Alton Evening Telegraph from Alton, Illinois • Page 1

ALTON EVENING TELEGRAPH. PH. Seventy-Seventh Year. P. BONDHOLDERS MEETING MAY TAKE ACTION.

Set as Time For Consideration of Various Monday Propositions Made For Completing the Line. meeting of the bondholders come A of the A. J. P. will be held mitice Louts Monday morning at 10 In St.

when the fate of the various o'clock propositions for the completion of the will be taken up, It is. stated on Ilne nuthority that some decision good will probably be reached as to accoptthe proposition of. J. J. Cummings ing Chicago, who has made an offer to of other bondholders of the A.

J. the P. many this proposition is vlewdd By with favor and it would have been acceplod but for an intervening proposttion thut was made by some of the slockholders who plan to raise local capital and get the line completed and pay off Cummings on the tering he proposes to the othere. It is stated that is urgent neccesity for taking up the work of completing and putting the line in operation. Valuable time ig being wasted, It is asserted, by those who know, us the work already done needs reinforcing after a hard winter.

The franchise will expire in Jerseyville In a lew months and the line must be in operation to hold the rights there, as the Jerseyville people are not in friendly state of mind about this railroad. The Cummings proposition will probably be accepted next Monday unless salisfactory assurance can be given by makers of the opposing proposition that they will be able to go ahead with the line and complete It in a short time, MERCHANTS HOTEL TAKES OVER OPERATING COMPANY. Illini Will in Future Be Operated by Owners of Hotel Bullding, Instead of by Independent Company. As the result of negotiations which have been going on for some Lime it was agroed last evening that the bferchants Hotel owners of the Illini hotel building, would take orer the holdings of the Illini Hotel the operating comprny, and would hereafter conduct the hotel. IL is probable that August Ratz will continue as manager of the hotel.

When the hotel was first built the Jilni Hotel Co. was organized to olerate it, the stockholders belug chiefly stockholders in the Merchants Hotel owning the hotel. This Inner wheel will now be done away with. Mr. Wn.

Houston, who has been confined to his home for several months, is out again, and has taken up his position in, the Beall Bros. shovel factory. (Established Jan. 20, 1836.) WEATHER FORECAST Generally fair and continued cold tonight: and Friday; frost A. WOULD PAINT EXTERIOR OF STATION Olty Officials at Same Time.

Remind Warchouse 'Commission of Intended Visit. The elty officials and many of the prominent men are still hot after the A. railroad and expect to make the latter do something towards making the place more beautitul or errect a new station. When the C. and officials thought that the citizens of Alton would let them get away with painting only the they were mistaken.

J. Brenholt went to Springfield today: where he will hold a short conference with the members of the Illinois Warehouse and Railroad Commission in regard to coming to Alton in the near future. to look a1- ter the matter of the C. and A. station: They were to have visited, Alton the first of this month but it wag impossible for them to be there on that date.

The men interested in the movement are certain if they can', the commission to come to 'Alton they' will be able to get some improvements The C. and. A. railroad has evidently. reconsidered the matter of painting the exterior of the Union station and.

today sent A gang' of men to do the work. The men are under, the direction of Mr. Martin who painted the interior of the station and was ordered away from Alton two weeks ago. The gang. arrived this noon and made ready to go to work at once.

Late this afternoon the painting was started and Mr. Martin said the work would be rushed through at once. Two weeks ago when the painters were waiting for orders to paint the station they were ordered; away from Alton for another job and they thought the work painting the exterior of the station. bad been postponed. Yesterday they were much surprised to.

learn that the Alton station was to -be painted The station certainly needs the paint and the paintors were welcomed-back to 'the city to do the good work. VALENTINE WOLF GETS CONTRACT. Buard of Local Improvements Makes Formal Award of Belleview Avenue Job to Alton Contractor. Announcement was made today that the fromal award of the Belleview avenue. sewer contract has been made to Valentine Wolf, who will do the work.

The matter WAS held under advisement until late yesterday afternoon, when the decision was given. A supplemental assessment roll will have to be filed, but just when. has not been dotermined. SCHOOL HOLIDAY FOR CLEAN UP DAY MAYOR ASKS FOR IT. Over 3,000 Children in Public Schools and Likely in Parochial Schools to Work April 26.

