The Kentucky Post from Covington, Kentucky • 1

The SECTION ONE TWO PARTS HOME 1 NUMBER 8217 mi: nrnriAii nkwhfapki or KENTON AND CAMPBELL C0UXT1XS COVINGTON KY MONDAY JANUARY 15 1917 PRICE ONE CENT Firemen WorkMoreThan Day at Ruins of Theater PAVING PUZZLE SOLVED RUINS STILL ABLAZE MAYOR GALLS MASS MEETING ON CROSSINGS Police Fines Least For Year of 1916 Fines collected In Dayton police court during 1916 were less than any previous year In the history of the court according to a report made by Police Judge A LeRoy The annual report will bo handed to council at Its next meeting The report follows: Number of cases docket ed 68 convictions 60 dismissals 5 open docket -3 referred to grand Jury 2 persons ordered out of town 2 Jail sentences 4 appealed to circuit court 4 collected in fines and costs $303 Craig According to His Pledge to the Citizens of Covington Fixes Dates for a General Discnssoin of Grade Ordinance era! years ago when Covington had an opportunity to get grade crossing elimination but lost It thru Inability to agree on the share of tbe expense FORGES SEND MESSAGE ON TO ROUSE Ruins of Hippodrome Theater Covington where flames originating Water thrown upon the building tdrned into Ice as Covington Fives Win Double-Header Capt Popken of the Covington A basketball team had his men going In great shape Saturday night and to the sad disappointment of the De Sales rooters the score did not turn out as they had hoped' Covington won 48 to 31 It war a most exciting game but the local team had the upper hand all the way Covington had its five regular players In the entire Hen-thorn and Castor forwards Popken center Dlckman and llltter guards Henthorn and Castor each threw seven field goals The team has hit Its best clip Prfitans had to hustle some to head off the strong De Sales Eagles the latter outweighing the Purltants about 10 pounds to the man The score was a tie up until the last five minutes of play then Capt Byrne took his fellow players for a tost spurt and won the game the score being 84 to '23 favor the Puritans Byrne and Schneider were used as forwards Thomas center Mayberry and Ranshaw guards This makes the ninth straight victory DODGING JURY DUTY SCORED Judge Otto Wolff In Campbell circuit court Monday In addressing a Jury trying the case of Hattie Hall against the American Accident Insurance Co flayed citizens of Campbell for trying to avoid Jury service cannot preserve our good old Anglo-Saxon Jury system without whole-hearted service of our said Judge Wolff Continuing he said: the meeting of the circuit Judges In Louisville recently attention was called to the subject of perjury In court proceedings It was deemed advisable to call attention In each community to the fact and perhaps by an educational campaign to minimize If not eradicate the evil Is a class of men who try to shirk Jury duty I believe they would as meanly shirk military duty If the occasion arose "Juries should not make a hasty verdict because you want to go home at noon or In the evening I cannot refrain' from calling to your attention that by accepting you as jurors the parties in the suit pay you a high DODYOFSORGER FOUND IN RIVER The body of Harry Sorger who waa drowned in the Ohio river at the foot of Greeppprst Covington Dec 80 when he slipped from the rear end of a motor boat which was being pulled upon a truck In preparation for remov1 ing it to his home 901 Bankllck-st Covington waa found Monday morning by Samuel Fordyce foreman of the Suspension bridge Fordyce reported to the Covington police that the body was lmbeded In ice mud at nearly the exact spot where the man was drowned The river is falling and when the water receded from the spot where Sorger was seen to drown his body was found by Fordyce Coroner Rifle of Kenton-co was notified and ordered the body removed to undertaking establishment on Pike-st Covington Men who were sent to recover the body were forced to chop the Ice and mud away from the body Widow's Suit for Insurance Tried The suit of Hattie Hill administratrix of the estate of the late Charles Hill against the North American Accident Insurance Co was on trial before Judge Wolff and a Jury In Campbell circuit court Monday Mrs Hill alleges her husband took out a policy June 22 1914 and that he died while riding on a passenger train suddenly Feb 9 1916 She asks Judgment for $2500 alleged due on the policy The Insurance company Is trying to show that Hill died of natural causes Attorneys Schuey and Col Crawford represent Mrs Hill Attorney John Shepard of Covington for the defendant TIRED BUSINESS MAN TO HAVE CABARET AT LUNCH Newport Commissioner Says Crosstown