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MAKE SURE OF THE LAND.

The recommendation by Engineer
James Owen to the Board of Works
that copies of the maps prepared by
the engineering department be filed
with the State Riparian Commission,
in order to prevent the preemption by
individuals of lands desired by the
city for public dock purposes. is timely.
The commission is making haste to
grant away all the riparian lands that
a be disposed of privately before the
next Legislature meets, and it would
be well for the board to ascertain at
once which tracts of riparian land on
the bay are not yet alienated, in order
that a tab can DE kept on the commits
sion. AS soon as 1t is definitely ascer-
tanned that the city will want certain
riparian property, private greed will be
sure to step in to preempt his prop
erty, and there are willing Barkises in
the State Riparian Board.
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rAaAN's DEPENDENTS TO RESIST.

The office-holders of the Pagan adj
m~inistration in Jersey City who have
been legislated out of office on the first
of the year, when the Mayors term
ends, have been having the law looked
up, and they think they find in it the
necessary protection against removal.
Lawyers consulted by them have ad-
vised that the ripper law passed by
the Legislature, and affecting Newark
and Jersey City, is unconstitutional.
Corporation Counsel Record, whose
$4,000 salary is involved, is quite con-
WINGED that the courts will set the law
aside ON appeal. Mr.. Records plan is
to apply to the Chief Justice and have
a branch court sit to zeal the case
without delay and render a decision
before the new year.. Newark has a
party interest in any such proceedings.
If the ripper" act should be knocked
out there will be no change in the
tenure of office of Mayoralty APP
pointees and their supporters in New
ark. But the contemplated action is a
dernier resort. The Pagan office-hold-
ers have nothing to lose by applying to
the courts, and they will at least have
the chance to retain their jobs.
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BIuGed.


Sam Warren, the author of Ten Thou,
sand a Year" has been the subject o.
many anecdotes, none of them pettei
than one whlch / first heard related about
him by his friend, Matthew Davenport
Hill.
Looking in one day at Warren's
chambers, Hill noticed that he seemed q
little troubled 1T is said the lawyer
novelist, most unfortunate. | ought 10
nave dined tonight with the lord cnan-
cellor, but Mrs. Warren is about to present
me with another olive branch; how can
l leave her? 1 hope his lordship won
be annoyed at my putting him off"
''Oh," returned Hill, don't make your
self uneasy; 1 am one of the guests; l
know him so well / can put 1t all right
for you" With these words the VISITOR
prepared to leave the room.
1t first profusely grateful, warren
presently seemed a little p~erplexed, ana
said: i'By the by, after all, I won't trouble
you to say anything about me to the
chancellor. Between ourselves, have not
been invited"
well" rejoined Hill. make yourselt
comfortable on that point; for that mat
ter, neither have L"-Pall Mall Gazette.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-15
INSURANCE TRUST PROSECUTION.

1t is from the West hat we get points
about antitrust legislation. In Mis-
souri,, by request of the Attorney-G Gen
eral, the chief justice of the State Su-
preme Court has appointed a special
commissioner to take testimony as to
whether there is a fire insurance trust
doing business in that State. If such
Is found to be the case the Attorney
General will bring proceedings against
sixty-nine companies that are members
of the Western Insurance Union.
The methods OF this union are iden-
tical with those of other fire insurance
organizations in nearly all the States,
including New Jersey. The Attorney
General will try to prove that the union
acts as a trust in the establishment of
rates. The result of these proceedings
will be watched with interest. We have
seen in this city in the relations of in
a companies with the munich
pality all the evidence of an insurance
combine. If they can knock the trust
out in Missouri we can knock out the
trust in New Jersey.
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Katzenbaeh,a POSITION.

