Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 46, Number 111, 19 March 1921 — Page 1

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REDUCE CROPS IS TENDENCY OF FARMERS Cotton Growers and Corn

Planters Cut Acreage Must Revise Taxes, Pass Tariff, Start Foreign Trade. MUST REVIVE CYCLE BY MARK StIXlVAW WASHINGTON, D. C, March 19. We are just now at the season when the fanners, throughout the country are making up their minds how much they shall plant and raise the coming year. The decision they make this month largely fixes the size of crops we shall have in the fall, that, in turn, fixes to a large degree the amount of food this country and the rest of the world will have to eat, and the amount of clothes and other goods that will be available for all. Furthermore, the amount of planting the farmers determine to do, will to a large degree fix the limitations of our foreign trade at a period a year ahead of us, which is just about period according to everybody's hope, when we ought to be getting into our stride back toward "normalcy." ' Have No Inducement. It must be said, that the farmers "have not much to induce them to plant large crops, in fact, it has been impressed upon the farmers, that it will be a mistake to plant large crops this year, the day Senator Harding's party left Florida on his way to assume the presidency, a group of politicians riding through North Carolina, picked up Josephus Daniel's newspaper, the Releigh Observer, which is sold at all the larger stations in that state. The principal subject of the news in Mr. Daniel's paper on the particular day, was how little cotton should be planted, and the prevailing burden of argument, was that certain agreements, which the farmers had made to reduce their acreage did not go far enough and that the acreage ought to be still further restricted. Facetious remarks to the effect that -Tosephus was working to undermine the new Republican administration, were met by the plain sight of a better reason from the car windows fields with last year's cotton still unpicked, and the porches of the farm houses stacked with unsold bales. This determination to keep the new crop small, is almost . - universal throughout the cotton country. ? ft does not originate solely with the farmers, nor with the newspapers that represent the farmers. It is an attitude of mind that is . shared by the entire business community In those states. Ban on Planting. A leading banker in Florence, S. C. for example, is said to have announced a policy of willingness to carry his patrons' loans on last gear's cotton crop over for another year until 1922. but only with the proviso that these borrowers shall not accept any cotton at all this season. As to new borrowers, this bank is quoted as being willing to lend money for the purpose of planting a new crop only on the condition that the borrower name a date by which he promises to sell or let the bank sell for him the holdings of old cotton that the borrowers still holds on hand. Parts of Oklahoma have adopted a plan which calls on individual cotton planters to seed only as large an acreage as he can gather with his own hands. That plan would work out in Oklahoma producing this year about half the cotton It produced last year. Banks Tied Up. In yet other .parts of the south the banks are so tied up that from 20 to 30 per cent of the farmers will not, under any conditions, be able to borrow enough money to carry them over and get the supplies necessary to plant a crop. A Baltimore periodical which is almost an official organ for the business men of the south, is advising the planters to reduce their acreage by 50 per cent, on the theory that "the small crop would sell for more than a large crop." It may be that this tendency toward planting very much smaller crops is more marked as respects cotton than as respects grain.and yet persons who come to Washington, from the districts where corn is the chief crop, say that conditions there are quite as discouraging as in the cotton country. In one of the largest Mississippi valley states, it is said that fully half of last year's crop is still on the farms, unsold and without any prospects of selling. Farmers caught in these conditions are obviously not going to feel strongly like planting a maximum new crop. Hardships Result. This condition of distress expresses itself in serious human hardships, and serious human hardships tend to express themselves in radical political movements. In large areas of the west fully a third of the farms are operated by renters, and these renters being left at the end of the year with an unsalable crop, have not been able to pay their obligations, and are being dislodged, and reduced to the ranks of wage-earners except where this fate is avoided by wise leniency on the part of the owner. Large numbers of other farmers have bought their land on installment payments, or have given heavy mortgages; as the installments or interest payments fall due, the farmers are'unable to meet them. And there is created a complete reproductions of those conditions which in 1893 caused such acute economic distress in the west and led to the rise of populism and later the Bryan movement. Serious Situation." Some time ago, I had a letter from one of the wisest men west of the Mississippi River, which spoke of a probable revolt against the Republican party. The writer said: "The (Continued en Page Eleven)

