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The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-27
50 ARE SAVED. BY
HUMAN CHAIN At
FIRE; z WILL DIE
Incendiaries Start Flames in
Bronx and BrOOkyn-l3
Victims in Hospital.
AND DAUGHTER
ARE FATALLY BURNED
Occupants of Big Tenements Are
Driven to Streets by Work
of Firebugs.

NEW YORK, Feb. 27.-Nearly twenty
persons, two of whom will die, were
burned today when fire swept through
a five-story tenement that housed
twenty families at the east end of
First street. Colegero Barbarette, aged
so years, and his daughter Lena, 20
years old, suffered most.
Captain O'Connor and Firemen Nc
CURE and Port are responsible for the
list of injured being small. They form
ed a chain from the second-fioor fire
escape before the hook and ladder COM
panies arrived and passed more than
fifty persons who were crowded on the
fire escape platform to the street.
Thirteen persons are in Bellevue
Hospital. Oil is said to have been
spread in a hallway before the fire.
Forty per 81 were rescued by fire.
men at 24Z East 10th street, when the
store of Benjamin Weiss, at the Third
avenue corner was destroyed. The
police believe that the blaze was
started by an enemy of Weiss.
There were three incendiary fires in
Brooklyn today, at 47-49 Emmett street,
where many tenants. were driven out;
at S39 Bedford avenue. and 81 Osborne
street. In each case oil had been used.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-27
JURY INSPECTS HOUSE,
SUBJECT OF LITIGATION.
Owner Wants $4,000 from
Contractor, Saying Tenement
Is Not Properly Constructed.

A close inspection of the brick tene-
ment, 269 East Kinney street, was
made today to the jury which has
been hearing the evidence in the suit
brought by Antonio Manzella and his
wife against Saverio Rizzolo, who con-
structed the building and from whom
they demand &c., 900 damages, because
of alleged defects in the building.
1t had beer testified during the trial
that there were cracks in. the walls of
the building, that it's foundation had
not beer erected properly and that the
walls were not of sufficient thickness to
meet the requirements of the building
ordinance. Two architects and a court
constable accompanied the talesmen.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-27

Richard Vain Meirs, of Philadelphia
to whom she gives $780, 200.
In connection with the announce
ment of the gifts from Mrs. Pentield,
her attorney, Hampton Carson, made
a statement to the effect that the bride
had not softened toward her sister-in-
law for having brought the contest,
characterizing it as an "ill-advised and
groundless and unsuccessful attack
which deprived the ~benehciaries or
what they might have enjoyed prev
iously."
The 81. 0OO. 900 is but a small slice of
her fortune, estimated at vel $50, 00O,-
600. She also gives $500, 600 to charities.
among which is $50, 600 to the Historical
Society of Pennsylvania, as a memorial
to her late husband, Robert j.. G.
Walker, who was long a Pennsylvania
Congressman. She also gives $4,000 to
the Philadelphia Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Children, and a
! smaller amount to the Philadelphia
Society for the Prevention Of Cruelty
Animals.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-27
PRAISE
WORK Of HOUSE Of
GOOD SHEPHERD
Conference Expresses Regret at
MisinterpretatiOn of Atti-
tnde Toward Institution.
HAD NO THOUGHT OF
CRITICISING HOME
Not Responsible for Views of
Speakers Before Body Nor
for Imperfect Reports.

