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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-01-10
DEATH OF MRS. WILBUR F. DAY

An Active and Effieient Worker in Re-
lieious and Charitable Causes.
Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Kinsey, wife
of Wilbur F. Day, died at her resi-
dence on Park Place, on Friday even
ing last in the sixty-fifbh year Of her
age. Mrs. Day came home prostrated
from attendance upon missionary con-
ferences at Kansas City and Cleye-
land two years ago last fall and
has been gradually failing since. Her
family were with her when she passed
away. Mrs. Day was born in Mend
ham township, but early in her life
her father, Dr. Phineas Kinsey, came
to Morristown with his family and
established himself in business on
Speedwell avenue. In 1865, she was
married to Mr.. Day who had started
in business here, and her interest
and help in his business is too we'll
known to the people of Morristown to
need recounting. Possessed Of remark
able capabilities for managing affairs
combined with warm-hearted SYM
pathy for all mankind, Mrs. Day was
an energetic worker in every depart-
ment of the work Of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, while the Woman's
Auxiliary of the Y. NJ. G. A., the W..
G. T. u, and the charitable organiza-
tions found in hera willing worker and
generous contributor. Her private
benefactions were numerous and many
family has been kept from suffering
by her. OF a CHEEKY sunny disposition
Mrs. Day made friends on every side
who have deeply sympathized with
her and her family in their affiiction.
She leaves surviving her husband and
eight children Waters b., Wilbur f.,
Jr., Oliver K, Fred f., Charles May
nard Harry p, John G. and Mrs. John
X. Burr.
The funeral services will be held in
the Methodist church this afternoon
at 2 O'Clock.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-01-10
MORRIS COUNTY COURTS.


Prisoners Receive Sentence-Jackson
and Farrand TO be Tried Later.
Judge Mills sentenced two p RS
last Friday. Theodore Lemmons was
given one year in State Prison for
stealing clothes from the Hibernia
Supply Co. IS store at Hibernia.
Thomas Vanderbush, who escaped
from the county Jail in 1896, having
two months yet to serve was recap
tured at Sloatsburg, wherehe had mar
ried and was doing nicely. Sentence
was suspended on the Indictment for
breaking jail, but he must finish his
original term.
John w. Jackson pleaded not guilty
to stealing horse and harness from
Maranz, of Boonton, and two sets of
harness from DIR. Fred Ell. Seward, Of
Madison. Arson Farrand, who is in
jail charged with robbing Dawson's
store in Boonton, pleaded not guilty
to an old Indictment found against
him in 1901 for the larceny of beer
from William Kanouse's place in Mont
vile. They will be tried later.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-01-10
THE FRIDAY EVENING CLUB
To Have Interesting speaker at Next
Meeting.

To Have Interesting Speaker at Next
Meeting.
The speaker at the club meeting on
the third Friday, the 10Th of January,
win be Bailey Willis, Of Washing
ton, d. c., gentleman widely known
in the scientific world as an investi-
gator and traveller. The biographical
cyclopedia, Who's Who F" speaks Of
him as, Mining engineer, geologist
and editor; special expert in iron ores
for the tenth census; geologist OF the
Northern Transcontinental Survey.
and exploration for Northern Pacific
and allied companies /; geologist of the
United States Geological Survey in
charge of the Appalachian Division
and Of Cascade Range and Puget
Sound; the editor Of the Geo
logic Atlas of the United States and
the writer Of many scientific papers. Z
Under the auspices of the Carnegie
Institution for scientific research Mr..
Willis has extended his Investigations
in geography and geology to Asia for
comparative study of that continent
and our own. His lecture viii be on
China and the Chinese and win be IL
Illustrated with the stereoptscon. Not
long ago at the residence Of his brother
in this town he showed few friends
many pictures Of wonderful beauty
and another set of the same character
will be given before the club. His il
lustrations of the magnificent natural
scenery of the empire will be supple
mented by remarks on the history and
condition of the Chinese people and on
questions ofcivilization and humanity
which they present.
Membership in the club can begin at
any time Of the year and those who
contemplate joining should do SO be-
fore this lecture.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-01-10
10 ASK Leglslature tor Funds.

