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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1897-11-12
PERSONAL MENTION.

Miss de Camp is spending some time at the
Goliath House.
Miss Mary Adrain Hall will spend the win
ter in New York.
Mrs. Letchford gave a seven handed euchre
party this afternoon.
Miss Margaret Watts of Hill street is visit
ing friends in New York.
Miss Bond of New York, is the guest Of w.
B. Skidmore of Westerly.
Miss Mcneil is the guest of Mrs. John o. II.
Pitney of Madison avenue.
The Misses Woodward of DeHart street, are
visiting friends in New York.
Mrs. Julius Catlin and family of Fairholme
will spend the winter in Europe.
Miss Alice Walker is In Cambridge. Mass.
the guest of Mrs. r. A. McCurdy.
Mrs. Ames and Miss Alice Bushnell have re-
turned from a visit to Philadelphia.
Mrs. Samuel Heath, of Albeit avenue. is
spending two weeks at Hackettstown,
Miss Waterbury of Boston is visiting her
aunt Mrs. Richards of Farragut place,
Mrs. Robert A McCurdy has taken some
young friends to Cambridge this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Grinnell Willis and family
have gone to New York for the winter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert A. McCurdy have tax
en- a house in New York for the winter.
Miss Egbert spent part of last week in New
York, the guest of her aunt. Mrs. Nash.
Mr.. and Mrs. Egerton Brown have returned
from New York and are at the Colonial.
Miss Agnes Brown of South street has re-
turned from visit to her sister in Boston.
Mr.. Bond has released E. H. Woodruff's
house on Mt. Kemble avenue for the coming
year.
Joseph Forbes has been the guest of his sis
ter, Mrs. r. A. McCurdy of Morris Plains, this
week.
Miss Belle Hastings and Miss Lewis are at
Weimar, Germany, where they will spend the
winter.
The Misses Dalrymple of No. 50 Maple ave-
nue. will be at home on Wednesdays during
the coming season.
Miss Anna Bushnell is in Philadelphia.
having gone on for the wedding Of her cousin,
Miss Edith Warden, last week.
Miss Vail of No. 10 Perry street, has gone to
Rochester to be the guest of her grandmother,
Mrs. Montgomery, for the winter.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. A. Grannis and family close
their hospitable home at Morris Plains next
week and go to New York for the winter
c. Franklin Wilson, left on Tuesday for a
two weeks vacation trip to his home at
Greensborough, N, G., making part of the trip
by water.
Rev. John M. Gilbert, formerly assistant at
st. Peters Church, has resigned his parish at
Gloversville. N. Y, and gone to Christ Church.
Waterford, n. Y.
Mrs. Charles Siedler and the Misses Siedler,
formerly of South street. Morristown, are at
home on Tuesdays during the winter, at their
city house, No. los, West 18th street.
The engagement of Miss Elizabeth NJ. Col
Inns, daughter of Mrs E. NJ. Collins. to George
Hull Dalrymple, son of Major H. M. Dali
rymple. both of this city, is announced.
The second parlor talk by Mrs. Johanna
Reville will be held at Mrs. Kingsley Twining's
on South street on the 18th inst, at o'clock
Subject, Home and Social Life in Germany
Invitations are out for the wedding of Miss
Minnie Blanchard to William E. Beach, to
take place at p. M. on Wednesday next, at
the home of the BRIDES parents, IS Mills street.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1897-11-12
AHEALTHY POLITICAL STATE.

The result of the recent election in
New Jersey with possibly the defeat OF
Senator Williams in Passaic was such,
as ought to have been confirmed by a
careful survey of the tread of events.
1t emphasizes the fact that there is a
large class of independent voters upon
whom party ties set very lightly and ii
behooves any party who expect to receive
their support to SO conduct itself as to
receive the commentator of this class
of voters.
1t is healthy state of affairs and will
prove great check upon partisanship OF
the faithless discharge of public duties,
1t is better for the Republican party in
this state that its majority should be re-
duced. Last year it was entirely toe
large for safety
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1897-11-12
High Prices for Realty ,

MIR. Wolfe. who has occupied Mr..
Woodwards house on Normandy
Heights during the summer, has bought
sixteen acres of the Newton Pierson
property on the Alton road, Normandy
Heights, for about $1,000, thirty two
acres of B. Frank Howell's, lying in the
rear of the Pierson farm, for about
S12, 900 and twenty-five acres Of the Nor
ristown Land and Improvement Com
pany's for $25, 600. The latter lies on
the southerly side of the Columbia road
and it embraces one of the finest build
ing sites on the heights. Mr.. Wolfe con-
templates erecting fine house in the
near future. He will occupy the Wood
ward house next season.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1897-11-12
AFTER MoRRlsTowN-READINe.

