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The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-12-30
PESTILENCE IS NOW FEARED
FROM RUPTURED SEWERS.

CATANIA, Dec. 30,-One of the Mes
sina survivors says that only small
proportion of the total population
escaped. Thousands of persons are
still buried alive in the ruins, where
they are suffering slow death by tor
ture.
slowly over the devastated area in an
inexorable advance. Imprisoned and
pinioned human beings, unable to ex-
tricate themselves. are being burned
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u. OF p. WINS CHESS TROPHY.

NEW YORK, Dec. S0.-At noon to-
day the University of Pennsylvania
chess players pitted against Cornell
and Brown had six straight wins, and,
therefore, was assured Of permanent
possession OF the Rice trophy.
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GETS $50 FOR ISLANDER.

Judgment for $50 damages for SLAM
der was rendered by Judge MacLear in
the District Court today in favor of
Mrs. Annie Seger, of 242 South Twelfth
street, against Michael Kane. formerly
her landlord.
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Prominent Italians to Act on
- a.. -
Committees TO Gather Funds
for Quake Victims.
THE EVENING STAR
EARTHQUAKE FUND.

THE EVENING STAR today starts
fund for the relief of the earthquake
sufferers in southern Italy and in Sicily,
News dispatches show this to be the
most staggering calamity humanity has
known in centuries.
The need is great. The quickness of
relief is urgent. WIN you help?
America is responding unanimously
TO the pathetic call for help. Commit
ices are being named everywhere 10
raise funds for the sufferers.
BY request of a number of the prin-
cipal Italian residents of Newark, In
Guiding the Rev. Joseph Perotti, of
st. Lucy's Church, and the approval of
u number of other prominent men who
Will serve on general Newark com
mittee, THE EVENING STAR will act
as collector and custodian of the fund.
Checks should be sent to THE EVE
MING STAR Earthquake Fund-and
they should be sent at once and of a
generous size.
All remittances will be duly credited
each day by THE EVENING STAR
through its news columns THE EVE
Ming STAR will not be responsible for
contributions made to individuals or
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rrrrIS nVIrSJNcs SrrAR win forward
tl,l, n,onn- frono tin,e tn time to the
american ambassador at Rome, who
win be entrusted with delivering it to
the proper relief authorities in the
..arthnilake zone
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Rosevllle GIee Club, Nrueger
Auditorium, New Years Eve, Sseention. dance
ADV. y
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Latest Reports from Isolated Districts Show Appal-
ling Losses in Rural Section Sicily and the
"IOe" Covered with Dead and Dying.
KING VICTOR AND QUEEN AIDING SUFFERERS;
MANY AMERICANS FEARED LOST In NESSINA
Mere Handful Escaped from ReggiO--R Residents I'M
priSOned in WreCkage Are Swept TO Death
by Flames and Water.
PALERMO. sicily, Dec. 80.


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livery advertisement on The eldssi.
fled bagc Of The Newark Star is of
interest 10 those who want TO sell
buy or exchanee something of value
If you have anything TO sell buy or
exchange insert classified adver-
tisement in The Newark Star.
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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-01-24
DR.. Parkhurst Says ''It Is Fact"

to what they could see and eat and
drink.
Il suppose the growth of the drink
habit has been principally among the
women of the richer classes. 1t is
at least reasonable to believe so, as
they have the money and time to in
dulge in such laxity. Idleness is usu-
ally dangerous.
Another phase in the drink ques-
ton is the quality of the liquor. Dr.
Quackenbos points out the shameless
adulteration in whisky, but let me ask
why it is tolerated? Where is our
pure food law? Why, it is in our
statute books, but it isn't in the
hearts or minds of those in author
ity or in the hearts or minds of the
people who put those men in author
ity. If 1t were, the law would be en-
forced.
THE growing tendency of the
American people is disrespect for
laws. We have plenty of good laws,
but they are not enforced. That is
the whole trouble. The men who
should enforce them do not do it, and
the people who elect those men to of
fee do not make them do it, and they
keep on electing men who will not
do it.
Our mayor is sworn to be active in
the enforcement Of the laws, but is
he? He is not. Well, IL the mayor
is inactive can you expect those un-
der him to be otherwise? He is the
man to whom the lesser officials look,
and II he sets such an example, what
is the result? Inactivity all along
the line and our laws become mere
printed matter.
1--WE also send incompetency to our
legislative bodies in Albany. We have
done so for years and probably will
keep on doing SO. We know that we
are doing it and have little or no re-
spect for large majority of the men
we send there, so how can we have
respect for the laws they make? We
cannot have respect for those laws
and we have not"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-01-24
PICKED UP IN BuCKEyEDOM.
NEWS cuLLED ESPECIALLY FOR
OHIO READERS.
Happenings Of Importance In Nearly
Every City and Town in the
state chronicled.
Taft Men Claim 500 peIenates.

