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The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-19
LIGHTNING WRECKS ENGINE
HOUSE IN NEW BRUNSWICK
Near-Cloudburst Causes Damage to the
Extent of About $25y 00o-Cemetery
a Lake.

NEW BRUNSWICK, July ia near
cloudburst struck this city yesterday aft
ernoon and caused about SOS. 600 damage.
Willow Grove Cemetery, on Morris
street, was converted into a lake, and
small headstones Were covered. Lightning
struck Engine House / Inc completely
wrecked 1t. The horses were saved. but
with difficulty, on account of the flood.
The cupola of Columbia Hall was shattered
by a bolt.
The beautiful country home Of late
Judge A.. v. Schenck was struck. Just a
year ago lightning hit it three feet from
the place shattered today. Thu grounds
of Hugh Boyd, proprietor OF the Home
News, were submerged and his horses
nearly drowned in the stable.
Heroic efforts were made to save the
handsome house of the New Brunswick
Boat Club. The anchor chains were
broken, the permanent gangplank smashed.
Extra cables were attached to the place
and fastened to the bridge over the Rar-
itsn.
On one of the main streets a tree was
torn from its roots and hurled against a
dwelling so that the residents had to chop
their way out with an axe. Lightning
struck the Neverslip factory and there was
almost a panic among the employees. All
these things n others occurred within
en- hour.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-19
URGES %METHODISTS TO
ESTABLISH SAVINGS BANK
An M. P.'s Plan for Mutual Aid Socie-
ties Sprung at Wesleyan Confer
ence in London.

LONDON. July 19.-At the annual
conference of the Wesleyan adherents,
sitting in Wesley Chapel, Robert w.
Perks, NJ. p. for Lincolnshire. today
presented the important proposition
that the time had arrived when the
Wesleyan forces throughout the world
should bind themselves with a mighty
bond and grapple with the great eco
nomic and social questions of the day.
He suggested the establishment of
Methodist bureaus in all ports of the
world to deal with the questions of
emigration and unemployed labor, and
to build up a practical loan society and
savings bank and other kindred insti-
buttons for mutual aid.
Mr.. Perks declared that Methodism
is a vast religious free masonry, with
world wide riches and resources. only
wanting the proper machinery to be-
come a tremendous c~onfederacy for
mutual-self-help.
No action was taken on the PROPOSE
ton thus presented, but the conference
was greatly impressed with the pos
sibilities.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-19
ELKS HAVE NEARLY ALL
LEFT PHILADELPHIA.
Those Who Didn't Go to Seashore or
Home Took Trip to Valley
Forge Today.

PHILADELPHIA, July 1.-THE big
feature of Elks' week being over, thou
sands of visitors left town today.
either for the various seashore resorts,
the jamestown Exposition or their
homes. There is still a great number
in town. however. The Grand Lodge
has adjourned, and the delegates will
devote the day to a pilgrimage to his
toric Valley Forge, where United States
Senator Knox, whose residence adjoins
Washington's camp grounds. will de-
liver an address of a historic nature
to the Elks. Another feature arranged
for delegates is a trip on the Della
ware River with stops at the %shipbuild-
ing plants, the League Island Navy
Yard and other places. Beginning at
IL o'clock tonight the Pen and Pencil
Club will entertain visiting Elks at a
might in Bohemia"
Announcement of prizes in connection
with the reunion probably will not be
made until tonight.
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ATTACK OPEN
SUNDAY VOTE
and Council Scored
by Pastor LnSk--R eSOIu-
lions Condemn Them.

