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RAMSEY TOJTS ClOtlEY FOR GRADE SCHOOLS; LESS FOR HIGH SCHOOL Principal of Whitewater School Calls Attention to the Lack

of Good Sanitary Conditions

Need of School Across Railroad Believes School Board

Spends Too Much Money on Schools, Overlooking Grade

WANTS INDUSTRIAL TRAINING SCHOOL Pleads for New Building in North End Old Equipment Antiquated, Arrangement of Seats Not According to Law,

Heating System Worst in

Baths Some Pupils Unable to Take Bath for MonthsIndustrial Training Needed for Children of North End.

The imperative need of a- new eauiorjed and including eymnasium, room, for the North end of the city,

school, has been made by Professor D. D. Kamsey, principal 01 Whitewater, to Superintendent Giles of the City schools. The latter is urged to have the matter given the serious consideration

and investigation of the members ot the school board. Prof. Ramsey strongly advocates the construction of a perma

ment school for both vocational and

of the corns of teachers and the extension of the school curriculum.

He proposes to eliminate the present congestion in Whitewater

SCnOOl, ine enaangering ui me uvea ui ciiiiuj.eu wuu nve m me North End but are required to attend Warner school and thereby cross the railroad tracks several times daily and increase the

standard of school study. The educational problem which confronts school boards is being solved by various cities through the material carrying out of the suggestion he makes. This problem is the one dealing with the education of the children of industrial parents. The large percentage of these children quit school before they reach the seventh grade, not only because their home conditions warrant and require it, but because they feel ashamed of their personal appearance, he says. These children prefer to work and earn mon ey to buy clothing to look as wendressed as other boys and girls. Principal Ramsey declares that the school board would be more just and fair, if instead of spending any more thousands of dollars on Garfield and the High school, it would appropriate sufficient money to better conditions in the North End. Ward Schools Suffer. He says he does not begrudge the other schools' improvement funds, but believes the ward schools should be remodeled and renovated first. Whitewater school has the poorest equipment of any of the city, he says, and yet it serves the very people who represent the educational problem which must be solved to increase the standard of living in municipalities. In relating instances of conditions which drastically require improvement in that school building, he said that between forty and fifty children annually enter the lowest grade of the school. Of this number very few en roll in Garfield school for seventh trade study and practically all of these quit before half of that term is completed. Why, he argues in view of this av-1 erage, should not these pupils be educated in domestic science, sewirig, cooking, manual labor and other cours es conducive to better citizenship be-1 fore the law permits them to quit; school. The children are ambitious, the principal says, take interest in the work and feel their need of becoming proficient in the studies. Giles Informed. "I have broached this subject to Mr. Giles." said Mr. Ramsey, "and I believe he will take the matter up with the school board. There Is some talk of the property north of Garfield school being purchased to permit of an addition to that school, thereby making it a Junior high school. The course of study in the High school then would, require only three years instead of four. "This arrangement would be perfectly satisfactory if the needs of the North End and Whitewater did not necessitate immediate action. Whitewater has been in need of improvement for many years. "Whenever the ward schools wanted any improvement, the poverty cry was raised. Now is the logical time when the finances of the city and school board will warrant Improvement. The other ward schools have been repaired. Whitewater with its individual problem and its unusual case, has never been improved. "It has the same old heating system which is the worst I ever saw, the arrangement of seats is not according to law. the equipment for the most part is second-hand and the building itself is the oldest in the city. "It was once decided that the building was so old that it would not justify the expenditure of money necessary to install shower baths and yet the baths are absolutely essential to the good health of the pupils and the sani tation of the building. The teachers can relate many instances of children living for weeks and even months without baths. "The school board should give Whitewater school conditions thorough investigation."

