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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1905-07-11
STATE FIRE SERVICE

Especial to 'The Jersey City News'')
TRENTON, July II, 1905 Advance
reports Of the State geological survey
show that State fire service is advocat~
ed to prevent great losses by forest fires
1t is said that such protection is prac-
tocal, and would result in great saving
to the State.
The loss by forest fires last year was
heavy. The area burned was Al SOB
acres. The largest areas burned were in
the South Jersey counties, the monetary
loss being $42, ,s34.5o in Ocean, $4,000
in Burlington, s26,o2o in Atlantic, $17.-
525 in Sussex, s15,957 in Morris and
$13, 100 in Passaic.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1905-07-11
SkEETERS SCORE
AGAIN
Yesterday They Defeated
the. Broncos in a Good
Game in Rochester.
BlsONs sUCCuMB TO BIRDS
Sailors Victorious Over To-
ronto-No Game in Mon
treal- Clubs Standing.

The Skeeters started we'll in the last
trip abroad BY defeating Rochester.
They have been playing the stars of the
League and holding their own If they
don't lie down now one can look to see
them perched in first place and ho.d.ng
it. All honor to the boys. They started
out with a patehed-up team and We're
slaughtered in the early stages of the
contest for the pennant, but they got up
and have for weeks been waging a bril-
liant warfare. Baltimore, with its early
lead. has had all its players Of the East
ern eLague could do to hold it, and it
may not surprise anyone to see the Skeet-
ers land at the top of the heap and stay
there. with the old champion cry of I'VE
are monarch of all we survey Unless
Buffalo wakes up the Bisons won't worry
the Skeeters. Ever since they went up
against the stars the Bisons have stead
lily declined and We're trimmed again yes
terday by the Orioles. But old PROV
keeps hankering on the heels of both the
Skeeters and the Birds, and puts first one
on top and then the other.
Yesterdays game between Rochester
and Jersey City was a close one. The
Broncos were shut out BY clarkson's SUI
perior work in the box, but the Skeeters
made but one tally in the whole nine in
nings. Clarkson Jared his team in the
ninth. He gave Manning a pass, with
Barclay out on fly to Woods Clarkson
allowed THottxer- to hit him hard into right
field. Manning, however, got no further
than third. Houser stole second. The
next two men at bat were struck out
Merritt scored Jersey City's only run.
The score:-
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1905-07-11
ELKS IN BUFFALO

BUFFALO. n. Y, July II. 1906
The nineteenth annual reunion of the
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks
began here Yesterday Delegations from
all parts of the country began to pour in
to the city and the expectations for a
large attendance are being realized. The
number of the grand lodge members al
ready here establishes new record for
that body and many more are expected to
arrive before the beginning of the bust
ness sessions tomorrow. The grand
lodge members were taken for an ex-
eursion on the steamer City of Buffalo
yesterday.
1t is conceded that there will be no
opposition to the slated advance Of last
years officers one notch higher than the
places they are now holding. There are
several candidates in the field for the
two vacancies on the board of grand
trustees. caused by the prospective cleo
tion of Robert w. Brown, of Louisville,
as grand exalted ruler, and the expira-
ton of the term Of John D. O'Shea, of
Lynn, Mass. These are the only Of
fees to furnish the sembance of CON
test. The Pittsbqlrg lodge is working
hard to land w. W. McClelland, of
that city on the board.
Grand Treasurer John X. Tener, of
Charleroi. Pa. said his report to the
grand lodge which would be submitted
Tuesday, would show the order to be in
splendid financial condition.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1905-07-11
Firing Squad Assembled Il
Execute Mutineers at liz
ban Turns Guns on
Commanders.
POTEMKiN GOES DOWN
Rebellious Grew Left the Sea
Cocks Open Before Abana
doning the Vessel