LHrom the Passaic Herald, Dem.1
The position taken by Frank s. Kitten
bach In regard to the recount will further
add to the high esteem in which he is held
throughout the State. While the majority
Of the Democrats, doubtless on the i'm
pulse, wanted a recount, yet In the cooler
moments 1t is better judgment not to have
r~ecounts on suspicion. There Is no doubt
in the minds Of the Democrats of this
State that there were some treachery and
trading. It is lot generally thought that
the greatest frauds were committed by
giving fraudulent returns. but Democracy
was defeated on account of the treachery
Of the renegade Democrats In Hudson
County.
Giving wrong returns is a crude and
Anticipated method of defeating a candi-
date. In Hudson County, where Bob Davis
appoints one half of the election board and
Sam Dickinson the other half, 1t is safe to
say that If the count was given wrong
the ballots In the boxes have now been
made to correspond with that count.
While Hudson is profuse with explana.i
lions no one can convince the DEMOCRATS
that there was not something wrong.
katzenbach ran ahead of his ticket in al
most every county in the State, and in
Hudson, where he had every reason to be-
lieve that he would make the greatest
gains, he ran behind. The Bradley inveSti-
eating committee, sent by a Republican
Senate. did not put any of the Davis
henchmen in jail. Surely gratitude in
escaping the prison cell filled these graft
ers with a desire to repay the Bradley
commission by supporting Its candidate,
Fort. Then closely followed the Ripper
bill. This Governor Stokes signed to the
disgust of scores of men who had con-
siderable former faith in the Governor.
After pretending to take from Dickinson
his office and consequently his power.
Stokes then attached his signature to a
measure which had only one purpose
the strengthening of Dickinson and Davis
in Jersey City and putting into their hands
spells and booty to further prosecute their
public and ~decency defying warfare.
katzenbach's position is doubtless right
The betrayal of Katzenbach was too clev-
erly Matched to admit of ballot-box DEM
onstration at any recount.
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USUAL THING 1N PHILADELPHIA.

1t is up to the Pennsylvania courts to
say whether the ballot-boxes in Phila-
delphia shall be opened for a recount
Of the vote on a proposition for an
issue Of $40, 10000 of bonds thai the
gang in control of the city government
want to get the handling of for certain
public improvements. There was a
strong opposition to this bond issue be-
cause only one-fourth of the amount is
to be expended on the public schools,
the rest going for contractors jobs. To
the general surprise, the recorded vote
showed an overwhelming majority for
the issue, but the figures of the returns
have excited the gravest suspicion.
Thus in twenty-nine divisions the re-
turns showed 1880 in favor and only 100
opposed. In ten divisions there were
1910 in favor Of the oar and but 9 OPP
posed. The returns from other divisions
were of about the same character. Ks
the Philadelphia Record says, mo man
car read of the alleged vote on the
loan in these particular divisions with
out yielding. to the conviction that a
foul mass of corruption reeks within
the locked ballot-boxes."
But after all, what does it all amount
t. in Philadelphia? The voters Of that
city have Endorsed corruption and
set their approval on political crime.
They have exalted political criminals
to place and power. and they knowingly
put into office the men who perpetrated
this latest crime against the franchise.
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rHE BARNEY SUICIDE.

Wealth has its cares and troubles,
and sometimes they N t~ragically.
The death of Charles T. Barney, the
well-known capitalist and operator in
New York, was undoubtedly a case of
suicide. Probably his mind was an
hinged by financial difficulties, and he
was temporarily insane when he fred
the shot That is no more than a chari-
table view of his act of seIf-destruction.
It is a condition Of the mind when a
ma ia involved in many difficulties
that are not insurmountable to look
upon them in their aggregate, and not
calmly in detail, and thus be over
whelmed by them. Troubles, singly
dealt with. ran. with time and patience,
be overcome. Mr.. Barney had many
irons in the fire. and he could have
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ELECTION AFTERMATH.


