Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 41, Number 83, 16 February 1916 — Page 1

rm B PA IX AM HOME EDrnoii OI YI I IO HI Palladium and gun-Telegram VUL' IW. 93 consolidated 1907 RICHMOND, IND., WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 16, 1916. SINGLE COPY. 2 CENTS

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TAYLOR SPEAKS ON GOOD ROADS BEFORE CLUB Jesse Taylor, editor of Better Roads Journal, vice president of the National Roads association, vise president of me National Old Trails association and president of Ohio State Road commission, and one of the best authorities on the road situation in general in the United States will deliver a lecture at the Commercial club rooms at 7:30 this evening to which the public, both men and women, are cordially Invited. The National Old Trails association, members of the Citizens Bridge committee and the committees representing the various ladies' clubs of the city are requested to make an especial effort to insure a large attendance. Harry B. Gates of Indianapolis will be present. EXPLOSION RUINS ALBICAN CLUB AT TORONTO, ONT. TORONTO, Ont., Feb. 16.Startlng with an explosion on the top floor of the building, fire completely destroyed the premises at 17 and 19 West Wellington street, occupied by the American club., early today. P.-T. Hurston of Dallas, Tex., was suffocated. Captain Asa Miiiard of the 97th Overseas Battalion, (American Legion) was so badly burned that he is unconscious in the Ontario club. The caretaker jumped from the top-floor and Is In St. Michael's hospital with a fractured skull. James McComber, night porter and Tom Banks engineer, were slightly, burned, and it was reported that several guests whb lived at' the club had lost their lives. In one of the rooms f downstairs two shells were found, but whether I hey were loaded or not' Is not known. The exitloiiions whltli -uexurredjnay have been from a shell in the building. ; ; -r- -pt:

HURTY ASKS LOCAL CLUB TO SUPPORT BILLS FOR ALL-TIME HEALTH OFFICER

"Our present health officer system in light we now have of sanitary science and hygiene, is a weak and ! system," declared Or. J. N. Hurty, secretary of the state board cf v.-:.., in a letter to the health committee of the Richmond Commercial club." We shall present a bill before the next legislature which will provide for an all-time health officer in each county and also in all cities of over 20,000 inhabitants." The letter from Dr. Hurty was in answer to an inquiry sent him by the local committee which has the report of Dr. J. C. Perry, the government expert, who made a detailed survey of health conditions in Richmond. Urges Mass Meeting.

Dr. Hurty urged the Commercial club to rail a mass meeting soon to discuss health questions as revealed in the Perry report and to pledge support to tho bill which will be present ed, lie asked promise of support for the proposed health officer bill. The following is an excerpt from letter: "First, as to the full time health office: I have no hesitancy in saying that I do not believe there will be any further progress made In public health work in Indiana until the all-time Continued On Page Six. BRITISH FAIL TO RE-CAPTURE LOST TRENCHES LONDON, Feb. 16. Determined to cgaln the trenches which the Gernans captured southeast of Ypres, liitlsh troops are making strong ouuter attacks with indications of omplcte success, according to reports "cteived today. A vigorous artillery duel has been n progress over the greater part of :he Ypres front with the German guns keeping up a steady stream of shell into the ruined city of Ypres. BRITISH ARE REPULSED. BERLIN'. Feb. 16. Attempts by the Euelish and French forces to recapture positions taken by the Germans have all been repulsed, the German war office announced today. FIGHT FOR BELGIUM. , . PARIS. Feb. . 16. England, France and Russia have given a solemn pledge to Belgium that they will not make peace with Germany until the Independence of Belgium has been restored. Official notification of this guaranty was given here today.

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MAKE GUN CARRIAGES . , , - , WITHOUT KNOWING IT i PITTSBURGH. Feb. ,16. .Six! electrical gun carriages are ready for shipment to New York today to be installed "on the new U . S. battleship California,' now in the course of construction. The gun carriages were made at the plant of the Westingbouse Electric Co. It was not until the work ef-MMBbling was started" that thai workmen at the plant knew what they were making. .

DECLINES TO ACCEPT LOAN

With announcement made today by the German-American Trust and Savings bank, this city, that it had decided,, upon the advice of. its attorneys. not to accept the $85,000 loan recently awarded to it by the City of Richmond, city officials admitted they , were confronted with a serious obstacle in carrying out their plans for financing the purchase of the electric plant of the Richmond Light, Heat & Power company. - Act on Lawyers Advice. . t. ; r-

Only two banking concerns entered! bids to advance the temporary $85,000 loan advertised for by the city, one tbe German-American bank, the other an Continued On Page Thirteen. REID GIVES $500,000 HOME TO DAUGHTER NEW YORK, Feb. 16. Daniel G. Reid, railroad and steel plate capitalist, has given his $500,000 home, 875 Fifth avenue to his daughter, Rhea, wife of Henry J. Topping, a son of the president of the Republic Iron and Steel company. Tbe property was transferred free and clear. It is a six-story American basement building, 234x100, midway between Sixty-eighth and Sixty-ninth streets. It is assessed on the city tax rolls at $250,000 but an amount greater than the asembled realty value was spent in interior decorations and furnishings. The Toppings have a country home at By ram Shore Road, Port Chester.