Denouncing members of Common
Council for voting for an open Sun
day, the Rev. David w. Lusk, pastor
of the Sixth Presbyterian Church. adj
dressing the brotherhood of that church
last night. made an appeal to the
churchmen, to whom he spoke to use
their influence to place ideal men
in public office. The brotherhood of
the Sixth Church adopted resolutions
condemning the Mayor and Aldermen
who favored a most decided modifca-
tion of the State Bishops law by hav-
ing the city, instead of the State, die
tate in the matter of an open or closed
Sunday. The Councils action is inef-
fective legally, but the fact that Alder
men and the Mayor nave gone on
record as favoring Sunday liquor SELL
ing has stirred up a hornets nest of
criticism.
Pastor Lusk is but one of a number
of well-known clergymen who have
bitterly denounced the action taken by
the city officials. Pastor Lusk last
night emphasized his statement that
the officials who declared for an open
Sabbath had done so in the face of the
State law.
" AAdt NAN vi III ~ kaAa ~
our young people?" the minister de-
manded. France tried an open Sum
day, and 1t has injured the nation.
When we tried it here we grew tired of
1t. Why can't men see the necessity
for decent rest on Sunday? It is not a
question of partisan politics, not a
question of church. but this is some-
thing which affects every family in the
city,
The clergyman asked that ideal"
/ men be elected to all offices, and urged
attention to the ward tickets at he
coming primaries and regular cleo
ton. He suggested that IL the men
who demonstrated that they were unfit
for Office were promptly turned down
it would have a wholesome effect on
the administration of governmental
affairs.
Resolutions of protest against last
Fridays action, copies Of which will
be sent to Mayor Haussling, who
signed the Sunday ordinance, and each
one of the Aldermen who voted for 1t,
were adopted as follows:
The Brotherhood Of the Sixth Pres
byterinn Church hereby enter protest
against the action Of the Mayor and
Common Council in abolishing the city
ordinance that prohibited the saloon
being open oil Sunday.
We protest against a body OF sworn
officials taking action in defiance OF
the higher law of the State.
We protest against this action be-
cause Of its demoralizing effect upon
the people. in that 1t sets an example
of law defance, and thus will have a
tendency to our lawlessness.
We protest against this action be-
cause we believe the Sunday saloon is
a menace to the morals of the people,
and will lead to the increase of crime
and the destruction of virtue.
We further protest because we believe
working man and will rob him Of the
fruits of his labor, and thereby bring
increased suffering to his family.
The meeting had been called Tor the
| specific purpose of lodging protest
against the action of the council. II
the informal talks, it was pointed Out
that there had never before been a sit
uation In the city that had called the
brotherhood together for such action.
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SAYS
PULPIT ACTS
IN ERROR
HAS Far More Important
Duty Than SO-caIled Sun
day Closing REV. Pick.

Some sharp things are said by the
Rev. Bernard Pick, pastor of st. Johns
First German Evangelical Church, in
Court street, in a communication to the
editor of the local German daily today,
about the attitude of the clergy gen
orally on Sunday saloon closing.
In his communication the Rev. Pick
saws that it was wrong to include all
clergymen as champions of a Puri-
tanical Sabbath, and that during the
thirty years of his ministry he mad
never found 1t necessary to preach
along that line.
IT do not mean to say by this" so
the Rev. Pick writes, that the Ger
man pastor does not find 1t as equally
necessary to preach against intemper-
ance and vice in all it's forms as his
American brother, but a German pas
tor has far more important matters
for the subject Of his discourses from
the pulpit than that of so-called Sun
day closing. He does not lower HIM
self to perform spy work for the police.
He never forgets, or at least, he should
never forget, that he Is a preacher of
the gospel and that as a preacher of
the gospel 1t is his duty before God
and man to preach against lust, in
temperance and vice in all its forms
that tends to degrade man. AS vice
is ever present the German pastor has
neither the time nor the need to take
part in a Sunday closing crusade.
THE man or woman who attends
divine service goes there for religious
consolation, to rest a weary, world
worn heart Inc build up the spiritual
in. his nature. The worshiper desires
to uplift his soul to the higher things,
and 1t is immaterial to him how many
saloons there are in Newark. The
American, however, rushes to extremes,
and while he thinks he has closed one
den of vice another springs up to
take it's place."
After criticising the Germans gen.
orally for non-attendance at houses
of worship where their own tongue is
heard the Rev. Pick concludes:
"If the majority of Germans would
fight as valiantly for their high ideals
as they do for their beer, they would
be more respected by the American
clergy than they are. What these high
ideals are I need not point out"
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CORDIAL
WELCOME TO
ELK HOST
Cheer and Red Fire
Is Burned as Pilgrims
Parade Passes.

