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The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-12-15
MURPHYS CABINET
BOOM GAINING IN
STRENGTH DAILY
Taft Flooded With RecOmmen=
datiOns for Portfolio fer
Jersey Man.
NO PARTICULAR PLACE
SPECIFIED BY FRIENDS
Treasury or Navy and Secre-
tary of State in Connection
With Ex-Governor.

The old boom of former Governor
Murphy for a position in President
Tafts cabinet came to the front again
today when it was authoritatiHely an
nounced that the New Jersey delega-
tion in Congress, with a number of
other. prominent men, had presented
Mr.. Murphy's name to Mr.. Taft for
consideration while making up his cab
met.
No particular place was mentioned,
but IL is reported that the secretary
snip of the treasury or of the navy
would about fit the former governor.
while some of his sanguine friends, re-
calling that President Mckinley offered
him the embassy to st. Petersburg, de-
clare that he would make an admirable
secretary of state
When Mr. Taft was interviewed in
New York last night he said:
"I have received a good many rec
concentrations for Governor Murphy,
and a formal presentation of his claims
has been made to me at Washington,
signed by the senator's and representa-
tives from his State Mr.. Murphy S
friends have not specified any particu-
lar portfolio for him"
Efforts to obtain from former Gov
ernor Murphy an amplifcation of the
statement of President-elect Taft rela-
tive to the presentation Of his name for
a cabinet position were met by the
refusal Of the former New Jersey execu-
tive to comment upon the matter in
any way.
Mr.. Murphy was asked TO state
whether his candidacy had been advo-
Gated with his knowledge and consent,
but he declined to answer. To the
question, For which particular cabinet
position have your friends recommended
you" Mr.. Murphy replied, II have
nothing to say"
The former governor has occupied a
prominent position in Republican poll
tics in New Jersey for nearly twenty
years. Always politically active, he be-
cameIchairman of the Republican State
Committee in 1892, and this office he has
retained uninterruptedly ever since.
In 1900 Mr.. Murphy was appointed a
member of the United States Commits
sion to the Paris Exposition. In 1902 he
was elected governor of New Jersey,
serving in that capacity until 1905. He
is a meniber Of the executive commit
tee of the Republican National Com
mittee.
Immediately after the election of Mr..
Taft, when it was said that Mr.. Mur-
ply could have a cabinet portfolio IL
he desired it, he declared he would not
accept an appointment, and it was ru-
mored that he would urge, instead, the
naming of ex-senator John f. Dryden
to the treasury secretaryship.
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Door Checks and Weather Strips.
Macknet & Doremus Co.. 7s6-79s Broad st.-Adv
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-12-15
TOMBSTONE, IT'S
YEARS OLD, DUG
Up IN AN ALLEY

A sand tombstone two feet square
and over 175 years old was dug up to-
day by the laborers repairing the
sewer main in the alley of the old
burying ground off Branford place.
While part of the stone was Jagged
and broken enough could be deciphered
in the old English style to learn that
it told of the death of Daniel, son of
Daniel and Sarah Wheern, aged year
and months, who died July 81, 1888.
The stone was found lying fiat in the
ditch about six feet underground. 1t is
thought that the stone originally stood
not far from where 1t is found. The
Harrison Construction Company is do
ing the repair work, the sewer having
caved in. The laborers have come
across many human bones since the
work begun, and also found two New
Jersey pennies dated 1887 and 1894 and
a Spanish coin of 1727.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-12-15
ALLOW SPORTS ON
SUNDAY, GRIMES B
COMMISSION SAYS
Several Drastic Recommends
tions Made in Report to
Governor Today.
WANT CORPORAL
PUNISHMENT TO Go
Would Have Sale of Liquor
Allowed in Restaurants
on Sabbath.

