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PAGE SIX TUG XXICmXiDAD FAIiLADIUXX AND BUN-TELEGRAM. SATURDAY, MAY 27, 1911. d. Ft at pi! ca I LIES AUS TIN SUIT FOR SLANDER Two of Wallingford's Replies Held Not Sufficient for i. a Defense. That he had denounced Dr. Arthur H. Jones, the Whitewater physician, pharmacist and general storekeeper as a saloon keeper and a malpraction er because In the first place he had drank Intoxicating liquors as a bever age and not for medicinal purposes In the plaintiff's place of business and further that Dr. Jones had admitted to him three acts of malpractice, was the answer of Manford D. Wallinsford, of Whitewater, to the suit of the physi cian. In which the latter demands $5,000 damages for slander. The answers of the defendant were filed In three paragraphs and the sec ond and third mere held not good by Judge Fox of the circuit court Satur day, In ruling on a demurrer to these answers. The attorney for Dr. Jones had pleaded the answers did not con stitute sufficient facts as a defense. The first answer of the defendant In which he admitted making the charges was held good. The defendant's at torney took exceptions to the court's sustaining the demurrer to the last two paragraphs. In January the Methodists of White water were holding a revival, but with out much success, when one evening. Walllngford at the meeting declared no revival could be a success In White water with Dr. Jones living In the town, so Dr. Jones charges, lie also alleges Walllngford then publicly ac cused him or being guilty of selling liquors In less quantities than five gal lons, and charged that he had been guilty of. malpractice. Not long after wards Dr. Jones Instituted suit In the circuit court for $5,000 damages for slander. The defendant is a well known man and owner of a fairly large farm. Walllngford In his answer as to his charge that Jone was a saloon keeper ays he made this charge because he, himself, had drank Intoxicating liquor upon Jones' premises, solely as a bev erage and In less quantities than five gallons. Ho claims that Dr. Jones told him he sold liquors for gain. Wal llngford also In his answer represent ed to the court that he had seen peo ple come out of Jones' place drunk and carrying packages of "wet" goods In less quantities than Ave gallons. Relative to his defense In calling Dr. Jonei a malpractioner Walllngford aya the physician told him he had committed such acts, and that Jones led him to believe that on three occa sions, which Walllngford In his an swer did not specify more minutely, the alleged acts were not necessary for the purpose of saving the lives of the women operated on. The case Is now ready for trial. It will probably be held this summer. TENNESSEE PARSON'S MARRIAGE RECORD Bristol. Tenn., May 27. "Out of two thousand young couples married by me without the consent of their par ents, so far as I have been able to trace, not more than five divorces have been sought. The percentage of divorces in parent-made matches Is much larger. If parents would be more considerate of the desires of the hearts of their children In so Important a matter we would have less of the now growing evil of divorce." Such Is the belief of the Rev. Alfred Harrison Burroughs, who has married more than five thousand runaway couplet In the last ten years. Ills fees In that time have amounted to $25,000. Tennessee's "marrying parson" holds the world's record, and hie business has Increased so rapidly of late that he has erected a handsome "Gretna Green hotel" the only one of Its kind In the world, designed especially for the use of bridal couples. Bristol Is the metropolis of eastern Tennessee and southwestern Virginia. The ho tel Is on both sides of the line that di vides the two states. It is said that the hotel has a Tennessee parlor and a Virginia parlor and that the cere mones take place In the one that most easily evades the law. MARRIED SO OFTEN FORGOT WIVES NAMES Kansas City, May 27. As a simple and mutually satisfactory way of ad Justing a legal contest for the posses sion of the children of Andrew L. LInd holm, they are for half the year to be with him and his fourth wife and the remainder of the year with Mrs. Llnd holm HI. their mother. The court ask ed both the boys, who are lese than ten years old, which parent they pre ferred, but the little fellows expressed no preference. One