Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 40, Number 149, 5 June 1915 — Page 1

BICETM0 PAIXABIITM VOL. XL., NO. 149 SI1Ttd8u7n-Teleram RICHMOND, IND, SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 5, 1915. SINGLE COPY. 2 CENTS

DOCTORS PAY HIGH TRIBUTE TOjjIL DAVIS Speakers at Commemorative Banquet Extoll Practitioners Services to State and City.

HURTY LENDS PRAISE Says Name of Davis Plays Important Part in Development of Indiana Health Education. Hearty good-fellowship and a spirit of unfeigned congeniality, warm and lasting friendship and undisguised love and respect were expressed in a commemorative banquet followed by speeches in honor of Dr. T. Henry Davis in the dining hall of the Arlington hotel last night. Fifty physicians and prominent men of the state representing the medical profession of the Sixth district and friends of Dr. Davis were present. The virtues and characteristics of Richmond's oldest physician were extolled, his services to the city and to the state were recalled and commended while reminiscences of past incidents in his life were expressed to the interest of all who paid him homage. Many Speakers present. The speeches of Dr. J. Hurty, secretary of the state board of health; William Dudley Foulke, George H. Knollenberg, Judge D. W. Comstock, Dr. D. VV. Stevenson, Dr. D. H. Douran. Dr. L. F. Ross and others who filled the program, were punctured with witticisms and jests. Frequent laughter was spontaneous and long. Dr. J. C. Perry of Washington, who is here taking a tuberculosis survey of the city; Dr. Kern of Lafayette, who succeeded Dr. Davis on the state board of health, and other out-of-town guests made impromptu speeches, expressing their appreciation in being present and being accorded an opportunity to join in congratulating Dr. Davis at the close of fifty-eight years of active service in the medical profession. The guests assembled at the Arlington and were served to an elaborate dinner at 7:30 o'clock. The menu composed every delicacy and food suitable to the occasion and full justice was given this part of the entertainment. Dr. Rosa Presides. Witlfthe lighting of" the cigars, Dr. L. F. Ross, who presided as toastmaster, opened the program by giving the reasons for the banquet, praising Dr. Davis and introducing the first speaker. Dr. Hurty of Indianapolis. Dr. Hurty's subject was, "Dr. Davis and the State Board of Health." The speaker said in part: "For twenty years Dr. Davis and I were associated together on the state board of health. In that time we never had any warm words, although at time we entertained widely divergent views on various subjects. My association with him was profitable, pleasing and a thorough delight. "The hiBtory of the state board of health of Indiana could not be written without frequent mention of the name of Dr. Davis." Dr. Hurty then gave a condensed history of the fight made by the medical fraternity for the betterment of the public health in Indiana; of variContinued On Page Ten. VVESTCOTT TO CHANGE OWNERS LATE TODAY A deal transferring the lease held on the Westcott hotel by the Warden interests, which control a large number of hotels, to Henry C. Starr of Indianapolis, Lee Ashley of this city and William Cunningham of Cincinnati, will probably be completed today. The hotel building is owned by Al Brown of Richmond and French Lick Springs, Ind. It is understood that the lease on the property does not expire for five years. In the event the pending deal goes through Mr. Cunningham, a practical hotel man who twice before has been Identified with the management of the Westcott, will act as manager of the hostelry, assisted by Mr. Ashley. The management of the Westcott hotel has changed repeatedly in the last ten years. CIVIC ASSOCIATION CONVENES MONDAY The Southwest Richmond Improvement association will meet at the Joseph Moore school building on Monday evening June 7. Every member of this organization as well as the residents of this part of the city should attend this meeting. It will mean much in determining the future life of this organization. Weather Forecast For Indiana Fair tonight and Sunday. Temperature. Noon , 78 Yesterday. Maximum ! 75 Minimum 53 For Richmond Fair tonight and Sunday. Increasing cloudiness. Probably followed by showers. GENERAL CONDITIONS The western storm has moved very little during the past 36 hours and is central over Missouri causing heavy rains in Kansas, Nebraska and Oklahoma.