Several drastic recommendations are
contained in voluminous report that
will be submitted to Governor Fort late
today at Trenton by the Dependency
and Crimes Commission. Among the
most important of these are:
That the laws be revised to permit
Sunday sports
as paupers and the feeble minded, be
prohibited by stronger laws than at
present exist, requiring certificates
from physicians.
That corporal punishment be abol-
ished at the State Home for Girls, near
Trenton, and that the so-called medita-
tion rooms, otherwise known as
dungeons, be made more accessible, in
stead of being In the dark garret OF
the institution.
That the sale OF wines and malt
liquors be legalized in restaurants and
hotel dining-rooins with meals on Sun
days.
The commission found, 1t is said a
general and notorious violation of the
present stringent laws against the sale
of liquors. The members believe that
relax of the present rigid excise stat
utes, where they do not conform with
conditions, will lead to more general
observance and respect of all laws. For
that reason, 1t is said, 1t is recon-
mended that the sale OF wines and malt
liquors be legalized in restaurants and
dining rooms of hotels with meals on
Sundays.
The commission favors the appoint
ment of State board of managers for
all State Institutions. The members of
the board 1t recommends, should serve
without salary. 1t also urges the ap-
pointment of a commissioner of chari-
ties and corrections. 1t is the idea of
the commission that the commissioner
should be president of the State board.
The appointment of medical inspector
under the commissioner of charities and
corrections is also urged. and fiscal
agent to do the purchasing for all State
institutions is also recommended.
The enactment of law providing for
the erection In every county, where
possible, a building for Juveniles and
witnesses, Is recommended.
The enactment of more stringent
laws in regard to narcotic drugs is
urged and recommendation Is made
that the insane be permitted to enter
insane hospitals voluntarily, without
resorting to lengthy legal procedures.
The commission recommends a State
hospital for the incurable cases of tu-
berculosis.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-12-15
RICH GIRL MIKES
WITH THUGS TO
GET STOLEN GEMS
Miss Florence c. Wheelan Re-
covers Jewels After Remark
able Detective Work.
WEST ORANGE WOMEN
INVOLVED IN THEFT
Became COnfidante of Bartender
Who Knew Where
Loot Was.

i1oW d young SoClely SiIl, i6dTeu III
rthe culture of a refined home, played
detective for four months, mingled with
saloon characters won the sympathies
of bartender, and finally accom-
plished the return of her mother S
stolen jewels was told today at police
headquarters by Edward +. Wheelan, a
well-known lawyer, with offices at 1888
Market street and home at 36 Colum-
bia street
The young lady in question is Miss
Florence C. Wheelan, his daughter, and
she had an appointment with man
this afternoon who was to return to
her home the last of the missing
jewels.
Mr.. Wheelan told Chief Corbitt that
three women prominent in the society
of West Orange were implicated in the
matter, that they found the jewels
where they had been lost, and had
given them to well-known Jersey
City character to be sold for their joint
benefit. 1t was through these women
that Miss Wheelan finally traced the
| jewels, it is said.
Mrs. Wheelan and her family, and
ntua 1,;1ha,a e.oh,a,aa,. of 100 U;c,r-
liefe street went to uigbland Reach, TO
snend the 7rst u,e.,x In sen+arber and
nna low there Mrs sobpaider gave
M,.s Wbeelon her Jewels valued at
aho,,+ saoo 10 bo1d for her while she
went in bathing.
! when Mrs Wbeelan rose from the
r,,a ,,,hara sha bod hoen citing the
ieweIs vera gone The three women
',,a,,tioned b,, ber husband todav ,ad
haa,, ~ on,,, ones near her
Rewards onered'
Rewards were offered and the police
were notified and private detectives
were employed. Miss Florence Wheelan
who had been at the seashore. went to
/ work on the case. It Is said by her
father that she Learned that one OF tile
/ West Orange women mentioned had
/ had calls from a rough-looking char
acter who lived in Jersey City. She
advertised in the Jersey City papers
that liberal reward would be Offered
for the return of the jewels. The re
suit was letter asking how much re-
ward was offered and with the name
Cox signed to 1t and the address oil
the Hotel Metropole, Of Jersey city
Miss Wheelan went TO Jersey CITY
/ and found way OF becoming ac-
quainted with the bartender at the
Metropole The only COX ne knew was
a Pullman conductor, ana MISS
i. Wheelan saw him. but 1t was obvious
! to her that someone had USED MS name
without his permission.
! For weeks and weeks she studied and
worked on the bartender, and hnally
she Won his confidence, and ne told
her that If she would go to a certain
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-12-15
SLEUTHS RUSH
AUTO TO Scene
OF SHOOTING

A frantic telephone appeal to the
prosecutors office this afternoon that
q, man had been slain on the road be-
tween Cedar Grove and Little Fails
caused County Detectives Godfrey, DE
Bogartis, Slutsky and James Mason to
start for the scene in a high-power
automobile.
Inquiry by telephone brought the
declaration in that neighborhood that
there had been no murder, but that
two laborers at work on one of the
public improvements in that section
had quarreled, that seven shots had
been fired and that one of the men had
been shot in the leg. The wounded
man went to the Office of DR.. Van Dice,
in Little Falls, and had his wound
dressed.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-12-15
MAJORITY.