of the amusing Incidents of the hearing was Llndholm's statement ! that he could not remember the given j name of his first wife. They were married on brief acquaintanceship, he said, and divorced after a short time, to that the name slipped his mind. AT 79 PREFERS TO SUPPORT HERSELF Forest Grove, Ore., May 27. Mrs. Barah Crowther. of this eitv. who haa 1 Just celebrated her seventy-ninth birthday anniversary, has eight living children, two daughters and six sons, b'f and has ten grandsons living in this ( city. t ( Mrs. Crowther. who has been a wl 4 1 dow for ten yeara, spent her girlhood j In Westmoreland, England, where she 4 'i waa born, and then came to America, t , locating at New Orleans, where she I .lived three years. She then moved to ' St. Louis, and came to Forest Grove f with her husband and children twenty- one years ago She splits her own wood and la practically self-support- DIVORCER! . BRUTE Treatment Accorded Pearl Perry Revolting. After being subjected to one of the most Indecent cruelties imaginable. Pearl M. Perry was on Saturday di vorced by Judge H. C. Fox of the cir cuit court from Werden E. Perry, a degenerate, sought by the police on a chsirge or assauit and battery, but nowia fugitive fmm Justice. Hi3 cruel ties which came to the attention of the authorities in February were not brought out in detail in the circuit court, and the divorce was perhaps was one of the easiest obtained of any in iteveral months. All the court requJred was to prove that the com plainant was the snie woman who was iiranecutlni; witness in the police court case, he lwving been familiar with the revolting details of that case. In addition to the. divorce decree, the woman was given custody of the min or chlldra-n. Perry, who until the time he took French leave and skipped his bond, was a resident of the river bottoms. He turned the4 hounds on his wife fre quently after she had retired and forced her tomcct other men. SPEECH RESTORED BY SUGGESTION Los Angeles. May 27. After two years of silence Charles Fischel, twenty-three years old, is able to speak again In English and German. The cure is credited to mental suggestion by Drs. Hart nnd Hubbell. "Two years ago Fischel was struck on "the head wfth a club in a fight and thrown over a Tailing." said Dr. Hart. "He was llteraJIy scared speechless. His condition was that of hysterical aphonia and the cure was accomplish ed by physchotherapy or what is gen erally termed nwntal suggestion." Fischel, when' his silence was brok en, spoke fluently and seems entirely recovered. SAYS 4 YEAR OLD EGG IS STILL FRESH William8port, Pa., May 27. Harry Boms, of Hornell, N. Y., worked in a cold storage plant in this city four years back. One day he took an in delible pencil and wrote in small let ters his name, address and the year 19(7" on an egg. Bums has since returned to Horn ell to live. Thursday he went to mar ket and bought a doecn "strictly fresh" eggs and paid the extra price. Among them he discovered the identi cal egg "bearing his name, address and date of four years ago. The grocer says he "bought them for strictly t fresh eggs." Baseball Results National League. Won Lost Pet. New Ybrk 22 13 .629 Philadelphia 23 14 .621 Chicago.. 21 13 618 Pittsburg 20 15 .571 St. Louie 15 16 .484 Cincinnati 15 16 .484 Brooklyn 13 23 .361 Boston 9 28 .245 , American Leaguo Won Lost Pet. Detroit ,. 28 9 .757 Philadelphia 19 15 .559 New York) 18 15 .545 Boston . . . 18 16 .529 Chicago.. 16 16 .500 Cleveland 16 22' .427 Washington 12 22 .353 St. Louis .12 25 .324 American Association Won Lost Pet. Columbus 22 15 .595 Kansas City 22 15 .595 Minneapolis 23 20 .535 Milwaukee 21 20 .512 Louisville 19 21 .475 St. Paul 18 21 .462 Toledo 18 23 .439 Indianapolis 16 24 .400 RESULTS YESTERDAY. 'f National League. R. H. E. Cincinnati 4 8 2 Pittsburg 3 9 0 Smith and Clarke; Adams, Ferry and Gibson. R. H. E. Brooklyn 2 5 1 Boston -.. f 7 10 1 Barger and Ervln; Curtis and Graham. R. H. E. Philadelphia 3 6 4 New York 5 9 3 Burns. Alexander and Dooin; Ray mond. Mathewson and Meyers and Wilson. American League. No games played. American Association R. H. E. Minneapolis 5 10 3 Indianapolis 6 13 2 Esstck. Waddell and Owens; Linke and Walsh. R.H.E. Kansas City 6 6 1 Columbus ... 1 6 3 Maddox-and O'Connor; Leibhardt, Cooke and Bemis. R.H.E. Milwaukee , 1 5 3 Louisville 6 11 2 Nicholson and McGlynn and Mar shall; Cheney and Orendorf. " R.H.E. St. Paul .' 