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TTTE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, Til UR SD AY, JANUARY 21, 1004.
PURE FOOD Bill PASSED
HIKE HOUSE, 201 TO H,
WITHOUT A ROLL CALL
Measure of Great Importance to
Brewers. Chemists. Canners
and Packers of Food.
ADULTER AT I O X S DEFINED
Commerce in, or Exportation or
Importation of, Misbranded
Goods Is Prohibited.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 The House
pass the Hej burn pure-food bill to-day on
a rising vote :J01 to 68 its opponents being
unable to secure a roll call on the bill. The
smendment inserting the word "willful,"
with reference to persons who sell adul
terated or misbranded goods, and which
would have compelled the government to
prove intent to violate the law by the vend
ers, was stricken out on a yea and nay vote
In th i House. Several attempts were made
to amend the bill, but no material changes
were made.
The bill fixes the standards of foods and
drugs as to their purity, strength and char
acter and defines what shall be considered
adulterations or misbranding of foods and
drugs. It also prohibits interstate com
merce, importation and exportation of such
misbrand d or adulterated articles. It is
proposed to enlarge the scope of the Bureau
of Chemistry to include the Bureau of Foods
and Impose upon It the duty of performing
all chemical work for the. other executive
departments. This bureau will be charged
with the duty of inspecting food and drug
products which belong to interstate or for
eign comnieicc. The secretary of agricul
ture is give.i authority to employ such
chemists, inspectors, clerks and laborers as
may b necessary for the enforcement of the
act.
One section of the bill provides penalties
for the introduction of adulterated or mis
branded foods or drugs and another section
requires the secretary of agriculture to pre
scribe rules and regulations to govern the
director of the Bureau of Chemistry and
Foods in examinations of articles required
to be. inspected under the law.
Violations of the law shall be reported by
the secretary of agriculture to the proper
district attorney of the United States, who
Is to direct the cause proceedings to be
prosecuted without delay.
Mr. Hull, of Iowa, chairman of the com
mittee .n military affairs, reported the
army appropriation bid and gave notice
that he would call it up to-morrow.
Mr. Payne, ehafrman of the ways and
means committee, reported a substitute for
the Hitchcock resolution calling on the sec
retary of the treasury to furnish the House
Information regarding the number of car
riages furnished his department at govern
ment expense. The substitute, Mr. Payne
explained, called f r the same information
as the original resolution. It was agreed to.
Mr. Zenor, of Indiana, was granted forty
five minutes for a speech on good roads.
He maintained that the general government
should bear at) per cent, of the cost of con
struction of the public highways. At 5:30
the House adjourned.
TRACK CANDIDATES
REPORT FOR PRACTICE
Twenty-Five Xotre Dame Athletes,
Including Many Stars, Are
Training.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
NOTRE DAMK, Ind., Jan. 30. This after
noon in the gymnasium twenty-live candi
dates reported in response to Trainer Hol
land's summons. Amongst these were many
of last year's track and field men, in
cluding Captain Draper. Daly. McCullough
and Meyers, all of whom are in excellent
condition for training. Of the ability of
the new men who put in an appearance lit
tle is known beyond the work done by Home
of them in the inter-hall meet. Silver,
F hala and Welch seem the most prom
ising. Trainer Holland is satisfied with the
material at hand and hopes to turn out
as good a body of athletes as has repre
sented Notre Dame in recent years.
tOr AfTS OPERATIONS
WILL BE LIMITED
LEXINGTON. Ky., Jan. 30. -John J. Ryan
"Will profit little by his reinstatement by
the Highland Park Jockey Club, accord
ing to information received here by a turf
man from a prominent member of the East
ern Jockey Club. The fact that a bad odor
hangs around Ryan from his "get-rich-iuiek"
turr' n,v-;nient concerns and later
his runuing of the Newport race track in
opposition to the Western Turf Congress,
is not relished by the eastern racing mag
nates. This turfman says Ryan may be al
lowed booking privileges as the ordiuarv
term goes, but that Is up to the Metro
politan Turf Association. It is also like
ly he could race a few horses in the name
of someone else, but It is not thought the
big tracks will countenance any extended
operations of horse racing in the colors of
Ryan in that section. This man says that
If Ryan had been reinstated by the Western
Jockey Club and the ban of outlawry re
moved from him such action would have
made his past deeds forgotten, but the mere
lifting of a suspension by the Fort
Erie Association or the Highland Park
Jockey Club is merely the pardoning of one
offense. He says men like Whitney, Keene
and Belmont would hardly care to have a
man of the notoriety of Ryan a competitor
for turf honors on the big tracks of the
East, and while he may be seen in the bet
ting lnclosure as a racing owner, accord
ing to this information, Ryan will never fig
ure on the metropolitan tracks.
CHICAGO FIGHT GOSSIP.
Butte Club Offers $3.500 for Yanger-
Herrera Fight,
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
CHICAGO, Jan. 20. John Hertz to-day re
ceived an offer of $3.500 for Benny Yanger to
fight Aurella, Herrera twenty rounds at
Butt.-, Mont., on Feb. 29, weight to be 12S
pounds, weigh in at 3 o'clock, or 130 pounds
ringside Hertz accepted the proposition,
provided the club would give that amount,
with the privilege of 5u per ci nt. of the gross
receipts. Hertz denies the report that he
ha secure,! the old American Muh arena on
Thirty-first street and says he does not in
tend to re-enter the boxing game as a pro
moter. He Is practically out of the game, as
his business takes up all his time.
