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IJI 1 1 IJ A' "I 1 THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 30 1013 WRECK INQUIRY SET OR TODAY Coroner Will ix Blame for Yes Accident in Which Girl Lost Life CAR CONDUCTOR UNDER IRE Passengers Assert He ailed to Mark reight Train Back ing Toward Crossing Coroner Durham will begin an investiga tion today to place the blame for the accident at West Michigan street and the Belt Railroad yesterday morning when a backing freight train struck an inbound Bismarck avenue car killing Miss Nellie Preble 17 years old 2001 West New York street and injuring thirteen persons Ster ling Patterson conductor of the street car said by passengers to have been respons ible for the accident will be heard by the coroner according to passengers on the street car walked ahead to see if the crossing was clear and glanced north but not south the direction from which the backing train approached A standing freight train obstructed the view of the tracks south of the crossing Patterson the passengers say signaled for the car to cross Miss Preble was thrown from the run ning board of the street car beneath the wheels of the freight train Her body was mangled The passengers escaped in every direction although some were un able to get out of the car which was hurled against two telephone poles TRAIN CONDUCTOR CAUGHT John 1004 College avenue con ductor on the freight train suffered a crushed leg He was riding on the rear of the backing train and was caught be tween the rear of a steel coal car and the street car He alone of the injured persons was taken to a hospital 'At the Deaconess Hospital it was said it would not be necessary to amputate the injured leg The list of those injured who suffered bruises sprains and skin abrasions fol lows: Mrs Sara Webb 1021 West New York street David Woodrow 321 North I Walcott street Klmer Kiefer 1048 North Germania avenue Hazel Riley 1128 North Warman avenue Eales 96 North Traub avenue Clarence DeMoss 1050 North Sheffield avenue Schaefer 444 Lynn street John Sharp 326 North Elder avenue Margaret ish er 289 Lynn street Clinton Martin col ored 946 North Bismarck avenue Wil liam Gardner 902 North Sheffield ave nue and William Castleman 1028 Ger mania avenue The car was crowded with persons going to work Some saw the freight train backing slowly upon the car and a panic resulted Men and women screamed and attempted to climb over one another in their efforts to escape A 156 North Elder avenue motorman on the car said he got the order to proceed and had no idea the train was approaching until it was upon him He was uninjured 4 MOTHER AINTS Hundreds of persons gathered at the scene of the accident and among them was Mrs Anna reble mother of the girl who was killed She stood well toward the edge of the crowd and hearing that a passenger had met death she was impelled by curiosity to push forward Her daughters body was drawn from beneath the wheels of the freight car by some men The mother suddenly recog nized the clothing and some jewelry as that worn by her daughter She screamed and fainted in the arms of a friend She is a widow and the daughter who was employed at the Diamond Chain and Manufacturing plant was the only near relative She did nut know her daughter was on the car uneral services for Miss Preble will be held at the nome at o'clock this evening The body will be taken tomor row morning to Ripley County for burial eeney 226 North Illinois street rear brakeman on the freight train told Coroner Durham that lie saw Patterson I signal for the car to cross but he did 1 Young Woman Killed When I Street Car and Train Collided I ZIBELL 1 dBBSSak Wr not see him look in the direction of the approaching train He said the freight was backing at Hhe rate of about four miles an hour Joseph Wolfe engineman on the train said he was sounding the whistle and ringing the bell as he backed LARGE HOSPITALS ARE NEEDED Dr Moulder Points Out That There Is No Danger of Oversupply The completion of thb Robert Long Hospital the construction of which is well under yay the building of a new unit to the City Hospital and the erection of a new pavilion at the Methodist Hos pital for which the contract has been let will not give Indianapolis an over supply of these institutions according to Dr McLean Moulder superintendent of the Methodist Hospital The now buildings however are going to give the city much greater resources along this line hospitals of Indianapolis now7 have about 830 said Dr Moulder there are times under normal conditions when they are filled to capacity It looks as if the Methodist Hospital will be turning