The Middlesex county Freeholders
have joined with Morris county Free
holders in move to have a measure
passed by the legislature providing for
State funds for the repair of roads
built under the State aidlaw. a COM
mittee has been appointed with power
to go to Trenton and urge the passage
of the bill. The Middlesex committee
win also endeavor to have bill passed
for the taxation Of foreign automobile
owners and drivers who use the State
roads. 1t is urged that the State tax
each nonresident owner and driver Of
an automobile $40, which money shall
90 into the State fund for the repair
Of roads. 1t is argued that automo-
biles1to more harm to stone roads
than any other mode Of travel over
them.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-01-10
THE Y. N. c. A. MINSTRELS.
Young Men of the Association win
be Seen in Black Face.

be Seen In Black Face.
The second annual minstrel show
under the auspices of the Young Mems
Christian Association will be held in
the Lyceum on Wednesday evening,
January IS. The show has been under
the direction Of Mr.. Secor during the
past month, ,rehearsals being held twice
week and the boys expect to beat
the record made by last years perfor-
nance. The end men, Messrs. Van
Ness, Wilday, Sayre and Secor have
plenty of local jokes and promise to
keep the audience in good humor.
The symphonic quartet, Messrs. w.
J. johnson, H. J. Genung, DIR. F. a..
Glazebrook and II. G. Owens will sing
and their will also be tenor solos by
George E. Babbitt and FL. 9. Owens.
The olio promises some unusual and
attractive features including Ray G..
Eury, the worlds champion jumper
and an exhibitionof jiu jitsp, Japanese
wrestling. Twelve picked men will
give an exhibition of fancy club swing
ing, under the direction Of Mr.. Gourlie.
Tickets can be had from members and
are exchangeable at Smiths drug
store on Friday, January 13.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-01-10

The grocery store Of Frank RICHTER
on Water street, was burglarized dur
ing Saturday night. Money was taken
from the cash drawer and candy
counter A chewing gum selling
machine was found on Garden street
on Sunday, broken. Mr. RICHTER b0r-
rOWed a dog on Sunday night to watch
the store and it is reported that In
trudeYs were seen there.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-01-10
A Taachars Pamphlet. .

County Superintendent, w. B. Mat
thews, has issued neat pamphlet
giving the names of the teachers of
Morris county by districts also list Of
district clerks, custodians and officers
together with the apportionment of
school funds for the year beginning
July /, 1904.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-01-10

Fred. DeCoster fell from truss. he
was helping erect at tile golf club this
afternoon. He struck on the beams
below landing on his head and shoul-
ders, the fall rendering him uncon-
scions. He was taken to his home in
an ambulance.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-01-10
Erancnlse Laid over.

The application for franchise in
Milburn by the Morris County Trac-
tion company was laid over last week
until January 16. The company wants
a perpetual franchise while the COM
mittee and citizens want t0limitits
life to fifty years.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-01-10
Shoe store Burned. |.

The store Of P, j. Howard in the
Merchants Block was discovered to be
on fire about two O'Clock Saturday
morning. The entire fire department
was called out. The flames were insig-
nificent but the store was full OF
smoke and much damage was done by
smoke and water
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-01-10

This section has recently been
secured for black walnut trees. They
are cut down and hauled to the
nearest railroad where they are shipped
to New York. their final destination
being Hamburg, Germany Several
very large trees were found near Wash.
ington Corner and shipped eYer The \.
j. s. Panna. R B.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-01-10

amended so that voters shall cast theil
ballots in one box direct for the candi
dates and not for the delegates, thus
making it unnecessary for the citizen
to declare his political allegiance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-09
Anacostia and Vicinity.