Columbus, o., Jan 18.-With just
half the counties of the state heard
from, the management of the canvass
for William H. Taft for the republi-
can presidential nomination claim
that more than 500 delegates in the
state convention, or far more than
a majority have been chosen in favor
of Taft. In the majority of cases
resolutions were passed endorsing
Taft, and in all but three the state
call was followed without question.
Guernsey, Holmes and Meigs declined
to call primaries, but in every case
the declarations were for Taft, the
objection to the primaries being that
there would be no opposition and the
expense would be useless. In only
one place was open opposition to the
Taft primary ticket reported, and that
In Lake county.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-01-24

other brother, Nicholas, who had re-
turned from sea trip with a broken
leg. All three brothers are now en-
ployed on the Manhattan, and the wife,
now an elderly woman, is living with
her husband in Brooklyn.
The envelope containg the letter
was covered with postmarks, many of
them so faded that they could not be
made out. 1t was directed originally
TO Minoteteon, Mexico, in care of the
Swedish consul, but had been directed
so many times there was no further
space, and when it was returned to
Garmstad for the sixth time last June
it had to be inclosed in an other COW
er. The letter, which was posted jan
uary 8, 1875, had been opened and
sealed with Mexican stamps bearing
the date of 1876.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-01-24
LETTER POSTED 80 YEARS AGO.
Crossed Ocean Many Times Before
Delivery to Sea Captain.

A letter posted at Garmstad, Nor
way, 80 years ago to Capt. Thomas
Nielsen of the bark Harmonic, and
which has travelled across the Attain
tic to and fro many times in pursuit
of him, was delivered to Thomas Mel
sen, carpenter of the revenue cut
ter Manhattan Of the local service,
says a New York dispatch to the ct
Louis Globe Democrat 1t was the
right envelope, and the joint letter 1T
contained brought the mist to his eyes
with the news" it told of old friends
and relatives in Norway, many of
whom are now dead.
Capt. Nielsen is now 6S years old
and has been retired from the sea fol
many years. The letter was from his
wife, Alviner, and his brother John,
who wrote to tell of an accident to an.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-01-24

a saloon of the best class and took
only two drinks of their bar whisky
and was lost for four days. 1 was
called in to help find him, as he was
a friend of mine, and when we found
him he was in pitiable condition, his
mind was olouded, he could not re-
member where he had been or what
he had done after leaving that saloon.
He only remembered that he had taken
two drinks of whisky.
"The beer 'drinker, if he gets real
beer, is handed a glass of the bever-
age which, to meet the demands of
trade, is put out too new and i'm
properly fermented. Beer should be
kept in the keg for six months before
being sold to the drinker.
1T is rather surprising how many
of our school children have become
beer drinkers, especially those of for
eign birth, and the habit is making
them mentally sluggish to a degree
that is attracting the attention of ed
ucators and philanthropists.
Another habit which is getting con-
troll of our shop girls particularly is
the cocaine habit. This habit has
grown in the last few years with such
rapidity that to-day thousands of
young girls as we'll as mature wom-
en- and men are held in its clutches.
The effect of the habit is noted in the
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-01-24
tatlons of whisky were judged to be

