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The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-06
MISS SIMMONS IS STILL
MOST POPULAR TEACHER.
Heads Irvington Masonic Lodge
COntest-Personals and
News of the Town.

Miss Simmons is still in the lead in
the voting contest fostered by Franklin
Lodge, +. and A. M, of Irvington, for
the purpose of determining who is the
most popular teacher in the Irvington
public schools. She now has 81 votes.
Miss Lillian Connors is second, with 30
votes. Miss Ethel Wills has become a
factor in the contest by the addition of
20 votes. making a total Of p votes.
The other teachers who have votes are
as follows: Miss Richardson, 10; Miss
May Conner, 10; Miss Schulz, 8; Miss
Rush, 8; Miss Shepard, s.; Miss Dove, s.;
Miss Packer, 81; Miss Elvin, 8; Miss
Bauer, .; Miss Gray. 2; Miss Secor, 2;
Miss Warner, J..
.Thes torn had but little effect in
%Irvington or Hilton, except<to serve as
an inconvenience. The cars ran fairly
we'll all night. This morning the street
department of I~rvington was busy clear
ing the snow from the centre and free
ing the cutters.
The Rev. DIR. Daniel Fl. Martin, pastor
of the Clinton Avenue Reformed Church,
of this city, conducted the evangelistic
services in the First Reformed Church,
of Irvington, last night.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-06
MAPLEWOOD TROLLEY
LINE ON 1.-THE BLINK"
Storm Put Signals Out of Order
on One-track ROad-Other
NeWsy JOts.

The snow storm this morning in
terfered with the traffic or the Maple
wood trolley line owing to the signal
system being affected by the atmos-
pheric conditions. The signals are
operated on nthe Valley street single
track line, and on their working order
depends the service, good or bad. This
morning the signals failed to operate,
and as a consequence cars going in
opposite directions met between
switches were compelled to back up
and cause delay. Soon there was a
general drilling of cars, and Maplewood
residents were forced to walk to South
Orange village and Millburn avenue to
get a car for this city. The fog added
to the confusion. making 1t difficult for
the motormen to see ahead.
The Misses Elsie and Elizabeth
Dodge. of Valley street, have returned
from a visit to relatives in Troy, N. Y.
Howard Gordon, of Ridgewood road,
has recovered from the grip, which has
confined him to his home for the past
two weeks.
The basketball team of Columbia
School, South Orange and a team from
the Maplewood Public School win play
a game at the Maplewood Sportins
Club Hal tomorrow afternoon.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-06
FRIENDS SURPRISE MISS STANLEY.

The friends of Miss Ruth Stanley, of II
Pacific street. rendered her a surprise
party recently in honor of her graduation
from the oliver Street School. Games
and music We're enjoyed. Miss Stanley
received two handsome bouquets. At
a late hour refreshments were served.
Those present were: The Misses Edna
Jones, Mildred Grimm, Jessie Taylor.
Norma Grimm, Lillian Jones. Rachel
Doremus. Gertrude Sutman. Minnie
Trautz and Elsie Keubler. Edward
Keubler, Walter Raleigh, Charles Mum,
Emil Mussle. Bert Gebhart, Kenneth
Mockridge. William Gallagher, William
Brooks, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. Frank Dore-
mus. Miss Bessie Stanley and william
Hoffe.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-06
FOWLER SCORES
BANKING SYSTEM:
OFFERS PANACEA
Currency Legislation This Ses-
sion, He Tells Quaker
City Bankers.