LONDON, July II, 1906. 5.-Icc6fdiaa
to the Morning Post" after the mutt
neers who took part in the recent OUT
break at Libau were oyerpowered, twen-
ty-three of them were sentenced to be
shot. A half dozen had been. executed
when an increase in the mutiny induced
the commandant to postpone the exscu~
ton Of the remainder while he telegraph-
ed to St. Petersburg for Instructions
He received orders to shoot all the pris-
oners.
Accordingly, a shooting party was
formed and another batch of mutineers
was drawn up, but upon receiving the
command to fire the firing squad turned
and shot their officers, killing dozen Of
them.
A detachment of Cossacks. who had
been held in reserve. were instantly or
dered to overpower the firing squad, but
they met with resistance and fierce
fight followed. Twenty or thirty Cos
sacks were killed before the mutineera
were quelIed.
Another incident illustrating the prs-
yailing mutinous spirit occurred at Cron<
stadt. An officer there shot and killed a
naval resedvist for refusing to obey an
order. whereupon eight of the reservist's
comrades set upon the officer and stabbed
hi INTO death with their bayonets. The
mutineers will undoubtedly be executed.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1905-07-11
NOT CALLED FOR COLBY

Special to AThe Jersey city News.s) i
NEAy ARK. July II. 1905. Notices
were sent cut by Secretary John Il. Fin
vel, Of the Republican County Committee
formally calling for next Friday evening
the meeting of that organization to con-
slider the resolutions 10 be presented by
Assemblyman Everett Colby, and such
other business as may be brought before
the meeting One of the resolutions, as
told last week, is to give permission to
Mr.. Colby, f'and every other candidate
for the nomination for Senator, and to
candidates for nomination to any other
office at the ensuing primary election
the privilege of copying the names on the
canvass books owned by the committee.
The other provides that the committee
shall forbid the use of the organization or
it's funds in favor of any candidate for
any nomination.
AnC lVllceS asul Otpl lHcluut d copy VI
the letter sent by the Colby people to the
county chairman, Major Carl Lentz.
The request of the Colby adherents mas
aroused the enmity of their opponents.
some of the latter regarding the second
resolution as an insult to the organization
and as an attempt to interfere with the
individual liberty Of the members.
Within a comparatively rectn time can
diflatts for various nominations, it is
said, nave tried to get copies of the books
but they We're refused. as was Mr.. Colby.
Permission to inspect the books was re-
fused under a resolut:on adopted in 1857
to the effect that for the better coiduct
Of the organization general access is for
bitsden and that the books be placed in
the custody Of the chairman.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1905-07-11
snIFT OF r. S. c. OFFICERS.

Special to THE Jersey city News.e)
SOMERyILLE.Julyf II, 1905 -Yestes-
day morning s. K. Campbell. Of Plain
feld took chargeof the manufacture and
distribution Of gas for the local plant of
the Public Service Corporation here and
at Bound Brook. r. 2. Bach, Plain
field, became the head Of the generating
and distribution of electricity This
change in the local plant was made nee
essary BY the resignation { William NJ.
Lewis, who had been in charge Of these
two departments for Eve years. He
goes to Rockville, Conn.,. to take much
mode responsible position with the gas
and electric company of that place. II.
Dayton Hoagland t-day took charge Of
the business Office Of the Public Service
Corporation here and Harry G. Auten
took charge at Bound Brook.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1905-07-11
N. Y. DRIVING CLUBS MATINEE

The next matinee Of the New York
Driving Club will be held at Empire
City Track Thursday afternoon of this
week, and the entries made assure "a good
days sport
The rule last year was that when a
horse won in his class he had to be
moyeed to the next faster class: this year
the question is left to the discretion of
the classification committee and the wis
dom of the change has been demonstrat-
ed in the meetings already held.
Onelof the best days racing eyer held
was the verdict Of the spectators, Fourth
Of July, and the committee have left
many of the close fnishers in the Same
Glasses for this week
The Star Trotting Event win include
that wonderfully consistent performer,
Princess Pdue. and also the well-knovn
Invader, and the Grand Circuit winner
Jolly Bachelor.
The Star Pacing Event viii inclntIe
Star Pugh, the horse that has been max
ing good his title this season; DR.. Mil-
arad and Sampson.
The greatest interest is shown for the
races Of trotting teams, and the blacks
of Luke A. urkBe, and the bays Of WI.
G. Floyd-Jones are matched again this
week: every time they have met they
have put up such a very close and excit-
ing race that it will be impossible To- inA
prove on it--but as this weeks battle
will be for the best two in three. it will
be worth any ones time to go and see il.
IF any gentleman in New York or VII
cinity thinks he has tiotting team, nd.
should enter it in one Of these matinees,
and he will come out covered with glory
or a different opinion Of Ibis team
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1905-07-11
ADRIFT AT CONEY.
Especial to ."rhe Jersey city News.")