4 6 1 Toledo .. ................... 5 10 2 Steiger, Check and Spencer; Vie balm, Baskette and Brennen and Ad ams. Ten Innings, FIND DAZED YOUTH Oil TOP OF. A CAR Lad Had Severe Cut on Top of His Head His Com panion Is Missing. ! When Conductor Jones, of a Penn sylvania freight train bound into Rich mond, climbed on the top of one of bis cars near West Sonora, O.. about 25 miles east of Richmond on the Lit tle Miami division, last night, his foot slipped In a pool of blood, which seemed to be covering mucli of the top of te car. In the darkness he was just able to distinguish the vague form of a man staggering along at the other end of the car, swaying drunken ly first to one edge and then to the other as the train sped along. The manf clothe's were wet with blood, which was trickling from a jag ged cut on his head. When he was seized and forced to lie down, by the conductor, he lapsed into a semi-conscious condition and was dragged to the caboose, where there was a hasty examination. He gave his name as Ralph Fritz, 17 years old, of Dayton, O. Fritz is now at the Reid Memorial hospital. Hospital officials say he suffers from a severe scalp wound, but that he is not in a serious condi tion. Does Not Talk Much. Very little of his story would he re veal. He and a companion, who has disappeared, started from Dayton to Indianapolis, bummirfg their way on freight trains. Why they left home and the name of his companion Fritz did not reveal. After riding a short distance from Dayton, the boys climbed on top of the freight car, and from that time, until when he was found wandering aimlessly around on top of the mov ing car, by Conductor Jones, playing hide-and-seek with death, the boy's mind is a blank. Vaguely he remembers lying down with the other boy on top of the car. then a blood curdling scream, and a crash and then blackness. There is no hint of foul play. Fritz had some money and other articles of value but the boy had not been robbed and he said he trusted his companion, after long years of friendship. The blood on the freight car top.' it is believed is from the cut in Fritz's head. He, himself, remembers nothing of hav ing fallen or being struck. He is un injured excepting the head cut. He may have struck an overhead bridge. The authorities here are Inclined to believe that Fritz's companion fell to death between the freight cars, or that he was struck by an overhead bridge and that bis mangled body will be found later. Police authorities are expected to make an investigation of the mysteri ous affair. So far Fritz has declined to talk to anyone but the railroad phy sician. Dr. C. S. Marvel, and to him he has said only a few things. Whether the boy is withholding something, or whether his lapse of memory is un feigned the hospital authorities do not know. SPORTING GOSSIP - BASEBALL NOTES. Alva Williams, the new first base man of the Boston Red Sox, is bitting well over the .300 mark. The Rochester Eastern League team copped thirteen straight games, lost one, and then started another winning streak. . When the Cubs were in New York recently, Catcher Johhny Kling was touched by pickpockets for ninety good paper dollars. The western trip of the Athletics was a sad skirmish. What the "woolly boys" did to the champions was more than plenty. Arthur Irwin, a member of the old guard In the baseball world, is man aging the Highlanders in the absence of Hal Chase. Corhan is bis name, and he plays short for the Chicago White Sox. He is about as fine a performer as you ever trained your lamps on. Major league pitchers are being nicked to a fare-you-well this season. Thirty heavers were used by the big league clubs In one day recently. "Rajah" Bresnahan thinks his St Louis Cardinals will land in the first division. The "Cards" made a good showing during their Eastern trip. Are the umpires or the players los ing their goat? In the National Lea gue hardly a day passes, without soms sort of tangle between arbiters and players. As soon as they finish in the big show, Joe Cantillon grabs them for his Minneapolis club. "Schoolmaster" Leever, the former Pirate, has joined Joe's outfit. Sandy complexioned gentlemen must be the right number for a suc cessful manager. Close your eyes and guess the name of a Tiger leader, also a Quaker pilot. How can you beat the Tigers with a lively pitcher and