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Palisadian., 1907-12-01
Letter to w. w. SIocum.

Dear Sir: Our agent ought to sell
nine-tenths of the paint of his town
and region; no use to try for the other
tenth The proportion of men, who
won't take good advice, and use the
least-gallons paint, is about one in ten
among even owners of houses and stores
and shops and barns and fences.
One man in ten will buy gold brick
or green goods, if he has the money and
gets a good chance.
Devoe at $I.75 a gallon is better than
gold; adulterated and short-measure
paints are green goods and gold bricks.
Devoe saves half, more or less, of the
labor and wages of painting; it is all
paint; full strength and full measure.
There is no other such paint within ten
per cent Ten per cent of labor and
paint is worth saving; and ten is the
least. There are scores of paints that
throw-away half of both gallons and
labor on whiting, china-clay, ground
stone, barytes, benzine, waterfall they
are good for is to make gallons of
nothing and look like paint in the can;
more gallons to buy and more gallons
to pay for putting-on-gol bricks and
Green goods Here's how they work.
Judge D. Fairchild owns two houses
exactly alike in Lufin, Texas. ]. H.
Terrence painted both houses; one
Devoe, I515 gallons; the other with
another paint sold at same price, IS
gallons. That IS gallon paint is weak
and 1870 whiting; that's why it took
OH gallons more
Yours truly
F. w. DEVOE & co.
New York.
P S Henry Kissel, Jr., Cliffside, sells
our paint
Palisadian., 1907-12-01
Rearranging Fort Lee Taxes.

there has been complete reassess-
ment of the taxes in Fort Lee borough,
and the books have been turned over to
the assessor by the special committee of
citizens appointed by Mayor McAvoy
Tor that purpose. Just what changes
nave been made in Palisade have not
yet been made public
Palisadian., 1907-12-01
To the Editor"

Mr. Chas T. Logan,
Editor of "Palisadian,"
Palisade, New Jersey.
Dear Sir:
was very much interested in the diff
ferent articles which appeared in the
New York Sunday papers of the 18th
inst. regarding the proposed so-called de-
velopment and spoliation of the park
Palisadian., 1907-12-01

as a tenement house district by building
on the Palisades, and turning same into
what are known as cold water flats on
twenty-foot lots, into which, | am in
formed the park is to be cut. 1t is
pity to see this act, which appears to be
an act of vandalism, but is strictly with
in the legal rights of the present owners.
From Grantwood on the south to Fort
Lee on the north and east of Pal1sade
avenue, about one-third of the distance
to Fort Lee, thence west to Anderson
avenue, north to Fort Lee, east to the
Hudson River, and about one and a
half miles along the brow of the Pal1-
sades, south to Grantwood, the place OF
beginning, and including the park, is
tract of six or seven hundred acres Of
virgin forest land unbroken except in
few instances, and to-day accessible from
its nearest to remotest point by ferry
and trolley from New York City in from
ten to twenty minutes. In that brief
space of time a band of wild children
from the hot, dry and unshaded streets
of New York can be with Nature in
on Sundays and holidays many thou
sands frequenting this wild spot in
search of health, rest and recreation. 1t
seems almost incredible that this cond1-
ton could exist so near a great city, but
it is true and the most skeptlcal can
prove it by twenty-m1nute ride any
day. The reason for this in the past
has been lack of proper transportation
both in New York and on the Jersey
side; but that now is a thing of the past,
and with progress comes commerc1al1sm
that cares for naught but the almighty
dollar. The grand old trees that the
axe will soon lay low can never be
replaced, and never will. The sylvan
bowers and rustic arbors will soon dis
appear and in their place will come the
long rows of houses where tired, persp1r-
ing humanity must exist, and the city
invalid child or toiler must go further
for their playground. This ground is
historic, made doubly so by its associa-
ton with the manse of the great father
of our country in his struggle with the
English in Revolutionary days. Now is
our time and opportunity to secure to
New York City and its toiling millions,
to New Jersey and to the United States
a park that will be local, State and
National The oportunity will never
come again. Can our great Central
Park be capitalized? Can the blessings
bestowed by its shady hooks and bowers
be counted in dollars and cents? And still
it is inadequate to meet the demands
made on it and grows more SO as time
goes on. Is there any way that this
great natural preserve can be secured
to the present millions and their poster
ity? Can New York City, New York
State, New Jersey and the United
States be enlisted in this movement? Is
there some great philanthropist who
would care to perpetuate his name and
benefit humanity for all time to come
by acquiring this property and forever
free it from the spoilers hands?
Paul T. Brady
Palisadian., 1907-12-01

