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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-09-30
PERSONAL MENTION.

Mrs NJ. C. Marsh is visiting in New
York.
Frederic Van Beuren is visiting in
Kentucky.
Miss Mollie March is at Mrs. HowelTs,
Elm street.
Mr.. and Mrs Thomas w Ogden are
at the Colonial
Miss Alice Walker returned last week
from Pine Hill
Mrs Frederic A. Brown was in Nor
ristown last week.
Miss Hobson is the guest of Mrs. Pat
ten Of South street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Granniss have returned
from the Adirondacks.
Admiral and Mrs. Upshur have re-
turned to the Colonial.
Wynant D. Vanderpool has entered
the Harvard Law School
Mr.. and Mrs. c. H milford have re-
turned from the Catskills.
Miss Stewart of Annapolis is the guest
of Mrs. Cooper of Miller road.
Mr.. Beecher of New York is the guest
Of Mrs. caldwell of Elm street.
Mrs Black and Mrs. Gamble have
gone South and will join Captain Black.
Samuel Clark of Newark was the
guest Of Mr.. Kip of Madison avenue last
week.
Mr. and Mrs John H. Lidgerwood and
family have returned from Shelter
Island
Mrs. Ewing and family left this week
for st. Louis, where they will spend the
winter
Mrs. J. Lourie Bell of South street and
Miss Bell are visiting friends in Phlla-
delphia.
Mrs. James Taylor Soutter, with her
son and daughter, spent last week at the
Colonial
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Carter of New
York are the guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Durham.
Commander and Mrs. Cooper will oc-
cupy their South street house after
October 1.
The Misses Geissenhainer of South
street were registered at the Holland
last week
Mrs Henry j. Gielow and daughter
are the guests of Mrs. Julius Catlin of
Fairholme
Mr.. and Mrs. 7. G. Bushnell and Miss
Bushnell have been heard from at
Yokohama.
Mr.. and Mrs. George B. Raymond and
family have returned and are at their
Morris Plains home.
DR.. and Mrs Frederic H. Humphreys
Of Ridgewood Park have returned from
the Adirondacks and are at their coun-
try place.
Mrs. William S. Letehford has re-
turned from Concord where she went
last week to place her son, Palmer, in !
st. Paul's School.
Mr. and Mrs. Blair, who have been
occupying Joseph w. Ogden's house.
''Hill Crest Farm, viii leave MorrB-
town next month.
j. " Thompson, a former residentof
Metristown and now visitor here is
making preparations to move to Cali
~ -" ~ iiis As!s'th.
: - Truman = mas entered she iniaaie
elslss q : 5Aiiet te'il ! heoieg4cal SEM
as oEoeiisf ei'll Is q MEMBER loi the
Z fssilthah class u she UNIVERSITY
Mr. and Mrs. Charles MacYeagh have
returned from Narrsgansett Pier where
/ they have spending the sumner, the-
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cHHoNlcLE cARAMELs.

THE statuesquely reposeful and yet
powerful figure Of this whole epoch of
military tumult aud war Is srill, as at the
beginning, that of the imperturbable
Dewey.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-09-30

In the nomination of John I. Blair
Kelley the Republicans of the Fourth
District show a determination to win the
Congress fight, for next to Pitney the
nominee is one of the strongest men in
New Jersey -Neev York Press.
The Press speaks the truth.
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ENTERTAINMENT NOTES.


Mrs. Dickson gave a delightsul euchre
party last Thursday
Mrs. John o. H. Pitney entertained
a party Of friends at luncheon last
Tuesday
Miss Hobson assists Mrs. Downing in
receiving the guests at Mrs. Gielow's en-
tertainment this afternoon.
Several house parties have been ar
ranged and large number of guests
viii be entertained on the 9Th, 18th and
Sth of next month
Mrs. Henry Moesly of Madison avenue
gave delightful tea last week for her
sister, Mrs. Walpole Warren of New
York. Mrs. Tiers assisted in receiving
the guests, among whom were Mrs
Robert Corea Walsh, Mrs Arthur Deane,
Miss Hopkins, Mrs r. D. Foote, Mrs.
Pierre Smith, Mrs. ]. B. Dickson. Mrs
Coe F. Young, Rev. DR.. Warren and
Mr., Kuhnhart Of New York.
The second of the series of Golf Club
dances was given last last Friday even
ing, Mrs. Charles Marsh, Mrs. Ames and
Mrs. Slade. chaperoning the dancers,
among whom were Miss Mary Howell,
the Misses Slade. the Misses Hurlburt,
Miss Bessie Kip, Miss Mollie Marsh, Miss
Edith Hull, Miss Stewart, Edgar F. RAN
dolph, Cd, Edward Mills, Cyril Mast
Cadwallader Howell, Harry Hull and
Mercer Walker.
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THE NEXT CONGRESSMAN.

