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New-York tribune., 1907-05-16
THINK THEY SAW HESS AND GIRL
WeStcheSter Hotel Proprietor and Wife Posi-
tive of Identification.

A man and young girl answering the descrip-
tons Of Patrolman Hess and Elizabeth Grady. tho
kidnapped girl. seen at a small hotel near
and his wife. EYeleinc who keep the hotel said
yesterday that they are positive they Hess
and the girl.
According TO Radomsky. the two stopped at his
place between and o'clock Friday afternoon,
and after being shown into the back paroT ordered
soft drinks Radomsky said that his wife first
marked that the girl was very young, and that she
was afterWard struck by her close resemblance to
the pictures of Elizabeth Grady.
New-York tribune., 1907-05-16
SUIT OVER coNeREssMAms ESTATE.

Baltimore May 15.-Miss Lillian L. League.
daughter Of Lieutenant Albert l.. League. Of the
police boat Lannan. is the principal defendant in
a suit brought by Henry B. Ketcham, of the
late Congressman John II. Ketcham of New York,
10 recover certificates of railroad stock alleged TO
belong 10 Congressman Ketcham's estate. Leuten-
ant League and his wife also defendants in
the suit charged with conspirng to obtain Con-
gresham Ketcham's properly through undue in
fuence exerted upon the Congressman by their
daughter, who his secretary.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-16

Among Clyde Fitch's amusing coilec-
tion of ~serapbooks there is one deVotea
to typographical errors. The noteo
playwright showed this column TO q
reporter recently and the young man
copied some extracts from II.
one item concerned a dance. The
word 'bonnier" was misprinted, with
his depiorable result:
There were no bonier ladies present
thar the Mayors own daughters anu
this fact was further emphasized by the
perfect ft of the shepherdess costumes
they wore"
A country paper, after telling how a
COW got in front of a train. said;
AS the safest course under the CIR
e~umstances. the engineer put on tull
steam. dashed into the COW, and literally
cut IL into two calves"
A New York society editor, misprint-
ing the word Chill" published TINS
statement:
Mrs. Astor was unavoidably absent
from the reception, being kept at nome
by a bad child
A political editorial which should
have said, THE masses believed him,
said instead: "Them asses believed
him"
Supporting a candidate for the mayor
atty, a country editor wrote:
Mr.. Smith is also renowned for ms
great veracity and enormous capacity
for work, and you will always find him.
even under adverse circumstances, tuIl
of good spirits"
This paragraph appeared in next days
aper:
Mr.. Smith is also renowned for his
great voracity and enormous capacity
for pork, and you will always find him,
wen under adverse circumstances, fun
of good spirit."-N. Y. Tribune.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-16
X CANAL ALONG THE COAST.

A waterways convention of repre-
sentatives of the States of the Allan
tic coast is to be held in Phila-
delphia next month. The Middle West
has had its say about waterway trans
portation in the Mississippi Valley,
and the East Is now to be heard on
the subject Of inland waterways along
the Atlantic coast. The Western COM
bination for waterway Improvement
viii be matched by an Eastern COM
bination, and if they can Join forces
they viii control the policy of COM
merce.
A deep inland canal from Massachu-
sets Bay to the Gulf of Mexico, which
would provide a safe waterway for
mere and be of such great impor-
lance for the national defense, could be
constructed in a few years at a reason
able cost. There are bays, sounds. riv-
ers and canals that are almost continu-
II nature had conformed the Atlantic
coast for the purpose. Economy in
transportation, the saving OF loss
by wind and storm. and the build
ing up of manufacturing places would
soon pay the entire cost OF con-
struction of an inland canal as pro-
posed. We in New Jersey have every
reason to favor and urge the project. A
ship canal across the State from the
head of Raritan Bay to the Delaware
River would be an immense factor in
the States development.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-16
CORPORATION TAX INCOMES.

