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The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-04
CALDWELL.
VERONA AND
5 FELLS
FIGHT FOR LEADER
REPUBLICANS
IN A oUANDARY.
Moore, Worcester, Cabs and Gilbert
Are Among the Names
Mentioned.

There is AIRED hot fight on in Bloomfield
for the Craftsmanship OF the Town Repub-
lican Executive Committee. The members
of the county committee in the town have
the choosing Of the chairman. Those who
have a voice In the matter are Edgar D.
Alderman. James c.. Brown. Frederick
Storm, Walter VI. Tappan, John R Con-
Ian and Walter Ellor.
OF the above Brown and Tappan are the
only ones vino are classed as Regulars.
The others are said TO be New Idea mer.
Harry l.. Osborne, who was chairman Of
the committee last year, declined TO serve
again.
A conference was held last night, but nc
agreement could be arrived at. Some Of
the members were In favor Of electing
William Douglass Moore. a former Coun-
Gilman. He is a lawyer.
II IS char ged. however, that Mr.. Moore
supported DR.. Wilfred F. Harrison, a
Democrat, TO-: Mayor against William p.
Sutphen. present incumbent.
Others wanted William Jarvie Wor-
cester, a New Idea man, made chairman.
Frederick Kingslund Cabs, who made an
ur successful run against William L. John-
son for the office of Town Clerk, would
also like TO lead the G. o. P. forces in the
town.
Just who will be chosen in the end is
merely a matter of conjecture. Seymour
P. Gilbert is also mentioned in connection
with the position.
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SCIENTIFIC THEORIES
SMASHED TO FLINDERS.
Rockefeller Chemist Startles Scientists
With His New Claims on
Trangmutation.

CHICAGO. Jan. 4.-That the changing
of elemental metals into one another IS
not possible was the startling claim made
by Professor Herbert N. Mccoy, of the
University Of Chicago, at the final meet
ing of the American Association for tn
Advancement of Science.
The ancient dream of the separation of
the elements which antedates the whole
science of chemistry is being fulfilled by
the processes Of nature and the effect of
radium emnation. it is alleged by the
chemist who read a paper on THE Inter
relations Of the Elements" The new
theory is based on original investigation
into the nature of the atom and expert
ments believed to shatter many famous
scientific hypothesis.
In support of lis statement that the
elements nay 10 longer be considered i'm
and that matter is of but enc
primitive sort, subject TO changes. Prof.
Mccoy cold Of the production of different
metals from elements in his own labora-
tory. The presence Of radioactive con-
ditions In the atoms Is held respoi sible for
the change.
The discovery of radium is an important
link in the theory, and the radioactive
changes In nature give the best examples
of separation of clements. The study of
radium is likely to prove n complete solu-
tion of the problem of tra~nsmutation, now
all but cleared, he declares.
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Mrs. Catherine w. h. Purchase.

Mrs. Catherine VILE Bright Purchase,
81 years old, the widow of the late
Thomas Il. Purchase, of 81 Myrtle we
nue., Irvington, died after a long llness
early this morning. Complications due
to her age are assigned as the cause OF
her death. The funeral services will
take place Tuesday night from her
home, and burial will be in Reading.
Pa, Wednesday.
Mrs. Purchase was born in Reading
and lived there for about twenty-five
years, when she went to Taunton,
Mass. Later she moved to this city
and fourteen years ago went to Irving
ton. She was a member of the Fifth
Baptist Church of this city and was
noted for her Christian work and char
itable inclinations.
She is survived by the following
children: Mrs. Thomas j.. Darling, of
this city; Mrs. e. Clayton Holdridge, of
Sufield, Conn; Mrs. Daniel Rankin, of
Taunton, Mass; Calvin Reed. of 46 Lin
den avenue, I%rvington, and Miss Kath-
crime A. Purchase and George +. Pur-
chase, who resided with their mother;
There are fourteen grandchildren and
-four great-grandchfldren.
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M0MTCLAIR.

