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The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-24
HAPPILY NOT A CALAMITY.

Until the causes for the disaster at the new extension to
the Bergen Street Public School are definitely ascertained
1t would be premature to pass any crit :1ism of an occur
renee that might have led to a tragedy The building
adjoins the old school, which was crowded with children.
The terrifying crash of iron Cirders, beams and masonry
excited terror among these children, but again the
splendid qualities of character of the American school
marin were in evidence, and there was no panic, because
the teachers preserved a perfect serenity and maintained
control of their charges. If the accident was due alone to
the carelessness of workmen, and not to any imperfection
in the construction, contractors should have impressed upon
their minds the fact that they are as much responsible
in one case as in the other. There should, in fact have
been no chances for such an accident to occur.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-24
THESE THEORISTS.

Senator Plat. seated on the porch of
his hotel at Manhattan Beach, con-
demned certain new trends in politics.
Theories, theories" he said with a
wave of his hand. Theories n
theorists-they are apt to err, very apt
to err"
Looking out at the white beach n
the sunlit blue sea, he shook his head
and chuckled:
Theorists go mad" he said, cover
their theories. You Know the theory
that Bull wrote God Save the Queen?'
William Chappell and Joshua Maidwin
were the most ardent supporters of this
theory, but one day they found and in
convenient entry in a rare Ole Tudor
manuscript that threw the gravest
doubt upon their claim.
I'm this case what did they do? They
dubbed together, bought the manu-
script, and burned it with great secrecy,
solemnly calculating:
THANK goodness, we have now got
rid of that objection to u theory
Philadelphia Inquirer.
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orvss M ICE OF INTENTION.

Governors Forts address at Elizabeth last night at
the dollar dinner was replete with interest to Republican
leaders and legislators in the declaration that the Gov
ernor proposed to go before the people on the question of
the measures he proposed and which were Enacted upon
by the Legislature, and to read the roll of those opposed.
He would name those who had supported the measures,
SO they may be honored, and he wanted to point out the
delinauents. Said the Governor: II want you to tell
those who were derelict to stay at home" Republican
Senators and Assemblymen who will come up for renomi-
nation this year will sit up and take notice.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-24
AN ATTACK ON I'll SECRETARY AND EDITOR.

The Camden Post-Telegram, Republican, which is not
unfriendly to " David Baird, the as.nte Republican
leader in South Jersey, takes violent exception to an edi-
week. The Lakewood paper is owned and edited by Leslie
r. Fort, the son and private secretary of Governor Fort.
and the anger of the Camden paper is roughly expended
both upon the secretary and Governor. The grayamen of
offeuse is a statement by the Lakewood editor that the
South Jersey members of the Legislature were responsible
and supported by the Governor. This" says the Post
Telegram, sis rich from the young man who helped to dis
rupt tie regular Republican organization in Ocean County
and who helped to elect a Democratic Senator from that
timb"~- buttrcss of Ropublicanism." AS for the civil
service b.. which the South J1-=eyinen failed to support
n,c1e:- of the people to the extent of $4,000 or more a
yea for he purpose of building up a Fort machine"
Having delivered these shafts, the Post Telegram con-
cludes with a reminder that it was South Jersey that
made it ~ns-ible for the nomination and election of the
present Governor and his own occupation of the job that
Republican paper is whacking the Governor over the
shoald ere of the Governors private secretary. There is
as much animus in the term distinguished sire as APP
piled to thc Governor as to that of cub" with which
the private secretary is characterized. But why all this
ht :? The Post Telegram should know how to differenti-
tarv. two separate and distinct characters. The editor is
an mrersonalty, a me- reflection and %mouthpec> of his
paper, an individual nonenity. The private secretary is
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-24
STAR PERSONALITIES.

