Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 40, Number 109, 19 March 1915 — Page 1

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BOARD ADOPTS MUNCIE'S PLAN TO OILSTREETS Rules That Citizens Must Petition for Oiling and Reimburse City for Expense Involved.

BOND'S -VIEW UPHELD Treating All Macadam Roads Would Cost $12,000, Says Robbiiis Appropriation Already Exceeds Budget. It is up to the citizens of Richmond whether the non-perma-nently improved streets, macadam and gravel, are oiled this spring, the work being done by the city. At the suggestion of Mayor Robbins the board of public works decided today that the socalled "Muncie plan" of oiling be adopted. This provides, for the city doing the work and the benefited property owners reimbursing the city the amount equivalent to the actual cost, plus a small charge to provide for depreciation of the oiling equipment. However, under this plan, no block cf street will be oiled unless the improvement Is petitioned for and is accompanied by a guarantee signed by at least one resident property owner that the city will be reimbursed. Bond Suspects Error. City Attorney Bond declared today That in his opinion the attorney general had been misunderstood when it was asserted that he bad ruled that street oiling work 7 could be done by the city itself and the cost of the work assessed againatthe property owners. He then cited the law governing such improvements which clearly sets forth that if the oiling is done by the city the cost of such work must be met out of the general fund ; and that if property owners are to be assessed for street oiling the work must be done under contract. In a communication received today from the state board of accounts, Mr. Bond's contention is substantiated. The state board quotes the attorney general as ruling that if property owners are assessed for such an improvement "the contractor shall, in the first instance, be paid by the city out of the funds in its treasury," the city to be reimbursed later under the usual method for collecting assessments. Would Cost $12,000. "The city cannot afford to do all the street oiling at its own expense, becslvz'j "very street not paved, to be perTectly f iir, would have to be oiled, and 1 est'al the expense would be at lpqst $"200. The controller says the til;.- already has appropriated this year :r $1".A10 more than is provided for in the 1 Vet," Mayor Robbins said. "Tr'- however, is perfectly willing L- 1-1 e over the work of oiling the street- r-rovided the benefited propp; it ' "aers post a guarantee to pay the citv what it actually costs it to do 'ae work. In a very few days guarantee blanks will be on file in the engineer's office. Any block will be oiled providing a petition is presented and rcomnanled by a guarantee blank rlgned by one or more resident propCity owners. Precedence m oiling win h elven to the petitions which are filed first. At the first meeting of council in April all petitions on file at that time will be submitted to that body. Of course, if only a few petitions are filed council will probably decide that the public is indifferent to street oiling and would probably refuse to make an appropriation for an ollins equipment. "There are many advantages in having th work done by the city. In the first place there will be no delays a3 occasioned in the ast by having the work done under public contract, such as advertising for bids, etc. Under the guarantee plan the city can oil a block just as soon as a petition and its accompanying guarantee has been submitted." W eather Forecast For Indiana Cloudy and somewhat colder tonight; Saturday fair. Temperature. Noon 37 Yesterday. Maximum 42 Minimum 25 Local Unsettled and colder tonight with temperature below freezing. Saturday fair. General Conditions Rain and snow have occurred during the last twentyfour hours over the central and eastern states, due to a storm which has been passing across the Great Lakes during the last thirt-six hours. A area of high barometric pressure is moving in behind the storm and . will cause the temperature to go several degrees below freezing tonight. The hot weather In southern California has been broken. W. E. MOORE, Weather Forecaster.

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The refusal of the emperor of Austria, Franz Joseph, even to consider the proposal to return to Italy the Irentino and other former Italian territory, which has been coveted atRome even as Alsace and torraine have been coveted IrcParTs; ireXpicterto send Italy to the support of the Alljes before summer. -T&e-Kaiser, en deavoring to placate Italy and win the nation for his ally, sought to have the Austrian emperor consent to the return of the Trentino to Italy. It is reported that the Austrian ministry supports the emperor in his decision.