DECKER CONFESSES TO LOVETT MURDER AFTER KIND ADVICE

(By Associated Prens WARSAW, Ind.. March 19. Memories of his early religion revived by a letter urging him to confess his sin and seek forgiveness and softening influence of motherly advice given by Mrs. C. B. Moon, wife of the sheriff of Kosciusko county, has resulted in a confession from Virgil Decker, 18 years old, in which he declared that he alone was responsible for the death of LeRoy Lovett, a 19-year-old youth of Elkhart, Ind., with whom he had chummed. Decker signed the confession early today in the presence of Mrs. Moon, her husband, three detectives, and two Warsaw citizens. Since hi3 arrest Tuesday at Marion, Ind., on the charge of murdering Lovett, the Decker boy had insisted that he had no part in the Lovett lad's death. Almost constant questioning by officers failed to bring any admission from him except he had spent some time Friday and Saturday, March 11 and 12, with Lovett. Yesterday he received in a letter from Mrs. George Walker of Nappanee, a woman wholly unknown to him, a deeply religious appeal that he "confess everything to the man you have harmed" and imploring him to "lean on Jesus." , Gives Him Advice. During his incarceration Mrs. Moon also has talked with him, discussing his predicament and giving him the tender advice that is exchanged between mother and son. Late yesterday the Decker lad requested a Bible. Later Mrs. Moon heard him talking as he walked about the cell. She listened and heard him quoting the scriptures. "Did you find something to comfort you?" she asked. The boy said he found something very comforting. "Are you familiar with the Bible?" asked Mrs. Moon. Decker replied he could recite manv passages of scripture and he told of earlier days when he attended church regularly. "My favorite verse is John, chapter 3, verse 16." and he quoted "For God so loved the world that he gave his nnlv hsvnttcn son that whnpwr be- ! lieveth in him should not perish but have everlasting life. ' "Isn't that good?" he shouted. "It makes me feel better already." "But Virgil if you keep on telling

lies dont you know you will onlyjwhich , Armour and com.

make your case worse?" suggested Mrs. Moon. "Yes, I know it, but I have made my peace with God and lam ready to tell all," declared the boy. Tells of His Trip. He then gave a complete account of his trip from Elkhart, Ind., with LeRoy Lovett, which started Friday night, March 11, and which according to the confession . ended Saturday morning In a summer cottage on the Tippecanoe river with an attack' on the Lovett boy: The story was later reported in the presence of Sheriff Moon and others and incorporated in the signed confession. No motive for the attack was given i except the brief statement that "The j devil told me to do it and I just did it." The attack, with a heavy iron bar, was made, according to the confession given out by the officers, shortly before noon Saturday, and was not fatal, but, fearing the consequences which I might result from this assault, Virgil the confession revealed, changed some of the Lovett boy's clothes for his own, obtained horse and buggy and drove with the injured lad to a railroad crossing. There he released the horse, leaving the buggy with Lovett seated in it unconscious, expecting that a train would come along, demol- ; . A 1 l J 1 . 1 1 I I is ii luc uugBJ uuu leave luc uuujf nu badly mangled that identification fould be impossible except by bits of clothing. These bits would be bits of the Decker boy's clothing, leaving the impression that he had met his death in the accident. Seek His Motive. With the confession given by Virgil Decker, declaring that he was the only one implicated in the mystery of the Lovett lad's death, authorities are now endeavoring to establish a more definite motive than that ascribed by the boy that "the devil told me to do it." According to Mrs. Moon the boy in his talk with her denied that there was an insurance plot to obtain payments of policies aggregating $24,000 in event of his accidental death. "He told me," Mrs. Moon said, "that he had simply taken out the policies because different insurance agents had been after him and had persuaded him it was a good way to save money." The policies had been made payable to his brother, Fred Decker, Mrs. Moon said the boy told her on the advice of the agents. The officers apparently are satisfied with Virgil Decker's latest statement in which he assumes the blame for the crime, but they believe there are many details yet to be revealed. MILTON RESIDENT SUES BANK RECEIVER Alleging that partners in the Farmers Bank of Milton knew that Oscar M. Kirlin, deceased cashier, was dishonest and unreliable two years previous to the time of his death, William Hicks, of Milton, filed suit against j Claude S. Kitterman, receiver for the i defunct bank, to collect a $500 Fourth j Liberty loan bond, interest and costs in Wayne circuit court Saturday morning. Ray K. Shively, attorney for Mr. Hicks, obtained permission to sue the receiver from Judge Bond Friday afternoon. The complaint is filed in three paragraphs charging conversion. The first states that the bond was placed in the bank on October 18, 1918 and the same has not been returned to the plaintiff. The second paragraph alknew that Kirlin was dishonest and alleges that the partners in the bank unreliable but notwithstanding this knowledge the .partners negligently continued to keep him as cashier. The third paragraph charges carelessness and negligence on the part of the partners and asks proper relief for the plaintiff, Mr. Hicks.

