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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-10-03
CHICAGO STREET GAR PLAN
Traction Syndicate Makes 49,, OO0,-
900 Offer to CITY,
MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP HALTED


Lake City at Point of Choice Between
Company and Dunno PIans--RaiIways
TO spend millions = One Corporation
For Entire City If the New Scheme
Proves Acceptable.
Chicago Chicago is now at the point
Of choice between Mayor Dunnes Tim
mediate municipal ownership, in the
form Of contract to prominent men
for the operation of lines reverting to
the city, and the giving Of twenty
year franchise to the traction com
panies on an elaborate plan devised by
them. The companies, now acting to-
gether, have presented for the first
time a definite statement Of what they
are willing to do The program in
wolves a twenty-year extension Of their
control, proposition against which
the city voted last November.
When the transportati ton commission
met, Mr.. Bliss, attorney for the Chi
cago City Railway Company, outlined
franchise ordinance involved in the
new proposal 1t covers all the present
big traction companies, providing for
virtual joint ownership under the man
agement.
The Chicago City Railway Company
is ready to spend $15,O00000 on inn
provements, while the Union Traction
Company offers to expend $30,000,000
which includes lowering the tunnels.
The compensation clauses will give the
city between $30000,000 and $35, 000,-
600
AS to the time at which the city may
acquire the lines of the various COM
panies, the ordinance to be presented
provides that all so-called "ninety-nine-
year" and other franchise rights shat
terminate at the end OF twenty yeaiM.
At that time the city shall have the
right to take over the lines by the pay
ment to owners for the physical prop
erty at it's cash value at that time, this
value to be determined by arbitration
or appraisal. In event the city desires
to take and operate the systems at an
earlier date the ordinance provides
that the city shall have the right to
purchase the lines at specified times by
paying the cash value of the physical
property at the time of purchase and
also the price fixed by arbitration as
the value of the unexpired part of the
franchises.
Officials Of the traction companies
say the ordinance means a unifcation
in operation of the City Railway and
Union Traction systems, if not a COM
plete merger of the two big corpora
tions. This is made necessary by the
provision for the universal transfer
and the joint use of tracks.
There was a disinclination on the
part of Aldermen and Mayor Dunno
to discuss the proposed ordinance. All
wanted to withhold their comment I'M
til they have had an opportunity to
study it in detail.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-10-03
DUEL oN 4 FLYINa mans.
Express Messenger and His Friend
Shot Each Other.

Shot Each Other
Chicago. Locked in an express car
attached to rapidly moving Wabash
train two Chicago men fought revolt
yer duel, which ended with both prob
ably fatally wounded. Each was shot
three times. The fight was caused by
jokes, according to one of the duelists.
The wounded men are John e. Ryan,
messenger on the train, and Edward
O. Greene, former express messenger.
The accounts of the fight diner.
Greene said he boarded the express
car intending to go to his home in
Pittsfield to visit relatives. He was
an old friend of Ryan, and the latter,
he asserted, permitted him to ride.
He insisted that he assist with the
express matter, and the two men be-
gan drinking. Jokes led to a quarrel,
and Greene declared both drew revolt
vers at the same time. Ryan said that
the shooting began west of Bement,
and Greene ayerred the first shot was
fred before the train reached Cerro
Gordo. When the train neared Deca-
tur, Greene opened door and jumped
from the car. He wass unable to run
and was found an hour later by the po-
lice.
The wounded men were taken to hos
pital at Decatur. None Of the train
men was aware Of the battle in pro-
gress on the train until it reached De-
catur, when the car door was seen
open and the trainmen found Ryan I'M
conscious on the floor.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-10-03
MOTHER KILLS HER Z CHILDREN
She Then Wounds Herself Mortally
and Sets Fire to Her Home.


and Sets Fire to Her Home.
Cambridge Ill.-Neighbors of Will
lam Markum discovered that the
Markum house was on fire. Fastening
there to assist in subduiug the flames,
they saw the bodies of Mrs. Markum
and her seven children lying inside
the burning building covered with
blood. They succeeded in pulling the
bodies from the flames only to find
them all horribly gashed. All were
apparently dead, but signs of life We're
discovered in the woman and she was
restored to consciousness. She at first
said a strange man had killed the
children and then set the house on fire,
Later, just before she died, Mrs.
Markum confessed that she had killed
the children with Ratchet and had
attempted to kill herself with the same
weapon, but falling had set the house
on fire.
After her death a letter was found
addressed to her husband, telling him
she was going to kill herself and the
children; that she loved him and the
children, but believed they would be
better off and safer in the arms of the
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-10-03
Labor world.

