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PAGE FOUR. THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM ASD SU2Y-TIEGRAMt SUNDAY, MAY 28, 1911 c3 Sxa-Teltcrca , r FeMtsfcad Ml owd by the PAXAOIVM PHINTXNO CO. MMd f 4aya Mk weak, vaalnss ul Sun4ey wiff tbIiuti Offlea Corner North ttb and A moots. Palladium and 0un-Tlevain Phonss Busiasss Office. KM; Koltsrlal Kooma, RICHMOND. INDIANA. Rooolsh O. ! J. r. RlatBoM......BaolMM Mamas Carl Bormaarat Aaoootato Editor W. . roaaaatoao Bailor SUBSCRIPTION TERMS, la Richmond ISO vr (la ad vance) or too por woo. MAIL SUBSCRIPTIONS Ono roar, la advaneo f ?2 Sis nootha.' In advaneo Oao month, la advaaoo ... RURAL ROUTE . On roar, la advaaeo ............IJ Mis moat ha. la advaneo Oao month, la advanoa ... Add.-oao chansad aa eftan aa daalrad; both bow aad old addroaaao must oo fftvsa. Subaorlboro will sloaso romlt with ardor, which should bo sivan far a apvclflad tarm: noma will not bo ontor od aatt) parmobt to roootvod. Katorod at Rlchmoad. Indiana, ?oat efflee as saeond elans man msttor. Now Torb noprooantatlvao Payna Tovnc. 0-4 Wnt llrd otroat. and ti ll Wsst Itnd otroat. Naw Tork. N. T. Chleaso Raproantatlaa Payna A Toung-. 747-141 Marquatto Bulldlr.. Chleaso. I1L DIJJ I I P.SJ-I-I 1 (flow Yerk City) haa aad aartUUd to the atnolattoa 5 at this BBsUsatloa. OsJy the UawseoM by tse AwodsdOBV A I . .aadl RICHMOND, INDIANA "PANIC PROOF CITY" Has a population of 12,324 and Is growing. It la tho county oat of Wayno County, and tho trading center of a rfch agri cultural community. It la lo cated duo esat from Indianapolis 6 mlUa and 4 miles from tho state lino. Richmond la a city of hnmts and of Industry. Primarily a manufacturing city, It is also tte lobbing center of Kactrrn I In diana and enjoy tho retail trarfe of tho populous community lor miles around. Richmond la proud of ita splen did streets, well kept yards, its cement sidewalks and beautiful shade trees. It has three nation al banks, one trust company and four building associations with a combined resource of over $8. 000.000. Number of factories lift: capital Invested 17.000.000. with an annual output of 127, 000,000, and a pay roll of (I. 700.000. Tho total pay roll for tho city amounta to approxl matedly I3.COO.000 annual. There are flvo railroad com panies radiating In eight differ ent dlrectiona from the city. In coming freight handled dally. 1. T60.000 lbs., outgoing freight handled dally. 710.000 Tha. Yard facilities, per day 1,700 cars. Number of passenger trains dally 1. Number of freight trains -tally 77- Tho annual post office ecelpta amount to $80,000. Total assessed valuation of tho city, tlC. 000,000. Richmond has two Interurban railways. Three newspapers with a combined circulation of 12.000. Richmond Is tho greatest hard ware Jobbing center In the atato , and only oecond In general Job bing Interests. It haa a piano factory producing a high grade f lano every li minutes. It la the eader In tho manufacture of Traction engines, and produces more threshing machines, lawn mowers, roller skates. grsln drills and burial caskets than any other city In tho world. Tho city's area Is 2.810 seres; haa a court house coating $600, 000; 10 public schools and haa tho , finest and most complete high school in the middle weat; three ftarochlal schools; Karlham col ego and tho Indiana Business College: flvo splendid fire com panies in ftno hose houses; Ulen miller park, tho largest and moat beautiful park In Indians, tho homo of Richmond's annual Chautauqua; seven hotels; muni cipal electrlo light plant, under auccesaful operation and a pri vate electrle light plant. Insur ing competition; the oldest pub llo library In the state, except ono and tho second largest. 40,000 volumes; pure refreahlng water, unsurpassed; 45 miles of Improv ed streets; 40 miles of sowers; 21 miles of cement curb and gutter combined; 40 miles of cement walks, and many miles of brick walks. Thirty churches. Includ ing tho Held Memorial, built at a coat of $260,000; Raid Memorial Hospital, ono of the most modern In the state; Y. ML C. A. building, erected at a coat of $100,000, ono of tho finest In tho state. Tho amusement center of Eastern In diana and Western Ohio. No city of tho alto of Richmond holds aa fine an annual art ex hibit. Tho Richmond Kali Fes tival held each October la unique, no other city holda a similar af fair. It Is given In tho Intereat of tho city and financed by tho business men. Success awaiting anyone with enterprise In tho Panto proof City. WE" ' Will Earns rt has always sought to stand In the background. He Is not self-assertive ; he has as little desire for publicity as any man that newspaper men ever run up against in the day's work. Ask Will Earhart about his part in the musical life of the city and he will shut up like a clam. Ask him about musical work in Richmond