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The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1907-02-27
JUDGE AFTER THE SALOONS
Hancock County Court Gives Grand
Jury Special instructions Re-
garding Them.

Greenfield. Ind, Feb, 26-In his
instructions to the grand jury, Judge
Robert Mason ordered that a thor
ough inquiry be made relative to the
retail liquor traffic in this city and
other places in the county. The
court also gave specific instructions
concerning gambling and to the con-
duct of pool and billiard rooms IN
this city and at Fortville, and ordered
an investigation of the rumor that
Witnesses in the trial of Thomas Gar
dner had been tampered with.
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1907-02-27
GRAFTERS ARE NOT THERE
No Corruption Exists in Connection
with Constitutional Conven-
ton in Oklahoma.

Guthrie, Okla, Feb. 26.-No graft or
corruption does or has existed in con-
nection with the constitutional con-
vention- This was the report today
of the committee on rules, which has
been investigating all kinds of graf
charges. especially regarding local
county seats and boundaries. Acting
on the committee report, the conven-
ton Immediately fixed the Harpe1
county seat at Buffalo. where nothing
exists but a whearfield Il was
charged that forty per cent. interests
on Buffalo town site was given to ID
cate the county seat there.
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1907-02-27
INQUIRY INTO THE
AFFAIRS OF ALTON
Hartman TeStifieS at Great
Length Before Interstate
Commission.
QUESTIONED VERY CLOSELY
DECLINED TO TELL HOW MUCH
STOCK OF THE SANTA FE HE
HAD DISPOSED OF-TELLS HOW
FISH WAS FROZE OUT.

New York, Feb. 26.-Harriman was
| called to the stand again today in the
| Interstate Commerce Commission ex-
animation and went into detail as to
railroad absorbtions. Hartman said
that after purchasing the Chicago d
Alton he found on the books where
twelve million dollars of improve
ments had been paid for. out of the
earnings. This is known as the old
school and sound financiering. Harri-
man, however, belonged to the new
school, and when he found this,
thought this money belonged to the
stockholders in dividends, and being
the biggest stockholder. he issued
bonds, declared a dividend and dis
tributed this twelve millions.
Attorney Kellogg, after Hartman
had taken the stand this morning,
piled him with further questions
about the Chicago & Alton reorgani-
zation. About the only important
point brought out was that when
Hartman Identified a check for
100000 which he had received in ad-
dition to his profits as stockholder
for his personal services in putting
through the deal Later on Hartman
, admitted that he with Jacob Scisiff
James Stillman and George j. Gould
were sole owners of the Laclede Con-
struction Company, which in turn
owned the ST. Louis, Peoria & North
ern Railroad, which was solo to the
Chicago and Alton for s. 3,000,000. He
said he did not know how much this
railroad cost him in the beginning.
Kellogg then questioned the wit
ness about the effort of the Union
Pacific to get an interest in the Santa
Fe railroad This resulted in Harri-
man, III. ii. Rogers and II. c. Frick
buying about $4,000, 900 of Santa Fe
stock, after which Frici and Rogers
were elected to the Santa Fe board
of directors, while at the same time
they continued as Union Pacific direc-
tors. Asked if this was for the sake
of community of interests, Hartman
replied: Il never invented that
phrase and don't like it. l call it a
common interest Instead of destroy
ing each other l wanted the roads TO
work together peaceably to build up
their territory"
Hartman said that Fricl, aud Rog-
ers were the best directors the Santa
Fe had ever had. He admitted that
no Santa Fe men were put on the Un-
ion Pacific board in return for letting
the Union Pacific men on theirs. The
Union Pacific had directly purchased
$10,000,000 of Santa Fe stock. To
questions as to where the Union Pa
cific got this stock and whether Har-
riman sold any of his own stock 10
the Union Pacific, Hartman replied.
Il decline to answer"
MIR. Hartman told the story of the
deposition of President Fish from the
Illinois Central. which he said was
done by the board because of F'ish's
repeated use of the roads funds to pad
trust company statements and his dis
regard of the desires of the directors.
There was report current in the
court room this afternoon that Mr..
Fish asked to be called to reply to
Mr. Harrimans statement regarding
the Illinois Central incident, but Mr..
kellogg said he had no knowledge of
such a request.
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1907-02-27
Stricken with PARALYSIS.