His Honor the Mayor of Reading is a
wise man. When number of investi-
eating clergymen reported, from person
al observation of course, that a certain
theatrical performance was improper,
he refused to stop it until he had an ex-
animation by official persons. Result
indignation. But we all know the ex-
citability of the clerical mind when on
the quest for impropriety.-Sun
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1897-11-12
New wheels for '9s.

We are informed that the representa-
tive of the enterprising Wanamaker is
seeking for an agent to sell the various
Wanamaker bicycles in this community
during the season of 1898.
The cycling world is well aware of the
contract between the Humber Company
and the Wanamaker firm for the control
of the Humber wheels in the territory
west one hundred miles and more from
the Atlantic coast, and extending from
Hartford, Conn, to Washington, D. G.
In thus taking command of the very
aristocracy of bicycles, John Wanna
maker has illustrated again the high
type of merchandising that marks the
progress of his business. Continental,
Coronet, Rodman and Continent have
been the trade marks under which
Wanamaker has achieved the greatest
mercantile success in bicycles yet known
to this country. The addition of the
Humber crowns the distinguished list
with the highest bicycle reputation in
the world. We predict an increased
bicycle success for Wanamaker in 1898,
and trust that plans for including our
city in his system will be so far realized
as to make one element in that success.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1897-11-12

Mrs. Henry J. Gielow, who will be re-
membered by her Southern dialect lee
lures and illustrated stories for children,
given in Morristown about two years
ago, will deliver lecture for Miss
Dana's School on Tuesday evening, No
vember %, on Colonial Virginia." and
on the following evening at the ST. Bar
tholomew School on "Cotton Culture in
the South" Mrs. Gielow will be the
guest of Mrs. Rowland during her stay
in Morristown.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1897-11-12

ALDERMAN CARRELL should be COM
plimented on his suggestion of a city Or
dinance to regulate the deposit of rubbish
garbage, etc. Every up-to-date town
has such provision and it is only sur
prizing that our authorities have not
taken such steps before. The Board of
Health have general laws regulating the
dumping Of debris, but what is needed
is needed is a city ordinance, and such
an ordinance should be complete and
carefully drawn.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1897-11-12
FOR SHORTER SESSIONS.

The holding of sessions of the Legisla-
ture on Monday afternoons instead of
Monday evenings is being favorably con-
sidered by many of the. newspapers of the
state. The change should tend to shorten
the session. The last session was at least
twice as long as it should have been, and
had it been materially shortened the Re-
publican majority in the state would
have been very much larger.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1897-11-12
@On the Golf Course.

The ninth and last contest for the Bal
lantine trophies was on last Saturday at
the Morris County Golf Club Grounds.
Fl. Coghill had the best net score of 80;
J. E. Denton, So, second, and w. 7.
Sanger with Sc third. Mrs. William
Shipper stands ahead in the competition
and wins the trophy for the first prize.
a silver pitcher, with 6 points, James
A.. Tying Won second prize with l-55
points. Several tied for third and this
will be played off this week.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1897-11-12
MUCK.

Many are inc c0Heafs' pa med against
the manner of the "final completion" OF
the "macadamized" road on Speedwell
avenue. A short time ago, when the road
was at least passable, the contractors
improved" it by adding coating
of screenings with an over abundance
of clay, all of which has since become
mud with an over abundance of muck.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1897-11-12
state Hospital Managers Meet.

