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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-08-13
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

George Cobbett fell from J. D. Col
Inns wagon on Wednesday and was
quite badly shaken up.
The board OF freeholders win meet
tomorrow morning and the board Of,
excise tomorrow evening
Albert Bowman caught black bass
weighing eight pounds and seven
ounces atFox Hill few days ago
DR.. Trimmer has force Of men and
carts clearing up the ruins OF the
burned building on his South street
lot.
w. b. Pierson is drawing the plans
for the building which DR.. Asa Trim
mer intends to erect on his South st.
property.
The Gas Company has man follow
ing up the sewer excavations looking
for leaks. He has discovered several,
one of them very waSteful
The police made thirteen arrests on
Saturday night most of them frequent
Z Iy seen at the police court. The gen.
eral charge was disorderly.
The freeholders will start repairs to
Mt. Kemble ave. at once. Conditions
have become so bad that the large
stones of the telford are beginning to
loosen up.
The boards Of registry and elections
of Morris county will meet on Tues
day, September 3, and after organic
ing, begin their canvass. The prina-
ries will be held on September 10, from
until 9 p. M.
Phoenix Miller is making the annual
repairs to Western ave. and also con-
tinuing the macadam. He thinks that
the appropriation this year will enable
him to push the macadam as far as the
Phillips place.
William HI. Galloway, who resides in
the Becker Block, has purchased the
BloOdgood bungalow on Speedwell ave-
nue., Morris Plains, and will occupy it
the first of the month. The price is
reported as $1,000.
The telephone company has gang
of men moving back the poles belong
ing to the company on Speedwell ave-
nue. where the trolley men are widen
ing to the regular width. Several
trees apparently must be taken out.
The Public Service conduit layers
have nearly completed the work on
James street running the conduitS to
the Rowland place. The men started
this morning laying the conduit under
the Lackawanna railroad at the sta
ton connecting the two ends OF the
Morris street conduit.
Thirty-five men, residents of the
Hillside district of Morris township,
waited on the Morris Township Com
mittee at their meeting on Monday
evening and presented the Importance
of incandescent lamps in that section.
Ten lights were asked for.
Eel. f. Dow, who has for the past two
years been assistant uperintendent OF
the Prudential Life Insurance Com
pany at Washington, has been trans
ferred to Dover, succeeding John Glib
son, who has been made superintendent
at the New Brunswick office. Mr.. Dow
was a former resident of Morristown
and star ted in the insurance business
here.
The work of the further improve
ment of the Hillside School was start
ed this morning. The sidewalk will
be cut down to the proper level and
stone wall with stone steps leading to
the level of the grounds and an en-
trance for vehicles will be provided.
e. r.. Foster is doing the grading and
will use the material excavated TO inn
prove the sidewalks on other parts of
the street.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-08-13
PLANS For one Ne. q 5. power House.

Plans for the Nc. Il S. Power House.
Plans for the power house of the Nor
ris s. Somerset Electric Company have
been completed by Walter B. Pierson,
and are out for estimates. The new
building will be complete modern
power house about hundred feet
square. The walls will be of brick and
the roof will be of hollow tiles sup
ported by steel trusSeS and purlins.
One end of the building will be of met
al to allow Of future extension The
stock subscriptions have been coming
in very well, and now that the details
of building and machinery have been
settled work will be pushed on the
construction.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-08-13
INDEPENDENTS IN NEW DRESS.
independent Hose company show Re-
markabIe Record.

