Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 41, Number 260, 18 September 1916 — Page 4

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUNTBLEGRAM

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Preventible Deaths.

The New York Central railroad has worked out statistics showing how negligence on the part of trespassers is responsible for the large number

of deaths on American railroads. It points out that a large number of women and children are counted in the list. The greater part ; of the deaths is not found among the railroad employes but among men, women and children who have trespassed on railroad property. The statement of the New York Central follows: During twenty years ending in 1912 there were B6.733 trespassers killed and 94,546 injured on the railways of the United States. Careful investigation has shown that the majority of persons thus killed and injured are citizens living in the vicinity of the accident and that many are women and children. From 1901 to 1910 there were approximtaely 13,000 children under fourteen years of age killed and injured while tres passing on railroads in the United States, enough to make a mile-post for every mile half-way around the world. There were 20,000 between the ages of 14 and 21 years killed during that same period, making 33,000 minors, who were victims of this evil. During ten years ending in 1910, there were 103,452 trespassers killed and injured in the United States, while for the same

period in Great Britain and Ireland there were but 5,754 trespassers killed and injured. Of course the mileage of American railroads is much greater, but it is nevertheless true that the British railways traverse a more densely populated and conjested territory than most of our Ameri can railways. To the uninformed, it will probably be surprising information to know that more than 50 per cent of persons killed on American railroads are trespassers and that ordinarily there are on our, railroads three times as many trespassers killed each year as there" are railroad employes killed. This annual needless killing of more than 5,000 American citi2ens and the injuring seriously of an equal number, mostly wage earners, can only be prevented by the co-operation of the public and public of ficials. Pavincr the Gas Bills. Consumers of natural gas got little consolation and scanty satisfaction from the announcement of the gas company last Saturday in which it set out in detail the ruling of the public utilities commission. The fact remains, the patrons must pay the bill. Nothing can palliate that blow nor make it easier for a man to meet the gas bill. The company gets the benefit, the consumer pays the bill that's all there is to the proposition. As indicated by the Palladium long ago, the only solution of the problem at this stage of the game, is an amendment to the public utilities act which will circumscribe the activity of the board. If the personnel of the present commission does

not satisfy the people, if they believe that the corporations are gaining the favors, there's a way to relieve the situation-select an administration that will appoint men of another political faith.

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By Wm. J. Bums and Isabel Ostrander

A Real Detective Story by the World's Greatest Datectlvt. A Fascinating Love Story Interwoven with the Tangled Threads of Mystery. Copyright, 1916. W. J. Watt Company. Newspaper rights by International News Service

"I waa le ddown a thickly carpeted

hall and up a single long flight of stairs, to a door Just at its head. We entered ; the door closed softly behind us; and the bandage was whipped from my eyes. There was only a low nightlight burning in the room, but I made out the outlines of the furniture. There was a great bed over in the corner, with a motionless figure lying upon it. "'There's your patient, Doc; go ahead my burly friend Baid, and accordingly I approached the bed, asking at the same time for more light. The young man was unconscious, and in answer to a question of mine the attendant who had sat at the head of the bed as we entered informed me that he had been in a complete state of coma since he had been brought there, several days before. "I remembered . the description In your letter of the subject for whom you were searching, and I fancied, in spite of the bandages which swathed his head, that I recognized him in the young man before me. The lights flashed on full in answer to nfy request, and on a sudden decision I drew the watch camera from my pocket, took the patient's wrist between my

thumb and finger as if to ascertain his pulse, and snapped his picture. The result was a fortunate chance, for I did not dare focus deliberately, wth the eyes of the attendant and the three men who had accompanied me, all directed at my movements. "Then I gave the patient a thorough examination. I found a fracture at the base of the brain not necessarily fatal, unless cerebral meningitis sets in, but quite serious enough. He was still bleeding a little from the nose and ears. I washed them out, and packed the ears with sterile gauze, leaving instructions that a specially prepared ice cap be placed at once upon his head and kept there. That was all which could be done at that time, but the patient should have constant, watchful attention. He must either have suffered a severe backward fall, or received a violent blow at the base of the skull, to have sustained such an injury. "When I had finished, they blindfold

