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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-07-25
SHERlFF'S SALE.
In CHANCERY OF New JrRsry

IN CHAFCERY OF NEW JERSEY.
Wherein The Dover Building and Loan Asso-
citation is complainant and John G.. Funke
and James j. Lamb, executors and guardians
ETC., under the last will of Hugh Nc
Donald. deceased, are defendants. Fl. ia.
for sale OF mortgaRed premises. Returnable
to October term, A. D.. 1902.
FORD D. SMITH, Solicitor.
DY virtue of the above stated writ of Fieri
ID Faciasi la my hands / shall expose for sale
az 1ublic vendue at the Court House in Norris
to Sn. N. j., on
MONDAY THE 4th DAY OF AUGUST
next, A. D.. 1902 between the hours of IL M,
and O'Clock P. M, that is to say at O'Clock
in the afternoon of said day all that tract or
parcel Of land situate. lying and being in the
Town of Dover. in the County of Morris and
State of New Jersey, bounded and described as
follows:
Being lots Nos and 20 of the block of build
ing sites fronting on the southerly side of
Blackwell street as shown upon q map of the
lands of William Phillips, made bv Andrew
Rossi in November. 1878 and begins at the
southeasterly corner OF Blackwell street and
st Mary's avenue as shown on said map. be.
ing also the northwesterly corner of Lot No. 3
and runs, thence % in q southerly direction
along the easterly side of st. Mary's avenue
two hundred feet to the northeasterly corner
of st. Mary's avenue anil Elm street as shown
on said map: thence CD In an easterly direction
along the northerly tide of Elm street fifty feet
to the s1uthwesterly corner of Lot No 81 as
shown on said map; thence CD IL a northerly
direction along the westerly lines of Lot Nos.
81 and as shown on said map. distar ce of
two hundred feet TO the southerlv side of Black.
well street: thence QD in westerly direction
along tue southerly side of Blackwell street. q
distance If fifty feet to the place of beginning;
containing ten thousand square feet. And be-
ing the same premises conveyed to Hugh Nc
Donald by deed from William =. Phillips aud
wife. dated June Both, 1888 and recorded in
NJ iris County Records of Deeds in Book Ole,
on pages 70, etc.
CHARLES A BAKER,
Dated June 30. 1909. Sheriff.
Chronicle and Era. 3510 p Z. SIC. SO
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SEALED BIDS

Sealed bids or proposals will be received at
the Board of Freeholders rooms in Morristown
n. j.. on Tuesday the 18th day of August 1902
at two o'clocS p. M, by the Court House and
Jail Committee of the Board of Chosen Ere e.
holders of the County of Morris, for remodel
ing and improving he county jail.
Bids must be for completed work including
all materials.
The plans and specifications may be seen at
the Freeholders Rooms on and after July 20.
1909
Each bid must be accompanied bv certified
check for one thousand dollars, (Sl.00O pay
as guarantee that the successful bidder will
enter In to contract with the Board within ten
days after his bid shall have been accepted, or
pay whatever cost and charges may be In
Cured by the Hoard In re-advertising said
workIand re-awarding the contract.
The successful bidder Will be required to
enter into bond in sum equal in amount to
the contract price conditioned for the faith
full performance of the contract according to
the plans, specifications and general conditions
No bids shall be withdrawn.
The price must be written in the bids and
also stated in figures and each bid must be
signed by the bidder and his post Office ad-
dress given.
Bidders must satisfy themselves nv personal
examination or otherwise of the nature and
extent of the work required and shall not, at
any time after the submission of the bid, com
work TO be done or materials to be furnished.
The right to reject any or all bids is ex-
pressly reserved.
MOSES H. SPENCER,
Chairman of Court House and Jail Com.
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FOR. BETTER ROADS.


