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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-02-04
AN EXCELLENT SHOWING.
The work of the young woman's
Guild OF MorrIstowo

The Work of the Young woman's
Guild Of AIorrIstowa
The annual meeting of the Young
Woman's Guild of the Morristown
Memorial Hospital was held on Janu-
Try both, and the same officers were re-
elected with the exception of Miss g.
N. Little, as treasurer, who resigned
as she had been elected treasurer Of
the Woman's Association and Miss
Eleanor G. Bushnell was elected treas
urer of the Young Woman's Guild.
1t was decided TO hold the annual
fair in May, so as TO raise the required
amount $4,000, to complete and fur
nish the new wing.
The Children's Fund at present is
S106. 1t is hoped that the fund will
soon reach $3.50, which would pay for
an annual support of a bed in the
children's ward Any child becomes a
member by paying one dollar annually.
The annual report was as follows:
In the spring OF 1907 the Young Wo-
mans Guild hoped to raise $4,000.
The usual 81, 500 for running expenses
and the rest towards completing the
new wing.
Every one was most kind, one gen.
erous friend giving $4,000, and nearly
every person in town assisting in
either the Cook Book or the Fair. We
raised S10,477.57.
During the summer 1.-THE Club Of
Ten Busy Girls" by their own efforts
raised S45.
The usual Xmas tree and presents
were given at the Hospital on Christ
mas afternoon and the children in the
scarlet fever ward enjoyed tree given
by the Junior Christian Endeavor So
ciety of the Baptist Church. They
were literally remembered with pres
ents and the usual ice cream and cake.
The Industrial School sang carols in
the main building while the tree was
lighted.
There have been sixty-eight child
rem treated in the children's ward of
the main building.
We trust that during the spring
everyone will show the appreciation
due 10 Memorial Hospital in caring for
the scarlet fever patients. by assisting
us to raise at least $1,000, $500 to-
wards the running expenses and $1,000
to finish and furnish the new wing, SO
that we may open the Hospital as
soon as the walls are dry with every
thing complete and 20 debt.
All residents of MorrisJ0wn should
show their thankfulness for the care
of their children or else their thank
fulness for the escape from illness of
their families.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-02-04
now HER LIFE WAS SAVED WHEN

BITTEN By A LARGE SNAKE.
How few people there are who are not
afraid of snakes. Not long ago harmless
little garter snake fell on the wheel of an
automobile which was being driven by a
woman. The woman promptly tainted and
the car. left to its own resources, ran into a
stone wall and caused serious accident.
The bite of poisonous snake needs
prompt attention Mrs. K, NJ Fishel,
Route No 1, Box 40, Dillsburg, Pa, tells
how she saved her life when bitten by a
large snake.
son August 20, 1906, was bitten on the
hand twice by a large copperhead snake
Being distance from any medical aid, as a
last resort used Sloan's Liniment, and to
my astonishment found it killed all pain and
was the means of saving my life. am the
mother Of four children and am never with
out your Liniment. :
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-02-04
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.

The Public Service Corporation of
New Jersey as lessees of the United
Electric Co. wish to announce to the
public in general that they have pur-
chased the land formerly occupied by
The Shelley Hygiene Ice Co. on Cole
avenue, adjoining their present prop
erty, and as soon as weather permits
they intend to erect fire proof build
ing and install larger equipment to
meet the demands of the users of cleo
tricity in Morristown for years to come.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-02-04
Humane Engine BAH Program

Messas. Wooley and Duyre, Of New
York, are getting out a beautiful SOU
venir program for the annual bali Of
Humane Engine Co., which takes
place on Easter Tuesday evening,
April 2lst. The committee are plan
ming to make this ball one long to be
remembered. The committee in
charge are Robert Mack, chairman !;
Watson Guerin, treasurer; Edward j..
Bradley, secretary.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-02-04
ALPHEUs BABcocK.

Alpheus Babcock, for many years
roadmaster for the Lackawanna Rail-
road on its Morris & Essex division,
died last week at his home in Wash
ington at the age of eishty-three
years. Mr.. Babcock had charge of the
work of constructing the Oxford tun-
mel of the Lackawanna and also built
the line to Hampton Junction. He
later became roadmaster of the Nor
ris & Essex division.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-02-04

Her surroundings should be in harmony,
and can best be made so by well kept
home. The L. & M. Pure Paint makes the
home beautiful. 1t preserves it and prevents
decay. The cost per gallon ready for use is
only $I.2o. 1t wears for ten years and
longer Thirty three years of continuous
use is evidence.
Phillips & Day, Morristown; P. C. Henry,
Basking Ridge, N j.; w. r. Wilson, Whip
pany; J. r. Meade, Hanover, L & N. Paint
Agents.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-02-04
WIN Hold a Fair.