Mrs. and Mrs. T. Sullivan. who have for
a year past made their home IN Soutn
America. have returned to Montclair and,
for the present, are stopping at the Laurel
House, in Hillside avenue.
Miss Clara Weeks. daughter of John T..
Weeks, of 95 South Mountain avenue, and
Percy Allen, also of this town, will be mar
ried late this afternoon. The wedding cere-
mony will take place in st. Luke's Epis-
copal Church.. The Rev. Frederick B. Car
ter, rector of the church, will perform the
ceremony. There will be no reception after
the ceremony.
Mrs. Lucia Gale Barber, Of Boston. Mass.
will give the first of a series Of four lee
lures on "Psycho-Physical Culture" next
Thursday morning, at the Hotel Montclair.
The other three lectures will be given at
the home of Mrs. Seth P. Marshall, "A
Porter place; Mrs. Charles D.: Barry, s.
South Fullerton avenue, and Mrs. w. /.
Lincoln Adams, Llewellyn road. The Leo
lures will be accompanied by music.
Lewis William Armstrong will deliver q
lecture, entitled ireland in Song and
Story in Tegakwita Hall, on Thursday.
evening, january 80, under the auspices Of
the United Catholic Societies of Monfclair.
DR.. Harry Gaylord Dorman, who has been
appointed professor of medicine In the
Syrian Protestant College, at Beirut. has
sailed for that country to assume his
duties. DR.. Dorman expects to return to
his home on a furlough in about five years.
The Woman's Home Missionary Society.
of the First Congregational Church, will
hold an all-day meeting next Tuesday In
the church b.. par R1ss,, At A s sanb afIern aecret ses,
congregational Sunday school and Publish
ing Society, will speak.
Miss Laura Steele, of Stamford, Conn, is
visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer M. Tracey, OF
Orange road
Thomas Wilson and Bernard Flood, botf
Of Bloomfield avenue, will spend next week
at Lakewood.
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SOCIETY DANCE IN NUTLEY.
First Subscription Affair Given at the
Field Club.

The first OF two subscription dances, to
be given by the members of the Nutley
Field Club his season, was held last night
at the home Of the club on Tennis place,
Nutley.
The decorations were palms and ever
greens. and the faVors tambourines, gilt
cowbells. paper caps, gilt pipes, Japanese
parasols. Japanese lanterns on wands,
paper chains n pape animals.
The german was led by Mare M. Michael.
The c~otillion commenced at 10 p. m.
Among those present were Miss Clare
Tracy. of New York: Miss Beatrice Firth,
South Orange; Harold Lockwood, Ruther-
ford: Miss NJ. B.. Smith. Newark: Mrs.
f. Roy Goddard. Miss Constance Morgan,
John Beaufort. Mr.. Van Tassell and R.
Sparks. all of New York; Miss Margaret
Edgar. Newark: Clarence j. Pope, Or
ange; Mr.. and Mrs, William j. Berg, Mr..
Inc Mrs. George Walcott, Mr.. and Mrs.
Alfred Saurel. Miss Nellie Mfllett. Mr. and
Mrs. John Vernon Bowler, jr., Miss Sarah
M. Appold. r.. G. Smaller. Alfred ". Lem
an. George H. Bayne, MI. and Mrs. Marc
M. Michael. Miss Tacie Marin, Miss Eliza
beth MAY. Kingsland May, Miss Sarah
M. HAY. Miss Constance Williams, Pearce
p. williams. Benjamin Hurd. Mr.. and
Mrs. Edward MORGAN, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
B. Royce. Miss Elizabeth Page PrOut, Mr..
and Mrs. Dean Welch, Miss Emily Leidy,
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Bellwood Garland,
Mr.. and Mrs. j. Carey Bolger and others.
Mrs. Dean WEIGH, of Satterthwaite ave
nue.. gave a dinner party to Mr.. and Mrs.
ROYAL Riggs, of Brooklyn. The others
present were Miss Gladys Rylands and
DIR. Sinclair Hitchcock. of New York.
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HARRISON-EAST NEWARK.