1t was a tired but jolly throng of a
thousand or more Elk and their
friends that reached this city last
night from Philadelphia, where the IA
tional session of the order was held.
The Essex Elks returned in a special
train of sixteen coaches, which ar
rived at the Market street station of
the Pennsylvania Railroad at TO-: 30
p. m. Members of Newark Lodge No.
81 who did not 60 to the convention,
headed by Frank x. Keeling, chairman
of the committee which arranged for
the reception to the returning members
of the lodge, and a large number of
citizens gave them a rousing reception.
Amid a profuse display of fireworks
the homecoming Elks, in their natty
white suits, n those who had re-
manned at home paraded up Market
street to the Court House, hen count
er-marched to Broad street, to Green
street and to the Elks' home. Business
houses had been decorated along the
line of march in honor of the occasion.
There was plenty of red light and
fireworks as the Elks were marching,
and hundreds of flaming torches show
ed the procession up to good advan-
tage. Frequent applause greeted them
from spectators.
When headquarters was reached
those who had returned and the stay
at-homes mingled in true fraternal
spirit. Questions fired at the white
ella travellers were quickly answered.
The visitors to Philadelphia were a
unit in singing the praises of that city,
n pronounced the convention n re-
union a banner event in the history of
the order The Newarkers could not
say too much of the reception they re-
ceived. Friendliness was in evidence
on every side.
Stories were told of Incidents at the
celebration. One Newark Elk gave
some idea of the magnitude of the pa
rade.
The lodges marched in numerical
order in the Philadelphia pageant with
the exception of the Philadelphia lodge,
which occupied the head of the line.
There were over 500 lodges in line.
Newark Lodge started at 10 a. m. and
did not fall of line until 2 p. m.
The report that there had been any
trouble over the delay in starting the
massed band parade Wednesday, or
that there had been any threat to re-
woke their freedom of the city, was de-
MED.
Newark Lodge was represented by
$50 Elks in the parade. They wore
white shoes, white stockings. cream
colored serge suits. white hats and
white canes with gold heads. They
were snread a. block i'm the | inc. Rich
ard Hensler was the marshal, and
marching with him in tho front of the
line were Mayor Haussling, Exalted
Ruler George A. Guenther, Secretary
owen j. Mcdonald and edward Kohn.
The weather was the only draw
back. 1t was said that several thou
sand ~paraders and spectators were
Frustrated by the excessive heat. Phil
adelphia's hospitals were filled to over
flowing with the heal victims.
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NEWARKER BADLY HURT.
silas Smith Thrown from Wagon in
Runaway in Elizabeth.

ELIZABETH. July t9.-Silas Smith.
of 10 North fourteenth street. Newark,
was seriously injured in a runaway
here yesterday afternoon. He is in the
General Hospital with a fractured col
larbone, several scalp wounds and other
bruises about the body. Because of his
advanced age. 81 years. his condition is
considered serious.
Smith had his horse hitched to a
tree on Elizabeth venue near the Long
Branch Railroad tracks. He united the
rope and got into the vehicle. when the
horse took fright at a passing train and
bottled down the avenue. II attempted
to turn into Second street after running
several blocks and swerved the buggy
into a tree. The light vehicle was
smashed completely and Smith was
thrown into the street several yards
away. The horse escaped injury.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-19
GROVE PRIZES
YOUNG FOLKREWARDED FOR
SUNDAY SCHOOL WORK.
Close of This Years Assembly Will Be
Extended at the Next Session,
in 1908. 4

OCEAN GROVE, July BLOSSOMS ended
and study over, the ten days session of
the Annual Assembly of Sunday School
Methods closed yesterday. when the re-
port of the president. Mrs. Mabel B. Fara-
day. of Arlington, N. j., was presented
This report showed that the assembly in
all of IT'S departments was eminently sue
cessful and the attendance numerically
great enough to warrant branching out in
larger effort next year. Certificates were
presented to the following:
Blackboard Class-Minnie r. Cole, Brook
lyn; Marie II. Vose. Hoboken; Mrs. John
Birch, White Plains, n. Y; Daisy Whip
pie, Ocean Grove; Mrs. Maggie Seaman,
Spring Valley, N. Y: Rosa A. Mcguire,
Long Island City, M. c. Cook, Ocean
Grove.
Bible Study-Emily Finch, Ocean Grove;
Jessie Fl. Corbett. Elizabeth; Mrs. Eliza
beth Biddle, Philadelphia; Mrs. Margaret
Winthrop, Asbury Park; Mary L. Cam,
PHILADELPHIA; Rosa A. Mcguire, Long
Island City: Mrs. John Birch, White
Plains. N. Y; Mrs. Mary A. Hutchinson,
Brooklyn; Mrs. Margaret L. Badger,
Wayne, Pa; Marie II. Vose, Hoboken.
Misunderstanding class. J.. Bowles.
Brooklyn; Hannah c. Stratton. Nellie M.
Wallace. Trenton: Mrs. Ida A.. Sayre. Eliz-
abeth; NJ. A. D~iefenderfer, Philadelphia.
General Work-Fanny Bergfels, Newark;
Howard Schell, Brooklyn; Helen B. Drew.
Margaret L. Brown. Ocean Grove; Clara
Hepburn. Harold Gordon. Edmund Bremen,
Evelyn Cough, New York; Elizabeth
Houston, Elizabeth; Layton Bremen. STAN
ley Murray, Mabel Mclaughlin, Anna Nc
Laughlln. Brooklyn: Catherine Skirm,
Philadelphia; Edna Habeghoist, Bentrice
Warren, Myrtle Loson. Walter Proetz,
Charles Proetz, Ethel Wagg. Emily Fink,
Helen Oakley, Ocean Grove.
Senior Class-Mrs. Mary L. Cam, Phia-
delphia Mrs. Margaret L. Badger, Wayne,
Pa. Mrs. John Birch, White Plains. N. Y;
Mrs. Elizabeth Biddle. Philadelphia; Rosa
A. Mcguire. Long Island City; Marie II.
Vose. Hoboken.
Primary Class-Eazel Reynolds, Edna
Wood. John Reynolds. Ruth Wenman,
William Bryan, Florence Woolston, Mary
Tom, Lydia Brown. Ethel Gould. Aldlne
Carter, William Robinson. Richard Farrel.
Ocean Grove.
A girls chorus to participate In the
children's musical festival and Arabian
Nights entertainment has been organized.
An appropriate costume is being discussed.
In former years the girls appeared as Red
Cross nurses; then followed the flowing
Japanese kimono. but now a new sarb
seems to be demanded to save the term
Chestnut from being attached 10 the Girl
part Of the youthful chorus. The boys
retain their individuality as dashing Rough
Riders.
The next convention here is that Of the
A~nti-Saloon League, on Monday next, with
w. f. Burke, superintendent of the New
Jersey Anti-Saloon League in charge
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5000 HEAT VICTIMS
IN PHILADELPHIA.
Broad Street, Along Which Parade Of
Elks Passed, Looked Like
Battlefield.