STRIKE VOTE OF PACKING EMPLOYES IN Two Representatives of Union To Confer With Secretary of Labor Davis Monday Walkout To Follow Failure. illegalitTIs claim

(By Associated Press) CHICAGO. March 19. The two representatives of the Union Packing house, accompanied by executives of nine other union signatories to the war-time arbitration agreement in the J packing industry, today were on their way to Washington to meet with representatives or the packers before Secretary Davis of the department of ?r,weX . 2nday- , u. Ballots of the employes at packing centers throughout the country rj ceived showed a vote of 44.799 to 613 in favor of a strike if the union lead - ;

ers fail to obtain revision of the pack-; P.5.L No 5 wM h wa8 tQ fJ tQ ers recent y instituted wage cuts andtake off last December, the first return to the 10-hour day before ex- pIane to complete tne 'triP( alighting tra overtime pay. , . f Jin the bay sixteen minutes ahead of thenTerU No- 4' tne of

ly," said Dennis Lane, secretary-treas-1 urer of the Butcher Workmen's union! and one of the two delegates to the; conference. The other is Redmond S Brennan, counsel for the union. "If they are not met, the only alternative for us is to strike. Claim Illegality. "We are going to ask the conference tc rule that the packers brogation of the Alschuler arbitration agreement was illegal. If this is done the recent wage outs and changes in working conditions effected by the packers are also illegal. Before putting them into effect, they must first show their necessity before Judge Alschuler." Federal Judge Samuel Alschuler was the arbitrator choosen to handle packing employe disputes under the 4 ' '

oanv are now votine has been nerfect-' may caJl at the noIue- 2126 -"orta Iwas a vote opposed to either a turnpany are now oung nas Deen peneci . elmHov nfto.7-nrm u-nA ovoninc ..... n .