and there proceeds the unconscious simple narrative in which as far as his statements are concerned one would never guess how the things have been done. His most frequent word is "we." As far as the success of the May Festival la concerned it is the "we" of Will Earhart that has made it It is because Earhart has declared alwsys that it was not possible for musical knowledge and directorship to make over a city. He has always declared that it was the men in the ranks and not his own efforts that were valuable. And there has come this tremendous growth of musical feeling into the town a moving force which we all have seen and felt. It is regener ating and as vitally progressive as anything this town has to boast of. The men In the Commercial Club who have lent their support to this need only their own perception to tell tbem this they saw it. The people who are in the movement know it They feel it. It is a consciousness of work done well and pleasure. It is hard to speak of music as work or pleasure it is neither it is music. And yet the precision of concerted music makes the dividing line and how did this precision come? Not by accident but by willingness of people to get together in a common cause. In all this has been Will Earhart's "We." WHAT OTHERS SA Y It seems a pity that the music of this town should simply be confined to this time of the year. Circuses may come for one day a year and leave a satisfaction of "having seen one you have all" but the most valuable part of music is not in one isolated performance. It would stamp this town as a musical center like nothing in this country if this healthy natural growth could be continued not from year to year, but from season to season. This is particularly true of the Richmond Symphony Orchestra. The members of this organization obviously do not play for money but because they love music. And yet say what you will music is meant to be heard. The music which is confined to the performer is of necessity a selfish thing and music is not selfish. Men do not do as good work for themselves as they do for public Inspection and approval. So the Palladium feels that in urging the Rich mond Symphony Orchestra to let the public hear it oftener it is express ing not alone the seflsh desire of the people of Richmond for musical enjoyment but something which is of value to everyone concerned. Official Gazette Proves Expensive Spokane, Wash The city commis sioners have approved a recommen dation for an appropriation of $5,200 for getting out the official gazette for the remainder of 1911. On this baBis the gazette will cost the city about $7,000 a year, if its circulation does not increase, and In addition the city will have to provide for advertising in newspapers as formerly. Much of the advertising must still be printed in newspapers under the state law. City Officials Plan Exhibit New Orleans, La. A conference of the heads of various city departments and organizations was held recently regarding representation of the city in the Chicago international municipal congress in the fall In Chicago. Var ious cities will have displays that will represent different phases of munici pal progress. The city council has au thorized Mayor Behrman to arrange for an exhibit from this city. Police Will Help City Beautifiers. Houston, Tex. The chief of police has announced the inauguration of a police campaign to enforce the city's ordinances requiring proper disposi tion of trash and garbage, the main tenance of clean walks and premises and the ordinance governing the plac ing of signs in and over public streets. The police have been notified to warn all violators and to arrest where citi zens persist in violations. It is the streets and alleys and to help official ly in the beautifying campaign inaugu rated by public spirited citizens. Using Oil on City Streets, Providence, R. I. The work of oil ing macadam streets upon which the street cars , operate haa been started by a road oiling company, which se cured a contract at a recent session of the board of contract and supply. Waterbury, Conn. The first oil ing of streets this year will probably be done soon when those in the high service will be treated by the street department The lack of rain has placed many city streets in bad con dition, dust an inch thick prevailing on some streets, and a high wind causes much discomfiture. Texarkana, Ark. A combination oil and water sprinkler recently purchas ed by philanthropic citizens and busi ness men has been used and is giving satisfaction. A tank car of heavy oil has been spread over the portions of diffferent streets, furnishing . Texar kanians with ample evidence that oil ing the streets is one sure way of abolishing the dust nuisance and at the same time improving the road. Atlanta, Ga. That disinfectants be used in the big street sprinklers, which