Forbid rhe sale Of liquor between MD
night Saturday and o'clock Monday
morning
Close all saloons between midnight
and n m.
Give to ihs Court of Common Pleas
the right to revoke licenses for second
offenses.
Make the minimum license fee $1,000
in. cit es OF more than 1000 inhabitants.
Adept the Ant-Saloon Leagues mote
clause" enact into law the .'one-mile'
I statute of prohibition States; put clear
glass fronts IN all saloons: hold heads
OF municipalities responsible for law
enforcement; put the pedigree of every
bartender in a card index, and split
the classfs of licenses into hve divi-
! sons g.
! Prohibit cock fights, prize fights dog
, fights, gambling and the conducting .of
. disorderly Eouses n connection with
any saloon.
Give the Governor the power to re-
, move officials for failure to perform
, their Nhole duty in enforcing the excise
law"
Throngh an elective excise board of
. three members administer all local
. excise affairs in every municipality.
-
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az
IMPORTANT POINTS OF DIFFERENCE
in MAJORITY and MINORITY REPORTS
OF STATE EXCISE COMMISSION
MINORITY.

Grant to certain hotels the right 10
serve drinks on sunday 10 bona fide
guests.
Issue special licenses for additional
fee. TO keep open between midnight and
8 a. m, when special permission is
granted by the licensing authority.
Give the local Excise Board the power
TO revoke licenses. III they cannot be
trusted TO revoke tlgey should not be
trusted TO grant"
Make the minimum fee $3.50 every
where and let the excise boards in
crease it.
''It has not yet been shown that any
radical chnnges should be made in the
State law
"Pronibit murders and arcenies in
places licensed to sell liquors. Why
not? The existing laws cover these as
WE'LL
I'VE dissent from the proposition.
This would make the Governor the SUI
preme dictator in the internal affairs of
all the different localities"
The objection il nadc that multi
plicity of municipalities thus affected
would suffer an attendant Increase In
taxation. for no good reason. The
Legislature should determine whether
the boards should be elective or ap-
pointive.
The San Francisco call., 1908-05-31

must be got out of the way to allow
the passage of the ships.
All this has caused Uncle Sam no end
of detail work. The canal zone is a
strip of land 10 miles in width, ex-
tending across the isthmus. the per-
petual right to which now rests in this
government
All along the line cities and towns
have sprung up. until at the present
moment the zone has a population of
about 100, 900 souls. OF these about half
are negroes. employed at laboring work
on the canal and on the railroad, while
the remainder are Americans and their
families.
Uncle Sam is good to the American
employe, for In addition to paying good
wages and furnishing houses and light
to. the married employees and suitable
quarters to the unmarried men, he in-
sists on each employe taking vacation
of AZ days to the states each year. Full
salary is paid during vacation, and in
addition they are granted rate of $50
from Colon to New York. first class, on
the Panama steamers, while an out
slider would be required to pay from So
to $50 for the same service The yearly
vacations cannot be spent in or about
the canal zone, and as each employees
turn comes he must leave for the states.
In addition to furnishing houses for
the married and mems quarters for
the unmarried Uncle Sam conducts 10
large hotels at various points along
the zone. where meals to an empIoye
are procurable for 80 cents. while the
unattached wayfarer may regale him
The San Francisco call., 1908-05-31
=F,NTRANgE 10 CANAL .e0>oN