SAMUEL SELL STEPS IN PATH OF FAST TRAIN Retired Farmer Dies at Hospital Without Regaining Consciousness Shortly After Accident. WARNED AT CROSSING Failing to heed the warnings of passersby and disregarding the efforts of Crossing Watchman Kromer to keep him from walking into the path of a C. & O. train, Samuel Sell, 80, life resident of Wayne county was struck by south-bound passenger train due here at 4:11 yesterday and died three hours later at the Reid Memorial hospital. A number of persons witnessed the accident. The old man was seen starting across the track and several called to him that the train was approaching. He hesitated and in the second's wait, lost bis chance of making a successful crossing. Watchman Kroma was among those who saw the danger. He ran out and seized Mr. Sell, but the later was determined to cross and as the train was upon him, stepped partly into its path. He was. hit and thrown a short distance. When he was picked up, he was unconscious. He was taken to the hospital immediately but never regained consciousness. His skull was fractured and he was otherwise injured about the head and body. He died at 7 o'clock. Mr. Sell has made his home with his son Clinton Sell, 329 Pearl street, for several years. Previous to his re tirement, he was a farmer, south of Centerville. He is the son of one of the pioneer families of the county. His father was Francis Sell who came to Wayne county in 1820 and settled near Abington on a farm. WAR VETERAN DIES Word was received today of the death of Abram McGee, 75, at Washington, D. C. He was a former residen of this city, and a member of Sol Meredith post, G. A. R. He served in the Forty-eight New York Volunteer Infantry during the civil war. He is survived by his widow, two sons, William and Frank McGee, and two daughters. Miss ' Emma McGee and Mrs. Edith Hunt.

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COFER TO OFFER SUGGESTION FOR HALTING PLAGUE Government Physician Will Come to Richmond First of April to Make Detailed Survey. WORKERS GET DATA Members of Committee Believe New Legislation Forms Strong Weapon to Combat Spread of Disease. Recommendations for the eradication of the white plague in Richmond will be made by Dr. Leland Cofer, government expert, after he has made a survey and studied 'conditions in Richmond, shortly after the first of April. Dr. Cofer has been assigned to help the committee which is seeking to prevent the spread of tuberculosis, and will spend several days in the city under orders from Sergeant General Blue of the United States health service bureau. In addition to being a representative of the federal government, Dr. Cofer will hold authority granted by the state, as he will be sworn in as a special deputy of the state health board. Time Remains Indefinite. Previous engagements make it impossible for Dr. Cofer to announce the exact date of his visit, although he has assured the committee he would reach Richmond shortly after the first of April. Persons who have been co-operating in an effort to arrive at a feasible plan for checking the disease's spread have valuable data which they will present to Dr. Cofer for his use. Many surveys have been made by competent persons. One of the tables will show the relative proportion of tuberculosis to the different strata of society. Members of the committee believe the recent state legislation placing tuberculosis victims subject to quarantine will be the means of making a county hospital a success, if the hospital is deemed the best method of combating the disease, after a thorough investigation of all plans has been made. The law makes segregation practical, allowing officials to compel sufferers to remain where they can be made comfortable and receive proper treatment.

GILES EXPLAINS FACTS ON AGES IN ALL SCHOOLS .