SHIP BOXES TO MEN CONFINED IN SIBERIA

A consignment of wearing apparel for German prisoners in Siberia will be sent from Richmond by GermanAmericans in about ten days, in response to an appeal sent out by the German consul at Cincinnati. The committee which has charge of the collection announces that apparel may be left with William Duning, Jr., South Sixth and E streets, with Hans Koll and with William Duning, North Eighth street. CLUB OPPOSES PLAN TO BUY PRIVATE PLANT By Vote of 9-3 Directors Go on Record Against L. H. & P. Deal Proposed by City Officials. WHO OWNS PLANT? Committee Wants Question Determined Before Going Ahead With Investigation of Project. In a report submitted to the directors of the Commercial club last night by the public service committee of that organization, the information was imparted that the committee could not intelligently proceed with investigation as to whether the city should or should not purchase the electric plant of the Richmond Light, Heat and Power company until it had been definitely determined whether the city had or had not already purchased thje plant. "The committee, which submitted a unanimous report, was of the opinion that if the city had actually taken Continued On Page Six. BOARD EXPECTS CONTINUANCE OF STREET REPAIRS Bavis Declares Extensive Program for 1916 Would Not Necessitate Another Issue of Bonds. The fact that permanent street improvements equaling half of the city's existing paved street mileage which will cost approximately $10,000 were authorized and contracted for this year does not mean a curtailment of similar improvements the next two or three years. "I anticipate that the city can pro ceed right along next year with its permanent street improvement program at the same pace it maintained this year, if it desires to," President Bavis of the board of public works said today. "If necessary permanent street improvements on almost as ex tensive a scaie as put through this year could be authorized next year and another bond issue would not be required." Mr. Bavis mentioned the fact that the appropriation for permanent im provements this year amounted to only $15,000. Next year he thought this ap nropriation could be increased to $25,000 as no exceptional expenses would be incurred. Fund Shows Balance. "This year the city had a $7,500 ap propriation for the crematory exten? ion, only $3,000 of which was used, and a $2,500 appropriation for a street roll er, only $S00 of which was usedSuch appropriations will not have to be made next year and the city, therefore, can increase its permanent Im provement fund to at least $25,000, Mr. Bavis said. Mr. Bavis would like to see North Third street widened and paved next year and pavements put down on the following other street: North Tenth street. Main to North E; North Ninth, North A to North E; South Tenth. Main to South A; South Ninth, Main to South A; South Seventh, Main to South A and Fort Wayne avenue from North A to D street. With the exception of the $139,000 city plant bond indebtedness the city's other bonded indebtedness jit this lime, not including the $50,000 Issue the council will authorize next week, amounts to only a little over $14,000, which will be paid off by November of next year. Because of this condition the controller estimates the new bonu issue of $50,000 can be cared Tor with the existing 7 cent levy for the cit ysinking fund. The city plant cares for its own bonded indebtedness. MISSIONS IN TURKEY ASK U. S. FOR HELP BOSTON, June 5. The American board of Foreign Missions received the following dispatch from Ambassador Morganthau at Constinople through the state department at Washington: "All stations begging for aid. Some say starvation threatened. Please help quickly." The board maintains seventeen stations in all parts of Asiatic Turkey with 174 missionaries.

