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The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-22
CITY ADVERTISEMENTS.


sTuYvEsANr E SEWER AND
FLAME STREET. REPAyING AND VAN
DBRPOoL STREET PAVING.
Notice is hereby given that the Commits.
sioners heretofore appointed by the Mayor q
the city of Newark, TO make an estimate ana
assessment upon all the owners of all the
lands and real estate in the city of Newark
peculiarly benefited by any local improvg ep as
may be to the advantage each was deemed TO
have acquired. have made an estimate ana
assessment of benefits conferred upon all the
owners OF all the lands and real estate In the
city Of Newark peculiarly benefited by eacn
of the following improvements in said CITY,
The construction of a sewer in
STUYVESANT AVENUE,
between Valley street and a point about 100
Feet south of Lenox street.
The e0ns'ruo MGA 3 Street ssTs5
from a point about loo feet north OF Ocean
avenue to Lenox street.
Inc cohs SSAANFoRD AVENUE,
from a point about 100 feet south of Cliff Hill
rIace TO IenoX street.
The construction Of sewers IN
COMMONWEALTH VENUE
ana OCEAN AVENUE,
between Stuyvesant avenue ana Sanford ave-
The construction of a sewer in
WASHINGTON
t,oro a mint about $50 feet south of North
End Ttd terrace TO a point about 40 feet north OF
The construction of a sewer in
NORTH N TERItACE,
between the Paterson and Newark Haiiroad
and Washington avenue.
The repaving OF -ra,r,r
from Market street to Court street.
The paving of erpD,rr
from Broad street to Elizabetn, avenue. anu
have filed their reports of SAID assessHents
for benefits in the Office OF the CLERK OF the
Gircnit Court of the County OF Essex. anu tiat
fba indigo of said court has fixed saturday, tne
tvve1tv<nftb day of April. 1908, at ten O'CLOCK
~ me- forenoon. in the Circuit Court room az
H. So,,Tt House in the city Of Newark. as
The time and place of bearing any opJecLtehs
that may be made to the saio assessH'
Dated April 20, 1906. u,,Yo I'D
..soo.. City Attorney.
pTrR1Tt NOTICE is hereby given that the lols
loyginr proposed ordinance passed a secohd
rcSdins and was ordered to a thiTd Ieaolpk .
4 n~1esfinc OF the Board OF street and WAFER
T1narnisSjoners held April 10. 1905;
A. ardinance 10 widen the Sidewalks on
RUNYON STREET, -
fron johnson avenue TO Ospoihe teliaee' ~"
IA to 17is feet. pocE
,..-ia.,t =, tha Board Of Street and Water
commissioners VIM. q. GREATHEAp.
.yk Clerk Of the Board
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-22
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Make up .Iour mind now that you Will in
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The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-22
Tuxedo Tournament.

On Tuxedo alleys:
Individual Match.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-22

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The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-22
ATTENDANCE FIGURES.

NATIONAL LEAGUE
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-12-06
ROTTEN MUNICIPAL GOVERN
 MENT.

The conspicuous feature of the spe- cial report of the census bureau on the 158 American cities having pop ulation of over 30,OO0 is the heavy in crease in the cost of municipal gov ernment in the last few years. For 14S of these cities the bureau has the figures from 1902 to 1905, and they show an increase in municipal expenses year by year of 11.7, 21.S, 259 and 29.2 per cent, respectively The percentage of increase for New York for 1906 over 1902 was 3S.2. This exceptionally high rate is due, of course. to the highway robberies of the Tammany ring, which is the most perfect political machine for dispoil- ing the people that was ever devised Some years ago when New York's annual expenses were Sl16,000, ,0O0 it was shown by authentic analysis that ] TAmmany got about $40,0O0000 by methods of direct graft, while by in direct methods, through municipal contracts, etc, $i0,000,000 more were poured into the pockets of the Tam many gang The 3S.2 per cent in crease in the cost of administering 5 i the public affairs of America's metrop- oils is due largely to Tammany's in- satiable greed.
 However, New York is by no means the only heavy sufferer from munich pal graft on a monumental scale. !, Philadelphia has been for years the helpless victim of a ring which has been quite as 'brazenly corrupt as
 Tammany. although perhaps not as apt as the New York gang in reduc-
 ing graft to a science. The Quaker ringsters, however. are strongly in-
 trenched by reason of the fact that
 their favors in the form of fat con- tracts are distributed among the old est and most respectable families il
 the City of Brotherly Love. presum-
 ably to illustrate the propriety oi
 that appellation, municipal graft per meates all classes of society to suci Ian extent that the entire citizenship Ihas been described as corrupt ant
 contented." An active minority of the
 citizens bitterly resent this indictmep,
 and several years ago they succeeded
 in electing reform administration by employing extraordinary methods
 and through the dissens'ons of tho
 ringsters who had quarreled over thu
 division of the spoils. However. this
 spasm of public virtue exhausted ths
 energies of the reformers, and theil
 principal candidate, Mayor Weaver
 who had been member of the rins
 before the sporadic wave of reform |carried him into office, soon became a backslider and relapsed into tho
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-12-06