total at that point of 1914 cubic
yards.
The total taken by dredges at all
points from the canal prism was 1885,
504 cubic yards, from accessory works
31,663, making total of 1,330,167, an
increase OF 220174 cubic yards over
the previous month. The grand total
for the month was: From canal prism
3,2O5,076 cubic yards. from accessory
works 275,194 cubic yards. or a total
OF S,4S0,270 cubic yards.
An idea of the rapid work done by
the steam shovels on the canal may be
gained from the record of the seven
machines working at the Gatun lock
site for one week, ending March 81,
during the writer's visit The maxi
mum daily output of the seven shovels
was made on Friday, March 20, when
10,09l cubic yards, car measurement,
were excavated. an average Of 1,442
cubic yards per shovel. During the
same period the six shovels at the
spillway eXcavated total OF 36,312 Gu
bic yards, car measurement Steam
shovel No. l19 made the largest output
for the week-11.544 cubic yards-and
the highest daily record for the week
was made on March 10 by shovel No.
11S and March II by shovel No. 252,
each of which removed 2,c0S cubic
yards.
And thus it goes. All along the line
OF the canal operations are being con-
Quoted simultaneously, no less than zoo
steam shovels and 900 dirt trains be-
ing constantly employed in removing
the enormous quantities Of earth which
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Until the track shifter moves the track
nearer the edge of the dump. One
days harvest of loaded hatcars, If
made up into one train, from the Guile
bra cut alone, it is estimated would
cover a distance of between so and 40
miles.
In March last the grand total of ex-
cavation throughout the work almost
reached the enormous amount OF
$4,000 cubic yards. The exact figure
was S.4SO.270 cubic yards. The high
est previous monthly total was that of
February, which was 2.945,SSO cubic
yards, or more than half a. million
cubic yards less. OF the total March
excavation 3.20o.076 cubic yards were
taken from the canal prism-1, 906,572
cubic yards by steam shovels and
1,29S,o04 by dredges. From the Culebra
division 1.216.2e4 cubic yards were
taken from the canal prism, and 1924
from accessory works, making total
in that division of 1,295.205 cubic
yards. From the Mindi division, all
within the canal prism, $3.50 cubic
yards were removed. In the .Chagres
division 325,373 cubic yards were taken
from the prism. and 1922 from ac-
cessory works, making a total in
that division of 329.695 cubic yards.
From the Gatun locks and spillway
there were taken by steam shovels
s57,799 cubic yards, OF which all but
155,037 cubic yards were within the
canal prism. From the La Boca Or
Mirafores locks e7,s6S cubic yards
were taken from the canal prism, and
5.c51 from accessory works, making a
The San Francisco call., 1908-05-31

self al the same table for so cents.
The majority of the laboring element
comes from the West Indies. Few.
however, are steady workers. They
work as rule just long enough to
get money to supply their actual
bodily necessities, with the result that
while the canal commission is quar-
tering and caring for about 10000 men.
the daily effective force is many
thousands less. Many of them settle
in the jungle. building little shacks.
raising enough to keep them alive and
working only a day or two occasionally
as they see fit These unsatisfactory
conditions led to an experiment with
laborers from northern Spain and the
results are satisfactory. Their eff
cheney is not only more than double
that of the negroes, but they stand the
climate much better. They have ma
laria in about the same degree as the
white Americans, but not at all to the
extent that the negroes have it. Their
general condition is about as good as
it was at their homes in Spain. The
authorities are convinced by this eX-
pertinent tnat any white man, so
called. under the same conditions will
stand the climate on the iSthmus very
much better than the negroes. who
are supposed to be immune from prac-
ter of fact are subject 10 almost every
thing.
In the past 1t had been generally
supposed the climate of Panama was
such that no white man could live
there. Yellow fever. malaria and a
half dozen lesser ills formerly common
TO the isthmian country have all been
charged to that same disreputabIe
climate. The sanitary showing made
an ho 18TH ha ha .
been in American hands has. however,
we'll nigh disproven all previous sur
misses, doubts and fears.
The history of the French companies
showed that in a hygienic way they
placed no credence in the well known
maxim that IAN ounce of prevention
is worth q pound of cure. They took
care of their sick in a commendable
manner after disease had stricken them
down. but they made not the slightest
provision for preventing disease. At
that period, 1t must be said, the mos
quito theory relative to. the spread of
yellow fever and malaria had not be-
come an accepted fact.
The inroads made by yellow fever in
the ranks of the French employees was
taken as tho workings Of the hand of
fate and accepted philosophically. No
attention was paid TO draining stag
nant pools and low places: no safe
guard was thrown about dwelIins
places Of employees in the way oi
screening: any one suggesting fumiga-
ton would have been laughed to scorn
The administrative heads of canal
affairs under American control fore
saw that the first move necessary to
insure success was the cleaning up OF
the canal zone and adjacent cities The
sanitary campaign was inaugurated in
1904, and has been carried on con-
tinually ever since. During the year
1905. when the work was under full
headway, the commonest sight on the
streets of Panama and Colon was some
detachment of the fumigation brigade
The cities and the zone were fumi-
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CANAL HOspIT.AL
COLON
q g

