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The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-11

to have some fun by drawing pictures
OF the boss. ] got a position in the
office of superintendent of the Edison
photograph works, West Orange, and
not a few times was / called down by
Mr.. Weber, my. employer, for making
funny pictures of him. / became tired
of his seedlings, quit, and since have
been employed as a messenger at the
Newark district office.
"My parents have often wanted me
to give up drawing funny pictures
because of the trouble it has caused
me. but I can't resist the feeling to
draw every time / see or think of
something funny. :
"I used to draw pictures on the walls
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-11
VOTING MACHINE FAVORED
BY SENATE COMMISSION.

TRENTON, Feb. 1.-THE commits
sion, consisting of Senator's Wakelee
and Hillery, and ex-senator Lee, APP
pointed a year ago to investigate the
election laws, made a report last night
to the Senate.
The report favors the continued use
of voting machines, but without he
party lever. The report favors the use
in one municipality of either all voting
machines or all paper ballots.
The report advocates that where
paper ballots are used the Massachu-
sets form be substituted for the pres
ent party ticket.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-11
ESSEX ASSEMBLYMEN
SEEK NEW LEGISLATION.

TRENTON, Feb. 1.-THE following
are among the bills introduced in the
House yesterday:
Nos. 10S, 104 and los, by Mr.. Young
Relative to revision of the laws.
No. 107, by Mr.. Braun-Provides for
the form of a case agreed upon. or to
be fixed by the judge in appeals from
district courts.
No. 10g, by Mr.. Braun-Amends the
practise act and regulates the service
Of process. pleadings and other papers
upon unincorporated organizations.
No. 10, by Mr.. Braun-Anlends the
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-11
Fifteen-year-Old Harry Daiken
Can't Resist Using a
Pencil.

Messengers boys. in their daily round
of duty, often have interesting expert.
ences. Frequently they relate tales re-
plete with pathos or humor, but it isn't
every one of them who can illustrate
his experiences. Newark has such a
lad, Is years old, Harry A. Raiken, who
Is employed as a messenger by the
District Telegraph Company, at 1872
Market street. This boy wonder is the
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Abram Raiken, of
e4O West Kinney street. this city. He
never received a lesson in drawing out
side of Morton Street School. This is
his story of how he came to draw and
what led to the cartoon which is pub
lished here.
The San Francisco call., 1908-07-26

mud hens"-why. I cannot say--and
are veterans at, the game. Through
long experience they have devised a
system" by which they can make a
living; not prosperous living. but q
few dollars more a. week than they
would make at washing and scrubbing.
They are suspicious lot. quarrelsome
and mean, and between races spend
their time wrangling with the pool boys
over any amount from Is cents to 35.
They ask personal questions as to your
form OF playing and tighten like CLAIMS
IL you casually inquire what they are
playing In the handicap. The mud
hens" are not partial to mud. They are
at the track every day. rain or shine.
Third. we have the natural woman
of the racetrack. Her husband Is an
owner or trainer, maybe, or she may
own a few racers herself. Her boy,
perhaps. is a famous Jockey. or maybe
learning the game. apprenticing HIM
self as an exercise boy. In any case.
she belongs and is there every day,
rain or shine. She travels with II, too.
and spends the winter at Emeryville,
and then later on is found In Seattle.
and winds up in the east.
She calls the pooIboys by their
christian names and knows the Pc
culiarities of every horse and jockey at
the track. She can tell you that H J..
Murray Is windbroke and Red Leaf has
sbad feet and that Jockey Chris Miller
rides for the Sierra Nevada stable
when he is on hand. She is just brim-
ming over with tips-naturally- Is
always willing to put you next to a
good thing" for there Is nothing mean
, in her makeup.
The fourth variety-welI. let's take q
breath when we look at her. for she is
truly and wonderfully made" Her
puffs are the pufaest to be had. the
enamel on her facets thicker than pie
crust: her hair-she paid for 1t, LET'S
hope, therefore 1t is her own---is usual
ly golden, .very golden; her. hat. Is big
and broad and plumy. or is very small
and rakish- Altogether she is over
dressed and over fresh. and makes the
grandstand appear. horrid place. She
spends a good deal OF her time down.
stairs at the round tables Between
races she likes to hear the clink Of
glasses, and likes to blow the foam or
the taIl ones with her painted lips CO.
auettfshly curled. She is obnoxious.
and throws peanut shells over the
The San Francisco call., 1908-07-26