AhAGNAN1Ah AAAe5AW4yBs
Ever since the automobile became a
fashionable fad the forecast has often
been made that the sentiment for good
roads would at last be given winning
Roadway in all parts of the country,
says the Washington Star 1t was felt
that some such force was necessary to
convince state legislatures of the ne
cessity of passing effective good roads
laws and that the influences behind
the automobile industry and use would
forward the campaign for such ends.
But for some reason the movement has
Jagged until now.
Recently there was organized in New
York city 'the Associate Road Users
of America under the initiative of
some of the foremost Automobiles of
the metropolis. The association is q
composite of all the interests concerned
in the betterment of the American
highways, the automobolists, the cy-
clists, the road drivers and the truck
owners. This combination insures an
active campaign not only for better
highways in the country, but for good
city pavements.
The association is pledged to secure
both and to work for the satisfactory
regulation of traffic, the erection of
street signs and road guideposts, the
proper lighting of streets and high
ways, the prohibition of the obstruc
ton of the highways with destructive
materials or their flooding with water
and particularly the strict enforcement
of all speed ordinances.
The League of American Wheelmep
did wonderful work in overcoming the
inertia of the rural districts and in
stimulating the state legislatures in
the good roads movement. But it had
a long, hard fight and did not accom-.
plish all that was to be done. The
country is so vast, the habit of permit
ting the roads to remain in semidisre
pair is so fixed, the cost of scientific
road making on the great American
scale is so enormous. that the wheel
men found themselves only the leaven
in the great lump. Their influence,
however, was excellent and produced
results which have been effectively
supplemented by the governments
work and by the few associations of
automobolists near the large cities
The association of the interests de-
scribed will permit great member
ship. covering many states, and good
results should soon flow from the or
ganization.
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A DANGEROUS TRAITOR.
The Result of Pechantre's Plot t.
Kill the King.

Kill the King.
Probably no well meaning poet was
ever more taken by surprise than was
M. Pechantre, p gentle and mild man
nered French dramatist of the seven
teenth century, who was one day ar
rested for high treason as he was
peacefully eating his dinner at vii
lage inn.
The landlord of the inn where he
was in the habit of dining discovered
on a table a piece of paper on which
were written some unintelligible
phrases and below in a plain, bold
hand, Here 1 will kill the king
The landlord consulted with the chief
of police. Clearly this clew to a con
person who had left the paper had al
ready been remarked for his absent
air and cleaning eye. That man was
Pechantre.
The chief of police instructed the
landlord to send for him the next time
the conspirator came to dinner.
When Pechantre was shown the evil
uence OIL MS Sullt, he IOfSOl tue awful
charge against him and exclaimed:
"Well, l am glad to see that paper.
1 have looked everywhere for it. 1t
is part of a tragedy l am writing. 1t
is the climax of my best scene, where
Nero is to be killed. 1t comes in here
Let me read it to you" And he took
a thick manuscript from his pocket.
Monsieur, you may finish your din
ner and your tragedy in peace" said
the chief of police, and he beat a hasty
retreat.
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Notice to Creditors.

ESTATE OF CHARLES M. MARSH DECEASED
pursuant to the order of the Surrogate of the
il County Of Morris made on the 18th day
of July A. y. one thousand nine hundred and
two, notice is hereby given to all persons hav-
ing claims against the estate of Charles NJ.
to present the same, under oath or affirmation,
to the subscriber. on or before the fifteenth
day of April next. being nine months from the
date of said order; ana any Creditor neglecttng
under oath or affirmation, within the time go
limited will be forever barred of his, her or
their action therefor against the Executrix.
Dated the fifteenth day of July A. ID. 1902.
ROBERTA W. MARSH, Executrix
Morris Plains, N. j
Present claims against estate to
GORDON E. SHERMAN,
1856 Ogden Place, Morristown, N. ].
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AMERICAN HIGHWAYS.
Director Dodge on the Importance
of Good Roads.

