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Evening star., 1914-03-22

HAT does it mean
TO be the wife of
Il public mani" re-
peated Mrs. Miles
Poindexter. wife Of
the senator from
far-away Washing
ton state. Well, I
ought to know,
FOR my husband
has always been q
public man ever
since | knew him.
Evening star., 1914-03-22

act recently passed by Congress for the
District of Columbia closing its red light
district. We have minimum wage for
working women and commission to in
vestigate and fix this wage. We have
an eight-hour law for woman workers.
I'VE have the mothers pension. which
provides an allowance for widows for the
support of their children. Another thing
old to us, but new to some people. Is a
law that requires interest to be paid on
public moneys on deposit with banks.
State, county or municipal funds all draw
interest We have a system Of letting
paid for it and the state profits also.
What about our servant problem? I
think 1t Is in the same condition as every
where else. Do we get many Japanese
or Chinese? No, they strike the coast
cities farther south OF course, one sees
an occasional Japanese butler. but that
is not an unusual sight, even as far east
as here.
-
'"The people from my part of the coun-
try''-Mrs. Poindextsr is native of
Washington as well as aresident-'are the
greatest travellers have ever seen. They
go everywhere. I go home. and ask
where Miss So-and-So is and they an
swer, oh. she's in Europe The Philip
pines, Hawaii. China, Australia, the east
ern United States and Europe these
parts of tho world must count half of
their transient population from Washing
ton state.
"Our people are rich. Spokane has no
slum section. We have no poor. The
other day I was out walking and I hap
pened to pass a little grocery store. Out
tie bags Of coal and bundles Of wood,
marked Two Tor five.' 1 was amazed.
There would be nobody to buy them in
Spokane. AS for purchasing coal in pa
per bass-I thought it the strangest thing
l had ever seen. People are loath to be-
lieve me when I say that we have no
poor, but it is true.
The state is as rich as the people who
live in it. Irrigation has rejuvenated us.
Arid valleys are transformed into bloom
ly adapted to fruit trees. Washington
state appIes are irreproachable.
This is but cursory compilation of
the various statements Mrs Poindexter
however, to illustrate that she could at
tack the subject from a variety of an
giles.
Mrs. Poindexter is a very striking wom-
an. distinguished and cultured. She has
raven black hair and eyes She account
ed for her exotic mien by explaining that
she has Indian blood In her veins.
1T is the strangest thing to me-" she
said apropos of her explanation. how
great a fuss people make when they hear
that have Indian blood. Why, to me it
seems no more extraordinary thai il it
were Irish or French. l am proud of it,
but not fanatically so. 1 have never
taken even enough interest to find out to
which nation or tribe l belong What
difference would 1t make in me? think
it Is so silly to boast Of ones blood"
This is illustrative Of Mrs. PoindeXters s
attitude toward many Of the modern fol-
Evening star., 1914-03-22

some mere. l wanted to be with my hus-
oand. yet at the same time my boy need
eo me, SO nothing remained to do but
to stay with him.
IL a family were large think of the
inconvenience OF the separation as well
as the pain Growing boys and girls
need their fathers influence Mothers
are proverbially easy disci plinarians.
lady at every social function she attends,
when her husband is in Washington.
On the other hand suppose the family
De brought to Washington Danger that
children or that the thousand other little
questions Of everyday life would not be
easily adjusted in the new city rise up
70 provoke the situation. 1t is not a
certainty whether a mans family loses
or gains when he comes to Congress.
Il find that it costs me almost twice
again as much to live In Washington as
at home. Everything is so much more
expensive here. / pay 81 q month for
the same telephone service that costs me
aO in Spokane. Electric lighr bills run
UP to sl3 or SO. at home l should have
to pay about a quarter as much as that
Then. not only have congressional wives
these Washington expenses. Club dues,
suoscriptions-wel. every one knows how
these little bills pile up--continue to pour
in from back home
But there now said Mrs Poindex-
ter explosively. I've painted he black
est side of the question and emphasized
all of the shadows. That really is not
fair. We like to come to Washington
more than we can tell. 1t is an educa-
ton for us and our children, and a great
pleasure as we'll
1t was in 1908 that Mr.. Poindexter first
came to the capital. After serving one
term as representative. he returned for
the next session as a member of the up-
per house. His wife came three years
ago. She has lived in the capital for
every congressional session since that
time
When Mrs. Poindexter said that her
husband had always been a public man
she modestly refrained from recounting
the details of his successive rises to
important offices. She did NOT tell that
his was the lawyers ideal career. She
did not trace his progress from plain
lawyer to prosecuting attorney of Walla
Walla county. or tell how he then became
assistant prosecuting attorney for Spo-
kane cOuny, only to be elected after six
years service as judge Of the superior
court OF the district Nor did she add. as
she might have. that her husband was
the first choice for representative to Con-
gress from the newly created third dis
trict of his state.
Coming to Congress was for her but
another link in this chain Of triumphs.
To be technically correct. one should say
that it was another link in the chain of
Mr.. PoindeXter's triumphs but at the
first suggestion of such a thing one
halts. Mrs. Poindexters interests and
ambitions are so indissoluolg linked with
her husbands that the line of separa-
ton is difficult to find.
When a woman'S interests follow along
the same path as those of her husband.
IA critic is inclined to wonder whether
Evening star., 1914-03-22

