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The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-06
SUBURBAN OBITUARIES.
Rev. william e. Bogardus.

The Rev. William E. Bogardus, pastor
of the Dutch Reformed Church in the
Brookdale section of Bloomfield for fifteen
years, died at the parsonage in Bellevue
avenue, yesterday morning, after an ILL
ness Of several weeks.
He was born in Cohoes, N. Y, T3 years
ago and was a son of the late Rev. Cor
nelius Bogardus. In 1860 he entered the
Theological Seminary at Rutgers, gradual
ing in 1868, accepting a call to the Middle
burg, N. Y, Reformed Church. In later
Years he held pastorates in Hawthorne,
Charlottesville and Pleasant Plains, N. Y,
Saddle River. Oakland and Fairfield, N. j.
He was a direct descendant of Everardus
Bogardus, who came to this country In
the year 1888. For a brief period he was 4
chaplain during the Civil War with a
Newburg, N. Y, regiment. Mr.. Bogardus
founded the Montclair Heights Reformed
Church and was the oldest member of the
Newark Chassis, He is survived by q
widow, who is a daughter of the late DIR,
Stephen M. Meredith of Reading, Pa. The
Brockdale Church was organized 105 years
ago, Mr.. BogarduS being the twelfth pastor.
He was the oldest member of the Re
formed Chassis of Newark. Mr.. Bogardus
has two brothers, Cornelius Bogardus, OF
Bridgeport, Conn.,, and the Rev, Frnncis
NJ. Bogardus. a retired clergyman, whose
home is in Asbury Park.
Funeral services will be held Thursday
afternoon in the church of which he wa
so long a pastor. They will beNin chargs
of the ciassis of Newark and the inter
ment will be in Reading, Pa.
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CALDWELL, VERONA AND
ESSEX FEELS.

A ladies' bowling club has been organized
in Caldwell. Meetings Will be held every
Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the AS
sociation Hall alleys.
Miss Wilhelmina Mcbride, teacher in the
Caldwell Public School, who has been vlslts
ing her mother at East Orange, returned
to Caldwell yesterday.
Miss Meta Allen and Miss Martha Elting
were guests yesterday of Miss Edith
Harker, of the Hillside House, Caldwell.
The Isabella Literary Club, of Verona,
will meet tomorrow afternoon at the home
of Mrs. David Fl. Slayback, of Montrose
e n
Clifton Francisco, of Fairfield avenue
West Caldwell, is confined to his home
with a severe attack of grip.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Lehman, of Orange,
were the guests yesterday of Mr.. and Mrs.
J. Augustus Bogert, of Hanford place,
Caldwell.
The West Caldwell Cleaning Circle will
meet Thursday afternoon at the home OF
Miss Edna Francisco, of Fairfield e
Edmund r. Lame, jr.,. of Caldwell, and
his two classmates who have been visiting
him, Julian B. Tutwiler and ]. Bernard
Lyon. of Alabama. have returned to the
University of Virginia.
Mrs. Joseph Hartman Inc Miss Mar
garet Hartman, of Brooklyn, who have
been visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Edward f.
Wayne, of Hanford place, Caldwell, re-
turned home this morning.
Mrs. Frederick r. Cook, OF Bloomfield
avenue, Caldwell, is ill with pneumonia.
Mr.. and Mrs. Monroe Harrison, of West
Caldwell, are entertaining friends from
Newark.
Under the auspices of the Epworth
the third entertainment of the course AN
Evening With Will A. Kitchen will be
held in the church Friday evening, Janu-
airy II.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roland Jacobus and family
of Verona, have returned from a visit
with relatives In DePuyster, N. Y.
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MAY
WE'D A RICH
OLD MAN
Miss Rachel B. Blake Re-
ported Engaged to George
E. Sterry, Millionaire.