mafkaDle Record.
Independent Hose Company, the
Oldest organization of fire fighters in
Morristown, is having new uniforms
made for its members new feature
on which will be gold bar for each
five years Of service as a fireman and a
gold star for each term of office as fore
man Of the company. These insignia
will be placed upon the left arm Of
each mans uniform.
The man who will wear the most
''gold braid under this system will be
Hayward G. Emmell, the Oldest active
member in point of years service of
Morristown's fire department. He
was one Of the charter members Of the
company in 1867 and has served two
terms as foreman, therefore he will be
entitled to wear two gold stars and
five gold bars and one year more of
service will be entitled to six bars.
Other members who have served one
term as foreman and are entitled to
five bars are Eugene Carroll James R..
VOORHEES, and J. Frank Lindsey. J.
Bradford Stevens, Harrie T. Hull,
Henry M. Smith, Frank w. milford,
and Edward Van Fleet, will wear four
bars and all but Mr.. Milford star.
Those who will bear the bars designat-
ing fifteen years service are Theodore
Ayers, Harry B. Hoffman, Chief j.
Fred Runyon, OF the Morristown de-
partment: George G. Smith, Charles S.
Bird, Carlton l.. Dobbins, D. Farrand
Sturgis. Louis E. Sturgis, and all but
Mr. Bird will wear the star denoting
one term as foreman. In the ten year
class are Charles w Ennis, Frank e.
Pierson, Benjamin M. Van Cleve, Elias
IS. Amerman, and John B. Ayers, all
of whom will wear star.
Those wearing but one bar are John
II. Madigan, Isaac D. Lyon, Andrew
G. Phillips, Andrew NJ. Guerin, j. E.
Reeve, J.. Boyd Headley, all Of whom
are entitled to the star as well, and
John Van Cleve Parker, Frederick M.
Day, Robert d, Foote. Douglas H.
Frapwell, Herbert A. Day, William H.
Frapwell, George W. Melick There
are but four members not entitled to
at least one bar. 1t has been said of
this company that once a member al
ways a member, as the only losses have
been by death or resignation on leav-
ing town.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-08-13
THE NATIONAL CONVENTIONS
Various cities Putting in Bids for the
Honor of Entertaining Them.

Various Cities Putting in Bids for the
Honor of Entertaining Them.
1t may be little early to consider
where the national conventions will be
held, but there are several cities bid
ding for them and urging a decision in
order that suitable arrangements may
be made.
Chicago naturally is first. 1t wants
both of the conventions, and it is
ready to put up a large cash considera-
tion to secure them. St. Louis, Kansas
City, Cincinnati and Minneapolis are
competitors, but Chicago is the only
one that is ready to take the business,
and it is a business. 1t is estimated
that $4,000 persons visit the conven-
tions and that couple of millions is
added to the loose coin in circulation
in convention city, There is also
more or less prestige attached to the
convention city.
Chicago has generally been favored,
because it can put up crowd, has a
convention hall, has a climate that is
not oppressive in late spring or early
summer, and it wants the conventions.
The Chicago boomers do not go after a
convention with gum shoes on.
Chicago has had about one-half of
the Republican conventions to date.
Philadelphia has had three of them,
Baltimore one, Cincinnati one, St.
Louis one, Minneapolis one and Chica-
90 has had the rest.
New York has not had a national
convention in forty years and makes
no bid, though it is better equipped to
care for crowd than any other city in
the country. The crowd would not be
bigenough to attract attention in New
York, and the extra loose coin would
not be noticeable.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-08-13

Governor Hoke Smith on Tuesday,
in the presence Of a large crowd, signed
the bill which makes Georgia Prohi-
bitiUn State. The success Of the meas
ure is in great degree due to the
women OF Georgia, who fought for it
from first to last. 1t has been shown
that great majority Of attacks upon
women by negroes, such as caused the
great race war in Atlanta, are made
BY blacks under the influence Of liquor.
= Save our women was one slogan.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-08-13
This turtle was not a rover.

A large land turtle was found Sun
day on the Van Duyna farm at Mont
vile with the inscription -. E. ".
D., 1882" plainly marked on the I'M
der shell. j. Wilson Van Duyne, the
present owner of the farm, saw the
turtle hidden beneath new mown hay.
Out Of curiosity he picked it up and
saw the inscription. 1t was learned
that the letters had been placed on
the turtle by Mr.. Van Duyne's young
er son, Joseph Elmer Van Duyne, now
resident Of Boonton, twenty-five
years ago, in the field where the reptile
was found. The turtle evidently had
made it's home in the same meadow
for quarter of century.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-08-13
JOHN MoRELAND.

John Moreland, an old resident of
Morristown, died at his home on La
fayette avenue last Saturday. He was
a veteran of the War of the Rebellion
serving us member of Captain Dun
cans company in the District of
Columbia Volunteers. Funeral SER
vices were held at ST. Peters Church
on Monday afternoon.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-08-13
Too Dry for street Lamps.