Supt Charles Rice, who has had
charge of the park for over year, has
resigned and will go, it is understood,
with the new company which is to
develop the park.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1907-03-06

Grated an experimental car which car.
ried two passengers at Dover, New
Hampshire.
Then the United States congress be.
came interested. BY special grants
Professor Page of Smithsonian insti-
tute was aided in the construction Of
several forms of motors. One of them
was used as a locomotive and. driven
by battery Of one hundred Grove
elements, was tried April! 90, 1851. on
railroad running from Washington
to Bladensburg. A speed of nineteen
miles an hour was developed, so great
that it destroyed the batteries.
Numerous other experiments fol.
lowed, all commercial failures because
the motors We're crude and the source
of power primary battery. The de-
velopment of the wonderful modern
dynamo was necessary before electric
railroading could become a commercial
success. The first great step was in
1850. when an italian named Pacinot.
IL invented a continuous current dy-
namo Three years later the first
practical commercial machine for con-
tinuous current operation was made
by Gramme.
Still the modern electric car was I'M
possible. The "reversibility of func.
ton had yet to be discovered, inyol.
wing electrical transmission of energy
through two machines, one driven by
power and generating electricity; the
other reversing the operation, receiy.
ing electricity and developing me.
cnanical power
Like many other important discoy.
cries, this is said to have been the re.
suit Of accident. A workman COUPLED
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1907-03-06
The First Electric Railroad.

The first regular electric line to be
established was at Lichterfelde, Ger
many, near Berlin. 1t was only nile
and half in length and opened for
traffic in May 1881. The trains car
ried twenty-six passengers, at maxi
mum speed of thirty miles an hour.
The first electric car to be operated
regularly in the United States was in
stalled by Deft on the Hamden branch
of the Baltimore Union Passenger
Railway in August, 1856. That
was barely twenty years ago. Sc
great as the skepticism of the public
and railway men generally that the con
tract under which the road was built
withheld payment one year so that it
might be determined whether the cars
would run. mo one but knave or
a fool would undertake such a thing
said a we'll known scientist at the
time. Scientists sometimes Lave trouble
Keeping up with the procession. About
the same time small cars were oper-
ated by Van Derpoele at South Bend.
Ind, followed by other small roads in
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1907-03-06

During the summer of 1887, there
appeared in the New York Sun the
following facetious news item:
''rhey tried an electric car on
Fourth avenue yesterday. 1t created
an amount of surprise and consterna.
ton from Third st. to One Hundred
and Seventeenth st. that was some.
thing like that caused by the first
steamboat on the Hudson. Small boys
yelled "dynamitew and "rats!" and
made similar appreciative remarks I'M
til they We're hoarse. Newly appointed
policemen debated arresting it. but
went no further. The car horses
which We're met on the other track
kicked without exception, as was
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1907-03-06

