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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-11-12
SIX KILLED IN HOTEL FIRE.
Victims of New Haven Blaze Burned
Beyond Recognition.

Beyond Recognition.
New Haven. Conn, Nov - - Al
least six lives were lost as a result Of
fire that badly damaged the Hotel
Garde this morning, and several others
were injured The dead We're employ
ees Of the hotel 1t is believed that all
the guests escaped.
The fire followed an explosion on
the fifth floor in the north wing of the
building. The eutire fire department.
was called TO the scene before the
flames We're controlled. The bodies of
the dead were burned beyond recog-
milton The Garde is one of the lar
Gest hotels in the city
The identified dead include Isaac Lee
vine porter; John usa, a Polander
mame not known and Jacob Dublin.
An Irishman known by the name Of
Henry is missing. and it is not knowr
whether he is dead or living
The fire broke out shortly after /
O'Clock in the servants quarters on
the fifth floor of the north wing. aud
here four persons were surocated to
ueatn. Levine 1OSI HIS me DIV lalllh@
from a rope which he was using as a
fire escape
He lost his hold and fell on his
head Michael Cosgroye bellboy.
was awakened jest in time by his
room mate and had descended the rope
little ahead Of Levine. John Lynch.
another employee, made wild dash
through the flames and managed to
reach the outside.
H. G. Alderman, drummer of New
York, was sleeping on the third floor
and had his side injured in making his
way from the hotel.
The fire was confined to the fifth
floor, where it started, and the one be-
low The damage it is thought, will
be over $4,000, although no estimate
could be given. Much of the damage
will be by water.
When the firemen made their way to
the top floor they found four bodies so
charred as to be unrecognizable. two
of them in the room where it is
thought the fire started. One of the
men was on his knees.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-11-12
THE MORRIS COUNTY BRANCH

OF State Charities Aid Association
shows Good Work Statistics.
The stated meeting of the Morris
County Branch Of the State Charities
Aid Association was held in the rooms
Of the Y. M. 9. A. last Wednesday af-
ternoon.
The treasurer reported a balance of
S60.SS in the treasury.
The proyident savings sub-commit-
tee reported twenty-five new savers
secured since January, and savings
collected since than of $2,629.47. The
report told of number of changes in
the ranks of the collectors and also
recounted some ofthe discouraging in
cidents of the work.
Several reports were received of
visits to the Aims house, all of which
1old of good conditions there. The
October report by Mrs. Hoyt and Mrs.
Swords stated that there were at that
time thirty men and twenty seven
women and one baby, about two years
of age. Mrs. r. V. w. Fairchild re-
ported two of the inmates in Memorial
Hospital, one for an operation, the
other seriously i'll. During the past
six months there have been five deaths,
all men. During the past year ser
vices on Sundays have only been
omitted on five occasions.
With the present number Of inmates
225 loaves of.bread are used each week
and one and half bushels of potatoes
daily. the garden and farm have pro-
duced well during the past season and
there are 600 bushels Of patatoes, for
ty-five bushels Of carrots, 1880 heads
Of cabbage, besides other vegetables
for winter use.
T. B. Ironside reported forty-one
prisoners in the county jail, and a
total Of 112 there during the past
month. Both these figures are I'M
unusually large, although not large as
compared with the conditions before
the appointment of the probation Off
Ger. The jail is very well cared for
and the Sheriff gives over most of the
responsibility for its management to
Keeper Orr.
John Edward Taylor reported that
there are seventy-two wards of the
county in the Children's home at the
present time. Conditions and health
there are good.
Miss Egbert reported that permits
sion had been at last secured to re-
move feeble minded young woman
from the Aims house to the home at
Vineland.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-11-12
Y. M. c. A. NOTES.

