Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 46, Number 127, 8 April 1921 — Page 16

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, RICHMOND, IND FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1921.

COMMUNITY ADVANCE TO BE SUBJECT AT FORT WAYNE MEETING T?y Associated Press FORT WAYNE, Ind. April S. Announcement that the first state conference in Indiana for discussion of community problems is to be held in this city June 22 to 25, Inclusive, was made here today by the Fort Wayne Community Service Council. Thousands of persons, the announcement said, will be asked to attend and the outgrowth of the conference is expected to be a permanent state-wide organization of communities for recreational life and community advancement. The community movement is under way in eleven other Indiana cities besides Fort Wayne and representatives of each is exoected to have an active part in the June conference. These cities are Elkhart, Terre Haute, Wabash, Marion, Connersvivlle. Logan f'poit, Xoblesville, Laporte, Seymour, Vincennes and Richmond. Governor May Speak. Governor McCray and others are to be asked to be on the program of the opening day, and a part of the program will include the establishment of an Allen county community service association among farmers. On the eve of opening the conference it ia planned to hold a home coming jubilee which will bring together old friends and former citizens of Ft. Wayne. "With the state conference as an objective," said a statement issued by the local communty service council, "it is hoped that community sentiment here will receive such additional impetus that by the time of the conference the twenty existing neighborhood associations comprising 25,000 people will have increased to fifty associations with Fort Wayne's entire popu lation actually taking part. Without the conference as an objective such expansion would require six months or a year more. The neighborhood associations look after the needs of the neighborhoods, such as schools, playgrounds, pavements, lights and sewers, and develop neighborhood leisure-time programs, usually carried out in the school buildings and consisting of such activities as developments of units for the Fort Wayne community chorus, of neighborhood orchestras, bands and glees clubs, social gatherings, recreational games and folk dancing, dramatics, including one act ' plays, minstrel shows, pageantry, athletic contests, celebrations on holidays, field days, communty fairs and picnics. "Through the various delegates il lustration to the state at large of the development of the local organization will set up convincing example of the powerful appeal of community sentiment, linked with good organization plans and so spread the community movement, it is hoped." . Various committees have been named to arrange for the meeting.

Indiana Club of Chicago Stages Industrial Exhibit Tho Indiana Society of Chicago, will Uio an industrial exposition at the Drake Hotel. Chicago, April 16. The industrial exposition will consist of a group of exhibits portraying industrial developments of the state of Indiana. Mr. Lucius Tcter, president of the Indiana Society, will present El wood Jfaynep. the dean of the leaders of American industrial achievements and the honored guest of tho evening. Mr. George Ade, the famous humorist, will make an address on "Industrial Indiana." The affair will be the greatest of its land ever held by the Indiana Society, ill the exhibits are to be distributed to the members and guests and to be taken home by them. A dinner in the ballroom of the Drake hotel will be given. Dancing will close the formal evening.

Revival of River Traffic Recalls Memories of Life in Early '70s

Wayne County Man on Pardon Docket (By Associated Press) INDIANAPOLIS, April 8. Among the cases on the state pardon board's docket for hearing at its session beginning next Monday is that of Joe Fields, sentenced from Wayne county, March 14 last, to 45 days at the penal farm and fined $100 for violating the liquor law. Mrs. Wilbur Heckman Dies in Bloomington Thursday Word was received here Friday of the death of Mr?. Wilbur Heckman at Bloomington Thursday night. Mrs. Heckman is survived by a number of relatives in this city. Mrs. E. M. Petty, mother-in-law of the deceased woman, was called to Bloomington Monday. Funeral services will be held in Bloomington at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon.

ATTEND STATE MEETING Miss Stella Harman, county supervisor of domestic science, and Miss Blanche Zaring will attend a state domestic science meeting at Lafayette Saturday. The meeting has been called to arrange the state course of study for next year In the domestic science departments. Miss Zaring is a member of the state council and Miss Harman is a member of the state domestic science committee, being especially interested in care of the home work.

