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The Indianapolis Star from Indianapolis, Indiana • 4

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PAGE tour: BUILDING SLOGAN Beauty and Convenience Combined in This Home NEW CONECTION IS SIMPLICITV Studio Architects Have More Calls for Plans Than Ever Before in the Same Time OREGO USELESS ORNAMENTS JSed xzo A Tendency However Will Not Mean That Houses Are Any at all the Less Handsome Good Stores Delicious Peppermint had more PROSPECTS BRIGHT NAN PATTERSON IS AIRBANKS WILL OPEN BIG MEETING OR END STRIKE ANXIOUS OR TRIAL Labor Committee Will ormer Actress Charged Will Address International Rail With Meet Mayor Dunne to Discuss way Congress in Absence of Murder Will Be Arraigned for Third Time Today Situation President Roosevelt ORGANIZATION IS MAYOR HOPES OR SOLUTION ATTENDS RELIGIOUS SERVICE UNIQUE WILL LIVE IN OWN HOMES Smiths May Be Excused rom Sessions Are Held Every ive Employers Prepare to Act If Con Testifying Because of Years and irst in Will Lack ference ails to Accomplish of Identification Purpose HOME JULIUS ROTBART STEPHEN NEAL IS Vi NEAR ONIO DEATH Author of the ourteenth Amend ment to the United States Constitution SENT IT TO CONGRESSMAN Judge Neal Is Also One of the TWO KILLED IN COLLISION oremost Lawyers in Indiana Ste grave WOMAN IGNITES CLOTHING LIE riends STRIKE MAY BE EXTENDED HERRMANN TO BE ARRAIGNED EDUCATING HIS SON IN PARIS Catarrh PREACHER AVOIDS SERVICES ANTI POOL ROOM BILL OUND OEUCIQU ANO KOURI8HIISO NOW 10 KWI HE KW CSmTi Pure Palatable Popular i i a 7 altaTitii matter of Smith and before the i her third of In practical needs In appropriate man solve the and most the pawn the CONCENTRATED Malted EAST Lucinda tempted INTERERENCE COST TO BURN CHURCH MORTGAGE PREACHER RIDES 34 MILES Stomach you choose The en Ellis MAN BOILEQ TO DEATH IN CHEMICAL WORKS 'Z ss our States RATES TO POINTS IN MINNf SOTA NORTH AND SOUTH DAKOTA The Chicago Great Western Railway wilt on March 21 and 28 and Avril I 11 18 and 26 sell one way tickets to Minnesota and North and South Dakota at greatly reduftM rates or further information apply to MOSIER A 138 Adams street I Chicago HI Measure Passed by Assembly Will Now Go to Governor By Publishers Press: AUSTIN Tex April The anti pool room bill which mysteriously disap peared yesterday from the enrolling room was found today The bill Is intact and will go to the Governor for his signature KANSAS CITY RACING OPENS SATURDAY By Associated Press YORK April With the charge of murdering a bookmaker set for tomorrow Indicted Oregon Congressman Arrives Home rom Washington By Associated Press PORTLAND Ore April 16 Congress man Binger Herrmann returned today from AV ashington Tomorrow he will be arraigned before the United States District Court tn an indictment charging him with conspiracy to defraud the United States Government of a part of its public domain MISSIONARY MEETING By Star Special Service SEYMOUR Ind April The annual meeting of the Homo Mission ary Society of the Seymour Methodist district will bo held at Columbus Thurs day April 20 a Newcastle Chinaman Makes Good Use of Money Earned at Wash Tub By Star Special Service NEWCASTLE Ind April Since the affliction of Long Chong the local Chinese laundryman with paralysis some inter esting facts have come to light about the celestial It is learned that the woman who is now Long's wife is his second one and that a son by his first wife is being educated in Paris A local bank has been doing foreign business and each month sent the son in Paris sum of money for his education This was unknown and has created a ripple of surprise at it was often wonder ed what the Chinaman did with his money He and his wife could be found working any time day or night and the fact that he is educating a son in Paris explains why he was so Industrious calls for plans for than ever before 1 said one of 'and in every case there is a desire shown on the part of the builder to avoid all useless orna ment and fancy work about his house the building of houses this year there will be simplicity There will be no airing of architectural knowledge and no overapplication of architectural features The architectural problems today are worked out with less attention to formula and theory and with a greater effort to solve the needs of the man who is to oc cupy the house man who builds a house now when he sees a niece of architecture about to be introduced which is wholly ornamental in variably orders it omitted this tendency toward simplicity however does not mean that Indianapolis houses are becoming less beautiful or that Indianapolis people are becoming lax in their esthetics The building with the simple style is usually the beautiful build ing In buildings is the feature which is most looked after To be sight ly the building must Vie constructed with proper proportion and for this an over play of architecture is highly He was Judge of to 1896 After he retired from years 1846 and 1847 Boone County from 1890 his term of office expired public life Judge Neal has been times