V. Kejuin Wellington Kee, of Shang-
hal, China. son of the Chinese Secre-
tary of Foreign Affairs. has been
elected editor-in-chief of the Columbia
Spectator, the university daily paper.
He will have charge of the all
next year. Kee for two years has been
a member of the varsity debating
team and was instrumental in defeating
the Cornell team recently.
The Emperor of Japan, through AM
bassador Takahira, has conferred upon
Colonel Charles A. Boynton, superin-
tendent of the southern division of the
Associated Press, the decoration of the
fourth class of the Imperial Order of
the Rising Sun. Colonel Boynton comes
from a family of distinguished newspa-
per men, he being a brother of the late
General Henry Van Ness Boynton, and
the son of Charles Boynton, editor of
the Christian Nation, of Cincinnati, on
which publication he received his first
newspaper experience. He was born
September 80, 1886, at West Stockbridge,
Mass.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-24
IN ART CIRCLES.

Two interesting additions have been
made to the French room in the Ma
tional Gallery, London. The first is an
unfinished portrait by J. L. David, of
Elisa, Grand Duchess of Tuscany, sister
of the first Napoleon. The other is a
portrait of Nine. Malibran, the prima
donna, attributed to Ingres.
The Art Institute of Chicago will open
the twentieth annual exhibition of
American watorcolors, pastels and mini
atures, the sixteenth annual exhibition
of the Chicago Ceramic Art Association,
and the annual exhibition of the Ma
tional League of Mineral Painters, on
Tuesday evening, April %.
A sale of old pictures from the
H~oogendyke collection will take place
in Amsterdam ON April rs and 20. The
Dutch school is represented in the col
lection by examples of Van Goyen,
Averkamp, Berchem, S. Ruysdael,
Thomas de Keyser. Dirck Halls, Mole
naer, B~akhuysen, Boil, n others.
In Paris, the other day, the Paul
Perier collection was sold for a total
of $17,732. Among the pictures the best
price was for Diaz's "Nymphs of Di-
ana" which brought $1,000. Two land
scapes by Harpingnies were bought by
M. Michael Pelletier, who paid $1,400
for La Tour a Saint-Prive," and $3.50
for Autumn Bronze by Barge sold
at good prices, the Panther Selling a
Stag bringing $3.50.
One of the attractions at the Scottish
National Exposition at Edinburgh will
be a splendid historical collection of
Scottish art from the days of Jameson,
1.-THE Scottish Vandyke." until the pres
ent time. The pictures which are being
obtained on loan from many leading
galleries will number between 700 and
500 and will be of the greatest artistic
value. The display will include a fine
selection of portraits by Sir Henry
Raeburn, S~cotland's great portrait
painter of the end of the eighteenth
and beginning of the nineteenth cen
tury, whose works have in recent years
increased so much in value. Later
phases of Scottish art will also be well
represented. The exhibition is to be
opened May L by Prince Arthur OF
Connaught, nephew of the King.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-24
SPECIAL SESSION NOT LIKELY.

The advisory committee of the New
Idea wing has voted to request Gov
ernor Fort to call a special session of
the Legislature to pass a public utility
law, as promised in the State platform
of the Republican party last fall. These
people are themselves responsible for
the failure to pass such a bill at the
recent session. They insisted on a rate
making clause and their obstinacy
killed the measure. 1t is doubtful ifthe
Governor will see any public utility
in reassembling the lawmaking body
Paterson Press.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-24
SOME LOCAL
G O NJ NJ E Mt