tations of whisky were judged to be
the real thing.
1t stands to reason. of course, that
the great proportion of the liquor sold
Is counterfeit, when 1t is known that
the consumption is far in excess of
the ability of distillers and brewers to
produce the genuine product. Adul-
terations and criminal counterfeits
must be resorted to in order to meet
the demand. I will wager that there
have been inmates OF Bellevue's alco-
holic ward who have never tasted q
drop of real whisky in their lives.
They just think they have been drink
ing whisky, and if they had been
drinking real whisky the chances are
they would never have been in Belle
vue. don't say that real whisky, If
taken excessively, is not harmful, but
1 do say that mar could drink the
pure article in moderation all his life
and not be hurt by it. Why, Is
drinks of pure whisky would not do
a man the harm that one drink of this
vile stuff they sell for whisky in New
York would do him.
Poisoned by Vile Liquor.
II know man who left his office
one evening all tired out: dropped into
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-01-24
DRINK HABIT AMONG
WOMEN ON INCREASE
GROWTH OF DANGEROUS EVIL Is SEEN
Prof Quackenbos and Dr. Parkhurst Join in Deporing
Present Conditions Common Among All Glasses"
Declares the Former Columbia Professor-Te testimony
of the Present Superintendent of Bellevue Hospital

bowl, however, is not to be blamed
entirely. Many women dip into it and
may do it many times without acquir-
ing the drink habit, but many get
their start there. 1t does give them
the taste of liquor and then, with
many of them, the taste for liquor.
Now, the tendency of the Ameri-
can woman Is to go to extremes, and
in drinking she over-drinks. 1t is
dangerous for her to touch liquor at
ALL This is particularly true of the
New York woman, because Of the
added excitement of life in New York.
1T is not my object to preach un-
less the mere statement of fact is a
sermon, and the fact is New York
women do drink, or rather too large
a percentage of them drink, and drink
to excess. If one doubts it let him
go to any OF our large hotels and
restaurants any night and look about
him. On every hand you find them
and their sister visitors to New York
drinking No one thinks anything
about it, and the women think they
are simply doing the proper thing.
Many of them drink just because they
do think that way and many Of them
drink because they like the liquor.
Do Not Want to Be Cured.
81 have treated in the last eight
years 700 cases of alcoholism, with a
large percentage Of women, and 1
found in many cases where the pa
tient was wolnan that she did not,
deep down in her heart, want to be
cured Of the habit. This fact Is true
especially in the case Of the rich So
ciety woman. She usually comes to
me either at the urgent solicitation
of relatives or. friends, or with only
a surface desire to be rid of the
habit. Very few of them honestly
and truly, and with their whole heart,
want to be cured.
For instance, certain woman
came to me for treatment for the
drink habit and seemed sincere indeed.
1 treated her by auto-suggestion, CIV
ing her the suggestion that she could
not lift wineglass to her lips. She
went away and the very next night
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-01-24
Four Seek One Job.

Columbus, O., Jan. 1S.-There Is
lively skirmish on for the position of
sergeant-at-arms of the house as the
result of the resignation of Richard
ellison. There are four candidates.
A caucus of the republican members
of the house will be held Tuesday
night to select successor. to ellison.
The candidates for the place are w.
c. Smith, Medina county; John L.
Thomas, Athens; w. v. Blake, East
Liverpool, and Joseph Welker, of
Stark county Thomas is now first
assistant sergeant-at-arms. Blake was
formerly mayor of East Liverpool
and a former member of the state
senate
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-01-24
BY DR.. S. T. ARMSTRONG.
{Superintendent of Bellevue and the
Allied Hospitals.)