both clean the 6treets and flush the gutters, was a suggestion made at a recent meeting of the Second Ward Civic Improvement club. A resolution has been sent to the council with an urgent request that it be carried out "Atlantic City, N. J. Salt water from the meadow ' streams will be used to rid the county roads of dust The ef ficacy of salt water was discovered after thousands of dollars in experi ments with oily concoctions had been spent It is said the water from cer tain sections of the meadows has a hardening effect on the road surface. If this can be started the first year with only four concerts If the members of the orchestra feel that the major part of the time ought to be given to musical study that would help. We see no reason why this should not become a more permanent Institution than now exists in time. Kansas City Indianapolis are Just beginning. Richmond has what they have not a well trained orchestra with a repertoire, and a musically educated public. , The reason that we have not included the choruses in this is because the chorus work Is much more suitable for a grand concert of a special occasion than for continuous concert work. It is more unwieldy. It takes longer to "work up" a number. But if the choruses that delighted the city could sing ortener than once a year all that we have said of the orches tra applies to them. It is merely a question of advisability. In all this the working together of the members of the choruses and the orchestra; the appreciation of the public and the co-operation of the hundreds who have made this possible is the most valuable thing the spirit of "we" has had another test In Richmond and won again. NORTH CA. TORNADO DOES MUCH DAMAGE (National News Association) Durham, N. C, May 27. Damage es timated at more than $500,000 was caused by a tornado that struck here late last night It wrecked the Vena ble tobacco factory and blew down all the trolley wires. Crossed cables ired the Chatham hosiery knitting mills and It was destroyed. Street cars were put out of commission. A Qustr Sight In Holland. 1 One of the queerest sights which I aw In Europe was a row of wooden hoes outside the door of a Dutch farmhouse on Saturdsy morning. There were the big sized shoes of the farmer hlmsels) the middle sized shoes of his good vraow and several small alxed shoes of the children, and all the line had been scrubbed and freshly whitewashed in preparation for San day. "Old Stories of Holland." THOMAS RYAN ONLY SUFFERS WITH BOIL (National News Association) New York, May 27. Following re ports that Thomas Fortune Ryan was seriously ill at his home on Fifth ave nue, McGlone, his private secretary issued a statement today in which he declared the financier was suffering oniy from a boll on his leg which has been lanced. The Inancier, he said, expects to be at his office soon. . Perforated 8tamps. The man who invented perforated beets of stamps made a big fortune out of the Idea. It is said to have first occurred to a hunting man who wanted to stamp a letter, but could not lay his hand on knife or scissors. He suddenly bethought himself of his spur. Running the rowel along, be perforated the edges of the stamp, tore It off and thus started a revolution. London Tatler. Demand For Paving Embarrasses City Indianapolis, "Never before has the demand for street improvements been what it is this year," says City Civil Engineer Henry W. Klausmann. "There may be necessity for a special levy, provided for by the new street intersection law, to pay for intersec tions before the year ends. If not, many of the petitioned improvements cannot be made, because the city treasury will not withstand the cost of all the intersection involved. Several years ago the city government prac tically had to force street improve ments upon the people affected, but now the value of the improvements is realized and they are being demanded faster than the city can supply them. For several months petitions have been nourlng into the office of the board of public works for improve ments of various kinds in all parts of the city, and it has been found diffi cult to obtain sufficient money to pay for the street intersections, $25,000 appropriated a few weeks ago already being exhausted and another $25,000 will be necessary. Mr. Klausmann de plored the passage of the law requir ing that street intersections be paid out of the general wund of the city, in sofar as it applies to Indianapolis. "For 14 or 15 years property owners within half a block of the street in tersection have had the cost of that intersection assessed among them, he said, "and now through the new law they are being required to help pay for street Intersections throughout the entire city. It is not equitable. Had the city always paid the cost or Intersections it would be a different matter, but now property