An aggregate of 1851, 22S.44 has been
paid to the state Comptroller in New
York for the present year by the mis-
cellaneous corporations in New York
state, an increase of about $780, 900 over
last year. The a on miscellaneous
corporations in New Jersey asst year
was s2,251. 54S.2S There are more cor
porations listed in New Jersey than in
New York, while the charters of seven-
eighths of the great trusts and largely
capitalized corporations were taken out
in this State. 1t would seem, therefore,
that the revenue from miscellaneous
corporations in New Jersey ought to
approach more nearly to the New York
figure. The New York tax, it would be
remembered, does not include the prop
erty tax assessed on the franchises of
public service corporations.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-16
NOT MUCH PROVEN is SOMETHING.

1t is gratifying to the pride of the
tina the investigation of the Backes
committee into the management of
State Hospital for the Insane has not
shown that incompetency. negligence
and brutality in the care of the States
wards that has been so pronounced a
characteristic of the smaller sister in
stitution at Trenton.
Some things there are that deserve
censure, some mystery that further
search may clear up, such as the death
of Mayor Beatty, of Hackettstown, but
on the whole the showing to date is
creditable which, considering the pro-
longed absence from duty of the medi-
cal director on a money-making trip
to New York in the service of a youth
on trial for murder, may, or may not,
be surprising.
OF course there is a certain amount
of humiliation in being Obliged to make
a point of a fair showing for a State
institution, but in view of the fearful
revelations in the acknowledgement of
other institutions, the most recent
fragrant examples being the Trenton
Hospital and the Railway Reformatory,
even the almost negative results at
Morris Plains must tend to restore the
Jersevman's self-resDect
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-16
VOLUME LxxvI.-No. FAC.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10. 1907.
how WILL THE coMMUrER vorEl

How the commuter is going to vote
in the election next month is just now
a matter of speculation. The commuter.
meaning the New York and Philadel-
phia business men who have their
homes in New Jersey, is always in the
same doubt in all elections. He is re-
garded as of n class apart from the
other voters of the State because he is
supposed to have his views largely in
fuenced by politics and affairs i'm the
cities where he Is engaged in business.
This veal the theory is that the COM
muter is, as a rule. opposed to Roose-
welt and his policies. 1t is reasoned out
that, holding these views, the commuter
is inclined to vote in the State election
In a way to show his disapproval of
Roosevelt and his policies. The Repub-
iican State platform indorses the
Roosevelt administration "as coura-
geous II patriotic" but. according to
the political theorists, that fact doesn't
mount to anything to the commuter.
A Republican defeat in New Jersey, it
Is held, would be a rebuke to Roose-
welt and, therefore, the commuter will
vote the Democratic ticket.
When Cleveland ran for President, in
1892, he got large support from Republic
can commuters on account of the tariff
question, and a Democratic candidate
for President on a tariff reform plat
form this year, other than Bryan,
would command the same support. But
it is a serious question whether there
is among the commuter class the anti
Roosevelt sentiment credited to it. If,
however. the theory is correct. if COM
mercial interests in the big cities so
strongly influence the minds of men
living in New Jersey. then the Republi-
can party managers must revise their
calculations.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-16
1rouoR ISSUE TN MANY STATES.

The excise issue is not alone in New
Jersey. 1t is alive In many States in
one form or another, including that
Of prohibition. In the South the States
are generally inclined to prohibition
as a solution of the race problem. The
Southern blacks are shut out from the
franchise, and they are no longer a
factor in the politics of the South. The
purpose now is to regulate their habits.
Prohibitory laws need not interfere
with the creature comforts of the
dominant whites, who have their clubs
and private sideboards. The average
negro must rely for his refreshment
on a n~eighborhood saloon. Close this
and he can get neither liquor nor a
place to c~ongregate in. The tendency
in the North has done away with the
prohibition, but the social conditions
in the North and South are wholly
d~iferent. We have in the North no
great negro proletariat to deal with
and keep in subsection.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-16
LONG TIME BETWEEN C0NSTITU'
TIONS.

