Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, April 16, 1913, Page 2

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MANY NOTABLES AT MORGAN BIER New York Church Crowded During Services. COFFIN BURIED IN ROSES Honorary Pallbearers Selected Chief- ly From Among Men Closely identi- fied With Financier During Life. Remains Taken to Hartford, Conn., for interment. New York, April 15.—Funeral serv- Sees over the body of J. Pierpont Mor- wan were held in St. George’s Protes- ftant Episcopal church, where he had (worshipped for half a century. After- wards a special train conveyed the eral party to Hartford, Conn., for services at the Morgan mauso- in Cedar Hill cemetery. Blanketed by a covering of 5,000 ged roses, Mr. Morgan's favorite flow- yer, the coffin was removed from the (Morgan library, where the body had Geid in state since Friday night. A ‘Wwested choir of 250 voices preceded he funeral party into St. George's. ‘Behind the choir came the clergy, then the pallbearers, then the coffin. Fifteen hundred persons, one of the most notable gatherings New York as seen for many years, were crowd- d into the church. Admission was by card only. So reat had been the demand for tickets ‘hat many hundreds could not be ac- @ommodated. Not half of the congre- gation of St. George’s, with whom Mr. Morgan ‘had worshipped, obtained admission. Officiating Clergymen. The services were. conducted by Rey. Dr. Karl Reiland, rector of St. George's; Right Rev. William Law- rence, bishop of the diocese of Bos- ton; Right Rev. Chauncey B. Brew- ster, bishop of the diocese of Con- mecticut, and Right Rev. David H. Greer, bishop of the diocese of New York. These were the clergymen cho- gen by Mr. Morgan in his written in- structions, made some time before his death. There were twelve honorary pall- Bearers, selected chiefly from the clus- ‘ter of men closely identified with Mr. “Morgan in his career. They were @eorge S. Bowdoin, Lewis Cass Led- yard, Robert W. de Forest, Henry WFairfield Osborn, United States Sena- tor Elihu Root, Joseph H. Choate, Robert Bacon, George F. Baker, Dr. 3. W. Markoe, Elbert H. Gary, Seth low and Martin W. Paton. There was no variation in the serv- ices from the Episcopal ritual. “Cal- ‘Warr” was sung as a solo by Harry Waurleigh, the baritone of St. George’s. \As the funeral party left the church fwhe choir sang the recessional, “For AW Thy Saints Who From Thy Labors Memorial Service in London. Lomdon, April 15.—An impressive $memorial service for the late J. P. @iorgan was held by the American welony of London in Westminster ! @bbey.. Members of the Mérgan firm fim London, attaches of the United States embassy and American resi- - @ents and tourists in London formed ‘Whe bulk of the audience, but many «@istinguished Britishers were in at- v@endance. Geest thou a man who is hasty in bis -worgs? There is more hope of a fool than of bim.—Proverbs. Bin and penalty go through the worla Youth Inherits Half 0 Half of Multimillion- aire’s Estate. Detroit, April 15—From poverty and the obscurity of a little country town to the possession of a fortune of $2,000,000 is the Aladdin-like story of twenty-one-year-old Elvin Lechappelle of Grayling, this state. Within a few weeks he will receive his share of the estate left by his father, a millionaire, lumberman of Northern Wisconsin, whom he never has seen. The young man’s parents, Joseph | Lachappelle and Mary Taylor, quar- relled within a month after their mar- | riage. The husband left Grayling and never returned. After the birth of her son the young mother secured a divorce and remar- ried, leaving the child with her father. Joseph Lechappelle went to Wiscon- sin, where he engaged in the lumber | business and became wealthy. He also remarried and one son was born from this union. The millionaire recently died. His estate is being wound up and will be brother. SEVEN DIE IN RAIL WRECK Train Goes Into Ditch Near Montreal. Montreal, April 15.—Seven persons are dead and fifteen were injured as the result of the derailment of an ex- cursion train on the Montreal-Cham- bly branch of the Central Vermont railway about four and a half miles out of St. Lambert. The train was carrying about 700 Excursion ‘ passengers, who had taken advantage of the free trip given by a real es- tate firm to prospective purchasers of lots at Albani subdivision, and were returning to Montreal at a speed of between twenty and thirty miles an hour, when, from some cause un- known, the engine and the three first coaches left the rails. SURRENDERS TO AMERICANS parser General Ojeda Escapes From Rebels at Naco. Naco, Ariz., April 15.—General Pe- dro Ojeda, commanding the remnants of his federal garrison of 300 troop- ers, comprising 150 men, at Naco, So- nora, surrendered to the United States troops on border patrol here after having withstood a siege of the state troops which lasted for five days and in which more than half his men were killed. The surrender was hastened by the attack upon the federal garrison by the band of Yaqui Indians under Gen- eral Alvaro Obregon. For Presidential Primaries. Washington, April 15.—A Dill to provide for presidential primaries in all states was introduced by Repre- sentative Stevens of Minnesota. If passed this bili would, in Mr. Stevens’ judgment, enable the choice of the people to be nominated for president, leaving nothing for the national com vestion to do but draw a platform for the candidates to run on. Quick Mustard Plaster. A trained nurse says that if one for- gets the exact proportions for making a mustard plaster one can be quickly made by cutting a thick slice of bread, dipping it for just a second in hot wa- ter, then spreading with white of egg and sprinkling thickly with mustard. The egg will prevent blistering.—New York ‘Times. The Plot. “What is the plot of this play?” ask- ed the manager. “It isn’t complete,” replied the au- thor. “The plot is to get a lot of peo- ple to pay $2 each to see it, and I think we'll do it if you will come in on the conspiracy.”