Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1756-1963 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities external link and the Library of Congress. Learn more
Image provided by: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library, Urbana, IL
Newspaper Page Text
THE DAY BOOK N. D. COCHRAN EDITOR AND PUBLISHER. 560 S. PEORIA ST. CHICAGO, ILL. Telephones SSSUJSt SUBSCRIPTION By Carrier In Chi cago, 30 cents a Month. By Mall, United States and Canada. JJ.OO a Tear ' Entered as second-class matter April 21. 1914, at the postofflce at Chicago, I1L, under the Act of March I, 11179. PAID A MILLION DAMAGES WITHOUT LAWSUIT. When a railroad smashes up half a town and kills 45 of the townspeople the next thing you expect" to hear is of a flood of lawsuits and trials of damage cases dragging for years through nu merous courts of justice. Here's bne exception. A perfect late summer day it was in ArdmOre, Okla., Sept 27, 1915; not a breath of wind, hot and sunshiny. rA car of gasoline sat on the Santa ' Fe siding, and through a leaky valve head, casinghead gas, the most ex plosive gas known, was escaping and drifting over the town. A workman went to repair the leaky valve; a cigaret touched the gas somewhere in the town and the explosion came. Everywhere at once. The town was ruined. The railroad's liability was unques tioned; yet up to date not one law suit has gone to trial and the Santa Fe has so far settled about a million dollars' worth of claims. The 45 deaths cost the Santa Fe $164,768.38; 478 personal injuries cost $113,840.27, and 1,394 property damage claims cost $538,171.87. Oth er damages and claims bring the to tal to a million. Everybody is satisfied and all- Ok lahoma has nothing but good words for the Santa Fe road. How was it done? When the smoke and first shock had cleared away, Pres. Ripley went to Ardmore and met the citizens. He said the Santa Fe recognized its lia bility and proposed to do the decent thing. He suggested a committee of citizens to pass on the claims. The committee was organized and it has determined the amounts of damage claims in nearly all cases. The railroad paid. . Practically every bodyjs satified. So satisfied that, should a few claims not recognized by the citizens' committee get before a jury, the chances are very much in favor ot the Santa Fe winning. PARENTS WANTED. little Miss Rosemary Teal of Milwaukee, an ex tremely pretty girl of 20, an accom plished musician, graduate of a Wis consin convent and possessing an in dependent income of her own, has arrived at Los Angeles. Miss Teal is not seeking adventure in the far west Alone in the world, she wants to adopt a father and mother. "I have absolutely no relatives and the worid is SO lonesome," says Miss Teal. "If some couple as lonesome as I am will adopt me I will return, in love and devotion, the care they bestow upon me." It is worth mention if only because of the novelty of it In this age of female independence, most girls of 20 are trying to rid themselves of home ties. They yearn to face the world alone, not realizing thaj; the maw of that same old world is greed ily swallowing up thousands of their sisters each day. They will not be lieve that the world is a "lonesome place" until too late. "Home and Mother" is, alas! appreciated most when lost There's a heart throb and a moral in Miss Teal's unusual plea. Theday President Wilson began to consider peace activities in Europe, Wall street decided there was no chance of peace and war babies jumped in price. Wall street knows,