Tommy Ryan seems to h. fast rounding
tnto his old time form again. This is
Clearly visible to those who are fortunate
enough to see the dev. r middleweight in ac
tion at a downtown gymnasium. He said
to-night: "I am In much better condition
than I have b, ,u in some time and on that
account I think I will not ha . a great d, il
of trouble in beating Jack O'Brien on the
27th of this month The bout can only go
six rounds at th,- longest. I hard I v think it
Will go as far us that, and It surely won't
if I have anything to say about it. O'Brien
has been putting out a lot of talk about
the things that he will do to me. Well, he
will have all the chance he wants in six
rounds. I think I have a right to expect
to knock O'Brien out inside of the six.
9jfy repord during the past two years ought
to give a line on this tight. In and l' :
I fought fourteen regular ring battles. Ten
Of them 1 won with knockouts. The other
four I won on decisions. Only four of the
fourteen went over six rounds.''
Butler mid Banna n Hon- .ante.
The Butler and Social Turner teams will
meet in the Oerman House gymnasium to
night. The teams are in good shape and
a large crowd will doubtless witness the
Oontet. The f an. will line up as follows:
Social Turners. Positions. Butler.
11 In etc r Forward Murray
Emmerich Forward Anthony
Stamme! . nter Brown
Sehrader Guard Kingsbury
flappers be i jcr Guard ............ Mauzy
CHANGES II THE
ARM! WILL TAKE PLACE
AO Resulting from the Retirement
of Young and Promotion
of Chaffee.
NAMES OF THE OFFICERS
WASHINGTON. Jan. 20.-Many important
changes will occur in the army during the
next few days, resulting from the retire
ment of Lieutenant General Young and
the promotion of Major General Chaffee,
to be a lieutenant general.
Major General William A. Kobbe and
Brigadier General Alfred Mordecal were re
tired to-day and Major Generals Joseph I1.
Sanger and Alfred E. Bates, and Brigadier
Generals Harry I Haskell, F. H. Hatha
way and Frank M. Coxe will follow them
on Friday. Brigadier General Francis S.
Dodge will become paymaster general.
Saturday Major General Wallace F. Ran
dolph will retire and General George L.
Gillespie becomes a permanent major gen
eral and assistant chief of the general
staff, while Brigadier General Alex
ander MacKtnzie will become chief
of engineers. Brigadier General John
P. 8torey will succeed General Randolph
as chief of artillery. Cols. A. C. Taylor,
artillery corps; John G. Butler, ordnance
department; Jacob Kline. Twenty-first In
fantry; William E. Dougherty, Eighth In
fantry; Charles J. Allen, corps of engineers,
and Theodore E. True, deputy quarter
master general, will be made brigadier gen
erals and retired at once.
Col. William 8. McCaskey, who has been
confirmed as a permanent brigadier gen
eral, will be relieved from duty In the
Philippines and ordered to command one
of the vacant military reservations, prob
ably the Department of Dakota. The con
firmation of Col. Albert Mills as a perma
nent' brigadier general probably will not
change his present duty as superintendent
of the Military Academy.
AN INPIANIAN IN THE
SOUTH SENDS GREETING
Hon. M, L. Bundy Visits Historic
Points During His Win
ter Travels.
Correspondence of the Indianapolis Journal.
NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 1. I left my win
ter retreat this morning for a day's sojourn
in New Orleans, the great metropolis of the
South, fifty miles distant. The city is
reached by the great Louisville & Nashville
Railroad, which runs four trains each way
from all points on the coast, at reasonable
rates. The intervening country is not at
tractive, being either poor pine land or cy
press swamps, until within a few miles of
the city we cross over the southern end of
that great body of water. Lake Poncher
train, which was named in honor of one
of Louis XIV's ministers, an for several
miles run on the lake shore. This lake, so
near the city, is said to be about forty miles
long by twenty-five miles wide, and is a
beautiful sheet of water, with high banks
on the north side.
New Orleans, is often but incorrectly
called the Crescent City, because of the
bend of the great river on which it is lo
cated. The new moon is the crescent with
a half circle, but the bend of the river is
exactly like the letter "S," which is not
a crescent. That, however, is of little
consequence, as all our great cities assume
some name different from that by which
they are incorporated.
The trade of New Orleans wdth the whole
world is something wonderful. One does
not have to search for statistics to be con
vinced of that, for a walk on the river
bank and a view of the shipping and great
piles of merchandise awaiting transporta
tion will satisfy any onje. It has long been
known as the world's greatest cotton mar
ket, but of late years grain destined for
foreign countries is coming here. New
York, which once had a monopoly or this
trade, is not slow to rtnd out that she has
a rival, and this may be the motive for
enlarging the Erie to the capacity of a
ship canal, which the people of that State
voted lately with so much unanimity. The
country must have water transportation
and the cities must have deep harbors, or
they will go to the rear. These facts are
so monumental that "he that runs may
read."