The nomination of John I. Blair Kelley,
Esq, of Phillipsburg for Congress, made
by the Republicans of the Fourth Dis
trict at Newton on Saturday, is one of
which the citizens of Phillipsburg, the
county of Warren, and. in fact, the
whole district may well feel proud. He
is a man of the people and possessed of
all the qualifications that go to make up
a statesman such as our present es-
teemed Congressman, Mahlon Pitney,
whose actions in Congress have taught
the voters of the district that their best
interests are served only by electing men
of intelligence, honesty of purpose and
broad views to CONGRESS-. This district
has seen enough of the politician in Con-
gress, and the thinking voters will have
nothing more to do with him, as they
have learned to their everlasting credit
that he can never be anything more than
a menace to government for the people,
by the people and of the people Phil
Epsburg Post
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-09-30

UNDER law passed by the Legisla-
ture last winter city streets which con
meet two stone roads may be macadam-
lied on the same plan as that by which
improved roads are built in country dis
tricts, the State paying one-third of the
expense.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-09-30

Corporal Fred Toilette Of the 14th N. Y.
Volunteers, who recently returned from
Chickamauga, is the guest Of his cousin,
John ]. Todd.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-09-30

AND BOW it Is developed that cannibaI-
ism is practiced by certain tribes near
Manila, and the same authority says also
that some of these canulaals occasionally
attend church. Is it possible that in the
s1earth Of missionaries because of the war
these ravening nan-eaters contemplate
barbecuing the elergY'
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THg death Of Fannie Davenport. act
ress ard daughter Of 9 great actor sng-
geHts the curious fact tnat Of The tive
great American tragel'ians four were
named Eawin and the fifth Edgar, name
ly, Edwin Forrest. Edwin Booth, Edwin
Adams, Edwin Eddy and Edgar Dayen-
port
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 80, 1898.

The Republican voters of Morris County are
requested to meet in their several townships,
boroughs and wards at the places above
designated, on
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9th. 1898,
and elect delegates to the county convention
TO be held at the Baker Opera House in the
city of Dover, on
MONDAY. OCTOBER 10th. 1898,
at 10 O'Clock in the forenoon, tor the purpose
of nominating a County Clerk, a Senator and
two members of the General Assembly to be
supported at the ensuing election.
The several townships and wards are entitled
to delegates to this convention as follows;
Boonton -. ......... 5 Passaic.- .-........... 2
Chatham township. Pequannoc.... 49,.
Chester. ! Randolph. -.........
Hanover. $500. 4 Rockaway township
jefferson. ......... 2 Roxbury. ....>..
Mendham. ........... WASHINGTON
Montville............z chatham borough, z
Morris township. Madison borough =. .
Morristown LIST W'd. 3 Mt Arlington bor'.. /
$ 2ud Ward 8 Netcong borough. l
- 3rd Ward. 3 Rockaway borough 2
. 4th Ward. 2 Port Dram borough.
Mt. Olive............. City OF DoYer...... b
By order of the Morris County Republican
Committee,
GEORGE E. POOLE. Chairman.
Secretary
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-09-30

eonIy in the Republican Party is
there hope for an untarnislled dollar,
worth 100 cents the world over. -
JOHN /. BLAIR REELEY.
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THERE are apparent unmistakable to-
kens of very hard winter, it is asserted
by the wise in the unusual behavior of
certain animals. that evidently, it seems,
foresee its approach and are putting in
their. coal and provision supply, SO to
speak. Then, what is the use of costly
weather bureau, that cannot forecast
conditions four days ahead, when an nm
tutored chipmunk may enlighten us full
four months beforehand? The sealed so
luton to this paralyzing problem of econ
omics is: Put the chipmunkin charge Of
the national weather business.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-09-30