Franchise Will Permit Work BIDS ARE TO BE ASKED Third and York Streets Are i To Be Repaired and Paved at Once Third-st from Saratoga-st to York-st Newport and York-et from Third-et to Flfth-st will be repaired with either wood block brick or concrete it became known in Newport Monday This news waa received aa glad tidings by Newport citizens These streets are said to be in a worse condition than any streets In the city On account of the present franchise controversy between the city and the South Covington ft Cincinnati Street Railway Co the city has been unable to repair the streets Finds He Can Proceed Commissioner Joseph Hermann of the public works department Monday said that he had found the original franchise granted to the ft Street Railway Co six years ago by the council of Newport and that according to the terms of the franchise he will be able to go ahead with the Improvement of these two streets The franchise was sold for $200 and was for 20 years Commissioner Hermann took the case up with City Solicitor Brent Spence and found that the city may proceed with the work without Interference from the green line The city was enjoined by Federal Judge A Cochran several weeks ago from proceeding during the present street ear litigation but the Crosstown franchise saved the day Bids To Be Sought Commissioner Hermann will lay his plans before the commissioners at the regular mimtin Tuesday wad bids will be opened Bids on brick concrete and wood block will be given preference Hermann says Citizens of Newport have been complaining for the past several years on account of the condition of these two streets The commissioners were helpless they said until the Crosstown street car franchise a separate document from the other lines was found CHARGE GIRLS WORK TOO LONG Eight additional warrants were Issued by Kenton county' Judge John Read Monday against the Sunlight Laundry Co of Covington charging It with the employment of eight girls for more iat 10 hours The warrants were issued following charges to this effect Hied with Judge Read by Omer Stubbs assistant labor Inspector In Kentucky Two warrants were Issued against the same company late Saturday by Judge Read making the same charges Two of the girls are alleged to have been employed more than 10 hours on Dec 21 and eight others on Dec 9 Letter From Texas Seeks Kinfolks Mrs Della Drake of 1401Myr-tle-av Ela Paso Tex Monday asked the Newport police to aid her in finding some of her relations who she thinks live In Newport or Covington Mrs Drake says her name Is Mrs Elyria Vandlanding-ham She says her brothers are named Jack and William and that she has not heard from nay-of them In nine years She thinks her sisters Maude and Jennie are married Mrs Drake says she formerly lived In Covington and that she thinks some of her relatives live either In Newport of Covington These ard the cabaret entertainers who scored a hit at the Zoo clubhouse in Cincinnati last summer and who have been furnishing the music for many society and lodge dances In Covington this winter The club believes that the business man weary of -tbe grind of the office will find his noonday lunch more beneficial If spiced with a little amusement such as the Huffman quartet will furnish Wilson secretary-manager of the dub says this Is the first of a number of plans which the club has for making the club lunch hour more of a recreation as well as a stimulant thru food The Business of Covington is going to have a cabaret with his noonday lunch for a while Tbe Covington Industrial club where most of the business men of Covington take their noonday luncheon hit upon this plan to make the oon-fecefcs'Tro mr business worries more restful Accordingly the Hoffman Ban-Jerlne orchestra and entertainers were booked for one week This quartet of entertainers will be at the club every day from noon until 2 for the rest of this week They started In Monday at noon and there was a large attendance at the lunch Feed the Birds Is Plea of Surveyor A A Lewis Kenton county surveyor urges the public to protect and feed the birds during the time that the ground Is covered with snow He says many birds will die of starvation unless people place food out for them Lewis says he experimented Sunday and soon1 after he had placed food in an open space birds gathered there by the hundreds and showed by their actions that they were almost starved Covington Firemen Remain Op Duty Where Early Sunday Fire Razed Theater OLD MILLlsDESTR0YED Ice Handicaps Crews and One Man Is Knocked Out for Short Time Covington firemen Monday had two streams of water still playlbk on the ruins of the Hippodrome