At a meeting of the Conference of
Friendly Visitors this morning in the
Free Public Library, resolutions We're
adopted in which regret was expressed
at the misinterpretation of the discus
sion at the last session, when the work
of the House of Good Shepherd was.
mentioned. 1t was stated that the con-
ference has suffered because of the i'm
perfect reports that have appeared in
one of the local newspapers in regard
to this matter.
The members of the conference eX-
pressed its appreciation of the good
work of the House of Good Shepherd,
which is the only institution in Essex
County for hayward girls" and stated
that they had mo thought ofscriticis-
ing" that or any other institution.
1t was explained tina the confer
ence vas not responsible for any views
that invited speakers at these weekly
meetings might express. nor for the
part taken in the discussion by those
who are not Friendly Visitors.
In part the resolution read as follows:
ut is to be regretted that the con-
ference has been misinterpreted and
consequently misunderstood by the
public through the newspaper accounts
Of past meetings. Two meetings arc
held on Thursday mornings. At the
first, from 10 to II, the real business
Of the conference is transacted and re-
ports made'upon its vital work, that
of visitation by individual visitors of
unfortunate families. Ninety-four
women are co~nscientiously and de-
votedly doing this work.
THE second hour is devoted to the
gathering of information, and speakers
are asked to address this meeting i'll
order that the visitors may be we'll
informed and may become more intel
ligent in the work which they are
doing.
ITO this meeting others in addition
to Friendly Visitors are invited inorder
that they may become interested and
| possibly enlist as Friendly Visitors.
The meetings were never Intended to
offer a free platform for public dis
cussion, but It is simply and solely
for the instruction Of the visitors, The
conference has never wishedeec sought
publicity for the meetings. The Friend
ly Visitor conference as a whol9 has,
therefore,, suffered because of thl inn
perfect reports that have appeaARd of
these meetings.
The Rev. Dorr f. D~ieffendorf pre-
sided at this mornings SESSION. of the
conference. Miss Mabel Eastoh, of the
Young Women's Christian Association,
spoke of the excellent work that is
being done among the working girls by
the organization of which she is extern
sion secretary. She told of the visits
to factories and gave encouraging re-
ports.
Mrs. Nathan Weinberg gave a review
of Miss Richardson's book, The Long
Day." in which the trials and .ribula-
tions of the working girl are wildly
pictured.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-27
KING ALCOHOL, ROUTED BY WOMAN
HYPNOTIST, VANQUISHES A BISHOP
New York Surgeons Wife Cures
Inebriates by Mental Process
as Labor of Love.

NEW YORK, Feb. 27.-varied ills.
from nail-biting in children. to alco-
holism, are being treated by hypnotism
Tuesdays and Fridays, in the parish
house of Calvary Protestant Episcopal
Church, Fourth avenue and 2lst street.
by Mrs. j. j. Higgins. whose husband
is a prominent surgeon. Her efforts
are reported highly successful, and she
is laboring without pay, largely among
the poor. The Rev. DIR. Leighton
Parks, rector of the church. is giving
his moral support.
Mrs. Higgins is said to have the tes-
timony of scores Of persons who have
expressed gratitude for her ministra-
tions. she declares the s~atisfaetiAn
she finds In relieving on curing msfa-
dies OF the afflicted Is all she desires
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-27
VENEER COMPANY u E
Court Orders Rival to Give Ac-
counting of Profits on Patent.

Claiming Infringement of patent n
damages for competition. Edgar M.
J~oralemon, of A East Kinney street,
trading as the Celluvarno Company,
brought suit today in the United States
Circuit Court against the Sanitary
Veneer Company, of 8 Kirk street.
Joralemon says he invented a process
for covering wood with a composition
of celluloid in 1899 and hat defendants
have been guilty of infringement for
several years.
An order to show cause why an in
junction should not be issued against
defendants was granted by the court.
An accounting of past sales is also
ordered.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-27
Chicago PreIate Fails to Rescue
Horrible Example, by Lay-
ing on of Hands.

CHICAGO, Feb. 27.-Bishop Fallows,
at st. Paurs Reformed Episcopal
Church. who has been advocating RE
ligious Therapeutics" presided at a
Health conference" las night, speak
ing on Thought. the Master Builder"
He had a .'horrible example" in at
tendance, and said that God would
cure the evil. take liquor out of the
mans heart and free it with thoughts
of temperance
HShow me-" said the liquor victim,
At the apex of the bishops address.
Keep .still.1 said The aged bishop.
kindly. But the snan Insisted. Then
m bishop laid his hands Oh the ssb-
5ects mead.
.1rn al IN" safd t.le stranger, finally.
AID ms declared Eilat 70 could drink &
quag 81 Scotch NntslSey. yalen lliuc;l-
son vas served.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-27