1t was observed in conversation in a
| Newark club one day this week that
people in Newark dress better today
than they did some years ago, and that
1t was hard now to differentiate be-
tween the average mechanic and bank
clerk or between the clerk and the mil
lionaire. Besides the sentimental and
aesthetic reasons that exist for dressing
we'll, it seems there is a scientific one,
If we accept the statement of a London
medical man that a good suit of clothes
acts as a tonic IN the mind of the
wearer while the consciousness that
one is not at ones best in appearance
If wearing shabby or ill-ftting clothes
may be reckoned as one of life's real
handicaps. In the moral support that
smart clothing furnishes he thinks
there is a source of mental strength
and activity that aids n to centre
ones thoughts on the things that lead
to success In ones trade and profess
sion. To be shockingly attired and to
be constantly conscious of the condi-
ton leads the mind into worrying ways
that dissipate healthy energy.
The man who holds a regular salaried
job or gets weekly wages nowadays and
is in no danger of losing his job may
esteem himself fortunate. The piece
worker OF worker by the day is not SO
fortunate. In Newark at the present
time thousands of mechanics are either
out of work or are working on short
time. In some skilled occupations the
work amounts to no more than two
days a week in the earnings. There
has been no reduction Of. the rates of
wages to any extent. In some cases
where h employees understood the sit
uation with their employers n knew
it was a question of half a o a or none,
there has been a reduction of wage
rates, the men accepting the reduc-.
ton as tentative, and that the old
rate would be restored with the return
of prosperous times.
The strawberry season does not prop
erly begin until we get the South Jer-
sey berry in all its l~usciousness and
fragrance. The early berry comes from
Florida and Georgia in refrigerator
cars, and the journey does not improve
their original flavor, though we nave
had in Centre Market some excellent
berries from Georgia. Later come ber-
ries from North Carolina and Virginia,
and then Southern Maryland and Della
ware add their quota. But the climax
of the season is reached in the Hilton
berry, that matchless production which
no growers elsewhere have been able to
equal. The great bulk of the Hilton
berry crop goes to the fashionable no.
tells in New York and the berries are
bespoke by the hotel caterers, but a
quantity get into Centre Market and
are bought at fancy prices.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-24
DISGUISED LEGISLATORS.

Men who secure election to the Legis-
lature are frequently Disguised at the
end of a session and say that they will
not return, because they have to stand
unmerited abuse not only for what they
do at the request of their constituents,
but for what the fail to do. The at
tacks made by the an~ti-saloon people
have been among the most abusive and
aggravating. Trick, of Burlington, is
incensed by the anti-saloon attacks and
will make a fight for reelection, and
Lewis, from the same county, will quit
rather than stand the abuse.-Jersey
City Journal.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-24
4 I'LL AGAINST COUNTY AND ITS ITEMS.

A bill against the county amounting to S5,706.24, which
the Bod of Freeholders is asked to pay, is rendered by
Charles ]. Cosgrove, the manager of a local detective
agency. 1t is for expenses represented to have been in
Cured between the dates June IA, 1906, and December IL
the same year, inclusive, in "the detection of offenders
against the law" This was the period of gr0atest appar-
et activity by the county criminal authorities in the
exploitation of scandals involving the Newark police de-
partment, and it was alv~ys understood that the work
was done by county officers alone. The bill now rendered
cipa1 factor. The items of the bill will doubtless mystify
some good citizens who are MT familiar with police and
detective methods, and perhaps 1t will not be morally
edifying to make q complete analysis of the items. paid
expenditure of $9SS, and even less clear is the item of
$3.50 paid to inmates of resort5.'' The word resort can
be made to cover a multitude of places, from a church to
a Chinese joint. I'll. item "losses on cards and horses
is more easily understood, but the innocent taxpayer
will naturally ask why the county should pay a gambling
bill. The same query might relate to the item of $226.S4
for drinks, cigars" etc. AS t: = appears that the Sheriff's
office has the vouchers for this bill, it will be necessary to
examine them - ascertain what is meant by an item of
So 75 for Operations at IS per operation The singular
and unprecedented character of the bill which the Board
of Freeholders is asked to pay gives it a peculiar interest
to the public. 1t reveals some of the true inwardness of
recent occurrences in Newark in connection with the adj
ministration of the criminal law.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-24
HAD LEARNED SOMETHING.

