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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-04-04

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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-04-04
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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-11-25
A MODEL CLERKS OFFICE.

A Philadelphia Press correspondent
who was in Morristown the other day,
after visiting the County Clerks office,
wrote as follows to this paper:
Speaking about Morris county affairs,
the Republicans have elected Deputy
County Clerk Voorhees, as County Clerk.
This was a reward for merit and was to
celebrate the silver jubilee of Mr.. Voor-
bees, who for twenty-five years had been
the Deputy County Clerk. The promo
ton was justly deserved because Mr..
Voorhees, has, just completed one Of the
most complete file rooms in the State. 1t
is not only marvel of beauty and safety,
but it is so arranged as to make search
ing in the Morris County Clerks Office
easier than in any other county office.
s.The fixtures are japanned iron, made
to fit every part of the Office. Nine hum
bred books of reference are neatly and
snugly stored away on rolling shelves.
The documents themselves are filed by
letters in boxes. A majority of the books
are ON patented scheme Of reference,
but County Clerk Voorhees, has evolved
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-11-25
MosEs-LAcoMsE.

A number of guests from Morristown
were present at the marriage of Miss
Elizabeth Aimee. daughter of Judge
E. H. Lacombe formerly of this city,
to Mr.. Frederick Moses of Trenton,
which was celebrated at the University
Place Church on Wednesday afternoon,
the Rev. DIR. George Alexander officiat-
ing. Miss Marian Graves Lathrop was
maid Of honor, Miss Helen Moses, a
sister and Miss Ethel Moses of Trenton
cousin of the groom. Miss May Ken
nedy, Misses Clarissa and Julia Wood
ward of Morristown, Miss Mabel Kings
man, Of South Orange were the brides
maids. Arthur Moses brother of the
groom was best man. The ushers were
Messrs. Walter Moses, Ralph Moses, j.
Wilkins Hume, Arthur Butler, Frank
Worrall and Charles Lacombe. A re-
ception at the home of Judge Lacombe,
No. ss West 18th street, followed the
ceremony. Mr.. and Mrs. Moses will
reside in Trenton upon their return
from the honeymoon.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-11-25

For an soffo year the result of the
recent election does not afford much
comfort to members of the Democratic
party who prefer free silver to gold.
Nineteen States returned Democratic,
Populistic or Silverite pluralities aggre-
eating $4,000, and twenty-five States
went Republican with $4,000 aggregate
plurality. In 1896 Kansas, Nebraska, the
Dakotas, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Ne
vada, Wyoming. Washington, Oregon,
California and Utah gave s69, s43 net
plurality against the Republican ticket;
this year the net Republican plurality in
these States was II, s74, total change of
81, 70S votes, or the conversion of nearly
10 per cent. of the total voting popula-
ton of those States.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-11-25
woRTH ALL IT COST.

The more importants of the moral re-
suits Of the war was the increasing of the
national bond between the North and the
South, drawing us together as thirty-6ve
years of legislation, of commercial rela-
tions and fraternal advances did not
accomplish.
In one moment of national emergency
the loyalty of all hearts was drawn out,
and men who thirty years ago wore the
gray and fought under strange flag
gladly donned the blue and rallied under
the stars and stripes and with their
comrades in arms from the North will
inglY enrolled themselves as soldiers,
under the glorious flag of united nation.
This alone was worth all the cost of the
war to accomplish such result.
ssAnd in addition the struggle brought
together in closer bonds than ever before
the two good English speaking peoples,
so that England and the United States
to-day stand together for law, order and
freedom
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-11-25
FRACTURES. TWISTS AND BREAKS.