This city contains many things of his
toric interest, not the least of which is the
battle ground, five miles distant, where on
the Hth of January, 1815, General Jackson
achieved his great victory over the British
under Packenham. It is true the war had
been ended by treaty on the 24th of De
cember previous, but there was neither
cable nor "ocean grayhound" to convey the
news. The victory was a fit ending of a
cruel nd unnecessary war waged by Eng
land to recover lost prestige for her defeat
in the revolutionary war. Visitors are
shown the place of the old slave market,
where forty years ago men and women
Ware, sold on the auction block to the high
est bidder. It is probably known to most
of your readers that Lincoln had reached
man's age when he left Southern Indiana,
where he had been raised, and removed to
Illinois. They may know also that the
first business he engaged in was running
a flat-boat to New Orleans. On one of these
trips he saw an advertisement that a hand
some girl was to be sold in this market,
and he and his hands attended the sale.
The auctioneer, according to the custom of
his craft, before inviting bids, made an
eloquent speech extolling the qualities of
the girl, and she brought a good price. The
party returning to the boat, Lincoln, stand
ing erect, six feet and one-quarter inch,
with a sweep of his long arm, said: "Boys.
if I ever have the power, I will hit slavery
hard." M. L. BUNDY.
TO DECIDE QUESTION OF
JOINING THE ALLIANCE
Representatives of Painters' and
Plumbers' Union Confer with
Executive Board.
M. P. Carrick. of I . i ta r ; . g. -v:il s, c
retary of the Painters International I'nion,
and J. W. Spencer, general organizer of the
plumbers, were in the city yesterday, In
conference with the national eexcutive
board of the United Brotherhood of Car
penters and Joiners, with reference to the
Structural Building Trades Alliance of
America, the plans of which were formu
lated in lndianaiolis last summer. The
winde situation was gone over bv the men.
the entire afternoon being devoted to the
subject. The question as to whether the
executive board of the carpenters will de
cide to be one of the organizations of the
alliance is to come before the meeting of the
board to-day. If the board indorses the ac
tion a vote will immediately be taken by
tne Drotnernooti according to locals.
Mr. Spencer is the temporarv secretary
of the new Building Trades Alliance and
has been working in its interests for the
past few month- S. v. ral of the orsanlza
tions represented In the conference here
have already taken a votj on the question
or consummating sucn an alliance, and in
every case the majority has been greatlv
in favor of the move. It is probable that
after all the organizations have indorsed
the proposition a general convention will
be called in Indianapolis.
CASES 11' ERE POSTPONED.
BOSTON. Jan. 20 In connection with the
srrest last night of Joe Choynskl and Kid
Carter, who boxed at the Criterion Athletic
Club, on the charge of mutual assault
Chairman William N. H. Emmons, of the
Police Board, announced to-day that it was
the intention or the board to purge the city
or wnai ne cuiieu prize hunting.
When Choynskl and Carter and the others
who were arrested on the charge of aiding
)'nd a bet ting a prize tight appeared in the
Municipal Court to-day their cases were
continued. tt their request, until to-mor-
MAN!
BATTLE TO BE
Tiny Ships to Fight on Artificial
Lake at the St. Louis
World's Fair.
BOATS WILL MANEUVER
ST. LOCIS. Jan. 20. The battles of Ma
nila and Santiago, the only naval fights in
which modern ships of war ever engaged,
will be reproduced at the world's fair in St.
Louis in a manner so realistic as to thrill
every spectator.
Beal ships, perfect miniatures in steel of
our own cruisers and battleships, will be
manned with real crews and real guns and
maneuvered on an artificial lake.
The shore settings will be faithful repro
ductions of Corregidor bay and Santiago.
There will be the roar of broadsides, the
reply of the forts and shore batterks, the
stealthy attacks of torpedo boats and sub
marine craft, the explosion of submarine
mines and the annihilation of warships.
Real dynamite will be used and tons of
water thrown into the air when submarine
explosions are caused by the little torpedo
boats which accompany the battleships.
The fleet maneuvers at night in the pres
ence of thousands of spectators will form
an interesting feature of this display, which
excited much admiration when it was
shown in London, the vessels using their
searchlights and signal lights in very
realistic fashion and accurately reproduc
ing the action of a squadron of a modern
navy.
A spectacle such as that planned by the
concessionaires for the naval exhibit at me
lair cost a large sum of money. The minia
ture warships, for instance, are to be built
of sheet steel and of an average length of
twenty feet. The larger bouts will cost $10,
000 each. From fighting top to the last bar
bette each will be a replica of the real ship
whose name the miniature bears. There will
be the battle ships Oregon, Illinois, Iowa
and Indiana; of cruisers, the New York, the
Boston, the Charleston, the Chicago, the
Brooklyn and the Olympia. A small Heet of
torpedo and submarine boats is also included
in the flotilla.
Each boat is to be propelled by electricity
kept in storage batteries and will be under
the control of an operator concealed in the
interior. He not only directs the movements
of the craft, but by a number of buttons
fires the guns and manipulates the Hags,
signals and searchlights. Flach vessel can
develop an astonishing speed and quickly an
swer the helm.
The exhibit planned, however, is to con
sist of more than the naval battles of Manila
Bay and Santiago. Not one of every ten
thousand visitors to the world's fair will
have any previous knowledge of naval man
euvers. Evolutions as actually carried on
in the American navy will be shown.
Let the reader suppose himself in the am
phitheater on one side of a large artificial
lake. On the opposite shore is a scenic har
bor, forts and ships lying at anchor, with
the smoke pouring from the funnels.
