The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-29

Newark, N. j., Sept. 29-Capt. Mar
tin -: Haines, the famous q Cranberry
King of New Jersey, is dead at his
home in VincentoWn. Next to the fam
Gus mosquito of the Jersey coast he
ranged as an unsurpassed advertising
medium for the state. The. ambition Of
his life was cranberries and he put the
Jersey product, sour and sweet, into
many ens o That e4e the Mot Oldest
inhabitant Of New Jersey cannot name
the exact date-Captain Haines, having
a geological bent of mind as well as a
scent for the dollar, saw the ocean
gradually receding from the Jersey
lington and Ocean counties a dreary
waste. To test his theories he tried corn
on these bottoms and the corn came up
yellow and consumptive. He tried pota-
toes, and while they learned to swim
in salt water they could not be cooked.
Then he paid a visit to the fresh
water marshes of Wisconsin, where the
abundance. He saw the Indians gath
ering the wild berry and the Dutch
cultivating the domesticated product.
Cranberry on State Shield.
On his return to New Jersey he an
cranberry on the state shield Of New
Jersey before get through
This was longer than thirty years
ago, and at the beginning of 1905 it
was estimated by the state authorities
more or less scientifically regulated,
! were giving the world 100 00O, 600 ber-
ries a year. Haines himself believed
that the berry, raw or properly cooked,
was the best food for a bad stomach
that could be found.
l. When visiting New5York city several
years ago to close contracts for his an
nual sales he said to a party of friends
at John s historic restaurant: "When
you can't eat anything else, a cram
berry will go down and stay down. -
| Burlington county has a population
of over $4,000 and Ocean county a lit
tie over 10000, making nearly $4,000
majority with homes above the marshes
and sands that ,jut out into the Atlantic
Each year Captain Haines gave over
| $4,000 of these people profitable work
in the cranberry beds-digging bitches,
creating drain systems and following
} scientific methods for getting the hard
!; est and plumpest berry possible. =
Fed American Army.
AS a result of his careful work, when
the Spanish American war broke out,
States army in tropical climates came
up, Mr.. Haines promptly telegraphed to
, President McKinley: g Give EN- cram
berries.' In official circles in Wash
ington, the message was laughed at,
but the captain followed it up by zap
pearing at the White House and stat
> hot stomach in a warm climate there
ism It anything better than a well, pre-
!, served cranberry.sI'll give the govern;
ment outright 10000 cases to prove that
I am correct.' ...-....
The dignity Of the government would
not permit the acceptance OF t, Inc g snd
sent to Camp Alger, to Tampa and Key
West and used with beneficial results
When T. the army entered Santiago
l Haines' cranberries followed it in large
quantities. Since that time the cap
: tain s product as he stated last De
, cember, g" ts has gone into the Philippines
5 to bless the Malay and make him some
. thing like white man; into Japan and
! China, to show 'em New Jersey is the
, mother of good things; into Manchurla
e where over $4,000 cases have been de
8 livered to the Russians; up to Alaska
t where they have a wild berry OF then
s own. but it s too hard to get at.
Made Money at It. E--.
/. Captain Haines made money out Of
/ his cranberries. He literally wrestet
= them out of the oceans bed. Each veal
there is a marked recession of the .ocear
$ from the Jersey coast; where surf once
: billowed barren sands appeared. Halne!
4 went after these sands. He pursued
= them and turned them into cranberry
n beds. -. "
+ "Better N making, war;" he said on on!
E day to an old friend; rs getting getting noe aaf
! making it produce something. ID rather
! run my cranberry marshes than haye
! a whole navy. Dewey thought n ne a !ls
! something when he blew up the Span:lsf
feet in Manila bay, but was feeding
) my cranberries to his sailors before they
I were ready to fight. -, -, e..;.
t centers of New York the captain was ;
ese Rsyga sn NEVER H @ Was Is f bs
when he was selling without a handful
|. of@his choicest herries in sight. AS al