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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-08-27

WALL STREET interests generally
approve of the plan announced by Sec
Rotary Cortelyou of making weekly de-
posits from the Treasury in the Ma
tional banks of New Y FORK, Boston and
other large cities to meet the require
ments for crop moving expenses. While
his plan is new, the usual custom hav-
ing been to deposit lump sum in such
money crisis in New York banks, con
sentative financial interests regard it
as an Improvement on the old method.
Beginning his deposits this week
money will be supplied before the de-
mand for it becomes acute. AS the
secretary has promised to supply funds
sufficient to meet the weekly demands,
financial experts took to see the CROP
moving accomplished this year with
greater dispatch and convenience than
has been the case in many seasons. BY
anticipating distress it is believed The
scheme will prevent money stringen
cies Inasmuch as the deposits viii
not be announced in advanced it is be
lieved this will prevent spectators
from taking advantage Of the situa
tion and obtaining money which
should 20 into other channels.
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MENDHAM.

Miss Clara Lockwood has returned
from few days stay at Brooklyn.
Mr.. and Mrs. e. L. Garabrant have
a son.
Rev. George Noble, of Cornwell-on-
the Hudson, will occupy the pulpit of
the First Presbyterian Church on Sun
day morning and evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Rummel and family, of
| Newark, are spending two weeks at
Bernard Koch's; also e. X. Van Zile,
of Hoboken.
A goodly number attended the en-
tertainmentint the Presbyterian Chapel
on Tuesday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leo Robinson are en-
PERTAINING Mrs. Robinson's mother,
Mrs. Freeman, of MOntclair.
Joseph Somers is spending a few
days at the jamestown Exposition.
Mr.. and Mrs Dudley Gray have clos
ed their summer home and returned
to MOrriStown.
Earnest Bockoven has returned from
weeks visit with his aunt at New
ark
Mr.. and Mrs. Foster, of Newark, are
at the Wyckof cottage.
William Babbitt, of Network, How
ard Crane, of Newark, Mr.. and Mrs.
John Drake and James Burd spent
Sunday in this place.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Apgar are enter
tanning Mr. and Mrs. Theo. Kitchin,
of Trenton.
Mr.. ami Mrs. Fickens are entertain
ing Mrs Fickens sister, Miss Cory.
John M. Hoffman is building large
pond near the N. j. & Penn. Railroad
Station.
DR.. McMurtry, of Morristown, has
opened an office liz the Pitney house
on Church street.
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WHY LAKE HoPATCoNG HAS GONE
DOWN.

The long drought which ended with
the rain that came Friday night has
had its effect on Jersey City's water
shed in the Rockaway River valley,
but the supply in the big storage basin
at Boonton has luckily been large
enough to prevent any shortage in the
output at high service. says the Jersey
City Journal"
For several weeks no water at all has
gone over the spillway at the Boonton
dam, and the water in The reservoir
has gore down very slowly but not
enough to cause any inconvenience at
the Jersey City end of the supply sys-
TEN.
The Rockaway River itself has been
getting lower and lower, and in some
parts at Rockaway and Dover it has
been little more than a tiny stream
during the latter days of the drought.
If it had not been for the good size
of the BoonUon reservoir Jersey City
would have been in sore straits this
summer, but the reservoir proved am
Pile even in an unusually dry season.
The waters of Lake Hopatcong went
down three and half feet in the past
three weeks, and when it is recalled
that this three and half feet extends
over thirty-two square miles, the area
of the lake, the extent of the loss of
water can be realized.
1t is the privilege of the Morris Ca
nal and Banking Company to turn
from Lake Hopatcong into the Morris
Canal, when necessity requires it, as
much water as may be required to OPP
crate the canal. This privilege came
in handy during the recent drought.
1t may be that the lowering of the
Lake Hopatcong waters is in a large
measure due to the use of lake waters
for the canal. 1t may also be that Jer-
sey City has been having its reservoir
supply added 60 it by some of the lake
water, for the Rockaway River itself
mighJ have been poor reed to lean on
after the drought became so prolonged.
AS there are but three boats in COM
mission on the canal, it does not seem
that there would be much water re-
quired to help them through the locks.
Running the launches through the
feeder lock takes some water; but it
is said the current flowing eastward in
the canal is several times swifter at
night than in the daytime. Looks as
though the water was sold outright.
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rhe Republlcan candldates.

