Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 108, 19 March 1917 — Page 4

IHki KlChMOD rAUAAUiVl AfrU fcUN-TELEGRAM, MONDAY, MARCH 19, 19X7

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM

published Every Evening Except Sunday, ty Palladium Printing Co, IWUdium Buildin. North Ninth and Sailor Sit. ... R. G, Leeds. Editor, E. H. Harris, Mgr.

Entered at the Post Office at Richmond. Indian, as Seeond Class Mall Matter,

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If the science of war advances in the next War as it has advanced in this over the last war, there wfl! he no room for neutrals. W. H. Taft.

A Gty's Bond Store W. J, Peck describes Chicago's Bond Store in an article that just has been released for publication. It describes a method used in Chicago to sell city bonds direct to the people. The text of ,the article follows: ' In Chicago's City Hall, on the fifth floor, hangs a sign which is in plain view of every one !Tho gets out of the elevator. . Under a hand which points the way, it reads: 1 - 'City Bonds for Sale." " Follow the hand's direction and you enter a large room containing a wire cage, over the win

dow to which hangs a notice that city bonds are s 5or sale there. ( 2j It is Chicago's bond store. For more than ! Stwo years, Chicago has financed her needs in. this j Jiirect, common-sense way, During the last

twelve months, about $7,000,000 of the city's 4 per cent, bonds have been sold to buyers, either through the window of that cae in City Hall, or, by mail, to customers in widely separated parts of the country. - Chicago's need for borrowed money is limited, and of late its bond store has found it necessary to restrict the amount of bonds sold to one customer to $1,000. AU sorts and conditions of men and women come to the bond Counter, hand over their money and go out with the engraved paper, which is the city's promise to pay interest on the face amount of the bond at 4 per cent., and to return the money at a specified time. Money that smells of the earth in which it has long been buried; mousenibbled money ; strange collections of bills and coins; certified checks all these come through that window. Chicago's people have learned to appreciate the city's bonds have learned that they are safe, that they pay a good rate of interest. They have learned that a bond investment is the second wise step in the programme of thrift which begins with saving, . The bonds are sold in denominations of $100, $500 and $1,000. They are "serial" in character that is, a buyer may choose one dua in one year, due in two, three, five or ten years, according to his desire. At any time the city will buy back bonds at par the price paid by the customer. Chicago runs its bond store at no additional cost to the city. There i3 simplicity and directness in this method of financing the city's need for money. It is attractive to buyers, and experience shows that it is economical for the city. In the opinion of this bond store's proprietor

the Controller of the city of Chicago it is; there to stay. Why every city hasn't such a ; store, he fails to understand. Isn't it the logical ! plan 'to borrow money to run a city directly from I the city's people? j

Apprentice Continues Reminiscences oi Early Days

I in Newspaper Activities of City and

County

NOTE 'This is the second article by Georgo W. Harper, an apprentice printer on the Palladium three score years ago, in which the writer recalls many interesting incidents in connection with early life in Richmond.

? BY GEORGE W. HARPER 2 My ambition to become an editor and publisher could not forego the re4fraints of a three year apprenticeship, and as there was a, couple of tttea of "long primer" type the point '4jstem was not then thought of -hlcb was not in use I conceived the 3dea of getting out a little sheet of 3ocal news and joke3, the work being 3lone by myself after work hours. In !3une, 1854, a few ccpie of a little "sheet under the title of the '"Rich, "faiond Eagle" was issued. Tbla was

sltef fin Tw& White acd Heal

f followed - with occasional similar j issues. i The temperance or prohibition qeus- ! tion was coming to the front as a

leading issue cf the campaign throughout the State, and in no county with more prominence than in Old Wayne. The "Old Line Democrats" were soon forced to take a stand against "sumptuary laws," and this served to further the. breach already .created by the slavery" question. The Know Nothing organization, on the eastern side of the state at least, readily joined the movement for prohibition of the liquor traffic. Come to Parting of Way. In Richmond at this time were two very nice men celibrates both of whom, bad been strong temperance men. Henry J. Shombre, an attorney, had broken with the Democratic party on the slavery question, while Charles Clark, a merchant, staid with the party. Although the two men bad previously been warm personal friends they had now "come to the parting of the ways," and had Joined in some highly acrimonious discussions, In general talk and from the rostrum. In which each was accused of insincerity on the temperance question, or ,"play: ing to the galleries. William f A. : Bickle was . a lawyer of prominence, who was at first a Whig, but owing: to some disappointment had abandon-j

j ed his first love a few years previous, I

end was now aligned with the Demo-i crats, accorded the position of a party! leader. He was a pleasant speaker, ! full of sophistry. He poeed as a!