—Washington Star. ith their heads tied together.—Plato. eause it saves a trip It pays to make it business with you. Perhaps You Need The Telephone Door Customers’ like to order by telephone, be- less energy than to shop in person. should always be kept wide open. to the store and takes easy for people to do Your telephone door Another Telephone? divided between Elvin and his half- | GRAND RAPIDS HERALD-REVIEW WEDNESDAY, APRIL 46, 1913. |FROM POVERTY TO WEALTH’ MEANS MUCH TO | | | RURAL RESIDENT Dunn Good Roads Bill Now a Law of the State, LARGE SUM FOR HIGHWAYS Provides for Expenditure of Over $1,000,000 Annually on Construc- tion and Maintenance. (Special Correspondence.) St. Paul, April 14.—The R. C. Dunn good roads bill is now a law and with its advent passes into history the hundred and one makeshifts that have decorated the statute books for half a century. It is a codification of all state laws covering the subject of good roads. So important is the bill that provision will likely be made for its special distribution. Good roads to the majority of people means a level highway, free from ruts and in the majority of cases fairly passable and to them a law covering the sub- ject is no more than the average mass of legal words framed by some expert and interpreted by those entrusted with law enforcement. Well, the Dunn bill is more than that; it is per- haps the most important act put on the statute books in some years and it carries a message of good things for thousands throughout Minnesota. It brings to the swamp locked farm- er markets only reached at the cost of thousands of dollars and it provides the man with a highway a port of entry he little expected. City and country are cared for alike. The bill is a monster in size, being something over fifty pages in length. Had the present legislature done nothing else beyond the passage of the Dunn roads bill public opinion would have con- doned other deficiencies. Both house and senate is to be congratulated on its passage. + + It may not be generally known, but the Dunn road bill provides for an an- nual expenditure of nearly $1,400,000 and this amount is to be devoted not only to road construction but mainte nance. The money is raised by a one mill tax, eompared with one-fourth of a mill under the old law, and its dis- tribution is ‘0 be equitable. No coun- ty can obtain more than 3 per cent of the amount or less thin 1 per cent. Designation and location of needed roads is to be made by the county board of commissioners, with the state highway commission acting in an advisory capacity. Its duty is to supply experts, provide plans and specifications, see that there is a prop- er expenditure of the money and ar- range for the needed maintenance of the roads constructed. The county loses none of its rights. For the prop- er maintenance of the roads district inspectors are provided and they in a measure are to be under the super- vision of the county board, with the state commission as an overseeing body. + The Dunn good roads bill did not get by without opposition. The Twin City press was against the measure from the start and it was bitterly fought by the paving companies. To the three big cities the tax proposed meant an expenditure of better than $600,000, with only a partial return. The fact that the system of roads as proposed meant the opening of thou- sands of farms to their markets was overlooked. With the paving com- panies the adoption of the bill saw the passing of that beautiful dream, a paved highway, miles in length, and great for the automobile. They could not see anything else. oS The new roads law is not for a sys- tem of highways for the purpose of making the cities the hub of the uni- verse. It is for everybody and the one thing in its favor is that every section of the state is cared for. It provides for highways, not beautiful driveways. Thousands of acres of land will be brought into commission through its enactment and farmers will bless the memory of its author. ++ + Governor Eberhart is not in touch with the house, as was evidenced last week when that body ignored the goy- ernor’s wishes and passed an efficiency commission bill, with the speaker aid ee |Heutenant governor as the appointiag powers. His excellency was not given any place in the selection of the com- mission. The senate has to pass on tke resolution and the rumor is that it will refuse to concur. It does not take kindly to the slight given his | excellency. > oe + Though passed by both houses over ;a@ week ago the nonpartisan primary bill is still a long ways from being a law. A conference committee cem- posed of members of both houses kas it in charge, and between you and I, dear reader, they are out to either kill it or make it so obnoxious that neither house will adopt the changes proposed. The objectionable feature is the nonpartisan idea as applied|to the election of members of the hotse and senate and which the house le ers, after giving their sanction, wl up to the fact, or rather they ch get back now by proposing that the nonpartisan idea be extended to state officers, which would include the gov- ernor. This simply means that the bill will never become a law. tt + The threatened revision of salaries by the legislature continues to worry the state officials. This week it was reported that the house and senate finance committee had agreed on ; straight salaries of $4,500 each for I. | A. Caswell, clerk of the supreme court, and George Authier, secretary to Gov- ernor Eberhart. Both receive much more than that in fees. The report also is that Secretary of State Schmahl |is to have his salary reduced. Anoth- er cut to be made will be in the case of Bank Examiner Chase, who receives $5,000 a year. Both Schmahl and Chase are working overtime to head joff the calamity. + + A boxing bill, which has