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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-10-06
COULD NOT RESIST
FIERCE ONSLAUGHTS
Little Giants Piled Up a Score
Of IS to O Against
Earham.
FIRST HALF WAS BEST
IN THAT THE QUAkERS HELD
THEIR OPPONENTS TO 12-
ISTLETHWAlTE DID BEST
WORK FOR THE LOCALS.

Charlottesville, Ind. Oct. 5.-The
Earlham college football eleven could
not withstand the fierce attack Of the
Little Giants of Wabash college here
this afternoon, the Quakers getting the
short end of a 35 to combination. The
visitors put up a plucky fight, but were
clearly outclassed before the fast play
of the locals.
The goal line of the Scarlet war
riors was never in danger, the only OPP
portunity the Earlhamites having to
score being on a place kick from the
forty yard line which went wide of
the mark. Earlham put up a much
better fight in the first half, which
ended II to @ in favor of the Presbyte-
rians. The pace proved too hot in
the second half. however, and the To-
Gals added % more points to their to-
| tai.
| The feature of the game was the
playing of Hargrave at quarter back
Time after time he went through the
entire Earlham line when running
| back punts Thistlethwaite put uI
the best game for the visitors.
| Summary and lineuO.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-10-06
BIG CROWD
At TODAY'S CONTEST
Quakers viii Meet the North
Vernon Aggregation at
Athletic Parb
CHUCK" WALLACE HOME.
HE MADE A SPLENDID RECORD IN
THE EAST, WINNING SIXTEEN
OUT OF TWENTY-six GAMES
POLO OFFERS.
CHUCK" WALLACE HOME.

This afternoon at Athletic park one
of the largest crowds of the season will
witness the game between the Rich
mond and North Vernon teams. With
the North Vernon outfit will come
about three hundred or four hundred
rooters to cheer their pets on to victo-
ry. North Vernon has a strong indie
pendent team of minor leaguers who
will give the locals a run for their
money. Richmond will present its u.s.
ual lineup with either Fleming or Horn
in the box.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-10-06
AT CLEVELAND.
AT ST. LOUIS.

Detroit .. =. :. ........1 10 IA 3
81. Louis 10
| Batteries - Sewer and Schmidt
Powell and Spencer.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-10-06
Wallace Is Home.

"Huck" Wallace, the we'll known
local ball player, has returned to Rich
mond for the winter, after a success
full season in the East. Huck started
the season with the Lancaster, Pa, in
the Tri-State league. Later he was
farmed to the Greensburg, Pa, team
in the Western Pennsylvania league.
Wallace managed this outfit the last
few weeks of the season. He made a
splendid record in the box, winning
sixteen out of twenty six games.
Jessup Has Offers.
Manager Jessup has received flatter-
ing offers from the Youngstown and
Canton teams of the Interstate Polo
league to play goal this coming sea-
son. Bobbie Hart, the crack rush,
who is managing the Youngstown
team, is very anxious to sign Jessup
He states in a letter that Jessup is on
Canton's reserve list, but that he
thinks he can secure him from Canton
Bobbie is evidently over confident as
the letter from the Youngstown mana
ger shows that Jessup is badly wanted
there.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-01-10

graft. What does South Dakota
lose in this deals II loses practi-
cally, the services OF one United
States senator. What does the
nsargent wing Of the republican
party loses II forever loses its
standing with the voters OF the
state, BY the election Of Robert j.
Gamble in the face Of the charges
against him, the so.calIed reform
wing gives notice to the people that
its professions of reform we're
intended for campaign purposes
only and the voters when the time
comes will pronounce their opinion
OF such Zip service" Yes, taking
il altogether, the heading as above
is correct, Robert j. Gamble is a
winner-if elected he is a winner Of
$4,000, and the rest Of the state is
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-01-10

an electric locomotive which pulled
two cars.
The First Electric Railroad.
The first regular electric line to be
established was at Lichterfelde, Ger
many, near Berlin. It was only a nile
and a half in length and opened for
traffic in May 1881. The trains car
ried twenty-six passengers, at a maxi
mum speed Of thirty miles an hour.
The first electric car to be operated
regularly in the United States was in
stalled by Deft on the Hamden branch
OF the Baltimore Union Passenger
Railway in August. 1886. That
was barely twenty years ago. So
great as the skepticism of the public
and railway men generally that the con-
tract under which the road was built
withheld payment one year so that il
might be determined whether the cars
would run. mo one but a knave or
a fool would undertake such a thing"
said a well known scientist at the
time. Scientists sometimes have trouble
keeping up with the procession. About
the same time small cars were oper-
ated by Van Derpoele at South Bend,
Ind, followed by other small roads in
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-01-10