Petitions for candidates to be NOM
mated at the coming primaries are in
circulation and must be filed before
midnight of the thirtieth. The Re
publican committees have taken up
the matter and the following men are
selected for the local Offices:
First ward Alderman, SRA Now
cry; Freebooter, *R. III. Burchell. Sec
ond ward Alderman, John B. Taylor
Freebooter, *George T. Allen. Third
Ward Alderman, Llewellyn B. Temp
kins; Freebooter, *Dr. G. A. Becker
Fourth ward Alderman -; Free
holder, Stephen G. Griffith, Jr. Town
ship-Assessor *Thos. Il. Sands; Col
lector, SWIM. Fl. Thompson; Commit
teeman. *Watson A. Bartron; Free
holder, *Harry L. Prudden.
*Renominated.
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Mt. FREEDOM.

Jesse Clark and family returned to
their home at East Newark on Tues
day last.
chant returned from ASbury Park on
Friday last.
Mrs, S. D. Youngs and Miss Hazel
Demorest are visiting relatives at
Brick Church.
Mrs. Ira w. Youngs of Tabor is 60
ing to move in Jno. BlackwelPS house.
Miss Mary Trowbridge who has been
here for a few days returned to Morris
town on Friday last.
Mrs. Charles Coe and daughter spent
Friday last with relatives at Norris
town.
Mrs. Fred Guerin and family were
the guests of relatives at BeatystOwn
for a few days last week.
Mrs. William Budd is visiting hel
daughter, Mrs. James Lindabury, neal
Flanders,
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Berry of New Ro-
chelle, N Y, were the guests of rela.
tiyes here for short time.
A deer was seen here last week iI
| the Presbyterian cemetery, it leapeC
over the fence into field with some
cows and roamed with them for awhile
and then disappeared on Callar's
Mountain.
There will be an ice cream sOciablt
held on the Presbyterian Church
grounds this Tuesday evening.
Richard Northey, a former resident
here but now of Paterson, was here OF
Sunday last calling on old friends anC
| relatives.
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The UNFINISHED WORK is the
title given to the 1907 campaign text
book of the thew idea" movement,
distribution of which has just begun.
The pamphlet, written by John S. Glib
son is we'll written and forceful ex-
position of the reasons for the continu-
alton of the Colby fight, and a scath-
ing arraignment of the machine forces
opposing it. On the cover page of the
new textbook appears the following
quotation from Abraham Lincoln :
with malice toward none, with char
ity for all, with firmness in the right,
as God gives us to see the right, let
us strive on to finish the work we are
in"
After history of the movement up
to date the textbook presents the var
ious principles and questions declared
for by the Colby Assembly candidates
in the following order: Regulation OF
public utilities, civil service, direct
nominations, franchise taxation, popu-
lar vote for United States Senators,
summary court review Of primary and
general election results, antitrust
law, initiative and referendum, repeal
of clause in Constitution prohibiting
submission of constitutional amend
ments oftener than once in five years,
and provision for constitutional con-
vention every twenty years.
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REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION

The Republican voters of New Jersey
are requested to elect delegates, at ri
mary elections to be held according to the
provisions of the statutes OF New Jersey,
to State Convention to be held in Tay-
Tor Opera House, in the city of Trenton, at
twelve o'clock noon, on
Thursday. the Nineteenth Day of Sep
TENDER, 1907,
for the purpose of nominating a candidate
for Governor, to be supported at the en-
suing election
The basis of representation from each
county under this call is regulated by
Chapter 237, laws of New Jersey, session
1906, page sos. That is to say, one delegate
for every two hundred votes cast by the
Republican party for sits candidate for
Governor at the last gubernatorlal cleo
ton, viz, election 1904, and one delegate
for each fraction thereof over one hun
dred, but any election district which cast
at the last Rubernatorial election less than
two hundred Republican votes, shall be
entitled to cast such fractional portion of
q vote in said convention as may be deter
mined by the respective county commit
tees of the State.
FRANK o. BRIGGS,
Attest: Chairman.
ALEXANDER @. YARD
Secretary, pro tenn.
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statesmen WANTED
To look after our interest in Morris
and adjacent counties. Salary OF
Commission. Address The Harvey
Oil Co.. Cleveland. Ohio.