motor cars. In 1905 there were nearly
thirty thousand miles of electric track
in the United States alone
This change was not accomplished
without opposition, encouragement
and financial difficulties. Mr.. Sprague
himself, who was. so potent factor in
working this change. has told the story
Of his first important contract. In the
spring of 1887, the Union Passenger
Railway company of Richmond, Va.
engaged him to build an electric rail
way. The first car was run out one
night while the skeptical people slept,
to make sure it could climb the hills
1t started out in blaze of glory and
ANONYMOUSLY was lowed back again
by four big mules. But Sprague per-
sisted until on Feb. 9, 1888, in a
driZzling rain, the road opened for
business.
From that time forward the future
of electric railroading was assured and
events moved rapidly. City after city
adopted the new motive power; horse
cars became things of the past; in
terurban roads began to gridiron the
country everywhere. and in each in
stance commercial success was
scored. Electric interurban lines have
been money makers from the start.
The greatest development has been
in the east; but the west is not far
behind. The Aurora, Elgin and Chi
cago Electric railway (the third-rail
SYSTEM which has been in operation
several years. is famous. From one
central power station over two hun
dred miles Of road are operated. or will
be as soon as the line to Belvidere is
cnmpleted. Electricity at wholesale il
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machine to a i've circuit by mis-.
take and was greatly astonished to see
1t begin to rotate. Ynis reversibilftv
OF function was publicly demonstrated
for the first time at the Vienna expo
sition in 1873.
Not until 1879 was the first electric
railway put in operation, taking the
current from dynamo, using mod
ern motor and carrying passengers.
Inns novelty was in operation at the
Berlin exposition and was a mile and
two thirds, in length. The train con-
sisted of a small locomotive and three
small cars, capable of carrying twen-
ty people. 1t reached speed Of eight
miles an hour.
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see the slgnlncance ol feass,ns -,v..-.
Probably not for many years to come,
as far as heavy freight traffic is con-
cerned, because steam is especially ap-
plicable to the hauling of freight. But
the action of the New York Central in
electrifying thirty-five miles of it's road
leading out of New York, and the
popular agitation for similar improve
ment in chicago and elsewhere, would
seem to point to time not far distant
when electric railroads will connect
distant cities and greatly shorten the
hours of travel.
Chicog go to New York in Ten Hours.
In fact such a railway already is
being built between Chicago and New
York by the Chicago-New York Elec-
trio Air Line Railroad company, of
chicago. This company, headed by a
group Of practical railroad men, pro-
poses to run limited trains. making not
more than three stops, through to New
fork or Chicago, in ten hours. The
thought fairly takes ones breath away
at first but the project considered
soberly seems practical enough, and
certainly is "a contamination devoutly
to be wished" The work of grading
began Sept. ! near LaPorte, Ind.
AS tine new road will be an air line.
with few curves. the route SURVEYED
is $50 miles shorter than the Pennsyl-
vania Short Line, and $50 miles
shorter than the Lake Shore and
New York Central each of which runs
trains covering the distance in eighteen
hours. Taking into consideration the
shorter route of the Air Line, this is
equivalent to Il fourteen-hour service
With low grades, a straight track and
no grade crossings, the seventy five
niles an our average necessary to q
ten-hour service ought easily to bt
maintained. Even on the first class
steam roads of today ninety miles al
hour is not uncommon for short dis
| tances.
The Scientific American of Feb. is
1900, speaking editorially of the New
York Central experiment, says, 1.-The
success of this installation, of wnicl
$500 Van OC liO uOuDI MuilcNCI,
| the first step in the gradual substi
tuition of the electric for the steam
locomotive in the operation of long dis
lance express trains The Chicago
New York project may be regarded the
! second step.
Mr.. Sprague himself says that speed
Is "a matter of finance" "What then
/ will determine the future?" he asks
Chiefly the financial factor as it must
the future Of any other great Industrial
problem. When savings in operation
and the increased return for traffic
will more than pay Il fair dividend OH
money invested for electrical equip
ment, will trunk lines be operated by
electricity"
Professor Charles P. Steinmetz, one
of the greatest authorities on cleo
tricity, is quoted rs saying, There is
no limit to the speed that may be de
vcloped in electric traction-that is
there is no limit up to $50 or 200 miles
an hour. Higher speed than that the
car wheels could not stand. They
would fly to pieces from centrifugal
force. Not only can speed of 12(
miles an hour be maintained on q
train equipped with electricity, but IN
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sold TO clries anu vl,,ak-. u.vas emo
route for lighting purposes; electricity
for power Is sold to farmers. Trains
Of elegant cars run into Chicago at a
speed which would have seemed i'm
possible a few years ago. Passengers
wave good bye to steam trains on a
paralleling railroad, which they pass
easily. A parlor and dining car is one
OF the luxuries which the suburbanites
enjoy going to and from the city. and
the railroad seems veritable gold
mine for its owners.
me horse car has long since disap-
peared. Will the iron horse the great
steam locomotive, be supplanted also?
THIS question occurs to all who can
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1907-03-06
HOMEsEEKERs' RATES.