Ever notice it?' queried the party
who propounds questions in sections.
Ibid I ever notice what?" asked the
innocent ~bystander.
"That the longer q, man is married
the less he lodges when his wife throws
things at him?" said the installment in
'terrogator.
eyes, I've noticed it," replied the in
nocent bystander, who had been up
against the matrimonial game for sew
eral years. HE soon gets wise to the
fact that there is no danger if he
doesn't move."-Chicago News.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-24
LOOKED THAT WAY.

"Comc, Willie,' said his mother,
"don't be so selfish. SLet your little
brother play with our marbles a
while.''
"But," protested Willie, 'he means to
keep them always
"Oi 1 guess not
at guess yes! Cause he's swallered
two o. them Observation-Disclosures
Press.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-24
BULLY IDEA.

Pat (planning a burglary)-Sure now,
Mick, an how shall we know IL were
both there 1T the right tonne?
Mick-Be aisy, Pat, Oive the ylry
Jewel av an idea. If you git there first
put a chalk mark on the gate; and If
OF git there first Oil rub it out.-The
Sketch.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-24
TAKE NOTICE.

People contemplating dying will
make their arrangements to
pass away at some time of the week
SO that their funerals will not occur on
Sunday, for the coach drivers have
not to turn out at any funerals
on that day. But they will go out for
weddings and christening parties, a
proposition which our anti-race suicide
President will no doubt approve.-Pat-
Call.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-24
A PERlLOUS SITUATION.

An insurance publication issued this
week gives a tabulated list of fires in
school buildings in the United States
and Canada since January 1. The
rather startling record is fifty-two fires
in three months. There is apparently
nothing fictitious about these figures.
The damage in nearly all cases was
slight, but the danger in all was great.
Elizabeth, as well as many other Jersey
cities, is in the list.-Elizabeth Jour-
nal.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-24

par. of official machi; the instrument of the Will OF
a superior. The fact that the two characters reside in
the same individual does not merge their identities. The
private secretary cannot control the editor any more than
the e.. can control the .-ivate secretary. Let the
Post Telegram criticise one without Juggling in the other
and 1t will be true to the eternal fitness of things.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-24
TEUTONIC PROWESS.

"Dose Irish make me sick, always
talking about vat great fighders dey
are" said a Teutonic resident of Ho-
boken with great contempt. "Vhy, at
Minna's Wedding der odder nighd dot
drunken Mike O'Hooligan butted in,
und me and mein bruder and mein
cousin Fritz und mein frient Louie
HartInann-vhy, We pretty neal kicked
him oudt of der house!"-Everybody's
Magazine.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-24
OF MORE IMPORTANCE.

81 see by this paper" remarked the
typewriter boarder, that a society
woman in st. Louis has started a o
v%ersation class for the purpose Of
teaching young men how to talk"
"a class for the purpose of teaching
young women how to listen would be
of far more Importance" growled the
fussy bachelor at the pedal extremity
of the mahogany.-Chicago News.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-24
SINECURISTS Topped OFF.

The Passaic River Flood Commission
has been abolished, after an existence
four years. during which time its
five members rendered no service for
the 81, 500 a year each of its members
drew from the state treasury. 1t was
useless and more expensive than the
State Board of Arbitratlon.-Trenton
Times.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-24
A DANGER.

"They have criticised the President a
great deal for saying my policies and
my this and my that
Yes answered the sympathetic citi-
zen. After a while they will have him
so nervou that he will be afraid to join
in the chorus WHOM they sing My Coun-
try, '1AN0f TheN Washington Star
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QUITE RIGHT.

eyes, said the suffragist on the plat
form, women have been wronged for
ages. They have suffered in a thousand
ways"
There is one way in which they
never suffered" said a meek-looking
mar standing up in the rear of the hall.
"What way is that?" demanded the
suffragist.
'They have v suffered in silence"
-Tit-Bits.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-24
BRYAN AND PROSPERITY.