been a fea- ture of every session since the time when the legislature put the ban on the short haired fraternity in Minne- sota, received its quietus when the senate committee on general legisla- tion reported the Moeller bill legaliz- ing six-round contests with soft gloves out of business. The bill passed the house with votes to spare. In defer- ence to the wishes of the promoters the Twin City papers put the soft pedal on all news concerning the progress of the bill, but even this did not avail. Quietly a majority of the ; senators regarded the bill with favor, but what the folks at home would say was another thing. t+ + It may not come in this generation, but some day Minnesota will have a legislature where the call of “Hey, Rube,” will not be the slogan and city and country will dwell in harmony. If there is one thing that nauseates it is this continual appeal to the coun- try when it is desired to kill a bill and this session of the legislature has been particularly strong in this re- spect. The one pleasant thing is that many who were stampeded by the cry have tumbled and it no longer has the effect it did at the opening of the ses- | Sion. a7 + + + Minnesota bas not taken on woman’s suffrage as yet, but this does not nec- essarily mean that all the fair leaders of the movement have gone to pot. They are very much on the job, as was evidenced last week when, with- out the knowledge of the state fair board, they secured from Governor Eberhart permission for the introduc- tion in both houses of a bill creating a woman’s auxiliary fair board and forced its passage through both houses under suspension of the rules the same day. It was only two days later that the board woke up and after exposing the whole thing secured the return of the bill from the governor for further consideration. ++ + As the state fair board tells it for months they have been bothered by a delegation headed by Mrs. Clberg of Minneapolis asking for a woman’s ad- dition to the board. In answer the board adopted a resolution providing for a woman’s auxiliary of three mem- bers and asked the president of the State Federation of Women’s Clubs to make the selections. The list named did not include the delegation headed by Mrs. Olberg and she arranged a re- prisal. Imagine the surprise of the board when they learned of the pas- sage of the bill creating a board of three. And with expenses to be paid by the state, too. Representative O’Neill of Thief River Falls, who asked for the suspension of the rules so as to facilitate the passage of the bill, admits that he was fooled and he was among the first to insist on a recall. In the senate those responsible for the passage of the bill were equally active in calling it back. It is not every one who can slip it over 185 men, but one lone woman seems to have done it in this case. An tee The bill providing for a public utili- ties commission went by the board in the house Friday and in its defeat one of the most meritorious measures of the session was sent to the discard. Representative C. T. Knapp of Chis- holm fathered it and though with full knowledge of the fact that it was doomed he put up a fight that has been without a parallel this session. Representative Knapp has been one of the house floor leaders and to date he has been remarkably successful in the things he fathered or opposed. +e tS A public utilities commission is bound to come in Minnesota. The adoption of the scheme which is now in force in a number of states is in- evitable. Its defeat last week was due in a large measure to aldermen of those cities who saw in its adop- tion the passing of a line of graft long tolerated and a number of country members who had the idea that it meant state control of municipally owned utilities. Then, too, there was opposition from many civic organiza- tions who saw in the creation of the commission their occupation as pub- lic shouters gone. Their leaders could no longer climb to political heights on the declaration of lower gas or free water if the commission was created. The establishment of the state high- way commission was fought just as vigorously, and so was the state tax commission, but they became realities just the same. And so will the state utilities commission. +e + Not a temperance measure of any consequence has been put on the stat- ute books so far. THE COUNTY CHAIRMAN. \ HOME, SWEET HOME MAKE YOURSELVES AT HOME 4t our FURNITURE STORE Beds to Sleep In Chairs to Sink Deep In Chifforiers to “Heap” In Mirrors to Peep In Kitchen Cabinets to Keep In You are invited to take ‘‘a look in,” for then you know you'll not be ‘‘took in.” GEORGE F. KREME There are i | THE FURNITURE MAN Opposite Postoffice ~ “Mother was a beauty in ber younger days.”’ Mother may smile deprecatingly— but—Watch her go to the little top drawer and take out the precious photograph “taken before I was married.” Chances are she will also tell you of her admirers, and we can believe they were many. What a priceless record of her younger charms that [photograph is to mother—and to you. Modern photography can do in- finltely more to preserve the record of yours. | | : Che Photographer in Your Town. Byam ES Chicks Pay the s. We aklings are worthless. three weeks. After that add for the first ears Reacher to the regular ration and watch them grow. **Your money back if it fails.” Sai as free. , 25c up. il, $2.50 Chick Food in boxes and ba; Regulator, 25¢, » $1.60. 25-1b. 160-page poultry book FRE! Get Pratts Profit-sharing Booklet. Itasca Mercantile Co. Whether IMPROVED or UNIMPROVED or WHOLESALE OR RETAIL tracts for QUICK RESULTS. We are in Touch With the People. Who Buy Land We are operating and developing in the Southern part of ITASCA COUNTY, MINNESOTA, Give full descript!on and terms in first letter. We want to contract with parties to clear several 10 and 15 acre tracts this spring. Write us. 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