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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-17
PRODUCED TELL-TALE LETTERS.
Sensational Incident in Mutual Insur-
ance Muddle

Samuel Untermyer counsel for the inter-
national policy holders committee, ac-
cepted. in New York yesterday, the chai-
lenge of Emory McClintock. made on We'd
nesday, to produce one letter, or copy OF
a letter." that should prove the assertion
that Mr.. Untermyer had made that "his
written instructions i'm his own handwrit-
ing. not yet published, to the Massachu-
sets legislative agent of the Mutual, as to
how to kill legislation. will be interesting
reading"
Mr.. Nntermyer produced a batch of let
tiers in Mr.. McClintock's own handwriting
a matter that Mr.. McClintock did not at
tempt to deny to reporters-and the orlgi-
nails of kilograms from Mr.. McClintock say
Ing specifically that he wished certain bill
killed. but nat suggesting how 1t should be
done. Accompanying this batch of letters
and kilograms was a telegram sent to the
MutuaPs agent while the McClintock corre-
spondence was going on signed General
which said:
'Iiave mailed you draft for six on Bos-
ton today"
1t was asserted that General was the
nom de plume that Andy Fields, the Mu-
tuars chief lobbyist. used in certain kinds
Of confidential communications. There was
no intimation at Mr. Untermyer's Office to-
day that Mr.. McClntock knew anything
about the General telegram.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-17

.
present day. Naturally, therefore, Emper-
or William must hold the resting place of
Charlemagne in deep reverence. And the
house laws of the Hotenzollerns. more than
the laws of royalty of any other state in
Europe, are framed to preserve that mys-
terry or divinity that doth hedge a king.
These and other things would lead the
world to expect that the past of German
royalty would be unusually sacred in royal
German eyes.
So 1t u.s. and this act Of the German en-
peror merely reveals that he is a true in
heritor of something of the spirit of Char
1emagne himself The school which Al
cuin, the English scholar, established at
Tours, under the patronage of the emperor.
was famous for centuries. Charlemagne
drew about himself company of scholars
with whom he fraternized as friends and
comrades. He was himself grammarian,
antholog.st, patron of the fine arts and
jealous In the advancement OF commerce,
agriculture and manufactures. The act OF
Emperor William is one which Charlemagne
would have sanctioned. and might himself
have done.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-17
IMPORTATION OF PUNK.
The Courts Decide That It is Not
7 Dutiable

Importers Of curious Chinese stuff have
again beaten the United States customs off,
Gals in fair recourse to the law. Some time
ago the customs branch Of the treasury
tried to impose a high duty on dried liz
ards, used in making one of the principal
medicines used by sick Cinnamon in the
United States. The Chinese importers took
the case to the United States courts. pre-
senting their own Interpretation Of the law
and claiming that lizards should come in
free They won and lizards medicine costs
less in the various Chinatowns of the coun-
try now than ever before.
The customs officials next tried to put a
high duty plain Chinese punk, which
every city boy in the country knows and
handles whenever he can buy or beg q
stick or two from Chinese laundryman
The particular punk in question was invoic-
ed as 'joss sticks" and was assessed for
duty at the rate of 20 per cent ad valorem.
The importers protested, took the case into
the United States courts, claimed that the
punk was entitled to free entry under GER
tain provisions of the Dingley law and won
their case. Hereafter punk comes in free
and ought to be pretty cheap in Chinese
shops.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-17
How to Handle Your Horse.

From the Outing Magazine.
Decision should never, in handling horses
be COMPOUNDED with unwise determination
to have things your way. In this applica-
ton it means the faculty Of doing the right
thing at the right instant, and may be Gull
tivated by frequent practice with all sorts
of horses; and, Of course. no hands were
ever developed by handling any one animal
or any one kind Of horse. It is decision
that gives the hand the moment the horse
yields; that uses the toughest methods at
a pinch. for hands are by no means always
delicate of touch: that illustrates the most
determined attempts Of kicker. rearer or
bolter; that picks the best road; that makes
the animal carry himself to the best ad-
vantage for the purpose of the moment.
Decision Is very close to intuition in effect,
Decision dominates the situation at MANY
critical moments, and the horse is quick
to discern and to presume upon its alb
sence. There is no such thing as safe
partnership with horse; you must be the
master, or he will be. to your certain future
discontinue.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-17
HAPPY LITTLE PEOPLE
NINE HUNDRED AT CHESAPEAKE
BEACH TODAY.
Expense Of Excursion to Bay Side Re-
sort Paid by Mr.. 8. J.
Masters.