ed by Morris and company, it was an nounced today but is being withheld pending the result of the Washington conference. Claim Intimadation. A Btatement issued today by a score of smaller packers after a conference yesterday declared that the union officials have sought to intimadate the consuming public by magnifying the probability and extent of 'a strike. - "It is doubtful if more than 30 percent of the employes of the plants affected are union men," the statement said. CHESTER WOMAN HURT IN AUTO COLLISION Mrs. William Brown, living east 6f Chester, sustained bruises and cuts when a large touring car collided with the machine she was driving shortly after 12 o'clock Saturday. The accident occurred near the Pennsylvania Eighth street crossing. A rain had passed only a moment before and the large machine had just crossed the tracks after the gates were lifted. The small car was struck on the right front wheel. Mrs. Brown was thrown against the wind shield, and her hand and arm passed through the glass. She was taken to the home of her brother-in-law, Harry Brown, where her wounds were dressed. The identity of the driver of the large car was not learned. FIND MARTIN GRUNZKE DEAD IN HIS CHAIR Martin Grunzke, about 68 years old, was found dead at his home,113 South Tenth street, shortly after noon Saturday, by several boys delivering a package to his rooms. He lived alone, occupying two rooms in the residence. He is said to have been ill for several weeks, and a physician had been making regular calls. Persons living in the same house said that he had been very short of breath when talking to them during the past few days. When found, he was sitting in a rocker. Coroner Bond was called. j Grunzke came to this country in 1SS1, taking up a clain in South Dakota. He had a wife and family of five children. Local people were unable to state the whereabouts of these children at present. About 12 years ago, Grunzke came to ' Richmond. He was connected with the South Side Improvement association as a collector of dues. Denby Leaves Tonight to Inspect the Forces (Bv Associated Press) WASHINGTON. March 19. Secretary Denby will leave Washington tonight for Guantanamo, Cuba, and Haiti j and San Domingo. The water trips j involved will be made on a destroyer! on which the secretary and his party I of naval and marine officers will em-! bark, probably at Key West. Mr. i Denby will first witness maneuvers , and target practice of the Atlantic battleship fleet in Guaitanamo bay. Following that he will make an inspection of the marine forces now on pacification duty in Haiti and San Domingo. The party will reach Washington on the return about April 5. CROWN SOLDIERS KILLED (By Associated Press) BELFAST, March 19. A great ambush by Irish representative forces near Kinsale, county Cork, this morning in which six crown soldiers were killed and five wounded, is reported. The attackers suffered heavy casualties and Jhe attack is still in progress.

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The F-5-L No. 5 arriving at San Diego bay at end of journey, and Lieut. F. L. Burke, section leader, aboard No. 5 (left), and Ensign Andrew Crinkley, first pilot of No. 5. Eleven of the fourteen seaplanes of the Pacific air force which started a fi.50rt-mllf rntinrt-tHn flie-ht in Ralhna canal Zone, from San Diego. Cal., last December, recently landed in safety !at San DieS bay- The flight was a ni1, ln ... rorHa n other three planes, including the two! ,are NC nlane8. wpr. l0st rmitc , - ,a ' a CQ01 : BULLET WOUND FATAL FOR LE VERE BALL; INQUEST CONDUCTED Funeral services for Le Vere Ball, 18 years old. who died at Reid Memorial hospital Friday afternoon, following the lodging of a bullet just beneath thf skull, while with a party of boys

Saturday afternoon. March 5, will be approved the plan of giving the quesheld from the Grace M. E. church at tion of tax revision the right of way 2 V.n o'clock Monday afternoon. The over the tariff at the extra session of Rev. A. H. B ickus will conduct the : congress. Anouncement has also been luneral. j made that the re ferendum or the Friends wis-hing to view the body : United States Chamber of Commerce

Surviving are his parents, Mr. and rales. Mrs. William Ball, and two brothers,! Tnis action of the United States Jerome F.. and Harold H. Ball. j Chamber of Commerce follows that Coroner. Bond is investigating the ( previously taken by the tax commitdeath. .An autopsy performed Sarur- tes of the National Industrial Conferday resulted in the finding of the bul-1 nce Board and of the National Credit

let very close to its entrance, just beneath the skull. Dr. Bond has not yet examined all wltnepse?. ' . w Shooting is AttldenUI. t Everett Savage, about 17 years old

