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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-03-01
HOSPITALS
ANNUAL DANCE
WaShingtOn'S Birthday Function
Brilliant and Successful.

Many Men and Women of Different
Minds and Make-Ups March In
Stately Review Before the Rep
rescntative of the Great Gen
eraI.
The well worn expressi that the
annual fancy dress ball at the State
Asylum was great success does not
half express the views of over five
hundred guests who attended that
affair last Friday evening Both to
the patients and guests it was the
realization of long anticipated
pleasure and was enjoyed By all to the
fullest possible extent.
The grand march began at eight
o'clock when to the roll of the drum
the couples in costume were escorted
by j. Hyde, presented by the herald.
DR.. Prout TO Warden NJ. K Everett
and Miss Martha Kuglar, who per-
sonated George and Martha Washing
ton. and received the guests To the
strains of inspiring music by the Hos
pital orchestra the grand march was
taken up, led by MediealDirector B. d.
Evans and Mrs. Evans as Louis XIV
and Maria Theresa followed by DIR.
and Mrs. Gorton as ID D'Artagnan and
Madame Sans Gene; DR.. Mallon and
Miss Cheshier as Grand Duke Neck
t.s,1 d 4 ~ i.
| DR.. Baker and Miss Burns as Lord
and Lady Nelson; DR.. Beling and
/ Miss Baker as Prince OF SchlCswig-
holstein and Lady Cadogan; Mr.. Clark
and Miss Eaton as Charles Brandon
and LadyMary Tudor ;Mr Higgins and
/ Miss RittenhOuse as Charles James
Fox and Lady Brenville Mr.. Truck
and Miss Fisher as Henry VIII and
Anne Boleyn; Mr.. Andrews and Miss
| Logan as Earl of Airlie and Princess
/, Flavia; Mr. Swinnerton and Miss
Klinginsmith as Don Cosme de Chur-
rucca and Desdemona; Mr.. Smith and
Miss La Force MS Don Manuel and
Queen Louis Of Prussia, Mr.. Cadmus
and Miss O'Loughlin as Don Fran
cisco and Lady Montague Mr.. Crane
and Miss Mcguire as Don Thomas
Zumala and Princess Beatrice; Mr..
Briel and Miss Dean as Lord Beau
mont and Parthenia; Mr.. Mackinnon
and Miss Redding as Sir Charles
Fraser and Princess Sonia; Mr.. Short
and Miss GeldsChmidt as Earl Of
Somerset aud the Runaway Girl;
Mr.. Barrett and Mrs. Cummins as Sir
William Drysdale and Lady Algy;
Mr. Lenahan and Miss Kelly as Earl
of Warwick and Elaine; Mr.. Bronson
and Miss O'Connell as Duke Of Lam
caster and Inez de Castro; Mr. HuIn-
mer and Miss Kane as Duke Of Rich
mond and Lady Macbeth; ~. Duck
witz and Mrs Hand as Count won Wal
Continued on Fourth page
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-03-01
Telephone Notes.

Irving w. Pope and Nicholas Arrow
smith spent Washington's birthday in
Bernardsville.
Edgar W. Dennison was in town
Monday evening.
George Painter, superintendent of
the underground cable department, was
in town Tuesday.
New telephone subscribers Home
Coupon Exchange Co., 379a; Walter f.
Turner, 1874 Mrs. Theodore Little,
GAIA; Henry P. Phipps, 79i; John H.
Youngs, 1921; Morristown Grain Co.,
395f; Geo. T. Wakefield, 79b; Irving E.
Salmon, 366b; Rev. Thos. 1. Coultas,
269a; S. A. McVay. 33Sb; Dalrymple-
Hastings Co., main office, "a; Geo. "a.
Dalrymple, 359b. Dalrymple Hastings
Co.. branch office, 359a; H. M. Dalrym.
pie, 245a; Netheim & Feldman. 359a
Chas. R. Lindsey, 212b John B. Corriel,
81; F. w. Jaqui Co., 428a; John R.
Runyon, 94a.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-03-01
SPRING ENDEAyOR RALLY.
Interesting Services = Addresses
by Home and Paterson Pastors.