Suddenly a signal is fired from one of the
fortifications, salutes are exchanged be
tween vessels and the shore and the llag
ships of war steam out into the lake, per
form evolutions and steam back to anchor
age. In a few moments there suddenly darts
from the haibor a number of trim little
torpedo boats cutting through the water
like sharks after their prey. At the op
posite side of the lake is a floating target,
and toward it the grim torpedo flotilla
rushes.
The boat in the van discharge a torpedo,
and a few seconds later near the target
there spouts a column of water high In
the air to show that the deadly, silent mis
sile has struck the mark and, had it been
an enemy's warship, annihilation would
have been its fate. Each torpedo boat
thus proves its markmanship and then re
tires. After this the cruisers and battleships
reappear and, steaming around in a com
plete circle, tire broadside alter broadside
at a floating mark in the middle of the
lake. Each time the target is hit a tiny
puff of smoke arises from the aperture.
Now comes the review of the fleet by the
admiral. The vessels are maneuvered with
the precision of trained soldiers. In echelon,
single and double column, twisting and
winding, the craft dart over the water.
The most exciting spectacle of all, nat
urally, is the naval engagement. It is
night. The warships, flashing their search
lights in every direction, are guarding
against an attack of hostile torpedo boats.
In the dawn the enemy's fleet is discerned
lose to the shore and protected by land
batteries.
On steam the American fleet, and a few
shots are fired to ascertain the range.
0,uicKlv there follows a broadside, and In a
moment more all the ships and the fortifi
cations are in action. The tattoo of the
rapid fire guns is broken by the heavier
detonations of the great shells. One shot
strikes a powder magazine on shore, and
it explodes with a terrible roar. Debris is
thrown high in the air.
An American torpedo boat darts from
behind a cruiser, sends its missile straight
to the heart of one of the opposing ships,
and it ingloriously explodes and sinks.
The shore guns are silenced one by one;
the enemy's boats are crippled and finally
one shell from an American cruiser pene
trates to the boilers of a battleship. There
is an eruption, the doomed vessel bursts
Into flames and quickly disappears from the
water's surface.
A bark loaded with ammunition is seen
coming to the aid of the enemy. Two ships
start in pursuit, overhaul the vesesl and
with a hail of shot set the bark on fire and
explode the store of powder and shells.
Another hostile warship is driven ashore
and in a moment more the battle is over.
The victorious ships dress their riggings
with bunting and the admiral displays sig
nal flags congratulating the men on their
great victory. A display of fireworks from
the captured forts ends the exhibit.
THE ICEMAN OUTDONE.
Housewife Mny Circumvent the Mach
inations of This Visitor.
A great deal has been written and a great
deal has been said about the iceman, and it
is generally understood that not half what
is said and written would be allowed to go
through the United States mails on account
of its near approach to questionable litera
ture. Most of all the hard things that have
been directed at the deliverer of the daily
piece of ice have been prompted by SllS4fSd
short weight, and the problem of the com-
THK RKFRIOERATuR SCALES.
ing summer will be how to insure getting
your money's worth of the crystallized cake
of water.
That there may be as little dispute over
this point as possible there has been in
vented and put. iite, i an attachment for the
refrigerator which weighs the ice as it is
laid in that receptacle. When the iceman
comes around and dumps the ice into the
refrigerators and calls out "Theres your
ice." ail you have to do is to look that
the Indicator on the outside to find that he
is two i .und short Confronting the vil
lain with this damaging evidence, there will
be no trouble In persuading him to make up J
th deiiucuci'.
N AVA
PRODUCED
MINIATURE
1 J
GERMAN STEEL MAKERS
TO MAKE WAR ON PRICES
Failure of the Plan to Merge All
Big Concerns Into One
Syndicate.
TWO SEPARATE GROUPS
BERLIN, Jan. 20.-The conferences held
at Cologne this week in au attempt to or
ganize all the great German steel com
panies into a syndicate have resulted in
failure. The conferences suceeded in split
ting the steel industry into two groups, the
first of which includes the manufacturers
of half-rolled goods, girders and other sim
ple structural forms, while the secon? Is
composed of the manufacturers of steei
rails and other railway material.
The second group embraces the sixteen
great companies which took the lead in
trying to effect the general organization.
These companies have now decided to hold
together and to begin a price war on the
companies vhich refused to accept the
terms offered for the general steel syndi
cate. The outside companies include such
important establishments as the Krupp gun
works, the Bochum Cast Steel Company,
the Westphaliau steel works, the Hasper
Company and all the Silesian manufactur
ers. Another meeting will be called for Feb.
5, when the first group of manufacturers
will invite all the outside makers of half
rolled goods and girders to join in a move
ment to compel the second group to come
to terms. It is expected that this war of
prices will be carried into foreign markets
and that it will result in lower prices for
Oerman steel products than ever before.
At a meeting held here to-day of the di
rectors of the Allegemeine Electrical Com
pany, of Berlin, General Manager Rathenau
informed those present of a new company
for the manufacture of steam turbines and
of his negotiations with the General Elec
tric Company during his visit to New York
last September. It appears that the Allege
meine Company has acquired from the
General Electric Company the patent rights
to the Curtis turbine, while the General
Company has secured from the Allege
meine Company the rights to the
inventions of Professors Riedeler and
Stumpf, of the Technical Institute of Char
lottenburg. These two companies are to
unite to supply capital for the Berlin
Steam Turbine Company, which is the
name of the new concern, the capital of
which If to be Sl.250.tHJ0. Further, work
ing in connection with the European in
terests of the Thomson-Houston Electric
Company, the General and the Allegemeine
companies are to establish an Italian tur
bine company with a capital of 11,200,000.
