Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 303, 2 November 1918 — Page 10

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM SATURDAY, NOV. 2, 1918.

DEATH TOLL OF SUBWAY WRECK PLACED AT 98 Inexperienced Motorman, Replacing Strikers, Blamed for Tragedy Service Commission Makes Probe.

Bv Associated Press) NEW YORK, Nov. 2. With the death toll placed at 98 by the Brooklyn police, rigid investigations were underway today by the public service commission to determine - the blame for the wreck, last night, of a Brighton Beach train of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit company In the Malbone street tunnel, Brooklyn. Yesterday's strike of motormen and motor switchmen of the company, which was coincident with the tragedy, was settled during the early morning hours, company officials agreeing to reinstate 29 discharged union employes. The company previously had refused to obey the order of the war trade board and take back the men. Interest in the investigations centered on William Lewis, motorman of the ill-fated train, who was arrested on a charge of homicide at his home early today, after he had fled from the scene in terror. Mayor Hylan, who visited Lewis in the Flat Bush police station soon after his arrest, issued this statement: "Lewis admitted to me that this was his first run over the road. He said he was going thirty miles an hour. No man should be allowed to run a train without at least three months' training." President Timothy S. Williams, of I the Transit company, asserted that ali though Lewis was a motor switchman, he was "a trained man" and capable of running a train. Lewis was pressed into service yesterday, It was said, on account of the strike.

Timothy Nicholson Celebrates Ninetieth Birthday Today

Timothy Nicholson, one of the bestknown and most active Friends in the United States, celebrated his ninetieth birthday today. Mr. Nicholson has received seventy congratulatory letters from Friends over the United States. The central offices of the Five Year meeting sent him a box of roses with the following greeting: "Congratulations from the central office of the Five Year Meeting of Friends to him who had the far vision of a united work for Friends in America." Mr. Nicholson was responsible for the forming of the Five Year Meeting. A reception in his honor was held today at the home of John Johnson. This evening he will be the guest at a family dinner at the Johnson home, and will receive guests informally after 7:30 o'clock. Active in Philanthropy. Mr. Nicholson was born In Perquimans county,' North Carolina, November 2, 1828. His parents, Josiah and Anne Nicholson, were prominent and influential citizens of the community, and elders In the Society of Friends. He was reared upon a farm, and received his early education at Belvidere Academy. When eighteen years of age, he became a student in the Friends' school at Providence, 'R. I., where he remained for one and one-half years. During the next six years he was principal of Belvidere Academy. He next was appointed to take charge of the preparatory department of Haverford College, near Philadelphia. After four years' service in this position he was advanced to general superintendent of the college. Two years later, in 1861, he resigned this position and moved to Richmond, where he joined his brother, John Nicholson, in the book and stationery business. In 1853 Mr. Nicholson was married to Miss Sarah N. WThite, in North Carolina. Mrs. Nicholson died in 18f5, and Timothy Nicholson married her

sister, Mary S. White, In 1868. Mr. Nicholson is widely known throughout the United States as an untiring worker in the Friends church, in Sunday-school work, and in various kinds of philanthropic endeavor. - He was the chairman of the committee on arrangements for five of the Quln-i quennial conferences which have been held by the Friends of America. For forty-nine years he was a member of the board of trustees of Earlham College. He was clerk of Indiana Yearly Meeting for many years. He was a member - of the committee of the Friends Society on prison reform for many years, and to his efforts is due most of the progress which has been made in prison reform in Indiana. Was School Trustee. During the years 1865-66 he was a trustee of the Richmond city schools, and from 1867 to 1873 he was a member of the board of trustees of Indiana State Normal school. For one year he was president of the Indiana Sundayschool union, and for three years he was a member of the executive committee of the International Sundayschool association. - When the Board of State Charities was established in 1889, he was appointed a member, and he continued in this position, by appointment from six different governors, for nineteen years until his resignation in 1908. He was an active member of the American Prison Association and the National Conference of Charities and Correction. For several years he was a member of the executive committee of the latter. In 1896 he was president of the Indiana State Conference of Charities and Correction, which met in Richmond that year. , When Timothy Nicholson become eighty years old, he declared his intention of retiring from offlciaj participation in public affairs, and resigned from the Board of State Charities. On this occasion, a banquet was given in his honor, and many of Richmond's most prominent citizens united in pay

ing tribute to his services as an educator, philanthropist, and Friend. Ever since 1861, when Mr. Nicholson came to Richmond, he has been connected with the business life of the city. He first Joined his brother John NlcholBon in the book and stationary business. .