The Sparta correspondent of the
"Sussex Independent tells how it
-
What is the trouble with our
street lamps? They are not in COM
mission. Well, the case is this, the
electric light plant is run by a gaso-
lene engine, and the drought has dried
up the water courses to such an ex-
tent that enough cannot be secured to
cool the cylinders of the gasolene en-
CINE so that it is safe to run it under
existing cOnditions.N
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-08-13
Perkins, Auto Kills Child.

Assemblyman Randolph Perkins, of
Westfeld, N. j., ran over and fatally
injured negro child Tuesday night.
Assemblyman Perkins was the leader
of the Republican forces in Trenton
when the latest New Jersey automo
bile speed law was passed. About a
month ago he was arrested for speed
ing near Hackensack, but was dis
charged when the patrolman who
made the arrest was unable to explain
the mechanism Of his speedometer.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-08-13
Court confirms Auto decision.

The Supreme Court has confirmed
the decision Of the Monmouth County
Circuit Court by which 1892 were
awarded DR.. P. S. Rennett, his wife
and child. for injuries received by be-
ing struck by an automobile owned by
Alfred Busch, Of Brooklyn, and driven
by William A. Harse, of Brooklyn.
The accident happened at Asbury Park
two years ago. Mr.. Busch fought the
case hard.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-08-13

EMMETT HEppEN.

Emmett Hedden, formerly a resident
for many years of Morristown, died at
Hackensack, N. j., last Friday, after
long illness. The deceased was mar
ried two weeks before his death to
Miss Nichols of Hackensack, who now
survives him. Funeral services were
held on Sunday Interment in Hack
ensack Cemetery.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-08-13
Grange Picnic Thursday

The twenty-seventh annual basket
picnic Of Patrons Of Husbandry of Es-
sex, Morris and Union counties will be
held at Verona Lake Park on Thurs
day Of this week A number Of good
speakers are announced for the after
noon
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-08-13
Mr. walsn tsaren rad.

John j. Welsh, formerly OF the Nor
ris Academy, was called home from
Admiral Cooper's camp in the Maine
woods last week, on account of the sud-
den death OF his mother at South Or
ange, on the 18th ult.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-08-13
RAILROAD NOTES.

The Lackawanna has received seven
new Pullman sleepers, and the names
of these cars are Corinthia, Corning,
Fayal, Triumph, Traveller. Fabyan and
BrOckton. All are 12-section drawing
room sleepers, except the Brockton,
which has fourteen sections. The
twelve-section cars are being used on
train and others of the fast through
trains to Buffalo and the west, while
the fourteen-section sleeper is used on
the midnight train between Hoboken
and Scranton, very profitable Sleep
ing-car. business having been developed
between these points, although the
distance is but 40 miles.
TheLackawanna Railroad has placed
two large danger signs at the retain
ing wall just above the Madison sta
tion. The company was compelled to
take this action, owing to the fact
that a number of serious accidents
were narrowly averted, very recently,
at this point.
The Lackawanna Railroad Company
has notified its freight agents that on
and after September lst, 1907, all local
freight remaining undelivered six days
must be sent to public warehouse
for storage.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-08-13
SEWER NOTES.

The sewer work proceeds steadily.
The contractor has finished the line
through the lane in the rear of Miller
road and is building the manholes on
COLES avenue between Farragut place
and Miller road, completing that
street. The deep trench on Ogden
place of course does not make very
rapid Roadway with a maximum cut Of
twenty-five feet to contend with. Col
les avenue, between Wetmore and Mt.
Kemble avenues, has been cleaned up,
and the most of the men are busy on
Mt Kemble avenue, where hard dig
ging has been encountered and large
portion of the street is open. The
work on the ejector system will be fin
ished within another. week if all goes
well, there remaining parts of Market,
Bank and Ann streets to sewer besides
the work already started on Miller
road and Ogden place.
One of the sewer gangs was put to
work on Monday morning on Speed
we'll avenue digging for the larger pipe
which will be laid on the street. The
start was made at Spring street, the
gang working toward Specdwell
The Board of Sewer Commissioners
has about used up the eight-inch tile
available and have again exhausted
the supply of the local dealers. Work
is progressing on Mt. Kemble avenue,
Macculloch avenue, Miller road and
Speedwell avenue.
New-York tribune., 1907-06-26