PHILADELPHIA, July 19.-Phila-
delphia passed through a heat exper-
ence yesterday without recorded par
allel. In five hours 5000 persons. most
ly spectators of the Elks' parade, but
some participants. sank in heat eN-
haustion along Broad street. This
estimate, made by DIR. Patterson, chief
police surgeon, who had charge of the
police and hospital relief corps. in
cludes only the severe cases which re-
ouired treatment at hospital or am-
bulance. Many cases Of milder form,
relieved at drug stores, escaped police
notice.
BY far the greater portions of pros
trations we're of women, but the most
serious cases were of men because
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ELECTRIC STORM
MANY HOUSES STRUCK
AROUND ASBURY.
Farmland Killed at New Bedford.
Woman and Her Daughter
Seriously Burned.

ASBURY PARK, July 19.-The Sc
verest and most destructive storm ex-
perienced along the North Jersey coast
in many years centered over Asbury
Park yesterday afternoon. Thelightning
and thunder claps were terrific and the
fail of water phenomenal. Houses were
wrecked and crops devastated, follow
ing the hottest morning Of the summer.
Thousands of excursionists n sum-
mel visitors, seeking the GOODNESS of
the boardwalk, were driven pell nell
TO hotel piazzas. In town a cottage
was struck n fire broke out, doing
damage to the extent of about 81 1000.
The loss is covered by insurance. The
bolt stunned Edna Van Ripper. daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. e. Van Ripper, of
Brooklyn, who occupy the cottage. Mrs.
Van Riper's father, who was sitting
on the front piazza with the little girl,
was also stunned.
In all. five buildings were struck
here and in Ocean Grove, two in AL
laire and several in Spring Lake.
Reports from New Bedford. a farm
ing district four miles southwest of this
city, are that h crops are completely
devastated.
; Antanas M~acilnis, % years old. a
Russian, employed by II. c. Hance, a
milkman, at his farm in New Bedford,
was struck while at work in a corn
field and killed.
Striking the house of Andrew Simp-
son at Hamilton, lightning played
havoc with five of the rooms, tearing
the walls and strewing the furniture
about. Mrs. Simpson and her 7-year-
old daughter were seriously, but not
fatally burned. Both were rendered
unconscious by the shock, but had re-
covered when DR.. r. S. Bennett ar
rived. The house is damaged to the
extent of several hundred dollars.
The Hamilton M. e. Church was also
struck, a chimney on the south end
being demolished.
A barn belonging to Addison Riggs.
opposite the county farm, was badly
damaged, Lightning struck a cottage
in Bradley Beach, occupied by Mrs.
Annabel, of Montclair, shattering a bed,
but causing no serious damage. No
one was injured. William Megil, a car
penter working on a neighboring house,
was rendered unconscious by the light
ming, but quickly revived. Several
other persons were knocked down and
stunned.
The electrical shop of Harry Alsbach,
at Eleventh avenue and F street, Bel
mar, was slightly damaged by light
ming. The Belmar Club, at Twelfth and
Ocean avenues. was also struck.
Lightning struck a barn on the John
Newman place, at New Bedford, set
ting fire to the structure, and before
aid could be summoned the building
had been burned to the ground. Three
horses were killed. Newman conducts
an extensive chicken business, and
grain and farming implements were
burned along with the building.
Fire broke out in the house of the
late Goodnough Jackson at Green
Grove following a flash of lightning
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O D HUSBAND SIGNS
OVER SALARY TO BRIDE.
Besides That, He Solemnly Pledges
Himself on Paper Not to Stay Out
Later Than 8 O'Clock at Night.