Eugene L. Sullivan. of Salem, this State,
has been visiting his brother, John p.
Sullivan. of $50 Hamilton street, Harrison.
The Rev. DR.. William A. Knox, pastor
of the Davis Memorial M. r. Church.,
Harrison, will preach on THE Promise of
Cod tomorrow morning. Beginning Jann-
airy Is. under the direction of John M.
Meeker, eVangelistfc services Will take
place, to last two weeks. DIR. Knox VIII
assist in these services.
Sacrament of the Lords supper will be
observed at the Davis Memorial M. Il.
Church, Harrison, tomorrow morning. The
week of prayer will be observed next week
at the church.
Installation of officers will take place
at the meeting of Court Conchessa No. 81,
Daughters Of Isabella, Of Harrison, at
Record Hall, Harrison, Tuesday night.
Final arrangements will also be made for
the leap-year dance.
The funeral of James Dominick Deig-
nan, 65 years old, of q Soaring avenue.
East Newark, who was killed by a fall
at his home Wednesday night while 60
ing after coal. was held today from the
Church of the Holy Cross. Harrison.
where a mass of requiem was celebrated.
The interment was In the Cemetery of the
Holy Sepulchre.
The Rev. Henry r. Rose, pastor of the
Church Of the Redeemer. of Newark, will
give his third lecture Monday night at
the Auditorium of the Harrison High
School. The subject will be The Won
ders of Mammoth Cave Mr.. Rose is
delivering his lectures under the auspices
of the Harrison Board of Education.
The East Newark Free Public Library
Is closed this week on account of the
holidays. and it will reopen Monday night.
Kearny Council No. 4O2, knights of Co
lumbus, of West Hudson, will hold a
meeting Tuesday evening. January IA,
when the third, degree will be conferred on
a number of candidates.
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TERMS OF COUNClLMEN
DETERMINED BY LOT.
Verona Township Officials Reorganize
for the New Year-Diferent
Meeting Night Set.

At a meeting of the Verona Borough
Council last night it was decided TO hold
all regular meetings every two weells, on
Friday evenings. The terms of Office of
Councilmen were decided by lot, as fol-
lows: One year, David II. Slaybacs and
Ernest N. Bush; two years, Fillmore Con-
dit and William w. Baldwin. three years,
Roland A. Jacobus and William A. Smith.
The committees appointed by Mayor
Palm were: Streets and Highways, David
II. Slayback, E. N. Bush and w. A.
Smith; public lighting, w. w. Baldwin,
Fillmore Condit and r.. A. Jacobus; water
supply, w. A. Smith. D. II. Slayback and
R. A. Jacobus; fire protection, r.. A.
Jacobus, d. H. Slayback and L. n. Bush;
police protection, E. n. Bush, ID. H. Say
back and w. w. Baldwin; poor, T. A..
Jacobus. w. w. Baldwin and Fillmore
Condit; ordinance and legal questions,
w. A. Smith, Fillmore Condlt and e. N.
Bush: finance and auditing, Fillmore Con-
dit, w. A. Smith and r. a. Jacobus.
A special meeting will be held on Mon
day night, January 6, in relation to the
opening of Forest avenue.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-04
NEW FIRE TRUCK
FOR ORANGE VALLEY.
Fire Board Decides to Purchase One.
Commissioner Beegle Takes His Seat.