ed me again, led me from the room, and conveyed me home in the same manner in which I had come, with the possible exception that the car in returning seemed to take a different and more direct route; the journey appeared to be a much shorter one, with fewer twists and turns. The same three men came back to the house with me, and entered my office, where the burly one turned over to me ten five-hundred-dollar bills. They left almost immediately, and although it

was close to dawn, I went into my dark

room, and developed the negative of

the thumbnail photograph I had taken. "The events of the night had been so extraordinary that when I did retire, it was long before I could sleep. In the morning, I made a couple of prints from the negative, then took the five thousand dollars down and deposited it to my account in the bank." "When I decided to come here, I ran over in my mind every moment of the previous night's adventure, to catalogue my impressions. The habit of years has made me methodical in all things, and I Jotted them down in the order in which they occurred to me, that I might not forget to relate them to you. Memory plays one sad tricks, sometimes, when one reaches my age.

These notes may be of no assistance to you, sir, but they are entirely at your service." "I am eager to hear them. Doctor. I only wish all witnesses were like you my tasks would be lightened by hPlf." Blaine said, heartily. The elderly physician drew from his pocket a paper, at which he peered, painstakingly. "I have numbered them. Let me see oh, yes. First, the burly man walks with a slight limp in the right leg. Second, of the two men with him,

all I could note was tnat one spoke with a decided French accent and had a hollow cough, tuberculosis, I think; the other, who scarcely uttered a Word, was short and atocky, and of enormous strength. He fairly lifted me into and out of the car when I was blindfolded at the entrance of the place they cal

led a sanitarium. Third, the car had a peculiar horn; I have neter heard one like it before. Its blast, was sharp and wailing, not like a siren, but more like the how of a wounded animal. 1 would know it again, anywhere. Fourth, there is a railroad bridge very near the house to which I was taken t-I distinctly heard two trains thunder over the trestles while I was attending my patient. Fifth, I should judge the

place to be more of a retreat for alcoholics or the insane, than for those suffering from accident, or any form of physical injury. A patient in some remote part of the house was undoubtedly a maniac or in the throes of an attack of delirium tremens. I heard his cries at intervals as I worked, until he quited down finally. (To be Continued.)

Once upon a time there, was a King , "Here are your feathers," said the

who had a daughter, who was very ( Prince with a bow, as he gave them

beautiful, but when suitors came to i to her, "and I thank you more than

ask for her hand in marriage she turn

ed away her head and said with scorn that none of them were good enough for her; that the one who wed her

must be able to climb a high mountain, where lived a terrible dragon, with a tall of feathers, and she must have three feathers from the tail of this fierce dragon brought to her by him who wished to wed her. As this was a very dangerous thing to do, all the suitors who came went away without even trying to get the feathers from the dragon's tail. One day, however, there came to the palace, riding on a black horse, a handsome Prince, who said he would try to get the feathers for the Princess, not because he wished to marry her, but because he could not bear to hear a lady wish for anything without trying to gratify her wish. This made the scornful Princess look at the Prince with kindly eyes, and she even said she would marry him if he did not bring back the feathers. .

But the Prince said he did not wish

to marry, he only wanted to get the

thing for which she wished

So off he went to the mountain and his powerful black horse, after

hard climbing, reached the top.

Out came the dragon waving his

tail of feathers back and forth with anger, and showing his teeth and tongue in a threatening manner, but the Prince could not be frightened; he drew his sword and dashed toward the monster, slaying him with one blow. Then the Prince jumped from his

horse and pulled from the tail of the dragon the three feathers for which

the Princess had wished and mount

ed his horse to ride down the moun tain. Suddenly a roaring sound like dis

tant thunder came to his ears, and then a bright flash came before his

eyes, and when it cleared the Prince

saw in the opening of a cave a beau

tiful girl dressed in a flowing white robe. The Prince jumped from his

horse and went to her. "Who are you?" he asked, and how did you get on top

of this high mountain?" "I am aprincess that the dragon stole when I was a very little child, and here I should have staid if someone had not slain the dragon. Did you do it?V she asked. The Prince fell in love with her at once she was so beautiful, and told her he was glad to say he had killed the dreadful creature and would take

her to her home. So he put the Princess on the horse In front of him and rode ; down the mountain and to the palace of the Princess who wanted the three feathers. When the Princess saw the Prince she went out to meet him, for she could see the feathers waving from his cap, where he had placed them, and she felt sure he Intended to marry her, else why should he have taken the risk. When she came up to the Prince and saw the beautiful girl he had on the horse with him, she grew very,

angry, for the new Princess was much more beautiful than she was, and the scornful Princess knew she had lost the Prince.

can tell you for sending me on the errand, for I have found the most

beautiful woman in the world, and

shall make her my wife."

