Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 40, Number 311, 11 December 1915 — Page 8
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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, SATURDAY, DEC. 11, 1915
REPORTS ON Y. M. C A. SHOW INCREASED WORK IN MANY DEPARTMENTS
Departmental reports 6howlng satisfactory progress and Increasing interest in nearly all activities of the Y. M. C. A. were approved last night by members of the board of directors. The only adverse report was that showing a financial loss In the series of Sunday afternoon theatre meetings held under the auspices of the association. The expenses of three meetings were $177.69 and the collection's were $108.11. Secretary Learner is hopeful that the meetings -will pay for themselves. Twenty shop meetings held during the month of November, six each week, with the exception of Thanksgiving day week, were attended by 1,341 men. Work Among Foreigners. The educational committee reported through D. D. Ramsey the results of the first term of the night school for foreigners. An average of the first term of the night school for foreigners. An average of eighteen men attended the ten sessions. Three classes met in these meetings and of these one took up the study of the Roberts chart of English, one studied the Indiana Primer and the third class finished the Indiana Reader. The second term will open after Christmas. The board of directors registered its willingness to act with the board of
trustees as a reception committee at the open house celebration at the Y. M. C. A. on Saturday, Jan. 1 from 1 o'clock until 6 o'clock. Fred S. Bates reported for the House committee that the total cost of the repairs to the building some months ago was $2,926.94. Interest in Athletics. One of the most gratifying reports was that of Physical Director Roach
whose statement showed that the at
tendance at class meets in the gym
nasium during Nov. 1915, was 1,039 compared with 688 for Nov. 1914. During 1915 Nov. there were 454 men and 585 boys and during Nov. 1914 there were 260 men and 428 boys. Membership Secretary Hughbanks reported a gain of fourteen new senior members and seventeen junior members for the month. J. J. Somerville, head of the boys division reported a total attendance of 741 boys at 66 Bible study class meetings. Ninetyfive boys attended the Wednesday night suppers and 132 boys were present at Wednesday night basket ball contests. Seventy-two boys as nonmembers use the swimming pool. Secretary Somerville made seven home calls. The boys in that department read 268 books during the month. There is a total membership of 253 boys in that department.
The Uhchastened Woman
Skating Graze Hits Fashionable Society
Dancing may have been a social fad which masqueraded un- ' der the name of sport and exercise, but skating is a sport which is fast becoming a fad with the social elite. Among the society folks who lead in skating is Mr. Irving Brokaw, probably the best known amateur skater in New York, if not in the entire country.
YUAN SHI KAI ASCENDS THRONE
PEKIN, Dec. 11. Yuan Shi Kai, president of the Chinese republic, has accepted the throne of China, which was tendered to him by the council of ptate, it was announced today.
T. CONIFF ESTATE INHERITANCE TAX
Petition was presented in court today to fix the inheritance tax for the pstate of Thomas Coniff, valued at approximately $12,000. The case has been pending In court for two years and no action has been taken toward fixing the amount of tax, which is necessary before the estate can be distributed. lost of the estate will fall to Miss Marie Coniff, a daughter. The tax will amount to about $40. The real estate is located in Franklin
township.
Gity Statistics
Deaths and Funerals. SMITH Mrs. Lena Yafyan Smith died Thursday morning at her home in Chicago. She was the daughter of the late Lee Yaryan. The body will arrive in Richmond Sunday afternoon at 3:45 o'clock, and will be taken to the home of her mother, Mrs. Jennie Yaryan, 213 North Tenth street, where funeral services will be held Monday morning at 10 o'clock. Burial in Earlham cemeteryBENNER William McKinley Benner, age 14, died at the home of his parents, three miles southwest of the city, this morning at 6:30 o'colck after an illness of pneumonia. He is survived by his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Benner, four brothers, Allen, Everett, Frank and Clyde Benner, and one sister, Frances Benner, besides other relatives and a host of friends. Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock from the residence. Burial in Earlham cemetery. Friends may call at any time. BASS The funeral of Henry C. Bass will be held at 1:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon from Bethel A. M. E. church. Burial in Earlham cemetery. Friends may call at any time.
CHARGE COUPLE WITH ARSON
COLUMBUS, Ind., Dec. 11. Suit has been filed against John W. Hubbard and his, wife, Mary Hubbard, by Joseph M. Lawlis, a farmer, for $10,000 damages, in which it is alleged that the defendants destroyed with fire a dwelling house owned by him which was valued at $4,000. Other buildings valued at $500 and personal property valued at $3,000, is also alleged to have been stroyed. The Hubbards were arrested on a charge of arson soon after the fire occurred.