HOBoKEN. July 19.-After Justice of
Peace William Budenbender had mar
ried Florence Slower. 10 years old. OF lOs
Garden street. to Harry Winfield, ~ years
old, stopping at the Palace Hotel, and
handed the young woman the wedding GER
tihcate, she asked him if he would not
draw up an agreement which h said her
newly made husband would sign. The JUS
tice asked her what it was. She then read
the following, which B~udenbender wrote
down:
IT solemnly promise that l will never
stay out later than 8 O'Clock at night, will
always treat my wife with the kindest
consideration and will also let her have
my salary at the end of the week, she to
give me what money she thinks best for
my use"
The young woman then took the paper
and gave IL to her husband. She told him
to sign, which he did, and hey left the
office apparently happy.
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they did not give up till they had to.
Some children also suceumbed.
Broad street, along which the parade
passed, looked like a battlefield. Elmer
gency hospitals were hastily impro-
vised under grand stands and in side
streets, while at the hospitals the
stricken ones were laid in rows upon
the grass outside.
Stores and wagons were converted
into wards. Automobiles, carriages and
every form of vehicle were pressed
into service TO help out the patrol
wagons and ambulances.
A~dulterated lemonade. which was
sold freely to the crowds, was partly
responsible for the many prostrations.
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MARRIAGES AID CHARITY
Knots Tied in City Hall at So a Knot
Three Weddings Yesterday.

In the Mayors office three Italian
couples were married yesterday. Acting
Mayor John F. Slnnott married n couple
at noon and Assistant City Clerk Martin
Bross. IT,. who is o justice of the peace.
married two couples in the afternoon. The
parties drove to the City Hall in closed
coaches.f Thursday appears to be the
~favorite day for italian weddings, for
more couples are married In the City Hall
on that day than during all the other days
of a week.
After the civil marriage the couples were
married inta church. according TO the
custom in Italy, where the law requires
both a civil and a church marriage.
The bridegroom pays So when married in
the Mayors office here. aud at the end Of
every year Mayor Jacob Haussling will
divide the total receipts among local chari-
ues
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LEADING ELK DEAD.
John D. o'shea Was Chairman of Board
of Grand Trustees.

PHILADELPHIA, July 19.-John ID.
O'Shea, of Lynn, Mass, chairman of the
board Of grand trustees of the EIks. who
was stricken with apoplexy in his
apartments here on Tuesday night,
died last night. With him at the time
was his father and mother.
Mr.. O'Shea was one of the best
known Elks in the country. He was
exalted ruler of Lodge No III. of Lynn,
Mass, and for nine years was chair
of the board of grand trustees.
lie was about As years of age and was
part owner and business manager of
the Lynn Evening News.
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P. o. S. OF A.

Preparations are under way for the an
nual State convention of the Patriotic
Order Sons of America to be held August
q at Newton, Sussex County. 1t is ex-
pected that a number of propositions that
will vitality affect the workings of the
order will be considered. w, c. Cutter,
Of Trenton, is State president of the
order, and ]. w. Thorn, also of Trenton,
is State secretary.
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UNION COLLEGES HEAD.

SCHENECTADY. N. Y. July 19.-At a
special meeting of the trustees Of Union
College today the resignation of DR.. A,
v. Raymond as president was accepted
n DR.. George Alexander, pastor of the
University Place Presbyterian Church, of
New York, wae elected temporary presi-
dent in his place.
DIR, Alexander refused to accept the
position permanently.
A COMMITTEES was appointed to select a
successor to DR.. Raymond. who has ac-
cepted the pnstorate of the First Presby-
terrain Church Of Buffalo. and will take
up his duties after a trip TO Europe next
month
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that hit the roof. Neighbors, however,
e%xtinguished the blaze.
The lightning played a number of
queer FRANKS over In Ocean Grove.
Mrs. George Graham was lighting an
oil stove in Association ten No. 81, di-
rectly back of the pavilion, when a
stream Of electricity surrounded her
and injured her wrist.