theater and the Nordmeyer flour mill Seventh and Washington streets Covington which with their contents were destined by lire early Sunday at an approximate loss of $40000 Insurance on the mill Is said to aggregate $18000 but because of the class of the risk the theater building was not Insured The fire Is thought to have started from a short-circuited electric wire in a cellar under the stage Nordmeyer ft Bernlng of Covington owned and operated both buildings Firemen There in Hurry Dense volumes of smoke Issuing from all sections of the theater building were seen about 4:45 a by a passerby who turned In the alarm' wblcb was answered by the fire-fighters from the Slxth-st station about a square away A few minutes after receiving the alarm firemen had streams of water playing on the flames but because of the manner in which the building was constructed they experienced great difficulty in reaching them The building was originally built of wood and later had been covered with sheet Iron This covering of sheet Iron Chief Griffith said prevented them from reaching the blase easily as the flames crept up between the walls Heavy steel trusses Imbedded in the- wall of the -mill were soon twisted by the heat and caused the theater to collapse pulling the north wall of the mill building with It Cold Bothers Firemen The extreme cold weather and a high wind added to the difficulties of the firemen The precaution of Chief Griffith In calling his men from the tottering walls saved a score from being burled when the buildings fell The firemen had been working only a short time when they became encased In Ice making it difficult for them to more about They were relieved in Relays long enough to thaw out and would then return to their work The Salvation army and restaurants In that neighborhood supplied coffee and sandwiches to the firemen One Fireman HoH The only accident of the day occurred when a line of hose in an alley in the rear of the building got away from the firemen Fireman Stanley Schulte former well-known puglllBt was thrown to the ground and knocked unconscious Later he returned to his post however where he remained It was only thrn heroic efforts of the firemen that adjoining buildings on Washlngton-st and the Louisville ft Nashville freight depot across the street were saved Many other buildings in the neighborhood were menaced by the flames but the firemen succeeded In preventing damage to them Chief Speaks Up Chief Griffith Monday said: of the Hippodrome type are Flames creeping between the iron sheeting and the woodwork make It difficult for the firemen to reach the seat of the fire The loss of the flour mill was due to the fact that the steel trusses were imbedded In the brick The Covington Mutual Protective association In view of the hardships experienced while fighting the fire announced Monday that It intended to renew Its efforts to prevail upon the city commissioners of Covington to take some definite action upon the petition which has been submitted asking for an Increase In the salary of the firemen REVELL QUITS STATE OFFICE Rankin Revell of Covington has resigned as deputy state banking commissioner at Frankfort to take effect Feb 1 and will represent the National Bank of Cbm merce of New York In the Ohio river valley Revell has-been In tbe state banking department since Vs organization five years sgo He has done good work weeding tbe state of crooked banks and bankers He started in a banking career as a boy In the Boone County Deposit bank at Burlington and spent eight years with the First National la Cincinnati Mayor John Craig of Covington announced Monday that the big public meeting for the discussion of tbe railroad grade crossing elimination ordinance would be held at 7:30 Wednesday Jan 14 The meeting will be held In the old council chamber on the second floor of the Covington city building Mayor secretary Al started to send notices of the meeting Monday to every civic welfare and Improvement organisation In the city Besides representatives of these societies Mayor Craig urges all citizens to plan to attend the gathering Persons qualified to explain the provisions of the proposed improvement will be on hand to speak and discuss the measure This Is In accordance with Mayor promise to the citizens of Covington when the ordinance was presented to the commission that no action would be taken on It until there had been a free and full study and discussion of Its provisions at a general mass meeting He said he wanted to avoid the trouble and disagreements of sev- Bouse Postage Gut Is Stricken According to Washington despatches Congressman Arthur bill to