Educators of Sixth District Meet at Rushville to Discuss Problems at Organization Session. FIGURES COMPILED Charles O. Williams, J. T. Giles and N. C. Heironimus, Miss Elizabeth Williams, Miss Anna Wilson and Miss Carolyn Salter left at 2 o'clock this afternoon for Rushville where they will attend the first session of the Sixth District Teachers' associa tion since the organization. Mr. Williams is secretary. He said he expects 500 Sixth dis trict teachers there. Wayne county and Richmond teachers will take the 5:40 o'clock interurban to Cambridge City and catch a train for Connersville which will . connect them with the traction for Rushville. Giles Consults Data. Superintendent Giles will deliver a lecture on age-census of the schools of the district, and has prepared four tables from data furnished by schools in the district, showing the percentage of pupils eliminated by age and by grade, and the percentage of overage pupils, and the percentage of underage pupils. The report shows a total of 11,359 pupils, and the total average of the Seventh, Eighth and the Ninth grades has been taken as 1,088, the number of pupils who enter school each year. - The report shows that there are 1,186 6-year-old pupils in the district, or 109 per cent of the average number who enter each year. Only 77 (Continued on Page Seven.) 10FFETTS' POST ON PENNSY LINE Richmond Man Will Become Ticket Receiver on Retirement of Veteran Employe After 35 Years' Service. Albert E. Smith, 107 South Thirteenth street, a Pennsylvania extra ticket receiver, has been called in from Pittsburg to take the office of ticket receiver which will be vacated April 1, by William Moffett, 107 North Fifteenth street. Arrangements are being made to move the office from the second floor of the depot to the part now occupied by the baggage room, on the lower floor. The improvement will be completed in two weeks. No changes will be made in the office assistants. These are Howard Steinkamp and Everett Haseltine. The office work is heavy in Richmond because this is a division terminal. The office force has been complimented by the Pittsburg officials on its efficiency. Mr. Moffett, retiring ticket receiver who will be on a pension, celebrated his seventietfl birthday last week. He served thirty-five years in the same office. He and Mrs. Moffett will leave for San Francisco to attend the exposition within a few days after his retirement. A gift made to Mr. Moffett was two passes which can be 'used until death on any railroad. The new ticket receiver, A. E. Smith has been assistant in Richmond and the work will not be new For the past three years he has been connected with the corps of extra ticket receivers with headquarters at Pittsburg although he lives in this city. POOR PEOPLE LIKE CARE OF CHILDREN Mrs. Candler Finds Trouble Placing Homeless in the Homes With Plenty. As the result of the apparent unwillingness of financially able citizens to take in homeless children, a 7-year-old girl who was previously placed in a home where the financial returns were insufficient, is looking for a new place to live. A five-months-old baby boy who is now in a home, is also to be placed. Both the children are under the care of Mrs. Candler, secretary of the board of children's guardians. "It is a most difficult thing to find people who are able to care for children and who are willing to do it," Mrs. Candler said. "The poor people seem to be the ones who will take them in and I have many applications from good responsible people who can hardly live within their Income aside from having extra children to sup port. "

SHITH-RECEIVES

TURKS WRECK FRENCH SHIP IN DARDANELLES Ottoman Reports Bouvet Knocked to Bottom and Turkish v Warships Taking Offensive in Black Sea.