The annual meeting of the Managers
of the State Hospital for the Insane, was
held on Thursday. The consideration of
the annual report was taken up and re-
ferred to special committee of the
Board. The Board was reorganized
with George Richards, president; Pat
rick Farrelly, vice-president; Guido G.
Hinchman of Dover, treasurer; and
Charles H. Green, Morristown, secre-
tary.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1897-11-12
VOORHEES, FOR PRESIDENT

The affable, eloquent and brainy SEN
ator from Union county, the Hon. Foster
M. VOORHEES,. it would seem has no oppo-
sition for President of the Senate. He
should have none. The Republican
party of New Jersey owes this honor to
him and surely it can fall upon no more
worthy a senator.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1897-11-12

A clergyman at Morristown whose zeal
for good morals overcame his discretion
is in heap of trouble because he asserted
that street walking was more open in
Morristown than in New York city.
This the newspapers deny as SANDER, and
they probably have more eyes than the
dominic. SUSSEX Register.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1897-11-12

DOVER editors, IN their earnest quest
for news, should be chary of their faith
in the news correspondents of some of
the Newark papers, particularly that
which comes from Morristown. Some
times the people down here indulge in
quiet smiles over these widely reprinted
fakes.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1897-11-12

THE editor of the Warren Democrat
upon second sober thought will find that
New Jersey is not redeemed" in the
way he puts it. by ''small Democratic
majority in the Assembly" She has
only indicated the good record of the
Republican party and returned it TO
power by majority of eight in the
Assembly and seven in the Senate.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1897-11-12

DIR. Charles R. Burroughs, president of
the Mercer County Medical Society, died
at Trenton suddenly on Wednesi day
morning.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1897-04-08
Smoking and Boards.

Sir William Harcourt was indulging
in "reminiscences at the house of mu-
tual friend a day or two ago and told
me things historical from my point Of
view, but rarely alluded to by profess
sional historians. For instance, our
present custom of smoking after dinner
he referred, if / am not mistaken, to the
fact that at the table of Mr.. Gladstone
the Prince of Wales pulled out cigar
and proceeded to enjoy it's smoke. That
happened in Downing street, and must
have been therefore about 1870. At that
time did not frequent dinner parties,
but should be curious to know when we
first passed cigars after dinner in New
York.
Sir William Harcourt recalled also
that up to the close of the Crimean war
no gentleman would have been guilty of
smoking on public thoroughfare. It
was regarded as essentially underbred
to do so, but the warriors who returned
from the fields of Inkermann and Sc
yastopol had become so addicted to the
false friendship of tobacco that they
presumed upon their services to the ex-
tent of smoking wherever they pleased.
Boards, too, became popular for some-
what cognate reasons. One of the old-
est living members of parliament told
me that before the Crimean war there
was but one member Of the house of
commons who had the courage to wear
a beard, but that the Crimean veterans
had found boards so very comforting
during the cold weather and shaving SO
difficult task that boards were voted
fashionable.
After the Franco German war [ was
struck by the frequency of boards on
the streets of Berlin, no doubt from sim-
ilar reasons Harper's Weekly.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1897-04-08
WANAMAKER,S.
ss PHILADELPHIA, Monday, April 5, 1887.

@. PHILADELPHIA, Monday, April 5, 1887.
About Bicycles and other things.
A bicycle is a luxury. With
many it has come to be almost ne
cesSity. With thousands the buying
of the wheel means careful economy
to gather the money-with all, the
investment is worth being careful
about. Bicycles have cost too much.
They may cost too little. On the
whole, the dangerous mistake is
buying one that costs too little. 1t
may be guaranteed. But guarantees
are easily evaded; and, after all,
the wheel is meant for use, not to
be frequently sent in for repairs.
We have had experts studying BIZ
cycles since the time when we sold
the high-wheel affairs at $135-and
saved buyers money on them. Pro-
duction has enormously increased; !;
expenses for manufacturing have
almost correspondingly decreased,
but today no entirely safe and dur
able bicycle can be retailed under
$3.50. Not every Iow-price wheel
will quickly go to smash. But there
can be no assurance as to any par
ticular one proving really cheap.
We confidently state that no
wheel need sell for $100, if waste
full expenses are clipped off; or for
Gloucester County Democrat., 1897-04-08
Strikers Rnsh BACK to yYnrlr