Patrick E. McCabe, Democratic leader
at Albany, tells the story:
Zone of my district workers named
Pat" he said, asked a chum named
Mike who he was going to vote for this
fall.
Fer Bryan said Mike.
Gan why?' asked Pat.
"'oh, we'll, 1 voted fer i'm twelve
years g and again eight years ago,
an we've had good times ever SINCE"
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-24
A SAFE MOVE.

Said a man who had been detected
cheating at eards: "'They threaten to
kick me down stairs. What am 1 to
do?''
The friend appealed to offered this
timely counsel: "Play on the ground
floor. '-Catholic Tribune.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-24
In GOOD HUMOR.
ONE ADVANTAGE.

I'm glad I'm not like man," remarks
The oyster with a smoker,
81 simply can't get in a broil
AS long as I'm in liquor"
Philadelphia Press
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-24
7 OF STATE EDITORS.
THEIR PRINCIPAL TROUBLE.

The members of the Civil Service
Commission will be obliged to lie awake
nights to devise ways and means of
earning their salary.-Trenton State
Gazette
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-24

Rather than take chances on collecting ~$2S,oOoo0o or so
in fines some day, Rounania has decided to bar out the
Standard Oil Company altogether.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-24

Baseball will soon be the big noise in Buffalo said
an exchange of that town wednesday, and that same night
must have heard the noise of the Bisons' first game all the
way from the Tigers lair.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-24

Can it be that Colonel Bryan put some loco drops in
Colonel watterson's mornin' when they breakfasted to-
gether the other day?
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-24

In the land-fraud trials two former government clerks
testified that they had done a LAND Office business in
taking brides,
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-24

De Sagan has one unique accomplishment, If the New
York Times is not in error. He wired" to Nine. Gould
a "wireless' message.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-24

Even if London did catch on to George AIDES slang,
somebody would have to keep on explaining what a Col
lege Widow is.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-24

Probably Roumania wouldn't understand what Chan
.cellor Day may say about its treatment of his friends,
anyway, so what's tho use?
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-24

AS the clawing seems to have done the Bisons some
good. it would only be hosptable on the part of the Tigers
to give them another treatment of the same kind.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-24

Forgan, of Chicago, who predicts the trouble, may get the
needed information in that line right here.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-24

Senator Hale seems to fear the vetorial stylus more
than the big stick.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-24

Reading between the lines, can't you imagine you de-
.tect a note of regret in Secretary Loeb's denial of owner
ship of all that traction stock?
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-24

One way Hello shows his hatred of publicity is in talk
ing SO much solely for publication.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-24

That was a sort of Jersey jolt that followed the New
York knock for the editor of our E. C, the Commoner.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-24

v There's nothing particularly creditable in this ne
i rivalry between the Goulds and the vanderbits, either.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-24

Secretary Cortelyou might make a few more speeches
down his sleep.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-24

There's one frank paper in Philadelphia. The Inquirer
.confesses sit is about time for the people of this city to
wake up"
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-24

Possibly there is a girl over here who guesses Abdul
Hamid pulled in his horns as soon as he learned that the
Duke of the Abruzzi was coming with the fleet.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-24

Representative Fowler still offers to make change for
an Aldrich bill, with no takers.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-24

If Marse Henry thinks it too late now, he will change
his mind six months three days from today if Denver names
the Nebraskan.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-24

When the Prince de Sagan registers at a hotel under
a false NAME. they say he is preserving his 'incognito."
With most folks it's called travelling under an "alias."
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-24

That Cleveland girl who jumped into the lake and was
hoated and saved by her Merry Widow hat couldn't have
worn it on her head.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-24

Greek prince in New York is willing to talk a job at
SIS a week. Sounds pretty cheap, but he is worth more
than all the titled dowery-hunters put together, more than
likely.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-24

There be a few skeptics who think Roger Sullivan in
tends to throw the Illinois delegation, not to, but at the
Self-selected, good and hard.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-24

Yes. Bryan gets the Republican vote in New Jersey
for the nomination.