by Home and Paterson Pastors.
The spring rally of the Morristown
Local Union Of Christian Endeavor was
held in the lecture room Of the South
Street Presbyterian Church Tuesday
evening at 7.45 o'clock. After singing
several hymns. DIR. Erdman ex-
tended a welcome to those who had at
tended. He said very few words were
necessary and that he thought the South
Street Church might better thank the
Endeavorers for coming there than to
bid them welcome. He said his one
word of suggestion was to encourage
personal and individual activity and SER
vice. After prayer by DR.. Erdman.
the leader of the evening responded
briefly for the union and said he wanted
to emphasize the necessity of personal
work, so that the work of the societies
and the union might be abiding, bene-
fetal and mutual.
Rev. s. q. Batten then conducted a
brief Bible reading bearing on the same
idea and said what was needed in the
churches was society without consti-
tuition or by-laws-one which might fit
ingly be called personal interest So
ciety.' He quoted Lyman Beecher's re-
mark, who on his death bed said, when
asked what was the greatest thing,
"Not controversy, not theology, but the
conversion of souls" After prayer by
Mr.. Batten, Rev A A. DeLarme, of
Paterson, was introduced and spoke on
the subject "What Christ Expects of
His Followers. He showed how one of
the most emphatic commands of Christ
was that his disciples should follow
him. Christ should be above all
else. To attract others to Him,
more Christian lives and examples were
needed-not more sermons. DIR. De-
Larme said, the recently agitated re-
vision of creed might better give way to
revision of conduct, and that Emerson's
advice for high ideal ''young man,
hitch your wagon to the stars" might
we'll be the Christians standard. This
high ideal which must plainly show
through both words and acts, together
with continual prayer and personal eff
fort were the things necessary to win all
men to follow our Christ.
The offertory solo was most pleasingly
sung by Frank Eaton, after which DR..
Erdman spoke briefly and concisely on
The Holy Spirit which he showed
was person not an 'ft' "a known fac
tor. not an indefinite influence, giving as
proof that the~3ible spoke of the Spirit
as divine person. He compared the
Holy Spirit as known in the Old Testa-
ment with that of the New, showing the
more abiding and enduring quality of
the latter, lin his numerous offices as
teacher, guide, witness, seal and earnest.
The three things to seek to avoid were
resisting the Spirit, which only an un-
converted person can do, quenchlng the
Spirit and grieving the Spirit. The SER
vice closed with singing and the Miz-
pah benediction.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-03-01
Crater-Blazure.

"A very quiet but pretty wedding
was solemnized Wednesday afternoon
at four O'Clock at the home of the
bride, 33 Atno avenue. when Mrs.
Nancy Emma Crater became the wife
Of Etheblert Blazure of Chester, Rev.
J. E. Appley of Basking Ridge officiat-
ing.
Misses Evelyn Day, Florence and
Emma Hight and Leila Allen acted as
flower girls, who were the only atten-
dants.
Among the twenty-five guests were
friends from BaskIng Ridge, Bernards-
vile, Millington and Chester.
After two weeks western trip Mr..
and Mr.. Blazure will reside in Ches-
ter The wedding supper was fur.
nished by Day.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-03-01
Orients Win Again.

The Orients and Cyclones met again
Friday evening in basket ball con
test and again the Orients won. The
score for the first half was to / while
the second half brought it up to 1916.
The game was preceded by an in
teresting dumb bell drill. and the
one hundred and fifty guests of the
boys spent very enjoyable evening.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-03-01
BETTER THAN
PADDING
Stokes Proposed Bill Increases
School Money in 4th District.
Morris County the Gamer by $3,.
O49.O9, Hunterdon $2,28O.5O,
Sussex $9S8.7O, Warren $2,-
1926.

The bill introduced by that champ
ion of New Jersey public schools,
Senator Stokes, is rapidly gaining
friends and supporters throughout.th
State. When the benefits which will
accrue to the majority of the school
districts are understood it will be a
matter of regret that the plan of ap-
portioning State school money on the
aggregate attendance of pupils instead
of on an inaccurate census basis. was
not sooner adopted.
Morris County under the new law
would receive So, $500 more than
under the present plan of apportion-
ment.
We publish the figures for the other
counties in this Congressional dis
trict:
Hnufard011
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-03-01
HOSE BOYS
RENEW YOUTH
Chief and Mrs. MuChmOre Enter
tain Fire Ladies' in Hill City.
Delightful Program - VIII LyIe's
Funny Work in Home TOwn-HOs.
Agrees to Keep Lemonade
Punch Bowl Away from Mrs.
Nations Hatchet.