ASSESSMENT IN COUNTY

With the assessment report returned today for Wayne township, Richmond and Spring Grove, completing the county, Indications are that the increase in assessments in the county will be $2,500,000 this year. This will not be determined until after the forty-day session of the board of review and the return of a report by the state board of tax commissioners. Wayne township. Richmond and Spring Grove combined showed about half of the anticipated gain. Gains were made in Richmond and Wayne township but a loss of more than $11,000 in the personal property assessment in Spring Grove was shown. The net loss was $8,800 in Spring Grove. Assessments Heavy. The assessment in the county without corporations or banks is almost as great as the total assessment last year by local assessors. The 1914 assessment with corporations and banks was $31,997,100, and this year without corporations and banks it is" $31,577,345. The assessment of corporations and banks will be completed by the board of review before July 10. To be added to the $31,577,345 shown today by the assessors' books, is approximately $3,000,000 for corporations and banks and $4,000,000 for railroads and other property assessed by the state board of tax commissioners. This would bring the total assessment to $38,500,000. Last year it was $35,880,000. If the orders of the assessors could have been followed out and a ten per cent Increase been made, the increase would have been $3,580,000, or $1,000,000 more than the estimated gain this year. Corporation personal property will show a gain this year of $84,000 in the county over the total fixed by the board of review last year, although losses were shown by many big corporations. The M. Rumely personal property was assessed $99,000 lower this year than the previous year, the AIRSHIPS MAKE ANOTHER RAID OVER ENGLAND Drop Bombs on Eastern and Southeastern Coast But do Little Damage Says Admiralty. LONDON, June 5. Another German air raid was made over the eastern and southeastern coast of England last night. Bombs were dropped at a num ber of points, but the admiralty in an official statement said that little dam age was done. This was the eighteenth air raid launched against the British coast by the Germans, the seven teenth being an attack on the city of Londajj: The following official statement was given out by the admiralty: "Hostile airships visited the eastern and southeastern coast last nisrht Bombs were dropped at various places but little material damage was done. The casualties so far reported are very few." From information given out by the government it is evident that the Germans planned their latest raid as an attack against the docks and naval station and not gainst the city. MORGAN SUCCUMBS AT REID MEMORIAL Charles Morgan, colored, arrested with his wife and ten others in a raid by the police last Sunday, died at Reid hospital Friday of uraemia. He was awaiting trial on a charge of operating a blind tiger. The remains were taken to his home at 240 Fort Wayne avenue. He Is survived by his wife and . two married daughters. Morgan was a member of the Masonic lodge of Connersville, Ind. Funeral at 2 o'clock Monday afternoon at the home. Burial in Earlham cemetery. Friends may call at any time. PEOPLE ASK WILSON TO ACT WITH CARE Hans Koll, who recently sent a petition bearing the names of Richmond German residents to President Woodrow Wilson, asking him to refrain from taking drastic action in the GermanAmerican situation regarding the sinking of the Lusitania and other debatable incidents, has received a reply from Patrick Tumulty, private secretary to the chief executive. The telegram sent to President Wilson read: "We believe that the majority of our people here would not consider any drastic action against Germany at this time as being concurrent with the wisdom, good judgment and laudable conservation shown by you heretofore. In the name of many loyal subjects, Signed : WILLIAM H. DUNING, President. HANS KOLL, Secretary, GERMAN-AMERICAN ALLIANCE. Mr. Tumulty's telegram follows: "My Dear Sir Permit me to acknowledge you telegram of June 1, and to say that it will be brought to the attention of the president. "Sincerely yours, Signed: PATRICK TUMULTY, "Secretary to the President."