His present wife children by his first wife are Airs I Ivy Kefns of Bethel Ky Mrs Hall of Lincoln Neb and Mrs Mary Prater of owler Colo By his second wife Charles Neal of this city president of the En dowment Rank of of rank Neal of Chicago and Neal of owler Colo and Mrs Jenny Jennings of Delevan Ill and by his third wife Gertrude and Theo dore Neal Wm Wrigley Jrn Co Chicago Manufacturers of th amous JUICY RUIT Chowing Gum Good for the Chew as long as Minister Who Stabbed Man Stays Away and Woman Leads Meeting By Star Special Service LEBANON Ind April 16 Oscar Johnson who was stabbed by the Rev John Dodge riday night Is still in a serious condition The physicians be lieve however that he will recover Dodge failed to put in an appearance at church services today and his place was filled by a woman member of his ilock The negro about whom the trouble start ed has left town and in all probability wilj not return It is said that he was ordered to leave town if he valued his life ASK TELEPHONE RANCHISE By Star Special Service SEYMOUR Ind April Tho Sey mour City Council has granted a franc! Ise to the armers' Union Telephone Com pany to build and operate a telephone sys tem in this city It is probable however that the Mayor will veto the ordinance as ho does not fayor all of its provisions NEW trial on Young Nan Patterson today attended religious services in the Tombs for the first time it is said since she was placed in prison after the tragedy last June With her sister Mrs Morgan Smith who is in the Tombs under indictment charging conspiracy to extort money from Young the former girl went to the Catholic chapel and listened to the sermon preached by tho Rev ather Luke Evers To friends who saw her today Nan Pat terson declared she was in excellent spirits and was anxious that the trial should go on tomorrow without further delay The first trial of the girl was suspended after several days had been consumed in secur ing a jury and after tho taking of testi mony had progressed to a critical point One of the jurymen became ill the at tack becoming so serious as to necessi tate the dclaratlon of a mistrial The second trial went to a conclusion but resulted in a disagreement of the jury after the twelve men had deliberated for an entire day and night The foreman re ported to the court that the jury was hopelessly divided so a mistrial was final ly ordered It afterward the jury stood six for acquittal and six for con viction The third trial was set for Monday April 10 but was postponed until tomor row at the request of the District Attor ney wno desired to nave tne the extradition of Morganwife from Cincinnati settled hearing should proceed It is said that Hyman Stem broker from whom it was alleged pistol with which Young was killed was bought has been unable to identify Smith and a serious question has arisen at the District office as to whether or not the Smiths will be called as wit nesses at the forthcoming trial The law officers decline to make an official statement on this point married three is living His LEBANON phen Neal is at his home Judge Neal's and stimulants are being given Judge Neal is the author of the teenth Amendment to the United Constitution He wrote the amendment and sent it to Air Orth of this district who presented it to Congress Judge Neal is 88 years old He was born in Pennsylvania County Va in 1817 and removed at an early date to Kentucky where he taught school He was admitted to the bar at Carlisle Ky in 1841 and removed to Lebanon in 1843 where he has resided since He is one of the foremost lawyers in Indiana and is the only surviving mem ber of the Indiana Legislature of the' PUNCTILIOUS AS TO GOOD ORM' Cincinnati Commercial Tribune "Bah Jove old fel I was wanting to see you you know I had just had my man call you on at your apartments but got no answer Not home I yes deah boy But you know my man doesn't like to answer the phone when 1 am theah myself He says iti puts him too much in the light of a serv Ing man you And of course I could not think of doing it myself when! he's theah old replied Spendrlte Assistant Chemist alls Into Vat While on a Tour of In spection By Publishers Press NEW YORK April Theodore Van grofsk 20 years old accidentally fell into a vat of boiling water in the works of the Tartar Chemical Company and was practically boiled to death Vangrofsk who was employed as an as sistant chemist in the works started out on a tour of inspection When he failed to put in an appearance his fellow em ployes began to feel uneasy for his safety and immediately instituted a search The searchers went over the vast estab lishment They peered into the seeth ing vats of sputtering acids but no trace of their missing fellow workman was to be seen Arriving at the vat contain ing the boiling water where the temper ature is never below 100 degrees above the boiling point the searchers recoiled in horror from the sight that met their eyes There on the top of the boiling water tossed like a fleet of small craft in a storm was clothes It was hut the work of a minute to emntv the vat