Friends of Miss Rachel B. Blake, a
pretty school teacher, who is directress OF
the kindergarten Mt the Seventh Avenue
Public School, this city, and who boards at
81 Prospect street, East Orange, a fasnlon-
able boarding house, conducted by MRS.
Charles II. Clarke, and George e. Sterry,
a millionaire coal operator, drug manufac-
turer and w~ell-known Presbyterian leader.
who resides at 81 West Seventy-fourth
street. New York, are wondering today
about the truth of the rumor that the
couple are engaged to be married., as MISS
Blaiki is some forty years lounge than
Mr.. Sterry, who is 70 years OLD, MISS
Blaikie declines to talk for publication
about the report.
OF Miss Mary r. Kelvie, 60 Prospect street,
East Orange, where, with her sister,, MISS
Julia Blake, Miss Blake was at dinner.
First declining to discuss the matter at All,
Miss Blaikie deputized her sister, MISS
Julia, to speak. The latter listened to the
questions, then repliedi
II have nothing to say"
Repetitions of this answer, coupled with
charming smiles, were all the
obtained from the sister, but Mr.. Sterry
was more Communicative He stated the
announcement of an engagement, If any
such were to be made. should come from
interested friends, but that no one had any
authority to make the announcement of
the engagement. Armed with the state
ment from Mr.. Sterry, the reporter again
consulted Miss Julia Blaikie. Asked to
deny the engagement, she remarked: Il
have nothing to say" Asked to confirm the
betrothal, she answered again, II have
nothing to say"
The couple are said to have known each
other a long time. Mr.. Sterry is a widower.
Miss Rachel Blake and her sister Julia
were friends of his wife, and they met
frequently in visits to East Orange. Mr..
Sterry is q member of the board of man
ayers of the American Tract Society, the
American Bible Society and Is a director
of Princeton Theological Seminary. He Is
president of the Bloomfield Mills Company
and the Weaver & Sterry Drug Company,
at 70 Pine street, New York, and a director
in the Spring Coal Mining Company. His
wealth is estimated at several millions. His
son, George E., jr., a man of middle age,
is secretary of the Weaver & Sterry Com
pany.
Mr.. Sterry is of medium height, hale and
does M look his age by ten years. He
is a great traveller. Much of his time In
recent years has been spent abroad. Spain
is a country of which he Is particularly
fond.
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CHARTER READY
RADICAL CHANGES FOR
EAST ORANGE.
Provision Made for Appointment of
Water Commission-Chiefs Will
Serve Longer.

The. work of drawing up a new charter
for East Orange, which task is in the
hands Of City Counsel Jerome D. Gedney
and Edward M. Cclie, an attorney living
IN East Orange, is practically completed
is yet to be edited and presented to
the City Council. 1t is probable that this
viii be done in a short time. aud a special
meeting Of the Council will be called to
pass on the charter, after which the legis-
la;ive committee will have it introduced in
the Legislature.
contained in tho new charter, it is said,
will be the plan of taking away from the
water the control of the munich
pal water plant at White Oak Ridge and
placing its management in the control OF q
water commission, but ii is not known
whether it will b. a n%on-partisan body.
h men who composed the committee
chosen to revise the charter several months
ago recommended a non-partisan waite.
commission and a -non-partisan single OF
the Council of last year got hold of this
latter provision they quickly turned II
down, disregarding all the recommends
tons of the charter committee.
1t is believed to be positive that a water
commission will be appointed, and if the
charter docs not contain a provision fol
one, Councilman George A. Grover, of The
Fourth Ward, a new member, will carry
on Il tight for its appointment by the Mayor
that will receive support.
The appointment of police chief and fire
chief will also be made permanent by thi
new charter. AT present the appointment
IN a sense, are made political, he two Off
Gals only serving as long as the Mayor
who appoints them serve. In the future
should the charter be adopted, neither car
be removed except on being found guilty
on charges. Other elaborate reforms arr
provided for in the new charter.
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lRVIMGTON AND HILTON.

Mrs. John Hurlburt and family, formerly
of South Orange Heights, are now residing
in Burnett avenue, Hilton.
THE condition of Frederick Stone, of
Clinton avenue, 1rvington, is so much i'm
proved that his relatives hope to remove
him TO his home in n few days.
Captain Ira Meeker, of New Haven,
Conn, is visiting relatives in I%rvington.
James Peckwell. sr., who has been visit
ing relatives in Irvington, has returned to
his home in Belmar.
The condition of the ice on the new
county park lake in Iryington is in good
condition, and hundreds of skaters are
enjoying the sport. The present lake is
only a temporary affair, made by throw
ing up a sod bank at the lower end of the
swamp and flooding the ground.
The Rev uriah Meclinehie; pastor of
exchanged pulpits with the Rev. Thomas
G.. Shannon, pastor Of the Kilborn Me-
mortal Presbyterian Church, of Vailsburs.
last night.
A special missionary service conducted
by Mrs. William G. Coeyman was held In
the Hilton M. e. Sunday school yesterday
Afternoon.
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SUBURBAN PAGE
new RECTOR HEARD
REV. H. S. BREWSTER
breaches IN E. ORANGE.
Other Items of Church News in the
Oranges Tersely Told in
Paragraphs.

