The Syracuse Journal, Volume 1, Number 49, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 8 April 1909 — Page 1

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FIHAL ACTION ON IHE PICKWICK ROAD Reviewers Rep erf Favorable, Damages to be Fixed. The reviewers appointed last month to go oyer the prpposed road through Pickwick Park and past the Inn on the north side of Lake Wawasee reported in favor of the public utility of the road, and the county commissioners have ordered that the road tie established. Another set of viewers will bo appointed later to go over the line and fix the damages to be paid the owners of the lands through which the road will pass. This-makes the fourth set of viewers who have reported in favor of the public utility of this highway. . , As soon as this road -is finally established the Commercial Association should tafee up the matter of improving the road on the south side of the lake past Lake View to Vawter Park. When the hotel at Lake l View was built, years ago, its proprietors, Lamb & Moore, purchase! fright of way and constructed alroad to it, and later gave it over so the public, who have .used it since! but have put little or no work on it.) It is a part of the direct road to Vawter Park and could be piit in good (condition at little expense, and it ought not to be longer neglected. i —.—- —■ - — - | Griffith is Found. Xrthur Griffith,-of Milford., who 'disappeared in New York city, has found in Jersey City where he was dickering with a bunko steerer ✓'who proposed taking Griffith to Europe, but who first demanded that the mathematical wonder put up SIOO for expenses.—Warsaw Indianian. The trouble with the New York people is, they do not understand Griffith. This man is competent to travel around the world without a guide and besides he has the money.—M If ord Mail. -

a . ; - ■Y’ . ~ -’3.00 -ZSO WE extend to you our most cordial invita-- ■ tion to inspect the new “Qv.een Quality” styles for Spring and Summer now on view, i They show a range and variety never before attempted. In all leathers and in cravenetted cloths of all the new colorings. Every shape and style imaginable. The Star Gioihino store ■ SYRACUSE, INDIANA. i-

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True Virtue. By Preston Henry Miles. There is no time to mourn men’s faults— There is no time to weep and moan For petty things, when Love exalts Us mortal men unto his? throne. Man’s virtues are to man's defects As diamond is to cobble stone— The number of each one affects The value of the other one. And, when we delve into the heart, Os all man’s virtues Love alone Stands center; for from Lovp doth start Virtues which hold man’s friends his own. Then let its man’s defaults-ignore And teach him virtuous love the more. Esquire Bates, of Warsaw, The Pierceton Record is running a column taken from its files for the year 1880, wherein an item reprinted last week says: “Esquire Bates, of Warsaw, was on our streets last week. Some of our largest men said they felt small when looking up to him.” Esquire Bates, of Warsaw! Who of the old timers does not remember him? Slim of build and somewhat less than ten feet high! It is related of him that once on a time a circus) came to Warsaw, having with it a side show with a tent wall that had no roof, and that the dignified Esquire walked up to this wall and was quietly taking in the show when a showman inside yelled: “Hey! you fellow out there—get down off that box!” The Esquire, if he heard; the order, had no idea that it applied to him. x After repeating the command the fellow grabbed a tent stake and ran out to enforce it, but when he came up to Mr. Bates he dropped his weapon and took the Esquire free into the show. - * The Milford Mail, after recounting the modern improvements of Milford,. including its water works, electric lights, and its trolley line, complains that its high school is not commissioned, and asks that the steps pecessflty be taken to bring about-this further improvement. It would seem that Milford ought to be entitled to a commissioned school. .' ' ■

SYRACUSE, INDIANA, THURSDAY, APRIL 8,19 pp.

J STORY FROM LIFE FOR OUR BOYS S GIRLS And For Their Elders Too— With Several Morals. It is the desire of every country newspaper to fill its columns with local news and matters of local interest, but there come times' when nobody does anything of sufficient interest to make an item of, and when the editor is therefore hard pushed to keep the boys at the cases in copy. This is' rather a dull week in Syracuse, and we are going to use some of the space that usually is devoted to news to tell a story for the boys and girls who read the Journal; and for the older ones, too, if they care to , read it. It’s a true story, taken from everyday life in America, and it has a moral—or probably a half dozen of them if you care to look for them in it. - Not so very long ago—some forty odd years—there was born in Aurora, 111., a boy of the name of Vanderiip whose parents named him Frank. He ran barefooted and redshinned about Aurora and attended th| Aurora common schools. Arriving at the age of maturity, and it being up to him to adopt a business/ or , profession, he chose journalism, and sought add procured a connection with a newspaper, in which he worked hard and made good. Promotions came to him in due course, until he secured a place with the Chicago Tribune, and, having shown an aptitude for financial matters, he was given charge of the financial department of that newspaper. While laboring in that capacity Lyman J. Gage, who was the president of the great First National Bank,.of Chicago, became acquainted with him. When Mr. Gage was made secretary of the treasury of the United States by President McKinley he took Mr. Vanderlip with him to Washington and made him his private secretary. From this time his rise was so rapid that the coiftitry was startled by it. Within three months after his appointment as the secretary of Mr. Gage he was made Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, and he held that high office until 1901 when he was made vice president of the National City Bank, the largest financial institution in the city of New York, and therefore the largest one in this great country. Now, James Stillman was president of this great bank and its principal owner, and in January of this year, when he desired to retire and rest during the remainder of his days, Mr. Vanderlip, having made good in his position as vice president, and in every other position he had held since he started out in life, was made president of that great bank, at a salary of, we don’t know how much, but not less than $50,000 a year. Imagine, if you can, the pride with which his old mother, who lived in a modest way in Chicago, contemplated all these successes of her son. But the prettiest part of this story is yet to be toldOn last Saturday night, after Mr. Vanderlip had gone to bed in his home in New York, a telegram was delivered to him stating that his mother, who had been taken suddenly and violently ill of pneumonia, was dying in Chicago. Within fifty minutes of the time this message was delivered, and exactly at 12 o’clock, a train pulled out of the New York Central statin in that city, and Mr. Vanderlip was its only passenger. Train dispatchers all along the line were given “blanket’’ orders to give this special the right of way over all other trains, and more than one important passenger