For great many years the work of
the Young Mems Christian Associa-
tion has been attempted in The small
towns of this and other States, but
with little permanent success. The
problem has been to give it the super
vision of an employed secretary, which
mas proved indispensable to success in
other departments.
The problem has been solved in the
creation of the office Of County Secre-
tary A County Committee is elected.
which employs County Secretary,
who organizes and snpervises the work
in a county. Monmouth, Burlington
and Camden counties, in this State,
are already organized and doing sue
cessful work, there being over one
thousand young men and boys asso-
ciated in twenty-five organizations in
these counties. Bible study, special
meetings for young men and boys,
socials, out door athletic, educational
classes, are some of the activities.
The work is proving especially success
full in training young men and boys for
Christian service, and in following up
young men as they go to cities and
colleges.
Early in March VIM. d. McRae,
State County Work Secretary, took
up his headquarters at Dover, and
since that time has been doing the
preliminary work preparatory to the
permanent organization of Morris
county. Saturday, November 10th, is
the day selected for a meeting of dele
gates from all parts of the county, TO
be held at Dover, at which time per-
manent organization will be effected.
All men interested in the life of young
men will be welcome.
The program follows:
beginning at 1890 a. M, K. p. Hol-
den, presiding; Devotional; The Field,
W. D. McRae; The County Work Plan,
e. p. Holden; Local Activities, j. r..
Boardman; 1870 p. M, lunch at First
Nj. e. Church.
Beginning at 2 p. M, j. T. Sproull,
presiding; Devotional; County Work
and the Boy, G. r. Kilborne; The
County Committee and County Secre-
tary, j. r. Boardman; Long Term In
vestments. J. T. Sproull; Business:
The Individual Opportunity, Elkanah
Drake.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-11-12
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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-11-12
COUNTY AND VICINITY.

Rockaway and Denville are now
supplied with electricity, including a
day service, from the Dover plant.
The new Lackawanna station at
Milburn was opened on Sunday, tine
old station az Milburn and Maple
wood being abandoned.
James Boiitho has completed his
tWenty-third year as marshal of Mount
Tabor grounds, and has been requested
to go on duty next year.
The Morris County Teachers Insti-
tute will be held at Dover next Mon
day and Tuesday, consequently the
children will have a vacation of two
days.
The Mems Club of the Ogden Me-
| mortal Church of Chatham has made
arrangements for the services of Carl
G. Schmidt, of Brooklyn, to give les
sons in vocal music during the winter,
under its auspices.
The pupils Of the Roxbury Township
High School have begun the publica-
| tion OF school paper known as "The
Scribble." They have equipped a
print shop and are doing the mechan-
| lcal Work themselves.
| The Easton Transit Company has
extended its tracks as far as the lnger-
| sOll-Rand drill plant on the outskirts
of Phillipsburg, and it is said, the line
i will be extended to StewartSville,
Bloomsbury, Asbury and Clinton
A barn on the S. P. Smith estate at
Troy Hills was burned to the ground
on Saturday afternoon, together with
about sixty-tive tons of hay and ten
tons of rye, the latter in a stack near
the barn. The property was unin-
Sured.
Lieutenant-C Colonel Grin B. Mitch
EN-, who was formerly stationed at
the Piccatinny Arsenal, from which
place he was transferred to Water
Welt, N. Y, has again been trans
ferred, this time TO the New York
Arsenal on Governors Island.
The Rev. Horace D. Sassaman and
Mrs. SasSaman will leave Blairstown
this week and move to Easton, Pa,
where he will act as supply. Mr..
SaSsaman was pastor OF the Par
sippany Presbyterian Church seven
years before going to Blairstown, and
has lived there nearly three years.
AT the election in Delaware last
Tuesday two counties went dry and
| the other two wet. The new condi-
( tionS become operative next Wednes-
day, when fifty hotel license, besides
saloons, etc, will be revoked. Three
towns in Westminster County, n. Y,
also vents dry under the New York
| law
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-11-12
eoR SALE
VIEWS FROM
OTHER TOWNS
MT. FREEDOM.