Especial TO .'rhe Jersey city News.,')
NEWARK, July IL, 1905:-Arthur
and Frederick Nutting and James B.
Stiles all of Arlington, narrowly
escaped death yesterday of the
Dreamland pier at Coney Island,
while attempting to make the beach in a
disabled naptha launch. in which they
had sailed from Arlington down the Pas
sale River, through the Newark Bay,
around Staten Island and into the ocean
off Norton's Point
William Harrington, Of Orange, who
was well known in military circles, hav
ing been for years an officer in the Ma
tional Guard and former Tax Assessor
and who is in charge Of the Dreamland
bathhouse, aided by james Fuller, a life
guard, hurried to the rescue and landed
the three in a life boat and subsequently
towed in the disabled launch The young
men were treated by a physician and
later were able to tell the story Of their
exciting trip.
The men left Arlington early yester-
day in the launch. When off Norton's
Point the little craft. which had been
behaving admirably, began to get frisSy
and soon broke down and became abso-
lutely unmanageable. With destruction
and death staring them in the face the
men decided to make an effort TO reach
the IslanI4d
It was desperate struggle. The
strong tide carried The boat along de
spite the hard work of the men at the
oars. Stiles and Frederick Nutting be-
came exhausted and Arthur Nutting was
about ready to drop when the welcome
help arrived. The rescue was Witnessed
by thousands of pleasure seakers, who
gave the brave men cheer when the
exhausted trio was landed on the beach.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1905-07-11
FORESTERS TO MEET

Members Of the independent Order Of
Foresters are looking forward with eon-
siderable interest 10 the trienniai session
OF the supreme court, the highest gov
erning body of the order. which will be
held at Atlantic City, beginning July 81
and continuing for one week. Delegates
from all parts Of the globe are expected
to be in attendance. and while there is
nothing of any very great import to be
submitted. tho session, it is expected, Will
atrratt widespread attention on the part
of Foresters.
There are about 230 delegates com
prising the supreme court, representing
the order in almost every civilized coun-
try The body meets once every three
years for the purpose of adjudicating all
legal or other questions which might
arise in the order. The last session was
held in Los Angeles.
The arrangements for the meeting are
in the hands of the officers of the
supreme court, all residents of this sec
tion of the country and two of them are
Newarkers. They are: High chief ram
ger, David Z. Howell, Of Newark; high
physician, DR.. A. J. Mitchell, of New
ark; high treasurer, Walter Williams,
of Jersey City; high counselor, Asa f.
Randolph, of Plainfeld; high vice chief
ranger, Frederick Storm, Jr., Of Jersey
City; past chief ranger, Henry TT. Low
rie, of Plainfeld. and high secretary, #.
A. Mackenzie, of Elizabeth. Prepara-
tions are being made for the reception
Of the delegates, and programme is
being arranged for the weeks stay at
the shore
The members are planning a trip to
Atlantic City on Thursday, August 3,
when a reception will be rendered to them
by the supreme court during the after
noon. In the evening they will attend a
function at which there will be ample en-
tertainment provided,
The state high court Of the order in
New Jersey will convene on the hast
Wednesday in September, at which all
the local courts in the various commune
ties will be represented.
The Independent Order of Foresters
received its birth in Newark in 1874. Il
began with less than 400 wlembers. Ii
was then an assessment order. burt. il
1881 tllis plan was abandoned and the
level premium system adopted. The
present membership is about $4,000. OF
this number New Jersey boasts of 10000
The accumulated surplus ON hand last
month was $S,S49.0 Goo
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1905-07-11
BRAVE OLD SEA DOG.

