davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-14
HORSELESS TRUCKS.
THEY WILL SOON BE DOING THE
CARTING or BIG CITIES.

Autotrucks Are to BE Put to Work
Right Away In New York London
and Parasitic BE Moved by Com
pressed Air.
The street car horse is already an un-
accustomed sight. The truck horse Is
soon TO be eliminated. New York will
soon have hundreds of autotrusks NOV
ing swiftly and silently about its BUSH
ness streets as the motor cab now
glide about in the residential portion Of
the metropolis. A syndicate of capital
lists is about to introduce these horse
less trucks not only in New York, but
in London and Paris as well. In time
they will be seen in every American
city.
The autotruck will be a distinctly
novel feature of urban life. 1t will mako
a radical change in the character of the
street panorama. 1t will bring with it
economy of space and time.
Street blockades viii presently be
things of Nthe past. Being only six or
Eight feet long, the autotrucks will take
up about one-third as much room as
the horsepower trucks of today As
their carrying capacity will be much
EIGdLGI tldA Lit Old lIQEAS, tdCl ~
be fewer Of them. When backed up to
the curb, they will not occupy half the
street as at present.
That picturesque and profane indi-
vidual, the truck driver of today, will
lose many of his characteristics. Shorn
of his whip and lines, he will perch on
a lofty seat and grip a double motor
wheel. Doubtless he will prove a terror
to pedestrians, as of old, but there will
be fewer opportunities for him to come
into collision with his brother truck
drivers. As a result he will lose some
thing Of his powers of repartGe. Hav-
ing nothing animate to swear at, his
morals may be improved.
As a beginning in what is undoubted-
~ a large undertaking, the New York
Autotruck company, with a capital of
ST. 00, 900, has been incorporated. With
this capital it is proposed to place au-
totrucks, operated by compressed air,
in the streets Of that city. When this
has been done and the utility n desir-
ability of the innovation have duly i'm
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-14
LOADED WITH CHAINS.
How Abdul bin AbduIla Thinks He
Fulh7Is His Mission.

Abdul bin Abdulla, a noted Indian fakir,
is now nearly GO years of age, Inc his
friends and admirers declare it is within
his power to continue to live on indefinite
ly or until he considers it proper to die.
1t is but Just to him, however, to say that
he does not admit the truth of this decla-
ration, although he does not deny it.
Many years ago-how many he said he lid
not know-he began the study of religious
philosophy under the tuition of a Moham-
medan fakir in one of the villageso of north
ern India. He was taught that in order
to acquire occult power Inc secure an emf
nently satisfactory position in paradise it
was necessary not only to refrain from in
dulging in human passions n appetites,
but to conquer and drive them out of the
flesh; that the most effective method of Sc
curing this result was to mortify and tor
ture his body, and thus obtain absolute
control over all it's sensations.
His teacher outline6N course of training
for him, and then departed from the vii
lage, leaving him to work out his saliva
ton alone. Failing to accomplish what
he had expected, h~eevolved a system of his
own, which he felt confident would bring
about the desired results. This was a
gradual development of his muscular pow
ers accompanied bypa persistent repression
of the senses. He began by wearing about
his neck a heavy iron ring, to which he at
tached from time to time as much iron as
he could carry conveniently. Later on
these weights were replaced by heavy cable
chains, the lower ends of which were fas-
tened by rings to his arms and ankles.
When seen by the writer, he had accunu-
lated chains and other metallic ornaments
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-14
A BLOODY BEAR Fight.
Robert Hoffman Left For Dead
In Alaskan WiIds.
WOUNDED BEYOND RECOGNITION.

neW OONKaSC ~ VIII 0sN
came Injuries Supposed to BE Fa-
taI-Bear and Doctor Both Deceived
In Their Diagnosis.
While Robert Hoffman was forcing his
way through the dense underbrqsh along
an Alaskan stream when he was fishing
something rose before him horribly hairy
and human" He caught the smell of
salmon. He saw the little swinish, angry
eyes. He knew that he had run plump
upon a huge silver tip bear. He had DO
time to act. He had scarce time to think
With one paw the monster struck the rife
out of his hand. Perhaps he realized that
it was a dangerous weapon. Almost at
the same moment he struck Hoffman on
the side Of the head. Those steel claws
ripped his scalp away and hurled him to
the ground. The blow had pagaiiT stunned
him. He could not move. But even had
he tried the bear gave him no time. The
silver tip bent over hirS. Hoffman could
see the wide open mouth, the CLEAN of the
great teeth. The hot breath of the bear
choked him. The teeth closed over the
lower part of his face, and he lost con-
sciousness.
There is little doubt that the bear left
the man for dead, but he has remarkable
vitality. Hours later Hoffman came to
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-14


