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The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1906-10-25
improving a CoIored Church.

The African Methodist church of
Woodsvile, a small hamlet embower-
ed among the trees about one mile
south from Imlaystown. has recently
undergone quite extensive improve
ments, as result of a donation made
to the organization by Mr.. Charles
Sanford. The building has received
a new coat OF paint inside and out,
also new slate roof and new pews.
Besides these improvements Mr.. San
ford purchased land adjoining the
northwesterly side of the church and
has added this TO the church property.
A neat wire fence now enclose the en-
tire grounds.
The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1906-10-25
Masonic Club Organ lied.

At meeting of the prosp ective
members of the Freehold Masonic
Club on Wednesday evening in
Olive Branch reception room Joseph
t. Laird was elected president; r. ".
Lawrence vice president, ]. T. Burtis
secretary and WIN. VanDorn treasur-
err. Executive committee, w L. Levy,
H. s. Brown. W. T. Robinson, W. H.
Freeman and Lee Deedmeyer. A COM
mittee on bylaws was appointed,
The Club expects to rent rhe apart
meuts ON the second floor of the brick
building, corner of Main and South
streets and utilize one of the apart
ments as a billiard aud smoking room.
The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1906-10-25
Honor a Freehold Young Lady.

During the class elections at Ohio
Wesleyan University the class Of 1908
conferred upon Miss Edith B. Reed,
OF Freehold. the honor of member
of the advisory board of the Senior
lecture. course. This board has in
charge the procuring of talent for
the college lecture course for the
year 10000 and to be member of
the same carries with it no little hon.
or. Miss Reed is a prominent mem
Der OF the class OF 1908 and very popu-
lar among her class mates, and no
doubt, will make valuable addition
to the Board.
The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1906-10-25
Pastor Sawn is Popular.

Rev. J. E. Sawn, the preacher who
was no. wanted at Bradley Beach
when first assigned there by the bish-
op, was rendered delightful recep-
ton in the prettily decorated base
ment of the Methodist Episcopal
church at that place last week. About
$50 attended. The Ladies' Aid society
of the church arranged for the affair.
Mr.. Sawn has completed excellent
work since ne arrived 1oo as pastor 90 Of
paid and the note was burned about
month ago at special service.
The people of Bradley Beach have
Sawn, and to-day he is universally
liked.
The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1906-10-25
Freehold Churches.
BAPTIST.

On Sunday morning Rev. w. E.
Foote will deliver II sermon on the
Acts of the Apostles, preparatory 70
taking up the book in the prayer
meeting. In the evening he will COM
mence u series of sermons of personal
questions. The first will be, Who are
you? The succeeding Sunday even
ing themes will be, Who do you look
like? Who do you go with? and
Where are you going?
The following have been appointed
delegates to tue State convention
at Atlantic City Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday of next week: J. H. De-
Mise. Mrs. c. G. Snyder, Mr.. and Mrs.
D. P, Smith, Mrs. J. A. Vanderveer,
Mrs. Josep Resell, Mrs. J. H. Mount
and the pastor, Rev. w. E. Foote.
The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1906-10-25
A Pleasant Lodge Meeting.

Grand Secretary r. H. Alberts gave
an official visit to Keith Council, No.
1901, Royal Arcanum on Friday even
ing. Bro. AIberts represented the
Grand Regent and gave those
present an excellent explanation OF
the change of rates. On behalf OF
the Grand Regent the Grand Secre-
tary gave evey member present q
handsome button of the order and
the Council by rising vote returned
their thanks for the same. Brother
Alberts is always a welcome visitor TO
Keith Council. After the meeting re-
freshments were served, provided by
Johnson restaurant on South street.
which all heartily enjoyed. the coffee
being especially we Il made.
The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1906-10-25
POLITICAL POT BOILING.
Hearst Speaks In New York City While
Hughes Tours Upper Counties.

Hughes Tours Upper Counties.
New York, Oct 24--In the field of
state politics there were several de-
velopments of interest
Chairman william ]. Corners Of the
Democratic state committee appoint
ed an executive committee to push the
state campaign, and Charles F. Muir
ply, the head of Tammany Hall, called
upon the Tammany leaders to support
the party nominees with loyalty and
energy.
The grand jury. which has been in
vestigating Mr.. Murphy's recent
charges that Independence league rep
resentatives were trying to ''hold ur"
Democratic candidates, dismissed the
subject as Campaign gossip"
The board of elections is working
hard to close up contested cases and
among many decisions sustained the
protest of State Senator Thomas T.
Grady against the nomination of
Thomas Rock by the Independence
league in Grady's district.
Charles e. Hughes. the Republican
candidate for governor, left Kingston
for half dozen speeches in the coun-
ties of Orange. Delaware and Chemung
and closed the days work with a
meeting at Elmira. He was well re-
ceived by large crowd.
William Randolph Hearst, named for
governor by the Independence league
and Democratic party, spent the day
in New York
Speaking at lively east side meet
ing, Mr.. Hearst pledged himself not
to rest until be had ousted from Office
1.-THE little sneak thief who occupies
the mayors chair" he was nominal
ed for president by reclamation in one
meeting.
The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1906-10-25
FARMINGDALE.

