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The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-14
 NEW RECORD Lusitania Steanls Into
 New York. FIVE DAYS AND 54 MINUTES Trip Between Europe and America is Shortened. New Giant Ship Was Given a Cordial Reception Upon Her Arrival a3
 Port, and Many salutes
 Were Fired.
FIVE DAYS ANs s4 MINUTES

New York, Sept. 13.-The giant turs biner Lusitanla of the Cunard Line, came into port today on her maiden voyage. with new record of i've days and ffty-four minutes between Queenstown and New York. The Lu-' sitania failed to lower the hourly speed average of 23.5s knots, made by the Kaiser Wilhelm II of the North, German Lloyd line. though she covered the distance between ports in an av- craze of 23 .01 knots which Is a record Tor maiden voyages. Captain Watts said that when the time comes for record making. after her machinery Is in thorough order, the Lusitania will be the empress of the seas.
 The Lusitania. the largest ship afioat. was given a royal welcome on her arrival here today, and 1t was a continual ovation from the time she sped past the Sandy Hook Light vessel and made her way through the Am-i prose Channel, the first ocean liner to enter the new fair way. until shef was safely warped into her dock
 When the giant Cunarder swept up the bay, she was given clamorous craft which had congregated of the,
 
 val.
 Nearly every one of the yachts tow-f boats and other steamers were crowded with passengers. well supplied with horns and other nofse- making devices,i and st times. even the steamships were almost drowned by the toots and cheers.
 The Lusitania presented a magnin-, cent picture as she slowly drew up atl the quarantine.
 The first sight of New York which the passengers on the big steamer steamer gained, was one of welcome. From tho highest point of the tower ing Singer Building on Broadway, the tallest of the buildings in the world. there had been strung series of sig nal flags which. in the marine. spelled "Welcome." The fiutteriHR greeting was 500 feet above sManhattan's a great thoroughfare. and could De seen far down the bay.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-14
GENERAL BOOTH COMING.

of the Legion of Honor of France, with which he was decorated in 1889.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-06
A LACK OF SCHOOL ROOM.

The opening CT the city's public
schools on Monday will find the Board
of Education unprepared to provide
needed accommodations. Only two of
the FIVE authorized additions will be
ready. and there will be available only
fourteen new class rooms which will
be insufficient to accommodate the in
creased enrolment. The average ca
pacity of a class room is forty. Dur
ing the last term the attendance aver
aged NOR than forty-eight to a class
Froom. There will, therefore, be greater
hcrowding this year.
With good business capacity and the
proper amount of energy in the school
board all the additions projected would
Fhave been finished and ready at this
Zine. But the unwieldy body that
administers the public educative sys-
ITEM of Newark is chronically incapa-
BILE. 1t should be abolished and the
schools be placed in charge of a small
executive board, whose members are
chosen because of their known ca
racity to deal with business and edu-
cational affairs. Naturally such a Sc
lection cannot be made in political
primaries.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-06
WHY THE RECORDS VANISHED.

All Wall Street and every well-in-
formed man in New York knows that
the transactions by which the Inter-
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Company came
into existence were of such a rot
ten character that a complete dis
closure would be likely to send
some of the principal operators to
prison. When the public utilities
bill was before the Legislature at
Albany the Belmont-Ryan interests
put up a stiff lobby fight against it,
and but for Governor Hughes the bill
would never have passed the Senate
1t did pass and became a law, and
thereupon the books of the Inter-Met.
which recorded the transactions afore-
said were made away with.
All Wall Street and every sane man
knows why. So does the Public Utili-
ties Commission, which wants the
books for examination. And in all
probability District Attorney jerome
will ask the reason why. 1t is a seri-
Gus matter in New York for a public
service corporation to destroy its
records. and the responsibility fol
sue an act cannot be assumed by 6
dummy director.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-06
NEwARK's CARE FOR CHILDREN.

