Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 40, Number 89, 24 February 1915 — Page 1

TTT) TTTn m. AIXABIIJM VOL. XL.. NO. 89 Palladium and Sun-Telegram , Consolidated. 107 RICHMOND, IND., WEDNESDAY EVENING; FEBRUARY 24, 1915. SINGLE COPY, 2 CENTS

JANKERS REFUSE $1,200 PER FOOT FOR SMALL LOT

Refusal of Purchase to Meet Building Requirements the Reason for Dickinson Bank's Action. PLATS ENTIRE BLOCK Real Estate Men Believe Syndicate Will Erect Theatre on Ground Bought by El wood McGuire. The Dickinson Trust company has refused $1,200 a front foot for twenty feet of the property on which the building formerly occupied by the Hornaday Hardware company stands, It was learned today. - The reason for refusing this offer was the refusal of the prospective buyer to agree to the building conditions set down by the Dickinson Trust company. Officers of the company said today that building standards would be demanded of persons to whom lots are sold. This will be done to keep all new buildings erected in the Vaughan block in keeping with the Dickinson building as it will look when completed. Comoanv Holds Court. The Trust com Dan v will sell all nrnnertv excent that on wnicn me bank is located, and a strip of ground ninety feet long and fifteen feet wide in the rear of the Main street lots. That Elwood McGuire has purchased the entire rear end of the lot is still asserted, but no deed of the sale has been recorded. Mr. McGuire said to day that he had no announcement to make regarding the probable use of the property. Local real estate men say It was purchased by Mr. Aiciuire for a Chicago theatrical or onice bulldinsr syndicate. The plan of the square arranged Dy the Dickinson Trust company inui cates that the property will be used for a theatre. The space ih larger than that occupied by eitner oi me nth or ivn theatres, and would give a much greater depth. This lot has a frontage or miy two feet on Eighth street, Is 132 feet deen and sixty feet across the rear, Between its south side ana me rear of the Main street building lots runs thajppurt. ... - Fian conxaina rour un. The plan of the square shows four building lots, starting at Main ana the alley, each- twenty-feet- ta-tront and ninety feet deep. This leaves ten feet which has not been applied to any use, as yet. The bank building has a Main street frontage of fortytwo feet, and is 110 feet deep. Work of razing the old building ih progressing rapidly. The unsigntiy interior walls are being torn out aa fast as possible and the debris named away. Within a day or two work will begin on the original Tremont duhuIng at Eighth and Main streets. Upper stories or tne Duuamg easi oi the Tremont building nave Deen removed and a temporary roof built. The rooms will be occupied Dy mxon's candy store, Haner's jewelry store and Feltman's cigar store until purchasers are found. REDUCED PRICES CAUSE PROTEST AGAINST DEALER An attempt to throttle the advancing high cost of living in Richmond has resulted in a stiff opposition on the part of Richmond grocers against K. V. McLeland, a commission merchant, unless he stops selling the Kresge five and ten cent store. Manager Kennedy of the Kresge store, said today that he went into '.he grocery business when he found jrocers here were charging exhorbi:ant prices. He said, as an Instance, that they trippled the price of lettuce ind that by purchasing in large quantities he was able to sell the commoMtv at ten cents a pound and make a alg profit. If the trouble comn to an open sreak, Mr. McLeland said today he would establish six or eight sanitary jroceries over Richmond and sell hi goods at retail. Offers Same Prices. "The Richmond grocers have the apportunity to buy at the same prices I charged the Kresge company," Mr. McLeland said today. "None of them have said anything to me but I have heard of these threats. If the grocers lon't buy my goods, somebody will and will start groceries to sell commisilon goods in. "The trouble with the grocers here that too many people want to buy .n time and on long time. They are ip palnst It with bad customers anrl naturally they can ue unaersoia uy sash stores. As far as my prices aro joncerned, all of them are given equal 3lportunity." Manager Kennedy cf the ten ce.t itore, said the threats of the grocers lid not concern him and he would ontlnue to buy in large quantities and lell for cash whether he buys in Richmond or elsewhere. TAX LAWS DRIVE MAN FROM CHICAGO f BY LEASED WIRE. CHICAGO, Feb. 24. Charles R. ;rane, one of the best known of Chicago's wealthy citizens, announced tolay that he would made Woodsholl, Mass., his legal residence In a short time. He said he had abandoned Chicago because of the "unjust tax laws t Illinois."