Nine hundred happy little people, ranging
in age from fifteen downward, started on
for Chesapeake Beach this morning for a
day Of fun under the combined auspices OF
s. ]. Masters, former president Of the Peo-
Plies Saving Bank, and the Associated
Charities There way be TAT stomachaches
brought back to Washington this evening"
but If there are the children at least Will
have. had the satisfaction of having had
one days fun this summer.
The treat was an unexpected one. MI.
Masters wanted to have some fun himself
and he looked over the field and decided
that the best way to have it was to give
as much fun as he could to the greatest
number Of youngsters. So he turned the
matter Of picking ont the guests % over eIgh 1T
divisions of the Associated Charities Gov
ering the whole Of the city, and each di-
vision has anywhere from 90 to 100 chill
dren on its list that 1t was believed would
be the better for day in the open. 80
they were banded together this morning
and the whole contingent ROUNDED up az tpe
junction, where the electric cars JOIN the
steam line for Chesapeake Beach.
Crowd Was Lively.
It was a lively crowd. Secretary Wallace
Hatch of the Associated Charities was on
hand and was seconded by his heutenants
from ali of the eight districts. The children
were remarkably good, too. OF cour3e'
riding a herd of 900 children Is about as eek-
citing as keeping the same number OF meas
in q chalked circle, but the agents olo II.
Mr. Masters and Mrs. Masters were vi
hand and escaped with their lives ana NOT
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-17
America Crystallizing.

II. G. Wells, in Harper's Weekly
In England you can still find feudalism,
medievalism, the Renaissance, at every
turn. America is pure eighteenth century
still crystallizing out from turbid and
troubled solution.
America Is, in these matters, anyhow, to
turn from complication to a stark sim
plicity. The relationship between employer
and employed, between organizer and work.
er, between capital and labor, which in
England Is qualified and mellowed and dis
guised and entangled with thousand ira
ditional attitudes and subordinations, stands
out sharply in bleak, cold rationalism.
There Is no feeling that property, privilege,
honor, and a grave liability to official pub
lie service ought to go together, none that
uncritical obedience Is virtue in a worker,
or that subordination carries with 1t not
ony q sense of service, but a claim for
help. Coming across the Atlantic has In
these matters an effect Of coming out of an
iridescent fog into clear bright air.
This homologization Of the whole Ameri-
can social mass, not with the whole English
social mass, but with its modern classes,
its great middle portion, and of Its political
side with the two ingredients of English
liberalism. goes further than rough paral-
lel An Englishmap who, like myself, has
been bred and who has lived all his life
either in London, with its predominant
West End, or the southern counties, with
their fair large estates and the great coun-
try houses, is constantly being reminded,
when he meets manufacturing and business
men from Birmingham or Lancashire, Of
Americans, and, when he meets Americans.
of Industrial north-country people. There
Is more push and less tacit assumption,
more definition, more displayed energy and
less restraint, more action and less sub
tlety, more enterprise and self-assertion
than there is in the typical Englishman OF
London and the home counties: The Ameri-
can carries on the contrast further, 1t Is
true, and his speech is not northerly, but
marked by the accent Of Hampshire or
East Anglia, and better and clearer than
his English equivalents; but one feels the
two are of the same stuff nevertheless, and
made by parallel conditions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-17
OFF FOR A HAPPY DAY.

much else after the youngsters found out
who had furnished whole railroad train
for their especiai benefit. Mr.. and Mrs
Masters were enguifed In an enthusiastic
crowd, and the former was Rugged in Sec
tons till the announcement was made that
there was lemonade on the platform, IL
any one happened to be thirsty,
Thirsty? Ever see a bunch of kids that
was not thirsty when there was lemonade
In sight7 Yes. they were thirsty and empty
from the shoes up. They were mar shaled in
troops and brigades and wetted down well
inside, and then they filed into the cars,
eight whole sure enough steam cars making
special train all for their own accommo-
dalton. They spilled over into the aisles,
they oozed out OF the doors and windows
and some Of the more venturesome would
have crawled underneath the train to see
how the air brakes worked II they had been
allowed. But their elders kept them In very
to'erable and thoroughly good-natured or
der while the train waited for the luncheon
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-17
The Imperial Archeologist.
From the New York Glob