applicants away within two weeks This is due only to a steady in crease in the demands for service If there should be an outbreak of typhoid fever or some other serious epidemic 500 patients coming in such an emergency would till the hospitals to overflowing They could not begin to take care of The special force of workers in the Methodist Hospital building campaign has begun work in Irvington and by Thurs day it is expected that all will be seek ing subscriptions in that suburb this canvass being in addition to the general effort that is being made over Indianapo lis for the fund INCORPORATIONS The American Strawboard Company of Il linois has decreased its capital from $6000 OoO to $3UUUUO0 The Brazil Can Company of Brazil has changed ns name to Brazil Stamping and Manufacturing Company South Bend Aerie No 435 South Bend to operate a lodge ot the Eagles Miller Schaeffer II Engel Town Lake Social Club Akron to operate a club Davis A Bright Miller Bethel Presbyterian Church Knightstown to operate a church A Morris Hill Risk Knightstown Produce Company Knights town 1 ii i) to deal in produce Mar tin Lister I Martin The Locust Land Company Evansville $300000 to deal in real estate etc II A Mann A Myers AV Axton Service Baking Company Evansville $5000 to manufacture bakery products If Schmitt Ed Hutson TV Breivogel A eltman Company Richmond $25 000 to manufacture and sell cigars and to bacco A tdtman Jones Charles Walker Sa MWjjjjSteS THE MERCHANTS BANK BUILDING I Offers the jnost desir able offices for busi ness of every character Every window offers unobstructed light Located in the heart of the business district Reasonable rentals 4 THE INEST OICE BUILDING IN INDIANA or Space Apply to Building Manager MERGER MAY BE REALITYTONIGHT Attitude of Gas Companies and Market Quotations Indicate Early Windup SOME POINTS IN DISPUTE inancial Circles However Be lieve These Will Not orestall inal Agreement A merger ofMhe Indianapolis Gas Com pany the Citizens Gas Company will be perfected today or tonight unless there is an unexpected slip in the negotiations now pending with the Public Service Commission and the directing forces of both of the companies Meetings of the board of trustees and of the board of directors of the Citizens company will be held this afternoon to consider the terms of the lease proposed by the commission While it was said last night representatives of the Citi zens company that some of the trustees and directors are inclined to hold out against tlie demand of the commission for a reduction of gas to 55 cents a thousand cubic feet on Jan 1 they will not attempt to block the merger on that accou It was asserted also that Boyd hgad of the Volney Maloti Gavin Idivno and Boyd syndicate which bought control of the Indianapolis company sev eral months ago at the request of prrest manager of the UitizerTs com pany for the purpose of the merger is not satisfied with the lease rental pro posed by the commission CHANGES ARE PRESENTED erdinand Winter attorney for the Malott ayne contingent however appeared before the commission late yes terday afternoon with 11 Hornbrook attorney for the Citizens company and presented a number of changes in the phraseology of the lease that the two companies desire Thu fact that Winter was there par ticipating in tile arrangements for clos ing up the merger was taken by the members ol the commission to mean that the Indianapolis company has no inten tion whatever to back down from the lease as it now stands The directors and trustees of the Cit izens company were in session yesterday discussing the proposed merger The strongest objection was made to the re duction of gas to 55 cents becoming ef fective on Jan 1 instead of on the first of next July as proposed by orrest in his tcstimonv before the commission Representatives of the Citizens com pany asserted last night that in fairness to it the reduction should have been withheld until Inly They insist that it will be impossible to put into effect by Jan I the economies which will be pos sible under the merger TIMET IS REQUIRED It was pointed out that it will take an engineer from thirty to sixty days Io work out plans for a physical connection of the two companies By that time it will be too late to dig up the streets to make connections between the mains of the two properties so as a matter of fact the two companies will have to he operated separately until late next spring it was contended It was declared also that the Citizens company can not practice economies in the office forces for the reason that time will be required to determine bow many men and what men shall be retained out of