Nearly all of the fint glass factories
OF the country resumed operations re-
Gently.
Work has been resumed at the SIAM
ford Merthyr Colliery, New South
Wales.
The West Australian Government
has taken steps to reduce the amount
Of labor carried on in the gold mines
on Sunday.
victorian Premier Bent says he is
going to spend 100000 in various pub
lie works to provide work for the I'M
afnn1apad-
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-10-03
W. Il. Peckham Dies in once.

Wheeler H. Peckham, one of the
foremost lawyers in New York. and an
active member of the Citizens Union,
the City Club and other reform organ
lzations. was stricken with apopiexy
and died in his office in New York City.
Mr.. Peckham had been alling for sew
eraI months.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-10-03
A HANDY CANDLESTIcK.

The hunter of experience has learned
that an oil lamp or lantern is bulky
and nine times out of ten leaks out
and runs over it's dufle. A large num-
Der have come down to the candle,
which never leaks and does not take
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-10-03
Tested Eyes Before FIGHT.

Surgeon General S. Suzuki. Of the
Imperial Japanese Navy. addressing
the convention Of military surgeons,
at Detroit, Mich, told how the Japan
ese surgeons before every engagement
carefully inspected the eyes OF all gun
ners on the Warships.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-10-03
AERoNAUr's TIGHT sQUEEzn.

Red Fleshings Nearly Cause Death of
Woman Who Falls Among Cattle.
Jefferson, Wis.-Miss Belmont who
made balloon ascensions at the State
Fair, narrowly escaped death by being
gored by a herd of Holstein cattle.
The wind carried her into pasture as
she alighted. She wore red tights, and
the animals made rush for her. Mar
shall Winterling, who followed her on
horseback, drove back the enraged cat
tie and bore her from the field, She
was badly bruised.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-10-03
strikebreakers ousted.

The New York subway strikebreak-
ers. imported by Farley, having served
their purpose, will now be discharged
BY the Interborough Company. The
marlborough has asked the Brooklyn
Rapid Transit Company for thirty
competent motormen, and the Farley
aggregation will be disposed of as
quietly and quickly as possible.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-10-03
To Protect President.

The greatest possible care will be
taken to protect President Roosevelt
when he visits Richmond. Va, on Oc-
tober Is. The Richmond Howitzers
will act as a special escort to him
wherever he goes, and this force will
be augmented by the local constabu
larry ana other special guards
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-10-03

Burglars entered the private bank OF
G. p. Burnett & Sons, at Eldorado, ILL.,,
wrecked the vault and carried away
between $4,000 and $4,000 in currency
and gold. Many shots were exchanged
between the burglars and citizens, but
nobody was hurt
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-10-03
/. X. Life Men Make Oath in Conflict.

Affidavits are on file with the Gov
ernor of Texas sworn to by Theodore
N. Banta and other officials of the
New York Life to the effect that no
contribution TO the Republican cam
paign fund was made in 1896 Re-
Gently President Mccall and George
w. Perkins have sworn that such a
payment was made.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-10-03
HELD FOR KIDNAPPING FARMER.
Real Estate Dealer Accused of Crime
to Gain $1,000.