Pittsburg, April S.-Seventeen of the
2S pudding furnaces at A. NJ. Byers &
Co.'s rolling mill, which have been
closed down by a strike of the puddlers
against reduction Of so cents per ton
in the pudding rate, were started yes
terday with non-union men. A large
crowd of strikers collected about the
mills, but beyond jeering the new
workmen when they entered there was
no attempt at force. Later in the day
the rush for places became so great
that the strikers were frightened, and
declared the strike off at both the By
ers and Oliver mills. The old men were
taken back, and work was resumed in
full today at the reduction. President
Garland, of the Amalgamated Associa-
ton, says that Byers & Co. violated
their contract, and the men can insti-
tute suits against the firm for damages.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1897-04-08

yuugesnrps, rrom rne Democrars VINO
had filled them, almost from time Inn
memorial, to Republican successors
About the only Democratic head of
department who will remain is Quar-
termaster General Donnelly. The quar-
termaster general and the adjutant
general seem to be independent of po-
litical fluctuations Adjutant General
Stryker lRep) held throughout sue
cessive Democratic administrations.
All the new Republican heads of de-
partments. whose names have already
been printed in this correspondence,
have taken hold, except in the supreme
court office. where Clerk Lees term does
not end till fall.
Various Topics.
Not single veto message was writ
ten by Governor Griggs.
The marriage license bill was COM
promised by making 1t necessary only
for nonresidents to be licensed.
April 27, the Grant monument dedica-
tion in New York. has been made le-
gal holiday by the Jersey lawmakers.
The act authorizing the expenditure
of $4,000 year in bounties for the rails
ing of beets for sugar will please many
in south Jersey.
At the beginning of the session there
was apparent certainty of a law reor-
ganizing county boards of government,
but the attempt was beaten.
The Wildes resolution, directing legal
proceedings against ex- Secretary of State
Kelsey to recover money alleged to be
due the state, was defeated.
Nofhino xuac dnpa n rannadv fhn poI-
luton of the Passaic. Another commits
sion will act and report to the next ses-
sion.
An interesting new act is the one re-
quiring petit jurors to serve only two
weeks of a term. This is with a view
to breaking up the professional juror"
business.
The new police pension act is unpopu-
lar in many places.
The two appropriation bills amount in
the aggregate to $685. no.
Governor Griggs gave a hearing yes
terday to the Pennsylvania fish commits
sioners who oppose the Delaware dam
bill
The bulk of the bills passed remained
In the governors hands after final ad-
journment. This practice of throwing
on the governor the sole responsibility
for the passage or defeat of legislation
is very generally condemned.
Owing to dissensions in the naval re-
serve, it is rumored that the governor
thinks of vetoing the item of $4,000 for
it's maintenance, which was inserted
In the appropriation bill after a contest.
The bill for two boards of asylum
managers, one to govern the Trenton
hospital and the other the Morris Plains
hospital is in the governors hands.
The erailroad commission bill, ,thecheap
ferriage bill, the dollar gas bill and the
Ambruster race track bill are among the
dead measures of the session.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1897-04-08
Accident DELAYS an Execution.

Columbus, o.. April S.-Although Gov
ernor Bushnell refused yesterday after
noon to commute the sentence of Will
lam Haas, the Cincinnati rapist and
murderer, the electrocution did not take
place this morning. While a final test
of the electrical machinery at the PEN
itentiary was being made the dynamo
burned out. The machinery had been
tested five times previously, and the
dynamo had carried 1,500 to 1,600 volts
readily. AS no one was in the dynamo
room at the time of the accident ex-
cept the prisoners detailed to take care
of the machinery some of the officials
suspected the dynamo had been tam
pered with, but he prisoners indig-
nantly denied the imputation. The
governor decided to grant the con-
demned man respite until April 81.
The death warrant had been read to
him.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1897-04-08
THE TARIFF IN DANGER
Senator Chandler Fears the Dingley
Bill May Be Defeated.
WESTERN SENATOR'S ATTITUDE.