Mr.. and Mrs Ambrose Emmons, of
Allenhurst, were the guests of Mr.. En-
mons parents on Saturday and Sun
day.
Mr.. Andrew Fitzgeralds, of Phila
delpnia, spent Saturday, Sunday and
Monday at home.
Mr.. VIM Buckelew, who has been
spending two weeks at Mt. Vernon re-
turned home on Monday.
Mr.. Frod Stanford, of Jersey City,
spent Sunday at home.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Giberson, of
Keansburg, were the guests of Mr..
and Mrs. Aaron E. Johnston last
week.
Alfred Ogborn returned home after
visit of two weeks TO Keansburg
and New York City.
The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1906-10-25
Properties Change Hands.

Mr.. A. j. G. Stokes last week dis
posed of several of his properties. He
sold two lots at Wanamassa to VIM.
Griffin for $3.50, a vacant lot on Main
street, Bradley Beach, to Edward
g ford and the plot of ground at the
junction of Main and Jackson streets
a part OF RussIey PARK to George P.
Lehritrer This plot of ground fronts
491 feet on E. Main street and 500 feet
Patterson lot on Hull avenue to A. a.
Pardon. Both Mr. Lehritter and Mr..
Pardon expect to build in the near
future.
The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1906-10-25
REFORMED CHURCH.

Special program Sunday morning.
1.-The Old Folks Service at 1915 will
have its own attractive features. Ser
mon and music fitting the occasion.
At 7:3O there will be an autumnal
service of soug by the Sunday school.
The decorations will be in keeping
with the season.
A patriotic gospel service at 7.45 on
Friday, Nov. I'd, in the East Freehold
SchooI-house TO be addressed by Rev.
T. f. Bayles.
The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1906-10-25
MARY ]. HARKER.

died Friday Oct. 10Th, 1906, at the resi-
dence of Mrs. VIM. f. Hunter, on
South street, Freehold, aged So years,
of fatty degeneration of the heart.
She has been a dressmaker in Free
hold since 1868, aud mostly worked in
the Haight. Hunter and Geissenhainer
families and made her home with Mrs.
Hunter. Her father great many
years ago conducted the powder works
at Buck-shoot-em and upon his death
his two daughters came to Freehold
and engaged in dress-making. The
lily plot at Adelphia
The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1906-10-25
Spent Many Hours In Sea.

New York, Oct 24.-One Of the men
who were blown out to sea in fiimsy
barge from the Florida coast in the re-
cent cyclone reached New York on the
steamer Ell Paso. which picked him up
Friday evening. The others were lost,
and this survivor saw them die, eight
together. at one stage of the storm,
one by one at other times. until he
was alone on the surface of the sea,
clinging to little raft and surround
ed by sharks that waited patiently un-
til he shoIld become too weak TO fend
of their attacks with plank He was
thirty six hours in the water before the
steamer FL Paso picked him up. The
survivor Is John Russell of Salem, Fla.
The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1906-10-25
New Manager of Lighting Company.

H. B. Pitcher has been appointed
general manager of the Manalapan
Lighting company, doing business at
Englishtown and Freehold. to succeed
w. ]. Lansley. Application had been
made to the vice chancellor for a
receiver by one the stockholders and
argument was heard by
the vice chancellor in Jersey
City last week. The application
for receiver was refuse on account
OF insuf1cientevide being produced
to show that the company was insol-
vent.
The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1906-10-25

Charles J. Baxter, State Superinten-
dent of Public Instruction, last Fri
da, cent letters to all school superin-
tenaants and teachers explaining the
attitude of the State Board of Educa-
ton toward the simpIified method OF
spelling.
He favors gradual and rational
declares the reform can safely be LEFT
in the hands Of the well-established
agencies that have in the past ably
directed photographic intelligence
and taste.
The superintendent believes the
schools should not be the first Ia =
racdial movement for spelling reform.
but should continue to be guided ~
standard dictionaries
The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1906-10-25
BURTON AND cELr1NA LYON.