But, offhand. it is rather difficult to
state succinctly just wherein lies the diff
ference between the wives OF men in
public and private life.
1t is only, after all, a difference in
their habits of living. Wives of public
officials have obligations to meet and
many of them, but l should say these
were only obligations of a different sort
All of us, even the quietest have re-
sponsibilties.
Evening star., 1914-03-22

&c eastward to the mountains. the
Cascs range. and you will find wealth
Of Cd East of the mountains you get
into great farming belt. Right here
and & a little farther east are the big
hay Ids, where are grown alfalfa,
clovSsnd timothy. Out Of the fruit
Evening star., 1914-03-22

Vt this point Mrs. Poindexters face
frightened. Her black eyes twinAled and
she exclaimed with mock gravity: II
have it, The difference between the
woman IN official life and the one in
private life is this: This former has to
maintain two homes. whether she wishes
or not, and the other need shoulder the
responsibility of but one.
'We-that ls, speaking for the congress
sional soJournerS in the captal--inust
have a house in our native town or city,
and as soon as We come to Washington
begin Immediately to establish another.
This is true of the wives of senators
and Representatives. Many of the diplo-
matte families have their homes provided
by their native countries.
1T is really quite Il problem said
Mrs. PoindeXter. this matter of living
in two places at once. for that is what
it actually amounts to. Besides the add
ID expense of an extra household, comes
fne problem of separation If ones chill
,lren axe small or in school.
This was true in my own case. When
,ay husband was first elected to Congress
my son was in school at Spokane.
could not leave him there alone and
Evening star., 1914-03-22

mon nnesies and the oyster beds. And
I'll ! you that our Olympia oysters
makthe finest oyster cocktails An
Olyta pan roast is dish fit for
king.
Evening star., 1914-03-22
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ES, SIR said Mr..
DooIey. I'm
sthrong fr our
Mexican policy"
What is it?'
asked Mr.. Hennes-
sy.
II don't know"
said Mr.. Dooley.
IN a gin'ral way
it is to watch an
to wait-watch till
some frind iv ours
Evening star., 1914-03-22

LAT does it mean
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-11-16
STREET CAR HURLS
WOMAN TO STREET
Blanche Davis, Colored, Suf-
fers Severe Bruises When
Thrown From Buggy.

Miss Blanche Davis was seriously
injured Saturday night when South
Eighth street car struck a buggy in
which four persons were riding. The
accident occurred at Eighth and South
A streets at 9 o'clock.
In the buggy were Blanche Davis,
Gilbert Drew, J. w. Paxton and May
Hiatt, all colored. They were driving
in a hired buggy with horse owned
by New Paris liveryman.
1t is said the occupants OF the bug
gy were laughing and talking and
driving rapidly down A street as the
car came north on Eighth. Witnesses
say the car did not sound a warning.
Neither could stop at the street inter-
section in time to prevent the smash.
Miss Davis was thrown some dis
tance from the buggy apparently
alighting on her head. She suffered
a scalp wound, which was closed with
several stitches, bruises on her face,
cuts on her arms and hands. Her
back Is sprained. After being taken
to the hospital for immediate atten-
tion, she was removed to her home at
82S IL North Fourth street.
Others in the party we're injured
slightly Mr.. Drew was believed un-
injured but collapsed later. His inju-
ries are minor.
Although the buggy was almost de-
molished, the horse was uninjured,
and, after the harness was removed,
it was taken to local barn until the
0wner claimed it,
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-11-16
CHAMBERS ADMITS
TAKING MANS ROLL
Tells of Robbing Herbert
Heagy After Putting Him
to Bed.

