The Syracuse Journal, Volume 3, Number 12, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 4 August 1910 — Page 1

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r - ■Jill iftsxs 'railroad cd TO BE BRIDGE Commissioner Miles Writes B.&O. Officials Regarding It. Geo. W. Miles, commissioner of fisheries and game, has taken up in earnest the matter of raising the railroad tracks across “The Channel.” He has furnished the Journal a copy o: a letter sent by him to the presi- ° dent of the B. & 0. Railroad Company, which we publish herewith. i If the railroad company must be compelled to raise their tracks MrMiles asks that the people of Syracuse and of the lake create a fund and begin action in the courts, in which he will join, to declare the lake to be navigable. Our people ought to get-together and make arrangements to give him the support It? asks. The matter will be taken u > by him with the members of the V.'awasee Protective Association to fio held at The Inn on Saturday of ri xt week. There is no doubt that t it Association will loyally supp .rt him, and will assist in raising v hatever fund will be necessary. N that we are to have the assistance of the State we will probably

: 11111111 n n The Town Market | S “Everything to Eat.” | 1 > 2 « H r r '' 0 • Special Notice. -• To the first 36 -people buy- | p ing a sack of flour “any g p brand” from us we will give Free one full size 10c can of Calumet Baking Powder. | * When’you buy the flour < ask us for the Powder. j|L | I I r, ' H I -= I I) Elmer P. Miles &6o I 'p|o-M=L I I J ❖ : t Send after Groceries : ❖ here with the same confidence as if you came in person ; ❖ to select them. We will give your messenger just what ; ❖ you order. If you require a certain article we do not ’ t take adv antage-of the opportunity to send something else ; <• on which there may be more profit. ; WE ARE RELIABLE GROCERS. • « and prove the fact by supplying the best to the smallest ; ❖ messenger as faithfully as we ’do when customers come ; | themselves. So send confidently- We will fill the order as ; •£ you want it. J I SIEDER BURGENER.

be able to secure the relief we have so long begged for in vain. Mr. Miles’ letter to the railroad company, which explains itself, is as follows: To the President oßthe Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company, Baltimore, Md. Dear Sir. At the time of the building of the Chicago extension of your railroad, a third of a century ago, across the narrows that divided the main body of what was then Turkey lake and is now Wawasee lake from that part of it adjacent to Syracuse, there was constructed a long bridge so near the water that at times row boats would not pass under, and had to be dragged over the track. There had been a steamboat plying on the lake through this narrows previous to that time; but the people were so anxious for the building of the railroad that no complaint was made of the division of lake into two parts. Within five or six years after the building of the railroad this lake began to be known as a summer resort. Hotels were built and beautiful summer homes gn?w up all about it. And the village of Syracuse steadily increased its population. As the years passed agitation grew for the opening of your bridge for the passage of the numerous

SYRACUSE, INDIANA, THURSDAY. AUGUST 4, 1910.

steamboats that had been placed upon the lake. The commissioners of the county were induced to de- z clare the waters of the lake navigable, under a statute that gave them power to do so, nearly fifteen years ago, as their records show. Now the long bridge constructed at the time of the building of your road had been filled with earth except an opening of twenty or twen-ty-five feet, left for the passage of the water, and at this place many desired that you' be compelled to open it for the passage of passanger boats. But as this would have required an expensive and dangerous drawbridge, wiser counsellors prevailed, and you were not asked to do so. The coming of the motor boat has changed the situation. There are probably two hundred of them now on the lake, and the steamboats are little used. Since the first building of your track it has gradually been raised, year after year, until now, when the lake is full, there is a clearance of twelve or fifteen inches. If the track were simply raised two feet more it would permit the passage of all the motor boats now on the lakes, and the people interested would be forever satisfied, and all agitation of this matter would cease. Careful estimates made by your company’s engineers have shown that this can be done for about six thousand dollars—a small sum xvhen all the interests affected are considered. Nor would it create a “hump” in your track, which rises gradually to the east of this bridge. Another small bridge a half mile east of it is two feet higher than this one, and it . would not injure your track to carry this grade a little further west. The different superintendents of your Chicago division have been appealed to by the people of Syracuse and the cottage and hotel owners around the lake, but, except the estimates of the cost of the work already referred to, their petitions have brought no action, and they now appeal to me, as custodian of the lakes and streams of the state, to assist them. And I am fully convinced that it is my duty to do so. Wawasee is the largest and most beautiful lake in Indiana, and it is a question whether it is not *he best and most beautiful lake in the whtje northwest. It contains 3,600 acres, or nearly six square miles. Besides five hotels there are about its shores some two hundred summer homes that have cost up to eight thousand dollars each, and the number of them is rapidly growing. At its north and west end lies Syracuse, a prosperous town of nearly 2,000 people. Thousands of people visit the lake every summer, and as the years go the number of them will be greatly augmanted. That your railroad £ shall be forever permitted to block