Two sad deaths occurred since our
last issue in c. d. Lyons family on
Throckmorton st. Burton Lyon, aged
IA years and months, died Saturday
of diphtheria, at 6 A. M. On Sunday.
at the same hour. his sister, Celtina
II. Lyon, died of the same disease.
The two children were buried together
on Sunday afternoon at 3 O'Clock, at
Maplewood cemetery, Rev. w e.
Foote officiating at the grave. Mrs.
Lyon anda small child is i'll with the
same disease
The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1906-10-25
Play in Opera House.

The play in the Opera House Tues
day Reflections from the Hearth
was splendid production and was
one of the best ever seen here. Their
although they could only put a part
stage Mr. Darlington acting was
especially well-done and he was ably
supported. They will play return
The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1906-10-25
FREEHOLD.

Mr.. Abe Resell is visiting Freehold.
Miss Sadie Jackson is spending one
week at Port Monmouth.
Mr.. Edwin L. Conrow of Trenton, is
visiting Mr.. Charles Riggs.
Mr.. Harry G. Thorne arrived home
from Montana last evening.
Louis Dey and Eddie Simonson are
visiting New York City this week.
Cleveland Patterson has acc opted a
position with Louis Grouse, the butch
err.
On Tuesday Horace Treat attended
the wedding of his nephew at Rah-
Mr.. Cha4Ies Herbert has purchased
lot on Broadway and will build at
once.
w. H. Wikoff fell over a log in the
rear of his backyard on Friday and
fractured several of his ribs.
Miss Lou Brown has taken the place
of Miss Ada Callahan, who resigned
from Mr.. D. V. Perrine's store.
Mrs. Theodore Smock, of Brooklyn,
is visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
J. r. Gravatt on Hudson street.
Mrs. Herman Woolley, of Red Bank,
has been the guest of her father Mr..
Garret Vanderveer, Oh Center street.
Misses Ethel Land and May Titus,
of Princeton, visited Miss Irene
Lane, on Bovine avenue over Sunday.
Miss Laura Patterson and Walter
Apologize, of Trenton, were over Sun
day guests of Mrs. Cleveland Patter-
son.
Mr.. A. l.. Levine has purchased a
lot on Broadway through James
Mnrphy's agency and will erect
residence.
Mrs. J. B. Phillips is visiting Mrs.
w. r. Goundie at her Brooklyn home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Goundie spent the Sum-
mer in Europe.
Mr.. and Mrs. Theo. w. Morris have
returned from Europe and are now
occupying their handsome residence
at Monument Park.
The 18th N. J. Veteran Volunteers
Association will hold their reunion
at the rooms OF Lincoln Post, Broad
street, Newark, Saturday, at 1880
A. NJ.
The committee on markers for Mon
mouth Battle field will meet in front
of the Court House at 8 A. NJ. on Sat-
urday to decide on location, &C.. of
the boulders from Rocky Hill.
The Mock Trial at the Armory OPP
era House Wednesday evening was
well attended and the local people
reflected credit on ii emselves in their
respective parts. The local I. M, u.
AS share was 1858.
The following delegates of the Y. NJ.
G.. A. have been appointed to attend
the Conference at Montclair Oct. Goth,
27th and 2Sth. Charles F. Dittmar,
Vernon Cowart, j. Henry Robinson,
Adrian Moreau and John Hall.
A district lodge OF instruction for
the Fouth Masonic District will be
held in the lodge room OF Olive
Branch Lodge Tuesday evening. Oct.
30th. The work will be exemplified
under the direction of r. w. District
Deputy J. Clarence Conover.
Prof. Franklin Yates, formerly at
the New England Conservatory of
Music at Boston aud later principal
of the school at South Edminston, N.
", is the new teacher at the Free
hold Military Sshool, teaching Arith-
metic, English and bookkeeping.
About thirty young people OF the
Freehold Presbyterian church formed
Christian Endeavor Society last Fri
day. The officers elected are: H. q.
Wykoff president; Miss Susie Minor
vice president John Hall secretary
and Arthur Yetman treasurer. Var
ious committees were also appointed.
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SPECIAL ENGAGEMENT.

Spite u Nathanson's musical come
dy The Harvard Girl'' has been Sc
cured by the management of the
Freehold Armory Opera House for
Thursday evening. Nov. 18th. This
only plays in cities and is
comiug from Elizabeth to ill in one
night date before commencing their
other engagement.
The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1906-10-25
Hotel Brighton Sold.