arms of his former political confeder- ates. Philadelphia is again corrupt and contented" with no present indi- cation of permanent reformation in this city government
 The graft at Harrisburg, the state capital, in the building of new cap- ital is still fresh in public memory. The building and furnishings cost the
 state over $13,0o0,000, whereas the estimates of the architects called for only $4,O00,0OO. The bureaus report shows that the smaller cities of over 30,0o0 in population suffer almost as much from graft in proportion to size
 as the large ones. Holyoke, Mass,
 found out not long ago that it was
 paving $15 for school tools worth only
 23 cents. Then. too, the rapid and
 heavy increase in municipal expendi- lures in 14S cities in the last few years affords convincing evidence cf
 the fact that there is something rad icallN wrong lne couitIy oNei "lti municipal government in the United States. 1t is not strange that Flu ropean publicists shake their heads igloomily and predict the downfall Of
 the American republic when the lands
 are all taken up and the large cities become evorcrowded The United
 States evidently needs a modern Her
 cules to clean it's Augean municipal
 stables.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-12-06
River Receding
  Rain Adds Danger
fContinued From Page One.)

at the foot of Chestnut street, $2,0o0.
 E. B. Bloom, cottage and lot on Pullem street, $1,000.
 Berlin Brothers, two lots and two brick stables, with fixtures, $15,00o.
 City of Pine Bluff, part of Pullen street. $5,O00.
 American-Excelsior Laundry Con- oany. part of building and loss of real estate, s1O,000
 Charles Pruden, stable, $3,000. l. B. Avery and Son, stable, $3,000. \. C. Freeman and A. Patillo, black smith shop, s1,000.
 C. G. Brockway, five residences, two of them two-slory affairs, $1000o.
 Joe Krunpner, half block of prep erty and three small stores and res idence, $2,000.
 Pine Bluff. Arkansas River Packet Company, damage to warehouse and real estate, $1,000.
 Pine Bluff North Land Company, on opposite side of river, 100 acres Of land and tenant houses, $2,000. Government dykes and revetments, $5o,0oo Government river gauge, $100. Want to Assist Nature. ! Leading property owners and promi- nent business men say that in cutting the channel they would simply be as sisting nature; that the river will eventually cut its own way through Vaugine Neck, or at last it would were not the artificial obstruction in the form of the government levee in terposed, and that it is senseless to permit hundreds of thousands of dol- lars worth of valuable property to be washed away while waiting for the river to work it's way through unas- sisted.
 1 The general citizenship of Pine Bluff is now represented by a group of individuals as angry as the prover- bial hornet. They are "sore" because they ever permitted, to say nothing of having requested, the government to build a levee on Vaugine Neck. They now recall that D. c. Bell and Charles Veil were two enemies of the proposition. but they were overruled by popular sentiment governed by a fear that the river would leave Pine Bluff.
 "Dong" Bell Opposed Levee. Mir. Bell. one of Pine Bluffs most public spirited men, president of a leading banking institution, opposed
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-12-06
Member of Reich.
 stag Hysteriea|

Hearst News Special to Graphic.
 Berlin, Dec. 5.-During a discussion of the Budget in the Reichstag today Lieutenant Colonel Goltz arose to re- ply to Herr Scheldemann. At his opening words Goltz burs t into 8 shriek of hysterical laughter and he had been carried from the building, shrieking and sobbing.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-12-06
To InocuIate
 the Army Men