When this was done the bleached bones of Vangrofsk were found on the bottom There was not a vestige of flesh anywhere to be found Along with the remarkable development in the volume of the building business In Indianapolis this season the taste shown by Indianapolis builders is noticeable The motto with people who are building homes this year and there are hundreds of them is Plans now be ing drawn for costly and even moderate priced residence buildings show that the object is to the simplest ner have residences this season In the same length of time the leading local architects 4 Indianapolis People to Build for Them selves ires Make Lots of Business There is little doubt now among the architects that Indianapolis will keep pace during the building season with other cities of the country Many architects are crowded with work to such an extent that they are seeking office men Some say that unless something unforeseen happens their business will be greater than it has been for years and there are none who have less work than is satisfactory The great call Is for plans for residence buildings usually to be occupied by the owner There is an unusual increase in the number of two story residences to be bui)t and cottages even are being eon 'struct ed on a more elaborate scale ew cottages are being constructed at a cost of less than $2200 or $2500 The growth in the volume of business noticed so far has not been due very Jargely to building up of any fire wrecked districts In other cities of the United States and Canada great fires have given an Impetus to the building business The Joss by fires in the United States and Canada during the year 1904 was $250000 '000 In Indianapolis a large part of the btw iness ot replacing buildings destroyedby fire is yet to come 1 Locally there is a great demand for plans for rental property as well as for buildings to be used by the owner said George Bedell an architect in the Lemcke Building if nothing unexpected happens be better than it hits been for many seasons There is a tendency all the time to build better houses and many strictly modern double houses are being planned for rental Many new church edifices will be built this season One architect alone Layton pwAllen in the State Life Building has on hand plans for the construction of three church edifices Wintergreen Licorice lavor Santa Machinists Say Other Men Will Quit Work By Associated Press TOPEKA Kas April 16 It develops that the strike of the Santa boiler makers is an outgrowth of the strike be gun over a year ago by machinists of the road The strike was called in the inter est of the machinists If the Santa does not yield to this a strike of the blacksmiths and carbuilders will be called according to Buckalew who Is in clKirgo of the strike The Santa officials profess to be confident that the road will win Tho work of the road is not being interfered with in the least they say By Star Special Service Ind April Judge lying at the point of death in this city At midnight condition was' very By Publishers Press CHICAGO April 16 Prospects for peace in the teamsters' sympathetic strike to help the garment workers in their struggle against Montgomery Ward Co appeared somewhat brighter tonight when the Chicago ederation of Labor after a lengthy session agreed to ap point a committee of labor leaders to meet Mayor Dunne again Monday morning This was decided upon notwithstanding the declaration of President Shea of the teamsters last evening that all was over so far as he was concerned When the committee including Mr Shea meets the Mayor tomorrow morn ing the situation will again be gone over in all its phases and a most vigorous en deavor made to bring the differing points down to a soluble question! The Alayor tonight said he had not by any means given up hope of bringing the matter to a point of settlement and that he would hold on until he had done so Aleanwhlle ho gave the teamsters to un derstand clearly that while he was Mayor he would execute the law and that all violence on the streets would be sup pressed with a strong hand Members of the Association tonight expressed regret that something more definite had not been accomplished by the ederation at its long session and intimated that if another twenty four hours went by without a definite result the new Teaming Asso would begin its work They claim to have In readiness enough men and horses to take charge of the work of all the leading houses and say they will not submit to the "tyranny of the union more than twenty four hours longer TEAM OWNERS HESITATE The Chicago Team Associa tion with which most of them have con tracts are still hesitating on the ques tion of declaring a lockout and the mer chants declare that a refusal to deliver their goods to Montgomery Ward Co will vitiate these contracts At the federation meeting this after noon President Shea of the teamsters devoted the greater part of his speech to the chargs alleged which had been during the last week brought against certain labor leaders He indig nantly refuted these charges and told the