stricting a man's manner cf living. . The state and county elections were held at that time 'on the second Tues-

j day in October. Wayne county was strongly Whig, had some very pro-

mounced prohibitionists, also msny '

straight out abolitionists, especially j among, the Quakers. The two or' three numbers of the Eag'e which had ! been printed took the popular si ie. I Uses An Industrial Cut j The fusion ticket, under the head-j lag "Anti-Nebraska Ticket" had been-; printed with an industrial cut as its ! heading. I conceived the idsa of getting out a Democratic ticket as a bur-; lesque on a part of its platform, and j with a barrel underneath its heading i and a burlesque on its resol;;tioti on j the temperance question, print d 'a j number of tickets with the Eale im- j print. The night before the election, j along with some political j matter a j number of these tickets were posted J about the city on dead '.walls, bulletin! boards, etc. They were also to be ; found at the po!l3 on election da; and j one or two of thsrn were voted.

The election was a great triumoh

for the "Anti-Nebraaka-Know Nothing -Prohibition" party, throughout the state, and in no county more significant than in Wayne. Dalton was the banner township of the county, the Democratic ticket polling but one solitary vote. -', A. ;.',... , .,.."..',. ':, The ticket printed by the Eagle created quite a. little 6tir, gome of the leaders of the party being charged of responsibility for it; but such was not. the case, I being solely responsible. The attention it created seemed to furnish a call for another issue pf the Eagle. C. R. Johnson was good on writing and burlesque, and at ray solicitation prepared a good story on "Burial of the Old Line Democratic Party," which was published under the pseudonym of "G. Beesom Squibob, E3q." , Brings Out Early Characters. In the story Mr. Johnson very aptly brought in some cf the characters who were prominent actors In the party during the campaign. One of these was David T. Smith, a young lawyer of Irish extraction who rated himself much higher and of greater importance than did others, and his advice and prognastications, which were always "on tap," were well disposed of in th9 story. t An Irishman and a German had been prominent actors with hopes of reward in political preferment, were made to lament the fact that men from the old sod and the banks of the Rhine were

relegated to the rear, and instead of enjoying political berths of ease would have to content themselves with laboring with pick and shovel, and carrying the hod. There were some allusions to the Democratic organ and its editor, James Elder, who was postmaster. The paper had come out with an editorial assigning causes for the defeat, aa'd speaking-of the Know Nothing party as combination of "tha clergyman, black-leg, gentleman and debauchee bound tceether in one commcn brotherhccrl." Lawyer Bickle was credited with the authorship of the editoria1, and in the Eagle story he was made the oratcr of th? funeral occasion, and this editorial liberally quoted frcm and burlesqued. Davia Writes An Article. There was also an article of which B. W. Davis of the Palladium was the author, which also made some good hits and take-offs. The night before the publication of this issue cf the Eagle there was a meeting of the Know Nothing Lodge, and Mr. Johnson took occasion to announce the coming issue of the paper, and scmething of its contents. He advised ni') to be out early next morning to sell the paper on the streets. I did so, and thcush it was sold at five cents a copy it 'nvent off like hot cakes," and a third edition was printed during th day, and by night my pockets were full of small change. As a boy just 'urd in his seventeenth year, receiving hut a snail salary as, an apprentice. 1 prized my wealth much beyond the pooriety I rpceived. Fcr the campaign, find during the absence cf Mr.'Holloway in his congressional canvass. Benjamin Wrigley, who had be?n during the past school