Kaukauna, Wis. -Wenzel q. Cavot a
real estate dealer of Green Bay, was
arraigned before Justice Schwin on
charge Of kidnapping M. M. McCarty, a
prominent farmer Of Kaukauna, who
has been missing since September a..
Not being able to furnish a bond for
$1,000. Cavot was committed to jail.
McCarty lived alone, His real es-
tate and personal property is valued
at $1,000. When last seen he said he
was going to Green Bay. After he
had been missing about a week Cavot
appeared on McCarty's farm with a
bill Of sale and began disposing Of the
stock. The instrument is in McCar-
ty's handwriting and is signed by him,
but contains the names of no wit
nesses.
Proceedings against Cayot We're
started by McCarty's relatives.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-10-03

In a test case brought by an Omaha
(Nebl tobacco dealer Judge Day de-
clared unconstitutional the new anti
cigarette law in so far as it relates
to giving away cigarette papers.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-10-03

Lead poisoning, caused. it is said. by
the cans in which condensed milk was
purchased, was responsible for the
death of the six-months-old twins of
Archie Boubais at PeIoskey. Mich
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-10-03

Mrs. Edith M. Bailey, wife of a
wealthy manufacturer Of Cleveland,
Ohio, beneath whose automobile JOS
eph Broestle was killed, was held for
manslaughter.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-10-03
Boston to New york By Electricity.

BO9tOH 10 NeW lUIK ~ 17TVOSE1OIVJ'
The New York, New Haven and
Hartford Railroads order for twenty
five electric locomotives, it was said,
means electrical expresses between
New York and Boston in the near fu~
ture
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-10-03
Plumbing, Timing, Steam
and Gas Fitting

at their OFFICE, Al Min street, tele-
phone 284-l, or at the store of William
b, Hibler, South street, city.
The Senior member of this partner
ship, JOHN J. CARROLL, has been
plumbing in this city for twenty-nine
years, and his reputation as a plumber
is too well known for any further COM
ment. 253S.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-10-03
WHITE Is Home a Hero.

Witte, chief peace envoy of the Gar,
was warmly welcomed home to st.
Petersburg by officials and people,
Lord than they were on earth.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-10-03
The Corn Crop SAFE.

According to the Washington Weath
err Bureau the bulk Of the great corD
crop is safe from frost.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-10-03
TO our subscribers.

When you wish to change the address
OF your paper be sure and send the
present address as well as the new one.
If this is not done it is impossible to
make the change promptly.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-10-03

up much room. 1t furnishes enough
light for ones tent, as little light is
necessary.
The folding candle lantern is very
good, but if it should break or be lost
the birch bark candle-stick is the next
best thing. This candle-stick can be
made in five minutes. It can be made
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-10-03
notice.

JOHN J. CARROLL, who for years,
mas been in the firm of LooNEY & CAR
ROLL, has formed partnership with
his son, WILLIAM j. CARROLL, and
they arenow ready to receive orders for
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-10-03

China has ten railways in operation.
with a total mileage OF 22S5. OF about
one-tenth that Of Great Britain.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-10-03

AspnaII ITUsI A1uVU IVU19S'
Testimony was given during suit
in New York that the Asphalt Trust
aided rebellion in Venezuela.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-10-03

tack or tie the ends over the side Of the
spool.
When you blow through the other
end of the spool the bands vibrate like
the human vocal chords and make a
sound something like the human voice,
which will change according to the
force with which gu blow.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-10-03

WANTED sEv ERAL INDUSTRIOUS PER.
sons IN each state to travel for house eatab-
Wished eleven years and with large capital, 10
call upon merchants and agents for successful
and profitable line Permanent engagement.
Weekly cash salary OF S24 and al travelling ex,
penses and hotel bills advanced IN cash eack
week Experience not essential. Mention rofs
9renca and enclose self.addkessed euVelop0.
Tin AI1ONA13l2 Dearborn ST., QhiceRo. \,
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-10-03

A Victory For Arbitration.
Arbitration Is the keynote of the
Norway -Sweden dissolution treaty.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1905-11-30
Diving Bell of 200 Years Ago.

