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The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-09-26
REFUSED
COUNCIL MINUTES
Tax Ferret Can't Get Needed
Evidence and His Case Is
Postponed.
SHREWD MOVE BY STUDY
CITY ATTORNEY REQUESTS CITY
CLERK TAGGART TO GIVE NO
RECORDS TO THE ATTORNEYS
FIGHTING CASE.

The Clifford case which was to
have been opened yesterday at Green
field was postponed on motion OF
Clifford's attorneys, who were not
which is in the hands of City Clerk
Taggart, who withholds it at the re-
quest of City Attorney Study. The
case will come up October 25th.
Sometime ago Clifford brought suit
against the City of Richmond to re-
cover about $11 900 which he claims
as his share and commission for SER
vices rendered by him as tax ferret.
Attorney Sylvester Meek, of Corners
vile, attorney for Clifford, stated yes
terday afternoon that he knew where
about $4,000 more could be raked up
out of the City and county books in
to a claim, and that when the city
is through with this case, they may
be confronted with another of the
same character.
The case yesterday was postponed
because City Attorney Thomas :
Study informed City Clerk Taggart
not to allow the opposition Nwyers
access to his minutes of Council pro-
ceedings, relative To the case.
Attorney Meek and Mr.. Clifford
sought the aid of Judge Fox yester-
day in gaining possession of the
council minutes, but the court re-
fused to lend any aid. Attorneys
Shively and Shively have been engag-
ed by Clifford to assist Attorney
Meek, in getting the needed records
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-09-26
co TO LEAGUE MEETING.
BEAR THEIR OWN EXPENSE
Councilman EnsIebert and Ex-Ccun-
Gilman kennepohl will Attend Ses-
sions of National Municipal League
at Chicago.

Henry Englebert. councilman al
large, and B. A Kennepohl, ex-coun-
Gilman will attend the convention OF
the National Municipal League at
Chicago Sept. 2629.
Mr.. Englebert left yesterday morn
ing for the Windy City, while Mr.
Kennepohl, who was detained, cn ac-
count of being a witness in the case
of Clifford VS.. .the city of Richmond,
at Greenfield, leaves this morning At
the last regular meeting of Council
money was not voted for the expen-
ses of a committee, to represent the
city at the League, so the two men
will bear the expenses themselves.
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-09-26
CITY COUNCIL WILL ACT
ABOUT NUMBERING HOUSES
System or ANY Number Will do,"
Which Now Exists in Fairview Will
be Corrected-.A An Ordinance to be
Brought Up.

month or so there will be an ordin-
ance introduced into Council which
will provide for the proper number
ing of the houses and lots in Fair
view. There has been a great deal
of trouble in finding where any per
son lived, through the fact that one
house may be numbered 1929, while
the one next TO it is 129. No order
has been observed by the property
owners in this respect
Several months ago City Engineer
Charles mapped out that district of
the city, and numbered each house
and lot. The numbers are still in
the Engineers Office and only a few
OF them have been taken out.
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-09-26
HEAVIER ENGINES NEEDED
6. r. & ]. Trains Unable to Keep on
Schedule Time Because Loco
motives Are Too Small.

The G. X. & | train from the north
yesterday afternoon was late one hour
and thirty-five minutes. The en-
gines which the company is using on
the southern division of the road are
entirely too small TO pull the long
trains on schedule time and the sane
train has been all the way from fif-
teen minutes TO two hours late every
day 1t is thought that larger en-
gines will be placed on the southern
division of the road to accommodate
the heavy traffic
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-09-26
Engineer Mead Here.

c. E. Mead OF Dayton, consulting
engineer for the city, was in the city
yesterday lending his professional SER
vices TO the supervision of the pre-
Iiminary work Of re-equipping the city
light plant Mr.. Mead and the Board
of Public Works made an inspection
Of the plant yesterday afternoon. ).
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-09-26
Secretary Taft Sends Word
that Efforts at Peace Have
Failed and President Takes
the Next Possible Step.
TROOPS TO REACH THE
ISLAND BY NEXT SUNDAY
Machinery Arranged Weeks
Ago for the Crisis Which
Has Come Has Been Put in
Active Motion.