a lively ball? A Joe Miller that has been sprung twenty-six hundred times this season, but is reprinted by request. Jimmy Callahan 13 playing gTeat ball for the White Sox. You have to think well of Jim when you consider that he pitched for "Pop" .Anson something like fourteen or forty-four years ago. Members of the Washington team claim that their hard luck dates from the day they encountered a cross eyed darky porter. He slapped the four-pronged X on the Nationals and the newspapers give you the answer every day. WITH THE BOXERS. The mayor of Indianapolis has put the crusher on the boxing tournament advertised for Decoration Day. Battling Nelson and Charles Neary both figure that they can come back and have signed to box in Milwaukee July 4. . " ' LATE MARKET HEWS NEW YORK STOCK QUO TATIONS - Furnished by A. W. Thomson Co.. Hittle Block. Phone 2709. Corre spondents, Logan and Bryan. New York, May 27 Open High Low Close Copper 67 67 U 67 67 Am Smelting SOU SOs SOVi 80 U S Steel ... 7Sfc- TSVa 78 Vi 78 U S Steel pfd 119 119 Pennsylvania 122 122 St Paul .... 123 122 123 1234 Mo Pac 50 50 50 50 N Y Central. 108 10S Reading 159 159 159 159 Canadian Pac 234 235 234 235 Gt Northen 129 129 129 129 Union Pacific 183 184 183 1S3 Northern Pac 128 128 128 128 Atchison 113 114 113 113 B R T 80 80 79 79 Southern Pac 11S 119 118 118 Am Can Com 12 12 12 12 Am Can Pfd. 88 SS 87 87 N. Y. BANK STATEMENT. (A. W. Thomson Co., Brokers.) , New York, May 27. MEMBERS OF CLEARING HOUSE. Reserves, inc. $ 672.400 Reserves less U. S. Dep. inc. 669.325 Loans, dec 228,00 Specie, inc 76,200 Legal Tenders, inc 93.300 Deposits, inc 1,588,400 Circulation, dec 186,000 ACTUAL CASH STATEMENT Reserves, dec 2,847,750 Reserves less U."S. Dep. dec 2,842.725 Loans, inc 1,529.600 Specie, dec 4,191,800 Legal Tenders, inc. 26S.700 Deposits, dec 301,400 Circulation, dec 179,000 NON-MEMBERS OF CLEARING HOUSE Loans, inc. 7,650,300 Specie, inc 2,016,300 Legal Tenders, dec 3,108,000 Deposits, inc .. S, 160,900 Required Reserve 28.36 vs. 28.20 Last Week. CHICAGO GRAIN. Furnished by A. W. Thomson Co., Hittle Block. Phone 2709. Corre spondents, Logan and Bryan. Chocago, May 27. -Wheat- Open High Low Close May 994 99 99 99 July 89V4 98 88 89Vfc Sept 88 88 87 88 ft Corn Open High Low Close May 54 ft 54 54 54 July 54 54H 53 53 Sept 54 ft 54 54 54 ft - Oats Open High Low Closo May 35 36 35 35 July 35 36 35 35 Sept 35 36 35 35 Liverpool Cables, Close: Wheat un changed ft up; Corn -ft up. INDIANAPOLIS LIVE STOCK Indianapolis, May 27. Hogs Receipts 400; tops $6.30. Cattle Receipts 400; best steers $6.00 Calves $7.00. Sheep Receipts 100; clipped $3.75. Spring lambs 603$1.00 lower. CHICAGO LIVESTOCK Chicago, May 27. Hogs Receipts 6,000; bulk $5.95 6.10. $6.40. Cattle Receipts 200; beeves $5.15 Sheep Receipts 11,00; prime $4.90. Lambs $7.20. PITTSBURG LIVESTOCK Pittsburg, May 27. Cattle Receipts light; market steady, choice $6.25; good $6.10; butchers $4.5005.85. Calves $7.50. Sheep Supply fair; 10c lower; prime $4.254.40. Lambs $7.25; springers $8.00 down. Hogs Receipts 15 loads; 5c higher; prime heavies and mixed $6.10 6.30; yorkers and pigs $6.45 6.50. CINCINNATI LIVESTOCK Cincinnati, May 27. Cattle Receipts 300; tops $5.83. Hogs Receipts 1,000; 10c15c high er; tops $5.95. Sheep Receipts 1,900; steady. Lambs strong at $o.60. Calves $7.25. E. BUFFALO LIVESTOCK East Buffalo, May 27. Cattle Receipts 25; trade light; prime steers ..6.256.40; butchers $3.00 6.00. Hogs Receipts 2,500; firm; 5c high er; yorkers and pigs ;. 6.50 6.55; heavy and mixed $6.35 6.50. Calves Receipts 150; choice $6.00. Sheep Receipts 4,000; market slow; primes $4.50. . Lambs $7.007JJ5. INDIANAPOLIS GRAIN Indianapolis, May 27. Wheat 87c Corn ..54c Oats 36c Clover seed $9.65 CHICAGO GRAIN Chicago. May 27 Wheat .98ic Corn ...;..54fte Oats ...34c MARSHALL'S BOOM : CAUSING BIG ROW Moss' Plan to Have Meeting to Indorse Governor Being Opposed. , (National News Association) Washington, May 27. An effort Is to be made by some Indiana Demo crats to call off the meeting engineer ed by Representative Moss of the Fifth district with the view of indors ing Marshall for presidenj. The sug gestion for the meeting is said to have originated with John E. Lamb. Moss presented the matter to Sena tor Kern before he left for Virginia Thursday. Kern agreed to call a meet ing whenever the delegation desired it and Moss gave it out