train was side tracked while this mysterous special, with its four coaches and one passenger, flew by. All alone (he had had no time to seek for a traveling companion) Mr. i Vanderlip paced back and forth in his car, impatient though the train was flying like the wind. Again and again Mrs. Vanderlip asked for her son, it being her great desire to see him and bid him good by before she died. Her daughter assured her that he was.ou the way, coming as fast as the fleetest engines could bring him. “I’ll be here when he comes, wont I?” she would ask, and the nurse would assure her that she would. And the run that that train made will live for years in railroad history. Whenever the engine was changed Mr. Vanderlip would go out and urge the new engineer to break every record'that had ever been made, for they were racing with Death himself. J Fresh engines were ready In waiting at every point where it was necessary to change engines, and in no case w r as there a delay of more than one minute except at Elkhart where, through somebody’s mistake, three minutes were lost. Oh, three precious minutes! Arriving at Englewood, a suburb of Chicago, Mr. Vanderlip left the train and jumped into an automobile in waiting, and was hurriedly driven to 5331 Madison Avenue. Rushing up the steps he met his sister at the door. “Mother!” he said. “She died at quarter to 3,” the sister replied. And that was exactly thirteen minutes before the special train pulled into the station. The traip had made the run of nearly a thousand miles from New York to Chicago in 967 minutes—almost two hours less time than the twentieth century limited or the Pennsylvania Special makes it in. But death had won the race. The New Loan Shark Law. A bill passed by the last legislature, known as the “loan shark bill,’’ .provides that the wages of a husband cannot be assigned unless Mis wife signs and acknowledges the assignment. Any purchase of wages by a loan shark, whom the law designates as a ‘‘wage broker,” shall be considered a loan of the sum actually paid by him to the vmge earner, on which he is forbidden* to receive more than 8 per cent a year interest, to which there can be added no commission or other charges of any kind whatever. Notice of any purchase or assignment of wages must be given to the employer within ten days from the time of the purchase or assignment. No assignment is permitted, and employers are forbidden to recognize any attempted assignment “Unless it be for a fixed an definite part of the wages or salary earned or to be earned during a period not exceeding thirty days immeditaely following the date of the* assignment which if it be post dated, or dated on any other date than its actual execution shall be void.” The penalty for violating any of the provisions of the law is a fine of from S2O to s sloo or imprisonment for not more than ninety days, and forfiture of the loan, with interest. Big Four Excursions. The Big Four will start its excursions to the south Sunday. The regular morning train, starting from Elkhart and arriving at Warsaw at 5:57, will be the excursion train. The train is due to leave Indianapolis for the retfixu trip at 4:45 but it will be held up at Indianapolis until 6 o’clock on account of the excursion crowd, and will in Warsaw at about 9:35 in the evening. Get your sale bills printed at this office, Best work and lowest prices. i »