one of the party of five present at thejof the ability of each commodity to

time oi tne acciaent, saia tnat ne nrea the bullet which struck Ball. "We just went out for a good time," he said. "We had been shootlne at targets. but after a time quit. I had two cart- j ridges left In my gun which I wanted j to get rid of. In discharging these bul-1, Ms T fired backward. LeVere did notj fall when hit, and didn't seem to be much hurt. It made us boys sick, and hp said "you fellows seem to be hurt worse than I.' " The hoys brought Ball back to town in an automobile belonging to Ernst Cooper, North Twenty-Second street, In whose car they made the trip. The doctor dressed the wound and said i that it was only a scalp wound," said Everertt Savage. "He told us that the bullet was not in L Verb's head. Parents Not Notified. "None of us told LeVere's parents about the accident, because we thought that If it was only a scalp wound there was no use in scaring them." Ball's parents told a reporter a few days after the accident, that their son did not tell of beinsr shot until the Monday night following the shooting on the previous Saturday afternoon. The injured boy's temperature began to rise and he went out to Rid nital on Tuesday morning, March 8, lie was accompanied by his mother. Operations failed to remove the bullet, although it was said that an X-ray j showed its location quite clearly. He died Friday afternoon. Boys in the party were Robprt Reeves. North Kizhteenth stn-et: Er-j nest Cooper. North Twenty-Second f-treet: Everett Savase, North Twentysecond street: Hilton Lwi. N-Th Twentv-first street; and LeVere Ball, North E street. r Whv Richmond is the Best Place in Which to Live Rirli Any a Pnllnttlnm repnrfrr Trill IntmlfiT peruana at random to find out TUy they like to live here. "Talk about Richmond not having good theatrical productions," said a business man who visits New York frequently. "I saw two shows advertised there last week that had been in Richmond this seftson. We may not have had the original company, but we had a read company that gave us excellent entertainment "You know it's easy to get into the habit of knocking your old home town. Perhaps that's owing to the fact that we stick too close to Richmond. If some of our knockers would be compelled to live in some other cities for six months they would be glad to get back to the old home town, and its many attractions. "Richmond offers all sorts of good entertainments during the year. We don't $top to count them up. We overlook the good shows, high class speakers, able singers, nationally known musical organizations, and capable lecturers who are booked here annually."

General Sales Tax is Opposed; Claim System Would be Unfair

PAM.ADH M NKWS Bl'BE.tU WASHINGTON", M&rch 10. President Harding, it is understood, has Men's association. Each of these organisations has concluded that any sales tax should ba confined to the sales of certain com modities, selected afler investigation i,tar the tax rather than extended to JAPAN STANDS FIRM ON NATION'S MANDATE OVER ISLAND OF YAP (Bv Associated Press) TOKIO, March 19 Japan will stand firmly on her mandate over the island of Yap, in the south Pacific, Viscount Uchida, the foreign minister, declared at a meeting of the budget committee of the diet today in reply to a question whether the attitude of Great Britain and the council of the league of nations did not affect Japan's interests and also whether Japan intended to insist on her rights under the Yap mandate. Representative Uebara said that anti-Japanese agitation in the United States was spreading to other states besides Call fornia, which, he declared, was prob ably due to the fact that the California agitators were communicating with persons similarly disposed in

hos-jother sUte3, thus fanning anti-Japan-

ese feeling. He also charged John F. Stevens, of Chicago, head of the American railway mission in Siberia, with carrying on an anti-Japanese movement as a result of the clashing of his views with those of the Japaner. a,

army in Sibera. (countries by the issue of gold bonds Viscount Uchida replied that he: secured by assigned assets in the Im -

i knew nothing of the allegations against Mr. Stevens, but said the gov - ernment was adopting every possible means to prevent the passage of laws similar to those adopted in California. The foreign minister asserted that the trade agreement between Great Brit - l am and soviet Russia was only a: temporary measure. The interests of Great Britain, France, Italy and Ja pan in Russia, he declared, all were -different and the negotiations of Italy, and France did not seem to progress NEW STATE BACKERS PROVIDE PROPAGANDA Bv Associated Pi-ess) SPOKANE. Wash.. March 19. Northern Idaho residents, fostering .formation of the new state of Lincoin, which would comprise 10 counI ties of north Idaho and a part of west ern Montana and eastern' Washington, are to raise a fund to be used for prop - aganda purposes, it was stated here today by Herman Taylor, of Sandpoint, Idaho. The campaign wi'l be started with in a few weeks and will be carried ! on for two years, he stated. The Idaho legislature recently passed favorably on the scheme to form the new state, of which Spokane would be the capital. Northern and southern- Idaho are separated by a high range of mountains and this would be the southern boundary of the state of Lincoln if it is formed.