THESE delightful autumn days, mark
ing the exit Of September, more than
compensate for the swelteriug and insult
ferable torridity With which the month,
within flaming chariot, rode into life.
But later on, when the binding iciness
Of December is smarting our ears and
smacking our cheeks with purple kisses
we'll recall the kindly summer of hum
dred degrees and kick at the cold.
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YHE decline Of popular interest in base
ball is atrlkingly apparent though by 30
means unnatural OF unaeeountabIe. So
long as q species of scientific sport is con-
Quoted on fair and slzillful lines With the
ultimate purpose Of developing and sus-
tanning Its highest excellence and. Of fos-
terlng The best performance Of the con-
testsnts, 50 long VIII It deserve and re-
ceive enthusiastic public applause and
patronage. But when it has degenerated
INTO a speculative venture for gate money
with joekeying processes for keeping lie
rival Clubs so closely punched as to give
each gamea drawing feature, thea the
present falling off in interest and receipts
is easily explainable.
THE Republicans Of the Sixth District
have very sensibIy renominated Con-
gresham R. Wayne Parker Mr. Parker
has ably represented his district and
State, and his return to Congress is an
assured fact, as the sentiment Of a ma
jority of the voters in Essex is for sound
money and protective tariff
UNDER law passed by the LegisIa-
ture last winter city streets which con
,,c.t two etoy,a ,.oo3o NOV ba rnacads,n
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-02-19

S.v, ~ IsIs wiIc, accused OF u; :.
many mistresses of various grades.
eliminating letters have been constant
" quoted from him and them, but they
have not been produced. 1t is highly
improbable they would not have been
seen had they been in existence. Having
many enemies, military and political,
they chose that form of Islander as most
likely to be believed. Those stories are
still heard, with every circumstance and
detail but they are hardly credited.
Washington was rather wary of the sex
and is not thought to have exposed HIM
self to suspicion or temptation. =
A great point was made against his
connubial fidelity because there is rea-
son to think that his wife was a bit
Jealous Jealous wives, it is we'll known,
have in all ages been oftener jealous
without cause than with cause. Martha
Washington has been nearly as much
localized as her husband. She was in
no sense extraordinary. She was below
the medium size, very sociable, stub
born, hot tempered, overload, rather
pretty, without any excess of good sense,
independent of the rules of spelling, per-
fectly we'll bred, polite and kind. When
Fairfax's sentimentally interested in
Mary Cary. He became enamored Of
Mary Phillipse, aged 20. a daughter of
Frederick Phillipse, one of tie largest
landed proprietors of the New York col
ony, but she declined his proposals. He
is declared by some to have been IN
love with one of the friends of his
wife. He correspondent with her and
Sally Carlyle, another Fairfax daughter,
but they were only correspondents and
of the platonic kind. 1t is evident, how
ever. from all the revealed circumstances
of his early life that he was never in
| danger of dying bachelor.
So much has been written of Wash
| ington's campaigns that very little truth
has been told of him as a man. While
not a military strategist-nor did he as
! sumo to be-the Revolution was not con
Quoted by strategy. The great problem
was to keep an army in the field. ane
this Washington did. The British could
and did repeatedly beat the continental
army, though they could not beat theil
commander. So long as he was in thu
field he could get together all the fight
ing spirit there was. He was a natura
soldier, having inherited the disposition
from his Indian fighting great grandfa
Their and his elder brother Lawrence
He was noted for fearlessness under al
circumstances and an outspoken scorn o
aught like cowardice. Indeed he hat
no comprehension Of it. He was ia
from fsultless. He could and did ,swea
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-02-19

Having been represented as an orthodox
saint, as the incarnation of goody goody-
Ism. so necessarily, natural reaction
was the result. The oarping. critical
public led the opposition after a time
and began to sneer at and underrate his
memory. There never has been such q
parsonage shSn a. creature, as George
Washington was Portrayed He was pre-
terhuman, he was absolutely perfect !;
common sense people would not accept
him. Nevertheless, even a century after
his death he is not at all understood by
any great number of his compatriots.
He has been so incrusted with tradi
lions, SO overladen with theories, that
few glimpses of his native character
struggle into light
The bulk of Americans todayNseeh to
think that WASHINGTON was as popular
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-02-19
DIED DECEMBER IA, 1899.