UNWARRANTED SEARCH OF L. J. NEFF’S l«E Abortive Attempt to Find Concealed Booze. Last Saturday night between the hours of 8 and 9 o’clock a search warrant was put in the hands of constables Henry Rapp and E.W. Hire town marshal, T. H. Cleirtens authorising them to search the premises of the “Central Hotel” located on Huntington street in the town of Syracuse. The warrant was made out by Squire Green at the request of Mrs. Ellen Traster, who for divers reasons believed that one Joe Moore, who resides in the building occupied by Lewis Neff, as a residence, was selling liquor contrary to law. The premises of Mr Neff were also searched for liquors, as were the rooms of Otto Rarick, whose name was not included in the warrant. After a thorough search of the premises, by the officers, (hey were unable to find eventhe smallest Wjuantity of liquor. Joe Moore, one of the principal, persons wanted was not at home at the time that the premises Weresearched. Some trunks belonging to Mr. Neff, were also searched, but they failed to contain anything more than ladies’ wearing apparel. The search of Mr. Neff’s rooms was an outrage. Every person in Syracuse knows that Lewis Neff would not lend himself to any traffic in the liquor trade, and Mr. Moore was warned against bringing liquor upon the premises when the room was rented to him.. • Lewis Neff is one of. the most progressive and honorable men in this community. He has invested his money in our town to the advancement of Syracuse and her people. He has, during the past two years, by his influence and his money alone made it possible to have in operation today the Advance Radiator Works, which spend annually over forty ~ thousand dollars in wages that go into the channels of trade here in Syracuse. At one time, soon after the factory was started here, finances were low when pay day came around and Mr. Neff gave security for the full amount of wages, guaranteeing the payment, of the same t® the bank. At the same time he lent his credit to pay for a car load of iron. Mr. Neff is a quiet, unassuming gentleman, who would suffer any indignity rather than resent it, because he belongs to a class of people who do not believe in strife and bitterness, and for this reason this article is written to set him righLbefore this community. X Czar Wants Corn King Clore. Leonard C. Clore of Franklin, Indiana, who has just returned from his first term in the legislature, has received an offej • from the Russian government of $4,000 a year, besides traveling expenses, for three years’ service as a corn specialist among the Russian farmers. The Russian government desires to develop the corn possibilities in that' country.', Mr. Clore has for ten years been a recognized “corn king” and in 1900 received the highest prizes' at the Paris world’s At the Buffalo, Chicago and St. Louis 1 world’s fairs he received the highest awards. At the Oklahoma corn ex-) position last December he won grand , sweepstakes, and now .holds the! SI,OOO trophy of the National Corn Growers’ association. The New Wheel in Place. The new drive wheel to replace the broken one at the Benton dam finally arrived the latter part of last week, but unfortunately a small ( mistake had been made in boring j

it, so that it did not fit the shaft and another delay of two days Was ca ised thereby, it being necessary to 1 :i ng the shaft here and have it ti Tied down a sixty-fourth of an inch. The wheel, which weighs 1200 ponds, had been shipped to Benton. I was put in place on Tuesday of this week, and since then our lights lave been up to the standard. Tlu re is a good stage of water in the iver now and every promise of goo< service during the coming summt \ at the end of which time, i the company succeed in making he inlprovements they conten ate making, tliey will be able to a vays give us first class service und a- all conditions. County Forwards Funds. George W. Irvine, county tn sur-’ er, Monday sent to the state 11000 in compliance with the nev law governing the payments of state money by the county. The state treasury was fornid in a bankrupt condition by Go ernor Marshall when he took offi< and he almost immediately bega petitioning the state legislature t enact a law that would give the st; e the privilege of drawing upon tin counties at Once in order to j . the money to run the state’s if fairs. The legislature passed ala that the counties shall pay a u it h of the state’s money at this tin . the state estimated that i would receive $40,000 from Ki iusko 'county find made demand foi 54,000. the money was ready and ’ ;:s for ? warded without delay.

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Stwk_Foo|? We have two good brands to i elect from ‘Seneca’ Ness’ ‘Fleck’s’ It will do woi c’.ers for your stock in placing the n. in good condition. Your horses nßed, something to give them stay, ng for the coming season of hard work, GREENE’S DRUG STORE SYRACUSE

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THE Port IS, mspm Died Here Friday. Buried at Tiffin, 0. Sunday. Mrs. Jane M. Spielman, wide ; of* the late Nathaniel N. Spielman of Tiffin, Ohio,’ died at the home of her daughter Mrs. John V<. Richprds, . of this plaqe, on Fridaybf last week. The remains were taken to Tiffin oti B; & 0. train No. 8 Sunday for interment, a- companied by Mrs. Richards and her family,and. .by Mr. John Spielman, her son. Mrs. Spiehnaitwas nearly 85 ycajs old, h,avwg been 1 ' born atNWarren, Ohio, May 13, 1824. She was the mother of five children, ’ three of worn survive — Mrs. Richards, WsLlohn E. Hasket, of Tiffin, and Mr. John A. Spielman, who was formerly superintendent of the Chicago division and is now Engineer ’ of the Wheeling division of the Baltimore..! Ohio railroad, and, is loI cated’at Wheeling, W. Va. I • For some years Mrs. Spielman | had made her home with” her twp daughters $ and spent much u.ne . here. About a month ago she was. I taken ill wit ’i pneumonia, froth which j disease she recovered, but on account of her. advanced age she wqs ! unable to recuperate from the effects i of it. I She joined the MethodTSt church lin her youth and was ever after a ! consistent riiember. of it and an [ enthusiastic Christian worker up to the time of her last illness and 1 death.