The Princess was so angry, she could not even thank the Prince, and she went back to the palace with the three feathers, wishing she had not

been so scornful and imposed such

a task upon her wooers.

The years rolled by, but no more

wooers came, and the scornful Prin

cess lived all her days unmarried, and

grew so cross that she grew ugly look

mg as wen.

Tomorrow's Story "Mr. Bear's

Trumpet."

Hagerstown Notes

By Miss Florence Bell.

Mrs. Clyde Reynolds and children

returned Sunday from Bucyrus. O

where they spent two weeks with rela

tives. Mrs. Reynolds' brother, Gerald

Meade, also returned from a two

weeks visit at Traverse City, Mich.. .

Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Kellum and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Armacost went to Union

City Friday to attend the funeral of

an aunt, Mrs. Eliza Armacost..... Miss

Mabel Ulrich of Cowan, is visiting her

relatives, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Crull on

Perry street.

Masonic Calendar

Saturday Loyal Chapter, No. 49, O, E. S. Stated meeting. Tuesday, September 19, 1916, Richmond Lodge No. 196, F. & A. M.

Called meeting. Work in Fellowcraft

degree.

Wednesday, September 20, Webb Lodge No. 24, F. and A. M. Stated

meeting.

Friday, September 22, King Solo

mon's Chapter No. 4, R. A. M. Called meeting. Work in the Past and Most Excellent Master's degree, commenc

ing at seven o'clock.

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The life of a New York policeman, especially among the reserves, s not all "beer and skittles" these day when car strikers riot and. street cars don't run any too frequently. In order to get to the scene of disorder the blue coats have commandeered big merchandise trucks In several cases. The accompanying photograph shows a platoon of reserves responding to an alarm.

tfOD

With the Reel People

The girl was held a slave in Chinatown. An American artist, looking for a model, learned of her presence iu an opium den and by a series of hazardous and exciting episodes rescued her from loathsome imprisonment and made her his wife. The assumption that the girl was the daughter of the American cansul at Hong Kong orphaned during the Boxer rebellion and smuggled to New York's Chinatown with other slavegirls by a Chinese trafficker in drugs and humans, is told in a series of interesting developments, logically pictured and maintained in exciting sequence by numerous thrilling episodes. Violet Mersereau, the piquant and pretty star of Bluebird Photo

plays in "Broken Fetters" at the Washington tonight and tomorrow, impersonates the "Chinese" girl, who eventually takes her place in the home of a rich New York family, as the bride of the artist-hero. William Garwood plays the role of the artistically inclined rescuer, and there is a large and able company of Bluebird's most skillful players to complete the cast.

GARY CLUB OPENS WORK FOR SEASON

MILTON, Ind., Sept. 18. The Cary club opened the year with Mrs. J. A. Brown Thursday afternoon. A nice company of the members were present to enjoy a very interesting progrom, which follows: Inaugural address, the president, Mrs. Oliver Wal

lace; Wayne County Literature, Mrs. John DuGranrut; Selections from Wayne County Poets, Mrs. George Kelsey; Song, "Old Folks at Home," Club; Responses were "Writers of Wayne County"; The day's motto, "Tomorrow comes and we are where? Then fet us live today." At the close of the program the program committee, Mrs. J. L. DuGranrut, Miss Lula Faucett and Mrs. E. W. Doty invited the ladies to remain for the social hour and a danty luncheon was served. The next meeting will be with Mrs. J. L. DuGranrut, Thursday afternoon, September 21.

FAIR OPENS SEPT, 25

EATON, O., Sept. 18. Final details for the annual county fair, Sept. 25-29, were arranged Saturday afternoon at a meeting of the directors of the agricultural society. Prospects were never more flattering than this year

and directors anticipate the society's

banner eventy.

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