Newark's seaside camp for the city
children, which closes tomorrow, has
given delight as well as renewed health
and vigor to more than fifteen hundred
of the city's guests. 1t has done a
world of good and no doubt preserved a
number of lives. The institution and
maintenance of this camp is an honor
to the Newark municipality and a credit
to the large-hearted men who originated
and carried out the humane idea.
It may be said that the people of
Newark are original in their ways Of
benefiting childhood. 1t was in Newark
that the first night school system in this
State was established. 1t was Newark,
first among American cities, that estab-
lished the summer school. Newark was
one of the first cities to open play
grounds for children in summer. For
many years a children's free excursion
was given annually by private subscrip-
ton under the auspices of a municipal
committee. We believe that Newark is
the only city in the United States that
gives Its children a free outing for a
week in the summer
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-06

now it seems to open a door OF deliver
ance in the prospect that the negro vote
will be split in the next Presidential
election by the prejudice excited in the
negro mind against President Roosevelt
on account of his order disnlissing the
negro battalion. Great political changes
in this world have originated in causes
just as indirect. The political
tradition has lasted ever since emanci-
patton. 1t may be part of the mission
of President Roosevelt to destroy this
tradition, emancipate the negro mind
from it's stubborn adherence to one po-
litical organization and make the negro
vote in future elections as American
citizens without prejudice on account of
race and without reference to what
happened more than forty years ago.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-06
WILL THE NEGRO VOTE sp11rs

1t will be a fortunate outcome of the
investigation of the Shooting up" of
the town of Brownsville, Texas, If
thereby the solidarity of the negro
vote in the United States is broken and
the negro vote split between the two
political parties. 1t will be a remark
able thing if a temporary race question
shall serve to do away with a race ira
dition in politics, and the effect will be
to greatly benefit the negro.
The recognized danger of the negro
vote in the South is that it has always
been a race vote. The negro has voted
not as a citizen but as a negro. No
matter what the issue or candidate the
negro has voted one way. The white
vote divides. There are white Repub-
licans and Democrats and Prohibition
lists in the South, but there are only
negro Republicans, and not knowledge
and faith but race prejudice makes
them so.
Race prejudice is deaf to reason. 1t
must be conquered in itself by its own
mental processes. 1t must be turned
against itself. The Brownsville incl
dent at first appeared only as q fresh
! complication in the race problem. and
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-06
THE ANTWERP STRIKERS.

C~onfagration is the weapon OF the
Antwerp dock strikers. Desperate at
their failure to prevent their places
from being filled. they resorted to
wholesale destruction by fire. The
strikers will be subdued and the dock
owners will prevail, but at a heavy cost
in property and life.
But labor in Antwerp has inherited
instincts. 1t was the Flemish workmen
who in the Middle Ages, under able
leaders chosen by themselves, expelled
their hereditary prince and set up a
republic and Their defed the military
power of France. And if they had been
true to themselves the Flemish work.
men would have maintained themselves
in their fortified cities and made a per-
manent establishment of the republican
principle in Europe.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-06
NOT NECESSARILY.

If there is n significance in the
numbers that attended the outings of
the Davis and Dickinson associations,
the reign of Record and Pagan in Jer-
sey City will end on December d.
Trenton Times.
That is a superficial view Of it. Be it
remembered that the adherents of
Pagan did not take part in either DEM
o%nstration. Now. the vote in Hudson
County in the election last year was
O,S95 Democrats and 22,52e Republicans.
More than twenty thousand Repub-
licans didn't attend the Dickinson out
ing, and at least thirty-six thousand
Democratic voters failed to turn up in
honor of Robert Davis. Perhaps,
though, we might get a clarified view of
things in Jersey City and Hudson
County if the Faganites should get UP
an outing and stand ur to be counted.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-06
JApAN,s DESIGNS IN ASIA.