The notice bearing the official sig
nature of Clerk Voorhees,, of Indepen-
dent Hose Company for "a special"
in full uniform secured an attendance
of probably thirty-five of the forty
members last night. The call was in
response to an invitation received from
Chief George V. Muchmore of the
Summit Fire Department and Mrs.
Muchmore for an sat home" on the
evening of February 28th.
The hospitable home of the Summit
Chief was reached shortly after eight
O'Clock. In addition to Mr.. and Mrs.
Muchmore, their daughters, Misses
Leola, Mae and Lille, and son, Henry,
the guests were received by a com
mlttee Messrs. P. S. Tilden, j. w.
Cliff Chester N. Jones, Clayton P.
Chew, J. Hamilton Savage and Edwin
G. Hotchkiss. The Independents were
at once made to feel at home, in fact
they have never been strangers at the
Muchmore residence.
The guests were soon invited into
the music room. which, by the way,
is admirably adapted for such ar
occasion, when the following program
was given from a tastily arranged
stage, Frederick K. Nixon officiating
as stage manager;
PART FIRST.
Quartette-"Whe the Sweet Mag
nolias Bloom" by the Star
Quartette of Independent Hose
Company, Woodruff M. Vance,
1st tenor; Dr. Carlton l. Dob
bins, End tenor; Herbert H. Day,
1st bass; Cadwalder b. Howell,
End bass.
Violin Solo-"The Voice Of Love-"
Mae Mnchmore
Magic Improvisto- Frank Person
Banjo Specialize VIII Lyle
Recitation-"T Inventors Wife,"
Leola Muchmore
PART SECOND.
Solo-"G "Goodby Dolly GRAY"
Woodruff NJ. Vance
Violin Solo--"Spriug Awakening"
Mae Muchmort
Fantastical Prelude on the African
Harp" Will Lyle
Recitation 'Briar Rose,
Leola Muchmort
Quartette- Mandy Lee"
Star Quartette Independent Hose Co
! Continued on fourth page.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-03-01
COURT NEWS.
Prisoners Sentenced and Fined by
Judge Vreeland

Judqe NrSSiand
The jury in the John William Will
liams case after being out all Thurs
day night and Friday morning return
ed verdict of not guilty.
The case of Augustus Naughton,
charged with assault and battery, was
laid over until the May term and he
was released ON 5000 bail.
Wednesday morning Lavinia Pet
finger retracted her plea Of guilty and
plead not guilty. Sentence-was passed
and she was fined $780,
Joseph A. Metagraph. whose case
was mentioned last week, was dis
charged!on giving $500 bail to keep the
peace.
Thursday Judge Vreeland sentenced
Henry Roth, indicted for burning the
Bertrand Island Club House, to -four
year in States Prison.
Theodore Peer and Edward Masher,
indicted for stealing horse and wag
on each received six years sof hare
labor.
In the case of the State against
Walter S. Parker, charged with grand
larceny at Boonton, a fine of $50 and
cost of prosecution was imposed.
Felix Albino, indicted for assault,
was fined S25 and costs.
Augustus Lawrence received one
year and six months Imprisonment.
In the case of the State VS.. James
Hart for assault and battery. Judge
Vreeland suspended sentences which
was also his action in the case OF
Horace Norman ana Edward Search
for stealing chickens from Rachae
Post, and put over the case of the same
defendants for the same charge made
by Jetur r. Riggs
Frank Violand and Eugenie Acoul
indicted for keeping a disorderly house
in Stirling, were each sentenced t.
six months Imprisonment
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-03-01
Mrs. Horsefield's washington" Dinner

Mrs. Horsefield's Washington" Dinner.
Mrs Frederick Horsefield of Water
street gave a Washington's birthday dir.
ner Friday evening to eleven friends of
her own sex. Invitations had been sent
to twenty, but the other expected guests
were unavoidably prevented from attend,
ing
This dinner is yearly affair of
Mrs. Households, and is looked forward
TO with much pleasure by her friends.
The evening was enlivened with songs
and recitations by the guests, who also,
in turn, rendered the hostess a toast,
The favors We're photographs of Wash
iugton on stick pin buttons.
Those present were Mrs. Lincoln Rolf,
Mrs. William A Heath, Mrs, JOS Kron-
enberg, Mrs, Frank Connors, Mrs. James
Whitehead, Mrs. George Mcintyre. Mrs.
Fred Baker. Mrs Abraham West, Mrs.
James Croy, Mrs. Edward Bell and Mrs
William H. Bergen.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-03-01
Y. M. A. Notes.