The Allegemine Company is to issue new
capital to the amount of $5,ti25,0oo in con
nection with these operations and for the
complete absorption of the Union Electri
cal Company of lierlin, which has hitherto
held the Thomson-Houston patents in Ger
many and adjacent countries.
German electricians expect an enormous
Increase In the German electrical industry
as the result of the application of turbine
engines to the iron, coal and other leading
industries.
PANAMA CONSTITUTION;
FIRST DRAFT APPROVED
Catholic Faith to Be Recognized,
but Church and State to
Be Separate.
QUAKE OX THE ISTHMUS
PANAMA, Jan. 1 The constitutional
convention met again to-day and approved,
on the first debate, a draft of a Constitu
tion which contains the following principal
points: The abolition of business monopo
lies in the republic; the infliction of the
death penalty for political crimes; the
abolition of army and the establishment
of an efficient police force; the fact that
the majority of isthmians are of the Ro
man Catholic faith is recognized, but
church and state are separate; all citizens,
with the exception of members of any mili
tary body which may be established, shall
have the right to vote; the press shall be
free. The President's term of office shall
be four years; fhere are to be two sub
Vice Presidents, one from the Liberal and
one from the Conservative party, and they
shall serve for two years; the judiciary is
to be elected by Congress.
That part of the draft which refers to
territorial boundaries delimits the canal
zone as specified in the Hay-Bunau-Varilla
treaty and this is believed indirectly to ap
prove tho treaty.
It has been agreed among the members of
the convention to approve a bill ratifying
all the acts of the provisional government;
this will do away with the necessity of a
separate bill proposing the ratification by
the convention of the act whereby the
Junta ratified the Hay-Bunau-Varilla
treaty.
SliKht Earthquake shook.
PANAMA., Jan. 20. A slight earthquake
shock of short duration was felt through
out the republic of Panama at about half
past 9 this morning. No damage has been
reported.
AN ALLEGED HEIRESS
PLACED UNDER ARREST
Ethel Rovelle, Charged with Being
a "Dangerous and Suspi
cious" Person.
MOBILE. Ala., Jan. 20,-Ethel Rovelle,
the young woman from Meridian, alleged
to be heiress to several millions of prop
erty and cash left by an uncle, was ar
rested to-day on the charge of being "dan
gerous and suspicious."
The complainant was Detective R. H.
Hand, of Meridian, Miss., who said that he
came here at the instance of the woman's
uncle. J. M. Huskey. of Meridian, who de
sired to meet and consult the woman as to
her future. He said th.it the reported kid
naping of the girl at Meridian was a hoax.
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CAUGHT IN SNOWDRIFTS
Passengers on Interurhan Cars
Probably Are Suffering.
RACINH, Wis., Jan. 20.-Alarm exists
among- officials of the interurhan street
railway line between this city and Kenosha
and Milwaukee for passengers on the inter
urban cars that have been caught in snow
drifts. The ea.rs cannot be located, as the
telephone service and dispatch system Is
crippled.
All the cars have a scant supply of coal
and volunteers have been called for to ac
company snow plows and shnvel out snow
drifts in an effort to reach th iassengers
and bring them to the nearest city. One
hundred men have been called for in
Racine and 30-1 in Milwaukee, but it is not
believed that the cars can he reached to
night, as the drifts are several feet high
and long.
The Late A. . RulineirN Will.
SPR1 NO FIELD. .. Jan. 30. -The will of
former Governor Asa S. Bushnell was filed
this . veiling for probate. It provides for
the distribution of practically all of his
t . 1 1 among his wife and children. The
utors are Cyrus A. Phelps. Oscar T
Martin and John L. Bushnell.
The Union National Bank solicits your
business; facilities second to none, tvilllam
J. Richards, president.
TESTIMONY IN ELKHART
CASE ENDS T0-
Col. C. G. Conn, of Band Instru
ment Fame, One of Important
Witnesses Yesterday.
THE RECEIVER TESTIFIES
The hearing of evidence in the Elkhart
bank failure case was continued yesterday,
and, with the progress made to-day that
has been accomplished so far, it is ex
pected that all testimony will be in by this
evening.
Col. Charles G. Conn was one of the prin
cipal witnesses yesterday. Conn is editor of
the Elkhart Truth and president of the
large band instrument factory at that place.
He was one of the large stockholders in
the defunct bank, and has been the most
bitter in making the- fight against the offi
cials. Another important witness that con
sumed a great deal of the grand jury's time
was D. C. Thomas, a former prominent em
ploye in the bank just failed. C. H. Bos
worth, receiver for the bank, was the last
called to testify yesterday afternoon.
The other witnesses who testified during
the day were W. H. Anderson, postmaster
at Elkhart; M. V. Demarst. one of the re
ceivers; E C. Bentley, Lewis Dennert, El
liott Crull, Meli Barnes, S. B. Short. Peltire
Hill, A. B. Miller and John Krau, jr.
Suit of Marlie Shutters for
S 2 5,000 from Big Four Begins
The trial of the $25,000 damage suit
brought by Marlie D. Shutters, as guardian
of Richard Smithey, against the Big Four
Railway Company and the Indianapolis
Union Railway Company was begun yester
day before a jury in Judge Carter's court.
