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Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-05-06

7
Havana, May 6.-The government
has ordered the Competitor case to be
proceeded with Immediately. There
will be separate proceeding in the
case of the Americans. Ona Melton and
William Leavitt, to conform with the
provisions of the treaty of 1921. 1t is
understood that the government is
..favorably disposed, and that the
result of the trial in their case win be
a release. 1t is stated that Alfredo La
horde has not been able to prove his
American citizenship.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-05-06

BICYCLES At least a thousand BIZ
cyles are here ready for
instant delivery. That is one of
the helps to our lessened prices for
high-grade wheels-we have them
made months ahead. There is time
to be precise, and it keeps the fac
tories busy-for you know our
wheels are simply standard wheels
with our ndme-plate put on. We
know them from start to finish-no
guess-work; no shortcomings. Mems
and women's Bicycles peers of the
pest
Continentals, for men and
women, $50.
Continents, for men, $3.50.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-05-06
Live stock Markets.

New York. May Sleeves slow and
weak all around; native steers, $4.25@5;
stays and oxen. 50. 50Q14. 40: bulls, $31O@
$50; dry cows. $1.659S50. Calves quiet;
yeals, S3@5.25. Sheep and lambs fairly
active and fully steady, except for spring
lambs, which are dull and weak clipped
sheep, $41450; clipped lambs, $4.75@5. AS;
unshorn do, $5.T5@6.25; southern spring
lambs &c. per pound and $4 each. Hogs
firmer at $4.30@460.
East Liberty Pa, May Seattle sup
ply light: prime, S5.1Od5.25; bulls, stays
and cows. $2q3.75; common to good oxen,
S264.10 Hogs steady; prime assorted,
$4 100420; best Workers, $4.10d4.15: COM
mon to fair Workers. $4@405; heavy hogs,
$4@4.10; pigs. $S.S5@395; roughs. $2.5OQ3 %.
Sheep steady; clipped sheep, $4S504 40;
common. sS@3.6O; choice lambs. $5a5.15;
common to good lambs. $46l4.S5; spring
lambs. s5Q7; veal calves, $45OQ4.75.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-05-06

The organs of the Republican party to
whom Mr.. Cleveland so effectually turned
over the aid of all the vast administration
Influence the Democrats had trusted in his
hands, give him scant thanks. The Tri-
bune, reporting his big supper and speech
coptemptuously remarks:
1.-THE rapid return of gold Democrats to the sup
port of silver Democratic candidates in various
States ana cities plainly indicates that the adher
ents of Clevelandism are even fewer than they
were last November"
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-05-06
Greater New York Bin Now a Lax

Albany, May 6.-Governor Black af-
fixed his signature to the greater New
York charter yesterday. The munich
pality is divided into five boroughs,
Manhattan, Bronx, Brooklyn. Queens
and Richmond, which are in turn each
sub-divided into ten council districts.
The mayor will be elected for four
years at salary of $4,000 per annum,
instead of for two years at 10000, as
at present. With the exception of the
comptroller, who will be elected by
popular vote. all municipal officers will
be appointed by the mayor, who may
remove at will during the first six
months of his tenure. Greater New
York covers a territory 359A square
miles, 80 miles long and is miles wide.
with an estimated population of about
100000, second in both respects only
to London
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-05-06
Wife Murderer sentenced to Death

Wife Murderer Sentenced to Death.
Morristown, N. J., May 6. David
Wilson, colored, who chopped his wife
to death in their home here, and was
convicted of murder in the first de-
gree, was yesterday sentenced to be
hanged on June 8.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-05-06

William J. Bryan still believes in the
greatness of Grover Cleveland. He highly
compliments the latest display OF courage
and steadfastness made by the ex- President
amid the festive scenes of Saturday night
week. Mr.. BRYAN remarks on it:
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-05-06
WASHABLE SUITS

All WI hetN 2DiuS Oulto III UOy ,
of Z to 16, at So.
WASHABLE SUITS
Careful mothers are not waiting
for hot weather to come. They
are buying hot-weather clothes for
the boy now.
Three interesting lots of wash
able suits
Sl.85-All-linen suits in good color. For
boys of 3 to r.
S2.50-Suits of fine English Cottons; most
ly blue, with red or white stripes; the
navy blue drill collar trimmed with four
half-inch bands of red or white For
ages to r.
S5-Handsome suite of pique-white, pink,
or tan; trimmed with silk soutache
Some of the white suits have over
collar of pink and light blue; the tan
suits, collar Of light blue. For ages 8
to 10.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-05-06
Boys
| Clothing