RUSSIANS IN PRUSSIA Berlin Denies Petrograd Dispatches Claiming Invasion of Kaiser's Territory by New Muscovite Forces. CONSTANTINOPLE, Mar. 19 (via Berlin and Amsterdam). The Turkish war office announced today that the French battleship Bouvet has been sunk by the Dardanelles forts. In the official statement issued it also said that Turkish warships had taken the offensive in the Black Sea, bombarding and setting on fire the ship yards and torpedo destroyer station west of the Russian port of Theodosia. The French battleship Bouvet carried a complement of more than six hundred men. Although she was a battleship of the old style, having been constructed in 1896, she carried a powerful armament and was a formidable fighting machine. She was 397 feet long and seventy feet in the beam. The armaments of the Bouvet were two twelve-inch (40-calibre) guns in turrets, fore and aft; two ten-inch (40calibre) guns in turrets on the beam; eight five-inch guns singly in turrets; eight three-inch guns, ten three-pounders and ten one-pounders. She alBO carried two 18-inch torpedo tubes submerged. DENY RUSSIAN INVASION. BERLIN, March 19 (by wireless).! -Mussian claims of another successful invasion of East Prussia were emphatically denied at the German war office today. It issued a statement showing that the entire German front in the eastern theatre of war is on Russian territory. The Russian movement toward Memel, in the northeastern part of East Prussia, is characterized as an offensive by small Russian bands of incendiaries. Steps are now being taken to drive out these forces. FLANK MOVEMENT SUCCEEDS. PETROGRAD, March 19. Continuing their flanking movement against the left wing of General von Eichhorn's army an the East Prussian frontier, Russian troops are advancing rapidly toward the Baltic, according to official advices received here today. They are nearing Memel and the inhabitants of that city have fled to Koenigsberg. STARTS TWO DRIVES. PARIS, March 19. Two great drives against the German army in France are under way, one being conducted by the British, the other by French. In the La Bassee district where hundreds of thousands of British troops are massed, the English are battering away at the German lines in an effort to pierce them and press on to Lille. In the Champagne district, between Rhelms and the Argonne forest, the French have toncentratcd their effort to pierce or drive in the German line. BOARD TO PURCHASE DUSTLESS SWEEPER FOR PAVED STREETS Dustless street sweeping is a plan the board of public works is seriously considering adopting. A South Bend company is manufacturing a machine which can sweep even dirt streets without raising any dust and it can be purchased rfor a very reasonable sum, the board has been Informed. It has been highly indorsed by the engineer of the city of Peru. Atta'ched to the front of a fourwheeled cart is a tank which contains about 200 gallons of water. A very fine stream is sprinkled over the street from, this tank. In the rear of the cart is a rotary sweeper, which deposits the dampened dust In the gutters. On paved streets, the board figures, this sweeper could precede the street flusher, insuring an absolutely clean pavement. On macadam streets the dustless sweeper would greatly simplify and expedite their cleaning. It could also be used in connection with street oiling, which work the city will probably do this year. Before a street was oiled it could - be thoroughly cleaned by the sweeper. The board also believes it would be wise economy to purchase such a machine as It would do the work of a number of men and do it much quicker.

UNDERBILL FIRES GUN AT J. k I'JEIDENBACII; HELD FOR SHOOTING

Stockman Discharges Both Barrels at Distance of Six Feet at

Neighbor in Altercation Over Cattle Straying from Underbill's Farm on Property of McClelland White.

INTENDED VICTIM BADLY

Underhill So Badly Bruised Police Unable to Transfer Him to

City Prefer Charge of Shooting with Intent to Kill Against Him No Charge Against Weidenbach and White Alfred Underhill. a well-to-do storkmnn

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Underhill was so badly battered up by the man he shot at, J. A. Weidenbach, a farmer living on the New Paris pike, a short distance east of the Gaar Road, that he could not be taken to the city by the police.

Underhill, his face swollen and discolored and his body a mass of bruises, is confined to his bed and it is doubtful if he will be able to leave it for a week or more. TTnn'prrnll IIvoq

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unl,l rrf. rmH s1t,umDIed toward Chief Goodwin, screaming, "Oh, don't let them kill me."

REPUBLICANS WORRY ABOUT PRIMARY LAW State Contmittee Studies the New Act and Wonders If Measure Will Stand Constitutionality Test. INDIANAPOLIS, March 19. In an effort to Interpret the provisions of the newly enacted Jones-Burns state wide primary election law, and determine a course of action with regard to its constitutionality the Republican state committee convened at the Hotel Severin today. Confusion of ideas exists as to the exact meaning of various clauses. The clause creating the most witicism is that which compels a qualified voter in the event of a challenge to make affidavit that at the first preceding election he affiliated with the party holding the primary election and that he voted with at least sixty per cent of the nominees and that he intends to vote for the nominees at the coming election. While contending that this clause is unconstitutional, although it has been in effect in cities only throughout the state since 1907, the O. O. P. solons intend to conform to the new law because it requires the appointment of more committees and the consequent development of a better political machine. According to well informed sources there will be more candidates for G. O. P. nominations at the. state convention next year than ever before in the history of the state. Leaders are optimistic for Republican success at the polls. Already six candidates for the governorship are in sight. The list includes James S. Goodrich, Winchester; R. O. Johnson, Gary; James E. Watson, Rushville; Quincy Myers, Logansport; John McCardle and W. L. Taylor, Indianapolis, and Charles Henderson, Bloomfield. Five for lieutenant governor are mentioned. The same situation exists with respect to the other state offices and it is predicted that by the time the con vention meets the scramble for plums will be extremely lively. ASSIGN SPEAKERS TO EXPLAIN WORK OF BIBLE INSTITUTE The following men have been appointed to make an announcement at the various Sunday schools of the city, the Richmond Bible School Insti tute, which will open next Wednesday evening at the high school auditorium. They will visit the schools next Sunday morning for that purpose: First Baptist, J. J. Somerville; First Christian, Forest Davis; Central Christian, Claudius Rlegel; St. Paul's Episcopal, Clarence Kramer; Earlham Friends, John F. Holaday; East Main Friends, J. H. McAfee; South Eighth Street Friends, Dr. A. L. Bramkamp; Whitewater Friends, Waldo Lacey; First English Lutheran, John Snyder; Second English Lutheran, A. M. Gardner; St. Paul's Lutheran, John H. Johnson; Grace Methodist, J. W. Fer guson; First Methodist, E. M. Haas; Third Methodist, Rev. Sylvester Billbeimer; Earlham Heights, E. D. Stevenson; First Presbyterian, A. M. Roach ; Second Presbyterian, Roy L. Babylon; Reid Memorial, C. E. Thomason; United Brethren, George Mansfield; Trinity Lutheran, EL H. Hasemeler.