Harry Chambes, alias James No
Ian. arrested in this city Saturday
afternoon, has been bound over to
the circuit court on charge of grand
larceny. Patrolman Vogelsong, who
bers had confessed that he had robbed
Herbert Heagy, Columbus, Ind, in
room at the Westcott hotel last month.
He said Heagy was intoxicated and
he took him to the hotel. After un-
dressing him he took all the money
Heagy had, $35, put him to bed and
left him short time later.
Chambers said he went to Cincinnati
and returned to Richmond last Tues
day to see a woman.
Chambers was told that conviction
on a charge of grand larceny meant
imprisonment from one to fourteen
years, and that it was unnecessary for
him to make a confession, but he did
so nevertheless, saying that he wanted
to enter plea of guilty and take
his medicine"
After Chambers had been arrested
his room at a boarding house was
searched, and two gold watches, three
inside of the lid of one watch the name
Charles o. Bess" was engraved.
Whether these articles were stolen the
police have not ascertained.
Chambers says his home is in Mis-
souri,, but that he has worked in vari-
Gus places all over this section of the
country. He was married to an Eaton
(Ohio) woman, but she divorced him.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-11-16
40 CENT ADVANCE
IN HOG QUOTATION
Chicago Stock Market Opens
With Price of Hogs Jump
ing.
TRY LEASED WIRE.1

CHICAGO, Nov. 16.-The Union
Stock Yards re-opened today and
slaughtering was resumed in packing
town after ten days idleness forced by
the foot and moth disease. Only one
tenth of the average Monday run of
stock was received. Hog prices were
forty cents above the figure at clos
ing ten days ago. Cattle and sheep
prices we're strong, but practically un-
changed
The entire yards had been white
washed during the quarantine and
loomed white in the early dawn when
the first shipment of stock, 226 head
of cattle was driven in at $50 a. m.
There was rejoicing in packing town
where nearly forty thousand girls
have been without work. pathetic
feature of the opening was the app ear
ance of long lines of unemployed at
the big packing house. All had to be
turned away, as there will not be work
enough for the regular force until to-
morrow and the next day.
Government inspectors were at ev
cry unloading place before 6 o'clock
to inspect the animals and to see that
the stock had not come from herds in
fected with the foot and mouth dis
ease.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-11-16
STORM DELAYS
FIGHTS ALONG
BELGIAN LINE
German Soldiers Well Equip
ped to Withstand Icy Wind
and Snow in Northern
Battles.
TBY LEASED WIRE.1

BERLIN, Via Amsterdam. Nov. 16.-
A luIl in the fighting on the Franco
Belgian front was reported to the war
office today. This is due to a severe
snow and sleet storm that began Sat
urday No decisive result has been
attained in the fighting, though the
attempts of the allies to re-capture ST.
Eloy have been repulsed.
The following statement was issued:
"The fighting east of the coast is
less violent. This is probably due to
the severe weather. Sleet and snow
are being driven by an icy wind until
a veritable blizzard has resulted.
"The German soldiers are we'll equip
ped for the winter campaign, and their
offensive will be resumed as soon as
weather conditions permit
Our line has been maintained and
we have had some small gains at va
rious points. The enemy has made re-
peated attempts to retake st. Eloy,
south of Dixmude, but these have been
repulsed with considerable loss to the
attacking forces. No decisive result
has been attained.
Farther east the weather condi-
tions are better, and our offensive in
the Argonne continues"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-11-16
100000 GOLD COIN
GOES THROUGH CITY
Shipment for Reserve Bank
at St. Louis Changes
Trains Here.

With 100000 in gold in a mail car.
Pennsylvania train No. 9 stood for al
most a hour on the main track at
Campbellstown where the engine
broke down. The train was due in
12:1 10 a. M. when the transfer of the
money was to have been made to
Train No. 13, from New York to St.
Louis.
No. 13 was held in Richmond to
await the consignment of gold until
a switch engine could be sent to
Campbellstown to bring the train to
Richmond. 1t reached here at 1:10
o'clock this morning.
The money was accompanied by two
guards armed with rifles They trav-
eled in the mail car. When the train
reached here, they transferred the
nine safes containing the gold from
the Chicago train to the st. Louis
train. Two Richmond patrolmen were
stationed near the trains for addition
al safeguard
The money was sent to the Federal
Reserve bank at St. Louis, which
opens today.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-11-16
W0MAN'S PICTURES
CAUSE FIST FIGHT
Paul Craig and Arthur
Schram Fight When Craig
Displays Likeness.