Woodbridge Strong, who served
three terms as judge of the Middlesex
County Court and was one of the old
est members of the New Jersey bar,
died last Wednesday afternoon from
an attack of bronchitis and dysentery.
Judge Strong was born in Clinton, N.
Y, February 81, 1927. In 1854 he was
appointed law judge of Middlesex, Gov
ernor Joel Parker signing his commits
sion. In1896 Governor JohnW. Griggs
appointed him law judge for another
term. Governor Foster M. Voorhees,
reappointed him for a third term at
the expiration of which he retired
from the bench. He leaves four child
rem Edward Woodbridge, a lawyer, Of
Cincinnati; Allen H., a lawyer OF New
Brunswick, Elizabeth B., residing at
home; ex-senator Theodore Strong, of
New Brunswick,
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AN lLLuMrNArlNe srArEMENr.

Secretary Taft delivered another
speech last week at Lexington, KY
His topic was the race question, and
he treated it with consummate judg-
ment. He placed the question Of suf-
frage in light which will be new to
many when he said
"The Fifteenth Amendment does
not require that every negro should
vote. All that it requires is that he
should not be excluded from voting be-
cause he is a negro. If he lacks edu-
cational qualifications, property quail
tications or any other qualifications
that the State may lawfully impose as
rule Of eligibility for its voters, then
he may be excluded, provided that
every one else who lacks similar quail
tications is equally excluded. The
Fifteenth Amendment is merely in
tended to secure him in his political
rights from race discrimination by the
States. 1T is not intended to give him
affirmative privileges as a member Of
his race. F"
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tNlts ~ "
NEWS FROM
OTHER TOWNS
HANOVER.

Mrs Harrison u. Mead visited her
sister, Mrs. William Woodward, of
Newton, last week.
Mrs. Frank P. Cook spent last
week with friends in New York.
Miss Estelle Hopping has returned
from Stanhope where she was the guest
OF Mrs. Elmer King.
Mrs. Peter Misler left on Monday for
a visit to her home in Hungary.
Mrs. Caroline Romer and Mrs. Char
lott McChesney of Orange are guests
OF Mrs. Caleb Perry.
Mrs. Charles Hopping is entertain
ing her cousins, Mrs. Julia Wyman and
son and wife of Newark.
Miss Cramer of Morristown visited
Miss Laura Beach recently.
Miss Annie Cook of New Brunswick
is the guest of Miss Joanna Cook.
Dr. and Mrs. Ferguson will remain
at Cedar Beach, Vermont, one week
longer than usual, returning to Han
over the first week of September.
Rev. William r. Burrell, pastor of
the Baptist Church of Livingston, will
preach in the Hanover Church on Sep
TENDER 1St.
Communion service will be POSTUM
eel until the second Sunday of Septem-
Der, awaiting DR.. Ferguson's return.
Hanover Sunday School will join the
other schools of the Township in a
picnic at Tuttle's grove, Swinefeld,
on Wednesday, August %.
r. M. Beach and son are engaged to
put the about 800 worth of repairs on
the school house. New floor and doors
are included in the contract and all is
to be in shape for the opening of
school by September 9th.
The work of remodeling the Han
over parsonage began last week. r. N.
Beach and son will do the carpenter
work and t. J. Ward will do the ma
sonry. The front of the first floor will
not be changed but the rear, including
dining room and Kitchen, will be
made new and two stories high. All
of the second story will be raised and
dormer windows and bath added.
Funds for the bath were given by the
late Ambrose K. Ely shortly before
his death.
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FINANCIAL RESULT OF LIQUOR
PROHIBITION.