Oyster Bay, NJ. ", Sept. 2o.-
Advices received by President
Roosevelt from Secretary cf War
Taft at Havana tonight indicate
that peace negotiations have fail
ed and American Intervention is
Inevitable. Although the presi
dent is very reluctant indeed to
admit the failure of his envoys.
official announcement was made
at the executive office tonight
that preparations were being
pushed with all possible haste for
the mobilization of troops for Gu
ban INVASION.
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-09-26
Were Inspecting Line.

The chief clerks and the head off
cials of the Cincinnati division of the
Pennsylvania system were in this
city yesterday. They came on an in
spection trip from Cincinnati and left
late yesterday evening for Columbus
o., from which place they will return
10 Cincinnati. There were about
twenty-five officials in the party.
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-09-26
SITE is DECIDED UPON
Pan Handle Light Plant in Richmond
Is to Be Erected Near tho
Present Shops.

The plans for the erection of the
Pennsylvania light plant in this city
are well under way, and it will be only
a course of a few months until the
plant is completed.
Supt. Nef OF the Richmond division
stated yesterday that the plant would
be erected near the present shops and
would be run in conjunction with
them
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-09-26
On Fishing Trip.

B. F. Harris. W. s. Kaufman, DR..
c. S. Wilson and DR.. NJ F. Johnston
have gone to Tippecanoe Lake for .
weeks fishing.
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-09-26
To Be Piano Teacher.

Milton, Ind, Sept. %. (Spl)-Miss
Carrie Michael has accepted a posi-
ton as teacher of piano in a college
for girls at Thomasville. Georgia.
She will leave in few days to take
up the work
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-09-26
THE WEATHER PROPHET.

INDIANA-Fair in north, rain in
south portion Wednesday, Thurs
day fair; fresh south winds.
OHIO-Fair Wednesday and Thurs
day, except rain in southwest por-
ticn; fresh eouth winds.
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-09-26
ermon Of Robt. Douglas.

Addresses were made to the Meet
ing by different members OF the
church, perhaps the most significant
of which was that of the Rev. Robert
Douglas, of Versailles, Ohio. The
fContinued to Page Eignt.)
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-06-01

I Journalists, sporty kings and other
more or less disappointing male bipeds
| it is genuine pleasure to write of
| such a character as Miss Tarbell. She
is like cool oasis in q desert of mas
culinity.
Chief Woman Historian.
Miss Tarbell in addition to being the
| champion eXposer of Standard Oil is
the chief woman historian not only o.
the present day, but of all days. In
fact. she is practically the only one.
Women often have made history. but
seldom have written it. Miss Tarbell
not only writes it, but writes 1t well.
She Is accurate and judicial, yet al
ways interesting. She is exhaustive in
gathering her facts, knows how to
choose the salient ones, how to ar
range them effectively and how to tell
them in simple yet attractive man
ner. Her Life OF Lincoln is a mas
terpiece. Many consider il the most
readable biography Of the martyr pres
ident. Her Napoleon threw n new
light on that dazzling figure. her
Nine. Roland" and Nine. de Stael"
bring these two great women of the
French revolution nearer to US. Miss
Tarbell makes her characters human
and living. There Is nothing highfalut-
ing about her style. She does not write
for effect. She tells facts. facts, facts
but does it directly and charmingly.
Her powers of analysis, of generaliZa-
tion and Of reaching just conclusions
are admirable. She keeps her personal
ity out of her work. looks at things with
broad and temperate view, has no pri-
fair, yet she concealS none of the sto-
~. In other words. she is n historian
or perhaps you prefer AN historian.
If you are purist-who has the histor-
zeal method. She Is a judge on the
bench reviewing the evidence that she
herself brings. Though woman. she
is impersonal. For all that she is es-
things. speaks in low. we'll modulat-
ed voice. enjoys spending her evenings
n the theater reads novels and poetry.
is fond of music and flowers and.
greatest test OF all. just dotes on cats.
Yet this very woman once contem-
plated devoting her life to microscopic
work Later she spent three years in
Paris studying historical methods. still
later she devoted as long a time to
delving into court records and legisla-
tive Investigations of a great indus
trial corporation. More wonderful still.
she enjoyed this work, mastered 1t as
few men have done and presented it's
results to the world in a manner that
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-06-01
PAGES 9 TO Is.