He did not observe that the screen which stood in front of the gas stove was a wonderful old blue; he only shuddered at the thought of the ugly gas stove and the sink In close proximity. The bookcase Just outside of his own door was filled with well chosen books; this fact escaped his consciousness, which was offended at the ugly desk and typewriter just beyond. On the, walls hung pictures of Tolstoi, Ruskin and Prince Kropatkln. They were clear prints and well framed, but to Lawrence they stood out as apostles of the ugly; If one could not have Matisse or Claude Monet on one's walls they might be left decently bare. Lawrence had accustomed himself to large vistas, to luxurious silence.
to soft lights; here was the narrowness of a single room. The clamor of a hurdy-gurdy and shrieking tenement children tormented him through the window, and noon sunlight completed the torture by fairly glaring into his his eyes as it reflected from the white walls like a billiard ball caroming back and forth across a table. In all the lists of unpleasantnesses, bills and general ugliness, there was just one bit of cheer his old firm had
offered him his old position at an entirely new salary that was to be advanced $10 a week over his previous earning capacity. That was one anchor to windward, but he was not casting anchor as yet. He wanted desperately to have Caroline admire his wife. Somehow or other he knew that he would feel more justified in his own eyes if Caroline could be made to appreciate Hildegrade. And that there was anything inconsistent in this point of view at the particular time, when he appreciated Hildegrade least, he did not know. After fussing over all the house
hold arrangements to a degree which must have: driven a woman, less sane than Hildegarde well nigh mad, he turned upon her suddenly with a new worry. "Are you going to wear that dress?"
"What's the matter with my dress?" asked Hildegarde, smoothing down the folds of her soft gray cloth dress.which was made distinctly for service and not as a lure for masculine eyes. In it she had almost the quietness and
sweet demureness of fiction's favorite
Quaker maid. But not Priscilla herself had more distractingly soft golden hair, and no woman in all the world was more completely feminine than Hildegrade, having married a man she loved she felt that he needed her to mother him and to stand between him and the consequences of his own actions. But at heart Hildegrade was, if not the sturdy oak she seemed, and surely not a parasitic clinging vine, still a very human young woman who would have enjoyed leaning intensely if there had been any one on whom to lean! Lawrence was looking her over dubiously. He sensed that 6he produced an effect altogether different from Caroline's and that of the women in the world. "Oh, I suppose it's all right. But honestly, now, your feet aren't as big -as that. It's those Consumer's League boots just like those gloves.
You'd wear anything with a trade un
ion label, on it no matter what it looks like, wouldn't you?" "They won't see my feet," protested Hildegarde "Won't they, though. Oh, Lord! That skirt hikes!" exploded Lawrence.
And Hildegarde knew that she had best send him off to fetch their guests before what she generously called his nervousness communicated itself to
her. The last touch of a satric fate
was eiven to the situation when Mrs
Murtha arrived in place of Agnes j
whose services had been contracted for. The cunning old woman had a way of appearing in the place of her more attractive daughter and Mrs.
Knolys, who had once been forced to I accept her services, hated the sight of
t ' ' lJ fil' j ii Vivian ' M:;vI . I j f 1 ' - .' Jit i d fefr.- IhtP r-sVd fc? V I f "s iff i j p i pMrt, -.i . v : ,(- ' - ill
TEACHERS OF COUNTY
HOLD SESSION TODAY
Featured by the address of Horace
Ellis of Indianapolis, Republican candi
date for the nomination of state superintendent of public instruction, the Wayne county teachers monthly insti
tute was held at the high school building today.
Two hundred and fifty teachers, 125
teachers from the country schools of
Wayne county, and 125 teachers from the city were present at the meeting.
Conferences were held throughout
the day at the Garfield school and at
the high school. The supervisors met groups of the teachers at various times
in the latter school.
The address of Mr. Ellis was deliver
ed at 2:45 o'clock this afternoon before a mass meeting of the teachers in the auditorium of the high school.
HANSGHE ESCAPES
SERIOUS INJURY
William Hansche. mail carrier, nar
rowly escaped Injury this morning when a large pane of glass in the
front door of the court house, broke and fell on his head. Mr. Hansche had a large load of mail and was entering the court house door. The glass broke into thousands of pieces although Mr. Kansche was not hurt in the least.
SUN IS IMPLICATED
IN CHINESE PLOTS
HOKENDAUQUA CONFERS WARRIOR DEGREE ON SIX
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Six candidates received the warrior fleer PP in Hokendamma triho nf Rod
Men last night. About seventy-five, members were present. No arrange-1 ments have been made for further i visitations to other tribes in the coun- i
ty. Fountain City lodge is expected
to return the social call made by local Red Men. by visiting here in the near future. The date has not been selected.
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rus. Stu yatt Sun Yat-Sen, the rebel leader who was made the first provisional pret-i-dent of China after the overthrow of the monarchy, is taid to be the leader of the latest rebel plot, which resulted in the belzing of the gunboat Chaolio last Sunday. At the trial of the rioters, testimony was given that commissions signed by Sun Yat-Sen were left behind on the ship when the rioters were captured.