INCREASE $2,500,000

1915 assessment being $162,000. The last year before the amalgamation of the M. Rumely and Gaar-Scott plants, the assessment was $560,000. In the city of Richmond, according to the assessors' recapitulation, there was a loss of $173,120 on the personal property assessment from last year, but a gain on real estate of $903,880 making a net gain of $730,760, or about five per cent. A table showing the 1915 assess ment of real estate and personal prop erty in the three units, Spring Grove, Richmond and Wayne township, fol lows : Real Estate. Personal Spring Grove. ..$ 57,650 $ 69,000 Wayne to-'nship 1,978,760 456,810 Richmond 11,564,510 2,834.080 Totals $13,600,920' $3,359,890 Polls Spring Grove, 16; Wayne township, 616: Richmond, 4,268. To tal, 4,900. A comparative table of total assessments in Spring Grove, showing the loss this year, follows: 1914. 1915. Total assessment.. .$135,520 $126,650 Loss 8,870 Polls 17 16 Loss 1 Wayne township 1914. 1915. Assessment ....$2,315,290 $2,435,570 Gain 120,280 Polls 611 616 Gain , 5 City of Richmond 1914. 1915. Assessment ..$13,667,830 $14,398,590 Gain 730,760 Polls 4,518 4,268 Loss 250 Wayne township, Richmond and Spring Grove 1914. 1915. Assessment ..$16,118,640 $16,960,810 Gain 842,170 Poll 5,146 4,900 Loss 234 BURNS IS APPOINTED TO POLICE POSITION The police commissioners last night accepted the resignation of Officer Ed Menke and selected Isaac Burns, a lieutenant in the Pennsylvania railroad police service, from a long list of applicants to fill the vacancy. Burns is an experienced police officer and well qualified for the office to which he has been appointed. When he will assume his new duties has not been announced. Burns was appointed to the force several years ago but declined to accept the appointment. Menke resigned after being informed that he had been suspended for violations of the department's rules of conduct. VIOLATE NEU1 RALITY SAYS CONGRESSMAN BOSTON, June 5. The United States department of state assisted by agents of the department of justice began today in Boston investigation of charges made by Congressman Peter Tague of Charlestown that British recruiting agents have been violating the neutrality of the United States by illegally enlisting Boston boys in the British army and navy. Congressman Tague declares that scores of boys have been induced to sail on steamers as "hostlers" by misrepresentation of British agents with the express purpose of taking them from the ships and assigning them to posts in the army and navy. By misrepresentation, Congressman Tague maintains that this service is really compulsory and to all intents and purposes impressment. COLORED MAN CUT IN NORTH END FIGHT About three years ago Green Parks, colored, got into a row with a white man, Sam Wieland, in the rear of a saloon. His friends, Arthur Saunders, offered to champion Parks' cause and as a result Saunders was murdered, Wieland ripping open his throat with a knife. Parks fled. Later Parks married Clara Saunders, sister of the murdered man. Last night Parks' earthly existence was almost terminated witii a knjfe. He met a negro named Carl Keyne, of Muncie, at North Thirteenth and F streets in company witha woman who the police believe was Parks' wife. Parks created a scene and handled the woman very roughly. When Keyne remonstrated Parks hurled a stone at him, whereupon Keyne attacked him with a knife, opening up a wound extending from the left ear down the left side of the throat wliich required ten stitches to close. The wound was a very deep one. An hour later while walking along North Sixth street in search of a doctor the police found Parks. After he received medical attention he was removed to the hospital. Keyne was found in a North Twelfth street boarding house and arrested on a charge of assault and battery with intent to kill. Parks wound is a serious one but he is expected to recover. PAYS INHERITANCE. Inheritance tax of $11 was paid on the estate of Cynthia M. Routh of Cambridge City today by the executor. Cora R. Calloway, a daughter, received $3,100 and Edward Calloway, a grand son of the deceased, received $2,600, according to the report.

BASEBALL POOL PUT UNDER BAN BY POLICE HEAD Chief Goodwin and Prosecutor Order Lottery on Results Stopped-Go After Agents of Eastern Firm. Following in the wake of a nationwide crusade against baseball pools, Chief Goodwin today announced that he had ordered agents of a local organization and of a Pennsylvania company, known as the "Keystone" to stop selling pools in this city. He said that so far as he had been able to ascertain his orders had been complied with. The Chief also admitted, however, that other baseball pools were being sold in this city. "We have been making a thorough investigation," Prosecutor Reller said today, "and every baseball pool scheme will he stopped in this city if it is pos

sible to do so." Easy for Agents. One of the most popular and profit able baseball lotteries being conducted by an eastern concern which publishes a weekly sporting paper in confection with its enterprise. Patrons of the lottery pay thirty cents a week for this publication and in return receive a ticket giving a combination of teams in the National, American, Federal and American Association ieagues. Daily prizes are given to combinations making high and low scores and weekly prizes are also given, the holder of the combination making the highest score during the week receiving $1,500. These baseball lottery tickets and copies of the sporting paper, it is understood, are distributed by express to avoid any possible conflict with the federal postal regulations. Looks Up the- Law. Whether the promotion of this big lottery game can be legally stopped in Richmond is a question Prosecutor Reller is now investigating. Baseball gambling has been all the rage in Richmond since the opening of the league seasons. Thousands of dollars worth of pools have been sold. Local promoters of these schemes have reaped a rich harvest as evidenced by the number of men who daily gather about the tickers in saloons and the score boards in cigar stores and pool rooms, marking down on their tickets the scores made by their teams. COUNTY KNOWS CITY DEMANDS STRONG BRIDGE Commissioners Forced to Act by Hodgin's Order Closing as Unsafe Span at Twelfth. Between the ultimatum of the city building inspector and the stern disapproval of the countel council against too rapid improvement and the consequent tax rate increase, the county commissioners today began to study the situation created by Harry Hodgin when he ordered the North Twelfth street bridge closed to traffic. A session of the commissioners was held with County Bridge Engineer Mueller who declared the bridge dangerous to heavy travel, corroborating Building Inspector Hodgin's opinion. Asked for an opinion on the matter, Bridge Engineer Mueller said a ne-.v concrete structure of ornamental de sign, adequate in strength and size for years, could be built for $18,000. The proposed bridge will be forty-eight feet in width with probably a thirty foot roadway. The construction of this bridge next j ear would not cause any bonds to be issued, if the general bridge construction in the county is kept to a minimum. A five cent levy would bring sufficient tax returns to pay for the proposed bridge Comes Before Council. The commissioners decided to bring the situation before the special county council session next Saturday when the South Side bridge report will be made. The commissioners will ask the council to provide an appropriation in the budget which will be made up later in the summer. If such a promise cannot be secured next Saturday another attempt will be made at the regular September session when the budget is passed on finally. It was decided that to repair the tridge would cause greater dissatisfaction than to leave it as it' now stands because repair work would mean a still longer delay in securing a new bridge. The commissioners construed the act of the building inspector as a demand by the city for a new bridge. The new situation over the Twelfth street bridge will not interfere with the plans for the South Side bridge. Engineer Mueller has practically completed his report which he left at New Castle today. He will spend next week at his office in Richmond working on Wayne county bridges. SPEEDING AUTO INJURES THREE NEW YORK, June 5. Otto Erdman and his wife, Mrs. Emma Erdman, were perhaps fatally injured and three other persons were seriously hurt early today in White Plains avenue, the bronx, when an. Automobile traveling at high speed, collided with an "L" pillar and then turned turtle. Oscar Seeberg, a garage owner, who was driving the car, his ten year old son, Walter and Austin Turleger, were the others injured.