against the trust. For the most part
she depended on the sworn statements
OF the fflcials OF the company them
selves This investigation was labori-
Gus and led her into many different
states, but the work was done thor
oughly She determined at the iDcep-
ton that the work must be without
bias and that both sides of the story
must be told. She found the architect
OF the Standard and the key to all It's
policies in John II. Rockefeller, and
taking Emerson's motto that IAN In
stitution is but the heightened shadow
Of man" she interpreted the trust
through this man, who was its center
and brain. The upshot OF her whole
investiga ton showed that the Stand
ard OIL had been built up. as has so
many OF the other monOpolies, through
the railroad rebate: that back OF this
monopoly, great and oppressive as II
is, stands IL greater and more op-
pressive one, that Of special privilege
IN transportation.
The threatened reorganization Of Nc
McClure's will take out OF the staff
three OF its best known members, Miss
Tarbell. Lincoln Steffens and Ray
Stsnnard Baker. 1t is practically as
sured that they Will start new maya.
zine. ]. \. EDGERTON.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-06-01

me tnIngs about her. She speaks we'll
from the platform. OH which she has
appeared frequently of late years. In
private conversation, while she is sim
pie and frank, she yet knows how TO
refrain from saying too much. She has
the gift OF silence and the faculty of
precise statement. She is not one who
would be easily trapped. She is wise
in her simplicity, strong in her recti-
tude and fortified by her knowledge.
Miss Tarbell was born in 1891 in
Erie county. Pa. Her father soon
moved to Titusville. i'll the middle of
the oil field. where he was an independ
cnt producer. Her brother is still i'll
the same business. Here the girl had
an opportunity to observe the evolution
Of the industry OF which she afterward
became the foremost historian. She
was educated in the public schools,
graduated from the high school and
afterward from IA cOeducatioEal col
lege at Meadville. she then became
teacher I'm Il seminary for two years.
after which her parents induced her to
return home. 1t was at this time that
she contemplated devoting her life to
studies with the microscope. This pur-
pose was changed by an offer of an
editorship OH the Chautauquan Maya
zine. then Il small publication at Mead
vile. She remained with it for eight
years, eventually becoming managing
editor.
One of Miss Tarbelrs duties ON the
Chautauquan was to write character
sketches and historical studies. She
was always deeply interested in the
woman's movement and especially in
the part played by great souled women
IN crucial epochS of the past. This led
her to take up the women of the
French revolution. her first essay be-
ing on Nine. de Stael. She next took
up study of Mime. Roland. BY this
time she was so deeply interested in
the subject and in the French histor-
zeal method that she determined to go
to Paris with a definite purpose in view.
The purpose was nothing less than to
learn the French way of handling the
philosophy of history with the inten-
ton of introducing it in America. Peo-
pie do not deserve big successes who
cannot dream big dreams. To have an
ideal. n definite plan and work TO it
constitute the only road TO the heights.
1t may require sacrifice and may end
in failure still it is worth while. 1t
need not end in failure if the plan is
sufficiently well thought out and If the
requisite determination and ability are
put behind il. Miss Tarbell had thor
ou@hly matnred her plan and had the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-06-01