In order 10 insure better fire protection
for the valley section Of the city the fire
commission of Orange last night decided
to purchase a new fire truck, to be placed
In the Valley firehouse. When the new
truck for headquarters was purchased it
was planned to put the old truck in the
valley, but the ramshaekle affair is prac-
tically worthless and the new one was de-
cided upon.
COMMISSIONS Sumter l.. Beegle took his
seat with the body for the first time last
night Commissioner George A Martin
was again chosen president of the body,
and Commissioners Thomas, F. Brennan was
named vice-president. William l.. Farnum
was again elected clerk.
Fire Chief w. II. Matthews, in his an
nual report to the commission, recon-
mended the buying of the truck for the
valley section Of the city on account of
the large manufacturing interests in that
locality, which need the best fire prOtec-
tion possible. He also advised the board
to build a new engine-house in the highest
part of the city, around Berkeley avenue
and Berwick street, or in the immediate
vicinity. In case of fire it is very difficult
to reach this part of the city when snow
and Ice are on the streets, and several
serious fires have been the result. Chief
Matthews also recommended the appoint
ing of a permanent department the same
as in East Orange, instead Of the call sys-
tenn, as Is now in vogue.
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BL0OMFIELD-GLEN RIDGE.

The annual election Of the Bloomfield
Bui1dlng n Loan Association will be held
en- Monday evening; January 30, when a
and an auditor will be chosen.
The funeral of Albert Meeker. ST.. was
held from the home of his son in Berkeley
present, including members Of the Exemp
Association. The services were conducted
by the Rev. DR.. Jesse L. Hurlbut, and the
lnterment VIII be made in Evergreen
Cemetery, Elizabeth. today.
The third in the series of lectures which
are given monthly in the Catholic Lyceum,
will be delivered Monday night by Nine.
Mckay. Of New York. Her subject will
The Bible class of the Watsessing M. E..
Church has elected the following officers:
President. Alfred H.. Edgerley; Vice-presi-
dent. John Pollitt, and secretary. William
Bowker.
The town Board of Education will meet
Monday night.
Miss Helen Baker, of Broad street, is
visiting friends In the South.
Morris Snyder. of Glenwood avenue. will
leave next week for Florida.
Miss Grace Brown, of Midland avenue,
Glen Ridge, has returned from a stay in
Union County.
In the Watsessing N. e. Church tomor-
row at $3.50 a, m. there will be a class
meeting and at 1890 holy communion and
reception of members. AT 7:30 D. m. the
Rev: ]. William Ryder will conduct a re-
In the Park NJ. z. Church holy COM
munion will be observed at the morning
service. with the reception Of new mem
bers.
The churches in the Evangelical Union
will hold a joint service In the Glen Ridge
Conversational Church tomorrow night.
when. the Rev. William f. Wilcox will
preach.
The Mems League of Westminster Pres
byterian Church on Thursday night APP
pointed William j.. Worcester. James N.
Jarvle. Ellis N. Williamson and George
w. Cook a committee on entertainment.
These chairmen of committees were also
named: Church service. William p. SUIT
phen: debating, Pliny Boyd; membership,
w. w. Breck; districting town. Wilson S.
Phraner; temperance and organized labor,
DR.. Henry r.. Richards; gymnasium, Ellis
n. Williamson. The league is arranging
for a number of prominent speakers for
Sunday night ervices
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DEATH COMES
AT PRAYER
MEETING
Paterson Woman Stricken
While Singing Hymns at
Gathering of Baptists.