A lad witnessing game of football in
East Newark on Sunday was caught be-
tween the opposing teams and before he
could be rescued his skull was fractured.
The star player of the Yale eleven on
Saturday played, so the papers stated,
with great grit for thirteen minutes with
a broken rib and other internal injuries
of a serious nature.
Broken collar-tones and little things
like sprained ankles, twisted knee-caps,
wrenched backs. broken jaws and
cracked craniums don't count for much
in the noble pastime that is about at an
end for '98.
In Morristown the number of serious
accidents this season fortunately have
been few, although a few heroes may
be occasionally seen vending their way
on crutches to business or hurrying
toward school with faces and hands
adorned with patches and plasters of
various colors and sizes.
the most serious result feared in the
immediate vicinity Of the shire town of
Morris is the liability of contracting
pneumonia when the football hero parts
with his Samsonian locks.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-11-25
PERSONAL MENTION.

Edward Dalzell of Brooklyn is the
guest of Mrs. belong of Clinton street
Mrs Willis K Howell has issued cards
for reception this evening from to 9
O'Clock.
Miss Porter has returned home after
spending several weeks with friends in
New York.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. F. Axtell and family
are visiting Mrs. Axtell's parents at
Stratford, Conn.,
Mr.. and Mrs L. G. Lathrop and
daughters are spending few days with
relatives in this city.
Miss Margaret c. Stone has returned
from New York, where she was the
guest of Mrs. Darling during the Horse
Show.
Willie Weir, the professional golf
player at the Morris County Club, will
go to the Sommerville links in Georgia
for the winter.
Cards are out for reception to be
given by Mrs. Fl. T. Hull tomorrow
afternoon, when Miss Hull will make her
debut for the season.
Miss Mlrian Wslker of Brooklyn, for.
merly soprano of the choir of the South
Street Presbyterian Church, was the
guest of Miss Jesse M. Sharpe over
Thanksgiving.
On Tuesday the final match for the
McCurdy cup was played and Marie @.
Bryce declared the winner, after defeat
ing Miss Jane Swords by 1 up. Twenty
holes were played in order to decide the
match.
Captain P. n Cooper, superintendent
of the Naval Academy for some time
past, will command the remodeled
cruiser Chicago, which will be put in
commission about the first of next
month.
Corporal Fred Taft of the First New
York Engineers arrived from Porto Rico
yesterday on the Minnewaska. 1t is ex-
pected that sixty days furlough will at
once be granted and that the regiment
will be mustered out at their expiration.
Vice President Foote of the Iron Bank
is home again after a ten days shoot in
Holmes County, Ohio. Mr.. Foote re-
ports the partridge shooting in that
county very fine. Quail is not SO pIenti-
full, but the average shooting is superior
to anything in New Jersey.
Messrs. John and James Orr of Big
Springs, Nebraska, are visiting their
sisters Mrs. Charles R. Slater and Mrs.
William McVay and brother Keeper
Orr of the Jail John Orr went to Ne
braska fourteen years ago and now owns
an extensive ranch, upon which he
raises cattle and horses. His brother
John pre- empted government claims ev' \
years which is now devoted to grain
growing. They will return after the
holidays.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-11-25

VICE CHANCELLOR PITSEY has decided
that divorce obtained in Dakota by
August Streitwolf against his wife,
Elizabeth Streitwolf, will not hold good
in New Jersey. The matter came up
through the bringing of a divorce suit by
Mrs. Streitwolf in New Jersey. Her
husband alleged that he already had a
divorce, which was granted to him in the
Sixth Judicial district of North Dakota.
Mrs. Streitwolf maintained that the de-
cree is invalid. In sustaining her Vice
Chancellor Pitney quoted various Chan
Gerry decisions against persons who had
obtained Dakota divorces.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-11-25
THE "cALLo ABOUT RIGHT.