owners who already have paid for all street in tersections affecting their property di rectly must contribute to the cost of street intersections in all parts of the city. Of course, the city will not alweys be so greatly hampered in making street improvements because of lack of funds for street intersection as it is this year, for hereafter a spe cial levy can be made to provide suf ficient funds for this expense, nut this year the law caught the city with out any provision for this additional expense and with considerable more than $100,000 to be spent for street in tersections. MASONIC CALENDAR Wednesday, May 31, Webb lodge No. 24, F. & A. M. Called meeting. Work in Fellow Craft degree. Thursday, June 1, Wayne Council, No. 10, R. & S. M. stated assembly. Saturday, June 3, Loyal Chapter, O. E. S. stated meeting. Palladium Want Ads Pay. Your PaiiBilteir's CoiuEieMiaeilt Gil will always be a cherished keepsake hence it be comes a duty to choose it wisely and well. It will cost you less to buy it from Jenkins and Co., nowv during our great Remodeling Reduction Sale. Unvarying Good Taste and Quality is characteristic of our goods and the same dis criminating care and judgment is applied to each article in our store whether the selling price be great or small. Jenkins & Co's prestige and reputation carries an absolute guarantee that everything is perfectly correct and of the highest character. RINGS. ...... . . .$5.00 to $50.00 WATCHES .... .$7.50 to $75.00 Necklaces, Cuff Buttons, Belt Pins, La Vailleres, EVERYTHING REDUCED eiMis (Cad. Jewelers of Established Quality and Reputation 726 MAIN STREET F00LC0I1F0RT4 5rQtk iW our JL Economy Good Tasto elltiiin) Odd Ve do not deplore the fact that a great many men "are very particular in buying shoes. Nor do we feel sorry that others are very economical. But it is too bad that the economical ones do not always get all they should for their money. Men who buy footwear at Teeple's always get new fashions and always dress their feet in the best of taste. This and economy makes a combina tion, hard to beat. Now it's these: RUSSIA BLUCHER OXFORDS AT $4.00 GUN METAL BLUCHER OXFORD AT $4.00 TAN AND GUN METAL BUTTON OXFORD AT $3.00 VICI KID OXFORDS AT $3.00 TO $5.00 This Is My 45th Birthday BALTHASAR H. MEYER. i Balthasar H. Meyer, one of the new Usmbers of the interstate commerce commission, was born in Nequon, Wis., May 26, 1S6G. He was graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1S94. 'and took special courses In the Uni versity of Berlin In 1894-5. In his early life be taught school and advancing through the various stages, became professor of political economy in the University of Wisconsin In 1900, which position he held until his recent ap pointment to the Interstate commerce commission. Trot. Meyer is regard ed as a high authority on matters re lating to railroads. He Is the author of several important books on rail road legislation and In 1904 he served as expert special agent for the census bureau and interstate commerce com mission in charge of valuation of rail roads in the United States. He was also a member of the stock and bond commission appointed by the presi dent to Investigate the question of bringing future issues of railroad se curities under the supervision and con trol of the Interstate commerce com mission. James J. Hill offers a $1,000 cup aa a prise for the best hundred ponds of wheat raised this season in the west, the exhibit to be in Madison Square 'THIS DATE IN HISTORY' MAY 28. 1660 King George I of England born. Died June 10, 1727. 1754 Virginia militia under Major Washington Touted a body of French troops at the Great Meadows. 1765 Patrick Henry's resolution against the stamp act passed the Vir ginia assembly. 1780 Thomas Moore, the Irish poet, born. Died Feb. 25, 1852. 1804 William A. Ruckingham, civil war governor of Connecticut, born In Lebanon, Conn. Died In Norwich, Conn., Feb. 3, 1875. 1818 First steamboat on Lake Erie launched. ' ' 1838 Rebel band under Johnston captured the steamer "Sir Robert Peel" at Welles Island, on the St. Lawrence. J 1863 The gunboat Cincinnati sunk by the Confederate - batteries near Vicksburg. 1898 Public funeral of Mr. Gladstone in Westminster Abbey. lVHcIFaplan SI7 - - 1911 In the 200-mile race which the McFarlan made without a stop at In dianapolis, Sept. 5, 1910, cars of only one ether make finished ahead of It, and they were cars of greater power and higher price. DEITSCD DUOS., Agents, cini:e ciiy. is. KlKLY. If You Have Not Placed Your Order for Winter Coal, Better Phone Us at Once as Prices Advance Each Month. FOR YOUR FURNACE, ORDER r n The Most Efficient of All American Coals, FOR YOUR BASE BURNER, ORDER We will Guarantee Either of the Above to Be the Very Best Quality and to Give Entire Satisfaction. 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