would amount to Congress denying a person the
right to engage in interstate commerce for do
ing that which it cannot cOnstitutionally pro-
hiblt him from doing. In his judgment
The power to regulate commerce between the
states does not carry with 1t the power to pro-
hibft commerce, unless the prohibition has Tor
it's purpose the facilitatiOn. safety or protection
Of commercial intercourse or the accomplish
ment of some other national purpose. Ihe
power to regulate interstate commerce does not
extend to the laying Of an arbitrary embargo
upon the lawfully produced, harmless products
of a state, nor TO the right to defeat the poIcy
Of a state as to Its own internal affairs.
The Tribun, has already urged arguments Of
this sort against the feasibility OF federal chlld
labor law, for such law would practically put an
embargo on goods made lawfully and in accord
ance with the established, though perhaps not al
together enlightened policy of state. The inter
state commerce clause of the Constitution can
not and should not, be employed as panacea
for abuses which are not abuses Of commerce.
There is work enough to be done in regulating
commerce in the true sense, for though the pres
ent grant of power may not be stretched to In
clude production 1t will have to be applied more
and more sweepingly as the complexities Of
commerce increase. AS Mr.. Knox concludes,
1.-The power is a fixed and definite factor; no one
has pretended to define the boundaries Of the
subject upon which 1t operates" The abuses
of the present in respect to interstate commerce
are being rapidly eradcated. The Constitution
will prove equal to dealing with other abuses
as they arise.
New-York tribune., 1907-06-26
4 TIP TO THEN.

There is no matter about which such illusions
are held as wealth. Every man who has accl-
mulated modest competence is set down IN the
public estimation as a millionaire, and every
millionaire as a hundred millionaire, and every
hundred millionaire as a Millionaire. All this
until the Tax Commission comes to listing MS
property for Inheritance taxes. This tendency
to multiply In the imagination the holdings OF
the wealthy probably explains the gross exag-
gerations that have been put In circulation re-
garding the city's guests, foreign and domestic,
the international walters pniOn, now in conven-
ton here.
The wealth of these gentlemen, we are as
sured, has been vastly oyerestimated. There Is
no truth in the rumor that they ride In auto
mobiles The story that they are going to
build million dollar clubhouse for their diver
sion in this city IS even more false. Such a
luxury Is quite beyond their means. And above
all, we feel 1t our duty to deny the rumor that.
having acquired a sufficency Of this world s
goods, they are going to abolish tips. Nothing,
we assure the public is further from their
thoughts Though they might think of auto
mobiles and a million dollar clubhouse on
Fifth avenue, this last display of a1Iluence IS
utterly impossible for them. They are not rich
beyond the dreams of ayarlce Our guests re-
sent these stories and we take pleasure in Civ
ing full publicity to their denial.
But the incident will have lost much Of its
point If our guests, these walters, do not learn
from 1t how 1t feels TO be guests. They are put
into an unusual position, very topsyturvydom.
Moreover, they should learn from this incident
at once the flattered sense Of JOY and the pain
full inconvenience Of being thought rich. Doubt
less they, too, have often thought some of their
guests beyond the dreams of avarice and the
humble waking consideration of dollars, only
to be disappointed. New York welcoming these
new arrivals from FL Dorado, stood rubbing It's
hands expectant Of a great tip, the abolition of
tips. 1t will hide its disappointment and do
It's best by them as men of less resources than 1t
had hoped. In case of similar disappointments
may they remember the incident and do as well
by their guestsl
New-York tribune., 1907-06-26
BOgTONg CHEAP GAS.