from the Jersey City Journal. Rep.1
A good Zeal Of nonsense has been pub
lished abou party treachery n vote
trading in Hudson as an excuse for the
small Katzenbach vote. The funny stories
sent out by the Pagan machine are all the
authority for alleged frauds in Hudson
County and these stories were as abso-
lutely baseless and untrue as most of the
stuff sent out by that machine.
There was practically no fraud. There
may have been an occasional vote wrong
fully cast, though hone have been found.
There certainly was no organized fraud.
The talk of trading is silly. Any one
who knows anything about practical poll
tics knows that trading cannot be carried
on secretly or on a large scale.
The good work done by Hudson Repub-
leans was rewarded. That is the whole
story.
The error in sending out Wittpenn's vote
in Jersey City as he Democratic vote
made outside Democrats think that Kat
zenbach was carrying everything with a
sweep. The police in Jersey City collected
the returns, and they were interested only
in the Mayoralty question. The guber-
Material vote came In later. Wittpenn
was not elected by Democratic votes.
Some Democrats voted for Pagan, but the
majority of the voters were opposed to
him. The Evening Journal told everybody
that disgust with Faganism had kept
many thousands of Republicans from
voting last year. but they would come out
this time because they could express their
opinion of Pagan directly.
The Evening Journal is directly interested
In Jersey City and Hudson County gener
ally, and objects to the mud-slinging that
was done by the Faganites and the news
papers that accepted Pagan statements. 1t
objects to the abuse that is being printed
now by disappointed Democratic writer's.
They deceived themselves and now blame
others for their failure.
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Yale and Princeton are to meet to-
morrow on the football field, and the
odds in the betting are on the som of
Eli. P~rinceton's defeat by Cornell was
hardly compensated for by her we'll
won victory over the Carlisle Indians,
and Yale is strong and confident for
tomorrow's great game. The Princeton
players have worked hard to get into
condition and the coaches have left
nothing undone to teach the team all
the tricks of play and prepare it for
the tactics of Yale. The Princeton
Yale game is the football event of the
year, and every loyal Jerseyman will
root for the yellow and black.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-15

One immediate effect of h Board of
Trade action in the matter Of the long
delayed Plank Dad improvement was
witnessed yesterday, when the Board
of Freeholders, in a high state of in
dignation at the structures passed upon
it, instructed the County Counsel to
prepare an opinion as to the right of
the Public Service Corporation in the
Plank road. But the Board of Trade
committee viii not be deferred by this
belated action from acting on It's own
responsibility. 1t will use it's efforts
to have the question judicially settled
If necessary.
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Governor Hughes proposes to pro-
cure legislation at Albany to prevent
a recurrence Of the auses that led to
the financial troubles. Six of the best
posted bankers Of New York will be
the advisers of the Governor. They
will scrutinize the banking laws closely
for n flaws and for a remedy against
financial fiurries consequent upon lack
of conservatism in bank conduct. No
doubt the banking laws in other States
win likewise b. ~overhauied next
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-15

Secretary Taft is bound to make an
impression in Europe. A man of pom
derous physique and powerful brain.
he was born to command. and he fills
his natural role as leader and states
man. The prominent part he has taken
in the affairs Of the American govern
ment. and his work in the Philippines
and Cuba. stamp him in the worlds
estimation as one of the really great
men of the age. Americans know him
as one Of the plainest and least assum-
ing Of men. and vet a titan among
men in his great capacities.
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A REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH.

One great effect of the enormous
liquidation in Wall Street this year will
be transfers of an immense amount of
stocks TO small investors. Prices Of
choice stocks were beaten down to
figures that attracted people with saw
ings to invest, and they have picked
up these stocks in small amounts, and
are still in the market buying. The
securities thus purchased are bound to
go back to their normal values, and
the purchasers will have the advantage
of good permanent investments for. in
comes or can sell out at a profit. In
the aggregate the gain will amount to
many millions.
This represents a redistribution of
wealth. The mar who was compelled
to throw his gilt-edged securities on
the market to get ready money will be
poorer than he was. and the man who
purchased a part of the securities will
be richer by his gain. The stocks and
bonds of the great railroad and other
corporations will be held by thousands
more people than before. and conse-
quently there will be a much larger
number of stock partners in corporate
enterprises, a contamination devoutly
to be wished. The wider the distribu-
ton of the ownership of great cor
porate enterprises the better for the
country.
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A vast amount Of interest will have
been sacrificed by the timid souls who
have taken their money to hoard. This
loss is not compensated for by the gain
to the bank depository, since the
boarding has made currency scarce and
put bankers to a costly Inconvenience
in the prosecution of their business.
The banks can afford to lose. but many
If the people who foolishly sacrifice
their interest win feel the loss.
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A clever Guess.