pressed themselves upon the public
mind, the scheme in it's entirety is to
be unmasked.
James Fl. Hoadley, president OF the
Compressed Air mpa is quoted as
saying in regard to the objects and
prospects of the ~autotruck company:
1.-THE company is to be purely an OPP
Grating one. The trucks and compress
ors will be manufactured by the Ameri-
can Wheeiock Engine company, at
Worcester, Mass, and by the Interna-
tional Air Power company, which is be-
ing incorporated in New Jersey and OF
which Joseph Letter of Chicago is to
be president. An existing plant has
beer bought by him for $3,0o0,000. and
the plant will be in operation within 90
days. The International Air Power
represents $7,oO0,0o
MIR. Letter has interested the Roths-
ehilds and other European capitalists in
the introduction of autotrucks, and they
will be first operated in London, to be
followed in Berlin and Paris. All for
eign shipments will be made by him.
Edwin j. Cramp, the Philadelphia ship
builder, is president of the Wheelock
company"
The Autotruck company Will enter
the field OF general trucking, but trucks
will first be operated in the hauling of
coal. Then it proposes to take up other
large trucking industries and work
down to the handling of general trafhc.
The trucks are to be introduced i'm
mediate1y after the organization is COM
pleted. The machinery for the central
station for the generating of the COM
pressed air power is ready for ship
ment, and there are ready enough
trucks to make a beginning.
Platform trucks for carrying heavy
machinery and trucks with high boxes
for coal, ice or other commodities will
be used. Motormen who operate these
trucks will have a high seat forward,
with a double wheel similar to the ar
rangement on a cable car.
Although these trucks will have a
carrying capacity of eight tons and can
be run on smooth pavements as fast as
eight miles an hour, it is asserted that
they can be stopped in their own length.
The promoters of the autotruck en-
terprise claim that their vehicles can
haul a load Of eight tons rs miles with
out the compressed air being replen-
ished and that one truck will move a
three horse load with great ease over
wet and slippery asphalt, the particular
bane of the truck horse, without the
slightest difficulty.
From a sanitary standpoint and in
the matter Of cleanliness it would make
a great difference to a city If from $780,
0eo to 100000 horses in its streets We're
done away with.
Electricity cannot be used for trucks
designed to carry heavy loads owing to
the weight OF the storage batteries that
would be required. 1t does very well
for abs and light delivery wagons but
trucking is another matter.
An attempt is to be made to absorb
the principal trucking interests of New
York city and to gradually replace
horse drays with autotrucks without
a-ntagonizing the present owners. The
plan proposed is similar to that fol-
lowed in organizing trusts. Separate
interests are to be purchased, and truck
drivers are to become motorfnen. If
this plan does not work, there will be a
fight between the old methods and the
new.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-14

There is not much probability of a par
tition Of China. Germany, Russia, France
and England have seized what they want
OF the territory of China. They recognize
that she is the greatest market on earth
for their manufactured goods, and the
greatest field for Industrial enterprise.
They have no interest in dividing her up
into hostile camps, in checking produce
ton, n p~aralyzing progress. The more
the Chinaman is civilized, the greater
purchaser of imported goods he becomes.
If every man i'm China wore a shirt, the
sale of shirtings woul keep all the mills
in the United States busy; and SO with
other articles.
Nations are governed by se1f-interest.
It is the interest Of the world to preserve
the autonomy of China. 1t Is particularly
to American interests to do so. To carry
out this view the United States need only
hold the Philippines which they claim as
their own by conquest, ard they do not
need to take any part Of the mainland Of
China.-"Izhe Engineering Magazine or
December
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-14
EoQGn L14NE OE 4IAfE
MARaEA ANlA AZ H.ST-
HBO1. -
THE NIAGARA ALL q