1t is sixty-three years since the adop-
ton of the New Jersey State Constitu-
ton. 1t is ffty-seven years since
Michigan adopted her State Constitu-
practically unchanged since their adop-
ton. The people of New Jersey are
so tied up constitutionally thai it will
be many years probably before they
will be enabled to have a State con-
vention to make changes of any inn
portance in the organic law. In Mich
igan it is realized hat the times
change and men change with them.
Michigan is to hold a constitutional
convention on october 81, and that
convention viii make radical constitu-
tional changes. The conservative forces
in Michigan tina have held back the
people for many years and prevented
constitutional revisions have postponed
the time too long. A few years ago the
changes made would have been con-
servative. Today they will be radical.
Michigan is going to have income and
inheritance axes, home rule in munici-
palities, the initiative and referendum.
and other things that he conservative
element do not a But Michigan is
in the full swing of modern reform,
and conservatism must take its medi-
cine.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-16

1t is not thai the Potable Water
Commission is utterly guileless that it
seeks to know where h Hudson
County Water Company, obedient child
of the East Jersey. will get the well
water to supply Staten Island and beat
the anti diversion law, for, hang it!
If the wells don't yield enough, why
augment the yield. II enough doesn't
bubble up from below put more in
from the topl Doubtless the commits
sion is "on," but it wants to get itself
technically and officially straight, and
Of course the East Jerseys hopeful will
be very, very frank
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-16
STREET CAR TRAINS.

One of the suggestions made at the
annual convention of the engineers
section of the American Street and
I%nterurban Railway Association in At
lantic City yesterday was that street
railway trains running on regular
schedules and carrying two or three
cars, instead of a single car, be inau-
gurated to relieve congestion.
On paper the proposition looks plaus-
ible. Naturally the more cars run the
more people can be carried. But, while
trains of three cars would pretty nearly
absorb the waiting passengers during
rush hours that now try to crowd on
one, and thus relieve passenger con-
gestion. imagine how much street
traffic congestion would be relieved at
Newark's -Four Corners during uch
hours by trains of cars in punches of
threel Another exercise of the imagi-
nation for home consumption: Fancy
regular schedules. at any Roadway.
And they are mighty inconvenient dur
ing congested hours except on short
Roadway. And the shorter the head
way and the bigger the trains, the
greater the congestion.
One great underlying fact is, and the
local trolley management may take
this as a solacing tribute, at central
points in Newark. which means the
points of greatest congestion, there is
not room for cars enough to carry the
passengers on the surface. The So
luton is subways. Trains will not do
crowded thoroughfares. In subways
they may be made as long as the
travel demands. Newark must come
to subways if its travelling public is to
carried when it wants to ride.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-16
Milton on His blindness.

To the Editor of the Evening Star:
Will you oblige an old reader by print
ing the words Of Millions sonnet on his
blindness? B. S.
when l consider how my light is spent
Ere half my days in this dark world and
WIDE,
And that one talent which is death to
hide,
Lodged with me useless, though my soul
more bent
To serve Herewith my Maker and present
My true account, lest He, returning chide;
Doth God exact day-labor, light de-
nied?''
/ fondly ask. But Patience, to prevent
That murmur soon replies: God doth not
need
Either mans work or his " gifts; who
best
Bear His mild yoke, they serve Him best:
His state is kingly; thousands at His bid
ding speed,
And post DER land and ocean without
rest;
They also serve who only stand and
wait" Ed
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-16
What Wc,re Coming mo-.