A fair is to be held in the Young
Mems Catholic Association building
from February 18th to The 22nd. 1t
is planned to make it a notable eve f
in the history of the Association. A
contest for silver trumpet (now on
exhibition in Runyons window for
the most popular fire company will tie
a feature of the fair.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-02-04

Examine the colts feet, keeping the
toes from growing long by rasping the
hoof into shape. This should be at
tended to before putting the colt to
pasture If it is neglected, the hoofs
will break up. Many a horse goes
through life with poor feet because
they were not properly attended to
when young.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-02-04

Look over the plows and disk that
you put away few months ago. If
you oiled the bright parts to keep them
from rusting, there are liable to be
places where the oil or grease has be-
come removed. and unless more is APP
piled they will rust. A moment spent
in this work now will save hours in
the spring, when the farm work is
rushing things.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-02-04
Preliminary Organization Affected

Preliminary Organization Affected.
A preliminary organization was af-
fected on Monday night for a local
drilling company. The meeting was
held in the rooms of A. t. A. Torbert
Post, G. A. H., and George Butler,
who has been mainly instrumental in
securing the recruits for the proposed
company presided and explained the
aims of the organization. Officers
we're elected as follows: President,
John H. Berry; vlce-president, Elmer
W. Romine; secretary, E. Harold
Pave; treasurer, DR.. FL. Vaughan.
The selection of the officers of the
military end of the company was de-
ferred until later and the selection OF
a name was also deferred. Drilling
will be started next Monday night I'M
der the direction of Messrs. Butler,
Dennis and Sayre.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-02-04
Use of Brewers, Grains.

A dairyman who lives near city
where brewers grains may be had at
low cost finds that the best ration for
milk production includes one-half bush
ell of the fresh grains with three quarts
of bran and two quarts of corn chops
for each COW, given in two feeds and
followed by a feed of mixed hay and
corn fodder.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-02-04
Lono Life For Feneeposts.

The cost of treating post with creo-
sote ranges from to Is cents, accord
ing to the amount absorbed by various
kinds of wood. After treatment posts
of willow, maple and elm should last
twenty years or longer than untreated
chestnut or cedar.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-02-04

civic Association Appoint Commits. s
The following committees of the
Civic Association have been appointed
for the present year:
Executive Committee: Harold e.
Griswold, Chas. d. M. Cole, Stephen
G. Griffith, Jr., John M. Forbes, Fred
erick r. kellogg, Francis H. Glaze
brook, Henry M. Smith, Eugene 5.
Burke, Edward X. Mills, John r.
Brisley, S. Fl. Gillespie, j. B. Girls.
void, B. Ogden Chisolm, VIM. s.
Bacot.
standing Committees-Law Com
mittee Chas. d. M. Cole, chairman
Q. A. Reed, G. Franklin Wilson, John
Fl. Bonsall.
Streets and Road Committee: VIM.
S Bacot, chairman John R. Brinley,
Eugene S. Burke.
Fire and Water Committee stephen
G. Griffith, Jr., Chairman; W. r. Bal
lard, VIM. Fl. P. Oliver.
Sanitary Committee: Francis Fl,
Giazebrook, Chairman; W. W. Cutler,
Frederick S. Smith.
Railroad Committee: Henry NJ
Smith, chairman; ~. G. Williams, Jno
H. B. Coriell, @. w. Ennis, o. B
Smith, Jr.
Lights Committee: Frederick r.
Kellogg, chairman; VIM. G. VanDor-
en-, T. I'll. Hoagland.
Membership Committee: J. B. Girls.
void, chairman; Henry M. Smith,
Harry A. VanGilder.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-02-04

The large pleasantly and game
which for several years
have been one OF the attractions of
. Brooklake Farm DR.. Leslie d.
Wards estate at Florham Park, are
to 90. He expects to keep only enough
game birds TO keep his estate stocked,
which will mean the disposal of 500
pheasants, 200 quail, 800 ducks and so
pair Of golden pheasant.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-02-04

Fire Chief John B, McGrath has re
ported to the Underwriters Associa-
ton, that the loss at the fire at the
machine shop of @. G. Force & Son at
Madison. will reach $4,000, with in
,urance amounting to $4,000 on build
ing and contents. The small house
adjoining the shop was insured for
81, 600.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-02-04
rhe Pla Naturally clean.