The public schools of the city will have' a holiday on the date of April 26th, clean up day In Aiton, and on the same day the parochial schools will likely be granted a holiday, Thie will give over' four thousand children to the working force that will give Alton its. first thorough cleaning, on, one week from tomorrow. General McKenney of the captain's force has arranged with Mayor Faul stich for a team to work with each crew and.if necessary two teamg will be given to a district. if they find more trash' than one team can haul. The superintendent of streets is now arranging for dumps for the various wagon loads of.

trash, tin cans, rage and other unsightly objects that will be gathered in the big drag net clean up on next Friday. Captain McKenney has called a conference of his thirteen captains to be held in the Board of rooms on tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. At this meeting final arrangements for the hauling- of the workers: will be made and the captains will start cating the littered parts of their districts and arrange to give them A cleaning. The plan la to leave Alton so clean after the day's work that 8 goat running wild. on the streets would starve to death.

The boys and girls of the neighborhoods are asked to begin collecting all of the tin cans, rubbish, get the old kite tails out of the trees and make their sections look like the real spotless town. Then Onnext Friday, one week from tomorrow, the wagons will come and take, it. all away and Alton will start the spring clean for the first time in many years, Mayor Faulstich said today that ho has ordered the street department to see that eyery catch. basin in the city is cleaned out and that all 'sewera be flushed, where practicable. He re quested President.

Johp of the Board of Education' to, have the school holiday declared. What Hie Was "Ascared" Of. ALTON, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 18, 1912. OWENS MAY 'CONTEST SAYS "DR." BEFORE SIMS, NAME IRREGULAR Placing Doctor Name Called Advertising. wens Consults Lawyer.

Because he states his opponent Mr. Simms, who recelved the nomnation on the Democratic ticket for Coroner in the late primary, put the title "Doctor" before his name on the officied ballot. Mr. Zeph Owens before his nante constituted an adbelieves the putting of this' title vertisement and, he believes there Is 2 Blight chance of his contesting. He stated this 'afternoon he would this evening consult his attorney and be guided by his advice.

There was interest in circles over the right for the coroner nomination, Dr. Sims received 1175. votes," Owene received 984 and John Henry recetyed 785. Attorneys In Alton who were Interrogated on the. matter' this Efternoon stated.

they did npt believe there was anything In the statute pertaining to the laws controlling the arrangement of the pallot that forbad a man placing title' before 'his nime, although it WAS not cus- tomary. THE HENDRICKS REVIVAL. At the Twelfth Street Presbyterian Church. Interest Increases in the 12th street revival. Rev.

Hendricks and Mr. Carter 'are having good success in- the revivals at 12th street. church. Last' night Hendricks tulked. on "The Blood." He took 'his text from 11.

Cor. 5:7. 'He talked of the saving power of Jesus blood. "Jesus can save no matter how far in the depths of one may be." Mr. Catter sang "The Ninety and Nine." One young man was converted.

This evening Rev. Hendricks will speak on the "Old Fashioned This will be- a celebration of mothers' day end Mr. Hendricks that every one who could, wear a flower. Mi. Carter will sing of Mother." This will be.

a at 'the ovangelist why give an Mustrated lecture. This is given for the school children and every, school boy and giff is especially Invited to attendy WORKING AGAINST. M. W. A.

INCREASE, Members' of Legislature Being to Vote For House Bill Deferring Rate Increase to 1015. Mombers of the Illinois Legislature- in Madison county are being importuned' in bebalt and also in opposition to House Bill No. 6, which will, be considered by' the Legislature, deferring by law the change in the Modern Woodmen rates to January, 1915. The bill was offered in the House when the specicl session WaS convened and will be taken up when the Legdelature reconvenes. W.