PATERSON, Jan. 4.-They were sing
at the night prayer service in the First
Baptist Church last night, when a
woman seated in one of the rear pews
faltered and laid her hymnal down.
81 feel faint she whispered to ONE
one near; "please help me out, won't
your"
The woman, Mrs. Mary Allen Stout
enborough, had attended services de-
voutly for years, and several women
FASTENED to her side Ind helped her to
the outer corridor. The service con
tinued and the singing went On. Mean
while the few women who had gath
cred about Mrs. Stoutenborough at
ended her with the utmost care.
Someone went in search of a ply
stefan, but when the first of the three
who responded arrived he pronounced
the woman dead.
No intimation of the death that had
been enacted in the corridor penetrated
to the lecture room, where the service
was in progress, and at its close the
Rev. Gorrell Quick made a brief an
nouncement of Mrs. Stoutenborough's
death. 1t was a shock to all who
heard it..
Mrs. Stoutenborough had arisen with
the others at the prayer meeting to sing
and tried 10 do her part when she was
taken with a choking sensation and
asked assistance. The cooler air Of the
outer hall didn't seem to benefit her any,
and almost Immediately she lapsed into
a state of coma,
The body was removed to the lecture
room, after the service, and later taken
to Clerihew's undertaking parlors, from
whence it was removed to the woman's
late home. DR.. Terriberry, who was
Mrs. Stoutenborough's physician, said
she died of fatty degeneration of the
heart, and this was the cause stated by
DIR. Mcbride in his burial permit.
Mrs. Stoutenborough was the widow
of Alfred Stoutenborough. jr, who died
several years ago. She was a daughter
of the late Sheriff John Allen. Her hus-
band AND his brother were engaged in
the dry goods business for years, sue
ceeding their father, Alfred Stoutenbor-
ough, sr., for many years a deacon OF
the First Baptist Church.
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FASHIONABLE RESIDENTS
WAR ON LUNCH WAGON.
Amend Says He Will Carry Montclair
Case to the Federal Supreme
Court, If Necessary.

Thomas Amend, of Bloomfield. suffered
a second defeat in his contest with the
fashionable residents of Upper Montclair
over whether or not one of the best streets
Of that town shall be marred by the per
manent establishment of a lunch wagon on
a vacant lot thereon. He says hat he will
appeal a second time. and II necessary a
third and more times, even up to the
United States Supreme Court.
Mr.. Amends hot dog" wagon, where
anything in the lunch line from weiner-
wurst to hamburger may be purchased, IS
on a vacant lot In Valley road, near Belle
vile avenue, Upper Montclair. The lot is
his own, but surrounding 1t are several
handsome homes. The appearance Of the
establishment and the fumes 1t sends up
from broiling sausage and the sight OF
boys and young men hanging around
gnawing sandwiches is not relished by the
residents.
Building Inspector Jesse H. Lockwood
proceeded against the lunch-vender under
a new building ordinance. Recorder Yost
found him guilty and imposed a fine of $40.
Amend demanded a jury trial, which was
held Yesterday. resulting in the fine being
sustained.
Mr.. Amend is a man of means. and. 1t
Is said, his fortune was derived from the
lunch business. He owns several estao-
lishments.
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SOUTH ORANGE.

Miss Flora Baird, a former teacher in
Columbia School, South Orange is now
in hin doing missionary work
Miss Louise Elwood, of Valley street.
has returned from a weeks stay with her
sister, Mrs. William White, at her home
in New York city.
]. Stewart Petit. a student of Phillips
Exter Academy, Exter. Mass. is the
guest of his sister, Mrs. Reinhardt Van
Norden, of Walton road.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. b. Holden have re-
turned from Boston, where they spent the
holidays with relatives.
Miss Marjorie Keasbey, who was given
a dance by her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry Miller Keasbey. at their home, in
Berkley avenue, last night, will return to
Pennington, Conn, where she will attend
school, Monday.
George II. Becker. manager of the South
Orange High School basketball team, has
arranged a schedule of seven games, as
follows: January 3. Railway High School,
at Railway; January 10, Orange High
School, at South Orange; January II. Engle-
wood High School, South Orange; january
Harrison High School. at Har-
rlson;, February 49,. Glen Ridge High
School. at Glen Ridge; March 5. Glen
Ridge High School, at South Orange. The
team is composed of Robert Lee, captain
and forward: John Cort, forward; George
Becker, centre; Edward Gardner, guard.
and John Alley, guard.
To the pupils in the class at Columbia
School, which has the highest percentage
in attendance and the less cases of tardi-
ness during each week Superintendent of
Schools Henry w. Foster. has arranged
to give a half holiday. Should there be
any pupils in the class, however. who are
tardy or absent during the week they will
be detained the two regularS sessions.
The Village Board of Trustees will meet
on January II 20 receive the reports of
village officers.
The civil service examination which was
to have been acid In the local .postoflce
on January 8 has been postponed until
January 20.
Miss Emma Garrison and Miss Anna
Hannas. both Of Irvington avenue, have
eturned from Blackburg, Va.
John Jared Welsh, a former teacher of
mathematics in the South Orange High
School, and now an instructor in Con-
cord. N. H., is homo on a visit to his
William Welsh. of Arnold ter
race.
Miss Ethel Elmendorf. daughter of
School Trustee Arthur f. E~lmendorf, of
Second street, has. returned to Vassar Col
lege, where she is a student.
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NED HANL0N, FORMER
CHAMPION 0ARSMAN, DEAD
Had Been Ill Nearly a Week with Pneu-
monia-Twenty-two Years
a Sculler.