in Grade Schools and Special

High School and Garfield Buildings. City, Children Need Shower modern school building fully baths, kitchen and boys' work as a substitute for Whitewater academic study, the increasing WOMAN DRINKS CARBOLIC ACID IN HOTEL ROOM Mrs. Ethel Foreman, This City, Tries to End Life in Despondent Mood at Day ton. THREE CHILDREN HERE Husband Ignorant of Wife's Whereabouts Until Notified by Police Department of Dayton. Despondent because of trouble she had had with her husband, Mrs Ethel Foreman, 120 South Sixteenth street, this city, wife of Benjamin Foreman, went to Dayton Sunday ev ening and attempted to end her life in a room in the Phillips House, where she had registered under the name of Miss Marie Home, Indianapolis. About 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon Mrs. Foreman, who is 28 years old and the mother of three children, the oldest 8 years and the youngest 17 months, was discovered by a maid at the hotel who had entered the room for the pur pose of cleaning it. Realizing the woman's condition was serious, hotel attaches summoned City Physician Schram, who ascertained that she was suffering from carbolic acid poisoning, Mrs. Foreman's condition today considerably improved and her recovery is anticipated. She is being cared for at the Miami Valley hospital, Dayton. The Dayton police notified Chief Goodwin yesterday afternoon of Mrs. Foreman's condition, and he communicated the information to the husband, who departed at once for Dayton to be with his wife. Before Mrs. Foreman was removed to the hospital a partly empty bottle of carbolic acid was found secreted under a bureau. Mrs. Foreman then admitted she had used a fictitious name in registering at the hotel, and gave her real name and address. The exact cause for Mrs. Foreman's effort to kill herself is not known, her husband being out of the city. Neighbors also state they know nothing about any domestic troubles between Mr. and Mrs. Foreman. It is understood that Foreman did not know of his wife's whereabouts until notified by the police of her attempt at suicide. Foreman is a real estate agent, dealing for the most part in farm properties, and has an office in the Kelly building on Main street. He and his family formerly lived near Fountain City and moved to Richmond about two years ago. SEEKS ANNEXATION. LONDON, June 15 The Island of Man has long boasted home rule. Now, however, there is a movement in the Man legislative body, called the house of keys, to ask England to annex the little state. Owing to the failure of tourist traffic the island is near starvation.

FRANK WILL KNOW

FATE BY THURSDAY ATLANTA, June 15. Leo M. Frank. It is now probable, will know bis fate by Thursday. It has been announced by Governor Slaton that he might ren der his decision Wednesday, making it necessary to adjourn the session over Wednesday morning, when Congressman William Howard will conclude his argument in Prank's behalf. Governor Slatbn left last night for Athens to deliver . college address, carrying with him a. large, volume of documentary evidence and court records, which he will study in his lei sure time. SUBURBAN DAY GIVES BARGAINS ON WEDNESDAY Merchants Cut Down Prices on High Class Goods to Give Patrons Bargain At tractions. INVITATION GENERAL Advertisements Show Deal ers Reduce Cost of Goods as Inducement to Encour age Thrift of Buyers. Suburban day comes tomorrow. The merchants of this city have made this day. which they plan to make a weekly occurrence, one on which many bargains' in merchandise will be offered to encourage trading in the middle of the week instead of on Saturday when stress of business naturally prevents the good service that can be given if this trade is dis tributed through the week. , The business men who are backing Suburban day have not marked down shoddy goods but have put a reduc tion! on high class merchandise and goods as an inducement to the housewives of the many little towns and villages and the rural districts about Richmond to buy on Wednesday. The invitation to make purchases at reduced rates in Richmond stores on Wednesday is extended not only t6 Continued On Page Three. FRENCH START NEW MOVEMENT AGAINST METZ PARIS, June 15. Using their mightiest howitzers, the Germans have bombarded Compiegne, but it was officially announced by the French war office today that little damage had been done to property and that no lives had been lost. In the region of Quennevieres farm, German counter attacks which have ueen jauncnea m an eirort to recapture trenches taken by the French were completely repulsed and the Germans put to rout. Cempiegne lies forty miles south of Paris at the junction of the Aisne and Oise rivers. Great importance is attached here to the new French thrust which is being made in Loraine and which is believed to be the forerunner of a big attempt by Gen. Joffre, the French commander in chief against Metz. The immediate objective of the French is supposed to be Parroy forests north east of Luneville, which is traversed by a railway line running to Avricourt. PRISONERS GIVE SHOW BERLIN, June 15. The English in the big internment camp at Doeberitz formed a theatrical company which gives plays and vaudeville. Several Russian painters have fitted up studios and are giving an art exhibition. Skilled cobblers among the Russians are making a little money by running a shoe repairing shop, utilizing the leather taken from boots cast on the scrap heap. Weather Forecast FOR INDIANA Fair tonight and Wednesday. Temperature. Noon '. 62 Yesterday. Maximum SI Minimum . 59 For Richmond Cleaning this after noon. Fair tonight and Wednesday. Cooler tonight. General Conditions The . area of low barometric pressure over the southwest yesterday developed into a storm of great strength which moved rapidly northeastward and caused last night's rain. Fair weather is following ' and will prevail toinght and tomorrow. w. E. Moore, Weather Forecaster.