of Good Roads.
In a country as large as that i'll
which we live, with the greater part
of it's producing regions widely sepa-
rated from the markets which they
serve, the matter of Interpretations is
one of vast Importance, writes the
Hon. Martin Dodge, director of the of
flee of public road inquiry, in the Fo-
rum. This applies particularly to our
agricultural products; for, while a
great portion both of our manufac-
tured output and of our farm growth
must be moved long distances by rail
or water before reaching a market.
practically all of the latter must also
be transported for greater or less dis
tances over the public highways. The
question of marketing these agricul-
tural products, amounting in the Unit
ed States to 1000, 100000 annually, on
terms that the dealer can afford to pay
and the grower to accept often reduces
itself to a question of cheap and quick
delivery-in other words, to a question
of economical transportation.
1t has been shown by mathematical
demonstration that it costs more to
move a bushel of wheat or ton of
hay ten miles over the average coun-
try roads of the United States than to
transport the same burden 500 miles
by railway or 1000 miles by steam
ship. 1t has happened many times in
different parts of the country that
farmers have let crops go to waste be
cause the cost of hauling them to the
nearest market or railway shipping
point over wretched and i'll kept roads
amounted to more than could be real
lied for them afterward, whereas if
good roads on which heavy loads could
be hauled had been at hand the same
crops could have been marketed at Il
small profit 10 the producer, while the
economic gain resulting from their APP
plication to useful purposes would
have been very considerable.
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Sealed Bids or PronosaIs.

9 E1TEp BIDS OR PROPOSALS will be
> received at the Board of Freeholders room,
fMsfh day August oP T s At tae
o'clock, a. m. by a committee of the
Board of Chosen Freeholders OF the Coun-
| ty of Morris, for furnishing crushed trap rock
for use on the County and State Aid Roads, to
be improved and repaired by the Freeholde 5,
in such quantities, sizes and under such con-
ditions as are indicated in the specifications.
Tie amount of stone thought to be necessary
| in the whole county is ten thousand tons. an
nually, but this quantity is merely estimated
and bidders must state The minimum quanti-
their bids, as the right to contract for less or
greater quantity is expressly reserved.
| The bids must comply with the requirements
mentioned in the specifications, general con
ditions and this notice, else the same will be
rejected as informal.
| Each bidder may submit two bids-one for
supplSing all the material 10 be used by the
| County, and the other to conform to the re-
quirements of the following resolution adop-
ted at the last meeting of the Board, to which
the attention of the bidders is particularly
called.
RESOLVED, that bidders may be allowed to bid
| for furnishing stone in one or more towns,
| townships or boroughs, and where one or
more railroad runs through any such town,
township or borough bidders may bid for
| stone delivered on one or both roads.
Delivery shall be made by the bidder at the
railroad station nearest the line of work in
progress.
be required to furnish a bond satisfactory to
| the Committee in sum, equal in amount, as
near as may be. to the sum total of the con.
| tract conditioned for the faithful performance
of the contract in accordance with the specif.
cations, general conditions and this advertise
ment.
The right to reject any or all bids is express
| ly reserved.
No bid shall be withdrawn.
Bidders must be prepared to give evidence OF
their ability to supply and furnish the mater
ial required at the time and in the quantities
desired.
All stone must be quarried trap rock proper
| ly sized and screened and samples of the ma
| terial to be furnished and the name of the
quarry from which the same was taken must
| be submitted with the bid.
| Specifications and general conditions may
be seen at the Freeholders' Room, Morristown
| n. j., where blank bids may be obtained.
| Each bid must be accompanied bv a certi
fled check for 5000, payable to the order of thu
Director. as guarantee that the bidder will
enter into contract if his proposal is accepted
G.. A BECKER,
Director of the Board of
Chosen Ereeholders of
1886 the County of Morris, n j
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Making ENCOURAGING Progress

Good things come slowly, we are
told, and good roads have been lag
gard of the laggards, and even now,
considering the light that has been
shed on them and in comparison with
what ought to be. road Improvement
can hardly be said to be doing more
than pegging along, says the Bingham
ton IN. " Leader But it has made a
good start, and if it does not move
with the velocity of a falling body it is
making the most encouraging progress
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Low Excursion Rates to AsheyiIle, N. C
THE Land Of the Sky"

