Oklahoma City Daily Pointer (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 258, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 14, 1907 Page: 1 of 4
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"In God we Trust on the American Dollar is Sacred to most people—Sacred, because
In the rush and stir of the business world; surrounded by a Heavenly atmosphere it silently performed its mission, serving as a prayer that carried light
1 -nd^hme40 epoor and lowly; a messenger, that stole through the dark grey walls of money centres to soften hearts of those wiihin—and an Angel
i of Truth to cheer ic miser m his lonely den. \ ea, it sparkled as a grain of gold on the desert sands—"but it must go," says Roosevelt, and has been
i(Stricken off the new coined collars. Yet let us hope, not forever.
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The Palace Laundry located 126 W.
First street, came near being totally
destroyed by fire early this morning.
About 12:30 o'clock the fire was dis-
covered and the whole rear of the
buiuding was a mass when the fire
department arrived.
After about three hours' work upon
the part of the firemen the blaze was
put out. This building is located in
the very heart of the business district
and for a time it looked like the
ames would get beyond control and
WATER PRESSURE LOW.
/ me api^ad to the adjoining buildings.
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was
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i one Kessler, there was only 55 pounds
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of BfipSBure upon the water mains all dur-
the fire. This made It very diffi-
hint
r the cult to put out the fire, for there
ought to have been at least 80 or 90
fhile
the pounds of pressure. THE PUMPING
old STATION WAS CALLED FOR SEV-
to°* ERAL TIMES BY DIFERENT MEM-
BERS OF THE FIRE DEPARTMENT,
through the medium of the telephone
ister TO TRY AND GET MORE PRESS-
hem URE, but the engineer at the plant
Hi
,, . claims he did not get any calls and
iliar
did not know there was any rings for
him. It is now up to the telephone
i company, FOR A WONDER CENTRAL
Ircu-
sub- WAS NOT A SLEEP LAST NIGHT
;°ra- F0R EACH CALL WAS RESPONDED
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both oat
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the,
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TO ft i WHETHER
OR NOT THEY REALLY DID RING
THE PUMPING STATION, the people
will never know. The telephone com-
pany have made so many rank mis-
takes in giving fire alarms lately that
the people have lost all confidence in
them.
ENORMOUS LOSS.
The loss of last night's fire will
reach approximately $4,500. Dr. J. B.
Rolater owns the building and his loss
is estimated at $1500. The building is
insured for $4,000.
According to the statement of L.
Towler, the proprietor of the laundry,
he is loser about $3,000 upon fixtures
and machinery. There was 600 shirts
burned in one bundle of laundry and
figuring that shirts compose about
one-third of the articles usually con-
tained in laundry bundles, Mr. Tow'er
placed the loss of clothing at about
$1,000. Nearly all of these articles are
out of town shipments and conse-
quently Oklahoma City people will
have a good chance for recovering all
of their clothes.
CAUSE UNKNOWN.
Mr. Towler stated this morning that
he did not know the caHse of the fire
but believed that it was of incediary
origin. He stated that the blaze start-
ed in the toilet room, located in the
rear of he building near the engine
room. There was no one about the
building after 8 o'clock last night, and
according to his statement there was
no one in the rear part of the room
where the fire started after 6 o'clock
last night.
COVERED BY INSURANCE.
The laundry property is covered by
$9000 insurance. The plant is put
out of business for a few days until re-
pairs can be secured. The back end
and the up-stairs of the building are
almost burned out and it will take
considerable time before the plant can
be placed in running order again. All
business is being contracted out to
other laundries In the city at present.
ALARM GIVEN.
The fire was given by the night
watchman working Main and First
streets, wbo first saw the blaze. He
was at the Grant Hotel and could
have sent it in over the telephone, but
fearing that the telephone company
might send the firemen in the oppo-
site direction as they have done so
many times heretofore, he ran to the
corner of First and Broadway and
there sent the alarm in through the
fir' alarm box. The flames were leap-
ing to the top of the building and a
moment's carelessness upon the part
of a mis-sent alarm by the telephone
might have caused several brick
buildingB to have been destroyed.
$20,000.00 President
STOLEN
Kansas City, Mo., Nov. 14.—A spe-
cial to the Star from Trinidad, Col.,
states:
Some time last night the $20,000
payroll of the American Smelting &
Refining company was stolen near
Trinidad. No arrests have been made,
but several men are under suspicion.
The money was taken from a buggy
which was being driven by the pay-
master and another man.
Abraham Thompson, the paymaster,
accompanied by James Williams, a
guard, left here at dusk last night to
drive to Cokedale, the biggest camp
operated by the American Smelting &
Refining company. The money, which
was contained in two canvas bags,
was placed under the seat.
According to the story of Thompson
they encountered no one on the way
to the camp, but when they arrived at
Cokedale and the miners had formed
in line to receive their pay it was dis-
covered that the money was missing.
Thompson and Williams immediate-
ly retraced their tracks for several
miles but could find no trace of the
thief and returned to Cokedale, where
they notified the sheriff by telephone.
Some of the miners secured horses
and rode over the surrounding country
but encountered no suspicious appear-
ing characters.
ROOSEVELT
REPLIES—rCLLS WHY HE OR-
DERED INSCRIPTION LEFT OFF
GOLD COINS.
Washington, Nov. 14.—President
Roosevelt has made public a letter in
which he tells why he had the words
"In God We Trust" left off the new
gold coins. He says there is no legal
warrant for the use of the phrase and
that to employ it in this manner, "not
only does no good, but does positive
harm, and is in effect Irreverence
which comes dangerously close to sac-
rilege."
It is a monununt which it is indeed
well to have inscribed on our great na-
tional monuments, in our temples of
justice, in our legislative halls, and in
buildings such as those at West Point
and Annapolis—in short, wherever it
will tend to arouse and inspire a lofty
emotion in those who look thereon.
But it seems to me eminently unwise
to cheapen such a motto by use on
coins, just as it would bo to cheapen
such a motto by use on postage stamps
or advertisements."
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Tucker, Dudley R.; Tucker, Howard A. & Tucker, William L. Oklahoma City Daily Pointer (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 258, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 14, 1907, newspaper, November 14, 1907; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc152890/m1/1/: accessed April 23, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.