Ellison Coe. who has been on bust
ness trip in New Hampshire for some
rime, returned to his home here on
Monday last.
The funeral services of Peter S..
Cory, of Ironia, were held on Monday
last,
Miss Ida Pierson and her sister
Hattie, of Short Hills, were the guests
IF relatives and friends here last week.
Isaac Clark and wife, of Orange.
spent Tuesday of last week with rela-
lives here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Savage are the
proud parents of their first born, a
laughter
Miss Clara Blackwell spent Friday
and Saturday of last week in Newark.
Mr.. and Mrs Charles Marshall and
son Carl Of Dover, spent a couple of
lays last week with friends here.
Manning Hedden and his sisters,
Olive and Frances, Of Dover, were the
guests Of their grandparents here ON
sunday last.
Cleveland Bonnell, of Morristown,
vas the guest of his sister, Mrs. Will
lam Baird on Sunday.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-11-12

The DUDE League has elected the
following officers President, Lillian
Ratley vice-preSident, Helen Brown !;
secretary, Florence Meeker treasurer,
Lenite Mills Mrs. A. H. Pierson is
the superintendent Of the League and
Mrs. A. Vance Pierson, assistant SUI
perintendent.
John Claflin has been making extern
siye Improvements to the Whitney
farm which he recently added to his
estate. All summer a gang has been
busy enlarging and cleaning out the
brook running through the place and
eXcavating numerous side bitches to
drain the low land A mile or more
of bride paths have also been graded
and several bridges erected to carry
che roads over brook and bitches.
James e. Welsh, agent for the S. p
I @. A., has preferred charges Of cruelty
to horse against Max Mintz, before
Justice of the Peace Edwin G. John
ston, who has fixed next Saturday as
the date for hearing in the case
| Welsh charges that Mintz hired two
boys, William Garrabrant and Michael
| Lehman. to kill an old horse, and chat
OllC OOJo pdbCGI6u ul46 dutlIIdl III aIlit
head with an axe, but the process was
slow and the animal suffered agony
before dying
The Senior Society of Christian En-
deayor Of the First Baptist Church
held a japanese tea andentertainment
in the church on Wednesday evening
The program was supplied by Miss
Annie Letcher and Miss Fannie
Easton, who recited selections; Rev
|. M. b. Thompson, reading: Miss
Annie Bates and Miss Eta Brown
with vocal solos, and drill by eight
Of the members of the Junior Society
in japanese costume. Miss Lulu Lane
presided, and tea was poured by Mrs
Vance Pierson and Miss Edith Foster
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-11-12
The L. H. Nature Loves League.

Al the annual meeting of the Ma
tional Association of Audubon Soci-
cites, held last month in New York,
VIM. butcher, the president, empha-
sized the need, now that the country
was growing more thickly settled, of
setting aside tracts of land as bird
refugees. The Federal Government
has established six such reservations
within the year, through the influence
of the Society.
The plan Of bird and animal refugees
is destined to be great factor in the
future, in the preservation of the wild
life of the country. The reservations
secured are the beginning Of the plan
of refugees, but the Federal Govern
ment owns no land in any of the thir-
teen original States, nor in Texas. In
these fourteen States the proposed
system of refugees can only be secured
by purchase, or by legislative act.
The LaRue Holmes Nature Lover S
LedS u0, has IdlSSu d CuIlcluol dOic ouul
of money for the purpose OF buying a
large tract of suitable marsh land in
New Jersey, which is to be dedicated
as a bird refuge.
Addresses on the series on " Birds, y
were given during the past week, at
the Carleton Academy. Summit, and
the Dearbon Morgan School Chapter,
Orange
The subject Of study in League
Chapter for November is the Audubon
Leaflet representing the Scarlet Tan
ager.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-11-12
THE LOST CHORD.