Mr.. Samuel C. Cowart has sold the
Brighton Hotel at Long Branch for
Miss Juliet 8. Ryall, of Freehold, who
has owned it for number of years.
The purchaser is Joseph Margolius,
of Long Branch, who will improve it
and occupy it as hotel.
The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1906-10-25
MARY mcKS1GHT.

wife of John Mcknight, died at st.
Francis Hospital, on Sunday. aged As
years, from appendicitis. She resid-
ed with her husband on Center street
until she was taken away for treat
ment. A husband and five chill
dren survive her. The funeral was
yesterday "wednesday at 10 A. NJ, at
st. Rose OF Lima church Rev. f. Kew
elitz officiating. Interment was in
the Catholic cemetery.
The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1906-10-25
Editors Mifs Dead.

Mr.. G. Arthur Hall, wife of Editor
G. A. Hall, proprietor of the Seacoast
News. Bradley Beach. died of con-
sumption at her home. COS Park Place,
Monday morning, aged "a years and
months She had been ill some
The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1906-10-25
News Notes.

The sea cut away about thirty
feet from the bulkhead at Monmouth
Beach on Monday.
The cottage of Mrs. w E. Banks
who is in California, Matilda Ter
race, Ocean avenue, Long Branch,
was gutted by the flames. rhe fire n
is supposed was started by the electric
light wires being crossed by the
Storm
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Obituary.
w. A. ELMER.

who conducted blacksmith shop at
New Bedford and Belmar. died Fri
day. He leaves a widow and three
children. Funeral was at the house
at 1.30 P. NJ, on Monday. at Glendola.
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montana Horses.

just received another car load of
horses. broke and unbroke. First
come, first served. Thorne's Corrall,
Freehold. adv.
The San Francisco call., 1906-10-21

A conspicuous example of this In the East is
the Pennsylvania Canal. which has been put out
of business by its jealous steel-track rival. The
Chesapeake and Ohio, once another important fac
tor in the coal-carrying business. has languished
almost at deaths door for years. because of similar
adverse influences Other instances OF railroad ami
mostly might be cited.
The menace to rail transportation of adequate
water facilities is shown by estimates of what the
improved Erie Canal win do When it is com
pleted, vessels drawing 112 feet of water will be
able to pass through
It is proposed to build large fleet of new
barges for service on the modernized Erie. They
will have four times the cargo capacity of the
present vessels, and many of them will have en-
gines powerful enough to draw tow of thre6.
or four other craft of similar size and move at
asrate of five or six miles an hour.
One such tow can transport from the Great
Lakes to New York enough grain to load steam
ship of 1000 tons The cargo of single barge will
load the average three-masted schooner In the
coast trade while four barges will load the largest
sailing ship.
Should one: of the immense new Transatlantic
freight carriers be chartered for cargo of grain
alone, tows, or twenty-five of the larger canal
boats will fill her.
Cost of shipping grain East over the present
canal is about 81 cents ton; over the improved
canal this COST it is figured, viii be cut 26 cents
ton, or 52-100 of mill per ton per mile.
On the principal railroads running out of
Buffalo, the average charge for hauling wheat is
about six mills per ton per mile.
Ihis is three times more than the present ca
nal rate-which is not quite mills per ton per
mile-and amounts to nearly twelve times the
estimated rate over the improved waterway
Presented In another way, one of the new
barges viii carry cargo equal to train of fifty
cars, and do it at the cost of hauling five cars and
the locomotive
The San Francisco call., 1906-10-21

This simple statement reveals, about as pre-
eisely as can be done, the basis Of railroad oppo
sition to canals.
Shippers to the East from Great Lake ports,
it is estimated would pay annually S1O0O.OO0 more
in transportation charges-perhaps even q greater
amount-than they do now, were 1t not for the
Erie Canal
Full recognition of the Importance of devsl-
oping internal waterways has been manifest by
the government of Canada Already the Dominion
has spent $12 per capita on such inland routes.
while the expenditure of the United States for
deep-water canals has been but Is cents per capita
Many persons would probably regard the sug-
gestion of an inland waterway from the Atlantic
to the Pacific as being merely an idle dream, yet
it has been discussed in all seriousness.
TO. LINK EAST AND WEST
at any rate, system of water transportation
connecting the Eastern seaboard with the immense
grain cattle and ore-producing country lying at
the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in the great
Northwest is not regarded beyond the range Of
probability
Capable engineers-those of the United States
Government-have estimated that system of vast
extent and Importance can be completed for $780,
100000.
Such sum would provide 15-foot channel
from New York harbeF to Duluth by way of the
improved Erie Canal. 1t would then carry the DTl-
iuth- Minneapolis Canal, from Lake Superior to
navigable water the upper Mississippi to COM
petion. and build such important lateral lines az
the proposed ship canals from Pittsburg to Lake
Erie from Cincinnati to Lake Erie-at Toledo
and from Chicago to the Mississippi
But the most interesting feature of the -calcu-
lation IS the possibility that there would be-
enough left over. to continue the great Northwest
ern waterway from the Mississippi to the Red
river of the North.
CONTINUED ON INSIDE PAGEa
The San Francisco call., 1906-10-21
To promote commerce. not to betray. it--LlOya