A Story of
San Francis
|co Women
w lao Play
the Races

they are still at It, waiting. not at the
church, but for their luck to turn"
1 believe 1t was a book maker who
made the remark one day. They say
there is a sucker born every minute
well, since I've been in this business
begin to think that they are being
born at the rate of ten to the second"
Did you ever see the ''racetrack
crowd" pouring out at the ferry slip ?
Did you notice the anxious, disappoint-
ed faces on the shabby portion of
the crowd and then behind In twos and
threes, with their heavy money bags,
the. hook makers laughing and chat
ting together, all In happy frame of
mind? Strange, isn't it? And yet
there are, some people who say they
can beat the races!
One young woman dropped $500 in
less than eight weeks at Emeryville
this season. She had an energetic
young husband who spent his long
days making good honest money. and
they had a bank account, of course.
She did not know much about the rae
Ing. but busy friend gave her a tip
one day on a horse called Billy Taylor.
and straight away she wanted to make
a fortune and surprise her husband.
The tip originated with the 'Blingum
set and was bound to be a good one
and the horse was no better than a
cart horse. so his odds would be 20 to /
or better.
This young woman went over the
bay. She took 800 with her and
played the full amount on Billy Taylor.
She divided the money into three parts
playing him to win, for place and to
show Had he won she would have
made e nice winning, but-he didn't
win!
It was just another case Of playing
the wrong horse Billy Taylor ran
and ran fast for cart horse, but the
others-six OF them-an ran asgood bi,
The San Francisco call., 1908-07-26

"clocl1ers" read so nicely in the papers
that she feels really ashamed to see
such lot Of good chances to make
money going to waste. She sees sure
things" and good things" and long
shots" advertised and for the mere sum
Of one dollar she can have them. For
her one dollar expended she will put
a. crimp in the book makers ROLL" for
the horse viii bring home the candy
az juicy odds" The advertisements
make. interesting reading, the slang is
so picturesque.
The women read the papers as well
as the men; they sit down after John
has gone to work in the morning and
the children have been sent. to school.
and read it from top to bottom and
bottom to top. up and down. across and
backward from the funeral notices to
the bargain sales, and why should
the overlook "Jonesey Co.'s" great
dollar Offering?
The San Francisco call., 1908-07-26
Some Interesting Cases

Some Interesting Cases
The cigar stand propositions are just
as honest but not so private. A cer-
tain class of respectable women pat
ronize them in preference to the. offices
because the name poolroom frightens
them. AS an example of the class of
women who go to the cigar stands
will describe two with whom I be-
came acquainted. One, a woman of
fifty or thereabouts, was the mother
of a large family of working boys and
girls. The young people turned over
their earnings to her each week and
she played the races with the surplus
that was left after the household ex-
penses were paid. She told me that
the races were a good deal ahead of her
on the game, but she lived in hope of
her luck turning. Whether her boys
@arned money was being banked" 1
cannot say, but it was sad case any
way you look at 1t.
The other, spinster of about thirty
five. kept a small bakery. she and her
sister working far into. the night to
make pastry that they sold. 1t was
good pastry, too. and they did good
business. but the book makers swal-
lowed the doughnuts, leaving the nice
round hole In the center for the two
maiden sisters.
: These two women played at a small
cigar stand in an obscure street and
both were good examples of how II
did. not pay to follow the ponies
but 1t was SO much easier for then,
to play than not to that / suppose
The San Francisco call., 1908-07-26
The Woman Tempted