If given a chance pig will care
fully keep all dirt out of its bed, which
is thing no other animal on the farm
will do If given the luxury of pas
ture a pig will pull grass and carry 1t
to one spot for bed.
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! revision.

When yeur head hits hard
And your thoughts feel QueeT
And your heels rise up
Like fsap on beer.
When your voice Is weak
And your language strong
And the stars you nee
Are six feat long.
n 10 not improbable that some careless
person has thrown banana SIKH
on the pavement.
Andrew Armstrong in Judge.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-02-04

CONDICT. AT Madison, N. u, JON
athan Dickinson COndict.
q Funeral services will be held on We'd
nesday, February 9Th, az p. M, at
his late residence, 25 Crescent road,
Madison.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-02-04
Pupils Gave al Informal Recital.


Some of Miss Qumby's pupils gave
an informal recital last Friday even
ing for their parents and friends The
musical was held at Miss Quimby S
residence and large number OF guests
were present and listened with great
pleasure to the following program -:
Violin solo, Bohemian Cir, Jean florence
Piano solo, Swan Song, from hohengrin.
Miss alter
Violin solo, selections from Faust,
Greenbutger
Piano duet, march from Tannhauser.aN 9
Misses Isabel and Nellie Slater
Violin solo. Waltz. Hard PiersoH accom-
panied by Do.lie Person
Piano solo. Sonata Pathetqua Beeth "
iss Slater
Violin solo, Cavallieris Rusiicana.
Miss Lula Collins
Violin. voice and piano Flower song,
Ethel Gertrude and Ruth Thompson
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Drivers Associat ion Elects Omcers

Drivers Association Elects Omcers.
At the annual meeting of the Nor
ris County Road Drivers Association
the following officers were elected for
the ensuing year: President, Henry
w. Armstrong vice-presidents, T. Q.
Sutphen and L. S. Page; recording
secretary, j. y. White; financial secre-
cary, A. NJ. Guerin; treasurer, M.
Johnson; directors, L. A. Waters,
James Mosedale, @ M. Allen, I'll. e.
Hart, Frank Ballantine, George John
son, M. D., B. NJ. Tunis, r, L. Rich
ards, Sylvester Mitchell, q. Budd, l..
e. Tuttle, John Mitchell, E W..
Schoneberger, Sam Grover, Charles
McCollum, William NJ. Wilson, l.. L..
Taylor, L. A. Apgar, J. e. Burnett,
Dayton Baldwin, A. G. Prudden, Her
man Moller and ]. B. Gougherty.
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weather Card for january, 1905.