that it would be held June 2. But there is a big roar going up from other Indiana Democrats and es pecially is this true of Kern's friends, who say that it is aimed to rebuke promoters of Kern's presidential boom. Kern has declared that he is not a candidate. To demand a formal com mitment of the entire delegation to Marshall strikes Kern's friends as im puting lack of good faith to Kern's professed loyalty to Indiana's gover nor. Marshall's friends are said to be working to secure for him the sec ond place on the ticket with Wood row Wilson. They could deliver the delegation to Wilson in return for the second place. This is not pleasing to some Indiana men. So much complaint is heard of the Moss meeting that it is believed he will abandon it. MOSQUITO SEASON APPROACHES FAST Richmond People Can Ex terminate Pests by Using Proper Methods. There is one little insect that almost spoils the pleasure of the summer months. Have you ever heard of the mosquito? This little pest causes more worry and bother during the summer months, when no one wants to be worried or bothered, than any, other in the world. Especially is this true in cities located along some river, like Richmond for instance along the Whitewater river. , There are many kinds of mosquitos, the most common in this state being the carrier of malarial fever germs. This is what the residents of this coun ty must fight against. The ideal method of exterminating mosquitos is to do away absolutely with all possible breeding places, that is, with standing water, whether in ponds, ditches or puddles, or in old tin cans, pails, rain barrels, broken bottles, etc., about one's own premises. Drainig or filling in of all standing pools and ditches of water and seeing that there are no water-containing receptacles around are therefore the best and most satisfactory way of doing away with the mosquito nui sance. At best, however, the filling up or draining of all ponds or ditches will take a long time, and meanwhile mos quitoes will breed by the millions. There is fortunately another means of getting more immediate, even though not premanent relief. The pouring of kerosene oil on the water is very satisfactory for it forms a thin film over the surface and the young mosquitoes cannot stick their breath ing tubes through this film to get air. Being unable to breathe they soon die. One quart of kerosene oil is sufficient to form a film over a pool twenty fee in diameter, over as large a part of the pool as can be reached. The only radical way of dealing with the mosquito and malaria prob lem is along the lines above laid down, that is by preventing mosquito breeding. If, however, the above measures have not been carried out the mosquitoes are not already pres ent, something can still be done, at least to make life indoors more bear able and to lessen the danger of con tracting malaria. By screening all windows and out side doors of the house not only will mosquitoes be kept out but also flies, and these latter, while not capable of carrying malaria are believed to be re sponsible for a considerable propor tion of all cases of a much more ser ious disease typhoid fever. If you cannot afford screens for the entire house, at least screens for the bed rooms, and if this is impossible, mos quito nets over the beds are better than nothing. Perhaps the best practical method of freeing a room of mosquitoes is by closing it tight and burning pyrethae powder, which is simply the best grade of so-called "insect powder." This smoke is not poisonous to the human subject, though it is not ad visable to breathe it unnecessarily. It must be remembered that this method does not kill the mosquito outright but merely stupiftes them. After the powder has been burned out, the room should be entered within a short time and mosquitoes swept up and burned before they recover conscious ness. SCHNEIDER CHILD DIES OF INJURIES After twenty-four hours of intense agony Katherine Schneider, three years old. the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Schneider, of Indianapolis, which was hit by a taxicab Thursday night, died at eleven o'clock last night. The body will b? brought to Richmond tonight, and taken to the home of Mrs. Schneiders mother, on North Eight, street. " $.15 GREWT0 $50 A Hammond Youth Makes Profitable Trades. Hammond, Ind., May 27. Once more Hammond has come into the lime light