As a result of THE EVENING
STARS having called attention to>the
harvesting and selling of ice cut from
the string of ponds in %Irvington, which
are fed by the Elizabeth River, a river
in name only, the Mountain Ice COM
pany, the controlling interest of the
three brakes ponds, informed Health
officer Chandler today that they have
decided to abandon the attempt to cut
ice. Joseph r. Castle. an ice cream
manufactures, who controls the output
of Durand's Pond. also has given up
the attempt to harvest the ice.
The conditions revealed and placed
before the State Board of Health and
the Newark Board OF Health has re
suited in Health Officer David ID.
Chandler refusing to allow a pound of
the ice to be carted through this city
or sold here. The State Board of
Health was about to take action to
condemn the crops il harvested, it is
understood, and a threat to appeal to
the Legislature to give the State
Health Board additional power over
these ponds forced the owners to give
up their fight to retain ice-curting
privileges despite the conditions along
The banks of the creeks that feed the
river and the ponds.
When ice-cutting was started on
Durand's Pond, in Springfield avenue,
near the centre of %Irvlngton, this paper
took up the fight. The owners then in
formed the Newark health authorities
that no more ice would be cut on the
ponds.
Many Sources of Pollution.
The Elizabeth River, which feeds the
region of the Elizabeth Valley, is fed
by many tributary creeks, and there are
sources of pollution along the banks,
including a slaughter house in the
Vailsburg' section, many stables. the
drainage from two cemeteries and rot
ting vegetable matter from several
swamps.
When the matter was placed before
the Irvington Board of Health last year
no action was taken. Then Health Off
Ger Chandler sent Special Inspector
Brady to the I%rvington ponds. Speci-
mems of ice analysed by City Bac-
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-27
NO LAWYER, BUT
COURT LETS HER
DEFEND CLIENT
StenOgrapher Appears for Man
Accused of Embedding, in
Absence of Attorney.
GENERAL DENIAL
IN ANSWER TO CHARGE
It Is Alleged That Collector Had
Retained Funds of De-
partment Store.

Although not a lawyer, pretty MISS
Julia F. Hoch, of II Bloomfield avenue.
who is stenographer, typewriter and
clerk in the office of John f. Cahill,
Jumped into the breach, with the con-
sent of t~hescourt, today, in the Court
of Quarter Sessions, to the defense of
William Crease, a young man charged
with the e-mbezzlement of $780, SO, De-
cember 10, from the department store
of Hahne & So.
Lawyer CahilI had been engaged to
defend Crease, but owing to the pres
sure of other business was unable to
report before Judge Ten Eyck when
the Crease case was called.
The court became impatient and
looked around the for another
lawyer to defend the accused. Final
" Miss Hoch volunteered to look after
him.
She said that she knew something
about the case, and the court on
sented.
Crease was the Bloomfield C. o. d.
collector for the big department store.
and George A. Martin, one of its super
in~tendents, gave the details as TO the
way the collections were made.
When the defense was called Crease
put in a general denial that he had en-
bezzled, saying that he was not short
on his own sheets.
"Of course, L am not much of a law
yer,'' modestly said Miss Hoch to the
court. as she put her client on the wit
ness stand.
Mr.. Grease, where do you reside?"
was her first question.
"Ma'am?" came from Grease.
Where do you live!"
"In Bloomfield"
Then he went on to say that his ar
rest and indictment were all a mistake.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-27
O R FOR A BROTHER.
Negro Explains His Collections
of Association Funds.

Detective Sergeants Farrell and
Quinn have arrested William Bowers,
a negro, who gave his address as 255
Prince street, and said he was a col
lector for the National Benefit Colored
Association, of Washington, ID. C.
The local Office of the association
denies hat Bowers is employed by
them.
When confronted with this statement,
Bowers said he assisted his brother
who is in the employ of the association
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-27
BRICK statesmen
GET HEARING TOMORROW.
Sheriff Mason Prefers
Swindling Charge, but Pris-
OnerS Profess Innocence.

Joseph Martin and John Isenberg,
the alleged gold-brick statesmen, who
are now in the county Jail because they
We're foolish enough to secure as a
first prospective customer Constable
Thomas, of the sheriff office. will be
arraigned before Judge Howell in the
First Criminal Court Saturday morn
ing.
The supposed ~him-flamners have Sc
cured the services of Frank NJ. Nc
Dermit, who says his clients are inno-
cent.
Under-Sherif Charles NJ. Mason to-
day made a formal charge of swindling
against tie two men of alleged fake
bullion. Martins real name is said
to be ike Blumenthal, and ~Isenberg's
Is said to be Norris.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-27
REV. DIR. cUTHBERT HALL BETTER.

Many clergymen of this city and
vicinity who studied under the Rev.
DIR. Charles Cuthbert. Hall will be
gratifed to learn that he is improving.
He is president and trustee of the
Union Theological Seminary of New
York city, and has been seriously ill
from liver trouble, contracted in India
last winter.
The Rev. DIR. Hall is well known in
this city, and was to have taken part
in the recent t~wenty-ffth anniversary
of the Rev. DR.. David r. Frazer, but
was prevented by illness.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-27
JANSEN ESTATE
TO BE SOLD IF
HUSBAND REWEDS
Receives Entire Income While
lie Remains WidOwer,
Wife Provides.