The opening of the tomb OF cnaf,emanse
at Aix-la-Chapelle yesterday In the pui-
suance of the wish of Emperor Whi'a"'
brought out two traits in the kaisers char-
acter with one of which. however, we are
fully familiar. 1t again made eVioehe ins
interest in art and science. FOR the TOM. :.
was opened in order that certain oocune e,,os
or fabrics might be taken>from 1t and pno-
tographed under the direction of Prof Les
sing. director of the Royal Museum OF IN
dalstrial Art. This done. they Will De re-
turned and replaced with the sarcophagus
But more interesting was the insight given
into the kaiser's attitude toward his
royal and imperial predecessors. In some
sort the German emperor can claim TO De
the emperors Of the Holy Roman Empire,
for though the empire came to. an end In
1906 its German character is shadowed
forth to degree In the erman state OF the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-17
CLOSED BY DIRECTORS.
Failure Of the First National Bank
Of Chelsea, Mass.


The controller of the currency has re-
ceived advice by wire from National Bank
Examiner Ever that the First National
Bank of Chelsea, Mass, has been closed by
action of the directors. Examiner Ever
has been appointed receiver. The failure Of
this bank is due to large excessive loans to
officers and directors of the bank.
The following is statement Of the re-
sources and liabilities Of the bank at the
date Of its last report of condition made
June 10, 1905:
Resources-Loans and discounts, $1,114,-
613; United States bonds to secure circu-
lation, $4,000; premium on United States
bonds, 81, $50; banking house and other real
estate. s6O,777.72; due from banks, $22.-
35577; cash and cash items, s57 .3790 "a; re-
demption fund, $500; total, 1908, S4S. &C.,
Liabilities-Capital stock, 100000; surplus
and profits, $3.50 1851; circulating notes,
s49, 500; due to banks, $40, 80; dividends
unpaid, $543; deposits $679, rs; bills pay
able $50, 600; total, 81, 800, S4S.66.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-17

cheese and crackers, ham and boiled
eggs, ice cream and various sorts of sand
witches. There was supply enough for 900
empty stomachs and some to spare.
Train Leaves at 10 O'Clock.
A little after 10 o'clock the train pulled
out and the youngsters were In for an
hours ride. 1t was the first time that
many Of them had ever seen the real coun-
try, and what beach looked like was to
many Of them problem. But the day had
started so well that they were willing to
brave the unknown and take anything on
faith.
The whole Of the beach was placed at
ments were open to them. and they will
be brought back to Washington this even
ing as late as is consistent with the bed
time of some of the youngest. They are
likely to come home tired. But there is no
question that they will have had the time
of their lives.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-17
Typical Indians.
From scribner's Magazine.

FrUm ScfIDuer . MH8aziue. :
The northwest plains Indian is, to the
average person, the typical American In
dian. the Indian Of our schoolday books
powerful Of physique. statuesQue. gorgeous
In dress, with bravery of the firm believer
in predestination. The constant fearless
hunting and slaughtering OF the buffalo
trained him to the greatest physical endur-
ance and gave :, inbread desire for blood
shed. Thousands Of peace-loving, agricul-
tural living Indians might climb dwon from
their clif-perched homes, till their miniature
farms, attend their fccks, and at nighttime
climb back up the winding stairs to their
home in the clouds and attract no attention
But IL the fierce band Of Sioux rushed down
on O helpless emigrant train the world
soon learned of 1t.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-17
Trades of Value to Boys.
the piffahur1 .nisna fch

The extension Of manual training so
that every boy would have an opportunity
to fit himself for trade would make the
problem of parents much easier of solu-
ton. Boys instead of being set at work
as doors Of odd jobs, wasting the years
when they should be qualifying them
selves for work as journeymen, should be
given a chance to prepare themselves for
their life work. The great number of
youths anxious to take advantage of the
opportunity offered by the Carnegie
schools proves the need.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-17
Commerce, Not Arms.