RUMELY OFFICE CONFIRMS DEAL

FOR GAAR PLANT Laporte Offices Say Advices Are Local Plant Will Be Used as Arsenal by Canada. : SALE STILL PENDING Battle Creek and Laporte to Be the Only Plants Operated by M. Rumely Company. . The Palladium yesterday printed an exclusive story on a deal for the sale of the Gaar-Scott plant by the M. Rumely company to the Bank of Canada. The following telegram from Laporte confirms the story: LAPORTE, Ind., June 15. That the Canadian government has entered into negotiations for the purchase of the old Gaar-Scott plant at Richmond. Ind., one of the chain of factories of the M. Rumely company, was admitted at the Rumely offices here today. It is said in advices received here that the plant will be utilized by the Canadian government for the manufacture of war materials for the allies. It is also said that 1250,000 will be paid for. the plant. The sale of the plant has been under consideration for some time, it being the plan for those interested in the Rumely company and the proposed reorganization to make Battle Creek and Laporte the manufacturing points of the $32,000,000 corporation. The government began negotiations with Receiver Mount, it is said, when the latter was in Toronto thirty days ago. PROBE STARTS ON TORPEDOING OF "LUSITANIA" . ' r English Admiralty, However, May Refuse to Disclose Many of the Important Facts. LONDON, June 15. The inquiry in to the torpedoing of the LuBitania, which the board of trade has institut ed, opened at Central Hall, Westmin ster, today, with Lord Mersey presiding. The investigation will take up all phases of the disaster, but it is thought the admiralty will refuse to disclose many important facts on the grounds of the danger that informa tion of value may be given to Great Britain's enemies. For this reason it is not expected that Lord Mersey will be able to develop just wha precautions were taken by the naval authorities to safeguard the big Cunarder. It has been charged by survivors of the disaster that on reaching Queenstown they found several destroyers and other fast craft tugging idly at their anchors when they might just as well have gone to the assistance of the Lusitanja. On this subject it is considered certain the admiralty will remain mum. Lord Mersey, who conducted the Titanic and Empress of Ireland inquiries is credited with knowing more about maratine law than any other judge on the English bench, past or present. He has retired from the bench with a pension of $18,000 a year, but he remains one of the law lords of the house of lords, and as such is called upon to exercise judicial functions whenever cases are appealed to the house of lords, as the highest tribunal of the realm. His knowledge of maritine matters was acquired partly as president of the admiralty division of the high court of justice and more especially prior to his accession to the bench flrBt of all during the twelve years years that he spent In the Liverpool office of his father, one of the leading ship owners of that port, and afterward as standing counsel for very many years of the the Whitestar Steamship company. DOMESTIC SCIENCE TAKES UP NEED OF FREE MILK STATIONS An Investigation of the possibilities of free milk stations for summer will be started within a few days by the Domestic Science association. The association will inquire into the need of free milk stations in certain parts of the city. The purpose is to keep babies supplied with a certain quantity of pure milk in the hot .months, kept under sanitary conditions with every precaution to prevent sdurlng. The number of families not supplied with pure milk, or who have no adequate means of keeping milk fresh, will be determined as closely as possible.; If the number warrants the establishments of milk stations, the proposition will be taken before the club, . . .