Every seam is silk sewed-the suits
are right and good. Six styles. All
have double-breasted jacket.
All-wool navy-blue Suits for boys
of Z to 16, at So.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-05-06

A less resolute man would hesitate to assume
that leadership of little band of 100 0o0-many
of whom voted the Indianapolis ticket by mis-
lakeland then accuse 500,0 900 voters of being
either designing agitators or The dupes of de-
signing agitators A man of self reliance would
re-examine his own conduct to see whether il
was his folly or theirs which separated him from
100000 Democrats who once idolized him, but
in the lexicon of Mr.. CleYeland's maturer years
there is no sucn word as mistake"
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-05-06

missing NJ. GOSSe, the notary, or
| learning that his wife and two daugh.
tiers were among the victims, was sc
Frustrated that his life is despaired Of
M. Girard, director of the Municipal
| laboratory, reports that the ether fol
the lamps used in the kinematograpt
set fire to the film, the flames then
| igniting the apparatus.
Further particulars regarding the
| finding of the remains Of Duchess d'Al-
encon show that the secretary Of the
| prefecture, accompanied by the maid
of the duchess and footman belong
ing to the household of the duke, ex-
amined the rows of bodies. The two
servants stopped before blackened
and mutilated corpse, whose abdomen
was torn open. They declared that IL
was the remains of their mistress, and
also sent for the dentist of the duch-
ess. The latter, after examining the
corpse for half an hour, declared it was
that of the duchess. He claimed there
was a tooth too many in the head, but
the servants insisted, whereupon the
dentist and two doctors operated upon
the upper jaw, and then the dentist
was enabled to formally identify the
remains as being those Of the Duchess
| u AlGnCOll.
The Duchess d'Alencon was the sis
ter of the empress of Austria and the
wife of Prince Ferdinand of Orleans.
She was a duchesse of Bavaria, and
was born in 1S47 and married in 1868.
Her daughter, Princess Louise is mar
ried to Prince Alphonse of Bavaria.
and her son. Prince Philippe, is the
husband of Princess Henriette of Bel
| gium. The former queen Of Naples is
one of her sisters. The duchesse was q
woman of great wealth. and one of the
most prominent ladies of France.
Among the last to escape from the
burning building was the Baronne de
Reuter-, formerly Miss Beatrice Potter,
of Philadelphia
Mrs. Porges was the only American
victim. She was Miss WeisweiIler.
Her daughter accompanied her to the
bazaar, but escaped uninjured. The
Porges family reside in Vienna.
The unidentified bodies as well a.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-05-06

This paper e entered IN the Post Office al
Woodbury., n. J., as second class matter.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-12
A Defense of Trusts.

An interesting feature of the current
number of GuntOn's magazine is a pa
per by Ex-Governor Flower protesting
against the indiscriminate use in po-
ltical and economic discussion of
trusts" and combines" as inter-
changeable and equivalent words-a
use which tends, he thinks to lead the
public toward injustice.
The trust, as he points out, is sim
ply merging of property interests or
consolidation for the development of
economies in business. If three cor
porations producing, say, boots and
shoes grow tired of sustaining the ex-
pensc of three separate organizations
engaged in internecine trade war, they
merge their holdings into a trust man
aged by a board of directors taken
from the officials of the separate cor
porations. This enables the three fac
tories to be. operated with one set of
executive officials, permits supplies to
by purchased in trebly larger quantity
and therefore more cheaply, and by
doing away with other expenses of ths
former competitive system enables the
consolidated institution to put boots
and shoes on the market at an even
lower selling price than formerly, yet
with increased profit to the sharehold-
ers in the trust Governor Flower offers
the career of the Standard Oil COM
pany, the oldest and largest American
trust, as proof that trusts in them
selves are not disadvantageous but
may be with good management posi-
lively beneficial to the public.
1T was organized" says he, "in 1872
and prior to that time oil was poor
and even dangerous to use. Exploding
lamps were of daily occurrence. With
the organization of the trust the capital
that was previously scattered among
"A large number of small concerns was
concentrated, and the skillful knowl-
TO the methods of all. Immediately
there began a series of experiments
for improving the quality as well as re-
ducing the cost of refining and trans
porting oil. Among these economics
was a system of pipe lines, by which
oil can be directly pumped from the
wells to the refneries at the great CEN
ters. This was saving of over so per
cent. in the cost of transportation. In
other departments of the business / find
that similar economies have been de-
veloped. In the manufacture of bar
rels the cost has been reduced to an
aggregate of nearly $4,000,000 a year.
In the manufacture of tin cans a saw
ing of 80 per cent. has been made
since 1874 Since the company uses
about S0OOO,oOO tin cans in a year, this
economy amounts to a saving of about
s4,5oo,0OO annually. 1t is the same with
the wooden cases, where the price has
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-12
Eating While Travelling.