In the will of Mrs. Barbara M. jan
sen, late wife of Otto Jansen, ad-
mitted to probate in the s~urrogate's
office today, she provides that Jansen
is to receive the income of her estate
during his lifetime, and at his death
the principal is to go to Mrs. Lille
B. Koethe, an adopted daughter.
1t is further provided that in case
Mr.. Jansen marries again the execu-
tors are to sell all the real estate and
invest one-third of it for Mr.. Jansen's
benefit, and pay the remainder to the
adopted daughter.
The will bears date of April 1, 1908,
and August A. Sippel and the widower
are the executors.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-27
IDEA LEAGUE TO
HOLD ANNUAL ELECTION.

The Republican League for Limited
Franchise and Equal Taxation, the
New Idea wing of the Republican
party, will hold a meeting this after
noon at the leagues headquarters, in
the Scheuer building.
The meeting has been called for the
purpose of electing officers for the COM
ing year and to adopt planks on which
the league will work during next cleo
ton.
All the questions that have been agi-
tated liz the past will be brought up
again.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-27
SHOOTS HIMSELF; TELLS
COURT HE WAS BLUFFING.
Paul Gaross Remanded After Ex-
planning to Judge He Was
Angry with Parents.

Paul Gaross. "a. of 9 Comes alley,
arrested yesterday after exploding a
revolver in his bedroom, was arraigned
today before Judge Howell in'the First
Criminal Court.
Gaross fired a bullet close to his
breast, and the bullet simply glanced
over the flesh, leaving a scratch wound.
He said he was angry at his folks and
that he was only blufiing when he
fired the shot which inflicted a flesh
wound in the breast. He vas re-
manded until tomorrow.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-27
$4,000 Memorial to Former
Husband Announced on
Wedding Day.

NEW YORK, Feb. 27-one of the
first acts of Mrs. Annie Weightman
Walker, second richest woman in the
world, after becoming the bride Of
Frederick Courtland Penfield IN st.
Patricks Cathedral yesterday, was ;he
announcement of gifts ~aggregating
ST. 100000 to nieees and great-nieces,
nephews and great-nephews and other
relatives, who had long fought her in
the courts and lost in an effort "a
cure a part of the great fortuE t
her by her father, the "Quinine0ays
Most of tho benehNiaries wx
the thirty guests at the coref/
bride wal attended by her
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-27
RED MEN FIGHT OVER
RECORD KEEPERS STUMP,
[speclal 70 the Evening star.l

TRENTON. Feb. 27.-The annual
convention of the Great Council of New
jersey Improved Order of Red Men,
met in Y. M, c. A. Hall today. The
convention was called to order by
Great Sachem Frank E. K. Jackson, of
Camden.
1t is understood that there is to be a
contest for the office of great chief of
records. The present incumbent, Daniel
M. Stevens, of Camden, has held the
office for twenty-five years. and is a
candidate for reelection. Charles ii.
Fitzgerald, of Mount Holly, is also
seeking the post
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-27
MANAGER TESTIFIES
in DEFINING SUIT.
Adolph Kerns Ordered to Pro-
dnce Records of Vulcan
Concern.

a DEFINING Company, of Sewaren,
testified today before Vice Chancellor
Howell in an infringement suit brought
against the concern by the Gold.
schmidt brothers, of Essen-Ruhr, Ger
many.
Kerns told of his correspondence with
the compliments from 1892 to the pres
ent. He was instructed by counsel TO
bring with him tomorrow the books of
the concern.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-27
BLOOMFIELD wOMAN's EUCHRE.

Mrs. Elizabeth Cook gave a pro-
gressive euchre in her home, 1872 ASH
land avenue, Bloomfield, last night.
The guests included Mrs. H. w. Suplee.
Miss A. Clark, Mr.. and Mrs. David
Smith, Harry Cook, Mr.. and Mrs.
Frederick Smith, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Cook, Mr.. and Mrs. A. Feitner, the
Misses Kate, Charlotte and Mary Cook
and Mr.. and Mrs. Augustus Ashley.
The prize winners were Mrs. F. Smith,
Miss Clark and Mrs. Feitner. A din
ner followed.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-27
SEEK ANNEXATION TO NEWARK.

Determined in their fight for annex
alton to this city, members of the Soho
and Silver Lake Improvement Associa-
ton arranged last night for a large
representation at the hearing today be-
fore the Board of Works. Not salts
fed merely with the annexation of
Silver Lake and Soho. representatives
of the association are agitating the
annexation of the whole township to
Newark. 1t is said that a petition to
this effect will be. put in circulation
within a week or so.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-27
mo COLOR OR RACE LINE
IN COURT" SAYS HEISLEY.