BIGGER ARMY CLUB

OPENS MEMBERSHIP The National Security League. Inc.. 25 Pine street. New York, which has an organisation in the -east, is- extend ing westward, and Paul Comstock has membership blanks which he will give to interested persons here. The league is composed , of citizens who feel that the United States is not adequately prepared for defense. The members favor an army and navy with citizen reserves sufficient only for United States protection. The first thing the league will do when of great enough strength, according to the Information accompanying the membership blanks, is to ask congress to appoint a non-partisan commission of experts and laymen to work out means of "removing the United States from the present state of military helplessness." OVERSEA NEWS KEEPS BRYAN CLOSETO JOB Cancels Visit to New York and With Wilson Awaits Developments in War Zone Waters. WORRY OVER SHIPPING Diplomats Hope for Speedy Settlement of Foodstuff Problem Between U. S., Germany and England. BY LEASED WIRE. WASHINGTON, Feb. 24. Convinced by the sinking of the American ships Evelyn and Carib in the North Sea that prompt measures must be taken to prevent further disasters to American shipping, the Washington administration today took up two lines of action looking to this end. They were said to be: To issue a warning to all shipping interests of the dangers of disregarding the German admiralty's war zone instructions. To make at least tentative efffoxta to modify the -English em bargo on food stuffs consigned to Germany and the German war zone order. Tne declaration of the German authorities that both the Evelyn and the Carib were sunk while out of the course laid down by the German admiralty has awakened official Washin ir,i to the probable grave consequences of such action. It is expected that tne treasury department will shortly issue the warning to shipping as the war risk insurance bureau most likely will have to stand the loss of the ships. Administration officials admitted that a serious situation exists and Secretary of State Bryan's cancellation of his visit to New York was regarded as significant. It was said that the secretary desired to remain in close touch with President Wilson and be in a position to receive the earliest news of oversea developments. As in the case of the Evelyn it is alleged by the German government that the Carib was not following the course prescribed by the German ad miralty. This, officials believe, if proved, will relieve the United States of the necessity for diplomatic action No effort was made by officials, how ever, to conceal that they consider the position of American commerce to be grave as the result of the retaliatory measures adopted against each other by the belligerents. The sinking of the ships, therefore, has spurred the administration to new efforts to settle the foodstsuffs ques tion, it was stated in diplomatic quarters.

Fight on Tuberculosis Calls Out New Recruits Dr. S. Edgar Bond, Leader in War on Plague, Discusses Methods Advocated to Combat Malady Pleads for Plan Bringing About Tangible Results. Dr. S. Edgar Bond, who has been actively engaged in the fight on tuberculosis in Wayne county, has submitted the following: It is with very great personal pleasure that we have watched the increasing interest taken in the present agitation for some safe and sane means of caring for the unusually large number of tuberculosis patients in our county and prevent the spread of such an insideous disease. To some of us who have labored in various ways to arouse the public both to its dangers from the disease and for a means to care for the sufferers, this entrance of new blood into the fight can mean nothing but a reward of some real tangible result. But are we getting anywhere as yet in this discussion? Many plans have been discussed. Many of these recently brought forward are as ancient history to the organized tuberculosis workers and have been discarded in our community as im

practicable. At present perhaps two methods stand out as favored: The county hospital idea as worked out and favored by the local and state Anti-tuberculosis societies. The visiting nurse and care in the home. It matters not to those who represent the organized forces, in our community whether the county , hospital Idea is accepted or not What we want Is the best plan that

GERMAN WASPS SINK 14 SHIPS IN "WAIT ZONE British Admiralty Restricts Shipping to Certain Routes in Irish Sea and North Channel.