incorporate one-cent postage for all local first-class mall In th annual postofflee appropriation bill was stricken out by tbe bouse committee of tbe whole The plan to increase postage on magazines newspapers etc proposed by western congressman also was stricken out SEEK CHANGE IN POLICE LAW 1 Because numerous court actions taken the out of Newport policemen members of the Newport Business club said Monday they will nrge the legislature to amend the laws governing police departments -A jury In Campbell-co circuit court recently gave a negro a verdict for $999 for false arrest because the officer asked him to go to headquarters with him the club reported i The present laws business men say make It almost Impossible for an officer to arrest a man unless be sees the crime committed Tbe Business club at their next meeting will appoint a committee to act with other clubs thruout the state APPROPRIAT IN W0Rj(L0 BEGIN Members of the Covington city commission will this week draw up the ordinance appropriating city funds for the year 1917 Mayor John Craig said Monday It is probable that preliminary discussion will begin at the commission's meeting Tuesday morning the mayor said Department heads were given until Tuesday to hand in reports of the activities and with these on hand and a report of the city's revenues the officials will-start work on mapping out the plans for each department for the year WILL HEAR GIRL CASE A negro who registered as William Love 25 of Cincinnati will be arraigned before Judge Read in Kenton-co court Thursday on a charge of Inducing a negro girl under 16 years of age to enter an improper house In Covington It Js alleged that the girl was visiting friends In this city Love following his arrest by William Booth deputy sheriff of Kenton-co late Saturday was released on bond MAYOR RAPS "Something will happen before Wednesday in the gambling sltuar Uon In declared Mayor A Livingston Monday people of Newport are thoroly disgusted with the gamblers and so am the mayor continued only report I have had from the police since I Issued the Resolutions urging Congressman Arthur Rouse to vote In favor of bills now pending In the house of representatives which provide for prohibition In the District of Columbia and to prevent transmission of liquor Into dry territory by the common carriers were sent to Washington Monday following their adoption as a mass meeting at the Madison Avenue Presbyterian church late Rev I Cochrane Hunt who presented the resolutions said the bills had been passed upon favorably by tbe senate Sees Death of A prediction that this generation would witness -the death of was made by the speaker of the occasion Oliver Stewart of Chicago former member of the Illinois legislature The meeting wai held under auspices of Covington Min-laterlal association and tfie Rev Henry Webb presided "Every life is the result of the thatplay about Stewart said are the products' of the mixed forces of good and evil The problem now Is how to increase the forces that upllfe and decrease the forces that degrade strongest and best organized force for uplifting humanity la the church It Is not perfect and -cannot be zo long as It lz composed of the present kind of membership Must Take All church most take all who come to it and cannot select its members as a club or lodge The condition of a -community Is rr fleeted in the condition of Its churches If the churches are In a poor condition so Is the community The saloon Is the strongest and best organized force which degrades mankind as the church cannot succeed without bettering the conditions of the community so the saloon cannot succeed without the community being degraded is a Christian state If the good decent manhood of the commonwealth stood together for the same object they would be an 1 ires is table power and could accomplish anything do not the 'good men do this? Because the average man falls to see where he rales where the state derives Its power thru him Frayer and Vote Unite the ballot box the voter surrenders his bit of power to the representative to rule for him When a man votes one way and prays another way he loses his prayer because the vote counts The American people are getting together on the liquor question The publlo has made up Its mind that the saloon must go "The greatest danger now is oyer confidence The liquor men are encouraging the people to think that the battle la won so they will relax theta Stewart told of the organization of the Flying Squadron foundation which united all the different forces -working for prohibition This organization provides ammunition and men to wage the fight lu all