the staffs of the two companies An enormous amount of detail is yet to be worked out before orrest and his organization can put into effect the sav ings which they believe is possible It was estimated bv the trustees and directors of the Citizens company that their com pany will he charged with at least $50009 in economies that il can not practice be cause the rates on gas will be reduced to 55 cents a thousand Jan 1 Representatives of tlie Citizens com pany however wnile it is expected that they will continue their protest today against the reduction on Jan 1 were not prepared to go the limit of blocking the merger on that account especially since thev have learned that the commission was divided on the date for the reduction and that Chairman Thomas Duncan and Charles Murphy favored an immediate reduction as one of the prerequisities to the merger I SYNDICATE DID WELL While il was conceded that tYio lease was not what the Malol syndicate had hoped for and expected yet in financial circles it was the general opinion that the syndicate came through in very good shape It will have a guar anteed per cent stock as soon as the merger is perfected and it will be re liev'd of all' responsibility in connection with the management and development of the property Just what effect the merger will have on the stock of the two companies is not yet known Payne who is the broker who lias handled more of the stock of the Cit izens company than any one else made a bill of 151 for some of it on the local Stock exchange yesterday The stock has not been very active during the merger nego tia Lions There lias been practically no dealing in the stuck of the Indianapolis Gas Com pany but yesterday brokers had inquiries for itv it was asserted however that the syndicate has practically all of the stock in its control the largest holders being Malott Boyd Pavne Sehmidlapp of Cincinnati and Will I Irwin of Colum bus Ind There are a numbor of blocks of stock in tlm Indianapolis company like that of City Corporation Counsel Jo seph Kealing who bought 225 shares last April soon after the merger was pro pose1 NO DIVIDENDS SINCE 1902 The stock hasnot paid any dividends since 1902 but brokers and bankers esti mate that it will be in demand when it is listed as a guaranteed 6 per cent se curity Some express the belief that the effect of the merger will be bearish on Citizens gas stock for Hie reason that the Citizens company which never lias paid its 10 per cent guarantee to its own stockholders is bound under the lease to pay the 6 per coni on Hie Indianapolis comnanv stock and 5 per cent on its bonds before it pays any dividends on its own stock Members of the Public Service Com mission would not say just what changes Winter and Hornbrook wanted to make in the lease It was explained that the ob ject of the changes was to clear up some points on which there might be confusion in the future and to provide fur the mak ing of extensions of gas mains 'The lease does not provide how many mains shall be laid bv the consolidated companies There is a provision the irunchise of each specifying the amount: uf mains that shall be put down an nually It waA stated last night that the lease 'will Ire amended todav to provide that Lin1 consolidated companies shall lay as many mains annually as lhe Combined amount provided tor in their franchises The companies were prepared to agree to this proposal COULD NOT IND KEALING Chairman Dunean said last night that he had been trying to reach Corporal ion Counsel Kealing all of the afternoon and to get from him lhe city's wishes as to the amount of mains that shall he ex tended during the year hut the commis sion was unable to find him Chairman Duncan suid that he would ask Chairman Schrader of the board of public works conm before the comnilssbm today as a representative of the city Schrader will be asked to toll the oHTimlssion what proxision ought to be made for the ex tension uf mains ne of the changes desired by Winter and Hornbrook was to make it clear that the lease can not lie vitiated in the In lure by one company to the detriment of the other fine of the commissioners ulsu said that the lease probably will be amended today so that some provision will be made fur the protection of 1 hi city after the franchise of Hie Citizens rumpany expires The latter has about eighteen years to run 'The lease is for niricly nlm years and it places a fixed charge of $361000 a year on the Citizens company until gas is reduced to 50 cents when the rental on the is Lu be 6Vz per (ent It is to be 6 per cent when gas is Capt oster Mourns Death of Dog amed for Its Tricks BUSTER