The Paterson Call has secured novel
addition to Its collection Of curios. It
says: 1.-THE Call acknowledges the re-
ceipt of letter from one of the success
full candidates, thanking it heartily for
the support it gave him during the re-
cent campaign. 1t is SO rare an acknowl-
edgment that it deserves particular
mention. A paper may devote column
after column in the interest of candi-
dates and yet never receive word of
recognition for their service. Indeed, in
the course of long journalistic expert
ence very few instances of the kind can
be recalled"
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-11-25

Mr. JOHN BRISBANE WALKER has now
set about to reform the voting masses of
New York City against the bosses" and
thus to purify the politics of the city. 1t
is a beautiful personal scheme full of dis
interested enthusiasm, provided one can
ascertain the exact quality of Mr.. Walk
er's own political saintliness and where
and how and when he got it, and how it
is going to pan out when spread broad
cast, and how long it will wear without
bagging at the knees. The truth is that
the unmitigated humbug of American
politics is the Pharisee reformer. If a
tried and true and patriotic crusader for
the displacement of the undoubted evils
Of our politics sincerely craved the pub
lie confidence and the public adhesion be
would first of all have to forswear all
thought or purpose of ever himself seek
ing Office or of influencing votes for his
favorites. And to make people believe
this, while engaged in his contemplated
reform, he would need to put himself un-
der perpetual bond and supplement this
with daily personal affidavits. Then, af-
ter all this had been done and election
time arrived the vote Of MIR. John Bris-
bane Walkers bossless aggregation of
political archangels could be deposited in
pill box.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-11-25

THE merchants who do the largest
business in Morristown as we'll as else
where are those who advertise. There is
advertising that pays and there is much
that does not. Newspapers are recog-
nized by merchants and others as the
most effective medium through which
their purpose may be served. Don't
think you can do business successfully
without advertising.
A man started in business recently,
and as special stroke of enterprise
placed III his window card bearing this
conspicuous motto:
ssOthers advertise to sell goods:
We sell TO advertise our goods.
This sounded very pretty, but it would
be an incomplete story if we failed to
add that another sign made its appear
ance in the window last week. 1t is
quite large. too, and it reads:
'.This Store For Rent.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-11-25

COMPETITION has reduced the price of
gas in Trenton to 25 cents thousand
feet. The new company, called the
Peoples, announced that it would fur
nish gas at so cents per 1000 feet, where
upon the old concern announced reduc-
ton from $500 to 45 cents per 1000 feet.
Not to be outdone. the Peoples Company
promptly announced further cut of %
cents per 1000 feet. OF course, gas can
not be manufactured and sold at profit
for the latter price, but that it can be
made of a superior quality and sold for
81 90 per 1000 feet is an acknowledged
fact.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-11-25
NORRIS COUNTY COLE.

Mondays final competition for the
Club silver buttons closed the fall season
for the women of the Morris County
Golf Club. Miss Alice Day. who has
been a leading player. injured her
shoulder just previous to the contest
and at first decided not to enter. Miss
Cornelia G. Willis offered to play
against her and use only one hand, so
the two women played one handed
match of seven holes. In spite of her
injured shoulder Miss Day won by 8 up
and 2 to play Mrs William Shipper
allowed Mrs. w. Fellowes Morgan
strokes handicap, and this match was so
close that an extra hole was necessary
to decide Mrs. Morgan the winner.
Mrs. Kissel beat Mrs. F. NJ Bacon, Jr.,
bv up in a nine-hole match: Miss
Marie g. Bryce beat Miss Kip 8 up and
to play; Miss Madeline Evans won from
Miss Eva Foster, up and to play; and
Mrs. Arthur o. Dean won her match by
2 up.
These button contests have been ex-
tremely popular owing to the novelty of
the idea. The competitors each time
are drawn in pairs, and the winner of
each pair sreceives silver button
stamped with the club insignia Each
match has been at IS holes. match play,
and several of the women have won
enough buttons to decorate both sides of
their golfing coats
The final contest for the Flagg cup
Saturday will close the season at the
Morris County Golf Club, which has
been remarkably successful one. This
will be the only course in the North on
which there will be no winter play.
The John 81. Schmidt Company are
selling new hand power clipper roller
bearing and which experts claim is the
cheapest and most complete machine on
the market. 1t is advertised elsewhere.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-11-25

FRANCE is SO universally regarded as a
degenerate among the nations that it is
believed that either of two calamities
would hasten her decay while both to-
gether would force her extinguishment.
The collapse of Paris as giddy and gild-
ed bauble for the butterfly world would
remove at one and the same time mod
ern Mecca and Babylon, while the event
of war would inevitably uproot the
present affectation of republican rule but
in its stead institute chaos. No country
at peace today hangs to existence by SO
slender thread as does France.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-11-25
IN HumANITY's NAME.