(By Associated Press) NEW ORLEANS. La.. April 8. Memories of old days on the Mississippi when stately packets plied in the passenger traffic are revived by the resumption of traffic between Pittsburgh, Pa., and this city by way of the Ohio. Barges have carried freight traffic on the great river for many years since the packets were driven out by railroad competition. In the days of Mark Twain the Mississippi packets were celebrated for their "eats," their famous races, their pilots and even for their poker games. It used to be no uncommon sight to see from 15 to 30 passenger vessels, fro mthe palatial packet to the weather beaten tramp leave the New Orleans landings daily for up-river points. Coming of the railroads with quick service for perishable cargo, many lines almost paralleling the river between the most important landings, caused river traffic to lose its prestige. Shippers began sending cotton and other non-perishable freight by rail and the stops of the river packets were fewer and fewer as the years went on. Life is Changed. Plantation landings rotted away, planters began to buy railroad tickets instead of steamer passage and made their plans to spend the difference in time in New Orleans instead of on the boats. Planters moved to town, social life in the country began to wane in short, country dwellers became farmers and plantations became farms. It was romantic to be a planter, but much more profitable to be a farmer. All of this directly affected passenger traffic. A river voyage in the olden days was a pleasurable affair, if the boilers did not blow up or the vessel hit one or the shifting sand-bars,' mud lumps or hidden snags. A comfortable berth, wonderful meals, dancing at night, watermelon parties, well stocked bars, stud and draw poker games for the patrons of that form of amusement, and last, but not least, the antics of the negro roustabouts all combined to make things pleasant for the traveler. In the heat of the afternoon, behind shielding mosquito bars the passenger, if he so desired, could quaff mint ju leps or sip corn whisky cocktails, not to mention the old flat-bottom loddio, made with sugar, water, pineapples and orange juice and, of course, whisky. The old times here, with scanty stocks of liquor and facing the coming years with visions of nut sundaes, never tire of telling the younger generation of the old "hard liquor" days of the river steamboats. The card games were for big stakes. Veterans vouch for the truth of stories of a planter embarking in Mississippi worth "a plantation with 200 negroes" and disembarking at the Canal landing in New Orleans with only some bills of lading for something he no longer owned.

To Eliminate Gambling. But those days are gone. If plans of those interested in river traffic bear fruit the modern steamers will eliminate gambling, carry well drilled crews and furnish modern meals at modern prices. In advertising sailings of vessels of the olden days the name of the first mate always was given. The first mate became known up and down the river either as good or bad by the manner in which they handled the roustabouts. A meek man did not last long as first mate. Saturday was usually the sailing day for up-river packets from this port. There was great rivalry between boat owners and crews and usually from one to a dozen boat races were pulled off as the vessels chugged up the river. It was then that boilers blew up with marked frequency. The most famous of these races was run by the Natchez and the Robert E. Lee, two of the largest of the river packets. So keen was the rivalry that early in the seventies it was planned to have them race from New Orleans to St. Louis. No passengers of freight were carried and for weeks the coming race was the chief topic of conversation along the river. The Robert K. Lee was in command of Capt. Cannon, while Capt. Leathers was master of the Natchez. No stops were made except for fuel. The trip to St. Louis was made in just a few hours over three davs, an unheard of record then with the' Robert E. Lee the winner by a small margin. Disaster Ends Race. Another famous race between the White Rose of Memphis and the Grand Republic ended in disaster. After racing upstream for hours in a "neck and neck" contest the White Rose struck a snag and sank. Before the White Rose could clear a nearby bend her boilers exploded, killing a number of the crew. After the war between the states, steamboats had been perfected to a higher degree and river traffic became more important. While most of the boats used wood for fuel, getting it from well established woodyards along the river, still they made good time and business was flourishing. Coffee in bed was the rule, then a breakfast of bacon, eggs, waffles, pan

cakes started off the day. At noon

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there was fruit, fish, roast, vegetables, the ever present coffee and whatever dessert the cook had in mind for the meal. The feast of the day came in the early evening with Creole gumbo (if the cook haDpened to hail from New Oorleans as most of them did), fried fish, roast fowl, with baked or candied yams, beef or pork, fruit !n abundance, dessert and 'small black" coffee with brandy. It wasn't variety but quantity that made the steamer bill of fare famous. Many Large Vessels. While, as a general rule, the boats were operated independently by their owners, even as early as 1S70 there were several lines operating many large passenger vessels. The largest and best known was the Anchor line, which operated between New Orleans and St.. Louis making regular schedules, while another line was operating between St Louis and St. Paul. The City of New Orleans and City of Baton Rouge were the larger and best known vessels of the Anchor Line. The largest side-wheeler operated on the river was the Republic. In addition to the Anchor Line, there were several smaller companies operating from New Orleans to Natchez, Vicksburg, Greenville and 'The Bends." They usually carried a hun dred or so passengers and large frieght cargoes. They were mostly sidewheelers. From St. Louis one line operated as far north as Fort Benton, Montana. Freight from up the river included flour, pork, beef, furniture, hay, cotton, rice and sugar. The largest cargo of cotton ever brought down was landed by the Henry Frank and consisted of 9,000 bales. The cotton was not compressed and the record has stood. Boats Built Alike All the old boats were built on the same general patternbroad hulls with large spacious cabins above and with wide guards, usually piled high with