From the Birmingham Eng.j Post.
The great conflict abroad of the nations
is for commercial, not military, supremacy.
Whatever national energy is devoted to the
military art II energy lost to industrialsm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-17
Plague Of Inventions.
From the Lancet.

q
Human ingenuity is plague to modern
life, and there is some excuse for the View
OF great man who regarded the inventor
of railways as curse to his race. The
truth probably Is that no invention is at
first perfect. and we have to suffer from
Its transitory imperfections.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-17

Most men, meeting their livers in the
dark. merely take something. Only a Bum
yam can go to work and make great book
OF the business.-Puck.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-08-28
WET WEATHER
H|NDERS THE
CAMP AIGNERS
Meeting Held Under An Awning
at Highland Park Last Might
At South River Tonight.

NEW BRUNSWICK, Aug. Is
The weather chiefly interlered with
the Fordyce campaigncrs yesterday,
and they had to cut out all their
meetings, but that at Highland Park
last evening. Although the opposi-
tion organ conceded them a small
meeting at the Neverslip factory, the
truth is there wasn't any. Col. For
dyce, James A. Edgar, assembly can
didate and George ]. Corey went to
the Neverslip and Hosiery establish
ments at noon, but found that the
workmen practically all go home for
dinner, SO that no meetings could be
arranged. They cOntented themselves
with distributing literature.
The afternoon meetings at Bon
hamtown and Piscatawaytown were
also called Off as the weather was
not propitious.
1t looked as though the Highland
Park meeting would also be a failure,
when Col. Fordyce visited the bor-
ough last evening. AS soon as it
was attempted to start meeting in
front of the engine house, it began
to rain.
A. j. Gebhardt saw the plight in
which the speakers and their assem-
blage were and invited them over
under the awning of his store He
said he'd light up if they would ac-
cept the invitation, and they did. Mr.
Gebhardt then turned on all the
lights in his store and better place
than the sidewalk under his awning
could not have been found to hold
the meeting
w. B. Prickitt introduced Col.
Fordyce, who then presented the is
sues of the campaign to the assem-
blage. Fifty five or SIX people were
present, among them the prominent
residents of the borough 1t was one
of the best audiences Col. Fordyce
has yet addressed. 1t was thoroughly
responsive and enthusiastic, so much
so that after the meeting was over,
band of young voters followed Col.
Fordyce to the bridge and gave him
three cheers They went as far as
the middle of the bridge and gave
him final three cheers and then
returned to the Park.
Charles A. Bloomfield and George
J. Corey were not present Mr..
Bloomfeld's throat has failed him
ana he will rest it few days. Mr..
Corey decided to rest a day or two
also, as he has been working eighteen
hours a day on the campaign of late,
and has tired out for the present.
There will be MONDAY work at one
or more of the factories. If audien-
ces can be secured. addresses will ii
mede, but as this is doubtful, as the
.worbmen go home for dinner. liferaz
ture VIII be distributed instead.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-08-28
REPAIRING TO
OPEN SCHOOLS

The repair work in the various
schools will be advanced another
notch by the Board of Education at
an adjourned meeting tonight and
another next Tuesday night in prepa-
ration for the opening of school Mon
day, September 10. t
A report on the medical inspection
idea proposed by Health Inspector
Fithian will be received at the regu-
lar monthly meeting, Tuesday, Sep
tember II. The members of the
schools committee on this matter are
superintendent Shull and Commits
sioners Crowell, Sturn and Peterson.
n The board will receive bids next
Tuesday night for furnishing and
hanging shades with rollers in School
No 2 and No. s; also what new
shades are needed in the other
schools.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-08-28
EmpIOyeatMaurGr
Killed in a
Machine.
BROKEN.
Had Been Warned to be Careful
in Working About Bic Machine
died Before Doctor Arrived
Body Was Badly
Bruised.

