The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-16

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Al are invitesi Pleus ~ omit laauen. Joshua
las HE lsartea all formulated Tor tho rnm.
taiEn and ncrds M more, Ia aiaJ has aut
b. buttons out In nea, black and whita
ui'h tho mnrtun Rams picturc in the midilr.
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opcncd until Monday, tho sign vae p,li out
yesterday n II ai'ntle M n quiet funeral"
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Joshua Bricrly h~eudpunrtera. An In.
dependent man md candidate for MAJ or
II this city "
Tho leader for the mortuArlan will bc
Frank Halliday. chief clcrk In tho Newark
ofhcc Of the telephone company. and there
will he n citizcns' committees of fifty repre-
aenting the fifteen wards,
We're all slaves oit here Of the Public
Service Corporation. said Mr.. Brierly yea
terday, and I'm going 10 see II I can't strike
for freedom for all the citizens. am a
Democrat, thu there isn't any true Demo-
cratic party organization IN Newark. for
there's ex-senator Jim Smith and Jim
Nugent at the head Of II. and they stand In
with the Republican gang. Of course. and
both sides are run by the Public Service,
Mayor Doremus Is a stakeholder In the
corporation. He signed n contract de-
priving the city Of 81. 600 for the rse of the
streets by the Public Service cars, and that's
one Of the things we're going to fight. I'm
Litter against that Gro wd. and you can't put
ii too strong"
But the very headquarters Of Joshua. not
his mortuary rarlors. hut his political
freedom headquarters. are in a building
owned by the Fidelity Trust Company,
which il one OF the tentacles, say the re-
formers, Of the Public Service octupus.
This shameful fact is revealed to all cor
ners by a notice at the head Of the stairs
right by the Briefly commuters door
stairs" 1t is signed, Fidelity Trust Com
pany."
they don't want anybody 10 loiter on the
stairs" said a mortusr ian independent,
because they want everybody TO hurry
out and get aboard a Public Service chr
on Broad street
The other tenants Of the second floor in
the building are a chiropodist, a phrenol-
ogist, a palmist and a psychic reader. They
are all hoping to do business with the re-
former; at any rate. the new candidate had
nodded solemnly to each Of them on his
way up the Fidelity stairs.
The very bunions of the people are con-
trolled by the trust remarked a reformer
sadly as he noted the ~chiropodist's sign and
the anti-loitering notice.
Yesterday a man who had failed to find
the mortuarian at his political headquarters
wandered into the ralmist's grotto across
the hall 70 learn the whereabouts OF Mr..
Briefly. The oracle sbrffled a pack Of cards.
looked at the planetary chart and then con-
suited the city directory.
Il SEE" she said, with closed eyes. "a
dead body enclosed in a casket. / note the
odor of flowers. A railroad rain il rushing
by. On a broad strip Of white, dazzling
light / see the figures four and nought and
six"
And sure enough, later in the day one
seeker found the mortuarian in his under
taking ~parlors. They were on Broad 6 street,
and. Incredible as it may seem. the number
wGs 400, just beyond the Lackawanna rail-
road, and a train was rushing on and oil
toward the West with all the Orange stops. !
The man could have looked in the city
directory himself, but he didn't nave a
pack OF cards. I
He was so impre ssed that he went back
to have his palm read. Perhaps the oracle
surmissd that her caller was a political
follower Of Briefly; perhaps she had read
in a Newark evening paper. But whatever
the source OF her inspiration may have been
she rad out n grand civic future for Newark
in the lines of her callers hand. -.
"lon have great power over men, said
the ralmist. musingly. You are about
powers Of wealth and corruption arrayed
against you. but you will win. You will
not he the chief in this conflict, but you
will be near the chief, and he will reward
to a great Office over the people and you
and he will serve the people we'll and will
opposed TO q Puritanical Sabbath. l see
a hearse being drawn through the streets
the city, but II Is not a sign OF mourning, |
for the hearse is full of free transfers on
the trolley cars and all the people are shout
ing in loud acclaim and wearing buttons.
/ 500 the name Joshua on the buttons.
The streets are very clean and the tall
chimneys rearing their symmetrical columns
above the oity's many hives of industry
are nouring forth black smoke no more.
You will travel, for | see the rock of
Gibraltar and some bosses are peeking
the edge of the rock to see il Joshua
is coming.
Il find by this firm grip Of the fingers
that yon prefer to grasp the handle of a beer
stein rather than the slender stem of the
wine glass. which shows me that you love
the common people and will work for their
all the time. You like to grasp
the handle on Sundays as well as on other
days. which shows that you would not be
upon the foreign citizens Of our town
for their continental notions.
You will be called to public life near the
end Of this year and you will get a large
You love the common people, but you
hate germs on the streets and unlimited
franchises"
The prediction was as marvellous as a
dream, and the next Jersey undertaken that
wants a platform like Joshua Brierly's
will be able to get it right out of that mans