will and capacity to put ii into eXecu-
ton Thus fortified for the race she
could not fail 10 reach the goal.
Her First Big Success.
In Paris she remained three years,
attending lectures. ransacking the
great library and learning how 10 dig
out facts and To present them. TO pay
her way she contributed articles To the
American newspapers and magazines.
One of these articles fell under the eye
of S. $. Mcclure and induced him 10
ask the author to join the staff Of the
magazine he was then starting. He
called on Miss Tarbell in Paris and
asked her TO gather some anecdotes OF
Napoleon. She was the more ready TO
do this as she was just finishing her
story of Nine. Roland, and all her
studies of the French revolution seem
ed TO lead her toward the great CoTsi-
can Later Mr.. Mcclure wired her to
write life of the French emperor. tell
ing her that the first inStallment must
be in the next month. The audacity of
the thing appealed 10 the resolute wo
man, ANA she agreed to do it. That
short life of Napoleon was her first big
success.
At this time she returned to America.
Afterward she took up the early life of
Lincoln. which she supplemented by a
complete biography of the great eman-
cipator In this work her new hiStOr
zeal method began TO tell. She commu-
nicated personally or by letter with al
most every man and woman who had
known Lincoln and thus gathered
much new and interesting material.
That work established Miss Tarbell's
fame.
The manner of taking up the Stand
ard Oil history has been told by her
self At an editorial council OF the
magazine the best method of handling
the trust question was discussed. Miss
Tarbell suggested the giving of some
concrete example such as the Stand
ard. concerning which there was so
much material available. Her idea
was finally adopted. and she herself
was deputed 10 write the history. She
was already somewhat familiar with
the great trust from her girlhood in
the oil regions and from the further
fact that very early in her life she
had written n novel woven about
Rockefeller and his methods. which
she concluded was too crude for pub
llcation.
A LabOriOus Task.
She went about her great task by in
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-06-01

"HE Garfield report and the presi
dents special message on Stand
ard Oil have got the octopus go
ing again. The only trouble
with all these exposures is that while
they make the monster with the over
production of legs lose sleep they do
not cause 1t to lose dollars, and that
is the only sort of loss for which 1t
really cares. 1t still has the same old
strangle hold on the race. and it will
take something more strenuous than
messages to make it let go.
IL the people really get stirred up
enough to go after the beast-if an oc-
topus can be called beast-they will
make an end of the creature. When
the brave knights of old went out to
STAY dragon they did not do it with
n dictionary and an inkstand, but
swathing their limbs with few hun
dred pounds of boiler plate. they took
lance. sword, a meat AK and some
other weapons and sailed forth 10 tear
up the earth in n ripping. roaring,
slashing dra gon fight
The Need of Deeds.
The pen may be mightier than the
sword, but the only way TO get thief
is TO go after him with gun and a
pair OF handouts. The great trust
fortress will never be knocked down
by publicity paper pellets. Might as
we'll attack Gibraltar with a popgun.
The campaign of exposure has its
place, but only in getting people nerved
UP to the pitch where they will do the
real work If we stop with words we
only succeed In narrowing I'D our own
feelings. Hard names never made a
brigand cease from being a robber. but
with such people the strong walls of a
Jail are a powerful argument for de-
cency. Organized selfishness will not
succumb to hot air. 1t is coming time
TO take tools adapted to the work in
hand. There is no call for going daffy
with theorizing and agonizing. when
all we need are a little honesty. cour-
age and common sense-yes, and
deeds. We certainly need deeds.
Yet the Investigations and preach
meltS are necessary preludes All
praise to them. and while exalting the
utterances OF the chief magistrate and
his commissioner of corporations let us
not forget one who preceded both of
them in the work of exposing Standard
Oil and who wrought more nightly to
that end than any other single agency.
That this one is woman entities her
TO all the more honor. Her name Is Ida
NJ Tarbell. After long months spent
with high financiers. politicians. yellow
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-06-01

appeals TO certain strain OF vanity.
She had task and did 1t for the task S
sake. did it thoroughly and well, as she
would have worked Il problem in
mathematics and let the results take
care of themselves. Maybe the word
task sounds too irksome, for she GER
tainly loves her work, and no work
that we love Is task. As final sum-
ming up of Miss Tarbelrs character.
there is nothing false in her. She is not
poseur. Possibly women do not pose
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-06-01
VIOLET RAY FOR INSANE.
Hospital superintendent Tells q
Success with the Treatment.