~ EATED one day at the organ,
a. / was weary and lila ease
And my fingers wandered idly
~ Over the noisy keys.
/ know not what | was playing
Or what l was dreaming then.
But ! struck one chord of music
Like the sound of grand amen.
1t flooded the crimson twilight.
Like the close of angels psalm,
And it lay ON nay fevered spirit
Like touch of infinite calm.
1t quieted pain and sorrow
Like love o'ereoning strife;
1t seemed a harmonious echo
From our diseordant life.
1t linked all perplexing meanings
Into one perfect peace.
And it trembled away into silence
AS if it were loath to cease.
sought, but l seek it vainly,
That one lost chord divine
Which came from the soul of the organ
And entered into mine.
! i .SssArv be that deaths bright angel,
VIII speak in that chord again;
1t may be that only in heaven
1 shall hear that grand amen.
-Adelaida Anna Proctor.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-11-12
The viii of Alexander Maitland.

The Will of Alexander Maitland.
The will of Alexander Maitland. of
Princeton, was filed on Wednesday for
probate. 1t was executed on June -,
1906, and had a codicil attached, exc
cuted year later. Besides large be-
quests to his wife and other members
of his family, Mr.. Maitland leaves
$4,000 to charitable, religious and
benevolent institutions.
His wife will get for life the home
in Princeton where Mr.. Maitland died
together with all it's belongings. He
also leaves $4,000 to Mrs. Maitland
to distribute to all his employees. Tc
his brother, Robert L. Maitland he
leaves all debts due him at the time
of his death. The Rev. Franklin B
Dwight, his brotEer-in-law, gets Sl0,-
900. and like requests are made to
several members of the family.
To his sister, Mrs. Eliza LenoS
Dwight, he leaves $50 900, and to
Maitland, Merrill and May Bishop,
the children of James L. Bishop, &c.,
600 each. The following institutions
are benefciaries Board of Foreign
Missions of the Presbyterian Church,
$4,000: Board of Home Missions Of
the Presbyterian Church, $4,000
Board of Church Erection of the Pres.
byterian Church, $4,000; Presbyteri-
an Hospital of New York, 100000
New York City Mission and Tract
Society, $4,000 Presbyterian Rest
for Convalescents, at White Plains
$40, 900, and the New York Library
Aston, Lenox and Tilden foundations
$4,000.
Ada Campbell and Charles W. HAND
are appointed executors of the will.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-11-12
HANOVER.

Miss Nellie Babcock, of the Memori-
al Hospital, Morristown, spent Sunday
with her parents here.
Miss May Thompkins and Miss jan
cite Jones of Newark, were guests OF
Miss Joanna Cook last week.
The Misses Ermna and Martha
Woodruff have returned to their home
in Newark, after short visit with
Mrs. William ii. Ward.
The Sunday morning service Of The
aanove. church was held at Oliyet
.hapel, West Livingston. DR.. Fergu-
son lectured at Bethel chapel, Han
over Neck, in the evening.
The Young Ladies Auxiliary will
hold their monthly devotional meeting
at the home of Mrs Thomas j. Ward
or Wednesday Of this week.
John Webb is improving slowly
after severe Illness.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-11-12
MENDHAM.

Miss Emma Kaggen has been visit
my her sister, Mrs. Hockenbury, at
Peapack
Rev. Mr.. and Mrs. Murdick have a
young son.
Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel Moran have
moved for the winter to Morristown,
The monthly business meeting OF
ne Y. T.. S. G. e. was held at Miss
Isabel Thompson's on Thursday even
i0g.
The Ladies' Auxiliary meet in the
ladies' parlor on Wednesday after
noon.
Harold Crane and Milton Dodd, OF
Newark, were in town over Sunday.
Mrs. Laird and son are stopping
with Mrs. r. Woodruff on Mendham
Mt. for the winter.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-11-12
Fltz Randolnh Traditions.

Fitz Randolph Traditions A Story
of a Thousand Years." is the title OF
a book recently received for which we
are indebted to the author, l.. V. f.
Randolph, of Plainfeld. a life member
of the New Jersey Historical Society.
1t takes up the history of the Ran
dolphs from the Viking leader Rolf,
born about $50, an ancestor Of William
the Conqueror; traces che family
through early English times, showing
connection with lines of nobility and
royalty, one of its famous members
being George Washington gives re-
view of line of descent from Rolf to
the present date. Profusely illustrated
with genealogical charts, it is yalua-
BILE book Of reference for the histor-
ian. Published under the auspices of
the New Jersey Historical. Society.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-11-12
In surrogate, Court.