MUNITIONS DEPOT EXPLODES ERFURT, Prussian Saxony. March 19. Many persons were injured last night by the. explosion of a munitions depot at Sebmarborn, a town about four miles northeast of this city. . 4

the sale of every commodity whether!

it be in the form of a turnover tax imposed at every sale or limited to sales fcr final consumption or use. 'Urge Scrapping. There has been in existence for tome time an organized movement to Influence Congress to scrap the present taxing system in favor of a general sales tax. A tax of 1 per cent on every turnover has been urged. Proponents of this tax astert that it will raise two or three billions of dollars annually, or considerably more than the present personal income tax yields. -- ... The three important national business 'organizations which have exI ressed disapproval to a general sales tax. agree that it is desirable and necessary that the extremely high rates " of the personal income tax should be reduced and that the excess nrofits tav ofi rornnraMons should h abolished, but they lake the position that in doing this it would be unfair i

to impose an additional tax of two orTnil1IIIIC UIIMODIOT three billions of dollars to be passed; niUUIlC nUltlUlllOI

on to consumers and paid by them equally in proportion to their expenditures. Opponents of a general sales tax assert that the effect of f uch a tax would be opposed to the encouragement of large sales at a small margin of profit and in favor of restricted sales with a (Continued on Page Twelve BANKEROF ENGLAND TO ORGANIZE CREDIT LONDON. March 19. Sir D. Drummor.d Fraser, the Manchester tanker and financier, has been appointed by the economic and finance committee of the league of nations as organizer! ... . . x , - of the scheme of international cred-1 its, proposed by Dr. Ter-Meulen, the Dutch financial expert, at the BrusI sels financial conference last October.

Sir Drummonds first task, it isand remalned for two years when bis stated, will be to visit the impover-1 benWor the humorIst Bide of journalished countries for the purpose ofism led him t0 sUrt the column for mg& report on, , ext5nt t; which he became famous in the Chiwhich they wish to take advantage of cago Tribune as "B L T" the plan. Broadly the scheme Is to Tn 1?0o h , 'Tine tv"

finance essential imports into these porting country.

J Sir Drummond is president of theithe xrbune and resumed his famous

I Manchester bankers institute and has Deen a student or national nnance. He was an insistent advocate of the ; policy of continuous borrowing as a 1 means of financing the war and checking tne evils or deiiauon. Weather Forecast MOORE'S GENERAL FORECAST Showers and Thunderstorms. Rain in the form of showers and thunderstorms are in prospect for the next 24-heur period with strong winds at intervals due to the eastward movement of a Rocky mountain storm which which now covers the entire Mississippi valley. Cool weather will j follow the storm with south winds changing tr west and north either Sunday or Sunday night. For Indiana by the United States Weather Bureau Probably showers - and thunderstorms tonight and Sunday; warmer in east portion tonight; cooler Sunday afternoon. Temperatures for Yesterday. Maximum 59 Minimum 34 Today. Noon 73 Weather Conditions The Rocky mountain storm was central over east-J era Colorado this morning at 7 a. m. It covers vast territory and is causing warm weather throughout the central states today. It is now turning colder over the northwest where it was very warm yesterday. Maximum temperatures occurred Friday as follows: Omaha. Neb., 86; Huron, S. D., 84; Bismarck, N. D., 66; Concordia, Kan., 88. - Barometer Reading 7 a. m 30.08 12 Noon 30.04