NOh1A AND AG01.
THE NIAGARA FALLS ROUTE.
Trains leave Franklin street NORTH River1
station, New York, as follows, and Hfteea
Terminal station at Weehawken, N. J., can
be reached via trains OF n. J. J. Rd-, leaving
Cornwall, Newburgh. Kingston and Albany.
cranslons, Mest Point, Kingsfon: New
XIII Mountains. Albany. Saratoga and Lake
George. Parlor Car to Albany.
for Albany. Syracuse. ROCHESTER, Buffalo.
Niagara Fails, Cleveland s Detroit Psssoa5, en- GnIeas e
and na,s St nsI Louis aftern applVsI ptn Gnasa ear a ana Cd.
C.. s:a5 F. N. daily, except Sunday, for Con-
gers. Cranston's, West Point, Cornwall New
SIS p. NJ. daily. except sunday. for Albany.
Saratoga, Montreal and Eastern Canada;
daily 60 minutes later from foot w. Asd
street,, for Utica, Syracuse. Rochester. Buff
land, Chicago and st, Louis
1880 P. M. daily, for Utica. Syracuse, Roches-
s4s P. NJ daily, for Alpany. Utica, Syracuse.
Rochester. Buffalo. Niagara Falls. Toronto.
? q ais P. N. Jersey cify. 4 R. station;
b IysI m;5e Il Locals M;i SIS A N. CIV. 42d street.
7:15 A. NJ; 2:so. AIS. sis. 500. '"sa5 and
N eRiSu Locals: $1,000 A NJ: 1900. 500.
. fai sssundays only. Kingston Local.
Wagner Sleeping Cars for Albany. Utica
Detroit, Cleveland and Chicago on through
trains. -
Westcott's Express check baggage thrcaga
1910 or 6S6. Thirty-eighth street.
For tickets, timetables. parior and sleeping
osfiees:0Brookiyn, Nos sss, s3s. 72s Fulton
street; Annex office, foot OF Fulton street;
Broadway: No. 81 West One Hundred and
Twenty-ffth street, and at Station.
a "a LAMRERT. Gen1 Passenger Agent.
Grand Central Station. New York
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-14

China is in the hands of a strong, intel
ligent, revered woman-the empress
dowager. She is one of the historic char
acters Of the world. She ruled China for
thirty years during the most difficult
period of it's history,-the period when
foreign plans and methods were being
introduced, and new ideas, thoughts, n
schemes We're driving out the old. She
ruled China well. Talk of her killing the
Emperor! Why should she do it? He Is
her most devoted, loving and affectionate
child. She saw the young, and weak elm
peror beset BY factions, dragged hither
and thither by the bribed agents OF one
country and another, and she took again,
in her worn, but strong hands, the reins
of power. She will hold them as she held
them when in 1862 she sent the bow-string
to four Of the leading men at Picking who
dared to conspire against her. She Is a
great woman.-The Engineering Magazine
for December.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-14

B-RINvILLIERs TESTING POISoNS
ON A
of the features of aplague, but the singu-
lar feature of it was that only men of
prominence were attacked. After a num-
Der of leading citizens had died and many
more were suffering, showing the same
symptoms, a slave girl gave away the Sc
cret. This diyulged nothing less than a
conspiracy among many Roman matrons
to rid themselves of their husbands.
Guided by the informer, the officers of JUS
tice were led to a club of PRISONERS, ladies
of the noblest families of the city, busy
around a smoking caldron filed with
LIQUID. Twenty females were seized. Two
of them undertook to speak for the rest
and declared that the potion was a harm
less one. Drink it, then, yourselves"
was the short reply. The sisterhood con-
suited together, accepted the test, drank
and died. Further Investigations led to
the ultimate condemnation of over ITO
matrons.
During the succeeding days Of the en-
pire poisoning became so popular that
great men frequently kept as a member OF
their households a man whose sole duly it
was to prepare poisons and rid his mas
ter of persons obnoxious to him. The
emperors In some instances had prisoners
as they lad chamberlains and counselors,
and the notorious Locusta was at the head
Of the poisoning department under both
Claudius and Nero. The latter, inclined
to be aesthetic even In crime, played the
violin while Rome, which he set on fire,
burned, and after poisoning B~ritannicus
made several attempts TO remove bis own
mother, Agrippina, by the same means
AS she refused to "shufie of this mortal
COLI in the gentle intended by
her son, he in a rage ordered her public ex-
ecution.
During the period of the renaissance
poisoning with other arts revived, Cesare
Borgia being the most noted exponent OF
it, His first prominent victim was Zizim,
the brother Of Bajazetu whom he poison
ed to net possession of his property. Clio
vanni Haptiste Ferrata, the richest and
most Influential member Of the papal
court, was his next victim. B0rgia adj
ministcred the poison to him ia a friendly
glass OF wine, and after his death seized
mon his possessions. Soon after he at
tempted to poison his own brother, Clio
yanni Borgia, but, the dose proving slow,
Cesare had him stabbed. After many
other crimes of this character he formed
the bold design Of poisoning four Of the
richest cardinals in Rome and selling their
estates. BY accident the poisoned wine
was administered to himself and Pope
Alexander VI. Cssare was saved, having
taken bat little wine, but the pope died 9
few days later, and Cesare promptly seized
ali the papalW wealth and held Rome with
3 body Of hired troops He is believed to
have secretly poisoned 900 or 700 persons,
%3d L~-- - nwo1fo5 citation and If
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-14
AESTHETIC IN MURDER.
Motive Which Prompted the
First Use of Poison.
HUSBAND MURDERB By WHOLESALE.