A message received last evening from
Prince George county, Nd, at the police
station in Anacostia requested the author
tiles here to apprehend Harry Elliott, a
young white man. who, it was stated had
escaped from Constable Lemuel Allen near
Silver Hill, Nd, yesterday afternoon. while
under arrest Elliott, according to the in
formation received, is wanted to answer to
the charge of assault and robbery COM
mitted on Pat kenEey, a resident of Good
Hope, Sunday evening, on the Walker road.
just across the District line. Kenney was
beaten and his pockets We're rified OF 81 80.
William II. Carroll colored, thirty-seven
years old, who lives at the corner of Min
nesota avenue and Harrison street. in Ana
Costa was overcome by an attack of YER
tigo yesterday near the north end OF the
Anacostia bridge falling and cutting him
self about the head and eyes. The patrol
wagon of the Anacostia precinct conveyed
him to the Washington Asylum Hospital
for treatment.
Mr. and Mrs. James Glennon of Maple
avenue. .Anacostia, have gone TO Philadel-
phia.
The police of the local station were notified
yesterday of the disappearance of Edith
Sharp, white girl of eight years. from the
Bell Home for Children. at the head OF
Franklin street, Anacostia. She has been
missing from the home, 1t was stated, since
Sunday evening.
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ton that he could be separated from the
guard through the medium of dlsbanding
the 1st Regiment and hOnordbly dlscharg-
ing the regimental commander, as pro-
yided by law but the commanding general
did not then desire to take such radical
step OF late years the National Guard or
the District of Columbia has been getting
down to real working basis, and, appar-
entity, it was thought best to thoroughly re-
organize the 1st Regiment. 1t seems that
this reorganization contemplated the sep
aration of Col May from the service and
the quickest way to bring about that re-
suit was to honorably discharge him by rea-
son of the disbandment of his regiment.
The discharge of Lieut.. Col Burton r.
Ross was a surprise to all who were not in
the confidence of headquarters. So far as
can be learned, Lieut.. Col. Ross was not
retained for the reason that when the list
Regiment is reorganiZed as. 1t is said, II
will be in the near future the idea will be
to give the new regimental commander a
free hand, unhampered by the presence of
any one who was in authority with the COM
mand that has been disbanded.
In this connection, although absolutely no
information will be given on the subject at
militia headquarters, 1t is safe to say that
the new 1st Regiment will be in existence
when the brigade goes into camp the Sd of
next August. 1t is rumored that Maj.
Charles H. Ourand, inspector general, Dis
trict of Columbia militia, will be commits
stoned colonel of the regiment, and that
Maj. Luther II. Reichelderfer of the recent
I'd Battalion will be its lieutenant colonel
Further, there is reason for the belief that
Capt. Alfred p. Robbins, aid-de-camp, Dis
trict of Columbia militia, will succeed Ma j.
Ourand as inspector general of the militia.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-09
.FORWARDTOMANASSAS
Army of the Potomac on It's
Way Today.
ITS ANNUAL REUNION
CONDITIONS DIFFER FROM THOSE
OF FORTY YEARS AGO.
Ex-Federals as Guests of Former Foes
Features of the Program of
Exercises.
ITS ANNUAL REUNION

Southwark the course of the Society of the
Army of the Potomac is taking its way
today. Once more the men who wore the
blue and the men who wore the gray will
gather on the Manassas battle field-the
place where they engaged in heroic strug-
gle forty years ago The Society of the
Army Of the Potomac is to hold reunion
at Manassas, Va, tomorrow and next day,
and the veterans of the confederate armies
are to be their hosts. The meeting or the
veterans on the Bull Run field will be their
first gathering in official conclave at this
historic spot since the latter part of Au-
gust, 1862 when the men in blue journeyed
there under slightly different formation, and
a band of men in gray waited for them to
give them reception of quite different
character.
The eX-confederates are bending every eff
fort to make the visit of their old time foes
pleasant, just as they exerted themselves on
the former occasion to make the stay of the
boys in blue uncomfortable. The vanguard
of the invader will leave Washington this
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-09
M. varilla's Panama Canal Plan.

The Academy of Sciences at Paris yes
terday heard a communication from NJ.
Bunau-Varilla, former Panaman minister
to the United States, upon the solution
of the Panama canal problem by the new
method of combining lock canal for the
immediate demands of commerce and a
sea-level waterway for the ultimate re-
quirements. The communication says a
lock canal will be sufficient to meet pres
ent requirements. whereas sea-level water
way will be necessary only when the traffic
Is three times that of Suez, thirty years
hence. A lock canal ample to meet all
present requirements, with summit level
of 1870 feet. can be built in four years. The
transformation to the level would cover
seven years additional work without any
interruption of traffic for the work of
transformation. NJ. Bunau-Varilla added that
the transit of the canal and the work OF
Transformation would proceed as independ-
entity If in different hemispheres. Trans
portation would not be INSTRUCTED one min-
ute for the disposal of dredging material.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-09
THE NEW FIREBOAT.
Chief Belt Directed to Get the APP
paratus Ready.