Q machine to . i've circuit by mis-
take and was greatly astonished to see
n begin 70 rotate. This reversibility
Of function was publicly demonstrated
for the FIRST time NJ the Vienna expo
sition IN 1878.
Not until 1879 was the first electric
railway put 10 operst ton. taking the
current from q dvnaUo. using . mod
.rn motor and carrying passengers
TINS novelty ,wss ~. n~perstion az tho
Berlin exposition and was = mile am
two.tbirds. in. length. The train eon
sisted Of. a small locomotive and three
smalI ears. capable Of carrying TWEEN
" people. 1t reached . speed of eight
miles an hour.
About this time stephen ID. Field
aud Thomas Edison in the United
States began experimenting. In 1880
Edlson was operating at Menlo Parf
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-01-10

natural. over an invention which
threatens to relegate them to a sausage
factory"
That was less than twenty years
ago. Today the New York Central
Railroad Company is expanding $780,
100000 in the electrifcation of the first
tnlrty-five miles of its system. and the
car horses were long ago relegated to
the b%oneyard, IL not TO the sausage
factory"
They" have done marvellous things
since the increasing knowledge of
electricity opened up a new world Of
achievement. and we have scarcely
trio car vas a dream; in 1890. an ex-
pertinent; in 1900, a great and wonder
ful fact which is revolutionizing pas
senger transportation and will enable
human beings to move from place to
place twice as fast as they do at pres.
emit.
Born in Old Vermont
When in 1884 Thomas Davenport, of
Brandon. VT. ran a toy motor mounted
on wheels on a small circular railway,
the modern electric railroad with its
possible speed Of over one hundred
miles an hour was born.
In 1893 Robert Davidson, OF Aber.
deem. Scotland, built a. electric loco
motive which actually reached a speed
Of four miles an hour on the Edin-
burgh- Glasgow railway. Nine years
later Professor Moses G. Farmer OPP
Grated an experimental car which car
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-01-10
Don't bubble Senator.

Senator Gamble has written a
letter to the chairman Of the repub-
lican committee, and has sent a copy
Of Il 70 some members Of the legis-
lature. In this letter, a copy Of
which has reached the editor OF the
August Leader. Senator Gamble
absolutely denies that his SON was
on the pay roll Of the government
while he was attending school "At
Princeton" Several times in the
very long letter, the senator referred
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-01-10


ried two passengers at Dover, New
Hampshire.
Then the United States congress be-
came interested. BY special grants
Professor Page OF Smithsonian insti-
tute was aided in the construction OF
several forms Of motors. One OF them
was used as a locomotive and, driven
by a battery OF one hundred Grove
elements, was tried April %, 1851, on
a railroad running from Washington
to Bladensburg. A speed OF nineteen
miles ar hour was developed. SO great
that II destroyed the batteries.
Numerous other experiments fol-
lowed, all commercial failures because
the motors were crude and the source
Of power a primary battery. The de-
velopment OF the wonderful modern
dynamo was necessary before electric
~rsilroading could become a commercial
success. The first great step was In
1890. when an Italian named Pacinot-
Il invented a continuous current dy-
namo. Three years later the first
practical commercial machine for con.
tinuous current operation was made
by Gramme.
Still the modern electric car was I'M.
possible. The "reversibillty OF func-
ton" had vet to be discovered. invol.
wing electrical transmission OF energy
through two machines. one driven by
power and generating electricity. the
other reversing the operation. receiv-
Ing electricity and developing me
cnaIIical power.
Like many other Important discov-
cries bis Is said to have been the re-
SUIT ef accident. A workman coupled
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-01-10

plicable to the hauling OF freight. Bot
tue action Of the New York Central IN
electrifying thirty.ive miles OF its road
leading out OF New York, and the
popular agitation for similar improve
ment In chicago and elsewhere, would
seem 10 point to a time not far distant
when electric railroads will connect
distant cities and greatly shorten the
hours Of travel,
Chico 60 to New York IN Ter Hours
In fact such a railway already Is
being built between Chicago and New
York by the ChlcagO-New York Elec-
trio Air Line Railroad company. Of
Cnlcago. This company. headed hy n
group Of practical railroad men, pro-
poses to run limited trains, making not
more than three stops, through to New
York or Chicago, in ten hours. The
thought fairly takes ones breath away
u first. but the project considered
soberly seems practical enough, and
certainly Is 50 consummation devoutIy
to be wished" The work Of grading
segaD Sept. I near LaPorte, Ind.
As the new road will be an air line.
with few curves, the route uryey
Is 100 miles shorter than the Pennsyi-
vania Short Line, and go miles
shorter than the Lake Shore and
New York Central. each Of which runs
trains covering the distance In eighteen
hours. Taking into consideration the
shorter route of the Air Line, this Is
equivalent to a ~fourteen-hour service.
With low grades, a straight track ana
no grade crossings, the seyenty-ive
miles an Our average necessary to a
ten-hour service ought easily TO be
maintained. Even on the first class
steam roads of today ninety miles al
hour is not for short dis
tances.
The Scientific American Of Feb. IS,
1905. speaking editorially of the New
York Central experiment, says, 'The
success of this installation, OF which
there can be no doubt whatever, marks
the first step in the gradual bsti-
tuition of the electric for the lean
locomotive in the operation of long dis
lance express trains" The Chicago
New York project may be regarded the
second step.
MI. Sprague himself says that speed
Is "a matter OF finance" What then
will determine the future?" he asks.
"Chiefiy the financial factor, as it must
the future of any other great industrial
problem. When savings in operation
and the increased return for traffic
will more than pay a fair dividend o.
money invested for electrical equip
ment, win trunk lines be operated by
electricity"
Professor Charles r. SteinmetZ, one
Of the greatest authorities on cleo
tricity, is quoted as saying. There Is
no limit to the speed that may be de-
veloped in electric t~raction-that Is,
there is no limit up to $50 or 200 miles
an hour. Higher speed than that the
car wheels could not stand. They
would fly to pieces from centrifugal
force. Not only can q speed of 100
miles an hour be maintained on n
train equipped with electricity, but in
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-01-10