OBLIGATION OF CITY TO PURCHASE IS QUESTION COIXIlSSIOtJ AVOIDED

CHICAGO CAR SI RIKERS FIRE FIRST BULLET Company Operates Elevated Cars on Few Lines, While Thosands Are Forced to Walk. TELEPHONES SEVERED Company's Connections Cut Richest Conductor Own ing: $250,000 in Stocks, Takes His First Vacation. CHICAGO, June 15 The first bullet fired in the street car and elevated strike today struck a south bound ele vated train as it was pulling up to the Chicago avenue station. The bullet bit just above a window In the rear of the first coach in which were riding one woman passenger and a detective. An attempt also was made to wreck an elevated train on the north side by hurling heavy scantling across the track." The timber struck the forward wheels of the first car and was knock ed to the ground. Eight bridge tenders and nine street car supervisors joined the strike force and walked out today. The private telephone system of the Chicago Elevated Railways was cut during the night and today the road's entire telephone plant was out of com mission. Start Trains Today. Two elevated trains were, started today ' from the Wilson avenue North Side terminal and another left the Sixty-First street station on the South side. All of the cars were under police guard and wer prepared to receive passengers and collect fares. President Budd of the Elevated company said the crew of the trains were seventy union members who have returned to work. "We will begin operating trains on the Metropolitan branch of the West side tomorrow," he said. The strike situation today was productive of many unique sights. The new hydroplane owned by the Illinois Naval Reserve was put into service Continued On Page Three. I). S. IS URGING PEACE EFFORT SAYS WILSON WASHINGTON, June 15 President Wilson today gave impetus to the peace movement in Europe by saying the United States was encouraging as far as possible legitimately to end the conflict. He denied that European neutrals had shown dissatisfaction over the course followed by the United States and were ignoring this country in their peace program. The president told callers that he hoped Col. E. M. House who has just returned from Europe, would visit Washington soon. Declining to discuss any feature of Mr. Bryan's resignation, the executive would say nothing about the changes made in the note after Mr. Bryan's resignation was tendered. The cabinet today established a record for brevity. It was in session only forty minutes. Secretary of State Lansing and Secretary of Navy Daniels were the first to leave. All the members stated that they adjourned early because of lack of business. The statements of Gen. Villa and Carranza are in President Wilson's hands, but he has formed no conclusions about them and consequently did not present them to the meeting. SOMERS MAY TRANSFER BALL TEAM TO TOLEDO CHICAGO, June 15 Permission has been granted C. W. Somers of Cleveland to transfer the Cleveland American association team to Toledo if he desired, at a meeting of the American Association club owners in this city. This transfer v has been discussed for some time and all reason for keeping the association team, in Cleveland vanished when the federal league passed up invading the Ohio city last spring. Whether to finish the schedule in Toledo, or Cleveland was made optional with Somers by the resolution. TRAWLER SUNK HULL, England,' June 15. The British trawler . Argyll was sunk in the North sea by a German submarine today, and her crew of seven drowned. J

State Utility Body, After Long

Light, Heat and Power Company's Resolution Aimed to Obligate City to Take Over Its Competitor's Electric Plant in the Event a Purchase Valuation Is Established-Side-steps an Interpretation of the Law

ENGINEER GARMAN

Commission's Expert, the First Witness, Testifies that a Purchase Valuation of a Plant Should Be Less Than a Valuation for Rate-making Purposes Duncan and Murphy Tried to Break Down His Testimony, but Failed Bond a Target for Some Caustic Shafts.

STAFF CORRESPONDENT INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., June 15 When the hearing before the Indiana Public Utilities Commission for the purpose of determining a sale valuation of the electric plant of the Richmond Light, Heat & Power company, which the city of Richmond wants to acquire, began this morning, attorneys for the privately owned corporation immediately sought to have the commission rule that the city would be obligated to purchase if a valuation was established. When City Attorney W. A. Bond entered a motion to dismiss the resolution presented by John Beasley of Terre Haute, one of the corps of attorneys for the Light, Heat & Power company, the commission at once overruled the motion. Then the commissioners withdrew to deliberate privately on the situation. When the hearing was resumed, Chairman Duncan announced that the resolution presented by Beasley, with the end in view of obligating the city to the purchase of the electric plant of the Light, Heat & Power company, was a question all the commission members could not agree upon and that it had been decided to overrule it. This caused considerable surprise inasmuch as the commissioners had previously overruled City Attorney Bond's motion to dismiss the Beasley resolution.