I freight. They were almost always

white and each was equipped with a whistle slightly different from the others. It was quite a accomplishment or was so regarded by negroes at the various landings to be able to distinguish the distant whistling ancT'call the name of the boat. Promoters now are figuring whether human nature has changed from the olden days, whether a person will be content to idle the time away on long trips which he could make in a fraction of the time by rail; whether they "have time" to take quiet pleasure. Frieght rates, interstate commerce commission hearings, uniform bills of lading and other prosaic commercial matters figure in the traffic side of the question. The passenger business i3 regarded as a gamble.

City Lodges

KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS Work in the rank of Page was given at the local K. of P. temple Thursday night. The rank of Esquire will be conferred next Thursday. Providing the weather permits, a number of local members will go to Fountain City Friday night. An invitation has been received from the New Paris lodge for next Wednesday. BEN HUR. Ben Hur members will give a dance Saturday night for members and their friends. Two delegates of the lodge from the home office at Crawfordsville were present Thursday night. Following initiation, a lunch was served.

MOOSE. Organization of a women's legion of the Moose was started Thursday nigh: when 23 women, headed by Mrs. O. A. Carlson, met in the rooms. It was their first meeting. Probably 50 members and candidates of the Moose are to

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go to Indianapolis Saturday for a f rolls an initiatory service with the Indianapolis legionaires. I. O. O. F. Odd Fellows will confer the third degree to candidates Friday night. They have also been asked to confer degrees at Spartanburg and Greensburg. It is expected a large number will go to the former place. RED MEN. All members have been urged to attend a special meeting to be held in the Red Men's hall Friday night. EAGLES. The Eagles have assumed the lease on the exhibition park for this season, and promise to furnish a good class of baseball. While the lodge team has not been organized, it is hoped to complete organization and play the first game on Sunday, May 1. A surprise will be prepared for the members at the regular meeting to be held next Wednesday.

Circuit Court

Elmer Summers, of Cambridge City, was named defendant in a divorce suit filed by his wife, Tssie Summers, in Wayne circuit court Friday morning. Cruel and inhuman treatment is alleged. Custody of a minor child is asked by the plaintiff.

MASONS TO MEET SATURDAY TO ATTEND GRABER FUNERAL Master Masons are requested to be at the Masonic temple Sturday afternoon at 1 o'clock to attend the funeral of the late William H. Graber, formerly of Richmond, who died at his home in Milwaukee. The Richmond lodge and the Knight Templars will have charge of the funeral.

Mexican Oil Contracts Must Receive Sanction "(By Associated Press) MEXIOO CITY, April 8. Contracts for the lease of oil lands in- the state of Tabasco will not be recognized by the Mexican government unless they receive the sanction of the department of commerce and industry, says an official announcement issued here. This statement was a result of great excitement over the discovery of oil in Tabasco, and a rusti of operators to that district. Most of the leases already made have been given foreign oil men, and confer rights to the fitdeoil, presenting problems much the same as encountered in petroleum development projects in the Tampico field. ' Important petroleum discoveries have been made, in Tabasco, it is reported, and "The Exclsrtor says that at Frontera, the principal port of the state, there are enacted "scenes similar to those in the Klondike when the gold rush was on."

MEXICANS CELEBRATE. (By Associated Press) MEXICO CITY, April 8. Elaborate plans for celebrating next Sunday, the second anniversary of the death of Emiliano Zapata, former rebel chief

tain, who was trapped and slain at I Cuautla, state of Moreles. are being j made public President Obregon I may take part in the ceremonies, .i j feature of which will be a parade of I

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