A writer in LeSlie'S Weekly makes
just complaint at the inadequacy of
the facilities for dining afforded to
passengers by the majority of Ameri-
can railroads. He has reference not
terminal or intermediate stations-al-
though heaven knows these are usually
bad enough-but to the exactions prac-
ticed in the dining car. For instance:
Under the present rule on many of
the trains a passenger must pay q
dollar for a meal whether he wants a
cup of coffee or a full course dinner,
and even then he cannot get it unless
he is in parlor or a sleeping-car in
which he has paid an extra fare. This
experience recently happened to the
writer: He was on train in which
He had with him a lady and child. A
wreck delayed the train several hours
and he went to the parlor-car and
asked for coffee and food, for which
the usual charge was to be paid and
in addition fee to the porter. The
ipSu "hS pti-Sillplolliy
the party had no seats in the car. For
tunately an acquaintance was discov-
cred, and as he had a seat in the car
the food was procured, but there were
several ladies in the regular coach who
had to starve until the city was
reached"
Naturally passengers who are sub
jected to such treatment charge it
against the railroad company which
permits it to be .practiced on its trains,
and as such incidents are frequent a
feeling of prejudice against railroad
corporations is excited, finally taking
expression in unsympathetic legisla-
tion. The writer in Leslie's contends
with shrewdness that the adoption by
the railroads of a more liberal policy
would return its cost to the company
In increased earnings many times
over. But he does not make clear just
what the companies ought to do; and
to supply this omission we beg leave
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-12
PRECEPT AND PRACTICE.
Holland in Philadelphia Press

Holland in Philadelphia Press
In his formal letter of acceptance and
in his address at Cooper Union, Mr.. Low
made strong argument against bossism
and an appeal for the right of the people
in municipality like New York to be
able directly to control their own affairs
and directly to reward or punish faithful
or unfaithful public servants. The ar
gument from one point of view was un-
answerable, but from another. was alb
surd, when is recalled the manner in
which the Citizens Union organization
was effected and Mr.. Lows nomination
made.
Tammany itself has never had a rule
so strongly suggesting irresponsible boss
ism as was that rule of the Citizens
Union organization, which permitted a
little committee, practically self-consti-
tuted, consisting of a few men, response
BILE to no one, to make nominations for
public office which bound the Citizens
union. Mr.. Low was thus nominated and
the operation by which that nomination
was secured far surpasses any assump-
ton of power by the executive committee
of Tammany Hall, for that committee is
at least nominaly fairly representative
of the organization as it is chosen by it..
Thus we have a candidate standing up
on the platform denunciatory of one-man
power and boss rule who is himself NOM
mated by self-created committee, nomi-
mated behind closed doors and as a can
didate becomes really responsible to no
one but the committee which thus placed
him in nomination. Undoubtedly Mr..
Lows nomination represents a strong
public sentiment, but If it be possible for
a self-constituted committee claiming to
represent citizens to nominate Mr. Low
one year, some other year they may
nominate some one else in this same
manner and with the same pretense of
representing public sentiment, and what
is there to distinguish such manner of
nomination from that which Mr.. Low
claims the Republican party and Tam
many Hall adopt?
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-12
And Duggan still keeps mum.
Watsou'S Fool Petition,