One of the interesting aspects of the
action of the State of Georgia on the
liquor problem is the financial result
OF prohibition. The great loss in
revenue has been persistently empha-
sized by some newspaper writers. But
there is evidently two sides even to
this question. The superintendent Of
the Anti-Saloon League of Maryland,
writes on the subject to the Baltimore
/" American" as follows 1t is said
that revenue will be lost. In Cam
bridge, Mass, city of approximately
100000, in ten consecutive license
years, 1S76-1SS6, the assessed valuation
of property decreased over $4,000, 900.
In fifteen consecutive nO-license years
Immediately following, 1SS6-1901, the
assessed valuation increased over $780,
100000. The tax in 1901 on the in
crease of valuation was S550,00O, or
more than six times the amount re-
ceived from saloon licenses the last
year Of the license period. The ex-
PLANTATION is easy. Instead of squan-
dering their money, the workmer
bought lots, went into building asso
Citations, built houses and increased
the taxable wealth. "-"E liza b e tt
Journal"
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THE date of the disbarment proceed
lngs instituted against j. Franklin
Fort, now Supreme Court Justice,
and never prosecuted, was 1866. Co.
ing back forty-one years to attack a
jurist is pretty small business. The
Paterson "Call' says-and the remark
will apply to other instances of drag
ging out ancient grievances against
jurists, clergymen and public men:
Even if the allegations made in 1866
were true, should mistake-and an
unsubsUantial mistake he held like a
dangling sword over the head of man
whose subsequent life has been every
thing that it should be 7?
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IMPORTANT TO CREDITORS.

Vice Chancellor Stevenson has just
rendered decision that, if upheld by
the Court of Errors and Appeals, will
establish a precedent in New Jersey.
A Paterson man and his wife held
joint title to property. The mans
interest was sold to David Bilder, to
satisfy Judgment for debt. The wife
continued to collect the rent and made
no division of it with the new owner,
who applied for an injunction restrain
ing the woman from collecting the
rent, for an accounting, and for re-
ceiver to take the rents and divide
them equally between the joint own
erS.
Vice Chancellor Stevenson could find
no parallel case in New Jersey, but aft
er Investigation he decided not only to
grant the application of Bilder for an
accounting, an injunction. and a re-
ceiver, but gave him the option OF
making a sale of the property under
partition proceedings, in order to Sc
cure his money. This decision, if up
held, will put a stop TO the practice OF
men transferring their property TO
their own and their wives names, in
order to escape paying their debts.
Heretofore it has not been possible to
reach debtors in such cases.
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WHAT NEW VOICE IS THIS Z


The Governors address at Chautau-
qua yesterday was not a political
speech. In conception and purpose it
is as remote from politics, in the ordin-
airy sense of that word, as the thoughts
and deeds of this exceptional public
servant have been at all times since he
shouldered his present job. Yet con-
slider for a moment these purely ethic-
al, social, moral, non-political, unemo-
tional sentiments:
Confidence depends upon the as
suranCe of stability. BY stability is
not meant fiXity of things or relations,
but SteadinesS. 1t may be SteadineSs
in motion. Paradoxical as it may seem,
human society cannot be stable unless
it is progressive. That is because
growth and progress are the law of our
nature"
Reason demands the facts. BY the
requirement. of publicity is not meant
sensationalism or distorted emphasis :"
Reason in it's rule of governmental
activities demands even, impartial
and consistent enforcement of the law.
Stability and confidence can never be
assured save by strength and firm
ness"
f" 1t is an egregious blunder to sup
pose that to make the administration
OF government and the enforcement of
law matter of caprice involves dan
ger only as to the subject directly con-
cerned. The evil cannot be so con-
fined, but poisonS the whole govern
mental system"
What new philosophy is this ? What
is this calm voice now heard above the
crash of values and the cries of appre-
hension proclaiming the doctrine of
stability, reasonableness, consis f.
ency, impartiality, and the absence
Of the personal element in the enforce
ment of law? No caprice, no distort-
ed emphasis, no supremacy of individ-
ual Judgment mo- snappy sensational
ism, no genius, even
1t is only fifteen days since the chief
law officer of the Federal Admistra-
tration. charged with the duties
of which Charles Evans Hughes dis
covered yesterday his unimaginative
conception, was describing the func-
tions of his high Office in the language
of SPORT New York Sunday Sun, Au-
gust 25.
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vention every twenty years.