The Rev. Harold S. Brewster, the new
rector of st. Agnes's Episcopal Chapel
East Orange. assumed charge yesterday
and preached at the services, making a
good impression. This is Mr.. Brewster
first regular charge. With his famiiy nc
is living at 80 West street, East Orange.
Special preparatory services will be helo
tomorrow. Thursday and Friday evenings
in the Elmwood Presbyterian Church, East
Orange, as next Sunday will be
Sunday, with a reception for new mem
bers.
The Rev. Thomas G.. WaHley, rector OF
Grace Episcopal Church, Orange, will tel
of his experiences as a fire chaplain II
New York at a meeting of the Mems cur
of Mum Avenue Presbyterian Church,
East Orange, Friday night.
The various societies connected with Our
Lady Help of Christians Church, East
Orange, are planning for a euchre party
to be held shortly. The annual statement
of the church was read yesterday, The
total receipts for the year amounted TO
$50. 1854. The new spire cost $17,707.9l.
Chairman Holmes of the Committee OF
Fifty will speak on the excise question as
regards the Oranges before the Mems Club
of the Orange Valley Congregational
Church Saturday hight.
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M0NTCLAIR.

The four portable frame temporary
school buildings, erected on the High
School grounds to relieve that building,
were opened today and turned out to be a
failure. The buildings are heated by
stoves, and while the heat was strong
enough to almost burn the cbildren's faces
their legs and feet were almost Dentmnea
with the cold. The result was that after
an hours vain effort to regulate the heat,
the pupils were sent home. An EFFORT VIII
be made to have the buildings comfort
able by tomorrow morning.
The Woman's Home Missionary Society.
of the First Presbyterian Church, Will
hold an all-day sewing meeting tomorrow
in the church parlors, for the Mountain
side Hospital. In the afternoon Mrs. L.
S. Gladding will speak concerning her
work among young women and girls.
The Rev. Charles 'Stelze, Of the De-
partment of Church and Labor in the
Presbyterian Church, gave an address in
the First CONGREGATIONAL Church .yester-
day afternoon on I'll Working Man and
the Church" lie said that the labof
movement Is recognized as one OF the
most significant Of the times. The work
ing man is striving for certain ideals.
When such ideals are religious, the church
can take part in the solution of the prob
lem. He dwelt strongly on the Importance
of having mel. of character at the head
Of the movement, so that the respect OF
the Christian community might be enlist
ed and the work carried on for the benefit
of all parties Interested.
Inc NlOIludy RllsSlOildfN O0clely OIL lhS
First Congregational Church resumed its
meetings this afternoon. Miss Taylor, of
the National Y. w. G. A., addressed the
meeting. AT the Home Missionary Society
meeting tomorrow afternoon the Rev. DIR.
Frank X. Sanders, secretary of the Con-
gregational Sunday School and Publishing
Society. will deliver an address. AT the
close OF the Wednesday evening service an
election will be held for two d%eacons, to
serve in place of T.. Irving Crowell and
James T. Whittlesey, who were unable to
accept their recent election.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank w. Jameson, of
Glens Falls, N. Y, who have been guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. w. w. Ormsby. of Lor-
raine avenue, Upper Montclair, have re-
turned to their home.
Thomas L. Williams, of Atlanta, Ga,
formerly of Montclair, who has been visit
ing relatives during the holidays, has re-
turned to his home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ebert r. johnson, of Mid
land avenue, have returned from a visit
to friends in Brooklyn.
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NOTES OF THE ORANGES.

Mrs. Charles Nobs. Miss Nobs and Mr..
n Mrs. ]. e. Knapp, all of East Orange,
are registered at the Chalfonte. Atlantic
city.
The new officers of st. Patrick's Alliance.
Branch No. 4. District No. 5. of West Or
ange, will be installed at a meeting of the
society to be held tonight in Hedges Hall.
West Orange. A large number of candi-
dates will be initiated. and an entertain
ment will follow.
! The best method of adapting the Dos
Moines city charter to the needs and con-
dition of Orange will be discussed at a
meeting of the Civic Club, of the Oranges,
on Wednesday night, at the Charit.es build
ing. Orange.
Some lads cracked ten windows in All
Saints Episcopal Church, Orange Valley,
yesterday, and the result was a complaint
by the rector, the Rev. J. Woods Elliott.
Inc police are searching for the miscreants.
Policeman White arraigned John Burke,
Leo Burke, Daniel Burke and Hubert
Brennan, Of Cary street, Orange, before
Judge Bray. in the Orange police court to-
day for painting up letter boxes and other
property. The lads were paroled IN custody
OF their parents for trial before The
Juvenile Court. Postmaster John AZ
Ackerman was IN court representing the
postal department. There was damage OF
S5 done by the lads. They painted sew
eral buildings.
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RUMPUS IN ORANGE
OVER A SICK WOMAN.
City Physician Declined to Treat Police
Sick Case-0range Memorial Re-
fused Her-Taken to St. Mary's.