very reverse OF q Sectar1an.
Albeit O slaveh6lder-he had, it is
said, 800 slaves most of whom came to
him through his marriage with the
rich Widow Custis-he was never i'll
favor of slavery. He was ready when
ever the time was ripe to use his entire
influence against 1t. He may not have
had high opinion of negroes, but he
was always good, kind master.
Of moderate education, he was intel
igent, observing. attentive, generous,
charitable, thrifty. In spite of occasion
al losses he was successful in business.
When he died. his property was valued,
exclusive of his wife's and the Mount
Vernon estate, at $3.50, 900. He was,
like the Virginian of his day, particu-
larly social and ever enjoyed his friends.
Grave and quiet in general company, he
was often gay, even jovial, with few
intimates. He relished lively converse
ton, though taking little part in it. He
often laughed, appreciated jokes. was
very fond of dancing and even of anna
teur theatricals. He was not at all cold.
formal, reserved, naughty. as represent
ed, though not, perhaps, genial or Who'll
ly easy, which was outside of his ten,
permanent. He WIS always dignited,
careful of his dress-indeed in his early
life considered a dandy.
As Washington was made absurd bv
all manner of cheap virtues he has been
charged from youth to his closing years
with overfondness for women, which
seems to be unfounded. No doubt he
had a general liking for pretty women,
but so far as evidence can be adduced
he did not carry it beyond bounds. He
was repeatedly cepsured for fragrant dis
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-02-19

Besides planning campaigns he was
forced to do the work of a national lead
or, leader bearing upon his sword the
fate of the country. The campaigns un-
dertaken by the French were failures.
and the British gained territory on the
coast. Finally Washington asked La
fayette to go to France and secure q
feet and an army which should be un-
der his own direction. It arrived at
Newport in the summer of 1880, and
while Washington was there comforting
with the French leaders Arnold plotted
the base treason which was to give his
commander another cruel blow. He
had trusted the brilliant soldier of
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-02-19
HE WAS A BORN LEADER.

Interesting "Reminiscences of One of Wash
inRton's Comrades In Arms.
Washington had the stuff in him
and the kind of mind that enable q
man to govern and influence other
men, said General William o. Butler,
son of one of the four famous Eight
ing Buffers of the Revolution, himself
major general in the Mexican war and
Il candidate for the vice presidency who
barely missed being eleetesA - My3Av
ther knew General Washin ston as init
nately as did any of his staff, said
General Butler in 1865.
HE always said that General Wash
ington possessed more of the qualities
that go to make up great man than
my of the leading figures of the Revo-
luton. Greene came next to Washing
ION, he thought, in force and ability.
y other man could have done what he
did. Modern historians have but little
idea of the difficulties Washington ex-
perieEced. Outside of his position as
general in chief there were SO many
things to worry and annoy him. The
chief military trouble was with his
own intimate friends, relating to ques-
tions of rank. Especially difficult was
6OhCAoA w . POoAO1OA WhOu
Lafayette came to our aid, and congress.
as you know, made him a major genef-
al at once. This action greatly offended
the older officers, hot headed fellows.
sturdy, dashing ighters-generals of
brigades, and colonies who had made
the continental line what it was-apd
yet they had to take their orders rom a
man but % years of age, who had never
been under fire and was even unable at
first to communicate with his officers
except through an interpreter. -
"In the pacifcation of these officers
General Washington showed the greatest
tact, said General Butler. Yes, gen.
tlemen, he said to them, it is true that
LAFAYETTE is but %, that he was made il
major general by congress upon my rec
ommendation. What else could do? He
brought us IL, 900 stand of the best mus
kets Europe could produce (the French
musket of that day weighed 9 pounds,
was very carefully made, had particu-
larly good lock, while the English fire
lock weighed IL pounds, and it's lock
was clumsy, badly fitted and very prone
to miss fre) and 8, 900 sabers, 2,OO0
pairs of military pistols and bits for brl
dies, and the stirrups and other iron
work for saddles, besides 1900 cavalry
carbines or musketoons Without these
arms we could never have equipped our
army. Then he brought and caused to
Be sent to us about $5OO,OOO in gold. 1t
is not too much to say that but for La
fayette's aid just at the time it came
our army must have been disbanded for
want Of equipment and arms
"These representations soon quieted
the testy and hot blooded continental
generals when'they were made in his
foroible way by General Washington.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-02-19