The door pushed open noiselessly, and as
the editor looked up a broad smile on the
face of a low, thick-sized, roughly dressed,
good natured German farmer past the
middle age of life, greeted his gaze.
well, John, what's happened to you
this morning?' )
neutrality-suspicious.? Ve-got-a-baby-
at-our-hodsal" he responded in a slow
measured monotone.
"Yor don't say"
"Yas,' as the smile on his face broad
ened; "cuIn-las-night; guess-vat-it-is?'
well, John, from that smile on YOU
face I would guess it to be a boy"
"No-'tain't-no-poy,'' he responded in the
same monotone; guess ag'in."
Well. then, 1t certainly is a girl" re-
marked the Interested editor.
Observation-Disclosures you" re-
sponded the overly proud father as he
reached the EDITORS hand in a hearty dis
play of happiness.-Judge's Library.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-15

Before the Board of Trade commits itself to a resolution
asking the Board of Works to prohibit smoking on the rear
platforms of trolley cars, it should first make inquiry as to what
is being done to enforce the regulation against overcrowding
those platforms. All of us know that the overcrowding is as
bad now as it ever was and that neither the trolley companv
the Board of Works, nor the police are doing anything to
compel compliance with the rule. And it is this overcrowding
that causes all the trouble. When men 1T jammed up against
the car door the smoke from their pipes, cigarettes and cigars
is blown into the faces of passengers entering and leaving the
car and it annoys those who re sitting Or standing in the car
near the door. If the smokers are kept in their place on the
platform, the smoke will not annoy anybody else. But it is
utterly senseless to keep on plng up rules. regulations and
ordinances aud expect them to enforce themselves. M.
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emerged from his dimculties with
great losses, but certainly without
poverty. He would still have been a
man of large wealth. But the fatal
impulse seized him and that ended all.
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UNDsRPAD cLER0YMBN-DoNT HOARD YOUR NOTWITHSTANDING ON
TROLLEY CAR PLATFORMS, BIC, Enc.

Bishop Potters declaration about c1ergymen being under
paid is a tuism. There is no profession which calls for more
self-sacrifce, %se1fdenial, and selfrepressou-for greater abstinence
from the pleasures Of the word-none that requires, in greater
the whole heart and soul and mind and body of those
engaged in it. And it is pitiful, sometimes, to see the desper-
ate and constant striving of underpaid cergymen to support
themselves and their families. 1t ought not to be so. Regard
of creeds o denominations, there is no true clergyman who
ful6ns his mission properly without doing incalculable good to
those among whom he lives, and common gratitude requires that
he should not be scrimped for the bare necessaries of life be-
fitting his station.
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VIEWS OF EDITORS.


We care not to forecast Mr.. Roosevelt's
future. That will be in the hands of the
people and, to a measure, in his own hands.
But we do believe that he will intellectual
ly and morally grow far beyond the Osler
limit of sixty. We think that, during
many years to come, Theodore Roosevelt
will influence the American people and
will be Influenced by them. We believe,
when the rammels of his present office
have dropped from him and when many
Of the complications and animosities which
now affect him shall have been resolved.
that he will be a great civic influence
among the people and the people them
selves, In a variety of ways, will be a
great inspiration, reinsurance and educa-
ton to him. There never was a more vitsI
a more interesting, a more impressjonabIe
a more studious or a more educables man
in the executive office in modern tines
Brooklyn Eagle.
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while it is proceeding to sea. The spec
tacle will attract a multitude Of sight
seers from all parts of the country,
and it will be well worth a journey to
witness. The fleet will be in full serv-
ice trim, and viii be attended by all
the splendid auxiliary ships that are
to accompany the battleships.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-15