Mrs. Catherine Dix. taken to the Or
ange Police Station by Policeman Rankin
on Saturday. became sick early today and
Acting-Roundsman Brown called up DR..
II. p. Gerbert, city physician to examine
her. The city physician refused to go to
the police station, and advised sending
the woman to the hospital.
The ambulance was summoned and the
woman taken to the Orange Memorial
Hospital shortly before l O'clock. The
physician. the police say. had a tiff with
a police official over the return of a
woman who was taken sick on December
10 last and refused to take the woman In,
claiming that she was an alcoholic. and
that The hospital was not prepared to
care for her. st. Mary's Hospital was
then appealed to and accepted the SICK
woman
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MILLBURN.
IRvINGTON
I'M HILTON
MINISTER P0URS OIL
ON TROUBLED WATERS.
Rev. DR.. Lawrence, of Orange, Dismisses
the Excise Board Matter Without
Continuing Controversy.

The Rey Or. William NIL, Law wpGrce
Orange, who was criticised by mem
hers of the Orange Excise Board,
Friday night. for having SAID pun,
iicly a week ago that the board
was weakened, when referring 70
an application made to conduct q saloon
neai the church. spoke briefly on the mat
ter yesterday before he began his sermon.
He said he believed the remarks OF Chalr-
man Kidder Of the board to have been q
reprimand. He said he had telephonen
Mr.. Kidder of his intention to take notlce
of the ~latter's remarks and invited MIN 70
be present at yesterdays service, pui
when he later read a stenographic report ct
Mr.. Kidder's talk he did not believe it
necessary, and so telephoned Mr.. Kidder.
DR.. Lawrence also referred to a pupnc
lie ter written by a member of the cnure1
the admonition given was not proper. ana
spoke of the statement that the poard
was a small court and its acts should not
be criticized while a decision was pending.
Dr. Lawrence said he did not want 70
quarrel with any man., but hoped COD
would give him strength when righteous
ness and the safety of the community were
ut stake e stamp. and stamp firmly.
81 speak in a spirit of honesty ana 10y
atty to what I consider right. / dismiss
+he matter he concluded.
DR.. Lawrence said that he had been IN
Orange three years and that he did not
want to quarrel with any man. He spoke
of the opposition made to the earrylng OUT ~.
many saloonkeepers for a time ana OF the
movement made in various parts of the
county recently by many saloonmen to i'm
prove moral conditions in the trade; re
declared that saloonkeepers in this State
will he thankful If the Legislature during
til ecoming session does not pass laws that
will make the Bishops aw almost fade
" Dr Lawrence expressed himself strongly
against saloons. The fact that the saloon,
for which an effort had been made to Sc
Itaonso bad hppu RIM deppntlX Tor
over thirty wears, he said, was no reason
why it should he allowed to continue.
Senator Everett Colby, a member OF the
church. was an interested listener.
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PIG sT1Rs UP A RUMpUs.

When a young pig owned by a baker in
lower Nam street, East Orange. which
almost gave Councilman Joseph NJ. Brown
the bends several weeks ago, ran up
near the headquarters of Engine Company
NO. 2 OF East Orange last week, Fireman
Samuel Coen tried TO capture it. The in
formation was conveyed to other members
OF the department yesterday, and the ac-
lions of Coen have caused considerable
merriment. Stories Of pig chases in the
Fourth Ward are quite general during
political campaigns, and an experience of
Driver George Mitchell, of the same COM
pany, to capture one a year ago in Main
street Mt such a time. was thought suffi-
oient for all the iremen,. but Coen did
not heed the advice. He didn't secure the
pig In the recent chase, but received abuse
for chasing pork. The pig slowed up when
4 woman Of the neighborbood approached
with a pail that contained some pig
Main street, while Coen brushed off his
uniform. quite dlsgusted.
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SOUTH ORANGE.