MMMMHMKSVSnMBMWC hi WM I or 1 fin MB agwA vd 8k 'Mfe ifteen years of loyal companionship during which he has endeared himself to his owner almost as a child wore ter minated for Busier White Pomera nian dog owner! by Capt 'Wallace oster yesterday Old age elaimed him Time had rested heavily on Buster ur a year he had been almost lifeless He was also deaf mill blind these atllictions having come on him gradually toward the end Buster was regarded by Capl oster as having almost hiinin Intelligence He had been taught a tiumber of never tricks lv hts owner and some others that sot him in a class by himsolt he originated Capt oster had taught him to salute the flag' He would sn erect on his hind logs holding Ins fore paws tngeiher and mnvo them up and down thus performing' Hie salute to the best of hts canine ability Thu dog could distinguish Sunday from the other days ut the week Capt oster says lie seemed to have it sth apart for his and he insisted upon start ingohsurx ancp uf the dav with a morning walk If Capt oster prepared to read Sunday morning ister would hark and otherwise tantalize him until the walk was taken after which he appeared sat isfied Buster did not have an oar for music When tunes were placed wliliin sound uf him lie sat up and howled discordant! Capt oster says that in points Busier compared favorably with Hie white ernman dogs in Queen Victoria's kennel Buster was buried yesterday afternoon in Capt oster's hack vanl at 208(1 North Capitol avonuo his bodv being laid awav in a wooden hn fined with cloth and decorated with flowers reduced to 45 rents so 1ho fixed charges against the Citizens company are sure to be increased There is a provision Im Citizens company franchise winch pro vides that the property may be turned over tu the city at its expiration The commission probably will attempt io jiiakfi some arrangement by which the fixed charge will not become a responsi bility to the city after the franchise of the Citizens company exinres BELIEVES LEASE IS AIR The members of Hie commission while they disagreed for awhile as to the rental and the date for the reduction of the gas rate are of the opinion that the In terests of the people have been safe guarded properly and that the lease is fair to both of the companies It was explained by members of the commission that limy had allowed the In dianapolis company a fraction num than 7 per frijt on what they regarded as a fair valuation oi Um property throe exports who made a physical valuation and who testified last wonk ditforofi on the various items Those employed by the company estimated the property at about $7000000 limludtng a exceeding $1060000 ind tint now enkn oven plant which is to be at once for use Chairman Duncan said that the com mission felt that the property was worth a trifle more than $5000000 at a fair es timate and that the company was en titled to a return uf 7 pur cent on that amount The fixed charges for Hie rental xv 1 1 1 be $261 G50 Basing iheir estimate at $5000000 the commission act ua II al lowed the syndicate control of tlie In dianapolis company a fraction more than 7 per cent on tlie property The syndi cate it is stild hoped to get 7 or 7 per cent on a valuation of $7000000 QUOTE OTHER COMMISSIONS Chairman liimcnn ami other members of the commission asserted that the Wis consin Utilities i miss ion as well as commissions of other states figure I hat 7 to 7 y2 pci cent is a lair rate of inter est for the utilities companies It was explained however that if the commis sion had been fixing tlie price 'of gas to the consumers on the physical valuation of the property it would have procc d'd along different lines Il was explained also that the commission did not take into considcrat am a for the property ot the Indianapolis com pany in fixing the rental The Hgrermi'nl bclwecn the companies for the merger expires at 12 to night but it some of the details are not worked out today it is believed that 1he Boyd Mulott syndicate will grunt an extension INSURANCE AGENTS CONVENE ire Marshal Longley to Address Meet ing at Denison Today The annual meeting of the Indiana As sociation of Local ire Insurance Agents was begun at the Denison I lol el yester day meeting will close at noon to day William Taylor Hie attorney for a number of fire iiisiirance companies spoke in the altornoon The meeting was opened hy nn address of welcome by7 Jo seph Schrnni of 1 nd ia no polls Jij'iknian of Vinoonnes president of the organization presided and urged the formation of a larger organizal ion Id Longley state fire marshal is on the program for a talk this morning In the Political ield It has been practically