Homeseekers' tickets on sale via
The North Western Line the first and
third Tuesday of each month at very
low rates for the round trip points
throughout the west. northwest and
southwest. Also special low rates for
one-way colonists' tickets same dates
in February and March to Colorado.
Wyoming and the Black Hills, and
to Pacific Coast points daily during
March and April.
Ask agents The North Western Line
for particulars. 7-3t
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States. Baltimore. 1886.
my opinion it is an entirely feasible
scheme from the commercial point of
VIEW"
AT any rate, the world seems on
the eve of great things, and no scien-
fist dares say today as was said TWEEN
ty years ago, "a man is knave or a
fool" The attitude of the American
public is one Of faith ana expectancy.
best expressed by recent remark of
an old lady in her last sickness:
II don't want to die" she said, 81
want to see what they are going to
do"
The Good One.
There is but one good wife in this
town." said clergyman in the course
Of his sermon-the congregation looked
expectant-"and every married man
thinks he's got her." added the minis.
ter.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1907-03-06
Born in Old Vermont.

When in 1884 Thomas Davenport. of
Brandon. VT, ran toy motor mounted
on wheels on a small circular railway,
the modern electric railroad with its
possible speed of over one hundred
miles an hour was born.
In 1888 Robert Davidson, of Aber-
deem. Scotland, built an electric loco
motive which actually reached speed
of four miles an hour on the Edin-
burgh- Glasgow railway. Nine years
later Professor Moses G. Farmer on.
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natural. over an invention which
tnreatensto relegate them to a sausage
factory"
That was less than twenty years
ago. Today the New York Central
Railroad Company is expanding $780,
000,0GO in the electrification of the first
tnlrty-tive miles of its system. and the
car horses We're long ago relegated to
the boneyard, if not to the sausage
factory
They" have done marvellous things
since the increasing knowledge of
electricity opened up new world of
achievement. and we have scarcely
crossed the threshold. In 1880 the cleo
trio car was dream; in 1890. an eX-
pertinent; in 1900, a great and wonder.
full fact which is revolutionizing pas.
senger transportation and will enable
human beings to move from place to
place twice us fast as they do at pres
emf
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1907-03-06

About this time Stephen D. Field
and Thomas Edison in the United
States began experimenting. In 1880
Edlson was operating at Menlo Park
an electric locomotive which pulled
two cars.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1907-03-06

Windsor. Canada; Appleton, Wis; Port
Huron, Mich; Scranton, Pa, and
Montgomery, Ala. In the autumn Of
1854 Frank T.. Sprague. whose name
is inseparably connected with electric
traction. began to attract attention
with his motors
Twenty Years of Achievement.
At the beginning of 1887 there were
in the whole world less than sixty
miles of electric railroad track, and
ONLY about one hundred motors and
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-13
OBITUARY NOTES.
Death of Joseph w. Kent.

Joseph w. Kent died at his home in Church street, Branford, early yester- day morning, after a decline which followed an attack of typhoid fever. MT. Kent was brought here from the Adirondacks last Thursday afternoon in a semi conscious condition and con- tinued to sink steadily until his death. He was thirty years old
 MT. Kent, who resided in this city up to a few months ago, was one of the most promising young men in the steel and iron business. He was born in Fair Haven and was the son of for mer Superintendent of Streets Patrick Kent. He grew up in the wire busi- ness under E. s. Wheeler at the New Haven Wire mill and he continued at that plant when it was purchased by the Naional Wire corporation, about nine years ago, holding the positions, at different times, of shipping agent and assistant superintendent of the mill.
 When the plant was destroyed by fire, several years ago, he entered the office of Tax Collector F. s. Anthony and proved one of the most efficient clerks that department has ever had. A year ago he left the office to form the Atlantic Wire Mill company, of Branford, with William G. Hitchcock, formerly of the National Wire corpor- ation. The reputation and expert knowledge of the two men assured the success of the venture from the start Though the company is doing busi- ness less than a year, it has already been obliged to enlarge it's plant.
 MT, Kent leaves a widow, who was Miss Evelyn Maynard, of this city, and one child, He is also survived by his parents. The funeral will be held to. morrow.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-13
FOUR LOST IN COLLISION SOUND VESSELS MEET Pilot Unable to See Approach ing Boat in Dense
 Fog.