year a teacher, a young man whose fluency as a writer was overwrought with a flowery and hishfaluting -style was engaged to do some editorial work alcie; with keeping open the sanctum and business rcom on the second floor. Resort to Town Pump. During an extremely hot day in August- a fire was discovered issuing frcm thft roof of the store of Vv. C. (Cepli) Watt. As there wer store rocrus adjoining, and it being before ih clays of steam apparatus for fire fightirg, a great commotion was created, and beside tho carrying out

of good every means possible for fighting the - fire waa resorted to. There was a town, pump Just across the tret. and " bucket brigade" of ladles was formed from this pump. In writing up an account of the fife this furnished an opportunity for a grand display of Wrigley's style of writing. The following little extract, which was made, the occasion for comment from neighborhood papers, would surely find a place today In Bert Leston Taylor's "Llne-o'-Type or Two" column of the Chicago Tribune: "And, the ladles (God bless them) with Uly wnH arms ' bared t the scorching rays of an August sun. seized the pump handle, and made U (the pump) yield Its aqueous fluid ia be applied to the flames t fclch. were dancing from roof to roof thwart a heated sky." Contain Ule Local News The papers of that time contained very little local news of the character that make the papers of the present riav ttnueht after. The DODUlation

of Richmond was about five thousand,

and the paper was delivered io cuy

subscribers by a carrier, wno was usually the. youngest apprentice in the office. I was at this time the carrier, and delivered about 230 papers each Thursday, A "New Year Address" was presented to each of these subscribers by the carrier on the first day of the year, for which be received a coin of such denomination as the generosity of the paper's patrons ( elected. i Early in 1865 there was a slack In; work and two of the Palladium printtra, Sewell R. Jamison and Calvin R. Johnson, conceived the idea of getting out a live little local paper for a

taree montns trial, mere was a, cauvass among the printers as to the name' to be given the new venture. Johnson was nothing if not original, and as it was desired to have a name that would attract attention he suggested the "Broad Ax of Freedom and Grubbing Hot of Truth." As this was deemed appropriate to the times the suggestion was at once adopted. As the first issue was full of fresh and taking matter of a general local character the circulation went up by leaps and bounds in the city, far surpassing the other two papers. Before the close of the three months it had become a sufficient fixture to cause the purchase of a plant for its continuation. After a few years Jamison and Johnson retired. The new proprietors dropped the latter half of the name, published a daily for a year or more, having Instilled the first steam press in the city. It was finally swallowed up by another publication.

Masonic Calendar

Monday, March 19, 1917 Richmond Commandary No. S, K. T. Special conclave. Will confer the Knights of Malta degree. Tuesday, March 20 Richmond lodge No. 196 F. & A. M. Called meeting. Work in Fellow Craft degree. Wednesday, March 21 rWebb lodge, No. 24, F. & A. M. Stated meeting. Friday, March 23 King Solomon's chapter, No. 4, R. A. M. Called convocation. Work in the Past and Most Excellent Master's degrees. .Saturday, .March 21 Loyal chapter. No. 49, O. E. S. Will give a social aid dancing party for the members and

sojourning members of the Star.

Shallow streams and canals in one part of Missouri are being navigated by a local inventor's boat that is both driven and steered by an aeroplane engine and propeller.

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MRS, CORDELL DIES OF SLOW PARALYSIS

HAQER6TOWN, lad., March 13

Mrs. Amanda Cordeli, ge 72, died at her home here Saturday near 6 p. m., after suffering a long time from creep

ing paralysis. Mrs. Cordeli lived for

many years at the present home of the Cordelia and was quite well known. She was a member of the Eastern Star and Pocahontas lodges. She was the mother of thirteen children, all now living except two, Cora died when she waa twelve years pld and Charley died a few months ago. The others are Lewis living with his wife at the Cordeli home, Richard Cordeli, William Cordeli. Mrs. Lizzie Schmidt, Mrs. Jessie Jamison and Mrs. Delia Wadraan, of this place, Harry Cordeli and Fred Cordeli, of Richmond, Mrs. Lillie Christ, of Lawrenceburg and Mrs. Jennie Bell, Dayton. Funeral services will be held from the late residence of the deceased, Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock.

There were the three great Jewish feasts which lasted seven days, and between the first and eecond were seven weeks. The levltlcal purification lasted seven days.

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