The Southern Railway announces
tickets on sale August 18th to 10th,
for one fare for the round trip, good
to return until August 25th. This
| attractive resort bears a deservedly
high reputation for admirable loca-
ton, equitable climate, bracing air,
romantic scenery and charming
| hotels.
Whether summer or winter, the
Land of the Sky holds out most allur-
ing attractions. Nestled in the heart
of the Alleghanies. graded by the
Blue Ridge, it enjoys climate OF
its own.
Nowhere east of the Rocky Noun
tains is to be found anything ap-
preaching it. for spring, summer. and
fall, and all year-round retreat
With an average mean temperature
of 80 degrees there is perfect freedom
from torrid heat and the terrors OF
winters grasp. Her skies rival in their
azurine tints those of Italy, and there
| is vitality and tonic in the atmos-
phere which make an instant impress
sion ON the visitor.
| 1t is a region more char mingly
beautiful than Switzerland. Here
range after range of heavily forested
mountains parallel each other like
waves of the sea, where interlacing
valleys are rich with verdure and
flowers, and where silver streams
murmur INCREASINGLY.
The centre and capital of the Sky
land is Asheville. 1t has some excel
lent hotels. The Battery Park, Ken
nelwvrth Inn and Albemarle Manor
are all must admirably managed and
beautifully furnished.
For full particulars call on or ad-
dress New York Office, 271 and 1885
Broadway; Alex. S. Thweatt, East
Passenger Agent, 1885 Broadway,
| New York. $500
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Through service West-No. q. at 6.I5 an,
runs to Scranton, connects at Stanhope with
train for Branchville; connects at Denville
for Boonton branch.
with Central Railroad Of New jersey
and Lehigh Valley Railway; connects al
Denyille for Boonton Branch; at Dover for
Blnghamton and intermediate points; at Stan
hope for Sussex Branch; at Washington with
the Lackawanna Limited for Buffalo and all
points west. Sleeper on this train runs
through to st. Louis. Observation car to Buf-
falo; dining car to Buffalo.
No. 365 leaves $40 a. m runs through To
chester; connects at Denyille for Boonton
branch.
No. S59 leaves LIS p. M, runs through to
Denville for Boonton Branch; at Dover for
Cherter Branch and for Phillipsburg and in
termediate stations.
NO. b, 2:56 p. M, Pullman sleeper and
coach on this train runs through to Chicago.
Dining car to Binghamton. Parlor car 10
Binghamton.
No. 36l, 3:32 p. M. runs to Dover.
- No 400 leaves 4:40 D. M, runs through to
New Jersey and Lehigh Valley Railway:
connects at Dover with train for Scranton and
intermediate points, also with train for
Chester; at Stanhope with Sussex branch
train,
No. 1858 leaves 5:54 D. M; runs to Dover.
connects there with train for Hackettstown
connects at Denville for Boonton Branch.
No, 1857 leaves 1854 D. M, runs to Newton;
connects at Dover with fast train for the
West; through sleeper to Chicago: sleeper tn
Bunalo; passengers can remain in this
sleeper until 8 a, M; dinlne car to Strouds
burg.
No. 1853 leaves 1923 p. M. runs to Stanhope
Connects at Stanhope for Newton.
No. 81 leaves $50 D. M; connects at
Dover with solid vestibuled train for the West
having through sleepers to Utica, Oswego,
Ithaca and Buffalo.
Tickets to all points in the United States on
sale at Morristown Ticket Office.
For further information call on d. j. White
Ticket Agent. Morristown. Nj; Guy Adams
Division Passenger Agent. Newark. N j.; 7. w
Lee, General Passenger Agent 26 Exchange
Place, New York.
Il. w. LEE
General Passenger Agent
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ROCkaway Valley Railway.

Leave MorrIsrown, for all stations to White.
house, D.. L. q w. Station. $40 a. m; sos D.
IN Park Place at $50 a. IN. and Sis 2. M;
Watnong Station, 9.l0 a. m. and $40 p m.
Leave Brookside for Morristown, 715 a. m.
and 800 p. M; for Whitehouse, $50 a. M. and
5. 40 p. IN.
Leave Mendham for Morristown. Z. 05 a. m,
and 305 p. M; for Whitehouse, 1905 a. m. and
5.65 p. IN.
Leave Whitehouse for Morristown, 800 a. m.
and 80 p. m. Arrive at Whitehouse from
Morristown. IL 40 a. m. and 100 D. IN.
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Provide For Inspection and Repair.