On Sept. 26, 1900, Smithey was driving with
his son on Madison avenue. When they
reached the Big Four tracks they stopped
and were signaled by the flagman that the
track was clear and they started across the
tracks. The wagon was struck and
Smithcy's skull was fractured. It Is al
leged that Smithey has been of unsound
mind since the accident. The flagman was
instantly killed.
Animal King Defendant
in a Heavy Damage Suit
Suit for $10,000 damages was begun yes
terday before a jury in Judge Leathers's
court by Rudolph Harwick against Frank
C. Bostock, the animal showman, and one
of his employes by the name of Goliah.
Karwick was bitten by a dog that Bostock
had with his company when he exhibit
ed at the West Washington-street show
grounds in April, 1901. Dr. C. T. Burkett.
who attended Karwick at the time of the
injuries, testified yesterday that the boy
has suffered with rabies and would fre
ouentlv hark like a do. The doctor said
that the rabies were still in Karwick's
blood and that they might crop out at any
time.
Holtsclaw Asks $10,000 for
Loss of a Foot in Accident
Newton F. Holtsclaw filed a $10,000 damage
suit against the Indianapolis Traction and
Terminal Company and the Central Union
Telephone Company yesterday. Holtsclaw
was a conductor of a summer car on the
West Michigan-street line on Aug. 3, 1903,
and while standing on the running board to
collect fares his head and body struck a tel
ephone pole of the telephone company and
he was hurled to the ground. A wheel of
the street car passed over his left foot and
cut it off.
Another Damage Suit Results
from Collision on Interurban
The Indianapolis & Martinsville Rapid
Transit Company was made defendant yes
terday to a $10,000 damage suit filed by Ira
Smith, growing out of the collision between
two of the defendant company's cars at
Brooklyn, Ind.. on Aug. 2, 1903 The com
plaint states that the plaintiffs wife was
thrown from her seat to the floor by the
force of the collision and received severe
internal injuries.
Plant Operates at Loss.
The Indiana Trust Company, as receiver
for the East Chicago Water Works Com
pany, made its first report to the United
States Circuit Court yesterday. It included
an inventory of the possessions of the com
pany. It said that the electric light plant
at the present was operating at a loss of
$450 per month. This was due to the ex
cessive price of coal and to the dilapidated
condition of the machinery, which necessi
tated the use of an excessive amount of
fuel The report recommended the improve
ment of the machinery. The water works
is now operating at a net gain of $850 per
month.
Beoalry Given S2.4JOO Judgment.
Roy Beasley recovered $2,000 damages in
his suit against the Wrecking and Construc
tion Company, which has been on trial be
fore a jury in Judge McMaster's court. He
was hit by a brick thrown over the wall un
der which he was working on Aug. 8, 1903,
and sued for $15,000.
THE COIRT RECORD.
SUPERIOR COURT.
Room 1 John L. McMasters, Judge.
Roy Beasley vs. Wrecking and Con
structing Company; damages. Jury re
turned verdict for plaintiff vs. defendant
for $2,000.
George McNimrey vs. Indianapolis Trac
tion and Terminal Company; damages. On
trial by jury.
Room 2 Jarnos M. Leathers, Judge.
Bettle Howell vs. Luncu Hulsin et al.;
contract. Jury returned verdict in favor
of plaintiff and assess her damages at 'M.
Rudolph Karwick vs. Frank C. Bostock;
damages. On trial by jury.
Room 3 Vinson Carter, Judge.
John Valdenaire vs. Charles Harrington
et al. ; improvement lien. Dismissed and
costs paid.
Jentel E. Gilbert vs. International Build
ing and Loan Association; damages. Dis
missed by plaintiff. Judgment against
plaintiff for costs.
Irvin Myers vs. Indianapolis Traction and
Terminal Company; damages. Jury re
turned verdict for plaintiff for $500.
CIRCUIT COURT.
Henry Clay Allen. Judge.
Margaret Hughes vs. Philip Brock; suit
in replevin. On trial by jury. Evidence
heard and jury r-tired.
CRIMINAL COURT.
Fremont Alford, Judge.
Edward Benton; obtaining money by
fraudulent check. Trial by court. Fined
$100 and costs and imprisoned in Indiana
State Prison not to exceed five years.
Andrew Carter; obtaining money by frau
dulent check. Trial by court. Fined $1)
and costs and imprisoned in Indiana Re
formatory not to exceed five years.
NEW SUITS FILED.
Big Four Stone Company vs. William J.
Benner. suit on contract. Superior Court,
Room 3.
Newton F. Holtsclaw vs. Indianapolis
Traction and Terminal Company et al.;
complaint for damages. Superior Court,
Room 2.
Ira Smith vs. Indianapolis & Martinsville
Rapid Transit Company; complaint for
damages. Superior Court, Room 1.
UK. HER Ol RTX RECORD.
SUPREME COURT.
Minute.
30308. Fuman D. Smith et al. vs. Enes
Taylor et al. ; appellants' brief (8.)
New Suit.
9J4J90. Pleasant Evans vs. ex rel. Chene
Freeman; record; assignment of errors; In
term; bond.
APPEI.I.ATF. COURT.
Minutes.
496 Klmira J. Whitesell et al. vs. Eliza
beth Stuckler et al.; appellees brief (8.)