SrHE New Workers are becoming
hysterical people. They show an
increasing excitability, dimin-
ishment of self control. This demon
strates itself in all forms of excesses.
Less and less restraint is exercised.
The extreme tension of life here Is
showing on the people. One sees
plenty of examples of this in individ-
ual life. A vast demonstration of it
among a mass of the people is OBJ
served in the increasing hysteria of
such celebrations as those of the
night before the New Year. What is
true of the city men is true of the
city women. The increase of drunk
enness is a distressing fact 1t is
q natural outcome of the restlessness,
the overstriving, the unrestraint of
present day life in New York.
This subject is of tremendous i'm
portance. We should know just what
we are confronting, what the future
has in store for US, just where and
how we are threatened. One may
form an opinion as to an increasing
fnebriety among women from such ex-
hibitions as those of New Years eve,
but beyond that it Is not easy to go.
There are no official statistics bearing
on the question. The subject has had
no investigation of scientific value.
One cannot speak exactly as to condi-
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-01-24
A Remarkable Ruling by a Judae.

Akron, o., Jan. 1S.-Revoking re-
cent injunction of his own, Judge
Washburn, of Elyria, who is on the
common pleas bench here, declared
Friday that judges all over the state
illegally have granted restraining or
ders in divorce cases. He holds that
alimony and divorce affairs are not
cases in equity, therefore injunctions
may not be granted. He says no
court has power to restrain a husband
from visiting, writing, telephoning or
interfering with his wife, pending ac-
ton on matrimonial troubles.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-01-24

and the poor, young and old. Girls in
their teens evidently see no impropri-
ETY. whatever in drinking publicly
with men companions. Very often
indeed have had young girls brought
to me for treatment, Historically
drunk.
'I have treated within year
women whose weekly bill for cham
pagne alone was $100 and who filed
up the intervals between their
draughts of wine with highballs and
cocktails. One woman drank quart
of champagne every morning, and
when ready to go out her custom was
to order her maid to bring her another
quart Then before leaving the house
to enter her carriage she would empty
the bottle to steady her nerves.
Girls Indulge In Liquor.
school misses and college girls in
great numbers are among the throng
of women drinkers. A case was
pointed out recently of luncheon
given here in New York at which "a
debutantes drank 36 bottles of cham
pagne, and 15 of them smoked seven
dozen cigarettes.
"As everyone knows. the punch
bowl figures largely in the growth OF
the drink habit among women of New
York. 1t is found at all functions, and
many a girl has got her first taste OF
liquor by a dip into 1t. The punch
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-01-24
Auto Driver Was Killed by a Train.

Dayton, o., Jan. 81. - Ed Horder-
wisch, who some years ago was we'll
known professional bicycle rider and
who in late years was an automobile
driver and business man, met an aw-
full death under the wheels of a train
here last night. He was driving his
automobile and attempted to cross in
front of train in the heart of the city
The engine struck his car, hurling him
under the wheels and dragging him
half a block. His body was terribly
mutilated. He was married only few
weeks ago.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-01-24
A Veteran Teacher Dies.

Columbus, o., Jan. 20.-Allen C.
Burrows, 81 years old, professor of
English literature in Ohio State uni
versity, died suddenly Sunday. He
had been i'll of the grip for about a
week. He graduated from Western
Reserve university in 1851 and taught
successfully at Phillips academy,
Western Reserve and Iowa AgricuItur-
al college. In 1894 he was elected to
the chair of English literature in Ohio
State university.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-01-24

times so to speak, but before the
panic for a number of years the coun-
try was most prosperous, everybody
had money, and life became too easy
When life is made too easy we are in
a danger zone and more prone to give
way to temptation. That long period
of prosperity made us too material,
also turned the desires of many only
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-01-24
Mrs. poIan Wins in circul. Court.

Cleveland, Jan. al The circuit
court decided Monday that Mrs. Katie
Dolan, former laundress in the home
of Philander Johnson, could collect ON
four notes for $3,400 that Johnson
gave her. Mrs. Dolan was given
verdict in Judge Estep's court, and the
case was appealed to circuit court.
Johnson died shortly after the verdict
was given. Members of his family
say the notes were given without con-
sideration. Mrs. Dolan testified that
she cared for and nursed Johnson.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-01-24
raft Men start Injunction suit.