While engaged in the discharge of
his duties as janitor of the Baxter
school at Randolph and West Third
streets yesterday afternoon Mr. Van
Harold residing at 1923 Sheridan
street was stricken with paralysis.
The ambulance was called and he
was removed TO his home. where he
received medical attention. 1t is
thought that he will recover. Mr..
Van Harold is man of middle age.
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1907-02-27
FISH TO GO ON STAND.
Will Refute Charges Made Against
Him by Hartman.

New York, Feb, 26.-Stuyvesant
Fish stated tonight that he would go
before the Interstate commerce COM
mission and tell his side of the story
concerning the charge which Z. E.
Hartman made against him at the
commissions hearing today. 1t is
feared in financial circles that Fish
may make some exposures which will
create a panic.
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1907-02-27
LEWIS AND HIS FATHER
PAY VISIT TO EARL HAM

Isaac Lewis. the student who was
suspended from Earlham a short time
ago was at the college yesterday Nitn
his father. in an effort to straighten
out his difficulties. According TO
President Kelly last night. Lewis VIII
not De admitted TO school again this
term although he may come i'll again
next term If he chooses This was
the condition on which he was sus-
Rended
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1907-02-27
SHAW HAS A GOOD JOB
WILL DRAW BIG SALARY
Is To Become Head Of New Carneqie
Company, and May Project Himself
Into the Presidential Race in Em-
pire State.

Des Moines. Ia, Feb. 26.-Secretary
Shaw, of the United States treasury,
will go TO New York as president of
the new Carne gle Trust company, with
p salary of 100000 and bonus of stock
in the company.
1t is assumed here that the move is
made so he may project himself as the
Empire state presidential candidate of
the Anti-Roosevelt interests.
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1907-02-27
LIMITING PAY OF OFFICERS
Bill Passed by Missouri Legislature
Fixing Remuneration of Officials
of Insurance Companies.

Jefferson City, Mo, Feb, 26.-Jhe
house today passed n senate bill pro-
hibliIS domestic insurance. con.pan-
les fiCm paying any oftice- more than
$4,000 per year. and prohibiting nor
resident companies from paying any
officer or person more than $5Ga31
FER year. The penalty is revocation
Of license TO do business in Missouri.
Tbs measure now coas to the COVER
nos for his signature.
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1907-02-27
NEW BUILDING is UNSAFE
Cornice on Third Story Of Marion
Club Building, at indianapolis
Fell Last Night.

Indianapolis, Ind, Feb. 26.-The
cornice on the third floor of the new
Marion club building on Meridian
street fell tonight and several people
passing on the street at the time. mar
rowly missed being killed. Experts
Immediately examined the building
and it is possible that the entire front
will be condemned. 1t is built OF
Bedford stone.
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1907-02-27
Heard Reviewers Report.

The board of reviewers appointed
to inspect the proposed new street
from the Boston pike to Liberty aven-
ue, sat as a court yesterday after
noon at the court house to hear the
remonstrances. There was a large
number of demonstrators and petit
TONERS present. The report of the
reviewers was filed with the county
auditor.
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1907-02-27
HIS BILL WOULD MAKE
MANY LEGAL HOLIDAYS

indianapolis, Feb. 26.-Representa-
tive Thornton has introduced a bill
which makes all Sundays. Fourth of
July, New Years, Christmas. Wash
ingtons birthday, Lincoln's birthday.
Memorial day, Labor day and Thanks
giving, legal holidays
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1907-02-27
THE WEATHER PROPHET.
INDIANA-Coide Wednesday.
OHIO-Ciearing and colder.
Legislature in Brief.
HOUSE.