II the action taken in court yester-
day by George NJ. Watson were hon
est it would not have been deferred
until almost the latest moment avail
able under the law, when the man at
whom it aims is busted with prepara-
tions for a twO-weeks' term of criminal
court that will sit in double session
and demand all his time and energies;
and furthermore it would present, in
stead of windy generalitles and gutter
gossip. specific charges backed by af-
fidavits. 1t will be seen by perusal
of the text of Watson's petition, which
appears on another page, that there is
not an assertion in this rambling docu-
ment which could not have been made
quite as confidently almost a month
ago. The nomination of John r. Jones
was certified to the county commits
sioners six davs after the Republican
county convention, that is to say, on
Sept. 49, Watsons string of general
charges of fraud was not made public
until oct. II, or twenty-eight days lat
er. If Watson's case were of a char
a2ter to stand careful examination by
the public, why was it withheld until
practically the eleventh hour?
Omtting fractions, Jones received in
the convention of Sept pa votes to
@3 for Watson. If 1t were true, as
Watson alleges, that his % votes con-
stituted a majority of the votes legally
cast in said convention, then it would
follow that not more than As legal votes
We're cast in the convention, leaving 222
votes which according to Watsons
sworn belief were cast illegally. Yet
despite such an alleged preponderance
of votes cast illegally Watson enters
court without the name of one dele
gate whose vote he is ready to chal-
lcnge. In his petition there is not q
name, a figure or a date tending to COR
roborate his omnibus accusation; that
which he offers in support of the pre-
posterous request that his name be cer-
tilted on the Republican ticket in place
of Jones's consists entirely of indefinite
allegation based on hearsay and imag-
inatiOn. Suppose such a man We're
seated in the district attorneys office.
What kind of indictments would he be
likely to draw up?
Watsons freak action clearly con-
firms the conventions wisdom in turn
ing him down.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-12
THE FINANCIAL OUTLOOK.

From Macy & Pendleton's Circular.
When exports are increasing at the rate
of thirteen million dollars per month,
there can be but one result and that a
very heavy movement of gold to this
country to settle naturally accommodating
trade balance. This strengthening of
finances will make monetary discussions
fruitless and futile and form a center
around which new courage and develop
ment will continue. AS manufactured
stocks diminish, owing to good buying by
agriculturists, which now have money to
spend, there will follow demand for
coal for furnace purposes and iron and
steel for manufacturing, that will be only
one of the many manifestations of reviv-
ing energies What transpires in these in
dustries will find it's duplicate in hundreds
of others and the movement when once
started will develop in every direction,
each industry interacting upon every other
until the whole are In motion on new
and more profitable basis These are not
fictions of imagination, but hints drawn
from history of finances and trade under
similar circumstances in the past The
same effects are certain to follow when
the causes are noted in every depart
ment of the worlds life.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-12
ABSURDITY OF NON.PARTIsAN.
SHIP.
Frim Gunton's Magazine.


The abolition of parties in municipal
government is the reverse of real reform.
What is needed is more party RESPONSE
bility, not less. Party responsibility
should be extended into the remotest cor
ner of local affairs. National parties
would then be held responsible not mere
ly for their attitude on the tariff or fin
ance, but also for the attitude of the
party towards industrial state legisla-
tion and on local questions of educa-
ton, sanitary Improvement housing of
the poor, and all economic and social
questions that reach right down into the
daily life of the people. Every effort to
segregate local from state and national
politics tends to relieve party leaders
from the real responsibility of party pol
icy. If national parties were held re-
spOnsible for the conduct of their follow
ers down the whole line into the small
est school district, ii would become poll
tically necessary for the national lead
ers to use their influence for wise policy
in the most remote local districts. With
such a theory and practice of party in
fiuence it would be impossible for a pres
ident to be popular in Washington, when
his party is preventing education and
suppressing personal freedom in the
south, or using injunctions against
strikers, and blacklisting and otherwise
coercing laborers in the north. If the
national party professed to be in favor
of personal freedom, 1t would be held
responsible for the attitude of its fol-
lowers towards personal freedom, just as
much in the remote localities as on the
floor of congress. If the national party
professed to favor social Improvement,
1t would then be held responsible as much
for good municipal government as for
wise tariff laws.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-12
THE REPUBLICAN TICKET.
state.