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- Deaths and Funerals. RYAN Mary Magdaline Ryan, four years old, died at the home of her father, 603 South Twelfth street, yesterday of meningitis. Her death came just two weeks ' after the death of her another, Mrs. William E. Ryan. She is survived by her father, a sister Lucile, and her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. William J. Long of Columbu3, Ohio. Funeral services with high mass will be held from St. Andrew's church Monday morning at 8 o'clock. The body will be taken to Hamilton, Ohio, Monday morning at 9:40 o'clock for burial.

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This column, containing news of Richmond and Wayne countv soldiers and sailors, will appear dally In the Palladium. Contributions will be welcomed.

Mrs. Davis Lineback, of North Twelfth street, received a letter from two of her sons yesterday. Both sons are in the service, one, Lester H. Crull, in the Navy, now stationed In foreign waters, who wrote that he was in the best of health; and the other, from

Clarence F. Crull, who Is now on the firing line In France.

Harold E. Hawkins of Camp Taylor, Ky has returned, to camp following a short furlough in the city. He was called here by the illness of his mother Nelson Hampton, son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Hampton, has sailed for France with a Naval Aviation Corps. He was formerly stationed at Great Lakes. Lester L. Williams who has been spending a furlough in the city -with his sister, has returned to Camp Saybrook, Conn. . "There will be some of us, of course, that won't come back, but if we don't mind, we don't want our friends to worry over it," says Private Robert G. Jordan, of Camp Hospital No. 4, now on service in France. In speaking of his camp, Jordan says : "At one camp we were, we had to get up at 5:30 in the morning, walk two and one-half miles for breakfast, come back to camp, and then start right back for dinner. But now we are out of there and don't walk quite so much." "The 'square heads' are getting hell from all sides at present. It certainly takes the Americans to do things. They have renewed the 'pep' in the English and French," writes Private Don Clapp, now in France with United States troops. "At that I guess you, over there, envy us fellows just about as much as we envy you, for every one of us has a great desire to get back to the U. S. A. We don't want to go back, however, until this little argument over here is settled. I am expecting to be back when the war is over."

Word has ten received by Mr. and Mrs. Harry Otte that their son, Fred Otte, who was to have sailed last

wek Is ill wit hthe grippe in a hospital at Camp Merritt, N. J. . Sergeant Charles Mills, who baa been In training at Camp Purdue, has been transferred to Camp Grant, 111. ' Mr. and Mrs. Walter Dalby received a letter from their son, Herbert Dalby, this morning. It was written on September 27. and was very optimistic in regard to present conditions in Europe. ' . - "After a batUe not long past," he said, "we came across a whole lot of German helmets, clothes, etc., Becreted in a woods. From the lot I am sending home to you a helmet and a 75 Inch shell." Dalby wrote that he had Just learned of Frank Genn's death, about which he was greatly grieved as they had been former pals.

- Mrs. Harry Knott has received word that her brother, . Oscar Lang, has arrived safely overseas. Sergeant Herbert J. Boyer, who has been located at Camp Taylor, has been transferred to an officers' training camp at Camp Stanley, Texas. Sergeant Boyer is now in the cavalry. "To the people of dear old Wayne county, I will say that the American boys over here in France are doing good work, and the best thing they can get is letters, and lots of news from home. Letters sure do cheer us up no matter whom they are from," writes Private William T. Moss, of headquarters company, 67th artillery, in France. "There are three Wayne county boys in my regiment, Henry Benge, Walter Braden and myself. We stay pretty close together, for a fellow feels good when he is with someone he knows. This morning the boys are having a big talk about the war and believe me it Is some argument. We are always talking about the great

way we are treated while crossing the states." William C. Conkle, with an aerial squadron stationed overseas, has been made sergeant, according to word rer -ceived by his mother, Mrs. Ina Conkle J of 215 Lincoln street. Conkle recently received a gold chevron for six months service overseas. , -

Fighting Shotdd Be r Over by Chrutnuts, This Soldier Predicts

"1 bet we have dug enough holes In Belgium and France to bury the whole A. E. F. in," says Claude A. Doyle In a letter to his mother, Mrs. D. D. Doyle, of 76 State street "We are sure leading a wanderer's life," he continues. "When night comes we throw our blankets down on the ground or crawl Into a nugout and go to sleep. And speaking of the dugouts and trenches we have dug! , "I wish I could send some of the souvenirs I got during the last few days. I have found everything imaginable. I got some off prisoners. All they can say is 'Kamerad.' I am feeling fine, having plenty of excitement, and the other night I saw some real action. I was out with a working party. We were out all night. I will never forget my experience. Cold weather is setting In, but I think most of the fighting will be over by Christ- , mas. The way we are knocking them loose, It is bound to. "This is a wild country we are In and it is hard to get stationery in fact it Is hard to get anything about here." f Doyle's address at present is 150th Engineers Band, Am. E Force. t

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