Chief Belt Directed to Get the APP
paratus Ready.
The fireboat Firefghter will go into
commission the LIST of July unless some
thing unforeseen occurs Commissioner
Macfarland today notified Chief Belt to
make preparations for having hose and
other equipment for the boat ready, using
temporarily, until the new appropriations
of the next fiscal year become available,
whatever may be necessary from the pres
ent stock of the fire department. The men
to navigate the boat and the firefghters
who are to be the fireboat company will be
selected by the 1st of June, under Com
missioner Macfarland's direction. The sal
aries for the permanent force begin with
the fiscal year on the list of July, but II the
boat should be made ready before that time
temporary arrangements may be made for
utilizing it's services in case of need. From
the time the construction of the boat was
authorized every effort has been made to
get II into service as quickly as possible.
The work upon the house for the fireboat
company has gone on rapidly as possible
since the 4th of March, when the appro-
priation for that purpose became available
But the piling and other work necessary TO
construct a suitable wharf as a foundation
for the house has taken time, so that the
house cannot be finished by the 1st of July,
but temporary quarters will be arranged
for the men.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-09
FIRE IN REGENT HOTEL.
An Early Morning Blaze Does $1,000
Damage.

Fire broke out in the Regent Hotel, cor
ner 18th street and Pennsylvania avenue
northwest at about 4 o'clock this morning,
and before it could be put out it had done
about 81 900 damage. The alarm was given
from box 145, on that corner and engine
companies 10, 2, IA and l, trucks B and c
and the water tower responded to the
alarm. BY the time that the companies had
started the sky was brilliantly lighted, and
the flames could be seen for some distance
down Pennsylvania avenue.
The origin of the fire is unknown, but it
has been assigned to an overheated stove,
as the flames were first discovered in the
kitchen 1t is stated that a Waterman
made his rounds through the kitchen about
fifteen minutes before the fire was dscov-
cred and he found everything apparently
all right The bell boy in the rear of the
dormitory part of the hotel saw the fire in
the kitchen while errand, and was
the first to give the alarm.
By the efficient work of the firefghters
the flames were confined to the kitchen
part of the hotel. That part was COM
pletely wrecked. putting out of business the
cooking facilities of the hostelry and greatly
mountaineering the guests of the hotel
The loss is covered by insurance, and as
soon as the insurance is adjusted the re-
pairs will be made.
The hotel building is owned by Orrin G.
Staples, but is leased by Robert Murphy
for the Regent Hotel. The management
was very reticent in discussing the origin or
the extent of the fire this morning.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-09
REGIMENT D|SDANOED
Colonel Henry Mays Com
mand No Longer Exists
IN NATIONAL GUARD
COMMANDING OFFICER AND
LIEUT.. COL. ROSS DISCHARGED.
Commissioned Staff Temporarily Trans
ferred-New Regiment Will Be Or
ganized in Near Future.


General orders, No. 5. headquarters Dis
trict of Columbia Militia, consisting
of four short paragraphs, and which were
issued late this afternoon. have resulted in
the most radical change that has occurred
in the National Guard of the District of Co
lumbia in several years.
The LIST Regiment, by the order, is dis
banded. More than that. Col. Henry May,
the regimental commander, is honorably
discharged from the National Guard The
order goes further. and honorably dis
charges Lieut.. Col. Burton r. Ross, the Sec
ond in command of the regiment, from the
National Guard. Capt. Walden Myer, the
regimental chaplain, is also honorably dis
charged
While the list Regiment is disbanded as
an organization, the several commands of
which it consists are retained in the serv-
ice. under different designations. The re-
cent 1st Battalion is designated as the I'd
Separate Battalion of Infantry, the recent
I'd Battalion as the Sd Separate Battalion
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-09