New York. Aug. 12,-Four lives were lost and 400 passengers thrown from their berths and into panic by col- lision early to-day off Bridgeport be- tween the Sound steamship Tennessee of the Neptune line and the schooner Myronus of Ellsworth, Me.
 The Tennessee, bringing many Sum day pleasure seekers back to New York from Boston and vicinity was steaming at half speed through a dense fog when the schooner, rock and lumber laden, loomed up dead ahead also bound for New York.
 The vessels were so -close that a crash was inevitable. The schooner was cut in two and sank almost i'm mediately. The captain and owner was picked up by the New Bedford liner Maine, which was in the vicin- ity, but the four members of his crew drowned.
 Part of the Tennessee's rail was torn away, the steering gear was dis abled and for a time it was believed that the steamship too would sink. The passengers rushed on deck in their night clothing. Despite the of- fcers' efforts to restore order the wild est terror prevailed. The Maine quick ly ran alongside and took the cowd aboard Many women and children were among the passengers and great difficulty was experienced in prevent ing several of them from casting them- selves overheard.
 The Maine arrived here with the Tennessee's boat load to-day. The Ten nessee, with it's crew still aboard, an chored near the scene and when sig nailed by the Providence an hour later replied that it needed no assistance. | The captain of the schooner and one | of his sailors were rescued by able Seaman Michael F. Cross of the bat tleship New Jersey, a passenger on the | Tennessee. Plunglng from the upper deck of the ship he carried life pre-. | server to the men struggling in the water. Cross refused $1OO purse raised for him by the passengers of the Maine and Tennessee, declaring he had only done man-of-war's mans ! duty,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-13
NEW HAVEN OFFICERS
CENTRAL NEW ENGLAND
Officials Directly Under Presi- dent Mellen Now in
 Charge.

The Central New England road is said to have come under the jurisdic- tion of the following officers of the New Haven road:
 H. M, Kockersperger, vice president; II. A. Fabian. assistant to President Mellen; and Thomas F. Paradise. as- sistant to tho treasurer.
 This means that the New Haven road has practically assumed control of the Central New England and hereafter the officials directly undsr President Mel len will have In charge the operation of the Central New England.
 Heretofore, while Mr. Mellen has had jurisdiction over the Central. orders wore carried out through the minor of fciais ot the Central New England.
 Now they will Do worked out just as if the Central New England were a part of the New Haven system Un- doubtediy in tho fall shs bondholdors of the Central New England, who are now lighting President Msllcn in his plans to consolidate and merge the Central with the New Haven road will oome to soms settlement wh 9reey the New Ha- ven will entirely absorb the smaller line.
 Ii is in anticipation of this that the present extension of power of the New Haven roads officials IS made by MT, Mellen Needless to say this order docs not please those bondholdeys who are fighting the merger above alluded to.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-13
West Haven Court.

While Officer Scranton, of the West Haven police force, was attempting to force an unruly prisoner into the lock- up Saturday night man giving the name of John Maloney attempted to render what assistance he could to- wards separating the cop from the l9wbreaker. In the West Haven bor- ough court yesterday morning Judge Bryant slapped on a fine of $25, Ma loney appealed the case.
 Louis Carson, fifteen years old, was up before the court charged with swiping a bottle of Moxie from one Of the refreshment stands in the grove. He was fined $3 and costs, which he paid.
 "Fuzz' Caldwell, who was arrested Saturday night for punching his fath- er-in-law over an old family grudge, submitted to a fine of $5 and costs for his ungentlemanly conduct.