STOP NIGHT SAILINGS Teuton Submarine, Believed to Be U-16, Sunk in English Channel by French Torpedo Boat. BY LEASED WIRE. LONDON, Feb. 24 The first decisive result of Germany's submarine warfare against British shipping is an order from the English admiralty restricting all navigation in the Irish Sea and the North Channel where a big section of the home fleet is stationed. Ships passing through the North Channel must follow a certain route and they will not be allowed to make passage at night. The Irish Sea, the English Channel and the North Sea are swarming with submarines. In these waters the underwater craft have damaged or sunk about fourteen ships since the "war zone" proclamation went into effect. A dispatch from New Haven states that eighteen members of the crew of the British collier Branksome Chine were landed there. They report that the collier was torpedoed without warning about twenty miles from Beachy Head. The Branksome Chine left France Tuesday morning. The vessel began to settle at once. A radio gram from Berlin conveys an oficial announcement to tne effect that a British transport was sunk near Beachy Head, but the Germans evi dently mistook the collier for a trans port. A telegram from Paris announces that a German submarine, believed to be the U-16 had been sunk in the English Channel by a French-torpedo boat near Cape Arprech on Monday night. ' ; - - ' ,". ' .. ' : ...Attack Packet :" An attempt to sink the FolkestoneBoulogne steamer Victoria proved unsuccessful. The packet was attacked in the darkness by a submarine which fired a torpedo across the bow of the vessel. The phosphorent glow of the torpedo could be seen less than thirty yards in front of the Victoria's bow. The attack took place within four and a half miles of Boulogne. It is believed all members of the crew of the American ship Carib were saved when she was sunk by a mine In the North Sea while on her way to Bremen with a cargo of cotton. An Amsterdam dispatch says the steamer Princess Juliana sailed from Flushing for Tilbury, Eng., in spite of the menace to navigation in English waters. The same dispatch said that the crew of the steamer Deutschland mutinied and refused to take the vessel out of port. HARRISON DEFEATED IN CHICAGO PRIMARY BY LEASED WIRE. CHICAGO. Feb. 24. Complete returns from every precinct in the primary election show Robert M. Sweitzer nominated by the Democrats for mayor by 77,651 over Carter H. Harrison, and William Hale Thompson, winner of the Republican nomination over Judge Henry Olson by 2,325. Harrison, serving his fifth term as mayor, and never defeated before iu a primary or general election, said today he "was through." will bring about the most tangible results. Not only now for a brief spurt of enthusiastic support but permanently when the burden begins to rest heavily on the few who inevitably sooner or later in philanthropic efforts must shoulder the burden. . The county hospitals are not everywhere a success. Neither Is the UBe of shacks and (Continued on Page Four)

GERMAN SUBMARINE KNOCKED TO BOTTOM BY LEASED WIRE. , PARIS, Feb. 24. -The French minister of marine today announced the receipt of definite -information that a German submarine which attacked the channel steamer Victoria on Monday night, was later sunk by a French torpedo boat. The submarine is believed to be the U-16, which has been attacking merchant ships in the channel for a week. She was sent to the bottom off Cape Alprech, near Boulogne.