Treasurer of the Society of the Army of the
Potomac.
school house; 18th, court house. northwest
jury room; 10th, court house. northeast Jury
room. 9th, court house, supervisors room:
18th, 18th, 18th and 10th, main court room
general staff clerks office Signal Corps at
Carnegie library.
IL am, business meeting of the society
in the court room; prayer welcome Lieut.
George C. Round. late L. s. ", of the
Manassas Picket Post; welcome by Col.
Edmund Berkeley, late c. S. ", commander
OF Ewell Camp, Confederate Veterans: re-
Spouse by the president of the society.
Public Exercises at 3 O'Clock.
At the court house-2:30 pm. doors open
to ticket holders only
$50 pm. doors open to the general pub
lie; music; prayer, Rev. John McGill, D. D.,
late chaplain c. S. "; THE Star Spangled
Banner" (Key), solo by Mrs Annie l..
Stilson; chorus by the audience; well
come behalf of the common
wealth: welcome on behalf of the mayor
and citizens OF Manassas. Charles f.
Nool judge of the sixteenth judicial cir
solo by Mrs. A. l.. Stilson, chorus by the
audience; response for the society, Gen.
Hcratio c.. King, president; poem, DIR.
Henry M. Clarkson, late surgeon c. S. ";
grafton, Rev. Newell Dwight Hills, d. D.,
chorus, My Country, IT'S of Thee" tSmith )
impromptu addresses by Mai. Gen. Daniel
Sickles, e. S. a retired, and others;
music by the band
pm, campfire at Nicol Hall, Hon. J. b.
F. Thornton presiding; addresses by dis
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-09

ordered in accordance with section "a of
the organic act. which follows:
THAT commissioned officer may be hon.
orably discharged:
Upon tender of resignation;
Upon disarmament of the organization to
which he belongs;
Upon report of a board of examination,
or for failure to appear before such board
when ordered.
HE may be dismissed upon the sentence
of a court martial; conviction in a court OF
justice of an infamous offense-
The only explanation given at District
militia headquarters this afternoon of the
reason for the issuing of the disbanding
order was that the LIST Regiment. as organ
lied was practically useless. and that the
commanding general, acting under the law,
deemed ii expedient to rearrange the or
uanizations constituting the regiment as
Separate battalions for the time being.
1t has been more than an open secret, in
fact known quantity, that for four or
five years past Col. Henry May, as COM
manding officer of the 1st Regiment, has
been persona non grata to the commanding
general. Following the perusal of an In
dorsement at headquarters which Col. May
placed on an official paper on one occasion,
which Endorsement, 1t was declared, indi-
Gated military inefficiency on his part, the
colonel was ordered before board OF ex-
animation to determine his fitness to re-
tain his commission. He employed counsel.
attacked the legality of one of the provis-
ions of the militia law, and carried the mat
yocate general of the army upheld his con-
tention. Since then matters have emained
in stata cga-
Reorganization Contemplated.
1t was pointed out at the time Col May
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-09
GONE TO RICHMOND.
Attorneys and Plaintiff in Won Roques
Case

Baroness Won Roques, accompanied by
her daughter, Mrs Maybrick. and Mr.. L..
". Hayden, her attorney. left Washington
for Richmond, Va, today for the purpose
of resuming the taking of dispositions in the
case OF the baroness against d. w. Arm
strong in connection with the recovery OF
thousands of acres of land in Virginia and
Kentucky.
At the last hearing in this city counsel
for the baroness raised an objection to
what they called an unnecessary loading up
of the record by Mr. Armstrong, and this
question will also be decided by the court.
The baroness was In quite a happy mood
this morning and chatted pleasantly with
a reporter for The Star.
II am delighted to be in Washington
she said. 81 think 1t now the most beau
tiful city in the world. / am always truly
proud of being an American and 1t gives
me great pleasure to be in, this country
whenever the opportunity presents itself
The baroness did not discuss her carr
against Armstrong.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-09
FILE A PETITION.
Heirs of Morris Keim Object to Probate
of Will.
242 WEST 46TH STREET,
NEW YORK, April II, 1905

The will of Morris Keim, dated June "a,
1889, was filed for probate late yesterday
afternoon. All real estate of decedent is
devised to his wife. Christina Keim for
life. and at her death is to be divided
among their children. In a paper accom-
panying the will, signed by Mr.. Keim but
not witnessed, various requests are m:aa
Among these are S10H to Hospital for In
curables, $500 to German Orphan Asylum
and $500 toward the erection of a ''spir-
itual temple" payable within two years,
provided temple is erected in the mean
time and at least 81 500 is paid toward IT
by the First Spiritual Society. 1t is also
provided that the trustees of the temple
allow any Hberal-minded, not orthodox,