Governor Crawford's message to
the Legislature is a lengthy, skill
fully worded and, from his stand
point, a strong document. 1t
breathes reform throughout and il
his recommendations are all carried
into effect, striking changes will
occur in all branches OF the admin
istration OF affairs Of the state. The
message commences by jollying the
members of the legislature in an
apparent spirit of f~rankness and
mention is made of the fact that
land values have steadily increased
and so has the rainfall" Much is
found to be approved Of as regards
the educational, penal and Chart
able institutions and the state finan-
ces are in good condition. The
report Of the commissioner of school
and public lands is approved and
sorse Of his recommendations endorsed.
The revision OF the school law is
passed up to the legislature, and its
attention called to the necessity OF a
state printing plant. A thinly dis.
guised fling at Governor Elrod is
contained in the comments on the
expenditure OF the Governors con.
iingent fund, while direct attention
10 called to the Office of clerk Of
supreme court in the shape of a rap
at Frank Crane. A public account
ing for campaign funds is demanded
and considerable space given to
railway freight and passenger rates
and assessment laws. Increased
appropriations for state officers to
8 the expense OF travel is asked
fer and a new state capitol is given
a boost. The Legislature is informed
that il Is its duty to arrange a levy
f0r a twine plant in the penitentiary.
Asfention is called to the need Of
further Legislation in a number of
case and the message winds up
with the wish that the Legislature
may have a pleasant and profitable
session and make a fine record for
iisssdd. Altogether it is a message
swortby Of careful perusal. bearing
ia .min6 the fact that the proof OF
.ths pudding IL the eating"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-01-10

sold to cities and village along the
route for lighting purposes: electricity
for power Is sold to farmers. TrafDs
OF elegant ears run into Chicago at n
speed which would have seemed nm,
possible a few years ago. Passengers
wave good bye to steam trains On a
p~araneling railroad. which they pass
easily. A pArlor and dining car 10 n
Of the Injuries which the suburbaBites
enjoy going to and from the city. and
the RAILROAD seems a veritable gold
mine for its owners.
The horse car ,has.long since disap-
peared. VII the iron horse. the great
steam locomotive, be supplanted also?
Tpis question occurs to all who can
see the significance Of passing events.
Probably not for many years TO como,
n far as heavy freight traffic is "on-
cerned. because steam Is especially up
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-01-10

In the United States alone.
This change was not accomplished
without opposition, encouragement
and financial difficulties. Mr.. Sprague
him self, who was so potent a factor in
working this change. has told the story
Of his first important contract. In the
spring of 1887, the Union Passenger
Railway company Of Richmond, Va,
engaged him to build an electric rail-
way. The first car was run out n
night while the skeptical people slept,
to make sure 1t could climb the hills.
1t started out in a blaze Of glory and
ANONYMOUSLY was towed back again
by four big mules. But Sprague per-
sisted until on Feb. 2, 1888. In a
drizzling rain, the road opened for
business.
From that time forward the future
OF electric ~railroading was assured and
events moved rapidly. City after city
adopted the new motive power; horse
cars became things Of the past; In
terurban roads began to gridlron the
country everywhere. and In each In.
stance a commercial success was
scored. Electric interurban lines have
been money makers from the start.
The greatest development has been
IN the east; but the west Il not far
behind. The Aurora. Elgin and CHI
cago Electric railway (the third-rail
system) which has been In operation
several years, Is famous. From one
central power station over two hun
dred miles Of road are operated. or will
be as soon asthe line to Belvidere Is
completed. Electricity at wholesale is
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-01-10
Story of thu Wonderful De-
yelopment in Electric
Traction Daring the
Past Twenty
Years.
PASSING OF STEAM TRACTION
Gradual Elimination or Distance
Through the Development OF
the Electric Locomotive
Chicago to New
York I'm Ten
Hours.