The noon prayer meetings have been
continued through the week and inter
est in them is increasing.
The annual dinner given by the State
Executive Committee of the Y. M. G.
A., occurs in Berkeley Hall, East
Orange, tonight at six thirty o'clock.
Brig General Joseph Wheeler and
Commander Albion V. Wadhams are to
be the guests of honor. One or two
members of the local association are to
be present.
A large dinner to about one hundred
and seventy guests was given last week
at the Beechwood Hotel in Summit to
celebrate the paying off of an $4,000
mortgage on the Y. M. @. A. property.
Among the guests were Brig. Gen.
Joseph Wheeler and Mr.. Booth, secre-
tary of the New York City associations.
Washingtons VS.. Lafayettes.
The junior basket bali teams met
Wednesday afternoon in Y. M. @. A
hall and after fierce contest the game
resulted in victory for the Washing
tonians with score or to 6.
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coatiaiiea ON fourfA PAGE
The Conservative, 1901-09-05


dragged lodge poles in their periodical
or other changes of habitation and
hunting" General Custer describes
buffalo trails (Which must have been
identical with Indian trails in many III
stances) in 1874 as $50 regular in their
construction and course as to we'll ex-
cite curiosity. They vary little from
eight to ten inches in width, and are
usually from two to four inches in
depth their course is almost as unvary-
ing as that of the needle, running north
and SOUTH" Even old Lewis and Clark
testify. They noticed in one place zap
pearances of old buffalo paths" and
say that "as the animals evince wonder
full sagacity in their choice of their
routes, the coincidence of buffalo with
an Indian track affords the strongest
evidence that it is the best"
Let me also quote some mention by
the Fathers of one particular trail,
that of the Pawnees, crossing central
and western Nebraska.
Nathaniel Wyeth, on May 16, 1884.
travelled "12 miles to the Pawnee trail
to the head of the Arkansas
October II, l841, Rufus Sage "crossed
the regular Pawnee trails, leading to
and from their hunting grounds, which
bore the appearance of being much fire.
quented."
June 9, 1912, Medorem Crawford
"crossed the Pawnee Trail at o'clock"
Seventeen days later, John @. Ere
mont "crossed several Pawnee roads to
the Arkansas"
Parkman, the historian, crossing Ne
braska in 1S46, Gin the midst of
gloomy and barren prairie, came sud-
denly upon the great Pawnee trail, lead
from their villages on the Platte to their
war and hunting grounds to the south
west.''
Do not these indicate that there was
q distinct track of some kind?
What this trail may have been, which
was thus conspicuous somewhere be-
tween Hastings and Kearney, do not
exactly know. Possibly it was travelled
by the Pawnees to certain hunting
fields near the mountains, perhaps it was
their highway to the country of the
Kiowas and Arapahos, or used for that
commerce with the Mexicans, in horses
and blankets, mentioned by Pike in
1906.
There is another source of informa-
tion in regard to these aboriginal ave-
nues, which might yield some interest
ing knowledge if it were carefully fol-
lowed out. This is the maps of the ter
ritorial survey of 1854 and subsequent
years, Oh which all such land marks as
Indian trails ought, as General Dodge
inti matad ahOva to no avoct1v notod
The Conservative, 1901-09-05
SOME NOTES ON TRAILS.

good many dlfferent lines OF specula-
tion it would hardly seem as if any
thing save speculation were in place, as
to the trails which may have been used
by the Indians of the plains before the
white men came. What would be
prehistoric trail? The history of Ne
braska does not yet extend over all en-
tire century; if it were known that the
Pawnees had a fixed route across the
state in 1900, would that be therefore
considered prehistoric? Or must one,
to be warranted in using that term, go
back of the Spanish conquest?
In the latter case, the quest for pre-
historic trail would seem hopeless in
deed for it is held, is it not, that the In
dians did very little travelling before the
Spaniards brought them horses? be-
lieve that the ancestors of the plains
tribes are held to have been stationary,
or practically so, SO long as they were
obliged to peform their journeys on
foot; living in earthen villages along
the streams, principally in the East; de-
veloping slowly in the direction of the
pueblos of the more highly civilized
tribes of the Southwest; leaving, when
the exigencies of peace or war forced
them to migrate, the so-called "mounds"
after long stay in one place, and such
remains as Mr.. Blackman has been un-
earthing in Eastern Nebraska, after a
shorter sojourn.
If this is the correct theory, there
would be no trails going back of the
Spanish invasion, because there was no
travelling prior to that epoch. None,
that is, in the plains country; but l
should imagine that the Mexican tribes
might have had highways, and that one
of them might very probably have
crossed the Rio Grande at Ell Paso. And
as fast as the more remote tribes be-
came possessed of horses, and were
thereby enabled to make raids on distant
enemies, excursions to outlying regions
in search of buffalo, and periodical
changes of residence, to suit the seasons
or their vagrant fancy, one would ex-
pect them to fall into certain habitual
lines of travel, and to form thereby in
time distinct roads or trails.
There is no room for doubt that, at
least i'll Eastern Nebraska, they did in
fact make such trails. There are too
many men living who have seen them.
There are in Nebraska City two of the
early surveyors of the territorial boun-
Diary and sub-divisional lines, in the
course of which labor they saw more
primitive, undisturbed country than
could possibly have been seen by men
engaged in any other pursuit; these are
Charles w. Pierce, whom the town calls
Uncle Charley, and Judge M. S. Camp
bell; both of whom have lived in Ne
The Conservative, 1901-09-05