81 know the jury will not consider
the nationality of the defendant in
rendering a verdict said Judge Heisley
in charging the talesmen in the case of
Angela Stairero, who sued the North
Jersey Street Railway Company to re-
cover damages sustained in a collision
He added that race or color, of
course, had no distinction in a court of
Justice" The case then went to the
jury.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-27
GARMENT WORKERS UNION
TO AID IDLE MEMBERS.

1t was decided at a meeting of Car
ment Workers Union No. "a. It
night, to care for all members of tile
organization out Of work, so that they
will not have to be assisted by char
liable organizations. About 400 are
idle. The worker will attend the Will
lam ID. Haywood mass meeting at
Kurz's Coliseum Friday night in a
body.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-27
NEWARK ACADEMY DINNER.

Among the speakers at the annual
Inner of the Newark Academy Alumni
Association tomorrow night (Friday) at
are the Rev. DR.. William M.
pastor of the North Orange
Church; Wilson Farrand,
Sheriff Frank H. Sommer and George
Tomkins. vice-president of the
of Education. DR.. Quimby, presi-
dent Of the association, will preside.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-27
K|DNAPPER
SENTENCED TO 80
YEARS IN PRISON
Wife Accessory Gets Five Years
Less Than Husband in
Same Crime.

CHICAGO, Feb. 27.rWilliam Jones,
alias Birmingham, and his wife, Irene
Alzina Jones, were today sentenced to
the pe~nitentiary by. Judge Kersten for.
the kidnapping of Lillian Wulff, an s.
year-old. girl, last December.
The man was given a t~hirty-years'
term and the woman twenty-five years.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-27
Typhoid Betrayed Owners.

Permission was finally granted to the
owners to have the ice carted through
the city and to be sold for refrigerating
purposes, but shortly afterwards there
was an epidemic of typhoid fever here,
and Investigation showed that the pol
luted I%rvington ice was being sold in
Electric Park to be put into drinks as
crushed ice, and vas being sold all over
the city. Then a special inspector from
the Newark Board of Health was put
on the watch.
Chandler w. Riker. retained as coun-
sci by the Mountain Ice Company,
sent a letter to THE EVENING STAR
setting forth that the ice cut from the
I%rvinston ponds had been subjected to
chemical analysis and found to be
fairly good" and he pointed out that
the sources of contamination were
practically removed. 1t was later
shown that while the drainage of the
slaughter house had been diverted into
the sewer, that the drainage of the
Hyde Park section OF East Orange,
the several cemeteries and blind bitches
as well as animal contamination was
still flowing into the river.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-27
NO MORE ICE TO
Be HARVESTED ON
IRWNGT0N PONDS
Stubborn Fight to Retain Priv
iIeges Ends in Victory
for Newark.
HEALTH OFFICER MAKES
PROSECUTION THREAT
Pollution of Feeding Streams,
Shown a Year Ago, Started
Health Board Action.
TO TRACE EVERY POUND
OF ICE TO ITS SOURCE.

81 have been informed that the
cutting Of the ice o. the string
Of IFSIngtOn ponds has been dis
continued, and have received the
assurance that lee would neVer
ugain he harvested on them. I
had already issued orders to the
health Inspectors 10 watch for the
lee closely In this city. and III one
pound of IL was found within
the city limits 10 trace 1t to its
source and we would take care
OF the marty that brought Ii iD.''
Health officer David d. Chand-
Ter to an EVENING STAR e
porter.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-27
GO SOUTH TO ESCAPE COLD.

Mr.. and Mrs. Russell Marston, Of
Charlton avenue South Orange. have
gone South to spend the remainder of
the winter season.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-27

teriologist Connolly caused the Board
of Health at the following meeting to
order that none of the ice be sold in
this city, under penalty of the icemen
having their licenses revoked.
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ures. We must not, however, forget
the subordinates, whose faithful service
made the completion of the great prof.
ects possible
The topic of the evening was Men
The Rev. Dr.. Fred Clare Baldwin,
speaking on 1.-THE Churchman," said
there was a need for a reconstructed
creed for the practical exigencies of
Christendom."
The Rev. DR.. John NJ. Thomas, who
spoke on ''The Fellow Man." said that
men are only men as. they stand In
relation to the home, social, business
and professional life.