54)61. Charles Avery et al. vs. Warren A.
tiuiuh, pyelle s brief (..J
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AWFUL POVERTY AMONG
THE POOR CLASS IN JAPAN
Thousands of Them in Tokio Com
pelled to Subsist on Refuse
from Garbage.
OCEAX OF HUMAN WOES
London Mail.
Deeper than ever plummet sounded in the
ocean of poverty and human woe have I
descended here in the metropolis of the far
East, and found the world's poorest poor.
Besides these starved subjects of the Son
of Heaven, who cower outside his palace
walls, the submerged tenth of London are
bons vivants. and the grovelling Russian of
Gorky's night refuges the spoiled children
of fortune.
What I have seen I doubt if any Occi
dental has seen before me. for the existence
of such absolute wretchedness is not re
vealed to the tourist, and the ordinary resi
dent suspects it not at all. If he has heard
some whisper of the dolorous regions near
at hand, it is not regarded as politic to be
too inquiring. Not by any possible chance
will the guide or friend conduct the visi
tor to the quarters where joy is life's un
known quantity.
Slumming in Tokio is for the regulation
traveler the same as -if in London he went
to Soho without exploring the East. None
but regions of comparative prosperity are
shown, because the Japanese are proud of
their universal reputation :or cleanliness,
for artistic surroundings, and for a pov
erty that is always smiling, well washed,
and safely removed from actual want.
SOCIAL PURGATORIES.
Nevertheless, Tokio and other cities have
their social purgatories, their Rara?asso
seas of living, breathing wreck and drift.
In Tokio not fewer than 200.000 people sel
dom, if ever, know of a certainty where the
necessities of the next day will come from,
and throughout the land thegreat majority
are too poor to eat rice. The high-grade
rice grown in the islands is exported al
most to the iHSt sack, and inferior rice im
ported for those who can afford it. Rice is
not in every bowl, as the tourists freely
imagine.
I have spent days and nights in the
midst of this inexpressible residue of Japan
in company with a brilliant native sociol
ogist, who, like scores of his fellow stu
dents of men and things, believes that
Japan has left its good days of general hap
piness and general comfort forever behind.
and is entering upon s sordid and merciless
age of industrialism, in which Its people are
not fitted by temperament to compete, and
whose proletariat is. moreover, far too in
telligent and too proud to be exploited by
capital. He is crying out a warning to
Japan that her seat at the council table of
the powers is being paid for in the blood of
her citiaens, not expended as they would
pour it forth cheerfully in war, but in fac
tory and on farm, in shop and in office.
"Think for a moment." he cried last week
as we looked at a Japanese battleship in the
offing, "what a multitude of our tiny rice
fields it takes to support such a monster,
and then remember that our people can t
afford to eat rice!"
DESOLATION.
But whether or not the last state of
Japan be worse than her first, let us pro
ceed to darkest Tokio. We will visit the
Shitaya quarter, which is close by the beau
tiful Uyeno Park.
Tokio is so vast; it is such an immense
seä of sheds, that from the highest point
on the clearest day one can see but a frac
tion of its area but here are fifteen dis
tricts of mean streets. The crazy struc
tures called houses, which are in reality
sheds, are strung along in a series of dilap
idated and filthy compartments. To folk as
poor as those who live here, cleanliness, so
dear to the average Japanese that it is
above godliness, is out of the question.
The walls are decayed and full of crev
ices and cracks, the roof leaks, and there
is moss and broken tiles, the shoji are full
of holes or patched with newspapers, the
mats are ragged, dirty and moldv. There is
foul water in the streets, and a still fouler
stench in the air. whose source is often
visible to the eye. Frequently one sees
dead rats in the roadway, but for fear of
the plague they are- quickly made awav
with. After coming from the daintiness
and delightful artistry of well-to-do Tokio,
Shitaya is the abomination of desolation.
The most tumble-down of these abodes
may be rented for from 30 to 25 pence per
month, but there are houses so fine that
they cost as high as a penny, or even
three half-pence, a day. To afford one of
these expensive residences several families
club together, not alone for economy, but
also for warmth, in winter all hands crowd
ing together on the mats. Charcoal is not
always to be afforded, and heat is a great
luxury these cold days. A whole block will
sometimes take turns in warming hands at
a hibachi, wherein a few chunks of char
coal smolder in a bed of ashes.
HOW SIXPENCE GOE8.
Suppose a pipe-cleaner has had a good
day, and returns to his home with, say.
sixpense. He will expend this in farthering
purchases of miso, a kind of soup stock,
oil, fuel, tobacco, and perhaps a little fish,
which, if he feels reckless, he will eat raw
with horseradish. He buys in driblets, and
like the very poor in all the cities of the
world, pays enormous prices. This has been
a very good day, and perhaps he will peep
in at one of the tempting cake shops, which
smell so fragrantly to the weary and hope
less. However, he will be, in all likelihood,
"broke" by this time, and will content him
self with listening to a story-teller relating
the ancient glories of Dai Nippon.
Had our pipe-cleaner returned empty
handed he would have hurried to the pawn
broker, always near at hand, and raised a
few farthings on his precious brass pipe, his
hibachi. or his few poor garments not in
actual use. With the money he would have
purchased fish entrails or the offal from
horses used for food, and perhaps a hand
ful of scraps from a garbage barrel. With
these he would have feasted with his fam
ily, and with them prayed that providence
would give hirn a better day to-morrow, so
that he might reclaim his goods.