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 6.-Before a
body of bankers and business men,
which, despite the storm, filled the ball
room of the Bellevue Stratford, Repre-
sentative Charles N. Fowler, of New
Jersey. chairman of the o COM
mittee on banking and currency, ex-
planned last night the principles of the
bill which he has proposed for the rem
edy of the currency system.
He spoke for two hours, n then for
more thar an hour longer his measure
was the target of a fusillade of ques-
lions covering its every phase.
The occasion was the annual meeting
of the Trades League, but, in view of
the fact that Mr.. Fowler had been OBJ
tanned as a speaker, the annual re-
ports were dispensed with and the
evening given over solely to considera-
ton OF the currency question.
Confident of Legislation.
Upon his arrival, Mr.. Fowler ex-
pressed himself as confident that cur
rency legislation will be enacted at tho
present session, and that it would be his
bill, that of enato Aldrich or the
bankers bill, which will be passed. He
would not, he said, express an opinion
as to which would meet the approval of
! the committee.
Mr.. Fowler started off with the
proposition that it is generally known
that there is something wrong with
the financial and currency practises of
the country.
He then explained his bill, the prin-
Ecipal features of which are: The sub
stitution of a credit currency for the
present bond-secured currency; the
guarantee of deposits; the ~unification
of the banking system of the country.
The weakness OF the bond-secured
currency, he said, lies in the fact that
it has no relation to the business in
~terests of the country. 1t is a bond
selling scheme; was so conceived and
is just that today.
Scores present system.
Mr.. Fowler pointed out that the sys-
tenn has worked precisely the reverse
of what it should, the volume OF 7
rency increasing when was
desirable and contracting when expan-
sion was needed.
The panic, he declared. was due to
other causes than the currency so far
as the stepping stones were concerned.
The business of the world had been
very active. But III we nau hau lhe
right kline of currency we wouldn't
have had the panic at all. We would
have had a contraction Of credits, but
not the panic.
Touching upon his credit currency
proposition, Mr.. Fowler said:
at makes no difference to a bank
whether it owes 100000 subject to
check, or 100000 in cashiers checks.
There is no difference between a book
credit subject to check and a current
credit of the bank"
FOuler's Panacea.
"The banks of this country own
! 500, 600, 900 of United States bonds. Sup
pose we were to have a wal with a
real country. and we were to issue 4
per cent. bonds, what would become of
your 2 per cent? The slump might
crush one-third of the banks in the
United States"
Unity the banks of the United
States so that all shall hold the same
reserves-and in gold or its equiya-
lent
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-06
BROODING OVER HIS SINS,
PENITENT HANGS HIMSELF.
Pennington Church Probation
er's Body Suspended from
Barn Rafter.

PENNINGTON, Feb. 6.-Having
been taken into the Methodist Episco-
pal Church on probation. and brooding
over troubles and wrongs he imagined
he had committed, William H. Moore
committed suicide by hanging yester-
day.
He had been employed in Blackwelrs
grocery store, and was found suspend
ed from a rafter in the barn by Ivan
Horner. another employee. Moore had
fastened the loop about his neck and
then kicked a barrel from under him.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-06
ROOSEVELT WALKS THROUGH SNOW.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.-Presldent
Roosevelt S liking for walking during a
storm was gratifed to an unusual ex-
tent when he started from the White
House in the midst of one Of theh eavi-
est snow storms Of the season. The
Presidents walks usually cover q
period OF two or three hours and a
distance Of eight or ten miles, and the
storm didn't prevent his regular stroll.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-06
JOHN D. TO PROVIDE FAIRGROUNDS

NEW YORK, Feb. 6.-That money
furnished by John d. Rockefeller and
Harold Mccormick. his son-in-law, of
Chicago, will provide summer play
grounds in the country on an extensive
scale for city children was stated last
night by Captain Jack Crawford, some-
known as the Poet Scout"
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-06
ELIZABETH SOCIETY EVENTS.

ELIZABETH, Feb. 6.-The cotil-
lon Club will give its last dance OF the
series of three. at the Town and Cora-
try Club, Friday Of next week. The
cotillon will be led by Miles s. Char
lock.
Mrs. David II. Townley has sent cut
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-06
SUFFRAGETTE LOSES SUIT
AGAINST HOFFMAN HOUSE.

NEW YORK. Feb, 6.-That hotel men
of New York have the right to refuse
food and entertainment to women after
6 o'clock at night when unaccompanied
bv a man was the verdict of a jury in
a test suit brought by Mrs. Harriet
stanton Blatch, a w~ell-known suffra-
uette. against the HOFFMAN House in the
Twelfth District Court, Judge Fred
Sriegelberg presiding.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-06
PITNEY THEIR GUEST.
chancellor to Be Feted by Jer-
sew CITY Bar.

JERSEY CITY, Feb. 6.-Chancellor
Mahlon Pitney win be the guest of
honor at the annual dinner of the Hud-
son County Bar Association at the
Hotel Aston. New York, tonight.
Others who are expected TO speak are
Judge Frederic Adams, Of Newark
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cards for a bridge party next Tuesday
afternoon.
Mrs. Hamilton Conover will give a
bridge party at her residence, Tnurs-
day afternoon, February Is.
Miss Nina de Hart will leave next
week for a trip to Bermuda.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-06
MOORs MURDER EUROPEANS.