Killed Daily bill to prohibit &
steam railroad from having station
within 500 feet of state house.
Concurred in committees report ap
proving report of department by
State Oil Inspector Conger.
Voted to memorialize congress ir
favor of popular election of United
States senator's.
Advanced Senator Cavin's bill tc
permit city councils to fix by ordin
ance prices of public utilities.
Killed bill for election of Indiana
polls school superintendents by popu
lar vote and for school board elected
by wards.
Bill introduced by Mr. White max.
ing it misdemeanor to spy on ones
neighbors.
SENATE.
Beardsley bill to permit sale by
druggists of bottled intoxicants in
quantities of one quart or more, re-
commended for passage. the majority
report of the public health committee
being concurred in by the senate af-
ter warm debate.
Bill permitting Incorporation OF
burial associations failed to pass by
lack of constitutional majority.
Defeated bill to permit towns to
construct sidewalks without comply
ing with letter of existing improve
ment laws.
Lieutenant Governor Miller com
pels senate to meet at night.
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1907-02-27
BAILEY COMPLETES
REPORT FOR YEAR
During the Past Year the Po-
lice Department Made a To-
tai of 632 Arrests.
81 DIFFERENT CHARGES
OF THE ENTIRE NUMBER, 224
WERE ARRESTED FOR DRUNK
AUGUST WAS THE MOST IUCRA-
TIVE MONTH.

Chief Jesse A. Bailey, of the police
department, completed his report for
the past year. last evening, and has
submitted it to President Merrill of
the board of public works. who is COM
piling the reports of the various de-
partments of the city government for
the purpose of having the most COM
prehensive and exhaustive annual city
port will probably be sent to the pub
fishers today or tomorrow.
Chief Bailey goes into the most mi
mute detail of the work of his depart
ment last year and it will prove to be
most interesting reading. Last year
the police department made total of
632 arrests, or an average of about
SO arrests each month, and a fraction
over one arrest per day. This record
shows the effectiveness of the Rich
mond police force, acknowledged the
best in the state.
August "Star" Month
According to the chiefs report, Au-
gust was the star month for arrests.
Thirty-two of the 224 arrests for
drunk were made during that month.
Seven of the "a arrests for petit lar
ceny, were also made in August. AS
a general thing most thieves confine
their operations to the winter
months, not in hot month like Au-
gust. Another popularity is discov-
l..
that five of the eight vagrants were ar
rested during the winter months. AS
rule, tramps generally fall into the
hands of the law when the weather is
warm enough to allow them to hike
along the highways. OF the 81 sa-
loonkeepers and bartenders arrested
during the past year, SO of this num-
ber were taken into custody during
the month of January. Sixteen ar
rests for assault and battery were
made in July. The 632 arrests made
last year were made on "a various
charges.
List for the Year.
The list of arrests for the past year
is as follows:
Assault -. D
Assault and battery -...... 81
Assault and battery with intent :. L
Associating ....-..- 10
Beating board bill -....... 49,. 4
Burglary
Carrying Concealed weapons ...... Il
Cruelty to animals .... ...... 2
Drawing dangerous weapons. 3
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-22
The PerfOrEnel'S at Work