If the dispatches from the raj East
do not belle the truth a serious friction
has arisen between China and Japan,
and there is a possibility of blows being
struck. Japan appears to have entered
into a policy Of ruthless ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
in Asia. She has absorbed Korea and
thereby violated solemn engagements,
and now she has begun to make for
chile seizures of valuable Chinese terri
tory. Japanese craftsmanship evident
ly regards this as the psychological mo-
ment.
The world for the nonce stands in
awe of japanese arms since the dis
comfiture of Russia, and exaggerated
Importance is given to the japanese
navy. England and France have r~ade
treaties of amnesty with Japan, and
portunity is now. before the illusions
of the West are dispelled and the Orien-
Noi . SAVMH AZ his quS uSHl. l. I may
be found that the complaints about the
treatment of Japanese in California
were a mere cover for japanese designs
in Asia. Japan could safely make a bluff
that diverted attention from the Asiatic
continent. Our government answered it
by ordering the battleship fleet to the
Pacific, but Japan knows that this ma
ton does not go TO war to help settle
Asiatic quarrels.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-06

Colonel Goethals. the regular army
engineer in charge of the work on the
Isthmian canal, makes a record break
ing report for August. the material re-
moved being 215,62S cubic yards more
than in July. The problem at the
isthmus is to make the dirt fly fast
enough to have the canal opened at the
earliest practicable time. and the
Federal engineer is solving it splendid
ly. There are yet more steam shovels
to be installed. and when the full engi-
neering equipment is in place and
working an exhibition of American
energy win be presented to make the
world wonder.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-06
THE NEW YORK PROVINCIAL VIEW

New York newspapers are really
provincial in the sense tina their SYM
pathies and views take color from their
local environments. 1t is said that
Paris is France, but New York city is
not the United States by a long shot.
There are journalists and others in New
York who have the mistaken idea that
it is. Just now metropolitan Journal
ism generally is widely at variance with
the popular sentiment throughout the
country on certain questions of national
policy, and they blunder every day. un-
e the evident impression that they
speak for a large element of the popu-
lation.
The New York World was under this
impression when it sent u inquiries to
Democratic Congressman respecting the
policy of sending the battleship squad
ron to the Pacific. The answers re-
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-06
TAX RATE AND RAILROAD TAXES.

There is satisfaction in the outcome
of the efforts to keep Town the city tax
rate this year. The prospect in the be-
ginning was for an increase in the rate.
The litigation begun by the railroad
corporations in respect to the consti-
tutionality of the Perkins railroad tax
law had tied up the large amount OF
taxes for his year payable on first
class railroad property, and that great
void had to be filled by assessing the
individual property owner. This has
been accomplished, and with an actual
reduction of the rate by foul points as
compared with the tax rate of 1906.
The railroads have carried an appeal
to the Court of Errors, which does not
meet until late in November. That
tribunal will probably render a decision
before the New Year. There would APP
pear to be no reason for longer delay.
In that case, if the decision is favorable
TO the otdte' INC huh'iP
know in Jersey whether the railroad
corporations propose to take an appeal
to the Federal courts n thus indef-
nitely postpone tax payments under the
Perkins act, or whethers they will ac-
cept the opinion of the States highest
court and comply with the law without
further resistance. Perhaps the poll
tical developments this fall will have
something to do with the course of the
railroad corporations in the matter.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-06
VIEWS OF EDITORS.


Visits like these count in every way.
They draw countries closer together. They
are at once personal and official, and their
effect is general. For this reason more
of them should be paid. Our n%eighbors in
high office should call on us ~oftener. and
our high officials should return the visits.
Mr.. Root is setting an excellent example,
and we may expect to see it followed to
advantage. Indeed, the time should come
when the President of the United States
should drop in on his brother, the Presi-
dent of Mexico. and his brother, the Presi-
dent of Canada, when Canada becomes a
republic, and they hould drop in on him
here in Washington, for n~eighborly visits.
Washington Star.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-06