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SOUTH SIDE REJOICES 01R,SPAfJS46GATI0tJ

The South Side Improvement association last night celebrated the location of the new bridge at G street. Citizens might well have attended that meeting and learned a lesson of substantial civic spirit and enthusiasm. . ' y. The association had every reason to celebrate.: Its members had fought for twenty years for' the construction of a span across the Whitewater south of E street. The fight had been one long series of defeats, of victories almost-won, of flattering hopes disappointed. It took dogged determination and heroic courage to stick with that cause. Last night, victory was in the hands of the South Side Improvement association.- For the first time in two decades its members could say, " "We have won the fight." Grim Warriors Celebrate.

How did those grim warriors celebra'.e their victory? What was the substance of their speeches? What laudations were uttered, what eulogies pronounced? Picture the scene in the administration building of the. association. No carpets on the floor sawdust covering the boards. No steam heat a red hot stove providing , warmth. No Continued On Page Thirteen. BARTEL LOGICS WITH PRESIDENT OF WORKS BODY Will Bartel, candidate for the. Republican nomination as state representative, provoked an exchange of repartee at the South Side ImprAvenient association-last evening that was as illuminating as it. was entertaining,' 'He took exception to the remark of Alfred Bavis, president of the board of works, that it was not the function to the-city administration to serve as an employment . agency for men "put out of work by tbe consolidation of the light plants. Mr. Bartel asserted the present administration had served as a labor bureau a few. winters ago., "I am not back paddling on that," answered Mr,. Bavis. . ."We did;: condititons demanded it." . f y , "Why did not the former city adminContinued On Page Thirteen. :

MATINEE SEATS TO GREAT FILM ARE ALL TAKEN Although all seats for the matinee performances of "The Birth of a Nation" are sold out, there are tickets selling at $1, !1.50 and $2 for the evening performances, put of town persons anxious to see the film are asked to make no application for matinee tickets. The supply of tickets for the evening performances will accommodate persons who have not made reservations. The advance sale of tickets for the film is the largest of any for a production that has been offered theatre goers here for twenty years. It is expected that the seat sale will establish a record. MORE PREPAREDNESS. KOKOMO, Ind., Feb. 16. Compulsery military drills for the highschool lads is being planned by Superintendent Haworth. Weather Forecast United States Report Fair tonight and Thursday. ' Temperature. . Yesterday. Noon 40 Maximum Minimum 31 9 Local Forecast Fair tonight and probably Thursday. Below freezing t. night Thawing weather Thursday. General Conditions Weather a is generally fair throughout the United States due to a great area of high barometric pressure. Decidedly warm weather exists over southwest Canada with a temperature of 54 above at Calgary. Extremely cold weather for the section prevails j over northern Florida with general frosts and 28 above at Jacksonville. Cold weather all over Florida. There will not be much change in weather here during next 36 hours. , , . 4 v W. E. Moore. Weather Forecaster.

FALL RIVER SWEPT RY GIGANTIC BLAZE; $2,000,000 DAMAGE FALL RIVER, Mass., Feb. 16. Two. city block on South Main street were destroyed 'by fire early today. Sixteen buildings were burned. The heavy 'coating of snow, nearly two feet thick, on the roofs in the residential district, alone saved the entire city. Embers from the fire showered the whole city but when they fell on the roofs they were quickly extinguished by the snow. The loss was estimated at $2,000,000. The fire started from an explosion. ORGANIZES CHARITY ON RICHMOND PLAN Using the organization of the Wayne county social service bureau as their model, charity workers in Butler county, O., will form a county organization, according to Miss Hilda K.' Mills of Hamilton, who was in Richmond Tuesday afternoon conferring with the social service bureau officials. Miss Mills is general secretary of the Federated Charities of Hamilton. She secured from the local charity officials blanks and forms used in the organization work here.

CAN YOU BEAT THESE TALES?

WEST MANCHESTER, Ohio., Feb. 16. Outline! of a human face and head are plainly visible in a petrified potato which is in the possession of J. B. Trone. Lines about the eyes and mouth are very distinct. The potato was found by John Feller on his lot in the northern part of town. FOUR-EGGS-IN-ONE WEST MANCHESTER, Ohio, Feb. 16. Poultry raisers of West Manchester challenge the world to produce a freak egg similar to the one which Mrs. John Frank found In her poultry house Friday. It was four eggs in one. The two outside shells were connected by a small link of shell-covered albumen. Each outer egg when broken was found to contain . another egg with perfect shell.