To promote commerce not to betray .it.-Lloya
w YHEN the enlargement of the Erie Ca
AA nal-a project for which the people of
Wv New York recently voted $101 100000
was being considered some time ago,
representatives Of the State were sent to Europe
to study the canal systems ana conditions in the
Old World.
1t was learned that France, upon her 4s5 miles
Of canals and 741 miles of rivers was Transporting
one-third as much freight as over the railroads.
This condition of affairs was not at all pleasing to
the railroads. but was eminently to shippers who
secured great advantages IN the matter of cheaper
rates.
Germany presented a similar condition of af-
fairs, and the further interesting fact that COM
merce on the inland waterways increasing with
much greater rapidity than by rail.
Russia has less railroad trackage to her size.
than any civilized country, and 1t is not surprising
therefore that her $4,000 miles of navgable rivers
and canals carry the greater part of the freight
traffic
Fully recognizing the value and economy of
traffic by water. the Russian Government has of
recent years appropriated vast sums to build new
canals and extend present systems.
Engand's NEST striking example of recent en-
terprise IN the line Is the construction by the
city Of Manchester OF thirty-five miles of water
way necessary 10 make her inland port. This
canal cost $75000000, but the city, In view of sat
isfactory results, has regretted the expendi
ture.
Not foreseeing the marvellous railroad develop
met OF the next century, Ine IatnerS c! the Amer
lean republic advocated construction of an ex-
tensive system of canals to promote commerce be-
tween the seaboard and the interior
Before the Revolutionary War, George Wash
ington advocated inland waterway connecting
the Atlantic with the Ohio river, and if possible,
with the Great Lakes. Years later he secured the
first charter for and was president of what after
EXPANDED into the Erie Canal.
With equal earnestness President Madison adj
vocated construction of canal for ships between
Lake Michigan and the Mississippi rivera project
that Is being completed by the Federal Gov
ernment.
The San Francisco call., 1906-10-21
AI1A6 GzoNzzo> tie [A1a Is. a1z1
ll45ura III aterwey.y o<a17s-1ce-

West, Troy, N. Y; the, Chesapeake and Della.
ware II miles, Chesapeake City, Nd, to Del
aware City, Del; the Delaware Division, 60
miles, Easton,, Pa, to Bristol, Pa. the Dismal
Swamp, 90 miles, connecting Chesapeake Bay
at Norfolk with Albemarle Sound; the Lehigl
Coal and Navigation Company, 410S miles,
Coalport,s Pa, to Easton, Pa; the Oswego, 3S
miles, Oswego, N. Y. to Syracuse, N. Y; tho
Schuylkill Navigation Company, s10s miles,
Mill Greek, Pa, to Philadelphia.
This was most commendable beginning
Even the advent of railroads did not stop
the construction of canals. At the outbreak
of the Civil War the following of the more
important of additional canals were in use:
. WARTIME: CANALS
Albemarle and Chesapeake, "A miles.
from Norfolk, Va, to Currituck Sound, N.
G.; the Chesapeake and Ohio, 1S4 miles, Cum
berland, Md, to Washington, d. O.; the Del
aware and Raritan, &c miles, New Bruins
wick, N j., to Trenton, n. J.; Illinois and
Michigan, 102 miles, Chicago to La Sale, I'll. !;
the Miami and Erie, 274 miles, Cincinnati to
Pa. to Jersey City, n J. 1.-The Ohio, 317 miles,
Cleveland to Portsmouth Ohio; the Pennsyl-
vania, 1913 miles, in Pennsylvania; the Sus-
quehanna and Tidewater, 35 miles, Columbia,
Pa, to Havre de Grace, Nd
Since the close of that conflict there haya
been nine canals constructed, and while some
OF them, such as the Sault Ste. Marie, have
proved OF enormous usefulness, the nine ag-
gTegate only little more than seventy-fve
miles IN length. Thellast third of a century
has been. pre- -eminently, the era of railroad
development.
Whenever possible, railroads have gained
control OF artificial waterways and have throt-
The San Francisco call., 1906-10-21

In 1880. when the first steam locomotive
was used in America, there were s1S miles
of canals in operation. most of them doing "a
heavy business
Champlain, 81 miles, Whitehall, n Y, to