IN Old Times Many a Monarch Had
an 0mciaI Poisoner BorSia and
Tonania Stealing the Mantle of
Charity to Acquire Skill In Murder
The recent sensational poisoning in
New York of Henry G. Barnet, a member
pf the Knickerbocker Athletic club, and Of
Mrs Kate J. Adams, 60 whom an intend
ID victim had innocently given the dose
intended for himself, has revived public
interest In this popular method of securing
the death of undesirable persons. Realiz-
Ing the circumstances of the times, the
poisoner in this instance used the mail as
> medium in carrying out the murderous
design, and, not satisfied with this precau-
ton, conveyed the poison under the guise
of medicine. In former days, before the
analytic chemist made it almost impossi-
BILE to use poison without discovery, poi
soners did not require to use such precau-
lions, and generally they pursued their
vocation with impunity until a chance
circumstance or their own heedlessnesS
led to their detection
1t is impossible to ascertain who first
gained the unenyiable distinction of de-
priYing afellow being of life by the use Of
poison. The name ~toxicology seems to
imply that poisons were used on arrows,
but before being employed in this manner
their properties must have been known,
and they were probably used with deadly
Effect otherwise than in a combat with en-
emies.
The poisonous qualities of arsenic, AGO.
mite, opium, hellebore and other deadly
substances, mineral and vegetable, were
well known to the ancients. Socrates was
compelled to drink hemlock, and Hanni-
bal and De-mosthenes destroyed themselves
with hellebore.
As a means of removing enemies and
other obnoxious persons poison has always
been a favorite with women, and the most
of the sensational poisonings of history
were by members of the gentler sex. 1t
Is, it must be admitted, a more aesthetic
of dealing death than with weap-
ons and other appliances. There are no
blood and CHASTITY wounds to offend the
sight and tell a tale of horror, and fire.
quently the death dealing potion produced
q painless death and sent the victim out of
the world in the Inconsistencies of a quiet
sleep.
The most notable instance of poisoning
mentioned in history occurred in Rome
about the. year 81 B. C. 1t took on some
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-14
A Kentuckian,s aaandary.

Postmaster Perry is in q quandary, says
the Winchester (Ky.) Democrat. By the
same mail this week he received two bust
ness propositions-one from a Baptist pub
lication house wanting him to sell Bibles
for them 9nd offering him a handsome
Bible as a premium under certain eircum-
stances, the other from a Cincinnati whis-
ky firm wanting him to push the sale of
their particular brand of poison and under
circumstances involving about the same
amoun of labor as those mentioned by the
book firm, offering him a gallon of their
best liquor free. Ordinarily Brother Per-
~, being a good Baptist, would have &C
cepted the first proposition without hesi-
tation, but, knowing that Winchester is a
dry town, he hardly knows what 20 do and
requeas his friends to suggest the proper
course under the present state of af1sirs.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-14