FIHE DEMON'S TOLL 0; DAY NEW YORK Two large steamships, another damaged, thirty barges and lighters and large pier destroyed on South Brooklyn water Two persons fatally burned. Loss $5,000,0000. FALL RIVER, Mass. Two city blocks and sixteen buildings burned. Loss, $2,000,000. TORONTO, Ont. American club destroyed. One dead. Two persons injured. Loss $50,000.. MUNICH, Bavaria Lowen brewery damaged. Loss $50,000. DEMOCRATS FILE CANDIDATES FOR STATE MEETING Following is a list of those whose names will appear on the Democratic ballots at the primary election as candidates for delegates to the state convention, all being filed yesterday the last day for certification of candidates for election as convention delegates. Richmond. First Ward Henry Farwig, Anton Stolle, Sr. , Second and Third Wards Clem Thistlethwaite. , Fourth Ward Henry Johanning. Fifth Ward William Hatfield. Sixth Ward Benjamin Hill. Seventh and Eighth Wards Roy Davis. : ; Townships. Wayne Tow nship. Otuside of f Richmond Thomas Ryan, R. R. ' Abington and Boston townshipsCharles Williams, R. R. D,-Richmond Center Township Carl Jones. CDalton and Perry Townships Thomas Brennan. i Clay, Jackson and Harrison Town- . .. Continued On Page Nine. J BIG BREWERY DAMAGED MUNICH,' Bavaria. Feb. 16 Munich's greatest brewery, the Low en Brauerei, was badly damaged by fire today, A store house containing $50,000 worth of hops was also destroyed.

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NEW YORK, Feb. 16. Two big British" steamships, partly laden with munitions and other war material for the allies, forty lighters and their cargoes of oil, cotton and shells and Pier No. 36, on the South Brooklyn water front, were destroyed early today by a' fire which is believed to have resulted from a bomb plot. A third British munitions ship, the Bellagio, was badly dam-, aged, but the fire on this freighter was extinguished af- . ter it had raged for five hours.

JEW FORCES CLM.11G OF 8. 0. P. CANDIDATES FOB STATE DELEGATES

A. C. Lindemuth, Wayne county manager of the campaign of Harry S. New for the Republican nomination for' United States senator, today claimed that at least sixteen of the twenty-six men who have certified themselves as candidates for delegates from Wayne county to the Republican state convention, favor the candidacy of New as against that of James E. Watson. Wayne county is entitled to fifteen delegates to the Re

publican state convention. . LIST OF ENTRIES ASSURES GOOD CORN EXHIBIT With the entry, Jist to date including the names of fifty-one corn growers of the county and with interest in the show being manifested among farmers all over the county, success of the Wayne County Better Farming Association's prize corn exhibition to be held at Jones iwid Williams implement store Friday and Saturday, February 25 and 26, seems assured. Fifty-three prizes representing that number of events have been listed These prizes have been subscribed by local merchants; Every farmer in Wayne county is invited to enter exhibits in the different events. No entry fee is charged. ' Prizes have been subscribed by the following business concerns of Richmond: Reed Furniture company, Miller Harness store, Sam Fred, George Brehm, G. O.. Ballinger, Georgei KnolContinued On Page Nine. VETERANS REMEMBER SINKING OF MAINE Speeches by Paul Comstock on behalf of the Spanish American War veterans . who outlined the purposes of tbe meeting and G. W. Avery, Ed Price and John H. Campbell representing the G. A." R. featured the booster meeting htbt night of the former organization. ' v-. - - Annual ceremony at 9:40.' o'clock was conducted in memory to the illfated battleship Maine destroyed eighteen years ago. Commander Alonzo Grice presided. Refreshments were eerved before the meeting adjourned. ' ' ' '

Loss la $5,000,000.

The loss is estimated to be at least ' $5,000,000. The steamships Bolton Castle and Pacific, owned by the Castle line, were swept and . wrecked by tbe flames. Thousands of tons of war munitions stored in Pier No. 36 were burned. Tbe fire followed an explosion and, fed by cotton and oil, spread so rapidly that the firemen were unable to stem its progress. Two seamen are missing. Captain B. V. Smith of tbe Pacific, and Mrs. Smith were injured so badly they will probably die. Sixty naked seamen who leaped from tbe ships into the water were picked up by tugs and fireboats. The fire, which is the biggest yet attributed to war plotters in this vicinity was one of the most spectacular ever known on the Brooklyn water Continued On Page Six. Six Men Doubtful. Six of the delegate candidates wereclassed by Lindemuth as doubtful, as he has not been informed as to whether they favor New or Watson as the senatorial candidate. He only conceded four of the twenty-six as avowed Watson supporters. It is understood that practically every one of the delegate candidates would support James P. Goodrich for the gubernatorial nomination in the event that contest was thrown into the convention because no gubernatorial candidate received a majority of the vote cast at the primary election. At the New headquarters the candlContinued On Page Nine. UTILITY BOARD TO GIVE ORDER FOR PURCAIISE INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 16. The public service commissioners will have a hearing late today to issue a formal order in the question of the disposal of the electric plant of the Richmond Light, Heat and Power company to the city of Richmond. - The commission has fixed a value on the property of the company and this valuation was ' approved by the city last month. It was agreed at that time that the commission would fii a value on the supplies. and additional equipment of the company at the time tbe sale wa to be consummated. Engineers of the commission fixed th present value of these supplies and ad ditional equipment at $38,736, and thf reproduction value of $4L"41. . - While some of the commissioner! believe no additional order is necea sary there was a desire on the part of, some of the parties that a formal of der of sale including the valuation a additional equipment should be made It is not believed there will be any ok jection to the oVder or that any serious " coutention will arise at the hearing..