The new clerk had just returned from
the postofice with a look of great COM
placency.
Manager-Well, you succeeded IN get
ting those two letters in all right?
New Clerk-Yes, sir; just 1t
But you made a funny mistake. YOU
put the twopence-halfpenny stamp on
the London letter and the penny stamp
on the foreign one. :.
Manager-Dear, mel How stupid
What did you do?
New Clerk-Oh, I made it all right,
sir. I only noticed It just before | Pun
them in the box; but there was still q
minute to spare so I slipped into tne
postofice and altered the addresses
Liverpool Courier.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-06

An Englishman, an freshman n a
Scotchman were one day arguing as to
which of the three countrieS possessed
the fastest trains.
We'll" said the Englishman, "I've
been in one of our trains, and the tele-
graph poles have been like a hedge"
I've seen the milestones appear like
tombstones," said the scot.
BE jabersi" said Pat, st was one
day in a train in my country, and we
passed a field o. turnips and a field OF
carrots, also a field of cabbage ano
parsley. hen a pond of water, n we
were going that quick that I thought
1t was broth!'-Tid-Bits.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-06

1t was the tenth week after the
honeymoon. The great round moon
rolled up above the trees.
George" h said. Economically, dc
you remember how the moon used to
affect you when you were calling on
me? Why, every time it went under a
cloud you used to kiss me. You don't
do it now"
NO" yawned George. as he lit his
pipe, "the moon affects the tides, bui
not the tieds The honeymoon ends all
oon nonsense"
And then she said he was the mean
est man In town and went owe to cal
on the neighbors.@Chicago News.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-06

To the Editor of the Evening Star: ~
Is the expression 81 guess so and so'' as
used among us today an Americanism pure
and simple? YANKEE.
mot at all. To guess as meaning to
suppose. is an old Derbyshire provincial
ism still surviving. In the glossary of the
Clarendon edition of Chaucer we find:
Geese, to deem, suppose, think, guess.
Du., Gissen; Sw., Gissa; Dan, Gisse, to
believe, suppose" 1t Is used practically
as we use it today in Chaucer's couplet;
Her yellow hair was braided in a tress,
Behind her head a yard long, 1 guess"
The expression was in common use at
the time of the Restoration, as Vanbrugh
in 1.-THE Mistake" makes one of his char
acters say:
IF 1 were, might find more cause,
1 guess than your mistress has given our
master here" Ed
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-06

A noble monument to the martyr
President william Mckinley was un-
yelled yesterday at Buffalo. the scene
of his martyrdom by the accursed
spirit of anarchy. 1t will for ages
hence be a shrine for patriotic Ameri-
cans and for all hen who love and
reverence the high Qualities and lofty
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-06

.ceived generally approved the step. It
is fair to say that these answers reflect
the sentiment of men of both political
parties in the Congressional districts.
The World should try again on some
other national question. 1t needs en-
lightment.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-06

A second failure by the Senate special
committee to secure a lawyer as in
q~uisitor for an investigation of Hudson
County affairs is d~iscouraging, but not
conclusive. The right man will doubt
less be found. But the committee has
lost valuable time and also prestige.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-06

On TeIing n joke.
I fiattered myself she was charmed by
my wit,
But, upon second thought, I conclude
I'm a mokei
The truth, I surmise, is she has pretty
teeth,
And such a girl laughs at most any
old joke!
Buffalo News.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-06
willing worker.

Tramp-Please. ma'am. If you'll GIN
me sumthin' t. eat I'll shovel the snow
off you walk.
Lady-Why, there hasn't been any
snow on the walk for some months
Tramp-Well, that amt no fault NV
mine, lady. Won't you gimme a sand
witch for bein' willin' Z shovel 1t off
If they wuz any?-nlustrated Bits.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-06

Me father" said Mrs. Murphy, al
ways gifts UP whin a lady enthers the
room"
"The ould man is too suspicious" Mr..
Murphy grunted. IT never seen the
woman yit hat 'ud be name enough to
hit We when we was sittin' down."-New
Orleans Times-Democrat.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-06
Tho.e Ne,v Ten-Dou,r n,II,

'Have you seen one of the new vel
low back tens YETI"
mo: are they going to be on exhibit
tion anywhere - Cleveland Plair
Dealer.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-06

How are the. meals at your hotel?'
Pretty good"
That means pretty bad. eh?'-Wash-
ington Star.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-06

'How are you progressing in a lit
erary way?"
"Finei All I need for my new o
is a name, a publisher, and enough to
live on until it's fnished!'-Atlanta
Constitution.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-06
Gold E-vaporates.