Hearst News Special to the Graphic.
 Washington, D. C.. Dec. 5.-Army men subject to typhoid contagion in districts where the fever is prevalent will be inoculated by an anti-typhold serum which is a laboratory culture of human typhoid bacillus. The in occulation will be similar to vaccina- tion.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-12-06
ll2 Main Street, Pine Bluff, rAkansas

port. Others say that when the cur rent leaves the city it will throw up sandbars at both ends of this horse shoe like. bend, at the circular ens of which Pine Bluff is situated, and leave crescent shaped lake cut of from the river, which lake will gradu- ally disappear.
 Who Will Own Land?
 In the event the latter possibilits should become a reality the question arises as to who would own the land on the bottom of the lake. Some at. torneys say that by the law of accreA, tion owners of property abutting or the river front would become the pos. sessors of the new land, while others say that the title would revert to the original owners, for it should not be forgotten what is now the river bed was once flourishing portion of Pine Bluff. Other attorneys say that all former owners of this property would have to do to regain possession of st would be to have it enrolled upon the tax books again and pay the back taxes on it. AS the taxes haven't beer paid on some of 1t for more than score of years the amount might stag ger some of the former owners.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-12-06
Lake May Be Formed.

There is Eppsiderable speculation as to what will be the result as affecting the ownership of property and as to other features if the river leaves the city
 In the first place, many say that only the current will leave the city and that the water will. remain when the river passes through the upper end of Vaugine Neck, and that Pine Bluff will have great lake at it's door, which will be extensively used for pleasure and commerce, and that river boats will continue to make the
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-12-06

the building of the levee until many began to characterize him as an ob- structionist. As president of the North Pine Bluff Land Company owners of the land upon which the levee is built he arbitrarily refused to sign instru- ments giving the government a right of way until the pressure of public sentiment became so great that, to use his own expression, he got dis gusted with the whole thing and sign ed. Now Mir. Bell is taking an active part as member of the committee on safety in helping to avert and minimize the danger which he fore saw
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-12-06

Entered at Postofiice at Pine Bluff,
 Ark, as second class mail matter,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-29
PERSONAL POINTS.

Fay Harper OF New York is in the
city for few days stay.
Mrs. Mary Kough-Jordon is the guest
of Mrs. Charles McHugh at Beaulieu.
p o. Skoglund of Cokato, Mimi, is
here visiting with DR.. Louis Ustrom.
c. Z. Harris has returned from a
weeks visit with his mother at Peoria.
Miss Marie Jensen left Saturday
evening for Minneapolis to visit there
with relatives.
Magistrate J. K. Elliott and family
have returned from visit with rela
tives at Rockford,
Rev. and Mrs. E. K. Jonson will
leave Wednesday morning for Mime
apolis to spend the summer.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. F. Roth and chill
dren leave Wednesday for Lake &c
neva for an extended sojourn.
Mrs. J. H. Morrison and daughter
jeanette leave tomorrow morning fol
Niagara Falls and Atlantic City.
The Misses Bessie Kennedy and An
ME Owenhouse spent Saturday in low;
City at the home of the latter.
Mrs. Clara Lamphere returned HON,
Saturday from an, extended visit a
Marshalltown and Des Moines, Iowa
Miss Maud Young leaves Wednesda.
for the east whore she joins he
brother, Rev. Edward Young, AM
party and Saturday sails for Europe
Harry J. Croker and Jack Conra
of San Francisco spent the day a
guests of the Misses Lillian Oswald
and Stella Wilson. The young me-
are on their way to New York fror
where they will sail for Europe.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-29
LYING BESIDE THE TRACK
John Nicholson Narrowly Escapes
Death on the |. G.

John Nicholson who lives south of
Clinton near the |. & |. road, narrowly
escaped death last evening and is now
resting in Mercy hospital at Clinton
with bruised head and thankful
heart. Yesterday he went to Clinton
and got on bender" Returning
home down the l. & |. tracks his legs
refused to carry him further and he
lay down to rest just outside the rails,
Car No. 30 which left Davenport at
$40 came along about this time and
Motorman Homer saw Nicholson lying
with his arm over the rail. He drop
ped the scrapers and applied the
brakes and when the car stopped a
few roads after passing the form it
was found Nicholson's arm had escap.
ed injury but he had suffered severe
scalp wound which might have been
sustained earlier in the evening il
some other manner. Nicholson was
taken to Clinton on the car.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-29
Uniform BANKING Methods.