RESIDENTS FIGHT EFFORT TO PAVE THREE STREETS Property Owners File Re monstrances Against Proposed Improvements of North A and Ninth. HEARING TO BEGIN Works Board Will Refer Paving Program to Council for Final Action Because of Strong Opposition The first real battle as a result of the effort the board of public works and city council have decided to make to put through a program calling for paving of fifty-five blocks in various parts of the city, this year, is scheduled tomorrow at the city building. Hearings will be given tomorrow on the resolutions for the paving of Ninth street, from South A to North E, the paving of North A from Fifth street to Sixteenth street, from Main street to North P street. Set Additional Hearings. Thursday, March 4, hearing on the resolutions for the paving of Fifth street from South A to North A, the paving of Fort Wayne avenue from North A to North D, the paving of Sixth street from South A to North D and the paving of South Seventh from Main to South A are scheduled. ' Xatef hearings will be given on the resolutions for the paving of streets in the Reeveston addition and South A street, from Fourth street to Sixteenth street. A big crowd of' remonstrators who are resident property owners on North Ninth street, North A street and North Sixteenth street, are expected to .appear before the board tomorrow. The board is prepared to hold its session in the council room If necessary. Practically all the resident property owners on North Ninth street, between North A and North E streets, have signed a remonstrance, as have nearly ah the resident property owners on North A street. On North Sixteenth street allbut one resident property owner have remonstrated. Board Loses Authority. The board members realize that the proposed improvements for these three streets have been successfully remonstrated out of their jurisdiction but after hearing the arguments of the various remonstrators the remonstrances will be referred to the city engineer to determine whether the various signers are qualified under the law to remonstrate. It is not believed the engineer will find enough unqualified remonstrators to effect any of the three remonstrances, but it is quite probable the board will take advantage of its authority to refer the resolutions for the Improvement of Ninth street and North A street to council for final decision. It is understood the board will rescind its resolution for the improve ment of North Sixteenth street, be cause property owners on that street are to be put at a heavy expense this year for cement curbs, gutters and sidewalks. Council Pushes Program. Council has indicated that it is even more anxious than the board of public works to put through the street paving program this year and it is believed that it will order the paving of Ninth 6treet and North A street in spite of the Impressive remonstrances filed against these improvements. It is quite probable that the resolutions for other permanent street im provements which will be given hear ings later on will also be remonstrated out of the jurisdiction of the board, with the exception of the resolution for the paving of streets in the Reeves ton addition. Weather Forecast FOR INDIANA Cloudy tonight and Thursday. Slightly colder tonight. TemperatureNoon 36 Yesterday. Maximum 59 Minimum 40 Local Mostly cloudy tonight. Thurs day partly cloudy. Temperature near freezing or slightly below Thursday morning. General Conditions The storm with a diameter of fifteen hundred miles which was central last night over the middle west, is causing rain, blustery weather over the central and eastern states this morning. A cold wave of small dimensions is causing zero weather in Manitoba. Another storm is central in the far northwest, caus ing rains and snows. W. E. MOORE, Weather Forecaster.

FRIENDS BELIEVE L1ISS FUR FOUND IN INDIANAPOLIS Capital City Police Hold Mentally Deranged Young Woman Who Gave Rich mond Address as Home.

DeMONTS UNKNOWN Longmans Who Live at the House Mentioned Know ' the Missing Camden Girl Sought by Salvation Army. BY LEASED WIRE. INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 24. The local police are holding Miss Mary DeMont, 24, of 431 Richmond street, Richmond, Ind., until word can be received from relatives and friends in Richmond. She was found last evening wandering about the west side, apparently drugged or suffering some mental affection. She told a disconnected story of having come here from Richmond Monday night. She said she met a man in Military park and then later they met six other men. She says she does not remember what happened or how the escaped from the men. The police believe she gave them a fictitious name and address, but they. say she talks knowingly of the city of Richmond and they believe that Is her home. WRONG NAME GIVEN. Friends Believe Mary DeMont Is Miss Catherine Fur of Camden. The "Mary DeMont" referred to in the above dispatch is believed to be Miss Catherine Fur of Camden, O., who disappeared from her, home Monday while suffering from temporary aberration of the mind So far as known no family by the name of DeMont lives in Richmond and It is known that no family by that name lives on Richmond avenue. At the address given by the young woman now held for safe keeping in Indian apolis, 431 Richmond avenue, W. H Longman and wife reside. Longman is a member of the police department. Mrs. Longman said today that she was well acquainted with the parents of Miss Fur, Mr. and Mrs. David Fur. She said Miss Fur had never been at her home but that she knew the street number." She IsTncITheS to believe that the so-called Miss DeMont in re ality is Miss Fur. Agrees With Opinion. Mrs. Jewel, wife of Captain Jewel of the local Salvation Army station, who had been requested to search for Miss Fur in this city, as her parents believed she had gone to Richmond, was notified today that the Indianapolis police were holding a young woman believed to be mentally deranged, and she also expressed the opinion that the young woman was Miss Fur. She said she would make an immediate investigation. Miss Fur is said to be a bright and well educated young woman and prominent socially in Camden. At infrequent intervals she is afflicted with a strange mental malady. Once or twice before she disapeared from her home. She is quite well known in Richmond. RUSH HORSES EAST ON EXPRESS TRAIN Buyers Ship 6,000 Animals From West for Service in Europe. Four Arms Palace Horse cars, loaded with fine horses for one of the foreign powers now at war, passed through Richmond yesterday afternoon attached to the Eastern express on the Pennsylvania railway. Scarcely a day passes but what several cars of horses go through this city eastbound. Advices from the west say that within the la6t sixty days over 6,000 horses have been purchased by the agents of foreign countries for cavalry duty and consequently the demand far exceeds the supply. The prices obtained for these horses are above the average and as a result horses are today commanding a higher price upon the open market than for the past fifteen years.