They do things better in Massachusetts than
we hare yet done them IN New York Public
service corporation regulation is al established
TACT there Of years standing. Stock watering
has been prevented in all the mergers Of recent
origin. And so it comes about that the Boston
Consolidated Gas Company has not so much
stock out that It cannot sell gas at so cents
a thousand and earn handsome dividend And
tie people Of Boston are quite contented that
their gas company-they are really beginning
20 tako a sort Of civic pride in that gas com
pany UP In Boston-should pay its stockholders
dfVidends5of per cent, SO long as the company
furnishes gas at q lower rate than any other
great city in the country enjoys. That, we say,
Is public service at its best; the people con-
tented with low rates; the stockholders blessed
with high dividends; the employees sharing in
the general prosperity; the management not rig
ging the stock market or corrupting legislators,
but devodng all It's attention TO making gas
as cheaply as possible.
1t is almost too good TO be true in a selfish
world Ike this, where We are accustomed to
having the public denounce the public service
managers as plunderers and the managers full
inmate against the public as confiscators. We
do not have to look back long TO tho time when
Boston hated its gas company or companies
as whOlesOuledly as any other American town.
BuC Boston has accomplished by legislation
what unrestricted competition is supposed TO
dU-namey, it has divided the gains from
economies in production between the consumers
and the producers. The only way the Boston
Gas Company can increase its dividend and SO
raise the value OF its stock is by ecouomIzing
on the cost Of production II by improved
methods or better management # can earn
enough so as 10 pay higher dividends II can
ai1ord TO reduce the price OF Its product to the
consumers That is the essence Of the slid
ing scale" law, which fixes a standard price Of
90 cents and q standard dividend rate OF 7 nor
cent. To raise its rate TO per cent the gas
company must lower its price TO s5 cents. and
for each jump Of per cent IN dividend there
must be a drop Of cents in price
Now, the stockholders have Jared lust as
well as the public under the sliding scale law.
The common stock OF the Massachusetts, Gas
Company, which owns the Boston Consolidated
Gas Company, has gone upon regular dlvi-
Gsnd basis and has risen since April. 1905. from
z414 70 5752, although there has been a general
fsu Ia the prise Of stocks from the high quota
New-York tribune., 1907-06-26
SOCIAL LIFE AT NEWPORT.

[By Telegraph 10 The Tribunal
Newport. r. /. June 25.-Al society was out this
afternoon to attend the performance Of Buffalo
BilTs'' Wild West Show. and there were no more
interested spectators In the big arena than the
members OF Newport's summer colony Every
little feature Of the variety show seemed Of inter
Sst TO them especially that part IN which the old
Deadwood coach figured. Miss Olga Converse.
daughter OF Rear Admiral Converse, U. s. N. and
Mrs. Norris wife Of Surgeon Morris, attached to
the naval torpedo station. accepted the invitation
to ride in the coach, and they were driven about
the arena several times
Mr.. and Mrs. James b Haggin have taken pos
session Of Arleigh. in Bellevue avenue for the
season. 1t was said to-day that Mr.. and Mrs.
Haggn are thinking strongly Of becoming perma-
nent summer residents OF Newport by purchasing
estate.
Mr.. and Mrs. William B. Leeds are in Newport
for the purpose Of inspecting Rough Point the
Frederick ". Vanderbilt estate. which they pur-
chased last winter. The villa is not yet entirely
ready for occupancy.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe arrived to-day at her
summer home in Portsmouth. where she. as usual
will remain until fall
Mrs. Herman Oelrichs. Mrs William Grosvenor
and the Misses Grosyenor started for New York
to-day. Mrs Grosvenor and her daughters viii
shortly sail for Europe. where they intend spend
ing the summer.
Mrs. R. T Wilson. Jr-, returned to-day from
Boston. where she has been the guest OF her
mother. Mrs. - Lawrence Mason
Mrs. Ogden Goelet IS expected at Ocllre Court
tomorrow, the villa having been ready FOR her for
some time.
Colonel William F. Cody ('cBufaIo BiuD was
entertained at luncheon to-day by Mr.. and Mrs.
Reginald Norman
Mrs. S. \. WilIoughby. OF Philadelphia; Mrs o.
G. Jennings. Mrs. J. Stewart Barney. Mrs. z. H.
c. Slater. Charles F. Pond and Mrs. F. NJ Davies
arrived from New York for the season this even
ing.