The parents of a Baltimore lad, a pupil
in one of the public schools, are fond Of
boasting that their hopeful has never
missed a days attendance at school during
a period Of eleven years.
On n occasion the proud father was
asked to explain how this apparently I'M
possible feat had been accomplished. Ibid
he have the usual childish diseases
measles, whooping-cough, and so on?' the
father was asked.
"Oh, yes
How, then, could he nave always been
at school?''
The fact is" explained the father. "he
always had 'em during the holidays
Harper's Weekly.
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Mrs. Inquisitive-Have you seen any
thing of Mrs. Newlywed yet?
Mrs. Brown-No; but l heard everybody
admired her last Sunday in her new cos
tune.
Mrs. Inquisitive-And what kind Of hat
did she have on ?
Mrs. Brown-Ask Mary.
Mrs. Inquisitive-And what kind of stock
ings?
Mrs. Brown-Ask Johni-Sketchy Bits.
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"Sh!' said Paul to his grandmother as
she entered his nursery. there are some
visitors in the drawing room"
How do you know"
Listen" he said, and you will hear
father call mother my dearest. Nos
Loisirs.
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Pat and Mike on a job shingling a roof.
After working a few hours Pat says to
Mike
1T must be moor"
Mike-Be the way my belly feels I'm
sure 1t is.
Both Together-How'l we foind out?
Pat says: II hov it.; we'll both giss,
and the wan that comes the closest to II
will climb down and fond III .'-Judge's
Library.
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Changing Times.

Here's a Wall Street man out in 'front.'
announced the shop boy.
You want on him." said the Jeweier'
I'm busy with this farmer gentleman
That Wall Street Teller doesn't want y
thing more than a collar button, l judge"
Washington Herald.
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winter. Governor Hughes can be
trusted to approve only such a scheme
of reform as will best conserve the
banking interests and be a safeguard
against popular distrust.
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The departure of battieship fleet
for the Pacific on December 16 win be
a memorable event at Hampton Roads,
when the President is to review the
neet white It ia a anchor. and again
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The day of the lady cop has arrived.
"Halt!' exclaimed one of the gentler
guardians as she stepped in front of the
speeding automobile.
"Will you take my name, miss?" asked
the courteous young man in the big ma
chine.
She blushed to the roots of her hair.
Take your name2' she chirped. why
why, this is so sudden!"-Chicago News.
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Between the mental and oratorical gymnastics of the School
Board and the endless pickering between the Mayor and the
Common Council, the municipal government Of Orange is not
rejecting fairly the intelligence of the community. 1t is time
for citizens who have more local pride than parisanship to
take a hand in the game for the purpose of compelling i'm
provement.
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Unique Event in History.

Unique Event In HIsIoFy.
The cruise of the battleship fleet will be
a unique event In history. The aggrega-
tion will be more powerful than any ever
assembled for practise of any sort.
There have been greater fleets once or
twice in English waters to mark some
royal occasion, but no British fleet as
strong as ours has ever set forth to per-
form routine work. The combined fleets
Of Japan and Russia during the war be-
tween those powers we're not equal to the
aggregation which sets sail for the Pacific
next month. In the size of ships and
guns and the number Of them 1T will DO
supreme In naval annals.-Baltimore
American.
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IN HUMOROUS VEIN.


He Would you believe it, That artist
painted a cobweb so wonderfully that rae
maid was a whole hour trying to clear y
away.
Shell can believe he painted 1t, but thai
such a maid as that exists, never.-tTe-
gende Batter.
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mad.

Commercial Gent (traveling in tobacco
That. sir, Is a cigar you could offer to any
Of your friends. 1
Hotel Proprietor-Ah, yes, 1 al see that
But the point is, have you got N that 1
could smoke myself?-Punch.