as the home of an up to date "David Harum" who could have given the David of story book fame a few pointers on trading. Frank Coorse is the new "Harum" and when he had - finished his day's work he had succeeded in raising $50 wlth-a nominal expenditure of 15 cents. Horses, harness, wagons, wheels, buggies and watches were a few of the things that rapidly changed hands in Coorse's deals. The trading started fhen Frank Nel son, president of the Lowell bank, made Coorse a present of an old sil ver watch. It wouldn't run, so Coorse paid fifteen cents in real money to have it fixed. Then he sold it for $2. With this money he purchased a sick and decrepit looking horse from a farmer. He traded the horse tor an old buggy and two wheels. An hour later he traded the two wheels tor the body of a road cart, and taking off the bufcgy wheels he placed them under the road cart. He traded the body of the buggy for a set of har ness. Then taking the whole outfit to another farmer he traded it for a likely looking broncho. While driving home the animal ran away and Coorse discovered it was blind. In the course of the runaway the broncho upset a buggy in which a young farmer was driving. ; "That's a lively animal you've got," said the farmer. V "Nothing to it," replied Coorse, rub bing his shin, "nothing in the county can touch him." "Sell him?" queried the farmer. "Well, I might let him go for $50 if I was sure he would be well treated. You see, he's a great pet; I raised him from a colt. It's pretty hard to part with him, but I might take $50," and Coorse wiped his eyes as the rur al purchaser counted out five $10 bills. "Wall street hasn't anything on the trading game," said Coorse to Mr. Nel son last night. FELL MINESTORIES Iron Worker Lost Balance, Pulled Inspector Along Washington, D. c, May 27. Barney Coughlin, one of the iron workers who risk their lives daily, while trotting around on narrow beams high in the air, took one risk too many and plung ed to his death through nine stories of iron network on the new Wood ward building, Fifteenth and H streets. As he turned over and over in the fall he struck A. B. Gait, a steel inspector, and the two fell together for the. re- maining five stories While Coughlin was crushed and bruised so that scarcely a single bone remained un broken, Gait has but a scalp wound, some scratches and a possible frac ture of a bone in the left leg. Gait, the target of a human mis sile, who plunged from a height which would seem to mean instant death, will no doubt be out of bed within a few days. . Iron workers have steel nerves, but the scream from Coughlin's throat, as the man felt himself gone forever, made every hammer stop in its tap ping and the quick clutch of "heart in the throat" seized every man in the building. It was a scream that fright end their very souls and turned their strength into childish fears. Sixty five men were working there and the entire force quit work because of that terrible scream. There were men who saw every inch of the fall. They happened to be looking upward from the minute the board upon which Coughlin was stand ing gave way. They saw the man plunge and heard the scream which will perhaps stay In their ears forever. They say that Coughlin reached out to clutch at everything and in reach ing he turned over and over. VETERANS OP '98 TO HAVE EXERCISES Besides asisting the Sons of Veter ans and other patriotic organizations of the city in arranging for the gen eral celebraticn cf Memorial Day, the Spanish American War veterans will have exercises of their own. They will assemble, in the camp room at 8:30 o'clock and proceed to Earlham cemetery. There they will decorate the graves of dead veterans, and at 10:30 o'clock will hold Memorial ser vices in section six. A salute will be fired over the graves at the close of the services. Members of the Auxil iary will assist in the decoration of the graves. WAUGH ANNOUNCES HIS APPOINTMENTS Indianapolis, May 27. Grand Army commander Waugh announced his ap pointments for the ensuing year to be John R. Fesler: Indianapolis, assist ant adjt. commander general and as sistant quartermaster general, and Webster Ray of Madison, department inspector. IFIREE TCZSDT IFUSE ROAST PIG LUNCH SATURDAY NIGHT. BASEBALL SCORES RECEIVED BY SPECIAL WIRE. WE HAVE REMODELED AT S12 MAIN STREET. AIL.IL. EI VHTTEE5 512 MAIN 512 MAIN FESTIVAL CLOSES f k