A new system of bank inspection
that ought to have been put in oper-
alton long ago has just been recently
adopted. Under this plan the state
superintendent of banks and the fed
cral comptroller of the currency will
cooperate in examining certain num-
Der of banks, all on the same day and
at the same hour, thus preventing one
helping out the other on examination
days. The successful plan adopted by
thousands of persons who suffered
from ailments of the stomach, liver
kidneys and bowels will also prove
very beneficial to you, and that is, take
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. The
SOONER you start the sooner you recov
er your former good health. There
fore get bottle today. 1t is for poo
appetite, sour risings. heartburn, in
digestion, dyspepsia. cramps. diaI
rhoea,, biliousness, female ills AM
malarial fever.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-29
G. W. McCASKRIN Is
DISCOVERED AGAIN
Hearst League Manager Says He Will
Run for Governor-La Toilette
Mere Piker in Comparison.

George Washington McCaskrin will
and make his delayed horseback tour
of the state as candidate for governor,
according to the dope handed out by
the Hearst independence league at
Chicago today. The Chicago Tribune
says George is it and quotes one of
Hearst's managers as follows:
I'VE are going TO nominate a man
for governor who is bigger than La
Toilette of Wisconsin When Nc
Caskrin is governor of Illinois the peo-
pie will forget there ever was such a
man as La Toilette. l tell you La
Caslrin.
"McCaskrin can tear up more miles
| of street railways in a day than La
Toilette ever did in a year. McCask
rim will show La Toilette how to wreck
insurance companies and other aggre
cations of predatory wealth and wreck
EN- right. McCaskrin defied the street
car magnates of Rock Island with his
own shotgun and then tore up theil
tracks. And with his own saw he
sawed down the poles of the telegraph
company. Why, La Toilette needs t.
take lessons of McCaskrin.'
Ex-Mayor McCaskrin this Afternoon
admitted to The Argus that everythin:
said concerning his candidacy for gov
ernor is true, but added that he haC
mot eXpected that an announcement
would be made so early.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-29
SUCCESSFUL AFTER
28 YEAR EFFORT
kenosha Man Is to Receive $4,000 for
Injuries Received Here Nearly
Three Decades Ago.

According to Chicago newspapers
today, Hans Peter Guttormsen of Ke-
nosha, Wis. has at last been success
full in having the United States gov
eminent act favorably on claim he
filed % years ago for injuries received
while employed at this city Saturday
he received notice that the federal
court had reported favorably to con-
|gress on his claim of $4,000 1t is said
that Gu!tormsen 'has spent more than
double the amount in its collection.
He is a permanent cripple. No one
here recalls the accident for which he
sought damages.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-29
SCHOOL ELEC-
ton OCCURS
TOMORROW
c. n. Seidel and w. 8. Mcln-
tyre Candidate s to Sue
coed Themselves.
The OPPOSITION TICKET
!. E. larkin and M. T. Stevens Seek
Places of the Retiring
Members.

Tomorrow the election of two mem
bersS of the Rock Island board of edu-
cation will occur, the one polling
avenue, being open from s o'clock in
the morning until o'clock in the
evening. In view of the fact that
there are two tickets in the field, it
is expected that there will be the
heaviest vote in the history of the
school district in several years. The
ticket for reelection is composed of
c. II. Seidel and w. B. Mcintyre, while
their opposition is headed by j. E.
Larkiu and NJ. T.: Stevens.
The advantage that Messrs. Seidel
and Mcintyre present in the contest
is that they represent membership in
4 board that has done things, that
their candidacy stands for non-parti-
sanship as well as recognized efficien-
cy in the management of school af-
| fairs and that they are sought rather
than seeking a reelection. Having
consented in response to petition
to become candidates to succeed them.
selves, the citizens who have induced
them to remain feel that they should
be given the vote that their services
entitle them to.
Think Present board All Right.
| There has nothing been said from
any quarter in disparagement of tn,
gentlemen composing the LarFin
Stevens ticket, the sentiment of thos,
who are working for the reelection
of the retiring members being tina
the board as at present constituted
deserves to be continued in its en-
.irety.
People interested in the school
lshould not neglect the duty that tC
morrow imposes upon them and tina
is to turn out and vote.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-29
HARPER IS TO Be
ENLARGED and
ALSO REMODELED
Hotel Architect Making Surveys
and Estimates for Nm
orovements.
TO HAVE ANOTHER STORY
Adjoining Buildings to be Raised to
Uniform Heights-cost $4,000
to 100000.