state.
State Treasurer-J. S. BEACOM' OF
Westmorelard. -
Auditor General--LEVI G. MCAULEY,
Of Chester.
County.
Sheriff-CLARENCE Z. PRYOR, OF
Scranton. -
District Attorney-JoHN II. JONES. OF
Blakely.
Prothonotary JOHN COPELAND. Of
Carbondale.
ton.
Clerk of the Courts--THOMAS p. DAN
IELS, of Scranton.
Recorder - CHARLES HUESTER, OF
Scranton.
COW.
Jury Commissioner - CHARLES WIG
GINS, OF Scranton.
Election day, November Q.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-12

TO suggest that they adopt a dining
car service offering good food at mod
crate prices, served a la carte to any
passenger who may order 1t. 1t should
not be necessary for the hungry pas
senger in the dav coach to enter a
parlor-car, pay the extra fee charged
for seat there. then tip the waiter
and finally pay a dollar in order to
soothe his ravenous appetite with a
bite of bread and a sip OF coffee; the
railway company should make 1t
part of it's business to see that by
pressing a button within reach from
his seat its patron can summon a
waiter who will serve him with light
lunch in the regular coach on the prin-
ciple of paying for what Is ordered
and no more. Certainly II the passen-
ger in the day coach wishes a course
dinner he should enter the car where
special facilities render its serving
feasible; but not so for any of the
numerous articles of food that can
conveniently be carried from car to
car on a tray.
That an arrangement of this kind for
through trains would pay by vastly
enlarging the now limited patronage
given by the travelling public to the
present style of dining-cars and cor
respondingly inviting an additional
volume of travel seems wholly prob
able. In all lines Of business 1t is the
great middle class that constitutes the
mainstay of profit-the occupants of
the day coaches, as it were-yet under
| existing conditions this class of patrons
receives from many railway manage
ments the least thoughtful attention.
In many respects travelling by rail in
the United States is superior in COM
fort to travelling by rail anywhere else
in civilization; but in the direction of
which we have spoken there appears
to be large room for improvement.
The record of Judge VanWyck, the
Tammany candidate for mayor of New
| York, is 23 beefsteaks at one sitting.
No wonder he counts on capturing the
| butcher vote.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-12
AN ELMHURST VIEW.


From the Signal.
According to the wilkes-Barre Times
boulevard is to be built by enterprising
men of Plttston from Yatesville to Bear
Creek, a distance of ten miles, ana the
estimated cost of the road is put at 81 900
per mile. Should the road go through or
not the fact remains that the example or
building the Elmhurst boulevard has been,
and will ever continue to be, an OBJECT
lesson, and whenever and wherever men
of municipalities seek to make road In
any way like It, their great appreciation
of the benefits of our magnificent drive
way Is shown.
To one who carefully notes the effect of
passing events 1t Is easy to understand
that If 1t had not been for the improve
ments begun at Eimhurst thirteen years
ago, and which are still being carried on,
the boulevard would never have been
built. Without the Elmhurst boulevard
Roaring Brook turnpike would not be in
it's present fine shape for driving, nor
would the Scranton Gas and Water COM
pany have built their road. so lately
opened ana which is entered from the
boulevard and winds through pretty
bit of woodland and leads out to the res
ervoirs of the company.
Elmhurst, the boulevard and all the i'm
provements following in its train are of
great advantage to the city of Scranton,
and the least reciprocal thing the city
can do is to accept every new street within
its limits leading to the boulevard, and
maintain them In good order as convenient
approaches to the road winding in grace
full curves over these mountains. 1t takes
men of brains as well as dollars to make
good roads, and it also takes a municipal
ity with an intelligent body of men to
appreciate and keep In repair the streets
of city. The absence of this material
in the councils of Scranton may account
for the lack Of interest shown by those
bodies in making and maintaining the
approaches to the Elmhurst boulevard
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-12

has been raised in the Wyoming and Lack
awanna valleys for investment In a rail-
road and coal operation In New Mexico
would seem to indicate that times are not
so bad with some people. We think these
capitalists, however, OF Wilkes-Barre,
Pittston and Scranton would do much
better by keeping their money at home
where the promised profits may not be so
alluring but where the principal at least
10 reasonably safe