The pawnbrokers batten off these
wretches as in no other land. It Is Impos
sible to escape them, and they never re
lent. Anything that cost above fivepence
can be pawned.
POVERTY'S LAST WORD.
Untii this time of the year, or even until
midwinter, one can exist in Shitaya without
bedclothing, but" when the nights get cold,
with the fearful piercing frosts of a Ja
panese winter, some covering must be
had. Now appears another plunderer of
the poor in the guise of a capitalist who
rents quilts by the night. He charges and
invariably collects, from one farthing for
a shred of dirty, patched old rag, to a pen
ny or even twopence for a foul but heavy
covering. Then, too, there are frayed silk
quilts for bridal couples, but these are too
costly to be rented by many bridegrooms.
Rent must be paid in advance, and before
the family go to sleep the collector c
and gets either the money or the quilt.
With a refinement of cruelty, he does not
appear until the lessee has turned in, and
the loss of his covering will be doubly felt.
There are heartrending scenes when penni
less mothers strive to hold the quilt to Pro
tect their babes from the chill and damp.
Like the pawnbroker and the money lender,
the quilt lender is flinty heart, d
Few of the inhabitants of Shitaya ever
get enough money ahead to buy bedcloth
Ing, and the ghastly tragedy of renting Is
re-enacted again and again for winter after
winter. Where there are so many children
having but a few cotton rags, the winter
means acute misery.
Nothing that was ever edible can become
too bad for the very poor to use. From this
and similar quarters the scavengers go
forth daily searching for food, and they
rake the city as with a comb. Back they
come at night laden with bad rice, decayed
fish and meats, scraps from slop barrels,
broken food from restaurants, ami all man
ner of queer odds and ends. This SSOOSASl
hand food business has an extensive lang
uage of its own, with special terms for
every kind and condition of edible junk that
is brought to the quarter. This jargon is
wholly unintelligible to the uninitiated, and
few there are who care to learn the lang
uage of the freesing and starving who rent
rags and dine on offal.
Poverty has its ultimate expression i e
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Franklin
Fire Insurance Co.
Of Philadelphia,
On the 31st day of December, 1903
It is located at No. 4.M Walnut street,
Philadelphia. Pa.
JAS. W. MCALLISTER. President.
EZRA T. CRESSON, Secretary.
The amount of its capital is S4fl0.0rt
The amount of its capital pal: up is.. 480.19
The Assets of tbc Com-an in the United States
are as follows:
Cash on hand and in the hands of
agents and in hank
Real estate unincumbered
Bonds owned l- tin- company,
bearing interest at the rate of
per eest 2.581.24J.Ä
I.m.iiis on bonds and mortgages of
real State, worth double the
amount for which the same is
mortgaged, and free from any
prior incumbrance U2.2H.4T
T-U.il asset. SS.141.S94.44
1.1 ABILITIES.
Losses adjusted and due. losses
adjusted and not due. losses un
adjusted, losses In suspense,
waiting for further prof .. S5.473.58
All other claims against the com-
P.my .4.34
Amount necessary t reinsure out
standing risks 1.W1. 180.94
Total liabilities fl.4SMIS.SI
The greatest amount iu auy one
risk SSMSfl.OO
State of Indiana. Office of Auditor of State.
I. the undersigned, auditor of stale of ths
State of Indiana, hereby csrtlfj that the
above is a correct copy of the statement of
the condition of the above-mentioned com
:iy on the JUst day of December, ltflt. as
shown by the original statement, and that
the said original statement is now on hie in
this office.
in testimony whereof I hereunto sub
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LSKALv cial seal this 30th day of January,
D. E. SHERKirK. Auditor of Btate.
Copy of Statement of th; Condition
OF THE
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On the 31st day of December, 1903
It is located at No. 23 Washington street
Watertown, N. Y.
A. IL SAWYER, President
W. H. STEV
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The amount of its
The amount of its
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The Assets of the Compasy are as tollows:
Cash on hand and in the hands of
agents and other person SlS9.2n.7T
R.al .slate unincumbered N,S76.US
Rouds owned by the company,
bearing interest at the rate of
various per cent., secured as fol
lows: State and municipal bond KW.4fn0
Railroad t-" ani b .nds S99.99U j0
Other stocks and bonds 450.114
Loans on bonds and mortgages of
real t state, worth double the
amount for which the same la
mortgaged, and free from any
prior incumbrance E73JM.78
Debts otherwise secured 443.211 44
I lebts for premiums 10.SS9.4S
All other securities 90 74. 4S
Total assets S2.617.75.
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Losses adjusted and due SH.SS4 42
I . , ij it, f1 and not du .... Iaj071 ;
Losses unadjusted &.ft4.k4
Losses In suspense, waiting for
further proof
All other Claims against the enm-
pauy SI
Amount n - !' to reinsure out
standing risks 1.297.432 54
Total liabilities SI. 404. 19 17
The greatest amount In auy one
risk
State of Indiana. Office of Auditor of Stats.
1, the undersigned, auditor of state of the
State of Indiana, hereby certify that the
above is a correct copy of the statement of
the condition of the above-mentioned coas
pany on the Slst day si December. 1948. as
shown by the original statement, and that
the said original statement Is now ou hb ta
this offV
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1944
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