A public dance held Saturday night
tween Paul Craig and Arthur
Schram. The scrap occurred ON the
street in front of the building and
caused considerable excitement
Schram says that Craig had a photo
graph of Mrs. Earl Schaeffer and a
young woman Schram has been atten-
tive to and that he had been promis-
culously displaying it. This was OBJ
jected to by Schaeffer and Schram
and trouble started.
In city court this morning both
young men were arraigned. Craig
pleaded guilty to assault and battery
and after hearing the evidence SINH
lar charge against Schram was dis
missed, but he was at once slated on
a charge of provoke. This case will
be heard Wednesday morning. Judg-
ment in the Craig case was withheld
until that time
Craig said Schram invited him to
meet him outside the dance hall and
he accepted the invitation. Words
followed, Craig said, and Schram
called him liar, whereupon Craig
saye he struck him. Craig said Ora
Bell prevented Schaeffer from getting
into the melee
Schram said week ago Craig was
displaying the offensive photograph at
a dance hall despite Mrs. Schaeffers
protests, and when he started to do
the same thing again last Saturday
night he told Craig he wanted to have
a talk with him. He said he protest
ed with Craig against his actions and
that Craig called him a liar Il told
him he was another" Schram said,
and he hit me-"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-11-16
PARLIAMENT GR|LLS
CHURCHILL ON Loss
OF BIG BATTLESH|PS
By herbert TEMPLE

LONDON, Nov. 16>-The vast cooe0&;
the European war was realized IN &u1t
land today for the first time wA0..
Premier asQuith told tho house &
commons that Great Britain wa g.:
pending between $A,Seo. 600 and $6ooA1
900 daily.
The first minister grilled vas Regis
iland McKenna. who was asked what
precautions had been taken BY him
as home secretary to prevent the sper-
alton of spies in England. In repN
Mr.. McKenna stated that IA, 500 aliens
had been interned In concsUtrat1BR
camps, this number not including th0i
prisoners taken in action He admit
ted, however that about $4,000 aheae-
had escaped thus far the governmeo4'0
dragnet. and are still at liberty
First Lord of the Admiralty Churchill
came in for grilling because OF Bxdt.
ish naval losses. The feeling in Lon
don 10 that thus far the honors At sea
have been with the GermanA and this
is causing great feeling against ChuFo-
hill. The defeat and the death Of Ad-
miral Craddock off the Chilean coast
is attributed by many to the failure
of the battleship Canopus to join the
British squadron. 1t has since been
rumored that the Canopus. which was
laid down in 1897. and was of 1850
tons. had herself met with disaster.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-11-16
TROOPS FROM INDIA
REACH MARSE|LLES
TBY LEASED WIRE.1

PARIS, Nov. 16.-Twenty-five thou
sand Indian troops, cavalry and artil-
lery, passed through Paris today from
Marseilles to the front. These included
the cream of the British empire
mounted horses from India. The In
dians, who arrived In Marseilles on
twelve transport steamers on Thurs
day, were given day to get rid OF
their "sealegs," after having spent
twenty-three days upon the dater dur
ing the long voyage from Bombay.
An enthusiastic reception was given
to the Indians by enormous crowds
and the dark-skinned soldiers could
not conceal their pride at being pick
cd to help save the empire" They
were to have been reviewed this week
by Field Marshal Lord Roberts. who
died in a military hospital in northern
France from pneumonia On Saturday.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-11-16
AUSTR|ANS OEMOL|SH
SERWANS' Defense
TBY LEASED WIRE.1

VIENNA, via Berlin and Amster-
dam, Nov. 16.-Field Marshal Potior-
elk, commander of the Austrian troops
operating in the southern war theatre,
reports, under date of Sunday, that
the Servians' first line of defense,
west of Valjove has been successfully
stormed by his troops and that the
Servians have retreated to their sec
ond line.
Subscriptions to the war loan were
opened today. Before the official
opening of the lists. however, $25, 1885,
900 had already been subscribed. The
municipal government Of Vienna alone
took $6,25O,OO0.
Practically all cities in Austria and
Hungary have pledged their capital to
the loan
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-11-16
[BY LEASED WIRE.1