£ the passage through 1 the narrows I £ have described is unthinkable. £ Against such a possibility I shall h give to the people who ask it all £ the influence of my department. £ lam of opinion that our courts, i> if appealed to, would declare Wa- • wasee to be navigable water. Should they not do so I am alto- • gether certain our legislation will • provide the relief desired. But the • matter involves such a small sum of money, and your company has > so pinch interest in the upbuilding • of the lake and the town of Syra- • cuse, that I hope you will order the • improvement made, without further • [Continued on page 4.]

j~RIDE A Yfllf - they'never fail"! ! * L. MILLER, yaleTowrcycles SYRACUSE 1

A DISCONCERTING VIEW OF THE WOMANQUESTION Ought woman have the same voice in government as have men?— ought she vote with the same freedom as men? There are shallow thinkers among women as among men. Preposterous ideas do not belong to men alone. Nothing was ever farther aside from common sense, more unnatural, more criminally wicked than the following news clipping presents: Washington, D.C., April 14.—“ Ten years hence to be the father of ten or twelve children will be as much of a disgrace as being a confirmed drunkard is at present,” last night declared Mrs. Lareine Helen Baker of Spokane, Wash., a suffraette who will be heard along original linesmf thought at the convention of the National American Woman Suffrage association which opened in this city today Her studies of children all over the world, she said, had conviced her that “not more than 10 per cent of them were childern of love and that the other 90 per cent were not wanted.” “Roosevelt, poor, ignorant man,” she continued, “urges large families, but I tell you it is quality we want in children, not quantity. Woman suffrage will mean better children, for it will produce better thinking. It is the mental, not the physical, that rules progressive action today and teaches us that the greatest crime of the ages is too many children.” If any person outside of an insane asylusm, man or woman, beyond two decades qgp, entertained such opinions as are expressed in the above quotation, he or she never gave utterance to them publicly. The thought of “limiting offspring” was never expressed openly by any married person until long ofter the woman suffrage movement began—and it grew out of the woman’s rights propagandism and has become a part of it. My beloved wife, when our tenth child was born (a grand man now thirty years of age, who loves her) said fondly as the babe lay at. her breast, “he has as good a right as any.” The chances are that where but one or two are permitted earthlife, they grow up good-for-nothing, unloved and neglected by the mother from the start, who is “a lover of pleasure rather than a lover of God.” And to say that ninety per cent of children born alive of such vile mothers are “not wanted” by them is within the truth. If the creed of this tar magant sufferagette gives the quality of the ; “better thinking” that woman suf-

frage produces, woman would better stick to her promise made under the marriage formula of the church to “obey” her husband; and if she be admitted to vote at all, it will be only safe to limit the right to the motheris of at least ten or twelve childreh. Embrace as true the doctrine that expediency justifies the killing of the unborn to improve the human breed, we would be forced to believe it the crime. The ages “that Mrs. Lorrein Helen Baker’s mother did not “instrumentally” produce an untimely birth (as do those who “limit” their offspring) and have so prevented the disgrace that such a mental mon-