AUSTRIAN DESCRIBES DOWNFALL;

"I 'M A BUM NOW" HE DECLARES

Formerly High Priced Tailor, Foreigner Appeals to the Charity Bureau for Help After Miles of Wandering. "I'm a bum now." This was the dejected statement of a clean, stylishly dressed young Austrian yesterday who furnished a heart-to-heart, first hand story of how a $2,000 a year man can descend In eight months to the class in which he placed himself, to Secretary Melpolder of the Central Charity bureau. The man is well educated, refined and accustomed to good living. Yesterday he was shaking from the vermin which infested his clothing when he slept with bums next to the city hail boiler. ' Fails to Get Work. The - Austrian came to Richmond Monday In response to an advertise

CHARITY DEPENDENT

SAVES NEW NICKELS A poor little boy who was brought to the Central Charity Bureau In soleless shoes about six weeks ago and was then prominently featured in sobstories for several days after a charity worker accused the bureau of refusing to aid him, has again come into the limelight with bureau attaches. An amusing story was related by a grocer who came to the bureau yesterday. "The boy came In and asked for a nickel's worth of coffee," the grocer related. "He said he had no money. I told him that was all right and I fixed him up a dime's worth. In a little while he came back with a quarter and said he would pay for the coffee. I took out ten cents and handed him a dime and a buffalo nickel. "The boy's face lighted up. 'Oh, an other buffalo nickel,' he said. 'That makes fifty-one now. I'm saving them and I have fifty at home.' "I didn't ask the boy if he was sav ing dimes or any other denominations. but he evidently has not collected fifty-one buffalo nlckel3 in a day." CLUB TO ENGAGE WOMAN TO HELP COMBAT DISEASE Second Nurse Employed by Domestic Science Association Will Assist Mrs. Linton With Work. FUNDS MEET DEMAND Proceeds of Miss Kaufman's Recital Will Swell Amount at Disposal of Women Re lieving Sick. The Domestic Science association, an organization composed of earnest, practical Richmond women, which has done more to improve health con ditions in this city than any other local organization. Is to broaden the scope of its work immediately. This announcement was made today by Mrs. A. W. Roach, 135 South Twenty-first street, president of the association. - J. '' For two years theessoclation baa employed Mrs. Florence Benner Linton as a visiting nurse to work among the poor families of Richmond. Now this work is too great for one nurse to perform effectively, so, Mrs. Roach announced, a second nurse is to be employed. we nave in mind a young woman we think will be thoroughly competent to do the work and be able to re lieve Mrs. Linton of much of her work. We will know definitely about this young woman tomorrow. If the report of her is favorable she will be order ed to report for duty at once," Mrs Roach said. "We have sufficient funds to employ two nurses and we are to receive more money to aid us in the work we are doing. In the past two months $217.50 has been contributed to the associa tion. The recital Miss Mary Ann Kaufman, the soprano, will give in Richmond Wednesday, March 3, will be under the auspices of the association and we expect to realize some thing from that. "The association members realize the importance of a comprehensive campaign against tuberculosis and one will be undertaken, but no definite plan has been outlined. We have been employing the home treatment plan in our fight against tuberculosis but of course Mrs. Linton has not had as much time to devote to thli work as she would have liked to have given it. With another nurse our campaign against this disease will be more effective. Mrs. Linton, you know, has specialized on the treatment of tuber cular cases." Mrs. Roach also stated that a plan for employing a third nurse who would devote her entire time to work among the school children was being serious ly considered. She said that at this time she was not at liberty to an nounce any of the details of this plan The school board has no authority to employ a school nurse but the assoc iation members realize the importance of engaging in such work and with characteristic promptness and vigor they have undertaken to devise ways and means for the employment of such a nurse. ment in a Cincinnati paper for a coat maker at Gatzek's tailor shop. The local tailor informed the Austrian that he had secured a coat maker. The Austrian canvassed all tailors and dry cleaners in the city but could not find work. He was reduced to sleeping in the city hall basement Monday night and he had not enough money left to pay his fare to Cincinnati. He was taken In charge yesterday by the Central bureau and because of his evident refinement, the police permit ted him to sleep in a cell last night instead of in the vermin-ridden basement. Today the bureau furnished him a ticket to Cincinnati and enough money for a meal after reaching there. In relating his history to the secretary of the charity bureau, the young man said he was an Austrian reservist but he would not fight In the European war because he considered himself an American citizen. He left Austria (Continued on Last Pas.)