PARIS, Feb. 6.-A special dispatch
from C~asablanca says that three Eu-
ropeans were murdered by Moors while
on the road between Mediouna and
Kasbah Der Rchid. Their bodies were
horribly mutilated.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-06
PROFIT IN CITY OWNERSHIP.

CHATHAM, Feb. e.-The report q
the water and Light Board to the
Borough Council shows a profit from
the water and light plants Of $3.50 ~
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-06

Judge William II Speer, Camillus Kid
der, of New York; Judge Charles O.
Black and Robert Carey.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-06
FRIDAY
BARGAINS.

February is naturally a dull month"; little late for
winter goods, although plenty of winter days before you
a little early for spring merchandise, though the wearing
time will soon be here. If prices will induce you to buy now,
YOU will come or send here tomorrow.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-06
White NainSOOk

An exceptionally good grade of white
nainsook for Fridays special selling at
1ztc yard. Close and firmly woven
SO inches widc--used for making wom-
ems and children'S under 4 "a
garmsnts-made to sell at TIN
2sc per yard. on sale spe- LOL
cial Friday t...........
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-06
White Shirts

Mems ~unlaundered white shirts made
Of good strong muslin with pure linen
bosoms-some open front and back,
others with closed front and open
back-our regular stock line
Of shirts sold regularly for q 40
5sc ard 75c each, special AAL
Friday at.................
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-06
Linen Suiting

For Friday's special selling we will
offer splendid quality embroidered linen
uitingS at 2sc a yard. All linsn-3o
inches wide-embroidered in a variety
of neat designs goods that AP
were imported to sell at ACC ThN
per yard, Friday only, special Ze1L
yard $500. ........."..
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more secure against moths. rust or
thieves. The pedestals on which the
strong box is set are oolonnaded, and
mirrors are to be arranged 30 that from
any side person looking down may see
at once il there is any one beneath the
safe. An arrangement of piping will
permit of filling the pit with live steam
sufficient to parboil any intruder un-
lucky enough to be trapped.
The sides of the strong box. besides
being made of railroad iron and armor
plate, are protected furthermore by wire
gauze electrified so as to give an imme-
diate alarm in case the safe 10 touched.
1t looks very squat when seen from the
eighty-three foot eminenoe of the dome.
but viewed from the floor level the safe
is monstrous.
In the safe there is an elevator for
used by the day force, the other by the
night force. The business Of the bank
is 30 great that it could with difficulty
be handled otherwise than by having
two sets Of workers.
In the basement part of the safe is a
book vault where the books OF the bank
may be kept. and scattered about the
main floor are smaller safes. twenty-one
in number. for the books of departments
thus doing away with the necessity ofcarry-
rying certain much used books to the main
safe at the end of each day.
The e.ectricity for the adding machines
come through the floor in ducts from the
power plant. There are frequent inkwell
sinks in closets about the first floor The
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color with the old that there are not
enough contrasts to catch the eye.
Itswss last March that the National
City Bank officials gave orders to McKim.
Mead & White to begin operations. The
transformation of the old Custom House
has been effected in the intervening time.
There is little doubt that the remodelled
building is the largest banking institu-
ton in the country in point of size, even
aa Ia its financial transactions the bank is
the largest OF American banks.
The complete harmony of sober tones
af the exterior of the building is matched
BY the prevailing tone Of the interior.
There isn't suggestion Of gingerbread
about the new building. Gilt. plush.
onyx and fancy grilling will be sought in
vain. There is nothing but restful
monotone OF creamy stone. broken here
and there with glimpse Of bronze and
mahogany.
It took one Of the officers of the bank
ayearor DO OF travelling about the country
70 collect ideas on bank and other con-
Gfruction to devise the very best plans
for tie building. A result has been
that in countless details the building is
superior to anything else Of the kind
For instance. for the network of the
cege on the main floor Of the bank there
So employed strands Of bronze wire
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been arranged 90 that on The ground aoor
appear only those psrsons whose direct
concern is with the public. The book
Keeping departments, storage and 20 on
ars quartered on the variods upper floors
in the corners.
That leaves . vast open space. high
ceiled and domed, rs the main room OF
the bank Entered through two bronze
doors-they are 20 feet high and weigh
$500 pounds. the largest cast in this
Countrywide cage, for the workers is
directly observable. This is beneath the
dome and set about the hugo safe
The safe is marvel OF simplicity. 1t
is a strong box made in two stories. II
runs down into tho basement. or rather
Is built up from that. twenty feet high.
1t is twenty -four feet wide and twenty-two
feet long. There are two doors, one
opening to the north, the other to the
eest. They weigh 10 tons apiece. but q
pound OF steam pressure will open them
when the combinations are set.
It would be hard to imagine anything
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hollow square addition % the slFuoturs.
The first four are for renting purposes.
The 1oor above these II part OF che banks
pre1ises and is highly interesting. !.
For one thing there IL o kitchen, eaid
to be 90 well fitted 90 any In the city.
bar that In the Plaza Hotel. Here the
meals Of the employees and ofiioers VIII
be cooked. There y q dining room Tor
men which will hold le3 ct time The
women's dining room is much smaller.
There are few women employees OF the
National City Bank. A private iefriger-
ating plant keeps the water used through
out the building cold.
Along one side Of the well formed by
the upper part Of the building on the top
floor there will be an open air restaurant
In the summer, whore meals may De
had by the banks officers In GOODNESS and
peace. The culinary department 10 the
most interesting thing on the floor. ana
next 70 that comes the janitor's quarters.
That fortunate individual will have ak
rooms and bath. as we'll fitted up as
heart could desire. It will be q pretty
expensive suite too when the renting
prices of the rest Of the building are
taken into confederation.
Private bedrooms for officers who
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THE CUSTOM HOUSE AS BANK