Hundreds of women are now a' work on lathes, drilling machines anI stamping-out mat nines in the Russian factories where they make hich explosive shells.
Larry Sanbury and His Wife At Home Apartment"
in their "Co-operative
her as the departing Lawrence explained: "Have you ever waited on table?" asked Hildegarde. "Me! Naw mam. Bless your heart that I have not. But all you have just to tell me is whatto do and Oi kin do it. Oi'm not wan av tiiem thick Micka." "Then first of all you must roll down your sleeves," explained "Hildegarde patiently. Mrs.- Murtha oheved like a child.
"Yis mam! Yer a loidy. Oi can't!
say no less than that." "What Is a lady?" asked Hildegarde. Wondering the while what Mrs. Knolys would think of Mrs. Murtha's definition. "Ha! A loidy is wan av thim that has all the beer and skittles and doan't have to do no work. Shure Oi alius ses my auld man's the lucky loidy of our house. Me and his childthren does the wurrk fer him and he smokes in the corner all day long!" Mrs. Murtha's definition was terminated by shouts of conflict that noisly
made theiy way up the court and in j the open window. As an inhabitant of j the model tenements, Mrs. Murtha knew well that the voices belonged to
Mickey Doolan and the wife he all too
often beat and abused.
And, almost speechless with rage,
the old woman went hurtling from the
room and out the window and down the fire-escape. With her entry into the fray the shrieks and threatenings grew louder. So Hildegarde decided to seek the scene of action, since to control the melee from a distance were a futile effort. There are days in every one's life when practically everything goes wrong. Events fairly seem to conspire to make each occurrence prepare most unpropitiously for the next. Just as the Doolan fray was subsiding, the
door of the Sanbury apartment opened, and Lawrence ushered in Mrs. Knolys. "This is the living room. Plain living and high thinking," he explained apologetically. Caroline was far too slender to find four flights of stairs an impediment to
her breathing, but they offended her sense of luxury. "I should admit it's rather high," she laughed as she swept her black-and-silver draperies over the Sanbury threshold.
To be Continued
Heading W. G. T. U. Fight in Congress
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First Picture of Ancona Survivors
The W. C. T. U. was assembling its forces at Washington today to lay plans for the fight to push temperance legislation through the present Congress. Leaders from ail over the country will participate in a big mass meeting at Poli's Th?:;tcr tcraon'uv: afternoon at which speakers will outline the wor!:. .irs. A-iaiy Harris Armor of (leorgia, rational organiser, will be one of th? principal speakers. Anna Adams Gordon also will speak.
AMERICAN VESSEL HELD UP BY CRUISER!
Gear This in Mind. "I c-ouvidtr t'hanibe; lin"s CoitrIi itmedy by far lh best medicine i?i the market for cIl.' r.nd rr.u;" sis Mrs. Albei t lilos.-tr. Lima. Ohio. Many other:; r.re of lh. fame ujdhicn. Oli tainabli- t ver.vwlii-n-. A 1 v.
NEW YOKK. I)r. 11. Tin- steamship S:n Juan c l" the X. w ok Pcrto Rico lino. UyiA lUo I'nltcd States flag, wa h'M tip and feart-ljpd by a French cruiser v!iile on her way from New Orleans to San .luan. according to a messaei' received by thr line's officials today. This was the third ship of this line, ally flyinti tho American flag." that has Ijotj helii up and searched by a French warship during the last fie day...
Masonic Calendar I
Saturday Loyal Chapter, N. 4H. O. K. S., will fiive a social for munbers and their families. All sojourning members are invited. Monday Richmond t 'ommardfry. Xo. 8, K. T. Spf-eial conclave; work in the Red Cross depree. Richmond Icdpe. Xo. K. and A. M. Called meeting : work in thp Kntered apprentice dearie-. Wednesday -Webb I.o1j:p, ";. 2!. I', and A. ?.!. Annual ineefing and election of officers. Thursday Richmond Commandery, K. T. Special conclave; work in the Knights Templar decree and inspection, commencing at 7 o'clock. Saturday Loyal Chapter, Xo. 49. Order of the Eastern Star. Stated meeting.
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New York City. Adv.
cr.w of sitcofv ftEcervrra FJJ2S"r food
The large panel shows the crew of the Italian liner Ancona, which was torpedoed and sunk by an Austrian or German submarine in the Mediterranean, getting their first food after landing with a few of the survivors in a small Italian port. The members of the crew .worked for several hours rescuing people from the sea. At the left is an insert of Capt. Pietro Massardo, commander of the vessel, while at the right is an insert of Chief Engineer Carlo Lomberti. who rescued Dr. Cecile Grael, the American physician
An expedition of Norwegian scien-i lists is studying the natives, floa and fauna of almost unknown res ions off northern and central Asia. ;
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