Columbus, o., Jan. 2l.-The Taft
men brought test Injunction hero
Monday, believing that the Bronson
primary law would be held constitu-
tional by the courts and the Foraker
men would be headed off in their eff
forts to stop the primaries on Febru-
ary H.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-01-24

VYYHEN representative of the
w Sunday World read portions of
DR.. Quackenbos' article to Rev.
DIR. Charles Parkhurst he said:
1T is undoubtedly true, and a de-
plorable fact, that the drink habit is
growing rapidly among the women
of New York.
IT have not made real investiga-
ton, as DR.. Quackenbos has, but one
does not have to investigate; it is
a fact which stares you in the face,
it is all on the surface, and one can
not overlook 1t.
"a chief reason for this increase in
the number of women who drink is,
believe, that there has been too much
prosperity. OF course, just now we
are passing through period of hard
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-01-24

she went with man companion to
one of our large restaurants, made no
objection whatever when wine was
ordered, and even tried her best to
overcome the suggestion l had given
her and drink the wine. But she
found that she could not lift the
glass from the table. You see, she
did not really and honestly want to be
cured and wasted but little time in
rushing into temptation.
Conditions might not be so bad,
however, If women or men drank real,
pure whisky, real. pure wine and real,
pure liquors of all sorts, but they
don't. They think they do, but what
they are really drinking is deadly
poison and one swift in its execution.
| feel safe in saying that out of 100
drinks sold in New York city as
whisky not more than one is the real
article.
Counterfeit Whisky.
But so cleverly Is whisky counter
feited to-day that club connoisseurs
cannot detect 1t, as was shown in an
experiment made recently by DR.. Dar-
lington of the board of health. DR..
Darlington went around and collected
number of samples Of whisky from
saloons of all classes, took the SAM
pies to his club, where he had sew
eral of the members test them, and
much to his surprise the cheap imi-
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-01-24
A Bargain.

what" exclaimed the husband.
"You drew your savings from the
bank, went to a brokers' office, and
bought T., X, and Y. stock at IA,
when it has been dropping like a
rock?"
But, my dear" argued the WIFE
st was such bargain. Why, during
the short time 1 was in the office /
saw the man mark it down to IA from
45!"-Success Magazine.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-01-24
Woman Shot a Robber.

Cleveland, Jan. 21.-Choked and
beaten by two men who had forced
thir way into her home and demand
ed money Monday, Miss Mabel Hinz.
aged "a, Broadway and Central ave-
nue., wrenched herself free and shot
one of her assailants, who then ran
away.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-01-24
New Workers Becoming Hysterical

tions, or to make comparisons be-
tween the present and the past. The
records of the alcoholic and psycopath-
show the facts of inebriety even
among the classes of men and women
who would seek aid from this hos
pital. In 1904 there were S,941 admis-
sions TO Bellevue for various forms of
alcoholism. The number now is great
ly less than that. In 1906 it had fallen
to 1888. But even with this reduc-
is more than 25 per cent. of all the
patients admitted to Bellevue. But
these records prove nothing in the
line we would follow. The number of
inebriates who seek treatment at
Bellevue has fallen off simply be-
cause an old offender who comes here
is now liable to be turned over to a
city magistrate, who will sentence
him to an asylum as chronic drunk
ard. This had the effect especially
of keeping many women from taking
repeated advantage of treatment at
Bellevue.
What is the cure of the evil of in
creasing inebriety in New York?
Whatever will bring easement to the
restless life in the city will lessen
all forms of dissipation. The whole
subject needs careful and thorough
investigation to know what palliative
measures can be taken. Drinking is
only one symptom of what is wrong
with us.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-01-24
a GROCER is Fined SIS.

Cleveland, Jan. 21.-Esau Holmes,
a West Side grocer, was fined $75 and
costs by Justice William Brown Mon
day for keeping his store open ON Sun
day in violation OF the Sunday closing
ordinance.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-01-24
Trial of Alleged lncendiary Begins.

Cleveland, Jan. 21.-Nathan Berman,
whose store on Woodland avenue was
burned on November 19, 1906, was
put on trial before Judge Babcock
Monday, charged with arson. Ber-
man lived in rooms behind the store
The building, valued at $1,000, was
burned to the ground, and Berman's
stock was destroyed.