The influence exerted by the Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is,
as might naturally be expected, already
widespread, and it is gratifying fact
that it is constantly increasing. The
conviction of canal driver at the recent
term of court in Morris county for mall
treating pair of mules is only one of a
dozen cases recently brought to trial at
the instigation of the Society, and in
every instance conviction was secured,
the offenders being severely fined or i'm
prisoned, or both.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-11-25

Two principals and two teachers of
the Newark schools recently resigned
from the Teachers Retirement Fund
and have refused to pay the per cent. on
their salaries. The matter was referred
to State superintendent Baxter, who has
just decided that teachers who are mem
bers of the Retirement Fund cannot
withdraw while holding positions in
schools. Their only remedy under this
ruling is to resign their positions as
teachers, which would be extremely
hazardous, as they might not be able to
secure their positions again should they
hope to continue in the profession. It is
said that the Newark teachers propose
testing the constitutionality of the act
creating the fund and to find out whether
they can be compelled to pay assessments
against their wishes. The fact is appar-
ent that teachers who are members of
the fund must have realized what obi
cations they assumed upon uniting with
it, and they should live up to them.
Otherwise, the purpose of the scheme,
which is worthy one, would be a
failure.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-11-25

THE Washington Star says: Cor
-nelius K. Vanderbilt and party of rail-
road officials passed through Washing
ton on Friday last on special train.
They were presumably on tour of in
spection, but it is rumored that the real
object was to consider scheme to tun-
mel Mount Pocono. This scheme has
been in the minds of the D.. L. and w !.
people for some years and its accom-
plishment would be an easy task.
ssIf Mount Pocono were tunnelled it
would shorten the line between New
York and Buffalo by over forty miles
and would reduce the time between the
two points one hour. The expense of
the tunneling would be comparatively
light. As Mr.. Vanderbilt practically
controls the road, his opinion would be
necessary before the tunnel could be
made.
It is well known fact that prominent
officials connected with the Lackawanna
have for years been of the opinion that
the tunnelling of Mount Pocono was
only question of time, and it would APP
pear from the above that the time is not
very far distant.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-11-25

IT may be worthy Of reminder that the
holiday occasions Of 1898, though gener-
Gus in number, are not yet exhausted.
Morbid apprehensiveness lest the youth,
the babes and the stockings might neg
lect or overlook it, impels us to announce
in jog-your-memory sort Of way that
there will be a Christmas, as usual, near
the close of the year and that Santa Claus
is bleaching his whiskers and greasing
his wheel for tour Of the house tops.
Don'tlet the children wholly forget or ig-
more the approach Of this important an
niyeEsary.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-11-25

THE Florists Club of Passaic county
held meeting recently to condemn
what they call ''crape chasing by
which they mean that certain florists
visit homes where death has recently
occurred for the purpose Of getting
orders for flowers. The president of the
club was authorized to draw resolution
in keeping with the sense of the club and
to publish it in the local papers and trade
Journals.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-11-25
EXIT or THE CENTURY.