1t was nearly 200 years ago that
Edmund HALEY constructed what is
often referred TO as the first diving
bell, although the apparatus must
have been much like that which was
used in the presence of Charles V.
The principle of the diving bell is
simple. An inverted jar sunk in the
water retains air at its top, and il
there is enough air men may live and
breathe and work there. and keep dry.
DR.. Halley's diving bell was large
wooden chamber, open at the bottom
and loaded there with lead to prevent
it from turning in the water Pieces
of glass set in the roof furnished light.
Air was supplied by an ingenious
method; for loaded casks full of air
were sent down, bung downward. Tip
ping the barrel, water would rush into
it and drive out the air to the man in
the bell chamber.
At the depth of thirty-three feet the
air is compressed to half its former
bulk. and the bell is therefore at the
depth filled full with water; and as
the depth increases, so do the COM
preston and the pressure.-Technical
World Magazine.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1905-11-30
REASON FOR CHOOSING PASTOR.
Woman Of Experience Had Studied
the Subject.

A West Side congregation was call
ed upon not long ago to choose a new
pastor. The last three ministers had
been personae non gratae with most
of the parishioners, and before select
ing another the congregation did
some pretty tall thinking. There was
one woman of experience whose ad-
vice carried particular weight.
Preacher after preacher was invited
TO the pulpit for a trial sermon, and
all, in the final analysis, were reject
ed by the female arbiter. At last there
came along possible incumbent who
met with her approval.
THE reason | am sure he will give
satisfaction she said, lis because he
has the right kind of wife for a
minister. She allows him to rant
around all he wants to at home, and
doesn't sass back. | found out long
ago that a man who hasn't that priv
ilege at home works off his spleen
elsewhere. A minister vents it on his
congregation. That was why we
couldn't stand the last preacher. This
one will be all right. We won't hear
a peep out of him."
And upon that unique recommends
tion the congregation actually did
give the man a call. According tc
last accounts both he and the parish
toner's we're doing well. The wife has
not been heard from.-New York
Press
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1905-11-30
Styles In Buttons.

Buttons for the most part are large
and fiat though some are slightly con
vex. Large buttons will be used al
most entirely on tailor-made suits, but
SO ornate are they that they will be
ornamental rather than useful and
other modes of fastening will be en-
ployed. A new button suitable for
black costumes Is covered with silk or
soft woolen fabric with knots of a
gay color embroidered on 1t with but
ton-hole silk. Very beautiful buttons
are made of onyx and malachite and
jasper. and these are surrounded with
narrow. metal rims. Fur. white or
very light materials. crystal buttons
are very effective. These are also
large and fiat with metal rims and n
delicate design in silver or gold. The
bead button is a pretty novelty formed
of small cut beads inclosed in an en-
circling rim, the oeads either matching
the costume in color or Of cut steel,
gold or silver. and the embroidered
button with design worked in col
ored silks on a light background is al
ways pretty and effective.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1905-11-30
Nom Mount sinai.


are times when the explorer almost
feels like an intruder. Suddenly the
pick strikes against something, and
he sees revealed before him the toy
horse of some long dead Egyptian
child-the dice of some Egyptian gam
bier who has long paid his reckoning
the marbles of some small boy-tha
comb and glass of some fine lady--the
distaff of some poor woman.
He feels like one who has broken
unawares into another mans house,
and finds himself alone with the
sacred privacies of intimate life.
There are many such objects in this
little exhibition-objects found in the
Greco-Roman settlements by Drs.
Grenfell and Hunt. There are beauti.
full bits of glass and mosaic--scent
perfume bottles with wax shoppers,
left on some Roman ladys toilet table
reed pens with sharp, split points,
to write on wax-ivory hairpins, egg
whippers, all the small devices of lux
ury known to an advanced civilization.
These are vestiges of the last period
of Egypt's long civilization-the eve
before the long night of Arab barba-
rism.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1905-11-30
Good Points of Rolern.

The war between the redingote and
the bolero. and the whole question OF
long and short coats should be settled
with great deal of consideration for
the figure The bolero suits the ma
iority of figures, or at least there Is
some one of the numerous forms of 1t
to which most figures can be accom-
modated. A good waist and the hip
curve of a good form are never seen
to better advantage than when set off
by the trim neatness of Zouave shapes
and the little mess jacket, as the
longer varieties Of it are called across
the water.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1905-11-30
Baked Eaas with White Sauce.