To the Editor of the Evening Star;
A friend Of mine insists that gold evap-
crates. Is he right? SCEPTIC.
Yes; gold does ~evaporate. An Interest,"
ing paper on the subject was read not very
long ago by Sir w. Roberts-Austin before
the Royal Society of Great Britain. Be-
fore that he had stated In one of his lee
lures that if gold were placed underneath
a column of lead and the two were kept
hot. though at a temperature well below
that at which h latter mineral melts.
the gold would diffuse itself into the lead,
so that even In t~wenty-four hours an ap-
preciable quantity of the former could be
detected in the lower portion of the latter.
1t that time he a put aside similar cyl
inders of the two metals, and kept them
for four years at a temperature of about
sixty-five degrees Fahrenheit. At the end
of this experiment the gold was found to
have a it's way into the lead, the guam
tity, as might be expected. diminishing
with the distance from the precious metal.
Whether gold can actually evaporate In
ordinary circumstance, Sir W. Roberts
Austin himself did not know, but OBJ
viousIy it practically does SO when brought
into contact with solid lead. The gold
passes into the latter metal as steam
might pass into wood. The action, no
doubt, is slow, but it is sure.-Ed.l
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-06

ideals that characterized this man of
the people, lifted twice by their suf-
frages to the most august offtce in the
world.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-06
IN HUMOROUS VEIN.


IT'S marriage a failure?" asked the
old bachelor of the young bride.
81 don't know yet" replied the bride
in~nocently. you know my husband
doesn't get paid until next Wednesday"
Detroit Free Press.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-06

While Harold's grandmother was
dressing him he said: "oncet l was
run over"
20. no; 1 think not, Harold"
yes, / was, grandma"
aWell, when was it?' grandma finally
asked
why. when I was dust."-St. Louis
Republic.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-06

Miss Cutting-weIl, well. I wouldn't
believe it of her If any one else had
told me of it. Did she really call you
a liar?
Miss Antex-To my very teeth.
Miss Cutting-To your teeth? But
were you present at the time?-Phila-
delphia Press.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-06

what Is the most aggravating thing
in married life2" asked Dorothy.
Sometimes" said the bachelor FRIEND
its the husband, and sometimes its
the wife."-Philadelphia INQUIRER.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-06
FROM STAR

ANONYMOUS communications cannot be
printed. Except on political subjects the
names OF correspondents are not required for
publication, but as a guarantee of good faith.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-06
Pence in Central America.

1t is. of course, impossible to foresee
what will be the effect, either immediate
or remote, Of President Roosevelt's inn
portant note to the Presidents of the Cen
trail American republics. One might say
that. as the people down there have been
indulging in their petty fighting all these
years for really no good eason a proper
and courageous suggestion from a friendly
source that they quit would bring them to
their senses and establish conditions of
permanent peace. But, on the other hand,
the enjoyment which they have apparently
found in fighting for the mere sake of
fighting may be too dear a possession for
them to give up on anybody's persuasion.
In that event. it can be only a question of
time when the Presidents present action
will have to be followed up by drastic in
t~ervention to the same end. The estab-
lishment of peace in Central America on
al least as sure and permanent basis as
in the rest of the civilized world becomes
every year more of a necessity. II the
Central Americans can not accomplish the
change themselves or through the good Of
fees of their Latin-American ~neighbors,
then the logic of the situation will require
that the United States, in preference to
any other outside power, take up the task.
Providence Tribune.