ing the castle OF viann- He was the orig
NAL of Machiavelli's prince
EARLY In the eighteenth century a con-
spiraey to murder husbands was discover
cd in Naples through the bungling at
tempt of a noblemanss wife to poison him.
Having been put to the torture, she ON
fessed that she had received the poison
from an old woman named Tofania. The
latter was arrested n put to the torture,
but would confess nothing. Her servants,
howcvea, were less secretive and furnished
D list of women ~frequenting her house.
The result of this information was hat
thousands of arrests were made, among
the number being ~princesses. duchesses,
countesses and others of noble rank, be-
sides great numbers of wives of bankers,
merchants, tradesmen and gentlemen.
For three years the courts were busy with.
poisoning cases. Two hundred women
were beheaded, 200 were hange,A, nearly
100, In consideration of their rank and
families, were privately strangled il prison
and nearly {, 1000 were whipped imprison-
ed or banished. Toifania finally admitted
having been party to over 900 murders
that she knew of, and how many more she
could not tell, for her poison, under the
name of aqua posana, or mamma of st.
Nicholas, was sent in walls all over Eu-
rope. The barbarity with which the crime
of poisoning was on this occasion punished
by the Naples authorities put a stop to
poisoning ia Italy for a long time.
The Marquise de Brinvilliers, executed
at Paris in 1916 for poisoning her father,
brother, sisters and many others, was n
of the most famous of prisoners in modern
times. Soon after her marriage to the
Marquis de Brinyiliiers she fell In love
with one of his friends, an adyenturer
named Laudln de Sa1nte-Croix. Her nus
band did not Interfere, but her father had
her lover imprisoned Ia the Bastllle.
There an italian taught him the prepare
ton and application or q peculiar KING or
poison. Subsequently he instructed his
lover, and she, eager to test its efficiency,
dressed herself as a u and Experimental
upon the sick in the hospitals and prisons
in Paris. Satisfied with the result, she
began py poisoning her iather' pfoollef anu
sisters Tor the purpose OF acquiring One
family estates, n had many other crimes
projected when the sudden ueath OF same
Croix and discriminating letters winch he
left brought the whole scheme to light.
But the Brlnyliliers case was Tar from
bOAAS ~
was but the precursor OF a system OF pol
sonlng SO general that Mime. eSevlgne
one OF her letters expresses a zeal lest the
terms frenehman n polsoner should De-
come synonymous. secret aDorauories *
listed IN Paris where ruined spendtnr1fts'
members OF lsunlted famliles n impa-
tient heirs were supplied with a powder
bearing the ghastly name OF poud &c
succession, or succession powder. f1nai-
ly the discovery OF aplot for the assasslna-
ton OF the king and the p LED TO
the arrest OF two women named Lavolsln
and Lavigourieux, who cosnpounded pol
sons, and some 80 or more OF their patrons,
some bearing the proudes6 names In the
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-14
Artificial Ivory.

It will surprise many of the Christmas
buyers to learn that much of the so-ealled
ivory which they purchase is made from
rattle boxes for instance-the pretty white
and colored ones which please the babies
so; also many of the combs, billiard balls,
backs of brushes, looking glasses, etc
they are usually cut from what is called
artificial ivory. This ivory is made by
COMPRISING the two after a peculiar pro-
cess known to manufacturers until it Is
very hard. like the real ivory. Great cakes
of 1t are thus formed, from which differ
ent articles are cut.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-14

ener has Incorporated in his title, is one
of the finest old oranges remaining in the
Eastern counties, says the Westminster
moafed IN the Old STYLE, ana has : long
family record attaching to 1t on the
Sirdar's mothers side. Her family came
into possession Of it just 200 years ago.
Before that it was the residence of the
famous Gotham family, from the time
of that Lady Gotham whose husband,
Sir John Oldcastle. was burned as q
Iollard, In Henry VS. days.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-14

The weather conditions which have pro-
duced skating are rather remarkable, says
the Portland Oregonian. For the past
week the temperature remained almost
steadily a few degrees below freezing point,
days clear and sunshiny and the nights a
trife colder. The continued low tempera-
ture has at last frozen still water without
the usual cold snap catastrophies to water
pipes and without seriously damaging the
r~osebushes. Beautiful buds and half de-
yeloped roses are to be found in many gar
dens, so it has been possible for people go
ing out skating to pluck roses to wear as
they glided over the ice.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-14
A nfmcuIt Language.

At the Southwark police court a pro-
prietor of hoky poky barrows and hot
potato stalls puzzled the brains of ali the
interpreters the court could muster. At
last, despairing of understanding his lan
guage, the interpreters arrived at the con
clusion that sthe WAS in reality an Irish
man who had learned English from Ital-
ian organ grinders, " and left the magis-
trate t. draw his own conclusions. After
that, Of course, it was plain sailing.-Lon-
don GlcbA.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-14

AT this season of perfumes. when each
store seems vying with the other in offer
ing the most exquisite fragrance for holi-
day gifts. 1t is interesting to pick up this
item concerning the gathering Of altar of
roses. Altar of roses comes from he
rose gardens of G~hazepore, where the
bushes are planted in rows for acres.
Every morning the blossoms are gathered
and distilled with twice their weight in
water. This is ssset1 for oil. just as yeu
set milk for cream. The oil Is then
SKINNED on and prepared for sale.