It then dawns on the alert woman
of today that If twenty dollars is to
be made by the expenditure of one.
why she is going to make that twenty.
She manages the conversation so nice
" some evening that without really
knowing it John is telling her just
where people play the races. He tells
her where the nice office is up town
where bets are taken and of the near
by cigar stand where the .neighbo:s go,
and, Furthermore, he explains the sim
plest and quickest route to Emery
vile. How does John know all this?
Oh, she doesn't stop to inquire. but
then and there makes up her mind to
spend a dollar and beat" the races
While washing the breakfast dishes
next morning she figures it out simply
enough Why. for one or two dollars
1 will haYe,the, price Of a new suit
goodness, knows 1 need 1t badly
enough she&tells herself, and is in
fever of impatience to get downtown.
Z sBut-does she get the new suit? Ask
her. While you arc at 1t ask her, too,
what has become of the twenty dollars
she had saved up for the new carpets.
Before the earthquake there was a
poolroom in an ofico building in Mar
ket street directly opposite one of our
oldest and best known hotels of the
time. This poolroom masqueraded as
a broker s. Office and real estate firm,
ard two OF their outside men collected
bets in the hotel across the way. For
the full--season schoolgirl played
the races from this hotel. The nice
old man sfrom the brokers' office took
her bets ito the poolroom and It was
all very simple for her and school girls
like her to play the races in tho nice,
respectable family hotel" These girls
pin money was as acceptable to the
poolroom men as big money from
big men" who patronized the bar and
grill room, and, the same pin money
assisted greatly in paying for the car
pets and elegant chairs that furnished
tho brokers Office.
Did tho hotel people know what the
nice old man was doing, day IN and
day out. strolling backward and for
ward across the street. lingering about
tho hotel? Ask them. Somebody's
eyes were shut. At the time did not
know who got the biggest rakeofr-but
rakeoff there was
Today I know Of half dozen down.
town Offices where bets on the races
are taken and where any woman,
young or old, can so in and gamble
on the ponies" These Offices are
nice" too. The name pooiroom suE-
gests q crowded. smoky. back room in
an unknown building. where men OF
all types gather. but the pooirooms ]
} refer TO are orderly Offices In class A
buildings, where people go as they
would to and from any other broker,
firm. The word broker is upon the
/. door and there is almost nothing within
to suggest a poolroom- Anybody car
safely go and anybody" does safely
The San Francisco call., 1908-07-26

faster. and out Of the seven starters
Billy came galloping in number seven,
proudly and perfectly contented.
She was very much disgusted young
woman and then and there vowed that
horse racing was a sin and the book
makers trust Of thieves, but-woman
iike-she wanted that money back. The
next day she went to q "clocker" and
bought his tip and his system. She
bought and played both the tip and
the system for a week and a few days
over and In the great grand final she
was out something like $500. In dis
gust she left the city, and to this day
has not put her foot inside Of a race
track, nor can she bear even to hear
mention OF the word. She learned her.
lesson to an expensive tune and added
several new wrinkles to her face. Her
patient young husband is working
harder than ever now to make up the
sum so that their bank book may ap-
pear prosperous again.
The book makers use the same excuse
when the subject comes up-aH of.
them: I'VE don't make you come and
play the races; you come OF your sown
accord"
That is about as good as saying to
the fish you get on your line: IT didn't
make you bite; you bit of your own
accord" "oh. yes. SIR sobs the poor
little fish. 'but why. oh. why. did you
use such nice bait7 Why did you
tempt me?"
Racetrack bait Is good You get a
chance to make fortune from moth
ing-from appearances; but did you
ever stop and wonder why tho book
makers were in the business7
Four Kinds Of Women
The women who go to the track to
do their betting differ a good deal
from tho cigar stand" variety. There
are four distinct varieties among the
track goers. that is. the regular track
goers, not the holiday crowd who go
for pleasure and an outing.
First. we have the young matron who
takes her pin money and her children
and goes there to spend the afternoon;
and the pin money, and abe goes in
twos and threes. and the youngsters
play tag and ring-a-rosy down near
the betting ring among the touts and
the rest of the motley crowd who flI
up the big area below the grandstand.
The second variety are called tho
The San Francisco call., 1908-07-26

go. It is all very simple and very
honest, too much SO for the common
good of the common people.
The San Francisco call., 1908-07-26
By a Woman Who Plays
the Races

VERY now and then some mild
/ hammered person writes an indig-
nant article upon the evils Of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-16
UNUSUAL SPECTACLE.
BIoodhounds ard Automobiles Follow
 Man to Schooner.

Seabrisht, N. J., March 15.-The unusual spectacle was witnessed here tonight of two biaodhounds in full scent, accom- panied by police and many citizens of Rumsen, N. J., in automobiles following the trail of a man which led from Rum sen to an old schooner moored to one of the Seabright wharves. In the last two months there have been 16 supposed in cendiary fires in Rumsen, and all efforts to capture the persons responsible were futile.
 A man was seen lettering around the barn of a New York broker on Ridge road tonight and the alarm was given. The man fled when he saw that he had been observed. The bloodhounds were taken to the barn and started off on the scent without hesitation. Automobiles with people followed the hounds to q wharf where the schooner Buena Vista was moored.
 All winter the boat has been in care Of PhilipxRoher, watchman who appeared on deck in response to the clamor. The eager hounds were held in leash while Roher was informed he was under arrest Roher will be arraigned tomorrow
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-16
pr. Eden Speaks.