Good boy, Policeman Rooney! The res
porters have been looking long whih
For. such a report to your captain as fol-
lows: ''At 4:40 this p. M. the Central
Railroad ferryboat Wilkesbarre. Of thu
Twenty third street, New York. line
while leaving her slip at Communipaw
struck the tug-boat Queen Nab. q
Brooklyn, on the port side, turning he.
over on the starboard side. throwing thu
captain, Evel Edwards, Engineer Anth
ony and Deck Hand John MeGinnis
overheard Lots of tragedy in thess
lines. Stil more dramatic in the simpE
words: sAll three rescued BY Captain
Nelson Jamson and John johnson, whs
put off in rwboat from drsdge 10. 2
Of the Taylor Dredging Company, whicl
kas working near by
Imagination Of the average reader car
do the rest But dollars to d0ugh'auu
that Yon Yonson. Yentleanan, did ha
share in the rescue Brave old sea dos
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1905-07-11
LAST OF THE POTEMKIN

KUSTENDJE Rumania. July 10s
19O5.-The Russian battleship Kniaz
Potemkin Tavritchesky, which was sur
rendered by her mutinous crew TO the
Rumanian Government, which, in turn,
handed the vessel over to Admiral
Kruger, of the Russian Navy, did not
sail for Sebastopol, where it was pro-
posed to take her, for the reason that
the mutineers before theysleft her open
ed her seacocks.
The slow leakage which followed wsa
not noticed for some time, and before
it could stopped the vessel sank eighteen
inches, and is now resting on the bot.
tom. She is being pumped out and hen
officers say she will be ready to sail Wed-
nesday.
Admiral PiSarwsky. aboard the battles
ship Tehesme, says the Car is much
gratifed that Rumania handed the bat-
tleship over to the Russians. 1t was done
on King Charles's own initiative, Russia
having not requested it. Admiral Pisarz
wsly adds that complete order now pre-.
walls on all the vessels Of the Black Sea
Heet
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1905-07-11
BROKE HER NEG K.

Kate Castle, thirty-two years Of age,
of No. 135 Laidlaw avenue, while visit
ing her sister, Mrs. Murphy, of No. 81
Central avenue, yesterday afternoon. sat
on a window sill in the rear of the apart
ments. She lost her balance and was
precipitated to the yard below. The dis
tance she fell was only fifteen feet, but
her neck was broken.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1905-07-11
TIGERS TO ROW
Boating Will Be Revived at
Old Nassau When Car
negie Lake is Finished.


With Lake Carnegie's long stretch of
water near Prineeton University nearing
completion, it is almost certain that the
Orange and Black gain will be seen on
the water. Since 1884 Princeton has not
been rowing college, but prominent
graduates, who support athletics, have
begun already to plan for return to the
sport.
Edward Hanlon. former coach of Col
unlbia. is considered as a likely man to
take charge of a Princeton crew.
By those who know it is said that there
is a strong probability that the Tige'
crew will be an entry in regatta be-
tween Yale and Harvard at New London
next June.
The facilities that will be at hand are
rot excelled by those of any other col
lege With stretch of several miles
over which to train, conditions Should be
favorable. The men could get Id longer
practice than almost any other college
but Georgetown.
The mention of the name of Hanlon
as coach came about naturally when it
was planned first at Princeton tobreview
rowing. Hanlon turned out the best
eight that Columbia ever had That was
the 1904 boat which finished 4 close
second to Cornell, when the latter broke
the record for four miles.
Princeton was factor in intPrcolle-
giate rowing time a ago, but not By any
means prominent one. In 1874, at
Saratoga. the Princeton crew competed
against Columbia, Wesleyan, Harvard,
Williams, Cornell, Dartmouth, Trinity
and Yale, in a three-mile race. The
crews finished in the order Ilamed,
Princeton being last and Yale with
drawing after fouling one crew
The following year Princeon dropped
out Of the race at Saratoga. a race that
marked CornelRs first triumph on the
water. In 1876 Princeton again was
last as Saratoga, Cornell, Harvard. Co
lumbia, Union and Wesleyan finishing
ahead Of the orange and black. The final
appearance of the Princetonians was in
1884 at Saratoga, when they finished
third behind Pennsylvania and Cornell
in race of mile and a half. beating
Columbia and Bowdoin. The entity OF
the Tigers into the rowing game once
more would stimulate interest in rowing
The probability is that an invitation to
compete at Poughkeepsie would bt4 de-
clined in favor of one to row at New
London. Yale is as much Princeton
natural rival as she is that of HARVARD
There would be one great objection tc
crew work at Princeton. and that is that
it would cripple the ball team, sport
which has hitherto had full control in the
spring. With rowing as rival at
traction, it is likely that the latter game
game would suffer little.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1905-07-11
TORPEDO BOAT TAKEN.