eff Indian trails as they first found them,
whether they had any appearance of an
tiquity or not; and both are emphatic
in their reply, agreeing moreover to a
nicely in their accounts. They say that
there were many trails, hard beaten
paths worn in the prairie sod; they lay
always along the ridges, because an In
dian in travelling cared only for keeping
on level; a saving in distance was no
object to him; and they invariably led
to the best ford over the nearest stream,
so that in new country, when in search
of water, the surveying parties learned
to follow an Indian trail with implicit
confidence.
Now as to the age of these trails,
both these old gentlemen speak, as of
something so remarkable as to have inn
pressed them at the time, of the fact
that they were frequently found worn
deep into the soil Mr.. Pierce says he has
seen them as much as t,vO or three feet
below the surface. He says in expla-
nation that the Indians would use a
trail until it became so deep as to be i'm
practicable, when they would strike into
new path alongside. Now, how long
time must be assigned for the wearing
Of trail knee-deep in the prairie, with
no more travel than the semi-annual
buffalo hunt which we know to have
been practiced by the Indians of the
Platte; even allowing for good deal
of assistance from the rains?
A very definite statement on this sub
ject has also been received from Cen
eral Grenville M. Dodge, who has re-
sponded most obligingly to a request for
his opinion. He writes: "All over our
continent there were permanent Indian
trails; especially was this the case west
of the Missouri river. There were regu-
lar trails from village to village, to we'll
known crossings of streams, up the val
leys of great streams, over the lowest
and most practicable divides, passing
through the country where water could
be obtained, and in the mountains the
Indian trails were always well defined
through all the practicable passes. I
travelled great deal with the Indians
myself at one time, and when they
started for any given point they always
took well established trail, unless they
divided off for hunting, fishing or some
thing of that kind; and in my own
reconnoissances in the West, and in my
engineering parties, when we found In
dian trails that led in the right direct
ton for our surveys, we always followed
them up and examined them, and al
ways found that they took us to the
best fords of streams, to the most
practicable crossings of divides, to the
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The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1901-02-28
Care OF Horses.

Horses shoulders get sore more fire.
quently from ill-ftting collars than
from tenderness. Nineteen men out
of twenty have the collars one size too
big and there is shuflling Of the col
lar on the neck, which makes gall.
Fit the collar first. A used shoulder
becomes tougEened, an unused one re-
mains tender, and no medicine will
make 1t tough. Strong oak tea or de-
coction used warm will in measure
tougher them. Keeping the collars
clean and bathing the shoulders with
as hot water as the hand will bear after
a days work will d. much toward pre-
venting sore shoulders, 'u' when cal
luses are on them nothing hut cutting
them out will ever remove them
STOCKMAN.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1901-02-28
Big Gifts TO the slasOns.

w liam Howard, wealthy lumber
man of Wiiliamsport, has announced
his intention to opresent II cathedral to
the Scottish Rite Masons of the Valley
of Williamsport. and home to the
Temple Club, Masonic social organ.
ization.
The mansion which now adorns the
property will be given to the Temple
Club. The plans for the cathedral are
almost complete, and its construction
will be started within six weeks. The
estimated cost of the cathedral is $50, 900.
Upon the completion ofthe contem-
plated buildings the Masonic property
in this city will be the most costly in
the State outside of Philadelphia.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1901-02-28
THE TELEPHONE.
Great Possibilities of this Very Useful In
ventiOn.

Great Possibilities of this Very Useful In
ventiOn.
Capital interested i'm the development
ofthe telephone realizes that under pat
ents granted to DIR. Pupin telephony is
very likely to make wonderful ad-
vancementi lin the early years of the pres
ent century. Il. public is even from
ised that as result of DIR. Pupih's dis
coveries it will be possible to carry on
conversation over a transatlantic
cable. If all the claims are supported,
1t is evident that there will come gen
eral improvement in lrng distance land
lines. 1t is just such possibilities as
these that will give great interest to
the telephone exhibit to be made at
the Pan-american Exposition. At
some time or other, in their homes or
in connection with business affairs, al
most everybody comes in touch with
the telephone service, and for this rea-
son they will be instructed as we'll as
ent rtained by what the Pan-American
Exposition will present for their en-
lightenment.