New York, March 15.-Dr. Frederick Van Eden. the head of the communal settle ment at Walden, Holland, who is en- gagged in spreading his ideas here, called the social democratic party of Holland, in an address at the West Side Young Mems Christian association today, ire ligious, fanatic and dogmatic. At the same time h -4ood up for religious socialism for thetar "Ille in business and other life ans rt1le ideals of youth carried into all me. He had no hard words for capital as capital. To the accumulation of great fortunes he would apply check. He expressed amazement at the spirit of the American business man, his receptive ness, willingness to learn new ideas and lack of the sordidness and self-seeking which the Europeans pictured as inherent qualities of the American.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-16
POLICE STOP
 MANY MEETINGS
Counsel is Retained and Officers May Be Enjolned From
 Interfering.

Philadelphia, March 15.-Acting under orders from Director of Public safetv Clay the police tonie' '4.it, and their fC
 Der, of meetings s, - were scheduled | take place in various sections of the city
 One meeting, an anniversary gathering to commemorate the death, of Karl Marx, the socialist leader, was to have been ad- dressed by Carl M. Zomatkin. Another ves scientists meeting at which Dr. Charles Worstman of New York. former professor in Heidelberg university. was to have talked on the Scientists Move ment or the Return of the Jews to Pales- tine.' The stopping of this meeting caused those who had arranged for it to retain counsel, who, they say, will tomor- row go into court and ask for an in junction to restrain the police from in terfering with their future gatherings.
 A large meeting under the auspices of the socialists celebrating the thirty-sev- enth anniyersar of the Paris commune and the twenty-fifth anniversary of the death of Marx, the socialist leader, was held in an uptown labor hall Morris Hillqutt, socialist party leader of N York, addressed the meeting. 4 TA. police in civilian clot- a,'N'f
 mittance even though thu, ..
 but finally 30 officers in uniform were pei mitted to enter in the name of the law and the meeting went on. The police were sarcastically referred to by some of the speakers, but the speeches were not stopped
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-16
Indians Fastidious Smokers.

From the New York Times.
 "Did~you know" asked one memb CT of a group who were talking of the recent Indian uprising in the south west, that an Indian Is much more fastidious than a white man in tn matter of smoking? I saw. when | was In Montana, several of their war
 dances and the councils afterward. You
 know they sit in a circle on the ground
 and pass the pipe of good fellowship around in silence. Each man takes
 two or three puffs and then hands the
 pipe to his next neighbor. But, if you
 notice, you will see that in the whole
 circuit which it makes the mouthpiece
 Is never wet. The red man merely lays
 the end of the stem against his lower lip, and, keeping his mouth partly open, draws a deep breath. Removing
 the pipe, he exhales the smoke, and
 then perhaps repeats the process, but
 he never puts the mouthpiece into his
 mouth in the common 'paleface' fash
 ion. If he is asked to smoke a peace
 pipe after white man, he first wipes off the end of the pipe stem, where 1t has been in the previous smokers mouth"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-16
EMMA GOLDMAN
 IS DETERMINED
Says She Will SpeaL in Chicago to Public i 1t Takes
 Year.

Chicaso March Especial. )-Emma Goldman and d seoh Of other anarchists defeated in an effft to hold a public meeting, held Qnference yesterday when plans were dBeussed to arrange a. demonstration.
 "l Il speak in Chiago to the public if l have to stay a veal" declared the Gold man woman after tle meeting. q think know a way to seclre the right of free speech"
 The hope of the anarchists is based on "Dr." Ben Reitmal, who has evolved the scheme of scouting a vacant lot and using a tent for meeting.
 I've already purhased the lot and the tent" Reitman tbld the assistant chief of police. q want definite answer be- fore this evening as to whether the po- lice will interfere with any meeting l may hold on my owr land and in my own tent. If the corporation counsel and other officials advisers find way to check, I'll go into the courts"
 A mysterious and unidentified million aire was reported to be backing the eff forts to prove that Ayerbuch, who at tempted to kill Chief of Police Shippy, was not an anarchist and to investigate his case fully.
 q know nothing about who is backing up this matter financially said Miss Sophie Beckenside, one of the committee that attended a confereLce in the office of John Maynard Harlan, but l understand there is ample money at hand. l nave heard nothing of any young millionaire in the case though.
 "I have no personal interest in the ln- vestigation, except that of Humanitarian n grounds. l think there should be the widest effort to find out the truth apoul Averbuch and his death.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-16
SOCIALISTS PROTEST.
Conviction of Professor Nasi is Con-
 demned.