duces only a fundamental tone and no
involuntary vibrations of the dia-
phragm are possible. Thence the in
ventor proceeded to elaborate his
system. After infinite labor and many
disappointments he evolved dynamo
for each elementary tone in the regis
ter About 200 dynamos were found
necessary. And then came the final OBJ
stacle, something that it required the
labor of five years to overcome. 1t
was to provide a method of combining
a number of different currents into a
single composite current so that the al
ternating impulses of one would not
nullify those of another.
Finally, however, after fourteen years
of patient research, DR.. Cahill perfect
ed the system which is in some respects
the most remarkable electrical achieve
ment of the age. 1t is theoretically
and in time will become SO practically
the only lnathematically perfect mu-
steal instrument, unlimited as to power
of expression and to its capacity for
transmission. The systems value to
musical art does not seem to depend
chiefly on the imitation of existing in
struments. That is point insisted on
with great emphasis by the inventor.
Although its power of reproducing the
tones of other instruments and of
transmitting them and combining them
gives it a great commercial value, it's
real supremacy exists in the fact that
it is capable of originating new tones.
those that have never been produced
by any existing instrument. 1t is alb
solutely a new creation, music set free
by electrical energy, an expansion of
tone quality that has never before been
revealed to human ears.
IFS Possibilities.
1t is not possible at this time to es-
innate the value of the new discovery
to musical art. The extraordinary pos
sibilities which it suggests are fairly
dazzling to the educated musician
Many of the worlds greatest artists
have looked into its operation with
awe and admiration. 1t has played to
audiences miles distant, and it's cur
rents have been transmitted through
the equivalent in resistance of 900 miles
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musical instrument of his dreams by a
series of exhaustive inquiries into the
principles which Regulate sound. He
became convinced that perfection would
never arrive until he could make him
self master of two requisites-f1rst, per-
feet tones in Which the vibrations
should be under control. and. second,
these tones to be controlled with
mathematical certainty by mechanical
means.
The established principles of physics
taught the patient investigator that
sound is merely Migratory movement
in the air and that it must be set in
motion by some vibrating substance
The telephone suggested to DR.. Cahill
a ready instance of the action of the
electric current on the diaphragm of the
receiver. and he finally came to the
conclusion that it was only necessary
for him to provide current that would
vibrate at the mathematically exact
rates that would produce the various
musical notes. That, of course, brought
him to the alternating dynamo or cleo
trio generator. He proceeded to con-
struct a series of dynamos, each sen
Grating a different rapidity of alterna-
tions. He found that in this way hum
dreds of tones would be available
DR.. Cahill succeeded also in establish
ing another vital fact-if these currents
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either by eXpelling air or by vibrating
some substance, and it followed that
the purity of the tones obtained by any
of these methods has depended entirely
on the skill of the one who evoked
them. In this new electric music the
quality of the tone is always the same.
To illustrate this perfect uniformity
of tone the teIharmonic reproduction of
the music of the French horn may be
used. The tone from this instrument
is exquisite when produced by an
artist, but the mechanical difficulties of
keeping the tone equal in quality are
we'll known to those who are familiar
with it. This is entirely obviated by
the new electric system. The tone is
always the same and may be prolonged
indefinitely. This is equally true of the
tone of the violin or cello or any other
musical sound that may be required.
1t is a storehouse of perfect tones
which are responsive to the slightest
touch. What is wrought with them de-
ponds on the skill of the musician who
essays to combine them. as-..f--. --.s
The Man Responsible.
The genius who has developed this
scheme of supplying the world with
music produced by electrical energy is
DR.. Thaddeus Cahill of Iowa In 1893
he began his search for the perfect
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NJ,
ANUI~A