may be detained over night by work are
on the top floor, and o quiet, calm place
that should be. A library and a private
room for finapciers who don't want to
be in are over to one side. There is also a
large room for the City Bank Club, known
as mo. s. The National City Bank is
No. 8 on the Clearing House list. hence the
name. This club is made up of the 400
odd employees OF the bank.
Running around the outside Of the top
floor is a high wall that shuts out all view
OF much except the sky Inside this wall
there is brick walk about 700 feet around,
giving healthful place for exercise after
meals or for promenades.
Down in the basement. besides the
power plant, there are 564 lockers de-
signed for the uses Of the employees and
a time clock for checking purposes. The
various floors are reached by the en-
There ia another, set of elevators for the
accommodation of the public.
The National City Bank began opera
City Bank. 1t subscribed part Of the Gov
perity Of the bank is regarded as being
was president from 1856 'to 1882 The
present president. James Stillman. has
been at the head of the banks affairs
since 1891
Mr.. Stillman brought various other
strong interests into the directorate. and
il now includes such names as Henry g.
Frick of Pittsburg, Cleveland ii. Dodge
of the Phelps-Dodge copper and brass
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and heating and lighting and interior
decoration rarely exceeds rs per cent
of the total.
sThs concrete engineering firms in the
industrial field have steadfastly refused
contracts for house building on account
of the appalling amount of smsll detail
In such work. Take. for example. the
construction of such building as the
Bush terminal warehouse In Brooklyn.
One Of the largest single items in this
building aside from the concrete con-
eists Of window frames and sashes.
"The engineer designing them studied
the conditions and drew the plan of a
window best suited TO meet them. This
was, in all probability. half days work.
All that remained for him to do with re-
gard to the window sash order was to
send this plan, multiplied by 1900. the
number of windows in the building. to the
sash manufacturer.
Contrast this half days work. which
resulted In the placing Of $4,000 or
$40 900 order, with the placing OF the
orders for the sash and frame that enter
into the construction OF the average
$40 900 house. II is safe to say that the
engineer win have to design from ak
to ten different sized and shaped windows
to fit such q house and three or four days
work will be required for the placing of a
$500 or $500 order.
sThis Illustration show the different
type Of organization required for in
dustrial and domestic work.
'The misinforrnation about concrete
and its confusion with cement mortar
block wall and wooden interior con-
struction on the one hand. and the cement
mortar stucco plastered on to a wooden
frame on the other. has been caused fully
ss much by the ove<zealous friends Of
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CTTYBANK'SNEVHO VHONBREADY
OLD CUSTOM HOUSE TURNED
INTO A MODEL BANK.