H. S. Bill, of Chicago, a member of
one of the leading firms of hotel archi
tects in the country, is in the city to-
day, for the purpose OF making
surveys and preparing other prelim-
mary work on plans for the remodel
ing and enlargement of the Harper
house Mr. Bill has been retained by
Messrs. Stuart and Fay Harper
and he will prepare estimates and
plans with view to meeting the
wishes of Montrose e McHugh pre-
paratory TO new lease on the prop
erty.
To Add "a story.
The changes to be made in the
building as outlined include the addi-
tion of another story. making the hotel
six story building, and the raising OF
the annex, as well as the former san
itarium rooms, on the south to the
same heighth as the main building.
These improvements will add be-
tween 40 and so rooms to the hotel.
Nineteenth street of 172 feet,
by 100 on Second avenue.
The dining room and cafe are to be
brought from the second floor to the
first, and the present dining room ad'
joining the parlors will be made over
into apartments. New windows will
be put in throughout the building, and
the plumbing system will be entirely
overhauled. Practically all of the
rooms will be remodeled apd equipped
with baths The total cost of the i'm
provement will be between $4,000
and 100000.
To BE Refmnished.
With changes as provided for
the hotel proprietors, Montrose
McHugh, will secure a new lease
and in that event the proprietor
will refurnish the house throughou
With new carpets and furniture ant
install some new fixtures, including
a new and complete telephon
exchange, etc. The changes a
outlined will make the Harper
hotel second to none between Chicag
and Denver, and one of which Rocl
Island may continue to be proud.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-29
MANY ARE ON HAND
Democrats and Citizens Gener-
ally Greet John p. Nc
Goorty
IN CANVASS FOR GOVERNOR
AssembIage at Harper Saturday Night
Gives Impetus to Olson
Boom.

Hon. John 2. McGoorty, of Chicago,
car idate for the democratic nominal
tiCd for governor of Illinois, spent
came to this city from Moline at &
O'Clock in company with Chairman w.
c. Maucker of the democratic county
committee, Mayor Andrew Olson and
NJ. j. McEniry of Moline, and several
other representative democrats. Dur
ing the evening he was met at the
Harper house by several hundred citi-
Zens, not only democrats, but by many
republicans as WELL and all extended
their well wishes for his success. AS
all who know him can easily appre-
ciate, he made a very favorable i'm
preston in this city. Mr. McGoorty is
one of the best type of representative
Illinois democrats.
Talks of Situation.
In speaking of the political stu.
alton, Mr.. McGorty remarked on the
favorable reports he has received
cations of democratic success this fall
He expressed the confident belief that
whether he or one of his rivals for the
democratic nomination, Douglass Pat
tison or J. Hamilton Lewis, be nomi
mated, the democratic nominee will be
successful.
Olson's Boom started.
During the assemblage of democrats
at the Harper the candidacy of Mayo
Andrew Olson of Moline for the demo
cratic nomination for lieutenant gov
ernor was given neat boom. Mayo
| Oisons candidacy has been subpec
of comment in democratic circles TO
some time, and its appearance on tn
surface occasions no great surprise
and no little enthusiasm.
| Chairman w. c. Mauckers of tn
|county committee expects to call tn
committee together within a few day
for the purpose of taking action fc
the circulation of the petitions an
other measures preliminary to the pr
naries Aug. s.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-29

l125 Eighth avenue. 1t happened that
Mrs. Stambaugh's sister, Miss Irene
Guldelzolf, was sitting at the window
and the bullet struck her on the arm
She was badly frightened but not Sc
verely hurt Mr.. Burt will probably
take care in the future to see that
neither poles. sidewalks. windows nor
young ladies are in range when he
is practicing.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-29
Muscatine Boy Drowned.

Freddie Dittman, the 12-year-old son
of August Dittmasl. of Muscatine, was
drowned in the Mississippi river Sat
urday afternoon. Freddie. with anoth-
er companion of the same age by the
name of George Libbe, ran away from
their homes and going to the river. Sc,
cured a skiff and ventured out into
the stream. The boat was overturned.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-29

terday enjoyed family picnic in the
grove west of the street car tracks just
this side of Sears, ard about 200 of
the members and their fam lies spent
the day at the grounds. The outng
proved very enjoyable and greeS sue.
cess.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-29
HAD AN EaRATIC COURSE
Billet Does Much CHANGING and Then
Hits a Girl,

Hugh Burt, the druggist, last even.
ing was practicing in his back yard
with little % calibre revolver. He
missed the target but the bullet struck
telephone pole and glanced of to
a sidewalk from which it took another
glance and went through window in
the home of Mrs o. N. Stambaugh,