DIR. y. w. Taylor. superintendent Of
the Illinois Western Hospital For the
Insane. Is convinced that violet rays
are efficacious IN the treatment OF the
insane, says a Chicago dispatch.
Il have constructed house rooted
with violet col0red glass in which in
sane are placed TO get the sun baths
that filter through the tinted panes.'
he says. ~ have followed the expert
ment made by French and Danish sci
entlsts. The patients are placed IN
the Enclosure without clothing and III.
rect application made to the bare skin
from sunrise to sunset The rays are
especially good In insanity due 10 nerv-
GUS disorders. They have a soothing
and sedative effect. and a number OF
patients have passed from a violent
TO a passive stage. They are improv-
ing all the time
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-06-01

attracted the commentator or lawyers
and scholars and at the same time was
as enchanting as romance to the aver
age reading public. That is triumph.
1t is art that conceals the fact of its
being art.
The M" in Miss Tarbell's name
stands for Minerva, and Minerva, as
every one knows, is the goddess of wis
dom. Perhaps that accounts for il.
Loves Her Work
Miss Tarbell has no false humility
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-06-01

concerning her work ana is alike free
from the vanity that success sometimes
reveals Perhaps that sort of humil-
ity is only a form of suppressed vanity
and the absence of the one quality ac-
counts for the absence of the other.
She talks of her books and life with
open frankness, yet seems unconscious
of their fame. Probably her lack of
vanity accounts for that attitude also.
for the thought of fame as such only
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-06-01

is simple. straightforward. unaffected
and wholesome.
In appearance the historian of Stand
ard OIL Is striking-rather tall. dark of
complexion. with almost black hair
and blue gray eyes. She is not IL beau
ty i'll the ordinary sense of that term.
but gives rather the impression of
strength. poise and refinement The
air of culture Is one of the most nota-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-06-01

Steam Driven PIovs In Egypt.
Steam driven plows are now being
used in Egypt because OF the scarcity
OF cattle. formerly used as the motive
power.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-06-01
A LabOriOus Task.

She went about her great task by in
vestigating the testimony in cases tried
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-14
Development Of the Steam Turbine.

From the National REVIEW.
The steam turbine, in its modern form
at any rate and as invention of COM
mercial USE has history of scarcely more
than twenty years. Brief is that term
of years 1t has sufficed for the develop
ment OF this latest type of steam engine
out of the original ten-horsepower turbine
built in the year 1884 and now standing
in the South Kensington museum-!nto the
perfected machines more than a thousand
times as powerful, at present liz course of
manufacture for the mammoth Cunarders.
the Lusitania and Mauritania. These latest
highly developed engines 1t should be OBJ
served, are coupled to screw propeilers run
ming at less than 200 revolutions per min
ute, whereas the embryo 1884 turbine was
coupled to a dynamo running at 1900 rev.
olutons per minute. but the essential fea-
lures Of the one and the other are the
same. Hardly a better instance OF evolu-
ton In applied mechanics could be named.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-14

city which obtains I'm the retail stores"
said the proprietor OF a local factory en-
ploying about 100 hands. II have also had
an advertisement In The Star for the past
month for girls to work In my establish
ment, and 1 can give employment today to
a score, and later even more. and would be
very glad to get half that number right
away so that can go on filing my orders.
There are greater manufacturing and In
dustrial interests in this city than the aver
age citizen seems to comprehend and the
impression which has gotten abroad that
there are few OF these concerns here should
be corrected now. These interests, OF
course. appeal to a different class OF help
as make things for sale well sell
them. But the same rule as to the labor
market holds true with us as with the
others. This class of help may be found in
abundance in manufacturing centers. and
we wish that some of 1t could be detected
into WASHINGTON.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-08-19
Richmond va, August 70, 1906.
coming astonscd at older mans helpless al
appealing manner toward himself

coming the older mans helpless al
appealing himself What the snar1e?
he asked.
a don't know what he has given here Gordon replied
evasivey 81 will tell you what his name Isl
Suddenly the flung appeared
SHE clad black which had
effect sliding her when she moved She
kept clcing buttons which did
She brought together the black
reached for back Of her skirts, and
bonnet large face flushed She had been
strapping handsome she almost indie
How doyou Mrs socum Gordon said
James Gordon introduced him. Mrs Slocnm did bow,
her great chin upward then she spoke with really alarm
ferocty Where has what AZ want
know That's for not no
scrapn's Where has my boarders went Z, ##S
keen look into Gordon's face II
boardey IS, Mrs Socum,2 he said.