men they had probably been devised by some of the employers with a view to causing dissension in the labor ranks At one point in his address some of the radi cals interrupted Mr Shea with a motion of thanks and trust in their officers Air Shea however argued for some time along the line that it was best not to pass anv resolution but to let the matter drop ignoring the charges thus showing ab solute trust in their leaders In this man ner he said they would not hinder the leaders in any way thus showing thtflr loyalty to the cause A number of members wanted to send a delegation to Mayor home expressing satisfaction with his past ef forts in trying to unravel the complicated situation but on motion of Mr Shea this was not done he declaring the moment I Inopportune eature Will Be the Derby In Which It Is Expected There Will Be Twelve Starters By Associated Press KANSAS CITY Mo April Kansas spring race meeting will begin next Saturday with the running of the Kansas City Derby worth $5000 and added money as the feature There will probably be twelve starters in the event John Smulski of the Ellison stable will probably be the post favorite in this race Among the oth ers which will start will be Waterside Uncle Charley True Wing Angeleta Roundelay and Devout There are thirty eight nomina tions The contest between the two warring turf bodies will be a factor In keeping certain stables away from the Elm Ridge meeting but President Gardner stated tonight that he expected as many horses as raced here last year There are now more than 100 horses quartered at the track and a special train with 200 thoroughbreds will arrive from New Orleans early this week At the close of the Memphis meeting probably 100 additional horses will come here from that track Liberal purses will be offered and the management expects all of the events will All well Man Stabbed Trying to Separate Who Quarrel Over ive Cent Wager tBy Associated Press PHILADELPHIA April In an en deavor to part two friends who were Aquarreling over a 5 cent stake in a game of cards Angelo Gentilo was stabbed to death with a stiletto the police allege by 'Antonio pjoni at Manayunk a suburb of 'this city Pioni was captured by police i men after a long chase By Associated Press WASHINGTON April Nearly one thousand delegates the owners and op erating officials of upward of 400000 miles of railway in forty four different court tries constitute the personnel of the In ternational (Railway Congress which is to hold a ten session in this city ire ginning May 4 next At the close of tho congress the delegates are to make a thor ottgh inspection of the railways of the United States particularly with refer ence to equipment and shops The congress Is somewhat unique in its organization purposes and manner of conducting its affairs It was organized in 1885 and has held sessions every five years since Its first session held in Brussels celebrated the fiftieth anniver sary of the opening of the Belgian rail ways Milan Paris St Petersburg and London have bean meeting places since Paris having had two sessions At the session in that city in 1900 the invitation of President McKinley to hold the next meeting in Washington was accepted Congress at its last session enacted ap propriate legislation committing this Gov ernment to participation in the congress In tho absence of President Roosevelt 1 Vice President airbanks will accept tho post of honorary president and open tho congress with an address of welcome afterward extending the courtesies of the Nation to the delegates at the White House The preliminary formalities over the congress will resolve itself into five sections and proceed to its discussions in rench and in secret All of the papers to be presented have been under consideration for some years all have been printed and the delegates are thoroughly familiar with their con tents All of the topics to be considered are technical and necessarily devoid of popular interest The honorary presi dents representing the railways of this country will be Messrs A Cassatt and Harriman while tho actual president will be Stuyvesant ish of tho Illinois Central Railroad The largest attendance of American railway officials at any of these sessions was at London in 1895 when out of about SOO delegates forty nine were Americans Part of the important work accom plished at these meetings is the inspection of workshops equipment and construction in each country visited with the result of stimulating inquiry into Improved methods and giving the whole world the benefit of the work of the brightest minds everywhere engaged in solving problems W'hlch present different phases in different countries but which have features ofi common interest to all alike One of the most convenient and sightly residences erected in Indianapolis recent ly is the home of Julius Rotbart at 168 East Drive Woodruff Place When one studies the arrangement of the rooms and stairways and other details in ar chitecture one can not help seeing that the Rotbart home is the embodiment of individual ideas of convenience