 is preferred and $11,908,000 is common It also has outstanding notes amounting to approximately $10 000,000. -" Since 1912. when Snmalv iiulr

GLEN KARN ASKS CITY TO PROVIDE TRUCK TRANSFER In Distress Ohio Town Appeals for Better Transportation Service to Richmond Markets. The little town of Glen Karn, in Darke county, Oho., has cried out in distress and asked for assistance, and today the Commercial club, hearing its cry, promised to encourage means to relief, namely, an auto passenger and freight line through the isolated cities north and east of Richmond. A Glen Karn correspondent, writing from the village today, likened Glen Karn's appeal to Richmond for aid, to the attempts of the inhabitants of the planet of Mars to communicate with the people of the earth. There is a note of real distress in the communication, which follows: "Scientists tell us that for years the people of the planet Mars have been trying to signal us without success. We, of Glen Karn, know how to sympathize with them. For years we have been trying to let Richmond know of our wishes, but have failed." Trip Takes Two Days. "It takes two days traveling on the train from her to Richmond, and the distance is fourteen miles. We have only one passenger train west, which leaves here at 4:34 p. m. We stay all night in Lynn and resume our journey next day. Coming back the next day, we arrive at Lynn at 1:20 p. m., and stay until 5:35 p. m. By the time we pay hotel bills in Lynn, we have no money to spend in Richmond. "Can't we have an auto truck line like they have to Liberty? If you will provide us a way to come, we will give Richmond 6uch a boom as it never had. There are about six inland towns that could be taken in on the route." C. W. Jordan, secretary of the Commercial club, said he would bring the matter before the president of the retail merchants' section and will ask the Commercial club members to interest themselves in the matter. "There is a long neglected opportunity for some one," Mr. Jordan said. "I will encourage an auto line, ana i nope one win De siariea Dy spring. A few years ago some persons were ready to start one, but we did not encourage them, because there was every prospect then that a traction line would go through. "I would like to hear from the people of Glen Karn and other towns (Continued on Page Three.) of the company's property, bring suit and incur such expenses as might be necessary. The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad company in its answer, made through White and Case, New York lawyers, admitted all the allegations of the complaint and consented to the appointment of Receiver Noyes. Because of default in the payment of interest in a foreclosure suit the Central Trust company on September 3 last, obtained a decree for $74,098,192.85. Under that decree the property of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad company, consisting of 713,535 shares of stock, was sold on December 22 last for $7,135,300. A deficiency judgment for $68,239.252.88 was entered In the district court here on January 15.

considered one of the strongest lsaim on the New York stock exchange, thi price of the stock has steadily los value. In 1912 the highest bid on tin preferred stock was 103 and thi lowest was 99$. The common stocl was at 101 in that year. In 1913 pre ferred stock sold as low as 33 anc common as low as 14. In 1914 pre ferred stock was bid as low as 21 an common as low as 3. Now Rumel: stock is only dealt in on the New Yor curb, the preferred being quoted a; about 3 and the common from lft to 17. Last Dividend in 1913. The last payment of dividends oi the preferred stock was 14 per cen1 on April 1, 1913. The last dividend de clared on common stock was on Marct 15, when 1 per cent was paid. The company has been unable to re deem 16,800,000 in notes which art held by banks. Creditors are holding $1,300,000 worth of notes maturing oe March 1, 1915, and they have refused to make any provision for an extensloc of time on them.

NO SURPRISE HERE. Local Stockholders Expected Actior in Federal Court. Suit for receivership for the M. Rumely Company, filed in federal court at Indianapolis, was no surprise to the stockholders of the big implement corporation living in this city, all of them having anticipated such action several days ago. Neither will the receivership of the corporation have effect on the Indus trial situation in Richmond, for the Gaar, Scott factory, its local branch, has been closed for several months and only operated at full capacity tot a few months following its absorption by the Rumely interests, three yean ago. In fact many Richmond business men believe that the receivership for the Rumely company will eventually benefit the city, for they are anticipating that the big Gaar. Scott plant will be disposed of to some prosperous manufacturing concern, giving employment to a large number of men. Local Stockholders. "At one time there were over one hundred Richmond people who were stockholders in the Rumely company." a local stockholder said today. "It is hard to estimate the number of local stockholders now. Those people who received Rumely stock in exchange for Gaar, Scott stock and disposed of it when the market was high, shortly after the merger, found the merger I financtallv nrofitahtn tn them herons ! Rumely 8tock a sbort tlme after tne ; morr nn ahsv nBi ..ivhpn thft mWr -.-. amM nn Gaar-Scott stock, which had a par value of $100 a share, was supposed to be actually worth $925 a share. That was the basis of exchange. GaarScott shareholders were offered for each share of their stock $500 in cash, five times the par value of their stock and $425 in Rumely common. Holders Are Hit. "Some people took the cash they received for their Gaar-Scott stock and invested it in Rumely common or preferred and hung on to it until the bitter end ; others kept their cash payments and disposed of varied amounts of their Rumely common when the Continued on Page Three. Weather Forecast FOR INDIANA Unsettled. Local snow storms tonight or Wednesday. Warmer tonight. Temperature Noon 2S Yesterday Maximum 31 Minimum 25 LOCAL Continued . . unsettled . tonight and Wednesday with, conditions favorable for snow. Somewhat warmer. GENERAL CONDITIONS Barometric pressure continues low east of the Rocky mountains from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, which has caused chinook weather over the region of Montana and the Southwestern part of Canada with a rise of temperature of 50 degrees in the last forty-eight hours. Heavy rains, sleet and snow prevail east of the Mississippi with clear weather in the far WesL - W. E. MOORE, Weather Forecaster.1