New York, March 15.-The antagonlsm of Sicily to the Italian government at Rome was demonstrated at meeting to- night of about 1000 Sicilians who pro tested vigorously against the conviction of Prof. B. Nunzio Nasi, ex-minister of public works and of public instruc- ton on the charge of misapplying public funds.
 The speakers denounced the convection of Profe-' sf=Nasi as political conspir- ae' .a@--- further denunciation of
 ~ 1T Giolitti and the Italian
 Ihe net with vociferous response Methods h Giolitti! Down with the ,,,os+ was reached when the band
 o. ,ses s,iaribaldi hymn and the Mar
 '@SEvery man in the hall rose inc Hi,4sibuted his might to a cheer, was rgolume was tremendous
 ter arabic dispatch was sent to Profess sqongre as follows;
 he chou who have fought for the hum b ,ole with fairness and to the wom- e. four home, living in their present suuet we, the Sicilians of America, famoed in solemn meeting, extend a I werelf comfort hope and protest carr,lutions "a denouncing the conviction
 sent to the Italian government.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-16
THE IDEAL HUSBAND.
No Two Persons Can Agree as to ths
 Requisites.

From the New York Tribune.
 Ask a hundred women What consti- tutes an ideal husband?" and no two will give the same explanation. Scarcely q married woman but thinks, that, given more wisdom at the time of her selection of a husband she might have done bet ter. Few mediate that, from r to TO. wom- en enter into matrlmony with the same impetuous disregard of anything but tho desire for love, for title or for gold.
 Some women say that the ideal hus- band must be hand1ome, brilliant, good . tempered, generous-in fine, possess all the attributes of a genius, an Adonis and a saint rolled into one--and none reflect that these attributes do not travel to- gether and that few possess them in com- bination.
 On one point women are agreed: the ideal husband must be generous. He must not scan too closely millinery bills, nor ask how certain sums have been ex- pended. The ideal husband should be good tempered, all assert, for who could endure life with a bearl
 Then, too, the ideal husband should never be jealous. The settlements of jealousy might lend spice to an engage ment, but they prove cayenne pepper to lll6.
 On the domestic qualities of the ideal husband women differ Some like a hus- band to go to his club and enjoy himself, solus, and leave them to gossip or bridge at home or elsewhere; others think the ideal husband should be a constant com panion and never experience the least en- 1oyment in the society of any human be- ing other than his wife.
 Some women think that the man who is able to order his own home and every thing in it-except his wife-is an ideal husband, while more of them believe per- lection to lie in that man who lets his wife reign supreme in his home and rule his every act.
 The Harlem branch of the Young Mems Christian association is teaching its class of prospective benedicts all about their duties toward their homes and even how to pick out a suitable wife to adorn them, but 1t hasn't tried to teach them what their attitude should be toward the wives they win to wear the enviable title of ideal husband" It does not know. and nobody has ever discovered from any united body of women, what consti- tutes the feminine ideal of what a hus- band ought to be.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-16
LYNN PHILLIPS
 KILLS HIMSELF
Eiehteen-Year.old Boy Takes carboIic Acid-Curtis Gets Ap-
 pointment.

Atlanta March 15.-( -(special)-Lynn Phillips IS years old. tonight committed suicide by taking earbolie acid, the act being the result of q period of despon- dency. He told his mother he had no de- sire to live. His mother and brother made a vain attempt to knock the bottle from his hand as he took the fatal dose
 William E. Curtis, the noted writer and staff correspondent of the Chicago Rec ord-Herald, who is visiting in Atlanta, was today notified of his appointment as a member of the committee named by the Secretary of State to aid in carrying out the recommendations of the International American conference of Rio in 1907. The first meeting occurs in Washington Tues day. MT. Curtis leaves Atlanta Monday.