Martin Gotz, a workman at tbs
brick factory of Henry Maurer & Som
at Maurer, met horrible death while
at work at S:25 o'clock this morning.
He was caught in a chaser mills
which is used for preparing clay, and
his body was whirled around and his
back broken and he sustained abra-
sons. DR.. Frank G. Henry was SUM
moned but Gotz died before his ar
rival death resulting almost instant-
ly.
Gotz leaves widow and three
children, living at 92 Charles street.
He was about thirty-five years old
He was Hungarian, but spoke Ger
man fiuently. t>
His death is declared by the OIL
cials of the factory to have been due
to his own disregard of the repeated
instructions. Superintendent John
Pfeiffer said that Gotz had been ena-
ployed there, off and Un;S faf { syez1l.-
years. He and three other men had
charge of this chaser mill and they
had been repeatedly warned, Mr.
Pfeifer said, to notify each other
when any of them went close to the
huge machine to attend to anything.
Gotz neglected to notify his fellow-
workers this morning when he went
to do something, to tighten a nut
possibly.
While he was at the task, his gel-
low workmen, not knowing that iAP
was near the machine, started it an
dumped load of clay into It. Gotz{
was caught before he could make an
effort to escape and his screams took
his fellow employees to his assistance-
The machinery was stopped, but not
soon enough to save the unfortunate
mans life. Dr. Henry was telephone
ed for, but death ended Getz's suffer-
ings within few minutes. -
Coroner II. O. Bishop was NOTIFIED
and he gave permission for tHe re-
moval Of the body, which wa5 taken
to ]. J. Flynn's undertaking. estab-
lishment on New Brunswick Avenue
Funeral arrangements have bdn
made for tomorrow afternoon at ..
O'Clock. Interment will be in st.
Mary's cemetery.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-08-28
PARADE
LINE OF
MARCH.
Labor Day Celebration TO be a
Bic Event in This City About
$500 Men in Line.

Providing the weather is clear La
Dor Day about $500 men are expect
ed to march in the parade of the la
Dor unions of this city. Chairman
Donehue, of the parade committee,
reports that all the arrangements are
nearing completion, and from all in
dications the celebration will be one
of the largest ever held in this city.
The line of march, according to
the present arrangement, is as fol-
lows: Starting at the union head
quarters on Smith street, the process
sion will march along Smith street to
Elm, from Elm to Market, from Mar
ket to Gordon to High, High to
Smith, Smith to State, State to Wash
ington, Washington to Woodbridge
road, and then along Woodbridge
road to Union Grove, where a big
celebration and banquet will be held
for the entertainment of the partici-
pants and guests.
The parade will start at II O'Clock
in the morning, led by ]. l.. Donehue,
SIdllu vi iHC HaiodNf WIN
Messrs. Hoagland, Walker and Quinn
as aides, all of whom will be on
horseback.
Following them will be the New
Brunswick delegation and their two
bands, which in turn will be follow
ed by the different unions of this city
and out of town guests, each of whom
are supposed to be represented singly
by a float, on which their trades are
to be shown in operation.
other delegations from Keyport,
South Amboy and Red Bank are also
expected to attend, and the Brother
hood of Railway Trainmen will also
help swell the line.
About fifteen unions will be repre-
sented in the procession, and about
six bands will furnish the music.
At Union Grove after the parade in
the afternoon, athletic events, dane
ing, a pig chase, and balloon as
cension by Professor Beach will be
the attractions, and from the present
outlook the day will not be soon Ior-
gotten.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-08-28
PROOF THAT "RECULARS' ARE
4 STILL TIED TO CORPORATIONS.
KIDNAPPING STORY TOLD BY
SMALL BOY HAD The POLICE
GUESSING FOR SOME TIME

John McDonough, thirteen years
old, of Hobart street, returned to
his home yesterday afternoon, after
being absent since early Sunday
morning. His parents were very much
alarmed by his non-appearance home
Sunday night. A searching party
failed to reveal his whereabouts, un-
til yesterday afternoon, when little
John returned home of his own ac-
cord, and recited peculiar story,
saying that while sitting on the steps
of the old tea house at Front and
Smith streets, Sunday morning, a
wagon containing two negroes stop
ped in front of the place. One negro,
he said, jumped out and stufiing some
soft tar in McDonough' mouth,
threw him into the wagon, and after
tying his hands and feet with some
rope, drove to Woodbridge.
There the boy says he was taken
into small red house that stood in
the middle of a block on side street,
and was fed by an old colored won-
an. He says he was tied all the time.
EARLY the next morning the col
ored lady sent me to the grocery
store for some butter and eggs and
skipped and walked home" contin-
ued the youth to his parents.
Naturally his story caused much
excitement, and the boy was at once
brought to the police station by his
two uncles,- Thomas Kenny, of 13
Hobart street, and Andrew Moran, of
South Amboy.
Chief Burke listened attentively to
the boys story, and asked him num-
erous questions, but the youngster
stuck to his tale, and volunteered to
describe the negroes, which he did,
as follows:
One of them was a big, stout man,
brown hat, little white jumper, over
alls, that were black, brown belt,