Cvss, ss, 600 .0O0-AIl Sorts oE Inter.
esttns Deviees--Two Story Safe
G3uaFded by Armor Plato, Steam and
neutrality-suspicious. and ClubrOOin.
The work Of remodelling the old Custom
House TO make IL into a homo flor the
National City Bank is finished and the
bank will move in in q week or 30.
From the outside those who look up
~ they 60 about in the financial district
may have taken note that an extra row
!. of pillars has replaced the old attic that
once disfiglr the building. They may
have observed too that the building is
therefore taller than 1t was. But 50
cIsvsrly have the arohitects moved to
make the new granite harmonic in
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teleautograph, the dictograph and a
complete pneumatic tube system are all
parts Of the newest devices for office
efficiency.
There will be no horde Of messenger
boys olamoring about the bank. Such
boys as have business will be received at
a door in the basement and their oom-
munications will be distributed by
machine devices.
In the departments above electric car
riers will take charge Of handling things
For instance, the bank has about Il. .OoO
checks day TO look after. These will be
sent to certain room and distributed
the places where they should go. This
will do away with a great deal Of the
hustle and hurry Of persons moving about
and getting in one ahother's way.
There will be a complete telegraph
and cable equipment in the bank building
The bank also will have its own private
telephone system with seventy-two in
ton on the ground floor will take care of
the wants OF those there on business.
The flooring, outside OF the gtonework,
is OF compressed cork Tho noise Of
footsteps is deadened thereby. It In the
first time this flooring has been used 90
extensively in one building,
The main floor in lighted by FIVE ohande-
liers of bronze. IL feet In height, These
also will serve to light up the decoration
about the dome. There are twelve panels
surrounding the glass. At the four points
Of the compass there are seals OF the
bank. The other spaces are taken up
with the signs Of the zodiac. This ell q
In the italian marble that Il overywherc
In the bank and makes an elective con-
trast with the bronze Of the frame of the
dome.
In keeping with the quiet tone Of the
main floor appointments all the offices
In the mezzanfne floors are simple. The
presidents room Is very modest look
ing place. The same is true of the di-
rectors' and committee rooms.
Z. The i've floors above the dome form o
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interests. e. H. Hartman. chairman OF
the Union Pacific Railroad; Cyrus H.
Mccormick, president Of the International
Harvester Company; George W. Perkins
Of j. P. Morgan a CO.. William Rockefeller
Of the Standard Oil Company and Jacob
Sohiff Of Kuhn. Loeb & Co. Other di-
Fairchild, Joseph P. Grace. Edwin 8,
Marston, Stephen s. Palmer. James A.
Post, NJ. Taylor Pyne. James A. Stillman,
Samuel Sloane, John w. Sterling, Henry
A. G. Taylor, p. A. Valentine. Moses
Taylor and William d. Sloane. In 1901
Frank A. Vanderlip. who had been Assist
Lyman j: Gage. was elected vioe-presi-
dent. and he has since taken an active part
in the banks management.
The capital Of the bank was increased
from 81 900, 900 to $40, 900. 900 January q.
1900 In June, 1902, there was further
increase OF the capital from $40 900, 600
to s25. 900, 600 and Of the surplus from
81. 500 900 to SIS 900 900.
Among the record figures made by the
bank are some that never have been
equalled by other banks In this country.
On November OF this year the total
assets reached ta72 $40 600 and the gross
deposits ssos, 72s. 900, both American rec
ords; In June OF 1908 the cash reserve
reached the record figure OF 900 .oel 900.
80 ~ Wy oiu Suston houst, ~ btaIiub
on site where in 1854 q house was first
put up. In 1889 row Of private houses
on this site was converted into offices for
lawyers and insurance men. Then fol-
lowed the Merchants Exchange, outside
Of which at the Intersection OF William
and Wall streets the Stock Exchange did
business. This was destroyed IN the
great fire OF 1885. and another Mer-
chants Exchange was put up. The Gov
ernment bought it in 1888. lt had
housed the Stock Exchange until 1854.
In 1891 the old Custom House was sold
to the National City Bank for 81, ,2e5, 600
The improvements cost q, 500, 900, 30 that
the new bank building represents an out
lay OF not far from % .o0o, ,0oo.'