VOTES AGAINST ABSORPTION OF L. H. & P. PLANT Commercial Club by a Vote Averaging 3 to 1 Shows Opposition to City's Purchase of Plant. POINTS OUT DANGERS Swayne Argues Against Expenditure to Keep Down Tax Rate and Encourage New Industries.. By a vote of three to one, forty-five prominent business and professional men last night sustained the action of the Commercial club directors against the purchase of the L. H. & P. company's electric plant. The arguments for and against the purchase assumed the nature of a pitched forensic battle. George E. Seidel, chairman of the public service corporation committee, took the chair and introduced the subject with a review of the investigation of the committee. Alfred Bavis, president of the city board of works, asked why the legal department of the city had not been invited to attend the investigating committee's meeting and why the Continued On Page Three. KELLY CROWD WINS ALUMNI VOTE STRUGGLE Two staunch advocates of the cause of Elbert Russell and one follower of President Robert L. Kelly, were the alumni representatives elected yesterday afternoon on the board of trustees, according to the report given out late today. Mrs. Mary Coggeshal Sackett, wife of Prof. Robert L. Sackett of Purdue, was elected for three years; Allen G. Mills of Chicago, for two years; and R. W. Barrett of New York, whose sympathies are with President Kelly for one year. . The election of one man is a partial victory for the Kelly faction and one which has been the object of a hard fight in the board. The board ' will now have fifteen members of which a two-thirds majority is required to pass Important measures. The vote today gives Russell nine and Kelly six. The election will be brought before the yearly meeting of Friends for ap pro vaL it ia understood. "

Private Conference, Overrules

CAUSES SENSATION Chairman Duncan . in announcing the overruling of the resolution said that two members of the commission did not agree on the question of whether the city, by iiytltuUng condemnation proceedings for the acquirement of the electric plant of the competing company, had actualsbound itself irrevocably to nurchase it. Theory of Commission. Although no explanation was offered by the commission it was believed that it will not seek to interpret the law relating to the acquirement by municipalities, through condemnation, of privately owned utilities, leaving this to be determined by the courts. Strength was lent to this theory by Chairman Duncan's announcement that if it was eventually determined that the city was not obligated to the purchase of the plant the evidence obtained through the medium of the hearing now in progress would be used for the purpose of readjusting electric rates in Richmond. A protest was entered by the attorneys of the Light. Heat and Power company to the overruling of the Beasley resolution and was made a matter of record. Beasley also announced that all evidence to be introduced would be under protest, but the company would insist that It be utilized by the commission for the readjustment of electric rates in Richmond, in the event its electric plant was not taken over by the city, and for the readjustment of natural gas rates. Although it had been generally understood that City Attorney Bond was to employ legal talent to assist him In the conduct of this case, he was the only attorney to appear before the commission as a representative of the city. He appeared to be wholly unprepared to' conduct the case and the commissioners had to wait almost an hour for Mr. Bond to present his arguments, causing Chairman Duncan to inquire of him. quite caustically, what he was waiting for and to remark that the proceedings were progressing slower than a divorce trial. The first witness called was Chief Engineer Garman of the state commission, and he caused a genuine sensation by testifying that In his opinion the valuation of a plant for the purpose of sale should be lower than a plant valuation for rate making purposes. This testimony appeared to greatly agitate Commissioners Duncan and Murphy and for over a half hour they submitted him to a cross-fire of questions, apparently for the purpose of breaking down the position he bad taken on this question. Garman held staunchly to his theory, however, and shortly before the noon hour the commissioners decided to take a recess and- resume the bearing at 1:30 o'clock with Garman on the witness stand again. The valuation which the commission engineers had established for the electric plant of the Light. Heat and Power company for rate making purposes was $161,500. City officials have anticipated the valuation of the plant for sale purposes would be at least $200,000, while the Light, Heat and Power officials have been claiming a still higher sale valuation. ' Conse quently Mayor Robbins. Mr. Bavis. Mr. Bond and Mr. Kleinknecht, who attended the hearing, were as much surprised over the statement made by Garman as the Light. Heat and Power company representatives were. ... Attorneys representing the Light, Heat and Power company before the commission today were John Beasley. Wilfred Jessup of Richmond, and George H. Olney and George H. Tripp of New York.

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