parts of the country Stewart said the Foundation is now preparing for tjie struggle in Ohio next fall AGAIN GAMING Business Men To Make Use of Dixie Gateway Design To Boom Covington Sunday still smoldered Monday the fire died down LEADERS NAMED IN ORGANIZING JDNIORLEAGUE Police Commissioner Kluemper Monday named the general committee to completed the organization of the Junior league which-la seeking the welfare- of the boys and girls fit Covington- Commissioner Kluemper as general chairman of the league was empowered at the last -meeting to name this committee and some other committees In announcing the general committee Monday he suggested to Its members tbat It would be better and avoid confusion and overlapping of work if It would organize and then name sub committees from Its membership to confer with leading negro citizens on the subject of reaching the negro youth also on by-laws and constitution and on finances On the general committee as named by Chief Kluemper are: Rev I Cochrane Hunt A Walker William A Byrne Ernst Jonn li Read Orle Ware Peter GillH Slum Rev Father Hlllenmeyer Mapkoy William RabeE Fogg secretary of the A Frank Hello Judge Frank Tracy and John Brlnker: City Needs $10000 To Raise Salaries If the demands of policemen firemen and city employes of Newport are granted by the apportionment committee which meets in Newport Tuesday the budget will have to be Increased nearly $10000' The city commissioners will take up the apportionment ordinance at the meeting Tuesday morning City Solicitor Brent Spence -was instructed Monday by the commissioners to communicate with Washington officials and Congressman A Rouse about the $20000 which was allowed the city of Newport several weeks ago for damages to the waterworks several years ago ASK' SUIT DISMISSED Attorneys Ayres and Faulkner filed a motion In the eastern Kentucky dlsctrict United States court at Covington Monday asking that the suit against the Kentucky River Timber ft Coal Co Mowbray ft Robinson and Garrard and others be dismissed for lack of Jurisdiction The suit was finel at Covington Nov 13 asking the court to establish the title to lanrf in Clay-co and to retrain agents of Mowbray ft Robinson from trespassing to cut timber WARREN BRITT COVINGTON KY FARMERS SELL DAIRY CATTLE NEW TRIAL REFUSED Judge Harbeson In Kenton circuit court Monday overruled a motion for a new trial In the' suit of Stewart Price against Edwin Probert for $5000 damages for personal Injuries alleged to have been sustained in a collision with Probe rt's auto A jury which heard the suit granted Price a verdict for $200 Dec 16 quarters at the Covington Industrial dub Monday said there was little change In the situation except- that Pendleton-co had been tightened up by the strikers He said tbat while Pendleton was organized and allied with their general association there had been a leak of 100 to 150 gallons of milk to the dealers from there daily but that Tuesday there would be no more milk sent out of Pendleton In Kentpn and Campbell conn-ties he said the situation waa The Covington Industrial club taking the slogan which recently won The Kentucky Post prize slogan contest In Covington had an official dealgn drawn by Warren Britt an artist with the Process Engraving Co of Cincinnati and a Covington man for use on stationery and advertising The club adopted It as the official design for business men and will furnish job printers and others with cuts made from this design of various sizes The use of these cuts Is free to business men who wish to have tbe dealgn printed on their stop tlonery or advertising matter Wilson cigar merchant as well as secretary of the club to demonstrate tbe uses to which tbe cut of the design may be put is having a lot of new envelopes prepared for his cigar business with the cut of tbe Dixie Gateway design printed so as to cover the entire back of the envelopes Several anto truckloads of dairy cows passed thru Covington and other northern Kentucky cities Monday on their way to the Cincinnati stockyards the dairymen having decided to sell their stock rather than give in to the dealers In milk against whom they called a strike last Thursday in a demard of an Increase In price from 20 to 22 cents a gallon for their product President Harry Hartke of the fineen City Milk association when seen at his head was investigated and that no gambling was found police take my orddr too mildly Something will happen before Wednesday or the end of the week or I will be badly The mayor Intimated that be believed the town waa full of gv- bling 1 Reporta Monday many of the old-time a flourishing trade day and Sunday A.