Northcott has been seeking to secure the Volos of senators and representativos to oppose the passage of the bill and some of the Woodmen lodges have been passing resolutions asking the legislators to vote for the bill. Lizzle Winger has returned to school after being confined to her home for a week with a fractured arm. She was playing 14 game when she slipped on banana peel and fractured her elbow. SENIORS VS, JUNIORS IN LIVELY TILT BURN 200 PENNANTS. Students Battle With Fists When Property Sides Censured: The Juniors And Senlors of the Alton High School have had a sort of war during the past hours.

There has been trouble be. tween these two classes for some time but the first outward signs were displayed last evening when the Juniors burned two hundred of the Sculor penanta. The members of the Senior Clasa had A class supper planned for last evening at the gymnasium and had the place decorated with 200 of their class penants. Between, the hours of six and seven last evening the gymndslum was left unguarded except for Thomas Haycraft was put on duty to guard the place while the other members of the class would put on their best clothes and arrive at. the scene ot the banquet.

All of the doors of the school were. locked but even this and 'the. guard were not enough for the Juniors. Four members of this class watched until the guard had stationed himself on the north side of the high school building and then they climbed up the fire 'escape IN the rear of the ing, got in on the third story and proceded down stairs to the basement. The basement door was locked and it was necessary, to drop ten feet through a window to arrive at the of action.

They quickly gathered up the penants and made out with them, meetping a teacher on the way but getting by safely. They reached the outside the bullding and Were getting away when Mr. Lorch, the janitor of the school, fired several shots at them but with no The Juniors then buried the penants and left the Seniors to spend the remainder of the evening in peace. To get revenge the Seniors planned a scheme to raise their colors in the assembly room this The scheme worked and theyr tied their colors to one of the curtains in the Senior section and pulled the cur tain as high as it would go. The Juniors made a.

rush for the colors and a lively fight followed in the assembly 1'00m. Several of the participants received black eyes 88 the result of the fight which raged for several minutes. One of the. professore stopped the fight and B. C.

Richardson, principal of the schol, forced the Seniors to take down their flag. The- leaders on both sides were kept for a short time after school this evening and made to promise that no such outburst of class spirit would be seen again in the Alton High School this year. Besides this both classes were bitterly censured before the entire school this morning. The feeling, however, 18 not at an end for the members of the Senior Class have sent word to the Juniors that if the latter do not refund them $10, the value of the penante, they will boycott the Tatler, a Junior publication. The Juniors' refused to refund the money.

Foot and beg Injured. Vouco Von is the name of a Hungarlan employe of the Bellefontaine Quarry who had his right leg and foot badly mashed yesterday afternoon by being caught under 8 lot of falling rock. Dr. Ponnington gavo him surgical ottention and BAJ8 he will be able to resume work in four or five weeks. 3 PER CENT INTEREST ON SAVINGS ACCOUNT INVITE YOUR ACCOUNT WHETHER LARGE OR SMALL First Trust Savings Bank CAPITAL $100,000 102 West Third Street 10c PER WEEK.

"HUNKS" GETTING WISE INJURIES MORE PROFITABLE THAN WORK Whenever One is Now Injured While n1 Work No Company Release W.Ill Be Signed by the Injured. A large number of Hungariane and other foreigners are employed in the vicinity of Alton In factories and on railroads, and employers are discovering that the "Hunks" especlally, as the Hungariang are termed, have grown crafty since coming to America. No matter now how slight an Injury may be, the injured positively refuses to sign a liability release, something that years ago, when the influx from Europe began was always signed. All of the companies, practically, care for the Injured employes free of cost to the latter and consider compensation enough where 111- Juries are not of a grave character. But the foreigners don't think so any more.

They now want hospital and medical expenses and in addition want regular wages for the time they were off. It ig reluted that over at Bellefontaine the "Hunks" demand damages always and unless something is done to pacitly them suits are Inatituted. One man the other day got Judgment against the company for $75 in a justice's court it is said because of an injury to one joint of one finger, and another got a $100 judgment in another justices' court for an injury no more gerious than the first. Appeals are expensive things, usually but not enough for big companies to stand for injustice or extortion and the "Hunks" get a long wait or a non suit or nothing at all when the higher courts pass on the merits of their claims. WILL HAVE TO BUY NEW STEAM ROLLER.