PAN-AMERICAN TRAIN GOES THROUGH CITY Delegates to the recent Pan-American financial conference held in Washington, who ' are touring the country, passed through Richmond in a special train over the Pennsylvania

railroad about ten o'clock last night on their way to St. Louis where they arrived this morning. The delegates will visit factories and mills in that city. Pittsburg was visited yesterday. Only a short stop was made here as the delegates had retired for the night. SHIFT TROOPS FROM POLAND AGAINST ITALY Austrian Troop Trains Pour Men and Artillery From Carpathians to Meet New Foe at Trieste. EVACUATED ROVERETO Put up Stubborn Resistance Against Attacks of Italians North of Ironzo River at Monte Nero. GENEVA, June 5. Now that the Russians have been driven from the strong positions which they had gained in the Carpathian mountains during the winter, the Austrians are shifting artillery and troops from the eastern front to meet the Italians. Troop trains bearing infantry, guns and ammunition have arrived at Leibach, between forty and firty-five miles northeast of Tireste. The Austrians are stubbornly defending the roads to Tolmein. The Russians are running short of ammunition in the southwestern theatre of war and their troops at some places are becoming mutinous. The Austrians have cut off telephonic and telegraphic communications with Switzerland. The Austrians are reported to have evacuated Rovereto after practically destroying the city. Rovereto is in the Adige valley, fifteen miles south of Trent. It was officially announced several days ago that the Italians had captured heights north of Ala from which they could dominate Rovereto with their guns. The hardest fighting of" the AustroItalian war is in progress around Monte Nero, north of the Isonzo river, between Tolmein and Caporetto. Although the summit is in possession of the Italians, the Austrians are still holding strong positions, and General Count Cadorna, chief of the Italian military staff, is pouring fresh troops and artillery into the battle. Artillery duels are raging in the Alps on the Friuli frontier in spite of thick fog, which makes accurate shootyig very difficult. WILSON RESTS AFTER WORKING ON LAST DRAFT WASHINGTON, June 5. With Pres ident Wilson's second note on the Lus-1 itania tragedy practically ready for j cabling to Berlin this government to-1 day prepared to take a brief respite j from over the seas worry, while wait- j ing for an answer from Germany as to i her intentions regarding the freedom j of the seas for neutrals. It was understood that the not? , would go to Germany within the next ; twenty-four hours. It has been ap- i proved by the cabinet in its essential j details and there remained to be made only some minor changes in the phra seology. The president worked late in his study last night, presumably on th efinal details of the note. Officials who have seen the rejoinder say this government will not yield in its original demands upon Germany and will in effect brush aside, for the present at least, most of the contentions raised in the German reply. NORWEGIAN ACTRESS TO APPEAR IN CITY Madame Bogny Hammer, the famous Norwegian actress, who is in this country in a repertoire of Ibsen plays, will appear in "Rosmersholm ' at the Gennett under the local direction of Esther Griffin White the coming week if Miss White's guarantee is sufficient to justify her in closing the contract. Madame Hammer is one of the greatest modern exponents of the art of the stage, and regarded as the foremost Interpreter of Ibsenian roles. She is making a short tour after the close of her professional season in Chicago this week, and will come here before going to Indianapolis, where she appears June 14. CHILDREN'S DAY. Children's Day will be observed at South Eighth Street Friends Bible school tomorrow morning. There will be songs and recitations by the children of the primary and junior departments. All members of the school are urged to be present and others are cordially invited.

