The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-02-11
In Annual Report to Com
mercial Club Committee
IndorseS Penal Farm Bill
-Commends Grand Jury.
PROMISE OF BETTER
RAILROAD SERVICE
Street Car Extension Dis
cussed-Other Reports Are
Given-Eight Directors OF
Club Were Reelected.

The entire Red" ticket was re-elect-
ed at the Commercial club election OF
directors last night. The votes were
close. in one case a tie resulting. max
ing it necessary TO call absent men,
bers TO vote off the tie. The Red
ticket was composed of the eight re-
tiring directors. The reelected men
are James A. Carr. Demas S. Coe.
Henry Gennett. Theo. III. Hill. Lee h.
Nusbaum. William III. Quigg, John L.
Rupe and G. f. Seidel. After the elec-
tion. the regular monthly meeting was
held and committees made their an
nual reports, several bills pending be-
fore the state legislature being en-
dorsed at the meeting
Upon the recommendation of the
committee on Legislation and Taxation
the Penal Farm bill was heartily en-
dorsed and will be supported by the
club. George Seidel chairman of the
committee. presented the annual re-
port and told of the disgraceful con-
dition of the present Jail system, call
ing the jails .the recruiting offices for
criminals" and "the common schools
of vice"
Conditions DepIorabIe.
Mr. Seidel commended the grand
jury on the moralizing work they have
Just completed. He cited the Wayne
county Jail as an instance OF the cry
ing necessity for the institution of the
penal farm system. He stated that
jail conditions were deplorable, being
merely a school to educate the young
first-offenders In crime.
Mr.. Seidel has been at Indianapolis
attending the state legislature and
talked to some representatives as to
their stand on the bill. Although it
is not a certainty that the bill will be
passed at this session of the legisla-
ture. Mr.. Seidel stated the penal farm
bill will eventually pass. and the Com
mercial club was recommended to sup
as possible. The large appropriation
which the passage OF the bill carries
with IL seems TO be the main objec-
! ton. The appropriation called for by
1 the bill is $4,000.
Additional Trains.
| In the annual report of the commit
tee on steam railroads. II was stated
that the c. & o. railroad had promised
better passenger and freight service
to the people of this city. The COM
mittee has succeeded in getting a
promise for an additional train from
the north and from the south. The
trains have not been placed on the
schedule as yet but IL is understood
that the northbound train from Cincin-
natl will be an accommodation and
will pass through this city at about 10
O'Clock in the morning The south
bound train will pass through some
time during the afternoon.
The report stated that better freight
service had been promised and that
the results were now evident. The
committee has also succeeded in get
ting several advantageous concessions
from the Pennsylvania railroad. II In
probable that arrangements will be
made TO secure weavers Station as a
flag stop in the future The commit
tee will soon be actively engaged in
attempting to secure better service ov-
er the G. R. & I. lines to the north.
Extension Probable.
Street car lines TO the north and
southeastern portions of the city and
one to the Reid Memorial hospital have
; been the center of the activities of the
committee on Electric Railroads for
the past year The committee report.
ed that a street car line or extension
was very probable in the southeast.
ern part of the city but recommended
that the committee which succeeds the
present one use it's influence in secur-
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