Baked eggs-Six hard-boiIed eggs.
one cuprul bread crumbs. White
sauce-One tablespoonful butter, one
and one-half tablespoonfuls flour, one
cupful milk, one-quarter teaspoonfm
salt, one-half saltspoonful paprika.
Make the white sauce. Slice eggs and
put one layer in buttered earthenwaFe
dish, then pour in enough white sauce
to cover the eggs and sprinkle bread
crumbs on thickly. Repeat until all
the eggs are used. Be sure TO have
thick layer Of crumbs on top. Bake
in slow oven till golden brown. or
about twenty minutes.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1905-11-30
The New HroadcIoths

Probably the most startling change
In fabrics comes in the new broad-
cloth.
One can hardly recognize the stand
by of many generations. We have
been used to sheen and full finish.
thick and thin weayes, but the new
broadcloths are in small plaids. You
can get plain one if you ask for it.
but you will be shown all the novel;
ties first.
The plaids are very small and the
broadcloth is of dull finish The pre-
ferred color is gray and deep ecru,
which sounds queerer than II looks.
These will be used especially for the
smartest street suits.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1905-11-30
"stln sweeter sInes NV parIIno.v -

The bell-bird fills Australian shades
With songs like bubbling fountains;
The redstart thrills the river glades
Beneath Nirginian mountains.
The oriole. that soul afire.
Paurs forth storm Of singing
To the rapt mate OF his desire,
In soft gray hammock swinging.
BY night, by day, on topmost spray,
Or where the covert bushes
PLAYS Natures weiTdest orchestra
The mock bird, king of thrushes.
But all the words of all the birds
Ay. cen the songs, magician
All sweetest notes from singing throatS
Fade, as at dawn vision.
When. be 1t catch OF lullaby.
Or songs of battle ringing,
Love lays or hymns of liberty,
/ hear my darling singing.
For song each bird hath times preferred
When winter winds are gnarling
Each tender tree the chickadee
Outsings the housed starting.
But whether blows the summers rose,
or winters winds be snarling.
BE spring abloom, or fall in gloom
Still sweSter sings my darling.
Henry Austin in Century.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1905-11-30

did she love you?" asked Nellie
after long pause.
Most passionately," he replied.
"The parting nearly killed both of u.s."
why did you part?" asked the girl,
leaning forward eagerly.
Her father resolutely opposed the
union,' he replied slowly. He was
an invalid and she thought it her duty
to defer to his wishes and remain
with him and care for him. She
would not listen to any waiting or my
part, but renounced our happiness
once and for all"
Nellie had risen and now stood
close to Arthur with pale face and
frightened eyes.
rs her father still alive?" she ask
ed
mo" he replied, II read of his
death only the other day."
why do you not go back to herr"
she faltered
rising and looking down at her ten.
derly. "The old love is dead and a
new one lives in it's place"
The color swept back to her face as
she asked Historically: Are you
sure you love me as much as you did
herr"
More" he exclaimed passionately
as he held out his arms appealingly.
She nestled herself within them and
sobbed. Historically, as she flung her
arms about his neck: Il suppose a
woman has right to change her
mind"
f"Once, but no more" he answered.
And the girl did not dream that the
pcrfidious wretch was saying to him
self: First ppze to me as a scientific
| romancer."
And she never knew that the girl in
Michigan was myth born of the ne
cessities of Arthur's courtship
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1905-11-30
The Age of Slang.

"The way you New Workers address
one another is still strange to me,
although have been coming here for
years" said a visiting New Englander.
"One would judge that you had no
Christian names. | seldom hear one
used except formally. It's old man.
or old fellow and even in speaking
TO your wives it's little one little
woman or some other silly diminu-
tive. The women don't seem to be
much better, with such terms as boy. >
and hubby The children are like
wise misnamed and seem to under
stand only such appellations as kid
and little rascal My daughter came
here with the good old New England
name of Priscilla. but hear her call
ed 'Prissy.' and some even make 1t
'Cilly.' This is certainly an age of
slang. New York Sun.