derided to linvtj Shirlev of the iaw firm of Miller Shirley Miller Thompson preside at lhe meeting in Tomlinson Ilafi Lumorrow night when the formal opening of the campaign uf Charles A Luokwa Iter will lake place Members of the Ri publi'ai Union a recently formed organization will ad as escort from the Marion Club to the hall There wifi fie a band and some red fire It: is said at Republican headquarters that Mr Book wait er is planning to make one of the biggest speeches of his campaign Dr Woods candidate for mayor in a speech at factories at noon yesterday suid that lie did not in tend to temp orize regarding the question of morality in Indianapolis if he is ch uted mayor livery law mi lhe vice question should be enforced and the city made pure Hr Woods believed Lust night Dr Woods spoke at several neighbor hood mowings 'Diomas Taggart arrived in Indianapolis yesterday morning and spent much time around the Denison Hotel As usual the I'emocratic loaders Hocked in for advice and orders Taggart said however that he came Io look aftor some business in eonnet lion vvitli Hu consl rucl ion of his now house and that lie would return to rench Lick probably today George Lehnert: Socialist candidate for mayor will deliver an address al noon today at the Malleable Iron Works lie will speak ut noon Thursday al the Irwin Body Works ami in the eve ning at Mt Jackson and Saturday eve ning lie will hold a meeting ut ountain Square has arrived Get Booth Guaranteed Oysters Booth isheries Company ORanm And with it arises the importance of getting oysters that have that delic ious natural salt sea flavor just as they came from the ocean in which state they are most nutritious and easily digested We have mastered the science of transporting from the water to your table without the use of preserva tives the finest and best oysters as you will readily appreciate when you next time 32 Georgia Street Library slip in every can They come to you in hermetically sealed sterilized cans free from con tamination and preservatives in three sizes: standards selects Jumbo counts But the size has nothing to do with quality they are delicious in all sizes Eat them raw the supreme test of the fine flavor Every oyster guaranteed Every can is backed by the biggest and oldest oyster house in the world MVWBEKI The Oyster Season Is RECEPTION TO OPEN SESSION Prison Congress Committee Arranges for Affair at State House Blaus were complied yust rda for a rncoptlon in Hm Sf'itc Jlouse Saturday cvtuiiiig Oct 11 mark the op' ulug of the Amerlruu AssuciaLJun cunveu thm Reports from siibcnm ml 1 1 vch were received by the general cummillee on ur rnngpincnls meeihig in Governor Rain ion's 'dlic'i Those be in the rrrrlving line al the reception are Governor ami Mrs Ralston 'Mr and Mrs Charles Wairbanks Mr and Airs John It 'lam Mr ami Mrs Amos Butler Mr and Mrs Brien' a ml the presidents of i fio Ul' aring louse Association Cham ber of C'ommrrcn and Board of Trmie ami their wives An mehestr i from the In diana School will play Music for the Monday and Thursday sessions will be provided by musicians from the Siaic School fur the Blind BOARD PUBLIC WORKS ROUTINE CONTRACT AWARDED Alley west of College from Twentieth to Twniy first to A 1) ilov nn at $153 per foot fnr brhk rrit way CHILDREN HATE OIL CALOMEL AND PILLS Syrup of best for tender stomach liver tastes delicious Look back nt your cliildliood days Re member the mother insisted on castor oil calomel cathartics How you hated them how you fought against tak ing hem With our children different Mothers who cling (o the old form of physic sim ply d'lij't realize what they do The rhll rircn's revolt is well founded Their ten der little are injured by them If ymir stomach liver and hnw els ed cleansing give only delicious Syrup of its action is positive but gentle Millions of mothers keep this harmless handy they know children love to lake it that it never fails to clean the liver and bowels ami sweeten the stomach and that a tut spomiful given today saves a tick child tomorrow Ask your druggist for a 50 cent bottle of Syrup of which fins full di r' ct ions for babies children of all ages and for grown ups plainly mi cn bottle of counterfeits sold here See (hat it is made by ig Syrup Refuse any other kind with contempt Advertisement Through Electric Lighted Toledo and Detroit I all It II ft II I ArrWe Detroit 7:20 am 1 INS or railway and Pullman tickets and desired information apply to ft ft ft ft II ft II ft II ft II ft II ft ft II II ft II II li il II II ft II Two Other Day Trains Lv Indianapolis 10:35 am ArToiedo 2:18 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