could be transmitted by wire to re-
ceivers and diaphragms in the same
building with the dynamos they could
be transmitted wherever wires could be
run. Thus it would be possible to send
them to thousands of buildings in
scores of cities--in fact, wherever there
might be a demand. Having accom-
plished all this. DIR. Cahill began to
see his way more clearly He realized,
however. that much remained to be
done before any practical result was to
be expected. He had no inclination to
put his discovery before the public as a
new and wonderful electric toy. He
was convinced that he was on the right
track and that time and perseverance
would lead him to the perfection he
sought. 1t was not enough to have dis
covered the way to produce merely a
certain fixed quality of tone. All other
musical instruments do likewise The
thing to be accomplished was to be able
to produce on this single instrument
any timbre desired, the liquid sweet
ness of the flute, the vibrant trembIe of
the violin or the resonant blare of the
braSses.
A Problem Solved.
In time DR.. Cahill realized that his
system had solved this problem. A
single current from one dynamo pro-
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place on the rules committee. Even
tually he was elected chairman, and it
was then that he suggested the forna-
ton of state associations. Clubs were
springing up all over the country, and
the number was becoming legion. Since
each individual club was entitled to
send delegates to the national. associa-
ton conventions that body soon became
too crowded to conduct business. Mr..
Chadwick was responsible for the re-
striction of delegates to the state asso-
Citations, and the Improvement was
great and immediate.
Origin of Baseball.
AS may be imagined, Mr.. Chadwick
has some very definite ideas as to the
origin of the national game They are
at variance with the accepted theories.
but he continues to hold fast to his
original belief that the modern game of
baseball is the outcome of the old fash
toned English pastirne known as
FOUNDERS. So competent a baseball au-
thority as A. G. Spalding declares that
the game is of distinctly American ORR
gin, and he dates it's birth from the
organization of the original Knicker-
booker club in New York city, sept
%. 1S45. Mr.. Spalding also believes
that the colonial game of one old cat
was the basic idea.
According to Mr. Chadwick town
ball was the first step in the evolution
from FOUNDERS to baseball. Up to that
period no form of ball save lacrosse and
cricket had ever been played in the
country. Town ball became very popu-
lar, and it was played all over the
country until baseball began to assume
re-eminence. One old cat, Mr.. Chad
wick maintains, was not played at all
in those early days, but originated from
the preliminary practice with bat and
ball which took place every time
match game of baseball was on hand.
Although 1.-THE father of basebalP' is
an Englishman-he was born in Ex-
eter in 1924 and came to America when
he was three years of-age-he is in full
sympathy with the effort to make the
game as exclusively of American origin
as is possible. Since he cannot con-
vince himself that such is absolutely
the case he admits that it consoles him
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to know that it was suggested by 50
good an English sport as FOUNDERS.
A Remarkable Octogenarian.
More than octogenarian that he is.
Mr.. Chadwick is still engaged in active
work. Besides filling a position on the
editorial staff of a Brooklyn daily
newspaper and editing the baseball
guide which has borne his name for
more than a quarter of century ne IS
engaged continually in editing and
writing books on sports quite recent
ly he has compiled handbook on
chess. He still rises at 5 o'clock Win
ter and summer, takes his cold plunge
with unfailing regularity, eats light
breakfast and is deep in his work ce-
fore the ordinary city man Is stirring.
He shows no signs of age in his meth
DDS, making use of a typewriter ana
turning in the most readable copy OF
any member of the staff. He is also
an excellent musician andi still plays
the piano with marked taste and facill-
ity.
Mr. Chadwick's reputation as the life
long champion of American sports is
international. When Mr.. Spalding took
the Boston and Philadelphia clubs to
England, in 1874. he found that Chad
wick was regarded an authority IN
all matters pertaining to sports on this
side of the water. 1t was on this oc-
casion that Sir Edward Chadwick, the
famous sanitary commissioner of Lon
don, the American experts elder broth"
err made his oft quoted remark:
while 1 have been trying to clean
London my brother has been keeping
up the family reputation by trying 70
clean your sports
ALLEN E. SANDERS
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Gated, and also. most marvellous of all.
sundry tones that lie without the well
defined bounds of harmony as it is IN
derstOod by mortals and are not less
agreea BILE to the human ear than the
others.
This smacks of the supernatural but
it is true. The so called telharmonic
system of electric music seems to be
destined to revolutionize the scic.ce of
harmony, exact as it has ever appeared
to he. The diatonic scale, too, that bull
warl of the we'll equipped musical
theorist. is revealed in all its shallow
artificiality. 1t is made apparent that
for all the centuries the world of music
has been hemmed in on all sides by the
traditions Of the art. We have become
so willing to accept the many physical
limitations of our acknowledged in
struments that it comes like Il shock
to be convicted of our narrowneSS, our
lack of ton2I conception.
The Age of Electric Music.
But we must accept the evidence of
our senses, and the telharmonic system
will go far TO convince US that the age
of electric music has dawned 1t is
demonstrated forcibly that this most
awesome of natures forces employed
as musical energy has brought about
fundamental revolutions in tone pro-
duction which make necessary a read
justment of all our previous notions
on the subject. This has been the al
most universal conclusion of the host
of musicians who have seen and heard
the new wonder. and many of them
have been frank enough to admit it.
In the past all musical tones have been
produced by human physical effort.