sEBAsToPoL. July 10, 19o5-The
Russian torpedo boat No. 267, which ae-
companied the Kniaz Potemkin on her
mutinous cruise arrived here to-day from
Kustendje, Rumania, where she aban-
doned her consort.
Her crew, consisting of sixteen man,
voluntarily surrendered, pleading that
their mutinous conduct was compelled by
the crew of the Kniaz Potemkin. They
We're placed under arrest and lodged on
the transport Prout.
The transport Vecha also is here.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1905-07-11
JUMPED FOR BREATH.

Some funny things always happen in
hot weather. Nobody in the wide world
believes for a minute that Mary Fas-
kieski, twenty-fonr years old purposely
jumped from trolley ear while it (the
cal) was in motion yesterday, in Grand
street, just for fun. That's no way to
get more breeze. Yet Mary jumped from
the moving car. She landed on both feet
and stood tanning herself as Desk Ser
geant Closterman, Of Police Headquar-
ters, ran up and asked if she really was
hurt.
no, thank you" replied the young
lady with that delicious gasp Of breath
of Rose Melville of Sis Hopkins fame;
4 was only taking my breath"
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1905-07-11
WORST STORM ON
RECORD
That is Row the Oldest In
habitant Gharaoterizes
Yesterdays Thunder
Shower.
az
SOME NOVEL EXPLANATIONS
opinion Was Divided In As
signing Blame Be tween
the P. S. G. and the
Philippine Annex
alton.
SOME NOVEL EXPLANATIONS

Yes5s ays ''little'' shower and elec-
trical bombardment was about as fierce
as the city has encountered since the
late blizzard. Some sold inhabitants"
ventured abroad after it was all over to
tell how it was the worst storm that has
happened since when .'the mind of man
runneth not to the contrary" II was
a great storm at that And they're get
ting fercer every SUMNER some of the
.'old inhabitants said. "It's that gol-
darned Public Service Corporation with
them gol-darned old electric wires that
attracts such storms TO this 'ticular re-
gion.e 0tAer, "old fools said that since
the United States annexed the Philip
pines that We annexed their rainy sea-
son" Men stood in the cafes and boasb-
ed that few flashes of lightning, espec-
tally of the Jersey product, couldn't
frighten them. 1t was noticed that the
ioudest boosters Were most susceptible
to the blindest electric flashes and that
the glasses in their hands trembled more
than those whose faces paled as they
recognized that a bolt might make them
the next victim. Not man or woman
in all Jersey City whose mind was
working that didn't think of the awful
things that nature could innocently do
in seeking to rid the atmosphere of
what was Objectionable to the masses of
human beings and beasts. For yester-
day was one of the worst scorchers that
the inhabitants of this section of the
sphere have encountered in many years.
Many knew that it was TO be followed by
a benehcent storm. and they looked for it.
Rujestvensky. the Russian Admiral,
and his sailors. who's sailed so many thou
sand miles from home to "enjoy" such
a bombardment in the Sea of Japan.
wasn't in it a little bit-so far as noise
was concerned. And so far as water
was concerned. it was. in a sense naval
battle. with the guns roaring only on one
side From the outset the sound was
tllsitof tEirteen-inch guns in the distance.
The elements beloved and roared like
those from fve-mile range. 1t grew
closer. In few moments there was the
rattling sound of musketry, supplement-
ed with machine runs. It was close
quarters and everybody knew it. No;
there wasn't a man. woman or child who
will admit he dinched. Well, there're
other people telling how somebody they
re talking of turned livid green, but
Of course they couldn't see their own
faces
Nobody likes lightning. Men have ex-
perimented with it ever since the days
of Benjamin Franklin. 1t has been real
lied as an element Of the force that sends
this old ball of Earth spinning safely
through space and lodging the othel
planets and stars. It knows more than
little man. In an effort to save man and
beast from summary death it warred on
For pimples. blotches. bad complexion,
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