Williams, Proctor s. Potts, engin-
GERS, sends us the following report:
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hairs about the basic equities OF
the incident. Nor does he in his
calmer moments blame the COW.
Yes, stree, this is a grand city
for motor cars and motorists, bar
ring this little matter of the low
speed limits. Once upon a time
not SO very many years ago a man
with nothing else to do could sit
on a picket fence on most any old
street and count passing bikes
until he got tired or his mental
adding machine broke down.
Nowadays it is the same with au-
tomobiles.
Time was, of course, when All
enthusiastic motOrist with one OF
those consumptive, remembrance,
hope-for-the-best automobiles usu-
ally confined his long distance
touring to Washington and its
confines. or, if he ventured out into
Rock Greek Park or Soldiers
Home, took along a tame horse
or traction engine SO as to be
sure OF getting back home. There
are a whole lot more than fifty
seven varieties of reliable machines
on the market nowadays, and you
can hop into most any one OF
them in front of The Star office
and start for Alexandria, Va, or
Nome, Alaska, with almost equal
certainty of getting there.
Time was, too, when the man
who owned an automobile was the
whole works in his community. He
was a real plute and could Dor
row money at the bank without Sc
curity. He could get admirers to
crank his car any minute of the
day or night, and every time the
village machinist was called in to
tighten. nut. or loosen up the
bearings on the mizzen hatch he
wore his cutawty coat and the
silk hat willed to him by grand
father. 1t was almost the same in
the cities-right here in Washing
ton, too.
Be Real Eclusive-Walk.
But now? Why everybody
owns a car. 1t is getting so that
real exclusive people have to pa
tronize sea-going nightliners to be
different. Millionaires, wealthy
men, rich men, well off men, sal
aried men and poor men snort
around in their own autos. Why,
gracious to goodness, I even know
a couple of reporters who own 'em.
Blamed if | wouldn't buy one my
self if my doctor hadn't told me
they were mighty bad for fat peo-
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creeping along on the low at six
or seven miles an hour with the
engine so hot you could fry an egg
on the bonnet when she works SO
cool and fine on the high at about
thirty sweet little miles.
| had friend once-he hasn't
insisted on having me out with him
lately, so | cut him off the list
who used to discourse at length
on this subject of speeds.
! You know he said gloomily
one day, after depositing consider
able collateral at the nearest pre-
cinct, it wouldn't make me SO
sore to observe these foolish speed
regulations if there was any sense
in it. | believe in the French GUS
tom. Over there you can run at
any old speed you please just SO
long as you don't hit anything.
But SO soon as they see you are
careless and liable to bust up
something or kill somebody they
take away your license and eat it.
If your first bit of carelessness is
fatal to somebody else they take
all your money and put. you in
| Jail for life.
"But look at me! I'm the most
expert and careful driver in the
city of Washington, and yet have
to conform to the regulations here
just like the NUTS.
"Why, | never had an accident.
OF course, there was that time out
on the Brightwood road when
ran into a man who was leading a
COW. But that wasn't an accident.
That was unavoidable. And I
, wasn't going more than thirty or
forty miles an hour. Anyhow, it
never would have happened if
hadn't run over a dog in trying to
keep from hitting a couple of care
less children, and my machine
skidded on the dog and killed the
COW and the COW fell on the man
and broke his leg. And him with
the nerve to ask me to pay dam
ages! Why, l come near suing
him for my busted reflector and a
couple of lamps put out of bust
neess. The nerve of him."
The Point of View!
OF course it is apparent from
these few remarks from this eau
tious and careful motorist that the
point of view of the motorer and
the motoree naturally cannot be
the same. A man who has been
assaulted by a perfectly innocent
but mechanically accelerated COW
] is not in the frame mind to split
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ple-lack of exercise. you know
Anyhow, | lots rather walk. It's
SO refreshing.
Getting back to the general sub
ject of legalized hold-ups and
pinching parties and such, there
inevitably comes to mind Mayor
Garrett and Marshal Collins of
Glen Echo, whose memories are
SO treasured in the minds OF every
motorist of Washington. There
are many merry chauffeurs, probes
sional and amateur, in this town
of ours, who can come across"
with a smile when it's a case of
too much gasoline within the city
limits, but who never can become
reconciled to the idea of parting
with real money for a little extra
speed on the Conduit road within
the limits of the thriving metropo-
lis of Glen Echo. [ have friend,
the owner of real nifty little car,
who swears he was arrested by
Marshal Collins for wearing a red
tie on Sunday in violation of the
blue laws of Maryland. He de-
c1ares, too, that there are other
offenses just as venial that have
been utilized to boost the town
treasury of that Conduit road town
during the Garrett-Collins regime
| don't know how it is now
other than that there hasn't been
much press agent work from there
for some time, and that a young
person who used to have a speak
ing acquaintance with an automo-
bile in which ]. Pierpont Morgan
once rode, informed me conf
dentially the other day that he'd
come down from Cabin John
Bridge to Washington in eleven
minutes. OF course, | don't know
that he was telling the truth, but
he seemed real sincere. Perhaps
some reckless cuss will take this as
hint. Who can tell?
How They Love Sims.
Most of the motoring population
of Washington love Representa-
tive Sims of Tennessee-Repre-
sentative Thetus Willrette Sims
He is mainly responsible for the
present speed law on the local
statute books. Mr.. Sims was
walking up PENNSYLVANIA avenue
one day toward the Capitol. He
took the middle of the street.
Weighing several hundred pounds,
he considers the sidewalks treach-
efous. Up behind him stole an
active touring car weighing a
couple of tons and running some
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capital, where fat and short
breathed legislators clutter up the
streets and obstruct the highways,
the speed limits are low and the
laws as strict as strict can be.
And say, amt it a shame :
Amt it? OF course this attitude
will not appeal to people who
don't know the difference between
a spark plug and a cash register,
and who don't want to learn. But
honest, it's a shame just the same
How dreadful, how harassing,
how humiliating it must be, for an
expert chauffeur who can brush
the dust off the back of a hack
without scratching the paint while
burning along in a long limousine
at fifty miles an hour, to be COM
PEELED by a lot of city ordinance
junk, to creep along at four and
eight and twelve miles. That's
how hold-ups happen. Said ex-
pert chauffeur hasn't any idea in
the world of exceeding any speed
limit. Not he! But somehow or
other his hand slips, the spark and
gas levers creep open wider and
wider, the hand of the speed indi-
Gator trembles nearer and nearer
pinchable fgures-and a little bit
later the absent-minded chauffeur
is removing the rubber band
from his bundle and trying to act
as if he didn't care.
Nothing Personal About This.
| don't own an automobile, but
| have lots of friends who do. |
could own one If | wanted to. |
had a goat once, and | used to
hire a bicycle on Sunday after
Moons when it was fashionable. SO
| don't think that just because a
man owns motor car that he's in
class by himself. | motor quite
a lot, too. | don't care much
about it, but my friends come
around and insist that | must come
along with them, and rather than
offend them give in. I'm awfully
good natured.
Anyhow, | just mentioned this
SO as to prove that anybody who
ever dubbed around this city in
his own car or with friends, Just
naturally has a lot of excuses for
running into a pinching party.
Asphalt is just like velvet under
the big pneumatics, and It's poor
kind of man at the wheel who
keeps his eye on the speed indi-
Gator instead of on the road ahead.
It's careless besides. And, hon
estly, it seems sort of sinful to go
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nee this picture? Isn't it
. true to life and reminiscent
y and al that sort of thing?