NEW YORK, Nov. 16--Final and
practically complete details of the
sinking of S. H. M. Audacious and the
rescue of her crew of $50 men by the
lifeboats Of the White Star liner Olym-
pic wer brought her by Hugh Grif-
fiiths and James Randolph Beams, who
arrived on the New York last night.
Griffiths was bandmaster on the
Olympic and Beames a cornetist. Both
men watched the Olympic labor from
10 o'clock in the morning until in
the evening in saving the crew of the
Audacious. There can no longer be
the slightest doubt that the Audacious
is now lying at the bottom OF the sea,
twenty miles west of Tory Island.
These men confirm practically every
detail Of the story of the great British
Dreadnaugh's sinking as told authori-
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-11-16
BRIDGE WILL OFFER
CHANCE TO REPLACE.
MAIN STREET ARCH
Favors Moving Steel
Span to Point Below Pro-
posed Structure in South
End Soon.

The sooner a new bridge is built
spanning the Whitewater in South
Richmond the sooner will it be pos
sible to replace the present made
quate and, according to some. danger.
ous bridge over the river at Main
street. The new south end bridge, by
providing an additional crossing for
the heavy interurbans while a new
Main street bridge was in course Of
construction, would relieve the almost
impossible congestion and danger that
would ensue were the old Doran
bridge the only one available. This
is the view of John Mueller. county
bridge engineer, who has several
times celled attention to the danger.
Gus strain the present Main street
bridge is being subjected to from in
terurbans, electrolysis and rust.
"Ordinarily." said Mueller, I'VE fig
ure the life of such a steel bridge az
that over the river at Main street at
fifty years. That structure. however,
has not been kept properly painted
and has consequently been subjected
to the weakening effects of corrosion
from factory and locomotive smoke
fumes, as we'll as rust AS originally
planned and built some sixteen years
ago the bridge was never intended for
the strains it was been made to stand
from the interurbans. All these things
make the life of the bridge as it now
stands very uncertain.
Traffic Grows Heavy.
Sooner or later the Main street
bridge will have to be replaced by q
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-11-16
County Commissioners Note
Cost of Building Approach
to Bridge at Proposed E
Street Location.
TO PUSH SELECTION
After Further Deliberation
Officials Hope to Reach
Decision to Provide Work
for City's Jobless.

Saturday afternoon the county COM
missioners, accompanied by County
Bridge Engineer John Mueller, Clar
ence Gennett, r. G. Leeds and repre-
sentatives OF the South Side Improve
ment association and the South West
Side Improvement association, inspect
ed the three proposed sites for the
south bridge, South r street, South
G street and South l. street. The sites
were inspected from both sides of the
river.
Mr.. Gennett was urged to accom-
pany the commissioners as a repre-
sentative of the Starr Piano company,
whose interests might be seriously
jeopardized by back water if the chan
mel span OF the new bridge does not
provide sufficient space to accommo-
date such flood waters as were ex-
perienced last year.
The party first inspected the South
Il street site. This was pronounced as
bridge. The c. & o. railroad tracks
ON the east bank at this point, in view
Of the well-known antagonism of the
state railroad commission to grade
crossings, would necessitate making
the eastern approach to the bridge un-
der an expensive viaduct. Such con-
struction would completely block South
Fourth street and force the payment
Of damages to the owners of property
on that street. The only alternative to
this would be to provide an expensive
roadway around from South Fourth
street by the side of the bridge ap-
proach on South E street and inclining
down and meeting the latter street
near South Fifth street
Fifth Approach Costly.
The headroom under the proposed
railroad viaduct would have to be fif-
:een feet, which would necessitate a
4 per cent grade to reach it from
South Fifth street. This deep ap
proach excavation would give rise to
ENezkissad IA;<h*
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-11-16
OIL YMPIC CREW TELLS
HOW AUDAC|0US SANK

titively by the International News Ser
vice in it's dispatches Of last Saturday
night.
Outstanding Features.
In their narratives these important
declarations stand out:
"The Audacious was not cruising
alone when she was struck by the
mine. She was in squadron, per-
haps accompanied by as many as six
other ships of her own class.
when she was struck on the morn
ing of October q, she was deserted
by her hister dreadnoughts. This is
rule of the British admiralty, since
one mine is taken to indicate the pres
ence of others.
"She was not sunk by the explosion
OF her own powder magazine, but was
destroyed by the British cruiser Liver
pool, when it was found that it would
be impossible to save her.