Quebec and Saratoga and given him
that opportunity to betray the citadel
of the Hudson valley.
But the nerve Of the warrior leader
was not to be shaken now that the hour
had come for decisive blow. The
troops of Rochambeau united with the
continental forces gave him for the
first time in the war an army. The feet
also gave the needed sea power to attack
where the British were strongest, along
the coast. The main British army was
In the south under CORVALLIS. Wash
ington sent Greene to the south with
orders not to fight for positions, but to
draw CORVALLIS northward- Morgan
was also in the south with his Virgin
ians. Both these brilliant soldiers, the
mountaineer and the blacksmith, had
been driven from the service by the in
gratitude of congress. but Washington
appeal caused them to buckle on their
swords for the last cast. Lafayette was
sent to Virginia with an army, and after
manga useless chase CORVALLIS retired
to the seaboard at Yorktown.
Washington left strong garrisons on
the Hudson, and with about 1000 SOL
diers threatened to attack New York.
He lowered within striking distance,
gradually moving southwark, and.reach-
ing New Brunswick made a forced
march to the head of the Chesapeake.
By water the army was: transported. to
the York, and with the aid of tho
French feet and the troops on shipboard
the allies laid siege to Yorktown. They
outnumbered the British, and re enforce
meuts for CORVALLIS were cut off by
the French ships. Yorktown fell, tri-
umph of strategy. Washington struck
the enemy where he was weak with the
most men, but it was only by the most
skillful planning that he caught his en-
envy in post ion favorable for the blow.
The result s,aowed Washington gen.
Jus in holdiE2 on to New Jersey and
while risking IL to keep the enemy
near the seaboar preserving an open road
between the Hu>, IN and the south. He
was always within re.,ch of the Hudson
and of Maryland and Virginia. His
army at its best was never the equal of
the British in numbers had thew been
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-02-19
A Relic of Washinston's Time.

At the foot of Wards heroic statue
of Washington on the high steps Of the
subtreasury building is q broad piece of
stone carefully covered with a wire
grating. It is SO placed that should the
image of the immortal Father of His
Country come to life and step down
from his lofty pedestal he would stand
on the same spot where occurred the
browning triumph Of his career. Through
the protecting grating can be read the
following dim inscription, STANDING
on this stone, in the balcony of Federal
hall, April 30, 1889, George Washing
ton took the oath as first president Of
the United States of America. When
old Federal hall was demolished, the
sacred stone was carefully preserved,
and 1t now occupies as nearly as posi-
BILE the same position as before. Few peo-
pie have ever noticed it on the high base
of the statue, where it is fittingly placed
as one of the relics of tine nation birth.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-02-19

as his denomination Tor the presidency
Al when first presented for the suffrages
of the new born nation. They appear SO
ignorant Of their own history as not to
know that he then met with the intens.
est resistance; that he only consented
to stand again by the warmest persua-
sions of personal and political friends OF
all parties. During the campaign he
was slandered and villified as much as
almost any presidential candidate has
been in later times. Within few years
he has been judged as if he were virtu.
ally one of our contemporaries It has
been repeatedly said in disparagement
of him that he was an Englishman who
CHANGED to be born in America. There
were no representative Americans that
saw the light here 100 years ago. They
could have been then little else than
geographical Americans. Washington
was one of the genuine Americans OF
his day, one of the most advanced OF his
period.
Stripping aside the prejudice for and
against the Father of His. Country. as
he well deserved to be called, we are
enabled to see him as nature arrayed
him, and he looks and is the better, be.
cause the truer, for it. He never needed
any false adornments, any silver SPAN
Rles He was an altogether natural, hui
man, harmonious, well balanced, most
remarkable man, particularly fitted to
the time. Above everything be was
practical.
The ultra pious have roundly abused
everybody who declined to admit that
WASHINGTON was not q strict EplscO-
palian, a regular church attendant and
communicate, a severe Sabbatarian. But
the latest investigations prove just the
contrary. Sunday was always the day
ON which he wrote private letters, pre-
paid his invoices, entertained company,
closed land purchases, sold wheat and,
while a Virginia planter, went fox
hunting. Nevertheless. like most con-
scientious persons, he respected the
scruples of others in regard to the day.
When trying to get some servants, he
wrote, IF they be good workmen, they
NAV be Europeans Asians, Africans,
Jews Mohammedans, Christians of any
denomination or atheists" He was IN
complete sympathy with the widest re-
Eaious liberation. Gouverneur Morris,
who was what was then held to be an in
Adel, was believed by Washington tc
agree with him in creed. He threw hi
influence in favor Of religion, often at
tended the Episcopal church and KEEP
his belief, if he had any, an inviolabls
secret. He was very much what thou
sands Of the very best and most enlight
eped men are everywhere today. tn