HEE this picture! Ism IT
true to life and reminiscent
~ and al that sort of thing?
Isn't it calculated to make
every man that ever owned or ex-
poets to own anything in the au-
tomobile line, from a coughing
consumptive of a third-hand car
to the latest thing in seventy
skies, sit up and take notice?
Yes, stree, it is all that and lot
besides. 1t represents the only
variety of a hold-up that is legal
lied nowadays in this young and
husky land of ours, where the old
stage sticker-up is memory and
the masked knight of the road is
no more.
Ah-h-h-h me! Let's all sigh in
unison for the good old days that
lend themselves so delightfully."- to
fiction, but that really and truly
weren't such a much after all. Just
a little bit Of sensible thought will
convince even the most ardent ro-
mantist that these times of hotel
trains and open plumbing and
breakfast food and automobiles
are a whole lot to be preferred to
those time-mellowed days of that
inconvenient past.
Just think! Why, the automo-
bile alone justi6es the present
Sure it does, from the standpoint
of the folks that own them. And
the others-well, they are all
thinking, and don't you forget it,
OF some me-too day in the sweet
by and by, when the best motor
cars sell for $40 a pair and gaso-
line, instead of water, flows from
the public founts.
That Dear, Dear Paris.
Talking about automobiles and
such, even the most jaundiced resi-
dent of every other burg admits,
with grunt or a sigh-depending
on his particular disposition-that
when it comes to motoring, Wash
ington has every other town in
the L. s. A. backed off the map.
Well have to exclude Paris,
France, for folks who have travel
ed that far do say that when fur
clad plute in high-powered speed
pusher runs over one of the COM
mon pee-pul in that town he is
given a gold medal and the free
dom of the city, while the bumpee,
if he lives, is hauled into court and
punished.
But this is about Washington,
not Paris, and here in the National
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devil and should be suppressed. II
left to him the speed limit at cor
ners would have been two miles an
hour, and this would have meant
that every chauffeur would have
been compelled to shut off power
and push his wagon around. And
there are other gentlemen OF the
same persuasion in the House.
But there is hope. The bicycle
policemen of Washington have
considerable human intelligence
concealed on their persons, and
they have been known on occasion
to look the other way at just the
right moment. Which is encour-
aging. What? [. c. N.
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where around a mile minute
Mr.. Sims and the touring car met
and parted. The touring car was
found over Benning way, the
chauffeur at Upper Marlboro, the
owner at Paterson, n. ]. And
Mr.. Sims, irritated but unmoved,
discovered a snag in his Sunday
pants.
Since then Mr.. Sims has been
dead against automobiles. He is
dead against most everything, but
automobiles are his pet aversion.
He likes mules and OK carts and
has become somewhat accustomed
to cable cars. But automobiles
to him are an invention of the