POLITICS ARE : DISRUPTED BY DOME RULE Affixing of Signatures to Pe

titions Urging Adoption of . City Manager Form Upsets Organizations. V'. ORGANIZEFORCES SOON The affixing of 2.200 signatures to petitions for the adoption of -city manager form of government in Richmond has had an upsetting effect on the party organizations and candidates who were getting ready for the municipal primaries. A meeting of the Republican city committee will be held early next week to discuss the proposed change in form of government, according to Harry Thornburgh, chairman of the committee. Mr. Thornburgh stated Saturday that he did not know anything that could be done only mark tims until the question was settled aa to whether the new government should be adopted. He stated that no complete organization had been made in the city due to the uncertainty as to a primary election. Circulate Rumors Reports are being circulated to. discredit the proposed, plan. They, are said to be chiefly the outgrowth of those interested in keeping the control of city affairs in the bands of a few who have always had a "finger in the pie" locally. k Leaders in the movement for the I city manager plan say that these reports are having very little disturbing effect on the average citizen. Further organization of the forces in favor of the city manager form of government will be made, at a meeting to be held next Tuesday afternoon at 4:45 in the chamber of commerce rooms in the K. of P. building. This meeting will be attended by the original committee from the various civic organizations and the ward chairmen. Select Commitec. An executive committee to have charge of the presentation of the petition to council as an act of supervisory commitee for the campaign, will be selected at this meeting. The petitions that are now being circulated will be out all of next week. The final day for signing will probably be Saturday, March 2ft It is said. Ward chairman have been asked ' to continue their work of securing signatures until that day, according- to innouncements made Saturday. DEAD OF PNEUMONIA (By Associated Press) CHICAGO, March 19 Bert Leston Taylor, well known humorist, and conductor of a column in the Chicago Tribune "A Line o' Type or Two", died of pneumonia at his home here early today after an illness of two weeks. ' Bronchial trouble for several weeks took a serious turn and be had gradually grown worse the last few days. The widow, who was Miss Emma Banner, of Providence, R. I., and two daughters, Alva and Barbara Taylor, i survive. ' - Mr. Taylor was born in- Goshen, Mass., in 1866 and received his early ?e6PaPe,r. on fc(ewepap" in Plainsfield. N. H. In 1896 he came fn , rtuiuth Tribune, where he remained for three years, coming to Chicago in 1399, he trnt tr wnrlr nn th f!hirr Journal ! 0iI1Trm -nri the Trihnne to rantrthnto for Beverai years to Puck, the New !Ynrlr Sun and other nublea.tion in New York. In 1909 he returned to column and continued it until a few days before his death. Among his better known "writings are "The Well m the Woods,-. 'The I Pipe Smoke Carry." "The Charlatan." j "Motley Measures," and a "IIne o Verse or Two." BAND CONCERTS HINGE ON BASKETBALL GAME Band concerts in Richmond for the summer months will hinge upon the attendance at the benefit basketball game to be played in the Coliseum Monday night by the Wilson Cleaners team and the organization from the Young Men's Business club. Both teams have showed prowess during the past season and a game that will give spectators the full worth of the price of admission is promised. The board of works has appropriated (250 to be used for Sunday concerts. Since a total fund of $1,000 la required the young business men decided to make up the rest of the required amount by playing a benefit game. Looking about for- an oppon-. ent to furnish an interesting game, the Y. M- B. C chose- the Wilson. Cleaners. ; -, r ' - Will Aid Concert. r ; Tickets have been mailed out to all' members of the club and It it reported that the seat sale is meeting with success. ' ' -'vV" ,i ' Members of the ' organization are calling the attention of the public - to the fact that those who witness Mooday night's game-not enly will see a real scrap on the- basketball floor bat will alsq provide the means whereby' regular concerts- will , be insured for the summer.. . , . ,