The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-11-21
Some Busy Writer, Whose
Identity He Keeps Well
Concealed, Sends Out a
Deluge of His Charges.
MAYOR WAS ALLEGED
TO USE CITY CORN
Committee to Investigate
Hears Testimony and Is
Then Discharged - CON-
plant by Chief Miller.

Grating by the city officials is i'm
piled in letters and postcards which
have been received by various city Of
ficials during the past few days, and
which were read in council meeting
last evening. A committee, composed
of Councilmen Bartel, King and kauff-
| man, was appointed to investigate the
charges, but after considerable argu-
ment, and the testimony Of the mayor,
! under, oath, that he was not guilty of
buying 100 bushels of corn raised on
the city ground at Glen Miller park
at eight cents less than the market
price, the committee was officially dis
charged
One of the numerous communica-
tions was received by Councilman Bar
| tel. This was the one which caused
the biggest stir in council. 1t fol-
/ lows:
Charges of "Corn Graft"
ION last Monday at the board of
works meeting the board sold to May
/ or Zimmerman 100 bushels of corn for
fifty cents bushel, or forty-three
cents if he would husk it himself Now
l think you ought to get the market
price for it, which is fifty-eight cents
on market, and the fire department
has to have corn to feed ten or twelve
horses. No doubt you think this ought
to be looked after and | think you
ought to look after that 500 for the
art association before you let it go.
understand it is a private exhibition
and is only rented to the art asso-
citation. Hoping you will give this a
little attention, | am, Yours truly,
(Signed) B. c.. Little"
Baltz Bescher, city clerk also took
| the oath to tell the truth, the whole
, truth. and nothing but the truth. Bes.
cher testified before council that he
did not know whether Supt. Hoilern
sold any corn to the mayor or whether
the mayor purchased any corn from
the superintendent OF parks.
He said that he heard the
conversation between the two at the
board meeting Monday when Mayor
Zimmerman said in joking way that
he would like to purchase some corn
AS for the appropriation for the art
association council decided to pass the
ordinance.
Mayor Zimmerman read post card
which he received, and which was un-
signed. The writer said that the fire
men did not need a raise in salary and
that it would not be doing right to
give it to them. Other city officials
were trapped" by the writer.
Before the regular routine of coun.
Gil was taken up Fire Chief Miller, in
a talk to the council, declared that
there should be an ordinance passed to
prohibit persons from standing in the
rear of the auditoriums of tive-cent
theaters. He said that it is very dan.
gerous, for in the event of a fire, per
sons could not get out of the theater
quickly. He says that the manage.
nlents of the local five-cent theaters al
low persons to crowd into the rear OF
the theater instead of forcing them to
wait until the show is over and the
theater emptied.
To be Investigated.
| City Attorney Gardner will look in
to this matter and if there is no state
law providing a remedy a city ordi'
nance will be drafted.
A resolution presented by Council.
man Weishaupt, urging the Terre
HaVke, Indianapolis and Eastern Trac.
ton company to extend it's line from
Milton to Connersville was unanimous
ly adopted by the council. The resolu
tion read as follows:
ITO the r. H. I. & E. Traction Com
pany-Ten miles Of interurban line be-
tween Milton and Connersville would
give better shipping facilities and
conveniences of travel for the people
of Richmond, The city council urges
you to consider the advisability OF
constructing such a line"
Ordinances were passed for the
transfer of 81 900 from the account OF
pay roll of street department to the &C
count of crushed stone; $500 from the
account Of pay roll street department
to the account of miscellaneous expen
ses; $4,000 from the account of paint
ing and repairing bridges to the &C
count Of parks. streets and alleys:
5000 from the account of stokers to
the account of meters for the Munich
pal light plant: and $125 from the &C
count of stokers to the account OF
/, transformers, for the city light plant.
| Workmen Ask viaduct
| Councilman Won Pein reported that
the employees of the Starr Piano fac.
tory were desirous of obtaining a via.
duct under the c. & o. railroad tracks
at South First and B streets. He re.
lated an incident which occurred last
week in his argument for the construc.
ton of the viaduct. He said that a
freight train was stalled" and that
the employees of the factory were OBJ.
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