be provided an auxiliary pair of gates
at the lower end of each fight for
use as Golfer dams in case it may be
necessary Go pump out the locks, and ii
has. been decided tentatively to adopt
swingbridge type OF dam for emergency
use.
Gatun lake-As soon as the portions
OF the dam sbutting SpiIlway hill are
high enough to stand 90 to 90 feet
of water in the lake. IL is proposed TO
build across the channel through Spill
way hill concrete dam high enough
TO hold the lake at tho aforementioned
level During the dry season following.
the dams across the channel through
Spiliway bill Will be brought to its full
height and a permanent spilIway con
structed. including the necessary regu-
lating works. by means of which the
surplus water OF the lake will be
passed down TO the sea. The area
OF the lake will be 1929 square miles.
and it will extend all the way from
Gatun TO Bas Obispo. Between these
towns the Chagres river crosses the
center line of the canal no less than
80 times
The Culebra cut-Tne bulk of the
real heavy work is at what is known as
Culebra cut. Here a range of mountains
whose crest is more than $50 feet high
is being pierced for q total length of
IL HlieS- Dozens OF monster steam
shovels of the 95 ton variety are putting
away and with each rise of the i'm
mense scoop six cubic yards of earth
are deposited upon the waiting trains
of f1atcars. On either side of the cut
are terraces upon which shovels are
loading the fiatcar trains, and by
actual count on March 81 the number
of trains either being loaded or waiting
their turn was ~. each of from 25 to 80
fiatcars. The engineers estimate that
from this cut alone 2s5.oo0. 900 cubic
Yards of material must be moved. The
loaded trains are run to the various
dumps. and by means OF a scraper,
drawn from the rear car toward the
locomotive by donkey engine and a
cable. train of 80 cars has been rid OF
it's load in less than two minutes. AS
the quantities Of dirt pile up a scraper
comes along, and with the ease of a
lawn mower the uneven dump is leveled
of and rid of powders Weighing tons
as though they were mere pebbles
Then the long cranes OF the travelling
track shifters come along and bodily
pick up sections of track and ties, de-
posting the railroad nearer the edge
that the dumping process may proceed
with the least delay possible. 1t is no
uncommon sight to see a loaded train
lying on . siding for few minutes
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Culebra the Problem


In the canal proper the culebr4 divi-
. sion nresents the most difficult problem.
For a distance OF Il miles the route Is
through q mountain range varying IN
beizht from 22a feet down. and for a
prea- norton OF the distance the forma
ton is solid rock. requiring af times
blasts OF not less than 10 tons OF dyna
mite at a charge before the battery oi
45 ton steam sifovels can be made el-
fectirc At one dip steam shoNei OF
Tho ~ TON type removes six square
Yards OF earth or ABOUT fonr ordinarH
two horse wagon loads In ono month
three OF these machines. under ordi-
nary circumstances would handle
2 enough earth to cover the entire San
Francisco peninsula to a depth Of four
inches
A brief sketch Of the canal by sec
tions and the work that is being done
is given herewith:
I5snon harbor channel-The harbor
channel of the canal at the Atlantic
end begins at Limon bay. The width
Of the channels mouth will be spproxi-
mately 1000 feet and the opening will
be protected by converging jetties. The
channel from this point to the mouth OF
the Mindi river, a distance Of four miles.
. will have bottom width OF 500 feet
and viii be dredged TO a depth OF 40
feet At Mindf, where the canal proper
starts. the ground is only a little above
sea level, but rises until at Gatun, 2.e
miles away. the elevation is S5 feet.
Gatun dam-This dam Is intended to
impound the waters OF the raging
Chagres river. 1t will he OF esrtllwork.
riprapped i'm the portions most exposed
10 wear The top OF the dam is TO be
100 feet wide, and its crest viii be
$50 feet above the normal lake level
The width OF the dam at water level
will be 374 feet, and at sea level 2,62o
feet Its total length will be in the
neighborhood OF LOO feet and its
height l35 feet. A spillway will be
constructed through the dam, and work
on this was begun in April, 1907.
Catun locks-Gatun is also the site
of triple flight of locks. The original
plans called for locks with usable
lengths Of 1000 feet and widths OF
100 feet. During 1907 il was decided
10 increase their width l20 feet. The
gates are TO be in duplicate and Of the
1nfter type, except that the rolling gate.
similar 10 that now in use in the Ohio
river. will be substituted for the dupli-
cate set at the lower end of each sum-
init level lock. In addition, there will