The will of the late Norman Fox
has been admitted to probate. The
instrument was drawn in Florence,
Italy. on March % asst and names his
son, Noel Blocker Fox, as executor.
DR.. Fox wllled his trinkets, etc, to
his widow, also the income Of his es.
tate during her life time after which
it goes to his bwo children, Noel B.
and Alice Fox.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-11-12
Lectures on Catholic Doctrines.

A series of lectures on Catholic Doc
trines have been arranged to be given
at the Church of the Assumption. The
dates and subjects are:
November IS Marriage and Divorce.
November 1.-the Catholic Church
and the Open Bible.
November 20-Pius x, the Infalliole
Pope.
November q The Confessional
Who can forgive sins but God
November 22-The Catholic Church
and Morality.
Sunday, November "a. 1920 a. M
Irrevealed religion doomed to die.
Sunday, November "a, 7.45 p. nj,
one church as good as another?
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-11-12
MARRIED.

BARTLES HOWELL. - November
5, 1907, at Fairmount, by the Rev.
Baker Smith, d. d., Samuel Bartles
and Miss Mile M. Howell.
HOPPOCK- DUFFORD.- November
8, 1907, at the residence of James VI,
Backer, Wood Glen, by the Rev.
Baker Smith, d. D., Joseph Hop
peck, of German. alley. and M IS
Agnes N. Dufford, of Wood Glen
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-11-12

Wanfed Local representative for orr, Morris ri
renewals and increase subscription list of
prominent monthly magazine, on salary
sud commission basis. Experience desir-
tble, but not necessary. Good opportunity
for right person Address Publisher, Box
SO, Station o, New York
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-11-12
Strike on tho Normal school Bnildinl


On the first of October, one hundred
and fifty bricklayers on the new State
Normal School building at Montclair
Heights struck because some iron work
was being done by an open shop. The
strike has now been declared off and
the men have gone to work again.
The result is a loss TO the workmen Of
from fifteen to twenty thousand dol
lars, which would have paid their rent
and coal bills for the winter. And if
the delay prevents the enclosing Of
the building this fall, as seems proba-
BILE, there will be a further loss of
many thousands of dollars by mechan-
les during the winter. The contrac-
tor was pushing the work as rapidly
as possible and hoped to have it ready
for use by the State in September
next. Contracts for the heating and
lighting plant and furniture for the
building, also for grading the grounds
and shade trees, shrubbery, etc, have
been let and all kept within the oriGi-
nal appropriations.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-11-12
POSITION WANTED

Married man, or man and wife, wish
position of trust, private family place,
bachelors home, watchman; can do
gardening; wife cook laundress. Ref
erences. Advertiser, 81 Riugedale Ave
MorrisGown.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-10-16
GIVE WRESTLING BOUTS
Call Harris of Gary to Give
Series of Athletic Enter
tainments in Tent.
Especial to Lake County Times

Gary, Ind, Oct. 16.-Call Harris, who
has taken charge of the big tent at
the corner of Broadway and Eleventh
avenue, has prepared a series of en-
tertainments and athletic events that
will afford the people Of Gary amuse-
ment for the next three or four days.
The wrestling bouts that are to be
given in a few days are attracting the
most attention. Harris has provided
some good attractions and he expects
to fill the big tent.
A Johnson, the wrestling champion
heavyweight of Chicago. will meet
Carl Jensen, the champion of Norway
and Finland. This is the main bout and
IS thought to be a good attraction.
The preliminaries will also be good
and are as follows: Clemens Hacken-
smith. who claims the championship in
the niddleweight class in Europe, will
meet Ernest Frick who is the champion
middleweight wrestler of Chicago and
the west. AS an added attraction, A.
Johnson will give an exhibition of his
strength.