CITY'S SHARE CUTS RELIEF TOjROPERTY Cost of Paving Intersections Comes From $50,000 Appropriated as Share of Improvement Plan.

MORE AID PROMISED Officials Expected to Apply Forty Cents Per Square Yard to Relieving Property Owners. It has been generally understood y property owners on streets which are to be permanently improved this year that the city would apply 40 cents per square yard to the cost assessed against each property owner, the 40 cents representing what it would have cost the city per square yard to macadamize the street. That the city would do this was also represented to property owners by board members on several occasions. It developed at the special council meeting last night, called for the purpose of considering an ordinance authorizing a $50,000 bond issue to meet the city's share of the cost of permanent improvements, that out of the amount appropriated by the city as Its share of the cost of each street improvement the expense of paving street and alley intersections, which the city pays for in full, must be first deducted. Whatever is left of the appropriation, after this has been done, is then applied to the relief of the property owners. Means Discrimination. This, city officials admitted today, constitutes discrimination among property owners assessed for permanent improvements. Under this system only 20 cents per square yard can be applied to the relief of property owners after the cost of paving street and alley intersections has been met out of the city's appropriation for the paving of the street in question. In other instances 30 cents per square yard is possible and. in some cases. 40 cents a square yard can be applied to the relief of the property owners. An example of this was cited by Councilman Howells last night. The bid for bricking South A street was $1.75 a square yard. The total cost of paving the eleven blocks will be" $36,462, and the city has appropriated $9,500 as its share of the, cost, or approximately half of the total cost, ut there are twelve street intersections which have to be paid for out of the city's share, leaving only about 20 cents a square yard to be applied to the relief of the property owners. Pays for Intersections. On North A street the bid to asphalt the thoroughfare was $1.80 a square yard. The total cost for im proving the eleven blocks will be $36.462. and the city's appropriation is $12,000. or less than one-third of the total cost. But the city will pay for the Fifth and Ninth street intersections out of its share of the cost for paving of those two streets, and two other intersections are already paved, at Seventh and Eighth streets. So the city will only have six street intersections to pay out of its North A street appropriation, half the number it must pay for on South A street, and there are also less alley intersections on North A street than there are Continued On Page Ten. FRENCH DENY GERMAN CLAIM OF BIG VICTORY BERLIN'. June S. Further victories for the Germans in both Poland and Galicia are announced in an official statement today. Hostilities have been renewed in the valley of the Dubissa and the Russians holding the bridge head at Sawdynike hare been dispersed. The Germans took 179 prisoners there. South of Przemsyl a German Austrian army is advancing to ward Mosziaska. The Russians opposing the troops under Gen Von Linsingen have been forced back in the vicinity of Kalusz and Zaravno. DENY TEUTON VICTORY. PARIS. June 5. The claim of the German office that German troops held the Souchez sugar factory north of Arras was officially denied here today. The French office gave out an eye witness narrative: The fighting which resulted in the capture of the factory by the French was of the utmost violence. Troops came under the fire of the numerous batteries and machine guns, but the Germans were finally demoralized, by the artillery fire and withdrew. Fighting between the French and Germans north of Arras was again the feature of the official war office statement today. The Germans having brought up fresh troops launched the most violent counter attacks around the Souchez sugar factory but all were repulsed. An advance post of the Germans near Souchez was attacked by the French. RUSSELL CONCLUDES WORK AS PASTOR Prof. Elbert Russell, who recently resigned his position as head of the Biblical department at Earlham college, will deliver his last sermon as college pastor in the Earlham chapel Sunday.