SECRETARY TAFT's position on the
tariff question should be satisfactory
TO Republican standpatters and pro-
gressives alike. The idea that the
great body of the party has always
stood for could not be more tersely
stated than in the passage in which
Mr.. Taft defines his own position.
Condensed in two brief sentences it is
this; A change to free trade basis
would be disastrous, but tariff sched-
ule should not substantially exceed
the difference in the cost of produce
tion in our country and in compet-
ing one. Inasmuch as some schedules
have in the past ten years come to ex-
coed that difference, they should be
reduced, always leaving an ample mar
gin of safety.
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NO CAUSE FOR ALARM.

The Newark Sunday Call Demo
cratic, in summary of the political
situation in the State at the present
time has this to say
1t was evident at the State com
mittee meeting last week and by the
conduct of Republican leaders gene
rally that they are much discouraged
by the political outlook this year.
They regard the general tendency of
the country as unfavorable, and in
New Jersey conditions worry them
greatly. This is especially irritating
this year, because the effect upon the
national election in 1908 will be i'm
portant, and it is feared that if the
Democrats win this time, the Repub-
licanS will stay out of power a long
while. The cause for alarm in the
State, besides the general feeling, is
due to the exposures of bad manage
ment by the Republican State boards;
tionS have controlled the party'S rep
.resentatives, and the party divisions,
especially in Essex county.
Now this would be interesting, if
not important, were it true. But it is
not true. There was no such pessim-
istic sentiment prevalent at the meet
ing of the Republican State committee
last week. On the contrary, the re-
ports from the different parts of the
State were such as to infuSe feeling
of intense encouragement, and the gen
eral sentiment was that the Republi-
cans were on the eve of great victory
including not only The election of a
governor, but a Republican majority
in the Assembly. OF course, there is
no chance of the Democrats making
any inroads in the Senate this fall. In
regard to the disclosures of the prob
ing committee, it is matter for re-
joicing that the fact before the State
committee, as also before the people of
the State generally, is that most of
those delinquent, not to say criminal,
State State institution officials who
have been so shamelessly. exposed are
Democrats. Indeed. a majority of the
incompetents and suspected grafters
are Democrats. -PaterSon Call.
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SUBSCRIPTION RATES
REPUBLICAN co. CONVENTION.

The Republican voters of Norris
County are requested to elect delegates
at primary elections to be held accord
ing to the provisions of the Statutes
of New Jersey on Tuesday, the Tenth
Day of September. A. D., 1907, to a
County Convention to be held in the
Assembly Rooms of the Republican
Headquarters, 35-37 Washington street,
in the Town of Morristown, Morris
County, New Jersey, on
Thursday, the Twelfth Day of Sep
TENDER, A. D., 1907,
at II O'Clock in the forenoon for the
purpose of nominating a State Sem
ator, Surrogate and two members of
the General Assembly TO be supported
at the ensuing election.
The basis of Representation from
each of the Townships or BoroughS,
Towns and Wards under this call is
regulated by Section 262 of the Elec-
tion Laws of 1907, page al, viz One
delegate for every one hundred votes
cast by the Republican party for its
candidate for Governor at the last
Gubernatorial Election, viz election
1904, and one delegate for each frac-
ton thereof over forty, but any dis
trict which at the last Gubernatorial
election cast less than one hundred
votes shall be entitled to one vote IN
this Convention.
BY order of the Morris County Re-
publican Committee.
GEORGE A. SQUIRE,
Vice-Chairman
EDWARD X. MILLS,
Secretary.
Dated
Morristown, N. j., August 81, 1907.
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OWners
IRA MOWERY,
Chairman of Sewer Committee
Board of Aldermen.

NOTE The Sanitary Code of rIorris-
town provides "Where a building is
connected with sewer or cesspoOl 1t
must be connected by a drain not less
than four inches in diameter, having a
fall of not less than One-quarter of an
inch to the foot" "Any such
system put in and covered before In
spectiOn by a representative of the
Board of Health must be uncovered
for Inspection" An Inspector of the
Board is with the work all the time
and will give certificate for $1.OO.
which amount will be allowed when
the final connection is made.