In exterior architecture the style is colonial The shingles with which the building is weatherboarded are stained a green tinge Both the front and rear verandas have cement floors with cement steps leading to them and on one side of the house is a broad cement driveway which further enhances the beauty of the place The front porch of the house is un usually large and is arranged so that there is plenty of room for rockers set tees and other porch furniture The front porch opens into the living room This room is twenty feet each way and connects with the dining room music room and with the second floor by a stairway amply supplied with window seats A large center fireplace with set tles on each side and a mission finish gives the proper home effect rom the living room a large archway opens into the music room This room is 10 by 15 and has paneled oak wainscot three feet high finished to harmonize Another doorway leads from the living I room to the dining room This room is i furnished with plenty of light by a ten foot bay window All the woodwork Of the dining room is in oak By a sliding door the dining room opens into the The is an ideal room in which to pass away the winter hours reading and studying It is supplied with a large cen ter fireplace with book cases on either side and with a circular bay window with a seat The is finished with oak and has paneled wainscot It is also conveniently supplied with an outside exit The rear of the residence is taken up with a kitchen large pantry and a porch The kitchen has stairways connecting with both the cellar and second floor The plastering in the kitchen has a rough sand finish stained a deep chrome yellow On the second floor there are four chambers each accessible to the main hallway The front room which is un usually large is supplied with another of the roomy fireplaces and is used as an upstairs sitting room This room opens out to a large balcony a delightful place to spend the hot summer evenings One or tne unique leatures ot tne dwell ing is the studio in the southeast corner of the second floor This was included for the benefit of a member of the family who is an artist of some note The studio is 12 by 17 and is supplied with plenty of light by large windows Not to be forgotten is the convenience afforded by the basement This part of the building is taken up by a cellar laun dry room and fuel roms and is supplied with a water motor which pumps rain water from the cistern to every apart ment where it is needed The dimensions of the entire house are 35 by 53 feet The plans were drawn by George Bedell architect rant rarunnBfTh THOROUGHLY COOX0CS SGKnnnG and hygiwig Rev George Switzer Takes Hard Trip to Officiate at Celebration of Debt Payment By Star Special Senice LAAYETTE Ind April 16 One the most unique religious ceremonies tire history of Lafayette was held at the West Side Church where 1500 pjo pie witnessed the burning of the $28000 mortgage which was placed to build the church The last subscription to com plete the payment was received Saturday Dr George Switzer presiding cider of the Lafayette district reached the church in time to officiate at the services Ho came from Talbot a distance of thir ty four miles on horseback in a little over three hours Dr Switzer was pastor of the church when it was erected in 1898 'i Husband Is Seriously Burned In rus trating Attempt at Suicide By Associated Press ST LOUIS Ill April Mrs Parr 42 yeard old' tonight at to commit suicide by saturating her clothing with kerosene and then set ting fire to her garment Her husband was In an adjoining room and hearing bls screams reached her in time to tear her clothing from her and save her from serious Injury Parr was seriously burned and required medical attention Mrs Parr was arrested and charged with attempted suicide Less than three months ago Parr was badly burned in saving the life of his daughter who at tempted to end her life in tho same manner Engineers Escape by Jumping But ire men Die at Their Posts Bv associated Press NORTH TONAWANDAN April 16 In a head on collision between two freight trains on the Erie Railroad today Herbert Wrigley of Buffalo and I Brown of West Philadelphia were killed Wrisflev was a fireman on one train and Brown fiieman on tno ocner 1 einc ers Kollv and jumped and thus saxed their lives Is a constitutional disease originating in impure blood and requiring constitutional treatment acting through and purifying the blood fori its radical and permanent cure Be sure to take Nasal and other local forms of catarrh are quickly relieved by Catarrlets which allay inflammation and deodorize discharge Sarsaparilla) all druggists $1' Catarrlets mail order only 50 cts or testimonials of remarkable cures send for our Book on Catarrh No 4 Hood Co LoweU Maa THE STAR APRIL 17 M905 Convene May 4 NOW 10c Cudrtoard JU I It re ere yr I I I 1 7 A 6 1 I I I 111 I 5 Cents buy 10 To III fl i ns 'll (i 1 dir td HL uJ i i 1 4 Z' ore MH 7W5 la tr i 1 Sa'1 sHi Kfl I' lw I I Ml pt Bi 2 aa ia i' a 1 a bf.

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