During the summer OF 1887, there
appeared in the New York sun the
following facetious news item:
They tried an electric car on
Fourth venue yesterday. 1t created
an amount of surprise and consterna-
ton from Third st. to One Hundred
and Seventeenth st. that vas some
thing like that caused by the first
steamboat on the Hudson. Small boys
yelled dynamite" and rats and
n AIDE similar appreciative remarks I'M
oil they were hOarse. Newly-appointed
policemen debated arresting Il, but
went no further. The car horses
which were met on the other track
kicked without exception, as was
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-01-10

Windsor, Canada; Appleton, Wis; Port
Huron, Mich; Scranton, Pa, and
Montgomery, Ala. In the autumn OF
1884 Frank l.. Sprague, whose name
is inseparably connected with electric
traction, began to attract attention
with his motors.
Twenty Years of Achievement.
At the beginning of 1887 there were
In the whole world less than sixty
miles of electric railroad track, and
only about M hundred motors and
motor cars. In 1905 there were nearly
thirty thousand miles Of electric track
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-01-10

TO the charge, and in every case, he
denies the truth of til. charge but
always adds the words "At Prince
ton" sr Z
or course this is a bubble, but it
is meant TO deceive the members of
the legislature. Senator CANDLES
son did not go TO Princeton until the
TALL of 1905. The real charge is
that the young nau was attending
the Jacob Tome Institute at Park
Deposit, Maryland from September,
1902 until the spring of 1905 and
that at the same time he was on the
public payroll from September, 1902
until January 1905. 4, is not
charged that the young man was on
the pay roll while at Princeton. The
senator might as we'll deny that he
was not on the pay roll while in the
primary department of the Yankton
schools. Why doesn't the senator
answer the charge as made! 1t is
very clear what has been charged.
The dates have been given, aud the
official records have been produced.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-01-10
The Party's Pridiciment.

The Party's Pridiciment.
Thanks to the recent activity ON
the part of Senator Candles friends
Of last summer, the people of this
state and OF the country at large are
being enlightened as to the main
spring of the opposition to his
reelection in the pre-convention
campaign.
There is nothing new in the
graft" charges that are being cir
culated SO industriously just now.
The facts as recently published n
known prior to the state convention
also other facts that may never be
given to the general public.
Everybody didn't know, but Mr..
Candles congressional colleagues
must have been wise to the situa-
ton, and all of them opposed him.
Many others knew the facts, the
News among them.
But, while the knowledge and dis
approval of such practices were
sufficient to determine their own
course of action, it was a different
proposition to go out and blacken a
decidedly digniied public reputation
when it was believed its owners
retirement could be accomplished
by more tasteful methods. Then he
would be free to redeem his error
without living in the shadow of it.
Many Of those who are now max.
ing much of Mr.. Candles delin-
quencies knew of them prior to the
state convention, yet they supported
him, and with such knowledge in
their possession deliberately placed
Mr.. Gamble and the republican
party in the predicament that now
confronts them, With such persons
the News has nc sympathy. MI.
CANDLES acts we're as wrong last
June a now-they are no more
wrong now than then.
These persons created the situa-
ton both by their support of Mr..
Gamble last spring and by their
exposure of him now, 1t is up to
them to solve it, and they are all
powerful to do SO
As for the News, it absolved itself
OF the senatorial proposition last
June.
If those who gave Mr.. Gamble
the endorsement of the republican
state convention at the time want to
make it good, under existing cir
cumstances. it is up to them. If
they want to claim hal they were
deceived, and decided to elect some
other person to represent South
Dakota in the senate of the United
States, it is theirs to do it. They
have the votes-and an internal
discipline such as this state has
never known heretofore.
The following counties voted
against the endorsement Of Mr..
Gamble in the state convention;
Brown, Bruel, Butte, Clark, Custer,
Davidson, Day, Douglas, Edmunds,
Fall River, Grant, Hamlin, Hughes,
Lawrence, Lyman, McCook, Mar
shall, Meade, Stanley and Walworth-
Aberdeen News.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-01-10
Thurslsy. January 10, 1877.

The governor wants a public
accounting Of funds expended for
campaign purposes, cut he should
stop to think that not every candi-
date has a Dick Richards to stand
the blunt.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-01-10

Governor Crawford desired the
legislature TO establish a state print
ing plant, Why, cannot a place be
found at the pie counter for Bas-
ford without going to all this
expense. Give him the superin.
tendency Of the reform school,
governor, and be done with it.