Provide For Inspection and Repair.
Wherever improved roads are made
there should be provision for their
maintenance, and maintenance should
mean weekly inspection of them and
immediate repair of every little break,
says the New York Tribune. Where
roads are built with state aid, under
the present excellent law, such inspec-
ton and repair are matters of state as
well as of local concern, and it would
be well to have some formal under
standing or agreement upon it between
the state and the local authorities. This
is the more desirable since the extent
of state aided roads is rapidly increas-
ing and will doubtless in future in
crease still more rapidly. 1t is true, as
the state engineer reports, that the
roads which have been built give un-
qualified satisfaction to the people who
use them and in nearly every case lead
to demand for further extension of
the system
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All want Better Hipbxvavs.

Perhaps one of the most encourag-
ing signs of the good roads agitation
and activity is the happy and harmo-
NOUS blending of all interests, says
Harper's Weekly. The farmer, bust
ness man and gentleman of leisure are
equally interested and anxious to at
tain the common end. In former years
there has been some friction and con
sequent retarding Of the good roads
movement. For years the cyclists have
worked for and agitated the subject OF
good roads. For some reason, which
the farmer himself cannot SATISFACTORY
ly explain, the latter did not cooperate
as he should and even opposed those
working for improvement. Now all is
changed, and while there may be indi-
vidual cases of opposition the farmers
as a rule are strongly in sympathy
with the movement.
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Good Roads nenefit All.

That good roads pay there can be no
doubt. All classes in a community are
sharers in the benefit and the market
value of real estate is increased from
10 to 20 per cent as against bad roads.
The destructive agencies of good roads
are mainly water and narrow wagon
tires, and for this reason perfect drain
age and the use of broad tires are i'm
perative.
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The Road Question In Kansas

Mr.. Eugene Ware, the new commits
sioner of pensions, has been much in
terested in the construction of roads
in his adopted state Of Kansas, says
the Saturday Evening Post. Recently
Mr.. Ware was asked, How do the
farmers in Kansas stand on the good
road question: up to their knees"
was the reply.
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Palestine Violin.

The rebab of Palestine is sort OF
violin. The body is a square frame
covered with parchment. The instru-
ment is played with a bow. There is
but one string. a thick, coarse horse
hair, but expert performers can, it is
said, get considerable variety of tone
from this primitive instrument.
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Notice to Creditors
NEW YORK.

ESTATE OF THEoDoREW. PHOENIX, DECEASED
pursuant to the order of the Surrogate of the
i County of Morris, made on the 9th day
of June. A. ID. one thousand nine hum
persons having claims against the estate of
TheodoreW Phoenix late of the County of Nor
ris, deceased, TO present the same under oath
the 9th day OF March next, being Nine
Months from the date of said order; and any
Creditor neglecting to bring in and exhibit
his, her or their claim, under oath or attirma-
ton, within the time so limited will be for
ever barred of his, her or their action there
for against the ADMINISTRATIVE.
MARGARET r PHOENIX.
Dated the 9th day of Administrators,
June A. d. 1902. Mendham, N. J.
350-
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sprinkling preserve. Roads,

Sprinkling not only makes travel
ever the road more pleasant, but it pre-
serves the surface. The rock gets
loose when the surface becomes dry
and dusty, and the damage from fric-
ton is great
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Notice of Settlement.

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN that the ac-
IN counts of the subscriber, sole surviving
executor and trustee of Henry Day, deceased,
will be audited and stated by the Surrogate
and reported for settlement to the Orphans
Court of the County of Morris, on Friday. the
first day of August next.
Dated June 9th. 1902.
JOHN INGLIS,
Executor and Trustee,
90 Pine Street.
Ss9s New York City.
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A Tennessee County to Issue Bonds

Hamblen county, in Tennessee, has
voted to issue bonds to the amount Of
$4,000 for the Improvement of roads.
Hamblen is one of the smallest coun-
ties in the state, but it is not too small
to set a good example to the larger
counties and perhaps to the state.
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Tommy" said the schoolteacher to
Tommy Taddells, 'what do you under
stand by the term high explosives >"
''Sky rockets. ma'am," replied Tom
my.-Judge.
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face put in good condition before the
road is finally accepted. To secure the
best results light dressing of sand OF
finely broken stone should be applied
each spring, all loosened stones being
first removed This covering will wear
down in few weeks, leaving the sur