BEATS HIS ASSAILANT

No charges have been preferred against Weidenbach and White and the police say there is no intention of doing so. They say that Weidenbach acted in self-defense. That Weidenbach, who Is about 30 years old, was not killed or seriously wounded is regarded remarkable for Underhill discharged both barrels of a shotgun at him at a distance of less than six feet The young man was standing at the side of the road whet Underhill shot at him and Underhil was seated in a rig. Hears Shot' 7 i - "Both times he fired I heard th shot whistling about my head buUnderbill's aim was poor because hi horse was lunging about the road After he fired the second time I went after him with my fists." Weidenbach explained to the police. According to Weidenbach's account of the affair the trouble started over Underbill's custom of letting cattle roam about the roadside. The cattle frequently got into the White farm, doing considerable damage. Weidenbach and his father-in-law complained last Saturday and Underhill told them that if they would keep their gate closed there would be no cause for complaint. "Then he started to curse me and call me vile names," Weidenbach said. 'I grabbed him and jolted him around a little, and the big coward said he would take back everything he had called me. I let him go, but as soon as he drove away a little distance he started reviling me again. Points His Revolver. "I did not see him again until yesterday morning. We were both driving near the Nineteenth street bridge. He said: 'Now, I've got you, you blankety-blank. and he pointed a revolver at my head. I told him he did not have enough nerve to shoot, and I jumped out of the buggy. Underhill drove away before I could get to him. "This morning he drove past our place and started yelling at me. I got on a horse and rode down to the pike. Then I jumped off and grabbed his horse by the reins. I told him that I was getting mighty tired of his abuse and I intended to settle affairs right then and there. He leveled a shotgun at me and opened fire. After he had shot I rushed in on him and he tried to hit me over the head with the stock of the gun. I deflected the blow and then broke the gun. I could not pull him out of the rig, so I pushed it over on its 6ide, and then I got Uederhill. He got away from me and jumped a fence, but I went after him and got him again. I gave him the best beating I knew how to give. Then my father-in-law came up and he gave him a few punches. About that time the police arrived." "You've been calling me vile names, and your nose ain't broke yet," is what one witnsess to the affair saya White yelled as he cleared for action and went into Underhill. SMITH TO INCREASE COLONY FARM WORK Plans to increase the colony farm population of Easthaven from twenty to thirty or forty are being made by Dr. S. E. Smith, superintendent of the institution. The legislature . was not generous with insane asylums and other state institutions this year, and as a result Easthaven will be cramped to some extent. Dr. Smith is planning to modify the interior of one of the farm houses, and probably ji new barn will be erected. ' The board of trustees will hold another meeting April 13, when orders probably will be Issued for the lm proremenU.