WITH All OVATIOII Prof. Earhart and Musicians Applauded Finances Not Reported. $ With the redition of Vertli'e Re quiem by the jdult chorus of 250 voices, soloists and Richmond Sym phony orchestra at the Coliseum last evening the fifth May Musical Festival came to a brilliant conclusion., From a musical standpoint it was an. unquali fied success. As an amlstic accom plishment it ranks along; with, the fes tivals which have preceded it, and perhaps a little higher, for it came : nearer being an entirely. Richmond af fair than ever before. The worth and characterot the of-. fering last evening was evidenced by the continued applause of the musical enthusiasts which reverberated throughout the Coliseum when the concert had come to a close. The au dience lingered for many minutes, ap parently unwilling to go, calling upon Prof. Earhart and the soloists for re peated bows. A Splendid Chorus. - The chorus had been drilled' through the untiring efforts of Pnot. Earhart . , 1 . . . . . . . r suit was nignly pleasing. It wa concert that would be a gnea. a city many times larger tV mond and it did much topeTJr Richmond's reputation as amufc cen ter. -. . v ' . The work of the soloists rin connec tion with the chorus waa ; also very pleasing and well received. This was especially true of Jessie Lynde Hop kins, contralto, and Prof. Aurele Bor riss, head of the music department of Earlham college. The other solo ists were Mrs. Luella Chllson-Ohrman, soprano, and John Miller, tenor, both of whom have well cultivated voices and showed appreciative understand ing of Verdi's great work. The splendid performance of the Richmond Symphony oachestra waa particularly brought out at the con cert yesterday afternoon when much of the program consisted of orchestral numbers. Here again waa the extraor dinary ability of Prof. Will Earhart, the moving spirit of the fesUval raani- ' fested, and the excellent playing of this body of Richmond musicians was another tribute to him. The work of the orchestra was one of the most Im portant features of the festival, and its great succes was well merited. A Great Pianist The playing of Leon Sampaiz. the Belgian pianist, at the .concert yester day afternoon was well' received, j Owing to the fact that many mem bers of the orchestra and choruses and school children, with whom tickets were placed for distribution, have not repdVted the members of the Com mercial club committee, -which backed the festival, are unable to give the ' receips and estimated attendance fig ures: It is certain however, that the receipts this year will fall short of those or previous fesUvals. . This waa indicated ; by the smaller audiences. While the attendance waa not as large a3 was expected and consequenUy '' somewhat disappointing, the attend ance was considered fair and showed that Richmond music lovers and atu dents appreciated the value of : the event. It was stated by members of the Commercial club committee today that although there wll be no surplus. It is certain that the receipts will cover ' all expenses and leave no deficit. Last year there was a surplus of about $300 which was turned into a special May Festival fund to perpetuate the event, and in case there should be any mo ney resulting this year after all bills have been paid it will be added to this fund. At the same time that great credit is being given Prof. Earhart and mem bers of the chorus and orchestra for the success of the festival, the Com mercial club, and particularly the ex- ecutive committee . comes in for lta -A share of the praise. JUDGE WIGGS PLACE THREATENED BY FIRE Sparks from a locomotive started a roof fire at the old Judge Wiggs home- : stead, between Fifteenth and Six- teenth street on the Pennsylvania J railroad, about noon today. The dam-, age was slight. CASE DISMISSED The police court against Mrs. Mar cus Roberts, charging her with assault and battery on Beatrice Redmond, was dismissed this 'morning, on a motion of Prosecutor C. E. Ladd. He said on investigating the case it was found that the Redmond woman had been "bothering around Mrs. Roberta s husband. A LODGE EVENT The degree staff of the Hokendau qua lodge of Red Men will on Tues day go to Indianapolis on a pleasure trip. At the meeting of the tribe on Friday evening officers were nominate ed to serve the ensuing six months. The election will take place at the next regular meeting.