strosity as this rampant suffragette j from the state of Washington is “to i the father.” The great majority of women are the peers of first-class men. What President Taft said for which he was hissed by women was a blunder, i. e. “that the power of the ballot would be controlled by the less desirable citizens.” The press report says “the combined Hisses sounded as if a valve on a steam engine had broken. It was no feeble demonstration of protest.” A very ungallant speech the president seemed to give utterance to. But he evidenly only meant to say that the lesser part of the better class of woman and the greater part of the less desirable” would visit the polls to vote. It has always seemed to me, since I come to man’s estate, that ’tis only just and right that mothers and daughters should have an equal voice with fathers and sons in government. But, if the “limiting of offspring” as outlined by the Baker woman from Spokane Washington, is to be the fruit of’Woman’s emancipation, than will every sensible man, who has embraced the cause of woman suffrage, change his mind on the subject, as president Taft says has occurred with him. The limiting of offspring is a greater evil than war, famine, pestilence, earthquake, fire, wind and wave combined; for all these together haven’t, at their worst, destroyed as great a per cent, of population as has been “nipped in the bud” in our country during the last thirty years by the killing frost of secret wrong—the sum of all villainies, crimes and calamities—the “limiting of offspring.” Leonard Brown. Ten Health Commandments. 1. Thou Sfffilt hate no other food than at meal time. 2. Thou shalt not make unto thee any pies or put into pastry the likeness of anything that is in the heavens above or in the waters under the earth. Thou shalt not fall to eating it or trying to digest it. For the dyspepsia will be visited upon your children to the third and fourth generation of them that eat pie; and long life and vigor upon those that live prudently and keep the laws of health. 3. Remember thy bread to bake it well; for he will not be kept sound that eateth his bread as dough. 4. Thou shalt not indulge sorrow or borrow anxiety in vain. 5. Six days shalt thou wash and keep thyself clean, and on the seventh thou shalt take a great bath, thou, and thy son, and thy I daughter, and thy man-servant and | maid servant, and the stranger that 'i is within thy gates. For in six days ! man sweats and gathers filth and

bacteria enough for disease; wherefore the Lord hath blessed the bathtub and hallowed it. 6. Remember thy sitting room and bedchamber to keep them ventilated, that thy days may be long in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. 7. Thou shalt not eat hot biscuit. K 8. Thou shalt not eat thy meat fried. 9. Thou shalt not swallow thy food unchewed, or highly spiced, or just before hard work, or just after it. 10. Thou shalt not keep late hours.

Hiccough K'lls Young Man. Charles Snyder, of Etpa Green, Ind., twenty-two years of age, died suddenly Thursday. While at his home Wednesday, he was seized with an attack of the hiccoughs and all efforts of physicians to relieve him were in vain. It was finally decided to remove the young man to a local hospital, it being the belief that he wqs suffering with appendicitis. On the way to the station while reclining on a cot in a wagon, the patient’s condition became serious and while he was being removed from the wagon, at the home of his grandparents Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Snyder, he expired. Mrs. Charles Snyder died last January of tuberculosis, and a daughter subsequently passed away. The father of the deceased was killed by a horse several years ago and died almost instantly. Oats Fail to Kipen. Some of the farmers in this county who were in town to-day, state that the oats harvest has been delayed on account of the failure of the stocks to ripen properly. The grain is just as ripe now as it will ever get, they say, but for some unaccountable reason the stocks are green. No one has yet been able to determine what is the cause for this unusual occurance. Nothing like it has happened for the past twenty years. The straw, as a result will not be of the best quality. —Lagrange Democrat.

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MEE KILLED / 111 M WRECK Pennsylvania Locomotive Strikes Car at Etna Green. Mrs. Melville Brooks, of Lima. Ohio, and Mrs. Charles Thoring, of St. Mary, Ohio, were instantly killed, Melville Brooks received injuries from.which he died a few minutes later, and Charles Thoring received serious, but not fatal injuries at 8:10 o’clock yesterday morning when an automobile in which the party was riding was struck by a Pennsylvania freight engine, east-boupd, at the Ashcroft crossing, one mile west of Etna Green. The victims, accompanied by a party of friends in another car. had been on a long auto tour and were en route home. The second machine was following a short distance behind the illfated auto and the friends witnessed the horror. It is believed that none of the occupants of the first car noted the approach of the locomotive, which was running light, drawing only a caboose. The train was in charge of Engineer Henry L Foster and [Continued on page 4.]