When William Taft is President, heighol
in 1909.
How styles will change! No one of us
will then train down too fine.
Horse jockeys will begin to stuff, and
ere they go their rounds
Each n will, nave to tip the scale at
full two hundred pounds.
May Irwin will not ave to bant in one
continuous Lent.
But she can waddle out and sing when
Taft is President.
Thin men of every shape and size will
hide themselves away.
All hollow cheeks will be tabooed, all
diets will be passe;
All Ratchet faces will be mobbed
Each girl we love must be
So fat she'll CULVER in our arms In
rotund ecstasy.
Round-bellied aeronauts must steer
balloons they represent,
All cooks must sleep in double beds
when Taft is President.
The corporations will not be confined
to just a few,
But all the common people will nave
corporations, too.
No one Will dare to worry, though in
debt Wen gayly smile;
We might lose flesh by worry, and we
wouldn't be in style.
though hard times are coming, anc
we're broke, we'll still present
Our joyful curves to all the world wher
Taft is President.
Tom Mason, In Judge.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-16
crovls OF a Grouchy cent.

NEVtSiS VI ~ UEOuNhS CN
A woman loves but ~once-that is, the
same man.
Marriage is often a fiat" failure.
Some girls are ox-eyed; some perox-
ide.
Some women would rather be loved
than respected.
People who live in glass houses
should close the shutters.
Sometimes the wife k her hus-
band simply as a meal-ticket-and then
gets her mother to punch it..
You can't interest a woman In the
trust problem when the winter styles
are just coming in and h baby's cut
ting q tooth.
There's nothing a girl enjoys more
than to sit in her torn and faded calico
dress and read Susan de Styles's
article on opera-wraps of the smart
set.
Tears for logic, a pout for an argu-
ment, a smile for strength. a kiss for
heartease. are the angel attributes
given to women-a sort of antidote for
a gossipy tongue that hints OF hades.
Vaudeville acrobats-tushl In the
half-second it takes to open the parlor
door, Cholly and Ethel car carom noise-
lessly fifteen feet in opposite directions
and strike innocent attitudes.-Judge-
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-16

A french professor has discovered a
we'll defined connection between prunes
and badness. He finds it in a new kind
of microbe, which turks in prunes and
other dried fruit, and is also found in
the human hair. Women. as well as
men. eat prunes. and only men run to
badness. 1t would seem, therefore,
that there Is some hitch In the French
professors theory.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-16
Advertising and Goods.

1t is not true that the man who adver-
tises IS using money for publicity that the
non-advertising man is putting into giving
a better value in his goods. To anyone
who understands business this is an abb
surdity. 1t is true that publicity costs
thousands of dollars, but money spent on
publicity is an investment; N pays only
as< the article in which the investment
is made has merit. The advertiser has to
sell his goods over and over again to the
same people to get back the money he puts
into making them known. Only with an
article hat will stand the test of use can
he build up a permanent and paying
patronage.
The MINER sales that are obtained
through advertising also work to the adj
vantage of the consumer They make pos
sible a big organization, with machinery
perfected for the manufacture of great
quantities, and a consequent reduction of
the cost Of manufacture Louisville Herald.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-16
First NnfaonaI Road.

To the Editor of the Evening. Star:
Where and when was the first OF the
great national roads built? READER.
IThe first Of the great national roads
was the Cumberland Road, which ran from
the Potomac to the Mississippi. Starting
from Cumberland, Md, it ran through
Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana
and Illinois to its terminal point at the
Mississippi. opposite st. Louis. 1t was
built by the government under the super
vision of the War Department. In order
to secure funds for the constant repair
necessary, Congress passed a bill in 1922
ordering the establishment of a turnpike
with gates and tolls, but President Mon
roe vetoed the bill IN the ground that
Congress had no power to pass such a
sweeping measure of internal improve
ment. Two years later he signed a some
what similar bill and the road received the
needed appropriation. The last appropria-
ton made by Congress was in 1874. The
road was begun in 1911. Parts of the old
road are still in use.-Ed.l
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-16