Contractors Will Need One Under Specifications for Street Imiprovemont Work, They Believe. Another steam roller will have to be bought for the street paving work in Alton under the new Im-1 provement ordinance which has been decided upon as the model for Alton. According to Alton contractorg none of them is equipped with the two kinds of rollers One part of the ordinance requires the use of a roller not to weigh less than 10 tons for rolling the graded street, and another requirement is that a roller not to exceed 6 tons be used for rolling the surface of the bricks after they are laid. Both must be self propelling rollers. There is a roller in town that will come under the 10 ton provision, but the smaller roller is what is ing the contractors and It Is admitted that someone will have to buy one.

Wm. P. Boynton. -LAWYERGeneral practice in all courts. Office in the Commercial building, west Third street, Alton, Illinois.

Rooms 502, fifth floor, Bell phone Maln 233-R; Kinloch 929. WOOD RIVER TO HAVE WATER AND SEWER TO COST $55,000. Water Mains and Sewers Will Connect With Standard Oil lic Hearing Will Be Held. The board of local improvements of Wood River has approved of the expenditure of $28,356 for a water system and $27,320 for a sewer 8ygtem in the village. of Wood River, both of which conveniences will be made possible through the cooperation of the Standard Oil Refinery.

Notices were sent out today for public hearing to be held on April 24, at 2 o'clock for the purpose of, hearing objections or. proposed amendments to the present plan drawn up by the board of local 1m- provements. It is planned to secure the water from the mains of the Standard Oil refinery and to connect the sewer on to the sewer of the refinery, thereby removing the cost of laying a sewer to the river or of building A water 'plant in case such improvements should be desired without the cooperation of the refinery. When the town was Incorporated over a year ago it was promised by those who were In charge of the affeirs in the village that there would be sewer and water service given the residents through the accommodation of the Standard Oil Refinery. The promises are being fulfilled now and will doubtlessly be put through very soon.

The matter of lighting the village from light from the Standard Oil Refinery is also said to be very near although the entrance of the McKinley system into the fleld may be the cause for the Standard OIl Refinery's bolding off with any light proposition for some time. The members of the board of. local improvements who are directing the improvement matter are all employees of the Standard Oil Refinery, being officers in the Reflory. The of the board, is A. Beach, president; W.

ton, secretary; W. A. Eaton and A. K. Whitelaw.

Warren Lowe tells this one: Tuesday while standing near the first ward volling. place he noticed a man, whenever. an automobile's honk, honk was heard clap both hauds to his ears, look the other way and crouch as if trying to hide himself. After the fellow did that four or five times War. ren asked: "Say, what is the matter with you, anyway? Why do you act that way?" "I'll tell you," said the man.

"A fellow with one of them things came along some weeks ago and my wife ran away with him in it. Every time I hear one of the blamed things honk I get ascared the fellow da bringing her back." That's all." Dr. 'F. Bray of Jerseyville, WAS a guest of Dr. D.

F. Duggan today. Ladies' Suits AT CUT PRICES WE have LADIES never and made MISSES big FINE reductions SUITS on this early in the season, and this opportunity is just the one you have been waiting for, as the entire spring season is still before us and now is the time you will need your Suit most. GET YOUR SUIT WHILE THE BIG REDUCTIONS ARE BEING MADE. SUITS WORTH $22.50 $24.75 YOUR CHOICE $27.50 $30.00 $1475 Bros.

ALTON Bowling. The final results of the Turner Hall bowling league show that the U. (J. bowling team has won out by the narrow margin of 90 over their rivals, the Maennerchor, while the I. 0.

U. team finished last in the tournament. Considering the number of games played the results were very close. The Hard Bolled Egg Team wag also In the league when it started but later dropped oft because their members did not take interest. MR.

AND MRS. JOHN LOCK. Embalmers and Funeral Directors, 810-312 State Street Both Telephones 16, Glad to see the Spring AND say good bye to Winter See our Spring Hats made up in Rough, Stiff, and Soft $2.00 to $5.00 full line of Stetsons -79c, $1, $1.15 $1.50 Underwear Sessels Union and Suits ALTON. Two-Piece Garments ON PIASA STREET AT THIRD in endless variety.