TORONTO, Jan. 4.-Ned Hanlon, at
n time the greatest oarsman in the
world, died yesterday at 1 o'clock of
pneumonia after an illness of nearly
a week. He was 50 years old.
He was born at Hanlon's Point, To-
ronto Island. on July IA, 1855. He stood
5 feet 10 inches and weighed 217 pounds.
in his rowing days his normal weight
was around 165 and his rowing weight
$50. AS he remarked himself: II could
not get my top speed until l hit $50
pounds"
During his career of twenty-five
years as a sculler he took part in some
$50 races of all sorts, besides giving
innumerable exhibitions all over the
world. OF these races he did not lose
more than half a dozen ana practically
all of these came after his defeat by
Beach in 1884.
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GLEN RIDGE.
RELLEVILLE
AND NUTLEY
HOSPITAL BENEFIT INTERESTS SOCIETY

To benefit st. Mary's Hospital, Orange,
Miss Katharine Minihan will present her
dramatization of George Ellot's Spanish
Gypsy entitled 1.-The Inidel," at the Or
ange Theatre, Saturday night, January IS,
under the direction of Ralph Yoerg. The
hospital is a non-sectarian institution. un-
der the direction of the Sisters of ST.
Francis. A feature of the performance
will be Miss Minihan's imitation of bird
song.
The cast will be made up of prominent
young people in the Oranges. The patron
esses for the performance will be Mrs. r.
C. Anderson, Miss Irvine and Mrs. il.
Messenger Ayres, of Montclair; Mrs. Will
lam A. Barstow Mrs F.. II. Bonnell, Mrs.
]. Guyton Boston. Mrs. s.. Bayard bod,
Mrs. George Eneer, Mrs William 3.
Gould, Mrs. William Graves, Mrs. J.. Au-
~gustine Johnson, Mrs. A. B. Leach, Mrs
Andrew s. March, Mrs. A.. L. Scott, 1r,
Mrs. T. O'Conor Sloane, Mrs. Eugene
Smith. of South Orange; Mrs. w. w.
Blanchard, Mrs. Ray S. Cummings, Mrs
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"HELL0, CENTRAL: WILL
1T BE CLEAR TODAY"
Newark Telephone Co.'s Subscribers
Questions About the Weather
Prospects Will Be Answered.

The Newark Telephone Company has ar
ranged with the United States Weather
Bureau to furnish its subscribers with the
daily weather forecast over all its lines.
Every morning the weather bureau will
notify central" and any subscriber who
desires may call up and learn the
prediction is Tor the coming twenty-four
hours.
The weather Bureau Office at Atlantic
City has been furnished a complete list OF
the names and addresses Of all subscribersS
and postal cards will be mailed to them In
forming them of the new arrangement.
1t has been the desire Of the Depart
ment of Agriculture in the Genealogical
service of the Weather Bureau that the
daily forecast be read by as many OF the
people as possible. n so the New Jer-
sey section, with headquarters at Atlantic
City, has taken the above step in Its en-
deavor TO carry out the wish of the de-