HI was no coward; nay, rather. men
had even called him brave. At the
peril of his life he had stopped runa-
way horses, had plunged into the sea
to rescue a child from drowning, and
had calamity charged up San Juan Hill
in the face of the Spanish bullets. But
now his face paled and he trembled.
II dare not" he muttered. But" he
added resolutely, since she whom /
vowed to love and cherish has asked it
of me, I will not ~falter."
So, with calm courage and a resolute
mien he descended to the kitchen to
discharge the cook.-The Circle.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-16

the conveniences of people living in
suburban and rural sections. Houses
far apart can be placed within direct
conversational communication and even
with business places in the town.
Probably within the next five years the
wireless telephone will be classed
among the ordinary utilities of life.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-16
Remedy.

what is the difference,between these
two socks of yours, John?" queried
Mrs. Wages, who was sorting the laun-
dry.
Give it up answered her husband.
zone has a hole In the heel and the
other hasn't" explained Mrs. Wages.
with an open-faced smile.
''Oh. darn the difference" re1oined
the sjoviaI John, as he turned to the
joke column Of his favorite paper
Chicago News.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-16

The wireless telephone appears to
have arrived. Installed on some of the
vessels Of the battleship fleet, it has
been successfully operated for distances
I'D to twelve miles. All the feet will be
equipped with the apparatus before pro-
ceeding TO the Pacific. The introduce
ton of this new and wonderful device
for use on land will add Immensely to
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-16
A stroke of Diplomacy.

I'm very sorry, but 1 cannot be your
wife"
'sThen all is over! Nobody will eve
say of me, There's the husband of that
fascinating wonani'" cried he young
mar in despair. And this so moved the
young lady that she ave her consent.
-Fraszki.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-16

The formal opening OF the state
sanatorium at Glen Gardner on octo-
Der 20 is to be made the occasion for
a gathering of State officials and In
vited guests. The construction and
finishing of this Institution have been
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-16

Internationally delayed, and it is to be
hoped hat h visitors will find enough
in the completed edifce to compensate
for the long postponement of the open
ing.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-16

81 uppos you regard my contract
with you as a guarantee of good faith
said the manager.
Not exactly" answered Mr.. Storm
ington Barnes; rather as al evidence
of good Observation-Disclosures Star.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-16
oyercrowded Liners.

The fresh demand for steerage space
They say grows quite extensive;
In cabins you can't find a place
Besides they're more expensive.
-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-16

She-You love me, then?
He-I love you now.
She-Ah, we'll! | suppose if a woman
can get a man to love her now and then
she should be contented?-Fair Journal.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-16
IN HUMOROUS VEIN.


An Irishman, speaking of q frlenu
whom he suspected of living altogether
beyond his means. observed that he De.
Iieved he would owe several thousand
dollars after all his debts were paid
Philadelphia Inquirer.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-16
MUST ALL ROOSEVELT MEN voTH FOR JUDuB FoRTs

Defeat for the Republican party in New Jersey this year
means a reflection on the President" was what William P.
Martin told a Newark audience the ether night
AT the same meeting Surrogate Russell said that 'the effect
of the present campaign in New jersey and its results must
be felt in the nation
If the Republican spellbinders can demonstrate that to the
satisfaction of the thousands of Jerseymen who voted for Roose-
welt three years ago. there need be no fear of the result at
the polls here next month. Can they do it? s
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-16

The only way the public will ever get
relief from automobile speed maniacs is
by the imposition of fines that will really
mean something. and by refusing a IL
cense to those who repeatedly violate the
Jaw. Tame submission to the hoggish
disposition of a certain class of auto
mobile drivers Is more to blame than any
thing else for their selishness and lack
of consideration for others.-Baltimore
News
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Keeping

Mother-where are those oranges
that were on the table?
Tommy-With the cookies that were
in the cupboard, / suppose.-Harper's
Weekly.
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Obliging.

Are your neighbors obliging"
81 should say SO. They always let
me use our telephone whenever want
to."-Milwaukee Sentinel.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-16
FROM STAR

Anonymous communications cannot be
printed. Except on political subjects thu
names of correspondents are not required for
publication. but as a guarantee of good faith.
Ed