avenue, is seriously Ill.
Daniel MacRorie, of Luddington road,
left today on a business trip which will
last until spring. He will visit the South-
ern States, British Columbia and Califor-
MIA.
Frank Van Sickle. formerly of South
Orange, but now of Brooklyn, is visiting
friends In the village.
Robert N. Magee caught a runaway horse
IN Sloan street, near South Orange ave-
nue., shortly before noon today. The ami
NAL had rounded Second street and was
speeding along when Magee caught it. No
carriage was attached. The animal was
taken to William Rockafeller's stable, in
First street, to await the owner.
Hook and Ladder Company of the VII
lage Fire Department will hold its annual
election of officers, at headquarters tonight.
Arrangements will also be made for the
in the Village Hall early in February.
Hope Lodge No. 179, I. O. O. f., will
install its newly elected officers at a meet
ing in Jr. o. u. A. NJ. Hall tonight.
The Holy Name and Knights Of the
sacred Heart Societies connected with the
Church of Our Lady of Sorrows will so 10
molly communion in = body at the $50
o'clock mass mkt Sunday morning.
Good skating is enjoyed by villagers on
the Field Club and Seton Hail ponds today.
A party will be. given at the home OF
Mrs. John s. Thompson in Prospect street
this afternoon for her daughter. Miss
Edith Thompson.
The Chatham Iackawnnnn League bowl
ers will be the opponents of the Field Club
luintet on the local clubs alleys tonight.
Tomorrow night the National Turner's of
Newark will bowl a series on the Field
Clubs alleys in a Suburban League match
John Boyd, of Rynda road, is confined
to his home with injuries to the left knee
received by falling on the ice.
Monroe and South Orange Councils, Jr.
O. U. A. M, will indulge in a bowling
match on the Empire alleys, Newark,
Wednesday night.
The South Orange Athletic cluh how'll
ers will hold a banquet in Walsh's Fall,
Mum and South Orange avenues, Wallis
burg section of Newark, next Thursday
night.
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FAMILY AWAY; HOUSE ROBBED.

The home OF Mrs. j, Reichard, IA West
view avenue, Verona, was ransacked either
on Friday or Saturday night, from cellar
to garnet, and every drawer, closet and
trunk in the house broken open and the
contents scattered over the rooms. Mrs.
Richards husband, who was a confec-
toner, died about a year ago, and she is
continuing the business. located on Fort
Hamilton avenue, Brooklyn. A few days
before Christmas Mrs. Reichard and her
two children closed up the Verona home,
and MS the season was a busy one, she has
remained in Brooklyn ever since.
Joseph Gray, a neighbor. while passing
the house yesterday morning, saw the
front door was open. and knowing the
family was away, he notified c. s. Simon
son. the agent of the property. Mr.. Simon
son, with Mr.. Gray, went through the
house. secured the doors and notified Mrs.
Reichard.
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MAPLEWooD.

Warren Vanderveer, of Oakland road,
left today on a weeks trip through up
per New York State.
The Columbia University basketball
team will be the opponents of the Maple
wood Sporting Club'l senior five at the
Sporting Club Hall next Thursday night.
The Sporting Clubs Junior team will
play the Newark National Turner's Small
Five.
Henry Malay, Oh Baker street. has re-
turned from a two months stay in the
West, including Pasadena, Cal.
Miss Henrietta McGee. of Valley street,
has returned from a weeks stay at At
lantic City.
Charles Brautigan is arranging to give
a hassenpfeffer supper at the Hotel Hell.
deloerg, Millburn avenue and Valley
street, this week.
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WINS HORSE FOR Is CENTS; COP SHOOTS 1T

When you get a turkey or a hen or
something like that as a prize you expect
to kill it. That's what you win it for.
But when you pay twenty-five cents for n
horse as a prize and get the goods and
a policeman comes around the next day
and shoots 1t, it isn't the same thing at
all, because dead horse is no good to any
one but the glueman, and you can't eat
glue.
All that's bad enough, of course; but IL
it costs you 50 to get the carcass removed
you begin to wonder how i was the coun,
debate just how long it will take the
nation to go to the dogs.
Orange. today. It was Saturday when he
discovered that he was the proud pos
SCISSOR of a real animal, alleged to be able
to draw a wagon. The quarter expended
for it had hung somewhat heavily on his
conscience, because Il horse is quite a good
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deal to get for that money. But he did
get it.. and forthwith repaired to tell his
wife. about ii. and there was rejoicing in
the house of Ooch.
But the joy was short-lived. Saturday
hight and Sunday were devoted to the in
speetion OF the horse, the feeding of the
horse, and the talking about the horse, and
the family were ready to begin all over
again this morning when the merciless
law, as represented by Policeman Patrick
Reynolds, appeared before them and an
nounced that the cherished animal was
about to become a candidate for the bone
yard by means of his trusty revolver.
The owner pleaded and pointed to the
superb condition of the beast, which was
by that me nearly able to stand up, but
their treasure did not meet Reynolds's
fatal slct was fired.
That looked like the hardest kind of luck
to the Oochs. but another blow fell when
1t was declared that the body must be re-
moved and that 1t would cost 50 to do 1t.
Oech Is now out one horse and s2.25.