They Are Inclined to Urge Higher
Duties on Wool, Hides, Coal and Lead
Ore, and Fear the West May Be Dis
criminated Against.
Washington, April 8.--A number of
western Republican senators, more par
ticularly those from the Rocky noun
tain states, have united in a movement
to make sure of securing certain con-
cessions in the tariff bill which they
consider important to that section of
the country. There have been several
Informal conferences recently, but up
10 date no conclusions have been
reached
The articles which the senators have
especially in view are wool, hides, coal
and lead ore. The tendency is to ask
q charge in the portion of the wool
schedule which relates to third class
woo's. The probabilities are that there
will be a demand for specific instead of
ad valorem rates in this class, and one
senator said today that he would not
he satisfied with less than so cents a
pound on any wool.
There is quite a determined move
ment among these senators for a duty
on hides. The finance committee, west
ern senators say, did not manifest at
first disposition to grant this conces-
sion, but the western men say they now
find reason to feel encouraged over the
outlook. They probably will ask that
The duty be fixed at two cents per
pound, but some of them appear will
ing to compromise at one and half OF
even one cent.
There will be a determined effort to
increase the rate on the lead contained
in ore from one cent a pound. as fixed
by the Dingley bill as it passed the house.
to one and a half cents, and to change the
language of the provision. This would
mean a return to the Mckinley rate
but the language of the Wilson law is
considered preferable to that of either
the Mckinley law or the Dingley bill
There will be an effort also to pre-
vent any reduction of the house rates
on coal and lumber The Wyoming and
Colorado senators are especially inter-
ested in COAL and the Oregon and
Washington senators in lumber. There
are also many smaller items to which
the western senators are giving their
attention Some of them are inclined
to discriminate against western inter-
ests, and desire to organize to prevent
that result.
Senator Chandler today authorized
the statement that the passage of the
tariff might be endangered if the pres
sure for high duties continues. 'The
Republicans have not a majority with
out assistance from other parties, and
the danger is that there will be such
general revulsion of feeling as will
cause the outsiders upon whom we
are counting to not cast their votes for
the bill. So at least, the matter pre-
sents itself to my mind. The Republi-
can members of the finance committee
are disposed to be conservative, but the
pressure is so strong that they may be
forced to yield The people who are
creating the pressure are thus pre-
pairing to pull down upon their own
heads the temple that shelters them"
Gloucester County Democrat., 1897-04-08
General Markets.

philadelphia, April Flour weak. win
ter superfine, s.. SOd2.6O; do. extra, 81. 65d
$50; Pennsylvania roller, clear. So e50s. IS;
do. straight, $S.9O@4lO; western winter,
clear. $365@s,s5; do. straight So. .95@4 Is;
city mills, extra, $2.I012. 30. Rye flour dull
at s2.25G2.4 40 per barrel Wheat lower;
contract wheat, April, 79150SOc; No. .
Pennsylvania and No. 2 Delaware red,
spot, 83c.: No. l northern spring, spot,
791sGS0c.; No. 2 red. May, 72c. do June,
71%c.; do. July, H1Sc.; do. Sep>~nber.
69Bc. Corn dull steamer corn, spot, 261k@
Hc.; No. yellow for local trade 30c; No.
mixed spot and April, 271a028c; do.
May. 27A@2sc. Oats firm; No. 2 white.
car lots, 25c.; No. white clipped, car
lots, 2415@25c.; No. white clipped, car
lots, 2S1zc. No. 2 white. April, 241s@25c. !;
do. May, 241k@25c. do, June, 241k@25c; do.
July, 245k@25c. Hay firm; choice timothy,
$14 for large bales. Beef quiet; beef
hams, Sic. .25@2O, Pork easier: family, $10.5O
oil. Lard easy; western steamed S430
Butter quiet; western creamery, 15020c.
do. factory, 8GI13c. Elgins, 2ec.; imitation
creamery, 11@17c.; New York dairy, 140
l3c,; do. creamery, l5@2Oc.; fancy prints
jobbing at 22a2ac.; do. extra, wholesale,
21c. Cheese quiet; large. emi21zc.: small.
9m12c part SKINS 5MSc.; full skins, 21k0D
&c. Eggs steady; New York and Pennsyl-
vaylia, 9S4M10c.; western, fresh. 91sd9szc c. !;
ef,tJfflprn &C.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1897-04-08
ATour to WashInaton.

The next personally ly-conducted tour to
Washington via Pennsylvania Railroad will
leave New York and Philadelphia April
%. Tickets, including transportation,
hotel accommodations, and every necessary
expense. will be sold at the following rates,
From New York, Brooklyn, and Newark,
$3.50; Phillipsburg, N. J.. $14 so: Potts
vile, $l4 80 {; Cape May, $12.75; Philadel-
phia, 81 so; and at proportionate rates
from other points.
For tickets, itineraries, and full infor-
nation apply to ticket agents. Tourist
Agent, 1856 Broadway, New York, or Geo.
w. Boyd, Assistant General Passenger
Agent, Broad Street Station, Philadelphia
4-8-97-3t.