Some one has said: 1.-THE centuries are
made by the Almighty, but they are
measured by man." That means. TO be
sure, that centuries are begun and ended
in nature with the coming and going of
the moments of time. The science of di-
viding or measuring time, however, and
which is called horology, defines the pc
RODS of time and by aggregating these
arrives at the unit which we record as a
century. The twentieth of these will be-
gin within little more than two years;
and, for reasons we DO not comprehend,
this epoch of the passage from one CEN
tury into another has always been re-
garded with curious, even ominous. in
terest by the very superstitious.
It. impossible to record with certainty
momentous incidents that must have in
their courses signalized these particular
periods in the far past when mensuration
of time was experimental and defective,
but for ten or more centuries the knowl-
edge on this point has been pretty accur-
ate, and by this we are instructed that of
these centuries the last eight departed
amid connections, wars and bloodshed;
and this record has compelled attention
to conditions in the world today that can
hardly otherwise have become SO con-
centrated.
For instance, the whole world appears
to be asking itself whether the exit of the
present century is to be accumulated by
similar events to those of its eight prede-
cessors, and the thought of the questioner
is fixed unavoidably upon the situation
hundred years ago, when nearly all Eu-
rope was embroiled in bloody strife.
In all calmness, it cannot be denied
that the portents now point to wide
spread disturbance that is nowise associ-
ated with the end of the century except
incidentally, but which is likely to reach
crisis within the intervening two years.
1t is impossible, for example, to perceive
that two rival powers can exist at peace
Z
in the Nile country, and yet it is quite as
impossible for either power to withdraw
in peace. Poor old China, the charnel
house of hundred civilizations, nears
period of division and doom when with
surgical expedition she will be quartered
and divided among the ravenous States of
Europe that are strong enough to enforce
their demand to share in the spoil. Out
of our own late war are likely TO arise
international problems that in this two
year limit are either to be amicably adj
Indicated and settled or to embroil us in
rancorous disputes or warfare. Inter
nally, the time finds this country and
Great Britain only, of the greater ma
tions. secure in the concrete loyalty of
their citizenship. France and Spain lest
on slumbering volcanoes, while Austria
and Italy are extinct craters. Those of
us who happen to be present will see
what we shall see at the exit of the nine
teenth century.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-11-25

Hon. DANIEL S. VOORHEES,, just elected
County Clerk of Morris county. was an
Elizabeth man until 1870. Elizabeth has
not only good men for herself, but some
to spare for the rest of the State if they
are needed. Elizabeth Journal
And Morris County man, Hon. Jo-
seph Cross, resident of Elizabeth, will
continue the able representation of Union
County in the New Jersey Senate.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-11-25

for himself set of books less complicated
than the patent system, which he has
applied to the documents that are mostly
needed for searching, particularly judg
ments. executions and returns.
''It has taken years of study to COM
plete this arrangement and it is already
attracting much attention from all parts
of the State, and it is likely to furnish a
model for all the clerical Offices in the
State. The documents in this Office
range from 1716 to the current year, and
the ancient references are included in
the indexing."
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-11-25

GREAT BRITAIN, while openly prepar-
ing on most stupendous scale for war,
continues to mystify the whole universe
both as to the motive and the object of
her warlike activity. She is alone in her
ability to maintain entire secretiveness as
to purpose at the same time that her ma
val and army energies go on openly both
day and night.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-11-25

THERE are tens of thousands of Demo-
Gratis who sincerely expect that Roosevelt
is going to make a good Governor of the
great State. Thousands of Democrats
voted for him.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-11-25

THE editor Of the Washington IN. }
Stor has probably learned ere this some
very cold facts concerning the ''invincible
stone wall'' against which our esteemed
contemporary said Congressman Pitney
would run on election day. Yes,
neighbor Stryker, Mr.. Pitney did strike
an imaginary wall, erected by visionary
and wild eyed Democrats, with the result
that most of the prominent Democratic
forecasters were buried underneath the
wall and SO effectually that it will be
some days before they will again croak.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-11-25

THERE is just one thing international
on which we have not been clear, and
that is, need of Partisan commission to
powwow over terms of peace with a
country that was conquered on land and
sea on July 8 and surrendered its armies
and islands in two hemispheres several
months ago.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-11-25

AN Elizabeth plumber has been
brought to grief through neglect to in
form the Health Board, of work com
pleted, and which upon inspection was
proved to be of inferior quality. The
offender was fined $50, and it is safe to
say that hereafter the plumbers of that
city will comply with building re-
quirements.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-11-25

IT rained many times lately, and con-
ditions were orrespoudingly disagreed
BILE. Still, for each rainfall in November
omit one snow-and-slush vexation from
the winters program of exasperations.