TORPEDO SENDS ENGLISH CRAFT BELOWVATER Bold German Submarine Sinks Steamer in Transport Lane in English Channel Off Folkestone.

SWEDISH SHIP LOST England Takes Over Two More Passenger Steamers to Carry Soldiers From Isles to France. rBY LEASED WIRE.! DOVER. Eng.. Feb. 24. The British steamship Oakley of West Hartlepool, was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine in the English channel off FoiKestone today. All members of the crew were landed. The Oakley was not far from the Folkestone pier when she was attacked, Indicating that the German submarine attacks are becom ing more bolder. The Oakley was de stroyed In the lane used by British transports crossing the channel from Folkestone. The Oakley was a vessel of 3,000 tons and carried a crew of between 20 and 30 men. Some members of the crew of the Oakley were landed at Ramsgate bv fisblng smacks which went to their rescue when the boat was blown up. i uey stated tnat no one aboard was Injured by the explosion, which occurred without warning, except the cantain, one of whose fingers was smash ed. The main hatches were blown off and the deck badly damaged. The pinnacle was thrown into the air. After the crew entered the boats one of them was swamped but its occupants were pulled into a fishing smack. SWEDISH SHIP LOST. STOCKHOLM. Feb. 24. The Swelish steamer Specia has been sunk by mine in the North Sea. A marine bulletin poste here today announces her loss. The Specia sailed from Liverpool on February 7 with a crew of eighteen and a cargo of 2,600 tons. TAKES OVER STEAMERS. LONDON, Feb. 24. The Atlantic Transport company's steamships Minnewaska and Minneapolis have been taken over by the government and added to the fleet of transports carry ing British troops to France. The lin ers were scheduled to sail for ths United States tedar-ead-sCIwe'r 'j the government's action more than 500 Americans are marooned here until they can get accommodations on other vessels. CARIB SUNK BY MINE. WASHINGTON, Feb. 24. United States Minister Henry Vandyke at The Hague, today cabled the state depart ment that the United States steamer Carib was sunk by a mine in tae North Sea while outside of the route prescribed by the German instructions. Secretary of State Bryan said that the minister's message contained no further details. The secretary dispatched a message to the minister asking for a full reort upon the disaster. LINER GOES ASHORE. AMSTERDAM. Feb. 24. The Holland-American liner Noonderdyk has gone ashore near Poortershaven. according to a dispatch from the Hook of Holland. Tugs have gone to her assistance. Rumors are current here that the vessel struck a mine and bad to be beached. SUBMARINE LOST. COPENHAGEN. Feb. 24. A German submame signalled the Swedish pilot boat Iris for assistance off Mundal last night. The Iris was unable to approach her because of mines and the submarine suddenly sunk. It is believed to have hit a mine. CRUISER LOST. LONDON, Feb. 24. The admiralty announced this afternoon that the Clan McNaughton, an armed merchant cruiser, has been missing since Februar 3, and it is feared she has been lost. The vessel Is under command of Hubert Jeffrys. ALLIES WILL SEIZE PRIVATE PROSPERTY OWNED BY GERMANS PARIS, Feb. 24. The allies will retaliate for the German submarine blockade by seizing all private property of Germans no matter on what ship found and by seizing all cargoes directly or Indirectly destined for Germany. This announcement Is made today by the Journal. It Indicates that even cargoes consigned to neutral ports will be seized if there is any suspicion that they are in reality intended for Germany. - DIRECTORS OF PARK DISCUSS LOT SALES Plans for conducting a lot sale at Morton park were submitted to a committee last night by a representative of an Illinois real estate firm. Members ot the. board were favorably impressed with the proposition, and a contract will probably be let. Approximately two-thirds of the lots remain unsold, including new lots which have been recently added. With the added attractions at the park this year and the building of lodges and camps, the directors anticipate an Increased demand for lots near the lake.